HE’S HAPPY TO BE AWAY FROM THE DC CESSPOOL AND OUT IN THE SUN WITH FRIENDS…REAL FRIENDS!!!!…FORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Au{Ba}ManePadmeAum. See how I added that extra vibrational syllable way back in 2008. As the universe expands and grows more intelligent, we raise our consciousness with increasing the vibration of sounds. Works well for me, anyway. This was meant in reply to Don up thread, re: taichi.
President's motorcade arrives at Floridian Golf Club, Palm City, where Obama will golf this weekend. @CBS12http://t.co/TzmzCLKOQG— Chuck Weber (@ChuckWeber12) March 28, 2015
Healthcare, bin laden, the auto industry and even a nuclear deal with Iran those things alone do not drive the GOP insane. Imagining that President Obama has a nine-inch Johnson is what really drives them insane. In our overcharged sexualized society nothing enthralls us more than sex, or the thought of someone having sex. And yet sex, conspicuously absent in every conversation about President Obama is the one thing that has not been trotted out against him. In those quiet rooms that Romney speaks so highly of, it is not hard to imagine a conversation taking place that involves President Obama and his cartoonish oversized member walking around kicking ass and taking names to the dismay of every conservative in America.
MARCH 28th, 1956
Churches Observe National Deliverance Day of Prayer in Support of Montgomery Bus Boycott
// ……………………..
As a means of publicizing and encouraging support of the ongoing boycott and other anti-discrimination efforts, Adam Clayton Powell organized a National Deliverance Day of Prayer on March 28, 1956. Rev. Powell, a black minister and congressman from New York, urged participants throughout the country to “pray for the deliverance of all who suffer from persecution and we for the salvation of all who are afflicted with racial prejudice.” Rev. Powell initially proposed the day should include a one-hour work stoppage, but other religious leaders rejected the idea as unnecessarily disruptive.
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Yes indeed, Prettyfoot. On top of that, the California legislature enacted a law, signed by GOP St. Ronnie Reagan who was then the CA governor, banning the carrying of guns within city limits.
I’ll bet if Attorney General Holder charged the #47Traitors under the Logan Act, the Senate would move quickly to confirm Loretta lynch as his replacement.
Early birds. Worms. Sun has crossed the equator (well, technically the Sun stays in one place), just watched the 1st quarter moon rise heading into a Total Lunar Eclipse on Easter Weekend (more on that later) and have already filed my tax return. (I’m sure I’ll pay more than the 1%). So I figured I may as well take 1, 2, 3 and 4, just for fun! Earth Hour already happening for some of you, it’s a nice effort. ❤
HOLDING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ACCOUNTABLE FOR FRAUD
March 27, 2015
Courtesy of the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch
For decades, the Department of Justice, led by the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch, has protected the health, safety and economic security of the American consumer. Indeed, since its creation more than 40 years ago, the Consumer Protection Branch has worked tirelessly to combat all types of consumer fraud.
But as two of our most recent cases show, fraudsters have become more sophisticated. It used to be that fraud schemes depended on the willingness of unwitting consumers to hand over their hard-earned savings in person or through the mail. Today, the interconnectedness of our electronic banking system means a crook just needs to find a way to acquire one piece of information—your bank account number. Once he has it, and a means to access the banking system, your bank account—and your money—is in his hands.
Thanks to banking rules designed to prevent money laundering and other illegal activity, American banks generally don’t do business with people who are trying to steal money from consumers. But fraudsters figured out that they could gain access to the banking system indirectly, through a middleman called a third party payment processor, because they realized some banks would not look past the middleman to evaluate what the fraudster was doing. And other banks, even if they did find out what the fraudster was doing, would choose to look the other way while they continued to collect fees in exchange for enabling the scheme.
But just as bad actors continuously adapt to modern technology, law enforcement must adapt to protect consumers. Recognizing this new and serious consumer fraud problem, in 2012, career prosecutors at the department proposed a focused effort to disrupt these illegal third-party payment processor schemes. The new approach was informally dubbed “Operation Chokepoint”—a recognition that choking off access to consumers’ bank accounts could stop numerous fraud schemes at one time and protect more people from being victimized.
………………………………….. //
Friday, March 27, 2015
Former Independence, Missouri, Police Officer Indicted on Federal Civil Rights and Obstruction of Justice Charges
Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri announced that a federal grand jury has returned a four-count indictment against former Independence, Missouri, police officer Timothy Runnels for violating the constitutional rights of a minor who was in his custody and obstructing the subsequent investigation into the incident.
According to the indictment, Runnels continuously deployed a Taser against the minor while the minor was on the ground and not posing a threat to Runnels or others. The indictment also charges that Runnels deliberately dropped the minor headfirst onto the ground while the minor was restrained and not posing a threat to Runnels or others. The indictment alleges that the minor sustained bodily injury as a result of Runnels’ actions and, with respect to the first count, that the offense involved the use of a dangerous weapon. The indictment also charges Runnels with two counts of obstruction of justice for filing a false police report concerning the incident and for making a false statement to Independence Police Department investigators regarding the amount of force that he used against the minor.
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some feminists were critical of the issues that the First Lady championed and called them soft issues that were not political enough…
Nutrition…Health…exercise of our children…her influence was so great …she brought healthy food to schools…and for the first time children’s obesity rates dropped…….. in addition she encourage many folks, including children to start gardens….she started the first ever Kid’s State Dinner featuring the dishes that the children created…and now…she is championing the cause of Education…with #ReachHigher…#LetGirlsLearn…
The Feminists were wrong…
Our First Lady has tackled meaningful issues that impact on girls and family…with GREAT Success…
The reply to the guy that said it’s HIS restaurant he can do what he wants because he did EVERYTHING himself (delusional fool)
Lysander Sylier · Top Commenter
““Well, I feel okay with it because it’s my place of business, I pay the rent, I’ve built it with all my money and my doing. It’s my place; I can do whatever I want with it.”
You mean you built it by taking advantage of socialized road systems, water systems, electrical grids and other infrastructure with money that you made previously by taking advantage of said public systems to make a profit, presumably off of your fellow American consumers, some of whom were surely LGBT?
You mean you built it under protection from laws created to help business owners that were put in place by legislatures, some of whom were LGBT, which were paid for by taxpayers, some of whom were LGBT?
This is a problem with conservatives. They always believe that they’ve earned everything that they ever have on their own merit, without any help from anyone else, and are therefore entitled to not extend the same courtesy to other members of society that they have received themselves.
This is because they don’t actually know how their government works. Same reason they screech about keeping gov’t hands off their Medicare. Same reason they screech about shutting down the government. as long as they can still get their social security checks. Same reason they can call for troops to be sent around the world, and at the same time call for cuts to welfare and veterans programs – both of whom the military has heavy reliance. Why they can continue to vote for Republicans, and in the next breath, complain about how government does nothing for them… It’s pathetic.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
❤
Oh. Yeah. You go, mr president
Mp for the win
Hi Mighty P, hiya everyone!
Hiya Chipsticks, PBO’s lookin’ a bit of alright, eh? 💫
He’s looking mighty fine, Mighty P 🙂
HE’S HAPPY TO BE AWAY FROM THE DC CESSPOOL AND OUT IN THE SUN WITH FRIENDS…REAL FRIENDS!!!!…FORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To the victor goes the spoils! Um, there are some spoils, right Chips? 🙂
Congrats to MP on first!
I’ll stop now
Carry on, just carry on O Mighty P! Congrats on #1 🙂
👽
😀
One of my favorite lines in that Money. I have seen that movie at least, 9 Times.
Back after TaiChi.. Must stretch and breathe you know ❤
I’ve always wanted to learn TaiChi.
Au{Ba}ManePadmeAum. See how I added that extra vibrational syllable way back in 2008. As the universe expands and grows more intelligent, we raise our consciousness with increasing the vibration of sounds. Works well for me, anyway. This was meant in reply to Don up thread, re: taichi.
For Mighty P 🙂
(starts at about 17 seconds in)
😉
Hey cool! I was just about to pull out my Tai Chi video and do a little swaying myself! 🙂
What’s a video?
🙂
🙂
Congrats MP on First!
Hellooooo everyone 😃
Healthcare, bin laden, the auto industry and even a nuclear deal with Iran those things alone do not drive the GOP insane. Imagining that President Obama has a nine-inch Johnson is what really drives them insane. In our overcharged sexualized society nothing enthralls us more than sex, or the thought of someone having sex. And yet sex, conspicuously absent in every conversation about President Obama is the one thing that has not been trotted out against him. In those quiet rooms that Romney speaks so highly of, it is not hard to imagine a conversation taking place that involves President Obama and his cartoonish oversized member walking around kicking ass and taking names to the dismay of every conservative in America.
Hm, is anyone in here feeling a little warm? 😉
🙂 Wonder what Don is drinking or reading these days…….
😊😊😊😊
ME THINKS DON HAS BEEN LOOKING AT THE PHOTOS AND NOT THE PRINT LATELY…LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
I can’t wait for Don to write his novel about our first African-American President 😀
Man, my per diem is really stretching out. So far I’m ahead by almost $300.
You are a better saver than I, LL. We even get money for phone calls and I blow through that even though I have a cell.
My Brothers!
hahaha… old picture…..his old watch and his ring is on. ( They think we don’t notice these things ? )
Ahmad is drector, actor, choreographer Debbie Allen’s husband.
director
GA NCLB,
Oddly, I haven’t heard this mentioned on the radio today. Guess I’ve been listening at the wrong times. 😦
OMG! My sister lives in Exposition Park 1 mile west on Exposition Blvd.
Great response JO’B! Let’s see what he has to say to G.S. tomorrow. 🙂
Thx. I won’t be watching G.S., but I’ll look for it!
I don’t generally go to dkos links, but I did so you didn’t have to!
It’s Gohmert’s lack of brains, not lack of hair that would be a hindrance. Gag!
Exactly! Gag!
REPUGNANT OWNED EVERYWHERE…NOONE WILL BRING OUT A NOTEPAD AND PEN ON THIS ONE!…THIS IS A REPUGNANT CITY…THEY OWN IT…………:(
Ugh!
Hello TOD! You guys are in rare form today 🙂 ..especially Don…. be still my heart (etc.) at the thought of those kind of Presidential proportions 😉
Having a crazy-busy season on so many levels, but coming here and checking in calms me. Thank you everyone!
scrum….
scrum…
Equal Justice Initiative
MARCH 28th, 1956
Churches Observe National Deliverance Day of Prayer in Support of Montgomery Bus Boycott
// ……………………..
As a means of publicizing and encouraging support of the ongoing boycott and other anti-discrimination efforts, Adam Clayton Powell organized a National Deliverance Day of Prayer on March 28, 1956. Rev. Powell, a black minister and congressman from New York, urged participants throughout the country to “pray for the deliverance of all who suffer from persecution and we for the salvation of all who are afflicted with racial prejudice.” Rev. Powell initially proposed the day should include a one-hour work stoppage, but other religious leaders rejected the idea as unnecessarily disruptive.
………………………. //
If that were a black man and woman carry those weapons the police would have been call and they probably would be shot dead.
yes …open carry is only for white folks…aka…the Black Panther Party from the 70s….the police had open season on its members
Yes indeed, Prettyfoot. On top of that, the California legislature enacted a law, signed by GOP St. Ronnie Reagan who was then the CA governor, banning the carrying of guns within city limits.
yup…very true…
I really like this.
I’ll bet if Attorney General Holder charged the #47Traitors under the Logan Act, the Senate would move quickly to confirm Loretta lynch as his replacement.
😀 😀 *That* would be transparently funny! I love the thought.
I mean on the part of the 47+.
A troublemaker, for sure
@carnolddesigns
Memory Lane 😀 – I know the young lad’s exasperation …even today
Well, Ms MP, you have certainly been feeling frisky today, letting everyone chase around trying to catch up with you! 😎 runnings!
Early birds. Worms. Sun has crossed the equator (well, technically the Sun stays in one place), just watched the 1st quarter moon rise heading into a Total Lunar Eclipse on Easter Weekend (more on that later) and have already filed my tax return. (I’m sure I’ll pay more than the 1%). So I figured I may as well take 1, 2, 3 and 4, just for fun! Earth Hour already happening for some of you, it’s a nice effort. ❤
Hey Vicki…
CBS radio network news reports that talks are at the “frantic” stage.
Wish they would stick to broadcasting information rather than personal opinion from people who have no idea what is really going on.
SMH.
Hey Hopef!
Helloooooo to The One & Only – Lady V herself! 🙂
🙂 🙂
GA TODville.
They probably said it was because of something Rick Scott aka Voldemort, did.
HOLDING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ACCOUNTABLE FOR FRAUD
March 27, 2015
Courtesy of the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch
For decades, the Department of Justice, led by the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch, has protected the health, safety and economic security of the American consumer. Indeed, since its creation more than 40 years ago, the Consumer Protection Branch has worked tirelessly to combat all types of consumer fraud.
But as two of our most recent cases show, fraudsters have become more sophisticated. It used to be that fraud schemes depended on the willingness of unwitting consumers to hand over their hard-earned savings in person or through the mail. Today, the interconnectedness of our electronic banking system means a crook just needs to find a way to acquire one piece of information—your bank account number. Once he has it, and a means to access the banking system, your bank account—and your money—is in his hands.
Thanks to banking rules designed to prevent money laundering and other illegal activity, American banks generally don’t do business with people who are trying to steal money from consumers. But fraudsters figured out that they could gain access to the banking system indirectly, through a middleman called a third party payment processor, because they realized some banks would not look past the middleman to evaluate what the fraudster was doing. And other banks, even if they did find out what the fraudster was doing, would choose to look the other way while they continued to collect fees in exchange for enabling the scheme.
But just as bad actors continuously adapt to modern technology, law enforcement must adapt to protect consumers. Recognizing this new and serious consumer fraud problem, in 2012, career prosecutors at the department proposed a focused effort to disrupt these illegal third-party payment processor schemes. The new approach was informally dubbed “Operation Chokepoint”—a recognition that choking off access to consumers’ bank accounts could stop numerous fraud schemes at one time and protect more people from being victimized.
………………………………….. //
http://www.justice.gov/opa/blog/holding-financial-institutions-accountable-fraud
Friday, March 27, 2015
Former Independence, Missouri, Police Officer Indicted on Federal Civil Rights and Obstruction of Justice Charges
Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri announced that a federal grand jury has returned a four-count indictment against former Independence, Missouri, police officer Timothy Runnels for violating the constitutional rights of a minor who was in his custody and obstructing the subsequent investigation into the incident.
According to the indictment, Runnels continuously deployed a Taser against the minor while the minor was on the ground and not posing a threat to Runnels or others. The indictment also charges that Runnels deliberately dropped the minor headfirst onto the ground while the minor was restrained and not posing a threat to Runnels or others. The indictment alleges that the minor sustained bodily injury as a result of Runnels’ actions and, with respect to the first count, that the offense involved the use of a dangerous weapon. The indictment also charges Runnels with two counts of obstruction of justice for filing a false police report concerning the incident and for making a false statement to Independence Police Department investigators regarding the amount of force that he used against the minor.
…………………… //
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-independence-missouri-police-officer-indicted-federal-civil-rights-and-obstruction
Thank you for bringing this here..
Is Flotus going to be at #BlackGirlsRock?
This program is being tape tonight and well air April 5th on BET.
Will air April 5th at 7pm n BET. Don’t forget!!!!!!!!!
ty JER…
You Rock!!!
some feminists were critical of the issues that the First Lady championed and called them soft issues that were not political enough…
Nutrition…Health…exercise of our children…her influence was so great …she brought healthy food to schools…and for the first time children’s obesity rates dropped…….. in addition she encourage many folks, including children to start gardens….she started the first ever Kid’s State Dinner featuring the dishes that the children created…and now…she is championing the cause of Education…with #ReachHigher…#LetGirlsLearn…
The Feminists were wrong…
Our First Lady has tackled meaningful issues that impact on girls and family…with GREAT Success…
BRAVOOOOO!…to the AWEsome FLOTUS
MUST READ the reply comment that wins the day:) Good reply to ANYONE that thinks they owe nothing to no one…
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/03/28/3640221/indiana-business-owner-admits-discriminating-lgbt-people/
The reply to the guy that said it’s HIS restaurant he can do what he wants because he did EVERYTHING himself (delusional fool)
Lysander Sylier · Top Commenter
““Well, I feel okay with it because it’s my place of business, I pay the rent, I’ve built it with all my money and my doing. It’s my place; I can do whatever I want with it.”
You mean you built it by taking advantage of socialized road systems, water systems, electrical grids and other infrastructure with money that you made previously by taking advantage of said public systems to make a profit, presumably off of your fellow American consumers, some of whom were surely LGBT?
You mean you built it under protection from laws created to help business owners that were put in place by legislatures, some of whom were LGBT, which were paid for by taxpayers, some of whom were LGBT?
This is a problem with conservatives. They always believe that they’ve earned everything that they ever have on their own merit, without any help from anyone else, and are therefore entitled to not extend the same courtesy to other members of society that they have received themselves.
Priceless and spot on.
he is also missing that we are all equal under the law…I believe that law is unconstitutional
This is because they don’t actually know how their government works. Same reason they screech about keeping gov’t hands off their Medicare. Same reason they screech about shutting down the government. as long as they can still get their social security checks. Same reason they can call for troops to be sent around the world, and at the same time call for cuts to welfare and veterans programs – both of whom the military has heavy reliance. Why they can continue to vote for Republicans, and in the next breath, complain about how government does nothing for them… It’s pathetic.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/03/28/the-weekend-has-arrived-yay-laughter/