I’m kinda lost for words….I can’t wait til Nov elections. BTW all the talk of a brokered convention (the genius AKA Reince Priebus scheduled it during the NBA finals and would have to move the whole thing if Cleveland wins the Eastern Conference)
Btw, Christie as US Attorney prosecuted Charles Kushner – father of Trump's son-in-law
My pleasure, Chips! …I can’t believe what I just saw (looking for a vine/gif) Trump just held up a water bottle mocking Rubio, splashing it all over the place. What a sh*tshow 😀 😀 :D:D
The GOP candidates have reduced this campaign to a juvenile taunting session. No one talks about anyone’s position on issues that affect America. This is truly embarrassing.
CDC: At least 2 U.S. women chose to have abortions after Zika diagnosis
Health officials have tracked at least nine pregnant women in the United States affected with the Zika virus. In addition to the women who had abortions, two others suffered miscarriages.
I’m baaaaaaack GGail! It was flippin’ fabulous! That second half was the best I’ve seen them play in a couple of years, mainly thanks to our man Depay (who I temporarily love again) and the awesome kiddies! Confession: I’d never even heard of Marcus Rashford before yesterday, then he scores twice on his debut!! Look at him, he looks about 12!!
Thanks Judith, OFA extraordinaire. 🙂 I volunteered to make OFA calls into Arizona in support of the SCOTUS vote, so I’ll make them today and on Sunday.
Happy BDAY to you. Thank you so much for offering to make SCOTUS calls today. I did not realize it was your birthday. You really are amazing. When we win I owe you big time.
I’m conserving energy today because the SoCal TOD Peeps will gather tomorrow at Castaway’s for my birthday Brunch – and you never know what will happen 😀
PF, girl, the weather is gonna be wonderful tomorrow, so ain’t no tellin’ what we TOD peeps will be doing at the Brunch tomorrow. Thanks sweetie {{{hugs}}}
Now I’ve got that song in my head 😀 😀 😀
I didn’t even know that “Merry Christmas'” signs were taking out of department stores. If there is a war on Christmas I missed it completely, now I’m not saying I’m the most observant guy in the world but I would know if someone was fucking around with Christmas.
This war on Christianity has been used against POTUS by the likes of Boss Limbaugh and Glen Beck. It’s all part of the conspiracy facts used against POTUS and now Dems in general.
……………………..
Larrie Butler, a 90-year-old African-American man, was born in Calhoun County, South Carolina, at a time when the South was segregated during Jim Crow. He moved to Maryland after serving in the military and attending college, but returned to South Carolina in 2010. He got a voter-registration card and voted in the state in 2010.
In 2011, South Carolina passed a strict new voter-ID law requiring a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot. When Butler went to the DMV to switch his driver’s license from Maryland to South Carolina, he was told he needed a birth certificate to confirm his identity. But Butler was born at home, when there were few black hospitals, and never received a born certificate. When he went to the state Vital Records office to get a birth certificate, they said he needed to produce his Maryland driving records and high-school records from South Carolina. After he returned with that information, he was told he needed his elementary-school records, which Butler couldn’t produce because the school was closed. So instead he found his census record, which was not accepted because his first name in the census, Larry, did not exactly match the name he’d used for his entire life, Larrie. He was told to go to court and legally change his name at 85 years old, in order to obtain the birth certificate required to get a driver’s license in South Carolina and also be able to vote.
Not just a great performer but a wise lady. Vote, it is to dam important not to VOTE. I don’t want to hear any of the Progressives B.S., Sanders supporters B.S., we have to give those Republicans a hard knock side the head.
Chips! I saw the news yesterday about Chubs being reunited with his family and I was so stoked (I’m in California, that’s how we talk 🙂 )
Now it totally makes sense that the woman who first took him in when you took him to the vet returned him to you. If it had worked out with her and she would have kept him, he probably would never have found his way to his real family! It just goes to show how things that sometimes seem like a setback turn out to be a blessing later on!
Yay!
P.S. I bet Danny’s ear battle scar will make him look even sexier to the ladies 🙂
It’s been a bonkers story, Madame Soph. The owner texted me last night to say Chubs spent the day bossing his sheep around and was curled up sleeping he was so exhausted. Really miss the fella, he was a sweetheart, but genuinely happy he’s back to the life he knew. Danny, meanwhile, is looking very macho with his scarred ear! 🙂
Chips I am so glad this story had a happy ending. Border collies just like Australian Shepards are serious working dogs. They were never really meant for pets. Poor Chubs was probably saying to himself: “WTF? How did I get this far from home & how will I get back?” That’s why he was so scared when you first found him and struggled so to fit in with you & Danny. I suspect he might have gotten lost driving off a predator or searching for a strayed sheep. This happens. My Fam has a lot of these types of dogs on our ranches and farms. They are wonderful, loyal & hard working dogs.
That is faaaaaaantastic, I am weeeeeeeeeepin’ over you finding that, I completely have to hand over my crown as the most devoted/nutty United fan on planet earth!!! 😆
Why are some trying to compare Trump’s wife to Michelle Obama? What kind of First Lady would she be, compare to Michelle Obama. No disrespect meant, but she can not ever compare to our First Lady Michelle Obama. First Lady Michelle Obama is the best First Lady this country have had in a long time. If not the best. Plus Trump is not going to be President, so we don’t need to wonder about Trump’s wife.
Saw it coming the night I watched Joe McCarthy’s puppet, Richard Milhous Nixon win the 1968 Presidential Election and watched it become more and more inevitable between 1980 – 1988 and 2000 – 2008 ….
Richard Evans wrote a magisterial history of the Third Reich that keeps haunting me, and what everyone dismisses as edge cases and bourgeoisie anti-Trump panic keeps echoing around. I’m not going Full Godwin, and I’m not saying Donald Trump is Hitler. The differences are obvious; Hitler had normal-sized hands, and didn’t have Twitter.
As the political climate keeps racing toward the cliff, I thought I’d post a handful of excerpts by Evans on the 1933 German elections for your consideration.
The election campaign was fought in an atmosphere of feverish, unprecedented excitement. Goebbels and the Nazi Party organization pulled out all the stops. In speech after speech, attended by crowds of up to 20,000 in the larger cities, Hitler ranted against the iniquities of the Weimar Republic, its fatal internal divisions, its multiplicity of warring factions and self-interested parties, its economic failure, its delivery of national humiliation.
Richard J. Evans. The Coming of the Third Reich (Kindle Locations 4752–4755). Penguin Group.
In place of all this, he shouted, democracy would be overcome, the authority of the individual personality reasserted.”
“Antisemitic slogans would be used when addressing groups to whom they might have an appeal; where they were clearly not working, they were abandoned. The Nazis adapted according to the response they received; they paid close attention to their audiences, producing a whole range of posters and leaflets designed to win over different parts of the electorate. They put on film shows, rallies, songs, brass bands, demonstrations and parades.”
Bringing this tweet and article that Meta posted on the previous thread over. I have thought this exact thing as someone who is both an Italian and an American citizen. Read the article. It’s a quick read and absolutely true.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Hello
Nerdyaroooooooo! Ginormous thanks for today’s post and yesterday’s, you’re a snuggly buttercup!
“snuggly buttercup!” – I’ll take that. 😀
Thanks, Chiparooo.
Nerdy, adding my thanks for your posts and your fierceness.
Thank you so much, Judith!
President Obama is speaking now.
Thank you BFF!
PERFECT BOOKENDS IN THE BULLY BALDERDASH LIBRARY OF TONGUE TWISTED TRAUMA!
(end of last thread) Bushworld is butt hurt…..circular firing squad
I’m kinda lost for words….I can’t wait til Nov elections. BTW all the talk of a brokered convention (the genius AKA Reince Priebus scheduled it during the NBA finals and would have to move the whole thing if Cleveland wins the Eastern Conference)
Sorry about that prostitution thing I rang you up for……here let me make it up to you:
I thought my friday was going to be dull…..
OMG! 😆 Thank you again LP for all the help! ❤️
My pleasure, Chips! …I can’t believe what I just saw (looking for a vine/gif) Trump just held up a water bottle mocking Rubio, splashing it all over the place. What a sh*tshow 😀 😀 :D:D
Found one!!!
He just called Rubio a low-life. Wow! it’s getting lower and lower on the Rethugs side.
He is leaving no stone unturned, NCLB!
The penguin analogy cracks me up!
Good gawd almighty, they are all truly deranged.
that may be an understatement 😕
The GOP candidates have reduced this campaign to a juvenile taunting session. No one talks about anyone’s position on issues that affect America. This is truly embarrassing.
I posted this last night too
Full circle…smh
I am confused at seeing the crowd!
Good Afternoon, TODVille.
Trump turns the camera on some protesters in the crowd. One of these days, he’s gonna get somebody hurt or killed at his own rally.
I love my President so much. The only adult in the room, the only taxpayer-paid person that works… and delivers. The POTUS that worked the hardest!
From the real world…
CDC: At least 2 U.S. women chose to have abortions after Zika diagnosis
Health officials have tracked at least nine pregnant women in the United States affected with the Zika virus. In addition to the women who had abortions, two others suffered miscarriages.
Trump supporters probably….morons didn’t realize he was about to announce the Christie endorsement screwing up the TV feed. LMAO
Oh shit, they’re going to the mattresses!
First thing I thought of, too, LP – Trump supporters intending to “hurt” the media hurt the two bloviators, instead. I’ll buy the popcorn!
Lindsey you and the Republicans on Capitol Hill are to blame for your party going batshit crazy.
Chips? are you around?
I want to get your reaction to yesterday’s win by our boys, 5 – 1 !!!!!
I’m baaaaaaack GGail! It was flippin’ fabulous! That second half was the best I’ve seen them play in a couple of years, mainly thanks to our man Depay (who I temporarily love again) and the awesome kiddies! Confession: I’d never even heard of Marcus Rashford before yesterday, then he scores twice on his debut!! Look at him, he looks about 12!!
I’ve missed you!!!!!
Yes, he was a last minute substitution and he played marvelous! I was dancing in my chair at work yesterday!!!!
btw – today is my birthday 🙂 so the win yesterday was an early present for me! 5 – 1 😯
OMG!!!!!!!!! Haaaaaaappy Birthday GGail!!!!!!!!!!
Have the most blissful day EVER, my beloved United comrade!!!!
Awwww, thanks dear Chips! You’ve made it doubly blissful – and a special thanks to PBO for assisting you 🙂 ❤
Of course, if I was a proper friend I would have remembered – but my nephews and nieces’ fave thing to say to me is: ‘It was my birthday yesterday.’ 😕
Look, after all these years together, I forgive you this time. Your life has been otherwise filled with unusual drama lately 🙂
Exactly, it’s Chubs’ fault!! 🙂
😀
GGail – Happy Birthday to a fabulous person. Hope you are celebrating to the max!
Thanks Judith, OFA extraordinaire. 🙂 I volunteered to make OFA calls into Arizona in support of the SCOTUS vote, so I’ll make them today and on Sunday.
GGail, hope you’re having a perfect birthday. Are you chilling out, indulging in your favorite things? Whatever you do I hope it makes you feel great!
Thanks {{{JackieG}}}}, right now, I’m having a blast here with you wonderful TOD peeps ❤
Happy BDAY to you. Thank you so much for offering to make SCOTUS calls today. I did not realize it was your birthday. You really are amazing. When we win I owe you big time.
Linda, it’s an honor to be doing OFA work on my birthday 🙂
Happy B-day, GGail! Don’t get into too much trouble over the weekend 😎
OK, time for me to go lug my broken recliner back to Sam’s hoping they will exchange it for me…..the little things in life 🙂
HA! thanks LP. We’ll post pictures from tomorrow’s Birthday Brunch 🙂
Buy a New Recliner, my treat 😀
Happy Birthday, Girlfriend!!!!!!!!!
{{{{57}}} thanks girlfriend 🙂
Have a lovely birthday with lots of love, laughter and good company.
NCLB, you clever one you! Thank you so much {{{{hugs}}}}
Now, I really want a slice of that cake 😀 😀 (damn!)
{{{{{GGail}}}}} HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! 🙂 🙂 Hugs!!
{{{{{DF}}}}} thanks love 🙂
Very welcome! Hope you do something wonderful for yourself today:)
I’m conserving energy today because the SoCal TOD Peeps will gather tomorrow at Castaway’s for my birthday Brunch – and you never know what will happen 😀
Lucky you! I envy all those TOD who live in SoCal.
We are fortunate – for sure 🙂
One of these days, I’m hoping to get MSoph and arapaho to join us
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GGail!!!! And it’s Friday! So have yourself a good ol’ time, for all of us!! And CAKE.
meta, meta, meta, thanks, but, I’m looking forward to tasting one of your goodies when we meet up in DC. We’ll find a kitchen for you to work in 🙂
HHhhahahhhaaa, maybe the WH would let me crash for a bit. LOLz.
My thought – exactly!
Be sure to put on your Boogie Shoes!
PF, girl, the weather is gonna be wonderful tomorrow, so ain’t no tellin’ what we TOD peeps will be doing at the Brunch tomorrow. Thanks sweetie {{{hugs}}}
Now I’ve got that song in my head 😀 😀 😀
hahaha
How to make America great again.
I didn’t even know that “Merry Christmas'” signs were taking out of department stores. If there is a war on Christmas I missed it completely, now I’m not saying I’m the most observant guy in the world but I would know if someone was fucking around with Christmas.
This war on Christianity has been used against POTUS by the likes of Boss Limbaugh and Glen Beck. It’s all part of the conspiracy facts used against POTUS and now Dems in general.
Apparently, it’s only in Texas. At their department stores. Or along the border. Dunno. Was only half-listening to the fool.
OUR ELDERS CONTINUE to be punished by Jim Crow.
63,756 Reasons Racism Is Still Alive in South Carolina
That’s the number of minority registered voters who could be blocked from the polls by the state’s new voter ID law.
By Ari Berman
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Larrie Butler, a 90-year-old African-American man, was born in Calhoun County, South Carolina, at a time when the South was segregated during Jim Crow. He moved to Maryland after serving in the military and attending college, but returned to South Carolina in 2010. He got a voter-registration card and voted in the state in 2010.
In 2011, South Carolina passed a strict new voter-ID law requiring a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot. When Butler went to the DMV to switch his driver’s license from Maryland to South Carolina, he was told he needed a birth certificate to confirm his identity. But Butler was born at home, when there were few black hospitals, and never received a born certificate. When he went to the state Vital Records office to get a birth certificate, they said he needed to produce his Maryland driving records and high-school records from South Carolina. After he returned with that information, he was told he needed his elementary-school records, which Butler couldn’t produce because the school was closed. So instead he found his census record, which was not accepted because his first name in the census, Larry, did not exactly match the name he’d used for his entire life, Larrie. He was told to go to court and legally change his name at 85 years old, in order to obtain the birth certificate required to get a driver’s license in South Carolina and also be able to vote.
“It made me feel terrible,” Butler said.
Tammy Duckworth has low key been destroying Mark Kirk for over a year…..she easily has put out the most devastating and true ads this cycle:
The black guy always gets the crummy jobs, SOS is never in town and he or she is never visible.
Everybody’s reaching their breaking point. This time, the dripping spray tan got him. Pass the Pepto!
Meanwhile in the real campaign…
That picture could be a postcard. Thanks JER 🙂
Get fired from Cruz’s campaign…..now worries Chuck Todd will pay you for your opinions:
Watch what???
The show happened last night and we watched it. In disbelief, I may add.
Not surprised Chuckie hires the leftovers and misfits. He is one.
Geez J’OB, that’s a good statement, but I went blind trying to read it with that face in the background. YUCK!
I thought twice, but sometimes we’ve got to face facts to do all we can! YUCK is right.
Not just a great performer but a wise lady. Vote, it is to dam important not to VOTE. I don’t want to hear any of the Progressives B.S., Sanders supporters B.S., we have to give those Republicans a hard knock side the head.
I agree, annieb!
Well done, Jacqueline!!
She will be heard ….
Lovely!
Chips! I saw the news yesterday about Chubs being reunited with his family and I was so stoked (I’m in California, that’s how we talk 🙂 )
Now it totally makes sense that the woman who first took him in when you took him to the vet returned him to you. If it had worked out with her and she would have kept him, he probably would never have found his way to his real family! It just goes to show how things that sometimes seem like a setback turn out to be a blessing later on!
Yay!
P.S. I bet Danny’s ear battle scar will make him look even sexier to the ladies 🙂
😆 Love the Teddy!!!!
It’s been a bonkers story, Madame Soph. The owner texted me last night to say Chubs spent the day bossing his sheep around and was curled up sleeping he was so exhausted. Really miss the fella, he was a sweetheart, but genuinely happy he’s back to the life he knew. Danny, meanwhile, is looking very macho with his scarred ear! 🙂
Chips I am so glad this story had a happy ending. Border collies just like Australian Shepards are serious working dogs. They were never really meant for pets. Poor Chubs was probably saying to himself: “WTF? How did I get this far from home & how will I get back?” That’s why he was so scared when you first found him and struggled so to fit in with you & Danny. I suspect he might have gotten lost driving off a predator or searching for a strayed sheep. This happens. My Fam has a lot of these types of dogs on our ranches and farms. They are wonderful, loyal & hard working dogs.
Happy Birthday GGail!!
Oh, you TOD peeps are so clever! I Love IT, MSoph, {{{{thanks}}}}
GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL 😀
Happy Birthday GGail.
Thanks {{{JER}}} you know what I like in presents too 🙂
Happy Birthday GGail.
Thank you dear {{{{annieb}}}}
It’s your birthday????????? HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GGail! And many more, dahling.
I agree!
GGail, I watched the YouTube of that Ben Carson segment by Trevor Noah that you quoted yesterday. Very funny! Love Trevor Noah.
And with his accent – it’s even funnier 😀 😀
Chips, here’s Marcus Rashford’s Goals while with the under 18’s, under 21’s & with the big boys yesterday 🙂
http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Features/2016/Feb/video-selection-of-marcus-rashford-goals.aspx?utm_source=uu20160226&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1&utm_campaign=newsletters&qsut=www10
That is faaaaaaantastic, I am weeeeeeeeeepin’ over you finding that, I completely have to hand over my crown as the most devoted/nutty United fan on planet earth!!! 😆
You made me – take a bow 😀
Why are some trying to compare Trump’s wife to Michelle Obama? What kind of First Lady would she be, compare to Michelle Obama. No disrespect meant, but she can not ever compare to our First Lady Michelle Obama. First Lady Michelle Obama is the best First Lady this country have had in a long time. If not the best. Plus Trump is not going to be President, so we don’t need to wonder about Trump’s wife.
Somehow, NW, that is always how I’ve pictured you!! 🙂 8
No surprise, whatsoever ….
Saw it coming the night I watched Joe McCarthy’s puppet, Richard Milhous Nixon win the 1968 Presidential Election and watched it become more and more inevitable between 1980 – 1988 and 2000 – 2008 ….
“All the marbles” on 8 Nov 2016, for sure.
“Red Hats, Brown Shirts
Richard Evans wrote a magisterial history of the Third Reich that keeps haunting me, and what everyone dismisses as edge cases and bourgeoisie anti-Trump panic keeps echoing around. I’m not going Full Godwin, and I’m not saying Donald Trump is Hitler. The differences are obvious; Hitler had normal-sized hands, and didn’t have Twitter.
As the political climate keeps racing toward the cliff, I thought I’d post a handful of excerpts by Evans on the 1933 German elections for your consideration.
The election campaign was fought in an atmosphere of feverish, unprecedented excitement. Goebbels and the Nazi Party organization pulled out all the stops. In speech after speech, attended by crowds of up to 20,000 in the larger cities, Hitler ranted against the iniquities of the Weimar Republic, its fatal internal divisions, its multiplicity of warring factions and self-interested parties, its economic failure, its delivery of national humiliation.
Richard J. Evans. The Coming of the Third Reich (Kindle Locations 4752–4755). Penguin Group.
In place of all this, he shouted, democracy would be overcome, the authority of the individual personality reasserted.”
h/t Jeff Gauvin ….
Mexican, Muslims, African Americans ……. YOU!!
“Antisemitic slogans would be used when addressing groups to whom they might have an appeal; where they were clearly not working, they were abandoned. The Nazis adapted according to the response they received; they paid close attention to their audiences, producing a whole range of posters and leaflets designed to win over different parts of the electorate. They put on film shows, rallies, songs, brass bands, demonstrations and parades.”
Bringing this tweet and article that Meta posted on the previous thread over. I have thought this exact thing as someone who is both an Italian and an American citizen. Read the article. It’s a quick read and absolutely true.
http://qz.com/624065/a-tip-to-americans-from-an-italian-who-saw-berlusconi-get-elected-again-and-again-and-again/
Thanks, MadameSoph. It can’t be said enough.
It’s eerily scary
Some people get it.
Excellent find, 57! Thanks and I hope you guys make this trend on twitter. The truth, aka Facts are needed!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/26/chat-away-779/
An enlightening read:
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/29/10862134/donald-trump-university