Senator Obama with Edith ‘fired up, ready to go’ Childs – Edith has been invited by the First Lady to Tuesday’s State of the Union address
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Monday
The President will attend meetings at the White House
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Tuesday
The President will deliver his final State of the Union address at 9.0 EDT
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Wednesday and Thursday
The President will travel to Omaha, Nebraska and Baton Rouge, Louisiana to talk about how he can take action in the next year to move the country forward
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Friday
The President will attend meetings at the White House
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President Obama talks with Earl Smith in the Oval Office, Jan. 22, 2013 (Photo by Pete Souza) – Smith has been invited by the First Lady to Tuesday’s State of the Union address. Read about him here
The Obama Diary 
sure, I will leave a comment.
FURST. 😎
that’s my girl.
I don’t know how I would start my day without bickering between you and AMK, Chips. There used to be an old radio show–even before my time–called “The Bickersons.” If it ever were revised, the perfect cast would be right here at TOD.
“The Bickersons” 😆 That actually sounds like my family, Jackie!
Another great old radio show was called “McGee’s Closet.” Whenever he or a family member opened it, they were drowned with stuff. I am spending the weekend cleaning out closets and keep seeing myself as McGee. My mother used to say about my closets–“Who do you think your are..McGee?”
Ha, brilliant! If you saw my closets, Jackie, you would crown me the McGee of all McGees. 😕
well, she started it.
Did NOT
yeah, yeah, yeah. mod monster ate two of mine. release them.
oh, you already did. danke.
Shoulda left you in there.
another go, jump in the lake moment?
Yesh.
at this rate, I am gonna run out of lakes.
Good morning, Jackie! You just brought a tear to my eye; haven’t heard about “The Bickersons” since my dear Auntie died in 2001…
Finally! So glad for you 😉
Good morning Ms. Chips. Good morning/afternoon/evening TODers. Hope you have a fantastic day!
wisecrack right out of the box, eh?
Mooooooooooorning Sabreen!
LOL. He is nevah gonna live that down, is he?
The Miss Universe pageant should be thanking him. How many people would have given the pageant a second thought — much less a first thought — if it had not been for Harvey’s flub?
Now THAT’S funny!
100,00…da pool.PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEE!!!
I KNEW IT.
psst, the best part is I can’t even swim.
Too funny amk! Now you need to learn how to swim in DF’s YUuuG pool 😎
Can you please ask her to pack it and dhl/fedex it to me? … Freight prepaid.
It’s too YUUUG to pack n ship. You have to come here. Her daughter is a lifeguard who can teach you to swim. Great way to lose weight too!
yet another sly crack, eh?
Noooooo! It was in support of your desire to trim down. I’ve got your back – jack 🙂
The guys who sold Encylopedia Britannicas door to door used to say that buying the books would mean you could just look things up for the rest of your life without leaving home.
Goooooood Sunday moooorrrniinininnnggg, Chips and TODers.
Here is that moment Mr. Earl Smith refers to in that article:
😥
Morning Ms Majestic!!
El Capitan!! Greetings to you and the splendid Danny Machine.
Huh, after stealing and drooling all over two freshly washed cushion covers, he’s NOT so splendid!1!1!
It’s what a dog does!
You still sound like his lawyer!
Pro bono, dahling. Pro bono.
D’you mean pro Bonio 🙂
head/desk
Wuff.
Is it your kennel time yet?
NoOoo.
Yeah! LOLz.
The video at the WP link is very good, too:) The one about Earl Smith.
OMG, yes, that video is just a TREAT.
looked around the WH site – but I did not immediately see this video you are referring to. any clues?
GM GCL.
Video is in 2nd link of tweet (article published Jan 2013 to honor PBO’s 2nd inauguration and features stellar reporting by @ktumulty).
MUST see and READ. Earl Smith has an amazing and inspirational life story (military war hero, assigned to a unit in Vietnam with huge number of KIA, wrongly convicted of a felony [wrong skin color]) and his acquaintance with the only celebrity from San Benito TX, Freddy Fender).
thanks a lot
Gracious of @ktumulty to acknowledge our very own Meta:
Oh, Meta, I cried when PBO did that. Such a poignant moment! That crowd, like the one in 2008, was a sight to remember.
You can just see him savoring the entire scene, searing it in his memory among many, many memories. He really drank it all in.
I don’t know how we’re going to survive that last helicopter ride…….
i feel as you do…but he is helping us by giving us a call to arms in 2016….
GM Meta.
Very bittersweet clip, seeing Beau Biden walk past PBO 😦 .
On the up side, we’re having NorCal weather now, overcast and cool — a true blessing after the numerous heat waves we endured from April-November last year.
Great weather for a cozy Sunday when I have no immediately “out-the-door” obligations. 🙂
egg.sack.lee
I do have one, result of an accident. It is always on my mind, are people checking out “which one”??
🙂 🙂 love this man. Love him.
cue thugs’ heads essplosion.
our future cabin.
let’s go, let’s go, toddys. moar tickets.
It looks like it was built by this fella:
looks like ireesh to me.
‘India has given spiritualism, not communalism to world: PM Modi’
He should have added, “excluding Amk, obviously”.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/india-did-not-give-communalism-to-the-world-pm-modi/
this coming from a known rw’er ?
Yes, I was thinking the same thing yesterday. I’m putting in my vote 11.5 months early… 🙂 🙂
AGREED! Precious and special in so many ways!
i would like to see her 10 years from now….smilin
Agreed.
I believe that the Military Aide who was getting the promotion is the one who was going to be carrying around the brief case with the nuclear codes for the rest of PBO’s term
I changed my mind. I want this.
So heartbreaking.
He is setting the 2016 and forward agenda. Hope the dems run with it.
I hope PBO gives a recitation of some of those who could have been filling that empty chair.
Pope Francis: Why mercy is essential in faith and life.
After the Vatican approved the release of a prog rock album which set to music some of Pope Francis’ homilies and speeches, the Pope’s new book features him in dialogue with a Vatican expert, Andrea Tornielli.
Its title – The Name of God is Mercy – will be on the cover in a bold red, in the Pope’s own handwriting, and will be published around the world on 12 January to coincide with the 2016 Jubilee Year of Mercy.
The book focuses on the theme of mercy, an issue of central importance to this Pope’s teaching and testimony, first signalled by the name he took as Pope, after St Francis of Assisi.
In the book, the Pope speaks of his experiences of mercy, starting with his own confession to Father Carlos Duarte Ibarra in 1953 on the Feast of St Matthew the Apostle, when the then Jorge Bergoglio was 17.
The Pope’s own distinctive voice as a storyteller shines through; he tells of how he took the cross from the rosary of a priest dear to him and has worn it ever since, touching it when he “has a bad thought” about someone.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35275033
even popes have bad thoughts? hoo cudda noed?
Good Read. Important Read
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_01/careful_what_you_wish_for059228.php
Worthy cause
http://www.we.org/
It’s gracious & thoughtful of O’s to bring back their original supporters for the final denouement.
YOU POISON ME AND I HAVE TO PAY YOU?!!!
GET-THE-PHUCK-OUTTA-HERE
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Residents ordered to pay for lead contaminated water, state of emergency declared
POSTED 11:22 AM, JANUARY 6, 2016,
BY KFOR-TV & K. QUERRY AND CNN
FLINT, Mich. – Residents in one Michigan town are furious after being forced to pay for water they say they can’t use.
“I just paid a water bill, $311, shut off notice or they was gonna turn my water off. I can’t drink it,” said Tonya Calhoun.
Calhoun says she paid her Flint water bill, but she’s far from satisfied with the liquid flowing from the tap.
The water supply has a high lead concentration, which could be harmful if ingested.
However, a judge ruled that residents must pay their bill despite the fact that, in many cases, they only use it for bathing.
“The water is just no good, you know, and we have to take our showers in this stuff,” Bill McCluskey told WNEM. “We itch after that. We have to buy water. It’s not fair.”
City residents say they are insulted by the city’s demand to pay up or lose service all together.
“Why am I paying you $311 for some water that I can’t even use? Can’t cook with it. I can’t do anything with it and the funny part about it is, you know it’s harmful,” Calhoun said.
However, city leaders say it is important for residents to pay for their bills, whether they feel it is justified or not.
If i can’t drink or cook with it and there’s high levels of lead, why bathe in it? I woul use wet ones or wipes. I guess its good for flushing the toilet.
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family. So, no one won the Big Lottery. Every so often, this happens and reinforces my belief that they do this to build up Lottery fever. I’ll keep my dollars, thank you very much.
Moooooooooooooorning GGail!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL morning Chips. Our boys played hard yesterday in the rain. Thanks to Memphis & Rooney!!! ⚽️⚽️
😆 I’m tempted to edit your comment and replace ‘hard’ with ‘****’, but that would be rude!
😳
Not on Sunday Chips! 😋
Okay then, but when the clock strikes midnight I’m going to be extremely vulgar about our boys!1!1!
Hahahahahaha!
that cudda been me. sigh…
I meant the drinking part, not the other one.
MUST READ
http://www.stonekettle.com/2016/01/bang-bang-crazy-part-five-update.html
Really. Read it and send it.
This is Georgia folks….
reality is biting finally?
Sigh..better late than never I guess.
Hmm?
Wow!
Georgia?
There are about 600,000 unregistered minorities here…….
Flipping idiot. I hope he falls down in his high heels….
Too bad Stupidopolous didn’t ask How could he take guns and if he could why didn’t he if Rube-io is so sure PBO would.
Hello, TOD.
A few days ago it was reported in the Israeli press that Bibi Netanyahu vowed publicly to thwart PBO’s bid to be the next UN Sect’y General.
Today I read an item in the Kuwaiti press discussing this possibility. Kuwait and Israel do not have diplomatic relations.
Apparently Ban-Ki Moons term ends in December and a few days later Sadly, OMG, So Sadly, the Obama presidency ends, too.
This could be nothing more than idle speculation from the mid-east.
Or maybe it is real.
I can think of no better person for the job of SG than POTUS. Not to mention it would mean at least a part-time base for the Obama family in NY!!!!!
wiki sez
the appointee may not be a citizen of any of the Security Council’s five permanent members.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary-General_of_the_United_Nations#Term_and_selection
I googled can obama become UN sec gen and all the results are wingnuttosphere from washington times to breitbart, you know the usual knownothings?
GM Vicki (know I’m late, that a new thread has opened), but IMHO PBO and Michelle have a much broader vision than the UN for their future.
The UN is a code word that whips RWNJ into a frenzy, and Lord knows, PBO has had ENOUGH of THAT nonsense.
(Also saw amk’s response that permanent members cannot head UN, so this begs the question… what is wrong with Israeli press? Do they look to the “no facts” US MSM as a standard, as a role model?)
RWNJs rewrite the rules to suit their rhetoric
Chat on
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/01/10/chat-away-730/