President Barack Obama during a welcome ceremony at the National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Ethiopia’s President Mulatu Teshome welcomes President Barack Obama for a meeting at the National Palace in Addis Ababa
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President Barack Obama sits down to a bilateral meeting with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
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President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn hold a news conference after their meeting
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President Barack Obama holds a meeting on South Sudan and counterterrorism issues with African heads of state at his hotel
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Doug Mills: Obama touches “Lucy”. Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago in Ethiopia. #ObamaInEthiopia @POTUS
Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged Lemseged of the California Academy of Sciences, laughs at a quip by President Barack Obama as he and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn look at the bones of Lucy, an early human. Lucy is the most famous fossil of the species Australopithecus afarensis, and was found in Ethiopia in 1974
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President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn sit down to a State Dinner in President Obama’s honor at the National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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The Obama Diary 
Love my wonderful President. Love him
Congrats, Desertflower! .
…as usual NW with another impeccable round-up-TY
thank you, LP:) An excellent on the toons!
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Happy Bow Wow 2nd Birthday Sassy Sadie 🙂
Sassy Sadie earned her name tonight:) She stole a chicken breast off the counter….that was going to be put in the Caesar Salad….but it’s her birthday and we make allowances for family:) I was so hoping for “more maturity” for her 2nd birthday….it’s not to be. Thank you, GGail…I will let her know that “Auntie GGail” sends birthday wishes!
{{{{Sassy Sadie}}}} when she matures she’s gonna make you so proud 😘
Oh….we’re all proud.Just talking today how lucky we are to have her with us:) She’s a stinker though…no doubt about it!
stinker stinker or I wanna starve the beast but she won’t stand for it stinker?
huh?? No, don’t want to starve the beast:)
denying chicken = starving the beast.
I think we’re over due in seeing a picture of Sadie. If you can’t post it, then email it to me and I’ll ask jojo or vc to post it for us.
Congrats df 🙂
You never cease to excel, NW!!!! Thank you!!
Hope all of you are enjoying #WhenTrumpIsElected 🙂
thanks, Bobfr:)
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Congratulations, DF! Happy BD to your big doggie. NW, you keep outdoing yourself in keeping us informed with photos and words. Many thanks!
Thanks, Judith:) I’ll tell Sadie you send her birthday wishes!!
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thank you so much, Nerdy:)
THIS!!!!!!!
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Thank you 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times Nerdy, outstanding coverage of PBO’s trip!
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‘…Six years ago, Fraser was an ordinary British teenager and had a pretty perfect life, according to his website. He was an athlete and a school prefect. That all changed one day while he was enjoying a vacation with friends in Portugal, when he dived into shallow surf and dislocated his neck. Now Henry is paralyzed from the shoulders down and gets around in a wheelchair…He’d studied art in school, but didn’t come back to drawing until this year. In January, Fraser was sick in bed, and bored of lying around. He began idly sketching with the@draw app on his iPad, using his stylus. His very first iPad drawing was of British rugby legend Johnny Wilkinson. He tweeted a photo of the drawing, and Wilkinson tweeted back, “That is phenomenal, Henry. I love it.”…
“Sport has been a huge part of my life for really, my whole life,” he says. That’s what motivates him to draw so many athletes, including David Beckham, Usain Bolt andManny Pacquiao. Many of the people he sketches reach out to him once the picture is posted. Fraser’s also struck up a correspondence with J.K. Rowling over Twitter. She retweeted this drawing of Harry Potter with “Wow!” Rowling also leapt to his defense when Fraser posted an email from an unknown girl called Laura that said, “I can’t believe how stupid you are — you deserve to not be able to use your arms and legs…continued’
Laura has two functioning arms and legs but she is an untalented headless chicken. Mr. Fraser does not wallow in what fate brought him he rises above it and let’s nothing limit his abilities.
Arizona Cardinals defensive back Tyrann Mathieu teamed up with PETA to star in a public service announcement on the potential consequences of leaving a dog inside a hot car. To demonstrate the danger, the Honey Badger sat inside a car in 90-degree weather. “I seriously couldn’t imagine leaving my dog in the car like this,” he said while still inside.
Mathieu tapped out after eight minutes, when the car reached a scorching 120 degrees. By the time he stumbled out, his T-shirt was drenched in sweat—which, as the PSA reminds us, is something a dog cannot do to cool itself off. “If you’re going to make a dog a part of your family, then make him a part of your family,” Mathieu said. “Don’t treat him like you wouldn’t treat someone you cared about or someone you loved.”
‘In the summer of 2012, Walzer was preparing for his junior year of high school. Like many kids his age, his thoughts increasingly turned to college, with a blend of excitement and anxiety. His greatest concern? The ability to tie and untie his shoes. Walzer was born two months premature, weighing only two pounds, 14 ounces, with under-developed lungs that led to Cerebral Palsy. He overcame many of the physical limitations doctors predicted for him, but tying his shoes remained a challenge, as he only has flexibility in one hand. Being a college freshman is daunting enough, but the thought of having to rely on others to tie his shoes prompted Walzer to write Nike: “My dream is to go to the college of my choice without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day. I’ve worn Nike basketball shoes all my life. I can only wear this type of shoe, because I need ankle support to walk. At 16 years old, I am able to completely dress myself, but my parents still have to tie my shoes. As a teenager who is striving to become totally self-sufficient, I find this extremely frustrating and, at times, embarrassing.”..
..FLYEASE introduces a wrap-around zipper solution that opens the back of the shoe near the heel-counter, making it easier to slide the foot in and out. At the same time, the system provides sufficient lockdown and eliminates the need to tie traditional laces. Walzer’s dreams of going to college and putting on his own shoes have been achieved. He is now a sophomore at Florida Gulf Coast University and is wearing his custom Zoom Soldier 8 FLYEASE kicks all over campus. What’s more, Walzer was able to meet his basketball hero, who returned the teenager’s admiration…“Matthew inspired us at Nike to be able to bring something special that will not only be for himself but also for the masses,” asserts LeBron. “The shoe and the inspiration he gave us is going to go way beyond Nike, Matthew and myself. I am very honored and blessed that my shoe is part of the whole process. This is an unbelievable story, and Nike has done a great job of being able to create something that’s so incredible and will last a lifetime.” As Lebron notes, the vision Hatfield brought to life was never intended for just one athlete. “There is a real need for a solution like this and it feels good to be a part of something that is going to help so many people. Like the asterisk accompanying Nike’s mission statement says, ‘If you have a body, you’re an athlete.’ That means everybody and we never forget that,” adds Hatfield…continued’
Wow…sounds like a personal threat, to me.
his lawyuh as ugly as donald dreck.
YUP.
GM amk 🙂
GM Bob. birds, feathers and all that.
Trump and his associates have ZERO impulse control. Creeps.
There are laws against those types of threats ….
Oh, and then there’s this ….
Huh? If they’re unreported, what is he talking about. And then there’s the rest of it…….this guy’s a real neanderthal.
“Lucy” had more integrity and functional intelligence than this dude, meta.
I have 1.1 percent of that neanderthal gene according to my DNA. I wonder if I am as dumb as this fool?
Thanks for this update on the President’s day, NerdyW. smh – I’ve been in my own little TOD-world today, missing all the new post cues and talking to myself in corners.
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Why organize?
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………………………… Should a mere 50 prominent black churches, out of the thousands that exist in cities like Chicago, decide to collaborate with a trained organizing staff, enormous positive changes could be wrought in the education, housing, employment and spirit of inner-city black communities, changes that would send powerful ripples throughout the city.
In the meantime, organizers will continue to build on local successes, learn from their numerous failures and recruit and train their small but growing core of leadership — mothers on welfare, postal workers, CTA drivers and school teachers, all of whom have a vision and memories of what communities can be. In fact, the answer to the original question — why organize? — resides in these people. In helping a group of housewives sit across the negotiating table with the mayor of America’s third largest city and hold their own, or a retired steelworker stand before a TV camera and give voice to the dreams he has for his grandchild’s future, one discovers the most significant and satisfying contribution organizing can make.
In return, organizing teaches as nothing else does the beauty and strength of everyday people. Through the songs of the church and the talk on the stoops, through the hundreds of individual stories of coming up from the South and finding any job that would pay, of raising families on threadbare budgets, of losing some children to drugs and watching others earn degrees and land jobs their parents could never aspire to — it is through these stories and songs of dashed hopes and powers of endurance, of ugliness and strife, subtlety and laughter, that organizers can shape a sense of community not only for others, but for themselves. ~Barack Obama
Illinois Issues, September 2008
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This is the part I’m dreaming to see Pres Obama get behind as one of his first after-White-House activity ↓ ↓ ↓
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Should [serious citizens] decide to collaborate with a trained organizing staff [headed by me, former president], enormous positive changes could be wrought in the education, housing, employment and spirit of inner-city (black) communities, changes that would send powerful ripples throughout the city [/nation].
If you haven’t read this 1988 Obama article yet, you should. ••► http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/archives/2008/09/whyorg.html
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Woke up to the top story on TRMS; she’s help Bernie perp a fraud that no Dem has ever done a 50 state strategy. Really…
Rachel brought on Richard Engel to talk about how we are getting deeper into war by siding with Turkey to help against ISIL/ISIS. Nauseating attack against our administration.
I turned to HGTV mid-Bernie shilling…
My TV is on HGTV 24-7… and on MSNBC 0-7
HGTV is my go-to channel, as well, although I allow myself little peeks at “the others” !!!
She might be occasionally correct, but she’s an Emoprog – one of the actual ‘Professional Left’.
yup, the professional poutrage peddler.
I still haven’t forgotten her comment that Obama did not want DADT repealed.
I know a lot of people on the left like her, but I can’t stand her. she’s incredibly emo and seems to think Obama can do EVERYthing by himself.
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When will MSM start talking about Bernie’s non-accomplishments and how he expect to suddenly fulfill all of the promises to his followers? He has not done a d## thing but talk since he has been in congress. I am so sick of talk about his crowds.
‘On average, 330 million pairs of shoes find their way to peoples’ feet every year in the UK alone. unfortunately, with each new pair, another finds itself on the way to the landfill where it will take over 50 years — minimum — to decompose. due to the large amount of materials used in a contemporary pair of sneakers, as many as 65 in some cases, recycling is difficult and expensive.
Designer ammo liao created ‘bio-knit’ in response to the unchecked waste caused by the shoe industry. By mimicking organic organisms and systems in nature, liao developed a single, multi-functional material that can simultaneously display soft, flexible, and robust textures. goods made with a single element could potentially have massive effect on the manufacturing and recycling of any industry, not just footwear. Obvious benefits include: conservation of natural resources, less solid-waste in landfills, energy savings, greenhouse/pollution reduction due to ridding of unnecessary creation processes, and drastically reducing the cost of recycling. A pair of sneakers was made by liao with no other material then ‘bio-knit’ in order to showcase the potential it has…continued’
It was in either Oct 2007. There is a Video. CNN Played it today. This was when Huckabee was trying to be reasonable. The Iraq war was in shambles, GW was still in office and the Media was still trying to do a slightly better job.
Huckabee has not had the taste of Fox, Money, selling nonsense on the Web and building a Multimillion $$ House in FL.
Poor Royals!! Google’s DeepDream interprets Prince William; Kate, duchess of Cambridge; and Prince George:
paging hf. you should make this your home page. 😀
Uhm…let me think about it. Hell to the no….JEEBUS!
oh come on, it would make my job easier.
No. As bad as your ‘sups are, this is just plain cruel….
sigh…. trudging to do all that hard work.
‘sup?
Best.Sup.EVAH.
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#ma
Only because I had an extra long day and am VERY tired…but wait until I regain my strength/energy…..
and read up on poems again? bring it on.
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#TrustBarack
so tim is finally falling in line?
This is good. Tim Kaine was one of the wobbly ones when this first hit the senate.
you missed these, lp. ha. ha.
We now know where you have been whenever you claimed to be *traveling* for work…smh
see below.
Lovely.
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That racists bully Donald Trump haven’t said anything abut Cruz, because Cruz have kept quiet about Trump. You only get in trouble with Trump when you say something about him.
lp’s ‘puter.
Thanks Nerdy, for great pictures. Don’t know which I like more…just to see him or listen to him. Both is a bonus!
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Our people’s president, Dr Abdul Kalam, died yesterday. A honest non-political prez we ever had. Of course, our stinking corrupt pols had to deny him the second term.
So sorry amk…..
First Lady Michelle Obama Kicks Off 2015 Special Olympics World Games
Posted by Kelly Miterko, Deputy Associate Director, Let’s Move! on July 27, 2015
“Let the 2015 Special Olympics World Games begin!” the First Lady cheered as she helped kick off the games this past weekend. Mrs. Obama greeted the athletes and attendees at the Opening Ceremony of the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles, California where nearly 7,000 athletes from 165 countries traveled to compete.
The 2015 Special Olympics World Games are being held from July 25 – August 2. …………………
trying out a new thingie. fingers crossed.
ok cool. now for the real thingie.
dratz.
aaargh. I give up.
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oh, it worked !!! 😎
and how in the hell did it get so many votes?
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yeah, yeah, didja vote?
more than once …but not as many as there are votes
Here’s a *treat* for you to keep you(r fingers) active until I return in the morning. I’ve already spent over two hours on it, and am quite pleased that I was able to pick up 75 of the 100 letters! How. ever. I am getting tired so I’m off to have my shower and go to read for a little bit. Have fun!
Click the link.
Click on the GOOGLE to start.
Wait till the game starts, then use the up or down keys to get you on your way. Bonne chance!
https://www.google.com/doodles/155th-anniversary-of-the-pony-express
G’Night! I went back and tried the google dodole pony express to see if I could get over 75 before leaving but it’s not to be so I’m outta here!
I voted “all of the above.” 🙂 🙂
me, too!
Great minds…
More prisoners may soon have access to federal subsidies to pay for college under a new Obama administration initiative, ending a 20-year ban on Pell grants for state and federal prisoners.
The move could come as soon as this week. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Loretta Lynch are scheduled to visit Goucher College’s Prison Education Partnership at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup on Friday, to make “an important announcement related to federal aid.”
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/barack-obama-financial-aid-college-federal-state-prisoners-pell-grant-120680.html#ixzz3h9bha8mv
He looks beautiful in that picture. Just sayin’…
Doesn’t he always? 😀 He’s convinced me of my new truth – beauty comes from the inside.
BTW, *nudge-nudge; wink-wink*, has your email gone astray? 😉
Walking the Walk
Every. time. I ❤ ❤ ❤ him!
Morning, Pf! Coming home day! Isn't it funny how we love for him to travel, yet are always eager for him to get back home? We are so hard to please? 😀 😀 😀
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This is what I’m saying.
Love hearing about Philly, since I’m from a nearby area originally – thanks for posting these interesting articles!
You’re very welcome. How is your son doing? You continue in my prayers.
Thanks, Alycee, so much. He’s still in hospital, waiting for possible next procedure end of the week, to repair a tear (not uncommon after the pneumonectomy, but serious). We’re trying to keep his mind occupied with positive thoughts. We visit and he has a bunch of framed photos in his room, etc., and I asked when his “new curtains” would arrive. In a nod to his grandson, he said they’d be SpongeBob fabric, of course!
Yesterday, I dropped off an “I ❤ Obamacare" sticker, which is now on his message board.
Appreciate your continued prayers!
good night TOD
I was browsing the Trump story at LGF & do wonder what happened to those republican “family values” that were so important to the American way of life. Seems when the US got a democratic President who met every family value known to man – the GOP decided they really mean nothing at all. How on earth can anyone see Trump as the leader of anything – can’t even look after his own family. Just revolting.
POTUS Obama address the African Union at 6:35 EDT our time on the eastern seaboard.. It says it n the live video feed.
Heads up Early Birds!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/07/28/president-obama-delivers-remarks-at-the-african-union/