Don’t miss the First Lady at the University of Texas – Live: http://t.co/OT2dLbA3us And follow @ReachHigher 🙂 pic.twitter.com/9IvAk2cekG
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The Ukrainian government has begun its long-stalled offensive against separatists in the east of the country. A bit of what we know as found on Twitter.
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Chat on, and don’t worry: CNN will have more breaking #MH370 news soon.
The Obama Diary 
Howdy! 😀
Howdy Carol and congrats!! 🙂
Thanks HF. 🙂 So happy to be here.
Hi, CarolMae!
Hi 57!/Flower 😉
Congrats Carolmae!
I just finally got to the bottom of R&S – only to learn y’all been over here for a while!
You sound like me. Most of the time I’m doing that. 😉
Haven’t read R&S yet, but for first time heard the alert! Yeah May!
For those who missed the press conference.
LIVESTREAM: First Lady Michelle Obama to speak at UTSA for College Signing Day http://ksat.tv/1lPePPm – http://www.ksat.com/Battle-of-Flowers-Parade/9293744
Did you know the Steppes of the Ukraine are among the richest soil for growing crops in the world? The deepest topsoil too. Don’t know if they’ve ruined them with artificial fertilizer and weed killers or not. . .
While President was talking about serious issues, Boehner did this.
Thanks LL for the great update! 🙂 Are you off today?
Nope, at work. Dashed off this post before I went on to other things. I’m in the middle of booking programs for July Summer Reading Program.
You are a great Librarian and a master essayist and twitter gatherer! 🙂 Thanks! Finally a timely thank you from me to you. 😳
Thanks NW for the tweets – they are useful EVEN for those of us who *saw* the presser…. 🙂
Thank you, HF.
UN Security Council still meeting on Ukraine http://webtv.un.org/live/
Thank you NW for the new post on Ukraine.
Major clashes in Odessa and the pro-Russian separatists are getting their butts kicked by Ukrainians.
Correction – That was supposed to be “Thank you LL!!! ….”
😆
One of the regulars on TPV typoed my name yesterday as “Liberal Libertarian”.
😀 😀 No way!!!! 😀 😀
ROFL!!!!!!!!
We all had a good laugh.
I used to read it that way too when you first came on-board. Then by the way you talked I realized that you are a Librarian not a libertarian. 🙂
Thanks a gazillion LL!!!!
Live Streaming: The First Lady at the University of Texas
http://www.whitehouse.gov/reach-higher-initiative
http://nowcastsa.com/blogs/webcast-college-signing-day-2014
I guess the Scandal crew has been hanging out at WH for this weekend’s WHCD. 🙂
HAHAHAhahahaha!
That is too funny:)
That’s me.
When she used to appear on Tuesdays with Stephanie Miller, I started to like her. She is funny.
LOL. This is so true. Plus, an unhealthy love for mayonnaise.
BTW – the cool thing about this tweet is that she sent it while sitting at her station in the UN Security Council chamber 🙂
Ambassador Power is, once again, calling out Churkin for his lies. Fierce!!!
Less than 1,000 to go.
My TL is abuzz with a new hatred of Boner. What did he do now?
He’s setting up an “investigative committee” for Benghazi.
John Fugelsang had a good meme this morning: There were literally scores of U.S. embassies under attack that day because of that stupid trailer to a non-existent movie. How many Americans were saved due to the good management in a quickly changing, dangerous situation?
He is forming a Select Committee on Benghazi…..
Pro-Ukrainians in Odessa helped save several pro-russia thugs from a burning building …
“Why are we helping them?”B/c we are human beings not monsters”
Powerful
UK UN Ambassador was also ‘live tweeting’ during today’s UNSC meeting 🙂
Vox.com provided a misleading take of the Keystone XL pipeline in a short video explainer. The video for former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein’s new venture was sponsored by General Electric, which has publicly supported the tar sands pipeline.
The visually appealing “Vox Explains” video gives a two-minute overview of the Keystone XL, but provides a misleading view of the number of jobs the pipeline would create. While the voiceover states that building the pipeline would “create thousands of temporary construction jobs,” the number on the screen shows 42,000 temporary jobs, suggesting that all 42,000 jobs will be in construction. But the State Department report actually projects only 3,900 temporary construction jobs if construction took one year or 1,950 jobs if construction took two years. The 42,000 figure includes tens of thousands of indirect jobs in everything from food service to finance that the State Department estimates will be supported by Keystone XL’s construction. The State Department estimates an outcome of only 35 permanent jobs would result from construction of the pipeline.
The video shows how new media can mislead in ways that newspapers never could. In the Keystone XL video, both the voiceover and the text were technically accurate. However, the combination of the two resulted in a misleading impression.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/02/vox-misleads-on-keystone-xl-in-ge-sponsored-vid/199142
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Less than A THOUSAND To GO!
In less than an HOUR……Lets have a Countdown Clock, Yeah!
The blame is Solely that of Antonio Scalia and the Rehnquist Courts on Dec 9th, 2000. Along with JEB and Kathrine Harris.
Yes indeed.
SOMEONE WOULD STILL HAVE TO SHOW G.W. WHICH END GOES INTO THE PAINT CAN!
This G.W. Bush you all are talking about think that his brother Jeb would make a good president. I guess that is why they always say that Mom is the wise one in the family, Barbara Bush said Jeb should not run. Mom is right.
Awaiting independent confirmation, but if this is true someone in Moscow may be coming to their senses ….
#TrustBarack
New post!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/05/02/25-million-thanks/
Gonna be offline for a while (back tonight). Thought I’d start celebrating just a wee bit early.
25 million thanks and congrats to Chips for bringing us the best damn blog on the interwebs! Oodles of hugs and truckloads of Cheesy Puffs to you and all the intrepid blog tyrants!
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀