On This Day: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walk towards the White House after observing a moment of silence for the victims of the Arizona shooting, on the South Lawn, Jan. 10, 2011 (Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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The Week Ahead
Monday: The President will welcome the 2014 NBA champions, San Antonio Spurs, to the White House to honor the team on winning their championship title.
Tuesday: The President will host bipartisan, bicameral congressional leadership. Vice President Biden will also attend.
Wednesday: The President will visit Iowa to give a speech proposing new steps to increase access to affordable, high-speed broadband across the country
Thursday: The President will travel to Baltimore, Maryland, to attend a Senate Democratic Issues Conference.
Friday: The President will attend meetings at the White House.
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On This Day
President-elect Barack Obama waves to onlookers as he leaves Ben’s Chili Bowl where he stopped to eat with Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty in Washington, Jan. 10, 2009
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President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama observe a moment of silence for the victims of the Arizona shooting, on the South Lawn, Jan. 10, 2011
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President Obama listens during a meeting with young citizens at Columbia Height’s restaurant The Coupe on January 10, 2014 in Washington, DC
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MoooOOOooorning everyone!
The Obama Diary 
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But yes – what timing from down under tonight!
Oh 99ts, I have traumatic news for ya – you’re twinned with unohoo 😕
you are in my seat.
You were late & I is staying where I am – never know your luck – I might be asleep for the next thread
99ts v Amk
A picture for every occasion – and off at a tangent – so looking forward to Colbert’s new show – wonder who just might be on the early guest list!
I think he should have you and Amk on the first show 🙂
World wide appeal – united states of TOD 🙂
Was busy pouring the single malt on one hand and typing with the other. You sneaked past.
Note to self: Forget the frigging glass in future.
Yes!
😎 😎 😎
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, everyone, and congrats 99ts & even amk on #!
Happy Saturday to all 🙂
Gooooooooooood mooooooooooorning Hopefruit!!
Moooooorning!!!!!
Moooooooorning Mega Star!!!
Oh, geeze:) Now I’m blushing:)
Morning df – sounds like a wonderful day – still
Still! It was one forever, now. Never to be forgotten:) Have a wonderful day (evening?) 99ts:)
Oh – I missed your summary of the day – I’ll have to go back and find it! glad you enjoyed it, from the sounds of it! 🙂
A good Saturday morning to you all TOD! Hope everyone’s day goes as planned! 😀
Gooooooood morning Alice, happy Saturday to ya!
Morning again. Our president looks so young on that January 10, 2009. I sometimes feel really bad about the way the job of president has aged this beautiful man. The VP’s official photo is wonderful. Joe Biden has so much energy and good sense. I wish he would consider running in 2016, but I doubt Jill would like that.
I DON’T LIKE AT ALL THE WAY PEOPLE HAVE TREATED PBO…BUT HE IS THE EQUALIZER AND THEY HAD BETTER START SHAKING IN THEIR LONGJOHNS…AS FOR AGING….HE IS MIGHTY FINE!…BBL…STAY WARM EVERYONE…IT IS SO COLD HERE…I NEED TO RELOCATE…THE TUNDRA AND I DO NOT GET ALONG!
Right, Danny-walking time – wish me luck because he’s even giddier than usual this morning 😕
Hold on tight, Chips!
Morning Chips! Have a great weekend!
You too Betsy!!!!
George Zimmerman has been arrested again, I hope not, but the killer will end up killing someone else or being kill himself. And it would be all thanks to that jury who set him free, and the right wing press.
And don’t forget the local sheriff, et al. This time he threw a wine bottle at his new girlfriend at his house, but at least this judge made him turn over all his weapons and told him to stay out of the county where the girlfriend lives. That’ll last about a minute. Until next time.
Desert Flower, Thanks for sharing a powerful summary of your experience of seeing and hearing President Obama in person yesterday. You told your story so poignantly I felt like I was right there with you, from having a hard time sleeping the night before “taking cat naps” to meeting the elderly lady you met from Georgia. At her age we know she has some stories to tell, especially being from the south. Telling us how you were able to keep your home because of his programs and what his presence meant to you. I really can’t express just how much this post meant to me. I, like you would have talked to everyone because that’s exactly how I am. Even though I am a bit shy writing here on TOD. Your experience thrilled me through and through. Just knowing how much you loved and cared about our wonderful president made us all happy I know. When I first started on twitter, I thought I was surely the Presidents biggest fan, and that no one else could possibly love, admire, respect & understand him as I did. Since 2007 I knew this man would be someday be President and a Great one! He has been extraordinary, & unstoppable in his accomplishments, and I know he is not finished yet! Being here on TOD each day and reading my incoming tweets I can see so many other feel exactly the same and love him as I do. Thank you so much again! Like I saw others suggest, I think you should send your experience to President Obama I am sure he would love reading it. Especially knowing he gets so much negativity from MSM and the unrelenting obstruction from the GOP.
Sorry I got called away yesterday and was unable to post this on on the Desert Flower TOD. That’s why I am planning to post it in the first TOD I see this morning.
Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment, Terri:) I just finished writing a more detailed reply to you, but….it just flew away somewhere in the interweb abyss! Good grief….I wanted all of you to feel like you were there with me, so I’m so glad that my writing made you feel that way.
I actually thought that I might send a thank you note to the Mayor of Phoenix, who also spoke that day…I feel like maybe if I included the piece I wrote here, it might have a better chance of actually being seen by the President if a mayor of a major city passes it on….what do you think about that idea?
Thanks again…must get ready to go tutor this morning…I’m still working 2 jobs:) ( I love my tutoring, so it really doesn’t count, do it? !)
Have a wonderful day and many thanks!
GM df. I think including it in your note to your Mayor is a great idea!
Your report touched me deeply. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Good morning, GGAIL:) Thank you for your thoughts on sending a thank you to the mayor…just thought I would have a better chance of PBO actually receiving it that way.
Do it 🙂
I WOULD HAVE MISSED THE ENTIRE EVENT IF I WERE THERE IN PERSON…PASSED OUT…FLAT OUT LIKE A PANCAKE…SPLAAAAT…ON THE FLOOR. SO GLAD DF WAS ABLE TO BE THERE. MY PUTER STRANGER I GUESS WILL NOT BE HERE TILL ABOUT 1P.M…GIVES ME TIME TO START CRAFTING MY HOMEMADE HAM AND BEAN SOUP!!!!!…I HOPE PBO IS REALLY RELAXING TODAY!…PERHAPS MICHELLE CAN TAKE THAT STUBBORN KEY OUT OF HIS BACK AND STRAP HIM IN A CHAIR!
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family!
Good Morning TOD family. I will be contacting you soon GGail.
GM jojo, thanks!
We have agreed on Jan 18th us that doable?
Yes, the 18th is good. Can we do it after 1pm? That way I won’t have to slip out of church early 🙂
Yes, I think we can arrange that it’s after 1pm.
GG, Go back to last thread and look for the link I shared about two little boys saluting the President. Don’t want you to miss it. 🙂
GM tnmtngirl, will do, thanks!
Thanks tnmtngirl. I thought that was sweet of the children, but I really enjoyed what the mother said…”you should show the President respect”. Also happy that the news didn’t cut her comments. Thank you Tennessee supporters of PBO!
I agree ggail. It was heartening to see not all people support the disrespect that has been shown to our beloved president over and over again. She’s doing a great job raising them.
Desert Flower, I think you should most assuredly send a thank you note to the Mayor and include the piece you wrote here. I just bet he will pass it on to the President! Its a very sincere and well written summary of your experience! Two jobs? Keeps you busy for sure. I think tutoring would be my pick too! Of course it would have to be math or science. certainly not English! Ha Ha. Have a wonderful day and thanks again!!
Good Morning Chips and all TOD family! Sorry I was so anxious to post my comment to desert Flower from yesterday I forgot to speak to anyone else. Hopefully everyone is well and having a Great day. Thanks for this post Chips, love the photo’s as always. Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!!
P.S. I don’t know any other way to see if someone reply’s here other than closing TOD and re opening it again. Any suggestions anyone?
GM terri. Have you tried refreshing?
Btw, you wrote a very nice comment to df upthread.
I’m with Gail…REFRESH the thread:)
I made mention of hearing a bit of this from Thom Hartmann the other day in the car….very interesting and enlightening!
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/01/france-must-be-careful-not-repeat-bush
I heard the same Thom Hartman show you did df. I have a friend in France and it sounds like the country is doing exactly that the only thing France will not go to war and PBO will not be dragged into one over this. There might be some assist to go after the Yemen leaders. What I don’t get is why these guys were not watched who travel to Yemen and come back to France.
Good morning TOD family! Happy weekend! Loving coverage info of our mighty President’s uplifting (I meant to write this and autocorrect made it “unifying”! That works too! Where was I? Oh yes…) and a Unifying visit to The great state of Tennessee. Waving to my TN TOD family from over here a bit east in NC. Thankful for TV story of three little guys who Get It, one one great Mom. Love the PBO With Babies Pix. Oh. My. Goodness. Precious goodness infinity. Thank you Chios and Noble BT’s for this retreat center/spa for our hearts and minds and spirits.
Chios!?? Who is Chios? Meant Chips of course. Reading Glasses #FAIL.
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The G.O.P., which has benefited from the support of so-called “low-information voters” in recent years, accused Obama of cynically trying to make people smarter as a way of chipping away at the Republican base.
FUNNYYYY…and true…
now this is “satire”
OH COME ON NOW!!!!! THIS IS INSANE….WOW…I SO LOVE THIS NEWS…OUR CHILDREN SHOULD NEVER BE LAST IN LINE FOR AN EDUCATION…IT IS JUST PLAIN WRONG. I HATE TOTHINK OF THE ‘GENIUS’ LEVELS AND CONTRIBUTIONS MISSED TO THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE OF SELFISH…DUMPSTER JIVIN’ HYPOCRITES LIKE THE REPUGNANTS. UNFORTUNATELY…MANY OF THEM HAVE HAD AN EDUCATION…AND IT DOESN’T SHOW!…THEY ARE A NO-SHOW!…LEAVE THIS PRESIDENT ALONE BEFORE I HAVE TO COME OVER THERE AND KICK YOU WITH MY SORE FEET!…NEXT!
‘Boehner: We make this promise to the American people, “If you like your brains, you can keep your brains” ‘ 😀 Borowitz’ satire is always so very plausible.
whatever gets it done..
Hi & GM Gail ;-)) Thanks for liking my comment Desert Flower did an outstanding job of informing us all of her wonderful day! Thanks to both you and Desert Flower for the info about refreshing the thread. I’m supposed to be pretty good with computers, lol somehow I have so much to learn with TOD. Getting smarter every day, hope to be a pro soon like so many of you ;-)))
Hi everyone, I am wondering if anyone knows how Dudette is doing. Her last posting was New Years day. I think she hosts family this time of year and hope she is giving them all her time although we miss her here. I recall one year we later found out she had gotten I’ll.
Hope all is well Dudette.
Hiya JoJo, Dudette was around yesterday briefly – she sounds like a busy bunny, but it seems like all’s good!
Just replied to your email, thank you!!
Thanks Chips….for the update on Dudette and the email for GGail. We will definitely let you know about our get together.
Goooooooal!
Thanks Chips for hooking us up. Now will you send us your AMEX black card so we can do it up right? 😀
You are SO demanding. Okay, I’ve emptied my savings account and sent the loot to ya – enjoy!1!1!
Oh Chips that is just toooo generous… 🙂 🙂 🙂
🙂 Don’t spend it all in the one go, JoJo!!
GA TOD! ……..hope everyone enjoys their weekend. Amazing good fortune here in Indy….temp as gone from -5 degress F to a whopping 10 degrees today. Deciding what kind of celebration should ensue 😦
Brrrrrrrrrrrrr, afternoooooooooon LP, wrap up warm!!!!
I’m living in fear that my power may go out…..leaving me with no heat!!!! …….my pipes to the washer machine are already frozen 😦 other than that…..how are things in your neck of the woods?
Oh heck, poor LP! I’m brrrrrrring a bit too, but it’s positively balmy next to your weather, by the sounds of it!
Chelsea wins and Man City ties.
In other matters— voters come out for candidates they like Mittens, Bush 3, Cruz won’t bring out the sometime voters.
Neither will Lady Walmart.
Policies and accomplishments count.
Just not as much as charisma, pizazz, oratorical skills.
We need to find a democrat who will stand next to PBO for the next 2 years, cheering POTUS’ achievements, and leading people to tune in when they are speaking. Deval Patrick comes to mind first but there must be a few others. Joe Biden is obviously already in place.
More than 340 million people in the USA, how hard can this be?
Punctuation error: candidates they like. Mittens, Bush3, Cruz won’t bring out the sometime voters.
Powerful PBS special on TV….
Mr Civil Rights…Thurgood Marshall and NAACP…this is a tape…you can rent or buy
Hey now! Looks like the Cali connection is getting together 🙂
After church
Yes vc, after church 🙂
Hmmmm. /as the drinks police/ Will there be any drinking at this get-together?
An ‘interesting’ read..
If you are a “good cop” in the United States who has knowledge of what you perceive to be police misconduct or brutality, yet do nothing, then you are not only perpetuating cycles of mistrust and cynicism in communities of color toward law enforcement, but also aiding and abetting the extrajudicial killing of people around this country.
On Nov. 1, 2006, now-former Buffalo, N.Y., Police Officer Cariol Holloman-Horne refused to be that kind of “good cop.” Her case has received regional attention for years, but the recent rash of police killings, particularly the choke hold death of 43-year-old Eric Garner, has pushed it into the national glare for the first time.
The then-19-year veteran, who is African American, was called to the scene of an alleged domestic violence dispute at the home of local musician Neal Mack. Upon her arrival, Mack had already been restrained after allegedly resisting arrest.
“I didn’t call the police and they had no right to be in my home,” Mack, now 62, explained via phone. “My ex-girlfriend was there with her son; she didn’t call them. Her mother was there; she didn’t call them.”
The dispute was over his ex-girlfriend’s Social Security check, and a mail carrier had alerted the cops.
“We were handling a private issue at my home when [an officer] showed up at my door asking for my mail,” Mack said. “He wouldn’t leave; other officers came and they were beating me in my own home. My son was yelling at them, ‘He can’t breathe.’”
Holloman-Horne and approximately 10 other officers removed Mack from his home.
What happened next has been the subject of multiple court cases and an internal police investigation and brought about the end of Holloman-Horne’s career.
Holloman-Horne claims that an officer, Gregory Kwiatkowski, began choking Mack without provocation and that she intervened. She says that she told Kwiatkowski to stop and that when he didn’t, she removed his arm from around Mack’s throat. That’s when she says the officer turned his fury on her, punching her so violently in the face that she required dental surgery.
Holloman-Horne was fired from the force in 2008 after an internal investigation and arbitration hearing determined that she was guilty of several counts of obstruction of justice and assaulting a police officer. She maintained all along that she was doing the right thing, trying to protect Mack from harm, and that the blue wall that protects cops and includes the judicial system lined up against her.
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A heroic act like the one Holloman-Horne describes does not minimize the systemic profiling, oppression and brutalization by law enforcement that decimates African-American communities, but her case does shine the light on how deeply racism is embedded within police culture and the stark fact that when you’re a black woman, even being blue can’t protect you from white privilege.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/01/the_price_a_cop_paid_for_crossing_the_blue_line.4.html
Oops! Forgot to encourage you to go and read the entire article. It does seem very truthful, …very credible
It does seem very truthful, …very credible..
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why do you think it would not be…
Not thinking it wouldn’t be, Pf. Just rambling in my effort to encourage others to read it in its entirety. It paints a very clear picture of the underbelly of the police force and the expectation that officers are expected to stand with even the most unjustified acts of other officers. I found it typical that the brutal officer ended up with promotion AND *his* pension even though there were other acts of brutality under his name, but the officer who was upholding justice and fair play is still fighting for *her* rights years later.
if you get PBS…in Canada…it is well worth watching the program…Mr Civil Rights..,Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP….powerful…
We used to years and years ago, Pf, but I truly don’t know if we still do as I haven’t watched TV in **years**. I might add that I’m in a state where I try not to watch civil rights issues right now, as I find myself getting angrier and angrier at the injustices – more so than in previous years.
VC…i get angry…as well…but i am in awe at the courage and fortitude that my people had to battle over and over the forces of darkness…it gives me strength and hope at the same time…you can purchase the video if you choose to
TY, Pf. I saw that you posted that option earlier.
“This week, North Carolina Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D) was sworn in as the new chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), welcoming with him five new members—all women, one Republican—to the 46-member caucus. In his swearing-in remarks, Butterfield pledged that criminal justice reform—including sentencing reform and addressing police brutality—will be “a centerpiece” of the group’s work in 2015.”
Nerdy’s tweets!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/01/10/a-tweet-or-two-206/