President Barack Obama speaks at the Global Health Security Agenda Summit in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The president said that in an interconnected world, outbreaks of deadly viruses like Ebola have the potential to affect every nation.
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Economic growth in the second quarter was even stronger than originally estimated: http://t.co/04yQG5W2Su
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 26, 2014
#ObamasFault #ThanksObama RT @AP: BREAKING: Economy grew at 4.6 percent rate in April-June quarter, strongest pace since late 2011.
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) September 26, 2014
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Text of the President’s remarks here
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Ebola survivor Dr. Melvin Korkor of Liberia at the Global Health Security Agenda Summit at the White House
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In 1 yr #ACA has reduced # of uninsured adults by 26%. 50 DAYS – the countdown to start of 2014/2015 Open Enrollment begins! #GetCovered
— Sylvia Burwell (@SecBurwell) September 26, 2014
Uninsured rate among #Latinos plummets from 36% to 23% in just 1st year of #ACA. http://t.co/7KYCk9A4R8 Even w/o FL, TX Medicaid expansion.
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) September 25, 2014
1/In 1st year of #ACA, 1/3rd of Hispanic adults w/o health insurance gain coverage. One third. In one year.
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) September 26, 2014
2/The scale of this success is extraordinary. Perhaps most important legislation for Hispanic Americans in US history.
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) September 26, 2014
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The President has a plan to fight climate change—you should support it: http://t.co/AWLXVGm0y8 #ActOnClimate
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 26, 2014
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On This Day: After the first of three presidential debates at the University of Mississippi, 2008
On This Day: President Obama & the First Lady Michelle at the Congressional Black Caucus Awards Dinner, 2009.
The Obama Diary 
GE TODers!!!!
Congrats swbluega on #1 🙂
Thanks hopefruit! 🙂 My third today!!!!
GE swbluega – Chips will be envious of those 3 firsts! 🙂
GM 99ts. Somehow, I doubt this will generate envy for Madame Chipsticks. 😀
Have a fantastic day!!!
Not at all 99ts, every one of them immoral 🙄
Reflections of self ??
Enjoy the evening everyone – time to be out and about in the real world down under – Spring is sprung and tis a lovely day
🙂 Have a lovely day, 99ts!
Holy moly swbluega. Three today. I’m telling you go buy a lottery ticket!
I really should. 🙂
FURST
Our First Couple! We luv ’em!
❤
MORALLY FURST!1!1!
You’ll need that. Apparently ManU has only one functioning center back.
No fear, David de Gea is here 😎
You mean the guy who let in 5 against Leicester City? 🙄
Shut up.
Congrats, SWBLUEGA, on your first and to AMK on your furst! The Obamas really deserve a relaxing weekend after what they have accomplished this week!
😆 Thanks Judith.
Nerdy? You might be a Chelsea Girl, but I still love ya. Thank you, Legend!
That’s the same thing I say about you everyday even as you root for the WRONG team. LOL.
Thanks, Chips. You’re the BEST.
The most interesting things happen to librarians.
Seeing the First Couple together always brings a smile.
swbluega, How sweet it is……
They are so loved here and all over the world.
loser von goal: man u players are too stoopid.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29386250
Isn’t it bedtime in BertCertLand???
back in mumbai. on the way home. 2 more hours to kill in the airport.
so thou shall have to put up with me.
On the way home already??!!??
Be honest: were you deported for causing trouble??
yup. solved the problem in double quick time. client sent me back with a pat on my back and a fat check in my back pocket.
[G]Oh Lord it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every [D7]way
I can’t wait to look in the mirror
Cause I get better looking each [G]day
To know me is to love me I [G7]must be a hell of a [C]man
Oh Lord it’s hard to be [G]humble
But I’m [D7]doing the best that I [G]can
heh, sometimes facts can hurt. whatchugonnado.
I’m just struggling to comprehend that you’re a troubleshooter in real life, when you’re a troublestirrer on the interwebs.
what if I stir the trouble first and then shoot it?
didn’t think of that, didja?
Ah ha, so that’s your business plan?! 🙂
yup, all my life.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution in Geneva condemning a group of American hedge funds that took Argentina to court.
The investors are demanding payments worth more than $1.3bn (£766m) dollars on government bonds they hold.
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The Argentine government has accused the hedge funds, which it refers to as vulture funds, of being greedy and damaging its economy.
“The vulture funds will not stop unless we stop them ourselves,” Foreign Minister Hector Timerman told the council before the vote.
“The billions that these vulture funds grab in countries in the south lead to school closures, hospitals without medicines, political instability, insecurity and violence,” he said.
The resolution was tabled by Argentina along with Russia, Brazil, Venezuela and Algeria.
It was approved by 33 votes to five, with nine countries abstaining.
The United States, Britain, Germany, Japan and the Czech Republic voted against.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29387872
Our President will be talking at the CBC tomorrow. I will be tuning in if I can 🙂
Wow, what a strange day. This just happened.
Apparently this person is calling all our libraries.
Is he/she a piano seller?
@latimes has some good information today.
This is a BFD, that is getting little media attention:
Hilariously enough, after I tweeted this, @StonefireGrill followed me:
From the article:
“California [is] home to 81,000 farms and ranches, but there remain areas of the state where getting fresh fruits and vegetables is difficult.
‘Farmers are at work in every county of this state, yet nearly 1 million of our residents live in areas known as food deserts,’ [CA Assemblyman John] Perez said during the address. ‘People who live in food deserts — mostly in cities, but in rural communities, too — have no ready access to fresh and affordable produce.’”
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“The governor also signed a measure making it easier for people who live in condominiums and apartments to grow their own fruits and vegetables.”
The biggest champion of getting fresh food to underserved communities has been @FLOTUS.
I hope @mcottle is eating crow right now.
And this…
LA’s Union Station is awesome, and so centrally located — near Dodger Stadium, Chinatown, Little Tokyo and Downtown.
Replacing the parking lot and getting good public transportation to those attractions will do A LOT to revitalize Cesar Chavez Boulevard (what Sunset Boulevard — which is globally known — turns into at Union Station, where it become the center of East LA life).
So glad that the interior space of Union Station will be preserved with this proposed renovation.
Glad to see that Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” lament is being reversed soon in LA, “they paved paradise, put up a parking lot…”
Just got back from the grocery…a woman stopped to talk as I was putting food in my car…she noticed the scrub top I was wearing from a Boston hospital where my husband did some work (its purple, so she noticed). Looks like it might rain here and I mentioned that CA could use some of our rain, that the crops that everyone depends on are starved for water and there are people that have no water to drink. She didn’t realize the drought was so bad there. We live in our own little,sometimes selfish, bubbles…don’t we?
Why did the blonde put lipstick on her forehead?
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She was trying to make up her mind.
That’s it, no more duty free whiskey for you.
too late. got 6 liters on the way back. 5 single malts and one cointreu. why the latter? want to try it.
In the good old days, she’d be stoned to death. By other women.
(Sorry but couldn’t help myself.)
Ya know, this whole Ferguson scene is just so bad, I am starting to wonder how much of it is deliberate by those in power. It is hard to imagine that you could have such incompetence and sheer stupidity at every single level. At some point, you have to begin to believe it is deliberate. I mean REALLY?????? It take the DOJ to tell the Police Chief not to let the officers wear the Darren Wilson bracelets while on duty? Simply unbelievable And this idea that nothing can be done is just flat out wrong. There certainly is probable cause for an arrest which is all that is needed. What do you bet that this whole grand jury process would be over and done with in rapid fire order if Darren Wilson was sitting in jail without bail. My heart aches for the people of Ferguson.
Could not agree with you more …
I do believe it is deliberate at this point, Bob, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what any of them will gain by this. Darren Wilson is done there, whatever the outcome, and it doesn’t make sense that they’re all putting their futures on the line for him. I simply don’t believe that. And at this point, they have to realize it is not going to end or go away. The longer this goes on, the more imprinted it will be in everyone’s mind and the more likely they will be all be voted out of office down the road. So just what is it they are hoping to gain? I’m usually pretty good at puzzles but this one has me totally stumped.
My simple answer, Foxfire – Mississippi’s State Flag.
Those folk in Ferguson wearing DW arm bands are Confederates to their core. They’d all own, beat, rape, & hang slaves if they could. That’s what they are screaming, by their actions.
We just don’t want to hear it; we just can’t believe that in 21st Century America anyone would behave that way.
Fact is, the 3rd Reconstruction is just beginning, and for it to succeed everyone committed to it must realize that it will take at least one or two more generations.
I’m still having trouble believing how the racism came out from under with the election of PBO. Living so many thousands of miles away – I believed that racism in the US was done – that a country we admired had turned itself around …. and then I found I was dreaming a fool’s dream.
From the moment Mike Brown died, every action of the town, the police and the county has been directed at creating havoc and inciting violence. If I hadn’t watched it, read about it & listened to TOD – I would never have believed it.
99, I could take you to places throughout America where you would think you had time traveled to 1850 in terms of the peoples’ attitudes about persons of color – some of those places are the backyards of the quite wealthy in the suburbs of Atlanta, St. Louis, Fort Worth, etc.
I do get the racism now, after living through the 2008 election in TX, but it just doesn’t make sense to me in Ferguson, or maybe it does. The hatred is so intense that nothing else matters. It was so shocking and so draining to me in the 2008 election, I don’t think I’ve ever really recovered. I had to stay upbeat for all the volunteers during the campaign so just tamped the emotions down, but come election night I couldn’t do it anymore. After checking my last polling place at 8:00, I refused all invitations and came home to be alone. I started crying when they announced his victory and couldn’t stop for three days. Given what I had witnessed in TX I was so fearful that the rest of the country wouldn’t come through. And I guess you’re both right, it will take a couple of more generations.
I have to admit, I am very concerned about the generation coming up behind us. I marched for the first time against Viet Nam when I was 17. I watch my daughter, nieces, and nephews and they so take for granted everything that was fought for and gained. They are starting to wake up with the attacks on women’s rights, but are only slowly starting to understand that if you don’t keep fighting someone will take those freedoms they take for granted away. So perhaps we needed PBO to make the young ones understand they have to keep going. There simply has been far too much apathy in the last 25 years.
Ferguson is deep in the zone of racism. Had it not been for mobile phones, Twitter, YouTube, etc., Mike Brown could have been left in the street for days and the world would never have heard about it. And, the white folk in Ferguson would have carried on as if that was just the way a black boy should be treated.
As I’ve listened to President Obama (and, well before he became President), he is always crystal clear of the necessity of young folk to engage, to never take for granted, and to realize the struggle for human rights and justice is an absolutely never ending process. My sense is that he will continue building community among young folk for the remainder of his life – the world will certainly be a better place than otherwise, if he does.
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And so, President Obama was right the other day when he said that we’re at a crossroads between fear and hope. The challenges that face the globe will continue and the changing demographics of America will not be altered. Those are simply the facts we have to deal with. It is on each of us to decide whether we respond out of fear or join the President in saying…
For America, the choice is clear. We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort. We reject fatalism or cynicism when it comes to human affairs; we choose to work for the world as it should be, as our children deserve it to be.
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What two things you can never eat for breakfast?
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well?
Lunch and dinner. 😎
googled it, didn’t ya?
FYI, amk ….
“Vice President Hamid Ansari will represent India at the swearing-in ceremony of new Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani next week which will mark the first democratic transition of power after fall of the Taliban in 2001 in the trouble-torn country.”
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-hamid-ansari-to-represent-india-at-afghanistan-president-ashraf-ghani-s-swearing-in-2021698
and our pm is in murka.
Yep
That’s a shameful allegation. Apologize. Right now.
here is another one.
what has no shame whatsoever and is really, really poor at cooking and stickfigures?
ROFL, only one Google result:
… Candidates under consideration [for AG] include:
— Solicitor General Don Verrilli
— Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York
— Jenny Durkan, who recently announced she’s stepping down as U.S. attorney in Washington state
— Labor Secretary Tom Perez
— former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
— Tony West, who recently resigned as the No. 3 at the Justice Department
— and Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. …
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d0c418dd8c4b40d38b5fe6d9a5d7679c/white-house-hints-fall-confirmation-next-ag
We went to a matinee today. Woah!!! Saw “The Equalizer” with Denzel! Even though the movie was violent, the kind I don’t normally like watching, but I liked this one. And of course, Mr. Washington is always worth the price of admission.
“The Equalizer” was must-see-TV for a young LL back in the 80s. From what I can tell, this movie version lives up to the show.
I never watched the t.v show, but if it was anything like this movie, I missed out!
Sorta off topic: Why are so many so-called liberals saying that “we” America has bombed another country and are at “war” against another country? ISIL/Daesh is not a county, they are a terrorist group that is invading countries like Iraq, turkey, and Syria is allowing them to setup haven there just like Afghanistan did for Al Queda. PBO is not doing anything different than what Clinton or Reagan did in attacking Al Queda and he is not doing what Bush did with nation building in Iraq. Iraq, Turkey, and even Syria is allowing the bombing to take these terrorists out but all you hear on teevee is we are “at war” with a country….no country is being named. This is so dishonest especially from the so-called left.
Simple answer, jojo – they hate President Obama and they are stupid.
I don’t think they hate the President. They are idealists, and ideologues.
People like them are necessary in a society to remind us of our purest ideals. HOWEVER, governing has to be done in real life, in a complex world. Where you have to decide between values and ideals that come in CONFLICT with each other. What those emos are constantly doing is truncating reality; they are unable to deal with a situation AS A WHOLE. They’re good at saying how a particular decision doesn’t conform to the ideal, but they NEVER, or so rarely, consider how the ALTERNATIVE has bad consequences too. How the alternative creates BAD STUFF too.
They hate relativism. They hate CHOOSING between the values you’re able to uphold and the ones you are forced to sacrifice (in part).
I have no doubt that President Obama would have preferred a responsible debate in Congress. And constitutionally, there’s an argument to be made that he should get the approval of Congress for operations that carry such important consequences. However, faced with a Congress that is full of cowards who don’t want to take a difficult vote, a Congress that is basically a political clown show thanks to republicans, the President is forced to act by himself. Because rapid action is necessary. Because he wants to avoid showing the world the spectacle of a country that has a dysfunctional legislative branch. Because he wants to preserve the ability of the USA to exert leadership, conduct diplomacy and build alliances.
Folks, the president needs our prayers, each and every day.
“Folks, the president needs our prayers, each and every day. ”
He’s got mine, all day long.
Mine too…………..
All hands on deck! How ANYONE can help Dems and never have to leave home to help out:)
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/volunteers-needed-make-phone-calls-home
All my life, a spoon of sugar cured hiccups – but not tonight.
Come on TODers, hic, help, hic, me, hic, out, hic, here.
Failsafe:) Take a sip of water, hold it in your mouth and bend all the way over …do this all in slow motion….swallow the water while your head is down between your legs and then come back up VERY SLOWLY. Repeat the process if you need to. Works like a champ. As amk would say, you owe me a gazillion dollars!
On the off chance this does not work, go outside, walk around the house 3 times, keeping your eyes peeled for the pink elephant.
It’s been a long time since I’ve studied history in any detail. I just finished the 5th segment on the Roosevelt’s and am amazed by the parallels to PBO’s presidency. It’s all there, the vitriol, the partisanship, and even the determination to keep immigrants out of the country notwithstanding Hitler’s campaign to exterminate the Jews. And the same issues with WWII that we’re seeing now with the ME. While I believe that everything is exacerbated by the fact that PBO is black, it also makes me wonder if it takes a generation for a country to recover from a severe economic depression/recession. I suspect that once that feeling of any type of financial security is gone, it is almost impossible to recover it. In any event, it is astounding to compare the similarities in these two presidencies. BUT it may explain the reason that PBO handles it all so well. He is a great student of history and most likely was well aware of the reactions in the 30’s and 40’s. Not terribly different from what he’s seen the last six years.
Foxfire, you expressed exactly my thoughts when I watched that segment. It sounded just like today. And yes, the moneyed class and bankers hated FDR as much as they hate PBO. He was a “traitor to his class.”
Their attitudes on the subjects you expressed sounded so familiar. The entire series is wonderful. I learned so much. One thing I learned was that the UN was FDR’s idea…..he was thinking long term, just like PBO. He had that idea at the beginning of the war. And yes, I suspect PBO is well aware, student of history that he is, of all that FDR went through.
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/09/26/a-tweet-or-two-128/