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President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia. President Barack Obama envisions a time when cars will be able to talk with other cars or with America’s roads. He says such technology could prevent crashes, cut down on traffic and save gasoline.
President Barack Obama is given a tour of vehicles equipted with V2I technology by Joe Peters while at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia
President Barack Obama looks over his shoulder while driving a simulator
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It'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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“This shouldn’t be a partisan issue. Republicans, Democrats, Independents; everybody uses our roads.” —Obama http://t.co/KUdTPapwr9
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David Yang, human factors team leader, shows President Barack Obama a vehicle simulator during his tour of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
President Barack Obama is given a tour of the Saxton Transportation Operations
President Barack Obama greets employees after speaking about the economy at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
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"The American people have to demand that folks in Washington do their job. Do something. That’s my big motto for Congress." —President Obama
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Good infrastructure has a ripple effect:
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx
The Obama Diary 
First!
HA! Beat amk! Yay!!!
Not to rain on your parade, or anything, Cman, but I think Amk has gone to bed. 😀
hmmmm…I think AMK sleeps with one eye open….
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least, Layla.
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Hey, you should be pleased, Cman! You are in the place of honour while he’s asleep….maybe. 😉
Congrats on your gold medal! How did you do it?
Way to go Cman! I missed again.
Fantastic Post NW 🙂
Thanks,
Cman has the TOD Gold ⭐ and the Ag too 😉
Thanks, Nena.
Really? Even the GOP women are more than a little clueless. I am not surprised in the least.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/07/15/3460382/renee-ellmers-talk-down-to-women/
Congrats, Cman:) You know that amk’s sleeping now, right? 🙂 The bigger statement is that you BEAT CHIPS!
Congrats Cman on First! Enjoy your victory – by any means necessary. It doesn’t matter that everyone has gone to bed except you and Nerdy. The fact is that you landed on First! 😀
‘The fact is that you landed on First!’
Quite true. 😀
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Sorry TODers. I neglected to check in on Josh “The Voice” Earnest on his WH presser today, 7-15-14
C-SPAN did Live Stream the event.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?320445-2/white-house-briefing
That’s okay Nena20409! You are always on top of it. We so appreciate you bringing the presser’s to us.
This is 2014 and Internet Business in Huge and is now affecting Large Malls and these people are making this permanent? Not wise, not a wise move at all.
Maybe you misunderstood, Nena? This is about taxing internet service that comes into your home, not what you purchase on the internet.
Although we pay these hidden taxes on our phone bills all the time.
Nena, I believe you misunderstood the tweet or maybe the article. This is not about removing taxes from online purchases and leaving in place taxes that come from buying a product in person at a store. It is about making sure that access to the internet isn’t taxed. 7 states were taxing millions of people for access to the internet and this bill removes the taxes that were added in addition to your monthly internet service bill.
Thanks Nerdy Wonka and 57andFemale.
I am glad to be reeducated on this matter. I appreciate it. Thanks again.
In MN we have Zero Taxes on Clothes, shoes, etc when purchased from many websites. I get all bothered, worried about that.
Thanks a traaaaaaaaaaaaaaabillion Nerdy, you’re a GEM!!!!!
You’re welcome, Chips!
RIP mama Joel
Nena – it is a good thing that Chips is a compassionate person
🙂 I had to try reaaaaaally hard to avoid commenting, and I’m so proud of myself that I did. 😎
I know! I felt the heat rising from my keyboard – so I thought I would speak up to diffuse the situation a little. I’m proud of you too! ((hugs))
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Hahahahaha – yup 😀
Hmm? And I was down below singing your praises? When you learn, Nena 😉 ❓
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When Will you learn, Nena…..sheesh.
In honor of the passing of his mother, I think there should be a Billy Joel tribute on TOD tonight.
Haven’t you some work to do Mister? Scram.
BILLY!!!!
You’re EVUUUUUUUUL!
More like cranky. No football for a month. 😦
(And no, friendlies don’t count.)
But all this transfer talk is filling the gap nicely, I refresh The Guardian football page at least three times a minute, every minute – keep expecting to see ‘LOUIS LANDS LIONEL!’, or something similar.
🙂 Cruisin’ for a bruisin’…..RIP Mrs Joel…..that is all.
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But of course Chips is a compassionate Lady. ❤ her for it 🙂
Her beef is with Billy Joel's singing abilities. I respect her views, but I disagree 1001%, for Bill Joel's songwriting abilities are legendary…… 😉 . Note, I didn't say one peep on his Vocal strengths.
You sound like you’re a relative of Boehner’s – twisting a situation to fit your reasons (smh)
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Boehner? Hell No!
It’s one of those ‘SOMEONE ON THE INTERNET IS WRONG!’ moments 🙂
Hahahaha
I thank you, Ms NerdyW for the pics AND the video of PBO’s speech which I had missed. And yes, I do know and appreciate that we folks here in the village are spoiled rotten! 😉 😉 Thanks! 🙂
Thank you for the acknowledgment and you’re welcome. 🙂
/grinning in great pleasure/ 😀
I was about to say thank you to NW for posting the speech and these awesome pics when I got distracted by a shiny object…
Thank you Nerdy for your supreme dedication to bringing us nothing but the best!
Thanks, GGail.
Another president Obama’s failure? Thank you Mr. President. I love these failures. More Please.
Awesome…… ❤ it.
Who is blocking them?
Vote in Nov 2014…… to make that change complete.
Apparently, the schools themselves do not participate in the federal student aid program.
I think Little Vlad should send Big Vlad (Segal) to investigate that matter…
Another extension? Wow.
This is enormously encouraging news, JER. TY!
Great News. This will explain his sudden need to appear on MSNBC. And the poll still has him tied? Hmm?
Tennesee VW plant employing 2,000 new workers in Chatanooga to build a mid-size SUV is great in several ways.
First 2000 new paychecks mean 2,000 families with more money in their posckets and perhaps 20,000 businesses in the surrounding neighborhoods seeing a significant uptick in their revenues and bottom lines, possibly requiring additonal hiring. The Virtuous Circle.
Also UAW and the local 92 has found a way around the Supreme Court. They are organizing to speak for the workers without obligatory dues collection.
Seems like a bright and sunshiny day in TN. Wave of the future, maybe?
We can hope, Vicki!!!!!!
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Hahahahaha – too funny!
Hooooooooooooowling!!!!!
Heh! A funny and heart-warming exchange 🙂 LOL
Fox reporter at the WH presser is still obsessed with photo-ups?
Mr. Earnest is doing a fantastic job…..educating the unruly and the partisan ignorant.
The question of Antonio Vagas came up. The Voice doesn’t comment on individual cases.
Please friends from California……what is this all about? 6 states? Really? To be voted on in 2016 elections? Seriously? Please someone talk me down, please.
You can pretty much get a ham sandwich onto the California ballot. I wouldn’t be too worried. Remember, an initiative to eviscerate unions made it to the ballot in 2012 and went down to decisive defeat.
Thanks LL.
I am talked down 😉
****** DON’T BE FOOLED*****
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/07/15/3460393/gop-hobby-lobby-contraception-bill/
There’s a war over birth control brewing in the Senate, and Republican lawmakers want to make it clear that the GOP is on the right side.
On Tuesday, after Senate Democrats introduced a measure to override the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on Hobby Lobby and clarify that for-profit companies must offer contraceptive coverage, their Republican colleagues announced some forthcoming legislation of their own. As the Hill reports, GOP leadership will introduce a bill that appears to be supportive of women’s access to birth control.
“We plan to introduce legislation this week that says no employer can block any employee from legal access to her FDA-approved contraceptives,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said. “There’s no disagreement on that fundamental point.”
If the final bill is along the lines of the initial reports, however, the GOP’s competing legislation likely wouldn’t do anything to change the status quo or ensure that Hobby Lobby employees have insurance coverage for contraception. Instead, it’s simply a way for Republicans to reinforce the point that the high court’s ruling on Hobby Lobby doesn’t inhibit women’s legal access to birth control.
The fact that women are still allowed to purchase every type of FDA-approved birth control has become the central argument used to downplay the impact of the Hobby Lobby case. Of course, it’s certainly true. Contraception remains legal, and the decision to allow some for-profit companies to refuse to cover some types of birth control on religious grounds doesn’t mean that all IUDs, for example, are now banned.
But legality isn’t exactly the same as accessibility. And the Hobby Lobby case was about the latter.
It must be nice to have so much money that you can throw it away for no good reason.
Besides being utterly hideous, I don’t see how this is constitutional. Bunch of people with too much time and money on their hands.
It is Constitutional if they get the people to buy in on this in 2016…..then their state would start the process and seek for these states to join the USA……through a Constitutional Legal Process.
We have NC and SC. We have ND and SD. There are kind of 2 VAs: VA and WVa. Puerto Rico can be a state, just like Hawaii is the 50th state. It will require an act of Congress and the 2/3 of the other USA giving their OK.
I know there’s a process but some people are being misguided that it’s just something the voters have to do.
I hope we could exchange some old states for new ones. I hope Texas…. I simply hope.
NCLB, it is almost impossible today for a State to secede. The Civil War and the Constitution makes secession nearly impossible.
What a beautiful couple.
He sure is on the right side of history.
Update!!
Awwww, both photo’s are just lovely.
Love it!! 🙂
700k jobs could be lost, do you think Boehner and those Tea Party folks care? Not one bit.
Where is DW-S and her 4 Co-chairs drumming this message? Aug 31st is only but 16 days away.
This lying turns my stomach.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118700/border-crisis-leads-conservatives-claim-child-migrants-are-diseased
OH YEAH!
I’m not going to say a thing…speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
Oh dear pathetic bigoted illiterates.
This is funny, but if you are an earnest follower of FOX News and the rest of the media, you would in fact believe that PBO was running in 2016. And not only that, but even Dems are running against him. Based on media reports…
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Good one vc
TY, Gx2
{It’s a pet peeve of mine that journos (who are well-paid) are always asking/expecting the public to do their work for them. For all we know they have their feet up, relaxing, while others bring issues forward. No wonder they can rarely dispute false or partisan garbage – they haven’t gone DEEP enough themselves! Instead they sit in each interview listening and or grinning like idiots, waiting to ask the next time-killing question and not knowing how to follow-up intelligently.. Makes me mad, it does!}
Drop the Mic, Japa.
Sounds like Vegas.
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I hope Chris Kluwe sues the Vikings and Wins big. It turns out his firing was as he indicated last year. The Vikings have serious Homophobic environment and his public activism ended his employment.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/vikings/2014/07/15/chris-kluwe-lawsuit-discrimination-mike-priefer/12674611/
Former punter Chris Kluwe will sue the Minnesota Vikings over his release from the team last year in hopes of getting the club to publicly unveil the findings of an investigation into the matter. Kluwe and his attorney, Clayton Halunen, made the announcement at a media conference Tuesday.
Halunen said the lawsuit will allege religious discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, defamation and tortious interference with contractual obligations, resulting in Kluwe’s release from the team in May 2013 after what he says was a pattern of intolerant language by special teams coordinator Mike Priefer related to Kluwe’s activism on gay marriage.
The media conference was called after Halunen received word Monday from the Vikings that they had “no intent” to release the report to Kluwe’s side or the public. Halunen strongly suggested its release would prompt the lawsuit to be dropped.
“We would like to resolve this out of court if we can,” Halunen told reporters.
Thanks,Sabreen60. Leader Pelosi is speaking now. Amend the Constitution…….I am in support of this. How to get the grassroots energized on this and to get a Huge movement is the key. The Corporate media makes way too much money from false advertisement to bother to care.
Thank you Sabreen!
Nerdy’s new post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/15/a-tweet-or-two-79/