Why? You’re not responsible for my nosiness….. or are you? It’d be nice to finally discover it’s not my fault. 😉 😉
Have a terrific day, Desertf, and stay out of the (garden) heat. I actually pulled a handful of weeds yesterday for the first time in WEEKS and felt quite proud of myself. 😀
Good job on the weeds:) If they were prettier, I’d leave them and pretend they were supposed to be there:) I hate to weed. Hate to do ANYTHING outside in the summer here:)
Don’t let those comments from an insane wacko ruin your day! I expect nothing else to come from his trap
Oh, I forgot him as soon as I read the comment. I didn’t follow the link; I was only saying I paused to read the one comment shared here, which delayed my arrival on the new post scene. 😉
Hiya Admiral. Be advised that I’m heading for the North woods in a coupla days. Will be sporadic participant until 8/3. Please don’t send the hounds! 🙂
Sorry Admiral. This is part of my annual leave as authorized by the TOD bureau of personnel/budgets. And was additionally authorized by the Admiral and her staff when I returned from my last leave!
Oh, how lovely, mr. Yardarm, only one request: please leave the cupboard door unlocked, you know what I’m sayin’??? 🙂 and don’t you worry about a thing, we’ll be just fine!! 😉
For those who want to watch, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a confirmation hearing for Samantha Power to become the next U.S. Ambassador the United Nations.
They don’t teach terminology like this in medical school.
Terry Ragland, a woman in Tennessee, was incensed after her doctor, Timothy Sweo, diagnosed the source of her severe lower back pain as “ghetto booty.”
Dear George Zimmerman,
For the rest of your life you are now going to feel what its like to be a black man in America.
You will feel people stare at you. Judging you for what you think are unfair reasons. You will lose out on getting jobs for something you feel is outside of your control. You will believe yourself to be an upstanding citizen and wonder why people choose to not see that.
People will cross the street when they see you coming. They will call you hurtful names. It will drive you so insane some days that you’ll want to scream at the top of your lungs. But you will have to wake up the next day, put on firm look and push through life.
I bet you never thought that by shooting a black male you’d end up inheriting all of his struggles.
I hear Zimmerman is in hiding. Maybe he and Casey Anthony could hook up since they are child killers who got away. Did he get that murder weapon he used to kill that 17 year old boy back?
Well, when no one in the press pushes back on such blatant idiocy, they are emboldened. Same thing with the rantings of Assange, GG and Snowden. No one calls them on their B-movie scenarios.
WH.GOV is always so abrupt in their ending of these sessions! Don’t they get that some of us want to linger a few minutes with the Pres? The TOD village publicity coordinator should have a word with WH.GOV about this I think.
For those who missed it. It was so cool to see Sen. Elizabeth Warren so happy at Richard Cordray’s confirmation as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The bear hug he gave her at the end was nice.
POTUS: "I ran for president because I believed that our economy does best not from the top-down but from the middle-out and the bottom-up"
So PBO’s use of Univision yesterday is really putting the GOP on the spot. Underestimate PBO at your own peril. They play checker whil PBO plays chess.
I saw a good quote from Episcopal Bishop Gregory Brewer of Central Florida on Facebook just now about Trayvon Martin. I will attempt to embed the twitter quote here:
I wan to live in a world where George Zimmerman offered Trayvon Martin a ride home to get him out of the rain that night. Come Lord Jesus!— Greg Brewer (@revgregbrewer) July 14, 2013
Ah, you just beat me to it LL – but you said “eggs”, I said “rocks”. I’m waaaaay more violent than you suspected. (Especially towards clubs trying to steal my Wayne).
Norm Ornstein was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal discussing the Filibuster rules and congressional obstructionism by the TBGOPers. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/313998-4
Trayvon’s parents suppose to be on the Today show and Good Morning tomorrow, I think. I could be wrong about the date, but if anyone else know please let us know. I think Barbara Walters did a interview with Zimmerman’s parents.
(Reuters) – The U.S. government may proceed with its $5 billion lawsuit accusing Standard & Poor’s of misleading investors by inflating its credit ratings, after a federal judge rejected the rating agency’s effort to dismiss the civil fraud case.
In a written decision late on Tuesday, the judge said the government could pursue claims that S&P manipulated ratings to boost profit, and in doing so, concealed credit risks and conflicts of interest.
This led to large losses for investors and contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, the government contended.
I hope they get their ass’ handed to them. Good govt…hard at work!
Hi JO’B, is there anyway I can get to the video without clicking on HP? I resolved never to give them hits long ago, during the 2008 primaries… Have stuck to it! If I can’t get it somewhere else, I allow it a miss!
It’s no surprise that high verbal and math SAT scores at a young age might predict future success, but when you add a test for spatial reasoning ability to the mix, you get an even better predictor of someone’s future accomplishments, creativity, and innovative potential, a recent study found.
Ha, yes! Isn’t it so sweet how weather wasn’t an issue at all for Fifa when they were getting their sack-loads of loot from Qatar before the decision … but once the decision was made it was “uh oh – it’s quite hot there in summer”?
If Republicans in the House of Representatives vote against the immigration reform legislation that was recently approved by the Senate — or if they prevent it from coming to a vote at all — they will lose the presidential election in 2016. It will not even matter who their candidate is…….
Perhaps Boehner wants to be the Hispanic community’s new villain — to replace the loathed Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz. But does he really want to join the ranks of infamous anti-immigration legislators like former California Gov. Pete Wilson, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and Sen. Ted Cruz? We’ll see.
GOP ALREADY LOSING 2016 ELECTION http://t.co/IXD9nWXxWo "If GOP vote against immigration reform, or prevent it from even coming 2 a vote…"
Finally, Marcia Krieger, a U.S. district court judge in Colorado, refrained from issuing an injunction last week to block enforcement of the Rocky Mountain state’s new regulation banning gun magazines holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition. Krieger said an injunction was unnecessary after opponents of the law reached a compromise with the state about how the ban would be enforced.
None of these decisions individually represent huge setbacks for opponents of gun control. But, with George Zimmerman’s acquittal and the failure of Congress to pass the Manchin-Toomey background check legislation, they do serve to rebut the prevailing narrative that gun control advocates in the United States are doomed to fail.
While Trayvon Martin got the publicity, gun control advocates racked up three huge wins in federal courts last week. http://t.co/DUdxHu3hv1
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The Obama Diary 
Morning, all! 🙂
…and now the real comment: Yay, some good news! You go, Richard!!
Morning AJ!
Morning, vc! 🙂
Mooooooooorning AJ, morning everyone!
{{{{{Chips}}}}}} Good morning to you, too! 🙂
And a stupendously lovely one to you, AJ!
hi
Just by a nose, Ms. Layla! Good morning to you!
Congrats AJ! and GM to you!
Grrr!
I stopped to read that stupid Nugent comment on the last post! Grrr! I’m here now though. 😛 😀
sorry, vc:(
Why? You’re not responsible for my nosiness….. or are you? It’d be nice to finally discover it’s not my fault. 😉 😉
Have a terrific day, Desertf, and stay out of the (garden) heat. I actually pulled a handful of weeds yesterday for the first time in WEEKS and felt quite proud of myself. 😀
Good job on the weeds:) If they were prettier, I’d leave them and pretend they were supposed to be there:) I hate to weed. Hate to do ANYTHING outside in the summer here:)
Don’t let those comments from an insane wacko ruin your day! I expect nothing else to come from his trap
Oh, I forgot him as soon as I read the comment. I didn’t follow the link; I was only saying I paused to read the one comment shared here, which delayed my arrival on the new post scene. 😉
😳 I love your subtlety, I really do. Tee hee hee.
Top 10 I hope. G’day all y’all!
Moooooooorning Shipmate!
Hiya Admiral. Be advised that I’m heading for the North woods in a coupla days. Will be sporadic participant until 8/3. Please don’t send the hounds! 🙂
Ah, okay Shipmate ….. but I don’t actually recall you asking for leave. Submit in writing and I’ll consider it.
Sorry Admiral. This is part of my annual leave as authorized by the TOD bureau of personnel/budgets. And was additionally authorized by the Admiral and her staff when I returned from my last leave!
Hmm, okay Shipmate …. although I was sure you went AWOL last time??
Alright then, you have permission to wander off for a bit, but if we don’t get occasional updates on your well-being, I will track you down.
Aye, aye Admiral. I may need to be rescued from the Ho-Chunk Casino as it were! 😀
Crikey. I’ll be ready Shipmate, don’t you worry:
😆 😆
Oh, how lovely, mr. Yardarm, only one request: please leave the cupboard door unlocked, you know what I’m sayin’??? 🙂 and don’t you worry about a thing, we’ll be just fine!! 😉
Never happen. The cupboard will be empty. I always travel with the contents from it! 😀
A salute for you SIR!
A click of the heels and return salute to you too. 🙂
Give me an R-I-C-H-A-R-D C-O-R-D-R-A-Y. What does that spell? Richard Cordray!!!!! Goooooooooooo Richard!
Did pigs just fly?
This is the usual “saying something reasonable’ routine. Graham talks a good game but he will continue to be part of the problem.
Yes, big time.
Right, trying to save his own ass, and hoping someone will believe him… He must be very afraid. And well he should be….
I think he’s afraid from morning until night. Why else would he hide behind McCain?
For those who want to watch, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a confirmation hearing for Samantha Power to become the next U.S. Ambassador the United Nations.
http://www.c-span.org
Thanks UT, I also see Sec. of Defense Hagel will be holding a townhall at 11:0 AM ET
http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Holy shite!!!!
They don’t teach terminology like this in medical school.
Terry Ragland, a woman in Tennessee, was incensed after her doctor, Timothy Sweo, diagnosed the source of her severe lower back pain as “ghetto booty.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/doctor-diagnoses-woman-ghetto-booty_n_3599590.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
ghetto booty. Okay anytime I hear someone talk about their back pain, I will ask them if they think it might be ghetto booty.
LOL!!!
Jonathan Capehart published this in his column:
Dear George Zimmerman,
For the rest of your life you are now going to feel what its like to be a black man in America.
You will feel people stare at you. Judging you for what you think are unfair reasons. You will lose out on getting jobs for something you feel is outside of your control. You will believe yourself to be an upstanding citizen and wonder why people choose to not see that.
People will cross the street when they see you coming. They will call you hurtful names. It will drive you so insane some days that you’ll want to scream at the top of your lungs. But you will have to wake up the next day, put on firm look and push through life.
I bet you never thought that by shooting a black male you’d end up inheriting all of his struggles.
Enjoy your “freedom.”
Sincerely,
A black male who could’ve been Trayvon Martin
I hear Zimmerman is in hiding. Maybe he and Casey Anthony could hook up since they are child killers who got away. Did he get that murder weapon he used to kill that 17 year old boy back?
His brother said he was sure PBO was tapping his phones, or some such b.s.
The legend these people are in their own minds is astounding.
His beliefs concerning Trayvon make me think in addition to being a racist, Zimmerman is also subject to paranoid delusions, so I am not surprised.
Well, when no one in the press pushes back on such blatant idiocy, they are emboldened. Same thing with the rantings of Assange, GG and Snowden. No one calls them on their B-movie scenarios.
WH.GOV is always so abrupt in their ending of these sessions! Don’t they get that some of us want to linger a few minutes with the Pres? The TOD village publicity coordinator should have a word with WH.GOV about this I think.
I agree………..Who should we send?
Pick Me! Pick Me!
Rev Al on fire at NAACP. Livetream — https://www.facebook.com/naacp/app_142371818162
For those who missed it. It was so cool to see Sen. Elizabeth Warren so happy at Richard Cordray’s confirmation as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The bear hug he gave her at the end was nice.
Thank You for the tweets!!
Yup…pigs are flying
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/boehner-cantor-endorse-dream-act-principles
And they have lipstick! 🙂
And they want to win an election……somewhere….anywhere…soon!
And they know their ass is grass. PBO is the lawn mow.
“Lawn mower.”
psst……. don’t tell Boehner and Cantor but Hispanics list job creation, health care and education as top priorities as well.
That means they’ll be voting for Dem’s for quite awhile.
Almost 3 yrs late? Hmm?
GA TODers.
I’ll believe it when they vote FOR the principles of the Dream Act and a pathway to citizenship.
Once again boner has to beg Nancy’s mercy to pass this.
It’s all about political expediency and nothing to do with what’s right for the future of our nation. JERKS.
So PBO’s use of Univision yesterday is really putting the GOP on the spot. Underestimate PBO at your own peril. They play checker whil PBO plays chess.
Isaiah 18:24 “I will remain quiet and look down from my dwelling place. “
Can I just say that Kathleen Sebelius has done an outstanding job as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Talk about thinking outside the box.
Yes, she is fabulous! Nose to the grindstone and loyal to our President’s vision every step of the way.
Yes Indeed! And she has done it quietly with no drama.
I saw a good quote from Episcopal Bishop Gregory Brewer of Central Florida on Facebook just now about Trayvon Martin. I will attempt to embed the twitter quote here:
If that doesn’t work, I’ll just write it out. Here’s how it looked on Facebook (if you can get that): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200103560132429&set=a.1652309748274.2078242.1252927544&type=1&theater
That kind of world would be so nice, but I would settle for a world were Zimmerman could have allow the police to do their job.
This could have been chips.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23341088
No, Chips would’ve been running after the bus throwing eggs at it.
Ah, you just beat me to it LL – but you said “eggs”, I said “rocks”. I’m waaaaay more violent than you suspected. (Especially towards clubs trying to steal my Wayne).
😆 Except I’d have been chucking rocks at an Arsenal bus!
spoken a true man u fanatic.
Thanks 🙂
Norm Ornstein was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal discussing the Filibuster rules and congressional obstructionism by the TBGOPers.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/313998-4
FYI – Rachael Jeantel is going to be on Politics Nation tonight.
Trayvon’s parents suppose to be on the Today show and Good Morning tomorrow, I think. I could be wrong about the date, but if anyone else know please let us know. I think Barbara Walters did a interview with Zimmerman’s parents.
I wish they would not expose themselves to these vultures.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/17/us-mcgrawhill-sandp-lawsuit-idUSBRE96G08620130717
(Reuters) – The U.S. government may proceed with its $5 billion lawsuit accusing Standard & Poor’s of misleading investors by inflating its credit ratings, after a federal judge rejected the rating agency’s effort to dismiss the civil fraud case.
In a written decision late on Tuesday, the judge said the government could pursue claims that S&P manipulated ratings to boost profit, and in doing so, concealed credit risks and conflicts of interest.
This led to large losses for investors and contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, the government contended.
I hope they get their ass’ handed to them. Good govt…hard at work!
excellent. make them bankrupt and poor.
Good …every damn day Erin Burnett does a segment talking about how many days it has been since we lost our AAA rating and says
” What is the Government doing about it ” and then goes on to talk about the stock market as if they were the cause and are the cure for it.
She knows darn well we were downgraded because of the Republicans holding the debt ceiling hostage.
I think I will forward her this link.
Mornin’. I really wish this had been more specific in calling out Republicans, but who are we kidding?
Here’s some Neil:
Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Aliens Might Find Humans Too Stupid To Contact (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/neil-degrasse-tyson-aliens-humans-stupid_n_3606156.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Hi JO’B, is there anyway I can get to the video without clicking on HP? I resolved never to give them hits long ago, during the 2008 primaries… Have stuck to it! If I can’t get it somewhere else, I allow it a miss!
I should have thought of that, MightyPamela!
Here ya go:
JO’B, you are a gift! Thank you so much… Sending this to my Brother, who hopes daily for the saucers to appear! {{{JO’B}}} 😉
Hope your brother keeps hoping on that one!
http://www.businessinsider.com/spatial-ability-predicts-future-success-2013-7
It’s no surprise that high verbal and math SAT scores at a young age might predict future success, but when you add a test for spatial reasoning ability to the mix, you get an even better predictor of someone’s future accomplishments, creativity, and innovative potential, a recent study found.
And in more football news: Sepp Blatter is to ask the Qatar World Cup to be moved to winter.
I guess he doesn’t want to give back all that money he received in bribes.
Seriously, they’re talking about this again??? Oh my, it’s all an absolute joke.
“Hey guys, I have an idea: Let’s have a World Cup in the Middle East in summer. What could go wrong?”
Ha, yes! Isn’t it so sweet how weather wasn’t an issue at all for Fifa when they were getting their sack-loads of loot from Qatar before the decision … but once the decision was made it was “uh oh – it’s quite hot there in summer”?
GA Chips, TOD….
If Republicans in the House of Representatives vote against the immigration reform legislation that was recently approved by the Senate — or if they prevent it from coming to a vote at all — they will lose the presidential election in 2016. It will not even matter who their candidate is…….
Perhaps Boehner wants to be the Hispanic community’s new villain — to replace the loathed Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz. But does he really want to join the ranks of infamous anti-immigration legislators like former California Gov. Pete Wilson, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and Sen. Ted Cruz? We’ll see.
Now all they need to do is bring back Dan Patrick….greatest combo in Sports Broadcasting history…set the precedent.
Yesterday Glenn Greenwald called MSNBC a bunch of ” Hacks ”
Coming up on Now with Alex Wagner ….Glenn Greenwald !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Expect another softball interview by Alex Wagner, who should know better but likes her paycheck.
Finally, Marcia Krieger, a U.S. district court judge in Colorado, refrained from issuing an injunction last week to block enforcement of the Rocky Mountain state’s new regulation banning gun magazines holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition. Krieger said an injunction was unnecessary after opponents of the law reached a compromise with the state about how the ban would be enforced.
None of these decisions individually represent huge setbacks for opponents of gun control. But, with George Zimmerman’s acquittal and the failure of Congress to pass the Manchin-Toomey background check legislation, they do serve to rebut the prevailing narrative that gun control advocates in the United States are doomed to fail.
There is your boy again on MSNBC, the glen greenwald channel.
I wish I had a nickle for every time he was in that channel!
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/07/17/chat-away-198/
The dow is well over 15,000. Hmmmmm. Wonder if my President had an influence with that. Hmmmmmm.