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Early Bird Chat
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Watch the first episode of “Years of Living Dangerously” for free online: http://t.co/xMB2wbywUU #ActOnClimate
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 13, 2014
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Rise and Shine
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The Obamas Watch ‘A Raisin In The Sun’
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Let The Laughter Begin
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Monday
First Lady Michelle Obama has stickers placed on her face by 20-month-old Lily Oppelt during her visit with Wounded Warriors being cared for at the Fisher House at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md
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Early Bird Chat
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Rise and Shine
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This CBO Report Is Another Big Win For Obamacare
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President Obama Speaks at the 2014 Easter Prayer Breakfast
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First Lady Michelle Obama Visits Fisher House At Walter Reed
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A Tweet or Two
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Tuesday
On This Day – Pete Souza: “Gotta love the reaction of that young face as the President greeted members of the audience following a ceremony honoring the 2012 BCS National Champion University of Alabama Crimson Tide football team on the South Lawn of the White House.” April 15, 2013
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Early Bird Chat
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Rise and Shine
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Ukraine Crisis in Tweets
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Boston Strong
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A Moment of Silence
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Early Bird Chat
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Rise and Shine
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The President and VP in Pennsylvania
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The President and Vice President’s Day
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A Tweet or Two
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Thursday
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Early Bird Chat
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Rise and Shine
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Ukraine Crisis in Tweets
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President Obama: Press Briefing
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Chat Away
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President Obama Honors Wounded Warriors
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Soft Power’s Amazing Resuscitation – The Ukraine Deal
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President Obama visits with people in the crowd following the seventh annual Wounded Warrior Project’s Soldier Ride on the South Lawn of the White House, April 17, 2014 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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The President And First Lady’s Day
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Night Owl Chat – Hall & Oates
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Early Bird Chat
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Rise and Shine
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President Obama Presents the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy
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President Obama Meets Comfort Tech
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The Naval Academy Football Team Comes To The White House
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Amy Winehouse on “Other Voices”
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Saturday
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Many thanks to my good friends in the Fox graphics department for providing this snazzy chart and doing the calculations – it shows how the TOD posting work was distributed this week.
Thank yooooooou so much Nerdy and LL (and even AMK)! Happy weekend everyone.
The Obama Diary 
Morning
Mooooooooorning DF!
Thank, Chips…morning and Happy Saturday to you:)
GM DF! Congrats on First
Thanks bunches, dd!
Congrats DF.
Good Morning DF and Ms Chips. Happy Saturday to you. I wish you all a great day.
Morning! Guess we’re all rising and shining earlier than usual today.
We are dynamic, Jackie! Moooooooorning!
Heh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What am I, a dot in the chart?
😳 Did you post this week? Did I forget? 😳
and you call yourself a bt….
/smh
Fixed!
lol. A zero never looked so cute.
I made ya Ireesh too, luminous green 😎
Your pie is all wrong.
blue should have been – chips 10%
red should have been – nerdy 88%
That’s pox news style
Happy (Holy) Saturday everyone!
We had snow this week but there is hope for sunshine this weekend in the high 60’s so off I go to run errands for the Easter Feast tomorrow.
What a fantastic week in review Ms. Chips. I’d say “Our Team” had a pretty darn good week and is doing a fantabulous job!!!!
Happy (Holy) Saturday, Donna!
You had snow this week? All of a sudden, I feel more blessed than usual. Gulp.
Snow? OMG.
Easter Feast? Details, please.
Happy (Holy) Saturday!
Our Pa Dem governor primary is now getting ugly–what I hate most about primary campaigns. With one candidate, Tom Wolf, ahead by 26 points only four weeks before the primary, the others are throwing mud and accusations to whittle away at his numbers. We have a big fight to win against Corbett in the Fall and I don’t think this infighting works to our advantage. I can already feel the tensions in our own little county, with some people saying they won’t work for X if Y doesn’t get chosen. Too stupid for words. We have to stand united.
I was eager to hear your update on the PA primary race. I don’t suppose the Clinton Club will let Allyson Schwartz lose without a fight.
Is Tom Wolf the best candidate, in your opinion, jackie?
Vicki, Rob McCord is the most progressive candidate and the one I wanted to run and will probably vote for. I don’t believe Allyson can win outside of Phillie and we will lose our chance to defeat Corbett. Wolf is smart and has lots of money. I think he’ll get crossover votes and he’s the only one who comes from the T in PA–the dreaded Conservative area. So if he wins the primary, I will do everything I can to get him elected. This is a must win race. By the way, McGinty actually worked for Clinton, so the Clinton’s can’t openly abandon her either.
Great Morning Ms. Chips!
Good Morning (day) everyone in TOD village!
hope everyone has a fantastic day, weekend, week, month, year, …. life!
What a great, productive week our President/country had! Too bad 3/4 of Americans have no idea this all happened.
Many thanks for the collection of the week’s events!
Of course the fox graphic is right on point – with the “percentage allocations” especially as “fox perceives them to be”;
one small “quarrel” with the fox graphic : you forgot to make the total more than 100% (as fox has sometimes been known to do)
https://twitter.com/OurEarthBeauty/status/457458893170282496
Whoa. Gorgeous.
More about Pittsburgh band that gained a new fan in President Barack Obama
Utterly charming story. Can you just picture Poppy Bush in this scenario? Or any of the previous Presidents all of whom would have made themselves the biggest part of the story.
apart from all the great things this story revealed is the utter level of great respect these young people showed (and still show) to PBO.
this is how it should be (whether you agree with his policies or not) and it puts so many elected and non-elected officials to shame;
young people will continue holding up what is great about this nation and about the world in general;
The bass player, “I actually had my arm around him, which was sweet….” Yes, indeed, very sweet! Love this story. I’ll bet these guys played even better after this experience!! Mornin’ y’all.
Can we share this please??
thanks a lot for this!
this is a great message and was really simplified;
I wish a group would collect money and run this repeatedly as a 3 minute advert in all local markets (that is if media would let it air);
it would be illuminating for so many who are either not paying attention or those who, for a long time, have been feed lies about tax breaks
We need to send this around…for sure.
This is great. Thank you, df
Thanks for helping put this out there, meta:)
Dne, FB’d. Thank you very much, DF. I think people just don’t understand what this level of corporate welfare costs us working poor.
Everything I hear about MO’M makes him more and more attractive.
He would be my pick if he ran….hands down
Because of Citizen United, the challenge for him will be raising enough money necessary to challenge the Clinton machine. The SuperPacs are going to play a much more prominent role in the 2016 election compared to 2008. And I don’t know if any other democrats can raise a lot more money than the Clintons to be able to win the democratic primary. He is definitely one to watch, and he is on my radar. No matter what, I will never vote for Hillary Clinton for President.
I think the “SuperPacs” are going to be very surprised. I will be putting my money and support behind Biden or O’Malley before Clinton in the primary. I’m sure that the majority of Obama supporters will wait to see who decides to run in 2016. I believe the assumption from Clinton’s camp is that Biden will not run. You all remember when it was assumed that she would win in 2008. I believe that If Biden decides to run, Hillary won’t run.
Oh I would vote for him in a second! He has a great genuinely progressive record in MD.
On another note, Little Lis needs to be careful when she says “Federal Government” because PBO and most of the Dems do NOT fall in that category of gov’t officials who “aren’t doing anything” about immigration. She needs to come out and say that the GOP is not doing anything, and stop protecting them by saying “Federal government.”
Let’s not forget that there was this young skinny kid with big ears..used to call him “Inexperienced Community Organizer”
Beat 2 Big political machines in 2008 .
1. Clintons
2. McCain Koch Brothers..C-Pacs.
And did it again in 2012. 1>Romney, Koch Bros, Adelson…All the Tea-Party Cpacs..spent billions with Zero dividend.
OFA is no joke…I am one of them..out of all places, in Issa district (Lol)..it is a challenge for us, we are in the minority in of the reddest county in North San Diego….but we are fierce and we are starting to see a change in the Hispanic communities…It is amazing when you hear them say..I used to like Obama…but noticed that opposition is doing a great job in calling him “De-porter in Chief”. I am gathering all the new info and show some of my neighbors with “Facts”…that isn’t true…and will also include this piece of new info from Gov. Omally (thanks for this)
We keep on Moving forward with Greatest Leader in The World. Viva! President Obama!
Wishing you all a Wonderful Easters…Cheers!
Buona Pasqua:-)
oops.*.EASTER
scusami:-)
Thanks Kasai for all the wonderful work you are doing with OFA in your district. Facts are a voters’ best friend in this political climate.
Unfortunately it’s not just the “opposition” calling PBO “Deporter-in-Chief.” The so-called mainstream media is HARD at work pushing that label because they realize it will help the GOP for the midterms if Hispanics are misinformed on PBO’s policies.
Chips posted a comment showing that Ezra Klein had a huge “Obama: Deporter-in-Chief” headline on his website, just a few days before some articles came out dispelling this nothing. For all Klein’s so-called “smarts” and “wonkiness” he sure seems to love to take the easy and intellectually shallow road when it comes to bashing this President and helping to spread false info – just like he did with the ACA website.
Me too Vicki. Until Hillary came back on the scene, he was getting much more attention as a presidential hopeful. Let’s hope and pray he can get more national attention.
No Democrat stand a chance as long as the Hillary is in the picture.
According to the media…and some Republicans.
So annoying. If anyone says “gluten” to me I turn away.
Plus I recall Chris Rocks’ joke “How many people in starving countries whine that they are lactose-intolerant?”
my experience: never heard of lactose-intolerant till I got here (and I am science professional concerned with food security);
if for any reason, your body did not like something that was served in the homes, family tired hard to find a herb that would help you overcome such intolerance – otherwise you may have to go hungry due to lack of substitutes
Paging Chris Hayes…
oh you know they are going to be all over this drone business – despite the fact that the number of drone strikes seems to have reduced dramatically during the past months (and this is what PBO promised)
Yeah!! Now if that would only get figured out here.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=213464
SANTIAGO, April 17 (Xinhua) — Chilean Education Minister Nicolas Eyzaguirre Thursday reaffirmed the government’s commitment to ending private education.
“The pursuit of profit is not a good objective for educational institutions. It is not a good ally of a good education,” Eyzaguirre told a press conference.
The administration of President Michelle Bachelet, who took office in March, has proposed an ambitious overhaul of the education system to provide affordable, quality education, as demanded by a national student movement launched in 2011.
The government’s proposed reforms basically call for greater public spending on education, free primary education, and an end to state-subsidies of private schools and to profit-oriented universities.
That Graph looks believable to me.
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Moooooooorning GGail!!!
Just on case you’d like to take some time with the family this weekend and decide to visit a National Park…it’s a FREE WEEKEND this weekend!! Today and tomorrow…how nice is that? 🙂 Find one near you..
http://www.nps.gov/findapark/feefreeparksbystate.htm
ROTFLMAO! There’s a new parody account @GratefulObama which apparently responds to people who send tweets with the hashtag #thanksobama. Too funny – here are a couple examples:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/nyregion/basil-a-paterson-harlem-leader-and-father-of-a-governor-dies-at-87.html?_r=0
WOW…they all looked so young in this pic! David Dinkins is almost 87 yrs old now!
I kind of smiled, too, because Charlie Rangel has Al Sharpton’s old haircut (as did so many other men back then!).
Great recap of the week, Chips.
Your graph? Yeah….not so much.
I believe my share of that pie should be 99% and the other 1% well, you can split that however you like. 🙂
Percentage Wars! Grab the popcorn. 🙂 #ChipsCanCertainlyGetARiseOutOf”YouPeople”
Ignatius: Obama’s miraculous evolution
// Either President Obama has been touched of late by the lowly ghost of Prince Metternich, or David Ignatius has. I suspect it’s the latter. Although diplomacy may work in mysterious ways, Ignatius’s Beltway Word appears to be in the Easter swing of things.
Three days ago Ignatius ventured that Obama was “flummoxed” by Vladimir Putin’s intransigence on Ukraine. But glory be, today Ignatius acknowledges that Ukraine “has always been a fight that mattered more to Russia than to the West”–which is one, though less direct, way of saying that intransigence was weighted in Putin’s favor.
…Yep, that’s been the dance all along, one almost monotonous in its unfolding. Praise Jesus, Ignatius’s eyes hath seen the glory of the coming of the bored. //
http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2014/04/ignatius-obamas-miraculous-evolution.html
Good morning, Chips and TODville!
Love your distribution-of-work graphic, Chips. Kind of reminds me of the logic my great grandson used last night on me, when he said I was “mean” to him by poking a stick in his face pretending I was a Power Ranger with a sword, for which the actual doer got a scolding. Uh, no, sweet kid (or Chips), that would be you, the doer. The very logical and truth-tellin’ Easter Bunny’s watching!
🙂 I loooooove your great grandson, he will go far in life Jacqueline!
Awww, thanks, Chips. He’s a riot.
The cartoonist forgot to show the numbers behind that flower painting thingie.
true;
Good Holy Saturday Morning to TODers around the Globe.
Great TOD Week in Review.
Congrats to all the Gold medalists 4/5 posts deep.
I’m still feeling very disturbed about this. It’s just absolutely unconscionable.
And In the same Freaking state.
But Chait said…………Never Mind for racism is Over.
It’s horrifically disturbing: one woman white, high and drugs leaves her 2-month old baby on top of her car for 12 miles and the child flies off on the FREEWAY. She gets PROBATION. The other, black, homeless, leaves her children in the car to go to a job interview and LOSES her children and is charged with a FELONY.
SICK.
Welcome to my RW world nightmare…FUCKING LUNATICS!!
I saw Politics Nation this AM DVR’ed on Friday and Rev Al said that she was not Homeless. She is still not reunited with her 2 children and the charges against her are still pending…..on going. Rev Al promised to keep an eye on the story and he would update with any changes.
I read somewhere that people are collecting money for her because they think she got a raw deal and needs a new start..they feel this is wrong. I can’t look for the article now, I have to go tutor, but if I get some time later i’ll see if I can find it and post it here.
Yes. They have collected over $29K. I had read that earlier this week. The amount was either $129K or $29K. I will do a quick GOOGLE check to see for sure.
http://thegrio.com/2014/04/18/100000-raised-for-homeless-mom-accused-of-leaving-kids-in-hot-car-during-job-interview/
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/04/nj_woman_raises_91k_for_arizona_woman_arrested_after_leaving_kids_in_car_during_job_interview.html
Yes…..it over $129K by now……the report were on Apr 8th and Apr 18th respectively.
Wow. That’s wonderful. I hope she doesn’t wind up in prison. What she did was wrong but she needs help.
She can get a very good lawyer for that money and I hope she gets one soon.
http://www.today.com/moms/support-pours-mom-accused-leaving-kids-hot-car-2D79536366
Also petitions were signed on her behalf. Over 12K, thus far.
Thanks for the update, Nena. I hope we hear better things about her soon. She needs help, not punishment.
Exactly. The new story after the initial article was that she has a part-time job, as if that changed everything.
I agree. I’m glad this story is getting some attention – it certainly deserves national outrage.
Hi Nena. I saw and shared this yesterday (?). It is a comment in one of the posts on the two women. I found it encouraging, and though I didn’t know if the particulars were accurate I was pleased to hear the mother was getting helped and that she had been a honourably discharged vet.
Beverly Marsh
4 days ago
Your post is not exactly accurate nor complete. Ms. Taylor was briefly jailed during her booking process and was bailed out by a local church. Over 100K has been raised by well-wishers who understand why she did what she did. She is currently awaiting trial and it seems as if a plea will be reached. She is also working with Children’s Services to get her children back. She is an honorably discharged Air Force vet who fell on hard times. The woman in the story above is just an immature selfish little girl who shouldn’t see her baby for a long long time.
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Interestingly, both cases happened in Phoenix, Maricopa County, which has one of the most no nonsense approaches to law in the country. Both women were cut slack and Ms. Taylor has been given much support due to her circumstances.
Here’s a local news clip, with a short video clip (includes her lawyer making a statement)
http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/shanesha-taylor-update-community-divided-over-mom-who-left-kids-in-car-during-job-interview
Thanks VC. The more information and focus on this story, the better.
It’s the White House Easter Egg Roll!
Have they got rid of that fox yet?
for the tod grannies
Yep, AMK, that pink rotary phone is definitely me.
Now look at the HuffPost’s Front Page and Headline.
Crying screaming baby for Obamacare denialists . That is another Front Page Headline in this week that I am 1001% in agreement with HuffPost this week.
I will check it Nena but first I will sit down and take a breath.
Arianna was (is) a life-long Repub until it was clear Barack Obama was going to win in 2008. Then Arianna impersonated a centrist before going back to GOP.
Shift in tone at HuffPoop might be the Democrat’s best sign yet that victory in 2014 is approaching. Crazy? or Maybe?
I get what HP and the outfit that run the site are.
2 complimentary Correct Front Page Headlines in a week? That is what the ‘news’ is 😉
My local PBS station re-aired the phenomenal Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House.” If you haven’t seen it, you MUST! You can see in the intro and throughout that he truly loves POTUS. Really fabulous music and just a great good time.
http://www.pbs.org/inperformanceatthewhitehouse/shows/gershwin-prize-paul-mccartney/
Believe this is the one where Sir Paul says “billions of us are pullin’ for ya.” Sob.
YES. He really pours his heart out to POTUS and FLOTUS throughout but this moment was EPIC:
Love it!
Stand Your Ground is one of their brain child. FL and JEB were their 1st conquest in 2005. Pawlenty on MN followed in 2005/2006. MN is now conceal and carry state.
and many more
Superlative R&S, Chips. Special thanks to NW for all she contributed throughout the week!!
Bless your heart, kind sir and thank you for the updates on Ukraine. I don’t need the shallow media when I can come to TOD or scroll your timeline to receive updates.
Am sure all of you realize how courageous Russian State Duma Deputy Ilya Ponomarev is for challenging Tzar Vlad in no uncertain terms or actions.
Putin – the Russia Basher
“It is hard to imagine to what extent Putin has done his country, and in particular the Russians among them, a disservice.
With his behavior he has made sure that a majority of the Ukrainian population has changed its attitude to Russians fundamentally and has started to view them as an enemy. As the writer Vladimir Voinovich pointed out so clearly: “they will never forgive us for this”. Indeed, there is a part of the Ukrainian population – in particular among the younger ones – who will never forgive, or forget, this.
But it is not only Ukrainians. He has made sure that internationally the notion “Russians” has again become synonym to “Soviets”. And now it is not ignorance among observers, like it was in Soviet days, but “Russians” are now really “Russians” and not just a wrong name attributed.
Also, he has made sure that the orange-black symbol, now propelled into the colors of “the Russian spring” and worn by separatists in the East of Ukraine, by “unidentified green military” in the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine and also used by FSB, GRU and all other illegal insurgents and infiltrators (as well as the crowds of useful idiots who for 500 Hryvnia sell their country and their own freedom, without realizing it) has become a sort of 21st century swastika. It used to be connected to the Second World War, to the fight against Nazi Germany. Now it is the symbol of Russian aggression, of Putinism, of 21st century neo-fascism. And it will never change back. No way will Ukraine ever hold a parade to celebrate the victory in 1945 using these colors as a symbol.”
More of this insightful essay at the link: http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/04/19/putin-the-russia-basher/
Brilliant and passionate essay. Thanks for link, Bob.
jackie—-back to PA. If you think Wolf has the best chance to win and he is leading by 25% what are Mr. Wolf’s shortcomings? I don’t care much for Allyson S. but know nothing about Wolf.
Vicki–Wolf is a businessman and a pragmatist. He was the Sect. of Revenue under Rendell and I think he would get things done in the state. McCord is the genuine Progressive, always willing to push the envelope to move the state to the left. Personally, I think this old, middle of the road state would feel more comfortable with Wolf, but my own heart moves leftward and always will. That’s why I’ll vote for McCord in the primary, but will be happy if Wolf is the one that actually wins in November.
Got it. Thank you for the info. Prettyfoot posted a website for wolf which I’m going to check out.
I understand your wanting to vote for the progressive.
Mooch off the government, don’t pay your fair share, denounce your citizenship, spread hatred and violence but CONSTITUTION.
There are many, many people around the world who would be grateful for the chance to strive – as we are still able to strive – for our four “human freedoms,” as FDR outlined, and all of their advantages. Maybe we could make some trades.
Good morning TOD family. What a wonderful round up. Now I will got back and read all of it. We are in the car heading for a weekend in Spokane. Spending Easter with friends. It is to be a beautiful weekend. Hope everyone here has a wonderful and blessed Easter.
Here’s some brilliance!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKezUd_xw20&sns=em
TY, MP. Weird to me, but offspring thought it was brilliant.
Bye for a while. Off to work. Bbl.
“At the meeting it was agreed to move ahead rapidly with the practical implementation of the Geneva Statement. In this regard the meeting’s participants recognized the need to take immediate concrete steps towards de-escalation. Deshchytsia informed on first steps already taken in this direction. Apakan informed of plans to send the Deputy Chief Monitor to Eastern Ukraine today to work on the practical modalities of the implementation, as well as on the ongoing work of the monitoring teams on the ground.
The participants in the meeting agreed to meet regularly in the coming days to co-ordinate implementation of the Geneva Statement as swiftly as possible.”
So PETA is planning to protest the use of real eggs at the WH’s Easter Egg Roll – and has anyone seen that shitty and exploitative ad they used with young children (about 6 yrs of age) supposedly “scolding” FLOTUS about using real eggs?
And PETA tries to rationalize their shitty double standard (silence on this issue with previous First Ladies/WH Easter Egg Rolls) by having the young children parrot something like this: “So if previous First Ladies jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?”
The interesting thing though, is that no one seems to be on PETA’s side on this issue – even people who are Obama-hating GOPers.
few people take PETA seriously;
remember how they protested that PBO hit a fly that kept interrupting his CNBC interview?
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/04/19/chat-away-355/
O, that distribution of work chart is well done! Very clear picture of what went on this past week!
Nerdy, your 10% was masterful. It’s not everyone who can cram so much into 10% – very skilful my dear; thank you.
Chips. May I see you in my office, please?
Lib-L, Good work, ole Chap! You are progressing well.
Amk, my recent memo says all I’ll be saying to you for now. Read it again carefully
Hmmmmmm. LPlains – did you go on holidays without submitting a formal request? We don’t work like that around here, you know.
On my way to your office right now, VC! 🙂
Are you taking the scenic route, the back roads, or the first Indian passenger train*?
* [A year and a half later, on 16 April 1853, the first passenger train service was inaugurated between Bori Bunder in Mumbai and Thane. ]
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_India