57, I think the strategy is for the Senate to pile up all the bills that people want and need on the doorstep of the House to make it easier for Democratic challengers in 2014. Start running ads in 2014 and lay all the blame at the House door. If you want to get anything done, vote Democratic.
LL you can expect the usual personal insults hurled at the reality based world that Greenwald specializes in whenever he can’t answer a question or has his fact challenged breathless new bulletins blow up in his face.
Also, DerBingle, I think GG would be hurled out of Brazil in a nanosecond if he criticized their government. He knows that they would be unmerciful compared to the US. GG has been able to hurl his grenades from the safety of his Brazilian compound. Unless he joins his bud, Snowden, in Russia, he doesn’t really have a place to go. Live int he US? I think he already burned that bridge.
Of course I’ll have an essay to write about this, now that I’m feeling human again. Probably won’t be able to write it until I get home tonight. Working title: “Yes Glenn, Dilma DOES spy.”
Good afternoon Chips, TOD. Thanks for highlighting this fraud, LL! …..congrats on first 57, it is a rare feat this days to win Gold in these 100m sprints!
I’m a moron…….. I need glasses or lasik surgery 😦 My grammar is horrible! BTW would you mind deleting one of the tweet’s I doubled up on the WH Twitter post? TY
Well, that’s true. And my original title for the ‘Memories …. Five Years Ago Today’ post was: Memories …. Four Years Ago Today’. Only just spotted in time that 2008 was, indeed, five years ago. #Arithmetic
Another problem for me……. I have become dyslexic as the years progress. Problem is… I have so many spell checker apps (attempting to safeguard my stupidity) they confuse each other, and I end up looking like an even bigger moron that I already am!!
You’ve single handily bolstered my spirits, JB! I’m going to “Brush the dirt off my shoulder”
I’m going to make you cool for your youngin’s………the hip Grandma (assume you have grandkids) Now you know the lexicon/lingo for dismissing anyone or any problems, and where it originated 😎
So Dilma, who canceled her chance at a U.S. State dinner because we “spied” on her government….is now shown to be spying on our diplomats!!! Hmmmmmm………karma bites, Dilma, and you missed a chance at a wonderful event. Ha, ha, ha!!!
In fact…….everyone who got their knickers in a twist have been shown to be spying…..who’s surprised???!!!
I don’t think that was the reason that she canceled. The US media made it seem that way because they wanted to make PBO look bad, but there is a lot about this that we probably were not told. I suspect the reason had more to do with Dilma’s own problems in her home country….
Under a strategy championed by Obama’s senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer, the White House has doubled its footprint on Twitter since July, giving official accounts on the social media web site to more than a dozen additional communications staffers. The White House’s Twitter army is the lead player in an intense war of messaging on social media in Washington, a conflict that also involves a range of lawmakers, bureaucrats, conservatives and liberals.
Virtually every day, the White House is the focus of Twitter barbs from conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation, online personalities such as Erick Erickson of RedState.com and Republican staffers such as Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.
But the White House operation stands alone in its aggressiveness, analysts say.
“You never find an organization that is collectively this good at Twitter,” said Peter LaMotte, head of digital communications practice at Levick, who advises major corporations on using social media.
Just wondering: In addition to the not voting thing, does this mean the GOP are trying to discourage women from taking their husbands’ names? Maybe that’s the real goal… hmmmm!
I think I’ve mentioned my former coworker before. This was back in the late 90s, and somehow I became friendly with a complete RWNJ. (After he got fired from that company, we mercifully lost touch.)
One of the bosses got married, and she kept her maiden name. This lovely gentleman was INCENSED that she didn’t take her husband’s name, and implied that the husband wasn’t a real man.
The thing about my coworker was this, however: he was completely under his mother’s thumb, doing everything she told him to do to the letter. So, yeah, he had female issues.
…..Even so, Barrette’s take is a reminder that people can have a longer-view perspective about medical bills than pundits frequently assume. When I gave her a broad description of the plans available, she seemed interested. I noted that she’d be paying $100 or $150 extra a month for policies that still had high cost-sharing, so that she would still be a lot of money out of her own pocket. (I also made very clear that I’m not an insurance agent or broker—that, when she finally goes shopping for insurance, she should talk to a real expert for advice.) Here was her response: “I would jump at it,” she said. “With my age, things can happen. I don’t want to have bills that could make me bankrupt. I don’t want to lose my house.”
Media poster child for *losing* HC coverage http://t.co/Y6kMfCPhZm On an ACA plan "I would jump at it" "Maybe it's a blessing in disguise."
I’m like Sherry from the View, she is really piss cause they claim to not be able to fine a black woman comedian, they are out there and SNL need to hire one now.
From our local NBC station: Bob Corker introducing the “If You Like Your Health Care Plan You Can Keep It” Act. Lawd have mercy. He thinks it’s a good idea for people to have and keep junk insurance?????????????
Since the early 1980s, I have respected Charlie Cook of the Cook Report until yesterday. On 11-03013 he was on C-SPAN Journal and was projecting 2014 congressional map. MT and MN he was saying bat poop nonsense. He had GOPers doing well. MT has the Dem Lt Gov who would be running for the senate. MN he said that Franken is not yet a firm win…….my words. In both analysis he was wrong. He provided No data. He had others in GA and KY, etc. In everyone he leaned TBGOPers. At the end of his appearance, he said that his late father was a GOPer. That finally dawned on me that he has always been a GOPer Using “independent” as a cover. I called his office today. I was firm and articulate. I challenged his premises. I told his office that he was a GOPer Masquerading as an Independent and as one who studied Political Science, Mr Cook was no loner someone I would ever in the future find his work worthy. They dismissed my conclusion. The guy tried to cover for Charlie Cook. He failed.
202-789-8525 The Cook Political Report is a partisan enterprise, period.
They are interfering in our local school board election here in Douglas County Colorado. Our public schools were some of the finest in the country. Our county is very Republican. The Kochs and others have come in and taken over our school board. They have pushed vouchers, and taken away any power the teachers’ union had. Now a horrible Pay For Performance standard has been pushed in before it is even developed. All this from outside money. We will see if they succeed tomorrow.
This weekend we visited our son and family in Dallas. Marie….wonderful d-I-l talked about this new voting restriction. She understood that if your voter ID and one form of picture ID, like your driver’s license agreed, you were okay. She checked….her voter ID and driver’s license are identical. They just use her correct first, second name and present married name. There’s no indication she was ever married before, or single. She thought this is enough…..I just wrote her and implored her to check the law, and also referenced the Wendy Davis tweet…..Now, if those two identical documents are not enough to vote, there is really something rotten…..even more than I thought….in the state of Texas.
I read that Jim Wright had an out of date faculty ID card and his voter ID….the out of date faculty ID would not work. HOWEVER, if that had been a gun permit, it would have been acceptable.
Those men are obviously scared to death of women voters.
Nice comments by the Blackhawks team captain in this Chgo Trib. article about their appearance at the WH today—-and the vid. I missed it, and it was fun to watch. PBO shines with these team events as he does in every kind of appearance.
A woman in the town of Craigsville, Va. made a costume for her 7-year-old son to dress as a member of the Ku Klux Klan for Halloween.
The boy’s costume drew the attention of a local news station, WHSV, after pictures of it were posted on Facebook. In an interview with WHSV posted online Monday the woman, Jessica Black, said her son was not the first member of her family to wear a klansman costume.
“My brother has when he was in Kindergarten and when he was 13,” Black said.
Black also defended the practices of the Klan in general.
/////
Now this a Mother from another Era. How come a mother in 2013 do something like this to a 7 yrs old.
The Obama Diary 
First?
Winner!
Oh dear…….
57, I think the strategy is for the Senate to pile up all the bills that people want and need on the doorstep of the House to make it easier for Democratic challengers in 2014. Start running ads in 2014 and lay all the blame at the House door. If you want to get anything done, vote Democratic.
Absolutely.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiirst again!!!!! Thank yoooou LL!!!! Aw, poor GG, this is soooooo tricky 😆
I expect his billionaire sugar daddy to demand that he investigate this, and figure out how it’s all Obama’s fault.
a……stand in line, young lady.
Hey, how’s our puppy doing? Big enough to put a saddle on yet?
Pretty sure Joy is in for Martin today, so see you all later.
LL you can expect the usual personal insults hurled at the reality based world that Greenwald specializes in whenever he can’t answer a question or has his fact challenged breathless new bulletins blow up in his face.
“grrr……sputter…… Obama sux!! And……and……OUTRAGE (or something).
GG is incapable of coherent thoughts.
You got that right.
Also, DerBingle, I think GG would be hurled out of Brazil in a nanosecond if he criticized their government. He knows that they would be unmerciful compared to the US. GG has been able to hurl his grenades from the safety of his Brazilian compound. Unless he joins his bud, Snowden, in Russia, he doesn’t really have a place to go. Live int he US? I think he already burned that bridge.
Of course I’ll have an essay to write about this, now that I’m feeling human again. Probably won’t be able to write it until I get home tonight. Working title: “Yes Glenn, Dilma DOES spy.”
Sounds delicious, LL!
Good afternoon Chips, TOD. Thanks for highlighting this fraud, LL! …..congrats on first 57, it is a rare feat this days to win Gold in these 100m sprints!
You have a typo. It’s ‘ENDA’ not ‘EDNA.’
I’m a moron…….. I need glasses or lasik surgery 😦 My grammar is horrible! BTW would you mind deleting one of the tweet’s I doubled up on the WH Twitter post? TY
It happens to the best of us and sure, I’ll take away one of the WH Twitter tweets.
Never hpapens to me UT 🙄 LP? Be ashamed!
You support a guy who wears squirrel fur as hair.
You have bigger problems. 😆
I wonder if he used his chest hair for the transplant…
😯 Rooooooooooney!!!!
TY….. TOD is being awfully generous.
Hey, I mistook “1924” for “1942” for Lou Reed’s birth date.
Well, that’s true. And my original title for the ‘Memories …. Five Years Ago Today’ post was: Memories …. Four Years Ago Today’. Only just spotted in time that 2008 was, indeed, five years ago. #Arithmetic
Another problem for me……. I have become dyslexic as the years progress. Problem is… I have so many spell checker apps (attempting to safeguard my stupidity) they confuse each other, and I end up looking like an even bigger moron that I already am!!
You certainly are not one, but that was funny what you wrote here! (I’m just catching up on the day.)
Your kindness is dually noted, JB…….. there may be many that disagree though……..starting with me 🙂
Stand tall, LP! Stand tall. 🙂
You’ve single handily bolstered my spirits, JB! I’m going to “Brush the dirt off my shoulder”
I’m going to make you cool for your youngin’s………the hip Grandma (assume you have grandkids) Now you know the lexicon/lingo for dismissing anyone or any problems, and where it originated 😎
Thank you, darlin’. Now I am a cool grandma and great grandma!
So Dilma, who canceled her chance at a U.S. State dinner because we “spied” on her government….is now shown to be spying on our diplomats!!! Hmmmmmm………karma bites, Dilma, and you missed a chance at a wonderful event. Ha, ha, ha!!!
In fact…….everyone who got their knickers in a twist have been shown to be spying…..who’s surprised???!!!
I don’t think that was the reason that she canceled. The US media made it seem that way because they wanted to make PBO look bad, but there is a lot about this that we probably were not told. I suspect the reason had more to do with Dilma’s own problems in her home country….
THIS!!!!
Under a strategy championed by Obama’s senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer, the White House has doubled its footprint on Twitter since July, giving official accounts on the social media web site to more than a dozen additional communications staffers. The White House’s Twitter army is the lead player in an intense war of messaging on social media in Washington, a conflict that also involves a range of lawmakers, bureaucrats, conservatives and liberals.
Virtually every day, the White House is the focus of Twitter barbs from conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation, online personalities such as Erick Erickson of RedState.com and Republican staffers such as Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.
But the White House operation stands alone in its aggressiveness, analysts say.
“You never find an organization that is collectively this good at Twitter,” said Peter LaMotte, head of digital communications practice at Levick, who advises major corporations on using social media.
Good stuff!
Jost got home…….. hope I’m not doubling up on previous post’s.
Thanks, LP, 20 Republicans defying their constituents. And we only need 17 of these seats. Let’s do it!!!
Yes, let’s!
Just wondering: In addition to the not voting thing, does this mean the GOP are trying to discourage women from taking their husbands’ names? Maybe that’s the real goal… hmmmm!
I think I’ve mentioned my former coworker before. This was back in the late 90s, and somehow I became friendly with a complete RWNJ. (After he got fired from that company, we mercifully lost touch.)
One of the bosses got married, and she kept her maiden name. This lovely gentleman was INCENSED that she didn’t take her husband’s name, and implied that the husband wasn’t a real man.
The thing about my coworker was this, however: he was completely under his mother’s thumb, doing everything she told him to do to the letter. So, yeah, he had female issues.
There must be a hypocrite gene or something!
This pleases me no end. Rally all the teachers and get this fat SOB out of New Jersey.
…..Even so, Barrette’s take is a reminder that people can have a longer-view perspective about medical bills than pundits frequently assume. When I gave her a broad description of the plans available, she seemed interested. I noted that she’d be paying $100 or $150 extra a month for policies that still had high cost-sharing, so that she would still be a lot of money out of her own pocket. (I also made very clear that I’m not an insurance agent or broker—that, when she finally goes shopping for insurance, she should talk to a real expert for advice.) Here was her response: “I would jump at it,” she said. “With my age, things can happen. I don’t want to have bills that could make me bankrupt. I don’t want to lose my house.”
I can’t get this video out of my head. Darn you, you fabulously talented Kerry Washington! 😀
p.s. She helped SNL get their highest ratings since Justin Timberlake. YAY! Go Kerry!
http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/snl-hits-season-high-in-households-with-kerry-washington-eminem/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
It’s a parody of this insane video.
I’ve decided to stop watching SNL till they hire a black woman comedian. Sorry I didn’t watch Kerry.
I’m like Sherry from the View, she is really piss cause they claim to not be able to fine a black woman comedian, they are out there and SNL need to hire one now.
The “we can’t find qualified (black/female/latino… whatever) comedians” BS sounds all too familiar… and Kenan Thompson should be ashamed of himself.
OMG! What the…! Ack! I’m gagging on spittle!
Holy shit…
https://twitter.com/ohdailyearthpic/status/397476550058049536
Oi! Why is there only half of Ireland in that pic?! #Discrimination
Ahhhhh…. just stare at this for a while.
Oh my! Spectacular.
I don’t see any fish!
https://twitter.com/ColbertReport/status/397382427028357120
From our local NBC station: Bob Corker introducing the “If You Like Your Health Care Plan You Can Keep It” Act. Lawd have mercy. He thinks it’s a good idea for people to have and keep junk insurance?????????????
58 seconds of Jay using his sweetness to school Jon Karl
SO GOOD…
LP 😉 Thanks for this tweet.
Looks like we were on the same page, Neena! I had not refreshed TOD……….but it is so good it is worth posting over and over 🙂
The link I showed last post with updated Obamacare enrollment applications here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AheStIw2-5S0dGkwbEJTalVNcERJQjBlWUcxbFp6M3c&chrome=false&gid=0 has links for sources of data in right hand column by week. This project was done by poster on Dkos. It seems legit.
Jay “Clark Kent” Carney’s FULL Whitehouse Presser 11=04-13
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/WhiteHouseDailyBriefing1889
That awkward moment when you realize you don’t know American Sign Language.
If you can turn on Ed. Brilliant interview with Gov. Beshear of KY who has a smashing success in KYknect…(Obamacare for KY)
Listening to every word Vicki.
Great wasn’t it? Anniebella the ACA is going to work and be as good as we all hope for. Sooner than the GOPTP would like, too!!!
Watched and have it recorded. Plan on finding a way to make my husband watch it.
Since the early 1980s, I have respected Charlie Cook of the Cook Report until yesterday. On 11-03013 he was on C-SPAN Journal and was projecting 2014 congressional map. MT and MN he was saying bat poop nonsense. He had GOPers doing well. MT has the Dem Lt Gov who would be running for the senate. MN he said that Franken is not yet a firm win…….my words. In both analysis he was wrong. He provided No data. He had others in GA and KY, etc. In everyone he leaned TBGOPers. At the end of his appearance, he said that his late father was a GOPer. That finally dawned on me that he has always been a GOPer Using “independent” as a cover. I called his office today. I was firm and articulate. I challenged his premises. I told his office that he was a GOPer Masquerading as an Independent and as one who studied Political Science, Mr Cook was no loner someone I would ever in the future find his work worthy. They dismissed my conclusion. The guy tried to cover for Charlie Cook. He failed.
202-789-8525 The Cook Political Report is a partisan enterprise, period.
My rant for today. Sorry TOD.
He leans Repub – heavily. I believe he blew it big time in 2012, didn’t he?
🙂 😆 🙂
They are interfering in our local school board election here in Douglas County Colorado. Our public schools were some of the finest in the country. Our county is very Republican. The Kochs and others have come in and taken over our school board. They have pushed vouchers, and taken away any power the teachers’ union had. Now a horrible Pay For Performance standard has been pushed in before it is even developed. All this from outside money. We will see if they succeed tomorrow.
Hi Bob!
No surprise here…
Anybody watching CSPAN? I can’t get it at work.
Yes, I have CSPAN. Senate has just confirmed one of PBO’s appointees – Judge Debra Brown of Jackson Mississippi 🙂
More on Brown – First black female to be appointed to federal district bench in Mississippi.
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2013/09/meet_debra_brown_awaiting_conf.html
Excellent!
Okay they’ve now started to discuss ENDA….
This weekend we visited our son and family in Dallas. Marie….wonderful d-I-l talked about this new voting restriction. She understood that if your voter ID and one form of picture ID, like your driver’s license agreed, you were okay. She checked….her voter ID and driver’s license are identical. They just use her correct first, second name and present married name. There’s no indication she was ever married before, or single. She thought this is enough…..I just wrote her and implored her to check the law, and also referenced the Wendy Davis tweet…..Now, if those two identical documents are not enough to vote, there is really something rotten…..even more than I thought….in the state of Texas.
I read that Jim Wright had an out of date faculty ID card and his voter ID….the out of date faculty ID would not work. HOWEVER, if that had been a gun permit, it would have been acceptable.
Those men are obviously scared to death of women voters.
https://twitter.com/bannerite/status/397491620242681857
Nice comments by the Blackhawks team captain in this Chgo Trib. article about their appearance at the WH today—-and the vid. I missed it, and it was fun to watch. PBO shines with these team events as he does in every kind of appearance.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/chi-blackhawks-obama-white-house-20131104,0,4256411.story
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/this-woman-made-her-7-year-old-son-a-kkk-costume-for-halloween
A woman in the town of Craigsville, Va. made a costume for her 7-year-old son to dress as a member of the Ku Klux Klan for Halloween.
The boy’s costume drew the attention of a local news station, WHSV, after pictures of it were posted on Facebook. In an interview with WHSV posted online Monday the woman, Jessica Black, said her son was not the first member of her family to wear a klansman costume.
“My brother has when he was in Kindergarten and when he was 13,” Black said.
Black also defended the practices of the Klan in general.
/////
Now this a Mother from another Era. How come a mother in 2013 do something like this to a 7 yrs old.
Those chickens just keep coming home to roost don’t they, Mr. Geenwald~
Obama’s Fault!
Cloture vote on ENDA underway.
Yay!
Senate now voting on motion to proceed with ENDA legislation.
Vote details will appear here:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s815
Senator Cory Booker – “aye” 🙂
😀 😀 😀
President Obama is speaking now: http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/11/04/the-president-and-the-chicago-blackhawks/
https://twitter.com/el_jovie131/status/397496521077559297