First Lady Michelle Obama and actress Eva Longoria participate in an event at Watertown High School to encourage people to drink more water in Watertown, Wisconsin.
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.@FLOTUS Thank you for your message. We'll be sure to #DrinkH2O today and everyday!
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TODAY (@todayshow) September 12, 2013Joining @FLOTUS on her @URH2O campaign. Raise your #water and share your #picture! #DrinkH2O @DespiertaAmeric ow.ly/i/38bel
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Satcha Pretto (@satchapretto) September 12, 2013Incredible day celebrating water with @FilterForGood and @MichelleObama! #DrinkH2O say.ly/pUN6IO8
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Eva Longoria (@EvaLongoria) September 12, 2013****
First Lady Michelle Obama reacts during an event at Watertown High School to encourage people to drink more water
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Supporting @LetsMove & @PHAnews to celebrate the launch of #DrinkH2O @urH2O with @cdickerson_pftp! @yankees @orioles http://t.co/POcEuJA8DP
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Curtis Granderson (@cgrand14) September 12, 2013.@FLOTUS H2O helps keep #TeamRegional here @WhiteHouse energized and focused! #DrinkH2O @letsmove http://t.co/IPV3JfPPxM
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Joanna Rosholm (@Rosholm44) September 12, 2013"When you drink water, you drink up!" - @FLOTUS with @evalongoria #DrinkH2O http://t.co/uM7b24a77l
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Check out this campaign from @FLOTUS & @PHANews…you are what you drink & when you #DrinkH20 you drink up! youarewhatyoudrink.org
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rachael ray (@rachael_ray) September 12, 2013Join the @FLOTUS & @PHANews…you are what you drink & when you #DrinkH20 you drink up! RT youarewhatyoudrink.org
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kerry washington (@kerrywashington) September 12, 2013"Let's give a toast to the best drink in town" —@FLOTUS & @EvaLongoria raise their water bottles at a #DrinkH2O event http://t.co/8ByZ39s7Y7
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Kori Schulman (@ks44) September 12, 2013****
First Lady Michelle Obama participates in an event at Watertown High School to encourage people to drink more water
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Today I'm in WI with @EvaLongoria to spread the word — drinking water is you at your best. Drink up! -mo #DrinkH2O instagram.com/p/eLINFnvZDh/
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(@FLOTUS) September 12, 2013Join the First Lady in a virtual cheers with H2O! Raise your glass of water and share photos with #DrinkH2O. instagram.com/p/eLF5pAPZPp/
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First Lady Michelle Obama poses for a picture with a student at an event at Watertown High School to encourage people to drink more water
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The Obama Diary 
I’ll drink water!
Good for you!! I’m on my 10th glass now and then I’m done!
Lol!
That’s good Layla. That’s great. I usually have ice tea when I eat, I’m going to cut back on that and I’m going to try having a glass of water more often.
That’s good, anniebella!
Me too VL! Congrats for that and FIRST!
Thank you, Dudette.
GE TOD……
“It was an at times harrowingly emotional interview. It was also, in a small way, a landmark. The Mister Cee scandal is lurid tabloid fare, but the love and acceptance shown to Cee by Darden, who repeatedly asked Cee to withdraw his resignation, feels like a watershed moment for hip-hop culture, which has slowly been casting off its long-standing homophobia.”
I can’t wait to see the right wing try and make this out to be a conspiracy
Shorter GOP: Don’t drink water. It’s bad for you. If you drink water, ObamaCare death panels will hunt you down!!!!!
It’s started already. Channel 4, WRC in D.C. was reporting about the First Lady’s water campaign, and they had a quote from some Doctor saying the benefits of drinking more water has never been proved. The President and FL can’t say ANYTHING without some JackAss disputing it.
I love My FLOTUS!
Meeeeee too!
Me three.!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this tonight?
Yes Ben was on Rachel tonight.
How was it? Was he able to make his points?
When Sasha Issenberg’s The Victory Lab, an insider’s guide to the pivotal statistical concepts and methods behind the vaunted Obama data machine, first came out at the height of the presidential campaign, many on the right rejected it with an allergic ferocity. Top Romney digital operatives told me on a Boston visit last year that his geek squad was evenly matched technologically with their opponents’. (They weren’t, as the “ORCA” election night debacle proved.) In a typical dismissal, RedState.Com founder Ben Domenech mocked Issenberg as “perpetually amazed” by Obama and doubted that his campaign’s microtargeting would work.
One year later, after a period of mourning and introspection over how they could have been so blindsided — and egged on by told-ya-so GOP digital operatives — the Republican Party is trying to learn how to stop worrying and love the non-partisan truths of modern campaigning.
LP, the Republicans don’t get that all the micro targeting in the world won’t compensate for a lousy candidate. They have nothing to sell.
Spot on……..it’s kind of like the RNC’s *rebranding effort* we see how well that has been going of late!
Too much too little tooo late. That Willard lost. They all have cotton between their ears. They do’t know how to think. One thing that Barack Obama is-is a thinker. He is also surrounded by thinkers.
In addition to my usual 64 oz of water per day, I’m drinking another 16 oz just for FLOTUS!!
Showoff!
First song that came to me, when I read all the water you drink, was “Slip Slidin’ Away,” but actually the lyrics are the total opposite of the very focused YOU, my dear meta!
A toast to you, anyway (not to mention your pastries!) …
Well, I am feeling kinda bloated at the moment……..lulz.
Drinking too much water can have some negative health issues meta, as well as drinking too little – I had a friend who ended up in hospital because she drank too much water.
I’m fine, no worries.
That’s ok then – ever since my friend’s episode I set limits – but of course water is soooo much better to drink than soda – has taken me a long time to switch over
I’m so sorry to hear about your friend and I know that people have died from chugging too much water. The amount of water I drink is throughout the whole day. I drink a glass when I wake up and continue with that all day so I’m not flooding my system all at once.
I had an elderly aunt (87) who ended up in the hospital because she was severely dehydrated. She was acting as though she’d had a mental breakdown. Normally a quiet, sweet person, she was mean, nasty and fighting everybody who came near her, and didn’t recognize anybody. They had to hydrate her, but she kept ripping the IV’s out of her arm. Finally they sedated her and she went to sleep. In less than 2 days she was her old self again. All she needed was water.
I am sure we all know folks on both sides of the too much/too little – my friend was the opposite – someone told her to drink 6 litres/day – that’s about 1.6 gallons I think – way too much for her.
Ha! Take it easy on the water.
I kid.
If I try really, really hard all day, I might manage 20 oz. I just never feel thirsty until I’m so dry I could blow away.
Welp…that boosts water sales through the roof with my First Lady Michelle encouraging the drinking of it.
Sure does. Coca Cola is shivering in its boots, hoping it’ll just mean their bottled water sales will go up.
Reminder to set your DVRs on Sunday (to skip through the insufferable portions of the show):
It actually ticks me off that these well paid journalists are forever asking the public to do their work for them! Sure this ‘send me your questions’ is a nice technique, but, good lord, use it sparingly. Now they all seem to want the listeners to do everything!
Can you tell I’m a Stephanolous fan?
I think it’s just a headfake. They’re running with their own narrative no matter what people tweet. It’s pathetic.
Or they pick out a controversial question or two that fits their storyline, so they can say this came from Susie Redneck or Johnny I-hate-everyone.
It bugs me because their line of questioning nearly always shows that they have an axe to grind, as opposed to them trying to clarify issues for citizens. Such a colossal waste of time for the President as well as for citizens who seek to be enlightened!
Look at this mess right here. Republican Party is cheating itself right out of existence. Ha!
I hope everyone of those voters get themselves back on the rolls so they can kick Rick Scott’s butt right outta town (from the ballot box)
Uh-oh. Bad news from Afghanistan…
https://twitter.com/jackhealyNYT/status/378332078133092352
Prayers for the staff there. Let’s just get the hell out of that place.
It is hard to know what GWB (or his cohorts) thought they could achieve in Afghanistan – they must have been reading the Texas school books version of history if they thought this would end well for anybody
Always loved this song — with or without the movie
I really love Eva for her unrelenting support 4 PBO & FLOTUS. I appreciate her steadfast support. Awesomeness!
Stanley Turrentine
Love him.
You don’t miss your water until your well runs dry-yy, you don’t miss your last chance until it pass you byy-yy, you don’t miss your good thannnnngg until it’s gone awayaaayy, you don’t miss your livin’ until your dyin’ daaayyy. Talkin’ bout yo’ waaaaater!!!
Very fitting VL! 🙂
Cool! I love that album. Thank you, Dudette!
🙂
Good column by Nick Kristoff supportive of the President:
OP-ED COLUMNIST
That Threat Worked
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: September 11, 2013 155 Comments
For all you innumerable skeptics of President Obama’s calls for military strikes on Syria, consider this. For decades, Syria has refused to confirm that it has chemical weapons. Now, facing a limited strike, its position abruptly changed to: Oh! We do have them after all! And we want to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention! We want to show them to United Nations inspectors. In short, the mere flexing of military power worked — initially and tentatively. And while it seems that neither Congress nor the public has any appetite for cruise missile strikes on Syria, it will be critical to keep the military option alive in the coming weeks or Russia and Syria will play us like a yo-yo.
Frankly, I’m skeptical that a deal can be worked out in which Syria hands over its chemical weaponry, and President Obama may have exchanged a losing struggle with Congress with a Sisyphean struggle with Russia. But it’s not impossible. And even if Syria cheated and stalled and eventually handed over only half of its chemical arsenal and none of its biological arsenal, that would still be a huge win for global security.
So here’s a three-track strategy for Syria going forward:
• Negotiate with Moscow on removal of Syrian chemical weapons and insist on conditions to ensure we’re not being played, including immediate disclosure to the United Nations of chemical weapons stockpiles, a binding Security Council resolution confirming the deal, a reference in the resolution to “serious consequences” for noncompliance, and immediate installation of camera monitors on at least a few locations.
• Groundwork in Congress to authorize a limited missile strike if Syria does not comply, partly to retain leverage with Moscow.
• Expansion of efforts to arm and support moderate Syrian rebels, accompanied by covert cyberwarfare on the Syrian regime, to try to change the momentum on the ground.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/kristof-that-threat-worked.html?hp
Hi Bill,
It’s copyright infringement to post an entire article. Up to 4 paragraphs with a citation is ok. Just thought you should know.
Thank you.
#TrustBarack
Hey Bill, it’s copyright infringement to post the entire article so I put down three paragraphs and if anyone wants to read the rest of the story, they can click on the article. Just for future reference.
Well done, UT.
I bet First Lady Obama’s daughters really adore her.
Coolest mom on the planet!
Check that… after mine, of course! 🙂
Annie! Take me to the river, drop me in the water!!!
One of my most favorite Annie songs!!! Thank you Dudette!!!
I absolutely LOVE her! 😀
Anybody else gettin’ thirsty? (I’m just amusing myself, ignore me!)
Lol!
Oooo, good one!
You could not be old enough to remember that! (But he really was a great singer, in his own way.)
Puleez! Not that particular song, but I do remember Burl Ives and not just for his Christmas music. My Mom loved his voice. We had his album with The Times They Are A Changin’ on it. For a long time, I didn’t even know it was Bob Dylan’s, cuz I knew only Burl’s version.
Methinks you got your addiction to music from your Mom! My Mother liked Burl Ives a lot more than I did, but his songs were sure catchy, and once you got one in your head, it stuck.
Bob Dylan wrote about a gazillion songs and is connected to so many singers, it’s amazing. I was reminded recently that he wrote Mr. Tambourine Man, because my friend used to actually “hang out” with Bruce Langhorne, who inspired the song. She mostly remembers Bruce because he got her interested in … wait for it … science fiction!
this song brings back a memory or two. Where did you find that JOB?
Oh my…..I’m sure old enough to remember Burl Ives, and that song, and others.
I searched for “water” on YouTube and voilà!
Every tear is a waterfall …..
… since we are all truly H20 (and a few other bits and pieces of chemistry 🙂 )
Pressing my lips against the monitor. This is for Chris! {{{mmmwah!}}} [ don’t tell Gwyneth 🙂 ]
For a minute I thought you were talking about my daughter (whose name is Gwyneth)
😀 It’s a lovely name.
Welsh 🙂
He is truly exceptional!!!!
Serious question: Do Manhattans count?
If you water ’em down maybe. [ba, dum, bum] 😀
Might be Paul and Art’s song, but Ree-Ree OWNED this puppy!!
Thank you our Musician-In-Chief. (((((((( Much love fro HZ for my Dudette)))))))))))). Our TOD family is the tops!!! Thank you,, our wonderful Chips and all of the wonderful contributors.HZ
This is a repeat but I just love it…
Is she sick of water?
LOL!!!!!
Dear Lord, say this is not so. Please protect everyone inside.
Oh please God!!!!!
Lighting a candle as MightyPamela would have us do…
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/enter.cfm?l=eng
TY darlin!
Candles lit and prayers have been offered. HZ
KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants staged a suicide car bombing then engaged in a gunfight with security forces near the American consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat early Friday, officials said. An Afghan translator was killed, while several other people, including police, were wounded.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which underscored the perilous security situation in Afghanistan, where U.S.-led troops are reducing their presence ahead of a full withdrawal planned for next year. The insurgent strikes are no longer concentrated in the country’s south and east, but occur with troubling frequency in the north and west, which have been the more peaceful areas in years past.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Kabul declined immediate comment.
The attack began around 6 a.m. with the powerful explosion. The car bomber detonated his explosives around 60 meters (66 yards) away from the consulate compound, said Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi, the governor of Herat province. Other militants then began firing on security forces in the area.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/12/afghanistan-car-bomb_n_3917630.html
Hey guys, I up later than usual, but I just got back from the bowling alley. A lady at my job convinced me to join her bowling league and I agreed to join. So if ya know me, then you’ll know I’m kinda anti – social, why in the world did I agree to do this? Figured it was better than sitting on my couch surfing the net & watching tv…meh.
So I just got back from my bowling excursion.
I hate to say it but I enjoyed myself.
To be honest, I only gonna give it a least one season and then I’m gonna reevaluate it. this is basically the first time I’ve bowled since high school, so almost 20 years at least 15. 2 of the team members bowl at least 2x a week. The other guy is a “newbie” but he just hasn’t bowled in a least a year. Everyone seems nice, but some are really competitive even though they say they’re not. So I need to up my game. I hate being the worse at anything. I am at least consistently the last…lol
So I’m the “newbie” and I HATE it. I can def get competitive and obsessed about it…ugh.
Oh and now my legs are killing me and my “bowling finger” is killing me.
Still, I got out of the house.
Cool! Bowling is good fun and nice way to make friends!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/12/news-of-the-day-25/