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The Obama Diary 
Another morning, another day of fear, hate, racism and the folk laughing all the way to the bank who profit from the incessant slaughter of our fellow citizens …
You can’t ever solve a problem if you don’t focus on its root cause(s). Until the majority of Americans do two things the slaughter has zero chance of abating:
1 Focus on the WEAPONS PROFITEERS;
2 VOTE for people who commit to regulating who those weapons merchants sell their weapons designed for ONLY one purpose – killing as many people as possible in as brief an interval as technically achievable.
Thank you NW for a new thread …. take care everyone …
G’morning Nerdy & TOD! Congrats Sir Bob on #1. Wishing everyone a peaceful and safe Friday. Condolences to the Dallas officers who were injured, and to the loved ones of those who were killed.
Thank you hf2 and wishing you a safe and peaceful day, as well!
We still do not know who the suspects are. We still do not know what their motives for shooting were. My guess is that they are looking for additional co-conspirators. But meanwhile, the media continues to be irresponsible and fan the flames….
Latest update …
Two things are obvious – these folk came prepared to do exactly what they did, and they knew exactly where to be to do it.
And it took more than 24 hours to plan it. The weaponry, ammunitions, the positioning, and the skill of the snipers all indicate that this was not put together as a result of the 2 killings the day before. I hope and pray that there is no rush to judgement and that there is a careful investigation. I lay all of this horror and bloodshed that has plagued us for years at the feet of the various congresses over the years and the gun industry that runs them. I even believe that the aim had little to do with the protest and its reasons, that it was a blind for some other reason and the protest provided the ammunition. In Dallas, more mothers, fathers, children, parents, siblings and friends are added to the horror list of grief and sorrow because of the gun culture of this country. My heart also goes out to PBO who has had to try to bring reason and inspire action with hands tied by the legislative branch that refuses to act, while trying to bring comfort. One man cannot do it all; especially when there are so many others who can pick up the burden and turn it into real action.
“One man cannot do it all; especially when there are so many others who can pick up the burden and turn it into real action.”
Agree fully, CEB. Thank you.
Good Morning Everybody.
I feel so deeply sorry for President Obama having to deliver these messages of condolence and calm every day. I can only imagine what fellow NATO members think of the United States at this point and how much compassion and respect they must have for our president.
I FEEL VERY SORRY FOR THE BURDENS OUR PRESIDENT HAS TO CARRY…………………..<3
YOU ARE LOVED MR. PRESIDENT…PRESS ON…WE’VE GOT YOU!…HIS CNN ADDRESS IS ON MY FB,,,
GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF JOE WALSH AND HIS CRONIES!
Some good news amidst all the negative news we’ve been seeing in the last several days
Yesterday was a bleak day in all ways possible. I saw the sister that I have known and loved and looked up to all my life slipping slowly away from her identity as it becomes harder and harder for her to remember things. And we came home to the horrific news of the police shootings and all the danger that represents to us from the right wing haters and our incompetent media. This is the time when we have to center ourselves and find the path that will lead us to peace both within ourselves and in our country. Then we have to do everything in our power to bring others along that path with us. It’s seldom that the contrast between light and dark is so stark, but this is one of those times. Our biggest enemy right now is despair and I’m trying hard to overcome it.
Wow…Jackie…
you evoke such wisdom…thank you for your enlightenment….your words are like a lighthouse on a stormy and foggy night….thank you so much….((JackieG))
Thanks, Pf. You’re a good friend
yw Jackie….we will have to meet next time i come to Harrisburg to visit my mom
So sorry about your sister, jackie. It’s a horrible disease.
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My heart goes out to you, {{{{jackieg}}}}. May your sister and your entire family receive the highest healing.
You are a cherished member of our community and we are grateful for your words of wisdom. Please take good care.
Oh Jackie, my heart goes out to you. I so understand how you feel. Both my parents had Alzheimers. It is not easy to live with. Know you are not alone. We all must be there for each other. Blessings on you.
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{{{{{JackieG}}}}}
So sorry about your sister.
So sorry to hear about your sister, I watched the same thing happen with my mother. I cared for her in my own home for a while, until she no longer recognized me. Indeed despair is the enemy and destroyer. Hope must triumph. There’s a reason by our President based his campaign on Hope.
Thanks, Bill. You’re so right about President Obama and the theme of hope. It’s what keeps us putting one foot in front of the other, day by day.
So sorry, Jackie, that your sister is struggling with Alzheimers. It’s so hard seeing our loved ones going through this terrible disease. I will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers.
Such wise words Jackie! Thank you! I agree, the contrast is enormous! I focus on the light
Good Morning 😊, Everyone 😆
XRAY ROTTEN FOOT DAY,,,BBL…………..TO CHECK ON THE ENERGIZER……………….BLESSINGS EVERYONE!
Something’s not right.
❤💞☯☮🕉
U.S. creates 287,000 jobs in June; unemployment 4.9% http://on.mktw.net/29tLqOv
Good grief! What is the Orange man going to say about that? And I don’t mean John Boehner.
287,000 jobs added for June
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Friday. TGIF>> Congrats Bob, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD”ders. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you have a simply charming, marvelous, and fantastic day today. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
The Dallas shooting has moved the two killings by police to the back burner by the news stations.
I’m still mourning their deaths.
Let me just go on the record by saying that my bullshit dectector is sounding alarm bells at the Dallas Police Chief’s “report”….
Talked a little about this on the last thread hf. At this stage I’m wondering if they even know they have the right people. The media will have convicted every black person from the President down while Dallas power brokers are deciding what to say.
I am feeling very lucky that our issue at the minute is “will anyone be able to form a government”. I feel so very deeply for my online friends at TOD.
AMEN to this…why is he shielding the Identity of the suspects…
Not only that, but he’s already releasing info pointing to possible racial motivations of the dead gunman, while claiming he isn’t releasing anything about the suspects.
this is all wrong…
“Kill the whiteys”
rrriiight.
My point exactly….putting words in a dead gunman’s mouth…
The NRA and gun nuts built this. In most states, the sight of someone with a rifle would be cause to ALERT AUTHORITIES. Not in Texas. Because they can walk in broad daylight with a rifle and nobody could say shyt. The police had to trust on faith that those rifles were not loaded. This is the summer. You just couldn’t have a rifle with you and not be noticed.
Without open carry, the sniper could never have gotten that close to their target. They would have had to hide and set up. By having to do so, the likelihood of someone seeing something and calling 911 goes up. The sniper was literally able to hide in plain sight and get up close to the intended target because of open carry.
AWEsome comment
Absolutely, TX and the NRA own this.
Exactly! Excellent observation.
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Sorry for the duplicate post.
Well.. This is from one of the star TEs Marty Bennett on the patriots team… Writing a letter titled -Dear black boy:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/07/08/martellus-bennett-writes-letter-dear-black-boy-in-support-of-black-lives-matter-movement/?cid=twitter_985thesportshub
jovie, despite the title, the article is very uplifting and empowering. I hope more people disregard the title and read Martellus’ article.
But the Mayor can’t release info about the suspects
and it continues…..
I awoke this morning and heard this awful news. I turned on CNN and looked at the two male white presenters and said something’s not right..i kept looking and listening and said to myself ‘the shooters not identified, no one is saying..mmmm, they must be white’….I prayed ….regardless of the colour let someone in all of this finally awake to the horror of guns, the horror of hate, the horror of racism…keep praying TODers and GET INVOLVED in your community, no matter how insignificant you think your contribution may be..
That is all. Good morning everyone
An AR-15 is not a snipers rifle.
An M-22 or M-24 are snipers preference on a battle field.
How the hell did they get these weapons?
That’s impossible!
I would be curious to find out if that’s true about snipers weapons? 🤔
Oops m-21 … Stupid typo🤔
These snipers were not amateurs ….
What kind of guns? I’m very curious ? This is important issue of determining.
what kind of guns and were they legally obtained?
I’m seriously going to start unfriending people that aren’t taking this gun violence epidemic seriously. I hope the gun nutters are enjoying themselves.
The ONLY answer … ever ….
Highly likely that other ‘suspects’ exist in this coordinated terrorist attack on the police (and anyone near them, btw) …
Tragically, the answer is not a simple ‘no’ …
But still no pic of the suspect
Since he was blown up, I’m wondering how they are identifying him and locating a picture? Are the other suspects talking?
great questions…
Dylaan Roof, wanted to kill black people and he did. He went to a church and kill nine of them.
He got a sandwich from the policemen who arrested him because he was hungry.
The sniper thing is something I can’t get past. That’s a certain skillset that, even in gun crazy America, is not easy to acquire. Is it easier to acquire than I think?
I feel you, rikyrah, I hear you.
i think these are good questions…and were they waiting for just an opportunity to attack…i would think that this was not a spontaneous attack
Yet again, the #NEWSTAINMENT Industry wrecks & seriously endangers a person’s life ….
bbl …
Just watching clips of CNN idiots on twitter is sickening. I don’t know how people do it every day.
Also. Too. “msm”.
Even effing bbc has become the murkan emmessem.
Wow, that’s a shame. Nowhere to turn for basic information that isn’t loaded with emo RW slop.
Depends on what your watching.
LIVE NOW: Congrssional Black Caucus Briefing – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Rep. Lewis speaking now.
THIS is what I live by. THIS x100000000000000000.
Off topic: THADD US missile defense system being deployed in South Korea for defense purposes against the north.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0ZO084?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=577fba1604d30101b8ff1c56&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
👊👀 then at the end of the article it gives you why trunp is against it??
Really?
I blame the police officers involved in the shooting in Baton Rouge and elsewhere for what has happened in Dallas. Period.
The Legacy of racism..hatred….slavery…will continue to bite us…we need as Bob has said…
Truth and Reconciliation….
these things do not happen in a vacuum…there is a cause and effect…..America can no longer afford to pretend that it will go away…it has to faced…and then dealt with honestly…#Truth&Reconciliation….
AMEN TO THAT GIRL!!!!
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/08/deaths-5-dallas-cops-republicans-admit-gun-reform.html
Republicans are wrapping themselves in support for law enforcement after 5 Dallas police officers were killed in a sniper attack, but the Republicans are refusing to acknowledge that the killer or killers were easily able to buy weapons that were more powerful than what law enforcement possessed.
When the police figure out what kind of guns they were, it will determine a whole heck of a lot.
Until then… Everything else is just speciation and RW ass covering!
thanks for this jovie
Coming Up: Attorney General Loretta Lynch Deliver Remarks on Police Killings in Dallas – http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=1
a lil Marvin Gaye
Thanks, pf. I’ve been thinking of him and this song a lot.
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((pf))
I live in an Urban Area.
Dallas is an Urban Area.
I see someone with a regular gun, let alone a RIFLE, and I’m calling 911.
How many law abiding citizens saw him with that rifle – before he got to the protest?
5?
15?
40?
And, in NORMAL circumstances, not all, but most, would have done what I would have done – call 911.
BUT, because of Texas’ Open Carry Law……the law abiding concerned citizen could do NOTHING.
Where’s the NRA’s Statement?
This was THEIR law.
After all, isn’t it all we need are those who are armed to stop things like this?
WHO IS MORE ARMED THAN THE POLICE?
WHERE is the NRA’s Statement?
Sorry, fedex. Time to retire gracefully. No percentage in losing to journeymen pedestrians like raonic.
AS FAMILY INDEED!
GEEZE, Comey has been so irresponsible.
That’s what they SAY they are for! What they DO with these weapons is exactly what they were designed to do. Kill. If these weapons were being bought for protection of someone’s home and property solely….we would not be awash in death. This is a lie. Self protection is bs…based on fear.
And as for hunting- yes, they were using them for hunting people of color or anyone who disagrees with them. Nobody was after them, so the self-protection is bs, like you say !
There are now MORE GUNS, THAN PEOPLE in the US!!! Sinful.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/05/guns-in-the-united-states-one-for-every-man-woman-and-child-and-then-some/
President Barack Obama yawns as he attends the meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the Warsaw NATO Summit
I don’t think I’ve ever seen him yawn. I’m sure he got very little sleep last night.
HE’LL GET YOU FOR THIS….LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL…POOR ENERGIZER..HE’S ALWAYS WORKNG OVERTIME AND HIS HEART IS BROKEN OVER THIS VIOLENCE..<3
Dallas shooter is said to be an Army veteran. I guess that explains his training.
MY DEAR THERE ARE ALOT OF EX-SERVICE ALLEGED PATRIOTS LOADING UP…………………….
Undoubtedly …
…. it’s never a good time to interrupt business for the #WeaponsProfiteers ….
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/07/08/president-obama-on-the-shooting-in-dallas/
Hearing President Obama’s strong, rational, calm and steady voice on any topic is a blessing.
THANK YOU..I HAVE BEEN WONDERING HOW HE IS DOING…:)
SENT TO MY FB…………………:)