Damn! this is my state of mind today…
“So basically what you have are generations of police who learned police work from slave catchers and klansmen. How’s that working out?”
Thank you Propane Jane. I knew you would understand and articulate what I’m feeling
I am a hammock owner. Love it, even rigged up a DIY mosquito net so I could stay in it longer. However, there is just no graceful way to get out of the thing. That I dread every time.
Hello TOD. 😦 😦 😦
Another effing Day with yet another Killing of a Black man by a Policeman in USA. Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Stop the Killings, for Humanity’s Sake!
Good Lord! This is Sick!
Fifty-six young chefs representing each U.S. state, five territories, and the District of Columbia will be joining First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House on July 14 for the fifth annual Kids’ “State Dinner.” http://www.letsmove.gov/kids-state-dinner-winners
They do not want to wound – wounded people can talk. Dead men tell no tales.
I have never had to face the guns – nor the racism pf – but I do try to imagine the feelings – will never understand why some “father-in-laws” don’t slam the door on the media and say nothing. TOD has opened my eyes on so many things I spent my life “not seeing”
What is wrong with people? You can believe what the cop did was right, but you can also show some compassion for the family of that man who is dead. People now a days are cold hearted bastards. If the father does not know what it is like to walk in those protesters shoes, then he need to shut his lily white mouth.
This is not a good bill. In reality it provides for :
– no on package label requirement,
– no federal enforcement penalties,
– massive loopholes in what is the definition of GMO products and what has to be labeled,
– AND it will pre-empt all state laws that require on package labeling.
It is not a compromise bill, but instead is a ban on GMO labeling in disquise.
Take the time to contact your Senators to tell them to vote against this bill. Tell them to side with the people, not with corporations.
After the recent Brexit vote in Britain, Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, commented on the fallout: “I don’t want to have a plummeting pound. But if it does plummet, I do well.”
Similarly, in 2006, before the collapse in the housing market, Mr. Trump said, “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy.”
Most Britons have retirement savings and college tuition in pounds. For most Americans, a house is a major asset and a basis for a secure retirement, in addition to being where they live and raise a family.
But not for Mr. Trump. In both cases, what is tumult for most people is for him just another way to win at the roulette wheel.
The comments offered revealing glimpses into Mr. Trump’s mind-set as well as the essence of his longstanding business code: turn the losses of others into opportunities for his own profit.
The business man who can run the largest of large economies – but has no idea about bookkeeping. The National accounts under Trump will be a yooooge mess of who knows what.
Thank you for all the tweets on this. I can’t bring myself to watch the video. What little I saw was just sickening. The police brutality and assumption of crime is intolerable. Another person dead, another child fatherless. Watching his son was one of the most heartbreaking things imaginable. May Alton Sterling rest in peace, somehow, someday.
Eric Trump reportedly called up The Washington Post on Wednesday to profanely rant at the reporter spearheading coverage of the charitable contributions made (or not made) by his father, Donald Trump.
But the younger Trump didn’t offer any evidence of those donations.
“I’m just saying, Jesus Christ, why is this guy trying to f—ing kill us?” Trump allegedly told the Post’s David A. Fahrenthold.
Fahrenthold had meticulously tried to find corroboration for Donald Trump’s claims of generous charitable giving, contacting 200 charities associated with the businessman. The reporter found only one charity that received a donation, in the amount of less than $10,000.
Florida’s AG Is Tied Up In The Trump University Scandal. And Things Just Got Worse.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is in a bit of hot water.
The trouble started in June, when the Associated Press reported that Bondi “personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump” in 2013 — right around the time she was deciding whether or not to investigate alleged fraud at Trump University. Trump University, of course, is the controversial for-profit school owned by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
It was only four days after Bondi announced she might join an investigation into Trump University when a Trump family foundation gave $25,000 to a political group supporting Bondi’s re-election. After that money came in, Bondi said she would not pursue a lawsuit against Trump University. Two years later — one day before Florida’s crucial primary election — Bondi endorsed Trump for president.
better headline: Darrell Issa to Shut Down Government if He Doesn’t Get Some Attention from the Press PDQ! And No, He has Not Ruled Out the Vice Presidency!
The Senator from Vermont, the Dear Leader of the Great Revolution, has better show up with some pretty good speech while endorsing the presumed Democratic nominee. He should not mince his words at eviscerating The Donald and his ridiculous campaign from which GOP officials are fleeing like mosquitoes. He needs not talk about what the Democratic platform or the Party should be. He should leave that for the grown ups: POTUS and HRC.
All he needs to do is bring his young revolutionaries to the fight against the crazy right at all levels.
Lately I have noticed I see Jane, wife/campaign manager with Bernie all the time. It seems strange cuz it even was when he showed up in the Senate to vote. There were no other wives there. I remember historically a couple of First Ladies that tried to cover for sick or incapacitated husbands that were Presidents. Jane’s behavior almost mirrors that which makes me wonder given Bernie’s age if he does have some problems we are not as aware of as Jane is?
Maybe it’s just that she’s insisting he continue this fight, and she needs to stand right there to make sure he does what he’s told. Still, not a good sign 🙂
“We have to vote,” a young man named Earl Seiger said. “We have to select the people who make the decisions for our community.” Sterling’s pastor, Carl Williams, said this is just the beginning.
“I will go to my grave trying to make something happen,” he said. “The ground has been polluted with innocent blood.”
Usually I mute Trump … but he’s so out of control during the rant he’s giving now in Ohio, I’m glad I’m hearing it. He’s gonna fizzle out, of that I am quite sure. He’ll take a lot of people with him, but not before driving Republicans crazy that he represents ALL OF THEM.
Babbling fool Trump, losing it in front of our eyes, desperately narcissistic, barely coping, lying w/ every word. @CNN covers it all. Ugh.
Oh, yes! Just the image of him going down the cliff with other GOP officials by his sides at 60 miles/hour because of gravity brings a smile to my face.
The Obama Diary 
Morning, all. Trying to keep cool and positive. Rock on, Mr. President, and thanks to Nerdy for keeping us informed.
Did not mean to imply there is anything positive about the killing of black victims by police. It’s heinous and must be stopped.
Oh no, not again 😦
SOON: Hillary Clinton Campaigns in Atlantic City, NJ – http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=3
Coming Up: Hillary Clinton Delivers Remarks on Donald Trump’s Business Record in Atlantic City, N.J.
I can’t let this distract me today while I’m at work, but just to know that 558 people have been killed already in 2016 by cops is mind blowing.
Congrats dear Judith on First {{{hugs}}}
Thanks, GGail!
LIVE NOW: Police Press Conference In Baton Rouge, LA – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
that’s almost two persons per day. nutz.
By my quick calculations, that’s police killing about 93 people every month so far. This needs to stop RIGHT NOW!
From his lips to God’s ears.
Damn! this is my state of mind today…
“So basically what you have are generations of police who learned police work from slave catchers and klansmen. How’s that working out?”
Thank you Propane Jane. I knew you would understand and articulate what I’m feeling
Right ON!
A little relief from all the pain ….
back to work … take care everyone … especially if you’re anything other than a white male carrying a confederate flag & an assault weapon ….
❤ Bob
I am a hammock owner. Love it, even rigged up a DIY mosquito net so I could stay in it longer. However, there is just no graceful way to get out of the thing. That I dread every time.
Hello TOD. 😦 😦 😦
Another effing Day with yet another Killing of a Black man by a Policeman in USA. Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Stop the Killings, for Humanity’s Sake!
Good Lord! This is Sick!
Mr. Sterling was executed
When is the Kid’s State Dinner? What time. If anyone knows.
Fifty-six young chefs representing each U.S. state, five territories, and the District of Columbia will be joining First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House on July 14 for the fifth annual Kids’ “State Dinner.” http://www.letsmove.gov/kids-state-dinner-winners
Thanks JER
Thanks Jer – do hope Hillary makes sure BC organises the sixth kids dinner
What idiot want to be Trump’s VP?
😀 😀
Newt Gingrich.
My bet is on Christie.
Very possible. But Christie would be the amoral attack dog as AG (Not that we’ll ever get there, Thank God).
I would like it to be Gingrich – the six wives stories should take over the airwaves.
Hay, I’m gonna have to pull myself out of consideration for the VP position, Please put my on the TeeVee CNN!!
WH Presser on 7-6-16
Sorry, TOD Family.
At -1:10:31
Josh “The Voice” Earnest Held a Presser today.
It’s never OK to Assume. I assumed that Since POTUS was travelling today, therefore, No Presser. I was wrong.
Sen. Joni Ernst Takes Herself Out Of Running To Be Trump Running Mate
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ernst-not-trump-vp
That’s too bad. She is crazy as a loon and so is Trump. That would be a good match and hopefully a defeat.
Now THAT would have been entertaining!
Maybe Christie will be the only one who want to be around him. Christie and Newt.
they shot him 5 times as he lay pinned to the ground….
and i am betting the house…that there will be no accountability….
my heart weeps
They do not want to wound – wounded people can talk. Dead men tell no tales.
I have never had to face the guns – nor the racism pf – but I do try to imagine the feelings – will never understand why some “father-in-laws” don’t slam the door on the media and say nothing. TOD has opened my eyes on so many things I spent my life “not seeing”
thank you for your comments…”Seeing” is the first step towards “Truth & Reconciliation”
What is wrong with people? You can believe what the cop did was right, but you can also show some compassion for the family of that man who is dead. People now a days are cold hearted bastards. If the father does not know what it is like to walk in those protesters shoes, then he need to shut his lily white mouth.
When it comes to white cops killing black people, there will be no accountability. They will walk away free, because blacks lives don’t matter.
A sick racists bigot. Maybe we need to lynch him instead.
@wgrzMichael I work for Carl, I’m new to twitter & tweeted what Carl asked but made mistake of adding Lynch. My bad.
…
If he works for Carl why is he using a local channel 2 (wgrz) twitter handle ?
WHOA
Please, this is hard to watch. I didn’t. I was told.
This is not a good bill. In reality it provides for :
– no on package label requirement,
– no federal enforcement penalties,
– massive loopholes in what is the definition of GMO products and what has to be labeled,
– AND it will pre-empt all state laws that require on package labeling.
It is not a compromise bill, but instead is a ban on GMO labeling in disquise.
Take the time to contact your Senators to tell them to vote against this bill. Tell them to side with the people, not with corporations.
We can overturn all this madness with a BLUE CONGRESS!
Just to put a little smile on our faces.
WHERE is the ORIGINAL 911 CALL TAPE?
BATON ROUGE HOLDS A HUGE HISTORY FOR HANGIN’ TREES..NOTHIN’ HAS CHANGED!
Louisiana is an OPEN CARRY STATE. Where is the call to dispatch about his permit?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/opinion/campaign-stops/a-real-estate-developer-can-go-bankrupt-a-president-cant.html?_r=1
After the recent Brexit vote in Britain, Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, commented on the fallout: “I don’t want to have a plummeting pound. But if it does plummet, I do well.”
Similarly, in 2006, before the collapse in the housing market, Mr. Trump said, “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy.”
Most Britons have retirement savings and college tuition in pounds. For most Americans, a house is a major asset and a basis for a secure retirement, in addition to being where they live and raise a family.
But not for Mr. Trump. In both cases, what is tumult for most people is for him just another way to win at the roulette wheel.
The comments offered revealing glimpses into Mr. Trump’s mind-set as well as the essence of his longstanding business code: turn the losses of others into opportunities for his own profit.
Trump pumping lies day in and day out.
Wow Meta, this tweet is to funny. I am shocked that a businessman like Trump would be so sloppy. 🙂 🙂
That guy is a hornet’s nest of incompetence and SCAMS!!!
The business man who can run the largest of large economies – but has no idea about bookkeeping. The National accounts under Trump will be a yooooge mess of who knows what.
Crooked Trump. 🙂
Sounds like a FUN stop for POTUS and HRC AND the Secret Service:
He built that
He sure did. Every step of the way.
This!!!!
There’s something really wrong with this guy:
Don’t say that meta, some of those supporters of his will claim Hillary did something to him.
You girls are giving me the best laugh of the day!
Really now, it’s hard to mistake Wolf Blitzer for Jake Tapper!!
That’s like mistaking Trump with someone with some dam sense.
I hear you, bella.
Thank you for all the tweets on this. I can’t bring myself to watch the video. What little I saw was just sickening. The police brutality and assumption of crime is intolerable. Another person dead, another child fatherless. Watching his son was one of the most heartbreaking things imaginable. May Alton Sterling rest in peace, somehow, someday.
They doth protest too much. They are becoming unhinged.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/eric-trump-rants-donald-donations
Eric Trump reportedly called up The Washington Post on Wednesday to profanely rant at the reporter spearheading coverage of the charitable contributions made (or not made) by his father, Donald Trump.
But the younger Trump didn’t offer any evidence of those donations.
“I’m just saying, Jesus Christ, why is this guy trying to f—ing kill us?” Trump allegedly told the Post’s David A. Fahrenthold.
Fahrenthold had meticulously tried to find corroboration for Donald Trump’s claims of generous charitable giving, contacting 200 charities associated with the businessman. The reporter found only one charity that received a donation, in the amount of less than $10,000.
Oh dear…shoes are dropping all over the damn place!
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/06/3795722/pam-bondi-trump-complaint/
Florida’s AG Is Tied Up In The Trump University Scandal. And Things Just Got Worse.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is in a bit of hot water.
The trouble started in June, when the Associated Press reported that Bondi “personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump” in 2013 — right around the time she was deciding whether or not to investigate alleged fraud at Trump University. Trump University, of course, is the controversial for-profit school owned by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
It was only four days after Bondi announced she might join an investigation into Trump University when a Trump family foundation gave $25,000 to a political group supporting Bondi’s re-election. After that money came in, Bondi said she would not pursue a lawsuit against Trump University. Two years later — one day before Florida’s crucial primary election — Bondi endorsed Trump for president.
CREW has filed 2 complaints against Bondi…
REALLY??? California, get rid of this crook!
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/06/3795983/darrell-issa-shutdown-government-because-hillary-clinton/
better headline: Darrell Issa to Shut Down Government if He Doesn’t Get Some Attention from the Press PDQ! And No, He has Not Ruled Out the Vice Presidency!
Be nice if congress did investigate people who actually did something wrong
Time for cocktails and conversation….bbl
Well, well, well………..I’ll believe it when I see it!
The Senator from Vermont, the Dear Leader of the Great Revolution, has better show up with some pretty good speech while endorsing the presumed Democratic nominee. He should not mince his words at eviscerating The Donald and his ridiculous campaign from which GOP officials are fleeing like mosquitoes. He needs not talk about what the Democratic platform or the Party should be. He should leave that for the grown ups: POTUS and HRC.
All he needs to do is bring his young revolutionaries to the fight against the crazy right at all levels.
Hate to get my hopes up but maybe being booed by House Dems woke him up?
YOU CANNOT PLACE YOUR EGO ABOVE ‘WE THE PEOPLE’….HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A GOOD PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE PRIORITIZES HIS OWN DESIRES!
Lately I have noticed I see Jane, wife/campaign manager with Bernie all the time. It seems strange cuz it even was when he showed up in the Senate to vote. There were no other wives there. I remember historically a couple of First Ladies that tried to cover for sick or incapacitated husbands that were Presidents. Jane’s behavior almost mirrors that which makes me wonder given Bernie’s age if he does have some problems we are not as aware of as Jane is?
Interesting. I hope this isn’t the case but he sure seems to be losing his grip on facing reality.
Maybe it’s just that she’s insisting he continue this fight, and she needs to stand right there to make sure he does what he’s told. Still, not a good sign 🙂
He was hoping beyond hope – criminal charges – now all hope has gone
Funny how these ‘Open Carry’ laws don’t seem to extend to Black people….isn’t it.
sigh…..
and, people want to whine about Jesse Williams speech. he told THE TRUTH.
From the link
“We have to vote,” a young man named Earl Seiger said. “We have to select the people who make the decisions for our community.” Sterling’s pastor, Carl Williams, said this is just the beginning.
“I will go to my grave trying to make something happen,” he said. “The ground has been polluted with innocent blood.”
Usually I mute Trump … but he’s so out of control during the rant he’s giving now in Ohio, I’m glad I’m hearing it. He’s gonna fizzle out, of that I am quite sure. He’ll take a lot of people with him, but not before driving Republicans crazy that he represents ALL OF THEM.
Oh, yes! Just the image of him going down the cliff with other GOP officials by his sides at 60 miles/hour because of gravity brings a smile to my face.
great graphic
Do we know if John Kerry has a “smart phone” ? I would like to hear his views on this – maybe in 2017?
yesssssssssssss!!
OH..HOW I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THIS HAPPEN!
The Senator from Vermont looks a bit lost. Can someone give him a cane, or a dog?
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/07/06/the-presidents-day-102/
I remember a statement like that in 2008 regarding Good Old Joe Liberman, Killer of the Single Option.
MAKE SURE YOU DUB IT..’LAST TRUMPET UNIVERSITY!’
Beautiful! Pete’s view of this presidency will always enrich our lives.