On This Day: First Lady Michelle Obama meets with Harlem children at a “Let’s Move” event at the New York Police Athletic Center, November 18, 2010
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HI
That Hi was kinda hasty, sorry. 😀
It was, coldly brief in a windchill factor -96 kind of way 🙄
Just sharing temperatures from my room, is all. 😀
Of course, it probably wouldn’t feel so chilly if I didn’t insist on wearing tank tops/ sleeveless blouses and shorts. 😀
Cover yourself up, woman!
😆 😆 Did you see that turtle in a crocheted ‘coat’ that LPlains posted to me not too long ago?
VeeeeeeeCeeeeee!
That’s meeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Thank yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. 😛
I guess I was surprised – I wanted to say ‘Morally Fiiiiiiiiirst’, but was confronted by ‘Leave a comment’ and my mind faltered.
Yeah, Bobfr dreams in hashtags and the rest of us in “Leave a comment” – Danny isn’t the only one Chips has fully charged and wired! And Ready to Go, I might add. Ha!
😆 Tooooooo funny, you hilarious gal!!!!
Good afternoon to our sweet leader of the Obama gang o’ dreamers from TODville! I’m Fired Up (once I actually got up)! 🙂
Haaaaaapy Monday lazy bones!!!!
Thanks for confirming the day of the week for me!
I love retirementland! After 43 years of thinking somebody else’s thoughts while working (now covered by O’care), I don’t even have a clock in me bedroom. #AndThat’sTheWayILikeIt
Well, that sounds like paradise J!!!!
My most loved part of retirement is no longer having my life dictated by a clock. No more alarms in the morning unless I choose to get up early for an early flight for a trip. I just sleep till I wake up!
I co-sleep, in the same manner! As do a lot of my friends!
Indeed!
Ou!!? 😉
Oui. Oui. Or is it Ici. Ici? 😀 {{Pamela}}
Ah, the eternal question, i and s i thnk i am ben
This is not what it looks like. I’m not inebriated, huh, but I do think I’m being hacked. better get off, am not supposed to be here anyway. Packing awaits! Ai Yai Yai! 😳
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Thanks JER for the links. And congrats vc on #1 🙂
My pleasure Chips.
I’m not Chips – although I am honored to be mistaken in that way… 🙂 🙂 🙂
You should sue JER, Hopefruit – you’d get about $369 million 😆
Off to contact my lawyer!
This fella looks trustworthy Hopefruit:
Thanks so much for your friendship Chips. You are always there when I need a helping hand. This is the BEST referral I’ve received in my entire life! 🙂 🙂
My pleasure Hopefruit, if his dogs trust him then so do I 😆
And the dogs in the picture look happy and smiling, so all is well.
Well having Dogs as pets works for many to pick up girls. Now to get Clienteles? Okay.
Oh no!
Ooops that should be Hopefruit.
In time Hopefruit will forgive you JER! Thanks a gazillion for the link!
Here we go again….
Karma’s Never ever forgotten…….but ever a Certain deliverable Justice when least expected awaits one George Zimmerman, sooner or later.
Amen. He is going to go to prison or he is going to die by the gun. The man is a walking time-bomb. Too many mothers prayed for justice for that young man. God is not dead.
Every sane person: it was just a matter of time.
The man is running around with a gun, free to terrorize anyone.
Screw the Florida jury ten ways to Sunday.
It’s just a matter of time………!
First! (Doing the Hustle, that is.)
Well aren’t you the slick one this early afternoon!
An immoral claim 🙄
This is the height of morality!
For one awful moment I thought it was a Billy Joel video
😀 😀 😀
Oh da memories come-a-floodin’!
But, lawd ha mercy, look at those jacked-up harem “pants” at 2:44! WTH? 🙂
My excuse for wearing awful clothes in the 70s was that my mom made me. The rest of y’all have no excuse.
So true. No excuse whatsoever! 🙂
Paging Jodi Kantor….
Calgon, take the wicked away.
THIS!
My first thought: Pfft! No surprise there.
My second thought: What woman, who’s not already married to him and hasn’t been living in a cave for the last couple of years, looks at this dude and says “Yeh, I’ll date him. That’s my kinda guy”?
The prosecution were probably more to blame than the jury. They presented the case for the defense.
Don Keller has some Congo running through his veins! 🙂 Impressively covering Franco (RIP)!
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Wow. Gazelle, thanks for sharing. Was listening to him and other African music over the weekend. Love my African music.
VC, you wear Your Gem very well.
Gold is becoming of our TODable VC 😉
Can anyone delude me into thinking that red velvet cupcakes are good for me and have substantial nutritional value? I feel like eating just that and need a good reason to.
Happiness has nutritional value.
J’OB, I always thought you were brilliant. I have direct, unequivocal evidence of that now.
Thank you. #FinallySomebodyGetsIt
Enjoy, honey!
🙂 🙂 Thank you – I will!
Booyah!
J’OB, You RULE! 😎
I’ve made everyone’s day, looks like, and I didn’t have to “bake” anything! Works for me! 🙂
You know, Hf, at this stage in life (whatever stage it is), ‘feel like…just that’ is reason enough for me!
Words of wisdom from our resident sage, the VC. 🙂 Between you and JO’B, I’m fully covered here. No guilt feelings, disclaimers or need to defend my decision to have red velvet cake for no good reason! I carry on!
😎
Jay is now at the Podium.
Whitehouse.gov/live
Thanks Nena!
At your service TODable Chips 😉
5:30pm Judge Wilkins in the sen for Cloture. Obstructionism. A simple up or down votes.
Worth Repeating again, and again
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-george-zimmerman-arrested-after-domestic-dispute-with-girlfriend
George Zimmerman was arrested Monday after an alleged domestic dispute with his girlfriend, authorities told WESH-TV.
Sheriff Don Eslinger confirmed that Zimmerman, who was acquitted of shooting and killing teenager Trayvon Martin earlier this year, was being driven to Seminole County Jail, per the Orlando Sentinel, after an incident took place around 1:30pm ET.
I am NO FAN of Zimmerman and I have no clue what’s happened in this case, but sometimes I wonder if some women who get involved with men who clearly have problems do so with ‘sinister’ intent. I mean, who jumps into bed with a man recently accused of murder and shortly thereafter accused by wife of threats, not to mention the mini escapades with the law immediately following his release? There are times when I really do not understand the female mind. Or as Amk, might say /wimmin. smh/
Agreed. Some of our Female spieces are gluten for punishment.
Some women think they’ll be the one to change a man. Or maybe she was attracted to his terribleness….even serial killers have admirers. Smh
IMO some of them are not attracted at all, CaliCat; they’re only latching on for attention, for the chance to cry victim later.
I disagree VC – there are a multitude of reasons why women are attracted to “the wrong un” – they can be persuaded by the talk, they can think they are the one to reform him – they read and believe what they want to believe. Zimmerman had massive online financial and “moral” support for what he did – the prosecution at his trial was the best defense anyone could have.
Too often women – who are the victim of such men – are blamed – the blame lies 100% with Zimmerman.
[Jonathan Bernstein @ Plum]:
[…..] The problem with Kraushaar’s fantasy — and it is a pure fantasy, one which winds up with an imagined vote count on a repeal veto override — is that no actual Democrats in Congress can be found who are even hinting at anything resembling such a dramatic reversal.
None. There are a handful of House Democrats who have always opposed the law, but beyond them, nada. Zip. Zilch.
Oh, there are plenty of Democrats who want to be on record as opposing the costs of Obamacare while still supporting the benefits. Especially when it’s a safe vote on something that has no chance to become law. That’s the real story behind the 39 House Democrats who voted for GOP Rep. Fred Upton’s “fix” to the law last week.
Sure, these Dems have “distanced themselves” from the law. But what does that really mean? The jump from getting upset at the costs to actually wanting to eliminate the benefits is an enormous one, and Democrats — including Democrats in marginal districts — simply aren’t making it. […..]
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/11/18/no-democrats-are-not-turning-against-the-affordable-care-act/
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE
First IMPORTANT question
Does anyone know of a video that shows you how to use healthcare.gov – step by step? I would like to send it to our OFA team but could not find one?
Second IMPORTANT question
Does anyone feel confident about using the site? I am in CA so have not used the site much
Third IMPORTANT question
I will make a video if there is none out there, I need a few folks to review it and then once we are sure it is correct I will make it public
Once we find a viideo – WILL YOU FOLKS HELP ME GET THE WORD OUT???
OFA – Health Care for the Holidays Training
This Saturday we held a Health Care for the Holidays Training in Santa Rosa CA. We had 27 in attendance, a great speaker from the Sonoma County Health Dept. and enthusiastic folks who learned a bunch. I will try and make a blog post of the event soon. folks are committed to making this work.
I hope some of you on the blog attended a training or are helping with this effort. One of our most popula things to do is to have a tabling events at a local grocery store, or college campus. I would love to hear what others are doing.
I am going to sign up my 2 daughters and their boyfriends (all under 35) If everyone at our training signed up 4 folks we would have signed up 100 people. This is how we win!!
It’s hard to believe that jackal Ann Compton gets paid to ask such stupid questions.
[Field Negro & Nerdy Wonka (UT) are fam! Mentions UT while discussing USA Today calling Best Man Holiday “Racially Themed” then chaanging it to “Ethinically Diverse”.] Uggh! :
[…..] People get mad at black folks when we emphasize the racial or ethnic angle in anything that we do, but the truth of the matter is, as my twitter fam Nerdy Wonka said, “If a cast is all white, it’s a movie. If it’s all black, it’s a “race-themed” movie”. So it’s not black folks who are separating themselves from the society at large, society has separated from us.
The fact that we like to see people on the big screen who look like us and who are saying things that we can relate to does not mean that we want to separate ourselves, and main stream newspapers shouldn’t label us that way.
I suspect that quite a few white folks watched Best Man Holiday because they wanted to be entertained for a couple of hours. News flash: Black folks watch movies and television shows with a majority white cast for the same reason. […..]
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http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2013/11/race-themed.html
So Jay was asked about Dick Cheney and his daughters’ Liz and Mary’s disputes on Marriage equality about their family fued? Mary is not going to see Liz for Xmas. Funny how the questioned was asked. Is POTUS going to give Cheney credit on recognizing marriage equality before POTUS did? Seriously folks?
I wasn’t watching, but I have a random thought on that. We all know this, but that type of question of Jay is another big waste of time for the rest of the country, those listening in, looking for “news.” He speaks for the President, but must the President be asked for his opinion on every incident or family feud? Especially a question about the Cheney family from newsjerks looking for a gotcha moment. How could the President even begin to answer something like that, other than to say he would prefer to keep the family business of the Cheney family theirs and theirs alone. Everyone has already heard the President’s thoughts on marriage equality. I’d prefer the patriarch of the Cheney family to just move on to The Hague, and maybe the rest of them would slide back into oblivion at their respective ranches.
This is where I would have said. Cheney’s Family fued is theirs alone to resolve or not and POTUS’ position on LGBTQ is well known.
Agree.
Here’s my response. Press corps is a lot like GOP leaders in many ways – they waste time and money and have nothing productive to show for it because they never get to the heart of what matters to voters in general.
Perfect, VC .
WHPC drives me ‘crazy’, Nena. As a result I cannot watch the sessions without feeling like I want to tear my hair out, and I need my hair.
LIARS ARE US
The wrong message, the wrong messengers
By Steve Benen
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But listening to Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, and Paul Ryan talk about honesty, credibility, and the need for skepticism is just a bit too much. Romney broke new ground as one of the most brazenly mendacious politicians of his generation; Ryan’s fondness for falsehoods is extraordinary even in a Congress where dishonesty is the norm; and Dick Cheney is, well, Dick Cheney.
Americans shouldn’t turn to Lance Armstrong for wisdom on performance-enhancing drugs in sports; we shouldn’t turn to Miley Cyrus for guidance on public modesty; and we shouldn’t turn to Cheney, Romney, and Ryan for lectures on honesty in politics. It’s not complicated: they have no credibility because they have a nasty habit for saying things that aren’t true.
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-wrong-message-the-wrong-messengers
I like it!
Per these bast*rds in the WHPC ACA website Nust be 1001% error free?
Seriously?
They are using 80% per WashPo and ignoring the less than 1% error rate.
We are so on the same page. I am screaming at the computer. Stupid, stupid, stupid questions abound. It’s so embarrassing.
Yes, LH. I like listening if and when I can. Today I am able to. So I amlistening and I am also screaming and cursing those DC/NY Pundits out.
The problem with being a self-proclaimed “genius” is that, well, usually you’re not.
Kanye West: Obama ‘Used’ Me
The jackals are struggling with the 80% target usability estimate for the healthcare.gov website. They are trying to figure out what that really means. The navel-gazing is just remarkable.
Iran, Israel and Sanctions with Bibi N as the Right arbiter for what is Good for USA?
Hmm?
Major Garrett is the questioner.
Jay is historically reeducating the unwilling for the goals and stance of then sen Obama and now Pres Obama’s position.
I know it’s his job, but sometimes I wonder why Jay bothers. You can’t, after all, educate rocks or lumps of clay.
Daylight? Abridge? Is US not a super power and a Self Conatining nation to make her Own foreign policy for ONLY the Good for USA First? They ask as if USA has to play second fiddle to Israel? No such questions were asked of GW Bush.
“That’s what leaders are made of … ”
CNN was interviewing the mayor of Washington, IL, where the tornado damage yesterday was the strongest. The mayor mentioned he had spoken to the President of the United States on the phone and the mayor had responded to his kind words with something like “That’s what I signed up for.” And the President told him, “That’s what leaders are made of … ”
Yes, Mr. President, you show us that every day.
Rob Ford is the gift that keeps on giving. They’re considering disciplinary action and this is his response. THANK YOU, Canada!!!!
Close up.
http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/SirWanker/media/ExtPostings/fordcouncilmeeting_Driver_zps01b02c75.gif.html
Live Council Event In Toronto
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-live-mayor-rob-ford-appears-before-toronto-city-council/
Now questions to respond to Gibbs.
I would say: Gibbs doesn’t set personnel announcements for this ADM.
150 Gettysburg address? Why is POTUS not doing anything? Wow. Seriously? It was an address of very few words by Lincoln. Now Kennedy and GITMO by the ugly Ed Henry.
The Ugly/Devil incarnation, I think.
Yes. Needs to be locked behind bars for quite some time, with no sunlight.
Apologize for the super-sized photo of what evil looks like. I like the “booking” part of the tale. We’ll see how long before he’s released …
Why oh why would you think we wanna look at that? I need to go wash my eyes out now!
I know. I’m so sorry. After I posted it and saw how it came up (thought it was going to be a link), I apologized! Maybe Chips will remove it!
I am so glad to see him in that setting. He has money in his account already. Hope they keep him there for a long time but he will get bail. Daddy is already rounding up his posse. .
I love her!
That is wonderful. Hear that, Manchin?
[LeVar Burton basically tells Tarantino to ….. well ….. get off his lawn! 🙂 🙂 Tarantino should never have said]:
“When you look at Roots, nothing about it rings true in the storytelling, and none of the performances ring true for me either,” said Tarantino last December. “It didn’t move me because it claimed to be something it wasn’t.”
[Coz then LeVar responded with a BOOM]:
“Django Unchained is a fantasy, let’s be clear,” Burton said. “And when Quentin Tarantino says that Django is more real than Roots, I call bullsh*t. I got nothing against him, but don’t go there, okay? Don’t go there, Quentin.”
He added, “Too many people who look like me bled and died for you to have the opportunity to satirize the slave narrative. There’s a place for satire in culture. Taken at face value, as a piece of satire, I went and enjoyed it. It was fun. Let’s just not get it twisted. Django was not real.”
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http://thegrio.com/2013/11/18/levar-burton-calls-tarantinos-roots-django-comparison-bullsht/
Really wish Tarantino would STFU.
I have never seen a Tarantino flick because I abhor violence, but he’s someone so promoted by Gen X media as an anointed cultural genius.
Comes across as a known-nothing punk, IMO.
Probably shouldn’t listen to me because I walked out of “The Usual Suspects” because I couldn’t tell any of the actor apart.
Other Gen X MSM “geniuses” include the shallow Malcolm Gladwell and the even shallower plagiarist Jonah Lehrer.
Jackal Ed ‘Cheshire Cat’ Henry wants to know the difference between ‘Majority’ and ‘Vast Majority’. He’s very concerned about the 20% who may still experience problems. Concern trolling on steroids while working for a network that has done everything possible lie, distort and sabotage the law. It’s exhausting.
The Obamacare Cancellation Notices You Haven’t Heard About
BY IGOR VOLSKY AND ADAM PECK
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The stories of private market enrollees being forced to purchase more substantive insurance have animated politics for the last three weeks. But the failure of 25 states to expand Medicaid coverage to 133 percent of the federal poverty line, as envisioned by reform, is actually far more disastrous and undermines the promise of health care for the millions who earn “too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to qualify for Marketplace premium tax credits.”
Relying on analysis form the Kaiser Family Foundation, ThinkProgress compared the numbers of lower-income Americans who are denied coverage by GOP-controlled legislatures or governors to the public estimates of residents receiving cancellation notices in those states’ individual markets. Though the public debate has focused on the loss of individual private plans, the working poor are far more likely to go without insurance:
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Read the full post here, includes amazing info-rgraphic.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/11/18/2958401/cancelled-obamacare-policies-talking/
[Madiba update. Be well dear, great man.]:
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s former president, Nelson Mandela, remains “quite ill” and unable to speak because of tubes that are keeping his lungs clear of fluid, though he is relaxed, his former wife told a South African newspaper.
“He remains very sensitive to any germs, so he has to be kept literally sterile. The bedroom there (in his suburban Johannesburg home) is like an ICU ward,” Winnie Madikizela-Mandela told the Sunday Independent. “He is 95 years old and it is difficult for him, because of all the tubes that are in his mouth to clear the (fluid from his) lungs, and prevent an infection recurring.” Because of those tubes, she said, he communicates through his face.
“But the doctors have told us they hope he will be able to recover his voice,” she said, adding that he is being treated by 22 doctors at his home.
Mandela’s former wife shot down reports that the former anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace prize winner was on life support.
“I have heard this nonsense that he is on life support. He is not,” she told the newspaper. When asked if he was peaceful, she said, “Very. When he is very relaxed, he is fine,” adding that it helps he is at his home, an environment that he recognizes.
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http://thegrio.com/2013/11/17/winnie-nelson-mandela-remains-quite-ill-cant-speak/
Hey Chips, in logging on I was hit with a survey that said it was sponsored by The Obama Diary. Is that true? They say I have won a prize but I have to give them my name and address. Do you know about It?
Don’t do it. It’s a scam. Any online survey that needs your name and address is a scam. Probably identity theft.
That’s what I thought but I wanted you all to know they were using The Obama Diary name. Thanks for verifing that.
Whaaaaaat?! Seriously Marilyn? Definitely has nothing to do with TOD, in fact I pay a fee to have no ads here, so I need to check this out. Where/when exactly does it appear? What does it say? Will contact WordPress about it, nothing like that should appear here. Thanks Marilyn.
I have Mozilla Foxfire and have been getting alot of pop ups. My husband says we have good security. This is a first time it happened. It says you have been chosen for a quick survey from The Obama Diary. If you answer it you will get a free prize. I have deleted it now. If it happens again I will let you know.
Thanks a million mtmarilyn, will definitely check that out with WordPress, my understanding was that when you choose their ‘no ads’ option nothing like that would appear, grrrrrrr.
I just heard about George Zimmerman, wtf is going on with this guy. I personally think Zimmerman wants to “end” it, but not by his own hands.
Of course. What isn’t 60min all over THIS?
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/11/18/keep-chatting-12/
Abby Huntsman is on the ” someone needs to be held accountable ” band wagon…..
I am so sick of the people on The Cycle……..and please stop putting them on Every Other Show ……Ugh !