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- Ignore the bait: Why it’s the right strategy for Democrats to focus SCOTUS fight on health care
- BIG: Judge halts Trump administration attempt to shortcut the census
- Trump doesn't want peaceful transition of power. Legally, it doesn’t matter.
- Fauci goes off on Rand Paul
- Rule 44: Why Obamacare is not lost even in a deadlocked Supreme Court, but only if Biden wins
- Time to suit up. This is war.
- BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed
- Bothsidesism comes to fact-checking: CNN's “fact-check” calling Biden ad 'misleading' proves the opposite
- Pardon me: How Donald Trump's stooges conspired with Julian Assange to exonerate Russia and undermine US Intlligence
Smartypants
- Durham to Right Wingers: "Blame Hillary"
- That Time When Refusing to Negotiate With Hostage-Takers Worked
- The Other Christian Nationalists: Leonard Leo and Opus Dei
- Hawley Demonstrates That He's an Ignorant Liar
- DeSantis Board Votes to Counter-Sue Disney Over Something...Anything
- Hunter Biden's Laptop Is a Total Nothingburger
- What DeSantis Couldn't Say in Response to Disney's Lawsuit
- Disney Skewers DeSantis With His Own Words
- Populism Without Civil Rights Is Fascism
- Glenn Greenwald gets triggered by smart competent women like Rep. Stacey Plaskett
Steve Benen
- Joe: Indictment could be something that had to be done and we have crossed a line that could be dangerous
- The effort to defend Trump is very haphazard, says former federal prosecutor
- Ari Melber: Jack Smith hasn’t said a word and he has the whole country listening
- A look back to 2019: Predicting Trump could run for re-election to shield himself
- Neal Katyal: Indictment makes clear no person can brazenly disregard the law without consequence
- Rep. Raskin: Trump has transformed Lincoln's party; he runs it like a religious cult
- Republican lawmakers react to Trump's indictment predictably
- Joe: Trump will now find out you can't bully federal judges or the feds themselves
- Ibram X. Kendi: When we assess structural racism, we are talking about groups not individuals
- Women are still pessimistic about the U.S. economy, polling shows
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Mighty P!!!
Back later, see ya then!
Congrats MP on 1st??
I so wanted to be 1st! 🐻
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Good Morning and Comgrats Mighty P! 🙂
You’re a winner, MP! Hope this is a sign of a great week ahead for you!
Congrats MP!!
Love the traditions of these visits.
Good morning, Chips and TODville.
I have to catch up on PBO’s trip to Ethiopia. Thank you for the press conference video. I’m guessing the jackals were again ill-behaved. UGH.
#TrustBarack
bbl …
In_deed
-ie YOU- won’t.
LOL. Only the kenyan could drive these nutters to that level of crayzee where they call him chamberlain and hitler…. often, in the same sentence.
LOL! yup
LOL!
Thank you for all the tweets Dudette
Happy to share Friend. 🙂
Hilarious!
And yet, our journalists aren’t enlightened enough to realize that if they were citizens in Ethiopia and asked the questions in such disrespectful manner in which they do to PBO, that they would be in jail or worst.
When You have Zero, Nada, Nothing, Nil, Zippo, Zilch, etc to Improve the Lives of fellow American Citizens……you do this for the 70th plus time while getting paid by the Taxpayers.
Wake the eff up…….America.
God: You will get twice of what you wish for your black neighbor. Ask away (hoping to teach him a lesson)
Racist: I wish for him to go blind in one eye.
*BooooooooooooM*
The Jehovah’s Witnesses Church in Australia failed to report more than 1,000 alleged child sex abusers to the police, an inquiry has heard.
Instead, the commission says, the Church itself handled all the cases – some of which date to the 1950s.
One elder told the hearing that notes relating to abuse claims were destroyed so they would not be discovered.
Australia began a national inquiry into child sexual abuse in 2013, after claims of abuse in the Catholic Church.
Members of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, whose remit includes religious groups, NGOs and state-care providers, say more than 4,000 victims have come forward.
The commission has heard allegations of abuse taking place within the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Jewish community, as well as schools and children’s homes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-33673240
The Royal Commission has been an eye opener into every group that ever had anything to do with raising/teaching children. Cannot imagine it was all very different in other countries.
glad it’s coming out at least now.
Did you see where Al Gore had a few words to say on what is NOT happening in Oz re climate change
Al Gore: People left scratching heads over Australia’s climate change position, former US politician says
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-27/al-gore-says-some-surprised-by-australias-climate-change-policy/6651718
Didn’t go far enough in calling out the RWNJ who is our PM
GM TODville.
Posted this last night, but no one commented. 😦
Looks like John Kerry will (again) be busy today:
From the article:
“Executives from 13 major U.S. corporations will announce Monday at least $140 billion in new investments to decrease their carbon footprints as part of a White House initiative to recruit private commitments ahead of a United Nations climate-change summit later this year in Paris.
Companies including Apple Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co., and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will join Secretary of State John Kerry and top administration officials at the White House for the announcement. In addition to pledges to cut emissions, provide financing to environmentally-focused companies, and reduce water consumption, the companies have said they will produce 1,600 megawatts of new, renewable energy — enough to power nearly 1.3 million homes. The White House said in a statement that it expects to announce a second round of similar pledges later this fall from additional companies.”
Cue MSM whine: #WhyWontObamaLead?
Arapaho. what you’ve posted is certainly important info.
I am glad to see Goldman do something other than steal lie cheat and gamble away other people’s money.
Congrats MP and Doc Bobfr on your Gold ⭐ Medals.
They could not jump start my car……was towed in…… 😦
No fun Nena – hope it is an easy fix
Thanks 99ts……hoping for an easy fix too.
Good Morning BFF and TOD.
Short video excerpt in the article
Sorry, that was the wrong link. Meant to post this one…
I would like anyone to crack down on the media telling outright LIES – that would really be political openness.
LIVE NOW: Secretary of State John Kerry hosts Fight Against Modern Slavery ceremony – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Thanks JER! I’ve got it event on now. Cuomo is speaking before VP Joe comes on.
This is big news.
Meanwhile in our demented GOP/AIPAC alliance the warmongers are launching full scale assaults on peace and diplomacy.
A full page ad in NY Times had the 4 NY/NJ senators photos and a letter from its sponsor, Michael Steinhardt, who proudly states he was DLC chairman for 10 years.
He is urging Booker, Schumer, Menendez, and Giillibrand to vote against and oppose the Iran Deal.
DLC—you remember them, right? Clinton, Bayh, D. Feinstein, Harold Ford, etc, etc, etc. DINOS. Corporatists. War enthusiasts. YUCK.
VP Biden—-end of summer can’t come too soon for us.
DLC is a nasty reminder of the Clinton days. UGH.
Booker is certainly waffling, no doubt led around by Schumer.
I have always slotted booker as a Obama wannabe without his sincerity and integrity. Even when peeps here were going gaga over him.
Hear-hear! It was his (lack of) sincerity piece that bothered me. I was generally uneasy with the way Booker liked to (unconsciously?) tout whatever ‘good deed’ he did, and then he turned me off completely when he sided with Romney over PBO re that business whose name I’ve forgotten. I see him somewhat like I do HRC – opportunistic and self-serving under the guise of helping others.
I get so sick of people trolling every damned thing!
Equal pay bill was passed during JFK……..this is 2015……lady what have You been doing about in 52 yrs…….just asking?
heh loony left, lily ledbetter act. #moron
She has probably never read that issue paper Dudette – great response – you are on a roll today
Thanks 99ts!
Perfect reply Dudette! Good for you!!!
LIVESTREAM HERE for VP Biden: http://www.rochesterhomepage.net/live AND
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live (audio only)
Morning:)
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/general/report/2015/07/27/118103/the-middle-class-at-risk/
The Middle Class at Risk
The Dangerous Gap Between the Rhetoric and Reality of Republican Prescriptions for the Economy
the new rhetoric by Republicans has not been matched with new policy ideas. Instead of offering ideas that will improve economic security, boost incomes, and support working- and middle-class families, Republicans are simply repackaging the old top-down solutions that favor the wealthy few at the expense of working families. It’s old wine in new bottles. Although leading Republicans are talking more about opportunity and mobility, there is a mountain of evidence that many of their proposed policies would hurt average families.
This report details how—despite its new rhetorical shift—the GOP continues to propose policies that would undercut economic security for working- and middle-class families and increase their anxiety. More specifically, it examines the following ways Republicans policies would hurt American families:
More at the link….
The perfect take away from this piece…and the perfect explanation of the GOP’s true self.
Giovanni Gentile, the “philosopher of fascism” and ghostwriter for Mussolini, said of the definition of fascism in the Encyclopedia of Italiana: “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” This definition may very well fit the GOP ideology: a kind of corporate fascism, where large corporations have the ultimate power; where the politicians spew a hateful, intolerant ideology based on “traditional” values, on a platform funded by corporate interests, elected by the people to serve those very corporate interests; and deny environmental degradation because it would be unprofitable for the funders to do anything about it, using the anti-intellectual hostility to convince the people that it is nothing more than a left-wing conspiracy.
and deny environmental degradation because it would be unprofitable for the funders to do anything about it, using the anti-intellectual hostility to convince the people that it is nothing more than a left-wing conspiracy.
Exactly what the RW govt in my world is doing at this very minute.
Exactly, df.
Are you KIDDING ME??
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/boehner-golf-channel-interview-crying
GM DF,
He makes me sick!
Amen, sister! Pathetic.
NO time to watch, but this should be enlightening …
I heard words at my eye doctor on Saturday that I have never heard before: “Your visit is completely covered by insurance.”
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You go 57! 🙂
yayyyyy!!
Town Crier is at it again……….beyond embarrassing.
What kind of pain is this man expressing at the oddest moments? I really don’t get it.
he is a fake ratfucker. what a corrupt thug.
Guess I said that in a round about sort of way
why waste good words on a weasel.
And why bring the “golf channel” to town to “talk about his daily work for Congress, how he wants to help children, and how easily some lawmakers are moved to tears.”
I would have thought the golf channel was about golf – or have I got that wrong?
Classic alcoholic.
My grandfather on my mother’s side went through a lot as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia and he became an alcoholic in his later years because the terror of his life never left him – so we saw first hand what alcohol can do to a persons emotional state and Boehner exhibits a lot of what I saw in my grandfather. I have no idea what Boehner’s life was/is like…but I recognize his symptoms.
Hi GGail! Must be a busy Monday morning….have a great day. 🙂 🙂
VP Joe is on!!!!
via bj, a great read.
http://qz.com/464172/why-africa-loves-obama-and-its-not-why-you-might-think/
Chat on
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/07/27/chat-on-114/