On This Day – Pete Souza: “Another snowstorm blanketed Washington for the second time in a few days. Because it was a Saturday, I hung around the White House thinking that the President might venture out in the snow with his daughters. Here they are playing in the Rose Garden in the midst of the storm.” Feb. 6, 2010
Morning everyone. If you didn’t get a chance last night, please take the time to read all of Dudette’s tweets at the end of the last thread. It’s a stunning collection of illustrations and information about African American greats, complete, of course, with musical selections. She was on fire last night!
I agree!!! 🙂 Just commented that I thought this collection of tweets, pictures, etc. were worthy of its own post. I felt as if I were sitting through a well-produced black history program.
You’re right, SW, it really is worth of its own post. I’d like to come back to it again and again because it’s so rich with information, but it will get lost in an old post as the day wears on.
Baton Rouge General Medical Center-Mid City will close its emergency room within the next 60 days, a victim of continuing red ink and the Jindal administration withdrawing the financial support that kept it open….
The closest emergency rooms from Baton Rouge General’s Mid City campus is Lane Regional Medical Center, 30 minutes to the north in Zachary, and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, 30 minutes to the south on Essen Lane. Mid-City’s ER recorded 45,000 patient visits last year…..
More and more poor and uninsured patients from the low-income neighborhoods of north Baton Rouge ended up at the Mid City hospital, which was the next-closest facility.
Mid City hospital reported losses of $1 million a month as more and more patients who could not pay arrived…. Officials projected losses would grow larger, reaching $25 million to $30 million in 2015.
Poor people can’t pay full freight nor are they likely to be covered by insurance. There just happens to be an extremely attractive offer to get lots of poor people covered by insurance. Medicaid expansion would help safety net hospitals in high poverty areas the most. Poor people covered by insurance will either be able to pay something towards their emergency room visits or divert to lower levels of appropropriate care.
snip/
So Louisiana decided to not expand Medicaid. Its public safety net hospitals have the same demand as before with fewer resources because of a voluntary decision by the state to fuck the poor as well as fucking over some of the largest employers in the state. Cause meets effect.
So awful. Depriving poor people of medicaid expansion injures the entire economy of the IDIOTIC State and Governor.
How many nurses, orderlies, doctors and pharmacists will be out of work when this hospital closes? How many coffee shops serving those workers and hospital visitors will go out of business as well? Loss bring loss.
Everytime your intention is to hurt the poor the injuries expand outward in a rippling stream to injure all but the very richest.
And the voters in Louisiana will continue to elect people like Jindal and the wingnuts in their legislature because they have an R after their name, despite the fact that they are destroying the state and literally killing people. The modern day brand of Republicanism is hell bent on destroying anything decent in this country. They would be only too happy to see masses of people destroyed as long as they can satisfy their hatreds and prejudices.
As the American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: “A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.”
Well, it it may well on our doorstep. And the oligarchs are plotting their final takeover by using their economic dominance to capture governmental power – specifically, the governmental power which sets the rules for the very marketplace that provides the oligarchs with such massive wealth.
Once the American corporate barons own the institutions that are meant to regulate them, it’s game-over for both rational capitalism (including competition) and for democracy.
We have Citizens United to “thank” for so much of this….worst decision EVER for democracy!
Agree. The right wing of SCOTUS deliberately set out to destroy democracy in the US and place control of the government in the hands of a business oligarchy. The five justices have no respect for the democratic process and I truly believe that Roberts and Alito were deliberately chosen for this purpose and given to GW Bush to put on the Supreme Court. Together the five justices are slowly destroying all safeguards for individuals in a democracy and deliberately undermining the right to vote. They are more dangerous than a foreign enemy at this point.
Yes, but the GOP/media can’t acknowledge that while a Democrat is president. Imagine the headlines if there was a Republican in the WH, Of course, in that case, there wouldn’t have been a boom.
This just means that they’ll work like crazy to spin this as something other than extraordinarily great news:) I hope they all trip, fall, and spit all over themselves and show America more of who they REALLY are! In the mean time…great news America! Your President has your back!
*even* CBS radio network news, which spins absolutely everything as “bad news for Obama” had nothing but glowing things to say about the Jan/Dec/Nov job numbers, mentioning such things as “twice as many jobs needed to sustain economy,” “US firms record profits,” “uptick in unemployment rate means more workers seeking better paying jobs,” etc.
They even said something about wage growth, but since I’m not quite awake, can’t cite what they said.
Also, weather.com has a special statement about this weekend’s “Pineapple Express.” Radio report said that the Russian River is supposed to crest 20 feet higher than normal.
So NorCal will make up for last month’s parched conditions with a vengeance.
It’s the first week in February — Pineapple Expresses should not happen in the middle of winter — I’ve complained all winter how high our overnight lows have been this winter — just not right.
What does your local news have to say about snow in the Sierras this weekend?
We are bracing today for the coming storm but the Sonoma County will be hard hit. It’s supposed to last through Monday. I do hope SF gets drenched.
Snowfall in the Sierras has been bleak but there is modest snowfall predicted for this same time period, with the heaviest for tomorrow, so fingers crossed. Businesses have suffered.
Infuriating. Of course, what they are really mad about—the Dems that is—-is that PBO has done the work and what we don’t need is a “fi-it” democrat we need a continuation of This President.
About fell off my chair (figuratively — I was instead stumbling around the kitchen) when I heard the glowing (not a single negative) report on the economy by multiple network radio reporters.
And DWS sends out a condescending e-mail, telling us it’s so important that we answer the question of whether corporations should pay more in taxes. That’s supposed to make us click on and then donate money so that she and the DNC can carry on the fight for fairer taxes. They think we are as dumb as dirt. I wanted to tell her so, but then I would have fallen into the trap of clicking on.
love the economic news….i’m sure the increase in the minimum wage has helped to spur the economy…folks having more money to pay their bills…having more money to buy food…and other essentials as well as the lil pleasures that make like wonderful…having insurance…means keeping more of that money in your pocket to spend on other items counts as well….yesssssssssssss!!!!!!
i tell you …where we are now…i do not feel good about 2016….with all this good news from the President…we (DEMs) should be riding high…and very confident..yet i do not feel that coming from any of the DEM Camps…we have a president that has proven to be a stellar success…yet everyone wants to be the anti obama…or runs away….if Barack Obama was a white man…everyone would be courting him …wanting him in their camp…but that is not the case…even O’Malley thought that it was necessary to swipe at the President…sigh…
Keeping my head to the sky as best as i can…and as Bob always says..
From the article:
“Just like Ricardo and Lisa Brown, who were on the receiving end of a similar stunt from Comcast in late Jan. 2015 [first name changed to “Asshole”], Bauer claims she was not rude to the Comcast operator.
‘This is a disgrace to me. Why are they doing this to me? I pay my bills. I do not deserve this,’ she told WGN.”
“The Republicans know, as the president has already made clear, that he will veto this legislation. So in order to pass legislation that overcomes the veto, two-thirds are required in the Senate. So if the prime minister can persuade another one or two or another three or four, this could have weight,” he said.”
Imagine the outcry if a leader from any other country on the planet wanted to talk to congress to influence how politicians vote. Truly unbelievable from both Boehner and Netanyahu
I’m all, are you kidding me? Of course people perverted religion to commit barbaric acts. Do these people not know history? Plus, last night. my timeline was filled with tweets saying Lawrence had jumped on the revisionist history bandwagon. That’s just nuts.
I know…everyone has gone batshit crazy…those fundamentalist Christians are thinking their’s was perfect…no religion gets that honor. Maybe they are all just ” misremembering” the historical events:)
I applauded at this as he was 100 percent correct in his assertion. A lot of the racist and Islamaphobes are always quick to take the high horse and act like those things happened a long time ago so they simply don’t matter. You could say the same thing about the Holocaust, yet such things are important to remember so they don’t happen again.
Well if I was white I would be mad too, after all look how great we treated blacks during and after slavery, look at the North and South starting a war over owning slaves. It seem some people want to forget that blacks were beaten, hung, murder, thrown in rivers, black women were rape my their masters, families torn apart, sold like animals, all in this nation that they love to call a christian country. But hay don’t compare that to ISIS.
Rape can be beautiful if it produce a child. Every time I think Republicans couldn’t sink any lower they manage to surprise me. Yes they can sink lower and they will. What a dumb ass comment. Okay West Virginia women, these folks think marrying your brother, father, uncle can be beautiful if it produce a child.
not only this but the sheep will continue to believe that conservative policies are the reason we are where we are at because the professional left crowd will insist that president Obama is a republican.
Actually, considering the number of jobs created, the .1% rise in the unemployment rate is good news. It means more people are re-entering the job market as conditions improve. It means people who have been out of work and had given up on looking for work are optimistic again. So even the “bad news” is good news.
I am sure McConnell will point out the largest 3 month rise co-incides with the GOP winning the elections and therefore it is all about them. What a loser.
You want to talk about political power, President Obama was said to be “displeased” with the way Netanyahu was invited to Washington and now Bibi is throwing Boehner under the bus. And President Obama didn’t even have to lift a finger.
The Obama Diary 
Good Friday, Chipsticks…TOD Family!!!
MooOOOooOOooOOooOOooooorning swbluega, happy Friday!!!!
GM!
Goooooooooooooooood Morning DF!!
Morning to you, Chips:) Happy Friday!!
Morning everyone. If you didn’t get a chance last night, please take the time to read all of Dudette’s tweets at the end of the last thread. It’s a stunning collection of illustrations and information about African American greats, complete, of course, with musical selections. She was on fire last night!
I agree!!! 🙂 Just commented that I thought this collection of tweets, pictures, etc. were worthy of its own post. I felt as if I were sitting through a well-produced black history program.
You’re right, SW, it really is worth of its own post. I’d like to come back to it again and again because it’s so rich with information, but it will get lost in an old post as the day wears on.
THIS!
Ooooooh, have to check them out – thanks Jackie, and good morning to ya!
Morning to you, too, Chips. Fell asleep early last night, so just caught up with the Dudette’s brilliance this morning.
Do Not Miss The Rag and Bone commercial? short film? whatever it is.
Aw! Thanks so much Ladies! It makes me feel so good to know you enjoyed my postings. I’m grinning from ear to ear! 😀
Good morning!
Great read this morning about the cause/effect of NOT expanding Medicaid….
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2015/02/06/cause-and-effect-in-lousiana/#more-165258
Baton Rouge General Medical Center-Mid City will close its emergency room within the next 60 days, a victim of continuing red ink and the Jindal administration withdrawing the financial support that kept it open….
The closest emergency rooms from Baton Rouge General’s Mid City campus is Lane Regional Medical Center, 30 minutes to the north in Zachary, and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, 30 minutes to the south on Essen Lane. Mid-City’s ER recorded 45,000 patient visits last year…..
More and more poor and uninsured patients from the low-income neighborhoods of north Baton Rouge ended up at the Mid City hospital, which was the next-closest facility.
Mid City hospital reported losses of $1 million a month as more and more patients who could not pay arrived…. Officials projected losses would grow larger, reaching $25 million to $30 million in 2015.
Poor people can’t pay full freight nor are they likely to be covered by insurance. There just happens to be an extremely attractive offer to get lots of poor people covered by insurance. Medicaid expansion would help safety net hospitals in high poverty areas the most. Poor people covered by insurance will either be able to pay something towards their emergency room visits or divert to lower levels of appropropriate care.
snip/
So Louisiana decided to not expand Medicaid. Its public safety net hospitals have the same demand as before with fewer resources because of a voluntary decision by the state to fuck the poor as well as fucking over some of the largest employers in the state. Cause meets effect.
Traitors. All of them.
So awful. Depriving poor people of medicaid expansion injures the entire economy of the IDIOTIC State and Governor.
How many nurses, orderlies, doctors and pharmacists will be out of work when this hospital closes? How many coffee shops serving those workers and hospital visitors will go out of business as well? Loss bring loss.
Everytime your intention is to hurt the poor the injuries expand outward in a rippling stream to injure all but the very richest.
And the voters in Louisiana will continue to elect people like Jindal and the wingnuts in their legislature because they have an R after their name, despite the fact that they are destroying the state and literally killing people. The modern day brand of Republicanism is hell bent on destroying anything decent in this country. They would be only too happy to see masses of people destroyed as long as they can satisfy their hatreds and prejudices.
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Chips…2 of the same comments are lost in WP insanity somewhere…can you please free one of them and delete the other? Is it Friday or Monday?
🙂 Found and freed, DF! I think WP has some kind of anti-kick-boxing filter, that might have been it.
Thanks:) Yes…that must have been the reason:)
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-american-oligarchs-are-pushing-america-brink-fascism
As the American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: “A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.”
Well, it it may well on our doorstep. And the oligarchs are plotting their final takeover by using their economic dominance to capture governmental power – specifically, the governmental power which sets the rules for the very marketplace that provides the oligarchs with such massive wealth.
Once the American corporate barons own the institutions that are meant to regulate them, it’s game-over for both rational capitalism (including competition) and for democracy.
We have Citizens United to “thank” for so much of this….worst decision EVER for democracy!
Agree. The right wing of SCOTUS deliberately set out to destroy democracy in the US and place control of the government in the hands of a business oligarchy. The five justices have no respect for the democratic process and I truly believe that Roberts and Alito were deliberately chosen for this purpose and given to GW Bush to put on the Supreme Court. Together the five justices are slowly destroying all safeguards for individuals in a democracy and deliberately undermining the right to vote. They are more dangerous than a foreign enemy at this point.
Agree 100%!! They are the enemy within. to be sure. The whole article is excellent…I hope people read this and pass it along.
G’morning Chips & TOD!
I see that Bloomberg Business is forecasting a poor jobs report….
257,000 jobs added! 5.7% unemployment rate!
Plus the 400,000 created in November and 300,000 in December base on revision. I tell ya that Obama is destroying the country. Impeachment now!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHA….this was Bloomberg Business 30 minutes ago:
As Gordon Geeko once said, “If these guys owned a funeral home, no one would die!”
🙂
That report makes the actual figures remarkable – given that January is not usually a month for employment growth!
Precisely 99ts!
PEOPLE! This is a BOOM!
GOOD morning, TODville!!
Moooooooooooooorning Ms Majestic!!!
And a VEDDY VEDDY GOOD moornrnnninnnggg to you, Charming Chips!!
Yes, but the GOP/media can’t acknowledge that while a Democrat is president. Imagine the headlines if there was a Republican in the WH, Of course, in that case, there wouldn’t have been a boom.
This is incredible: Nothing “underwhelming” here….
This just means that they’ll work like crazy to spin this as something other than extraordinarily great news:) I hope they all trip, fall, and spit all over themselves and show America more of who they REALLY are! In the mean time…great news America! Your President has your back!
I think they are going with Prayer-gate today…….
The November and December upward revisions are nothing to sneeze at….just putting that out there….
OMG OMG OMG SO Great!!!! Better than expected!!!
Headline on HuffPoof
Unemployment Rate Rises To 5.7 Percent
Yeah…ok then
Happy Friday TODers!!
Heeeeeeeya Chips!!
Watch the stock market today….probably make those haters tons more $$$ while they bash the guy that made it all possible.
I love this duo.
Thank you, President Obama!!!!
January was the 11th consecutive month in which more than 200,000 jobs were created – the best run since 1994.
An average of 336,000 jobs have been created a month for the past three months – the best three-month pace in 17 years.
This is beebs. So, what was bloomberg blabbering about?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31167969
This is helping spur growth.
GM Meta,
*even* CBS radio network news, which spins absolutely everything as “bad news for Obama” had nothing but glowing things to say about the Jan/Dec/Nov job numbers, mentioning such things as “twice as many jobs needed to sustain economy,” “US firms record profits,” “uptick in unemployment rate means more workers seeking better paying jobs,” etc.
They even said something about wage growth, but since I’m not quite awake, can’t cite what they said.
Also, weather.com has a special statement about this weekend’s “Pineapple Express.” Radio report said that the Russian River is supposed to crest 20 feet higher than normal.
So NorCal will make up for last month’s parched conditions with a vengeance.
Most worrisome to me is this:
AMPLE SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE
http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/l/91362:4:US?phenomena=TSL&significance=S&areaid=CAZ045&office=KLOX&etn=0000&tid=931017
It’s the first week in February — Pineapple Expresses should not happen in the middle of winter — I’ve complained all winter how high our overnight lows have been this winter — just not right.
What does your local news have to say about snow in the Sierras this weekend?
We are bracing today for the coming storm but the Sonoma County will be hard hit. It’s supposed to last through Monday. I do hope SF gets drenched.
Snowfall in the Sierras has been bleak but there is modest snowfall predicted for this same time period, with the heaviest for tomorrow, so fingers crossed. Businesses have suffered.
GM everyone.
Good news!!
https://twitter.com/stevebenen/status/563698064888586244?lang=en
Morning, criquet:)
Meanwhile the DNC is busy “distancing from Obama” except when it’s to beg people for $$$ or to get clicks on their Twitter….
Infuriating. Of course, what they are really mad about—the Dems that is—-is that PBO has done the work and what we don’t need is a “fi-it” democrat we need a continuation of This President.
“fix-it”
Bingo, Vicki!
I unsubscribed from all of them. Clogging my darn e-mail box.
See my response to Meta, upthread.
About fell off my chair (figuratively — I was instead stumbling around the kitchen) when I heard the glowing (not a single negative) report on the economy by multiple network radio reporters.
And DWS sends out a condescending e-mail, telling us it’s so important that we answer the question of whether corporations should pay more in taxes. That’s supposed to make us click on and then donate money so that she and the DNC can carry on the fight for fairer taxes. They think we are as dumb as dirt. I wanted to tell her so, but then I would have fallen into the trap of clicking on.
I’m picking up the phone when they call this weekend and telling the DNC what I think of their leadership.
Thanks for displaying it , desertflower!
No problem:)
Wait….. Speaker Boehner said the ACA is a job killer and needs to be repealed….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What an icy welcome – and just when I was TRYING to forget about winter! 😀 I think I’ll go down memory lane with this one. ↓
Morning, SW!
MoooOOooorning, C²!
Greetings, EVERY.body!
Good Afternoon, VC! I hope you’re enjoying your day. 🙂
I am. I am, SW, and I hope you are too.
As we here in Jamaica would say `Happy Earthstrong Gong!’
Don’t worry about a thing, cause every little thing is gonna be alright
My wife is from Jamaica.
What a good news day. Fire up those fireworks celebration bits, Chips, if you please.
GM TOD….
love the economic news….i’m sure the increase in the minimum wage has helped to spur the economy…folks having more money to pay their bills…having more money to buy food…and other essentials as well as the lil pleasures that make like wonderful…having insurance…means keeping more of that money in your pocket to spend on other items counts as well….yesssssssssssss!!!!!!
i so love our President….i do i do
prettyfoot58, my Mom always tell me that he would win again if he could run again.
i think your mom may be right…
i tell you …where we are now…i do not feel good about 2016….with all this good news from the President…we (DEMs) should be riding high…and very confident..yet i do not feel that coming from any of the DEM Camps…we have a president that has proven to be a stellar success…yet everyone wants to be the anti obama…or runs away….if Barack Obama was a white man…everyone would be courting him …wanting him in their camp…but that is not the case…even O’Malley thought that it was necessary to swipe at the President…sigh…
Keeping my head to the sky as best as i can…and as Bob always says..
#TrustBarack
No Comcast in my area — we’re graced with stellar (not) Time-Warner Cable — I am so glad I have severed my relationship with cable.
I hate monopolies, and public utility designation is what they deserve:
From the article:
“Just like Ricardo and Lisa Brown, who were on the receiving end of a similar stunt from Comcast in late Jan. 2015 [first name changed to “Asshole”], Bauer claims she was not rude to the Comcast operator.
‘This is a disgrace to me. Why are they doing this to me? I pay my bills. I do not deserve this,’ she told WGN.”
HAHAHHAHAHHAAAAAA!! They truly deserve each other!! Bibi looking for a way out. HHHAHAHHAAA!
Fucking fool. Too smart by half.
“The Republicans know, as the president has already made clear, that he will veto this legislation. So in order to pass legislation that overcomes the veto, two-thirds are required in the Senate. So if the prime minister can persuade another one or two or another three or four, this could have weight,” he said.”
Imagine the outcry if a leader from any other country on the planet wanted to talk to congress to influence how politicians vote. Truly unbelievable from both Boehner and Netanyahu
Are you serious?
Can’t handle the truth.
I’m all, are you kidding me? Of course people perverted religion to commit barbaric acts. Do these people not know history? Plus, last night. my timeline was filled with tweets saying Lawrence had jumped on the revisionist history bandwagon. That’s just nuts.
I know…everyone has gone batshit crazy…those fundamentalist Christians are thinking their’s was perfect…no religion gets that honor. Maybe they are all just ” misremembering” the historical events:)
I applauded at this as he was 100 percent correct in his assertion. A lot of the racist and Islamaphobes are always quick to take the high horse and act like those things happened a long time ago so they simply don’t matter. You could say the same thing about the Holocaust, yet such things are important to remember so they don’t happen again.
Well if I was white I would be mad too, after all look how great we treated blacks during and after slavery, look at the North and South starting a war over owning slaves. It seem some people want to forget that blacks were beaten, hung, murder, thrown in rivers, black women were rape my their masters, families torn apart, sold like animals, all in this nation that they love to call a christian country. But hay don’t compare that to ISIS.
THIS BS NEEDS TO STOP AND STOP NOW!!
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/west-virginia-republican-says-rape-can-be-beautiful-if-it-produces-a-child/
Every man who touts rape as being so nice..should experience the act…first hand…
I tend to agree with a former co-worker. Put it in a jar and pickle it !!
Rape can be beautiful if it produce a child. Every time I think Republicans couldn’t sink any lower they manage to surprise me. Yes they can sink lower and they will. What a dumb ass comment. Okay West Virginia women, these folks think marrying your brother, father, uncle can be beautiful if it produce a child.
West Virginians think that marrying your father, uncle, brother is just fine.
Media: 257,000 jobs added and wage increased? Nah lets just run with the headline that unemployed ticked up by 0.1 percent.
infuriating, isn’t it? Sheeple will eat this shit up though….
not only this but the sheep will continue to believe that conservative policies are the reason we are where we are at because the professional left crowd will insist that president Obama is a republican.
I SO love this tweet. TY, africa!!
Actually, considering the number of jobs created, the .1% rise in the unemployment rate is good news. It means more people are re-entering the job market as conditions improve. It means people who have been out of work and had given up on looking for work are optimistic again. So even the “bad news” is good news.
I am sure McConnell will point out the largest 3 month rise co-incides with the GOP winning the elections and therefore it is all about them. What a loser.
You want to talk about political power, President Obama was said to be “displeased” with the way Netanyahu was invited to Washington and now Bibi is throwing Boehner under the bus. And President Obama didn’t even have to lift a finger.
BOOOOOOOOM
“No weapons formed shall prosper” Isaiah 54:17
“The battle is not yours, it’s the Lord’s.” 1Samuel 17:47
Our President quotes Scriptures often. He is not ashamed of his belief and his faith.
Thank you, President Obama for standing true to the Word.
Moooooorning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/02/06/rise-and-shine-1005/
egg.sack.lee. Where the were & are fucking dems?