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50 Thank Yous to our President on this Thanksgiving
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1. Thank you for never giving up the fight for the Affordable Care Act – ‘ObamaCare’ – and bringing comprehensive health insurance to 30 million people.
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2. Thank you for expanding health coverage for over 4 million more children with the Children’s Health Insurance Authorization Act.
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3. Thank you for putting two qualified and outstanding women on the Supreme Court.
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4. Thank you for refusing to hide the cost of war, unlike your predecessor.
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5. Thank you for bringing the Iraq war to an end and bringing troops home to their families.
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6. Thank you for your courage in bringing OBL to justice when the naysayers derided and mocked you for your promise to the American people.
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7. Thank you for choosing diplomacy first with Syria and securing a deal that began the removal and destruction of chemical weapons.
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I’M IN TEARS…. Is the message I’m getting from young Iranians across the world, from Tokyo to Tehran to Geneva to Seattle. #IranTalks
— Negar Mortazavi (@NegarMortazavi) November 24, 2013
8. Thank you for pursuing diplomacy with Iran through sanctions not war and pushing for an interim deal that came to fruition after 34 years of failures.
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9. Thank you for the drawdown of the war in Afghanistan and putting an end date to combat involvement by troops.
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10. Thank you for improving America’s image abroad by stretching your hand out to allies and non-allies alike, beginning with your 2009 inaugural address and your historic Cairo speech.
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11. Thank you for the New START Treaty that reduces the overwhelming number of warheads in the world.
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12. Thank you for the Executive Order that banned torture, reversed GWB torture practices, and restored the United States in accord with the Geneva Convention.
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13. Thank you for increasing funding annually for the Veteran Affairs Department and for the new G.I. Bill which helps veterans achieve the dream of an education.
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14. Thank you for providing $4.3B in funding for 9/11 responders proving that this nation is behind them not just with words but with deeds.
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15. Thank you for having a Department of Justice that takes seriously any effort to suppress people’s right to vote.
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16. Thank you for having a diverse cabinet and administration that looks like the America of 2013 and not the 1800s.
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17. Thank you for the Claims Resolution Act which made sure African-American and Native American farmers received $4.6B for being cheated out of government loans.
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18. Thank you for doing your part to reduce the horror of gun violence by issuing regulations and rules that will, hopefully, save lives.
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19. Thank you for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act aka ‘Stimulus’ that drastically reduced unemployment and prevented the lay off of teachers, cops, firefighters, etc.
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20. Thank you for rescuing the auto industry and saving over one million jobs when everyone on all sides of the issue said it was a foolish idea.
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21. Thank you for 44 months of economic productivity and 7.8 million private sector jobs.
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22. Thank you for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which has protected and helped millions of people recover money from corrupt financial institutions.
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23. Thank you for Wall Street Reform and Credit Card Reform that put regulations in place to prevent another Great Depression and protect consumers from predatory credit card companies.
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24. Thank you for cutting taxes for hardworking middle and working class Americans through the American Recovery and Investment Act – and not the 1%.
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25. Thank you for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which helps women fight discrimination in wages and salary.
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26. Thank you for expanding funding for the Violence Against Women Act.
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27. Thank you for the Matthew Shepard – James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act which makes it a crime to attack an individual based on their religion, race, gender, and sexual orientation.
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28. Thank you for the Tribal Law and Order Act so that Tribal Nations have greater authority to prosecute criminals.
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29. Thank you for establishing the White House Council on Women and Girls that makes sure all agencies evaluate the effect their policies have on women and families.
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30. Thank you for appointing more women, minorities, and LGBT judges to the federal bench.
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31. Thank you for fighting for DADT repeal and supporting marriage equality at a time when it could have been maliciously used to hurt your re-election chances.
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32. Thank you for repeated increases in financial aid and Pell Grants and for reforming the student loan program by making sure banks don’t unfairly profit at the expense of the student.
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33. Thank you for the first increase in fuel economy standards in over a decade. Thereby ensuring that a gallon of gas takes consumers not from point A – B but from point A – Z.
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34. Thank you for combating the effects of climate change by issuing strict regulations on plants and factories that pollute the environment.
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35. Thank you for investing $90B in renewable energy technology through the stimulus.
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36. Thank you for refusing to wait for Republicans in Congress to act on immigration reform and issuing a Deferred Action Executive Order and also making sure relatives of military members can stay in the country with their families.
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37. Thank you for restoring FEMA’s professionalism, ensuring fast and effective responses to disasters, helping people in need.
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38. Thank you for removing restrictions on stem cell research and pledging federal support for new biomedical research.
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39. Thank you for the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act that makes sure children don’t go hungry while at school – and for improving food safety by making sure the FDA received $1.4B in the Food Modernization Act and helping increase its regulatory power.
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40. Thank you for loving, appreciating and promoting the power of science – and having fun while doing it.
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41. Thank you for increasing funding for National Parks and Forests thereby making sure that historical landmarks are preserved for future generations.
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42. Thank you for providing funding for the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and protecting the funding during budget negotiations.
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43. Thank you for establishing the White House Office of Urban Affairs that makes sure under-served communities have access to education, housing, sustainable communities, funding for businesses, etc.
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44. Thank you for holding the first online town hall at the White House, streaming every White House event, voluntarily disclosing the White House visitors log and doing your best to make the White House as transparent as possible to the American people.
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45. Thank you for the $8B in funding that brought broadband internet to low income rural families.
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46. Thank you for the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act which encourages people of all ages to go out into their communities and the world and do their part in achieving a world not as it is, but as it should be.
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47. Thank you for always finding the right words to comfort us in times of tragedy.
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48. Thank you for being such a wonderful ambassador abroad for our country.
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49. Thank you for all the smiles.
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50. Thank you for serenading us!
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….. one more
….. Most of all, thank you for being our President, and for inspiring our children.
The Obama Diary 
Am I too late?
Got a dancing screen this morning – not sure what’s up. 😕
Congrats on 1st VC. My screen did a dancing number also. 😄 BTW thanks for this beautiful thread UT. It brings back a lot of memories.
Thanks, COS.
UT, my heart is full and I am in tears over this FABULOUS Thanksgiving tribute to our wonderful President. I am so thankful for you, and for Chips to have this great blog that keeps me sane everyday.
Thanks Betsy. Glad you loved it.
Happy Thanksgiving, Utal, and thanks for today’s R & S! Are you being ‘hostess’ today or are you family member/guest – whichever, have a lovely, and enjoyable, day!
Thanks VC. Wishing you the same.
Never! {{{{{VC}}}}}
Wait a minute, Pamela, you are rising and shining much earlier than I expected! I figured you’d be giving the body a little extra rest after moving and before the Thanksgiving festivities start.
Wishing you, Pamela, a ‘Happy, Enjoyable Thanksgiving’, whatever form it takes! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
As If! The thankful part is well and truly activated, but the day of rest part is still a few days out. Today is set up to make several trips between old dwelling and new refuge. I will bring all the small bits which I can mangae to carry or to put into smaller boxes, or which require hand carry, not movers! A I set up and empty boxes inside, there is now a bit more (but not much!) room to get finished up. Essentially, I am downsizing into a place 1/4 the size, and have enjoyed seeing things I put out on the nature strip with a FREE sign, being picked up in disbelief by neighbors and people driving by who stop! Two weeks ago, an embarrassingly enormous load went out to charities, and other re-use type places. Also have had donations trucks stopping by regularly. 25 years is too long a time to stay in once place. Won’t be doing that again! Am gone now, may be able to check in later during the tryptophane lull!! 🙂 Be well, be blessed. Special greetings of Light to you, HZ, and to President Obama, the First Family, and those they love. I hope and pray it is a relaxing day for them all, and that PBO does not have to be called to the office. Bye!
Bye for now, and Blessings! {{{Pamela}}}
(((((((((((( Lots of loving healing hugs to you, our beautiful MightyPamela))))))))))))))))) Your light is always one of encouragement, strength, and forever kindness and goodness of heart. Be joyful, restful, and enjoy your Thanksgiving Celebrations. HZ
* … between old dwelling and new refuge*
^^^^ Reads like “The Story of Life” for all of us! Happy Thanksgiving, MightyPamela!
Congrats on 1st vc
😉
A Joyful Thanksgiving to you, Sabreen!
Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Greetings! Every day I’m reminded that….
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx WE THE PEOPLE ARE #BlessedToBeAliveInHisTime! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Happy Thanksgiving, TODVille!
I am grateful for the opportunity to be in your company.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Thank you UT for this wonderful post. Chips: I am so thankful for TOD. It is a blessing.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my TOD Family!!!
I can hope that dressing will stay off my thighs….. 😉 Have a happy one!
Greatest. TOD. Post. Ever.
UT, this is glorious, can never thank you enough.
Thank yooooooooooooooooooooooooooou too. You’re the BEST! 😀
Superb R/S!!! Thank you, UT!!! 🙂 Bringing this over…http://www.dccc.org/page/-/CheatSheet2013.pdf?&source=em_PET_2013.11.27_b1_dems_cheatsheet2013_nd
More FACTS to share with your crazy uncle on this day…..
Thanks so much Chiparoo. You ROCK!
Excellent recap, ut. A must read for all americans.
# 51 Thank you for compensating military members forced to serve beyond their enlistment dates by mandating back pay of $500.00 per month for every month a person was “stop-lossed,” dead or alive, the families to get the compensation for the forced overtime.
Dear TOD Family, the beauty of nature inspires, heals, humbles and delights. The same can be said of you.
Today among the many things I’m grateful for is having found my tribe here at TOD. Thank you Chips for this wonderful oasis. Thank you to all smart, funny, passionate, and dedicated people who inhabit it and make it our online home. Be well. Be safe. Be happy.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you, Dudette! Same to you:)
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you too Dudette! 😀
Fantastic idea, dudette. You are high among those who make this site the world’s best online community. I am thankful for the music you share, the insights and the beautiful photos of our country. Have a great one.
Thanks jackie! You’re also part of what makes this site so special and dear to my heart. Enjoy the day!
Like I tell my kiddos at school everyday…do a kindness for someone else EVERYDAY….even if it’s giving them a smile 🙂
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” ~ HH DalaiLama
…and THANK YOU UT for this wonderful Rise and Shine and for highlighting many of the things that make this President special as a person and effective/outstanding as a leader.
It is amazing what President Obama has been able to accomplish given all the obstacles, sabotage, and even betrayals that have been put in his path. Because his intentions are sincere and unselfish, he is able to rise above the bad to accomplish good.
Everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Congrats on 1st VC. I hope Chips enjoys her first Thanksgiving with Danny. My daughter came home yesterday from college. Pies in the oven…Turkey is next. I wanted to share one of my favorite albums with you today…enjoy all:
Love that music! “Hippie” Old School — if there is such a thing 😉 Happy thanksgiving Proud, and all you wonderful TODers.
HaHa! Arlo!! First heard him play live in Georgetown, on the evening of the day I sat my college boards… (yes, a while ago now!) great post for TDay! 😉
Chips, I don’t have enough superlatives in my vocabulary to convey how awesome this post and how grateful I am for you.
So I’ll keep it simple: Thank you! I love you! 🙂
I meant Chips and UT. 🙄
You know me, always zigging when I should be zagging. Love you! Happy Thanksgiving!
Love you right baaaaaaaack Dudette, and eternally grateful to UT for this wonderful, wonderful post.
Have a beautiful Thanksgiving Dudette, looooooove ya!
Over 3 million hits in just 3 days.
Happy Thnaksgiving everyone.
I like this group VERY much! Thanks Linda! Happy Thanksgiving!
Wow. Just Wow. Goose Bumps say it all. Beuatifully done.
Happy Thanksgiving TODable TODers.
Brilliant Post UT.
Wow. This is just Fantastic.
Beautifully done. Loved it. Thank you, Linda for sharing.HZ
Awesome. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Gotta go y’all! Hugs and kisses! Happy Thanksgiving!
(((((((((((((( Thanksgiving hugs to one of our great Musician-In-Chief ))))))))))))))))) You and all of our maestros bring so much musical joy to my heart. Thank you for sharing this love of our wonderful POTUS and FLOTUS. Music. Music. Music. Music.HZ
It’s on all of our hearts today, so thank you, Chips, for creating a home here and saving our sanity. Thanks to UT, LL, LP and Zizi and all those whose research and insights make us the best informed people in any crowd. And thanks to our magnificent president and his family who inspire us and work so hard for our well being and our future. He is the greatest president in my lifetime and I am very grateful that I can share that love and awe of this wonderful man with all of us here who love him. Have a happy thanksgiving and hug someone you love in gratitude for the sheer joy of being together on this day.
Just beautiful Jackie, thank yoooooou – have a completely lovely Thanksgiving!
Just beautiful, Jackie. Thanks.
What Jackie G. said. For me, the bottom line is that ‘You Guys Make My Life Better’. I am so grateful and happy to be a member of the TOD family. We are kindred spirits. And listening to President Obama’s moving Thanksgiving message just opened the floodgates. I am such a softy. I hope everyone has a warm and relaxing Thanksgiving. Love you madly, LH.
I would like to co-sign; too choked up to come up with my own words, however yours sum up all that I am feeling.
UT, you have outdone yourself; this an incredible thread. I am so touched that I cannot find words other than thank you for pulling together this photo spread of our dear president’s major accomplishments.
On this Thanksgiving Day, I am filled with gratitude that we have a true world leader in PBO.
Have a wonderful day TOD ohana.
Thanks for the kind words, CEB and thanks also to Chips for TOD.
Have a great day!
It’s a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner on today’s menu.
All are invited!!!
Roasted Turkey with cornbread stuffing
Honey Baked Ham
Sweet Potato casserole w/marshmallows
Mashed Potatoes w/gravy
Macaroni and Cheese
Collard Greens
Green bean casserole
Sweet rolls
Sweet Potato Pie
Apple Pie
Pecan Pie
Yellow Cake w/chocolate frosting
French Vanilla Ice Cream
I am so grateful to each of you for sharing the good work that PBO, his family and his administration are doing daily to make out world a better place to live.
A special shout out of gratitude to Chips and UT and all the other BT’s who work tirelessly to keep us all up to date, entertained and informed.
YUM! Happy Thanksgiving donna to you & family.
Repeat delivery:
Chips, I don’t know WHAT I did to deserve you, 😉 but THANKS for opening your door/gate to me when you did!
(Of course, as you have no doubt realized, that act of kindness means you are now stuck with me. 😀 I hold close the old Chinese saying ( ??) ‘If you save a man’s life, you are responsible for him forever.’ Not sure what was said if it’s a woman’s life, except I know YOU’re all for equality.
Briefly…..
………………..♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ HAPPY, happy, HAPPY THANKSGIVING, Chips Chica!! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥………………….
‘If you save a man’s life, you are responsible for him forever.’
😆 You’re a riot, VC!!!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family – love ya, ya crazy gal!!
Thanks for the wishes, and the feeling is mutual.
Happy Thanksgiving to UT, Chips, TOD, lurkers, everyone, etc. What a beautiful thread – thanks so much UT! 🙂 🙂
Oh UT, you have brought me to tears. That is the most beautiful lineup of why we love our POTUS. There is so much to be thankful for. This is why we are here.
Thank you to Chips for this wonderful place for all of us to come. And thank you to all the Blog Tyrants for the time spent in keeping us informed. And to all of you who bring information from far and wide to keep us informed on what is really going on in our world. And to the internet that has given us the opportunity to talk to people all over the world. To know what is happening without the msm spin, sometimes its not always good. Especially to all you wonderful people who kept encouraging all of us to get involved in twitter. Last Saturday’s experience of the Geneva Talks was so beyond anything I could ever imagine.
I am so thankful to be alive today. Hope everyone has a beautiful day.
I also want to express my concern for all those who won’t be having a good day, all those who because of our Congress won’t have the food to eat. This will keep us fighting to get our POTUS a congress he needs next year. FORWARD
Thank you for the wonderful words, for remembering the less fortunate, and the determination to give President Obama a Congress he deserves. Hope you and yours have a great day.
Guess all that bad PR got into the heads of managemint finally.
He/she should ask for a raise. 😉
The People are the POWER when they speak in Large numbers……Well, Things Change.
Now more of it is needed to make 2014 a pleasurable and momumental Hope and Change, one more Time.
Well..according to Juanita Jean, this is the best cranberry relish EVER:)
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Cranberry-Relish-104111
thanks followed!
Very, very nice UT! A prize worthy Rise and shine this morning. ‘You done him proud.’
Thanks.
Oh God, I’m actually going to cry.
Me too Chips. How do people with so much do so little and those with so little share what they have.
yep. water works.
Gunnite folks. Happy Thanksgiving to all. Be nice.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! UT thank you for posting clips of our amazing singing President. They made my day!
Reblogged this on The Will to be True Blog and commented:
A beautiful Rise and Shine from UTaustinliberal at the Obama Diary. It’s worth saving and remembering. When someone cares enough to do what’s right rather than what’s easy, it should be celebrated.
Oh wow! Thanks Vetivera24.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone
UT, tears flowing while reading this post – Excellent! Just when I think it couldn’t get any better…BAM, you hit with this most Magnificent Post. Thank you so much! Chips, I can’t ever thank you enough for this blog, where you can come for the truth and all things positive about our wonderful President. Love and appreciate y’ll so much for all that you do every day.
Have a wonderful and blessed day!
That is, love and appreciate y’all so much…
Chipsticks and her band of blog tyrants are the best. I am also thankful for them.
Thanks, Wiltal.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thank you UT for the wonderful R&S. Everyone should be reminded of all our President has done for us.
Thanks, debz.
Looks almost as good as Donna’s Thanksgiving menu! 🙂 🙂
Good morning, TOD. Happy Thanksgiving to all. May you and your family and friends be abundantly blessed and have a day filled with joy, laughter and peace.
I am eternally grateful that President Obama is our President!!!!!!!!!!!
I would add: He brought science back to government.
The list is such a good refresher course on the wonderfulness of our President.
#44 is a special treat because I was there at the White House for that town hall meeting and got to ask a question of the President – one of the high points of my life.
It’s easy to forget what a hideous economy he inherited and all the things he has done to make it better since those early days.
Elly, what did you ask him and what was his response? How amazing to be at one of his town hall meetings!
Dear UT ~ you have surpassed yourself this morning- which imo is a mighty accomplishment. Thank you for this wonderful, inspiring reminder of the many important issues our President has addressed to make our country ‘more perfect’ … to make life for all of us just a little bit better. I am grateful beyond words for this site, for Chips, UT, LL, Bob, HZ, hf, df.. and all of the awesome folks who come here to inform, truth tell and respect. Happy Thanksgiving everyone 🙂 and Happy Chanukah also.
Such beautiful sentiments. You rock, sherijr!
thank you ut, you are the rock, my dear 🙂
oops and huge thanks to my favorite comedians (after Chips of course) – amk & vc .. you two could go on the road 😉
..and thank you Dudette, musicmaven of TOD.
And to ALL of TOD, you have no idea how much you’ve all added to my life, it is that simple and that big. I am immensely grateful.
((((((((((((((((( Loving thanks for your gentle and caring spirit, sherijr.)))))))))))))))))))HZ
oh you are such a love ((((((((HZ))))))))) wishing you a lovely Thanksgiving and a beautiful day. Thank YOU.
Sheri, it’s fun to hang out with you guys and gals in TODvillage, because at heart you are a community moving #FORWARD, welcoming to those headed in the same direction.
Sending warm Thanksgiving wishes to you and your ‘boys’. Have a great time together!
Hopefruit’s Honest to Goodness Thanksgiving Menu:
Whole wheat toast
Spinach
Steamed carrots, broccoli
Steamed cabbage
Steamed tofu
Dessert:
Whole wheat muffins
Beverage: Iced water with snippet of lemon
🙂 🙂 Even amk will have a hard time saying no to this feast. There’s enough for everyone to get a plate, and I’ve saved seats for everyone! Dinner is served. Enjoy – You’re welcome!
Looks healthy and divine! Love ALL of it:)
As long as there’s no tofurky or turduckin, I’m good!
🙂 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it!
I did! And the company was great:) Thanks!
That is my kind of menu, HF. We come close with all vegetarian, but yours is is great. I especially love the fact that everything is steamed. Yum!!!
Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Chanukah from the Jersey shore. Thanks to Chips for this site and UT and all the other BTs. This place is the source of my news and I’d be lost without it. We get all the facts here. Thanks for this gift. Enjoy the day.
Dems in 2014…..Minimum Wage, ACA, Income inequality, Voting Rights as a Constitutional issue, Women Not a legislative issue…OUR bodies are ours alone and our Temple, Education and Infratructure as ways to create Jobs…….then Campaign Funding, make TBGOPers defend that……..Those alone should get attention of every voter in USA.
Thank you so much Ms. Chips for providing this wonderful website. Thank you all the excellent threads!
Thank you ut for this inspiring R&S and for ALL your great threads.
I sincerely hope everyone enjoys this Thanksgiving, whether it is with family, friends or in peaceful solitude.
Thanks, Sabreen.
What a beautiful post! Thank you UT for reminding us of what the President has been able to accomplish, in just five years! We have come far. It’s almost difficult to remember the eight year nightmare we lived through.
Thank you Chips for this wonderful spot, and thank you to everyone who contributes…..I learn so much here!
And, personally, I’m so thankful, that today, at this moment, my family is healthy and well. A year ago that wasn’t so, but thanks to good doctors and MEDICARE, my husband is healthy and his old self.
Everyone have a blessed day…..and may we all continue to work for blessed days for those who are desperately in need.
Thank you all for being here.
Had to get the turkey in the oven and myself showered before I could even come here. Now, I have a short time to enjoy this. Dinner’s at two…..y’all come!!!
Great news for vc!!!!!!!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/watching-exercise-can-make-you-fitter_n_4331612.html?utm_hp_ref=science
Just watching? Wow! Thanks Layla, that’s a good find that speaks to me for sure. Instead of following the link, I’ll make a note to start watching …. next week. See, if one waits long enough, research will provide an easier solution to many previous problems, and I don’t mind this kind of waiting. 😀
Heartful gratitude for the double election of Pres. Barack Obama and for this community who stands with him faithfully.
Happy Thanksgivukkah, TODworld! Thanks for supporting President Obama, as I do!
Thanks for all the posts, Chips and UT! Love all y’all.
UT – If we wrote a 50-Reasons-Why-We-Love-You-Blog-Tyrants list, this post would be on it!
Awww…thanks Jacqueline! Have a great day.
This is a place to cherish on everyday for me. Chips, you are an angel of so much love, brilliant talent, and such a giving and respectful heart, and I thank you. You have created a space here that represents so much of what is true, loving, respectful, brilliant in mind and compassionate in soul, and I thank you. You give others the opportunity to be trusted to share their brilliant gifts as your wonderful contributors, and I thank you. You raise the bar in such a loving and respectful manner to shed so much wonderful lights on what it means to work with a brilliant POTUS and Not against a nation. We are the people, and you show us daily that we have a loving responsibility to work together to make this space here and in all of our spaces, ones where love, talent, intellect, and respect can dwell peacefully side by side. I thank you.
You even brought into our family your loving Danny, and oh my, what a delightful joy to see him whenever he enters this space. Our, TODers First Dog. That gives so much joy to our TOD family. Thank you, Chips.
My thanksgiving is filled with so much teary but wonderful joy to be here and see how all of you are sharing with your family and friends. I will feast off of your loveliness today. It give me so much joy to know that we all can come together and still share with each other. I thank you all.
As for the beautiful Thanksgiving Gift, our wonderful President and First Lady, we are thankful for their beautiful and loving service as our First Family. What a joy to know that they are in the White House representing all of America. I am grateful.
May all of my TOD family have a wonderful, loving, fun filled, lots of laughter around the tables, quiet moments of prayers/meditations, and most of all knowing that you have your family and loving friends there with you to bring it all together. I pray that you all will enjoy your space, and remember to make sure your family and friends know that you care also about their heath and fullness of happiness. Enjoy the day, everyone.HZ
{{{{{{{HZ}}}}}} Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Chanukah!
Good West Coast morning to Chipsticks & my TOD family.
I am so thankful for this wonderful community. Without Chipsticks…I don’t know where I would be getting the truth, love and laughter – I love you!
Thank you UT for your tireless contributions and thank you to all of our BT’s who help make this a family that shares!
Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Chanukah!
Hugs all around for the huge Brilliant TOD Family.
Have a Wonderful Holiday.
Grateful and Thankful everyday for President Obama, his family and Team.
A Thanksgiving Classic:
WKRP “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
Favorite, favorite, favorite!!! I love this show! I only wish they could show it with the original music.
A very Happy and Healthy Hanukkah and Thanksgiving to everyone!
This is a beautiful post. Brought tears to my eyes. I’m so thankful that our President is Barack Obama and that I have this wonderful community here at The Obama Diary to share the love. Happy Thanksgiving!
Hi Ms. Chips!
Hi UT!
Hi “Blog Tyrants”!
Hi all members of TODville!
Have a wonderful and very fruitful Thanksgiving! Happy Hanukkah for all our Jewish Friends!
I am extremely grateful to Chips for this space, to the “blog tyrant” who help run it, and the contribution of each and everyone who helps enrich the content and teach something about themselves and the greater global community.
I am very grateful for PBO for bring us together, for his empathy & hard work in all he does, for The First Family in lifting PBO up & for all the members of Team Obama and other public servants who contribute to running this country
UT thank you for this thread. Just 50 of the many things I am also thankful for from the President and VPOTUS.
Thanks, no spin.
Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Chanukah to everyone…..I’m thankful that I live in the age of Obama, I ‘m thankful for this blog that helps keep my head on straight and my hair doused from fire, I’m thankful for each and everyone of you who show such love and compassion for each other, I’m especially thankful for Chips and her Merry Band of Worker Bees who keep us up to date and life positive, I also am thankful to my family who decided for the first time in my 71 years to start a new tradition, keeping me out of the kitchen. Cooked turkey breast and small ham and we are having turkey sandwiches and ham biscuits and loading the children up to go to Tanglewood Park to see their beautiful light display, and eat dessert of roasted marshmallows over their big bonfire. Yahoooooo no clean up no stress….Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
I am thankful for everyone here, who increase my knowledge in different ways every single day. I am thankful for the compassion and friendship in this room and the togetherness we share in having president Obama and his family’s back every single day.
Thank you for this space, Chips.
Thank you, UT, for reminding us of the wonderful things this extraordinary man has done and continues to do for this country. He is an unselfish and deeply humble man. We will never see the likes of him in a long, long time. Hence I am honored to be living in these times.
Happy Thanksgiving TODville!!
Thanks, Africa.
Thank you for reminding all of us of all the things that you have done for us.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone…thankful I can come to this site for news reporting about our wonderful President
Of all the days for my system to start acting up it chooses today when more people are free to drop in. My internet has gone off and on – computer told me to check the modem lights which seemed to be lit just fine, but I still couldn’t get on. Now that I’m back, the rate of response seems slower. Honestly, my computer does all kinds of things to get noticed. 🙄
Thank you TOD peeps, I am grateful for each of you. (Especially team captain chips of course:)
And thank you ut for this brilliant post.
oh UT you’ve really put together a wonderful post THANKYOU!
I gotta go back to cooking but I wanted to stop in and see this wonderful post – and say Happy Thanksgiving to all of TOD! I’m very grateful for a site such as this and the people that inhabit this space – it’s where I find out what is happening and can catch up on the lives of folks here.
And, if you live somewhere where it’s not Thanksgiving it’s just Thursday – that’s OK. Happy Thursday! 😀
I’m making my sweet potato pies at the moment…my contribution to dinner. I also have been requested to bring green beans, not green bean casserole. My recipe includes fresh green beans, bacon and mushrooms.
I am so thankful that I am on this earth while Barack Obama is our President. No matter how difficult the fights have been and will be, all I have to do is look at him and his beautiful family and I’m uplifted. Then I come to TOD and read 50 Thank Yous to the President, I am further uplifted. God Bless each and everyone of you and Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
New post!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/11/28/thank-you-13/
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
UT – you’ve out done yourself and that is a major accomplishment. What a spectacular tribute to our President, his team and the 1st Family. Thank you!!!
Chips – will never be able to express adequately the gratitude I have for the experience of participating in the TOD community that you created and have nurtured these past several years. Thank you!!
#FORWARD Together
Bob? I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE ya! Thank you so much.
Thanks, Bob. You’re the best!
Happy Thanksgiving to all the wonderful people at TOD! Thank you so much Chips for this wonderful space that is filled with love, laughter and knowledge. Thank you UT for your brilliance, day in and day out, and for this wonderful Thanksgiving appreciation of our incredible President. I feel blessed to be alive in the age of Obama.
good afternoon TOD family 😀
Happy Thanksgiving to each and everyone of you. Mom is home for a Hollyday not working(for once 😮 so I am enjoying spending the day with her and a few friends 😀
We are doing well
Thank you Chips for this site
So very thankful for the President
hope HZ is doing well
I’ll stop by again very soon
until next time,
Fred 😉
Happy Thanksgiving everybody here at TOD! I’m grateful that Chips created this place, and that it has expanded so we get UT, ZIZI LP, AMK, and any other BT I may have missed, keeping us informed about our wonderful President and his administration working hard to improve this country and the world.
I’m grateful for this loving community.
I’m grateful that we have President Barack Obama in the white house along with his wonderful family Michele, Malia, Sasha, Mrs. Robinson, Bo, and Sunny.
Happy Chanukah for those who observe the holiday.
We are so very proud of our loving caring adorable President Obama !!
We thank him in abundance from the bottom if our hearts!!
We love you our ObamaDiary!!
Cheers!! Raj Subbaram Dublin California Now on a short vacation at Vegas !!
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