On This Day: President Barack Obama warms up before playing a basketball game at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, May 9, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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Monday
The President will attend meetings at the White House.
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Tuesday
Welcomes the NCAA Champion UConn Huskies women’s basketball team to honor the team and their 2016 NCAA Championship.
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Wednesday and Thursday
Attends meetings at the White House.
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Friday
Hosts the President of Finland and the Prime Ministers of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland at the White House for a U.S.-Nordic Leaders Summit.
In the evening, the President and the First Lady will host the Nordic leaders for a State Dinner.
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Sunday
The President will travel to Rutgers University’s New Brunswick campus to address 2016 graduates at Rutgers University’s 250th Anniversary commencement ceremony.
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On This Day: President Barack Obama stops to talk with families after playing basketball at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, May 9, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
The Obama Diary 
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GGaaaaaaaaaaaaaaail!
Helllllllooooooooooo Chips!!!!!!!!!
Helllllllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooo GGail!
❤
How’s everything going Chips? I wasn’t around this weekend – I drank away my birthday weekend.
All’s good 57, I hope your birthday weekend was tremendousriffic!!! Are you 57 and a half now?
I haven’t been “57” or anywhere near for a very long time. I certainly wasn’t going to change my name every year. Luckily, my birthday is May 7 (5-7) so it’s somewhat legitimate!
Ah, that was a most excellent save!!!! 🙂
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 57..HOPE IT WASN’T THE KIND OF CELEBRATION THAT REQUIRED ANY BAIL MONEY!..SEND PIX!
Thanks, Sue. No pix – I won’t embarrass myself.
I count mine downwards – you should be celebrating 45 about now
What a great idea!
Belated happy birthday 57 – sounds like my kind of birthday weekend 🙂 🙂
Thank you, my friend.
Look at you up there on the podium, GGail! Congratulations! Ooh – a Nordic State Dinner! My Swedish husband will be excited!
HaHa! This may be totally o/t, but at church yesterday one of the husbands, after I had helped his tiny, frail little wife back to her seat with a very hot coffee (yes, this church serves coffee and water whenever someone wants it!): her husband told me coffee is known as Norwegian Geritol in his community. I’d certainly never heard of that, so after we laughed, I told him I’d have to ponder it a bit more!!
furst.
Sigh! I suppose persistence has its place, but definitely not first!
it’s a matter between bff’s, please keep out.
what’s 10 min between bff’s, right gg
speaking of which, da gunnahs gave you a lifeline. whatchugonnado?
Prolly lose to West Ham and chuck the lifeline away 🙄
atta girl.
STOP IT!!!!!
You know how fickle she is
I can’t see you – I’m preoccupied at work 😀 😀 😀
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight 😋
Hahahahaha! just like a man. You’re 10 minutes behind the time I slid into First and yet, you claim furst like it’s yours. /smdh 😀 😀
Don’t even try it, Mister
Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) primary challenger ratcheted up his attacks on Monday, slamming the speaker of the House for his lack of business sense and experience necessary to hold a prominent leadership position in the United States government.
“I went from being a maintenance mechanic in a factory at 18 years old to running businesses. I ran that business, I ran businesses all over the U.S. I was in charge of Europe, the Middle East and Africa for a Fortune 500 company,” Paul Nehlen told Laura Ingraham on her radio show.
He added, “Paul Ryan went from driving the Wienermobile in Wisconsin to Congress. That’s what you’re dealing with here.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/paul-ryan-paul-nehlen-222959
can’t wait for the big casualty of donnie derp effect.
The world’s most polite country.
It’s so well mannered that even the toilet seat stands to attention when you enter the bathroom.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160415-the-worlds-most-polite-country
amk, are we talking about this Japan????
“Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Over the next seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.[13]”
Image makeover or what
pols. peeps. big diff. I have worked with toshiba, fuji for over a decade. very, very polite and very, very prompt. during dumbya’s eyerack war, we were working with toshiba in kuwait. though the company had their own chartered plane to evacuate their own people, they made sure we also got into that plane, took us to tokyo and bought us flight tickets from tokyo to india.
and the worst company to work with? G effing E. Once was enough for me.
Very interesting experiences, amk.
Yup. My company people love working with the Japanese. We have done over 20 projects with them in ME, Africa and Malaysia and their attention to every minute detail and hour by hour planning has been an eye opener for us.
Fabulous. I LOVE working with people like that. YAY, details.
Me too. My dad’s mantra – if you got 10 hours to do a job, plan well for 9 hours and do it in 1 hour, not the other way around.
Good advice. I’m incapable of procrastinating. Really helped me do well at my University and all my analyst jobs.
I also got some great advice from a producer on a TV food show I staffed: never give them all you’ve got on the first round. IOW, be doubly prepared so when they ask for a dupe, you’ve already got it taken care of.
OMG Meta, why can’t I be you? I’m incapable of not procrastinating.
I honestly don’t know where it comes from, but if I’m given an assignment, I just want to dig in and do it!!
Wow, deep bow to Meta.
Wish you could bottle some of your “incapable of procrastinating” essence.
Would snap it up in an instant, kudos to you!
GM GGail.
War action/motivation completely different than a country’s culture, which is what this article describes.
If you’re interested in understanding Japanese culture, recommend “Learning to Bow” by Bruce Feiler written 25 years ago.
An island nation under constant threat from Mother Nature (#tsunamis #earthquakes are foundations for Japanese culture) and mainland Asia, Japan’s culture relies on cohesion and cooperation — “united we stand, divided we fall” mentality.
Before WWII, Japan was desperate for fossil fuels for energy production… don’t know anything about Japanese motivation for Pearl Harbor, but remember that they are a tiny island(s) nation with few natural resources and were under constant assault by Mother Nature and mainland Asia.
Thanks, amk for link!
Hmmmmm……..
in the meantime…NC….wants to use the courts to gummy up the works….
New global rules forcing companies to report taxable activities country-by-country publicly have been called for by a group of 300 prominent economists.
In a letter to world leaders, the group urges the UK to “take a lead” in the push for more tax transparency.
Poor countries are the biggest losers from tax havens, they claim.
The letter’s signatories, co-ordinated by charity Oxfam, include best-selling author Thomas Piketty and 2015 Nobel Prize economics winner Angus Deaton.
The letter comes ahead of the UK government’s anti-corruption summit on Thursday, which politicians from 40 countries as well as World Bank and IMF representatives are expected to attend.
The economists – who include almost 50 professors from British universities – argue the UK’s position as summit host as well as its sovereignty over what it says is a third of the world’s tax havens makes it “uniquely placed” to take the lead.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36243862
One of the signatories, the economist Dr Ha-Joon Chang of the University of Cambridge, told the BBC that he signed the letter because he shared “the view that tax havens serve no useful purpose”.
Dr Chang said: “These tax havens basically allow companies and certain individuals to free-ride on the rest of humanity.
“These companies and people make money in one country by using workers educated with public money, using roads, ports and other infrastructure paid for by the taxpayers of that country and moving the money to another country in a shell company which doesn’t really do any business there.”
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remember kenyan’s you didn’t build that? #rippleffect
Good!
I tend to forget that Nancy is at Washington Monthly so I periodically wander over to Horizons then get disappointed that there’s nothing ‘new’.
Thanks for the reminder, Desertf. 🙂 Here’s a good and relevant post I missed. Go check it in its entirety.
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As Attorney General Loretta Lynch recently said:
“Certainly by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism,” Lynch tells NPR in an interview. “What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options — when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.”
That is why the Obama administration, under the leadership of AG Lynch, has launched the Roadmap to Reentry based on these five principles:
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Principle II: While incarcerated, each inmate should be provided education, employment training, life skills, substance abuse, mental health, and other programs that target their criminogenic needs and maximize their likelihood of success upon release.
Principle III: While incarcerated, each inmate should be provided the resources and opportunity to build and maintain family relationships, strengthening the support system available to them upon release.
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Because so many of these reforms depend on action at the state level, AG Lynch has been touring the country and visiting prisons to promote them. This is more than simply PR. It is a direct attempt to change the narrative about the role and function of prisons. For those who have claimed that this administration doesn’t make enough use of the so-called “bully pulpit”…there you have it. This is how it’s done.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_05/changing_the_narrative_about_t060443.php
Paul Ryan on Monday said he’d step down as the chairman of the GOP presidential convention if Donald Trump asks him to, amid escalating tensions between the two men following the Speaker’s decision to withhold support for the presumptive nominee.
The Wisconsin Republican told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Monday that he would step down should the New York billionaire make that request. Ryan is doing a round of local press in his home state Monday morning.
Ryan’s office confirmed the report.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/paul-ryan-leave-convention-post-222966
love the cage fight.
ALL about Ryan – wants to be seen as the “sane republican” – begged to be the nominee as he was to become leader of the house. No different to Trump – self self and self.
Tick Tock
As noted above – every last GOP politician is about self. They care not for anyone else – certainly not the people they are elected to represent – and then they blame the President and the media NEVER calls them out.
The only group Trump hasn’t disrespected is white men, wait a minute I take that back he call his supporters uneducated.
😀 😀 Annieb
The impeachment process against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been thrown into doubt.
The acting Speaker of Brazil’s lower house, Waldir Maranhao, has annulled a vote in the lower house on 17 April that allowed the proceedings to go on to the Senate.
The Senate was scheduled to vote on whether to start an impeachment trial on Wednesday.
It is not currently clear if that vote will now happen.
Mr Maranhao said there had been irregularities during the lower house session in which its members voted in favour of the impeachment process going ahead.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36248925
Hi pf58 🙂
Tough question 😀 😀 😀
back to work ….
with that nice image, gunnite.
Later!
Nite amk
I’m touched by those of you who’ve lit a candle for Steve
http://www.gratefulness.org/light-a-candle/view-all?searchterm=TOD
Collective positive thinking is powerful ❤
And for J’OB
(sometimes I moved to fast)
J’OB & Steve are in my thoughts and prayers.
{{{{57}}}
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/09/politics/donald-trump-chris-christie-transition-team/
Trump taps Christie to lead transition
I see that the women NCAA Connecticut champs will be at the White House tomorrow. When the men NCAA champs Villanova comes to the White House, I will not be watching it. Nova defeated my N.C. Tarheels and I don’t want to see them, even with POTUS..
I’m with you 100% – that was the toughest defeat for me – I wanted that win for Marcus Paige and Brice Johnson more than anything!
CindyH, Tarheels.Blue Forever 🙂
LIVE NOW: Hillary Clinton in Stone Ridge, VA – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Happy Monday West Coast morning, fellow Obama sycophants!
I’m a bit late for this, but may I present to you the latest addition to the LL family: Meg.
PRECIOUS…AND SO COMFY!
You’ve been holding back telling us about her? OMG! She is darling!!
Hah! It’s been rather hectic here the past few days. Crate training is the task of the moment for when we’re not home.
Congratulations on the new puppy. She’s really cute. How is Stewie taking the new addition.
LL answered me on Twitter. Stewie is “confused”, the cats aren’t fazed by her at all. All seems to be going well.
Thanks for letting me know.
Confused, but he’s coming around to her. He’ll like her much more when she’s bigger and can keep up with him.
Looks like your family is complete now. You and the Missus have quite a crew!
That’s good to hear.
Congrats LL Family.
She’s just too cute.
Reminder that Steve should be in surgery now…….or soon. It’s 3 p.m. EST. Lit my candle this morning.
{{{tnmtngirl}}}
This will hopefully be Steve’s final surgery. Sending mighty positive thoughts and prayers to them both.
Nice to see LL and Meg welcome to the neighborhood Meg
This baby is just getting started ….
…. lots of folk gonna be scrambling for quite awhile …. and I imagine the Treasury Dept/IRS already have their nets in place 🙂
Bob, I found it hard to believe that there weren’t any American business people named. Now, it’s gonna get interesting 🙂
ON MY FB……………….
Today may be the day I finally block effing David Sirota. I have loathed him for years, but I still read him on twitter because I don’t want to put myself in a bubble, no matter how friendly it is. This is his description of Barney Frank: ” REVEALED: Dems just installed an anti-Sanders Wall St banker to oversee the party’s 2016 platform”. Good grief.
He’s an idiot ….
Heard what this piece of crap Governor here in N.C. did. once again I hope people see how important voting is, that Republican led legislation and Governor.
WOW, AG Lynch is truly PHENOMENAL.
Just in case anyone was worried what the ultra rich would do after MN raised their taxes, here’s the answer: Nothing.
They didn’t move out, and wont move out. They love and appreciate the same services and well run state features we all enjoy, go figure huh??
http://www.startribune.com/there-s-no-evidence-that-ultrarich-are-fleeing-minnesota/378489376/
Loretta Lynch was on point today. Love her. I wish young girls would look at her as a role model than the Kardashians.
SHE WOULD BE THE ONE TO HAVE…CERTAINLY NOT THE KARDASHIANS!
President Barack Obama greets former NBA player Thurl Bailey (L) and his fellow members of the 1983 NCAA championship North Carolina State men’s basketball team at the White House May 9, 2016 in Washington, DC. Obama honored the Wolfpack’s historic win at the White House 33 years after their national victory. The team was previously unable to visit the White House to be recognized for their championship.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/05/09/bravo-attorney-general-loretta-lynch/
Senator Reid is NOT HAVING IT
AMERICA HAS SUNKEN TO THE LEVEL OF DEEP DOO-DOO,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,AND THEY ONLY HAVE THEMSELVES TO BLAME!…DONALD TRUMP IS THE PERFECT PROFILE OF THE VALUES SOCIETY HAS CHOSEN!