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President Barack Obama speaks at an event for the Senior Executive Service at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. The Senior Executive Service (SES) is composed of the senior leadership of the Federal workforce
President Barack Obama takes a question about immigration reform during a visit to Casa Azafran in Nashville, Tennessee. Casa Azafran, located in Nashville’s most international and socially diverse district, is a community center and home to a number of immigrant-related nonprofits
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Father Breen tells President he and others are proud of his actions.#ObamaInNashville
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NewsChannel 5 (@NC5) December 09, 2014“People who are here, let’s give them a shot, let’s get them out of the shadows.” —President Obama #ImmigrationAction http://t.co/D1xf6ZMamd
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 09, 2014****
The President is greeted by Lilia & Carlos Yepez at their restaurant in Nashville after he spoke on immigration reform.
The Obama Diary 
GE.
GE, NCLB! Even my computer did a “Frozen” dance when it saw “Leave a comment” !
Hello Jacqui. I was stunned when I saw those words!!!
Usually I’m the one who “freezes”! Ha.
Good Evening NW. Thank you for the post!!!!
May God bless our POTUS and save him from acid reflux. May he have a safe plane ride home.
I borrowed Chips’s skeleton guy. Just love him.
HE’S SO CUTE…HE NEEDS SOME TACOS…HE’S A LITTLE ANNOREXIC!!!!..MAYBE HE NEEDS A LITTLE BELLY!…NOT TOO BIG…HE’LL HAVE TO SLOW DANCE!
Hey, NCLB, that’s not a guy! That’s me getting my once in a blue moon exercise routine going. 😀 {ps. It’s the only stick dancer I like because ‘she’ uses ALL parts of her body.}
Hello VC!
Greetings, o active one! I see you’re keeping on top of things in the village.
YES…AND LOTS OF HOT TEA AND HONEY…I HOPE HE TOOK THE PROPER ACID LINER BEFORE DIVING INTO THE B/T FEAST!!! HE DOESN’T NEED SECONDS IN TACOS…:)
Thanks, NCLB.
Evenin’.
Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooo much Nerdy!!
You’re welcome, Chips.
Our Prez must still be nursing a sore throat.
And what a day it was!
TIME FOR THE ENERGIZER BUNNY TO WIND DOWN AND DANCE WITH THE GUACAMOLE….I’M GOING BACK TO THE FLATSCREEN AND NURSE MY SORE THROAT WITH SOME HOT TEA,GINGER AND HONEY….:)..IT IS REALLY COLD HERE!…BRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Congrats NCLB on #1 🙂 Our President as usual, was in fine form at this townhall. His responses were thoughtful, sensible, and comprehensive. The participants asked great questions – they were there to listen, learn and obtain information about their issue. They were not there to “TELL Obama” or to get their faces on camera. They respected him as he respected them, and they appreciated the exemplary way in which PBO has conducted himself.
DITTO…AND ALWAYS…WE HAVE A CONSISTENT PRESIDENT…LATER ON…WE WILL HAVE AN AVOCADO/TACO STAINED PRESIDENT!..REST WELL PBO!
I know, Hopefruit. There are so many THE-PRESIDENT-SHOULD-DO-THIS in the punditry these days. And many from the liberal camp.
She looks like my grandmother. It always amazes and delights me to see how so many people, from the very young to the most elderly, just clinging to him. There is just something about him, maybe it’s empathy or just plain goodness that so many people see in him and what to hold on to for awhile. He and Michelle are so real and so themselves. I just love them.
My President oozes love compassion and respect. I have to say it. I love him so.
From Linda on last thread re: Richard Engel spouting CIA/RW talking point of the day. “POTUS is killing people with drones.”
Yes, that is the Corporate cultures response to a horrific report that shames us all.
Moral equivalence.
If you turn on media tonight you will hear them all echo how our drone program is terrible.
Richard Engel turns my stomach.
THE ANSWER TO THAT…DRONES SPARE SOLDIERS’ LIVES!!!!!!
Yes, exactly Sue. RWmedia don’t even try to make sense. They just want to try to smear PBO and divert shame and blame from themselves.
I truly believe he is CIA …..
I cannot stand Richard Engel’s sorry ass. But here’s the thing. How is it a no name journalist most of us have never heard of loses his life while Richard whose face and spew are everywhere manages to keep his head. It is a mystery.
Nice way for Engel to try “both sides”.
Of course it’s a steaming load of BS, but expect to see it come up on “progressive” sites, along with calls for Obama to immediately prosecute Bush and Cheney or else!*
*Of course, it won’t be easy, even with this mountain of evidence. And you can bet your bottom dollar that the GOP and the MSM will fight it tooth and nail, and don’t count on the emoprogs to have the President’s back.
I am totally, totally lost and too weary to actually educate myself by reading all of today’s previous posts. Came in near the bottom of the ‘PBO holding a town hall’ post, read a couple of comments and realizing quickly I was so far out of the loop almost sat down and wept. This is one day I’m going to move forward and (TRY to) forget what passed before.
O, congrats, NCLB!
{{{VC}}}
Thanks, luv! I needed that.
If you do anything at all, VC, listen to the words of the priest making his comments to the President at the immigration town hall. Stirring.
Saw this and Thought of LL and his Mix-a-logist capabilities.
I watched the Colbert report again and it was just as wonderful the second time. Also i caught some nuance the second time. PBO was doing Steven’s facial expressions as well as mimicing his speech. PBO did a pretty fair job of the raised eyebrow thing Steven does.
Yup, he nailed it! I just watched it for a third time. The mashup painting of Lincoln and Colbert hanging behind it was classic. For anyone who missed it here’s the link.
I just LOVE Stephen Colbert. I will never forget him trying to cover his emotion when POTUS won in 2008.
Oh LOrd. PBO was magnificient. And since everyone is confessing about the number if times they viewed the vid I will confess I have watched at least several times.
Au ⭐ for NCLB.
Thanks, Nena.
Deal reached on massive $1.1 trillion spending bill
Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill that will keep most of the federal government funded through next September.
Months of protracted negotiations between Democratic and Republican leaders concluded on Tuesday night, with passage expected in the coming days, according to top aides.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/massive-spending-bill-hits-snag-in-congress-as-deadline-draws-near/2014/12/09/981a81b4-7fa7-11e4-81fd-8c4814dfa9d7_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboPN
I hope there is no poison pill buried somewhere deep inside the bill. These wackos are capable of anything and everything small.
I read that DC is going to lose their legalized weed …..
So McConnell and company corralled members who wanted a shut down….hmmmm….wonder what cruz has to say about this
And because everything can’t be death and destruction:
sweettttt
US News Media is beyond a Joke.
The Media were good about Snowden unlawfully stealing and wickedly releasing Classified Documents. They could not get enough. They didn’t mind that those Documents released some of them aided the very people this TORTURE Documents were going after.
The Media were happy to get the Pentagon Papers. Their Go to Guy…….McCain…..spoke out against Torture.
But the MSM’s continued complicity and their endless duplicity in protecting GW Bush and Cheney is unprecedented.
Whatever pads their greasy mofo ass, eh?
❤ Jumping in at the bottom as I'm still on the wing, but now I have a newer iPhone to challenge me, so only heaven knows when I'll really be back! Meanwhile, big hugs all around, I'm at a meeting tonight, will peek in after! If I can keep my eyes open! ❤ 🐻 🙂
I was listening/watching Rev Al and left MSNBC on with CM on Hardball. I usually turn his show off. He came off to me as being on the GOP side about torture. Michael Steele seems to know how to use the “we” statement referring to both of them being Catholic getting Chris on his side. Joan Walsh was a bulldog and right on! The question does torture work is being used to whitewash it and defend it. I remember two wrongs don’t make a right.
CM is terrified of terrorists………he has become very confrontational with anyone that challenges him….
GE TODville,
Here’s some updates about CIA/torture:
And this:
I had to change the channel from MSNBC given Richard Engel’s unfailing attempt to indict PBO for the drone program rather than GWB for torture. What a fucking idiot. But it also caused me to go back to Jim Wright’s article at Stonekettle about the drone program after Anwar al-Awlaki was killed. There are some very relevant points including this, given we are at war with AQ:
“Targeted killing. I have never understood the moral objection to this. Oh don’t get me wrong, sure it’s immoral. So what? Killing is killing, you can gussy it up all you like, it’s still killing and it’s all immoral. That’s the way it is, you’re just arguing over semantics. If you’re on the receiving end, it doesn’t make one good goddamned bit of difference if death finds you from some random bit of shrapnel or if the bullet has your name written on it. Dead’s dead. Trust me on this, I’ve been there. After a decade of war, so have a hell of a lot of us. Killing people on the battlefield, zapping them in the electric chair, putting poison into their veins, or dropping hellfire on them from the sky – it’s all killing. Morality has got not one damned thing to do with it. Frankly I fail to understand how it was more moral or honorable or even economical to let thousands of people die during the revolution in Libya, for example, than to just drop a Tomahawk on Khaddafi on day one. Bang! There, the asshole’s dead. Toss his body over the balcony railing and let the mob use it for a piñata, we brought sticks, no pushing there’s enough for everybody. War’s over. Long live the Arab Spring and don’t forget who your friends are.
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Bottom line, they could have surrendered. They could have surrendered at anytime, right up until 9:55AM last Friday morning. Even then, they could have faced the Predators, threw down arms and raised their hands and claimed their rights as citizens of the United States of America.
They didn’t.
They chose to die.
They chose to die as martyrs to a cause hostile to their own country. They welcomed it.
They chose to die as terrorists, not as Americans.
They made their choice, let them suffer the consequences.”
http://www.stonekettle.com/2011/10/consequences.html
Bottom line, when you choose to fight a war people get killed. That fact does NOT justify–nor is it equivalent to–torturing the people in your custody. Every civilized nation recognizes this distinction. And I’d much rather have these terrorists killed by drones than see our troops put in harm’s way to stop them. Wish someone would tell Engel to STFU!
LIVE NOW: President Obama Returns to Andrews – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
BFF, you’re peerless when it comes to these live streaming links and photos from the President’s travels – we’d be lost without you! Thank yoooou!
🙂 ❤s back at ya!!
Still laughing at a cranky email from a TOD lurker who complained about the profanity in some of the tweets we post, especially from the Tweet of God (“who is NOT funny”), and that we were insulting the President by posting them. And that me and Nerdy should show more respect considering how much money we’re making from TOD 😆
Nerdy? Apparently we’re RICH!1!1!
Fucking hell, I get so tired of the “no true Scotsman” types.
Sorry, just posted news about my FIL downthread.
Hahahahahahahahaha….what bullshit.
I’ll be expecting my million dollar check in the mail any day soon, after you receive yours, eh, Chiparoo? 😉
Did some shopping today Nerdy, drop over any time!
LOL!!!
I’m assuming these are the guest quarters?
Here’s one the lurker will love! Oh and I’ll pay my monthly dues to TOD for November next week, ok?
This person will now feel vindicated in his/her purity. Fecking idjit.
hahahahahahaha
😆 Next week will be fine Forus – remember, cash only!
dare I ask how you responded?
🙂 With a rather sharp tongue, Nospin – and I politely suggested she go create her own profanity-free blog if she didn’t like this one.
Fuck me. (That’s for the cranky lurker. Eat me, asswipe.)
Just got an email from the missus. Her dad may be having surgery tonight. His wound got infected and now his hand/arm are swollen.
I”m just gutted, not only for him, but for me and the missus. I don’t know when she’ll be home now.
Ah LL, so sorry to hear that, just hoping the surgery will put things right and send him on the way to mending.
I just don’t know what to think. He’s 79. Stuff like this could be terminal.
Sorry to hear this news Inasmuch as thoughts become things, am sending positive healing thoughts to/ for you, the missus and her Dad.
{{{{LL}}}}, {{{{LL’s Missus}}}}}, and {{{{{Dad}}}}
Thanks, purple shod one.
LL, I’m sorry your FIL has to have surgery on his arm due to infection. I will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers.
Thanks sj.
LL, Praying for your family. Will you be able to join your Missus for Christmas/New Years?
Probably not. I’ll have friends who will keep me company, but not quite the same.
I had to cut out during the town hall today so missed the Q/A with the priest.
Forus, just go to 1 hr 33 in this video, it’s beautiful:
Oh that was just so nice. What a beautiful compliment.
Oh, LL…..I am so sorry, for all three of you! I know you miss your missus terribly, yet you know her father needs her, and you know she’s rather be home in Cali, and, and , and……..how complex these situations become, especially when health is involved. Please keep us posted.
Thanks, Carolyn, I will. It’s going to be a long night for her.
And mom always comes through, even when she annoys me. She has arroz con pollo waiting for me, so I don’t have to cook.
Aren’t Moms great? My Mom drives me nuts at times, however, I feel so Blessed to still have her mentally in her right mind, physically sound for her age, and able to still live independently… I’m especially grateful this year because we’ve lost about 20 folks in my tiny little community. My 2014 social life has consisted of funerals…
http://news.yahoo.com/female-lawmakers-montana-told-check-skirt-lengths-necklines-231323015.html?bcmt=comments-postbox
Yet more republican stupidity.
“All of this is to say that – if we are serious about wanting to “expose the CIA’s dark side” – we have to take a long view backwards. What the Bush/Cheney administration did was despicable. But it didn’t spring up out of whole cloth during their 8 years in office.”
I’m serving some homemade pie from CarolMae – LL can have some for dessert after he polishes off his mom’s delicious arroz con pollo. 🙂
I read the torture reports, more skimmed. I don’t know if I have it in myself to read the evils that Bush and Cheney brought to this country. It’s painful to know such is allowed to flourish like it was by a corrupt media and congress. The president did the right thing on much of this.
Nerdy’s tweets:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/12/09/a-tweet-or-two-185/
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