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Moooooooorning Roberta!!!! Mooooooorning vetivera24!!!!
Morning Chips!
Morning Roberta…congrats! Have a great day.
I can’t believe you were all over here while I was yelling my voice off on the old thread!!!! I simply don’t think I’m going to speak to ANY of you this morning! Other than saying a grudging “MooOOOoorrning’, without the ‘GooOood’!
Gotta keep one foot in the past and one in the future. Morning VC.
That’s too big a stretch, A-b. I’m not fit enough for that.
😦 Soorry VC, left you a response on the last thread. Guess I was here instead of there. 🙂 Good Morning to you.
I love this – now we are playing musical messages? I left you a greeting on the other thread. 🙂
Morning TOD folks!
Good Morning Vetivera & Chips
GOOD MORNING ALL RAINBOW RIDERS…ONE OF MY FAVORITE PICTURES OF PBO….FATHER ‘QUALITY’ TIME….
Watching C-Span people are just awful no matter what POTUS does he can’t do anything right or not fast enough. A lot of anger.
Morning Roberta! Let them nurse their anger; it will take care of them soon enough!
That’s right vc. Their anger is a sign that they are losing and they know it. They are becoming unhinged but it will destroy THEM, and not PBO! 🙂
A sane arrival! One who was not involved in my earlier humiliation! 🙂 🙂 🙂
{{Hopefruit}} O Hopefruit, I’m so happy to see you! A wonderful Friday Morning wish to you!
I SINCERELY BELIEVE THESE CRAZY TEAPARTY FOOLS ARE LOADING UP FOR A CIVIL WAR IN THIS COUNTRY..THEY WERE NOT STANDING IN LINE WHEN BRAINS WERE DELIVERED!
GM HF. I know it will destroy them, but, I am so tired of all the bullshyte that comes out of their mouths. Ignorant is more like it. Good to see you here this early. Will be gone for a bit today. BBL
Humpffff! Go look on the last thread, Chips!!! GRRRR!!!!
Moooooooooooorning VC!!!!
I wasn’t SLOW! I was right there trying to do a good deed and waking you up – see if I ever try to help *you* again! If I remember correctly I was one of those trying to budge you the OBL night, and little success did I have. /brushing hands together/ Last time I try!
A very ‘Good Friday Morning/Evening’ to all who were NOT hiding in the village when I arrived!
May your day be visited by sunshine, or rain, whichever you need most.
😆 You alright there, VC?
Taking slow deep breaths, CC! Should be back to normal soon; thanks for asking.
You know, Chips, the very calm highlighted by your posted pic has started to do wonders for my abused spirit. /smh in wonder/ At times you can be quite insightful…. your insight is much appreciated *at this moment*.
Come on! Wake up! Wake UP! It’s FRI.day!
CHiiiiiiiiips!!!1 Get up!
Really?
It isn’t Friday? O well, don’t worry about it. It’s ONE of the seven days of the week, I feel sure.
Good Afternoon to you, Mr. Amk….and to little J’Furst, and his two un-named brothers!
Color set by using hex value
furst
Show off!!!!!!!!! 😆
I had to refresh to make sure that yellow bar was real and not just my computer acting up. Always something to keep us on our toes, eh AMK?!?!?!?
My eyes, o, my eyes!!!
For the love of ….fill in your preferred deity…., Chips would you take away his crayons, markers, ability to post animated smilies, or whatever! This is visual abuse!
sorry, did I wake you up?
He will now, I forecast, unleash a rainbow on you VC!
Well, DO SOMETHING about it, darn it, instead of standing on the sidelines, head twisting right and left like you are at a tennis match!!!!
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Was about to say ‘too little, too late’, then realized that was exactly not the fuel to add to your fire! 😀 😀
Show off! 🙂
Good Friday Chipsticks…TODers!!!
furst
better.
No. 👿
red doesn’t suit you. How about some yellow?
If I have to refill my migraine medication today, I’m sending you the bill.
Then sending Chips another bill for letting you play unsupervised!
Too bad he couldn’t find a brighter color, huh VC! _____ Morning to you. 🙂
🙂 Mooooorning swbluega!!!
Bite your tongue, SW!
And a ___________ Morning back at you! 😉
😀 Since you weren’t going with “GooOood” this morning, I figured I’d let you fill in the blank. 😉
And I got that, SW! Every so often I chuckle when I realize how naturally and well most folks here understand each other. 😀 😀
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Is he still playing?
Has Chips taken away his markers yet? You know, children shouldn’t be allowed to play in the TODvillage unsupervised. Particularly with all the
old mature people who hang out here. Just saying.😳 See how blinded I am? I was unable to close the ‘del’ sign properly.
…. the
oldmature people who hang out hereAnd that took me several attempts to correct. And I’m not even sure it will be accurate.
ps: Anyone know if you can legitimately sue a poster on a blog site for eye assault?
Congrats Roberta.
Happy Friday TODers
Heeeeeya Chips!!
Mooooooooorning Africaaaaaaaaaa!!
Thanks Africa. Good Friday to you too. 🙂
G’morning Chips & TOD! Happy Friday everyone. 🙂
Amk what’s with the bright yellow bar?!?!?
Howdy, hf
Oh my….’morning amk. Whose markers did you steal this morning?
‘what’s with the bright yellow bar?’
Amk, enjoying his newest toy? Amk making a new discovery? Amk trying to discover where my level of murderous rage peaks?
‘what’s with the bright yellow bar?’
Chips ‘caving’? Chips ‘leading from behind’? Chips being ‘weak’? CHIPS, wanting to see what it takes to drive me into a murderous rage?
Who knows? She’s been so uppity and out of touch in the village. Hasn’t even noticed that there is a growing enthusiasm gap!
to be honest (for a change, of course), I was shooting for yellow letters but ended up with giving you migraine.
my bad.
Well, go play with your colours somewhere else! Yellow letters would be just as bad. Geesh.
THIS is my greatest grievance against you! That you have access to active smilies (like the angel AND the suspicious one) and *I* have to smoulder quietly in jealous rage! Grrrrrr!
At least the yellow here is slightly tempered with green….and a wash of tears. :grin
Heh look above.
Look at the bright side. always.
! (you can imagine what came before)
Moooooooorning Hopefruit!!! He’s gone color bonkers.
what, you don’t like colors in your blog ?
🙂 I do! I just need sunglasses with yours!
Chips, I just spent almost 10minutes (in your TL), trying to find that tweet where someone was unenthusiastic and sarcastically said there’s only ‘one TOD’ as evidence of my point above. You must have deleted it! Sigh!
You guys crack me up….vc amk chips ….can’t we all just get along. circa 1992 Rodney King.
🙂 🙂 🙂
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
I love this pic of POTUS and Sasha. One of my all-time favorites with his daughters.
Same for me. I love this photo. Happy Friday, Rikyrah.
That picture is one of my favorite picture too of POTUS and Sasha.
LOOKS LIKE A RAINBOW AUCTION IN HERE…LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL///COLORS FLYIN’ EVERYWHERE! BEEN PRAYING FOR PBO AND ALL OF THE INNOCENTS FACING TERROR IN THE MIDEAST…GOING TO UPSET MY RIGHT WINGERS ON MY FB TODAY AND FIND SOME REALLY COOL GOSPEL FROM THE AFRICAN CHILDRENS’ CHOIR TO PLAY…I LOVE TO GET UNDER THEIR SKIN AND………………………………………………..R-U-M-B-L-E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…I LOVE OUR ENERGIZER BUNNY PRESIDENT AND PRAY HE HAS SOME REST ON THIS VACATION…!!!!!…WITHOUT SEVERE INTERRUPTION!
Football is back baby! I hope Tiger Woods can make the cut today; I’ll be glued to the t.v. this afternoon watching his round.
Tiger plays football now? I thought he had a bad back. /covers ears and makes a rapid exit /
This is why I’m so disgusted with everything. An entire state’s uninsured rate is cut in half and motherfuckers act like that shit happens every goddamn day. This is national healthcare; fuck that one payer bullshit that all the goddamn hipsters rave about. And the man that delivered national care, he’s ridiculed by those that should know better.
They can’t stand that he did this after so many others tried and failed.
And when I say football I mean the real football, and not the fancy-pants football in which all the guys look like starving actors waiting tables at some hip bistro.
Ooooooooooooooooo Dan……i’m taking cover ❓
oops…i mean Don…i sorry
I’m right with you there.
YES JOVIE…WOOT-WOOT…KNOCK EM’ OUT OF THE PARK!
Intel? I thought intel was a dirty word. Are you telling my that spying on people is good thing?
Well, intel can be considered what we do here on TOD .
Think about it?
We scope the political scene and discuss.
Oh…where are the polls?
Btw…Africa did you see the article which showed how the polling samples are grossly manipulated to get the “Obama at all time low of 40%?” How one of the polling outfits sampled twice as many people who identified as conservative vs liberal? Yes, it’s all hidden deep down in the crosstabs….and most people don’t know to look at those details. And the dishonest media won’t tell them either…
Fuck you Barney Frank!
Oh he’s an isolationist . Remember he voted for Ron Paul in the primaries?
What is Barney up too now?
I hope the people who keep saying that this WH has a “messaging” problem were able to see for themselves last night what happens in the media when the President gets out there and speaks directly to the American people. PBO could not have been clearer in what he had done, and yet…right away the media attempted to muddle and confuse.
I know the media loves to distort, but last night they were taking it on to an entirely new level. For what? Just because they were mad he didn’t authorize a brand new ground war? So-called seasoned journalists pretending they didn’t hear what he said just so that they could push their own silly narratives about the “pentagon lying.” So-called seasoned journalists tweeting bullshit that bore no relevance to the crisis at hand (yes I’m looking at you CROWLEY of Time magazine). Journalists with damn near zero historical perspective and very little nuanced knowledge of the US presidency making silly comments about Obama said “folks.” Thank goodness there were many people pushing back on their nonsense – and I’m telling you weren’t it for the immediate push-back that Twitter folks employ with this media, they would have gotten away with a lot more crap.
If only John Kerry had the benefit of a Twitter brigade when he ran for President in 2004…
Just to add that when I complain about messaging…….I am talking about the whole apparatus….a war-room like messaging Team…..DNC, Supporters alike going to bat for the causes Pres Obama is championing. He needs backers who will stand by him and fight by him. Pres Obama does extremely well when he’s out there making a case. Nobody does it better. But to contain the naysayers and those with the severest case of ODS and the Media…..this president needs more than a handful at his corner.
I’m kinda afraid to greet the day on this post…think I’ll save mine for R&S 😀
Ronan Farrow, Rachel and Uppers are going to be mad. Mad I tells ya.
Let them spend the rest of their miserable, sterile lives being mad.
Here we go again: A prime example of someone who didn’t listen to what the President said. Probably got his info from MSNBC punditry…
Raise your hand if you would like to be POTUS. Ay. I have such empathy for President Obama. There has been such a constant eruption of crises that require attention and big decisions. Every time I think there may be a peaceful lull, 1/2 day later there’s another huge issue. No time to breathe. I remember early on PBO humorously saying he knew he would have to deal with a big financial mess but never expected to have to deal with pirates. Pirates seem like childs’ play now. And to be under microscopic scrutiny 24/7, always criticized by a segment of the population, no matter what—–I just can’t imagine this. And yet, PBO seems to carry on with honor, trying to make the best possible decisions with all these highly complicated events. I give him all the credit in the world. A lesser man would have crumpled.
Wanting to be POTUS probably includes a relatively small number in that pool anyway; and within that pool, an even smaller number of QUALITY individuals.
When you see what candidates go through during the campaign, and especially seeing the abuse President Obama has had to endure above the strain directly related to the job, it’s a wonder anyone of good character and intellect would ever want to run for ANY office.
My thoughts on being POTUS are that once upon a time every parent would have been wishing their child to be POTUS. Now I wonder if any would want their child to have the stress, constant criticism and pressure involved with the present job requirements and lack of respect shown?
AMEN INDEED…500 LB. LAZER LED BOMBS…OPEN WIDE ISIS IDIOTS!
That guy Jim on nbc just said the Air war between ISIS and the US has begun.
It has???
ISIS has an Air Force? I didn’t know that?
He is an idjit, jovie
beebs
The Pentagon said American aircraft attacked artillery that was being used in northern Iraq against Kurdish forces defending the city of Irbil.
I guess we’ll be getting “breaking news” throughout the weekend along with the dramatic music alerts.
ABC keeps talking about the war that the President *claims* to have ended…. JERKS!!!!
NBC news—-2 500 lb. bombs dropped on ISIS targets.
These media folks are so blood thirsty for a damn war….
No they’re not! They’re in it to embarrass this president bc many believe that’s how he got ejected by promising to end war in Iraq.
They’re diabolical and hateful!
For some reason, the beltway(congress and media) hates this president. It’s like they’re at war with him.
for some reason, the beltway(congress and media) hates this president. It’s like they’re at war with him.
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Something to think about….
.”They’re in it to embarrass this president bc many believe that’s how he got ejected by promising to end war in Iraq.”
Probably why they keep making it a point to say the war that PBO claims to have ended….
WHOA, what did you guys have for breakfast this morning??!! I’m going to have to catch up to all the bright fireworks, which is apparently amk’s fault. AGAIN.
Exactly meta – goes back to my comment upthread about the myth of the “WH messaging problem.”
Wow, we seem to both be focused on their crazy “fantasies”. Ha!
Very OT, but may I share?
If my boss likes something, that means he doesn’t yell. If he REALLY likes something he says nothing. (You really don’t want to know what he’s like when he’s unhappy).
So I emailed something I was working on while he’s yachting with his family in St. Tropez (!) and he sent me two emails:
First email: “I love it.”
The second email: “Don’t cut anything. Don’t touch a word. It’s perfect.”
I have officially entered the Twilight Zone…….
Look at you! Congrats on a job well done!
here’s the thing: I always do a job well done. He is a certifiable maniac – getting him to understand what is a ‘job well done’ is an effing miracle.
He had turned this part of the job over to people he liked but who didn’t know the subject matter. On this portion, he came back to the ‘expert’, and frankly I say that will all humility. Methinks we have a lot of rewriting to do……..
GM all. As so many of us already realize, we are quite lucky we have the President and CIC we have. I consider myself somewhat intelligent and able to analyze things, but I definitely don’t have what it would take to be President (although I would do a better job than any GOPer).
We talk about all the qualities PBO brings to the table, but I think the absolutely most important one is courage. He isn’t sending troops into Iraq not because the American people are tired of war, though they are, but because he knows it would be the wrong thing to do.
I truly believe that if he felt it was necessary in the long term for us to have boots on the ground, he would send them there. It would be reluctantly, but he would do it. He would get screamed at by everyone, including me for doing so. But he has the courage to do what he absolutely feels is the right thing to do.
Not too many Presidents in the past have had that (some have, not saying he is the only one). In this sense, Ezra is right, he has broken politics as we know it. Not everything he has done is based upon the politics involved. And that is a good thing.
I remember when he said good policy is also good politics. And that is his priority, policy first, politics second. This is the thing the pundits just don’t get.
Awesome post Japa!
R&S!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/08/08/rise-and-shine-881/