On This Day: President Obama greets troops during a visit to Camp Victory, just outside Baghdad, on April 7, 2009
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🙂 Morning /Night (take your pick) TODobots!
Swaggering in to debunk that false,
maliciousjealous rumour Chips has been trying to launch against me.Chips honey, should I point out *you* are late today?
Mooooooooooooooorning VC – good heavens, you’re awake!!!
Awake-r than you! /smirk/ & FTR, I saw that comment you made yesterday to JackieG!
I was hacked – I’d never in a million years suggest you’re a sleepy head. Honest. Ish.
Yea, I believe you since it wasn’t a suggestion; it was the seed of a false,
maliciousjealous rumour.Actually, you should have seen the comment from Jackie about you – I had to delete it, it was scurrilous.
Nice try, you shameless
hussytwin, but I happen to know JackieG as well as I know you. Ponder *that*!Well thanks a lot, Chips. And I just wrote a nice note below to VC, relieving you of all blame.
🙂 Mooooooooooorning Jackie!!
Goooooooddddd mmmmmoorrrrnnninnnnnnggggg, Chips Chica and TODville.
Another GREAT interview on Iran with President Obama and a skeptical Steve Inskeep from NPR. He know his stuff and isn’t afraid to show it!!
Goooooood morning Meta – and thank you for the video!
Most welcome, Champion!
Be sure to watch to the end where POTUS advises Scott Walker to “bone up” on foreign policy. It’s a hoot!!
Yup, about 19:00 mark.
thanks meta…
Good morning, pf!
Good Morning
Does the fucking ‘steve’ do ‘skeptical’ questioning about the overreach of the legislative thugs since 2009? Fuck his pundtwitry and skeptical ass.
Steve haz a sad. Did you catch PBO’s expression toward at the very end and rush out the door? Burn!
Yup, if only looks could kill.
#sleepyhead …..
furst.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw! Morning Mister!
Good morning all. VC, we all know you wake up early with a smile on your face, ready to face the day in any way. It’s the rest of us who linger longer in our beds than is strictly necessary. So, you see, Chips was just being extra kind of a sleepyhead like me.
..um “to” a sleepyhead..
GM, JackieG. You are such a lovely person to try and excuse unowho1. Don’t tell her, but I also linger in bed reading when I’m feeling too lazy to boot up my laptop. See, a book is always right beside me on the bed!
😕
It’s all YOUR fault.
Oh no it isn’t. If my Twitter name was @TheRealBarackObama with a blue tick beside it, I might understand the confusion.
😀 😀 It’s a good thing you aren’t trying to ask them to fund you, CC.
Oooooooh, there’s an idea ……
For $1000 I’ll tell them they can have dinner with me.
Imagine their faces when I walk in.
$1000!!!! 😯 What would you be feeding them? Fortunately that price alone would convince them that you are not he! smh … Amk has definitely had an awful monetary influence on you!
I’d be serving a Cheesy Puff salad, the $1000 is really for the honor of meeting me. Cheap at the price.
I agree the honour would be cheap at that price, but (because of Amk’s influence) you clearly haven’t learned anything from PBO’s fundraising model. Pay attention – requests for smaller amounts get more people involved – look at that pizzeria place in Indiana! Also, too, look at how ‘successful’ unowho2 has been with *his* pricing chart!
#Cheapskate
Heck, adding some cheap steak to your menu might help you!
😆
^5
#miss’leader’.
Boom! 🙂 – bo
Hail to the Chief!!
Love ya back – bo
KEWL
I do feel sorry for some of the ones who believe it’s PBO’s account because in some instances you can sense their innocence, and I suspect that most who fall into the trap do not have English as a first language.
‘Scuse me? Are you saying I’m not PBO??
/smugly/ One of the beauties of English, IMO, is the way it lends itself to nuance. 😀 😀
They just luv you – up to and including homo sapiens 23 (wonder why 23?)
😆 Thankfully I haven’t heard from number 1000 – yet.
The impact of that creepy pedophile, Gerry Sandusky, has reached even our planned Hispanic Initiative events. Because of Sandusky, a new PA law requires that every single volunteer who signs up to work for an event that children may attend–even if they’re just serving food–has to be cleared by the state and get a permit. We have about 25 to 30 volunteers at our summer event and this will create a very big headache. It doesn’t matter if it’s a one time event, lasts a few hours or even if parents are present. The permit is a must.
We have something similar here, Jackie – ours is a police check which provides a certificate. We pay a one-time fee (which in some cases is refunded by the organization that first requested the check), and we can use the certificate going forward. In my profession you have to sign a yearly form that your police clearance is still ‘clear’, and yes, volunteers working with kids have to get it too, though not for one time events to my knowledge.
I actually feel seriously dizzy after watching this
Well, this should, um, help ease the strain between Germany and Greece 😕
The Greek government says Germany owes Greece nearly €279bn (£204bn; $303bn) in war reparations for the Nazi occupation during World War Two.
It is the first time Greece has officially calculated what Germany allegedly owes it for Nazi atrocities and looting during the 1940s.
However, the German government says the issue was resolved legally years ago.
Greece’s radical left Syriza government is making the claim while struggling to meet massive debt repayment deadlines.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32202768
#copycat
This just proves you don’t read my informative comments. #Hurtful
Greece Nazi occupation: Athens asks Germany for 279bn euros.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32202768
now, take that angela.
The former mayor of the Chinese city of Nanjing, Ji Jianye, has been jailed for 15 years for corruption.
The court in Yantai found Ji guilty of accepting 11.3m yuan ($1.9m; £1.2m) in bribes between 1999 and 2013, when he was dismissed.
As mayor he was nicknamed “Bulldozer” for his heavy promotion of construction and redevelopment in Nanjing.
Ji is the latest high profile official to be jailed under President Xi Jinping’s corruption crackdown.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-32200175
go xi.
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
Moooooooorning rikyrah!!
Good morning everyone:) Well, I woke up this morning to discover that John McCain is more ready than ever to keep taking the people’s money and doing jack shit …he’s decided to run for re election. I can hardly contain myself.
Good morning DF. You are kidding, right?
I wish. No, the little cretin from hell will have another go ’round….Cindy must’ve cut his allowance.
Talk about a job for life – he just loves strutting around DC – In my world judges retire at 70 & although politicians don’t have to do same, few stay much longer.
Morning, GGail:)
Good gawd, would he just GO AWAY!
Moooooooorning DF!
Me too. More than you know. He’s an embarrassment.
Morning, Desertf. I saw that earlier and had a similar reaction.
THIS. Morning, vc:)
I guess John McCain want to hang around to start another war, maybe like bomb bomb bomb Iran. Term limits for the Senate and House is needed.
I’d bet Cindy encourages/supports him to run again and again and again simply to keep him away from home. It’s honestly clear to me that John McCain gets his self worth from being in the Senate and being a “hero” for MSM. His senate seat gives him a puffed up sense of his own importance – particularly when he is bloviating as a military “expert”.
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Goooooooooooooooal morning GGail!!
Goooooal morning Chips 😘
http://www.juancole.com/2015/04/netanyahu-reveals-opposition.html
Netanyahu slips, Reveals reason for Opposition to Iran Deal
Good read…and spoken like a true RW asshole.
Df, I love that the first thing Juan Cole says is that US television news isn’t very good. Exactly.
I know:) That was great. We’re not the ONLY ones that notice! I think they all deserve to be poked in the eyes as often as possible for their collective disgrace.
DF, juancole did a great job revealing Bibi’s true desires.
Good morning TOD.
I just left a message on Chuck Schumer’s DC phone asking him to back President Obama. I mentioned that I am his constituent living in lower Manhattan and I am Jewish. I closed with “I love The President and I want you to support him.”
Next, his NY office.
every day until he says something I want to hear.
TOD, when you hear the current RW talking point about the “reasonable” Senator Corker, PLEASE keep in mind that this preening peacock was at the January 2009 Inauguration Day meeting of the cabal to ruin PBO’s Presidency.
The NY Times has a puff piece on Corker and “how he reaches across the aisle, is a bi-partisan co-operative guy” but this is nonsense.
Both Josh Earnest and PBO have been “stroking” Sen. Corker (stroking is what the NY Times is calling it) lately in an effort to contain any damage he will do.
Media is all in with trying to dim the lights on the massive accomplishments of PBO’s Foreign Policy. To recap: Myanmar, Cuba, China climate deal, Cuba
sorry—Cuba is a repeat
Good morning Chips and TOD! Our Muslim president sure spends a lot of time on Christian holidays:-)
Vicki, thanks so much for doing this. But knowing how slimey all of these bastards are, with your protest you may want to specifically note that you do NOT want him supporting the Corker bill. I have been very specific in my emails and will be in my calls today as well. I just see Schumer saying he is supporting the President but that isn’t contrary to wanting review powers with the Corker bill. And make no mistake, there is nothing bipartisan about Corker. As has been his stance from the beginning, his sole goal is to bring down PBO.
oh, and in Pharrell’s words “Happiness is the truth.”
Dancing in the streets of Tehran for 2 nights is the truth.
Hate and racism in the USA media is lies.
R&S – and Heads Up!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/07/rise-and-shine-1037/