A roundup of today’s developments in Ukraine.
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Chat on.
The Obama Diary 
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You sassy commenter.
It said “leave a comment” so I was just being obedient. 🙂
WTG ~ LL and DD4O, post and comment exactly on the hour and minute of the Equinox. Brilliant timing! Morning, afternoon, and blessings to all.
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Oh, I really do hate this new LOL – it looks like it’s wearing a surgeon’s mask, and it doesn’t wobble 😦
That makes two of us! You’d think they’d keep what was good, tamper with what wasn’t, and ADD new ones. Grrrrr!
Okay, I’m embarrassed to ask but I must: How do I get these smiley faces in my comments?
I know, I know. I’m from the Dark Ages.
Most of the commands are the same as the old ones, they just look different, like : smile: 🙂
See, I’m totally backward. I don’t know how to get those symbols.
Ok, let’s see if I can explain. I need to find the new link. 🙂
Try this link to explain: http://jannekevandorpe.com/2014/03/19/secret-new-wordpress-smileys/
Thanks, Carol. How are you feeling?
This darn cough is bugging me, but other than that I’m okay. Getting a little nervous about the after part. Did your friend get her sight back in a few months? Need to make a few calls. Talk later. 🙂 Hope you find the smiles.
My friend has had trouble with her eyes her entire life. The surgery was not just the detached retina. To be honest, it took a long time for her and she still wears glasses. But I would not use her as a model – she was very much the unique case.
For some reason, I know a number of people who have had detached retinas and they are doing fine. Trust your doctor. Most important, do what he tells ya.
Thanks. One of my doctors is a she. 🙂
Hope that helps.
Here ya go:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies
Good Afternoon TOD
Thank you LL for the Ukraine update!
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/19-2#.UysdiLUgIaI.twitter
Nothing like a good “liberal protest” to brighten up yer day! Happy First Day of Spring, Baby O’Donna!
Right back attcha my O’sista!
Slowly they awaken, and they will not go back to sleep!
One hopes it will not end badly for anyone
Thank yoooooooooou LL!
What we’re seeing playing out is the steady, methodical manner in which Obama handles everything. He’s basically giving Putin enough rope to hang himself. Now his fragile economy is going to have to prop up Crimea, along with Abkhazia and Ossetia. And PBO is making no secret that more sanctions are coming. No, trade between Russia and the US isn’t large; but the US has controlling interest in the levers of international finance. When Treasury says jump, banks around the world merely ask “How high”.
Death by a thousand suts, LL.
cuts!
O/T but this is for those of us who remember JFK:
AWESOME!!!
After President Obama is finished with Putin, Putin is going to beg President Obama to take Eric Snowden back.
RT News is not shown inside Russia…
From what I gather, the news channels in Russia are even worse. There used to be independent TV news media; Putin corralled them all during his first stint in power.
Let Putin corral all the news stations in Russia that he wants to, you can only out-run the truth for so long.
This morning heard on BBC that Angela Merkel has said Russia is out of the G8. Then when listening President Obama’s remarks in front of Marine One, he said he was going to Europe next week to the G7 meeting. So…….I guess this means Russia is out of economic talks and can no longer be with the big boys! There will be no G8 meeting in Sochi this June, I’m sure.
This Bulldyke creature is vile, get to work TOD!
Spam blocked!
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Done!!
Done. Bypassed a regular block and reported that twerp for spam.
Thumbs up!
Can’t the creature — their account is suspended. Good work team!
Can’t block… No longer need to 🙂
LIVE NOW: President Obama arrives at Orlando. Currently in Orlando | Sunny | 77°F | –
http://livewire.wesh.com/Event/President_Obama_speaks_at_Valencia_College?Article=0#?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=wesh
Thank you JER!
Twitter, in celebration of its 8th birthday, created a function whereby you can pull up your first tweet. It seems to be a thing today. So here’s mine:
Where is the function?
https://discover.twitter.com/first-tweet
Mine is severely sad:
Aw, you were looking for the TODdables!
I was. And I couldn’t find any for weeks, just sat there talking to myself 😥
Chips yours cracked me up 😆
And no one replied Donna 😥
So very sad and I DON”T LIKE THE NEW SMILEY THINGYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me neither. They’re just blobs!
I won’t use them… Well maybe this one: 🍸
Mine is sadder than yours…hahaha 🙂
😆 I think that was my second one, Prettyfoot!
hahahaha
Here’s my first one. This was fun LL. Thanks!
Here’s mine … I’m like a broken record!
😆 Consistent! Love it!
It would have been hugely embarrassing if it said ‘ROMNEY RYAN 2012!’
I’d be kicked off TOD! Of course, it would never have said that. More like: R-money and Lyin’ Ryan who?
I’m just relieved my first tweet wasn’t Newt in his mankini.
So are all of us! Eek.
Seriously, you would all have spam blocked me.
Everybody deserves one break! We love you too much not to give you one, Chips!
YES!
This is kinda weird, huh?!
Here’s mine:
It is weird, because it seems like yesterday! Can’t remember if I started on the OFA blog in ’07 or ’08, but so glad I did – so I could find myself here at TOD, which is MUCH BETTER.
LIVE NOW: President Obama arrives at Orlando. – http://www.myfoxorlando.com/category/274779/watch-live-events
Great picture here.
This was my first tweet.
Chips? You owe me.
Pay up.
Noooooooo way!!!! You sweetheart!!! 🙂
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Congressman John Lewis is cooler than cool.
This is too cute! You go, JL!
I love that song as well. I pump it up when I am feeling a little down and my mood immediately changes.
Get down with your bad self Congressman Lewis.
You Go John Lewis! This made my day!
I love that man! What a sweetie pie!
Her son is a member of the LGBTQ community, so good for her for speaking out – on his behalf and on behalf of all homeless LGBTQ kids! These youth really suffer.
Allow me my pet rant:
Why the hell do Comedy Central videos default to playing when embedded in comments? It’s damned annoying.
End rant.
I had the same problem………drove me nuts! Did you download the Disconnect app I posted a link for? It allows you to selectively block items when loading webpages…… fixed the Comedy Central problem.
No, thanks, will do so now.
This secret service agent is not playing. I pity the fool who would try to get around him.
hahaha…was thinking the very same thing!
“The names on the latest list of sanctions released by the White House on Thursday read like a who’s who of Vladimir Putin’s innermost circle — ex-KGB colleagues, top advisers, and the men believed to hold the Russian president’s personal purse strings.
There’s Boris and Arkady Rotenberg, whom Putin brought with him from St. Petersburg and who have grown enormously wealthy since. There is Gennady Timchenko, a secretive oil trader who handles a large bulk of Russia’s lucrative oil shipments and who once sued The Economist for merely calling him Putin’s friend. The two are said to be judo buddies. There’s Vladimir Yakunin, the head of Russian Railways and a top champion of the Russian Orthodox Church. The list goes on and on and includes ministers, lawmakers, businessmen all with two things in common: their wealth and their proximity to Putin. The Kremlin must be freaking out………..”
President Obama doing some Michael Corleone type shit.
Indeed, Don……..indeed!
Word! These mofos fell for the weak propaganda again and now their asses and their country are in a sling.
Heh! BOSS!
Beautiful.
Bob, I think those who criticize the president don’t understand the concept of gradualism. I’ve heard people questioning how “just” sanctions are going to do anything to undermine Putin. They seem too small, too lacking in drama and razz-ma-tazzz. What they don’t get is the president is warming up for Act I and there are several more continually escalating acts to follow. People want instant gratification. Bang the hammer now, get it over with because the idea of tightening screws slowly is just contrary to the way the usual action movie here operates. As always, the president remains above simplistic thinking. I love how he makes a public statement about each little increment just about every other day. He’s following his own script and it will slowly and inexorably build up to a climax. There may be some in Russia who smirk at at the US’s impotence, but they are as slowly and surely being boiled as the proverbial frog in water.
The President’s speech at Valencia in Orlando also is being covered live by MSNBC, when it starts. Thank you, Joy Reid.
^^^ If you haven’t seen this, please watch.
Totally choked up at the end. So poignant. I love them both.
Jon told his story like a master! I love them both, too.
This is so beautiful! Thank you so much for finding and posting this gem; it brought me to tears for so many reasons.
Our friend Kahsai found it, and I’m as glad as you are!
Thanks JOB (and Kasai) for sharing this. Jon Favreau is an amazing young man. I hope he runs for office in the future.
Sure sounds as though he might – with his heartfelt message in that video!
Heads up!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/03/20/president-obama-at-valencia-college-orlando/