Thanks, CEB:) So far, so good! A little “warm” here to have school start so early in the year… (keeps getting earlier!) but they didn’t ask me! Kids are great, though…so that’s a plus. Have a great day yourself… thank you bunches, Nerdy:)
Good morning, DF and happy school year. Teaching is the most exhausting, emotionally draining, and most rewarding profession there is, I think. I did it for over 40 years, and will miss it this year, I know, but it is time too leave it to the young ones. Glad people like you are still in there.
In response to Did we already know this…..I think PBO knew/knows this. He has just been so calm about this election. I have a feeling he knows the roof is about to come crashing down on DT. I am loving the Olympics and watching PBO have a good vacation. Such a relief from the frenzy of this past year. PBO reminds me of the slogan “Keep calm and carry on.”
Morning, carolyn! Thank you so much for the kind and encouraging words…means a lot to me. I do agree about PBO and DT mess…I’m not afraid that he will win anymore, like I once was…but now I just hope that with each passing day, another Republican looses their seat and the rest of America begins to face reality and get a clue….going back 50 years until now….hope reality sets in and Hillary cleans house, literally. He is a mess and a menace and I hope that his brand ends up in the toilet and he gets lots of eyeballs on his business practices.
I am calm. I love the Olympics and enjoying them every night…hard to turn off the tv and get to sleep:) Summer Olympics are my favorite..Enjoy the day and thanks again!
How much does Trump and his team need to do before we start asking serious questions about whether they’re a Manchurian Candidate campaign actively working on behalf of a foreign nation? Trump’s campaign manager is deep in with Putin cronies, the Putin regime is very likely behind the hacking on Democratic organizations to benefit Trump, his campaign worked to soften anti-Putin and anti-Russia language in the GOP platform, and his finances and investments are enmeshed with Russian cronies–which may be a key reason why he refuses to release his tax returns.
Can you imagine what Fox News and Rush Limbaugh would be saying if these things were true of a Democratic candidate for president? They would be openly demanding a trial for treason and using “Rosenberg” as a nickname.
Congratulations to you, desertflower and to all teachers, active and retired. President Obama looks marvelous in those delicious blues and greens (just sayin’)!
Today is the first day of school in my area of NE Fla. I am a recently retired teacher who will be spending the morning in the blessed quiet drinking coffee and hanging out in the TOD village.
Retirement initially seems strange – with a sense of loss & not knowing what to do next. I found this changes with the realisation that life does not evolve around an alarm clock & the calm of coffee and TOD in the mornings is a delight. Enjoy the peace you have earned as you enjoyed the job you did well for all those years.
Thanks much; I was one of those hard-driving Language Arts teachers who left little energy for a personal life. I am enjoying every minute of my retirement.
Congratulations on your retirement. I, too, am a teacher; I teach 8th grade US History and still have 1.5 weeks to go, 2 weeks until I start teaching. I bet you will be loving this week…
He will be crushed. The media was his best chance for a win & he’s turned on it because …. stupid. The joy is watching him take down those running with him – whether they support him or attack him, they are losing votes somewhere.
Thank you for the pictures of the golfer Nerdy. He must so love being out of DC at the minute. Watching the GOP implode while wandering around the golf course.
The country and most of the world could have avoided the disaster that is DT if the media and the GOP had not hyped him as a way to try to humiliate PBO. They now realize that they have authored their own destruction. I hope and pray that we can stop them from bringing down the rest of us. It is more than ironic that that the country’s savior, our last hope, is a woman that both groups have tried to destroy for almost 30 years.
One of the curious hallmarks of modern conservative culture is the stubborn adherence to ideology and “known truths” even in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary. A half century ago the stereotype was that liberals were the starry-eyed purveyors of untested ideologies and assertions about the essential goodness of human nature, even as conservatives played the role of sober grandfathers who tempered liberal passions with doses of reality. This was never really the case even back then, but it was much closer to the truth than it is now.
Today, it is Republicans whose assertions about the nature of world consistently meet with rejection by reality. Supply-side economics is a proven failure. Climate change is real. Abstinence education doesn’t work. Giving money to the underprivileged doesn’t make them lazy, but rather strengthens the entire community. Tax cuts don’t spur growth, especially when given to the wealthy. Letting gay people get married doesn’t bring down God’s wrath on the nation. Wall Street doesn’t function well when it’s allowed to regulate itself. Letting the private insurance market dictate healthcare costs leads to worse outcomes. And so on.
As confidence grows that Trump will lose in November, speculation is already beginning about the first 100 days of a new hypothetical Clinton administration. Top of the list is filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by the passing of justice Antonin Scalia.
In theory, a Clinton Administration supported by a Democratic Senate majority should be able to reshape the court in a significantly more liberal direction. But it seems increasingly likely that Clinton’s hands will be tied by the Obama Administration’s decision to nominate a centrist in Merrick Garland in the hopes of compromise with the current GOP. Democratic Senators are already pushing for Clinton not to displace Garland with a more liberal choice in the interest of “preserving political capital.”
PBO stopped trying to work with the GOP in 2011 when he realised they didn’t want to work with his administration. He nominated Garland because he sees Garland as the best person for the job – not because of anything the GOP might want.
Perhaps in October but definitely in November the Senate will suddenly decide to give Garland a vote.
I saw the mother of Gabby Douglas talking on CNN News Day about how heart broken Gabby is over the bullying she has been getting. From her hair, to her not putting her hand over her heart when the National Anthem were being play, from her not smiling enough. People show can be hateful, specially now that they can hide behind the computer.
Actually, Gabby was being correct. We were taught in school that we were to put our hand over our heart during the Pledge. Then to stand at attention with our arms at our sides during the National anthem. This hand over the heart during the anthem is one more thing the right wing has added to test “patriotism.” It was not the protocol originally. Check out pictures from 50s and 60s….I think you’ll see this.
I don’t put my hand over my heart when I sing the National anthem. I stand at attention with my arms at my side. There is a difference between the pledge and the anthem. I’m so tired of this phony “patriotism” stuff, like flag pins.
The hand over heart controversy was a big push against Obama during the 2008 campaign. That was the first time I got a forwarded email from someone I thought was a friend of a picture of Obama standing in a slight diagonal line (he was in front) with him having his hand by his sides and the other few politicians having their hands over their hearts. The heading on the photo was something like Obama will not even pledge his allegiance to our country. He was asked in one of the debates about the photo. He said this was not the pledge of allegiance, but the National Anthem and that his grandfather who had served in the military taught him to remove his hat and stand at attention to show respect when the National Anthem was played. At the time I thought about I had never seen people put their hands over their heart or did myself other than the pledge of allegiance. I started looking at TV games where the anthem was played and did not see this either. Manufactured reasons to hate someone which is the definition of prejudice.
So, there are legal proceedings going on because a chef who was under contract to work at Donald Trump’s big new Trump International Hotel in Washington DC pulled out of the contract last year after he heard Trump’s anti-Mexican tirade during the speech he made announcing his candidacy.
Well lets see…according to Republicans, they shouldn’t have to do business with you if you are gay or if your religious beliefs differ from theirs. And probably if you are a POC, too, although they don’t say that one out loud too often. But God forbid you decide not to do business with them because you think they are racist. That’s grounds to sue you.
There once was a time when a picture of a President out golfing only included white men. Or a picture of a President in the oval office with his staff only included white men. Just the visual of a black President in the oval office talking to other black men or black women or white women will go a long way in establishing a mindset in children that anything is possible. My favorite pictures of President Obama are when he’s in a picture with Susan Rice, I just think Susan Rice is an extraordinary woman.
She is brilliant, fierce and fearless (she kicked ass without apologies when she was our UN Ambassador) and always “in the room where it happens.” She is also tiny; in this photo she is standing on a riser.
Late in the 2016 primary season, GOP donors and groups look to send a message by declaring open war on several House Freedom Caucus-endorsed candidates.
The tea party has spent six years causing trouble for establishment Republicans in primaries, and Donald Trump mopped the floor with them on his way to the party’s presidential nomination. But suddenly, with the 2016 primary season winding down, the establishment is going on offense, pushing back hard against candidates backed by the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus, including defeated GOP Rep. Tim Huelskamp — setting the stage for a titanic intra-Republican fight during the next Congress.
A collection of Republican donors and operatives loosely organized around several super PACs decided this summer to adopt newly aggressive tactics against GOP “obstructionists” — or as John Hart, a former aide to ex-Sen. Tom Coburn, calls them: “Rebels In Name Only” — after years of growing tea-party influence in Republican primaries and the halls of Congress.
Low-profile House candidates from Kansas to Georgia watched in astonishment this summer as hundreds of thousands of super PAC dollars poured into their primaries. The top aide for Roger Marshall, the Republican who beat Huelskamp in his Kansas primary, remembers sitting in his car when his phone pinged with news that donors unknown were about to inject a half-million dollars into rural Western Kansas.
Like 8years too late, people. Where you been all these years while this country has had to deal with these idiots, and our President has had to spend countless hours finding ways to work around these numbskulls. It takes a Donald Trump for you to wake up out of your power and money induced coma to realize the sh*t has hit the fan for your party. One lousy little effort you now make as your party slides down the grease lined drain into oblivion. Do not expect me to ever consider your judgement on anything, including the color of the sky or the time of day, cuz this girl is totally done with you. Same goes for you, too, MSM.
Much organizing is taking place in my home state of PA…..
i plan to do my part..signed up to do phone banking….my daughter is part of the door to door organizing…(she is bringing my granddaughter along for the ride)…It is ONNNNN in PA!!
You know, here’s the thing about Hillbilly Elegy, Thomas Frank, &c. We have two political parties. People are going to vote for the other one. We’re not going to have some sort of gathering of the tribes where the Democrats get all the women, all the people of color, all the LGBT people, all the college-educated white straight men, AND all the non-college-educated white straight men. Let the people who vote for Republicans demand that THE REPUBLICANS do something for them. We already know what Democrats do for them, which is a lot. If they don’t like it, well, at a certain point that’s their problem to figure out.
This is terrific as overview of the Obama princesses, JER (even for someone like me who’s not into fashion)! 😀 😀 😀 THANKS so very much for bringing it to my/our attention.
Great grandson arrived for his first day of Kindergarten, armed with a million school supplies and a loaded lunch box – the latter was big enough (in the photos we received) to carry a Thanksgiving dinner. Ha. Mommy was able to slip away, when the teacher had them all start to draw a dragon. No tears seen.
I could cry, myself, though! He’ll be calling to give me his “first day of school quote,” like the rest of his Mommy’s generation have (even the one who called with her “first day of college quote” a few years ago!). The first school quote I wrote down was his Mommy’s on her first day of Kindergarten. Time flies. Now where are those tissues!?!
Lovely.. my granddaughter, Matilda, starts kindergarten in Sept. Hard to believe. Her first year and a half I was her child care two days a week, as my wife was still working.
Thanks for this lovely story. I go to visit my granddaughter tomorrow for a few days. She is 8 months old today and has just learned to crawl. Your story made me think back to her mother’s first day at school, and I realize how fast time flies. Before I know it I will be receiving a picture of my granddaughter on her first day at Kindergarten. Tearing up at the thought. {{{jacquelineoboomer}}}
GM West Coast. GA, GE and happy tomorrow to the rest of you. Congrats df on first.
Love all the photos, Nerdy, of our POTUS relaxing. So nice to see him out in the fresh air and sunshine. I can’t imagine living in any house where you could not open the windows on a lovely day. So he must really enjoy his time away from DC.
Enough. Need to catch up on everyone’s great posts.
How wonderful…
For years, parishioners at the Calvary Hill Community
Church have learned to live by the code.
Now their children are learning a different kind:
computer code.
The San Francisco church is one of the first to
take part in an initiative from Rev. Jesse Jackson’s
Rainbow PUSH Coalition to forge a new generation
of computer programmers. Jackson is reaching
out to African Americans in their spiritual
homes with FAITHTECH Labs, an initiative that
provides access to computers for all ages and coding
classes for young people.
So far, Rainbow PUSH has opened tech labs
at Calvary Hill in San Francisco, in its Chicago
headquarters and in a church in Greenville, S.C.,
Jackson’s hometown. Two more are slated to open
soon — inside Greater St. Paul Church in Oakland
and Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in
Richmond, Calif. — with a third planned for a
Chicago church.
Each tech lab is equipped with laptop and desktop
computers, printers, servers and networking
technology donated by HP. In many cases the new
equipment is replacing slow, broken-down computers
that frequently crash, frustrating church users,
young and old.
“We have to get a whole new generation ‘code
ready,’ to produce thousands of young people who
can fill the pipeline to the technology industry,”
Jackson told USA TODAY. “If not us, who will?”
FAITHTECH Labs is part of Rainbow PUSH’s
1,000 Churches Connected Program, which supplies
technology to boost financial literacy and
now technological proficiency.
Valerie Cooper, associate professor of black
church studies at the Duke Divinity School, says
Jackson recognizes “the power of black churches in
black communities.”
For decades, churches have served as a cornerstone
of the African-American community and
an organizing base for the civil rights and social
justice movements. Nearly eight in 10 African
Americans say religion is very important in their
lives, significantly more than the 59% of the U.S.
adult population overall who agree, according to
research conducted by the Pew Research Center
in 2009. Churches not only play a central role in
African-American life, they offer far more than
Sunday services, cont
President Obama is golfing today at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown.
August 12, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama at Vineyard Golf Club.
This is my “Jury Duty” call-in week. I would have preferred going in today and not getting called for a trial, then I would be done for the year, but, alas, I will do my daily call in and see what happens.
Yes, and yes, CD! 🙂 We did both last week; however, offspring cancelled his return flight this past Saturday so we’ve both been bemoaning the fact that we have no more WW to watch this week. Yesterday we tried Episode1, Season 1 of Downtown Abbey but it just didn’t *grab* either of us.
If you have time watch “The Newsroom”. Such a great series, and also by Aaron Sorkin. It uses actual new events for its stories, and we watch how the newsroom reacts to these stories, and how they put together that evening’s new. Here is a link to the first 8 minutes of the first episode. You don’t see the newsroom stuff, but you do see how well written the show is and the slant it takes. It is brilliant!!
Thanks for the thought, CD. I actually saw a few trailers (?) before the show started and was very intrigued but couldn’t see it from here at the time. I recently watched Episode 1 of Newsroom on line while I was awaiting the delivery of our WW order and didn’t want to cheat (offspring) by peeking. I truly liked the story line and several of the personalities I ‘met’. However, I am squeamish about swearing (particularly the gratuitous kind) and thought there was too much there to make me continue watching. Offspring is the same – swearing tends to jar us, thus detracting from the whole. A pity, really.
The first comes from a blogger at Daily Kos with the screen name mt41w. He attended the opening of a field office in “deeply red” Mason.
The fact that Hillary’s ground game is focused, extremely competent, hard-working and ready to GOTV was plain with the opening of the Mason, Ohio office on Wednesday evening August 10th. This was one of seven offices “opening for business” Wednesday in Ohio…
Tax returns take on new importance as a 2016 campaign issue
08/15/16 08:47 AM—UPDATED 08/15/16 08:59 AM
By Steve Benen
Donald Trump has been quite clear that he has no intention of releasing his tax returns, despite the norms established by presidential nominees in both parties over the last several decades. That does not, however, mean that the Republican candidate can make the issue go away through his obstinacy.
Oh yeah! Alrighty then: Pebumbral Eclipse of the Moon: August 18th, 2016. 25.52 Leo. This eclipse is visible during Moonset from South America (except easternmost part) and eastern half of North America; during full eclipse from Western North America, eastern tip of Russia, Bering Sea, Aleutians Islands; and during Moonrise from the Marshall Islands, Australia, eastern half of Indonesia, Japan, North and South Korea. 5:26am ET. 2:26am PT. I think someone will be heading up to the rooftop in the middle of the night for this one!!
Morning!
Good morning, DF.
Have a great school year.
GM, NW; thanks for opening the store.
Thanks, CEB:) So far, so good! A little “warm” here to have school start so early in the year… (keeps getting earlier!) but they didn’t ask me! Kids are great, though…so that’s a plus. Have a great day yourself… thank you bunches, Nerdy:)
Did we already know this? Freakshow
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/14/trumps-world-crashes-secret-stash-putin-cash-campaign-manager-uncovered.html
Good morning, DF and happy school year. Teaching is the most exhausting, emotionally draining, and most rewarding profession there is, I think. I did it for over 40 years, and will miss it this year, I know, but it is time too leave it to the young ones. Glad people like you are still in there.
In response to Did we already know this…..I think PBO knew/knows this. He has just been so calm about this election. I have a feeling he knows the roof is about to come crashing down on DT. I am loving the Olympics and watching PBO have a good vacation. Such a relief from the frenzy of this past year. PBO reminds me of the slogan “Keep calm and carry on.”
Morning, carolyn! Thank you so much for the kind and encouraging words…means a lot to me. I do agree about PBO and DT mess…I’m not afraid that he will win anymore, like I once was…but now I just hope that with each passing day, another Republican looses their seat and the rest of America begins to face reality and get a clue….going back 50 years until now….hope reality sets in and Hillary cleans house, literally. He is a mess and a menace and I hope that his brand ends up in the toilet and he gets lots of eyeballs on his business practices.
I am calm. I love the Olympics and enjoying them every night…hard to turn off the tv and get to sleep:) Summer Olympics are my favorite..Enjoy the day and thanks again!
More from Washington Monthly….this is serious.
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/08/15/just-how-deep-do-trumps-and-manaforts-putin-underworld-ties-go/
How much does Trump and his team need to do before we start asking serious questions about whether they’re a Manchurian Candidate campaign actively working on behalf of a foreign nation? Trump’s campaign manager is deep in with Putin cronies, the Putin regime is very likely behind the hacking on Democratic organizations to benefit Trump, his campaign worked to soften anti-Putin and anti-Russia language in the GOP platform, and his finances and investments are enmeshed with Russian cronies–which may be a key reason why he refuses to release his tax returns.
Can you imagine what Fox News and Rush Limbaugh would be saying if these things were true of a Democratic candidate for president? They would be openly demanding a trial for treason and using “Rosenberg” as a nickname.
Congratulations to you, desertflower and to all teachers, active and retired. President Obama looks marvelous in those delicious blues and greens (just sayin’)!
Today is the first day of school in my area of NE Fla. I am a recently retired teacher who will be spending the morning in the blessed quiet drinking coffee and hanging out in the TOD village.
Retirement initially seems strange – with a sense of loss & not knowing what to do next. I found this changes with the realisation that life does not evolve around an alarm clock & the calm of coffee and TOD in the mornings is a delight. Enjoy the peace you have earned as you enjoyed the job you did well for all those years.
Thanks much; I was one of those hard-driving Language Arts teachers who left little energy for a personal life. I am enjoying every minute of my retirement.
Enjoy your retirement.
Thanks much; each day is one of almost limitless possibilities.
Congratulations on your retirement. I, too, am a teacher; I teach 8th grade US History and still have 1.5 weeks to go, 2 weeks until I start teaching. I bet you will be loving this week…
Good Morning NW and TOD.
gm JER – I posted on the last thread – Trump at 27% – can he go lower?
GM 99ts. Then there is this:
He will be crushed. The media was his best chance for a win & he’s turned on it because …. stupid. The joy is watching him take down those running with him – whether they support him or attack him, they are losing votes somewhere.
I like seeing that Hillary is like me and suffers from a bad hair day from time to time. Hee hee.
When I posted my comment I thought it would be directly under her picture.
GM TOD. Congrats on 1st desertflower
Thank you for the pictures of the golfer Nerdy. He must so love being out of DC at the minute. Watching the GOP implode while wandering around the golf course.
😀
The country and most of the world could have avoided the disaster that is DT if the media and the GOP had not hyped him as a way to try to humiliate PBO. They now realize that they have authored their own destruction. I hope and pray that we can stop them from bringing down the rest of us. It is more than ironic that that the country’s savior, our last hope, is a woman that both groups have tried to destroy for almost 30 years.
To the Hillary Clinton campaign and supporters, please don’t get over confidence. Let’s keep battling, moving forward, going after Trump.
I’m with you, bella! We have to work like we’re losing and make this a crushing, humiliating defeat.
house & senate should be the goal.
Agree 100%.
They have just moved a top campaigner into Georgia Bella – they are not stopping until Trump suffers a defeat not seen in the GOP since 1964
Yes Bella!
YES, Bella! You’re 100% right about what we need to do.
True; we continue to work everyday because anything can happen. It is not over until it is over.
Good Morning, Everyone:)
As Trump’s Chances Dwindle, In Come the Conservative Fantasy Peddlers
by David Atkins
August 14, 2016 6:33 AM
One of the curious hallmarks of modern conservative culture is the stubborn adherence to ideology and “known truths” even in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary. A half century ago the stereotype was that liberals were the starry-eyed purveyors of untested ideologies and assertions about the essential goodness of human nature, even as conservatives played the role of sober grandfathers who tempered liberal passions with doses of reality. This was never really the case even back then, but it was much closer to the truth than it is now.
Today, it is Republicans whose assertions about the nature of world consistently meet with rejection by reality. Supply-side economics is a proven failure. Climate change is real. Abstinence education doesn’t work. Giving money to the underprivileged doesn’t make them lazy, but rather strengthens the entire community. Tax cuts don’t spur growth, especially when given to the wealthy. Letting gay people get married doesn’t bring down God’s wrath on the nation. Wall Street doesn’t function well when it’s allowed to regulate itself. Letting the private insurance market dictate healthcare costs leads to worse outcomes. And so on.
#ALL50
Yes, TOD, that should be our rallying objective between now and the time the polls close on 8 Nov 2016.
#ALL50
YES WE CAN
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Thank you, once again, NW!!!
Congrats df 🙂
The Garland Pre-Compromise Is Already Sabotaging Clinton’s First 100 Days
by David Atkins
August 13, 2016 3:12 PM
As confidence grows that Trump will lose in November, speculation is already beginning about the first 100 days of a new hypothetical Clinton administration. Top of the list is filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by the passing of justice Antonin Scalia.
In theory, a Clinton Administration supported by a Democratic Senate majority should be able to reshape the court in a significantly more liberal direction. But it seems increasingly likely that Clinton’s hands will be tied by the Obama Administration’s decision to nominate a centrist in Merrick Garland in the hopes of compromise with the current GOP. Democratic Senators are already pushing for Clinton not to displace Garland with a more liberal choice in the interest of “preserving political capital.”
More spinning to distract voters that should RUSH to the polls comes November 8.
I agree…and also…to divide the Obama Coalition from Hillary…..Let’s keep our eyes on the prize…..Moving Foward>>>>>>>>…#YesWeCan #StrongerTogether
what a load of bs.
I’m with you – bullshit. A mindphuck for the weakminded
PBO stopped trying to work with the GOP in 2011 when he realised they didn’t want to work with his administration. He nominated Garland because he sees Garland as the best person for the job – not because of anything the GOP might want.
Perhaps in October but definitely in November the Senate will suddenly decide to give Garland a vote.
Absolutely agree, that was the basis for Garland’s selection, and similarly with PBO’s earlier SC nominees.
Good West Coast morning TOD & NW. Congrats DF on First 😘
It’s 70 F already this morning. Gonna be a hot one today ☀️
I saw the mother of Gabby Douglas talking on CNN News Day about how heart broken Gabby is over the bullying she has been getting. From her hair, to her not putting her hand over her heart when the National Anthem were being play, from her not smiling enough. People show can be hateful, specially now that they can hide behind the computer.
Actually, Gabby was being correct. We were taught in school that we were to put our hand over our heart during the Pledge. Then to stand at attention with our arms at our sides during the National anthem. This hand over the heart during the anthem is one more thing the right wing has added to test “patriotism.” It was not the protocol originally. Check out pictures from 50s and 60s….I think you’ll see this.
I don’t put my hand over my heart when I sing the National anthem. I stand at attention with my arms at my side. There is a difference between the pledge and the anthem. I’m so tired of this phony “patriotism” stuff, like flag pins.
Exactly Carolyn, just how I remember being taught also. With you completely on this BS patriotic test… created for “some” of us.
Exactly!
The hand over heart controversy was a big push against Obama during the 2008 campaign. That was the first time I got a forwarded email from someone I thought was a friend of a picture of Obama standing in a slight diagonal line (he was in front) with him having his hand by his sides and the other few politicians having their hands over their hearts. The heading on the photo was something like Obama will not even pledge his allegiance to our country. He was asked in one of the debates about the photo. He said this was not the pledge of allegiance, but the National Anthem and that his grandfather who had served in the military taught him to remove his hat and stand at attention to show respect when the National Anthem was played. At the time I thought about I had never seen people put their hands over their heart or did myself other than the pledge of allegiance. I started looking at TV games where the anthem was played and did not see this either. Manufactured reasons to hate someone which is the definition of prejudice.
Trump Can’t Apologize to Save His Business
by BooMan
Sat Aug 13th, 2016 at 12:02:42 PM EST
So, there are legal proceedings going on because a chef who was under contract to work at Donald Trump’s big new Trump International Hotel in Washington DC pulled out of the contract last year after he heard Trump’s anti-Mexican tirade during the speech he made announcing his candidacy.
Well lets see…according to Republicans, they shouldn’t have to do business with you if you are gay or if your religious beliefs differ from theirs. And probably if you are a POC, too, although they don’t say that one out loud too often. But God forbid you decide not to do business with them because you think they are racist. That’s grounds to sue you.
Wow, wow, wow!!!!
What a fine looking group of Black men up there!
The best sight for a Monday morning already hot….The most exquisite panorama.
There once was a time when a picture of a President out golfing only included white men. Or a picture of a President in the oval office with his staff only included white men. Just the visual of a black President in the oval office talking to other black men or black women or white women will go a long way in establishing a mindset in children that anything is possible. My favorite pictures of President Obama are when he’s in a picture with Susan Rice, I just think Susan Rice is an extraordinary woman.
So true, Don.
thank you JER….thank yu so much for your contributions to the diary….
My pleasure pf.
She is brilliant, fierce and fearless (she kicked ass without apologies when she was our UN Ambassador) and always “in the room where it happens.” She is also tiny; in this photo she is standing on a riser.
AMENNNNNNN…and this can NEVER be taken away…Never!!!!
#YesWeCan #StrongerTogether
Yahoo!!
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-biden-clinton-scranton-20160815-snap-story.html
Joe Biden to campaign with Hillary Clinton, making the case for her to working-class voters
Watch Live: Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden Rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania – August 15, 2016 1:00 PM
🙂 🙂 Thanks, JER!
You are welcome, DF.
THIS LOOKS GREAT! h/t BJ
oh I cannot wait for that movie. I will be taking my granddaughter to it too. It looks so brilliant.
They should have called it the History of #BLACKEXCELLENCE: Part 2 million
I am so thankful to be alive to see so much truth finally being revealed. It matters who is producing and directing the media that we see.
I am so excited about this film. Can’t wait to go see it.
YES!
’bout time they showed our contributions!
Thanks DF 🙂
Yes it is, GGail. Good Monday morning to you.
Oh, WOW, just WOW! Must see!
The GOP establishment strikes back
Late in the 2016 primary season, GOP donors and groups look to send a message by declaring open war on several House Freedom Caucus-endorsed candidates.
The tea party has spent six years causing trouble for establishment Republicans in primaries, and Donald Trump mopped the floor with them on his way to the party’s presidential nomination. But suddenly, with the 2016 primary season winding down, the establishment is going on offense, pushing back hard against candidates backed by the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus, including defeated GOP Rep. Tim Huelskamp — setting the stage for a titanic intra-Republican fight during the next Congress.
A collection of Republican donors and operatives loosely organized around several super PACs decided this summer to adopt newly aggressive tactics against GOP “obstructionists” — or as John Hart, a former aide to ex-Sen. Tom Coburn, calls them: “Rebels In Name Only” — after years of growing tea-party influence in Republican primaries and the halls of Congress.
Low-profile House candidates from Kansas to Georgia watched in astonishment this summer as hundreds of thousands of super PAC dollars poured into their primaries. The top aide for Roger Marshall, the Republican who beat Huelskamp in his Kansas primary, remembers sitting in his car when his phone pinged with news that donors unknown were about to inject a half-million dollars into rural Western Kansas.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/gop-establishment-strikes-back-house-freedom-caucus-226997
popcorn times.
Like 8years too late, people. Where you been all these years while this country has had to deal with these idiots, and our President has had to spend countless hours finding ways to work around these numbskulls. It takes a Donald Trump for you to wake up out of your power and money induced coma to realize the sh*t has hit the fan for your party. One lousy little effort you now make as your party slides down the grease lined drain into oblivion. Do not expect me to ever consider your judgement on anything, including the color of the sky or the time of day, cuz this girl is totally done with you. Same goes for you, too, MSM.
My
$0.02$100The HRC team should concentrate on
A-list: FL, OH, NC & PA
B-list: AZ, GA, VA & TX
Much organizing is taking place in my home state of PA…..
i plan to do my part..signed up to do phone banking….my daughter is part of the door to door organizing…(she is bringing my granddaughter along for the ride)…It is ONNNNN in PA!!
#YesWeCan #StrongerTogether
What a beautiful story!
bj poster
You know, here’s the thing about Hillbilly Elegy, Thomas Frank, &c. We have two political parties. People are going to vote for the other one. We’re not going to have some sort of gathering of the tribes where the Democrats get all the women, all the people of color, all the LGBT people, all the college-educated white straight men, AND all the non-college-educated white straight men. Let the people who vote for Republicans demand that THE REPUBLICANS do something for them. We already know what Democrats do for them, which is a lot. If they don’t like it, well, at a certain point that’s their problem to figure out.
The Stunning Transformation Of The Obama Sisters
This is terrific as overview of the Obama princesses, JER (even for someone like me who’s not into fashion)! 😀 😀 😀 THANKS so very much for bringing it to my/our attention.
beebs fp all day long. some south african woman jailed because she kidnapped a baby 20 years ago.
sheesh.
Great grandson arrived for his first day of Kindergarten, armed with a million school supplies and a loaded lunch box – the latter was big enough (in the photos we received) to carry a Thanksgiving dinner. Ha. Mommy was able to slip away, when the teacher had them all start to draw a dragon. No tears seen.
I could cry, myself, though! He’ll be calling to give me his “first day of school quote,” like the rest of his Mommy’s generation have (even the one who called with her “first day of college quote” a few years ago!). The first school quote I wrote down was his Mommy’s on her first day of Kindergarten. Time flies. Now where are those tissues!?!
What a beautiful tradition. Please share some of the quotes.
awwwwwwwwwww
That is so lovely!
Lovely.. my granddaughter, Matilda, starts kindergarten in Sept. Hard to believe. Her first year and a half I was her child care two days a week, as my wife was still working.
Thanks for this lovely story. I go to visit my granddaughter tomorrow for a few days. She is 8 months old today and has just learned to crawl. Your story made me think back to her mother’s first day at school, and I realize how fast time flies. Before I know it I will be receiving a picture of my granddaughter on her first day at Kindergarten. Tearing up at the thought. {{{jacquelineoboomer}}}
I’ve felt like crying for days! {{{cd4biden}}} 🙂
Ari Berman is perfoming a might service to #WeThePeople
Good that some of them are waking up to the reality of this monster.
Don’t trust a God damned one of them. They vote the “team” regardless of basic common sense and human decency.
At least, they might be disgusted enough not to vote. Still a win.
Indeed.
G’morning Nerdy & TOD! Congrats to df on #1, and Happy Monday everyone 🙂
Thank you amk!!!!!
back to work ….
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YES WE CAN
GM West Coast. GA, GE and happy tomorrow to the rest of you. Congrats df on first.
Love all the photos, Nerdy, of our POTUS relaxing. So nice to see him out in the fresh air and sunshine. I can’t imagine living in any house where you could not open the windows on a lovely day. So he must really enjoy his time away from DC.
Enough. Need to catch up on everyone’s great posts.
How wonderful…
For years, parishioners at the Calvary Hill Community
Church have learned to live by the code.
Now their children are learning a different kind:
computer code.
The San Francisco church is one of the first to
take part in an initiative from Rev. Jesse Jackson’s
Rainbow PUSH Coalition to forge a new generation
of computer programmers. Jackson is reaching
out to African Americans in their spiritual
homes with FAITHTECH Labs, an initiative that
provides access to computers for all ages and coding
classes for young people.
So far, Rainbow PUSH has opened tech labs
at Calvary Hill in San Francisco, in its Chicago
headquarters and in a church in Greenville, S.C.,
Jackson’s hometown. Two more are slated to open
soon — inside Greater St. Paul Church in Oakland
and Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in
Richmond, Calif. — with a third planned for a
Chicago church.
Each tech lab is equipped with laptop and desktop
computers, printers, servers and networking
technology donated by HP. In many cases the new
equipment is replacing slow, broken-down computers
that frequently crash, frustrating church users,
young and old.
“We have to get a whole new generation ‘code
ready,’ to produce thousands of young people who
can fill the pipeline to the technology industry,”
Jackson told USA TODAY. “If not us, who will?”
FAITHTECH Labs is part of Rainbow PUSH’s
1,000 Churches Connected Program, which supplies
technology to boost financial literacy and
now technological proficiency.
Valerie Cooper, associate professor of black
church studies at the Duke Divinity School, says
Jackson recognizes “the power of black churches in
black communities.”
For decades, churches have served as a cornerstone
of the African-American community and
an organizing base for the civil rights and social
justice movements. Nearly eight in 10 African
Americans say religion is very important in their
lives, significantly more than the 59% of the U.S.
adult population overall who agree, according to
research conducted by the Pew Research Center
in 2009. Churches not only play a central role in
African-American life, they offer far more than
Sunday services, cont
Click to access 8-11-2016%20SBE%20Newspaper%20FINAL.pdf
President Obama is golfing today at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown.

August 12, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama at Vineyard Golf Club.
♫ Monday – Monday♫
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Hello there, TODobots! 🙂 🙂 May your day today be a couple of notches above what you dream!
Thank you, VC. Same wish for you.
Y, TY, NCLB! 😀 😀
Hello VC, good to see you so chipper today 🙂
😀 😀 Yea, I’m in a good mood.
🙂 Have yourself a lovely mid-August week!
You too sister, you too! 😀 😀
This is my “Jury Duty” call-in week. I would have preferred going in today and not getting called for a trial, then I would be done for the year, but, alas, I will do my daily call in and see what happens.
Keep Hope Alive 🙂
Keep Hope Alive, indeed. /whisper, I never mention “JD” out loud for fear of calling attention to myself./
I don’t blame you. LOL
Hello VC. Have you and offspring finished all 7 seasons of West Wing yet? And did you complete it before he had to return to school?
Yes, and yes, CD! 🙂 We did both last week; however, offspring cancelled his return flight this past Saturday so we’ve both been bemoaning the fact that we have no more WW to watch this week. Yesterday we tried Episode1, Season 1 of Downtown Abbey but it just didn’t *grab* either of us.
If you have time watch “The Newsroom”. Such a great series, and also by Aaron Sorkin. It uses actual new events for its stories, and we watch how the newsroom reacts to these stories, and how they put together that evening’s new. Here is a link to the first 8 minutes of the first episode. You don’t see the newsroom stuff, but you do see how well written the show is and the slant it takes. It is brilliant!!
Thanks for the thought, CD. I actually saw a few trailers (?) before the show started and was very intrigued but couldn’t see it from here at the time. I recently watched Episode 1 of Newsroom on line while I was awaiting the delivery of our WW order and didn’t want to cheat (offspring) by peeking. I truly liked the story line and several of the personalities I ‘met’. However, I am squeamish about swearing (particularly the gratuitous kind) and thought there was too much there to make me continue watching. Offspring is the same – swearing tends to jar us, thus detracting from the whole. A pity, really.
The first comes from a blogger at Daily Kos with the screen name mt41w. He attended the opening of a field office in “deeply red” Mason.
The fact that Hillary’s ground game is focused, extremely competent, hard-working and ready to GOTV was plain with the opening of the Mason, Ohio office on Wednesday evening August 10th. This was one of seven offices “opening for business” Wednesday in Ohio…
Since this is the middle of August I’m going for the bottom half of this pic and ignoring the top portion. 😉
Stunningly beautiful place, for sure!!! Thank you VC 🙂
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Hello to you, Sir Bobfr. 🙂 I know you are having a productive summer, but also, too (*wink*) hope you are having a great one!
Since I live in the PSW, I yearn for the snow-cap mountains which will yield water for us. I enjoy the beauty of the flowers 🙂
So, 😀 our preferences – yours and mine – balance things out for the-god-who-grants-preferences.
You are soooooo smart and pretty clever too 🙂
😀 😀 Did you mean, ‘You are soooooo smart, clever, and pretty too’? /practising my editing skills/ 😀 😀
Why yes, I did leave out a word – didn’t I. smh/LOL!!!
😀 😀
#ALL50
YES WE CAN
I’ll be sticking with #ALL50 until 8 Nov 2016, so please forgive 🙂
bbl, I hope ….
YES WE CAN
Tax returns take on new importance as a 2016 campaign issue
08/15/16 08:47 AM—UPDATED 08/15/16 08:59 AM
By Steve Benen
Donald Trump has been quite clear that he has no intention of releasing his tax returns, despite the norms established by presidential nominees in both parties over the last several decades. That does not, however, mean that the Republican candidate can make the issue go away through his obstinacy.
Oh yeah! Alrighty then: Pebumbral Eclipse of the Moon: August 18th, 2016. 25.52 Leo. This eclipse is visible during Moonset from South America (except easternmost part) and eastern half of North America; during full eclipse from Western North America, eastern tip of Russia, Bering Sea, Aleutians Islands; and during Moonrise from the Marshall Islands, Australia, eastern half of Indonesia, Japan, North and South Korea. 5:26am ET. 2:26am PT. I think someone will be heading up to the rooftop in the middle of the night for this one!!
VP Joe is giving the best take-down of Trump imaginable right now. Making the case of why Trump is not only a nut job, but he’s un-American.
That was a thing of beauty Bill R. He is the best person to take down Trump on foreign policy; he makes it plain and simple to understand.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/08/15/empowering-girls-and-breaking-barriers/