Today
7:15: Hosts a private dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping
On This Day: Welcoming leaders to the G20 Summit at the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, September 24, 2009
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MoooOOOooorning!
On This Day: First Lady Michelle Obama greets young performers with the Dance Theatre of Harlem prior to the United Nations General Assembly spouses tour and luncheon at the Harlem Studio Museum in New York, N.Y., Sept. 24, 2013 (Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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2:35: The President meets with Public Health Service officials who helped fight Ebola
7:15: Hosts a private dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping
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10:0 EDT: Pope Francis Address to Joint Meeting of Congress
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On This Day: Welcoming leaders to the G20 Summit at the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, September 24, 2009
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MoooOOOooorning!
Good Morning Chips and TOD Family!! Really enjoying the post lately and always really.. Hope everyone has a beautiful day!!
Goooooooooood morning to ya Terri!!
Congrats, Terri!
Morning!! Congrats to you terri_georgia:)
Just FYI…I’ll be checking on you all but my posting will be light for the next few days. Didn’t want anyone to worry about me:) You know how we get when someone isn’t around for awhile…the worry sets in:) I’m fine, just a little R&R. Much needed time off the merry-go-round.
{{{{{DF}}}}} Take good care of yourself Desertflower, love and hugs.
bigger olympic pool? splash in the lake?
enjoy.
miss you df – take care
Good Morning BFF and TOD.
Goooooooood morning BFF!!
GM chips and TOD.
Mooooooooooorning COS!!
That’s actually a very interesting answer that Putin gives.
furst.
AMK, after reading Carson’s comments on the Big Bang theory, I had to wonder how he could become a pediatric brain surgeon without taking any science courses. The stupidity is deep and wide among Republican pres. candidates, but Carson seems to be setting a new standard.
As I told over, surgeons are mechanics and have poor diagnostic capabilities. Physicians are engineers. 😎
My husband always says that. He’s a infectious diseases specialist who could have gone into surgery but said it wasn’t stimulating enough for his brain😊😊.
daughter unit tells me that they are really numbnutz. and she ain’t even a ful doc yet. 😉
That’s exactly what my goddaughter the surgeon says. It’s all mechanics and, to quote her, “any idiot with mechanical skills can be a surgeon.” I doubt that that’s true, but there is no other medical field that is that insulated from reality.
That being said, I don’t want to be operated on by someone who thinks the devil made Darwin come up with the theory of evolution.
Gooooood moooorrrrornnninggg to our Chips, Nerdy and all Obots. Another incredible day ahead!
Special shout-out to DonnaDem, representin’!!!!
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Wow, imagine having had MULTIPLE papal visits. Pope Pius XII is the name I remember from my childhood days as a Catholic girl (long since lapsed). He seemed to last forever and appeared strict and remote. Nancy P looks cute in that photo.
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, and congrats terri on #1 🙂 Happy Thursday everyone!
heh, what am I, pickled liver?
Well……
of course, I knew and that’s why I posted. sheesh.
I forgot…my brain is a bit “nug” today. LOL.. G’morning even amk!
harrumph… GM hf.
Morning, everyone. I hope the R members of Congress don’t make fools of themselves during the pope’s address. They are such an international embarrassment. The next three weeks will be giddy/exhausting/hectic for me. Son arrives tomorrow at noon for two week stay and then our three-year old granddaughter is staying with us for a week on her own. So much to do, so much to plan, including a big Salsa the Vote event on November 1. Hope everyone has a great and glorious Fall day.
How wonderful that there are flower centerpieces on the table and rolled napkins!
what would be good …is if a few congress folks came with him!!
What? Give up the elegant lunch they’re having at the capitol probably complete with wine and gourmet dessert? I doubt that level of self sacrifice even exists in Congress.
i hope that there are some who would accept an invitation….
THIS IS WHAT REALLY COUNTS…JESUS CHRIST’S CALL TO THOSE IN NEED…UNTIL OUR COUNTRY BOWS TO GOD AND HIS DESIRES…NOT OUR OWN…THE CHAOS WILL CONTINUE!
You know, Chips, of all the people in the world you kind of hoped, expected, prayed would NOT be sexist it is the Dalai Lama. I guess you can be enlightened about a lot of things, but blind on this big one. We’re talking half the people in the world here, Fella. Wake up!
Morning Jackie!! I used to assume he was a top dude, but a bit like Mother Teresa, not quite the saint he’s made out to be. Yuck.
Sadly, what Dali says is what most people, especially men use when judging women.
A man and a woman are sleeping together when suddenly there is a noise in the house, and the woman rolls over and says, “It’s my husband, you have to leave!”
The man jumps out of bed, jumps through the window, crawls through the bushes, and out on the street, when he realizes something.
He goes back to the house and says to the woman, “Wait, I’m your husband!”
She replies giving him a dirty look, “So why did you run?”
wimminz. tricking poor innocent men. /smh
I AM EXITING TO WATCH THE SLAUGHTER ON CSPAN………………..I’M SURE RUSH LIMBAUGH IS DOUBLE DOSING IN HIS MEDICINE CABINET BY NOW…BBL……………XOXOXOXO!
Did somebody change the world clock. With much effort I worked out the Pope would be explaining GOP errors to Congress around 11PM my time – and now it seems tis after midnight – still he is worth waiting for 🙂
Jeez, I just can’t understand people muddling time differences 🙄 Evening 99ts!!!
Meta was even helping out with a web site – and still I got it wrong
And why am I watching Boehner on cspan – ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
my simple thumb rule.
I like it 🙂 – and NO – no $$$
preemptive strike, eh? bummer. 😦
Fast learner 🙂
Streaming has started
Boehner looks really nervous. I wonder if he had a drink this morning? 🙂
You and I were thinking the very same thing!
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Oh dear my first thought to your comment “Is the Pope Catholic?”
🙂 🙂 Perfect!
Boehner seems very nervous!
Purpleshoes….wish we could have sent Donna Dem a “TOD Peeps” button so we could see her in the crowd. 🙂 🙂
Thought Rusty was in need of the loo before Pope entered! 🙂
Through some holy water on him…….
LOL!
🙂 throw. My spelling is bad in the morning….afternoon…..evening…ok, always. 🙂
talk about a stiff.
Hmmm…. Can’t wait!
OMG, the Orange Man is awkward.
Sooooooo awkward Gazelle, it was horrible to watch!
Lawdy, then he sat down before Pope & greeting entourage. Pope gave him a side eye: son, uncouth doesn’t travel in this circle.
OMG!! Boeher is a graceless, embarrassing fool. He sat down before the Pope did and before greeting his entourage. He had to get back up to shake their hands. Contrast this with the solicitous manner in which PBO treated the older Pope; slowing his steps, listening attentively, allowing him to proceed him, hand at the ready to assist, leaning down or toward him to listen so that the pope need not raise his voice and on (PBO is always very good in how he treats older people with care and respect). Boehner must have been raised ina barn.
and Bonehead is a Catholic…..how disrespectful. Boner was afraid his teaheads would be disrespectful now they will probably take his lead.
Oh heck CEB, noticed him sitting down, there are no words for that ignorant buffoon!
and here I thought some teabagger thug will be the furst one to insult him.
I mean, even if my bloody neighbor comes in I don’t sit down before him – basic friggin’ manners. My gawd, these people…
you must really love your neighbour
😆 Unfortunately Danny doesn’t, barks his head off at him when he’s cutting the grass – and he’s TERRIFIED of dogs!
so the boy gets tied up when he – the neighbour, not danny – comes for tea?
Yes. I put a child guard thing on the door of another room so he’s locked in, but can still listen to the chat 🙂
animal cruelty.
jtp came into my bedroom today and started yelling his head off looking at the mirror. wifey unit and I were loao. the boy’s head is totally screwed.
😆 The dog I had as a kid used to try and get in behind mirrors to find the dog he spotted in them, cracked me up!
My Calliope and Harvey used to do that. Look behind the mirror to find the doggie.
I noticed the same thing. where is his manners?
JEEBUS Bonehead!
A complete dick!!! Moooooooooorning GGail!!!
GoooooooOoOOd morning my dearest Chipsticks 💕
I wonder if the press will be all over this? NO, because PBO didn’t do it so no complaints.
PERSONALLY…I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL THE POPE RIPS THROUGH THE STONE HEARTS IN CONGRESS AND TURNS THEIR ALLEGED BRAINS TO QUICKSAND…GOOD MORNING TOD FAMILY!…:)
If the Republicans feel the need to tell Pope Francis not to get political, why don’t they put some duct tape over the mouth of Cardinal Dolan?
The President commented…
no, he ain’t.
http://www.rediff.com/news/column/indias-elected-a-trump-will-us-now-get-a-modi/20150924.htm
Awesome. 🙂
I had not seen the video where he requests a pic with just the first lady for his daughter, Just love it! Our first family is all grace and class, of course with a huge side helping of humor. none of the 16,18, 20 or however many people running for 2016 would be able to duplicate such qualities on a daily basis.
kid kanga, I remember this video. I’m just glad you didn’t show that piece of crap ex-Italy PM who look like he was trying to get fresh with FLOTUS.
haha omg, I do remember that one. I remember thinking to myself what michelle and barack’s reaction might have been had they not been our heads of state…
Of course if VP runs, then maybe 1 person running would duplicate some class and humor, unlike the GOP knuckledraggers.
Joe Klein reviews…..
wowzr, toll climbs to over 700 in mecca stampede.
That’s awful! So sad.
Last time I heard it was 400, OMG!
for all their gazillion oil dollars, the saudis still suck at this crowd management.
They were always forward thinking.
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Most Of The Radical Ideas The Black Panthers Had Are Now Totally Mainstream
by Carimah Townes Sep 23, 2015 8:00am
For decades since their inception in the 1960s, members of the liberation group known as the Black Panthers were labeled thugs and hateful extremists who set out to ruin the U.S. They were considered the antithesis to Martin Luther King Jr. — armed and dangerous. And that’s how many people still remember them today.
But a new documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, dives into the rise and fall of the Panthers’ political agenda, offering a counter-narrative that’s more timely than ever.
Combining interviews with former members of the party with archival footage of Panther activity, Stanley Nelson’s documentary explores the white supremacy and state-sanctioned police violence that inspired a revolutionary movement — and how that movement redefined black power and pride.
It talks about the key players — founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, one of the most vocal and recognizable Panthers, and women like Elaine Brown and Kathleen Cleaver who switched up traditional gender roles and actually dominated the party. The party created the Ten Point Program, a platform that served as the blueprint for uplifting the black community through job creation and social services.
The film pulls back the curtain on COINTELPRO, the government-backed FBI campaign initiated by J. Edgar Hoover to destroy the Panthers. By following every move they made (via wire tapping and planting spies in the organization), falsely imprisoning them, and murdering them outright, the counterintelligence program sought “to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist hate-type organizations and groupings.” Hoover, on behalf of the U.S. government, was hellbent on “[preventing] the rise of a messiah who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement.”
The film also hones in on what made the organization famous: the Panthers’ militant approach to fighting systemic racism — and their arsenal of weapons.
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/09/23/3704132/how-the-black-panthers-ideology-became-mainstream/
Heads up, it’s Pope time
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/09/24/the-pope-addresses-congress/
Is Donna Dem outside in the seats, grassy area, or inside balcony?