President Obama names Ron Klain to coordinate the U.S. response to #Ebola. Get the latest → go.wh.gov/sDoA7G
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 17, 2014#Ebola is NOT spread through:
1. Casual contact
2. Air
3. Water
4. Food in the U.S.
wh.gov/ebola-response http://t.co/3QkxgUI9Ic
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 15, 2014****
Justice is done! Only God can convict the heart of men. Jordan lives on in me for eternity. I will see him again. Mom http://t.co/nNfZ3ETqaF
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Lucia Kay McBath (@lucymcbath) October 17, 2014#JusticeForJordan Michael Dunn sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Jordan Davis. #MomsDemand http://t.co/dyPWXGYega
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Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) October 17, 2014****
#Kobane Chief sends a "thank you" message to the United States for supporting Kobane. Read here --> ow.ly/i/7eQaS v @mutludc
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Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) October 16, 2014Hey #stoopid ppl. The #Ebola Czar is NOT expected to actually TREAT patients. It's about rapid, effective coordination of Fed resources. K?
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(@Only4RM) October 17, 2014****
Texas college rejects Nigerian student, citing #Ebola concerns ow.ly/COoqY
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Raw Story (@RawStory) October 15, 2014great job news media!....85% of Americans think Ebola can be spread via sneezing or coughing. reut.rs/1w8TaI2
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Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 16, 2014****
The idea of privately owned hospitals operating for profit is fundamentally disturbing.Especially in a crisis.Schools for profit also reek.
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Holland Taylor (@HollandTaylor) October 15, 2014Republicans never accept responsibility for anything! Spread their shame! #Ebola #UniteBlue #Tcot #LibCrib #P2 http://t.co/HJw9FvJwnK
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Benny (@BRios82) October 15, 2014****
Mug shots of the Freedom Riders arrested in 1961. Most of them were sent 2 the brutal Parchman Prison in Mississippi. http://t.co/HTu7JI2XcR
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grannystanding4Truth (@granny_st) October 16, 2014The U.S. has surged past Saudi Arabia in oil production.
53eig.ht/1sqBGVV http://t.co/5SXSXUuAID
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Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) October 15, 2014****
Vanita Gupta is the Civil Rights chief DOJ thinks liberals will love, conservatives can work with huff.to/1vfzjrn
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Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 16, 2014Skinheads tossed french fries, racial epithets at Vanita Gupta at a McDonald’s when she was a kid huff.to/1vfzjrn
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Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 16, 2014****
Perfect graphic for derp spewing morons
Oh man @MattBors is the best. http://t.co/UPBjfy7eeB
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Adam Serwer (@AdamSerwer) October 16, 2014Travel bans are about politics, not public health thkpr.gs/3580494 http://t.co/QHkA1crCd9
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) October 16, 2014****
Voter ID.
The poll tax you have to drive 150 miles during a workday to pay.
nationalmemo.com/voter-id-laws-…
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(@LOLGOP) October 16, 2014Where are the "optics" police? RT @EricBoehlert Gov. Perry has not appeared in public to discuss Texas Ebola crisis in over a week.
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Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 17, 2014****
Instead of panicking, maybe help Liberia out with some much-needed Ebola supplies:
bit.ly/1DfkXJQ http://t.co/F4tQBnvKQu
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Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 16, 2014#Ebola treatment unit w 300 beds will soon be ready in #Liberia - an extraordinary engineering & life-saving feat http://t.co/TeiGRNr53g
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Raj Shah (@rajshah) October 17, 2014****
Lowest unemployment claims since 2000: msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-…
More jobs created Obama's 6 years than 12 of Bushes: eclectablog.com/2014/10/fun-fa…
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(@LOLGOP) October 16, 2014Ready for good economic news? Jobless claims have reached their lowest level in 14 yrs on.msnbc.com/1DfaIVW #chart http://t.co/kPnh3Z8E3i
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Steve Benen (@stevebenen) October 16, 2014****
REMINDER: We don't have a Surgeon General because the GOP doesn't want to admit that 30,000 gun deaths a year is a public health problem.
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(@LOLGOP) October 16, 2014Unemployment insurance claims for week ending October 11 was 264,000… "the lowest level for initial claims since April 15, 2000"
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Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) October 16, 2014****
Also in Morning Plum: A remarkable moment: Debate moderator basically calls Cory Gardner a liar to his face: washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
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Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 16, 2014****
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"and for our next trick we will make the facts disappear"
FOX NEWS
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Elizabeth (@Elizasoul80) September 12, 2014****
Calm down white people, when your kid's iPad is charged they'll leave you alone again.
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Loco Eric (@ericsshadow) September 29, 2014*whispers to a child
we've ruined the environment, economy, and education system for you. Cry about THAT
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Swishergirl (@Swishergirl24) September 30, 2014
Thanks NW.
Congrats COS!!
Well done, as always, NW. Thank you and hope you have a fun weekend.
Thanks, Bob. Wishing you the same.
You’re welcome, COS.
Congratulations COS!
Thank you NW for the tweets on our FLOTUS.
I just love that woman so much. She gets it! She’s got it. She’s on it.
Damn, SHE OWNS IT!
If she ran for president HRC would have to move back to Arkansas.
Thx LDS. Yes FLOTUS is great.
“She gets it! She’s got it! She’s on it.” Perfect description of our FLOTUS, LDS.
LDS, if FLOTUS ran for President, she has my vote.
You’re welcome, LDS.
Yup. FLOTUS is the best!
Another stupendous collection of tweets Nerdy, endless thanks for compiling them, you bunch of wonderfulness.
Thanks, Chips.
If my boss hadn’t been pontificating at me, I woulda been FURST.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 🙄
Hellooooo 57!!!
Hi, there! How’s our Danny?
He’s excellent 57, although I am becoming increasingly convinced that he thinks he’s a kangaroo – I need to talk to 99ts about this. When he’s making his way through long grass, as he was today, he actually leaps in a kangaroo-like fashion. I mean, this could actually be him:
Weird.
Yeah. Weird.
Chips, maybe Danny’s been secretly watching wildlife specials. Or Australian movies?
A Town Like Alice. Awesome Aussie flick!
Kangaroos are smart – your Danny may not fit this criteria
Fantastic Tweets NW.
Wow.
Thanks for the Tweets on FLOTUS in FL today, NW.
COS has the Golden ⭐ Yes!
Thanks, Nena.
TGIF
Cloudy, getting nippier by the hour…..
Hello TOD.
POTUS heads out for a campaign event on Sunday in MD and then later, heads out to Chicago and would stay over night, coming back on Monday to DC.
THE ‘THREE STOOGES’…UNFORTUNATELY…THEY ARE ALL DANGEROUS AND EQUALLY UNSTABLE…I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY HAVE BEEN AROUND THIS LONG…SUCH DYSFUNCTIONAL PEOPLE AND AN EMBARRASSMENT TO ALL THAT IS GOOD ABOUT THIS COUNTRY.
Heard some calls on Stephanie Miller this morning. Gazillion flyers from Scott to every one of Crist’s. I sent him some money at the end of the summer. Now I wish I’d done more but I’m trying to spread out my meager dollars.
So many campaigns everyone would love to contribute to 57, but you do your best, impossible to cover them all – unless you’re Bill Gates or someone 🙂
It makes me crazy that seniors in FL would vote for the likes of Rick Scott, or any Repub.
Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving……
Yup.
The flyers are not any indication of success. Romney had signs everywhere in my area, while you had to look for Obama signs and we all know how that turned out. Crist’s money maybe spent in other, more effective ways. BTW, I am from Florida.
FLOTUS is a true hugger. She makes you want to hug her back.
I was brought up in a household with an abundance of hugs, embraces, kisses, shaking hands will a firm grip.
If you are not going to do it like you mean it, well……
I do know that it is hard for some people to do which some of my real close friends explained to me in some painful details. As the years to by I have learn to respect. It was a process for all.
Hug On FLTOUS!
Love our FLOTUS.
I was brought up in a house full of love – but hugging was rarely part of the deal. I really really have to like someone to do the hug. I think the Obamas would pass the test 🙂
Love this story.
Looks as if the judge is a first class misogynist and an a**hole. Hope the baby pooped and spit up in his courtroom.
yep…..even after the continuum was not granted……the crude idiot went on to mock and insult this new mother. Truly shameful.
I still love her for bringing the baby to the court house.
And he spoke b.s about “exposing the babe to germs in the courthouse” – I’ve seen folks with newborns in all sorts of different places – does this fool think babes should be locked up – with their mothers – because germs!
GOP family values.
Wasn’t Sarah Palin wondering around doing her Governor duties (or avoiding them) with the babe in arms – different rules for GOPers
Shivering, stuffy nose, heavy eyes. Yep, I think I officially have my autumn cold.
Oh, heck. —->
I felt a tad guilty leaving work. Now? Not so much.
And with that – she just sealed her fate. Barring some unforeseen calamity, like a natural disaster that prevents people from voting, or such, she will be in the Senate next year.
HF2, as she should…..
I mean, who would distance yourself from POB embrace and own to being a “Clinton Democrat”, whatever that is.
Allison Grimes floods my emails with her grassroots BS. There is no “grassroots” without PBO.
If Mitch wins, she did this to herself with the Clinton’s help. I heard nothing about “Clinton Democrat” when her son-in-law’s mother was running for office……and lost.
Those Blue Dogs in KY are just as racist as the Red Dogs.
I am from GA. So I know them Dawgs.
Michelle Nunn ^5 for standing tall for POB. He sure as hell working hard for ALL Dems. Even those scared ass chicken shit ones.
Good for Ms. Nunn.
In UTAH…….Hmm?
Looks more like like “Hot Mess in 2015” to me.
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Per capita, UT watches the most porn. Now, they are getting a sizable few addicted to prescription drugs.
It’s always those with magic Religious directive underwear with Questionable conducts…….Generalizing here, of course.
I wonder who they will blame…….on these pictures.
HF2, after seeing the real Freedom Fighters in the above tweets this is just a “Mess”. The real Freedom Fighters are over the world could not and would be able to shoot a fun in heels.
I thought Bay Watch was over in the ’90’s. Why do they insist on degrading women and we cooperate with them?
My sons tell me that everything is bought, shape and mold on the plastic surgeons table, you do not know what is real and fake. If you do not ask they proudly tell you.
So sad some young girls will not ever know what the term “Natural Woman” means. Or even cares.
Love this comment from the Dem Minority leader of the Utah House:
“If this video was shot at a government restricted facility using government specialized military equipment, either leadership knew about this or their security protocols aren’t robust enough to keep a bunch of calendar girls and their crew and assorted groupies out,” Seelig said. “It flies in the face of any progress we have made in the military and sends out this archaic message to girls and women that their true value lies in their body parts.”
Truth, in_deed.
This ish compared to the “real women” soldiers fighting ISIL ? Okay, American exceptionalism !
OMG,just set women in the military back 10 years. WTH were they thinking? Where is their pride?
I love our President!
I just knew that these last two years would be as great as the first two or even better.
I woke up this morning with gratefulness in my heart for everyone here, everyone who voted and will vote again to help this hard working, caring, humble man bring about change for us.
I posted earlier this weeks how the days, weeks and months seems to be in “fast FOWARD mode” . I am sadden to see the final days end and glad for this man to get some rest and enjoy reflective days with his family.
I am a better person and citizen because of this man, his family and Administration.
For that I am eternal grateful.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Now, now, now…..
Seriously? But then again…..in these USA…… holy smokes.
It’s possible the date expired and he is so busy, he didn’t notice. I hope one of the SS men stepped up and paid the bill. He has certainly bought these guys many lunches and dinner.
Michelle did. He states that he hadn’t been using it enough, and some cards are stopped due to inactivity. It would be wrong to say the restaurant rejected his card. It would be that the credit card company rejected his card. But he was the one who used the phrase. He mentioned it during his signing of today’s executive order and laughed about it.
Sensationalist bullshit from the media.
The card was rejected as a precaution in case it was stolen because PBO hardly uses it (probably hasn’t since he became Pres). It wasn’t the President they were rejecting, it was the card based on data of lack of use for an extended period. And that’s a good thing. It shows that the system is working!
And a golf course rejection for whatever reason hardly qualifies as “NYC being a tough town for President Obama” as TPM is claiming. How many New Yorkers even know that that damn golf course exists?
Note that PBO is the one who brought up the story when doing the signing. TPM was just reporting what he himself said, and the NYC being tough was obviously tongue in cheek.
The media does do a lot of BS reporting but we can’t overract to every little thing.
Caution…..
Fraud concerns. I get it…..
The reason POTUS himself mentioned it.
I took it as a fun story…….they took FLOTUS’ Card.
I am not sure why this posted here.
The TPM article was disgusting. I double-checked because I thought I was reading Right Wing Watch.
Look at ALL the TPM headlines – 54 for GOP – 1 for dems – and the latter is negative. They see Fox News as their competition
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/17/1337318/-Is-the-US-Prepared-for-Ebola-A-Viewpoint-Just-Released-in-the-JAMA
The JAMA article is good to link to. I’m linking to dkos because – you will probably never hear me say this again – the comments are good with some good quotes from the JAMA article.
I hope this is factual.
It is, Nena.
“Moody’s downgrades Russia to Baa2”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102078851#.
Thanks Doc……I was about to go searching for the information.
Thanks a bunch for getting the information promptly.
No problem, Nena. Also …
Obrigado, Doc 😉
More at the link in the tweet, but wanted to highlight these three initial paragraphs in the “Rationale for the downgrade” portion of the report (especially the 2nd paragraph):
“The first driver for the downgrade of the Russian government’s debt ratings to Baa2 relates to the longer term damage the already weak Russian economy is likely to incur as a result of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and, relatedly, the additional sanctions imposed against Russia since Moody’s confirmation of the government’s Baa1 rating in June 2014. That confirmation reflected Moody’s view at the time that harsher and prolonged sanctions were unlikely. However, the assignment of a negative outlook reflected the rising risk of further conflict and the possibility of economic sanctions. Since then, sanctions have been extended and now include Russian majority state-owned banks and key companies in the defense and energy sector. Additional restrictions include limits or bans on the provision of goods, services and technologies to these and other companies as well as asset freezes and visa bans on individuals.
The military confrontation in Ukraine and escalating sanctions against Russia are likely to have an increasingly negative macroeconomic impact on Russia’s investment climate and consequently on its medium-term growth prospects. Even prior to the crisis in Ukraine, the potential growth rate of the Russian economy was falling, constrained, according to the IMF, by economic rigidities such as infrastructure bottlenecks and shortfalls in labor skills and education. Additional constraints are posed by the high degree of dependence on the hydrocarbon sector, which has not materially decreased despite the government’s diversification strategies, and demographic shifts. Much needed domestic and external investment was already being undermined by the challenges posed by the Russian business climate and by Russia’s weak institutions.
The tightening of sanctions against Russia has already begun to aggravate the slowdown in economic growth and to undermine consumer and investor confidence in the country. Domestic demand slumped in the second quarter, including a notable decline in inventories and investment. Consumer confidence has been undermined, aggravated by the acceleration of inflation and higher interest rates resulting from, among other things, the depreciating exchange rate.”
Putin started a war to distract from the reality of an already failing economy. That’s the kind of distraction from reality Fox #NEWSTAINERS truly admire.
🙂
Much appreciative of all you do Doc.
Thank you Nena! Appreciate all you do, as well.
Great tweet Bob – says it all
Busy, busy. Voting, Voting!! 🙂 ❤ 🐻
Important ….
Federal Judge just struck down WY’s same sex marriage ban, and WY is surrendering (although there is a stay). WY is part of the 10th circuit which struck down UT and OK.
32 states.
Arizona had the marriage ban struck down today. Whoopie!
love this tweet. So very true.
I wish something could be done to rein in #Ferguson #StLouisCounty.
Another standup, family values guy (snark):
The only reason they are demanding one, is to get the focus off of them filibustering the surgeon general. And of course, with help from the media, it worked.
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He is an amateur
Oh Yeah…….
Some people are just crude and cruel
Truly sums the stupidity and insanity constantly nurtured by US #NEWSTAINERS
So she lied about being in West Africa ? She needs to be relieved of her job.
Mark Pryor and Kay Hagan call for a travel ban .
Those two cave to the crazies all the time….they are both lying about the Keystone Pipeline too, saying it will bring tens of thousands of jobs.
Linda, imo they did just what they should do at this time. We need them to be re-elected. If a few more days pass and no fresh Ebola cases emerge in the US, it’ll be back to #Benghazi for the #NEWSTAINERS.
As to the pipeline. It ain’t gonna happen 🙂
Well, I am glad that I don’t have to vote for either of them……I have my own nose holding voting issues for the Dems here in Georgia.
Thank goodness I live in one of the only 6 Dem districts in the State…..
Nerdy’s new post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/17/the-presidents-day-21/