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Today:
The President has no public events scheduled.
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BREAKING: Weekly applications for US unemployment aid fell to 343K last week, a sign of steady hiring.
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 3, 2013
BREAKING: ADP says U.S. added 188,000 jobs in June
— Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) July 3, 2013
U.S. Auto Sales Speed Up: Chrysler, Ford Race To Best June Since Crisis – Forbes http://t.co/leU5oxzPmh
— Jim in Florida (@ongoliard) July 2, 2013
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See Steve Benen on the jobs news here
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Steve Benen: Key ‘Obamacare’ provision delayed until 2015
News from the Obama administration about the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act caused quite a stir last night, but it’s worth pausing to appreciate the extent of the impact …. I think some of the reactions to the one-year delay have been a little excessive. Maybe it’ll be easier to tackle this in Q&A form.
* What’s the employer mandate? In practical terms, the policy name is a bit of misnomer — there is no actual “mandate.” Under the Affordable Care Act, businesses with 50 or more full-time employees are told they need to offer health care coverage to their employees, but those who choose not to pay a fairly modest tax penalty. As of last night, that penalty won’t kick in, at the earliest, before 2015.
* Won’t this mandate discourage those businesses from hiring? It’s been an important part of the criticism, but Obamacare extends all kinds of breaks to these employers to help subsidize the insurance and soften the blow of increased costs.
More here
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Up there with holocaust “@wikileaks: The reported actions of France, Portugal and Spain this night will live in infamy.”
— BWD (@theonlyadult) July 2, 2013
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STOP TEXTING ME SNOWDEN
— KimJongNumberUn (@KimJongNumberUn) July 3, 2013
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Spandan (The People’s View): How the Professional Left’s Blind Obama Hatred Got them Played by a Far-Right Nutjob
Some outlets reported last week that NSA leaker and fugitive Edward Snowden was caught into a bit of hypocrisy: public chat records indicate that back in the ancient times of 2009, he wanted leakers “shot in the balls.” Yeah, he said that. But that’s not all he said. Oh, no. The Technology site Ars Technica posted extensive public chat logs from Snowden, then using the monkier TheTrueHOOHA, that confirms what I had suspected since finding his campaign contributions to Glenn Greenwald’s straight crush Ron Paul.
So let’s talk about this man that has been granted hero status by the Left’s loudest prognosticators and provocateurs….
More here
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GOP’s response when asked about the improving economy: “The economy is … Oh, look! A fetus!” #p2 #p21
— Casey (@pari_passu) July 2, 2013
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Smartypants: The scent of desperation
As we watch the Republicans in states like North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Texas attempt to pass draconian bills affecting things like women’s right to chose and citizen’s access to the ballot, I can’t help but say that I smell a sense of desperation. Its almost as if they know they are a dying beast and are in a hurry to do as much damage as possible prior to their demise.
They’re right….
More here
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In the last few days, I’ve enraged the far left, the t-partiers and the gunners. I must be doing something right.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 2, 2013
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Business Insider: MSNBC Just Had Its Most Dreadful Ratings Period In 6 Years
Despite a heavy period of news that included the Boston Marathon bombings and the Jodi Arias trial, MSNBC’s second-quarter ratings plunged to their lowest level since 2007.
…. “The Rachel Maddow Show” suffered its lowest-rated quarter in terms of total viewers since 2008. And June alone was the lowest rated month ever for Maddow in both total viewers and in the 25-54 group.
—-> New host Chris Hayes continues to pull in sluggish ratings for “All In With Chris Hayes,” which in its first full quarter on air provided MSNBC with the lowest-rated 8 p.m. hour in the 25-54 demographic since 2006.
More here
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President Obama and daughter Malia talk aboard a ferry traveling to Gorée Island, Senegal (Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama dance with guests during an official dinner hosted by President Jacob Zuma of South Africa and First Lady Thobeka Madiba-Zumaat (Pete Souza)
Sasha Obama unlocks the door to former South African President Nelson Mandela’s cell during a tour of Robben Island Prison (Pete Souza)
See slideshow here
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On this day….
Residents greet President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama upon their arrival at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., July 3, 2010. (Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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MoooOOOooorning! Hadn’t time to do a longer R&S, missing lots of newsie stuff, but will catch up later.
The Obama Diary 
Whoohoot!
Morning all
Great morning. A well deserved rest day for PBO
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
The video is perfect to start this R&S
Missed the opening door while busy poking CC in the ribs! Some people never learn how to control themselves!
A very, very ‘GOOD MORNING/Afternoon’ to ALL TODobots and friends, wherever in the world you are! 😀 😀 😀
As usual there is an ill-informed highly partisan reaction to the delay of the employer mandate portion of ACA.
Has anyone else realized that this may be a Good thing for many working people? That is, people working without insurance from their small companies may now apply to the State exchanges just like anyone else?
Maybe I am misunderstanding but I think this may be another step towards single-payer individual based healthcare, away from employer based healthcare.
If I got this wrong please inform me.
I had the same idea. Plus, it may force employees to prefer employers who care enough to offer health care benefits, especially all these food establishments that seem to prefer their employees to prepare food while not necessarily healthy. As the economy improve, employees will be able to be more selective about who they work for, and the stingy ones will have to compete.
Thanks, Theo.
I have a right wing brother who owns a high end restaurant in NC with around 50 employees. He has always provided health insurance as well as paid vacations saying it is necessary to keep good employees. One cannot help but wonder how good a business is with over 50 employees if they do not offer benefits.
mathew price of bbc
Forcing the plane of a national president to land is a highly unusual move. Bolivia says France, Spain, Portugal and Italy initially denied the plane overflight rights. The assumption must be that the United States asked some European countries to intervene. It didn’t want Edward Snowden slipping from their grasp if he was on the plane.
An Austrian government source tells me that having requested and got the agreement of the Bolivians (because state immunity was involved), Vienna airport police checked the identity of the five crew members and six people accompanying President Morales. They then searched the plane and found nothing.
If the Americans did persuade several European countries to deny overflight rights to the Bolivian president, it would suggest Washington is winning the diplomatic argument in Europe’s capitals that Edward Snowden must be apprehended.
Remember, this happened just 48 hours after much of this continent reacted with anger to leaks provided by Mr Snowden that allegedly showed the US was spying on EU offices and European embassies.
The options for Mr Snowden appear to be diminishing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23158242
Obama’s fault!!! 😆 😆 Poor Eddie Snowbird. 😀
Heh, I visited the Belgian Meteorological Institute (KMI) in Brussels on Monday. A pub I was in afterward showed a loop of “news” – one item was Snowden and his “lone fight against the US” in both French and German.
You know – I didn’t care; it’s only TV, it’s not for real ….
european hayes/greenwald. impotent pooutrages are not american domain,
Howdy all you O’s!!! It’s still a great getting up day in TODville, even though it feels like late September on my part of the town. Dreary, chilly, and rainy is on tap for today.
So all the hoopla around the delay in Obamacares for business amounts to less than 1% of businesses impacted. The particular provision in question was put forth by Olympia Snowe in order to get her vote. It called for companies with 50 employees to provide healthcare and/or affordable care or face a $2000 per person fine. Those companies who objected were reducing worker’s hours and not hiring the 50th person to get around the law. So it’s back to the drawing board to dump Snowe’s poor idea and come up with a better one. The MSM and the ‘Pubs would have us believe that it’s a set back, it’s not. Like everything else they put forth, the repub ideas are not well thought out and are impossible to implement. Not to mention, they’ve yet to come up with anything even close to a healthcare plan.
The 1% figure is mentioned by very few of the teevee pundits when discussing the delay. They leave the viewers to believe it is a significant percentage of US business. Another failure of the MSM.
Bill, did you see my comment above? I think it supports what you and cookemom are saying
Yes, I completely agree with you. The MSM and Republicans should have learned by now PBO is thinking way ahead of them.
OK now I can exhale. it is crazy how fearful I get that someone will hurt ACA or PBO.
Yes, this partial announcement has been on a continuous loop since yesterday, continuing to today. Just enough information to have the desired effect.
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
….. New host Chris Hayes continues to pull in sluggish ratings for “All In With Chris Hayes,” which in its first full quarter on air provided MSNBC with the lowest-rated 8 p.m. hour in the 25-54 demographic since 2006.
http://www.businessinsider.com/msnbc-ratings-fall-fox-news-cnn-rachel-maddow-chris-hayes-2013-7#ixzz2XzRtzgTg
Hayes was given an opportunity he wasn’t qualified to carry out and he’s showed all world that the emo/libertarian view is not as popular as its supporters think it is.
okay?!
Yes, MSNBC should dump Hayes. Well, actually, they should never have hired him in the first place.
He had another interview with the whining Greenwald last night.
Are you serious Bill? Why don’t they just rename it ‘All in with Glenn Greenwald’ and be done with it?
Greenwald has accomplished what he wanted with Snowden. He is a national figure now.
National figure? More like an International joke. LMAO!
This boring Snowden twit is not worth the coverage he’s receiving from any newspaper or media. He’s a criminal–one of many in the world and he needs to be brought to justice. The US continue doing what is necessary to protect its citizens and life will go on. The only use he has is to show other would-be traitors of the Ron Paul school that this would be their fate if they pulled another asinine stunt like Snowden’s.
Fox News continues to remain at the top of the ratings among the cable networks, its 46th consecutive quarter there and 138th consecutive month. In total viewers, Fox News beat CNN and MSNBC combined in both total day and in primetime viewers, while surpassing both in the key 25-54 demographic.
The network also had the five highest rated cable news programs in the quarter: “The O’Reilly Factor” (2,859,000 total viewers); “Hannity” (2,107,000); “The Five” (2,096,000); “Special Report with Bret Baier” (2,071,000); and “The Fox Report with Shepard Smith” (1,814,000).
It was supposed in reply to chips’ post.
pox news still retains viewership shows ‘murka is fucked.
The reason why is msnbc went on a let us bash President Obama campaign. I turned them off.
When you think about these ratings, they still only represent less than 1% of the US population…
Yet they seem to have far reaching influence, especially on white votes. Look at 2010 & 2012 votes at the state and national levels.
It says something that the so-called Democratic-leaning station has the lowest ratings, when there’s such a popular Democratic President in office. Republicans use the media to promote their lies and evil agenda. Why couldn’t these Dems support these policies and this President, or even just honestly represent the facts so people could be educated about what’s going on in Congress? MSNBC deserves their low ratings. If they’d been the one source of truth on the traditional MSM, then maybe people would understand why Gitmo still isn’t closed and who is responsible for that. Maybe people would know what benefits Obamacare will bring to people who already have insurance through their employers, and those who haven’t been able to rely on or even get insurance because of pre-existing conditions. Maybe if MSNBC had spent more time supporting legislation, Congress would have done more these past two years than just name post offices, and vote to repeal Obamacare. Maybe the 2012 GOP primaries would have actually answered some critical questions and held people accountable for governing (or lack thereof) decisions, and not just catered to the lowest common denominator of the GOP base. Maybe people would have been clamouring for more funding for infrastructure and education – instead of having to fight these ridiculous and dangerous GOP attempts to thwart the rights of women, gays and minorities.
MSNBC made a conscious choice that they were going to treat President Obama with suspicion, and “hold his feet to the fire” even when there was no fire. They decided to limit the actual information, and instead, go for lofty debates of intellectual topics. I have to give credit to Rachel Maddow, though, who has occasionally shown glimmers of actual journalism – especially with the anti-abortion/anti-women legislation forced through the state legislatures. But, that’s not enough. And they have earned their low ratings. They decided they wanted to swim in the swamp with FOX and CNN. So be it.
Excellent summation, theo67
Yes, yes and yes theo67…you hit the nail on the head. I used to watch MSNBC, get mad, sent angry emails and finally I decided to just stop watching. I will tune in from time to time and if I hear one minute of “anti-Obama bashing” I turn off.
The best course of action. Life it just too short for that crap.
Awesome analysis Theo.
Maybe if MSNBC hadn’t turn off the Obama supporters their ratings would be better.
With regard to Obamacare issues…I posted this last night and think it’s worthy of reading…..( I don’t think that this was the reason, but a by product of this move by the administration) He’s got this:)
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/02/obamas-brilliant-move-deals-blow-gops-2014-hopes.html
Republicans have been telegraphing since they lost the 2012 election that they intended to run against the employer mandate. John Boehner mentions Obamacare every week when he meets with the media for a reason. Republicans at both the congressional and state level can’t run on their economic records. They can’t run on their legislative records. Republicans were planning on making 2014 a replay of 2010 by focusing on Obamacare, but the White House kneecapped them with an announcement that nobody expected.
Republican former CBO director, Douglas Holtz-Eakin explained why this announcement was both a stunner and deviously brilliant, “Democrats no longer face the immediate specter of running against the fallout from a heavy regulatory imposition on employers across the land. Explaining away the mandate was going to be a big political lift; having the White House airbrush it from the landscape is way better. It helps with ObamaCare in other ways as well. The administration was flailing to find high-profile allies (e.g., the National Football League) to advertise the wonders of ObamaCare. In a single masterstroke it has given every company a reason to explain its existence (“don’t worry, you’ll be fine in the exchanges”) and created a de facto advertising campaign of enormous scale and reach. Deviously brilliant.”
Since 96% of those same businesses already provide health ins. for the employees this is an easy rule to delay, and not a bad move either politically or administratively if it gives more time to work out any glitches in the process.
Why are individual people more concerned with corporations not being inconvenienced by Obamacare paperwork, and less concerned with their own ability to find and afford decent health care that they can rely on? What is wrong with a population of people who value the comfort of corporations ahead of their own safety and their children’s health? They listen to the GOP telling them that Obamacare is terrible because corporations are going to have to submit paperwork with statistical information that details the plans they provide and the people they cover – much of which they already capture anyway… Doesn’t it occur to those same people that Obamacare is about providing them with security? And that the corporation they want to protect will dump them in a minute if they’re too sick to work? It’s confounding to me how gullible people can be.
Stockholm syndrome
I think you’re right – it defies all logic!
JOBS!JOBS!JOBS! http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/07/03/rubio_to_introduce_bill_to_ban_abortions.html
The GOP politicians are insane – and any woman that support them – more so. I assume what they want is an appeal to the Supreme Court so the current right wing SCOTUS will reverse Roe V Wade. Welcome to the 1800s for Women’s rights and health care.
That is EXACTLY the reason why!
Preparing his run for the republican nomination…
GM, TOD. Stopping by quickly to say thank you for all the comments of thoughts, prayers and understanding about my mother’s death. As I said, there’s great rejoicing in heaven. I am at total peace as there’s been many signs of God’s hand in these last few days. Ask for prayers of safe travels for many family and friends who are on the road.
{{{{{Tnmtngirl}}}}}} I know those signs…when my mom died, I looked outside her hospital window to see the most amazing rainbow. Later, she came to me in the night and sat at the foot of my bed, with a smile on her loving face, and told me that she was ok, and that I would be ok, too. It was a life changing moment for me. I wish that for you, too. Hugs and love.
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In NORTH CAROLINA, Raleigh, our state capital, we have men and women
decked out in pink shirts to raise hell with our deranged pitiful whlte male
House members, who are today voting on oppressive anti-abortion measures.
The peoples are inside the gallery and outside the gallery. We could use a
Wendy Davis down on the House floor. Stay tuned, send us your warrior energies.
Good job! Go get ’em!
http://20committee.com/2013/07/02/wwdd-on-real-nsa-whistleblowing/
In recent weeks, as the saga of Ed Snowden has become a global sensation, we’ve heard a lot about “whistleblowing.” We are assured by Ed’s legions of fans and media enablers that he stands in a fine tradition of exposing wrongdoing and illegalities by the US Government.
Sorry, I know my whistleblowers, and Ed’s no whistleblower.
His whistleblower act looked a lot more plausible when Ed started out and his revelations of TOP SECRET CODEWORD material at least seemed to be aimed at exposing domestic operations by NSA that, in theory, could impact the lives of a lot of Americans.
But that shtick didn’t last long, in no small part because Ed’s media handlers didn’t present the details honestly, but more importantly because young Mr Snowden then embarked on his Magical Mystery Tour from Hong Kong to Moscow, where he remains as of this writing, his ultimate destination far from clear. As a whistleblower, Ed Snowden is simply a fraud.
I say this confidently because I know what a real NSA whistleblower looks like. I grew up with one.
h/t Bob Cesca
Shared on FB by Stephanie Miller : “Edward Snowden calls around for asylum” 😆
LOL!! I love where he accidentally called the U.S.
this is the most hilarious thing!!! 😆
That’s the call for donations/email that some of us responded to – love it.
Some good news:) http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/03/2251881/rhode-island-paid-family-leave-passage/
Souza’s Africa trip slideshow. We’ve probably seen many/most of the photos, but he says there’s some new ones.
Thank you Dotster! Added three of the photos to the post and a link to the slideshow. Thanks again!
Some wonderful pictures from Pete Souza.
GM Chips, TOD….
Can someone explain to me the holocaust reference in that tweet up there?
Thanks Chiparoo. Great explanation from Steve Benen about ObamaCare. The poutragers and flame throwers in the media always like yelling fire in a crowded room and smiling when chaos ensues. Implementation of ObamaCare will continue on as usual and the penalty will kick in in 2015 and the IRS still has a way of making sure those who don’t comply will pay the penalty and ObamaCare still reduces the deficit. I’m good with that. Nothing to see here.
This information from the Treasury Department also breaks it down logically without all the fuss.
http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/Continuing-to-Implement-the-ACA-in-a-Careful-Thoughtful-Manner-.aspx
P.R.-wise, this is going to be a heavy lift. It doesn’t look good, a ton of material for the RWNJ’s – “ACA is too complicated, it can’t work, administration admitting it’s a job killer, etc…….” As Jacki Schechner said this morning, and she was a communications director for a pro-health care reform outfit, “when has the other side played fair? It’s going to difficult to spin. It’s never good when it looks like the administration is caving to big business.”
I know that 94% of these companies already provide health care. I know the spin, and I know how to spin it and I will do so. But the meme yesterday that we’ve taken away a Republican talking point for 2014 does not seem accurate to me – I think we’ve given them ammunition against ACA. Jacki Schechner said that if she was on the other side, she’d see this as good news for the ACA opponents. Great.
They had three years. Employers, IRS, HHS. We delayed being able to show how good ACA would be, because it would take time to implement. They shouldn’t need 4+ years. We couldn’t get to affordable health care as uninsured Americans, in order to implement the bill. Three years was long enough to kick in the bill fully. Tweak it, fine. Figure out that forms should be simplified should have been addressed 2.5 years ago.
I will disappear for awhile because I’ll be flamed. But for all of PBO’s gifts, selling HCR has never been done well, and this move does not help.
Well, I prefer to remain optimistic and proactive and see the glass half-full rather than empty. I’m going out there and educating people about the good that is ObamaCare. Medicare and Social Security faced their share of problems. Now, people don’t want others negatively messing with them. No one said this was going to be a cakewalk but I am not going to let the media and the GOP dictate how I feel about the wonderful excellence that is ObamaCare. I choose to go out there and fight for the law. I am not helpless and it is everyone’s responsibility to go out there and educate others about the law. That’s how it works. This is no longer campaign time with limitless funds. This is governing time and all hands should be on deck.
I agree. I needed a quick vent and then it’s back to work. It’s not as if the Evil Cabal wasn’t going to lie anyway about ACA. Our task does not change. As long as we keep fighting the Good Fight, we’ll roll all over them bastards.
co-sign. to eleventy-infinity.
well said, ut. WH has put out the info and PBO was constantly talking about it.
oh thank God. No Shrub photos.
Tell me about it. He’s really looking like his conscience is catching up with him – lot of sleepless nights there, doesn’t even look as though he’s combing his hair.
Good.
Why do people all over the world vote for shitty leaders & parties or not vote at all and then have rearguard fights ? Fucking losers everywhere.
link to Tahir Square live.
http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_News/80938159
Deliberate, painful effects designed to erode the govt from doing the work of the people
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/07/03/19267357-sequestration-cuts-continue-to-take-their-toll-even-on-firefighting?lite
If you want to follow the George Zimmerman trial live blog:
http://3chicspolitico.com/2013/07/03/state-of-florida-vs-george-zimmerman-trial-day-8/
Thank you. Good morning! 🙂
Precisely.
I think Ed Schultz is an intellectual lightweight, but quelle surprise that his appeal to working class Dem’s was more effective than the heartless cultists who have no interest in the consequences of their actions on the policies they profess to want.
okay?!
Probably single most important person, part of the 08 Campaign, that you may have not heard off…. His knowledge took out HRC in primaries
Last night, Mr. AJ and I went to dinner at our local Old Country Buffet. Our favorite hostess, Betty, was there, and we asked how she was doing, as we knew she was soon leaving for a long awaited vacation… her first cruise.
“I’m doing ok,” she said, slightly sad. “To be honest, they’ve cut down my hours, so I’m not full-time anymore, only part time. They said it was because of Obamacare.”
“That can’t be true!” I exclaimed. “What a bunch of bull,” Mr. AJ said.
“I know,” Betty continued. “I don’t believe it either; I know they’re only using that as an excuse to make me part time. In fact, I asked that they put that reason in writing, but they wouldn’t. That tells you everything you need to know.”
So, fellow TOD’ers, a delay in the rules or not, the liars are going to keep on lying and using their employees as pawns, and it really ticks me off.
You should hear the lies they spew at their employees at my eye doctor’s office. There’s a liaison I dealt with during cataract surgery. She was sure she’d lose all health insurance; she was sure she’d lose her job because they would be eliminating mid-level health care professionals under ACA (!) Of course, there will be MORE jobs in health care in general (wish the ‘job creation’ aspect of HCR was sold more). And seriously, I had to pay for cataract surgery out-of-pocket because I’m self-employed. I, for one, intend to be the first to sign up under the exchanges.
Doctors were sold a bill of goods that they repeated to their employees. Their concern, of course – was any reduction in provider payments.
Doctor’s offices are ‘small businesses’ in the true sense of the word, with few employees. It has always astounded me that there weren’t organizations founded that could band together to give decent and affordable group health insurance.
Good morning to Chips and our worldwide TOD family.
Moooooorning Sonjia!!!
Morning everyone – the mighty UT will be up next with a post.
https://twitter.com/FlowerInFaith/status/352445576673116161
Replaced the tweet:
https://twitter.com/FlowerInFaith/status/352446032430379008
God! I need a day off, don’t I. Let’s try this one more time:
Moooooorning again everyone, just a reminder that UT will be up next with a post – thank you!!!!
Thanks!
Okay, I agree with the first part of the tweet. The second part – gag. The point is still well-taken.
In a way we are ‘lucky’ to have around us people like John Lewis and this senior who lived through the ‘dark ages’, to remind us that nonchalance isn’t an option heading to 2014. There is so much we ‘young people’ take for granted until reminded that we really can’t.
Rosanell Eaton – 92 yrs: (in daughter’s words re her mom’s early voting experience)
“They would yank you around back in those days. She was valedictorian of her class, she knew all that stuff. It’s what she had to go through. She thought things were smooth sailing. She’s seen the good, bad, and the ugly. Now she’s seeing the ugly again. ”
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.ie/2013/06/photo-of-day-92-years-young.html
Good morning y’all! Let’s get the party started.
#Breaking: Egyptian TV reports #Morsi under house arrest http://abcn.ws/13hB502 #Egypt
What
HEADS UP: I will be posting some awesome goodness next, so keep chatting until this post gets crowded.
i assume it’s happening already, but the media and pundits will be promoting msnbc’s ratings fall as, “see the public doesn’t want liberal media!” for those of us paying attention though, we know it never really has been “liberal” (pat buchanan was on more than anyone for years until just a couple years ago), and this latest fall correlates directly when they went “all in” with the libertarian obama-hate. the public rejects libertarianism over and over, yet “the new” owners keep trying to push it on people.
they’ll blame the so-called “liberal” hosts such as maddow and hayes, but guaranteed nothing will happen to chris matthews or joe scarborgough. nothing. they keep matthews for decades now despite him often being at the bottom of the ratings. he’s proven to never rock the boat for the billionaire owners.
http://www.twitter.com/WilliamsJon/status/352437013506555905
Good afternoon, east coast TODers.
For some reason, this stuck my funny bone:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-asylum-live
#Snowden
Thanks amk for update upthread!
The lefties in Latin America are apoplectic.
Andy Murray down 2 sets to love vs. Verdasco (Spain). Murray seems to be experiencing a mental breakdown.
Yup. This year’s W is the graveyard of seeds. And the sad thing is we are not seeing any promising fresh talent. It’s all 2nd, 3rd … stringers.
So true. We may have seen the best ever era in tennis.
Using naughty language too, Bill! He’s fighting back, though, 3-0 up in the third.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/07/03/the-good-that-is-obamacare/
grrrr……. Gov. Quinn in IL used his amendatory veto power on the concealed carry law just passed: limit the amount of ammo, no guns where alcohol is served, only one gun to be carried, and some other common sense measures. Local news is reporting that they have the votes to override his veto.