I so feel the same way. When I heard they landed at the field near Golden Gate Bridge last week, I was so deeply honored because I know he always stops to pause and take in the incredible beauty of it all before moving on. LOVE it when he visits, however brief.
Honestly, if I said he was clueless that would absolve him of his deep, ugly hatred of everyday people…common folks, like the ones he lies and says he wants to represent. He’s so repulsive.
Wait. Were you referring to the insightful, thought provoking pieces or the saucy mouth? I married a sailor, remember…sometimes spills out. Also, Italian:)
Hawaii passed a law making it the first state to put gun owners on a federal criminal record database and monitor them.
Hawaii Governor David Ige signed the bill Thursday, which allows police to enroll firearms applicants and individuals who are registering their firearms into “Rap Back,” a Federal Bureau of Investigation database that monitors criminal activities by people under investigation or in positions of trust, Reuters reported.
The law takes effect immediately. “Rap Back” allows Hawaii police to be notified when a Hawaii firearm owner is arrested anywhere in the U.S. In addition, the law allows Hawaii police to evaluate whether a firearm owner should continue owning a gun after being arrested.
Yes, complacency is something that we seem to have an abundance of. We’ve always had the potential though, President Obama did say that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”, we just need to remember that and use it as a motivational tool.
This is fantastic. If Congress won’t act, the states are going to have to do it. Then maybe all the gun nuts will move to some other state where they worship guns.
California has some of the strictest gun laws on the books but we also just got enough signatures for an initiative for the Nov ballot:
“The initiative would require background checks for bullet buyers, a ban on possessing ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds, a mandate for felony charges for gun thefts and a strict process for getting guns out of the hands of felons and others disqualified from possessing firearms.”
States Rights Baby! Wouldn’t it be ironic if states pursued the same strategy as Hawaii in dealing with the gun issue seeing as Republicans always harp on states rights.
Yeah, baby! There’s enough of us now in many, many states that have had ENOUGH of the carnage and we’re MOVING ON right now. If only we could sweep out Congress. Too many RWNJ Tea Party neanderthals for any progress whatsoever.
You made this, you damn money grubbing fools! Money ahead of journalistic integrity and the truthful relationship you are beholden to the American public! FU. If you want to make a statement, then all of you should leave, en masse. Otherwise, it’s just grumbling.
“Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., who broke ranks earlier this month and announced he would not support Donald Trump as his own party’s nominee, became the first GOP incumbent to run an anti-Trump ad Friday.”
MEANWHILE, TAMMY AIN’T HAVING IT…
“The Duckworth campaign issued a statement, highlighting Kirk’s past misstatements about his military record, which were an issue in 2010, and accusing him of trying to portray “himself as a liberal Democrat in Chicago while apparently hoping no one else across the state notices.””
An institutional ball of energy, Perez comes to meetings armed with data, facts, and ideas, but he aims to listen more than speak. He is a quick study; a wonk able to quickly grasp the granular details of an issue and their potential consequences, but also zoom out and see the big picture. “He has a real curiosity, which is very good in a leader. In all my interactions with him, I’ve never felt like he’s come in to just make a speech and leave. He’s really wanted to engage people and ask a lot of questions,” says Sarita Gupta, head of the worker advocacy organization Jobs With Justice. “It’s never the Tom Perez show.”
Like Clinton, Tom Perez Has Shown Himself to Be a Pragmatic Workhorse https://t.co/7oM3W9U64I
I would really like to see him as the VP. I believe he would be a good complement for Hillary and he knows how to work with everyone. And he is very liberal.
n the midst of the Democratic House sit-in Wednesday night protesting inaction on gun control, the GOP rushed to divert attention by passing a proposal to combat the spread of Zika — the mosquito-borne virus that’s causing concern in the public health community because it’s most harmful to pregnant women.
In the aftermath of the sit-in, which attracted national attention, GOP leaders have characterized the Zika bill as a more important priority than bringing gun control legislation to a vote.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said it was a “significant step” to battling Zika, and other Republicans have expressed similar support for the bill.
“Given the urgency of the Zika threat, I hope Senate Democrats will rise above politics so we can get this done,” Ryan said.
There’s just one catch: the bill doesn’t get to the heart of solving the problem for women who may be at risk for contracting Zikam which has been linked to serious birth defects. The proposal allocates $1.1 billion primarily for mosquito control programs, vaccines, and diagnostics — with no funding for condoms nor contraceptives. To make matters even worse, the legislation also excludes funding of $50 million that would have gone toward maternal and child health and prevents Planned Parenthood from receiving any additional funding to provide birth control services.
You meant hypocrites. They rail against the wedge issues, but they accept Trump’s hatred and bigotry. If he just got saved, why does he continue to hate immigrants?
So Trump just accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. So we should see a new and improve Trump. No more racists, sexists, lying, thin skin bully.
Hi DF, you are a gem! You may not be BT at TOD, but you share so much valuable information. Thank you for sharing this. I agree with the author. This country is going to miss President Obama.
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With Donald Trump and Brexit wiping out all other stories, here’s one you’re likely to have missed—and it’s actually good news! Yesterday, in a surprisingly bold move, federal regulators voted to recommend shutting down the nation’s largest accreditor of for-profit colleges.
The 10-3 decision, handed down Thursday by the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity[NACIQI], effectively eliminates access to federal financial aid to hundreds of schools accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools[ACICS]that enroll nearly 800,000 students.
Accreditors are nonprofits that are supposed to act as the watchdogs of higher education. They determine, among other things, which colleges are fit to receive federal student grants and loans. Some accreditors are tougher graders than others, however. ACICS is infamous in ed policy circles for being “the ‘rocks for jocks’ of accreditors,” Ben Miller of the Center for American Progress told me in a phone interview this morning. Now NACIQI, which is in essence the watchdog of the watchdogs, is recommending ACICS be euthanized.
It’s not hard to see why. ACICS was the accreditor for Corinthian Colleges, the for-profit behemoth that went bankrupt two years ago after the Department of Education found it was falsifying job placement rates and misleading students about financial aid obligations and cut off its federal funds—an action that was the domino-like result of a Washington Monthly investigation. ACICS also gave its blessings to FastTrain, a Miami-based for-profit college chain whose owner was convicted last fall on multiple counts of theft of government property. FastTrain ex-employees testified that the college forged high school diplomas for prospective students who lacked the real thing and boosted enrollment “by hiring former strippers as recruiter, some of whom wore “short skirts and stiletto heels” to work.”
Last year, ACICS’s then-president faced a withering interrogation by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. But instead of admitting the organization’s gross dereliction of duty, he inexplicably defended the group’s quality control processes. To Elizabeth Warren.
Over the next month, the biggest news of the campaign season will be the vice presidential picks of the two candidates. As such, pundits are spending a fair amount of time these days prognosticating about the various possibilities.
On the Democratic side, that talk has zeroed in on three potential candidates: Tim Kaine, Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro. What is interesting about that three-some is that each one appeals to a different constituency that has been highlighted during the primary. Kaine is the establishment favorite, Warren appeals to the Sanders constituency and Castro would mean having a person of color on the ticket.
To the extent that Clinton herself is considered “establishment,” I previously wrote about how Labor Secretary Tom Perez – as a progressive Latino – covers both of the other two constituencies and has the potential to unite the divisions that have surfaced recently. While he isn’t gaining much notice from “insiders,” Justin Miller took a pretty deep dive into Perez’s background in the summer issue of the American Prospect.
The article walks you through the accomplishments of Perez in the Obama administration as Secretary of Labor, including everything from the new overtime rule to removing the federal overtime and minimum-wage exemption for home-care and domestic workers.
There are liars and then there’s Boris Johnson and Michael Gove
Johnson and Gove won a dizzying victory with the potential to change every aspect of national life, from workers’ rights to environmental protection.
Yet they gazed at the press with coffin-lid faces and wept over the prime minister they had destroyed
…..
The media do not damn themselves, so I am speaking out of turn when I say that if you think rule by professional politicians is bad wait until journalist politicians take over. Johnson and Gove are the worst journalist politicians you can imagine: pundits who have prospered by treating public life as a game. Here is how they play it. They grab media attention by blaring out a big, dramatic thought. An institution is failing? Close it. A public figure blunders? Sack him.
……….
Johnson and Gove carried with them a second feature of unscrupulous journalism: the contempt for practical questions. Never has a revolution in Britain’s position in the world been advocated with such carelessness. The Leave campaign has no plan.
Read if all
This sure sounds like someone that the GOP thinks can be the next President of the United States.
Now they have won and what Kipling said of the demagogues of his age applies to Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.
I could not dig; I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
The Obama Diary 
I can hear the plane, but I cant see it
Thank you very much, Mr President. Safe journey back to your loving family! It was an honor to have you rest here. God Bless You. 🕉💞❤
I so feel the same way. When I heard they landed at the field near Golden Gate Bridge last week, I was so deeply honored because I know he always stops to pause and take in the incredible beauty of it all before moving on. LOVE it when he visits, however brief.
Good times!
Congrats on 1st MightyP. It’s a sad day that we have to rely on Comedians to let the public know what is going on.
Fucking ignorant “c” word.
He is, isn’t he! Barf.
Honestly, if I said he was clueless that would absolve him of his deep, ugly hatred of everyday people…common folks, like the ones he lies and says he wants to represent. He’s so repulsive.
I am sure 401ks will differ with this idiot.
exactly
I must admit, df, one of the main reasons that I come to TOD on a daily basis is to see what nuggets you might drop. You never disappoint.
Why thank you, sweetness!!
Wait. Were you referring to the insightful, thought provoking pieces or the saucy mouth? I married a sailor, remember…sometimes spills out. Also, Italian:)
Yes, I was referring to your thought provoking insights, and your saucy mouth is an added bonus.
🙂 Thanks. I thought that was it:) You’re a gem!
Agree with Don DF. 🙂
Is he just this stupid or trying to lie and lull the American people? OR BOTH.
🙂 There you go!
Hi, Df. This is great news! The more powerful, well-funded groups who take on the NRA, the better.
James Dobson is one of the biggest con men on the planet. He’s identified “one of his kind” and I don’t mean Christian.
And someone just made an absolute mockery of a religion that is the major part of the lives of millions of people.
Brilliant! James Dobson was anointed to speak for Christ.
Who knew?
Who knew indeed, J’OB! Sorry for my lousy punctuation. I meant to end with a question mark not a period.
The grammar police are gonna get you, nath!?.
What an incredible President! I feel blessed to be alive during his presidency.
Posted about this yesterday. Good on you, Hawaii!! This is what common sense looks like!
http://time.com/4382831/hawaii-gun-control-fbi-database/
Hawaii passed a law making it the first state to put gun owners on a federal criminal record database and monitor them.
Hawaii Governor David Ige signed the bill Thursday, which allows police to enroll firearms applicants and individuals who are registering their firearms into “Rap Back,” a Federal Bureau of Investigation database that monitors criminal activities by people under investigation or in positions of trust, Reuters reported.
The law takes effect immediately. “Rap Back” allows Hawaii police to be notified when a Hawaii firearm owner is arrested anywhere in the U.S. In addition, the law allows Hawaii police to evaluate whether a firearm owner should continue owning a gun after being arrested.
This is a great law, I just wish it was nationwide.
We should all be that sane
Sanity doesn’t seem to be our strong suit.
Well, we voted for this guy twice…so, we have potential when we put our minds to it and don’t get lazy and complacent. 🙂
Yes, complacency is something that we seem to have an abundance of. We’ve always had the potential though, President Obama did say that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”, we just need to remember that and use it as a motivational tool.
Egg.Zack.Lee:)
This is fantastic. If Congress won’t act, the states are going to have to do it. Then maybe all the gun nuts will move to some other state where they worship guns.
California has some of the strictest gun laws on the books but we also just got enough signatures for an initiative for the Nov ballot:
“The initiative would require background checks for bullet buyers, a ban on possessing ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds, a mandate for felony charges for gun thefts and a strict process for getting guns out of the hands of felons and others disqualified from possessing firearms.”
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-cal-newsom-guns-snap-story.html
The legislature is also working on more gun sense reform.
States Rights Baby! Wouldn’t it be ironic if states pursued the same strategy as Hawaii in dealing with the gun issue seeing as Republicans always harp on states rights.
works both ways:)
Yeah, baby! There’s enough of us now in many, many states that have had ENOUGH of the carnage and we’re MOVING ON right now. If only we could sweep out Congress. Too many RWNJ Tea Party neanderthals for any progress whatsoever.
You made this, you damn money grubbing fools! Money ahead of journalistic integrity and the truthful relationship you are beholden to the American public! FU. If you want to make a statement, then all of you should leave, en masse. Otherwise, it’s just grumbling.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/cnn-staff-reportedly-in-near-revolt-over-hiring-of-trumps-former-campaign-manager/
“Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., who broke ranks earlier this month and announced he would not support Donald Trump as his own party’s nominee, became the first GOP incumbent to run an anti-Trump ad Friday.”
MEANWHILE, TAMMY AIN’T HAVING IT…
“The Duckworth campaign issued a statement, highlighting Kirk’s past misstatements about his military record, which were an issue in 2010, and accusing him of trying to portray “himself as a liberal Democrat in Chicago while apparently hoping no one else across the state notices.””
…and so, it begins…
Wow..
Sorry, Britain, but no fucking soup for you!
I find this beyond heartbreaking. A country led by those who would have you vote against your own interest – we should all take note.
This is breathtaking. What were these people thinking?
An institutional ball of energy, Perez comes to meetings armed with data, facts, and ideas, but he aims to listen more than speak. He is a quick study; a wonk able to quickly grasp the granular details of an issue and their potential consequences, but also zoom out and see the big picture. “He has a real curiosity, which is very good in a leader. In all my interactions with him, I’ve never felt like he’s come in to just make a speech and leave. He’s really wanted to engage people and ask a lot of questions,” says Sarita Gupta, head of the worker advocacy organization Jobs With Justice. “It’s never the Tom Perez show.”
I would really like to see him as the VP. I believe he would be a good complement for Hillary and he knows how to work with everyone. And he is very liberal.
So would I, Marilyn; so would I!
i am leaning towards Sec Perez as well
Me, too. I think Elizabeth Warren needs to remain in the Senate, and I think Kaine is too conservative.
I agree. Kaine is too blah. She needs someone with more pazzaz.
Trumpaloons are some of the dumbest freakin’ people in the universe. I can’t even breathe listening to this insanity:
*Trumpaloons* = can’t stop laughin’!
Kat was the one who made that up. It’s perfect!
I’ll track her down and thank her! Perfect!
FYI…still busy trying to make decisions about women’s health!!
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/06/24/3792272/zika-gop-bill/
n the midst of the Democratic House sit-in Wednesday night protesting inaction on gun control, the GOP rushed to divert attention by passing a proposal to combat the spread of Zika — the mosquito-borne virus that’s causing concern in the public health community because it’s most harmful to pregnant women.
In the aftermath of the sit-in, which attracted national attention, GOP leaders have characterized the Zika bill as a more important priority than bringing gun control legislation to a vote.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said it was a “significant step” to battling Zika, and other Republicans have expressed similar support for the bill.
“Given the urgency of the Zika threat, I hope Senate Democrats will rise above politics so we can get this done,” Ryan said.
There’s just one catch: the bill doesn’t get to the heart of solving the problem for women who may be at risk for contracting Zikam which has been linked to serious birth defects. The proposal allocates $1.1 billion primarily for mosquito control programs, vaccines, and diagnostics — with no funding for condoms nor contraceptives. To make matters even worse, the legislation also excludes funding of $50 million that would have gone toward maternal and child health and prevents Planned Parenthood from receiving any additional funding to provide birth control services.
HA!
ICYMI:
Also the argument is that the US federal government is to blame for the stock market losing 611 points on Friday and for England exiting the EU??
Sounds nuts, but that’s what the media is pushing and trump.
How is the US Government to blame?
That’s not a valid argument. It’s one of those manufactured lies by right wing propagandists.
TELL IT, POTUS
You meant hypocrites. They rail against the wedge issues, but they accept Trump’s hatred and bigotry. If he just got saved, why does he continue to hate immigrants?
So Trump just accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. So we should see a new and improve Trump. No more racists, sexists, lying, thin skin bully.
This is hilarious!
She’s a crazy piece of work, she is! I hope she loses her job.
Is she a Alan West type?
they all fit.
Love the last line – “tiny fingered, …..” . What fantastically fitting insults for the blithering idiot.!!!!
WHOA, that is a FAST trip!!
There is a REASON they like stupid citizens!
Thank you meta
Good little read. I need a nap
http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2016/06/obama-florida-hanauer.html
Hi DF, you are a gem! You may not be BT at TOD, but you share so much valuable information. Thank you for sharing this. I agree with the author. This country is going to miss President Obama.
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Farrah Fawcett also passed away 7 yrs ago, today.
Was a fan of MJ from the Jackson-5 days.
Canada Wednesday!!!
Oh cool! Hope he comes my way.
The Obama Administration Makes Its Biggest Move Against For-Profit Colleges
The nation’s worst college accreditor is about lose its own accreditation.
by Paul Glastris
June 24, 2016 7:55 PM
With Donald Trump and Brexit wiping out all other stories, here’s one you’re likely to have missed—and it’s actually good news! Yesterday, in a surprisingly bold move, federal regulators voted to recommend shutting down the nation’s largest accreditor of for-profit colleges.
The 10-3 decision, handed down Thursday by the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity[NACIQI], effectively eliminates access to federal financial aid to hundreds of schools accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools[ACICS]that enroll nearly 800,000 students.
Accreditors are nonprofits that are supposed to act as the watchdogs of higher education. They determine, among other things, which colleges are fit to receive federal student grants and loans. Some accreditors are tougher graders than others, however. ACICS is infamous in ed policy circles for being “the ‘rocks for jocks’ of accreditors,” Ben Miller of the Center for American Progress told me in a phone interview this morning. Now NACIQI, which is in essence the watchdog of the watchdogs, is recommending ACICS be euthanized.
It’s not hard to see why. ACICS was the accreditor for Corinthian Colleges, the for-profit behemoth that went bankrupt two years ago after the Department of Education found it was falsifying job placement rates and misleading students about financial aid obligations and cut off its federal funds—an action that was the domino-like result of a Washington Monthly investigation. ACICS also gave its blessings to FastTrain, a Miami-based for-profit college chain whose owner was convicted last fall on multiple counts of theft of government property. FastTrain ex-employees testified that the college forged high school diplomas for prospective students who lacked the real thing and boosted enrollment “by hiring former strippers as recruiter, some of whom wore “short skirts and stiletto heels” to work.”
Last year, ACICS’s then-president faced a withering interrogation by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. But instead of admitting the organization’s gross dereliction of duty, he inexplicably defended the group’s quality control processes. To Elizabeth Warren.
Watched most of the Game!
I really like him.
………………………………………….
Like Clinton, Tom Perez Has Shown Himself to Be a Pragmatic Workhorse
by Nancy LeTourneau
June 24, 2016 8:56 AM
Over the next month, the biggest news of the campaign season will be the vice presidential picks of the two candidates. As such, pundits are spending a fair amount of time these days prognosticating about the various possibilities.
On the Democratic side, that talk has zeroed in on three potential candidates: Tim Kaine, Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro. What is interesting about that three-some is that each one appeals to a different constituency that has been highlighted during the primary. Kaine is the establishment favorite, Warren appeals to the Sanders constituency and Castro would mean having a person of color on the ticket.
To the extent that Clinton herself is considered “establishment,” I previously wrote about how Labor Secretary Tom Perez – as a progressive Latino – covers both of the other two constituencies and has the potential to unite the divisions that have surfaced recently. While he isn’t gaining much notice from “insiders,” Justin Miller took a pretty deep dive into Perez’s background in the summer issue of the American Prospect.
The article walks you through the accomplishments of Perez in the Obama administration as Secretary of Labor, including everything from the new overtime rule to removing the federal overtime and minimum-wage exemption for home-care and domestic workers.
I have said before, he is my choice for VP.
me too. would be a great pick. she’s got some good options.
No-one is acting like a winner
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/25/boris-johnson-michael-gove-eu-liars
There are liars and then there’s Boris Johnson and Michael Gove
Johnson and Gove won a dizzying victory with the potential to change every aspect of national life, from workers’ rights to environmental protection.
Yet they gazed at the press with coffin-lid faces and wept over the prime minister they had destroyed
…..
The media do not damn themselves, so I am speaking out of turn when I say that if you think rule by professional politicians is bad wait until journalist politicians take over. Johnson and Gove are the worst journalist politicians you can imagine: pundits who have prospered by treating public life as a game. Here is how they play it. They grab media attention by blaring out a big, dramatic thought. An institution is failing? Close it. A public figure blunders? Sack him.
……….
Johnson and Gove carried with them a second feature of unscrupulous journalism: the contempt for practical questions. Never has a revolution in Britain’s position in the world been advocated with such carelessness. The Leave campaign has no plan.
Read if all
This sure sounds like someone that the GOP thinks can be the next President of the United States.
And it includes a quote from Kipling
Now they have won and what Kipling said of the demagogues of his age applies to Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.
I could not dig; I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/06/25/tweet-of-the-day-30/