On This Day: President Barack Obama greets children as he walks back to the White House from the Department of Interior in Washington, D.C., May 21, 2014 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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FURST?
MooooOOoooOOooooOOooooOooooooorning JoJo!!
Thank you madame blogstress….have a wonderful day!
Well how about that.
Good Morning TOD family and Chips..
GGail, hope your first day back to work is not too stressful 🙂 🙂 🙂
Good Luck to Bill R on your surgery today….
Thanks JoJo 😘
Thank you, Jojo!
Wishing you the very best Bill, get back to full strength after the procedure suuuuuuper fast!
Morning!
Guess I should’ve waited just a few more seconds before posting on the previous thread!
Hi jojo! Congrats!
Hiya Chips! 🙂
Goooooooooooooood morning to ya, Dame Delectable!!
Good morning Dudette…I was reading everyone posts about Dave Letterman, I fell asleep and missed the whole thing. 😦 😦
Thank goodness for the interwebs jojo. You’ll probably be able to catch the whole episode on Youtube soon (if not already) 😀
Lots of clips from the show here JoJo:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLateShow/videos
Thank you Chips….
Thanks:) Just sucked myself in to watching a couple of those videos…If you have the time, George Clooney is hilarious:)
Ah, I missed George DF, will look it up – thank you!!
Dragging this over! [… man, this thing is heavy]. 😀
But did he talk with paupers? A truly significant man can walk with princes and paupers.
gm Dudette Letterman seems to be all over our news as well. First time EVER they showed Letterman before midnight – and of course I missed it thinking it would be too late for me.
Every LIVING POTUS?
I didn’t see Carter.
I saw Ford who passed away in 2006.
Nearly is key word. Second tweet left that out.
They included Ford because it’s a quote from one of his speeches.
Carter is ill. Don’t know details but no public appearances or travel recently.
Good morning, TOD!
All tuckered out after a day of mayhem and harassing jtp. We are renaming him psycho.
Oh the little cherub!!!! 🙂
you want him ? you can have him. #ferfreetoo.
Go on then, email him to me!
Done. No backsies. danny vs psycho. good luck with that.
The timing probably isn’t ideal, Danny had his fuuuurst fight yesterday 🙄 Not a serious one, but it was growly and cranky with paws flying. He provoked it by irritating the livin’ daylights out of a big curly haired beast who snapped and would take no more. His owner said he had never done that before – this is not a first, Danny has now turned several peace-loving serene doggies in to erupting volcanos. The scene ended with Danny stealing Curly’s ball and letting it roll in to the river. At which point I left, sharpish.
It’s all mommy’s fault.
Chips, do we need to contact the Dog Whisperer for you?
😆 I need a Whisperer for myself after yesterday!! Mooooooooooooorning GGail!
Moooooooooorning my dear Chips 🙂
GGail, what’s happening with your job, I missed the news and Donna was asking about you on R&S?
Or the vet? May be the time has come.. or maybe he needs to spend a bit of time with his breeder, helping to sow some seed. Maybe.
What’s his real name?
jack. all our dogs had a name starting with, furst two were jack & jill, then joe, jenny etc. etc.
#Lazy
#smart
Sometimes, though, I think it’s you who is the basketcase 😎
#bananas 😎
(Chips – Psst – You won that won. 🙂 )
Mornin’.
Ha, thank you very much Jacqueline!!! Good morning to ya!!
furst.
And apparently I can’t spell one this early in the mornin’.
Oh good … starting the day by making an a$$ out of myself. Hey, at least I don’t have to put any attention to that again, until tomorrow morning. Ha.
I know that feeling Jacqueline, I tried to tweet a heads-up on Twitter the other morning and it took me, oh, about 26 attempts before I got the time right and removed the typos 😳
LMAO. I’m in good company, then!
Yse yuo aer 🙂
family wanted to name him joy. put my foot down. no gurly names for boyz.
Well, I’m with you on that. I once heard of someone who named their boy dog …… Cindy. 😕
That’s cute 😊
Democrats Have Good Reason to Want Alan Grayson Out of Senate Race
By: Jeff Henderson | Posted: May 17, 2015 8:00 PM
Democrats across Florida and in Washington, D.C., had to cringe over Alan Grayson’s behavior this past week.
Despite being one of the richest members of Congress, Grayson has always carved out a niche for himself as a populist who doesn’t back down against the Republicans or big business. Only one problem: Grayson had been planning to invest funds into a Cayman Island account, something he has punched away at Republicans and corporations on.
Grayson was called out for his hypocrisy this week by the Tampa Bay Times and the Democrat went ballistic, unleashing a barrage of insults and obscenities at reporter Adam Smith. Needless to say, the story went national, no surprise considering Grayson is thinking of running for the Senate in 2016.
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/democrats-have-good-reason-want-alan-grayson-out-senate-race
Grayson is, was, and always will be a phony. He thinks aggressiveness and bluster cover any sin, just like most Republicans. I hope Florida Dems find a way to rid themselves of this pestilence.
then add Elizabeth Warren to the mix……two DEM hypocrit loonies in the Senate.
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
Morning everyone! Life is a blur for me right now…missing everything! I had no idea that Bill R. was having surgery today (hope you’re fine and all goes well!) nor did I know that GGail had been out of work….(thanks, jojo!) So much going on for me that I’m missing out on good conversations, but! Rest assured! I’ll be back after next week: Miss you all….
Hang in there, Df. One week will fly by and you’ll soon find yourself missing the whirlwind of school.
Thanks:) I’ll be fine, just missing the family is all…
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❤ Oh my gawd – total night of unbelievable noise – new neighbor spent the entire damn night unpacking, with short naps to see her thru. MP is a total basket case – 2 hours of sleep all up. F*ck.
MP, my heart goes out to you. It is tough to get new neighbors. I can remember moving and unpacking & wanting to get it all unpacked in a minute, however, I never moved upstairs of anyone. Sorry for your lack of sleep. Maybe it will be better tonight.((((hugs)))
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Congrats JoJo on First!
Thank you GGail…..
ouch… not that I give a damn about the money she makes. If fools are willing to part with their money …
The media does not blink an eye when the GOP clown candidates are funded by big money interest……
“Blast-proof” wallpaper that could protect soldiers from explosions is being developed by the US army.
Rolls of lightweight sticky wallpaper, lined with tough Kevlar fibres, could be carried by troops to reinforce the walls of temporary buildings.
The lining reduces the amount of debris sent flying at the occupants of a building in the event of an explosion.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32815604
Scott Walker jobs agency in ‘chaos’ amid calls for federal probe
05/19/15 02:56 PM—Updated 05/19/15 03:10 PM
By Zachary Roth
Three days after being sworn in as Wisconsin governor in 2011, Scott Walker announced an ambitious plan to turn the state’s commerce department into a semi-private corporation laser-focused on economic growth and job creation.
“Transforming the Department of Commerce will align state government with our most important mission: creating jobs,” Walker said in a statement announcing the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), whose major role would be to make loans to private companies.
Four years later, as Walker lays the groundwork for a presidential run, WEDC appears rudderless and deeply troubled. Government and press reports have raised serious questions about the agency’s transparency, effectiveness, political independence and compliance with the law. Walker, who serves as chair of the WEDC board, has twice in recent months announced major shifts to the agency’s structure and mission—and this week he has been forced to deny that he knew about a questionable loan to a political contributor’s company.
Democrats are calling for a federal investigation. Meanwhile, Wisconsin’s job growth continues to lag far behind the nation’s—taking a toll on the governor’s popularity at home.
What makes me crazy: Anything that a Dem would do remotely like this would be a career-destroyer. And these Republicans bluster, convince the masses that they are right about everything, and push ahead.
Astounding.
GM Chips, Danny and all the TOD family. Bright and sunny here in the tundra will be close to 68 Wooopeee!!! 🙂 BBL
The USA Freedom Act is a bill originally introduced in both houses of the U.S. Congress on October 29, 2013. The title of the act is a ten-letter backronym (USA FREEDOM) that stands for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act.”
The bill was re-introduced in the 114th Congress, receiving support for acting as “a balanced approach”[3] while being questioned for amendments and extending the Patriot Act through the end of 2019.[4] Supporters of the bill say the most the House Intelligence Committee and House leadership[5] would allow is ending bulk collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act[6] until Section 702 of FISA comes up for review at the end of 2017. Critics assert that mass surveillance of the content of Americans’ communication will continue under Section 702 of FISA[7][8] and Executive Order 12333[7][9] due to the “unstoppable surveillance-industrial complex”[10] despite the fact that a bipartisan majority of the House had previously voted to close backdoor mass surveillance.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act
GM Chips and TOD and Thanks Obama. 🙂
Mooooooooooorning COS!!
Chips, what’s happening with the login? Wouldn’t let me use my email. Commented earlier connecting w/facebook. Finally broke down and registered with WP… 😦
Hey Alycee, should be back to normal now, I hope!
Thank you!
bought three types of back scratcher – steel, plastic and wood. Now, in a dilemma which to use.
got it. will use one every day.
Or:
How do you find these things??? I’m in awe. When I Google some image I get three that are almost ok but not great and 3,500 that are not even in the team photo of what I’m looking for. But one of the 3,500 is hysterical for another reason and so then I click on it, read about it and then find other related pictures. 20 minutes later I’m like, What was I doing? What was I looking for? I can’t remember. Oh yeah, a gif of POTUS with a kid high fiving him. Oh shoot, I see Chipsticks has started a new post. NEVERMIND.” 🙂
Ha! I’m not quite that bad, but my friend (described below) identifies herself exactly this way. You two should meet!
😆 Forus, this just means you have a constructive life while I devote mine to finding bears scratching their backs!!
Or:
Jeb Bush also said he thought his brother was right to lie to the American people about invading Iraq. From what I’ve seen so far he is no smarter then George W.
That is about the dumbest thing I have heard a politician say.
Jebbie thinks so very “High-ly” of himself.
Strange request and very O/T … but does anybody know the name of the famous painting … I think by a European surrealist … of a man whose head is a house (implying he lives in his head?)? Got a bet going with a friend about who can find it first, since we’ve both tried every search we can think of, to no avail. If you don’t want to kickstart your day yet with a bang, then here’s a little bleep on the screen of life for ya, of little to no importance. Shoot small, eh? 🙂
jb, lol, see my comment above to Chips about my Google searches.
??? Salvadore Dali??
No, we don’t think it’s ol’ Salvadore, but thanks. She thinks the painter has a long European name with a z in it (that’s real helpful, isn’t it!).
You are reminding me of my favorite quote supposedly from Dali: The only difference between me and a madman is that I AM NOT MAD!
I know the one you’re talking about, though:) I tried very hard to put my college art history class out of my head:)
I can picture it, but …
🙄
Almost! 🙂
I couldn’t picture it, so I went looking. 😉 {It’s amazing how much time I spend in this village running after vague or false leads!!} Of course this is a pretty ‘current’ cartoon but it’s the closest I could get to your description after forever. Finding *something* frees me to go on to more profitable pursuits. 😉 😉
Thanks, VC – but we had already discounted this, when my friend told me last night (I just went to grab her description) that this one is “ever so slightly closer to the style of it, if the whole face were showing, and wearing glasses, and there were no trees.” So, I forgot about the glasses, but thanks anyway! And you can go on to more profitable pursuits – Ha. 🙂
😀
And I was about to suggest Picasso 😳
I can picture the painting but can’t think of the artist!
Now you’ll have me thinking about this all day! I’ll have to ask the art teacher at school. Will post when I find out:)
Sorry about that, but hurry home from school. Ha!
dali is known to be a nut painting oddball things.
Yes, we don’t think it’s Dali, but thanks.
You’ve ruined my entire day, Googling furiously and coming up with stuff like:
http://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/photo/man-with-miniature-house-for-head-painting-high-res-stock-photography/200514463-008
all I got was this.
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Then I started to wonder if there is any such painting – is it just Jacqueline’s evil sense of humor?
I see you. Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A little R&S:
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/05/21/rise-and-shine-1030/