[Funeral planning]
"I know this is a tough time, but I have one last question."
Mrs. Peanut: *sniffles* "Yes"?
"Smooth or crunchy"?
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(@Tommytoughstuff) July 18, 2014*peers at someone over copy of How To Discreetly Spy on People*
"Buddy, I can see you spying on me"
"Sorry I'm only on the first chapter"
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patrick (@tastefactory) July 16, 2014****
When Daniel Radcliffe gets drunk and annoyed at his girlfriend he refers to her as Voldemort and reenacts fight scenes by himself.
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Lady (@ladybroseph) July 13, 2014I used to think the tickle monster wasn't real until I tickled my dad when he was drunk and he threw me through a window
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Rad Kyle (@KyleMcDowell86) July 19, 2014****
*approaches hot blonde at supermarket*
"Excuse me but has anyone ever told you that you're blocking the fucking Lunchables?"
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Mattguyver (@shadygrenade) June 05, 2014For sale: car. Does not stop. You will have to jump in as I jump out. I have been driving this car for three years. Please help me
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(@Ristolable) June 10, 2014****
Hello 911.
"He's back what do I do?"
Brent?
"Yes"
It's the just the mailman remember
"Ok, sorry."
Bye
"Wait, he put something in my mailbo
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Brent (@murrman5) August 06, 2013[American citizenship test]
Instructor: So the test... hey are u listening?
*doesnt look up from phone*
"Wow u passed welcome to America"
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Rad Kyle (@KyleMcDowell86) July 04, 2014****
[On a date at a restaurant]
So this is nice huh?
"Yea,uh, who's that?"
*Dad is breathing on the window and writing 'VIRGIN' in the steam*
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GoaT FacE ThrillA (@EndhooS) December 17, 2013hello 911
"whats your emergency"
there's someone in my home
"are you safe?"
it's a girl
"do you like her"
*starts twirling hair*
I dont know
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Platypus King (@DillDoes) July 17, 2014
The Obama Diary 
Meeeeeeee!
youuuuuuuu!
😎 Thank you vetivera24.
Nerdy? Prize please.
PS Thank you for the smile-fest, legend!
I see you already awarded yourself a prize.
😦
I blame this on Friday.
Here you go.
O…..M……G……. I lurve you Nerdy!
♥ Wayne ♥
🙂
Except… he’s in a picnic table shirt…
Hush you!
Nerdy chose that pic for a purpose.
#Lust
Yes it is …. 😀 😀 😀 😀
The Chips, NW Alliance!!!!!
Oh no not the stern look.
Sweet way to end the day.
NW, those are among the funniest tweets I’ve ever read. Well done!!!
Thanks, Bob.
I thought of you when I was including some of the tweets. Glad you like them and that your sense of humor walks hand in hand with mine. 🙂
NW, the only thing you should have done is post a warning that I should not be sipping some wine while reading!!!
Damn near choked on the ‘smooth or crunchy’ and ‘you’re blocking the fucking Lunchables’ and ‘Dad is breathing on the window and writing ‘VIRGIN’ in the steam’ 😀 😀 😀 😀
Hahahahahahahahaha. Those ones got me too. The imagery accompanying the funeral ‘smooth or crunchy’ tweet had me losing it.
Yep 😀 😀 😀
Realizing that this isn’t funny, but it is incredibly soothing and I failed to honor the passing of Charlie Haden (whom I will always cherish) so just want to share this with all of you in his memory ….
Beautiful, thank you, bobfr. Put me right back in the center. Much needed. And appreciated.
Am delighted it helped, MP. Am listening to many of Charlie’s memorable tunes now and will be doing so through the evening ….
And, one more favorite ….
… these seem well suited for a Friday evening ….
Okay. So, MP is only 4 threads behind.. That’s not too bad. Is it? 😉 sheesh.
Timely question ….
Really want all of you to read the Marc Ambinder article that is linked in this tweet so you are fully prepared to debunk the Saint Ronnie fan club bs ….
I have no doubt President Obama knows the history and will never behave as Reagan did …. but, he will CRUSH Putin, a process he has well underway as is obvious to anyone paying attention.
#TrustBarack
#OWNthe114th
Wow…wow…..wow. Very enlightening read.
Thanks, Bob.
You’re welcome, NW.
That is very illuminating. Thanks, Bob.
*this weekend at Camp David*
Oh good. My replies aren’t landing where I thought they would. Another reason to have another sip of this wine.
I’m enjoying the thought that the President will be talking about The Crushing, this week at Camp David.
Me too
Passing along this on Bowe Bergdahl since we had a mini discussion here recently about his refusal to see or talk to his parents, which does indeed seem to be the case……..
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-afghanistan-bergdahl-20140714,0,2258213.story
BREAKING: The missus and I will be trolling the wineries of Solvang tomorrow, capped off with dinner at Hitching Post II.
DRINK WINE AND CARRY ON.
I am soooooo jealous!
I shall drive up, missus shall drive back, as I intend to be sloshed.
Ah! To bad you can’t spend the night. At least you’ll get to taken in the beautiful scenery…makes me so homesick. Sideways is one of my favorite movies!
And, just because I like being supercilious, we knew about HP2 BEFORE “Sideways”. Just happened upon it on our first Solvang trip. Were pleased as hell that “Sideways” gave it more notoriety. Awesome restaurant.
Buellton has been a fav stopover point for me since the 1970s.
Not so beautiful now, because of the drought.
I’m in the southern county of what the locals call “Tri-County Area” which is San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
I love the rolling hillsides in SLO county, but they are parched and brown now, you could be anywhere inland because of the lack of rain.
LL reported on an El Nino earlier this year, but meteorologists have now dialed that back and are no longer forecasting a rainy winter. 😦
This article is pretty worthless, but the photo is of Folsom Lake (in the Sacramento area) which has receded from the boat marina (boat is in foreground):
Are the wineries good there? My husband and I love many of the wineries in Paso Robles, a couple we’ve tried so far in the San Luis Obispo area but haven’t been to Solvang yet. Let me know of some good wineries to go to when you get back.
I was lucky enough to sign on and visit TOD right before Pres. Obama’s presser on the Ukraine today. Watched all of it. Then I had to leave for most of the day. I felt so safe. Whenever I think of him I feel so safe. I have a deep desire to give him that Congress he can work with. He would have a great time getting things done! I will do whatever I can. Together we are powerful!
I also wanted to pass on this interesting article about the greening of the military. I’ve been reading bits and pieces for awhile. Dept of Interior and other departments are also working to deal with climate change. Pres Obama truly makes the government work for all of us.
And then Republicans vote for something like this. Need ANOTHER reason for vote for Dems?
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/22/3440827/mckinley-climate-pentagon-climate-change/
I just got the chance to listen to the young kid who introduce the First Lady today at the Kid’s State Dinner. He is something else His Mom and Dad should be very proud of him. The things he is doing to help feed homeless hungry people, and he did this from listening to the First Lady last year and she ask those sitting at the table with her about giving back..That young kid was something else. When I see the haters who want to trash our First Lady for trying to help our kids eat healthy, I will think of this kid. After listening to him now I know why the First Lady said to the kid that you’re not suppose to make the First Lady cry. He made me cry and so proud.
Thank you NW for posting the video.
He’s a very special person, annie, and very much represents the best future humanity can hope to build.
Yes he is Bobfr. That is why POTUS and FLOTUS fight so hard for kids like him.
🙂 thanks tme!
Moving report on Chgo news about a memorial service tonight for the plane victims organized by the Malaysian and Ukrainian communities here. 298 flickering candles—- a very sad sight.
I’ve been searching for some old data today, without much success, concerning our shooting down of Iran Air 655 in 1988 killing 290. The plane was shot down with a surface-to-air missile from our ship Vincennes in the Persian Gulf. The crew who fired thought they were shooting down an Iranian military plane that was about to shoot at them. They, like the pro-Russian forces who shot down a plane yesterday, initially bragged about their accomplishment. At first the Pentagon denied everything. Within days, however, they took responsibility and eventually paid the families of the deceased ($18 million?). For their American audiences, they engaged in a great deal of dissembling with ongoing demonstrations of the unavoidability of the event. In a sense, that was true. But there was more to the story. Their AEGIS anti-ballistic missile system was faulty in particular respects and the defense contractor knew it beforehand and had falsified the original test results. That was why, it was believed, the system could not tell the difference between a military plane and a passenger plane that day. In my Social Problems classes in the 1990’s I showed a video of a PBS investigation of deliberate fraud in the military-industrial complex and its costs to our society, not only economic. I threw out most of those videos because they were dated, big mistake. So today I’ve been searching for information about that fraud. One more point. This article traces our problems with Iran back to the Iranian Revolution. It should go back further. In part, the revolution was blowback to our overthrow of their democratically-elected government in 1953 and reinstallation of a brutal dictator, Shah Pahlavi.
Which article are you referring to in the second-to-the-last sentence? “This article traces our problems…”
I read an interesting article in The Atlantic awhile ago about Iran Air 655 which described how Flight 655 is viewed in Iran, but can’t locate it now.
But related to this incident — how is it that Reagan is viewed as such a “Saint” given the Beirut bombing, Iran Contra arms sale and Iran Air Flight 655? It’s as if the MSM never mention these “lapses” yet are quick to pounce on a whiff of “scandalabra.”
And by the way, NBC Chicago wasn’t fooling around——placed responsibility for the downing of the plane squarely where it belonged, with the separatists and Russia——-adamantly, almost angrily.
so they booed uncle joe at nutroots convention. and they wonder why the pols use a ten foot pole near them.
Why they boo him? Didn’t Sally Kohn imply he was doing great? And regardless, booing is so damn childish and unprofessional – especially to someone who is an ally. Meanwhile, I’m sure they would have applauded a dolt like Snowden….
Those juvenile idiots should have been honored to have Joe Biden give them the time of day, let alone show up. What a bunch of spoiled brats who think their puny minds are more astute than our brilliant President and VP. I must admit I was shocked when I heard he gave that group enough credence to speak to them.. I hope that’s the last time he dignifies them with anything but a laugh in their faces.
VP Biden have more class then any of those people who booed him ever will.
I don’t want the hog castrator and the Obama impeacher lady in the senate…..
May have been posted before.
Sure remember reading about the press saying there were many Americans killed on the flight yesterday. It would be nice if the press would deal in facts instead of innuendo and rumors. First instead of correct seems to be their motto, just like McCain spewing whatever just for attention.
Agree with everything you just wrote! Pathetic, isn’t it?
Yep. Several news agencies reported 23 Americans on board. Yet another total #NEWSTAINER FAIL
Just too good of a tweet not to share.
Simply brilliant, JOB! This should be re-tweeted over and over again.
🙂
Hope he catches a clue, soon ….
#TrustBarack
#OWNthe114th
good night TOD
for r&s ?
BOOM….
Good morning. Looks like it’s just amk and me. hahahaha
I can’t stop laughing about this. My son-in-law said my baby gr-daughter said her first word yesterday. It was “burp”.
🙂 🙂 Too cute! LOL
Wish I could post a smart cartoon!
Good Morning, TODVille!
Awwwwww! How do you even find an otter?
trade secret
for once, me happy that we are the last.
Black voters could decide who controls the Senate in 2015. Here’s how.
By Aaron Blake
April 23
Black voters played a huge role in delivering Barack Obama to the White House in 2008 and 2012. And in 2014, they will play a huge role in determining whether the president’s party can stop Republicans from taking the Senate.
Why? Here are four reasons:
1. Black voters are hugely influential on the 2014 map
Six of the 16 states with the highest black populations are holding key Senate contests in 2014. A seventh — the most African American state in the country, Mississippi — is holding a contest that could get interesting if there’s a tea party upset in the GOP primary.
This is a highly unusual set of circumstances, especially when you consider that most states with large numbers of African American voters generally don’t hold competitive Senate races because they are safely red (in the South, generally) or blue (in the Northeast).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/23/black-voters-could-decide-who-controls-the-senate-in-2015-heres-how/
FU M$ outlook. 10 attempts to download 5 meg e-mail and at the end of each 5 meg, error msg.
Defeating Obama’s kryptonite with the black vote
By Jonathan Capehart April 23
Norm Ornstein’s piece in National Journal today came up during a taping of “Press Pass” for “Meet The Press” this morning. It was one more in a series of pieces on the “Green Lantern theory” of the presidency, which was refined by Greg Sargent and others riffing off Matthew Yglesias’s “Green Lantern theory of Geopolitics” from 2006. “In a nutshell,” Ornstein writes, “it attributes heroic powers to a president — if only he would use them.”
If only Obama had dealt with Congress the way LBJ did — persuading, cajoling, threatening, and sweet-talking members to attain his goals — his presidency would not be on the ropes and he would be a hero. If only Obama would schmooze with lawmakers the way Bill Clinton did, he would have much greater success. If only Obama would work with Republicans and not try to steamroll them, he could be a hero and have a fiscal deal that would solve the long-term debt problem.
Having a little fun with the topic, NBC News’s Kristin Welker asked me what superpower I thought President Obama needed. Before the segment, I thought long and hard about this. The president has tried working with Republicans. He’s tried schmoozing them. He’s tried cajoling them. And he’s tried to giving them space so it wouldn’t look like he was interfering or that Republicans were doing the bidding of the man the base hates. That’s when it hit me.
Superman has superpowers and a great costume (even though it breaks Edna Mode’s “No capes!” rule), but he was no match for kryptonite. What Obama needs more than anything is for the American people, voters, to knock the kryptonite out of the hands of his opponents.
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So if the American people are going to succeed in knocking the kryptonite out of the hands of Obama’s opponents, black voters will have to lead them. All that’s required is casting a ballot.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/04/23/defeating-obamas-kryptonite-with-the-black-vote/
And registering to vote, Rikyrah. If we could create enough momentum to register huge numbers of of AA voters, then we have a better chance of increasing turnout.
Maybe chips was in Chgo last night for the big Billy Joel concert at Wrigley Field——sleeping in today.
Calling first on the upcoming Early Bird chat.
Well good morning anyway to all early birders. Going to have to run soon to get Saturday morning errands done. Last night WP decided to start fighting me when I was too tired to fight back. So, I shrugged, surrendered and said it (WP) could have the field. Now that I’m in a fighting mood again, WP is being placid. Go figure.
Chiparoooo’s Early Bird Chat.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/19/early-bird-chat-300/