The First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, visits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, September 17,2014
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Today (all times Eastern)
10:45: The President participates in an Ambassador Credentialing Ceremony
12:30: White House press briefing
2:0: The President meets with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine
3:55: Attends a DNC fundraiser, Washington DC
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President Obama runs up the steps of the First Lady’s plane before she took off for a flight at JAFB, Md. pic.twitter.com/V4YatFDLqg
— Doug Mills (@dougmillsnyt) September 17, 2014
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The First Lady at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis yesterday:
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More video here
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President Obama arrives for the White House Congressional picnic in a ‘let’s get this over with’ kind of way. #Wise pic.twitter.com/zMlySCShBV
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) September 17, 2014
PBO was happier with Bella there back in the day … haha 🙂 @TheObamaDiary pic.twitter.com/WjYNFkxxNo
— sfpelosi (@sfpelosi) September 18, 2014
Holy smokes @sfpelosi, that was the Baby Whisperer day! http://t.co/LVgPG58VHH
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) September 18, 2014
John Boehner and Rand Paul having a swell time at the White House Congressional Picnic pic.twitter.com/4s9z1JAL4g
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) September 17, 2014
Mark Sanford chatting with his friends at the White House Congressional Picnic. pic.twitter.com/Ynp64TukDo
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) September 17, 2014
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MoooOOOooorning again! I’m frankly overwhelmed by the excited reaction to my stick people – fear not, there will be more later.
The Obama Diary 
GM Everyone! Have a wonderful Day.
Beautiful inside and out. GM, TOD
Mooooooorning DF!! Mooooooorning Allison! Mooooooorning everyone!
Morning, Chips:)
Ah yes, get over here Rover –SMACK!!!
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Unbelivable….
If anybody was seen treating a dog that way, they would be in jail so quick. There really are people who think it is okay to treat kids worse than dogs.
Spoken like someone who does not have children and does not have a clue. Dog trainers do not advocate for hitting your animals so why would you hit a child?
LOL – Clueless-as-ever Don Lemon gets paid to run his mouth and talk crap on CNN – now he’s pushing the Right Wing evangelical narrative of “spear the rod and spoil the child”…the same idiot who said that Black men had to stop wearing sagging pants in order to not get pulled over by cops….
I used to think Don Lemon was one of the ones at CNN who was good at his job, now I wonder.
Lemon must be a disciple of Focus on the Family’s whackobird founder, evangelical freak James Dobson, who wrote in his book the most disgusting, disturbing passage about taking his belt to his “pet” Dachshund and beating him up one wall and down the other, as he bragged that he beat his dog into submission, teaching him who was in control. Dobson said this is the same way you should raise children—–get out the belt and beat them into submission.
OMG.
Had no idea that this was the filth spouted by Dobson.
I’m cringing and crying for his poor pet Dachshund, and I’m a cat person. How utterly cruel.
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, everyone and congrats Allison on #1! Happy Thursday everyone. 🙂 Thanks Chips for this wonderful R & S with beautiful pics of our FLOTUS, tweets, etc. 🙂
A pleasure Hopefruit, goooood morning to ya!
Exquisite photos. Such a joy to see FLOTUS’ beautiful face in the morning.
You can say that again, and again, and again, and again…..
For you, Japa – sure!
‘Exquisite photos. Such a joy to see FLOTUS’ beautiful face in the morning.’ ‘Exquisite photos. Such a joy to see FLOTUS’ beautiful face in the morning.’ ‘Exquisite photos. Such a joy to see FLOTUS’ beautiful face in the morning’. ‘Exquisite photos. Such a joy to see FLOTUS’ beautiful face in the morning.’ ‘Exquisite photos. Such a joy……’ oops, too many!
Thank you. My problem is that I keep go to the top and scrolling down until I get to comments and then somehow my computer immediately goes to the top again. Fortunately, I was finally able to get to your comment to be able to reply. Ooops, have to go, computer going back to the top again.
🙂 🙂
I can’t recall ever having a similar computer problem, but sometimes the machines do seem to have a mind of their own. 😀
That is always my problem, Japa. As soon as I comment, the computer skips to the top. Very frustrating, very confusing.
I am eternally amazed by the RW mouthpieces – now they are supporting child abuse! We teach by example – hitting a child teaches that it is OK to physically strike someone. Control by fear – through so much of society – starts with the children.
hmmmmmm.
Good Morning TOD family and ChipSTICKS master of stick figures and all things except dannysticks 🙂 🙂 🙂
Ha, you said it JoJo, I will NEVER master that particular stix!! 😆
A very ‘Good morning’ to you, Jojo!
‘except dannysticks’ Thank you so much for this reminder that there *is* someone who can tame, Ms Sticks. This perks me right up!
Joint session of Congress for Ukraine President starting now on cspan.
General Dempsey opened a hypothetical door ? He was responding to a hypothetical question..
SOS Kerry refused to answer hypothetical questions yesterday. Dempsey was manipulated …
Whatever the case, the Iraqi PM said they don’t want US ground troops there. *THAT* in itself should silence the warmongering cries. And since PBO has also said it’s not happening, well then….
Their one-track way of thinking is exactly why it is so dangerous to have any of them as CIC. I imagine that, like us, foreign governments are ruing the day that PBO is no longer in office.
Yes..but he should have know better….he is not a green officer
And wasn’t the question about whether pilots got shot down and were taken captive? I read that somewhere.
The first thing I noted when I followed that link was that Chuckie Toad was the first of three ‘authors’ mentioned, so my skepticism radar immediately snapped on. I particularly “loved” 😦 how he/they kept saying that the president now ‘owned’ ISIL strategy ‘successful or not’ as if it isn’t always the case where PBO stands behind his decisions/people. 🙄 I was also grumbling to myself about the last part of the excerpt I’ve shared – I fail to see how paying attention to ‘the public’s appetite or lack thereof for combat troops’ is not a valid consideration for an elected official to make.
Here’s a piece …
“The U.S. military campaign against Islamist militants in Syria is being designed to allow President Barack Obama to exert a high degree of personal control, going so far as to require that the military obtain presidential signoff for strikes in Syrian territory,” the Wall Street Journal reports. No one can say Obama is shirking his responsibility as commander-in-chief; he fully owns it — whether it’s successful or not.
And he opens himself up to criticism that he’s not listening to his commanders
One other point here: Obama’s insistence on being emphatic about no ground troops also makes the president appear as if he’s allowing political considerations (that is, the public’s appetite or lack thereof for combat troops) to influence his thinking. …..”
PBO is just trying to make sure Military Industrial Complex & neo-cons don’t arm-twist generals into expanding the war. PBO knows the creeps very well and wants to keep them on a tight leash
You and I trust Pres O because we believe he has a ‘north star’ for the country militarily, and is not a member of the MIC. We also know that he knows how to stand firm. Reading that article (after seeing Chuckie’s name) was just curiosity to see how he would insert his negative theme. I have no respect for Toadie.
Way to go, Allison, you brave soul!
I was almost afraid to STICK my neck into this new thread because unowho1 seems to have lost ALL her marbles (and I feel partially to blame)! 🙄
😆 😆 😆
Oh, hello CC! Is this the saner you, or the one who has recently lost a whole bunch of your
sticksmarbles? /holding breath/I’m just releasing my creativity and imagination in to the wild VC, and I think the results are pretty darn spectacular. Just getting a bit of work done, and then I will pour that creativity and imagination in to more wondrous stick designs. 😎
I can’t find your boss’ number – did you even send it when I asked previously? What was his text again – I’m looking to send out some résumés. /muttering..Today would be a great day for him to ask for an accounting of your accomplishments, and give you a bit more to keep you occupied./
You doth protest too much, I *know* you’re tingling in anticipation over the new stick people. I may need to call the boss myself to ask for time off to focus on my stick work.
Call him! Then give him my number. Use the direct line.
I’m not sure I’d trust you to give him a fair and balanced report on my activities…..
😯 You impugn my character! 😥 😥
Well…… 😆
That’s it?
I can cry a well?
No ‘in case you’ve been hurt, I’m sorry’? Now I’m sobbing. /looking around – where’s the sobbing smilie?…..’sobbing smilie’ – oxymoronic, ain’t it? /
Ah me, I think I’ll head over to twitter to cheer myself up.
“How’s the flat you’re living in in London, Jock?” asks his mother when he calls home to Aberdeen.
“It’s okay,” he replies, “but the woman next door keeps screaming and crying all night and the guy on the other side keeps banging his head on the wall.”
“Never you mind,” says his mother, “don’t you let them get to you, just ignore them.”
“Aye, that I do,” he says, “I just keep playing my bagpipes.”
LOL!
Good morning TODville, good morning to Scots and English alike.
Bobfr posted this last week. I could have sworn that this event is happening today, but now see no reference to Sep 18.
PBO does have a DNC event at 3:30 today, so maybe this is happening in the afternoon.
Note to all HRC bashers (which includes me). She must read TOD (unlike her handlers such as Jim Messina and Jennifer Granholm) and has deigned to appear at this #LandslideDems2014 kick-off event.
Will check out MSM tweets. They will be in lather about HRC, not so much about PBO, @VP and @FLOTUS.
You know, that’s what Rick Scott is flooding the airwaves with against Charlie Scott.
That obamacare is costing seniors trillions of dollars per day.
I am serious…
He’s got a lot of money and these are the ads he puts in against Charlie crist.
Charlie Crist has a good ground operation – so I am confident that with GOTV – he will be successful. It won’t be easy, but it will happen.
I hope so… 🙂
Well, it’s worked for Repubs in the past – the scare tactics with ACA.
Closing the donut hole, a whole slew FREE diagnostic tests – seniors benefited from ACA sooner than anyone else did.
Crist better counter this, and quick, of which I have every confidence.
Dougal was a typical Scot. His wife Janet had just died and he wanted to place the least expensive death notice. He went to the newspaper office and wrote on the lodgement from, “Janet died.”
The clerk explained that there was a minimum charge and he could have five words.
Dougal added three more words: “Janet died, Toyota for sale.”
I love the FLOTUS and Friends pics, thank you, Ms Chips!
There is a well of happiness in the Obamas that seems unquenchable, and they all share it willingly – thank God!
VP Biden is at the joint session.
The DSCC and the DCCC has a lot of money. What are they waiting for?
I imagine the DNC has a lot of money also?
What’s the plan?
Hello ?
I get a minimum of two calls/day from the DNC.
Chips,
My beautiful yellow lab deemed it necessary to bring inside a squirrel that he caught in the backyard.
Yes! This is how I woke up a dead bloody squirrel in my dogs mouth.
Yuck!!
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Oh bloody (literally) hell! Wasn’t it 57’s friend who had the same lovely experience recently – with TWO dead squirrels!
Jovie, we shoulda got budgies 😦
A friend of mine showed me a photo of his Bedlington terrier with a dead squirrel – in the living room. He disposed of it, took a shower, and the Bedlington was standing on the bathroom rug – with another dead squirrel.
I told him to get rid of the damned doggie door.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
Ukrainian President Address to Congress
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko delivered remarks to a joint meeting of Congress about the situation in his country and the ongoing conflict with Russia.
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http://www.c-span.org/video/?321426-1/ukrainian-president-petro-poroshenko-address-congress&live
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/09/18/kids-ask-for-ussie-not-selfie-with-michelle-obama/?mod=WSJ_Politics_Blog
I had no idea what a ussie was, till reading this.
Such a wonderful R&S. I love the pictures of POTUS and FLOTUS.
Waiting for the media to talk about this….
The Dow has hit a new all-time high today. damn socialist in the WH. How dare he let our economy grow.
as we hear the drumbeats of Misinformation and fear mongering….worth listening to PBO outline his counter terrorism strategy
What I do not like is when the media uses the predictions not being met as a measure instead of the change itself. They use it to turn a positive into a negative.
We’re so on to their dirty tricks!
Begins at ~ 22 min into the video link – http://www.c-span.org/video/?321426-1/ukrainian-president-petro-poroshenko-address-congress
President Poroshenko historic address to Congress.
Good article here by Charles Blow on the Adrian Peterson incident and the issue of hitting children for discipline: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/opinion/charles-blow-on-spanking-and-abuse.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0
Yes—wisdom there.
Outside of the dummies on FOX News, Whoopi Goldberg may have the worst judgment of anyone on TV. She has been defending child abusers all week—–today defending a dad who made his kid drink alcohol till he passed out and paramedics had to be called to save the kids’ life—-to teach the kid not to become an alcoholic like him. Ay yi yi. Now she’s talking about PBO, saying he has a worse approval rating that W, with seemingly no awareness about political climate, saying that no one trusts him about war, asking if PBO has the “where with all” (?) to take us into another war. Don’t even know what that means. Just nonsensical blather. Geez. The 2 Rosies are saving the day on that show—-barely—-as they’re the only ones displaying some common sense and sound judgment.
Talks a whole lot of shittery but thinks she is the smartest thing on earth since Einsteing —> Whoopsi
I always thought Whoopi spoke her mind, but she usually sounded like she had some sense. Well I have no intention of watching the View. Time to put it to rest. I rather watch the Talk.
Hay Whoopi,should a drug addict let their kid try drugs so the kid won’t become a drug addict.
Uh hum, the Whoopi who thought it okay for her then-boytoy Ted Danson to wear blackface on national TV? So much for good judgement!
LOVE THE PHOTOS OF RAND PAUL AND RUSTY ENJOYING THE CONGRESSIONAL ‘PASS OUT’ CEREMONY…I BET THE PRESIDENT TOOK AN ANTIBACTERIAL SHOWER AFTER THAT WAS OVER….YUK!…WHAT A WAY TO HAVE TO SPEND THE EVENING!..YES INDEED…KEEP THOSE STICK FIGURES GOING…PERFECT SIZE FOR DRAWING CONGRESSIONAL FRONTAL LOBES…DON’T FORGET THE ERASERS!
LOL – as we predicted. Now who’s “unpopular” now? Eh Chuckie?
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Well…if he *thought* that, he certainly *knows* differently now! 🙂
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We all knew the Rise for Charles Todd was when president Obama was interviewed on Sept 6th 2014….airing Sept 7th, 2014. We all predicted the Fall was coming fast. Seven Days later…….3rd place is here to stay. And in 3 months……MTP will be next to 4th place and if NBC continues with Todd and JoScar……it will be number 4, beaten by Fox Sunday with Chris Wallace.
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RWing Slant MTP is still RWing Slant MTP…….Gregory or Todd.
Capitalism as it was meant to be: “free” markets, but within a regulatory framework that protects consumers:
Good morning, everyone. Hope all is well in TODville.
This is my local weather guy. And he’s right!
These pictures of Michelle Obama are so tender and touching. My son died 34 years ago this month on a pediatric wing of the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon, called the Dohrenbecher Unit for children. Like this picture many of the children there had no hair from cancer treatment, as happened to my son, who died of Acute Myelocytic Leukemia. In the evening on this ward, right after dinner time, the children who could, would take out their tricycles and big wheels, and wagons and troop around in a caravan around the nurses station just living and playing in the present moment. On one evening in particular I was pulling my son in a wagon, with an IV bottle attached. I pulled over out of the caravan in a moment of inner struggle and desperation trying to tell myself that my son was not hopelessly sick like those other children and not facing death, when I knew otherwise. In the midst of this struggle I tried to calm myself and looked into his eyes asking for an answer. There was an unspoken answer in the form of a question in his eyes. “Daddy, are you going to go through this with me, all the way, or are you going to run away from it?” That made it clear for me, I knew I was helpless to save my little boy, but I could walk with him, be with him fully all the way. And in that moment we rejoined the caravan of sick and dying children, and there was a joy in my heart because I knew we were all in that caravan, that circle, all of the human family, together.
Today the cancer treatments are much better and less painful for the children, with better outcomes. For that I am grateful. It is a terrible thing to watch your child suffer and die and be helpless to protect them. What will remain with me forever, is the expressions on those little faces and bald heads, of simply being in the present moment and courageously facing and accepting what comes.
My heart is with you, Bill R.
Bill, I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing that beautiful story.
Bless you Bill R.
((((((HUGS)))))) and full understanding. Sure you’ve seen here that we lost our 4 year-old grandson 6.5 years ago–Ewings Sarcoma. Like you, seeing any picture of cancer kids breaks me up pretty bad. I, too, am thankful that treatments are better. However, there’s a LONG, LONG way to go. Still, a very small amount of any funds goes to developing new drugs for kids.
My heart is with you too Bill R..((huggs))
He belongs in prison with all the nfl stars.
Proof that it’s not just the football players, domestic violence affect all of us ( black, white, brown) rich or poor.
Everyone is calling for the Roger Goodell to resign, well they need to call for that judge to go also.
If he resigns, he gets to keep his pension….he needs to be impeached.
He is the judge that put Don Seigelman in jail.
HEADLINE: ‘Meet The Press’ returns to third place
// NBC’s “Meet The Press” with Chuck Todd returned to third place in the ratings race last Sunday after a rare victory the week before, according to Nielsen ratings…
…Todd’s inaugural episode of “Meet,” on Sept. 7, had topped the ratings race due to an exclusive one-on-one interview with President Obama. The Sept. 14 numbers provide a truer measure of viewer interest in the program, and show just how much work Todd will have to do to repair the damage done by his predecessor, David Gregory…//
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/09/meet-the-press-returns-to-third-place-195714.html
But they tell me that it’s PBO who is unpopular….
Indeed Bob….And I’m chuckling at your term of endearment “Chuckles.”
MTPunks Upchuck, Joe Scar, and all the GOP haters will remain in third place for the next six years because they will not remove Upchuck until little Luke is seasoned enough to step into his fathers’ chair and only after he bombs by then no one will be watching any of this morning gop propaganda shows because all the elderly folks who regularly watch it will be dead.
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/09/18/a-leader-who-cares-about-climate-change-thats-president-obama/
Food for thought….