POTUS went to Florida one week-end and Tiger join him for a round of golf and the WHPC had a dam fit cause they didn’t get the chance to see them. Lead by Ed Henry.
Hi Bobfr, I looked up DeKalb County in GA., and the United States Congressman for that District 13th is :Congressman David Scott.
He does not accept emails from those who are not his constituents, but I feel that we all are very concerned about this.
I have seen this Congressman on tv several times. I feel if we can make this known by contacting Mr. Scott via Twitter, Facebook, etc., we may be able to move some people to see what is causing this type of decision.
davidscott.house.gov/distrikal.htm
Washington Phone:202- 225-2939. I know that they are home in their but if we can see if we have someone from GA within our family here, maybe they can contact Congressman Scott’s office there.
Bobfr, can this be put into a tweet for Congressman David Scott? TY, Bobfr. HZ
This is horrible, dudette. Old man Cheney gets a new heart and this young boy with his whole life ahead of
him gets rejected. Everything about this is terribly, terribly wrong.
Dudette, look above and see what I wrote to Bobfr. I looked up the county to see who is the Congressperson, and found out it is David Scott. He will not take emails from non constituents. However, if we can get a tweet to him, maybe we can get his attention and put some decent pressure on his office.
dscott.house.gov/district/dekalb.htm
Washington Office phone: (202) 225-2939. I am going to try to get information in the morning and see if I can get his GA. office number. If I do, I will post it here for those who might want to call his office in GA., He is probably home for vacation time now. HZ
“But if sea level is capable of rising several feet per century, as Dr. O’Leary’s paper would seem to imply and as many other scientists believe, then babies being born now could live to see the early stages of a global calamity.”
Brutal and spot on assessment of MoDo, and the other idiots of D.C. conventional wisdom…
And what, anyway, is MoDo’s alternative strategy? Win over Eric Cantor with a few Martinis? When Mitch McConnell is fighting for his electoral life because of threats from his right, does MoDo honestly believe Obama’s Capitol Hill schmoozing would help? If John Boehner cannot control the House GOP, is it really the president’s back-slapping skills that are at fault? This is 2013. We could wish the GOP were the same as it was in the 1980s but it ain’t. Then MoDo stumbles onto the truth … and leaves it lying there on the sidewalk: His White House runs on the idea that if you are virtuous and true and honorable, people will ultimately come to you. (An ethos that “sometimes” collides with political success.)
That “sometimes” is a classic. It almost reminds me of the Monty Python Life of Brian skit about “what the Romans ever did for us”. Obama’s political style is useless, apart from becoming the first black president, saving the US from another Great Depression, succeeding at getting universal healthcare, rescuing the American auto industry, presiding over a civil rights revolution, ending two failed wars, avoiding two doomed others (against Syria and Iran), bringing the deficit down while growing the economy, focusing the executive branch on climate change, and killing bin Laden. Yes his ethos “sometimes” “collides” with political success.
But no, he has never obsessed about whom the capitol is buzzing about – i.e. boomers and their Clinton obsession. Which is proof enough of his transformation of American politics. He has transformed it so much that MoDo cannot even understand how he has been so successful.
I would just like to mention – I am a boomer – and I have NO obsession with Clinton – either one – any one. In my world the 2 items about the Clinton administration that reached our shores – Health care fail by Hillary & impeachment proceedings against Bill.
Thanks DF and Dudette! WebMD must be commended for that short video clip educating people about the ACA, better known as Obama Care. I am one of the people who have already benefitted from Obama Care. My Senior Supplemental mothly Insurance premium went down almost $60 dollars. My co-pay for prescription drugs has gone down almost 50%. And, I don’t have to pay for my annual preventative check-ups.
Dept. of self promotion: I put together a post on some amazing technological advancements in Science and 3-D technology….From ears to arm casts
“A 3D printing technique developed by scientists at the heriot-watt university in Edinburgh produces clusters of human embryonic stem cells – a breakthrough which could pave the way to purpose-built replacement organs for patients, eliminating the need for organ donation, immune suppression and the problem of transplant rejection. the technique will enable more accurate human tissue models to be created – which are essential for drug development and toxicity-testing.”
President Barack Obama spent another day on the links, then attended a cocktail party at a West Tisbury home Monday. … The president and first lady left the party at about 7:30 pm, returning to Chilmark. … The White House then sent pool reporters home, indicating the Obamas will not venture out again this evening. http://www.mvtimes.com/2013/08/12/more-golf-friends-obamas-16828/
“The advocacy group Special Operations Speaks (SOS) recently announced that it is circulating a petition and would be placing billboards in Boehner’s congressional district calling out the Speaker for turning his back on the cause. “ONE MAN stands between the American people and the Watergate-style Select Committee needed to get to the truth and deliver justice. It’s not Barack Obama. It’s not Eric Holder. It’s not John Kerry either,” the email announces, “House Speaker John Boehner is the ONE MAN blocking a real investigation of Benghazi.””
Saw a bar chart posted in a previous thread along the same lines, but to me, this is easier to read. (Tweeted based on a link provided by DesertFlower earlier today).
Although I don’t trust Rand Paul as far as I’d like to throw him, that’s pretty much the first “useful” libertarian quote I’ve heard coming from that disgusting hateful racist smarmy dumbass.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made headlines last week with the release of a study that showed obesity rates among low-income preschoolers declining for the first time in decades — down in 17 states and up in only three. On the same day, Gallup reported that the percentage of Americans who went to fast-food restaurants at least once a week had dropped by 9 percentage points since 2006.
“I think we’re right at a tipping point,” Kass said, shedding his jacket as he sat at a picnic table in the sweltering August heat. The White House garden, the first big vegetable patch on the grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden during World War II, produces about a thousand pounds of produce a year. “Last year, fruit and vegetable consumption was up 6%, which came as a great surprise. We’re seeing much greater awareness across the board about what we’re eating and how much we’re eating and trying to make sure we’re getting balanced meals on our kids’ plates.”
Dudette and others on TOD who are doing a great job tweeting but the 15 year old kid who is being denied a heart transplant, do you think his story would go viral quickly I we also added his names to the messages we are sending?
Can we add the harshtag #AnthonyStokes to out messages may be it can trend d people can ask : Who is Anthony Stokes?
It may also be helpful if we sent some messages to the hosts of Urban Radio programs
6 more people shot within an hour tonight in Chgo. 8 kids younger than 7 yrs. old have been shot in the city in the last month and a half. Something needs to be done.
Dudette – Goldie Taylor helped a family in need last week via Twitter. Perhaps you could advise her of this situation, if you haven’t already? Just a thought.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Wonder if Tiger will join him?
Kinda doubt it. He’s somewhere licking his wounds. Congrats.
Thanks. he does seem to be thoroughly enjoying himself.
Do. Not. Get. Me. Started. On. Tiger.
Sergio “Fried Chicken” Garcia finished higher than him.
LL!!!!!!! I sincerely hope you’ve had a better time of it lately than Tiger did at that tournament…… jeez.
Well, my only hellish day seems to be this coming Thursday. The rest of the time I’m just way busier than normal.
But next week it’s vacation time, and the missus and I are going to spend a night in Solvang.
Good to hear you’ll get a break soon, mine ended today so my grumpiness levels are Jupiter-high!!
Truly?
Whew, okay, no, I was wrong. Sergio had been at -3. But, being Sergio, he was a right muppet and finished at +8. So Tiger beat him and Whiny Phil.
But still, dude needs to win next year’s Masters.
Hey, everyone has a bad day. Still I wish I had his cash flow.
yardarm756, that wasn’t a bad day, that was a horrible, terrible, awful, baaaaaaad day. What place did Tiger finish in?
I can’t count that high. 😯
Congrats on being number one VL!!!
Thank you, trekkiewife.
VL! Busting the door DOWN! Congrats on first!!! 🙂
Thank you, Dudette.
Why would Tiger join POTUS? Seem to me Tiger need to work on his game, because he stunk up the joint in that last tournament.
I believe that he and Tiger have played together before.
POTUS went to Florida one week-end and Tiger join him for a round of golf and the WHPC had a dam fit cause they didn’t get the chance to see them. Lead by Ed Henry.
Hi Bobfr, I looked up DeKalb County in GA., and the United States Congressman for that District 13th is :Congressman David Scott.
He does not accept emails from those who are not his constituents, but I feel that we all are very concerned about this.
I have seen this Congressman on tv several times. I feel if we can make this known by contacting Mr. Scott via Twitter, Facebook, etc., we may be able to move some people to see what is causing this type of decision.
davidscott.house.gov/distrikal.htm
Washington Phone:202- 225-2939. I know that they are home in their but if we can see if we have someone from GA within our family here, maybe they can contact Congressman Scott’s office there.
Bobfr, can this be put into a tweet for Congressman David Scott? TY, Bobfr. HZ
This is horrible, dudette. Old man Cheney gets a new heart and this young boy with his whole life ahead of
him gets rejected. Everything about this is terribly, terribly wrong.
Thanks for all those, Dudette – I tried to R/T as many as I saw. Unfeakinbelievable.
Definitely joining in the tweet, re-tweet, and re-tweet of the re-tweet …. – that is the least I can do for this kid
I hope the efforts by Dudette and others get the job done!
we can make a difference when we all pitch in and make the media take notice
Gosh – where is the outrage that was seen all over the press for a young white girl
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/28/18561580-dying-girl-10-spurs-fight-over-lung-transplant-fairness?d=1
Well done, Dudette, very well done!!!
Thanks Bob! I’m just brainstorming. Don’t know what else to do!
Dudette, look above and see what I wrote to Bobfr. I looked up the county to see who is the Congressperson, and found out it is David Scott. He will not take emails from non constituents. However, if we can get a tweet to him, maybe we can get his attention and put some decent pressure on his office.
dscott.house.gov/district/dekalb.htm
Washington Office phone: (202) 225-2939. I am going to try to get information in the morning and see if I can get his GA. office number. If I do, I will post it here for those who might want to call his office in GA., He is probably home for vacation time now. HZ
Dudette, Congressman David Scott’s District is DeKalb County, District 13. HZ
Great job highlighting the plight of this young man, Dudette! This is absolutely disgusting!
#Science Says So ( and we could all use a laugh from Stephen!):
https://twitter.com/ColbertReport/status/367095501776093184
The “chilling last sentence”:
“But if sea level is capable of rising several feet per century, as Dr. O’Leary’s paper would seem to imply and as many other scientists believe, then babies being born now could live to see the early stages of a global calamity.”
He’s right!
Mr Plouffe is soooooo intelligent!
Brutal and spot on assessment of MoDo, and the other idiots of D.C. conventional wisdom…
And what, anyway, is MoDo’s alternative strategy? Win over Eric Cantor with a few Martinis? When Mitch McConnell is fighting for his electoral life because of threats from his right, does MoDo honestly believe Obama’s Capitol Hill schmoozing would help? If John Boehner cannot control the House GOP, is it really the president’s back-slapping skills that are at fault? This is 2013. We could wish the GOP were the same as it was in the 1980s but it ain’t. Then MoDo stumbles onto the truth … and leaves it lying there on the sidewalk: His White House runs on the idea that if you are virtuous and true and honorable, people will ultimately come to you. (An ethos that “sometimes” collides with political success.)
That “sometimes” is a classic. It almost reminds me of the Monty Python Life of Brian skit about “what the Romans ever did for us”. Obama’s political style is useless, apart from becoming the first black president, saving the US from another Great Depression, succeeding at getting universal healthcare, rescuing the American auto industry, presiding over a civil rights revolution, ending two failed wars, avoiding two doomed others (against Syria and Iran), bringing the deficit down while growing the economy, focusing the executive branch on climate change, and killing bin Laden. Yes his ethos “sometimes” “collides” with political success.
But no, he has never obsessed about whom the capitol is buzzing about – i.e. boomers and their Clinton obsession. Which is proof enough of his transformation of American politics. He has transformed it so much that MoDo cannot even understand how he has been so successful.
I would just like to mention – I am a boomer – and I have NO obsession with Clinton – either one – any one. In my world the 2 items about the Clinton administration that reached our shores – Health care fail by Hillary & impeachment proceedings against Bill.
I’m just disgusted!!
Awwwww, Dudette! I am feelin’ ya’!
Yes We Can
Exactly, dudette. Outrage and disgust are the only feelings this generates.
Hard to wrap your head around this! Check out this interactive link on what happens in one second on the internet……
Wow!!!
Awesome WebMD ACA site: http://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/default.htm
Pass it on!
https://twitter.com/Dudette9t9/status/367119609377202176
Woops! Bad link in the original tweet! Fixed it here!
Thanks DF and Dudette! WebMD must be commended for that short video clip educating people about the ACA, better known as Obama Care. I am one of the people who have already benefitted from Obama Care. My Senior Supplemental mothly Insurance premium went down almost $60 dollars. My co-pay for prescription drugs has gone down almost 50%. And, I don’t have to pay for my annual preventative check-ups.
Dept. of self promotion: I put together a post on some amazing technological advancements in Science and 3-D technology….From ears to arm casts
“A 3D printing technique developed by scientists at the heriot-watt university in Edinburgh produces clusters of human embryonic stem cells – a breakthrough which could pave the way to purpose-built replacement organs for patients, eliminating the need for organ donation, immune suppression and the problem of transplant rejection. the technique will enable more accurate human tissue models to be created – which are essential for drug development and toxicity-testing.”
WOW! very impressive!
you are very talented and creative as well as a sponge for knowledge
TY Linda, that’s two days in a row you have complimented me…… 🙂
President Barack Obama spent another day on the links, then attended a cocktail party at a West Tisbury home Monday. … The president and first lady left the party at about 7:30 pm, returning to Chilmark. … The White House then sent pool reporters home, indicating the Obamas will not venture out again this evening. http://www.mvtimes.com/2013/08/12/more-golf-friends-obamas-16828/
Obama’s fault 🙂
What Republicans want to push on US
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/08/12/2450681/austerity-has-now-shrunk-the-greek-economy-by-a-quarter-since-2008/
“The advocacy group Special Operations Speaks (SOS) recently announced that it is circulating a petition and would be placing billboards in Boehner’s congressional district calling out the Speaker for turning his back on the cause. “ONE MAN stands between the American people and the Watergate-style Select Committee needed to get to the truth and deliver justice. It’s not Barack Obama. It’s not Eric Holder. It’s not John Kerry either,” the email announces, “House Speaker John Boehner is the ONE MAN blocking a real investigation of Benghazi.””
Forgot to say that I’m enjoying the GOP civil war, which is only going to escalate between now and this time next year. 😉
By popular demand.
Good times!
🙂
Saw a bar chart posted in a previous thread along the same lines, but to me, this is easier to read. (Tweeted based on a link provided by DesertFlower earlier today).
Yikes– what kind of critter is that Obama golf fan?
Mega thanks to the Obama Administration for the bridges it has been trying to build, despite the #GOPs knocking down the building blocks.
Beautiful thoughts, VC. Thanks, once again, for sharing your kind heart with us.
Spot on!
Perfect!
Two items of note from the GOP in @JeffZeleny’s timeline today.
Although I don’t trust Rand Paul as far as I’d like to throw him, that’s pretty much the first “useful” libertarian quote I’ve heard coming from that disgusting hateful racist smarmy dumbass.
THIS!
Still couldn’t bring myself to retweet racist sack of bile.
{{JO’B}}
THIS!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made headlines last week with the release of a study that showed obesity rates among low-income preschoolers declining for the first time in decades — down in 17 states and up in only three. On the same day, Gallup reported that the percentage of Americans who went to fast-food restaurants at least once a week had dropped by 9 percentage points since 2006.
“I think we’re right at a tipping point,” Kass said, shedding his jacket as he sat at a picnic table in the sweltering August heat. The White House garden, the first big vegetable patch on the grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden during World War II, produces about a thousand pounds of produce a year. “Last year, fruit and vegetable consumption was up 6%, which came as a great surprise. We’re seeing much greater awareness across the board about what we’re eating and how much we’re eating and trying to make sure we’re getting balanced meals on our kids’ plates.”
Dudette and others on TOD who are doing a great job tweeting but the 15 year old kid who is being denied a heart transplant, do you think his story would go viral quickly I we also added his names to the messages we are sending?
Can we add the harshtag #AnthonyStokes to out messages may be it can trend d people can ask : Who is Anthony Stokes?
It may also be helpful if we sent some messages to the hosts of Urban Radio programs
Good suggestion, Linda!!
To wit ….
#FORWARD Together
Excellent Idea!
Can anybody think of a good hashtag for for Anthony? I’m terrible with those.
Suggest keeping it simple – #AnthonyStokes – and build the message in tweets around him or, perhaps #Heart4Anthony (a la #Justice4Trayvon).
Yes We Can
That’s GREAT! Thanks Bob!
How’s this?
Excellent effort Dudette – I’m starting to see more peeps tweeting about this!!!
thanks for the suggestion of the harshtag – used it
This hashtag – #SolidarityForWhiteWomen – makes me barf ….
Dear Women of the world, only a wretched male or some totally subjugated white female could message such filth.
In Solidarity With EVERY Female is the ONLY response.
#FORWARD Together
omg. whaaaaatt? I don’t even get it. #Someone’sSmokinSomthin
nuts… I gotta go to bed. Oh wait! Tomorrow is Chips Birth-
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
😉
kind if confused – did Chips celebrate birthday early ( last week)?
or
is Chips like Queen Elizabeth II with an actual birthday and an official birthday – would make perfect sense since Chips is the queen of TODVille
Celebrating early was my fault. 😕 I got the date wrong.
An essential contrast ….
#TrustBarack He may be on vacation be he is PROTECTING YOU
6 more people shot within an hour tonight in Chgo. 8 kids younger than 7 yrs. old have been shot in the city in the last month and a half. Something needs to be done.
WTH is going on there? This is crazy!!!
Thanks Linda!!
Okay guys, I’ve gotta go for tonight. Thanks for your terrific help with tweeting Anthony Stoke’s story.
Dudette – Goldie Taylor helped a family in need last week via Twitter. Perhaps you could advise her of this situation, if you haven’t already? Just a thought.
New post. Happy Birthday Chips!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/08/13/happy-birthday-chips/
Saw HZ’s not about Rep Scott above. Came back to post these! Thanks SO much HZ!!