Nicole Richie’s father was known for something before his daughter hit the ropes with Paris Hilton. For those of us of a certain age, Lionel Richie was a staple of summer radio. A little evening music to take away the day’s stress.
Too many threads – I’m not finished reading the last one – and haven’t started the one before – catching up is harder than getting the GOP to pass any legislation
Just back in from the watering of the new turf. Everyone who drives by stares – since our drought (which broke 2011 with a flood) no-one waters gardens any more. It feels quite weird. Some folks wave – I’ve no idea who they are but I wave back.
Oh, Chips, my next door neighbor goes out in his underwear. Not a sight you want to see in the morning. I’m casting my vote for your ruling the world campaign because life without parole for underwear exposure sounds fair to me.
Hi, TS! I figured I’d best acknowledge your comment to me on this thread so as not to give any further ammunition to uknowho. I’m not ahead in time, but I was almost that far behind when I entered the village today. I must say I’m almost up to par now, or I would be if people would agree on communal break periods where no new info was allowed into the village. 😉 😉
Hi JackieG! Did you see that tweet I left you? It was because of that that Chips caught me on the Early Bird thread. I was trying to tiptoe through but paused to give you an answer and, of course, she was in spy mode.
I doubt they would cooperate, TS – with one or two exceptions they really are tyrants. Clearly however, some of you (notice I didn’t say us) like tyrants. 😉
Dan Froomkin, a journalist with The Intercept website said: “Obama referred to the people we tortured – and the people who tortured them – as ‘folks’. Neither is really appropriate.”
beebs has become dweebs like their murkan cousins.
This “folks-gate” nonsense is just like a Monty Python skit. I mean, seriously? Let’s ignore GWB and media personality Dick Cheney actually tortured people, but instead dwell on the fact that the President who ended the torture policy used the word “folks” during a press conference. There is no doubt this was the order from GOP to push this meme. It makes no sense to anybody not living in the DC bubble.
Yep! Media people are basically talking to themselves! They’ve decided that they all hate President Obama and they will do whatever it takes to try to convince the American people to join then in their hatred. To accomplish that, they start acting like an echo chamber. They will repeat gotcha you and negative analyses of President Obama over and over again, 24-7. They will then take bogus polls to inform us how we all hate President Obama. And when President Obama visits different communities –both here and abroad– where he is greeted with genuine enthusiasm and warmth, the media will make sure to black-out coverage of the President’s reception so as to deprive the rest of us Americans the pain of seeing President Obama, the supposedly hated one, so warmly and enthusiastically received, wherever he goes in this country or abroad.
Unfortunately, for the MSM, they have not yet caught up to the reality that increasingly, many of us Americans no longer exclusively depend only on them for information. Moreover, a great many of us no longer buy into the shoddy, unethical, and propagandist analyses and commentaries by MSM pundits. The same goes for a great many of the MSM’s self-serving negative polls that are always trotted out to justify their attacks and denigration of President Obama.
Eric, this “gate” enters the great pantheon of idiocy that included this week’s cole slaw scandal. Just when you think the American media can’t get any more irrelevant, they reach another level.
🙂 I was too busy laughing at the hedgehog scene to intervene, he kept throwing me those WTF looks, while the hair on his back almost brushed against Mars. Rabbits, ducks and hedgehogs, all in the one day, no wonder he’s in a snoozy heap beside me.
He did a great job! But the hedgehog, who, naturally, was a prickly ball, seemed completely chilled about the meeting, as in: “Meh, another dumb puppy.”
I got a robo call earlier tonight. You know the “breathless”, fear-filled message about how awful Lamar Alexander, linked him with President Obama and we must send Joe Carr to “do the right thing” and clean up Washington. He is conservative blah, blah, blah, blah…………Don’t remember who paid for…..some Citizens for ???????. Joe Carr is the TP candidate, btw.
Good advice from my late Dad, Tnmtngirl! He was a witness in a case years back, a bunch of thugs in a car terrorizing people on the road one night, and then they, somehow, got hold of our home’s number and began making threatening calls. So for a week or so, until they were stopped, he put a whistle by the phone, and any time we answered we emptied our lungs in to it. Hopefully they still have perforated ear drums 🙂
Aren’t Moscow political pundits about as accurate as ours?
They think Kremlin unlikely to deny #Snowden asylum extension request, but wouldn’t #Ukraine tensions make it likely that #Snowden is denied further asylum?
Happy August to TODville, happy birthday, President Obama. Hope you have an wonderful, relaxing day with your family and friends at Camp David this weekend.
This week, @latimes profiled a book about Pacific Ocean Park (in LL’s neighborhood) which closed in August 1967, which prompted me to see what else happened then:
Aug 1967
RIP Pacific Ocean Park
Hendrix debut
Thurgood joined SCOTUS
"we have embraced, then rejected Modern design"
http://t.co/KXnhU6MGlQ
I see the media is all real proud of Boehner for getting some weak sauce of a bill passed, a “nothingburger” (fave word), and are real excited about it as they proclaim he and the House Repubs have solved the border and immigration crisis. Ay yi yi.
Take note on who Boehner pandering to RT @costareports: Bachmann tells me she's never seen leadership work so hard to win over her and King
Robert Costa @costareports · 3m
One Dem, Henry Cuellar, voted yes… bill now faces quick death in Senate, but gives House Rs a passed plan to cite at town halls
A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license.
She replies in a huff, “I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yesterday you take away my license and then today you expect me to show it to you!”
Bon, I am with you,100%! Enough is enough! This racist woman should be censured! Not only does she disrespect the President of the United States, but she disrespects the 66 millions of us who voted to re-elect him. Bachmann is a disgrace!
The House Republicans stayed in Washington on the first day of their holidays after they abandoned a scheduled vote on Thursday in the face of opposition from conservatives within their own party.
The new bill had tougher language and gave an additional $35m for the National Guard to be based at the southern border.
It would also speed up the deportation and repatriation of the children by stripping them of anti-human trafficking protections written into a 2008 law.
And it would reverse Barack Obama’s policy of deferring action against minors brought to the US illegally by their parents, which brought a scathing response from the White House.
A statement said: “The legislation put forward tonight by House Republicans does not responsibly address the problem of unaccompanied children apprehended at the border, and could result in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of… young people who were brought to this country as children and are Americans in every way but on paper. ”
In a press briefing earlier, the president said he would have to make tough choices himself, hinting at executive actions he can make without Congress.
He accused the Republicans of not trying to genuinely solve the problem.
The Obama Diary 
Happy!
❤️Lionel
Glad you approve!
Outta sight! 😀
Ha! LL this totally brings me back! Fun fun tunes.
Helloooooooooooooooooo Alice! 🙂
Hellooooooo Chips! Hope you and TOD are all fit as a fiddle!
Well Alice, I’m fiddling, not sure about the fit. Hope you’re fiddling fit!
😉
Congrats on 1st, vetivera!!
Very, very well done Mr Librarian!!!!
Thanks Bobfr
God gets tweets.
OMG!!!! 😆
Thank you Lionel Librarian!
You’re welcome, Miss!
Poor thing…LOL
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_08/messing_with_daca_will_not_go051477.php
I feel badly about this, for the people it will affect….but they need a nail in their coffin.
Are the fools still in town
Too many threads – I’m not finished reading the last one – and haven’t started the one before – catching up is harder than getting the GOP to pass any legislation
😀 😀 😀
Hello Bobfr – always good to catch up with you – even if I’m late to the party 🙂
Hiya Trish…….How’s by you?
Just back in from the watering of the new turf. Everyone who drives by stares – since our drought (which broke 2011 with a flood) no-one waters gardens any more. It feels quite weird. Some folks wave – I’ve no idea who they are but I wave back.
Oh heavens, I seriously want a fly-on-the-wall show on 99ts in her garden 😆
Well the neighbor wandered out in her dressing gown – I did put on the jeans & sweater – which may/may not have been an improvement
This selling up isn’t for the timid, hope someone appreciates all my efforts.
That outdoor dressing gown thing, I don’t get it 99ts.
That’s another one of my laws when I rule the world, dressing gown outdoors —> life without parole.
Oh, Chips, my next door neighbor goes out in his underwear. Not a sight you want to see in the morning. I’m casting my vote for your ruling the world campaign because life without parole for underwear exposure sounds fair to me.
We make our own rules down under! There would be prison overflow with that one 🙂
Aye. Sometimes we cultivate our own peace. 😉
14 hours ahead – 5 threads behind
Hi, TS! I figured I’d best acknowledge your comment to me on this thread so as not to give any further ammunition to uknowho. I’m not ahead in time, but I was almost that far behind when I entered the village today. I must say I’m almost up to par now, or I would be if people would agree on communal break periods where no new info was allowed into the village. 😉 😉
Well, VC, I gave up two threads ago and jumped into the current Double Dutch game. Of course, you tend to tangle your feet when you do that.
Hi JackieG! Did you see that tweet I left you? It was because of that that Chips caught me on the Early Bird thread. I was trying to tiptoe through but paused to give you an answer and, of course, she was in spy mode.
Yes! I went back to the Early Bird thread and found exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!!! Sorry you got caught out doing a good deed.
All in a good cause, JackieG; happy to have been helpful! 🙂
That’s an idea vc – we should start a petition – although I fear the BTs don’t believe in such things 🙂
I doubt they would cooperate, TS – with one or two exceptions they really are tyrants. Clearly however, some of you (notice I didn’t say us) like tyrants. 😉
u having a bad hair day vc?
No dear, TS. *My* days rarely ever have anything to do with hair. 😀
More good stuff.
This was one of his most beautiful pieces.
Amen. That’s why I put it up. Memories!!1
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
I. Am. In. Tears!!!!!!!!!
LOL! I can’t believe it myself…hahahaha!
Kasai, I was trying to find a funny 911 call by a kid, didn’t get the one I was looking for, but, oh, this!!
Aww!!! that’s too precious….I am in tears…I love him
I would call the “Police” only if TOD was out for about 2hrs…lol!
😆 Me too!!!
hahaha! You so crazyyy I would have an “Amber Alert”
all up and down Indiana…tehehehe
LL – Hello!
Lionel Ritchie: Perfect, perfect choice after a long, long day!
More reasons to love the Irish People:-)
What sweet girls they are with good and generous hearts. When kids do something like this, it helps to balance the ugliness.
Yes JB…truly sweet..Kids always seem to do what is needed in this cruel world.
They are precious!
Yes they are Nat:-)
Dan Froomkin, a journalist with The Intercept website said: “Obama referred to the people we tortured – and the people who tortured them – as ‘folks’. Neither is really appropriate.”
beebs has become dweebs like their murkan cousins.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28616553
This “folks-gate” nonsense is just like a Monty Python skit. I mean, seriously? Let’s ignore GWB and media personality Dick Cheney actually tortured people, but instead dwell on the fact that the President who ended the torture policy used the word “folks” during a press conference. There is no doubt this was the order from GOP to push this meme. It makes no sense to anybody not living in the DC bubble.
Our media is self-referential, which interests no one outside of their echo-chamber.
Yep! Media people are basically talking to themselves! They’ve decided that they all hate President Obama and they will do whatever it takes to try to convince the American people to join then in their hatred. To accomplish that, they start acting like an echo chamber. They will repeat gotcha you and negative analyses of President Obama over and over again, 24-7. They will then take bogus polls to inform us how we all hate President Obama. And when President Obama visits different communities –both here and abroad– where he is greeted with genuine enthusiasm and warmth, the media will make sure to black-out coverage of the President’s reception so as to deprive the rest of us Americans the pain of seeing President Obama, the supposedly hated one, so warmly and enthusiastically received, wherever he goes in this country or abroad.
Unfortunately, for the MSM, they have not yet caught up to the reality that increasingly, many of us Americans no longer exclusively depend only on them for information. Moreover, a great many of us no longer buy into the shoddy, unethical, and propagandist analyses and commentaries by MSM pundits. The same goes for a great many of the MSM’s self-serving negative polls that are always trotted out to justify their attacks and denigration of President Obama.
Eric, this “gate” enters the great pantheon of idiocy that included this week’s cole slaw scandal. Just when you think the American media can’t get any more irrelevant, they reach another level.
Okay, Danny has just met his furst hedgehog, and his world is now: WTF?!?!
stop taking him to the zoo. furst fox, now this.
And rabbits and ducks earlier today! His world is rocking! 🙂
furst, you tempt him. then you make a scene when he just wants to play with them.
🙂 I was too busy laughing at the hedgehog scene to intervene, he kept throwing me those WTF looks, while the hair on his back almost brushed against Mars. Rabbits, ducks and hedgehogs, all in the one day, no wonder he’s in a snoozy heap beside me.
Heh??? He was just trying to imitate the hog, ok?
He did a great job! But the hedgehog, who, naturally, was a prickly ball, seemed completely chilled about the meeting, as in: “Meh, another dumb puppy.”
… puppy, who thinks he is a cat.
hoap ur pupees p in ur shoos
they already dunnit on my shirt, my pants, my hands …
note to self : next time, you lift them facing the other way, you dunce.
😆
Did they do it on your soggy pizza?
I am stoopid but not that stoopid.
Betcha somewhere on this planet, puppy pee is a highly desired pizza topping.
Thank you BFF!
You are welcome.
I got a robo call earlier tonight. You know the “breathless”, fear-filled message about how awful Lamar Alexander, linked him with President Obama and we must send Joe Carr to “do the right thing” and clean up Washington. He is conservative blah, blah, blah, blah…………Don’t remember who paid for…..some Citizens for ???????. Joe Carr is the TP candidate, btw.
Ugh, tnmtngirl, I always wish these were done by live people and you could blow a whistle REALLY loud in their ear.
Oooooh, that would be cool! 🙂
Good advice from my late Dad, Tnmtngirl! He was a witness in a case years back, a bunch of thugs in a car terrorizing people on the road one night, and then they, somehow, got hold of our home’s number and began making threatening calls. So for a week or so, until they were stopped, he put a whistle by the phone, and any time we answered we emptied our lungs in to it. Hopefully they still have perforated ear drums 🙂
Aren’t Moscow political pundits about as accurate as ours?
They think Kremlin unlikely to deny #Snowden asylum extension request, but wouldn’t #Ukraine tensions make it likely that #Snowden is denied further asylum?
Putin will extend – because Obama – but if Snowden came home – watch the GOP decide he is a whistleblower, not a spy – because – the same reason.
Ha. My grandmother used to refer to some gentlemen as “pansies.” Always made me laugh.
Happy August to TODville, happy birthday, President Obama. Hope you have an wonderful, relaxing day with your family and friends at Camp David this weekend.
This week, @latimes profiled a book about Pacific Ocean Park (in LL’s neighborhood) which closed in August 1967, which prompted me to see what else happened then:
We seemed much closer to #post-racial 47 years ago than now.
Hi Arapaho that was my favorite place to spend a day at the beach. We called it P.O.P……thanks for a sweet memorie after a terrible day.
I see the media is all real proud of Boehner for getting some weak sauce of a bill passed, a “nothingburger” (fave word), and are real excited about it as they proclaim he and the House Repubs have solved the border and immigration crisis. Ay yi yi.
Robert Costa @costareports · 3m
One Dem, Henry Cuellar, voted yes… bill now faces quick death in Senate, but gives House Rs a passed plan to cite at town halls
People aren’t stupid…their fringe will not be happy about the fact that the bill is not going anywhere.
What’s with this Henry Cuellar guy???
from texas, ’nuff said.
Oh, ok, got it.
Lionel Richey, good choice! Mellow voice…….
I LOVE LIONEL RICHEY…LISTENING TO ALL OF THESE…MAKES ME SMILE!
I know the feeling.
awwwwww…..
Time in, refueled, and ready to go! 😀
She’s baaaaaaaaaaack! 🙂
Sigh!
/resignedly/ O hi, Chips Chica.
😀
One of the few concerts I was ever able to attend was 36 years ago while stationed in Germany- The Commadores! Loved it, thanks for this LL.
Am I too late?? Is the concert still going on? Please Lionel, sing for me!!
Fact ….
#OWNthe114th
Yes WE MUST
A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license.
She replies in a huff, “I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yesterday you take away my license and then today you expect me to show it to you!”
gotta go.
I’m so furious I can hardly breathe:
Mama Chips..One day Danny will be just as good as this cute puppy:-)
Hey Chips, Danny should come to the Oregon Zoo to meet the new baby hedgehogs.
http://www.oregonlive.com/multimedia/index.ssf/2014/07/oregon_zoo_release_photos_of_f.html#incart_hbx#incart_best-of
Ooooooo, MMmmmmmm, GGggggg Judith, they are the CUTEST things!!! I want to adopt them all!
Friday night music mix, part 2: http://theobamadiary.com/2014/08/01/night-owl-chat-the-commodores/
Bon, I am with you,100%! Enough is enough! This racist woman should be censured! Not only does she disrespect the President of the United States, but she disrespects the 66 millions of us who voted to re-elect him. Bachmann is a disgrace!
The House Republicans stayed in Washington on the first day of their holidays after they abandoned a scheduled vote on Thursday in the face of opposition from conservatives within their own party.
The new bill had tougher language and gave an additional $35m for the National Guard to be based at the southern border.
It would also speed up the deportation and repatriation of the children by stripping them of anti-human trafficking protections written into a 2008 law.
And it would reverse Barack Obama’s policy of deferring action against minors brought to the US illegally by their parents, which brought a scathing response from the White House.
A statement said: “The legislation put forward tonight by House Republicans does not responsibly address the problem of unaccompanied children apprehended at the border, and could result in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of… young people who were brought to this country as children and are Americans in every way but on paper. ”
In a press briefing earlier, the president said he would have to make tough choices himself, hinting at executive actions he can make without Congress.
He accused the Republicans of not trying to genuinely solve the problem.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28606990
batshit crazy cruz destroying the teabaggers from within.