First Lady Michelle Obama talks with a young patient during a visit to the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, December 16. The First Lady read the book “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” before greeting the children along with Santa Claus and presidential dogs Sunny and Bo
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The First Lady covers her dog Sunny’s ears before answering an audience question about what she was getting the dog for Christmas
Productivity rose by 3% last Q3, Yet House TBGOPers get paid on average $174K annually, producing less, working less and on vacation more than 199 days in 2013?
And the media are worried about Photo access? Selfie photos? Etc?
I didn’t watch any Sunday shows. I wonder how many on these shows who were TBGOPers were asked about the 1.3M about to be dropped from receiving UI?
Ah – the GOP like security – they just don’t like judges – If 78 would vote for him why do only 57 vote to end the debate – and where are the missing 6 senators – on vacation?
78 to 16 and he was Filibustered?
Or ‘am I mixing nominees? These Basta*ds have filibustered so many in the last 4.11 yrs that I am getting names confused.
At 5:30pm, the Senate will proceed to a series of roll call votes on the following items:
– Confirmation of Executive Calendar #406, Anne W. Patterson, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Ambassador, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Near Eastern Affairs);
– Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #450, Jeh Charles Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Secretary of Homeland Security; and
Whenever Sessions stops blathering the Senate will be adjourned until 9a ET tomorrow. Senator Reid will invoke cloture on the Budget Agreement at 10a tomorrow.
I’m right there with you on that, anniebella. Mrs. Obama is so wonderful with these children, although I’m sure it touches her motherly heart. No doubt she is fighting back tears – and thanking her lucky stars on the way home that her girls are healthy and doing well.
I was watching Rev. Al and he showed were FLOTUS were singing the Christmas song Chestnut roasting on an opening fire, then FLOTUS stopped and said with a smile, I forgot the media was here.
Wonder where/when this comment was made—–someone must have asked what the girls wanted for xmas. And of course even this tweet brings out the haters in response. Why? There are a lot of self-hating sickos in this country.
Mrs Obama says Malia wanted a cell phone but the pres already gave her one. "You messed up," she said of the president's gift-giving.
Indeed, Chipsticks! I personally think that the best way to challenge these ” so called mainstream media” people is to continuously expose their lies and their BS! As long as we have the Mark Knollers working for prestigious news media, like CBS, who needs the “National Inquirer,” and other tabloids dedicated to sensational and salacious manipulation of news? Mocking and exposing the idiocy of these so-called MSM journalists is, as far as I am concerned, a very effective method of neutralizing their propaganda. I do, however, understand Layla’s position that Mark Knoller, and other idiots like him, do not deserve any attention from TOD, as such attention may lead them to think that they are very important. I hope Layla can see the difference between attention and the mockery that highlights and exposes their idiocy and their lack of journalistic integrity.
I might have missed something but I didn’t see anything wrong with this tweet. I just couldn’t believe the hateful political replies to a xmas gift comment.
He tweets these seemingly innocuous comments about PBO, knowing fully well it will elicit nasty remarks from a certain vile segment of his followers who knee-jerk react negatively to anything “Obama.” Then he can claim that he was just tweeting something casual. I see through Mark Knoller’s BS.
Knoller knows what he’s doing Dotster, if anyone else tweeted that I’d just smile, it’s funny, but with him it’s always an attempt to portray the First Lady as a hectoring bully of her husband, he does it time and again – and as Hopefruit said, it’s all designed to attract the nutters and the bile.
Layla, personally, I think Mark Knoller’s gossipy tweets are childish and hilarious! I think people are posting them for laughs, and to expose the absurdity and the idiocy of the so called MSM journalists. So long as people who share Knoller’s idiotic tweets here are trying to mock him and the media outfit he works for, I see no harm done. Just to think this man may be getting a six figure income (and may be more) for reporting this nonsense while pretending that it’s real news. For me, I no longer see any difference between most of the so called mainstream media and sensational tabloids. That’s why I have no problem when people expose Mark Knoller, a so called mainstream journalist, for being an “idiot.”
So I’m reading at the BBC and the ABC (our equivalent) – that the “Mission in Afghanistan is complete”. Since when did war start being called a mission? Seems akin to the crusades of old.
My lot used the word “completed” – only other people “lose” – we win, accomplish or complete. Giving the Presidency to GWB had repercussions still being felt around the world – not in any good way whatsoever.
Photos here were heartwarming. There is almost nothing sadder than these seriously ill children. But I am thankful to the First Lady for bringing a little bit of cheer to their difficult lives. And —-then Bo, the old good behaving pro seemed to be looking back at the newbie Sunny when she stood up on the bench, saying, “Sunny! Remember what I taught you! Sit!”
Danny is innocent! Just look at those eyes! They’re telling you he’s innocent! Toys had bad accidents, he wasn’t even in the vicinity when the unfortunate incidents happened!
Dotster Pet Defense Lawyer.com
As soon I clicked ‘reply’ I guessed that would be the case Jacqueline 😆 But I checked with the vet last week, he said dairy products in moderation are fine, but DON’T overdo it. So, only an occasional milk/cheese treat, his tummy couldn’t handle any more 😦
Ah non!!!! Pardonnez moi Monsieur Danny!!!!!! Tu es tres beau, tres gentil et je sais que ta mere a detruit tout tes jouets!!!!!! Mange ton fromage mon ami!
Pope Francis the Communist Marxist Socialist know nothing who has never worked a day of hard work in his life……Watch that would be the next attack against Pope Francis.
Yes, and probably that he was secretly born in Hawaii and traveled with gypsies to Argentina and Barack Obama’s mother was his sister and they both were originally raised and bathed in poverty as Whirling Dervishes and a real Pope wouldn’t have spelled “semblance” wrong in his quote. That would be next after that. And Republicans will say, “Well, can you prove that isn’t true?”
Damn, this little bit of wine I’m drinkin’ is very fruitful. Haven’t thought of Whirling Dervishes since the last millennium. I’ll try and find the video. 🙂
What I find so fascinating is that the Nuns on the Bus have been talking about the poor and very much the same way as Pope Francis…yet they do not get the same attention…in fact the previous pope tried to spank them….
I have an idea…..John Boehner and Paul Ryan, who are both Catholics, need to make a pilgrimage to Rome. While there, they need to have a LOOOOOOOOng audience with Pope Francis! He could straighten them out on their habit of screwing poor people and a few other things.
Bravo Pope Francis…….now, if the Boehners and Ryans of the world would listen to him and change!!!
Sorry Carolyn, as a Roman Catholic, All I want from those two is to allow simple Up or Down Votes in the House.
SCOTUS has 6 Roman Catholics at the bench. They are using their religious rightie ideology to rule instead of the Laws and settled rulings. 5 of those Justices, Alito, Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy and Roberts. A little of their ideological beliefs and a LOT of pragmatism would serve We The People better…….well……best.
Jefferson and the Founding Fathers had it right. Separation of Church and State.
If governing was the Number One Goal for Ryan and Boehner……..then their politics would Not be ideologically driven.
Nena, just to reinforce and appreciate what you said, only FIVE of the SIX U.S. Supreme Court Justices who are Catholics are using their right wing ideology to overturn settled law and to undermine the social teachings of the Catholic Church that emphasize concern for the poor! It’s important to point out that the SIXTH catholic on the bench, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, respects the idea of “Separation of Church and State.” She also does not subscribe to the false notion that the Federal government is evil because it tries to attend to the needs of the most disadvantaged Americans (the poor). After all, the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution plainly states that one of the most important Constitutional responsibility of “WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES” is to “PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE” of all the people of the United States. Clearly then. the U.S. Constitution is not in conflict with the social teachings of the Catholic Church. There is nothing in the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution (the Preamble to the Constitution clearly states the rationale/goals the founding fathers invoked to explain the importance of why it was necessary to write a Constitution creating the United States) that states that individual greed and self-interests supersedes the collective well being of “WE THE PEOPLE.”
We are living in pretty ridiculous times—-like when Santa Claus is the subject of so much angst and controversy—–ongoing and spreading—–is he white, black, ruddy? Greek, Turkish? Talk show host asks black guest if a white Santa hurt him. Another crazy talk show nutball said MLK was always portrayed as black, why can’t we have a white Santa? Is he “just white” or whatever color you want him to be? Is he still jolly and does his belly still shake like a bowl full of jelly? And now NORAD’s Santa tracking is the subject of criticism. They had a promotional vid on their website, showing fighter jets accompanying Santa’s sleigh. Not sure why Santa needs fighter jets, Prancer and Rudolph and the boys have always managed just fine without them. But on and on it goes in this Santa is CONTROVERSIAL whacked out world.
The Obama Diary 
Always a loving gracious lady.
vetivera24!!!!
Chips! Ola!
Hey, what’s with the white Santa?
Both the dogs look like sheep ready to be sheared.
😆
FLOTUS, like POTUS, cares.
No amount of negative can change THAT. 😀
Beautiful soul, and a beautiful First Lady. HZ
Voting now to advance Jeh Johnson DHS Nomination; Simple Majority needed.
Did the other two DC court nominees clear?
Niiiice to see Sunny and Bo doing their Christmas tour. Bo sets such a mature example for his young sibling.
Great pics. The dog earing pic is hilarious. Both the O’s have a good sense of humor.
As the song said:
Can’t Touch this.
Unbeatable.
Congrats Vetivera24 on your GOLD 😉
Bo and Sunny 😉
Mrs Michelle Obama 🙂
Senate advances Jeh Johnson Homeland Security Sec. Nomination.HZ
Whenever I see or read about Sunny and Bo, I think of I’ve got you Babe by Sony and Cher 😉
😯 🙄 😆
I know what you mean about Sunny and Bo! And, as far as the song goes, I’ve come to like this Reggae version just as much!
Thanks I remember this version.
Actually, what are they getting the dogs for xmas? Danny ? Can’t wait for dannygate.
What do you get the dog who has (eaten) everything? 😕
road runner?
Road Runner is not impressed by your suggestion:
Ok, how about that varmint they place around the race tracks? Here is how you do it.
1. Buy a bigger place with a bigger backyard. (or remodel the existing one with just on bedroom and kitchen)
2. Build a race track
3. Put the varmint (what the hell is it anyway, a rat?) on the rail.
4. Turn on the full juice.
5. Watch Danny go crazy.
Amk, I can’t thank you enough, I was completely out of ideas, so you have saved the day 😆
That’ll be 10,000 bucks please.
I always pay my debts. Will old Italian Lira do?
oooo, a collector’s item.
Ah, so it’s worth more than 10,000 now? I want some change, please.
wimmin/smh
I know! I know!! Get him a PUPPY!!! Right?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! 😆
Reid just limited the vote to 10 minutes……..
Enough of the stalling !!!!!!!!!!!1
Final vote on Jeh Johnson DHS nomination taking place now. Simple majority needed.HZ
He’s been confirmed by a majority!
And the santa is white ??? Who knew !!!
She’s such a wonderful and generous soul.
Productivity rose by 3% last Q3, Yet House TBGOPers get paid on average $174K annually, producing less, working less and on vacation more than 199 days in 2013?
And the media are worried about Photo access? Selfie photos? Etc?
I didn’t watch any Sunday shows. I wonder how many on these shows who were TBGOPers were asked about the 1.3M about to be dropped from receiving UI?
Final vote for Jeh Johnson,DHS: Senate confirms Jeh Johnson to be the next Homeland Security Secretary.HZ
The vote was 78/16. HZ Jeh Johnson is the next Homeland Security Secretary. Thank goodness. HZ
wow. Ha, ha, mitch.
Ah – the GOP like security – they just don’t like judges – If 78 would vote for him why do only 57 vote to end the debate – and where are the missing 6 senators – on vacation?
Is Sunny better behaved now, or is she still taking lessons from Danny?
/ducks
78 to 16 and he was Filibustered?
Or ‘am I mixing nominees? These Basta*ds have filibustered so many in the last 4.11 yrs that I am getting names confused.
what about others? Is there a linky?
I’m sort of half following the votes, so sorry, I don’t have an article to link to.
Senate still in session, amk.
Here’s what’s happened:
At 5:30pm, the Senate will proceed to a series of roll call votes on the following items:
– Confirmation of Executive Calendar #406, Anne W. Patterson, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Ambassador, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Near Eastern Affairs);
– Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #450, Jeh Charles Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Secretary of Homeland Security; and
– Confirmation of Johnson nomination.
Additional procedural votes are possible …..
http://democrats.senate.gov/2013/12/16/schedule-for-monday-december-16-2013/
Currently – i.e., at the time of this comment – Jeff Sessions is whining …. CSPAN 2
Whenever Sessions stops blathering the Senate will be adjourned until 9a ET tomorrow. Senator Reid will invoke cloture on the Budget Agreement at 10a tomorrow.
Sorry. I left for a while, but Doc Bobfr provided info below.
G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S, simply, utterly, totally gorgeous! Our First Lady. And those pretty dogs are cute too!
Taking place now is a Procedural Vote on DHS Deputy Secretary Nomination.
Crikey! And he looks like a baby!
And a soshalist commie pinkie too.
Husband no. eleventeenth?
William Pitt the Younger became PM of UK – aged 24
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger
The pictures of FLOTUS with that young girl is so touching and heart warming. I think the world of our First Lady.
I’m right there with you on that, anniebella. Mrs. Obama is so wonderful with these children, although I’m sure it touches her motherly heart. No doubt she is fighting back tears – and thanking her lucky stars on the way home that her girls are healthy and doing well.
As do many people anniebella – your support of FLOTUS comes through every time you post
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got the President’s back too.
I never doubted it 🙂
Okay. 🙂
I was watching Rev. Al and he showed were FLOTUS were singing the Christmas song Chestnut roasting on an opening fire, then FLOTUS stopped and said with a smile, I forgot the media was here.
Wonder where/when this comment was made—–someone must have asked what the girls wanted for xmas. And of course even this tweet brings out the haters in response. Why? There are a lot of self-hating sickos in this country.
He’s something else, always a nasty spin on even something sweet.
Why does Knoller think this needs to be even tweeted as a news item?!?!? He’s just trolling for nasty comments.
Why are we posting this idiot’s tweets
Always good to know about them Layla, so we can push back on the shill.
I know Chips. He seems to love to rile people up…makes him feel important. I just sooooo do not like him!
Indeed, Chipsticks! I personally think that the best way to challenge these ” so called mainstream media” people is to continuously expose their lies and their BS! As long as we have the Mark Knollers working for prestigious news media, like CBS, who needs the “National Inquirer,” and other tabloids dedicated to sensational and salacious manipulation of news? Mocking and exposing the idiocy of these so-called MSM journalists is, as far as I am concerned, a very effective method of neutralizing their propaganda. I do, however, understand Layla’s position that Mark Knoller, and other idiots like him, do not deserve any attention from TOD, as such attention may lead them to think that they are very important. I hope Layla can see the difference between attention and the mockery that highlights and exposes their idiocy and their lack of journalistic integrity.
I might have missed something but I didn’t see anything wrong with this tweet. I just couldn’t believe the hateful political replies to a xmas gift comment.
dotster, there is nothing wrong with the tweet, it is the person sending the tweet I have a problem with.
He tweets these seemingly innocuous comments about PBO, knowing fully well it will elicit nasty remarks from a certain vile segment of his followers who knee-jerk react negatively to anything “Obama.” Then he can claim that he was just tweeting something casual. I see through Mark Knoller’s BS.
Knoller knows what he’s doing Dotster, if anyone else tweeted that I’d just smile, it’s funny, but with him it’s always an attempt to portray the First Lady as a hectoring bully of her husband, he does it time and again – and as Hopefruit said, it’s all designed to attract the nutters and the bile.
Layla, personally, I think Mark Knoller’s gossipy tweets are childish and hilarious! I think people are posting them for laughs, and to expose the absurdity and the idiocy of the so called MSM journalists. So long as people who share Knoller’s idiotic tweets here are trying to mock him and the media outfit he works for, I see no harm done. Just to think this man may be getting a six figure income (and may be more) for reporting this nonsense while pretending that it’s real news. For me, I no longer see any difference between most of the so called mainstream media and sensational tabloids. That’s why I have no problem when people expose Mark Knoller, a so called mainstream journalist, for being an “idiot.”
Absolutely beautiful!! 🙂
Goooooooregous!! That’s the 2009 portrait Hopefruit, one of the best!
I thought I’d seen this pic before – someone put out there as if it were this year!
Ah, I know Hopefruit, tweet made it sound a bit like it was a new one!
So I’m reading at the BBC and the ABC (our equivalent) – that the “Mission in Afghanistan is complete”. Since when did war start being called a mission? Seems akin to the crusades of old.
Think it’s just regular military jargon. I prefer peace missions!
I think they are trying to convince themselves it was a peace mission JoB – nothing peaceful about what happened and is still happening in Afghanistan
Cameron said that the mission was accomplished!!!!!
My lot used the word “completed” – only other people “lose” – we win, accomplish or complete. Giving the Presidency to GWB had repercussions still being felt around the world – not in any good way whatsoever.
Photos here were heartwarming. There is almost nothing sadder than these seriously ill children. But I am thankful to the First Lady for bringing a little bit of cheer to their difficult lives. And —-then Bo, the old good behaving pro seemed to be looking back at the newbie Sunny when she stood up on the bench, saying, “Sunny! Remember what I taught you! Sit!”
😆 That is EXACTLY what I reckoned Bo was thinking!! I need him to come to my home to train Danny!
Yes, Bo has a professional quality about him that’s rather admirable. Bo is more professional than the media!
Huh, that wouldn’t be hard Hopefruit!
Danny is innocent! Just look at those eyes! They’re telling you he’s innocent! Toys had bad accidents, he wasn’t even in the vicinity when the unfortunate incidents happened!
Dotster Pet Defense Lawyer.com
taNk u 4 bleevin in me dotstir i haz bin fallsly akused
🙂 That response gets you a discount on my fee.
Toooooooooooooo funny!! 😆
Do ya recognize the look? 🙂
😆 Yes I do!! I got it today when I gave him cheese!
You’re probably going to get 50 replies tellin’ ya don’t give the puppy cheese!
But none of them will be from me. I dunno dog diets; too busy worrying about my own. #Chocolate
As soon I clicked ‘reply’ I guessed that would be the case Jacqueline 😆 But I checked with the vet last week, he said dairy products in moderation are fine, but DON’T overdo it. So, only an occasional milk/cheese treat, his tummy couldn’t handle any more 😦
Low fat cheese….
i used ta lik u layla
Pardonnez moi Madame Chips!
Layla! That wasn’t me! It was *him*!
Ah non!!!! Pardonnez moi Monsieur Danny!!!!!! Tu es tres beau, tres gentil et je sais que ta mere a detruit tout tes jouets!!!!!! Mange ton fromage mon ami!
Mercee tray mutch layla i luv u agen
heads exploding!!!!
Pope Francis the Communist Marxist Socialist know nothing who has never worked a day of hard work in his life……Watch that would be the next attack against Pope Francis.
Who does Pope Francis think he is to be uttering such blasphemy. Shame on him
Yes, and probably that he was secretly born in Hawaii and traveled with gypsies to Argentina and Barack Obama’s mother was his sister and they both were originally raised and bathed in poverty as Whirling Dervishes and a real Pope wouldn’t have spelled “semblance” wrong in his quote. That would be next after that. And Republicans will say, “Well, can you prove that isn’t true?”
Damn, this little bit of wine I’m drinkin’ is very fruitful. Haven’t thought of Whirling Dervishes since the last millennium. I’ll try and find the video. 🙂
Oh my – a christian who follows the teachings of Christ. It seems he is not going to concentrate on theology.
Prettyfoot, Pope Francis may yet convert me to Catholicism! He is making so much sense!
ha!
What I find so fascinating is that the Nuns on the Bus have been talking about the poor and very much the same way as Pope Francis…yet they do not get the same attention…in fact the previous pope tried to spank them….
will be interesting to see where all this goes!
I have an idea…..John Boehner and Paul Ryan, who are both Catholics, need to make a pilgrimage to Rome. While there, they need to have a LOOOOOOOOng audience with Pope Francis! He could straighten them out on their habit of screwing poor people and a few other things.
Bravo Pope Francis…….now, if the Boehners and Ryans of the world would listen to him and change!!!
Sorry Carolyn, as a Roman Catholic, All I want from those two is to allow simple Up or Down Votes in the House.
SCOTUS has 6 Roman Catholics at the bench. They are using their religious rightie ideology to rule instead of the Laws and settled rulings. 5 of those Justices, Alito, Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy and Roberts. A little of their ideological beliefs and a LOT of pragmatism would serve We The People better…….well……best.
Jefferson and the Founding Fathers had it right. Separation of Church and State.
If governing was the Number One Goal for Ryan and Boehner……..then their politics would Not be ideologically driven.
Nena, just to reinforce and appreciate what you said, only FIVE of the SIX U.S. Supreme Court Justices who are Catholics are using their right wing ideology to overturn settled law and to undermine the social teachings of the Catholic Church that emphasize concern for the poor! It’s important to point out that the SIXTH catholic on the bench, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, respects the idea of “Separation of Church and State.” She also does not subscribe to the false notion that the Federal government is evil because it tries to attend to the needs of the most disadvantaged Americans (the poor). After all, the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution plainly states that one of the most important Constitutional responsibility of “WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES” is to “PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE” of all the people of the United States. Clearly then. the U.S. Constitution is not in conflict with the social teachings of the Catholic Church. There is nothing in the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution (the Preamble to the Constitution clearly states the rationale/goals the founding fathers invoked to explain the importance of why it was necessary to write a Constitution creating the United States) that states that individual greed and self-interests supersedes the collective well being of “WE THE PEOPLE.”
Neeeeeeeeeeew post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/16/blissful-blogs/
We are living in pretty ridiculous times—-like when Santa Claus is the subject of so much angst and controversy—–ongoing and spreading—–is he white, black, ruddy? Greek, Turkish? Talk show host asks black guest if a white Santa hurt him. Another crazy talk show nutball said MLK was always portrayed as black, why can’t we have a white Santa? Is he “just white” or whatever color you want him to be? Is he still jolly and does his belly still shake like a bowl full of jelly? And now NORAD’s Santa tracking is the subject of criticism. They had a promotional vid on their website, showing fighter jets accompanying Santa’s sleigh. Not sure why Santa needs fighter jets, Prancer and Rudolph and the boys have always managed just fine without them. But on and on it goes in this Santa is CONTROVERSIAL whacked out world.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/norad-tracks-santa-critics-track-norad
Nice pictures of Sunny and Bo 🙂