On This Day: First Lady Michelle Obama tours the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kan., May 16, 2014. Stephanie Kyriazis, Chief of Interpretation and Education, leads the tour (Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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This Weekend
The President has no public events scheduled
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The President at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service yesterday
Photos by Pete Souza
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On This Day
President Obama cheers for his daughter Sasha’s soccer team at a park Washington, D.C. on May 16, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
First Lady Michelle Obama attends the commencement ceremony at George Washington University on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Sunday, May 16, 2010 (Photo by Samantha Appleton)
President Obama attempts to block a shot by personal aide Reggie Love during a basketball game at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. , Sunday, May 16, 2010. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, left, watches the play (Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet the family of Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr., U.S. Army, outside the Oval Office prior to a Medal of Honor ceremony honoring Specialist Sabo, May 16, 2012. Pictured, from left, are: Kathleen Starkey, sister-in-law; Rose Sabo-Brown, widow; Frances Buccelli, mother-in-law (Photo by Pete Souza)
Pete Souza: “Call it the Shake Shack slide. As he is wont to do, the President normally does a group photo with restaurant staff when he stops for lunch or dinner somewhere. After having lunch with Vice President Biden at a Shake Shack in Washington, D.C., the President asked me where he should stand for the photo. Before I could even reply, the President jumped on the counter and slid onto the other side. The Vice President soon followed.” May 16, 2014
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MoooOOOooorning!
The Obama Diary 
MoooooooOOOOOooooOOOooooOOOooooOOooooorning!
REAL FURST.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!!!
Danny has hardly been in a car at all, but this summer faces a five hour trip – I am DREADING it!!!!
It’s that simple.
also. too.
😆 Actually, I’m tempted!
He might love it – adventure, singing really loud, making up names from the letters in the license plates of cars ahead, and reverse letters on cars in the rear view! Heaps of fun, especially peepee stops – all those new smells! HaHa!
Wow! That’s gorgeous, Chips.
And he TOTALLY doesn’t deserve it, Jackie.
Good morning to ya!!
He TOTALLY DOES.
N’T.
TOO.
Good Saturday, Chipsticks…TOD Family!!!
Goooooooooood morning swbluega!!!!
Perfect collection of photos to start the weekend. I hope when our President has no public events, it means he can chill out with his family and have some time off. Have a great Saturday everyone.
Morning everyone! It’s Saturday and it must’ve rained all night here! Smells good, feels good. A little cooler than we’re used to now, but I’ll take it…soon enough it’ll be stupid hot and I hate that part:)
Chips, may I suggest that you take Danny for short car rides now….. most dogs LOVE car rides. Make a BFD out of the whole thing and he’ll be excited with you. When he figures out that he didn’t end up at the vet for some invasive probing or a painful injection and instead gets to see a new set of bushes and trees…well, he’ll be happier than a pig in shit! Just sayin’……
Have to agree with Desertflower. Megan loved the car once she realized I wasn’t taking her to the vet. They seem to know just how long it takes to get to the vets after that period show would settle down and just enjoy her ride. She was the best friend to have in the car when traveling. We would go from MN to TX and honest gawd she knew when I turned on the road to our old hose she would start going nuts and crying the car. Her antenna was fixed no doubt about it. 🙂
GM Roberta.
Great story about Megan and traveling in the car. Condolences that you and Megan can’t go on any more roadtrips. What breed was she?
Had she lived or visited the TX house before? The smells (or navigational sonar) must have alerted her to happy times. 🙂
Yes we had lived there for 5 years and went back twice. I had her for 16 1/2 years and just put her down last December. I still miss her. She was a rascal and just so darned much fun. She knew when we got to my Sisters in Duluth, to visit anyone. They seem to know just how long it takes to go to the Vet and once past that, she was just fine. LOL. We could be 2 days on the road (she hated hotel/motel rooms) but the ret of the time she was trooper.
G’morning Chips, TOD, even Mr. amk, and congrats Chips on #1! Happy Saturday everyone 🙂
Top ISIS commander killed by US special operation forces. President Barack Obama ordered the raid that killed Abu Sayyaf. U.S. officials said his wife, Umm Sayyaf, was captured in the raid and was being held in Iraq.
I am sure you guys have heard about the special US operation that went on in Syria last night. It kill a important financial member of ISIS, capture his wife, and hopefully they got there hands on alot of information, like just who is supporting ISIS.
Thank you Deb, I didn’t have the name of the ISIS leader killed.
I think that we will not be surprised who is financing this group…it will read like a James Bond Movie…
I wonder whether PBO will make a statement today.
Little off topic, I was listening to NPR interview a military drone operator and he was talking about how he operates drones to attack the enemy and how he goes home to his wife and kid. He sounded more disappointed than thankful….so weird. I would rather wage combat through drone than the alternative, be separated from family, be in danger of getting PTSD, mamed, or killed.
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Happy Armed Forces Day to all who have served or are currently serving 💕
❤
so now, will that hersh idjit claim (one year or two years down the road) that the isis commander was indeed handed over by the syrians due to some ‘deal’ between the kenyan and the syrians?
I never understood what the big deal was all about, bin laden is still at the bottom of some ocean when it was all said and done.
Well, that idiocy didn’t even last one news cycle. It was so stoopid that even the 3rd rate msm didn’t want to touch it.
Every bit of this!
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/the-match-game-connect-the-oligarch-to-the-gop-politician-he-owns/
This is now the TOP TRENDING story on Twitter – as it should be. This is a BFD!
The raid was to choke off the money supply. As he often says, no more dumb wars.
Yup!
…….and it was also to choke of Abu Sayyaf’s air supply.
*off
MHP and her guests are discussing the First Lady speech she gave at Tuskegee U.
I’m tempted to go watch.
The great speech she gave, the awesome speech which have made the right wing racists very upset..
Don I usually don’t watch MHP, but I did this time.
Sometimes I wonder how these scenes play out when one of President Obama’s assistants comes and tells him that another terrorist has been killed. I wonder if he’s in a meeting and someone walks in and whispers in his ear, he gives a slight nod, and he goes about his business like nothing happened.
I would give anything to witness those moments! He’s such a cool cat.
One day I want to be standing in front of a big window looking out and someone comes up to me and whispers something important in my ear like I’m the President or an owner of a fortune five-hundred company. But the only thing I get is my wife whispering in my ear that I need to cut the grass.
WOW. Amazing.
Great photos!
Good Morning TOD Family.
Another terrorist dealt with.
Happy belated Birthday Dakota. Hope you had a wonderful day.
Thanks Roberta!
Hello TOD 🙂
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday……that’s alright 😉
Partly cloudy and Dull in my neck of the woods.
Congrats to both Chips and Amk for their Joint Au ⭐ Medals.
So, US Delta Special Ops, have done it again. Using Helicopters, facing fire and returned unharmed? 😉 Thanks Guys! Thanks Pres Obama!
And let the Talk-a-Ton from the Know-Nothings begin 😉
Those who do…..Do! POTUS, Special Ops…..Yes!
And those who spin, spin. MSM and their loathsome Pundits.
Morning peeps.
I think they were trying to arrest him, but you know, double-tap.
And the Arab Spring is dead in Egypt, officially.
Wow….Mass Murder in the name of “Justice”..wow….this is an abomination…smh…
this is not justice…Morsi was elected by the people…
But they found Murbark “not quilty” of any crimes….riiiiiight
Morning all. This news just gets better and better.
But let’s not focus on this and the myriad of other problems he has to deal with in the Middle East, let’s focus on President Obama calling Senator Warren by her first name.
Right — the real news.
off to tutor:) One of the best things about summer? I won’t have to work 7 days/wk 🙂 🙂 🙂 bbl
Thank you, Special Ops:) Thank you, CIC:)
That picture of PBO touching foreheads with the elderly lady is so beautiful. I don’t remember seeing it before.
Congrats Chips 🙂
Hope all TODers have a fun weekend.
Really worth reading … Really!! …..
More details: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11605656/Migrant-hailed-a-hero-in-Italy-after-river-rescue.html
bbl ….
before departing for meetings ….
#TrustBarack
#TrustBarack
Good Afternoon Everybody.
The President is golfing at Andrews.
YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!…SO HAPPY TO HEAR IT!!!!!!! I LOVE IT WHEN HE GETS TIME TO RELAX!!!!…WE NEED TO MAKE HIM SPECIAL SETS OF GOLF TEES WITH RUSTY AND TURTLE’S HEAD ON THEM…THIS WOULD BE SO INSPIRING FOR OUR ENERGIZER SURESHOT!
Is another terrorist going down?
Happy Saturday, TODville, if it’s Saturday, to and from those in my generation!
Oh my. 🙂
Oh, my x2
Oh my x3
Oh, Yes!!
He’s running 🙂
What a disgusting piece of crap…..he’s the one with the empty soul along with the rest of the GOP/TEA/Libertarians…until THEY need help than let me go to the front of the line for some of that Liberal Free Stuff.
Yes, we’re all liberals for the free stuff, especially school lunches, according to him. Ugh.
good morning tod folk! here’s an interesting program being tested off oahu.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/29080628/exercise-to-test-concept-of-military-base-at-sea
Very interesting. Thank you, susanne!
This is pretty neat. It would also have quicker responses to areas that have catastrophic emergencies like Haiti, Nepal, etc.,
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry
Don, above is MHP and her guests discussing FLOTUS speech at Tuskegee U..
Did all o’ y’all have a chance to see this website, brand new yesterday: http://www.peaksforprosperity.org My daughter built the site for her partners in the biz. Social media strategist, she is!! What a title, eh?? ❤ 🙂
“If you accept this analysis of Russia as a mafia kleptocracy – and it’s almost incontrovertibly correct – then it becomes easier to assess the current Russian regimes objectives.”
bbl ….
Chat on
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/05/16/chat-away-583/