First Lady Michelle Obama, Dr Jill Biden and Sgt Aron Wanless acknowledge soldiers during a jobs fair for military members and spouses, April 23, at Fort Campbell, Ky. To help veterans leaving the military as it downsizes, the government on Wednesday started a one-stop job-shopping website for them to create resumes, connect with employers and become part of a database for companies to mine.
I. Am. BUSY! Helping out at a recently opened library, and the community loves it. Which means we’re swarmed with folks all day long. First time I’ve had to breathe today. But I love a busy library that people love.
I’d like to meet with some of the willing TOD SoCal folks to meet. Me and Tally have gotten together a couple of times and she helped get my brother signed up for ACA. I know Tally would love to meet too.
I was no fan of Michael Steele, but I don’t see were Rinse is doing any better then Steele. If anything the Republican Party is a racists disgrace now.
The Russian parliament’s lower house has passed a bill that bans swearing from films, music and other works of art, it’s been reported.
The measure would impose fines for swearing in films, plays, concerts and shows, the Itar-Tass news agency reports. In addition, members of the public could face penalties of up to 2,500 roubles (£42; $70) for swearing in public and officials would have to pay double.
The bill says a panel of experts will decide exactly what counts as a swear word. If the measure is approved by the upper house, it will be signed into law by President Vladimir Putin and take effect on 1 July 2014.
The Russian parliament is as useless as the US House. They have an out-of-control president who’s planning an invasion and plunging the Russian economy closer to a recession and they waste time on a bill against swearing.
Hotel-casino developer Steve Wynn and actor George Clooney offered vastly different accounts Tuesday of a dinner that ended in verbal fireworks.
Wynn said Clooney “got drunk” from downing tequila shots and stormed off after delivering an F-bomb.
The two-time Oscar winner issued the following statement in an email sent through his publicist: “There were nine people at that table … so you can ask them. … Steve likes to go on rants.
“He called the president an asshole … that is a fact … I said the President was my longtime friend and then he said ‘your friend is an asshole.’ … At that point I told Steve that HE was an asshole and I wasn’t going to sit at his table while he was being such a jackass.
“And I walked out. There were obviously quite a few more adjectives and adverbs used by both of us. Those are all the facts. It had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character.”
And, so, we get to aak the age-old question (guys and gals): If you were stranded on a desert island, would you rather be with George Clooney, or Steve Wynn (whoever he is)? Hmm. Well, let’s see….. Chipsticks, you could put up a poll, eh? 😉
What’s up with these stupid ass Republicans? I’m so glad to hear that Clooney stood up for Obama. If anyone is a asshole it’s people like Wynn and his racists ass party.
There’s been some rumoring that PBO is planning to reject the Keystone – he’s just waiting for an opportune time to make the announcement. Again, this is just a rumor at this point.
I think POTUS got along better with the Russia leader who was before Putin, what was his name? Once Putin took over again I think Putin was jealous of POTUS.
What a gorgeous home. One of Bobfr’s post said they all live in the same gated community…Putin, Medvedev and many of the Oligarchs. PBO and Medvdev did get along much better but Pooty Put had other plans and I think Medvedev was just too chummy with PBO.
I’m curious, anyone else click on a picture and get an ad first try, then have to click again to got the actual picture? Not that it matters, just wondered.
“Jemilev has been banned on TV, but the voice of the people always shouts louder than censorship! Today it became known that the new powers in Crimea are applying sanctions against the legendary leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Jemilev.
In particular Crimean television announced its latest odious editorial decision today. The heads of GTRK [state television] are censoring Mustafa Jemilev. From now on, GTRK are not allowed to show him, interview him or even show anything he is involved in. GTRK announced this decision to their employees today. This censorship extends to any mention of the legendary leader’s name.
This news caused a huge internal protest among the television company’s employees. They are worried that they could be fired, or that there will soon be more changes in staff. Whatever the politics of power may be, Crimean Tatars have their sense of truth, which has been tempered by a 70 year struggle for their rights. No authority, not even the strongest and most authoritarian can prohibit the living symbol of that truth, Mustafa Jemilev. People must now stand up for the truth!
I propose a flash mob: let’s spread this message about GTRK censoring Jemilev and put his portrait on all social networking sites. Soon Crimea will stand up with Jemilev against the terrified attempts to hide any information about Jemilev.”
{{CC}} – Don’t strain your brain, hon! Simply provide the clock – as you have done here 😉 😉 and let us all swim or sink on our own. That’s my solution.
I don’t know how the President does it. When I visited East Africa (10-11hrs ahead of CA), it took me almost two days to recover from Jet lag! Admittedly, since I was flying economy, with several stops, it took us more than 36 hours, with very little sleep, to get there.
‘Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel is traveling to Malaysia and Burma April 25-29.
In Kuala Lumpur, Under Secretary Stengel will be the keynote speaker at the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative – “YSEALI Generation – Ideas into Action” workshop and speak to over 100 U.S. Government exchange alumni nominated to attend the workshop by U.S. embassies from 10 ASEAN countries. At the workshop, he will meet senior Malaysian officials, representatives from the ASEAN Secretariat, Ambassadors from Southeast Asian nations and entrepreneurs, business leaders, and civic society leaders from around the region.
A lot of discussion about the Keystone Pipeline on this and the previous thread, with Ed Schultz reportedly telling his audience that he’s got it on good authority that the President will veto the Keystone Pipeline.
Let’s ignore the emoprogs on this for now, just as they should have been ignored by reasonable Dems after ACA became law.
I think it was Ladyhawke who posted SmartyPants’ comments to a NYT article here yesterday. Check out this from the NYT article:
“On Friday (Apr 18), in what was widely viewed as an acknowledgment of just how potent the politics of Keystone have become, the State Department announced that it would delay the decision on the pipeline for several months, almost certainly until after the midterm elections.
/ snip
The agency is now drafting a regulation, expected in June, to slash pollution from existing coal-fired power plants. Details aren’t yet available, but experts estimate that it will cut an average of 200 million to 500 million tons of carbon emissions annually within a decade. And the E.P.A. estimated that regulations on building and appliance efficiency have cut or prevented the annual emission of 350 million tons of carbon.
That means the combined impact of the current and forthcoming E.P.A. regulations could lead to cuts of over one billion tons of emissions annually.”
Keystone Pipeline May Be Big, but This Is Bigger: U.S. Emission Rules Would Far Outweigh Impact of Keystone Pipelinehttp://t.co/a4huWWM014
I read SP’s post yesterday, Arapaho, and thought it made a lot of sense to me. Very often, Smartypants synthesizes (Smartypants does it, so I don’t have to) info into just the right sized bites for me – it’s one of the reasons I love dropping in there. 😉 🙂
This is pretty silly looking, but remember to get this to come out, you have to layer thin strips of vegetables in the brown rice in a particular way to get anything resembling a face.
(I’m not sure which country the reporter was in when he saw this on his television screen.)
The Obama Diary 
https://twitter.com/Lib_Librarian/status/459088498679500800
LL!
I. Am. BUSY! Helping out at a recently opened library, and the community loves it. Which means we’re swarmed with folks all day long. First time I’ve had to breathe today. But I love a busy library that people love.
I know the feeling, it’s been one of those days 😦
LL, I do tooooo!!!
Hey GGail! Sorry I didn’t get back to you on Saturday. Missus and I basically just remained home. We were pooped.
So I read from the TOD comments. 🙂
We MUST meet! Just let me know when the Missus and you are both free. You have access to my email. Let’s Do This!
I’d like to meet with some of the willing TOD SoCal folks to meet. Me and Tally have gotten together a couple of times and she helped get my brother signed up for ACA. I know Tally would love to meet too.
Me too, me too. I live south of LAX.
Me three… 🙂 I live near Griffith Park. It would be nice to meet some So Cal TOD Peeps and put names with screen names…
err I mean faces with screen names.. 🙂
ASSuming that he did……That would be also true, using RP logic…..applicable to Boehner, Ryan, Cruz, etc?
The guy is a wicked arse.
I was no fan of Michael Steele, but I don’t see were Rinse is doing any better then Steele. If anything the Republican Party is a racists disgrace now.
I guess his name is Reince.
The dynamic duo!
Nice to see the ladies together again.
Where are my comments? Only kidding. I put TOD as my home page, but it doesn’t recognize the new comments.
LL has the Au. Congrats.
The Russian parliament’s lower house has passed a bill that bans swearing from films, music and other works of art, it’s been reported.
The measure would impose fines for swearing in films, plays, concerts and shows, the Itar-Tass news agency reports. In addition, members of the public could face penalties of up to 2,500 roubles (£42; $70) for swearing in public and officials would have to pay double.
The bill says a panel of experts will decide exactly what counts as a swear word. If the measure is approved by the upper house, it will be signed into law by President Vladimir Putin and take effect on 1 July 2014.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27132609
snowden world
wow. they must be really bored.
Congrats Tally. CA proved ObamaCare is a BFD.
Uncle Joe will prolly get arrested in putin land.
amk, me and you would get arrested too! Hahahahaha
https://twitter.com/Lib_Librarian/status/459097151272804352
The Russian parliament is as useless as the US House. They have an out-of-control president who’s planning an invasion and plunging the Russian economy closer to a recession and they waste time on a bill against swearing.
A big Thanks to all that FLOTUS and Dr. Biden is doing for the military men and women and their families. I am so proud of them both.
A big BIG Thanks annie
Amen GGail.
WooHoot!! And this is MP, in the first 10,000 enrollees! For the duration!
https://twitter.com/coton_luver/status/459021645282177025
Unemployment rate is now at 6.7%
Just when I thought it was impossible to love George Clooney any more, he proved me wrong.
That man is awesome!
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/459099191742959616
Hotel-casino developer Steve Wynn and actor George Clooney offered vastly different accounts Tuesday of a dinner that ended in verbal fireworks.
Wynn said Clooney “got drunk” from downing tequila shots and stormed off after delivering an F-bomb.
The two-time Oscar winner issued the following statement in an email sent through his publicist: “There were nine people at that table … so you can ask them. … Steve likes to go on rants.
“He called the president an asshole … that is a fact … I said the President was my longtime friend and then he said ‘your friend is an asshole.’ … At that point I told Steve that HE was an asshole and I wasn’t going to sit at his table while he was being such a jackass.
“And I walked out. There were obviously quite a few more adjectives and adverbs used by both of us. Those are all the facts. It had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character.”
http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/norm-clarke/wynn-clooney-exchange-barbs-over-heated-dinner-conversation
Well, so much for “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!”
And isn’t sweet how Wynn basically calls Clooney a drunkard at the end of the story.
And, so, we get to aak the age-old question (guys and gals): If you were stranded on a desert island, would you rather be with George Clooney, or Steve Wynn (whoever he is)? Hmm. Well, let’s see….. Chipsticks, you could put up a poll, eh? 😉
Ooooh, it’d be about 50-50, MightyP! 🙂
No toss up for me. Any friend of President Obama is a friend of mine!! 🙂
I’m going with George… and his tequila 🙂 🙂
Oh yeah.
lol 🙂
Steve Wynn looks like a mannequin.
I always thought someone behind the scenes was running his remote control…
: )
🙂 🙂
Now, that’s what I call a real true friend. Awesome George!!!
LOL. Good one.
https://twitter.com/amk4obama/status/459103402991951872
What’s up with these stupid ass Republicans? I’m so glad to hear that Clooney stood up for Obama. If anyone is a asshole it’s people like Wynn and his racists ass party.
There’s been some rumoring that PBO is planning to reject the Keystone – he’s just waiting for an opportune time to make the announcement. Again, this is just a rumor at this point.
Oops Sorry LL – didn’t see that you had posted this on the previous thread! My apologies for the repeat posting. 🙂
http://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/459109584607510528
OK let’s see your pic with Danny! I bet it’s the cutest ever!!!!!
Identical triplets. I shouldn’t have said that. 😦
So Wolfie said today, per mediaite that Russia and US has Rosey relationship just a couple months ago?
Hmm?
CNN was one of the Cablers that analyzed the body language last year…….Between POTUS and Putin
Oh Wolfie. Retire already. Bernard Shaw was forced out at 65. Wolfie is 66 or 67 years in 2014.
Here’s CNN’s version
I remember Bernard Shaw, he was ten times better then anything they have a CNN now.
US and Russia Have….. 😳
I think POTUS got along better with the Russia leader who was before Putin, what was his name? Once Putin took over again I think Putin was jealous of POTUS.
I never saw that before, thank you Nena!!
😉
What a gorgeous home. One of Bobfr’s post said they all live in the same gated community…Putin, Medvedev and many of the Oligarchs. PBO and Medvdev did get along much better but Pooty Put had other plans and I think Medvedev was just too chummy with PBO.
Thank you for that clip…..I got a glimpse of my (our) favorite SS man, The Silver Fox!
Ooh ooh ooh… Back in a mo
Medvedev is his name, I think when he came over here POTUS and him when to get a hamburger.
PHOTO GALLERY | Michelle Obama and Jill Biden speak at Fort Campbell – http://www.courier-journal.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2014/04/23/gallery–michelle-obama-and-jill-biden-speak-at-fort-campbell/8062623/
JER, Thanks for the pictures of FLOTUS and Dr. Biden.
Thanks JER.
I’m curious, anyone else click on a picture and get an ad first try, then have to click again to got the actual picture? Not that it matters, just wondered.
No, I did not get that.
No prob. I wondered, is all. I think it has something to do with my location…. and the fact I won’t take the time to figure out the ad blocker. 😀
Tzar Vlad really has lost it ….
“Jemilev has been banned on TV, but the voice of the people always shouts louder than censorship! Today it became known that the new powers in Crimea are applying sanctions against the legendary leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Jemilev.
In particular Crimean television announced its latest odious editorial decision today. The heads of GTRK [state television] are censoring Mustafa Jemilev. From now on, GTRK are not allowed to show him, interview him or even show anything he is involved in. GTRK announced this decision to their employees today. This censorship extends to any mention of the legendary leader’s name.
This news caused a huge internal protest among the television company’s employees. They are worried that they could be fired, or that there will soon be more changes in staff. Whatever the politics of power may be, Crimean Tatars have their sense of truth, which has been tempered by a 70 year struggle for their rights. No authority, not even the strongest and most authoritarian can prohibit the living symbol of that truth, Mustafa Jemilev. People must now stand up for the truth!
I propose a flash mob: let’s spread this message about GTRK censoring Jemilev and put his portrait on all social networking sites. Soon Crimea will stand up with Jemilev against the terrified attempts to hide any information about Jemilev.”
More at the link in the tweet.
So this evening and then later tonight after we’ve gone to bed, our President will be up and engaging in lots of activities!
PBO’s SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY (Taken from Chips’ R & S this morning):
1. In the morning, President Obama meets with Emperor Akihito of Japan at the Imperial Palace
2. The President meets with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at Akasaka Palace
3. In the afternoon, the President participates in a joint press conference with Prime Minister Abe
4. Later, President Obama delivers remarks at a youth and science event with students at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
5. The President visits Meiji Shrine
6. President Obama attends the Japan State Dinner and delivers remarks
Hiya Hopefruit, will post a heads up in a while, for the night owls!
Awesome. Thanks Chips! 🙂
Of course ……. you know me and time zone conversions Hopefruit 😕
Thank you Chips. At the time of this reply it’s 0848 in Tokyo 🙂
Thanks Bob, the problem is I then have to add and subtract and stuff – that’s when the trouble begins 😳
‘that’s when the trouble begins 😳 ‘
🙂 No one can say you don’t know your strengths, Chips Chica!
Hush, I’m calculating.
You got it! It’s seven 73 now! lol
Thanks Layla – does that mean it’s 20 76 in Japan?
{{CC}} – Don’t strain your brain, hon! Simply provide the clock – as you have done here 😉 😉 and let us all swim or sink on our own. That’s my solution.
The mathematicians clock – Mr 99 would love it 🙂
🙂 Actually 99ts, I’m a bit dizzy from even looking at it, reminds me of all those math classes where I spent my times going “HUH?!”
I initially thought it was gibberish & then the remnants of those maths classes 45 years ago (sigh!) kicked in.
Japan time is easy – 1 hour behind Eastern Australia – you should move down under 🙂
😀 😀 😀
This gives you the current time in Tokyo: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fullscreen.html?n=248
Thanks JER (BIG numbers) – but when I read Japan is 13 hours ahead, I’m kinda like:
I don’t think it is 13 hours ahead for all time zones.
That’s what’s adding to my woes, it’s only Japanese standard time that is 13 hours ahead. I surrender. When I post, there’ll be NO times mentioned! 🙂
I don’t know how the President does it. When I visited East Africa (10-11hrs ahead of CA), it took me almost two days to recover from Jet lag! Admittedly, since I was flying economy, with several stops, it took us more than 36 hours, with very little sleep, to get there.
Ahem: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
Yeah but, when I clicked ‘Time Zone Converter’ it said:
“When is the event in Krasnodar, Russia?”
That’s no help – although I’m sure exciting things are happening in Krasnodar today.
Use the world clock app on your phone!
You? Us all!
—>
🙂
I think you’ve just described Chuck Todd in Nov 2014 after the Dems not only retain the Senate, but make significant gains in the House!! 🙂
Yes please and thank you 🙂
‘Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel is traveling to Malaysia and Burma April 25-29.
In Kuala Lumpur, Under Secretary Stengel will be the keynote speaker at the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative – “YSEALI Generation – Ideas into Action” workshop and speak to over 100 U.S. Government exchange alumni nominated to attend the workshop by U.S. embassies from 10 ASEAN countries. At the workshop, he will meet senior Malaysian officials, representatives from the ASEAN Secretariat, Ambassadors from Southeast Asian nations and entrepreneurs, business leaders, and civic society leaders from around the region.
……………………//’
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/04/225103.htm
Still grinning.
A lot of discussion about the Keystone Pipeline on this and the previous thread, with Ed Schultz reportedly telling his audience that he’s got it on good authority that the President will veto the Keystone Pipeline.
Let’s ignore the emoprogs on this for now, just as they should have been ignored by reasonable Dems after ACA became law.
I think it was Ladyhawke who posted SmartyPants’ comments to a NYT article here yesterday. Check out this from the NYT article:
“On Friday (Apr 18), in what was widely viewed as an acknowledgment of just how potent the politics of Keystone have become, the State Department announced that it would delay the decision on the pipeline for several months, almost certainly until after the midterm elections.
/ snip
The agency is now drafting a regulation, expected in June, to slash pollution from existing coal-fired power plants. Details aren’t yet available, but experts estimate that it will cut an average of 200 million to 500 million tons of carbon emissions annually within a decade. And the E.P.A. estimated that regulations on building and appliance efficiency have cut or prevented the annual emission of 350 million tons of carbon.
That means the combined impact of the current and forthcoming E.P.A. regulations could lead to cuts of over one billion tons of emissions annually.”
Here’s a link to smartypants’ observations on this article:
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/04/this-earth-day-soundbites-or-impact.html
I read SP’s post yesterday, Arapaho, and thought it made a lot of sense to me. Very often, Smartypants synthesizes (Smartypants does it, so I don’t have to) info into just the right sized bites for me – it’s one of the reasons I love dropping in there. 😉 🙂
This is pretty silly looking, but remember to get this to come out, you have to layer thin strips of vegetables in the brown rice in a particular way to get anything resembling a face.
(I’m not sure which country the reporter was in when he saw this on his television screen.)
Criiikey, that is WEIRD!!! 🙂
No ears…
What people won’t do for attention? I guess the guy meant well.
Forget the comment in parenthesis above — the screen shot was obviously taken by someone other than the reporter. Oops.
Can anyone tell me why this tweet caught my eye, as being of possible interest to this village? 😉 Teeheehee!
FYI, vc — there is a repellent comment to this tweet.
I really wish that twitter could be taken away from the haters, ruins everyone’s day.
Sigh! I do believe the haters get a charge out of hating.
The ‘older American’ part was what caught my eye, because we so often jokingly mention age here.
LIVE NOW: President Obama in Japan: http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Forget about the time zones. It seems to be daytime.
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/04/23/thursday-in-japan/