I am a long time lurker who has kept up with the news and activities of our PBO thru TOD since finding you via BWD’s The Only Adult In the Room. Now entering my 85th year on the planet, there is no end to my gratitude for our brilliant, compassionate, transformative President Obama for bringing back hope that was so decimated by the the losses of JFK, MLK, RFK. There is, as well, no end to my gratitude for you, Chips, and the simply wonderful community you have created here. I come here daily, actually several times a day, for news, laughter and the awesome lessons you demonstrate in how to maintain a truly diverse, close knit community
Ah @80plus, enormous thanks for such a lovely message, you’re beautifully kind!! Wishing you a wonderful safe, happy and healthy 2016, thank you again.
Morning all. Woke up to “President in Car Getting Coffee” and can’t stop smiling. Everyone brace for impact because this is the day when your inbox is flooded with ‘end of year’ fundraising pleas. Keep deleting and enjoy the last of another year of TOD goodness.
Chips, I want to thank you for creating this space for us to come together to discuss politics and the world we live in. To tell you the truth I don’t know what I did online before I stumbled across ‘The Obama Diary,’ I am very fortunate to be a part of this wonderful community.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely New Years Eve morning. Congrats amk, on being FURST this morning.
To all, I hope you have a wonderful day of contemplation and reflection about your 2015; such that it inspires you to look with great anticipation in the New Year to do great things in 2016. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Now, I’m not trying to be a jerk, but 2016 will not be recognized until it is a second past midnight in New York. I understand that there are different time zones in the world, but it does not matter, 2016 officially begins a second past midnight in New York. Thank you.
Hey Don, that’s like saying, no day begins until your Birthday. Time is Time. Time doesn’t begin in NY, it begins at that moment of creation. Great Britain didn’t believe in no other time but GMT.
Two distinct viewpoints on time divide many prominent philosophers. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. An opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of actually existing dimension that events and objects “move through”, nor to any entity that “flows”, but that it is instead an intellectual concept (together with space and number) that enables humans to sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that space and time “do not exist in and of themselves, but, are the product of the way we represent things”, because we can know objects only as they appear to us. Now with that being said, my friend, each person’s existence is a part of the timeless universe. Life has a beginning and an end, the universe is timeless. As hurl ourselves though time and space let us not forget that times flows through all of us. Therefore your point is wrong, I have proven what I said was correct. Thank you.
Don, unfortunately you really haven’t proven anything relative to the creation of time. Way before Sir Issac Newton, time was spoken of in BC. This exchange is not going to get “us” anywhere. Happy New Years Eve on CST.
And I was just listening to a pundit say “Australia is the best country in the world” – the world revolves around Sydney time. 🙂
Everyone loves their own place. I often think that all the refugees from the middle east really want – is a safe and welcoming place that they can call home & they would so love it to be the place of their birth.
Good morning, good people. Is everyone preparing for a great NYE??!! The First Family went to a luau last night. They’ll probably do what most of us will tonight: CHILL!!
Meta, I’m embarrassed to say that the older I get, the harder it is for me to stay awake until midnight. Last year, I barely had one eye open when the new year arrived and couldn’t wait to call it a day. My youthful self would be ashamed of this version of me.
We celebrate NYC in Times Square celebration on CA which allows us to go to sleep at the usual time. Much easier.Thanks Chips, all BTs, and TOD for such a great community and bulwark against stupidity of MSM. Woke up to Jeb? blaming Trump on President Obama. What a poor excuse for a human
YOU MUST GET A GOOD LAUGH AND FIND THE LINK TO VLAD’S NEW PIN UP CALENDAR…TIS’ A HOOT..A GREAT REASON NOT TO HAVE TO WAKE UP FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR AND LOOK AT IT!
Good Morning GGail….if I don’t see you here on TOD, HAPPY NEW YEAR. Have a safe one and enjoy
the parade from that warm place inside and in front of the teevee. 🙂 🙂 🙂
President Barack Obama’s bid to assert himself in his final year will begin with long-awaited executive actions on gun control which are expected to be released next week, shortly after he returns to Washington.
The White House is putting finishing touches on several measures in an effort to make progress on curbing gun violence, an issue the president and close aides have found frustratingly intractable, before the race to replace him enters prime time.
According to gun industry insiders and others familiar with the proposals, the changes include requiring an expanded number of small-scale gun sellers to be licensed—and therefore conduct background checks—whenever selling a weapon. This wouldn’t close the so-called gun show loophole, though it has the potential to narrow it.
The administration is also expected to impose tighter rules for reporting guns that get lost or stolen on their way to a buyer.
Thanks, AMK. This will have people on the right screaming and hurling vile insults at our president. It will also very cannily take up air/media space that would otherwise be dedicated to incessant bile from the R candidates. I wouldn’t be surprised if PBO has a big controversial action coming in each month up to the election, so that he literally ‘drowns’ out the trump/Cruz/Rubio insanity.
Happy Thursday ~ New Year’s eve morning Chips & all of TOD 😉 I love this hopeful, renewing time of year… the belief that things can get better in one’s life and universally… and the opportunity to try to be a better me;) Happy New Year 99ts and Australia!
Sherijr, that’s a lovely thought for for the new year. I get that some feeling of hope and renewal every time I look at my granddaughter’s face and give her a hug.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture will open its doors in Washington, DC, in 2016, after years of planning, fundraising and political wrangling.
Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis tells the BBC that it is significant that the museum will be located on the National Mall, or “America’s front porch”, as it will sit near such other landmarks as the Lincoln Memorial, Congress and the White House.
The Museum will feature artefacts and exhibitions that explore the African American experience from “slavery to the present”.
So the time has come and gone – ther fireworks are all exploded & it’s bedtime in my world
May you all have a wonderful New Year’s Eve & similar to RanMan I thank everyone that PBO will still be the President of the United States for yet another year
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, and congrats Chips on #1! Happy New Year’s Day to 99ts and all those who have already met 2016, and Happy New Year’s Eve to the rest of us 🙂
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
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Hi amk – I really do agree with the sentiment 🙂
India and Australia ganging up on Ireland is totally bullying!1!1!
Some people deserve a little chastising – tough love 🙂
That’s what all bullys say!1!1!
you ain’t no twitter.
bernie handers?
😆
heh bt, a lurker post (@80plus) needs to be released from the mod monster?
gm Ms Chips – still breaking the rules
I am a long time lurker who has kept up with the news and activities of our PBO thru TOD since finding you via BWD’s The Only Adult In the Room. Now entering my 85th year on the planet, there is no end to my gratitude for our brilliant, compassionate, transformative President Obama for bringing back hope that was so decimated by the the losses of JFK, MLK, RFK. There is, as well, no end to my gratitude for you, Chips, and the simply wonderful community you have created here. I come here daily, actually several times a day, for news, laughter and the awesome lessons you demonstrate in how to maintain a truly diverse, close knit community
Ah @80plus, enormous thanks for such a lovely message, you’re beautifully kind!! Wishing you a wonderful safe, happy and healthy 2016, thank you again.
I’ll second that and raise a glass to you! Welcome @80plus and Happy New Year! 🍸🎉🎊
psst, you owe me 100.
OK New year in Sydney – probably somewhere on the intertubes – 1 hour later in my part of the world.
I really think the fireworks have had their day – 7 shipping crates full brought into Sydney
mmm or maybe not – News 24 is off the internet – best go watch that new TV – Mr 99 has gone to bed
Happy New Year, 99!
ty Jackie – 45 min to go in my town (we don’t do daylight saving).
Some sydney pictures here
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-31/live-blog-australia-starts-ringing-in-2016-with-fireworks/7062516
Happy New Years 99ts. 🎉🎇🎊
ty RanMan
They luv lighting up that bridge
Morning all. Woke up to “President in Car Getting Coffee” and can’t stop smiling. Everyone brace for impact because this is the day when your inbox is flooded with ‘end of year’ fundraising pleas. Keep deleting and enjoy the last of another year of TOD goodness.
Good Morning TOD Family!
Chips, I want to thank you for creating this space for us to come together to discuss politics and the world we live in. To tell you the truth I don’t know what I did online before I stumbled across ‘The Obama Diary,’ I am very fortunate to be a part of this wonderful community.
Morning, Don. Agree with every word you said.
GM…Ditto to everything you said
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely New Years Eve morning. Congrats amk, on being FURST this morning.
To all, I hope you have a wonderful day of contemplation and reflection about your 2015; such that it inspires you to look with great anticipation in the New Year to do great things in 2016. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Now, I’m not trying to be a jerk, but 2016 will not be recognized until it is a second past midnight in New York. I understand that there are different time zones in the world, but it does not matter, 2016 officially begins a second past midnight in New York. Thank you.
Hey Don, that’s like saying, no day begins until your Birthday. Time is Time. Time doesn’t begin in NY, it begins at that moment of creation. Great Britain didn’t believe in no other time but GMT.
Two distinct viewpoints on time divide many prominent philosophers. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. An opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of actually existing dimension that events and objects “move through”, nor to any entity that “flows”, but that it is instead an intellectual concept (together with space and number) that enables humans to sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that space and time “do not exist in and of themselves, but, are the product of the way we represent things”, because we can know objects only as they appear to us. Now with that being said, my friend, each person’s existence is a part of the timeless universe. Life has a beginning and an end, the universe is timeless. As hurl ourselves though time and space let us not forget that times flows through all of us. Therefore your point is wrong, I have proven what I said was correct. Thank you.
Don, unfortunately you really haven’t proven anything relative to the creation of time. Way before Sir Issac Newton, time was spoken of in BC. This exchange is not going to get “us” anywhere. Happy New Years Eve on CST.
That’s the last time I go to Wikipedia for help. I thought I was making sense.
Hey Don, check this out; several of Sir Isaac Newton equation that comes to mind use time as it existed. Ex: Force = mass X acceleration;
Ha!
And I was just listening to a pundit say “Australia is the best country in the world” – the world revolves around Sydney time. 🙂
Everyone loves their own place. I often think that all the refugees from the middle east really want – is a safe and welcoming place that they can call home & they would so love it to be the place of their birth.
well, toddys
That said, Wish You All A Happy & Healthy New Year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR BACK ATCHA’……………………….ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
LOL. Thx Sue.
So, AMK, if I’ve got this right, you are less than five hours from the new year in India. Are you do anything wild and extravagant to celebrate?
does sleeping count?
Uh…guess if it’s a celebratory sleep, it counts. In any case, Happy New Year to you and your family. Hope it’s a good one.
Thanks jg. Wish and Your family the same.
hahaha….only if you dream in lights….
Happy New Year amk…to you and yours…
Thanks pf. Wish you and yours a happy & healthy new year.
Good morning, good people. Is everyone preparing for a great NYE??!! The First Family went to a luau last night. They’ll probably do what most of us will tonight: CHILL!!
Meta, I’m embarrassed to say that the older I get, the harder it is for me to stay awake until midnight. Last year, I barely had one eye open when the new year arrived and couldn’t wait to call it a day. My youthful self would be ashamed of this version of me.
I hear you! There’s a fireworks show here at midnight so the noise and the light will keep me going.
We celebrate NYC in Times Square celebration on CA which allows us to go to sleep at the usual time. Much easier.Thanks Chips, all BTs, and TOD for such a great community and bulwark against stupidity of MSM. Woke up to Jeb? blaming Trump on President Obama. What a poor excuse for a human
I keep tellin’ ya.
THIS x1000000000000
I heard he is a dem, is it true?
I don’t think so. There’s this Democrat running against him: http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2015/12/28/michael-omalley-challenger-in-prosecutors-race-against-tim-mcginty-blasts-mcgintys-handling-of-tamir-rice-grand-jury
He is a dem alright. And the party, rightfully for once, denied his endorsement.
http://www.cleveland19.com/story/30676462/prosecutor-tim-mcginty-denied-democratic-party-recommendation-from-ward-leaders-in-reelection
No doubt the GOP – or the Police will find him a sinecure for life
UGH
Register to VOTE. And then go VOTE the BASTARD D.A. out of office.
Tamir Rice, another Emmit Till.
Happy Last Day of the year TODers
Heeeeeeeeya CHIPS!
LOL. Toon of the day.
not that any of these punks are mainstream in anyway.
Good Morning, Everyone:)
Good Morning, Rikyrah.
YOU MUST GET A GOOD LAUGH AND FIND THE LINK TO VLAD’S NEW PIN UP CALENDAR…TIS’ A HOOT..A GREAT REASON NOT TO HAVE TO WAKE UP FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR AND LOOK AT IT!
Good West Coast New Year’s Eve morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Good Morning GGail….if I don’t see you here on TOD, HAPPY NEW YEAR. Have a safe one and enjoy
the parade from that warm place inside and in front of the teevee. 🙂 🙂 🙂
President Barack Obama’s bid to assert himself in his final year will begin with long-awaited executive actions on gun control which are expected to be released next week, shortly after he returns to Washington.
The White House is putting finishing touches on several measures in an effort to make progress on curbing gun violence, an issue the president and close aides have found frustratingly intractable, before the race to replace him enters prime time.
According to gun industry insiders and others familiar with the proposals, the changes include requiring an expanded number of small-scale gun sellers to be licensed—and therefore conduct background checks—whenever selling a weapon. This wouldn’t close the so-called gun show loophole, though it has the potential to narrow it.
The administration is also expected to impose tighter rules for reporting guns that get lost or stolen on their way to a buyer.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/obama-guns-gun-control-217234#ixzz3vuJFlcDw
Thanks, AMK. This will have people on the right screaming and hurling vile insults at our president. It will also very cannily take up air/media space that would otherwise be dedicated to incessant bile from the R candidates. I wouldn’t be surprised if PBO has a big controversial action coming in each month up to the election, so that he literally ‘drowns’ out the trump/Cruz/Rubio insanity.
At this rate, the letter F will be gone from vocabulary by next year end.
it will also go along way to influence what the DEM Presidential Candidates do as well..
My hope is that this does not end up in court…as was his executive actions around Immigration Reform..
More reason to make sure that a DEM is in the White House…executive actions can be withdrawn by the next administration…
Happy Thursday ~ New Year’s eve morning Chips & all of TOD 😉 I love this hopeful, renewing time of year… the belief that things can get better in one’s life and universally… and the opportunity to try to be a better me;) Happy New Year 99ts and Australia!
Sherijr, that’s a lovely thought for for the new year. I get that some feeling of hope and renewal every time I look at my granddaughter’s face and give her a hug.
I know exactly what you mean Jackie 🙂 feel the same way with my grandkids ~ they are all so smart and wonderful!
The National Museum of African American History and Culture will open its doors in Washington, DC, in 2016, after years of planning, fundraising and political wrangling.
Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis tells the BBC that it is significant that the museum will be located on the National Mall, or “America’s front porch”, as it will sit near such other landmarks as the Lincoln Memorial, Congress and the White House.
The Museum will feature artefacts and exhibitions that explore the African American experience from “slavery to the present”.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35162342
So the time has come and gone – ther fireworks are all exploded & it’s bedtime in my world
May you all have a wonderful New Year’s Eve & similar to RanMan I thank everyone that PBO will still be the President of the United States for yet another year
Rest well, 99ts. The rest of have many hours left in the day and will see you when we’re all together in the new year.
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, and congrats Chips on #1! Happy New Year’s Day to 99ts and all those who have already met 2016, and Happy New Year’s Eve to the rest of us 🙂
Heh !!! what am I, a lump of indian curry?
Happy New Year, Your Excellency, Sir Amk.
harrumph
dratz. oh, well.
Happy New Years to Australia (99ts) and India (amk) 🍾🍾🎉🎉
How the internet misled you in 2015.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35051618
A couple of behind-the-scenes snippets!
Vote!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/31/photo-of-the-year-november/
https://uppermichiganssource.com/news/local/7-year-old-gets-surprise-while-calling-norad-santa-tracker
Christmas Eve young kid talks to First Lady to track Santa Claus.
uppermichiganssource.com/news/local/7-year-old-gets-surprise-while-calling-norad-santa-tracker
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