Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by Loretta Lynch’s father Lorenzo Lynch, second from left, and Loretta Lynch’s husband Stephen Hargrove, second from right, administers the oath of office to Loretta Lynch as the 83rd Attorney General of the U.S. during a ceremony at the Justice Department
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Full video of the swearing in ceremony here
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After a five-month stall, Loretta Lynch was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last week and sworn in today
Loretta Lynch speaks after being sworn in as Attorney General under a portrait of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the Justice Department
The Obama Diary 
Seriously?
you’re in my spot.
Congrats, 57!
furst.
and congrats to the new trendsetter AG.
sekind!
nope, see above.
YOU are sekind. was I unclear?
that’s ‘cos, you were in my spot.
You should be more gallant to this old lady. I will be 65 in a few weeks. Show respect for your eldeers.
I will be too …. in a few years.
Uh, 57, I’m looking at the calendar now, tick tock, tick tock..
All my Medicare and Medigap stuff will not be in place right away, but I think I’m okay with my regular insurance until I get all the paperwork I need. I renewed privately with my insurance company this year – no subsidy. I’m sure it’s kosher through my birth month at the very least. I’m anxious to get this done.
😆
Ha!
Living history with brilliant post and pictures, NW. Thanks.
Good afternoon, TOD!
Thanks a trazillion Nerdy, a wonderful day!
You’re welcome.
Want to print the internet? You need 136 billion sheets of paper.
http://www.rediff.com/business/report/tech-want-to-print-the-internet-you-need-136-billion-sheets-of-paper/20150427.htm
pieceacake.
No worries, Danny chops down enough trees in a week produce that much paper 😎
(Who counts these things?)
And that figure’s gone up by a million a minute since you typed it.
Before and after
Ha! Danny did not chew that tree down! 😀 😀
Well, he had a good look at it GGail! 🙂
poor, poor, poor photoshopping. I can see the rectangle.
Picky, Picky, it’s the message that counts.
Did we really miss you ? 😀
Of course, I am.
Of course, you did.
You rascal !
That’s just where he chewed the sky.
the new thedogatemyhw ?
do gat em yhw
What?
egg.sack.lee
136 billion seems kinda low, I wonder if they factored in all the porn websites?
they have porn in websites???
no body tells me anything any more. 😦
😀 😀 😀 😀
A 3 Pete?
Nope.
Congrats 57andFemale on your Au ⭐
The Ag Medalists are :
Many 😉
Congratulations AG Lynch.
It’s been a dog darn time coming.
Josh is Live at the Podium……currently answering questions from April on AG Lynch and the Baltimore marching and the killing of another unarmed Black man in USA.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/press-briefing-press-secretary-josh-earnest-91
The tone of the WHPC is grating. I personally could not do what Josh does. They are nothing but a bunch of spoiled assholes.
Despite it all…we have progress…it is not a perfect union…but we struggle to perfect our union….we will continue to bend that arc till we achieve Justice…
Congrats 57 on First!!!
NW, thank you so much for posting the Swearing In ❤
🙂
JackieG…..what do you think….
will she have to resign….luckily this is happening on Wolf’s Watch
I she a Republican?
no…she is a democrat…but if she has to resign…Wolf will appoint an interim AG
Funny how I expect Republicans to behave that way, but not democrats 😦
a.g. lynch (how nice to type that!) is such an impressive person. she should be president someday. republicans thought they could bully her and our president into submission and give up, but as always with those two, “we shall overcome.” what a great day!
The headline is misleading..how can it be secret if the lawmakers have access to it..
The latest emoprog lunacy is that the public should be able to view it in real time, making their sage and informed(!) comments. Yeah, right.
Facebook had one of their stupid little tests to judge your level of education. All multiple choice. One of them was what “H20” was.
I got “PhD” based on these inane questions. I’d worry about my 8 year goddaughter if she didn’t know the answer to 80% of these questions. This is what passes for “education” in these United States in 2015.
But by all means, they are competent to view a complex trade agreement.
Lunacy, I tell you.
not lunacy….sabotage
The “secret” is in quotes to imply there is no secret.
exactly and only 40 lawmakers have made themselves available to view the information
They’d rather complain than know what’s in the TPP. It must be so frustrating for PBO!
One of the young men that I mentor is a beneficiary of PA’s medicaid expansion. As he was not eligible last year, he wasn’t going to apply this year. I hounded him, first privately, then publicly on FB. He called and thanked me the day he received his card.
alllll right now….smilin
EU won’t send armed force to Ukraine despite clashes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32478933
GA TOD!
An homage to Hawaii 🙂 “Kailua Blue”
LP, thanks for bringing this! We get a first look at the plate setting designed by First Lady Michelle. It combines Hawaii and Illinois. Very interesting and very beautiful. Thank you!
My pleasure, GGail! From the looks of it I think they are using it for tomorrow’s State Dinner:
Wow such good practical china and place settings. I like that Mrs. Obama consulted the culinary staff. I tend to like place settings that have decorations/color around the edges and plain white in the center to actually see the food. Bravo FLOTUS bravo.
P.S. I am praying that all does well for the new Social Secretary Deesha Dyers.
Thank you for this. I was wondering why I haven’t heard anything about the First Lady picking out China. Beautiful!
LP, while you’re all up in there – will you find out where my invitation is???!!!!! 🙂
I’m going to an all you can eat Sushi buffet to vicariously pretend I’m at the State dinner 😀
Oh alright, save me a seat then 😀
Trying to figure out how you get consumme en croute??????…..!!
LPlains, I keep hinting (blatantly) that you ought to share your assistant/researcher with me and you keep being selfish! ;( You always seem able to find something interestingly tangential, or different, to add to the convo. Thanks! It’s the reason I forgive you all the sports references/info. 😉 😉
If you are nice I may one day share my *secret algorithm* …right now you will be placed in probationary status 🙂
Be nice? 😯 You might as well tell me you ain’t sharing! Geez.
I may be stringing you along…. or I may not! The next move is up to you 😀
Want. Need. ❤
Bernie Sanders Torpedos Republicans By Revealing GOP Budget Kills 2.3 Million Jobs
Sanders sent letters to the governors of all 50 states that broke down the cuts and job losses that each state would face if the Republican budget is enacted. The lowlight of the letters is that the Republican cuts to transportation, education, and other programs would kill more than 2.3 million jobs across the country.
Some of the hardest hit states would be those that have Republican governors. Texas would lose 193,000 jobs. Florida would lose 141,000 jobs. Ohio would lose 84,000 jobs. Georgia would lose 70,000 jobs. North Carolina would lose 68,000 jobs, and Wisconsin would lose 46,000 jobs.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/27/bernie-sanders-torpedos-republicans-revealing-gop-budget-kills-2-3-million-jobs.html
Now if the Government can just stop sending me secret messages.
😀
Congrats 57!!
calling a moderator to isle 49 🙂
Found and freed Bob!
Se ya all later.
Thanks so much, Chips.
Hope your day goes well.
bbl ….
And, Israel is at the top of the list ….
I think we can duke it out…….
These are nearing Saddam Hussein’s Numbers for yesteryear, Hmm?
This shouldn’t be taken lightly…
The top ranking Republican in Congress privately acknowledged this weekend that his party doesn’t have enough votes to overcome a veto of any resolution disapproving the nuclear-weapons deal President Barack Obama hopes to reach with Iran. Speaking at an off-the-record event Saturday at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s meeting in Las Vegas, House Speaker John Boehner told the audience that he didn’t expect that more than two-thirds of Congress would vote to overturn a veto from Obama if Congress voted against a nuclear deal, according to four people who were inside the room for the private talk….continued
No surprise at all because so many of the Giant Fusses the GOP orchestrates are PR stunts catering to their neanderthal base.
In the end PBO prevails—thank god.
yet another tick to the wins column. lame duck is sooo much fun.
Sup Desi! …you see this? Shaadi.com is huge among U.S. population…
LP! those pics of Boehner…
Only the Cablers, MSM and those of little faith, thought otherwise.
Many here didn’t think Congress could……this explains why the Leak on GW Bush’s comments suddenly materialized. Why? The GOPers and the Media are wanting a defeat of the #IranDeal……..they want war. But they know that POTUS doesn’t bluff. So they tried with Netanyahu, Boehner, AIPAC, Media, Menendez, Schumer, Corker, etc……….But as POTUS said this weekend, #BUCK-ET!
FORWARD!
There are enough Dems……to make sure in the senate that Pres Obama is able to sustain the Veto.
Rafael Edwardo Cruz will be crying soon.
Lying to raise money and gain popularity has a shelf life.
LL, why didn’t you attend this event?
Poor little Ezra trying to backpedal…now comparing President Obama to the Incredible Hulk!
Some of the more recent sketches from Key & Peele 😆
HOLLA!!! and you know this! 😀
I’m laughing to hard at the meet and greet one tears are streaming. I wondered when someone was gonna out that truth.
Another first for a POTUS… yes there’s Loretta Lynch, first AA female AG… but also there’s Luther, the anger translator… 😉
This meet and greet is laugh out loud hysterical.
I couldn’t stop laughing either!
“Afternoon my octoroon!”
Remarks starting now:
Well this the best news I could have come home to, thanks Nerdy for this wonderful and historical post ~ that Obama always making history :))
The Reason the USA’s Political system should be called what it is………Bribery.
This is Not a Democratic Republic any longer.
Nothing in our Constitution describes what is going on today.
“Without considering the full picture of what ISIS is doing within its strongholds, it is, put simply, impossible to develop a counter-strategy. For instance, you can’t understand its expansion within Syria without appreciating the country’s bloody civil war, the brutal authoritarian regime and the complete breakdown of central authority. This, coupled with the deterioration of the country’s physical infrastructure and social fabric, created a vacuum and state of widespread insecurity that is like catnip for groups like ISIS. Armed struggle might have been the initial force that allowed it to rise to prominence, but its hybrid social-political work helps it to survive and expand.
This is why I strongly believe that to counter the rise of groups like ISIS, we need to think beyond the military realm. In Syria, that means recognizing that fighting has become one of the few occupations available to the beleaguered, impoverished population. Policies to tackle the pervasive and profoundly destabilizing human tragedy should be central to any anti-ISIS strategy. Understanding the day-to-day politics of rebellion and the complex activities of armed groups — regardless of their ideological or geographical focus — can truly help us to better understand these organizations, in turn making it easier to defeat them.”
Very intelligent theory that has a lot of merit.
Thanks Bob for bringing this to us.
Glad to do so, Gail. TY
I’ve missed certain segments – thus my questions…
* Did MP receive an email reply from HZ?
*Where’s JER?
I’m sad to say, GGail, no, nothing yet.
Here I am MightyPamela. I have been trying to find your email, and to no avail. I am so happy to find you you today. Something told me in my spirit to come here and start with today, and sure enough GGail asked the question. MightyPamela, to this day, I do not know what was in your email, but know that I am doing better. My brother and great niece had my computer the entire time they were here trying to get medical help for me.
I was admitted to ER by my cardiologist immediately on the 9th of March and my brother flew in the next evening and came straight to the hospital. My neighbor stayed with me until the hospital staff got me in a bed. When they got me in a bed; my blood pressure read 220 /Systolic.
They found me on the floor and into a seizure. They moved me to the bed next door, where my brother found me. After being given the medical facts by my primary doctor, my brother my immediately came into the room to visit with me. We talked briefly about my memory of what happened, and I had little. My primary doctor saw me daily, my cardiologist came in four times once it was established that it was not my heart. Then two other doctors came in on the team Details I will not worry my beautiful TOD family with at this time.
I have missed your all so much. I had over 1500 emails. So I just go to the computer when I feel quiet in my spirit. I was told that I had a pseudoseizures. I am sure Bob and other understand what took place. Now I am having an extensive evaluation prescribed by my primary doctor and I had my first visit with the doctor in charge of my case. Very good. Thank God for great doctors and a great ,great brother! And a beautiful great-niece who gave up her spring break from her job to take up where her great-uncle had to get back to his post. He even stayed way over his appointed time.
Please keep me in your thoughts of goodness and prayesr, my TOD family. I accept all of your loving thoughts.
MightyPamela, thank you my love for your email. I knew our spirits would come together sometime and soon.
Love you all, TOD family.HZ
This is great – from EVP and COO of the Baltimore Orioles.
Brett, speaking only for myself, I agree with your point that the principle of peaceful, non-violent protest and the observance of the rule of law is of utmost importance in any society. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela and all great opposition leaders throughout history have always preached this precept. Further, it is critical that in any democracy, investigation must be completed and due process must be honored before any government or police members are judged responsible.
That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good, hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.
The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the Bill of Rights by government pay the true price, and ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importances of any kids’ game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards. We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the U.S., and while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans in Baltimore and everywhere who don’t have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights, and this makes inconvenience at a ballgame irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting upon ordinary Americans.
Powerful and true. Thank you for sharing it, forus!
Well said!
Perhaps, JoScar will replace him once again?
How quickly Fox’s beloved has Fallen?
bbl ….
So they’ve gone from being protesters to being a gang. /smh
and folks are past the point of caring. They are sick and tired of being sick and tired. It will not end well for anyone. This is not Ferguson.
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/27/the-power-of-obamacare-millions-happy-with-their-health-coverage/
Daniel Pearl was beheaded in Pakistan in 2002 or in 2003.
There were two Americans, one was a Soldier beheaded in the early 2000s in Iraq.
In another case, 4 Contractors were killed and their bodies were mutilated and hung out in one city near Baghdad in 2004 or in 2005.
Fox is truly a Cancer in the News Media. The US News Media needs to reclaim their profession, Now. There were 13 attacks on US Embassies and Out Posts between 2001-2008…….all during GW Bush’s Regime.
Yet Untruths like these are aired Publicly and Nationally by a “News” Network?