We have shared this here at TOD. We are so blessed. Again thank you Chips for this heaven!!! We are living history. This is what we all have worked for. I am so emotional. Don’t know if I will be able to sleep tonight.
Thank you, LL, for the music. I think we can all us some mellowing out. I still feel so high strung.
Oh, and it feels so good to have a laugh at the expense of the usual suspects who will come out swinging in their attempt to downplay or oppose PBO’s achievements
Someone get the details of the deal out quickly so the people who hate it already can find out why
Ms. Dudette, before going to sleep tonight, you know I am going to hear Marvin Gaye, “Got To Give It Up” Pt.1&2. If you hear any noise, it’s just me dancing.
Thank you for being a “serious night owl.”
Lady, you are baaaaaad!
Geneva Deal Strong First Step Toward Addressing Iran’s Nuclear Program
==========================
The leadership of Ploughshares Fund has issued the following statements:
“Freezing Iran’s nuclear program is a major step toward stopping it completely. This is a strong deal that advances American security interests in the region.
“This first phase agreement ensures that we will continue to negotiate a complete end to Iran’s nuclear program and should reassure U.S. allies in the region that Iran cannot make a dash for the bomb.
“Ploughshares Fund urges U.S. negotiators to continue negotiations toward a final deal with the same urgency that they have demonstrated over the past few weeks.”
ha. and to think it was hillary clinton who brought the “3:00am call” into the discourse as she was trying to discredit the man. john kerry has far surpassed her in accomplishment as s.o.s, and in a fraction of the time. i can’t get over how much kerry and obama have mutually given each other some of the biggest moments of their lives. amazing connection those two have!
I know Kerry ran for the presidency before and got swift boated, but if he keeps this up could he be a prospective presidential candidate again? It would be nice to have someone as tireless as him with the same visionary dreams of Obama in the office after PBO.
It’s been a Fatastic Saturday. I am so jazzed. I know I will be up all night. I am going to try and calm my brain down and hopefully be up early and read up on what took place on 11-23-13 in Geneva.
The statement from John Cornyn epitomizes his unhinged and deranged Republican Party. I hope he becomes a laughingstock because of this stupid comment. What an embarrassment. He should just go back to the children’s table and pout while the adults make the world a safer place for all of us.
This day couldn’t get any better……. Needed Baylor, Oregon and Texan A&M to lose….. Mizzou to win……. all happened! W/ 2 wins Auburn could be back playing for the BCS championship. First things first –>Bama
I was pulling for them, LL. The Sun Devils, have a lot of firepower. UCLA just got to far behind early…….seems like they found their footing in the second half…..came up a little short. I think the final was 38-33?
I enjoyed watching Arizona State, back when Jake ” The Snake” Plummer & Pat Tillman were there. Terrel Suggs too. I also had a fondness for Dennis Erickson, but he couldn’t duplicate what he did at the “U”. GN, Jackie 🙂
I did not know the role that lifting the Iran Nuclear sanctions would mean for stem cell research – and of course did not focus on other areas of bio-medical research
What I am happiest about is Iran has made real progress on Stem Cell research, but lacked vital equipment under sanctions, now can go ahead
surprised how much i’m moved by this news tonight. perhaps because i spent years worrying about republicans getting control again, and as john mccain and the audience filled with republicans laughed “bomb, bomb, bomb, iran” and i worried for the hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children who would be killed by bombs paid for by my tax dollars, as happened in iraq and afghanistan?
with the help of “the news” we’ve been dangerously close to this happening still, yet we pulled it off again in 2012 and this is what we get instead. i suggest to anyone here over the holidays who has to endure republican relatives spewing the talking points, that you need to call them out for the murderous thugs that they are. your republican relatives vote for the mass execution of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. not an exaggeration. i don’t care how nice they’ve been to you in the past or if they raised you…voting for today’s republicans means that person supports mass killings of innocents. it’s that simple.
barack obama, john kerry, and most other democrats are the alternative.
Although these little distractions are meant to be just that, he still needs calling out. Cornyn’s looking for attention, so he wins there, but at least we have full confirmation he has nothing else to offer.
@JohnCornyn In case the gazillions responding to your freakish tweet haven't mentioned it, yet: You, sir, are an ass. Where's the apology?
Talk about grasping for something, anything to put a negative spin on this momentous agreement. So now the Grand Dame of MSNBC is the arbiter of exactly what President Obama is supposed to say at any given moment. So are we going to hear about a missed opportunity now. This comment is dripping with sarcasm and contempt. Does she think this will be the last time that President Obama comments on the agreement. Face it Andrea, President Obama is a brilliant, effective and charismatic leader. Deal with it. smdh ….
Already 74 posts here, and I just finished posting the following at tail-end of previous thread:
This is a glorious evening! I’ve been surreptitiously following TOD all evening, but unable to post for most of this time. I am so very thankful, Chips, for this place you have created for us.
The press? Certainly not liberal. I refer to the corporate press as NEO-FASCIST. Fascism, in summary, is the merging of the state and the corporate economy. We get our news, our “media,” from only about four-six giant corporate-conglomerates who benefit financially from wars and war preparations. Even Disney has defense corporations under their conglomerate umbrella. Increasingly I’m daring to call it as it is. PBO is a threat to their bottom line…. PROFIT!
“When I sit down with my six-year old and my three -year -old at night and I’m reading a book to them and then I tuck them in to go to sleep, that’s a little piece of heaven that I hang onto.” Barack Obama , American Libraries, August 2005.
I hope and pray that parents all over the world will feel deeply a little “piece of heaven” that they can hang onto when they tuck their children in at night because of what this president and his leadership has done on this glorious day. Because we here, and millions of others, all across this nation saw a light of hope, compassion, in a brilliant man with the core of decency to lead a nation to the well of it finding constantly the better angel within;, we made this part of the journey with you, Mr. President on this historic night.
We give thanks that joy, hope, and prayerfully, a sense of peace will rest in a nation of people who also want to have a touch of that “better angel” reach their core because of a “Born Peace Maker” as President Barack H. Obama. We thank you, Mr. President and your team for answering the 3:00 am call. We all can tuck our children, grand children, and great-grand children in tonight with a little piece of heaven to hang onto here on earth. Thank you, Mr. President and Sec. Kerry and the entire team. We are so grateful, in that we had the glorious opportunity to help elect you and re-elect you, Mr. President twice. Not one minute was wasted on our efforts.
It is an honor to live with you as our president. Thank you, and God bless you and our nation as we try to let our better angels come forth.
Good night Chips and my TOD family.
Thank you LL for the lovely music. My heart has met its calmness now. HZ
“We give thanks that joy, hope, and prayerfully, a sense of peace will rest in a nation of people who also want to have a touch of that “better angel” reach their core because of a “Born Peace Maker” as President Barack H. Obama. We thank you, Mr. President and your team for answering the 3:00 am call. We all can tuck our children, grand children, and great-grand children in tonight with a little piece of heaven to hang onto here on earth.”
“For the first time in nearly a decade, we have halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear program, and key parts of the program will be rolled back.” —President Obama: http://go.wh.gov/2aJ8gp
Did this idiot women forget Baroness Ashton, FM of Iran, Russia , France etc and everyone involved?
PBO was explaining the rationale for the deal and its implications. She wanted old style American “We did it” rather than PBO style of we are all in this together which could have been so interpreted if PBO just praised Americans in this statement. The appropriate time will come to praise the SOS and his team.
She needs to be replaced since she is useless as a reporter. No substantive comments from her just barbs. Yuck.
I have noticed a big part of problems with the MSM is their inability to embrace/understand/measure/evaluate a different way of doing things. We that elected PBO elected him just for that reason his vision of doing things differently. They continue comparing his achievements based on the old ways. We are measuring his successes based on results we want.
Get ready, TODers. We’ll have our hands full on Twitter tomorrow swatting down the RW nutcases. They are sooooo jealous that PBO could do the things that GWB couldn’t do. This is not just a great achievement for America, but for the world. It’s a damn shame that PBO is given so little credit in the U.S. but is beloved by people around the world. Although many Americans aren’t kind to him, as a student of history, I believe history will definitely give him all of his props, and that will be our greatest revenge on the hatemongers.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States and Iran secretly engaged in a series of high-level, face-to-face talks over the past year, in a high-stakes diplomatic gamble by the Obama administration that paved the way for the historic deal sealed early Sunday in Geneva aimed at slowing Tehran’s nuclear program, The Associated Press has learned.
The discussions were kept hidden even from America’s closest friends, including its negotiating partners and Israel, until two months ago, and that may explain how the nuclear accord appeared to come together so quickly after years of stalemate and fierce hostility between Iran and the West…..
….Mitch McConnell doesn’t intend to engage in any high-profile retaliatory procedural actions in the Senate. That’s fine with me, but it calls to mind McConnell’s immediate response to the invocation of the Nuclear Option. He took to the Senate floor and declared not that Harry Reid had just done something historical or significant or even abominable, but that Reid was merely trying to distract people from ObamaCare….
….This makes me think that the Republicans are truly on another one of their Moby Dick adventures, like Whitewater, like the White House Travel Office, like Vince Foster, like l’affaire Lewinsky, like Saddam’s WMD, like Fast and Furious, like Solyndra, like the New Black Panther Party, like Benghazi, and like the most recent government shutdown. More than anything, it reminds me of when they convinced themselves not that the presidential polling numbers could be oversampling blacks, but that they were oversampling blacks. It’s like their theory that systematically trying to make it harder for blacks to vote would result in reduced black turnout rather than a black community more determined than ever to cast their ballots.
It’s some variation of stupidity and delusion, with a little evil sprinkled into the mix…..
The Obama Diary 
Pacem in Terris~
Beautiful!
Da nobis pacem, Domine
Beautiful!
Beautiful selection, LL. Very grateful to you!!!
Tommy Vietor @TVietor08 1h
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One of our nation’s great foreign policy minds RT “@JohnCornyn: Amazing what WH will do to distract attention
from O-care”
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I wrote this at the bottom of the last thread.
We have shared this here at TOD. We are so blessed. Again thank you Chips for this heaven!!! We are living history. This is what we all have worked for. I am so emotional. Don’t know if I will be able to sleep tonight.
Thank you, LL, for the music. I think we can all us some mellowing out. I still feel so high strung.
I am unable to do anything – so happy!
Tommy Vietor @TVietor08 1h
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A decade ago the US declared Iran part of the axis of evil. That President Obama was able to negotiate a nuclear
deal is remarkable.
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LL, excellent choices!
Congrats Bill R on first!
X 1001%
Almost all the replies to that cornyn stupid tweet are delicious.I RT’ed so many of them that twitter put me in jail.
Amazing how the teaparty dragged down the level of gop IQ to gutters.
I have reached my limit on twitter for this hour so I guess it is time to go to bed.
I too happy tonight to let any stoopid comments from any reporters or politicians get under my skin and steal my JOY!!!!!
The beltway does not know when to sit down and let PBO do his thing on behalf of the world !
as usual, we have to give thanks to PBO and his team and yes, rub it in when haters surface
Oh, and it feels so good to have a laugh at the expense of the usual suspects who will come out swinging in their attempt to downplay or oppose PBO’s achievements
yes, we have to celebrate
the anti-PBO forces are going to loose their marbles
Love the Flash Mob video…I hope that I get to witness a musical flash mob!
No More Trouble
Bob Marley
love reggae!!!! Marley! Shaggy! Will be in Caribbean part of December (cruise) and can’t wait to hear it playing on deck!
Genesis
Land of Confusion
Ms. Dudette, before going to sleep tonight, you know I am going to hear Marvin Gaye, “Got To Give It Up” Pt.1&2. If you hear any noise, it’s just me dancing.
Thank you for being a “serious night owl.”
Lady, you are baaaaaad!
Dudette will not mind for me to try and answer your request:
Got To Give It Up: Marvin Gaye
Thank you, Nena.
Request was granted, perfectly!
Hah, John the Wrench, with 20 followers. Fear him!
99 Balloon
Nena
I am sooooooooooooooo giddy!!!!!!
I can’t contain my self – happiness and pride abound!
Good thing I have a project to work on tonight because I cannot sleep!!!!
Geneva Deal Strong First Step Toward Addressing Iran’s Nuclear Program
==========================
The leadership of Ploughshares Fund has issued the following statements:
“Freezing Iran’s nuclear program is a major step toward stopping it completely. This is a strong deal that advances American security interests in the region.
“This first phase agreement ensures that we will continue to negotiate a complete end to Iran’s nuclear program and should reassure U.S. allies in the region that Iran cannot make a dash for the bomb.
“Ploughshares Fund urges U.S. negotiators to continue negotiations toward a final deal with the same urgency that they have demonstrated over the past few weeks.”
- Joe Cirincione, President
===============================
Read more here ………
http://www.ploughshares.org/geneva-deal-strong-first-step-toward-addressing
cmon amk, I want to see you hit this dolt upside the head as only you can say it. Tweet please. 🙂
I already did.
ok that’s good but it isn’t up to your usual brilliant wit.
I had not noted the time when the deal was announced (3.00 a.m. Geneva time per this person) – some people are so observant
ha. and to think it was hillary clinton who brought the “3:00am call” into the discourse as she was trying to discredit the man. john kerry has far surpassed her in accomplishment as s.o.s, and in a fraction of the time. i can’t get over how much kerry and obama have mutually given each other some of the biggest moments of their lives. amazing connection those two have!
I know Kerry ran for the presidency before and got swift boated, but if he keeps this up could he be a prospective presidential candidate again? It would be nice to have someone as tireless as him with the same visionary dreams of Obama in the office after PBO.
Thanks, Linda, for bringing that here. Remarkable!
It’s been a Fatastic Saturday. I am so jazzed. I know I will be up all night. I am going to try and calm my brain down and hopefully be up early and read up on what took place on 11-23-13 in Geneva.
Dream TOD, sweet dreams.
Enjoy!
Thanks LL, they are all perfect for this momentous occasion!! I found one more; one of my favorites –
People are just Fantastic with their Tweets 🙂
REPUBLICANS RELEGATED TO THE CHILDREN’S TABLE
The statement from John Cornyn epitomizes his unhinged and deranged Republican Party. I hope he becomes a laughingstock because of this stupid comment. What an embarrassment. He should just go back to the children’s table and pout while the adults make the world a safer place for all of us.
This day couldn’t get any better……. Needed Baylor, Oregon and Texan A&M to lose….. Mizzou to win……. all happened! W/ 2 wins Auburn could be back playing for the BCS championship. First things first –>Bama
Notre Dame band re-enacts ‘Dorais to Rockne’ circa 1913 🙂
Meanwhile, UCLA’s hopes for the Rose Bowl died a dim death today. 😦
I was pulling for them, LL. The Sun Devils, have a lot of firepower. UCLA just got to far behind early…….seems like they found their footing in the second half…..came up a little short. I think the final was 38-33?
Yep. Gutting. Now we’ll have to settle for some crap like the Joe’s Bait Shop Bowl.
I can’t believe Pacquiao vs Rios went the distance……. Pacquiao beat the leaving daylights out of Rios. 120-108, 119-109, 118-110
Pardon me for gloating, but as an Arizona native, I am proud of my Sun Devils!
I enjoyed watching Arizona State, back when Jake ” The Snake” Plummer & Pat Tillman were there. Terrel Suggs too. I also had a fondness for Dennis Erickson, but he couldn’t duplicate what he did at the “U”. GN, Jackie 🙂
Is that for Real or is it memorex? Wow.
It is for real, Neena……… The Notre Dame band re-enacted the first forward pass in football 🙂
I did not know the role that lifting the Iran Nuclear sanctions would mean for stem cell research – and of course did not focus on other areas of bio-medical research
LOVE this tweet. There will be so many great ones to see from Iranians and others around the world; all giddy that world peace might be a reality. https://twitter.com/Joseph_Santoro/status/404479255578693632
surprised how much i’m moved by this news tonight. perhaps because i spent years worrying about republicans getting control again, and as john mccain and the audience filled with republicans laughed “bomb, bomb, bomb, iran” and i worried for the hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children who would be killed by bombs paid for by my tax dollars, as happened in iraq and afghanistan?
with the help of “the news” we’ve been dangerously close to this happening still, yet we pulled it off again in 2012 and this is what we get instead. i suggest to anyone here over the holidays who has to endure republican relatives spewing the talking points, that you need to call them out for the murderous thugs that they are. your republican relatives vote for the mass execution of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. not an exaggeration. i don’t care how nice they’ve been to you in the past or if they raised you…voting for today’s republicans means that person supports mass killings of innocents. it’s that simple.
barack obama, john kerry, and most other democrats are the alternative.
I is goings to bed. When you night owls decide to retire, ‘Sweet Dreams’! I don’t see how they can be otherwise.
Awesome VC.
People can be “brutal” – that is all
Of course Mrs. Greenspan…………. only thing that matters!
Gawd, she’s such a biotch. Great tweet.
Thanks. Goodnight to ya!
She made sure PM was before Netanyahu? Yep. The wicked hatred racist diatribe continues.
Yep. People like Andrea, I swear, are so consumed they don’t even know we can “see them.”
All right peeps, my damage is done. See everyone tomorrow.
Thanks LL, I love flash mobs.
Although these little distractions are meant to be just that, he still needs calling out. Cornyn’s looking for attention, so he wins there, but at least we have full confirmation he has nothing else to offer.
THIS! I retweeted.
Me too!
Me 3. Great stuff..G’night TOD friends.
GN TOD…….
Night everyone! Truly PEACE FULL dreams!!!
Here’s something we might R/T every day between now and Thanksgiving!
Just noticed that unite blue thingie, which I try to avoid just because – but, hey, the image is what I liked!
Proud of President Obama every day and night.
And in between! 🙂
Talk about grasping for something, anything to put a negative spin on this momentous agreement. So now the Grand Dame of MSNBC is the arbiter of exactly what President Obama is supposed to say at any given moment. So are we going to hear about a missed opportunity now. This comment is dripping with sarcasm and contempt. Does she think this will be the last time that President Obama comments on the agreement. Face it Andrea, President Obama is a brilliant, effective and charismatic leader. Deal with it. smdh ….
Ok, I more. Bob, if you put the dot in front of her @ does everyone of her followers see it?
That biotch really irritates me.
Already 74 posts here, and I just finished posting the following at tail-end of previous thread:
This is a glorious evening! I’ve been surreptitiously following TOD all evening, but unable to post for most of this time. I am so very thankful, Chips, for this place you have created for us.
The press? Certainly not liberal. I refer to the corporate press as NEO-FASCIST. Fascism, in summary, is the merging of the state and the corporate economy. We get our news, our “media,” from only about four-six giant corporate-conglomerates who benefit financially from wars and war preparations. Even Disney has defense corporations under their conglomerate umbrella. Increasingly I’m daring to call it as it is. PBO is a threat to their bottom line…. PROFIT!
“When I sit down with my six-year old and my three -year -old at night and I’m reading a book to them and then I tuck them in to go to sleep, that’s a little piece of heaven that I hang onto.” Barack Obama , American Libraries, August 2005.
I hope and pray that parents all over the world will feel deeply a little “piece of heaven” that they can hang onto when they tuck their children in at night because of what this president and his leadership has done on this glorious day. Because we here, and millions of others, all across this nation saw a light of hope, compassion, in a brilliant man with the core of decency to lead a nation to the well of it finding constantly the better angel within;, we made this part of the journey with you, Mr. President on this historic night.
We give thanks that joy, hope, and prayerfully, a sense of peace will rest in a nation of people who also want to have a touch of that “better angel” reach their core because of a “Born Peace Maker” as President Barack H. Obama. We thank you, Mr. President and your team for answering the 3:00 am call. We all can tuck our children, grand children, and great-grand children in tonight with a little piece of heaven to hang onto here on earth. Thank you, Mr. President and Sec. Kerry and the entire team. We are so grateful, in that we had the glorious opportunity to help elect you and re-elect you, Mr. President twice. Not one minute was wasted on our efforts.
It is an honor to live with you as our president. Thank you, and God bless you and our nation as we try to let our better angels come forth.
Good night Chips and my TOD family.
Thank you LL for the lovely music. My heart has met its calmness now. HZ
“We give thanks that joy, hope, and prayerfully, a sense of peace will rest in a nation of people who also want to have a touch of that “better angel” reach their core because of a “Born Peace Maker” as President Barack H. Obama. We thank you, Mr. President and your team for answering the 3:00 am call. We all can tuck our children, grand children, and great-grand children in tonight with a little piece of heaven to hang onto here on earth.”
Gorgeous, HZ!!! You are a font of GOOD.
Thank you!!!
“For the first time in nearly a decade, we have halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear program, and key parts of the program will be rolled back.” —President Obama: http://go.wh.gov/2aJ8gp
Blessed are the Peacemakers. . .
Whoops, forgot the tweet. . .
Blessed are the people with a brain. . .
Funniest reply I saw to Andrea was something like “bitch go to bed” – but I thought I’d be a little more delicate with her.
And now this b—- is going to bed, too! Goodnight, TOD!
Did this idiot women forget Baroness Ashton, FM of Iran, Russia , France etc and everyone involved?
PBO was explaining the rationale for the deal and its implications. She wanted old style American “We did it” rather than PBO style of we are all in this together which could have been so interpreted if PBO just praised Americans in this statement. The appropriate time will come to praise the SOS and his team.
She needs to be replaced since she is useless as a reporter. No substantive comments from her just barbs. Yuck.
I have noticed a big part of problems with the MSM is their inability to embrace/understand/measure/evaluate a different way of doing things. We that elected PBO elected him just for that reason his vision of doing things differently. They continue comparing his achievements based on the old ways. We are measuring his successes based on results we want.
Get ready, TODers. We’ll have our hands full on Twitter tomorrow swatting down the RW nutcases. They are sooooo jealous that PBO could do the things that GWB couldn’t do. This is not just a great achievement for America, but for the world. It’s a damn shame that PBO is given so little credit in the U.S. but is beloved by people around the world. Although many Americans aren’t kind to him, as a student of history, I believe history will definitely give him all of his props, and that will be our greatest revenge on the hatemongers.
I am happy to be with all of you on the right side of history.
Tweeted this while preparing dinner ….
… time to depart for a few hours my dear TODers … we are all so fortunate to live and strive in the Age of Obama ….
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=t6SMOF8T
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States and Iran secretly engaged in a series of high-level, face-to-face talks over the past year, in a high-stakes diplomatic gamble by the Obama administration that paved the way for the historic deal sealed early Sunday in Geneva aimed at slowing Tehran’s nuclear program, The Associated Press has learned.
The discussions were kept hidden even from America’s closest friends, including its negotiating partners and Israel, until two months ago, and that may explain how the nuclear accord appeared to come together so quickly after years of stalemate and fierce hostility between Iran and the West…..
https://twitter.com/statedeptspox/status/404451383078055936?refsrc=email
please keep an eye on this possible progress – Karzi’s erratic behavior may be checked by other players in Afghanistan
High On Their Own Supply
by BooMan
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/11/23/174758/36
….Mitch McConnell doesn’t intend to engage in any high-profile retaliatory procedural actions in the Senate. That’s fine with me, but it calls to mind McConnell’s immediate response to the invocation of the Nuclear Option. He took to the Senate floor and declared not that Harry Reid had just done something historical or significant or even abominable, but that Reid was merely trying to distract people from ObamaCare….
….This makes me think that the Republicans are truly on another one of their Moby Dick adventures, like Whitewater, like the White House Travel Office, like Vince Foster, like l’affaire Lewinsky, like Saddam’s WMD, like Fast and Furious, like Solyndra, like the New Black Panther Party, like Benghazi, and like the most recent government shutdown. More than anything, it reminds me of when they convinced themselves not that the presidential polling numbers could be oversampling blacks, but that they were oversampling blacks. It’s like their theory that systematically trying to make it harder for blacks to vote would result in reduced black turnout rather than a black community more determined than ever to cast their ballots.
It’s some variation of stupidity and delusion, with a little evil sprinkled into the mix…..
https://twitter.com/EasyHacks/status/373888544705490944
Mooooooorning Early Birds!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/11/24/early-bird-chat-its-a-beautiful-new-day/