Touring the Everglades
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Pete Souza: It’s @billnye (The Science Guy) on Marine One talking science on Earth Day with the President, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
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President Obama shares a laugh with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell as they walk to Air Force One at Miami International Airport
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Anaya Brodie runs to give first lady Michelle Obama a hug during the White House’s annual “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” in the East Room
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The Obama Diary 
What?
LPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!
I feel like Michael Phelps winning 8 gold medals 😎
Huh, Phelps would swap all those golds for even one furst at TOD 😎
You are right….I feel so sorry for all those not enlightened enough to know about our secret sanctuary!
BTW, Did you see this from Twitter https://blog.twitter.com/2015/policy-and-product-updates-aimed-at-combating-abuse yesterday? Hopefully it makes things better to combat sexist, nasty abusers. It may be baby steps, but at least they seem to be moving in the right direction. IDK
Ah, interesting LP, we’ll see how willing they are to enforce it – I bloody well hope it leads to the guy stalking AngryBlackLady to being banned. Amazing he’s still going.
I hope so!
Twitter confounds me….they will block basically everyone at the request of the Turkey’s gov…yet won’t do crap to protect users in open societies…go figure!
Really LP? I didn’t know that. The Turkish govt goes after people on Twitter, WTF?
Few examples of the crackdown:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/19/turkey-turns-up-the-heat-on-the-press.html
ISTANBUL — When Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dispatched his prime minister to Paris a week ago to join the march for free expression in the face of Islamist terror, not a few critics asked why he bothered. Back at home Erdoğan has been ratcheting up an alarming campaign against the press. He is threatening to block Facebook and Twitter if they broadcast details of an alleged government arms shipment to an al Qaeda affiliate in neighboring Syria. And capping three days of a government offensive that included gag-orders by the courts, police raids and threats to shut down social media sites, Erdoğan delivered a ferocious tongue lashing Friday targeting the secular opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/feb/11/arrested-turkish-tv-chief-writes-an-open-letter-from-his-jail-cell
“He is threatening to block Facebook and Twitter if they broadcast details of an alleged government arms shipment to an al Qaeda affiliate in neighboring Syria”
Good Gawd!!!!!
Here is another example:
Twitter Agrees to Block ‘Blasphemous’ Tweets in Pakistan http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/world/asia/twitter-agrees-to-block-blasphemous-tweets-in-pakistan.html?_r=0
At least five times this month, a Pakistani bureaucrat who works from a colonial-era barracks in Karachi, just down the street from the former home of his country’s secularist founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, asked Twitter to shield his compatriots from exposure to accounts, tweets or searches of the social network that he described as “blasphemous” or “unethical.” All five of those requests were honored by the company, meaning that Twitter users in Pakistan can no longer see the content that so disturbed the bureaucrat, Abdul Batin of the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority
Fantastic post, Chiparoo.
Thanks.
How did I slip by you, NW? You two are always in cahoots 😆 Wonderful post, Chips!
Ah, thank yoooooooou Nerdyaroo!!!!
Plueeze! this post has NWs fingerprints ALL over it. We know who really put this together – don’t we NW? 🙂
Oooops! I should not have scrolled back up here 😀 😀 😀
First organized in 1970, Earth Day is a day set aside to remember and appreciate the Earth’s environment, and our responsibilities and roles within it. Today, April 22, we observe the 45th annual Earth Day, and though many things have changed for the better, environmental challenges remain. In the past 45 years, the population of the Earth has doubled—75 percent of the people alive today were born after 1970—and the increased demand on our limited resources makes sustainable solutions even more important. Collected here are 45 images of our world from recent years, each a glimpse into some aspect of our environment, how it affects and sustains us, and how we affect it.
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/591019869589536768
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/591023945349890049
NW, what’s a BAWSE???
It means someone is cool, awesome, etc. Looking cool while performing an activity. 🙂
So, I’m guessing the first two words are Bad Ass – what’s the rest…With Swagger Ease??? 😀
Like me when I’m baking! 😎
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure
ICYMI…some truth-telling
Toni Morrison, the only living Nobel laureate in literature from the United States and a leading voice on race, has her own test to determine when racism will truly be over in the U.S. “People keep saying, ‘We need to have a conversation about race.’ This is the conversation. I want to see a cop shoot a white unarmed teenager in the back,” Morrison said in a recent interview with the Telegraph’s Gaby Wood. “And I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman. Then when you ask me, ‘Is it over?’ I will say yes.”
Evoking images of Michael Brown, Walter Scott and countless black men whose dead bodies have filled our screens in recent years, the 84-year-old literary lioness, whose new book God Help the Child went on sale Tuesday, makes a powerful point about the racism that underlies America’s criminal justice system. Her point is not about promoting violence, but rather that the disproportionate amount of violence and police brutality against black people would not be tolerated were it perpetuated against whites….continued”
the children were adorable
Ah
“DiploMutt”.
I just got it.
Duh.
Very clever of Kerry. 😀
Another job well done Mr. President 🙂
Thanks JER !
The Parliamentarian has informed distraught Repubs that PBO will be able to remove Cuba from the terrorist list.
With you or without you, once again ridiculous GOP.
And no. They will never learn.
How frustrating it must be to be in opposition to President Obama. Sooner or later events prove how solid the ground PBO stands on proves to be.
Illeana Ros-Lehtinin (idiot,FL) vows to find a way—some way—any way– to attempt in some other manner to ruin the happiness of the people of Cuba. No worries, however. She will now find a way fail in some other legislation that goes nowhere..
looks like Warren and Obama are having a tussle. According to the media that is.
theater. media’s specialty
Her stans and all the emoprogs are in full gear.
The President is the president. He’s one entire branch of the government. Elizabeth Warren is one of 100. He has more power, whether the media wants to admit it or not.
One question, isn’t our President and First Lady the best?
The AWESOME best annieb 🙂
You got that right GGail. 🙂
Chips, for some reason I thought of you. You could probably win a marriage proposal.
😆 If I attempted that, it would end up looking like … I dunno: Danny’s dinner?
Seriously, who in their right mind would even attempt such a thing?!
My brother – he looks at these things and says: ‘I shall NOT be defeated!’ I look at them and say: ‘You’re having a laugh?’
Ooooops.
The President said on Hardball yesterday that Congress received 1700 briefings …Did Sen Warrem attend any of them…and if there were that many briefings …how much of secret could it be
I’m starting to think this has become a fundraising tool. It just feels so cynical.
hmmm…i just wonder what the real deal is..why are those folks so against it..it is just like the health care law
Yes it is. That’s exactly what I posted yesterday.
Rep. Keith Ellison blocked me on Twitter because I called him out on his BS about everything being done in secret.
He has a very thin skin. He blocked me years ago just because I asked him a simple question about a bill.
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Once the deal becomes public, Senator Warren will have four months to round up 60 votes to end “fast-track” authority if she feels that the negotiating objectives were not met.
I know that for much of the progressive world, Senator Warren has become the great liberal hero of our time. But that doesn’t exempt her from being wrong. And on this one, that’s exactly what she is right now.
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OK, so both twitter and WP have upgraded. Again.
Standard operating procedure for me now….wait 48 hours…let the jackals attack…and see if they revert before I elevate my BP 😆
Hi Everyone!!! So is this the most badass tweet?? Well maybe not the most badass but definitely a “I’m no lame duck” tweet or like something that rhymes with duck. 🙂
Dems in Congress who are dead set against TPP are now pressuring HRC to speak up and take a stand against the President.
This will not end well.
if i was Hillary i would say that i will wait till the deal is done before i make a judgement!
But the idea is they’re asking her so she’ll make PBO rethink the whole thing over again.
It’s just really stupid and divisive.
it s more to put her on the spot…than anything else…so i would just refuse to play the game
Dems are waaaay out on a limb and they’re looking for life support. I have no idea what she’ll do and at this point, I don’t really care. PBO can handle this just like he’s always handled everything else.
I saw where Tweety said that Bill Clinton supports it. Of course her support stmt will be some calculated response nonetheless.
According to Warren the senators who have been briefed are not allowed to tell others what is in the TPP. If that is the case how would Hillary be able to speak up not knowing what is in the TPP? She is not in any government position to be able to know the information.
Unfortunately, Dems fight most within than outside their own party.
Hence, this quote:
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers
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Dems are not Ditto Heads.
No doubt, Dems will be against TTP. If they didn’t, they would not be who they claim to be. POTUS believes in this TTP. He will get it done. But Debates must be heard. We The People will live with it one way or another. I am glad that POTUS is speaking out and looking out for USA.
Hello TOD.
Fantastic post, Chips.
Congratulations to the Au ⭐ Winners of this post; LP and NW and to the Gold ⭐ winners in the last 2 posts.
One of Rand Paul’s son is at it again……this is the 3rd alcohol/drug issue in less than 3 yrs.
Did someone tell him that his dad is running for President? Now just imagine what the right wing would say about the Obama girls if it was them. They already attack them for the way they dress or how they are not smiling at times.
That boy looks depressed. He needs professional help. Quick.
National Review has a huge beef against Black MSNBC hosts?
Surely, in all the Cablers, there are others who are not people of color owing the IRS and USA Tax Dollars.
Rachel Maddow says that HC will be using Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy! Wow, did he win?
Very good question… It’s like the last several years never happened! They’re driving me crazy.
theo—The last few years did not happen—That is the Plan.
mmmh-hmmm.
It’s kinda starting to feel like we’re going to re-litigate 2007-08 with the PUMAs and Daily Kos emoprogs. UGH.
2010 and 2014……there was not a well organized Dem Votes for victory. Kaine and Debbie W-S did very little.
2008 and 2012, in 2008 there was the 50 state strategy and in 2012, the Obama Team heavily focus on the states they knew they would win.
50 state strategy is a great way to activate Dems in 50 states……especially with state and local elections…….Today, GOPers control WI, PA, OH, MI, NC, WVa and VA state Houses.
i think it is a good strategy…building a grass roots organization in every state…
It is, and the President did that very successfully for the 2008 election. So…I guess you need more than the 50 state strategy, you need the right candidate. 🙂
April Lyrids meteor showers at 15 meteors/hour
For the people who seem to be getting their information from professional left wingers:
Meta, thanks for all these great information sources.
WHOA
“Gattie” came to see PBO! 🙂
But PBO is not so sure how he feels about Gattie! 🙂
Seriously!!!!
Yup – you can see he’s positioned himself in a “run” position, just in case.
OMG!!! Don’t let Sue see that!!! 😆
I know it’s small but it freaked me out to see that!! I’m sure it has TEEEEETH.
lololol….just baby teeth… 😀
Run, POTUS, run!!
No need to worry I’m sure Secret Service is near by. If it goes toward POTUS one S.S. will throw their body on the gator.
We hope.
https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/591049904425807872
EXACTLY!
1001% agree.
If anyone has earned this, it is Pres Obama, period.
That’s it.
I second that!!! Do not want to hear EW whine about the TPP on Rachel. I don’t like this public infighting by these weak Democrats, including Harry Reid.
https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/591050698923487232
OMG, this person on Twitter is trying to tell me Warren represents the US because she is a US senator. God, help us. “Our children isn’t learning.”
I feel your pain!
They probably also think McCain and his 46 cohorts represented the US when they wrote to the Iranian government.
That is soooo cool! Wow, she was a natural!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/22/140-characters-of-hump-day-laughter/
Like i said last Elizabeth Warren is getting on my nerves…no one heard of her until the President put her on the national stage…gave her name reconition…she needs to sit her azz down…I mean 4realz… she just seems to be railing about/against someone or something constantly…but my question is this…, is she getting anything done????
The Crats really need to get themselves together,,,they are being exposed big time…and #44 wont be there much longer to hold there hands and cover for them…they suck!!!!
meant to say”like I said last night’