MoooOOOooorning again everyone – you’ll note this is quite a short news-less R&S 😕 Work is interfering again, grr. Chat on, and we’ll catch up later in the day.
Hi Alycee – waving back at you, before I show some discipline and go do my chores. I read the article, and was sad that she was too weak to be able to look out at the singers, but at least she could still enjoy their efforts.
Morning TOD.
A brief note before I’m off for a long day with family.
ACA private insurance signups are over 1.4 Million.
Medicand SCHIP enrollments are just about 4 Million.
Total of enrollments exceeds 5.3 Million.
That is some individuals and some families—–so what? 10Million people covered on January 1 who had no protection this month?
The virtual silence from the Media about this Biggest of BFD tells you exactly who they work for and what monsters they are.
See you much much later but enjoy another day when Barack H. Obama is the President of the United States of America.
I used to think Huckabee wasn’t quiet as bad as those extreme radical conservatives, well I don’t think that anymore. Mike Huckabee is one of those extreme radical redneck racists conservatives. I’m so dam tired of some white folks trying to tell blacks how they felt about being treated less then human, having no rights.
Making sure your sons knew not to look at a white woman the wrong way or they could be kill like Emmitt Till was, but Uncle Phil don’t talk about things like that.
Huckabee IS extreme. He simply does a better job at hiding it. I watched the 2008 primaries quite closely in 2008. He was saying pretty mean things with a smile. And he was “schmoozing” the press so hard it was cringe inducing. And of course, the press, who loves the attention so much, fell for him.
Yep. President Obama and democrats have worked very hard at rebuilding the economy. AND worked very hard at mitigating the bad effects of republican policies. However, Republicans will take the results as a sign that THEIR austerity works. While in reality, what’s happening is that republicans are SLOWING the economic growth. If President Obama and democrats had been able to implement all of their agenda, economic growth would be EVEN BETTER and the unemployment would be AT LEAST one point lower. Economic experts have said so.
But proving a negative is impossible. So, the “good” economy doesn’t make republicans as much vulnerable as I would like.
Good news is they’ll feel extra confident in 2014 and will overreach, as they often do.
Because there IS so much to do here I’m not even going to put the laptop on hibernate – might tempt me to look in too early. Instead, I’m going to …gulp…. shut it right down…gulp. This is hard. Bye for now….gulp.
This is a very interesting read, President Obama is trying to move different government agencies in real-time to prevent and or end genocide that has plagued the continent of Africa.
The media has become the mouth piece for the Republican Party. They feel if they repeat this lie about this being POTUS worst year people will believe it.
This reminds me of when I was driving a rental car on a trip to Athens, Greece. The letters were similarly shaped to the English alphabet so I was pretending I knew what they meant. Ummm, didn’t work there! Screech! Almost got into an accident in the middle of this huge intersection. Guys were leaning out their car windows yelling at me (or maybe my passenger friend?) . It was funny because I had no clue what they were yelling. If I had known, I am sure I would have been rightly insulted.
President Obama commutes the sentences of 8 people. A lesson in outrage vs organizing ensues
And along comes the great Al Giordano to take down that nonsense:
To say, “Oh, it’s only eight, he should have released all tens of thousands of them” is trademark “Eeyore Activism” (the syndrome in which any one step toward progress is never enough, in which some even express anger at the person who made that step). As one with scar tissue upon scar tissue from the slings and arrows of having fought to end all imprisonment for drug crimes for so long, I see it as a watershed moment. It “normalizes” the concept for public opinion, opening the door for the rest of us to organize to free the rest.
ONLY A FEW OF THE NEAR-THE-TOP BUSH-CHENEY LIES
1. We’ll shock ‘n’ awe Iraq and then we’ll be outta there after they give us candy and we topple a statue
2. Heckuva job, Brownie
3. Fool me once or we fooled all of you or whatever somebody said once when I was looking for the exit door
4. We have “no regrets”
5. We don’t want to visit other countries and it has nothing to do with The Hague
Only DD junk that had Robertson’s fake bearded image on them was “pulled”. Cracker Barrel assured there is still plenty of DD junk for sale in their restaurants. Whew!
Our President and First Lady wasn’t worth putting on her Most Fascinating list, but a bunch of redneck racists were. Speaks volume about old senile Barbara Walters.
Less than 48 hours after Cracker Barrel announced plans to pull Duck Dynasty items off its shelves in the wake of cast member Phil Robertson’s anti-gay comments, the Southern country store and restaurant chain has reversed its decision. … The announcement today confirmed the company will be reinstating all Duck Dynasty products back into its stores. …
The National Rifle Association reportedly advised its members against participating in a study released this week that shows a majority of gun sellers want tougher background checks for gun buyers.
The NRA apparently was unaware that the University of California professor behind the study — himself an NRA member — received the email discrediting his research.
Garen Wintemute, director of the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, conducted a survey of 1,601 federally licensed gun dealers and pawnbrokers across the country in 2011. Fifty-five percent of respondents supported comprehensive background checks.
But when Wintemute started interviewing gun vendors for his study, he received an email essentially advising him against himself.
“If you are a federally licensed dealer in firearms, you may recently have received a survey questionnaire from gun control supporter Dr. Garen Wintemute, of the University of California, Davis,” said the email, obtained by Al Jazeera.
“Why is Dr. Wintemute sending the survey?” it continued. “Consider the source. Over the years, he has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from anti-gun organizations to conduct ‘studies’ designed to promote gun control.”
Wintemute said he never received any money from anti-gun groups. “I’ve turned it down, in fact,” he said.
Wintemute said he did not respond to the email. “The positions taken by the leadership of the organization,” he said, “don’t represent NRA members.”
The NRA was not available for comment at time of publication.
Less than 48 hours after Cracker Barrel announced plans to pull Duck Dynasty items off its shelves in the wake of cast member Phil Robertson’s anti-gay comments, the Southern country store and restaurant chain has reversed its decision. … The announcement today confirmed the company will be reinstating all Duck Dynasty products back into its stores. …
Small Alabama town accidentally hires black drag queens to dance in Christmas parade
By Scott Kaufman
Sunday, December 22, 2013 12:09 EST
Residents in the small town of Semmes, Alabama were surprised when one of the acts in the annual Christmas parade was a group of black drag queens known as “The Prancing Elite.”
The captain of the troupe, Kentrell Collins, said he believed the offer had been made in good faith, and that the representative for the Friends of Semmes to whom he spoke knew who she was hiring.
“I said we’re all over 21 and we’re guys. She was so excited. She was like I didn’t know they had any groups like that in Mobile,” Collins told Fox 10 News.
I guess somebody whispered in the profiteers’ ears, “Hey, if we switch our position back, that will push away the LGBT and AA communities, and all these nice straight southern white folks who eat a lot will remain.” Of course, this chain is not just in the south. And it’s not just bigots who eat there. Hope their nasty reversal bites ’em in the ass, big time.
A kindergarten student at a holiday concert enthusiastically sang the songs with her classmates, but also used sign language and animated facial expressions to help her deaf parents in the audience enjoy the show.
This cutie has earned six million hits on YouTube in the nine days since it was posted.
Good Day, Chips, Danny and my TOD family. I am so happy to see our POTUS and family starting a great vacation. He deserves every minute of this vacation.
I hope he golfs every single day; play Scrabble with his family, and do whatever he decides to do to relax and enjoy his family and friends.
We love you, Mr. President and First Family. Enjoy, Enjoy and Enjoy. HZ
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
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Morning everyone 🙂 I can’t believe I got here almost first 🙂
Good moooooorning idon!!
Nothing but smiles this morning. And a good morning back at you 🙂
Morning, Chips.
Mooooooorning Jackie, morning everyone!
Screeech!
I think all these misses on my part are a sure sign that I NEED to go do those chores that have to be done before Wednesday.
😆
Here is a good positive article on the vacay that you could throw in – I linked it at the end of the last post
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/in-hawaii-obama-tries-for-uninterrupted-vacation-1.6656979
History of my life — I post a comment and that triggers “NEW THREAD” bring over from last…
Good morning, TOD family. Busy day — just doing a wave by. Wanted to share this story; grab the whole box of tissues.
Hi Alycee – waving back at you, before I show some discipline and go do my chores. I read the article, and was sad that she was too weak to be able to look out at the singers, but at least she could still enjoy their efforts.
My heart goes out to this family. It is so hard to see a child suffer.
Tears streaming
Work on a sunday ??? …. I got it. You’re really a rw preacher.
Good morning TOD Family. Happy PreChristmas greetings.
Hi there, Sonja! Nice to see you! Greetings!
Hello Everyone!! Happy Sunday.
Morning TOD.
A brief note before I’m off for a long day with family.
ACA private insurance signups are over 1.4 Million.
Medicand SCHIP enrollments are just about 4 Million.
Total of enrollments exceeds 5.3 Million.
That is some individuals and some families—–so what? 10Million people covered on January 1 who had no protection this month?
The virtual silence from the Media about this Biggest of BFD tells you exactly who they work for and what monsters they are.
See you much much later but enjoy another day when Barack H. Obama is the President of the United States of America.
Don’t think for one second that the Insurance companies aren’t loving Obamacare, they now have 1.4 million new customers and counting.
BooM!
Stumbled onto this PARODY site re PBO’s vacation, but it SEEMS to be in good taste so far. Hope I didn’t miss something.
http://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/agenda-hawaii.htmlLooked at the first attached tweet again before posting, followed to her profile and didn’t like first tweeter’s tone.
I used to think Huckabee wasn’t quiet as bad as those extreme radical conservatives, well I don’t think that anymore. Mike Huckabee is one of those extreme radical redneck racists conservatives. I’m so dam tired of some white folks trying to tell blacks how they felt about being treated less then human, having no rights.
Making sure your sons knew not to look at a white woman the wrong way or they could be kill like Emmitt Till was, but Uncle Phil don’t talk about things like that.
Huckabee IS extreme. He simply does a better job at hiding it. I watched the 2008 primaries quite closely in 2008. He was saying pretty mean things with a smile. And he was “schmoozing” the press so hard it was cringe inducing. And of course, the press, who loves the attention so much, fell for him.
Agree Lovepolitics
huckster is a snake. He even thinks he can be contender in 2106.
Lovepolitics – You also could be describing John McCain or a whole bunch of other 2008 RWNJ schmoozers. Yuck.
Good Morning Chips and everybody.
Obama’s fault!
Yep. President Obama and democrats have worked very hard at rebuilding the economy. AND worked very hard at mitigating the bad effects of republican policies. However, Republicans will take the results as a sign that THEIR austerity works. While in reality, what’s happening is that republicans are SLOWING the economic growth. If President Obama and democrats had been able to implement all of their agenda, economic growth would be EVEN BETTER and the unemployment would be AT LEAST one point lower. Economic experts have said so.
But proving a negative is impossible. So, the “good” economy doesn’t make republicans as much vulnerable as I would like.
Good news is they’ll feel extra confident in 2014 and will overreach, as they often do.
Dear TODobots, I’m off to follow our dear Lady Mayor’s example to get some much needed work done. I can’t wait for Thursday to arrive!!!
Because there IS so much to do here I’m not even going to put the laptop on hibernate – might tempt me to look in too early. Instead, I’m going to …gulp…. shut it right down…gulp. This is hard. Bye for now….gulp.
you’re brave VC – I too gotta go get some things done – Christmas is coming way too soon. Very pretty outside it’s snowing and looks like a snowglobe.
Snowing here, a bit, too! Snowglobe it is!
Even though you won’t see this, here is a big hug for you, VC!
{{{{{VC}}}}}
A fantastic must read article. President Obama is a phenomenal human being.
This is a very interesting read, President Obama is trying to move different government agencies in real-time to prevent and or end genocide that has plagued the continent of Africa.
The media has become the mouth piece for the Republican Party. They feel if they repeat this lie about this being POTUS worst year people will believe it.
YOU LIE!!!!
Socialist!
Woot! Woot!
We need to keep putting the good stories out there, because the media won’t.
From Sheila of Indiana: ” … NO PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS clauses, so my sister will be able to go ‘AS-IS’ … ”
Unfreakinbelievable that we had to wait until Pres. Obama took the helm, before many could see a doctor “AS-IS.” Awesome ACA!
Jake Tapper and I——never thought I would type that——-think this is funny. We—-Jake Tapper and I—–finally agree on something.
When is SNL going to hire a black female comedian? it is past time.
After all the pressure, they finally did auditions a few days ago. New cast members should be on starting in Jan or Feb.
That was REALLY good. Great acting. Lol, I just watched the following video of the Barry Gibbs skit. Freaking awesome.
egg.sack.lee
This is possible because of a corrupt corporate media.
LOL.
This reminds me of when I was driving a rental car on a trip to Athens, Greece. The letters were similarly shaped to the English alphabet so I was pretending I knew what they meant. Ummm, didn’t work there! Screech! Almost got into an accident in the middle of this huge intersection. Guys were leaning out their car windows yelling at me (or maybe my passenger friend?) . It was funny because I had no clue what they were yelling. If I had known, I am sure I would have been rightly insulted.
Too easy ~ got anything else?
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http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/12/president-obama-commutes-sentences-of-8.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FlpjFg+%28Smartypants%29
President Obama commutes the sentences of 8 people. A lesson in outrage vs organizing ensues
And along comes the great Al Giordano to take down that nonsense:
To say, “Oh, it’s only eight, he should have released all tens of thousands of them” is trademark “Eeyore Activism” (the syndrome in which any one step toward progress is never enough, in which some even express anger at the person who made that step). As one with scar tissue upon scar tissue from the slings and arrows of having fought to end all imprisonment for drug crimes for so long, I see it as a watershed moment. It “normalizes” the concept for public opinion, opening the door for the rest of us to organize to free the rest.
I’m glad he did this. I look forward to more progress in sentencing reform in the future.
Indeed!
Good Sunday Morning TOD!
I got my niece signed up for ObamaCare yesterday. We can add her to this number… Yippee!!!
Right ON!!
Suh-weet! Really good news! {{{{DD4O}}}} You are a good aunty. 😀
ONLY A FEW OF THE NEAR-THE-TOP BUSH-CHENEY LIES
1. We’ll shock ‘n’ awe Iraq and then we’ll be outta there after they give us candy and we topple a statue
2. Heckuva job, Brownie
3. Fool me once or we fooled all of you or whatever somebody said once when I was looking for the exit door
4. We have “no regrets”
5. We don’t want to visit other countries and it has nothing to do with The Hague
Hmmmm
Only DD junk that had Robertson’s fake bearded image on them was “pulled”. Cracker Barrel assured there is still plenty of DD junk for sale in their restaurants. Whew!
why do people watch trash like Duck Dynasty. Why not just call it white sheet and hood dynasty so everyone knows what it’s really about.
Our President and First Lady wasn’t worth putting on her Most Fascinating list, but a bunch of redneck racists were. Speaks volume about old senile Barbara Walters.
You got that right, Aniie. Barbara Wawa is LONG past retirement age….
Less than 48 hours after Cracker Barrel announced plans to pull Duck Dynasty items off its shelves in the wake of cast member Phil Robertson’s anti-gay comments, the Southern country store and restaurant chain has reversed its decision. … The announcement today confirmed the company will be reinstating all Duck Dynasty products back into its stores. …
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/cracker-barrel-flipflops-nixing-duck-dynasty-items-shelves/story?id=21302746
Off to go do Christmasy stuff! Catch ya later!
Oh yeh… been meaning to post this.
https://twitter.com/Dudette9t9/status/414796820082991104
See ya!
One tiny tweak to make it better!
No the coo-coo bird Justine has not landed yet?
She landed and got fired, but people are still using the hashtag!
right on meta
I can’t stand Ezra Klein.
Did I miss a joke here?
Did I miss a joke here…nope, you found him!
Shameful stat
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/24/how-the-nra-triedtostopamemberfromconductingguncontrolresearch.html
The National Rifle Association reportedly advised its members against participating in a study released this week that shows a majority of gun sellers want tougher background checks for gun buyers.
The NRA apparently was unaware that the University of California professor behind the study — himself an NRA member — received the email discrediting his research.
Garen Wintemute, director of the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, conducted a survey of 1,601 federally licensed gun dealers and pawnbrokers across the country in 2011. Fifty-five percent of respondents supported comprehensive background checks.
But when Wintemute started interviewing gun vendors for his study, he received an email essentially advising him against himself.
“If you are a federally licensed dealer in firearms, you may recently have received a survey questionnaire from gun control supporter Dr. Garen Wintemute, of the University of California, Davis,” said the email, obtained by Al Jazeera.
“Why is Dr. Wintemute sending the survey?” it continued. “Consider the source. Over the years, he has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from anti-gun organizations to conduct ‘studies’ designed to promote gun control.”
Wintemute said he never received any money from anti-gun groups. “I’ve turned it down, in fact,” he said.
Wintemute said he did not respond to the email. “The positions taken by the leadership of the organization,” he said, “don’t represent NRA members.”
The NRA was not available for comment at time of publication.
Less than 48 hours after Cracker Barrel announced plans to pull Duck Dynasty items off its shelves in the wake of cast member Phil Robertson’s anti-gay comments, the Southern country store and restaurant chain has reversed its decision. … The announcement today confirmed the company will be reinstating all Duck Dynasty products back into its stores. …
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/cracker-barrel-flipflops-nixing-duck-dynasty-items-shelves/story?id=21302746
BWA HA HA HA HA HA H AH AHA HA HA HA
………………..
Small Alabama town accidentally hires black drag queens to dance in Christmas parade
By Scott Kaufman
Sunday, December 22, 2013 12:09 EST
Residents in the small town of Semmes, Alabama were surprised when one of the acts in the annual Christmas parade was a group of black drag queens known as “The Prancing Elite.”
The captain of the troupe, Kentrell Collins, said he believed the offer had been made in good faith, and that the representative for the Friends of Semmes to whom he spoke knew who she was hiring.
“I said we’re all over 21 and we’re guys. She was so excited. She was like I didn’t know they had any groups like that in Mobile,” Collins told Fox 10 News.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/22/small-alabama-town-accidentally-hires-black-drag-queens-to-dance-in-christmas-parade/
Bwahahahahahahah! It’s the movie “To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything…” come to life!
Love it! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
LOL!
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/20/duck-dynasty-creator-scott-gurney-starred-in-indie-gay-porn-film/
I guess somebody whispered in the profiteers’ ears, “Hey, if we switch our position back, that will push away the LGBT and AA communities, and all these nice straight southern white folks who eat a lot will remain.” Of course, this chain is not just in the south. And it’s not just bigots who eat there. Hope their nasty reversal bites ’em in the ass, big time.
New name: ‘Cracker Bottom of the Barrel’
Oh, I just love that. Can you tweet it?
I do not tweet, sorry Glad you liked it though!
A kindergarten student at a holiday concert enthusiastically sang the songs with her classmates, but also used sign language and animated facial expressions to help her deaf parents in the audience enjoy the show.
This cutie has earned six million hits on YouTube in the nine days since it was posted.
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/family-life/great-kids/5yo-signs-for-deaf-parents-during-holiday-concert.html
Precious, precious, precious!
Jazzy Xmas! http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/22/chat-away-ho-ho-ho-with-jazzy-xmas-tunes/
Good Day, Chips, Danny and my TOD family. I am so happy to see our POTUS and family starting a great vacation. He deserves every minute of this vacation.
I hope he golfs every single day; play Scrabble with his family, and do whatever he decides to do to relax and enjoy his family and friends.
We love you, Mr. President and First Family. Enjoy, Enjoy and Enjoy. HZ