Giggle! Giggle! – First reading of that I got ‘At @emoprog to discuss…’ and before my brain caught up to my eyes I was wondering why NancySmash was meeting with the emoprogs!
Hi JO’B! Hope YOUR Wednesday is off to a great start!
That’s all I’m saying for now, as it seems that my brain hasn’t come with me into this session. I’ve made so many gaffes since my arrival it would seem to be saying today is a day I need to listen and not say much.
In my ongoing series of reports on AJAM: Regular news report on the UN report on CW in Syria. They said – accurately – that the report was not tasked with deciding who the perpetrator was. But then they went through the evidence that clearly points to Assad and the government. Like an old time, Cronkite-esque factual news report.
Hubby was flipping channels and noticed that msnbc was reporting that the UN report ‘did not say who was responsible for the CW attack.’ See the difference there?
I used to come home from work and have to talk him down over some lie he heard on cnn or msnbc. It was exhausting. Now when I come home he has something substantive to share from one of AJAM’s in depth reports.
I’m happier than I allowed myself to hope. There will be things I hear that I don’t like – they are not an echo chamber for PBO. But I am finding real, honest substance in their news coverage so far.
Please help me here….
Where can I find AJAM? I do have cable. Never watch cable because I spend most of my time here.
I would like to pass this on to my brain dead family and friends who stil watch msnbc and faux before they explode.
It is getting very difficult to sit through dinner with these intelligent minded people spewing out ignorant, non fact lies they heard on those gossip, reality, supposed to be news shows.
I am having a strong feeling that I will be eating Thanksgiving dinner alone. When I must attend functions, I show my face and leave. I dare not stand around too long. Yes, I have tried to educate them with the facts and every chance I get I invite them here.
Some get it. Some don’t. Some will. Some won’t.
Hey, y’all. Signing off until much later today. I’m seeing my orthopedic surgeon this afternoon, and if you wonderful lot could keep me in your thoughts, I would be most grateful. I’m not much improved from when I saw him 2 months ago, and do not understand why I am still so limited and with so much pain. I need him to LISTEN, so that what I’m asking for your help with!! Thank you, and may God Bless. http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PBO
I’ve just said a prayer for you. I know about pain. I, too, am going through some challenges these days, having treatment for multiple myeloma (cancer). In a couple of weeks, I’ll go for a bone marrow transplant. May God be with you and cure you. He only can.
MP, God bless you while you go through the challenges you are facing. I live in NYC and there is a channel called Veria mostly deals with healthy alternatives and Holistic medicines. I am not against traditional medicines, but sometimes a combination of both or others may work. I know what you are going through. Before my husband died from lung cancer, he was in so much pain. No one would listen to us and it was so overwhelming. They were so quick to write prescriptions. I started changing how we ate and think about the body.
It helped us to love and respect the mind, body and soul as a whole and not rely totally on pils for this and that.
Please continue to ask questions even if they don’t listen, maybe the doctor will get annoyed like one of ours did when I asked him, what would he do if it was him who was in as much pain as my husband.
For once I felt that he told us the truth and was listening to us.
We accepted that and moved on.
And they are still wondering why their audience is declining??? We used to be loyal watchers….NO MORE! And I’m sure we are representative of thousands of people.
These people can’t talk about the Republicans with the way they act.
So what was Ed ranting POTUS about? And Richard Wolfe always have been fair, but have that little weasel turn on POTUS too. I might have to stop watching Ed show.
Why then did the Founding Fathers put a heavy premium on Freedom of the press?
Since this president’s policies and speeches are Never aired accurately by the press, is Chuck Todd then OK with a WH with it’s Own TV/Cable News? So why then does the likes of Todd complain when the WH have other local Journos interview this POTUS? Why then does the DC pundits demand access and refuse to post pictures by this Administration? What is the role of WHPC? Oh yeah, Only to criticize and use TBGOPers talking points?
(The “Firms” ad was the one with the flag flapping in the breeze, with R-money singing “America the Beautiful” with an ending shot of the Cayman islands. It allowed viewers to draw their own conclusions.)
Chuck gets the vapors with an ad like this, and is so unself-aware that he considers himself objective.
I am surprised Upchuck and spell objective because he clearly does not know the definition of the word. Upchuck and all of the MSM knows they are NOT objective and don’t care to be. They only want to “manage” and “create” the news to influence the public’s thoughts. The WHPC should be disbanded because they are useless they are the Republican Cesspool Reporters.
“Is Chuck Todd then OK with a WH with it’s Own TV/Cable News? ” Yes and its called FoxNews. The GOP president has an entire network that will always argue his side of an issue. The rest of the MSM will follow the narrative driven by FoxNews. PBO and other Dem presidents will always have an MSM that is hostile and challenges his legitimacy. That is the status quo, and that is the way Chuck Todd and his ilk (and their corporate masters) want to keep it.
I agree that something needs to be done because the current state of affairs is a stones throw away from a dictatorship. Thank God for twitter, the internet and sites like this one, where the truth stands a chance. It is also a promising development that more and more of the public is tuning out MSM propanda (if they were not we would have a Pres. Romney today). I shudder at the thought.
And the “liberal” pundits like Ezra Klein join in bashing the President for no reason other than their own egos.
Ezra jumped the shark over the weekend when he suggested that the President’s Fed Chair appointment might be made out of “spite.” Right, the President has a long track record of making Cabinet-level appointments out of “spite,” such as Secretary of State (major snark).
Through the 1970s, most MSM had experience as war correspondents (such as Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, etc.). These days pundits rarely leave a 5-mile radius of the White House and/or NYC; thus the continuing echo-chamber.
I don’t think it is about ego as much as it is about job security. These MSM personalities have been given their marching orders to serve as propagandists for the GOP. I don’t believe for a minute that the current state of affairs (with all facets of the media bashing PBO) is a coincidence. The attacks and anti-PBO message discipline is too coordinated to happen by chance.
[I wonder if there’s video of this event, ‘cos I’m disappointed at Leon in this article. Isn’t there some protocol/etiquette that these people need to follow? STFU Protocol: when you’re no longer in the know-how, on the inside, STFU. Peddling books = bash PBO, need your own TV show = ditto. Ad nauseam. Phew, okay, I feel better now! 🙂 Hello TOD Family, Mama Danny!]:
[…..] Speaking at a forum in Dallas, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta disagreed on whether the United States should ultimately carry out a military strike in retaliation for a chemical attack that the U.S. says killed 1,400 people. But both men said Obama shouldn’t have asked Congress to approve a strike, and both were skeptical and sometimes sarcastic about the current Russia-backed negotiations to have Syria turn over its chemical weapons.
Panetta said he supported a strike because Obama needed to enforce the “red line” he set over Syria’s use of chemical weapons.
“When the president of the United States draws a red line, the credibility of this country is dependent on him backing up his word,” Panetta said.
But Gates said a strike would be like “throwing gasoline on an extremely complex fire in the Middle East.” He brought up past interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya as examples of how American military action can lead to unintended consequences.
He also dismissed attacking Syria to enforce a red line.
“I believe to blow a bunch of stuff up over a couple of days to underscore or validate a point or principle is not a strategy,” he said. […..]
Robert Gates was magnificent in the White House. Leon Panetta was always a Clintonista. In any event, I haven’t mentioned it, but this isn’t the first time I’ve been disappointed with Robert Gates, since he left his old job. Now, maybe he feels he has a long career ahead of him and must not look like Pres. Obama’s lapdog, but – I’m with you – I prefer the lapdog look to the sell-out look, myself.
JOB, totally! I got mad at the “sarcastic” remark. Really? Former staffers should zip it! Discuss what you were actually involved in not what is currently going on & you’re on the outside.
It’s almost as though nobody’s called him from the White House since he left, or Jay Carney’s looking as though he’s doing better than Robert did, in Robert’s eyes, or whatever.
Oh, Gazelle – I got Robert Gates mixed up with Robert Gibbs, mostly because I’ve been seeing Gibbs on the teevee for a bit, and he’s not as vocal in his support of Pres. Obama as I thought he’d be. Just realized it was former Defense Secretary Robert Gates you were writing about, who spoke out with Panetta. Please excuse me. Duh.
I don’t support a strike, but I believe when it comes to foreign policy, in the face of the nation and world, politicians and those with a public platform should stand united…even if they disagree. Disagreements ought to be discussed in one of Mitt Romney’s quiet rooms. “United” States should mean something.
Right on, FayPax! Foreign Policy is nuanced and complicated enough as it is without every Tom, Dick, & Harry getting their fingers in the proverbial pie.
Every time I see that image of our Joe and our President sitting and laughing together, I crack up. Notice how there are a gazillion chairs on either side of them. Now, perhaps they wanted to whisper something devilish to each other, something secretive, like the little rascals they are. Or perhaps the President had taken a seat, and old Irish Joe – who never learned what “personal space” means, another reason to love him – grabbed the chair right next to him, making him a captive audience. Both seem quite happy with the arrangement.
[Hahahahah! You know if they had squat they would have put it out to the public already. Instead they’re hiding their shit. Effers! Arses! Sorry I don’t have a link but it’s from CQ Roll Call.]:
[…..] Tennessee Republican Phil Roe will be giving a presentation on the bill Wednesday at the weekly RSC meeting, according to spokeswoman Tiffany McGuffee, and the details will be unveiled to reporters at a press conference that afternoon. It’s been in the works since late spring and will pull from ideas that Republicans have agreed on in the past, many of which were included in the Republican substitute during debate on the health care law.
“Every time our membership goes home, all you hear is that Republicans don’t have any ideas,” Roe said in an interview in August. “Well, that’s the reason I came to Congress. We had a lot of ideas about what to do about it. Unfortunately, nobody listened to any of them.”
Roe said the measure would repeal the health care law and include language designed to equalize the tax treatment of businesses and individuals when it comes to health insurance, though he did not disclose details. Other pieces he outlined include provisions to expand Health Savings Accounts, fund state-run high-risk pools, allow people to buy insurance across state lines, overhaul the medical liability system and prohibit taxpayer funding for most abortions. […..]
Buy insurance over state lines is code for – crap insurance.
Health savings accounts work if you’re wealthy.
High risk pools are too expensive for the average consumer (like me)
overhaul medical liability is code for – no regulation or accountability of the medical profession.
Wanna know what ‘overhaul of medical liability’ saved in TX? 1%!
If you may $25,000/year and have no insurance for your cancer, you couldn’t care less about ‘tax treatment’.
Gone if ACA were repealed:
Coverage for basic visits & screenings.
Coverage of pre-existing conditions.
Insurance companies forced to actually, you know, deliver payment of claims.
Donut hole opens wide again for seniors.
Staying on parents’ plans
THERE STILL IS NO AFFORDABLE INSURANCE FOR THOSE OF US WHO NEED IT.
“Our son Aaron Alexis has murdered 12 people and wounded several others,” Cathleen Alexis says in the statement. “His actions have had a profound and everlasting effect on the families of the victims. I don’t know why he did what what he did, and I’ll never be able to ask him, why. Aaron is now in a place where he can no longer do harm to anyone, and for that I am glad. To the families of the victims, I am so, so very sorry that this has happened. My heart is broken.”
I don’t know if anybody else shares my position: Richard Wolfe’s new book, The Message, in which he lays out the intra-fighting among POTUS most ardent advisors and supporters, is one book I will not purchase. The first one Wolfe wrote on the 2008 campaign was excellent. But this one is not to my taste. I don’t need to remember how Ed Schultz lost it many times because of a “public option” or because the POTUS was not fighting hard enough for the middle-class.
Sadly, the media is nothing more than propaganda and gossip. Remember back in the day when one could make book on what a reporter said? Those days are long gone. We now live in the age of yellow journalism and Tokyo Rose.
Then within 24 hours, Candy Crowley in a quivering voice on Live CNN TV timidly said the president lied to pacify the avalanche of criticism from Fellow pundits and heavy pushback by the Fox and the 1300 talk hate hosts.
Think I’ve been a panic merchant since the day I was born – but I’ve decided not to panic about the GOP and it’s plans to ruin the financial stability of the world because I don’t think it will happen – and if it does – the biggest losers will be the GOP – although the impact will be the worst on the people of the US.
Since the beginning of 2009, the GOP and their BFF the US media have been creating panic – inside and outside of the USA –
Since the beginning of 2009, the GOP and their BFF the US media have been creating panic – inside and outside of the USA – AND EVERY SINGLE TIME – PBO has proven there was no justification for that panic & carried on regardless.
The media LIVES on its lies and drama – I don’t want to do that anymore..
Right on!!! GOP are economic terrorists and the MSM are their enablers. I am confident that the GOP will blink because the Wall Street types will suffer mightily if the U.S. defaults and they lose all that cheap capital. A government shut down will deliver the House to the Dems in 2014. The Tea Party set use these threats to increase fund raising. Boner and the GOP will let the Tea Partiers try it their way in an effort to appease them, and when that goes nowhere, the sane Wall Street GOPers will bargain with the Dems and avoid fiscal catastrophe, at the last minute of course. We have seen this movie before.
The poor kid though. I agree with this ruling, but so many parents put a huge heavy anchor around their kids necks with the ridiculous names they give their babies. They need to think of the kids, not their selfish whims.
My replies have a mind of their own. 🙂 As for God is Great, I thought I’d heard it all when the woman named her kid Shot-o-vodka. Spelled without the hyphens, of course. 🙂
[Awwww! The Castro brothers turned 39 and this tidbit of news!};
[….] Monday night it was Joaquin’s turn in the spotlight as he made official what many already knew — that he’s engaged and will soon be a dad. Joaquin told the crowd that he and his fiance, Anna, are expecting a baby girl in December. […..]
Internet posts claiming that Warren Buffett wants to “scrap Obamacare” are false, the Omaha investor said Tuesday.
“This is outrageous,” Buffett said in a World-Herald interview. “It’s 100 percent wrong … totally false.”
I was so pleased to see this – couldn’t believe the reports when I saw them – no doubt Chuck Todd didn’t think the media should check if it was true.
Shows exactly that the media picks up on RW lies and spreads them far and wide – seems the most honest moment Chuck Todd has had in the past 5 years was stating that it was not his role to refute lies.
You mean “refute GOP lies”. He will call a Democrat a liar even when he/she is telling the truth, if doing so will help the GOP and its corporate friendly agenda.
The inaugural “Men for Choice and the Women Who Love Them” fundraiser is scheduled to take place Sept. 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at LOOK Supper Club (1909 K St. NW). Admittance to the abortion rights fundraiser ranges from $100 (guest) to $1,000 (host).
Many featured guests are political scions and/or administration heavies, including: Hunter Biden, son of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Nathan Daschle, son of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., Joe Lockhart, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton, Bill Burton, former campaign press secretary for President Barack Obama, Brian Wolff, former executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and former Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va.
Luckily, the man-bait will not be the sole source of entertainment.
Attendees can expect to also feast on Angus beef sliders, chicken-vegetable kebabs, mini caprese creations, mac and cheese balls and cucumber-hummus canapés.
I’m going to post a comment that I made on Pragmatic Obots Unite: I’m telling you the GOP and the media are coordinating an attack on the administration. Notice how all of these negative articles are coming out one after another, Richard Wolff’s book, articles quoting “sources” about the White House in disarray , and lies about disagreement among allies. This shit is so obvious.
After the new lie put out there by the media about Warren Buffett not supporting Obamacare I think we can finally conclude that this assault on the White house is being coordinated by the media and the GOP.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Fiiiiirst!
Hello Chips. How you doing?
I’m doing mighty fine Mariele, thank you! Hope all’s good with you?
You are such a cheater.
Me?!?!?! 😯
*ahem* *ahem* Caught by one who should know! I have this vague memory of a recent discussion re morality – do you remember it, CC?
Emmmmmm, no, I’m drawing a blank here!
Sure you are, you who
accusedrightly told Utal she was cheating recently! I’d bet you have a piece of land in Tipperary you want to will to me!*cough* *cough* Very interesting to see you both admitting with this dialogue that when you are first on your own thread it’s *morally* cheating. 😉 😉
I see that the Gold award was Not 😉 earned the hard way ❓
CONgrats 😉
Thank you Nena, I’m very proud.
Love that picture! Makes me smile.
Moooorning Sonjia!
Giggle! Giggle! – First reading of that I got ‘At @emoprog to discuss…’ and before my brain caught up to my eyes I was wondering why NancySmash was meeting with the emoprogs!
Ha! Love it.
Hi JO’B! Hope YOUR Wednesday is off to a great start!
That’s all I’m saying for now, as it seems that my brain hasn’t come with me into this session. I’ve made so many gaffes since my arrival it would seem to be saying today is a day I need to listen and not say much.
Since my brain is pretty much functioning the way you say yours is today, I say keep talking.
So, I’m in good company? TY. 😀
🙂
Back to Rise and Shine. So much to read. Good morning All.
Please forgive me for posting it again:
POTUS on Immigration.
In my ongoing series of reports on AJAM: Regular news report on the UN report on CW in Syria. They said – accurately – that the report was not tasked with deciding who the perpetrator was. But then they went through the evidence that clearly points to Assad and the government. Like an old time, Cronkite-esque factual news report.
Hubby was flipping channels and noticed that msnbc was reporting that the UN report ‘did not say who was responsible for the CW attack.’ See the difference there?
I used to come home from work and have to talk him down over some lie he heard on cnn or msnbc. It was exhausting. Now when I come home he has something substantive to share from one of AJAM’s in depth reports.
I’m happier than I allowed myself to hope. There will be things I hear that I don’t like – they are not an echo chamber for PBO. But I am finding real, honest substance in their news coverage so far.
I am in total agreement with you. Now it is AJAM all the time for me.
I’m happier than I dared allowed myself to expect. Other than comparison purposes, Hubby doesn’t turn on cnn or msnbc anymore at all.
Please help me here….
Where can I find AJAM? I do have cable. Never watch cable because I spend most of my time here.
I would like to pass this on to my brain dead family and friends who stil watch msnbc and faux before they explode.
It is getting very difficult to sit through dinner with these intelligent minded people spewing out ignorant, non fact lies they heard on those gossip, reality, supposed to be news shows.
I am having a strong feeling that I will be eating Thanksgiving dinner alone. When I must attend functions, I show my face and leave. I dare not stand around too long. Yes, I have tried to educate them with the facts and every chance I get I invite them here.
Some get it. Some don’t. Some will. Some won’t.
My life is too precious for BS…
Hey, y’all. Signing off until much later today. I’m seeing my orthopedic surgeon this afternoon, and if you wonderful lot could keep me in your thoughts, I would be most grateful. I’m not much improved from when I saw him 2 months ago, and do not understand why I am still so limited and with so much pain. I need him to LISTEN, so that what I’m asking for your help with!! Thank you, and may God Bless.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PBO
Good Luck, {{{{{MP}}}}}
Healing, positive energy sent your way, MP! {{{{{{MP}}}}}}
God bless you, my friend MightyPamela – and, yes, will pray that your doctor listens!
Morning MP. I lit a candle for you and the surgeon….and I’ll cross my fingers for a bit….until I forget why they’re crossed.
MightyPamela,
I’ve just said a prayer for you. I know about pain. I, too, am going through some challenges these days, having treatment for multiple myeloma (cancer). In a couple of weeks, I’ll go for a bone marrow transplant. May God be with you and cure you. He only can.
MP, God bless you while you go through the challenges you are facing. I live in NYC and there is a channel called Veria mostly deals with healthy alternatives and Holistic medicines. I am not against traditional medicines, but sometimes a combination of both or others may work. I know what you are going through. Before my husband died from lung cancer, he was in so much pain. No one would listen to us and it was so overwhelming. They were so quick to write prescriptions. I started changing how we ate and think about the body.
It helped us to love and respect the mind, body and soul as a whole and not rely totally on pils for this and that.
Please continue to ask questions even if they don’t listen, maybe the doctor will get annoyed like one of ours did when I asked him, what would he do if it was him who was in as much pain as my husband.
For once I felt that he told us the truth and was listening to us.
We accepted that and moved on.
More great news:
Great news, indeed.
(((((((( MightyPamela)))))))))) So done, () () () Listen. Amen.HZ
Obama Got Ranted At By Ed Schultz, Was Enraged By Bad NYT Coverage: New Book
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I know this is on huffpo….but I cannot believe our President has ” Outbursts ” over negative coverage. I am so sick of MSNBC.!!!!!!!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/obama-ed-schultz-rant-nyt_n_3947512.html
So Ed Schultz and Richard Wolf are proud that Ed was disrespectful to the President? Nice. No wonder POTUS doesn’t like cable news talking heads.
And they are still wondering why their audience is declining??? We used to be loyal watchers….NO MORE! And I’m sure we are representative of thousands of people.
These people can’t talk about the Republicans with the way they act.
Chris Hayes had only 89,000 viewers last Wednesday.
I have stopped watching MSNBC mostly…..
I have been watching PBS Newshour lately…but they are not as good as I thought they are either……
So what was Ed ranting POTUS about? And Richard Wolfe always have been fair, but have that little weasel turn on POTUS too. I might have to stop watching Ed show.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chuck-todd-it-s-not-media-s-job-to-correct-gop-s-obamacare-falsehoods-video
This is still driving me nuts.
What is the Job of a Journalist?
Why is the press called the 4th Estate?
Why then did the Founding Fathers put a heavy premium on Freedom of the press?
Since this president’s policies and speeches are Never aired accurately by the press, is Chuck Todd then OK with a WH with it’s Own TV/Cable News? So why then does the likes of Todd complain when the WH have other local Journos interview this POTUS? Why then does the DC pundits demand access and refuse to post pictures by this Administration? What is the role of WHPC? Oh yeah, Only to criticize and use TBGOPers talking points?
I’m seething over this. I’m with you, Nena.
Seething doesn’t begin to describe how I feel about the disgrace-to-journalism upChuck.
(The “Firms” ad was the one with the flag flapping in the breeze, with R-money singing “America the Beautiful” with an ending shot of the Cayman islands. It allowed viewers to draw their own conclusions.)
Chuck gets the vapors with an ad like this, and is so unself-aware that he considers himself objective.
He thinks that spewing his personal opinion is objective…..but it is not.
I am surprised Upchuck and spell objective because he clearly does not know the definition of the word. Upchuck and all of the MSM knows they are NOT objective and don’t care to be. They only want to “manage” and “create” the news to influence the public’s thoughts. The WHPC should be disbanded because they are useless they are the Republican Cesspool Reporters.
“Is Chuck Todd then OK with a WH with it’s Own TV/Cable News? ” Yes and its called FoxNews. The GOP president has an entire network that will always argue his side of an issue. The rest of the MSM will follow the narrative driven by FoxNews. PBO and other Dem presidents will always have an MSM that is hostile and challenges his legitimacy. That is the status quo, and that is the way Chuck Todd and his ilk (and their corporate masters) want to keep it.
Then Dems Need to start calling them out as The GOPers managed to do since Nixon and ended up changing how News is covered today.
A serious Balancing is needed. Without the Facts in the News media, our form of governance will be destroyed.
I agree that something needs to be done because the current state of affairs is a stones throw away from a dictatorship. Thank God for twitter, the internet and sites like this one, where the truth stands a chance. It is also a promising development that more and more of the public is tuning out MSM propanda (if they were not we would have a Pres. Romney today). I shudder at the thought.
And the “liberal” pundits like Ezra Klein join in bashing the President for no reason other than their own egos.
Ezra jumped the shark over the weekend when he suggested that the President’s Fed Chair appointment might be made out of “spite.” Right, the President has a long track record of making Cabinet-level appointments out of “spite,” such as Secretary of State (major snark).
Through the 1970s, most MSM had experience as war correspondents (such as Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, etc.). These days pundits rarely leave a 5-mile radius of the White House and/or NYC; thus the continuing echo-chamber.
I don’t think it is about ego as much as it is about job security. These MSM personalities have been given their marching orders to serve as propagandists for the GOP. I don’t believe for a minute that the current state of affairs (with all facets of the media bashing PBO) is a coincidence. The attacks and anti-PBO message discipline is too coordinated to happen by chance.
Screeeeeeeeeeeech! /stomp on brakes/
Puff! Made it in time with minuters to spare so that I can truthfully say…
GOOOOD MoooooOOOOooorning, Chips!
Goooood Mooorning, TODobots!
😆 😆 😆
😆 Afternooooooooon VC!!!
Took you that long to return my greeting! Getting slow, are you? /which *I* had access to the turtle visual – the ugly one too. 😛
Wish, not wish. I guess I didn’t bring all of me online. Gone to look for the other pieces.
Wish, not which. /groan/ Definitely not off to a sterling start.
OH, hahahahaha!!!! VC, that exchange was toooo funny!!!!! I sure hope you find those other pieces….soon 😆
Morning GGail! Am looking around even as I type this. 😆
LOL.
Intellectually stimulating. Thank you, Chips.
Wendell was on a righteous awesome tear this morning.
He really was Meta, fantastic tweets! Love him!
[I wonder if there’s video of this event, ‘cos I’m disappointed at Leon in this article. Isn’t there some protocol/etiquette that these people need to follow? STFU Protocol: when you’re no longer in the know-how, on the inside, STFU. Peddling books = bash PBO, need your own TV show = ditto. Ad nauseam. Phew, okay, I feel better now! 🙂 Hello TOD Family, Mama Danny!]:
[…..] Speaking at a forum in Dallas, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta disagreed on whether the United States should ultimately carry out a military strike in retaliation for a chemical attack that the U.S. says killed 1,400 people. But both men said Obama shouldn’t have asked Congress to approve a strike, and both were skeptical and sometimes sarcastic about the current Russia-backed negotiations to have Syria turn over its chemical weapons.
Panetta said he supported a strike because Obama needed to enforce the “red line” he set over Syria’s use of chemical weapons.
“When the president of the United States draws a red line, the credibility of this country is dependent on him backing up his word,” Panetta said.
But Gates said a strike would be like “throwing gasoline on an extremely complex fire in the Middle East.” He brought up past interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya as examples of how American military action can lead to unintended consequences.
He also dismissed attacking Syria to enforce a red line.
“I believe to blow a bunch of stuff up over a couple of days to underscore or validate a point or principle is not a strategy,” he said. […..]
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http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20130918/NEWS08/309180002/Gates-Panetta-question-Obama-s-Syria-strategy
Robert Gates was magnificent in the White House. Leon Panetta was always a Clintonista. In any event, I haven’t mentioned it, but this isn’t the first time I’ve been disappointed with Robert Gates, since he left his old job. Now, maybe he feels he has a long career ahead of him and must not look like Pres. Obama’s lapdog, but – I’m with you – I prefer the lapdog look to the sell-out look, myself.
JOB, totally! I got mad at the “sarcastic” remark. Really? Former staffers should zip it! Discuss what you were actually involved in not what is currently going on & you’re on the outside.
It’s almost as though nobody’s called him from the White House since he left, or Jay Carney’s looking as though he’s doing better than Robert did, in Robert’s eyes, or whatever.
I thought Robert had more class.
Oh, Gazelle – I got Robert Gates mixed up with Robert Gibbs, mostly because I’ve been seeing Gibbs on the teevee for a bit, and he’s not as vocal in his support of Pres. Obama as I thought he’d be. Just realized it was former Defense Secretary Robert Gates you were writing about, who spoke out with Panetta. Please excuse me. Duh.
I don’t support a strike, but I believe when it comes to foreign policy, in the face of the nation and world, politicians and those with a public platform should stand united…even if they disagree. Disagreements ought to be discussed in one of Mitt Romney’s quiet rooms. “United” States should mean something.
Right on, FayPax! Foreign Policy is nuanced and complicated enough as it is without every Tom, Dick, & Harry getting their fingers in the proverbial pie.
Danny is too cute to be left in the hands of the BT. I am contacting irish SPCA.
😆 Wait til I start feeding him Cheesy Puffs, then you can report me!!!!
Every time I see that image of our Joe and our President sitting and laughing together, I crack up. Notice how there are a gazillion chairs on either side of them. Now, perhaps they wanted to whisper something devilish to each other, something secretive, like the little rascals they are. Or perhaps the President had taken a seat, and old Irish Joe – who never learned what “personal space” means, another reason to love him – grabbed the chair right next to him, making him a captive audience. Both seem quite happy with the arrangement.
Ding, ding, ding!
Chipsticks, Danny is soooooooo cute! You can re-post his pic on every new thread 🙂
Will do GGail, although as the Mighty Pamela suggested, that could result in most of TOD going out to get a new puppy!!
Buyer be ware. Puppies eventually grow up to be dogs….sometimes BIG dogs 🙂
I can look and admire from a distance 🙂
smart.
🙂 thanks amk
I was just going to ask the same thing!
[Hahahahah! You know if they had squat they would have put it out to the public already. Instead they’re hiding their shit. Effers! Arses! Sorry I don’t have a link but it’s from CQ Roll Call.]:
[…..] Tennessee Republican Phil Roe will be giving a presentation on the bill Wednesday at the weekly RSC meeting, according to spokeswoman Tiffany McGuffee, and the details will be unveiled to reporters at a press conference that afternoon. It’s been in the works since late spring and will pull from ideas that Republicans have agreed on in the past, many of which were included in the Republican substitute during debate on the health care law.
“Every time our membership goes home, all you hear is that Republicans don’t have any ideas,” Roe said in an interview in August. “Well, that’s the reason I came to Congress. We had a lot of ideas about what to do about it. Unfortunately, nobody listened to any of them.”
Roe said the measure would repeal the health care law and include language designed to equalize the tax treatment of businesses and individuals when it comes to health insurance, though he did not disclose details. Other pieces he outlined include provisions to expand Health Savings Accounts, fund state-run high-risk pools, allow people to buy insurance across state lines, overhaul the medical liability system and prohibit taxpayer funding for most abortions. […..]
Buy insurance over state lines is code for – crap insurance.
Health savings accounts work if you’re wealthy.
High risk pools are too expensive for the average consumer (like me)
overhaul medical liability is code for – no regulation or accountability of the medical profession.
Wanna know what ‘overhaul of medical liability’ saved in TX? 1%!
If you may $25,000/year and have no insurance for your cancer, you couldn’t care less about ‘tax treatment’.
Gone if ACA were repealed:
Coverage for basic visits & screenings.
Coverage of pre-existing conditions.
Insurance companies forced to actually, you know, deliver payment of claims.
Donut hole opens wide again for seniors.
Staying on parents’ plans
THERE STILL IS NO AFFORDABLE INSURANCE FOR THOSE OF US WHO NEED IT.
France is voting to ban beauty pageants for children today.
Saw this on an anti-choice website, so will not link to it.
Tom Daschle’s (former D-SD) son will be attending as well.
Great!
my heart breaks for this mother…
“Our son Aaron Alexis has murdered 12 people and wounded several others,” Cathleen Alexis says in the statement. “His actions have had a profound and everlasting effect on the families of the victims. I don’t know why he did what what he did, and I’ll never be able to ask him, why. Aaron is now in a place where he can no longer do harm to anyone, and for that I am glad. To the families of the victims, I am so, so very sorry that this has happened. My heart is broken.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/18/cathleen-alexis-aaron-alexi-navy-yard-shooting/2831087/
Mine, too.
I don’t know if anybody else shares my position: Richard Wolfe’s new book, The Message, in which he lays out the intra-fighting among POTUS most ardent advisors and supporters, is one book I will not purchase. The first one Wolfe wrote on the 2008 campaign was excellent. But this one is not to my taste. I don’t need to remember how Ed Schultz lost it many times because of a “public option” or because the POTUS was not fighting hard enough for the middle-class.
Ed Schultz thinks his far left opinions matter….but they don’t
The only book I will buy is when POTUS and FLOTUS write their book, other then that forget Richard Wolfe.
After they leave the WH.
Sadly, the media is nothing more than propaganda and gossip. Remember back in the day when one could make book on what a reporter said? Those days are long gone. We now live in the age of yellow journalism and Tokyo Rose.
Then within 24 hours, Candy Crowley in a quivering voice on Live CNN TV timidly said the president lied to pacify the avalanche of criticism from Fellow pundits and heavy pushback by the Fox and the 1300 talk hate hosts.
You are right. They Only fear TBGOPers.
Think I’ve been a panic merchant since the day I was born – but I’ve decided not to panic about the GOP and it’s plans to ruin the financial stability of the world because I don’t think it will happen – and if it does – the biggest losers will be the GOP – although the impact will be the worst on the people of the US.
Since the beginning of 2009, the GOP and their BFF the US media have been creating panic – inside and outside of the USA –
ahhhhhhhhh – WP didn’t let me finish
Since the beginning of 2009, the GOP and their BFF the US media have been creating panic – inside and outside of the USA – AND EVERY SINGLE TIME – PBO has proven there was no justification for that panic & carried on regardless.
The media LIVES on its lies and drama – I don’t want to do that anymore..
Right on!!! GOP are economic terrorists and the MSM are their enablers. I am confident that the GOP will blink because the Wall Street types will suffer mightily if the U.S. defaults and they lose all that cheap capital. A government shut down will deliver the House to the Dems in 2014. The Tea Party set use these threats to increase fund raising. Boner and the GOP will let the Tea Partiers try it their way in an effort to appease them, and when that goes nowhere, the sane Wall Street GOPers will bargain with the Dems and avoid fiscal catastrophe, at the last minute of course. We have seen this movie before.
President Obama will attend the memorial service for the victims of the shooting on Sunday.
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Countdown to outrage…3…2…1
He’s Command In Chief and it happened at the Navy Yard minutes away from the White House.
But you’re right, that won’t matter a bit. The Hate Parade will keep marching on.
Daily reminder ….. and good day to all TODers!!!
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/18/tennessee-judge-parents-can-name-their-baby-messiah/
(NEWPORT, Tenn.) — A Tennessee judge has ruled in favor of parents who want their 8-month-old baby to be named “Messiah.”
At a paternity hearing last month, child support magistrate Lu Ann Ballew was asked to decide Messiah Deshawn Martin’s surname.
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One small Victory for the separation of Church and State.
Lu Ann lost her mind. It’s a name for crissakes! She should change hers to LuLu or Lu-Natic.
The poor kid though. I agree with this ruling, but so many parents put a huge heavy anchor around their kids necks with the ridiculous names they give their babies. They need to think of the kids, not their selfish whims.
I agree with you. I met a 3 yrs old in 2009, his name was: God Is Great. The parents called him The Great.
My replies have a mind of their own. 🙂 As for God is Great, I thought I’d heard it all when the woman named her kid Shot-o-vodka. Spelled without the hyphens, of course. 🙂
I completely agree, Dotster, but it shouldn’t be a judges call.
[Awwww! The Castro brothers turned 39 and this tidbit of news!};
[….] Monday night it was Joaquin’s turn in the spotlight as he made official what many already knew — that he’s engaged and will soon be a dad. Joaquin told the crowd that he and his fiance, Anna, are expecting a baby girl in December. […..]
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http://www.news4sanantonio.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/castro-brothers-celebrate-39th-bday-joaquin-dad-4066.shtml
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130917/LIVEWELL26/309179863/1707#warren-buffett-says-reports-he-wants-to-scrap-obamacare-are-outrageous
Internet posts claiming that Warren Buffett wants to “scrap Obamacare” are false, the Omaha investor said Tuesday.
“This is outrageous,” Buffett said in a World-Herald interview. “It’s 100 percent wrong … totally false.”
I was so pleased to see this – couldn’t believe the reports when I saw them – no doubt Chuck Todd didn’t think the media should check if it was true.
That explains MSNBC AM shows with the Mourning Joke and the show by Charles Todd? Lies are left unchallenged M-F.
Shows exactly that the media picks up on RW lies and spreads them far and wide – seems the most honest moment Chuck Todd has had in the past 5 years was stating that it was not his role to refute lies.
You mean “refute GOP lies”. He will call a Democrat a liar even when he/she is telling the truth, if doing so will help the GOP and its corporate friendly agenda.
Thanks a million for that 99ts, absolutely astonishing deceit.
The inaugural “Men for Choice and the Women Who Love Them” fundraiser is scheduled to take place Sept. 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at LOOK Supper Club (1909 K St. NW). Admittance to the abortion rights fundraiser ranges from $100 (guest) to $1,000 (host).
Many featured guests are political scions and/or administration heavies, including: Hunter Biden, son of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Nathan Daschle, son of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., Joe Lockhart, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton, Bill Burton, former campaign press secretary for President Barack Obama, Brian Wolff, former executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and former Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va.
Luckily, the man-bait will not be the sole source of entertainment.
Attendees can expect to also feast on Angus beef sliders, chicken-vegetable kebabs, mini caprese creations, mac and cheese balls and cucumber-hummus canapés.
Link: http://hoh.rollcall.com/
And the Chuckles Toad love fest continues:
Masterfully Tweeted. Thank You.
New post: http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/18/more-adventures-in-our-failed-media-experiment-part-1382/
I’m going to post a comment that I made on Pragmatic Obots Unite: I’m telling you the GOP and the media are coordinating an attack on the administration. Notice how all of these negative articles are coming out one after another, Richard Wolff’s book, articles quoting “sources” about the White House in disarray , and lies about disagreement among allies. This shit is so obvious.
After the new lie put out there by the media about Warren Buffett not supporting Obamacare I think we can finally conclude that this assault on the White house is being coordinated by the media and the GOP.
Been doing it for 5 long years