@PeteSouza: President Obama talking with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in Green Room of WH tonight
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FURST. ON A ROLL.
😆 You’re incorrigible.
(And no – I did NOT have to look up the spelling…..
incorrigible |ɪnˈkɒrɪdʒɪb(ə)l|
adjective
(of a person or their behaviour) not able to be changed or reformed
dog’s tail doesn’t straighten itself. #keeptrying.
#samewordiusedtodescribeyouearlier What do ya know, CC, and I didn’t have to look it up either!
🙂
I tried
incorigible
inccorigible
incorrigable
incorriguble
incorrigibel
incorrigabul
and
incorrajabil
before finally giving up and checking the dictionary
😳
Sigh! And here I was believing your first report that you didn’t have to look it up! I suppose since you confessed right away, I have no choice but to forgive you.
FTR, between the brilliance of your and Amk’s spelling (not to mention DannyO’s) I am starting to struggle to keep *my* old-fashioned skills out of the fray.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve typed “furst” in my worky life 😳
My bête noire is ‘also, too’. I swear I have to edit my real life letters carefully as the two fall very ‘naturally’ together from my fingers these days.
Heh, in my defence (yes, defence), I come from the land of phonetic languages.
Reasonable… but you don’t have to try to corrupt others.
psst! You brought this to mind
‘Clim’ ova de fence, man, an mek wi sidung an talk.’
#jamaican?
#whowantstoknow
#furstwantstoknow
#knownoonewiththatname
#yourloss
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Well done, amk 🙂
Congrats, amk!
danke job and bob. 🙂
I don’t see no green.
first – yipee
OOPS – congrats AMK
Hi Linda. You will always be furst in my book. How is it going? long time, no see.
Aw shucks – it is going really well our OFA team is really busy. We have been tabling for ACA, we have a planning meeting on Saturday and then a final push for Obamacare sign ups until Feb 15. Then we will work on Immigration and passing a Living Wage for Sonoma County workers. I hope to post here more often. I visit daily but need to chime in more.
WIW – you rock!
Hi Linda, how are you?
Someone (Judith Fardid?? or was it JackieG??) was saying earlier today that their newsletter recipients were having difficulty accessing your site. She was looking for insights on how to work around this.
Linda and VC,
It was JackieG’s newsletter from this morning:
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/02/04/early-bird-chat-465/#comment-1256162
Here’s what JackieG said:
“…since we began our monthly newsletter, I’ve had a link to What Is Working as a place to get information on how to contact representatives. Yesterday one of our recipients said that clicking on WIW introduced a computer virus. We’re trying to figure out what went wrong. Anyone else have this problem?”
Evening all. Congrats AMK
I know (understandably!) you don’t want to see this guy here ….. but I still cannot ****ing get over this:
what a classy guy. I don’t know why you hate him.
I’m just jealous of his Koch Brothers’ money 🙂
No, you have tons of money (all those flowers, hullo?). That cannot be it.
His Rio balcony?
Chips,
I’m truly astonished that GG hasn’t blocked you.
I’ve only @mentioned him a couple of times, and he immediately blocked me — and I am scrupulously polite when I tweet (didn’t take much to have him block me).
Oh crikey arapaho415, I was blocked by him ages ago, I just use a different browser occasionally to see what bile he’s spewing …. and boy, does he spew it!
I love this photo. I know Nancy Smash met with Jewish leaders today and I’m wondering if she’s briefing PBO on that.
Just imagine the turn of events if they had been given the real power to change things. stupid voters.
I try not to imagine that … would want to cry too much and too long! But it would have been great, I know that.
Torture to even think about that. GRRRRR.
When does Pete Souza sleep???
So you know, I didn’t respond to your last comment to me because I had no space.
esscuses, esscuses, esscuses.
#uprollywouldntrecognizetruthanyways
It’s okay. I’m headed to dreamland. Gnite
I’m heading out soon too – have to work tomorrow.
G’Night and slep well!
Now that I know you have to work tomorrow too, I’ll have sugarplumbs dancing in my dreams 🙂
🙂 🙂 Not too many sweets now – not a good idea to sleep with sugar on your teeth.
Booo! 😀
😀 G’night!
Hey everyone, I guess Tim Wise is going to speak at my college. Wondering if I should go and listen to him speak or not.
Jeff – You might try finding some reviews online that could be helpful, if he visits college campuses. I don’t really know much about the guy.
It’s 5 am and am hungry.
Here, I made you a sandwich:
where is my fork & knife?
🙄
atta girl. danke.
You’d eat *that*? I guess you two make a good pair after all /muttering as I walk off – ‘yuk’/!
heh, don’t look at my food.
Next time have her wrap it up (if you survive) and you’ll have no problems from me.
I’ve survived worse
/runs
no need to run. i believe you
#bt. she scares me.
Aaaaah
Well, if VC puts manners on you, I will build a statue to her. Like this:
canadian goose !!! perfect.
sadly.not.gonna.happen. ask the wifey unit.
I’m convinced that Chips is food stylist in her real life — she only posts nauseating food photos here to trip us up. 😉
And with that, arapaho415, you get an invitation to dinner tomorrow 🙂
Er, yum?
I’ll be busy primping to get ready for VC’s “semi-formal” even this weekend (joke, vc, joke).
Are you ………… turning down my invitation????
the question is will there be a knife and fork?
jenny, now you’re really screwed. Can’t wait to get back.
AWWWW!!! What a cutie!
why is the new secdef nominee hell bent on arming Ukrainian rebels?
Loved josh earnest smackdown.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest later stressed that President Obama – not Mr Carter – would make the final decision on the issue.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31134934
Great that Brian Williams is getting fried, but he’s not likely going to try to run for President.
So, I want to take just a moment to suggest we need another trending #, specifically #HillaryClintonMemories She’s a liar and the type of lie she told is the only reason I need never to vote for her. Period.
This will set the interwebz on fiyah! She surely has it coming, may as well taste it now while she is ‘delaying’ her debut. #tiredofhillary #sickofbill
let’s hope so, MP ….
#HillaryClintonMemories
I’m probably beating this dead horse, but NBC is owned by rightwing Comcast. They lie. Republicans lie. MSNBC is as bad as NBC. However, we turned off cable this past Monday. Free at last! And yes, Hillary lied, too. But then she is/was a member of “The Family” so I wasn’t surprised.
Yes, I know sabreen. I haven’t watched TV or any form of cable in more than two decades, btw. You made a wise decision!!
Good for you.
I’ve regretted not replacing my (old) TV when it gave up the ghost only a few times.
Fortunately I’m not a sports fan, but most of the stuff I’d be inclined to watch is on the internet. Do miss some of the HGTV shows, though.
Some of Pennsylvania’s Dems have really ticked me off; our Treasurer of six years (whom I supported for Gov in the primary) resigned and is pleading guilty to campaign solicitation irregularities (too lazy to look up exact charges…); and the AG (whom I DIDN’T support in primary) seems to be the connected, peter principle, light-weight I thought she was. So much for PA having a deep bench; we are only “slightly” less corrupt that our PA GOP counterparts…
“I was in two wars, and am ready to die in the name of justice. Your prime minister Medvedev said that if they cut off the SWIFT system, Russia is ready for all sorts of measures. I am also ready for all sorts of measures. “I am holding on by strength of willpower. I will go to the end.”
‘I could hear the shouts of “Nigger!” here and there’
‘I admit it scared me, What if I walked onto the court and the entire crowd booed me?’
‘Indian Wells was a pivotal moment of my story, together we have a chance to write a different ending’
http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/after-14-years-exile-serena-williams-returns-to-indian-wells/20150205.htm
Go Serena.
Eventually I’ll come out of my semi-lurkdom. Not tonight, though. See y’all on the flip.
Good to see you, LL. Sometimes we just need to observe…
After reading the #brianwilliamsmemories post, and many of the thoughtful and genuine responses here, it occurred to me this could be his chance to (partly) redeem his soul, and shed light on the underworld we know as the MSM. If he indeed has lost his job, maybe that is not so good for him, but he still retains his longtime persona, and he still has the credibility to turn the whole entire disinformation arena on its ear. I believe he may be the only one who can do this effectively. What does he have to lose now? Nothing. So, BriWi, if you are lurking here, which you may well be, give it some soul-searching and see if you can bring light and drive out darkness. Now is the time. Goodnight all.
MightyPamela – What a great thought. You might try e-mailing that to him, while he still has a published e-mail address?
Wouldn’t that be something, if that’s the path he took!
I just don’t understand how so many kept quiet and perpetuated the lie for so long. How did Brian Williams keep himself deluded for 12 years? The whole thing is preposterous.
If you read the Stars & Stripes piece, seems like the soldiers were busy fighting the war and overlooked it … maybe they didn’t feel then that they had the personal power to speak up about a news reporter’s lie? Think I read that when some of them heard he was still telling the story many years later, they spoke up. There’s something very wrong with Brian Williams’ thinking on this one. Makes you wonder what else may be found. What else he made up, about his “career.” I don’t know if he’s ever done anything like this before, but he’ll always have this “asterisk” next to his name, from this point on. Sad. Not to mention dumb!
To be fair to briwi, he didn’t claim to have gotten killed in action. So, there is that.
I’m sure we ALL needed that laugh! Thx, sir!
Ha!!
LOL.
Ahhh … the suit. That was somethin’!
I’m beginning to wonder if Brian Williams was ever in Iraq.
This is great. And a great reminder of how rigid we’ve all become, and how beauty takes a back seat sometimes. Ha.
Brian Williams story has reached our news – I liked this comment
“Brian Williams probably has the professional longevity of Tony Abbott,” Anthony McClellan said, a former television executive who has turned into one of the country’s best known reputation and crisis management handlers.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-05/nbc-anchor-brian-williams-recants-iraq-chopper-crash-story/6073728
Good news for me and my wife. Evidence that doing child care for grandchildren reduces possibility of Alzheimer’s. Especially since we are expecting twin grandchildren, a boy and a girl, next month, in addition to the granddaughter we already care for 3 days a week. http://wcrz.com/grandparents-who-babysit-are-less-likely-to-develop-alzheimers-video/
Not to mention the joy of grandbabes and how much you help your children. Delight to hear Bill 🙂
Sweet interview with Reggie Love on CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/02/05/cnn-tonight-reggie-love-don-lemon.cnn
First time I’m seeing this Don Lemon character. He seems like a bad joke.
Moooooooooooorning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/02/05/early-bird-chat-466/