Cats have nine lives, but many cat owners have none.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 16, 2014
Retweeting this will make you a better person.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 11, 2014
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"Iraqi Suicide Bomb Instructor Accidentally Kills 22 Pupils." Finally, some school violence everybody can support.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 10, 2014
I'm so horny I could Bang a universe.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 16, 2014
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I'm single and loving it.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 14, 2014
Being gay is far less of a choice than being an asshole.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 15, 2014
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For Valentine's Day I don't want anything special. Just my usual 145,000 dead bodies.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 14, 2014
Don't worry. I'm not going to send another flood to destroy you all. This time, I'm letting you do it yourself.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 11, 2014
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From the very first day of Creation, Mondays sucked.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 10, 2014
I invented religion to keep humanity the hell away from Me.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 9, 2014
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You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm entitled to know you're wrong and stupid.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 9, 2014
You do realize the awful weather is only the beginning of a century of catastrophe, right? ‘Cause if not, heads up on that.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 12, 2014
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If there are any more bad weather days Earth is cancelled.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 13, 2014
Yes, all this misery is punishment for gay marriage. You're not legalizing it fast enough.
— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) February 12, 2014
The Obama Diary 
Thanks so much Susanne! TOD, Meta needs our help. So go VOTE!
From Susanne:
do you like to eat? do you love our META? of course you do!
meta’s blog is in the running for a best food blog award, and we need to vote!!
here’s the link for where you vote http://www.thekitchn.com/vote-for-your-favorite-sweets-baking-cooking-blog-in-the-homies-awards-the-homies-2014-200246
scroll down to her blog’s name , Pastry Studio, then click on the plus sign to ‘nominate’ her for the next round! we need to get her into the top 3 so she can win the gold!!
now go visit her blog and drooooool over the fabulous desserts she cooks up! thanks meta for all the dreamy goodies! 🙂
Aw, you guys are the best. I’m blushing now. Thanks for all of your support. It means a lot to me.
We always acknowledge talent! (And anybody we think will send us pastries one fine day.) So happy for you, meta!
You’ve always been there. Love you, JO’B.
Why wouldn’t I be? Love you back, meta.
Just voted for you Meta!!!
Okay, TOD Tweeters, hit it!
here’s mine! RT away! Dudette I shamelessly copied you – figured if there were more of us we’d get the word out. 🙂
Excellent! 🙂
thanks for bringing it over, nerdy wonka! meta is moving up in the standings very fast! she’s now at #7, but we need to get her firmly into the top 3. so if you haven’t voted yet, now is the time. nominations will continue through friday, so spread the word (tip of the hat to dudette!)
Thanks Susanne and NW for bringing this to our attention. I did my part and I swear I could smell the goodies! MMMmmmmm good!!!
A quick glance tells me that Nerdy has been on a roll today and this was not the Sunday that I should have slacked off! Ay, me – good work, Ms Nerdy! 😀
Got all signed up and voted for our meta!!! Let’s do this for her!!!! 🙂 🙂
OMG, now I’m all verklempt. So kind. Speechless.
Wow – Meta! Very impressive!
Agree, there is a whole lotta yum at the Pastry Studio 🙂
Licking my fingers … nom, nom, nom, mmmmmm
lol.. well done 🙂
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/5f/21/c4/5f21c438b691db267a198396de8b6fe8.jpg : )
Clicking away!! 🙂
Even if you aren’t into hockey you might want to tune into NBC Sports Net (down with the other sports channels named NBCSN) as they are replaying the OT win against Russia. OT is coming up in to 2 minutes. Even God is watching the replay! 🙂
https://twitter.com/FORUS50/status/435190700422860800
Have to agree with you there. I’m not much of a hockey fan, but that was thrilling!
Yay Minnesota! w00t! 😀
2 Simple requests:
– each time someone doubts Sec Kerry’s commitment to a sustainable environment, please remind them that he was an unapologetic environmentalist before it was common or fashionable (was even present at the formulation of the Kyoto Protocols); so he can be trusted to make environment-related diplomatic or energy-development decisions after honest fact-based analysis;
– please take some time to listen to this climate change speech delivered by Sec of State Kerry – it is getting great reviews so far;
please forward this to people in your network;
Sec Kerry is working very hard on so many issues, please let us lift him up by acknowledging his tenacity
Absolutely!
okay, folks, our meta is up to #5! excellent work tods! now let’s crack the top 3! if you’ve been waiting to vote, do it now!
Oh my goodness. Whatta team!
Took me awhile to work out how to get on there – le sigh – but eventually +1 🙂
Go Meta GO!!!!!!
For all TODers who could use a bouquet.
I’m feeling a lot of sadness today but all of you make this week so much more bearable and I appreciate everything about his great place.
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😀
Kat is the BEST.
SCIENCE!
Dudetter is BACK!!!!
Yeh Babeeeeeeee!
Beautiful!
That’s right! Don’t mock The Trek!
yes! #TREKROCKS
They were doing it before then. Flash Gordon and Dick Tracey for starters.
Kewlness!
https://twitter.com/kimwrites/status/435203257146040320
In addition to the message, love the “square” people!
😀
Wish I knew how to post a square happy face emoticon!
This really happens? (Liberals are so creative.)
https://twitter.com/ericwolfson/status/435205878539907072
https://twitter.com/ericwolfson/status/435205878539907072
Hmmm …
Not sure which one you mean, but I found this on his TL.
It’s sooooo choice!
Mine was much less of a message – your choice is sooooo choice! Off to R/T it. Thanks
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Here’s what I was trying to post:
@ericwolfson
Happy President’s Day Eve! Can’t wait for William Howard Taft slide down my chimney tonight & leave me pres(id)ents!
😀
Dude is on a roll!
I love his stuff!
Stellar Awards right now.
Woot! Meta’s Pastry Studio is tied for 4th. Let’s keep bumping up that total! Go TOD!!!
http://www.thekitchn.com/nominate-for-your-favorite-sweets-baking-cooking-blog-for-the-homies-awards-the-homies-2014-200246
Now alone at 4th 🙂
Fantastic! 🙂
Waiting for POTUS interview with Charles Barkley.
Loved it, anniebella.
What did you think?
Vicki, the interview was okay, just not long enough.
Longer would have been better but Charles Barkley did a good job and POTUS seemed to be having a wonderful time.
I was smiling during the entire interview.
OFA!!
Sadder if people changed their vote because they believed him. Seemed to be much “I’m all right jack” in the article I read about why folks were voting against the union.
I belonged to a union for most of my working life – it wasn’t activist – was extremely sexist in its attitudes – but when push came to shove – despite taking 4 years – it did force our employer to give the women workers equal pay. In the 80s when the government fought against unionism and membership dropped away I was aghast – and in the 21st century it all started to happen – no pay rises, conditions fought for over 100 years starting to disappear.
Exactly. No unions = no progress, no forward movement..
is there no law under which he could ne charge for this behavior?
typos: under which he could be charged
I can’t see the UAW just rolling over. There would probably have to be a complaint made or a union grievance filed. Maybe the Fair Labor Standards Act would come in.
Off to watch some House of Cards. Hugs to all of you dear people.
Hugs to you, dear meta. Tough weekend, but we’ll get through it together.
Yes!
As our PBO would say: PRESS ON
To our loving meta. {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ Sweetness Be Yours}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}. Let us get meta to the top. The action is delicious.HZ
please bear with me – this is long but I think it is important;
As a Ugandan by birth and descent, my attention is raised each time Uganda appears in the news.
Today, my eyes caught this tweet from National Security Advisor, Dr. Susan Rice;
Of course I had to pause, read it, try to find out the details and of course respond if so needed;
As usual, a few responses were trying to side with the anti-LGBT legislation, using putin’s argument of US should not meddle in the affairs of other countries – so I had to check these people too;
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it is important to know that contrary to what is reported in most media, Uganda (as most African countries) have always had LGBT people living their lives quietly.
Demonization of the LGBT community is now either :
(a) following putin’s play book (to use them as a political weapon and divert attention from miserable political and economic conditions – a tool for political manipulation and misery-diversion;
(b) as means for politicians to earn easy money from foreign conservative religious groups who are seeking to expand their congregations – simply for money in change of religious outreach ;
Here is brief extract from the NYT story;
Obama Condemns Uganda’s Tough Antigay Measure
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Obama on Sunday condemned a measure to criminalize homosexuality in Uganda, publicly warning the country’s president that such discrimination could harm its relationship with the United States.
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda signaled on Friday that he was likely to sign a bill that would punish the “the promotion or recognition” of same-sex relations with as much as life in prison.
“As we have conveyed to President Museveni, enacting this legislation will complicate our valued relationship with Uganda,” Mr. Obama said in his statement.
The bill, Mr. Obama added, “will be more than an affront and a danger to the gay community in Uganda.”
“It will be a step backward for all Ugandans and reflect poorly on Uganda’s commitment to protecting the human rights of its people,” the president said.
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Mr. Obama’s national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, who accompanied the president on his trip, announced that she had spoken “at length” with Mr. Museveni on Saturday evening to discourage him from signing the bill.
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Under the proposed law, a first conviction could result in a 14-year prison sentence, and subsequent convictions of “aggravated homosexuality” could lead to a life term.
The bill passed by the Ugandan Parliament in December is a modified version of a 2009 proposal that included death sentences. It was withdrawn after an international outcry.
For the full story, please
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/world/africa/obama-condemns-tough-antigay-measure-in-uganda.html?_r=0
when you respond to this, remember that museveni is one of those dictators who took power in 1986 through armed struggle (in which hundreds of thousands were killed in the Luweero Triangle – skeletons still abound in this now neglected area) promising a new Uganda.
Of course, once in power, he changed the constitution so many times and has refused to relinquish power as he grooms his son (sadam-style) and permits fake elections to keep the international community quiet;
museveni is also responsible for the mass killing of people in regions of the country that don’t support him, arming rebel groups in neighboring countries;
he has given the national wealth to himself and his family under the guise of privatization;
the worst part of it all is that he and his conniving ruthless wife now profess to be born-again Christians using religion in much the same way as we see the US rightwing doing;
once bush dangled money to them, they decided to reverse a once-admired comprehensive HIV/AIDS program to pushing HIV/abstinence only ;
with the guidance and funding of US conservatives and their churches, they have been writing and pushing this anti-LGBT law;
the sponsors/advocates of the Uganda anti-LGBT law are local pastors who are using US-generated money from to amass huge personal fortunes;
so each time you hear the story about this law, remember to follow the money – this is what I was referring to in my response to Speaker Pelosi (conservative US culpability);
we should challenge those who use money as means to fuel local and/or export US-generated bigotry and discrimination;
Wonderful and informative post – GWB pushing abstinence as a solution to aids was despicable – Uganda turning on its people is so very sad.
a fact to remember is that current claims are that HIV/AIDS was first identified in Uganda – and for a while was the epicenter of infections and deaths;
Uganda’s population has been devastated by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, creating many orphans and destroying a whole generation of its professional class;
many of us have lost numerous family members and friends and most of us personally know someone who is infected;
until bush’s interference with abstinence-only crap, Uganda had one of the most celebrated HIV/AIDS prevention programs that had led to common acceptance, reduction in stigma and a corresponding reduction in infection rates;
with abstinence-only there has been a notable increase in new infection – something that has been reduced!
I had never heard of abstinence as a solution to aids – nor as a sex education topic – until I started following the US Presidential election in 2008. I was/am utterly stunned that a developed country could ever follow such a path. That they would enforce it onto countries that were so in need of prevention/cures for HIV/AIDS is yet another reason for the disaster of the court intervention in 2000.
as person who deal with the HIV/AIDS epidemic consequences in so many devastating ways, this is one of the reason I despise ALL religious leaders and congregations that support and fund this crap;
in my culture, we bury at the paternal grandfather’s place for each generation;
hence you can see the lines of graves of people with lifetimes inscribed to be in the age range of 15 to 55 (and their AIDS-infected new born and young kids) ;
it is an unforgettable image/sight of death in a family;
in the villages, child-headed households or orphans crowding their grandmother’s little dwelling – no national child-wellfare infrastructure and low standard and often questionable private orphanages;
receiving death notices of family and friends make you an expert in composing condolence messages;
had to leave my church in the US because of this anti-condom, anti-LGBT, anti-Obamacare, anti-choice crap so that I could worship in a more in keeping with what I had been taught;
together with the Iraq war lies, this use of religion to destroy communities is why I doubt I could ever forgive GWB
Just signed up to vote for meta’s wonderful blog of delicious recipies 🙂 Good luck meta – looks like you’re moving on up!!
A quick note to Meta, Susanne, and Nerdy Wonka
– Meta, cast my vote via Twittter logon for Pastry Studios! I have another twitter alias, but looks like I will need to clear my cache before casting “her” vote for you too.
– Susanne thanks for alerting TODville!
– NW, thanks for highlighting this contest for one of our community — we’ll be on the edge of our seats all week!
Looks like our President has a jam-packed schedule this week. Can’t imagine how he does it.
The North American leaders summit is on the first anniversary of PBO’s initial foreign trip to Canada, a trip I remember oh-so-well. Loved the Canadian online coverage, especially the blog that said that PBO practically had to drag Harper out to wave to the freezing crowd. PBO was in his element, Harper not so much.
Saw a couple tweets that PBO plans on some trash talk with Harper on this anniversary… this time between USA and Canada Hockey Teams at the Soshi Olympics. If I can locate, will post here later.
Have a great President’s Day, everyone!
aloha arapaho!
amazing how meta’s blog has moved up, up, up in the standings today. my husband said, leave it to todville to get out the vote! 🙂
Maybe sibling rivalry will hit a nerve.
Where is UT? She is missing Pharrell, killing it introducing the starting lineups for the all-star game…… N.E.R.D is out there too “you can’t beat me I’m a rock star, I’m riding on top of a cop car” 😎
Yessssss! He busted out out the a new flashy red
Coooooooooooool.
I also saw Gary Clark Jr. doing a fantastic rendition of the National Anthem and wow…wow…wow!
That was incredible, UT. Shades of Jimi Hendrix & Marvin Gay renditions! I still smile everytime I watch him and Keb Mo from the White House performance series.
Gary Clark Jr. doing the national anthem!!!!!!!
good evening tods
meta has gone to watch teevee, so now’s our chance to sneak in and vote her into the top 3! what a surprise when she checks back! she needs 23 more votes– we’ve got that, right?!
any night owls just checking in, scroll up to the top of this thread. then go vote for meta!
A timeless message
Thanks for sharing this VC; prefect compliment to my tweet from this morning!
It *was* your tweet that reminded me, Alycee 😉 – I was/am trying to catch up on the posts I missed earlier today. I usually find catching up ‘painful’ as I feel so out of the loop, and not being a good multi-tasker I can never keep up with the current post while checking out the previous. Woe is me! 😦 😉
Please, I so far behind that I no longer try to catch up; I simply meet the group where they are at…
‘I simply meet the group where they are at’
Definitely the smarter choice, Alycee! Unfortunately I’m the nosy type, so when someone makes reference to something I don’t ‘get’, I have to go back and look for the precursor. 🙄
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/02/16/a-tweet-or-two-33/