Yes, Bob. I had a great day today with no pain. I am taking it day by day, very grateful to God for the joy I find in little things, like my regular visits to TODVille.
Also, want to urge everyone to realize that the combination of #ObamaCARE + #ObamaAIR is freaking out the #Kleptocrats and their #GOP & #NEWSTAINER Minions.
I was just going to invite people to tune it to Maddow’s first segment. Right on point.
The GOP is simply crazy. Put yourself in their shoes: there are still over 30 months of BARACK OBAMA. While this news saddens TODVille inhabitants, the right wing cannot take it any longer. Yet they must. Regardless their fake Occupation American Spring at the WH, they have to see this President day in day out, conducting his business, using his executive power, conducting foreign policy à la Obama doctrine, ending wars, passing carbon emission restrictions, etc. They are simply mad. They cannot take it anymore.
We can help them by moving them out of Washington and back to wherever it is they came from.
As the daughter and wife of soldiers I am appalled at the insensitive narrow minded bigots who make headlines. Can people really stand to watch them? And John McCain, a previous hotdog shot down, 5 years in prison, leading the chorus. Just Wow! What kind of man is that? He should be the most sympathetic.
Yes. She has seen a new low in GOP politics never seen before. I don’t expect anything decent from the right. I swear that these people have been muted by unknown bacteria.
Officials with the Marine Corps military working dog program are looking to find homes for all the service’s improvised explosive device-sniffing dogs as the Corps’ requirement for these highly trained animals draws to a close. The Marines developed a capability for IED detection dogs, or IDDs, in response to an urgent need in 2004, when hidden explosives emerged as a major threat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unlike other Marine military working dogs, that trained and deploy with military police handlers, IDDs were trained to deploy with infantrymen and Marines in other combat specialties, who would complete a lean five-week training program with their assigned dog before heading downrange….
With the end of the IDD capability, the Yuma dog-training facility is also facing closure, Childress said. But he’s working to keep it going by repurposing it as an advanced training site for working dog teams that would be able to provide security for high-profile U.S. officials or deploy for missions anywhere in the world. The training program he envisions, he said, would include a course on advanced first aid for dogs, teaching handlers how to perform triage, conduct canine CPR, insert IVs and more.
Meanwhile, Childress said he is advertising with law enforcement agencies to try to find new work for the remaining IDDs. So far, he said, 200 of the dogs have found new work at the joint Defense Department military working dog training facility at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, while another 150 or 200 have been adopted by regional police departments and law enforcement agencies. Private individuals can also apply to adopt a dog, though officials with the MWD program often make judgment calls on whether a household is right for, say, a Belgian malinois trained in aggression tactics. Childress said the troops who work with the dogs get the first opportunity to take them home for good…..
“Private individuals can also apply to adopt a dog, though officials with the MWD program often make judgment calls on whether a household is right for, say, a Belgian malinois trained in aggression tactics”
wonder why returning veterans are simply discharged to survive in a country where the GOP hate on their physical/emotional needs and refuse to provide resources that would help them rejoin a world without war.
A link to the legal rationale included via the Lawfare Blog:
A former Bush administration official broke with Republicans on Tuesday to defend President Obama’s prisoner exchange, arguing that since “the war in Afghanistan is winding down,” the United States would be required to return prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay back to Afghanistan. “I don’t see how these particular Taliban officials could ever have been tried in the southern district of New York,” John Bellinger, who served as an adviser to President George W. Bush explained during an appearance on Fox News Tuesday. “They’re certainly some Al Qaeda detainees who committed actual terrorist acts against Americans who perhaps could have been tried in a federal court because they committed federal crimes, but these particular Taliban detainees I think could never have been tried in federal court.” Although some of the released prisoners posed a danger to the United States when they were captured in 2002, especially toward soldiers serving in Afghanistan, several of the detainees did not commit crimes against Americans.
…Though Cheney told Fox News on Monday that he would not have agreed to the deal, Bellinger stressed that the Bush administration “returned something like 500 detainees from Guantanamo.” Statistics from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence show that only 6 percent (5 in total) of Guantanamo detainees released during the Obama administration have potentially engaged in militant activities. That compares with a rate of nearly 30 percent under the Bush administration.
“I’m not saying this is clearly an easy choice but frankly I think a Republican, a president of either party, Republican or Democratic confronted with this opportunity to get back Sgt. Bergdahl, who is apparently in failing health, would have taken this opportunity to do this,” he added. “I think we would have made the same decision in the Bush administration.”….
A commenter wrote — Really Democrats??? Reply to Really Democrats???
Tue, Jun 3rd, 2014 at 8:08 pm
As for Zimmerman that was for the guy that tried to talk about the geneva code saying soldiers that desert and get caught by the enemy are innocent till proving guilty. I used that to explain the way that most people think after a U.S. court of law found him innocent yet i was after everyone had made their own false accusations and felt they had a right to convict him before trial but that was ok because libs believed it . Also for the simple fact to prove the way the media takes certain stories and fabricates them the way they feel fit .And shoves byist storries down americas throat. Can any one in here pls send me a link to the bengzhi or fast and furious investigations. Pls do i would like to be proved wrong . But most likely you cant because there not public and something is being hidden and the democratic obama drones are too blind to see.I truly have considered my self a moderate for sometime but the stuff that happens around me is just too much for me to ignore and take as true
” djchefron
Tue, Jun 3rd, 2014 at 8:14 pm
WTF are you talking about? No American soldiers has been beheaded by the Taliban. You went from idiotville to dumfukistan. Damn no wonder this country is in the toilet. They let the stupid breed”
I agree, Jenny. But please vote for all Dems even those like Grimes and Feinstein. Vote and encourage others to do the same. They may be very disappointing but they are far from the likes of Cruz, Palin, Romney, McLoss, Dr. Carlson and yes, Mr. 999. Dont’ let their political games distract you. I’ll vote for all of these Democratic fools because, after all, they are the lesser of two evils.
Don’t hold Diane Feinstein to some higher standards. She is nothing but a politician. And that is not a compliment. Nancy Pelosi is the Leader of the House. Diane Feinstein is needy of attention.
I’m not sure what you mean. I was referring to Jenny’s comment about not giving the other Dems money because of something Feinstein said. I’ve known Feinstein all too well for way too long. But I can’t let her actions stop me from supporting the Democratic party as a whole.
And they complain about the POW’s father for his beard, that he looks like a terrorist, forgetting the long, long beard of their super hero DUCK DYNASTY, who I thought was one.
Totally, ‘LOST IT,’ nospin – all because they HATE a Black American President who is LOVED internationally and whom a majority of Americans Elected TWICE!!
I’m on God’s side of this one amk – I think we may have the unheard of – a one termer – first time since 1975 – doubtful that his budget will get through the Senate – and when he goes he can take the fool of a treasurer with him.
Right wing logic
We have a crisis in health budget – let’s charge everyone $7 minimum for doctor’s visit (I pay 4 times that) – we’ll give $2 to the doctor and put $5 into a cancer research fund – and that will save the health budget – how???
I agree with you Bob! I’ve already pledged to support Meta! Sadly, however, Feinstein still has 41/2 years to go before her next re-election run in 2018. That’s too long a time to wait.
I keep reading the posts and some are saying that one should not get upset, trust Barack. Others are saying; this is nothing it will pass, vote don’t cry, and others are saying, some of us are letting this get to us.
For me, I can’t speak for anyone else here; this is personal in many ways because I have seen this ugliness and hatred as a black woman growing up in the south. I know what this ugly hatred stems from, and it is for one reason only; President Obama is a black man, holding the highest office in the land, occupying the “White House” that the white man has always occupied.
This is the “primary reason” for the hate against President Obama.
I understand that the repukes are going to always make noise but this noise has a way of swaying people who are not knowledgeable about the “facts.” Everyone doesn’t come to TOD to get the truth, they rely on the so call news.
I complain and get upset, and yes I have cried and voted, but I see the injustice of the treatment of this family day in and day out. This doesn’t happen because he has done wrong, it happens because of their hatred for a “black man” who, in their sick warped mind, has taken over their “HOUSE” and “THEIR COUNTRY.” I am upset because again today, I walked in to get groceries, only to see “again” how Mrs. Obama is on the cover of the Enquirer being depicted as the “ANGRY BLACK WOMAN.” I have seen pictures of this shit for 6 weeks straight now, and I am hurt as a black woman and I hurt because our First Family can’t get the respect that they deserve.
Yes, maybe this will blow over but it doesn’t lessen the pain that I feel for what President Obama has to endure from the likes of Feinstein and other Dems who do nothing but stab him in the back at every opportunity. I will vote again but it doesn’t stop my tears today. I trust Barack but it doesn’t soothe my heart from aching when I witness these attacks. I have no doubt that he hurts as well because he is human and he has heart like all of us.
I know the President is a winner but it doesn’t stop me from remembering what America has done to African Americans over the years because I have lived through it, felt it first hand, and know all too well that this is hatred because he is BLACK and they can’t deal with it.
I ask that we allow each other to feel our pain; allow each other to rant, and hurt, and cry because in the end we still support and love President Obama. I still trust him but it hurts to see this crap by the media, hear the lies and watch “some Dems” run as though he has the plague when he is doing everything to lift this country up, and some over privilege white men and women do nothing but seek to tear him down.
I am upset and I make no apologies but I will do what I do each night; pray that God will keep our First Family and bless President Obama indeed and give him victory over his enemies.
Every word you’ve written is important, Cindy. And i join with you in your request that we allow ourselves and each other the space to react to ugly events for which there are no quick fixes.
It’s no answer when we advise other people to turn off the TV. Or we attempt to reassure ourselves and TOD that this will blow over soon, as I did.
The massive insults to President Obama be shrugged off easily, even if that’s what The President himself might advise.
I understand how all this ugly makes your heart hurt. Me too….but the one thing that always keeps me going…..He’s waaaaaaay smarter than they will ever be. They know this, which makes them all the more enraged. We just all need to VOTE, get others to VOTE, and stand strong together. Change is not easy.
Cindy, you need no apologies for expressing real pain. Nobody can know what another person has gone through because we all walk in different paths, but all of us are hurt when our president is unfairly maligned for doing what is good and right. PBO learned from an early age to stay focused and, to the extent possible, let the slurs and the hatred roll over him. He has an uncanny ability to do this that most of us lack. All we can do is continue to show our love for him. Send a note through the White House. Support and defend him with friends. And make sure that as many people as possible vote in November. We have a lot of power and influence if we use it.
Cindy,
Thank you for your post. So moving, so important. Truth. So much hateful, nasty wrong being done daily, and allowed, ignored or accepted by so many. Wrongs done to the most wonderful worthy magnificent people, to a family who show how we can all live and thrive, justly and well, every day, if we only would call out the rotten racist hypocrites and stand with this great leader and his beautiful family. I do not understand what is wrong with so many people. I will be fine later but you are right: sometimes it is just too much to bear. Grateful for your presence in TOD family. A blessing.
Cindy,
Thank you for your post. So moving, so important. Truth. So much hateful, nasty wrong being done daily, and allowed, ignored or accepted by so many. Wrongs done to the most wonderful worthy magnificent people, to a family who show how we can all live and thrive, justly and well, every day, if we only would call out the rotten racist hypocrites and stand with this great leader and his beautiful family. I do not understand what is wrong with so many people. I will be fine later but you are right: sometimes it is just too much to bear. Grateful for your presence in TOD family. A blessing.
Cindy – I apologize and feel bad that I posted quickly, earlier, something like “Don’t cry (or boo, as the President would say). Vote” in my cheerleading voice, and that it appeared targeted toward anyone and/or hurt you. I was awkwardly trying to stress the need for us to work through all of this, but – of course – we all realize that’s hard, individually hard, hard even among this faithful group here on TOD, and harder for some more than others for all kinds of reasons. I totally respect that, and apologize. Please don’t let anything I post affect you in a sad way. We all feel and grieve life’s experiences in a different way, and I’m glad you spoke out. Hang in there, and God bless America – and you.
Ever since you told your childhood story – I think of it whenever I read your posts. When talking the positive on events I certainly don’t mean to take anything from your feelings and appreciate what you share on TOD. Together with so many I have been awakened to racism like never before since Barack Obama became President and stories like yours have given me sadness for others that I have never felt before.
Some days I almost implode with what I hear/read from the Toads of the media – and have to return to the good that PBO is doing to keep my sanity. Take care of you & thank you for caring so much for others.
Take heart Cindy. You speak truth but take heart…something good is coming out of this. My children are between 10 and 14 and they are old enough to understand what this all means and the underlying cause. The thing is that they use the vitriol, hatred and willful ignorance that they see to fuel their own determination for success.
They look at our POTUS and take pride that in spite of it all he rises above it and goes about his daily work refreshed, with a genuine smile and gets the job done. My kids understand that the brilliance of this black man astounds them because it goes against the grain of what American society has been taught. They want to have the same opportunities as our POTUS and are working towards it. They all get straight As, have become critical thinkers, are aware of their world and their place in it.
My children know of our history but in POTUS they clearly see their own future. They have learned that they cannot control other folks hang ups, insecurities or preconceived notions but they do know they can control how they choose respond to it. They also know that they decide their level of success. The naysayers can sit on the sidelines and rage at the wind. They just have to get up and go about their daily work refreshed, with a smile and get the job done.
I am confident that my own children are not the only ones who have been impacted by this man. THAT is what folks are afraid of to the point where they go the extreme and embrace stupidity, see nothing wrong with babies playing with machine guns, celebrate traitors like Snowden who steal secrets from the country they profess to love putting folks in harms way and maligning our military men and women.
I see all this as a death knell. It is ugly and horrific to watch but it is necessary. This too shall pass.
The Search is always the Fun Part. 😆 Keep looking my dear friend from the North 😉
Clue for a dear friend……pumping iron, ripped muscles, intensity, all dressed in black and oh year, the pictorial is Not as sharp as many at TOD would like ❤ and DEMAND it!
It is a 1974 bridge – which to me – is not that old – sometimes I think the building standards of the 1930s were much higher than in later years. I also wonder about giving out govt contracts to the lowest bidder – we did that when we built our house and only after it was built did we realize what a stupid idea it was!
Repugs calling for presidential impeachment forget that PBO is a constitutional lawyer and he ain’t stupid. Is he ever going to act outside of the constitution? I just don’t see how.
Bob Bergdahl’s father has a beard.
Taliban terrorist have beards.
Therefore Bob Bergdahl’s father is a Taliban Terrorist.
What does that make Phil ‘duck man’ Robertson?
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Needs to be at the forefront ….
#TrustBarack
Bob!!!!
Chips!!!! 🙂
p.s. need a bit of moderator assistance down thread 🙂
Congrats on 1st Mr. Bobfr!
Have a wonderful evening……..
Thank you, Cindy! Hope you’re also having a fine evening ….
Congrats on your gold medal!!!! ⭐
Thank you, NCLB. Hope all is good for you!!
Yes, Bob. I had a great day today with no pain. I am taking it day by day, very grateful to God for the joy I find in little things, like my regular visits to TODVille.
Keeping you in my thoughts, NCLB.
Also, want to urge everyone to realize that the combination of #ObamaCARE + #ObamaAIR is freaking out the #Kleptocrats and their #GOP & #NEWSTAINER Minions.
President Obama is a force that they have no capacity to stop as long as WE VOTE on 4 Nov 2014.
#LandslideDEMS2014
Yes WE MUST
FORWARD!!!!!!!!!!
Yes!!!!!! 🙂
Thank you @maddow for a moment of sanity
Hello Vetivera,
I was just going to invite people to tune it to Maddow’s first segment. Right on point.
The GOP is simply crazy. Put yourself in their shoes: there are still over 30 months of BARACK OBAMA. While this news saddens TODVille inhabitants, the right wing cannot take it any longer. Yet they must. Regardless their fake Occupation American Spring at the WH, they have to see this President day in day out, conducting his business, using his executive power, conducting foreign policy à la Obama doctrine, ending wars, passing carbon emission restrictions, etc. They are simply mad. They cannot take it anymore.
We can help them by moving them out of Washington and back to wherever it is they came from.
“We can help them by moving them out of Washington and back to wherever it is they came from.”
Which we DO on 4 Nov 2014, NCLB!!
#LandslideDEMS2014 …. and put the #GOP out of its misery for decades ….
Yes WE MUST
As the daughter and wife of soldiers I am appalled at the insensitive narrow minded bigots who make headlines. Can people really stand to watch them? And John McCain, a previous hotdog shot down, 5 years in prison, leading the chorus. Just Wow! What kind of man is that? He should be the most sympathetic.
I think Rachel is having to use great restraint to not burst into tears, both from anger and deep frustration.
Yes. She has seen a new low in GOP politics never seen before. I don’t expect anything decent from the right. I swear that these people have been muted by unknown bacteria.
Guarantee her ratings will show that when she gets it right – people watch.
YES!!!!!!!!
I hope people in Iowa are paying attention.
Oops it’s Idaho, right?
Brought over…this popped into my head:) PBO has them ALL confused:)
Thanks, DesertFlower.
GE TOD:
Officials with the Marine Corps military working dog program are looking to find homes for all the service’s improvised explosive device-sniffing dogs as the Corps’ requirement for these highly trained animals draws to a close. The Marines developed a capability for IED detection dogs, or IDDs, in response to an urgent need in 2004, when hidden explosives emerged as a major threat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unlike other Marine military working dogs, that trained and deploy with military police handlers, IDDs were trained to deploy with infantrymen and Marines in other combat specialties, who would complete a lean five-week training program with their assigned dog before heading downrange….
With the end of the IDD capability, the Yuma dog-training facility is also facing closure, Childress said. But he’s working to keep it going by repurposing it as an advanced training site for working dog teams that would be able to provide security for high-profile U.S. officials or deploy for missions anywhere in the world. The training program he envisions, he said, would include a course on advanced first aid for dogs, teaching handlers how to perform triage, conduct canine CPR, insert IVs and more.
Meanwhile, Childress said he is advertising with law enforcement agencies to try to find new work for the remaining IDDs. So far, he said, 200 of the dogs have found new work at the joint Defense Department military working dog training facility at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, while another 150 or 200 have been adopted by regional police departments and law enforcement agencies. Private individuals can also apply to adopt a dog, though officials with the MWD program often make judgment calls on whether a household is right for, say, a Belgian malinois trained in aggression tactics. Childress said the troops who work with the dogs get the first opportunity to take them home for good…..
I read this – and noting these words –
“Private individuals can also apply to adopt a dog, though officials with the MWD program often make judgment calls on whether a household is right for, say, a Belgian malinois trained in aggression tactics”
wonder why returning veterans are simply discharged to survive in a country where the GOP hate on their physical/emotional needs and refuse to provide resources that would help them rejoin a world without war.
A link to the legal rationale included via the Lawfare Blog:
A former Bush administration official broke with Republicans on Tuesday to defend President Obama’s prisoner exchange, arguing that since “the war in Afghanistan is winding down,” the United States would be required to return prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay back to Afghanistan. “I don’t see how these particular Taliban officials could ever have been tried in the southern district of New York,” John Bellinger, who served as an adviser to President George W. Bush explained during an appearance on Fox News Tuesday. “They’re certainly some Al Qaeda detainees who committed actual terrorist acts against Americans who perhaps could have been tried in a federal court because they committed federal crimes, but these particular Taliban detainees I think could never have been tried in federal court.” Although some of the released prisoners posed a danger to the United States when they were captured in 2002, especially toward soldiers serving in Afghanistan, several of the detainees did not commit crimes against Americans.
…Though Cheney told Fox News on Monday that he would not have agreed to the deal, Bellinger stressed that the Bush administration “returned something like 500 detainees from Guantanamo.” Statistics from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence show that only 6 percent (5 in total) of Guantanamo detainees released during the Obama administration have potentially engaged in militant activities. That compares with a rate of nearly 30 percent under the Bush administration.
“I’m not saying this is clearly an easy choice but frankly I think a Republican, a president of either party, Republican or Democratic confronted with this opportunity to get back Sgt. Bergdahl, who is apparently in failing health, would have taken this opportunity to do this,” he added. “I think we would have made the same decision in the Bush administration.”….
djchefron is kicking ass and taking names
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/03/republican-bergdahl-scandal-falls-white-house-discussed-swap-gop-2011.html
A commenter wrote — Really Democrats??? Reply to Really Democrats???
Tue, Jun 3rd, 2014 at 8:08 pm
As for Zimmerman that was for the guy that tried to talk about the geneva code saying soldiers that desert and get caught by the enemy are innocent till proving guilty. I used that to explain the way that most people think after a U.S. court of law found him innocent yet i was after everyone had made their own false accusations and felt they had a right to convict him before trial but that was ok because libs believed it . Also for the simple fact to prove the way the media takes certain stories and fabricates them the way they feel fit .And shoves byist storries down americas throat. Can any one in here pls send me a link to the bengzhi or fast and furious investigations. Pls do i would like to be proved wrong . But most likely you cant because there not public and something is being hidden and the democratic obama drones are too blind to see.I truly have considered my self a moderate for sometime but the stuff that happens around me is just too much for me to ignore and take as true
” djchefron
Tue, Jun 3rd, 2014 at 8:14 pm
WTF are you talking about? No American soldiers has been beheaded by the Taliban. You went from idiotville to dumfukistan. Damn no wonder this country is in the toilet. They let the stupid breed”
🙂 Really Democrats? is really losing his shit over there…Damn Fox News lied to him and now he looks like the damn fool he is on the intertubes! LOL
Good to be going FORWARD!
Yes We Can
Never Forget!
Trust Barack!
We are on our way to Higher Ground!
I sent the following tweet to @SenFeinstein @SenatorBoxer @NancyPelosi @RepSteveIsrael @SenatorReid @SenSchumer @TheDemocrats @dscc @dccc
“I will not contribute one dime or vote for any Dems until Feinstein apologizes for attacking the president.”
good for you Jenny. I think I will do the same.
I agree, Jenny. But please vote for all Dems even those like Grimes and Feinstein. Vote and encourage others to do the same. They may be very disappointing but they are far from the likes of Cruz, Palin, Romney, McLoss, Dr. Carlson and yes, Mr. 999. Dont’ let their political games distract you. I’ll vote for all of these Democratic fools because, after all, they are the lesser of two evils.
I can’t go there. Feinstein talked out of turn but I won’t put that on the other Dems particularly if we can win the House and keep the Senate.
Don’t hold Diane Feinstein to some higher standards. She is nothing but a politician. And that is not a compliment. Nancy Pelosi is the Leader of the House. Diane Feinstein is needy of attention.
I’m not sure what you mean. I was referring to Jenny’s comment about not giving the other Dems money because of something Feinstein said. I’ve known Feinstein all too well for way too long. But I can’t let her actions stop me from supporting the Democratic party as a whole.
We leave No On Behind! Not the Soldier, Not the Children, Not the Poor, Not the Forgotten, not the Elderly, not the Sick or infirm!
FORWARD!
yes, yes he does.
THIS
For the ladies of TOD…….Some dude was casually working out in the Marriott gym in Poland this morning……he had a visitor!
http://www.plotek.pl/plotek/1,111483,16089982,Cwiczacy_na_silowni_w_Marriocie_takiego_goscia_sie.html
Ah, fantastic LP!!!!! Look at him go!
Is this for Real?
Wow…..now, I said G’Nite too early. I have got to stay for a while now 😆
🙂 That woke you up Nena!!!
I knew you gals would enjoy that
…..I figured you had exhausted your “PBO in the rain” quota for the week……then again I know better!
“I figured you had exhausted your “PBO in the rain” quota”
Never!!!!
But this is excellent!! 🙂
OH, WOW…..He looks really great exerting himself!! AHEM…
We will NEVER exhaust our PBO in the rain fascination! Never!!
😀 😀 😀 😀
You peddling naught mats now, LP? 😀 😀 😀
Seems I have……. Substituting for AMK(temporarily)
Congrats of first BTW, Bob 😎
🙂
Hilarious:) I read the translated version….Mats?? Looks like PBO would feel right at home on the mats with us…..
Woo hoo!
And there lies her problem..she is mad because PBO did not trust her!
Yeah, pretty much
go ahead Meta. I trust no one except Pelosi and Reid.
exactly Bobfr. I could not believe people are actually advocating for leaving a member of our military behind. They have seriously lost it.
And they complain about the POW’s father for his beard, that he looks like a terrorist, forgetting the long, long beard of their super hero DUCK DYNASTY, who I thought was one.
Totally, ‘LOST IT,’ nospin – all because they HATE a Black American President who is LOVED internationally and whom a majority of Americans Elected TWICE!!
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-live-pharrell-williams-performs-at-apollo-theater/
Enjoy the Music.
G’Nite TOD. Tomorrow is a brand new day with No Mistakes 😉
WHOA, this is about a dozen cups of AWESOME +1
Well not exactly. Tom could be a mean SOB without Jerry even provoking him.
could be but isn’t./a tom fan
I’m kind of slow this evening. What do you mean?
99/100 times, it’s the
ratmouse, who is the instigator and tormentor.I think I must now join in this toast:
I am completely, totally and utterly embarrassed: I thought Lech Wałęsa departed this planet years ago, so I did a treble-take 😳
Not to worry,Chips, info overload. I also confess i was unaware that Lech Walesa is still alive and well. Very fitting, a toast with President Obama.
Not to worry. I was also confusing him with someone else who refused to see PBO in another visit to who knows where. LOLz.
Our happy President having a drink with a true peer—Lech Waesa—
Most definitely Not having a drink with Mitch McConnell. “You have a drink with Mitch McConnell,” said PBO.
lech is a wingnut now.
But still very happy to be in the company of PBO
Oh no, sorry to hear that
paging 99ts
I’m on God’s side of this one amk – I think we may have the unheard of – a one termer – first time since 1975 – doubtful that his budget will get through the Senate – and when he goes he can take the fool of a treasurer with him.
Right wing logic
We have a crisis in health budget – let’s charge everyone $7 minimum for doctor’s visit (I pay 4 times that) – we’ll give $2 to the doctor and put $5 into a cancer research fund – and that will save the health budget – how???
You really could kick Feinstein’s butt if you wanted to, meta!
HaHaHa! I’m pretty fed up with these people!
I agree with you Bob! I’ve already pledged to support Meta! Sadly, however, Feinstein still has 41/2 years to go before her next re-election run in 2018. That’s too long a time to wait.
Agree with Bob. You could kick her ass. Hard. She works for YOU….
Well stated, meta. This is exactly right. Real ‘change you can believe it’ is driving the GOP and its media shills insane.
🙂
A Personal Commentary
I keep reading the posts and some are saying that one should not get upset, trust Barack. Others are saying; this is nothing it will pass, vote don’t cry, and others are saying, some of us are letting this get to us.
For me, I can’t speak for anyone else here; this is personal in many ways because I have seen this ugliness and hatred as a black woman growing up in the south. I know what this ugly hatred stems from, and it is for one reason only; President Obama is a black man, holding the highest office in the land, occupying the “White House” that the white man has always occupied.
This is the “primary reason” for the hate against President Obama.
I understand that the repukes are going to always make noise but this noise has a way of swaying people who are not knowledgeable about the “facts.” Everyone doesn’t come to TOD to get the truth, they rely on the so call news.
I complain and get upset, and yes I have cried and voted, but I see the injustice of the treatment of this family day in and day out. This doesn’t happen because he has done wrong, it happens because of their hatred for a “black man” who, in their sick warped mind, has taken over their “HOUSE” and “THEIR COUNTRY.” I am upset because again today, I walked in to get groceries, only to see “again” how Mrs. Obama is on the cover of the Enquirer being depicted as the “ANGRY BLACK WOMAN.” I have seen pictures of this shit for 6 weeks straight now, and I am hurt as a black woman and I hurt because our First Family can’t get the respect that they deserve.
Yes, maybe this will blow over but it doesn’t lessen the pain that I feel for what President Obama has to endure from the likes of Feinstein and other Dems who do nothing but stab him in the back at every opportunity. I will vote again but it doesn’t stop my tears today. I trust Barack but it doesn’t soothe my heart from aching when I witness these attacks. I have no doubt that he hurts as well because he is human and he has heart like all of us.
I know the President is a winner but it doesn’t stop me from remembering what America has done to African Americans over the years because I have lived through it, felt it first hand, and know all too well that this is hatred because he is BLACK and they can’t deal with it.
I ask that we allow each other to feel our pain; allow each other to rant, and hurt, and cry because in the end we still support and love President Obama. I still trust him but it hurts to see this crap by the media, hear the lies and watch “some Dems” run as though he has the plague when he is doing everything to lift this country up, and some over privilege white men and women do nothing but seek to tear him down.
I am upset and I make no apologies but I will do what I do each night; pray that God will keep our First Family and bless President Obama indeed and give him victory over his enemies.
God Bless America,
Thanks for sharing your heart, Cindy. Bless you!
Every word you’ve written is important, Cindy. And i join with you in your request that we allow ourselves and each other the space to react to ugly events for which there are no quick fixes.
It’s no answer when we advise other people to turn off the TV. Or we attempt to reassure ourselves and TOD that this will blow over soon, as I did.
The massive insults to President Obama be shrugged off easily, even if that’s what The President himself might advise.
can’t be shrugged off easily…….I meant to write
I understand how all this ugly makes your heart hurt. Me too….but the one thing that always keeps me going…..He’s waaaaaaay smarter than they will ever be. They know this, which makes them all the more enraged. We just all need to VOTE, get others to VOTE, and stand strong together. Change is not easy.
Cindy, you need no apologies for expressing real pain. Nobody can know what another person has gone through because we all walk in different paths, but all of us are hurt when our president is unfairly maligned for doing what is good and right. PBO learned from an early age to stay focused and, to the extent possible, let the slurs and the hatred roll over him. He has an uncanny ability to do this that most of us lack. All we can do is continue to show our love for him. Send a note through the White House. Support and defend him with friends. And make sure that as many people as possible vote in November. We have a lot of power and influence if we use it.
Cindy,
Thank you for your post. So moving, so important. Truth. So much hateful, nasty wrong being done daily, and allowed, ignored or accepted by so many. Wrongs done to the most wonderful worthy magnificent people, to a family who show how we can all live and thrive, justly and well, every day, if we only would call out the rotten racist hypocrites and stand with this great leader and his beautiful family. I do not understand what is wrong with so many people. I will be fine later but you are right: sometimes it is just too much to bear. Grateful for your presence in TOD family. A blessing.
Cindy,
Thank you for your post. So moving, so important. Truth. So much hateful, nasty wrong being done daily, and allowed, ignored or accepted by so many. Wrongs done to the most wonderful worthy magnificent people, to a family who show how we can all live and thrive, justly and well, every day, if we only would call out the rotten racist hypocrites and stand with this great leader and his beautiful family. I do not understand what is wrong with so many people. I will be fine later but you are right: sometimes it is just too much to bear. Grateful for your presence in TOD family. A blessing.
Cindy – I apologize and feel bad that I posted quickly, earlier, something like “Don’t cry (or boo, as the President would say). Vote” in my cheerleading voice, and that it appeared targeted toward anyone and/or hurt you. I was awkwardly trying to stress the need for us to work through all of this, but – of course – we all realize that’s hard, individually hard, hard even among this faithful group here on TOD, and harder for some more than others for all kinds of reasons. I totally respect that, and apologize. Please don’t let anything I post affect you in a sad way. We all feel and grieve life’s experiences in a different way, and I’m glad you spoke out. Hang in there, and God bless America – and you.
Ever since you told your childhood story – I think of it whenever I read your posts. When talking the positive on events I certainly don’t mean to take anything from your feelings and appreciate what you share on TOD. Together with so many I have been awakened to racism like never before since Barack Obama became President and stories like yours have given me sadness for others that I have never felt before.
Some days I almost implode with what I hear/read from the Toads of the media – and have to return to the good that PBO is doing to keep my sanity. Take care of you & thank you for caring so much for others.
Thanks Cindy, right there with you. God bless you as well !
Take heart Cindy. You speak truth but take heart…something good is coming out of this. My children are between 10 and 14 and they are old enough to understand what this all means and the underlying cause. The thing is that they use the vitriol, hatred and willful ignorance that they see to fuel their own determination for success.
They look at our POTUS and take pride that in spite of it all he rises above it and goes about his daily work refreshed, with a genuine smile and gets the job done. My kids understand that the brilliance of this black man astounds them because it goes against the grain of what American society has been taught. They want to have the same opportunities as our POTUS and are working towards it. They all get straight As, have become critical thinkers, are aware of their world and their place in it.
My children know of our history but in POTUS they clearly see their own future. They have learned that they cannot control other folks hang ups, insecurities or preconceived notions but they do know they can control how they choose respond to it. They also know that they decide their level of success. The naysayers can sit on the sidelines and rage at the wind. They just have to get up and go about their daily work refreshed, with a smile and get the job done.
I am confident that my own children are not the only ones who have been impacted by this man. THAT is what folks are afraid of to the point where they go the extreme and embrace stupidity, see nothing wrong with babies playing with machine guns, celebrate traitors like Snowden who steal secrets from the country they profess to love putting folks in harms way and maligning our military men and women.
I see all this as a death knell. It is ugly and horrific to watch but it is necessary. This too shall pass.
So I go away for a brief second to eat and you chatterers not only have a new thread up, you have 70+ comments! 😯 😀
Who has time to eat?
Meta, I have to make time – the price I pay if I don’t is way too high.
Check out POTUS working out in the Gym.
That is all. I wonder how that cell phone photo snapper was abbe to get those pics without the SS saying Stop Right There 😉
Where? Be specific now, I always have difficulty locating info….and thanks. 😀
The Search is always the Fun Part. 😆 Keep looking my dear friend from the North 😉
Clue for a dear friend……pumping iron, ripped muscles, intensity, all dressed in black and oh year, the pictorial is Not as sharp as many at TOD would like ❤ and DEMAND it!
/VERY disgruntled/ Thanks. ‘the search is always the fun part’ 🙄
I think PBO said ‘that’s ok let them see what I am doing while they are all flailing around’
Whoa! Let’s not bother fixing the infrastructure, though.
Tilting?? A new word for infrastructure falling down?
I was afraid to read the story. I’ve been on that Interstate!
It is a 1974 bridge – which to me – is not that old – sometimes I think the building standards of the 1930s were much higher than in later years. I also wonder about giving out govt contracts to the lowest bidder – we did that when we built our house and only after it was built did we realize what a stupid idea it was!
#TzarVlad becoming ever more isolated from the world and reality …
Chat on!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/06/03/night-owl-chat-man-works-out-in-polish-gym/
Repugs calling for presidential impeachment forget that PBO is a constitutional lawyer and he ain’t stupid. Is he ever going to act outside of the constitution? I just don’t see how.
Isn’t this special.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/06/06/151427/bipartisan-complaint-from-congress.html
Bipartisan complaint from Congress: Leaks of spy secrets endanger U.S. lives
Same cast of characters
Bob Bergdahl’s father has a beard.
Taliban terrorist have beards.
Therefore Bob Bergdahl’s father is a Taliban Terrorist.
What does that make Phil ‘duck man’ Robertson?