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Hello Chips, TOD Family!!
Great!
I want Lebron and the Cavs to get one more chance at Curry and the Warriors in the NBA Finals.
Their new coach, a former assistant coach is doing a great job. And they’re racking up wins.
Which one is the mother!!!??? Nice problem to have!!
I do not know.
The one on the left is the mother. There are subtle signs of aging below the eyes, the crease around the nose and mouth and the neck does not look all that youthful.
“the crease around the nose and mouth and the neck does not look all that youthful.”
Nice.
I think Mom is the one on the left.
I guess little Curry was at school, POTUS joked he was hoping she was going to be there.
Oh noes. Little Riley Curry didn’t attend. A lot of Warrior fans will be disappointed. Riley is such an amazing little bundle of energy and smarts.
Riley is the star of the family
🙂
Young Master Rubio appears to be in high dungeon about President Obama’s visit to a local mosque in Baltimore yesterday.
How can ANYONE not love this President??? He is so original 🙂
I watch some of the Warriors-Wizards game and yes Stephen was clowning.
Now will they STFU ?
Watchdog: Colin Powell And Condi Rice Had Classified Info On Personal Emails, Too
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department watchdog says former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the immediate staff of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also received classified national security information on their personal email accounts.
The State Department inspector general made the revelations to Democrat Elijah Cummings of Maryland, senior Democrat on a House oversight committee. Cummings has written Secretary of State John Kerry seeking more information.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/colin-powell-condeleezza-rice-classified-email-info
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More retroactive re-classifications ? Sec. Powell has already called BS on this and wants the e-mails released.
I’ve been told in the past that many times government email may be classified AFTER it has been distributed (and sometimes re-distributed). So making it seem as if Sec Clinton had done something that no one else had done was disingenuous and confirms that it is all political.
Reclassification frequently happens , not only to emails, but to point papers, decision memos, etc. There was a many a day that I had to walk through HQMC collecting papers that had been re-classed…
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY THIS WAS……………..MY PRAYERS AND LOVE TO THE ‘O’ FAMILY!..WE PRESS ON AS ONE!
Yea Yea!
My WARRIORS! I love them on and off the court!
Super Bowl mania is here everywhere you turn.
OMG. Gorgeous!
Black Feminists Don’t Owe Hillary Clinton Their Support
If I were a middle-class white woman, I would probably love Hillary Clinton.
BY: KIRSTEN WEST SAVALI
Posted: Feb. 3 2016 8:26 PM
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What’s funny—and not “funny ha-ha”—is how some white feminists who ride for Clinton as hard as Bernie bros ride for Sanders have been silent about the criminalization, sexual assault and police brutality that black women and girls face. Despite this, they expect us now to be all sister suffrage “Vote for women!” or risk being deemed traitors to gender equality.
Cocooned in the white privilege that many of them deny, this type of white feminist expects black feminists with legitimate concerns to push those concerns aside for the so-called greater good—a good, to paraphrase both Harriet Tubman and Viola Davis, that exists over a line where there are “green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to us … but we can’t seem to get there no-how. We can’t seem to get over that line.”
Un-huh!
Armageddon is nothing new to us.
Democrats, as usual, cleaning up the mess that Republicans leave.
12.7M people sign up for ObamaCare
The number meets the administration’s goal of between 11 million and 14.1 million signups, but is not a large increase from the 11.7 million people who signed up for 2015.
Health Secretary Sylvia Burwell called the enrollment a “success.”
ACASignups has said repeatedly that getting the last stragglers enrolled would be much harder.
HAH!!!…ON MY FB…I’M SMOKIN’ 2DAY….NOT CIGARETTES…MY SNEAKS ARE SQUEAKIN’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SWEET
UnitedHealth made headlines in November, when officials said on a call with investors that it was considering leaving the ACA exchanges entirely because of the losses incurred there.
“We cannot sustain these losses,” UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley (pictured above on the right) said then. The insurance company has yet to confirm its final plans, but its losses have fed into accusations that the marketplaces aren’t working.
The losses that UnitedHealth incurred in particular are indeed very real, but also to some extent self-inflicted, according to experts.
“UnitedHealth’s complaints are real,” Caroline Pearson, senior vice president at Avalere Health, told TPM. “But that doesn’t mean that the whole market is collapsing.”
For many reasons, UnitedHealth’s circumstances were different than other insurers: it sat out of the exchange for a year, the individual market was never a significant interest of their company, and their plans were mis-priced for the competition, experts said.
Peter Lee, the director of California’s exchange, accused UnitedHealth of using the ACA as scapegoat for its own miscalculations.
***But companies’ griping should not be taken as a sign that the industry is preparing to jump ship on the ACA — a law insurance companies helped create that has brought them millions of new consumers.***
Excellent! AA women will have a big role in new Clinton administration:
I always wonder who are these A-A leaders of either gender that are mentioned at various times. I, nor, any of my circle know of or follow any so-called leader. We are not a single-minded, nor a single class monolith and have never been so. No self-styled or designated A-A leader speaks for me.
No, but polling shows that 80-90% of AA people support Hillary Clinton. Here are some listed: “Some of the black women leaders who endorsed Clinton include, actress Angela Bassett; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, who was killed by police in New York; actress Vivica Fox; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Florida; Alexis Herman, former Secretary of Labor; Alice Huffman, an NAACP board member; Shonda Rhimes, Executive Producer of the hit television show “Scandal”; actress Holly Robinson-Peete; and Democrats Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington D.C.; Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas; Rep. Maxine Waters of California; and Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland.”
i looked at the list…they are women of influence…they may not speak for blk women as whole…no one really does…but they can address specific issues that blk women care about…more importantly…they can garner enthusiasm …which in turn can rally folks to the polls…
So sad.
Yes, so sad. Last week in Chesapeake, VA (where our daughter and family live), a young man (26) shot and killed his mother, father, grandmother, younger sister, younger brother, then killed himself. What has come out is that he had dealt with mental instability and depression for a few years. Didn’t appear to be anything MAJOR that set him off………some small things, but look what happened. These things are impossible for me to process.
I live in Chesapeake Tnmtngirl. The tragedy has really shocked our community. Its just so sad. According to local news reports, the young man was living with his grandmother and the family was getting ready to sell her home and move her to North Carolina. He was going to have to move back in with the family(Dad and Mom, brother and sister) They had a family meeting to tell him their intentions. They think he killed everyone after or during the meeting. Supposedly, he didn’t want to move back in the family home. He did have mental issues most of his life.
GE TNmtnGirl.
ICYMI PBO’s stellar speech at the Prayer Breakfast this morning, he again mentioned Sgt. Edmonds of Tennessee:
And to your point, this is scary…
Thanks, arapaho. I missed PO telling this story at the Israeli embassy event, but did hear it this morning. Last week, after the story was first told, there was a story in our paper and our senators are working to award him the Medal of Honor. Our CBS station did the story couple days after PO shared it.
Thanks for thinking of me. 🙂
Sabah Muktar , who Introduced President Obama At Mosque, Call Out The Media’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric for her Excellent Introduction Speech.
SABAH MUKTAR: Fortunately, I’ve had personal interactions that have allowed me to reach a much different perspective than what is normally portrayed on the media. When most see this piece of cloth on my head, I don’t automatically get deemed terrorist. Rather, most see me as an individual. My experiences have taught me that most are accepting and believe, regardless of faith, color, or gender, we are all Americans. And as such, we are all obligated to uphold the rights of every individual.
Riiiggghhhtttt that’ll pass? Sure it will…😩
so? the thugs keep trying to repeal obamacare gazillion times. we could learn something from them about pushing their agenda regardless of the odds.
President Obama jokes while demonstrating “clowning” when talking about Stephen Curry (R), the 2015 National Basketball Association MVP.
I am convinced that the right leaning republicans are voting for sanders to stick it to Hillary.
These are the people who would ordinarily vote for Jeb or Rubio or even Christie.
That’s why they are not making up much ground on trump in NH.
I think it’s a poor system to have indes vote in a primary, for this particular reason.
The newest nonsense comes in the wake of the CIA stepping on 20 or so emails because they allegedly refer indirectly to CIA officers in the field. But contrary to some published reports, three officials said there was no email on Clinton’s server that directly revealed the identity of an undercover intelligence operative. Rather, State Department and other officials attempted to make veiled references to intelligence officers in the emails — references that were deemed classified when the messages were being reviewed years later for public release.
***So, not classified when they were sent. Attempts made to veil references to the people who might have caused them to become classified. Classified after the fact.***
***Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell also had emails classified after the fact which were also sent to their personal email servers.***
When you have subjective standards for this kind of thing, is it really a surprise that 20 emails out of 50,000 or so might be disputed?
Don’t count on cable news to say it like that, because it’s far more delicious to pretend there’s a scandal where none exists.
She’s 20 points down… That’s not good.
STREAM’S UP: President Obama Delivers Remarks at Plan Colombia Reception – http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=1
When I hear about any type of polling, I just think of what happened with Mitt and the fiasco of 2000; it is guess work and plain old lying. Politicians often see what they want to see and rely on the polls that are favorable to them too much. What happened to working to convince as many people as you can and waiting for the final votes before declaring victory or defeat?
loving thisssssss
so very kool…. 🙂
Why blue eyes? I can see green or more commonly brown eyes. Well at least theyare trying, maybe a compromise.
go to the page….there are more pics…i posted one with brown eyes….
what was interesting yesterday …the young woman who introduced the President identified herself as a black Muslim…African American…often the press and others think of Muslims as Middle Eastern….there have been Black Muslims in this country for quite awhile….my daughter who is Muslim has an satirical joke in which she says…which part of her does white America hate the most …her being African American…….woman………Muslim…sometimes i worry about her safety..
my granddaughter would love one of those dolls..
I am glad prettyfoot58. When you and I were growing up we didn’t have dolls that looked like us. I am finally glad that in the 21st century girls can be proud of who they are at a younger age.
May he R.I.P.
Sorry to hear about Maurice White.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh myyy…..so sorry to hear this
Reason GOP is passing Draconian Voting Laws.
Now Rubio is in third place in NH?
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/268181-rubio-surges-to-second-in-new-hampshire-poll
Ot oh.
MUST READ:…this issue of lead poisoning is not new….we have a history in the country of putting profits before people…
Flint reconnected to the Detroit water grid in October. But the damage to its water pipes was already done. If the lead corrosion cannot be reversed, a wholesale replacement of the city’s water system may be necessary—an enormous undertaking, enormously expensive. In the meantime, the local United Way estimates that between six thousand and twelve thousand children may have been poisoned. The costs of that exposure cannot be measured in dollars. Their suffering and lost potential, as well as their medical treatment, will be a long-term burden in every sense. There are studies that show a correlation between blood-lead levels and violent crime. Clearly, we can pay now for clean water or pay more later.
The media has talked for YEARS about Benghazi and Hillary’s emails – yet will not hold these people accountable. The 4th estate supports anything done by the GOP
GE JER.
Looks like we had the same thought at the same time. 😉
😉
PBO is much more popular than any US media pundit or pollster will ever admit.
GA/GE TODville.
“Open Letter Calls On Media To Stop Enabling Attacks On Reproductive Health From Indicted Center For Medical Progress Leadership”
Good for Earl Blumenauer!
To be filed under Brilliant Tweets.
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Which pay? If it theirs, ok.
Most of the GOP members are millionaires – don’t need their pay
Awww, RIP Maurice White! Gone at 74, Parkinson’s. Earth, Wind & Fire gave us uplifting tunes and shows:
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Uggh, meant to post this, not do a repeat:
Oh Gazelle, this is my favorite Earth, Wind & Fire song! Sorry to hear about Maurice White. He and David Bowie are working on a song beyond the veil, I’m sure 🙂
This one too 🙂
Earth Wind Frie….the greatest ever….
this my fav…
noo it’s this one… smilin
An afternoon treat:
So many gone recently. What a sad thing for music.
OMG
What a lovely picture of FLOTUS and the waitress, she also got a hug from POTUS. Shows the down to earth caring people our First Couple are.
That’s just simply beautiful!
The Waitresses’ nail polish matches FLOTUS’s dress! 😉 Awwww!
Earth Wind and Fire was at the White House, but White wasn’t able to attend.
“Dr. Carson feels absolutely robbed, violated,” said Armstrong Williams, a Carson confidant, in a phone interview. “He realizes, the Democrats are not his enemies trying to malign him. It’s people who smile in his face, shake his hand, go out to dinner with him — and yet, they’re trying to destroy him behind his back.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ben-carson-where-is-he-218724#ixzz3zFWsSImA
Gee doc, whatever gave you that idea? Fucking moron who thinks he will be admitted into the white man’s club.
LOL.
THIS GUY RIGHT HERE
Is it open season on POTUS by the Democrats? You are grown rusty ass men, bring your own self together.
The President is not the only who has no more F***s to give.. grrrrr…
so mike huckster dropped out?
this is going to be a 3-man race – evangelicals for ted crud, vile racists for donald dreck and wall street worshiping rich for the teabagger water boy. perfect split of gop base.
Obviously said in a very different way (LOL LOL), what you said it what the reporter on PBS said tonight on her report from NH.
:). The q is where will the racists go once donald dreck drops out? The other two have their bases secured. And the racists might determine their candie. Karma at work.
amk…telling it like it is..
the ratfacking between the evangelical nutsos and the I wanna kiss the ass of rich goppers gonna be pretty awesome to watch.
So I’m reading LGF & seeing photographs of a sanctimonious looking sh!t whose aim in life is to stop poor women having access to any medical services. Why are there people like this in the world. How do they sleep at night. When I have an argument with someone – at the end of the day I am full of guilt and manage a night or two with little sleep thinking – I should not have done/said that. Yet these type of people just keep attacking and attacking until their opponents are either physically, mentally or financially exhausted. What they have done to PP in Texas is beyond awful.
I hope he rots in jail – despite it is most unlikely.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/04/the-president-and-first-ladys-day-28/