Awarded two Medals of Honor today for acts of bravery a century ago. We honor our heroes no matter how long it takes. http://t.co/AYazTecZpB
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President Obama (@POTUS) June 02, 2015
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Here are details from the @VP's office about the services to honor the life of Beau Biden. http://t.co/L64uWx2duK
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 02, 2015
President Obama will deliver the eulogy for Beau Biden this Saturday. I know his eloquence will help soothe our nation's loss.
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meta (@metaquest) June 02, 2015
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Wear orange to fight guns and honor Hadiya Pendleton: sun-tim.es/1JmwrQf #WearingOrange http://t.co/Bi1iEdm9j0
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KHARY PENEBAKER (@kharyp) June 02, 2015
Hadiya Pendleton would have been 18 on 2 June
Think of her, and all other victims of senseless gun violence http://t.co/EBSzjVRCo3
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TheObamaCAT (@TheObamaCat) June 02, 2015
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Huge thanks to musician Michael Stipe for #WearingOrange on National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 2nd! http://t.co/ovlDp1g5iu
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Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) May 30, 2015
I'm #WearingOrange for the youngest generation now growing up with bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills. http://t.co/5bsuy9yHjc
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Sarah Clements (@sfclem) June 02, 2015
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AG Lynch accomplishes what the world of football said could never happen: Sepp Blatter to resign. nytimes.com/2015/06/03/spo…
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Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 02, 2015
Got bin Laden, got Blatter. NBD. http://t.co/hhknCp02OG
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Matthew Doyle (@MLSAnalyst) June 02, 2015
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Black smoke rises from the back of FIFA HQ indicating the ceremonial burning of the documents. http://t.co/TIhwrNnRHP
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Tokyo Sexwhale (@tokyo_sexwhale) June 02, 2015
BREAKING: Footage of Loretta Lynch taking on Sepp Blatter http://t.co/wJU5CviK6n
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Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) June 02, 2015
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Champagne.... http://t.co/1S8shEcN6E
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John Oliver (@iamjohnoliver) June 02, 2015
Sepp Blatter got away with 17 years of corruption as Fifa President.
Then Loretta Lynch became AG.
Buh bye Sepp. http://t.co/T1eRHpyyhf
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 02, 2015
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South Dakota Oglala Sioux Tribe youth will join FLOTUS for her Spring harvest at the White House tomorrow. http://t.co/xPSsh4MHVg
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meta (@metaquest) June 02, 2015
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Horizons: The Best Thing I've Read So Far on TPA/TPP immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-be…
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Pretty Foot (@PrettyFootWoman) June 02, 2015
Always intrigued at the high percentage of the *Progressive Credentialing Committee* that used to be GOP. http://t.co/P5hJkERray
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(@Only4RM) June 01, 2015
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this is a real conversation I just had with someone who I go to school with. Lord please help me http://t.co/mz9ygHZvpN
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Ally (@AllyHopkins_) May 29, 2015
Just in case you think Rand Paul is that hip, cool guy speaking for you. http://t.co/Q4xnRAGHjH
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philip harris (@pharris830) June 02, 2015
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Yes, Bush helped create ISIS — and set the Middle East up for a generation of chaos vox.com/e/8467100?utm_… http://t.co/ne8502pZ6g
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Vox (@voxdotcom) June 02, 2015
Charles Pierce with quite possibly the greatest summing up of Rick Santorum - ever.
esquire.com/news-politics/… http://t.co/YVI0uXk0O7
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 02, 2015
Lovelyplains!!!! Congrats on first….and second 😀
Hello TODers!!!
😆 I got a little greedy after you snuck in before me on the last post 😎
😆
LP!!!! Poor auld Sepp……. 🙂
I’m weeping and severely distraught 😀 😀
🙂 I quite like the idea of Loretta as Fifa Pres, but I suppose she’s kinda busy?
…Maybe just a tad 😀
And she probably knows about as much as I do about soccer. 😀
So there are many in Qatar who have dirty hands? Hmmmmm
Pretty much the entire country with the exception of their slave labor.
Heyyyyyy Tally girl ❤
Hey Gail!! xoxox
I love them so much!!!
TOD EXCLUSIVE:
I have just obtained footage of Sepp Blatter bidding farewell to FIFA
GIFSoup
Oooooooooh damn, I remember that!!!!!
The best is when he triumphantly raises his hand after removing his ass off the floor 😀
:D, I could watch that over and over LP 😀
😀 😀 😀
🙄 🙂 🙄 🙂
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Lovely Plains hitting it out of the park!
Congrats LP 🙂
Well done, Chips!!! Excellent roundup!!!
“At lunchtime on a spring day last year, Joe Biden was at his desk in the West Wing. When the door opened, the Vice-President stood up and stretched. He appeared to be in mid-thought. It was a busy week—I was there to talk to him about Iraq, Ukraine, and other dramas—but when I asked what he’d been thinking about at his desk, he beamed. “A First Communion, man!” It was coming up that weekend, in Delaware, and Biden was heading home to his vast, inseparable family. He said, “I look around at my sister, and a lot of my peers, and younger peers with children who are getting out of college, and they’re scattered all over the universe. I’ve really been lucky. My oldest son, Beau, is attorney general, so he lives a mile and a quarter from my home. My other son, Hunter, lives literally a mile and a quarter from the residence here.” His daughter Ashley went to college at Tulane, and, for a while, he feared that she would settle “down in Looziana,” he said, drawing out the vowels. “Fortunately, she married a Philly boy.” He said, “Every Sunday, when we’re home, we have dinner, you know. It’s been that way for twenty-five years.” In their tragedy, their striving, their survival, and their improbable optimism, the Bidens are a deeply American family—a clan that, even as it edged into privilege, has never looked out of reach or out of touch….
…The father sometimes talks of his people in anthropological terms—“We Bidens,” he says. As he put it in his memoir, “Promises to Keep,” “We Bidens have strong personalities, and we live close.” In the Biden family, nothing is ever a solo decision. Two and a half years after Neilia’s death, when Joe Biden met Jill Jacobs, his sons asked, “Are we gonna get married again?” (They did; she became Jill Biden.) Many years later, in 1987, Beau Biden would join his father on the campaign trail, urging him to stay in the race even as hopes faded. Richard Ben Cramer, in his book “What It Takes,” described Beau joining his father at a campaign event so dull and quiet that you “could hear wool pants rustling on Naugahyde banquet chairs.” The listeners peeled away, and his father kept talking, “till Beau, toward the end, was staring at his shoes, murmuring, ‘Dad … finish.’ ” Among the many tributes to the Bidens, Senator Harry Reid said, “There’s a song, ‘A Man of Constant Sorrow,’ that, certainly, if that ever applied to someone, it would be our friend Joe Biden.” The sentiment was true and kind, but somehow the analogy seems temporary. The Bidens’ sorrow has been exceptional, but never constant.”
Such an appreciation for the resilience of the Biden Family. Beau Biden’s memorial service will be a deep well for them to draw from in the difficult months ahead.
BOOM! Former Auburn QB and #1 pick in 2011 now the highest paid QB in the league
SUCH A PRECIOUS TIME TODAY WATCHING THOSE VERY SPECIAL MEDAL OF HONOR CEREMONIES…AND I WILL CERTAINLY BE WATCHING BEAU BIDEN’S SERVICE ON SATURDAY…THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE DETAILS…:)
O/T
Question(s) for you TOD Techies – RE: Windows 10
I got the notification to reserve Windows 10. Do I want to rush and upgrade to 10 (currently have 8.1)? What will I gain? What will I lose? What will potentially “break”? Will there be problems if I don’t immediately upgrade?
NO SW it is only the Beta Version. Too many glitches yet according to my Son.
Thanks, Roberta. I’ll wait until the glitches are worked out…perhaps around version 10.5.
Hello, TOD Villagers. Hope you are having a great #WearingOrange Day! Congrats to lovelyplains on the grand entrance.
Like a Peter Sellers movie script:) Unfreakingbelieveable
and where eeez your minkeeee?
Never say I never taught you lot nothing
Brilliant!!!!!!
Chips? Does Danny have a brother?
🙂 There are spookily alike, only that fella seems to be sitting when asked – so, deffo NOT Danny!!
Amazing how a camera can freeze the action. I like Danny’s eyes better.
Dannyaroo sends you a slurpy thank you, 57
Oh Chips, is that Danny? For real????
It is GGail, I own a kangarooooooo!!!
That is too cute!
Danny is so full of life and joy! The tall grass probably makes him feel like he’s on a hunt! 🙂
That’s what I’m afraid of Hopefruit, that he’ll emerge from the long grass some day with something in his mouth! 😥
Whatever it is…let’s hope it’s a stick and not a snake! LOL 🙂
He will if there is something there. It’s in his genes.
My brood would stand at the edge and say, “You gotta be kidding me.”
Thank you for the delicious tweets, Chips. Great assortment.
And, uh, why doesn’t Danny sit when asked to do so?
Is he a 60’s era hippie dog?
Dogs like to be told what the behavior standards are and then comply with them. Much like kids. Routine and behaving as they are taught to do makes them happy and secure.
Oy. Sorry for the lecture. I am not your mother. Old enough by far to be, but still, not your mother.
Ah, he does Vicki, I was kidding! He can be a stroppy teenager at times and be a bit slow to do what he’s asked, but generally he’s great – he even dropped a sock today when I asked him. I almost fainted. 🙂
Good to know. Must be my advanced age. Don’t always get the jokes.
I wish someone base told that to my Dogs. I guessed they never read the manual..
Got this baby on a repeat loop! LOVE IT!!! 😄😄😄
GA Dudette.
But look at what the woman has to go through to bring her opponent down.
I’ve thought about taking self-defense classes, but in this maneuver, it would be me landing on my head.
Great GIF.
Did you see this?
🙂
LOL! She was indeed impressive LP!
I hadn’t seen that article either. Good to see the victim prevailed for once and got a reward out of her ordeal. I hope that creep gets locked away for a very long time. Sounds like he should’ve already been from a previous incident.
HOLY MOLY 😯
My goodness.
Very interesting, isn’t it? Credit to those who’ve earned it without respect to party. I Love My President.
June is shaping up to be a HUGE month for this country.
NSA is done, just the way PBO wanted it. Check.
Next up is the TPP.
June 30th is Iran/P+5 Nuclear Deal deadline
SCOTUS’ decision on Obamacare most likely on June 29, but maybe sooner.
Wow.
I am crossing my fingers for positive outcomes for all these important initiatives.
If we-TOD- did polls, I wonder in what order we would rate these things.
Huh, has anyone seen MightyP lately?? Wonder what she can be getting up to these days? {{{{{ TOD }}}}} ❤
I just saw MightyP! She was here a while ago…she must’ve gone in to prepare dinner? 🙂 🙂 🙂
Does MP eat?
Oh yes, she certainly does. She loves a good, delicious, nutritious, well-prepared meal. 🙂
‘Mighty’ nice of you to say that {{{{{ HF2}}}}} ~ she had better take your advice!! ❤ Back in a bit!
I hope there’s the equivalent of #BlackTwitter for the Latino community.
And I’m grateful that @guardian dares to tread where our lazy #MSM won’t go.
From San Francisco – such a heartbreaking story (from the article):
“Perez-Lopez was one of the 67 Latino people identified by the Guardian as killed by police so far this year. Like 58% of them, he carried no firearm; 25% were completely unarmed. Yet his death and those of all the other Latino 67 have failed to spark the kind of outrage seen after the deaths of Garner and Brown. Those who witnessed the event – also undocumented migrants – have been ‘driven underground’, lawyers tell the Guardian.”
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“But eyewitness testimony, some published for the first time by the Guardian, alongside forensic evidence produced by local attorneys working for Perez-Lopez’s impoverished family in Guatemala, have begun to tell a damningly different story: of a hard-working young man shot and killed while running away from the police.
‘I’m in poor health, all these days have past since he left,’ Perez-Lopez’s mother, Margarita Lopez, said in broken Spanish through tears on the phone from Chiquimulilla, south Guatemala. Just two months before he died, Amilcar had raised enough to pay for his family to have running water and electricity in their small, wooden home for the first time.”
We just need to keep asking the question(s) ….
so the corrupt clown is down finally and the useless media, for all their ‘investigative’ powers, didn’t have jacksquat to do with it?
They don’t investigate; they regurgitate!
effing stenos.
Yep
Oh Chips I thank you so much with copious Newsy Tweets…….Great job!
LP has the solid Au ⭐
Good Evening TOD. It is still nice, a tad breezy and very little humidity. The weather folks got it a tad wrong 🙂 Happy Days……oh happy Days 🙂
Nerdy’s tweets!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/06/02/another-tweet-or-two-7/