Thank you Malala for inspiring girls around the world to be #StrongerThan adversity and pursue their education. –mo http://t.co/526lzDlGKw
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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) July 14, 2014Hard-working Americans deserve better than the current minimum wage. It's time for a change: ofa.bo/g0D4 #RaiseTheWage
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 14, 2014****
Prepare to VOTE 2014: Need to find out if your state has a voter ID law? voteriders.org/voter-id
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meta (@metaquest) July 14, 2014Sign up here to volunteer in your local community to elect more & better Dems to take back the House this Fall dccc.org/page/s/volunte…
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Donna NoShock (@NoShock) July 14, 2014****
If the GOP in Congress fails to fund fixing our infrastructure, nearly 700,000 jobs would be at risk. #RebuildAmerica http://t.co/wgdJwUPx7z
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 14, 201425% of our nation's bridges require significant repair.
Let's fix them.
Starting now → go.wh.gov/4czkeK http://t.co/PaCnjxlocC
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Vice President Biden (@VP) July 14, 2014****
FACT: 65% of our major roads are rated in less than good condition. It's time to #RebuildAmerica: go.wh.gov/4czkeK
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 14, 2014It's time for Congress to reauthorize funding to rebuild our roads & bridges: go.wh.gov/4czkeK #RebuildAmerica http://t.co/BYaPeRZiTB
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 14, 2014****
Let's recommit ourselves to helping girls around the world pursue their education & achieve their dreams. #MalalaDay http://t.co/ahV6RkMJcf
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 14, 2014Conservatism is.... http://t.co/U1uKDrSUmG
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Donna NoShock (@NoShock) July 14, 2014****
So GOP blocks immigration reform to fix broken system & save $900B, then attacks $4B to patch system they left broken newrepublic.com/article/118679…
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Jesse Lee (@jesseclee44) July 14, 2014Mike Allen is conducting this Dick Cheney interview like a guy who would apologize for getting shot in the face.
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Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) July 14, 2014****
The Cheneys are decrying journalists for not asking “tough question” as they all duck the question of gay marriage
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Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) July 14, 2014Obamacare pays for itself and doesn't invade a Middle Eastern country. No wonder Republicans hate it.
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(@LOLGOP) July 14, 2014****
Comedy. Gold. Obama Derangement Syndrome has a way of biting people in the butt
Rick Santelli gets TORCHED by @steveliesman on CNBC. This is worth 73 seconds: youtube.com/watch?v=EU9U3Z…
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Danny Vinik (@DannyVinik) July 14, 2014Rick Santelli just had a mega-meltdown after @reformedbroker trolled the eff out of him. read.bi/1rbuqyO http://t.co/EGAvoD7TZB
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Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) July 14, 2014****
There is literally no greater threat to our nation than a bus load of malnourished Honduran 8-year-olds.
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Collyn McCoy (@collynmccoy) July 10, 2014You mapped the human genome? I'm not impressed. Lost 20 lbs & kept it off? Educate me, #magic #wizard.
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rob delaney (@robdelaney) July 09, 2014****
i didn't see hobby lobby in church yesterday. was it sick?
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blaine capatch (@blainecapatch) July 07, 2014GOP SAT: If Obama works, he's destroying America. If Obama golfs, he's not working. Golfing is bad because:
a) Benghazi
b) Hitler
c) a & b
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Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) July 14, 2014
The Obama Diary 
Surely not?
Thanks for always making me laugh uncontrollably!!
In an admiring fursty kind of way??
Why, yes, of course.
Hugs 🙂
HAPPY BEAUTIFUL MONDAY evening Chipsticks,
CONGRATULATION ON 1st – you’re #1 !!!!
– not sure how much trouble you are in for taking the GOLD, but ENJOY your crowning moment : )
Wow Chips, you are faster than the speed of light. Congrats on first!!!
Thank you Betsy, I surprise myself sometimes 🙂
😀
NO and MINE and also too – meanie
48 replies and I just found the new thread – sigh
YOU again? 😯
Dayum!
I wasn’t expecting that! Hahahahaha!
Here she is, Miss TOD Medalist 😉
Gold ⭐ Chips.
Thank you Nena 😎
A Gem of Tweets. Awesomeness, indeed. The folks who author those tweets are unbelievable.
Good evening Chips, TOD, lurkers, everyone and congrats Chips on #1! 🙂
Evening Hopefruit – and thank you! 🙂
Do not encourage her hf – she is quite incorrigible
representing the lurkers here: aloha! and good evening to all 🙂
Aloha, suzanne!
Fantabulous tweets Nerdy, thank you Chelsea Girl!
You’re welcome.
“The football World Cup is the biggest single sporting event measured by television audience (the Olympics, with multiple sports, is bigger). But how do the actual attendance figures compare? It turns out that a sport which Americans call “football” is considerably larger on a per game and per season basis. The victor in terms of overall popularity is North American baseball, wooing 74m Cracker Jack eaters to the stands each year, four times more than American football. Meanwhile, Indian cricket attracts fewer than 2m spectators annually. As football increases its popularity around the world, its two growth markets are China and America (where it is called soccer). But attendance figures in both countries remains paltry, at 4.5m and 6m respectively. That is between a half and a third of the amount that go to professional football games in European countries each year.”
I’m very surprised that baseball is so popular. I stopped watching it decades ago. I used to love the Blue Jays when I was growing up in Canada.
I’ve always been an Atlanta Braves fan so the Blue Jays beating us in the world series hurt…..but at that time the Montreal Expos (now the Washington D.C. Nationals) were in our division and one of the most talented teams around (M. Grissom, Alomar bros, Galaraga, P. Martinez, L. Walker, Tim Raines,and my all time fave Vladmir Guerrero……among others.
I was also surprised to see 22 million/yr attend Japanese baseball….. I knew it was big, but not that big!
Base Ball is played 162 times and in bigger stadiums.
NFL has fewer games….16 during the season. 4 pre-games and 3 weeks of play off games.
Basket Ball is played for 80 games or so and with the lowest Squad members.
vc, I’m getting ready to leave work – but I need you to check your email and for Offspring to do the same. Thx!
To me, GWBush’s family represents all that is wrong with inbred political dynasties.
You would think they could think of something greater than themselves, but no….
Sorry, I thought the headline would appear in the tweet above.
The headline reads:
Laura Bush gets her wish: a cover story in Architectural Digest [for the Crawford Ranch house]
GEEZE. Honestly, I didn’t think I could think less of them.
I’m leaving work and I have an important decision to make…
1) Do I go straight home and cook my dinner
2) Do I stop by my favorite restaurant and pick up my favorite corned-beef sandwich!!!!!
Of course!
Number 2 😉
I am with Chips, two hand in the air and all 😉
Swing by and get your car washed, THEN swing by and get the corned beef 🙂
Pardon me TOD, I have now watched this 6 Times…….Gleefully. ‘Am I loco? Not at all. Their implosion is finally being exposed, one by one.
I so agree. Finally they are being told they are crazy, because they really are.
TOD ROCKS!
HAPPY BEAUTIFUL MONDAY!!!
Good evening and blessings to the “AWESOME” Chipsticks, Dannystix and the TOD Family,
Thank you guys for everything, today, I am much better and I’m grateful to be alive. It was in my quiet time of reflection, that I remembered how my ex-husband brother lost his life. He went to his neighbor’s home because the wife was screaming; tried to encourage the husband to take a walk and cool off, stop beating on the wife. The husband went in the house, got his gun, and came back and killed my ex-husband brother and the wife (he was arrested and charged).
So I am blessed and happy to be alive because this guy could have done the same to the wife, me and security before the police arrived. Thank you guys for “all” the information, and because of it, I feel better in assisting another woman because I have information to give to them. I have knowledge of something that I was not intimately involved with.
There is so much that I didn’t know regarding immigration status and domestic violence. Thank you globalcitizenlinda for posting the information for me. I’ve never experienced anything like this (DV; witnessing a human being beating another helpless life to a bloody pulp), and I pray that I never will.
TOD’s place allows one to come and share their joy, pain, intellectual thoughts, and agree to disagree respectfully. It’s a safe refuge to support the most “AWESOME” President – President Barack H. Obama. It is a place to come to and share our challenges, and ask for prayer; knowing with confidence, that prayer warriors will follow through.
Thank you TOD for your caring hearts, prayers and thoughts. I am doing better because of your caring spirit, and I had the opportunity to talk it through with my Dr. Child unit and my sweet sister who are both 3,000 plus miles away but close in heart.
In prayer and meditation, I’m always asking the Heavenly Father to use me to help others, to be a blessing to someone in need; to represent Him in loving others and being kind to others, to lift up someone who is sad, encourage the one who has a broken heart and or spirit, and pray for those who are being challenged in their dark place, their health and life in general.
With a smile on my face : )
Food for thought; be careful of what you ask for, good chance you will receive it.
THANK YOU……THANK YOU……TOD FAMILY!
Cindy, you say it so beautifully!! This is such a special place. So thankful you are okay and that all the information has been helpful. We need more people to care and be involved but carefully. Prayer and mediation gives us strength. Will keep both you and Anna in my prayers.
Happy Monday mtmarilyn and thank you,
Honestly, it was in my quiet time that I recognized the danger I placed myself in. We never know how we will react to something until it is upon us. Although the young lady is an adult (34 plus, married), when I saw her on the hallway floor screaming and crying (face bloodied), I saw a helpless child who needed a mother’s love; security and protection.
I couldn’t leave because she was someone’s child. In my heart, I was the mother in that moment and danger didn’t cross my mind. So blessed, that the guy didn’t do what so many have done, and continue to do with their guns.
Thank you my friend for your prayers.
I know I couldn’t stand by and see this happening and not do anything. We are compassionate human beings. God bless!!!
Blame it on the new glasses Rick!!!!!!!
Happy Monday evening to you Layla,
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!
I remembered that you mentioned that it was the same day as the WC (Sunday). I was completely discombobulated on yesterday and missed sending you well wishes.
I do hope that you had a WONDERFUL celebration of another year; not getting older but getting better : ) and I pray that you are doing better in the area of your health.
Have a WONDERFUL evening and continue to celebrate, we only get them once a year anyway : )
TY Cindy! God gave you a special gift yesterday in order to help your neighbor..You are one of his “Angels” Health is stable for now so that is good! Have a great evening!
Glad to hear the news regarding your health Layla, you will remain in my prayers.
Keep the faith, and believe that all things are possible.
But why didn’t President Obama do a photo op at the border? /snark/
t won’t hold my breath waiting for the feckless media to report on this little tidbit 24X7. They are too busy writing puff pieces on Rick ‘Oops” Perry. What an embarrassment? And to think this man ran for president in 2012 and is supposedly gearing up for a run in 2016. The mind reels.
First Lady in Chgo next week for a fundraiser——writers noting that it just happens to coincide with a big Beyonce/JayZ concert here…..
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Michelle-Obama-Chicago-fundraiser-DNC-267025841.html
…to LA this week…maybe taking Malia with her…..
POTUS is too cool for school!!
Just read about that Meta, coolest thing ever – and you summed it up PERFECTLY in that tweet!
BUUUUUUTTT, POTUS is SO aloooofffff!
Chuck? Two words: Weather Channel.
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Every time he tweets something nasty about PBO someone should tweet back “Weather Channel”
😆 Perfect, Layla!
OMG – Hope I remember that!
BWWWAHAHAHAAAA!! I will be using this!!
I saw this story over the weekend…..our President is so cool 😎
http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/gay-place/2014-07-11/fist-bumps-for-equal-rights/
……As the president approached, Webb threw his hand down and slapped the counter dramatically. “Equal rights for gay people!”
“Are you gay?” the president asked.
“That’s when he laughed and said, ‘Bump me,'” Webb says. “That’s my favorite part because it was cool to get a joke in. In all the photos [all over the Internet], I look like a dead fish, but it was cool. I do stand-up, so it was nice to have some interaction based on, hopefully, something funny.”
“If Rick Perry would’ve walked in, I would have lost my job. I would’ve taken that old queen to town,” Webb adds. “My mother got to shake hands with Kennedy in Fort Worth that morning he was assassinated, so just for consistency, it was kind of cool to meet with a sitting president. Her picture [is in a] crowd shot in this book called Four Days, so I kind of want to pull the photos next to each other and then wave it in my sister’s face.”……
PBO never fails to connect with people no matter where he is or who he’s got in front of him. He’s a lovely, lovely man.
I am sooooooooooooooo old that I have that book ” Four Days ” …it was my MIL’s
I heard an article on NPR this morning saying that when PBO asked if he was gay? He answered, “Only when I have sex.”
Lachlan Murdoch’s Ascent to the News Corp Throne
In 2005, Lachlan Murdoch walked away from a worldwide media empire that could have been his. Now, after nearly a decade of exile, power struggles, and near-catastrophic scandals, the firstborn son of Rupert is on the verge of claiming the News Corp. throne.
By Michael Wolff March 27, 2014
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From the beginning Rupert waged a campaign to bring Lachlan back into the company. The father held a particular trump card: None of the Murdoch offspring really had any money to speak of. They may have been the children of a billionaire, but they were among the world’s most cash-poor children of a billionaire. Nearly every penny they had was tied up in company shares controlled by the Murdoch Family Trust, which left them with no authority to sell. The Murdoch children were hopelessly dependent on their father—just the way he liked it.
But fate—and family—intervened. Lachlan was not Rupert’s only personal crisis. In 1999 he had divorced his wife of 32 years, Anna Murdoch, and married Wendi Deng, 38 years his junior, engendering the lasting resentment of his children. But as part of the divorce settlement, a canny Anna had agreed to $100 million—not, as California property law entitled her to, half of Murdoch’s then-$8billion fortune. This on-the-cheap divorce was in exchange for Murdoch’s agreement to make the terms of the Murdoch Family Trust unbreakable. Her three children and Murdoch’s oldest daughter, by his first wife, would remain his only heirs.
Then Murdoch had two more children with Deng, who began her own campaign to secure a place for her officially disenfranchised offspring. Caught between a rock and a hard place, Murdoch negotiated.
He needed the agreement of a majority of his four adult children to change the terms of the trust. More than a year of bargaining, and some cold cash, got him part of what he wanted. While his two children with Deng would never become voting participants in the trust, his four older children agreed to share with their new siblings an equal, one-sixth economic interest in it. In return, each of the four was given an immediate $150 million in cash and in company shares that they could sell—enough to buy quite a bit of independence.
http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/lachlan-murdoch-newscorp
gotta love pierce:
‘ Anybody who hereafter uses the phrase, “Team Of Rivals,” in any sense except the completely ironic needs to be cast into the outer darkness of the Land Beyond Pundits. Fred, of course, knows how to build a Team Of Rivals. While you’re already presiding over the lunatic work of Jennifer Rubin, the gradual transformation of George Effing Will into Alex Jones with a thesaurus, and the shapeless pudding-pop that is Ruth Marcus’s column, you hire a propagandist (Michael Gerson) and a shackle-sniffing torture enthusiast (Mark Thiessen) from out of the most ridiculous cult of personality in American political history to join in. That’s how you build your Team Of Rivals, although it costs you a couple grand to pad the walls. ‘
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Hiatt_Regency
“the gradual transformation of George Effing Will into Alex Jones with a thesaurus”
The man’s a genius, Susanne!
‘shapeless pudding-pop’— it just doesn’t get any better 🙂
😆 I looooooooove him!!!
Heads up!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/14/president-obama-hosts-an-iftar-dinner-celebrating-ramadan/