Congrats Tally on your gold!! Hi everyone. Not spending much time on TOD these days, boo hoo, as I am dealing with a bunch of family stuff that will continue for a while. That and the little I read about the cray cray in D.C. wipes me out each day. Finally got to spend 2 days in a row in my garden and it was SO healing!! So even though I am not able to drop in to say hi, or to even read all your comments, please know you are in my heart and helping to sustain me each day.
May you all be blessed with good health and many delightful postings to read such as this wonderful one of our dear forever FLOTUS.
And my undying gratitude to our dear Nerdy Wonka for keeping this all together for us.
Thanks a trazillion times, NW, I’ve been waiting to post some vital information:
Mercury went into stationary retrograde earlier today, 7:15pmEDT, 4:15pmPDT. It stations for a few days before fully retrograde into its naughty shenanigans of scrambling schedules and messing with communications in general!
Full Moon on Monday night, 21♎️33, at 11:08pmPDT, and Tuesday morning 21♎️33 at 2:08amEDT, as we celebrate the solemn feast of Passover, leading into Easter weekend. These events and energetics would be a fine time for the FBI to release its findings on the illegitimate election results and place the entire wh admin under arrest. #bevigilant #dontbeafraid. Goodnight TOD, Keep You The Heart ❤️
Night beautiful family. The one in the photos and ours at TOD:)
This the most significant misunderstanding in US politics right now: people are hunting madly for something hiding in plain sight. https://t.co/8c34gCSOff
Hi DF. Left a message for you on the previous thread and reposted it here too — if true, it bears repetition.
I am completely FED UP with what used to be known as the “Juicebox Mafia” (IIRC) a decade or so ago.
Yglesias knows full well that DJT is motivated solely on how much money he can stuff into his pockets — and you need look no further than #Kremlingate to see why he wanted to win the US election in Nov.
Reminder from this thread posted here (as a reply to you) this morning:
.@BuzzFeed 11/ If the "broker fee" were 0.5% on the transaction, Trump would have pocketed at least $50 million from the transaction.
Forever my President and First Lady.🏀💟👗👜🌺A love of basketball,putting their hearts in everything they touched and a fabulous dressed First Lady who gave us a fragrance of grace each day they were in the WH. Love them.HZ
Have no idea how reliable (or not) this source is, but… yowsa if true (posted as a reply to DF on previous thread, but reposting here on current thread):
According to this report, this is what Petr Levashova’s wife said her husband told her when she talked to him after his arrest in Barcelona:
“He told me he was shown some document in Spanish with a low-res photo of him. They said something about a virus that my husband had allegedly created and that it has something to do with Trump winning the presidential elections,” Levashova said.
The Barcelona and Madrid City Courts held a joint hearing via Skype and arrested her husband, according to Levashova. The Russian Consulate in Madrid told her Levashov is not the only one in such a situation. A Consulate representative is going to visit Levashov on Monday.”
Democrats moving senior staffers to Orange County in an effort to flip Republican House seats
Source: LA Times
The arm of the Democratic Party in charge of winning control of Congress is moving senior staffers from Washington, D.C., to Orange County in hopes of flipping Republican-held House seats out west during the 2018 midterm elections.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is aiming to defeat seven California Republicans who represent congressional districts where Hillary Clinton beat President Donald Trump — including a cluster of seats in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.The committee will send staffers in charge of overseeing House races in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington to work out of an Irvine office in an effort to make inroads in Republican strongholds that have traditionally been sure bets for the GOP.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS???? United better feel the pain from this!! I can’t even contain myself anymore….Can someone send this to Oscar?? Maybe Oscar needs to see some revenue decrease.
To repeat, United stmt. to NBC News confirms the flight was overbooked & the passenger refused to leave. Doesn't explain that kind of force. pic.twitter.com/uMeEkrmeOH
Hope this guy is compensated after this disgusting act by United. Pay out. Apology. Or boycott.
Not enough leg room on United anyway – they keep cutting it so that it is impossible for tall people. Was on a flight where aisle seats were given to a very large sports team (male and female) for that reason. So if you booked an aisle seat – you lost it. I was jammed in the window seat with not enough air to breath. No more United for me since.
He is of Asian, thus not worthy of consideration in their eyes. Went straight to him past all of the white people to treat him with such brutality. The reaction of the passengers symbolizes the state that the country is in. One passenger, female, crying and protesting, another male passenger vocally in support of this horror, and everyone else sitting like sheep, while others took video (not sure if any others did anything with the video to publicize this horror). The passenger’s non-violent response in the face of such over-the-top brutality brought back all of those images of A-A people being treated the same way and worse. A day of reckoning is coming for this country, and the world will look on and smile. We will have no help and no friends.
CEB, I watched the video twice. Was trying to see if I could figure out “Why this man?” How did you figure out his is Asian? Everything you said in our comment–Ditto. Shameful what our country has become.
Sadly this is much of who we are and have been since our inception. The only thing now is because there are camera phones everywhere and there is social media (which the autocrats want so badly to control) more people who have been willfully blind to the daily injustices that so many live with everyday, are now seeing the truth.
Please take a minute today to remind anyone you might know in the Wichita, Kansas, area that there's a special election this Tuesday, 4/11. https://t.co/Bccb4Jhjls
Trump’s war on the United States’ closest ally? After supporting Brexit: Trumputin-Bannon want to isolate U.K. even more.
With the password they can snoop on Facebook, email and twitter.
Anything else?
The White House should just come out and say; "This country cannot feed our veterans or elderly because Trump has 3 residences to protect." pic.twitter.com/epyMVc5gyK
Trump Takes Credit for Planned $1.33 Billion Toyota Spending
Source: Bloomberg
President Donald Trump took credit for Toyota Motor Corp. investing $1.33 billion in an existing U.S. factory, championing spending by a Japanese automaker he’s blasted for building a plant in Mexico.
The outlays in Georgetown, Kentucky, aren’t new — they’ve been in the works for years. But the way they’re being marketed is. Instead of emphasizing cost efficiency, Toyota is highlighting ample spending and the previously announced addition of 700 jobs. The president has taken notice.
Toyota’s announcement “is further evidence that manufacturers are now confident that the economic climate has greatly improved under my administration,” Trump said in the automaker’s statement Monday.
While Toyota is pleased Trump recognized the significance of its investment, according to Wil James, the Kentucky factory’s president, the company started preparing for the redesigned Camry that will be built at the plant during Barack Obama’s administration.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 4/7/17 GOP sets new partisan precedent with Gorsuch confirmation
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate, talks with Rachel Maddow about the future of Supreme Court nominations now that Republicans have set a precedent of blocking a nominee because of the nominating president’s party.
When Gorsuch didn’t reach 60 votes…..one wonders why GOP couldn’t just pick another nominee.
What is the tacit agreement with Gorsuch going forward? And was this just the GOP excuse for nuclear option all along.
Good morning one and all, its my birthday on Saturday 15th and this is your official notice to begin all celebrations NOW. For the next 7 days we are in official celebration mood, let your hair down, kick your feet up, wind your waist, shake that booty, eat and drink to your hearts content, its a party, its a celebration of 65 wonderful years, and the fact that TOD is here and Barack & Michelle are still our President and First Lady.. there is no excuse
Happy Birthday early Anjo. Mine is on Thursday. You need to come to Missoula next Tuesday evening. We will be having our annual Aries birthday party. We have been doing this for 30 years.
A few lovely gifties for you all, thanks, in a very round about way, to Liberal Librarian. I was catching up on posts at TPV and found one by LL about April being National Poetry Month. When I had finished watching one of the videos in the article, as usual with YouTube, other videos came up. I saw one about Morgan Freeman’s 10 Rules of Success and flipped to that because I love his work. And while it was playing I saw, to the side, additional videos by Evan Carmichael for POTUS and FLOTUS, and a few others I will watch. I had never seen these before and thoroughly enjoyed them. Thought you might as well. Be sure to watch FLOTUS all the way to the end as there is bonus material for her. 🙂 🙂
I remember when Oprah did a show about this at least 10 years ago when there was trash the size of Texas and nothing was being done about it. People have to be swimming in it off the pristine shores of our beaches before anyone will do something about it.
Enjoy these pics of Pres. Obama swimming in Tahiti. Obamas vacationed w/ Branson, then Hawaii, then month in Tahiti. They deserve it + more. pic.twitter.com/LrbnGIiMle
Part of me thinks that we should leave them alone to enjoy their private and beautiful life away from the public after giving the world so much at great sacrifice, then there is the other part of me that longs to see them, maybe as a touchstone and a reminder that for 8 years they helped us to be better by giving us a vision and an example of what we could be as individuals and as citizens. A reminder needed so much in these dark days.
When they are on vacation I wish they would be left alone, just so they could get alittle peace. But that don’t mean that I don’t miss them, I do. I hope they enjoy their vacation.
Then why waste almost one hundred million dollars on tomahawk missiles? And if that’s the case why announce it to the world, wasn’t it Trump’s big thing about not telling the enemy your intentions. This is some major league fuckery.
Just imagine if the Obama Administration had someone with that much of a connection to a Nazi group…we sure wouldn’t be seeing them making media appearances without it being blasted 24×7.
United’s actions are so outrageous and grotesque, its as if they are devoid of any customer service skills. What company in their right mind would drag on the floor one of its patrons? I’m not a frequent flyer unless its job related, but I will never in my life fly United under any circumstance. Fucking ghouls.
United Airlines is pleased to announce new seating on all domestic flights- in addition to United First and Economy Plus we introduce…. pic.twitter.com/KQjPClU2d2
.@MoveOn is ramping up activity in the Georgia special election, launching a six-figure TV and digital ad buy backing Jon Ossoff. pic.twitter.com/zS0pxbgqKr
😀
💫🖖🏼
Congrats Tally on your gold!! Hi everyone. Not spending much time on TOD these days, boo hoo, as I am dealing with a bunch of family stuff that will continue for a while. That and the little I read about the cray cray in D.C. wipes me out each day. Finally got to spend 2 days in a row in my garden and it was SO healing!! So even though I am not able to drop in to say hi, or to even read all your comments, please know you are in my heart and helping to sustain me each day.
May you all be blessed with good health and many delightful postings to read such as this wonderful one of our dear forever FLOTUS.
And my undying gratitude to our dear Nerdy Wonka for keeping this all together for us.
Hugs to you all.
Tally – hearty congratulations. LOVE these Obama photos!
Thanks a trazillion times, NW, I’ve been waiting to post some vital information:
Mercury went into stationary retrograde earlier today, 7:15pmEDT, 4:15pmPDT. It stations for a few days before fully retrograde into its naughty shenanigans of scrambling schedules and messing with communications in general!
Full Moon on Monday night, 21♎️33, at 11:08pmPDT, and Tuesday morning 21♎️33 at 2:08amEDT, as we celebrate the solemn feast of Passover, leading into Easter weekend. These events and energetics would be a fine time for the FBI to release its findings on the illegitimate election results and place the entire wh admin under arrest. #bevigilant #dontbeafraid. Goodnight TOD, Keep You The Heart ❤️
Yes, please!
I agree. It would be a great time to arrest the entire kit and caboodle.
MIchelle Obama will always be our lovely First Lady.
Bill R. you are so right. Just like I have no President I have no First Lady.
Looking beautiful
Night beautiful family. The one in the photos and ours at TOD:)
Hi DF. Left a message for you on the previous thread and reposted it here too — if true, it bears repetition.
I am completely FED UP with what used to be known as the “Juicebox Mafia” (IIRC) a decade or so ago.
Yglesias knows full well that DJT is motivated solely on how much money he can stuff into his pockets — and you need look no further than #Kremlingate to see why he wanted to win the US election in Nov.
Reminder from this thread posted here (as a reply to you) this morning:
Forever my President and First Lady.🏀💟👗👜🌺A love of basketball,putting their hearts in everything they touched and a fabulous dressed First Lady who gave us a fragrance of grace each day they were in the WH. Love them.HZ
Goodnight TOD ….
Too good not to share …
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GE/GM TODville.
DF posted an excerpt from this Reuters article on the previous thread:
Have no idea how reliable (or not) this source is, but… yowsa if true (posted as a reply to DF on previous thread, but reposting here on current thread):
According to this report, this is what Petr Levashova’s wife said her husband told her when she talked to him after his arrest in Barcelona:
“He told me he was shown some document in Spanish with a low-res photo of him. They said something about a virus that my husband had allegedly created and that it has something to do with Trump winning the presidential elections,” Levashova said.
The Barcelona and Madrid City Courts held a joint hearing via Skype and arrested her husband, according to Levashova. The Russian Consulate in Madrid told her Levashov is not the only one in such a situation. A Consulate representative is going to visit Levashov on Monday.”
http://www.nationalmemo.com/mitch-mcconnell-didnt-just-steal-supreme-court-seat/
Morning everyone:) Good news to start the day..
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141749781
Democrats moving senior staffers to Orange County in an effort to flip Republican House seats
Source: LA Times
The arm of the Democratic Party in charge of winning control of Congress is moving senior staffers from Washington, D.C., to Orange County in hopes of flipping Republican-held House seats out west during the 2018 midterm elections.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is aiming to defeat seven California Republicans who represent congressional districts where Hillary Clinton beat President Donald Trump — including a cluster of seats in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.The committee will send staffers in charge of overseeing House races in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington to work out of an Irvine office in an effort to make inroads in Republican strongholds that have traditionally been sure bets for the GOP.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS???? United better feel the pain from this!! I can’t even contain myself anymore….Can someone send this to Oscar?? Maybe Oscar needs to see some revenue decrease.
http://ir.united.com/corporate-governance/company-leadership
Doesn’t pass the smell test. Still stinks to high heaven. I would sue the hell out of them
Here the story and it is the dumbest reason to treat a passage this way. You are right they should be sued.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017/04/man_forcibly_removed_from_overbooked_united_flight.html
You do not physically assault someone that you’re asking to voluntarily give up their seat because YOU overbooked the flight! This is not ok.
https://thinkprogress.org/united-passenger-brutally-removed-from-plane-chicago-louisville-f886330eb393
Much Greater detail here. Stinks even MORE!
THIS
Hope this guy is compensated after this disgusting act by United. Pay out. Apology. Or boycott.
Not enough leg room on United anyway – they keep cutting it so that it is impossible for tall people. Was on a flight where aisle seats were given to a very large sports team (male and female) for that reason. So if you booked an aisle seat – you lost it. I was jammed in the window seat with not enough air to breath. No more United for me since.
He is of Asian, thus not worthy of consideration in their eyes. Went straight to him past all of the white people to treat him with such brutality. The reaction of the passengers symbolizes the state that the country is in. One passenger, female, crying and protesting, another male passenger vocally in support of this horror, and everyone else sitting like sheep, while others took video (not sure if any others did anything with the video to publicize this horror). The passenger’s non-violent response in the face of such over-the-top brutality brought back all of those images of A-A people being treated the same way and worse. A day of reckoning is coming for this country, and the world will look on and smile. We will have no help and no friends.
CEB, I watched the video twice. Was trying to see if I could figure out “Why this man?” How did you figure out his is Asian? Everything you said in our comment–Ditto. Shameful what our country has become.
Did you miss seeing his face?
This is not who we are
Sadly this is much of who we are and have been since our inception. The only thing now is because there are camera phones everywhere and there is social media (which the autocrats want so badly to control) more people who have been willfully blind to the daily injustices that so many live with everyday, are now seeing the truth.
TOMORROW! Get with it, KS!
People in power do not care.
Extreme Vetting of Trumputin’s cabinet? How exactly was Trump vetted by the media including tax returns?
If we vet them, they won’t come. Tourism will shrivel up and die, families will be torn apart, again.
Trump’s war on the United States’ closest ally? After supporting Brexit: Trumputin-Bannon want to isolate U.K. even more.
With the password they can snoop on Facebook, email and twitter.
Anything else?
Convenient
Had to
Reminder. It’s Recess
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/
Still a fraud and an opportunist. Media needs to call him out
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141749811
Trump Takes Credit for Planned $1.33 Billion Toyota Spending
Source: Bloomberg
President Donald Trump took credit for Toyota Motor Corp. investing $1.33 billion in an existing U.S. factory, championing spending by a Japanese automaker he’s blasted for building a plant in Mexico.
The outlays in Georgetown, Kentucky, aren’t new — they’ve been in the works for years. But the way they’re being marketed is. Instead of emphasizing cost efficiency, Toyota is highlighting ample spending and the previously announced addition of 700 jobs. The president has taken notice.
Toyota’s announcement “is further evidence that manufacturers are now confident that the economic climate has greatly improved under my administration,” Trump said in the automaker’s statement Monday.
While Toyota is pleased Trump recognized the significance of its investment, according to Wil James, the Kentucky factory’s president, the company started preparing for the redesigned Camry that will be built at the plant during Barack Obama’s administration.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 4/7/17
GOP sets new partisan precedent with Gorsuch confirmation
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate, talks with Rachel Maddow about the future of Supreme Court nominations now that Republicans have set a precedent of blocking a nominee because of the nominating president’s party.
When Gorsuch didn’t reach 60 votes…..one wonders why GOP couldn’t just pick another nominee.
What is the tacit agreement with Gorsuch going forward? And was this just the GOP excuse for nuclear option all along.
Good morning one and all, its my birthday on Saturday 15th and this is your official notice to begin all celebrations NOW. For the next 7 days we are in official celebration mood, let your hair down, kick your feet up, wind your waist, shake that booty, eat and drink to your hearts content, its a party, its a celebration of 65 wonderful years, and the fact that TOD is here and Barack & Michelle are still our President and First Lady.. there is no excuse
Happy Birthday, anjo:)
👏🏼🍾🌏💃🏽👑💐🎂🏅🎈🎉🗝🛎
Aah, Happy Birthday, anjo. Have a super wonderful birthday week and let’s celebrate BIG on Saturday!! 🙂
Happy 65th, comin’ up! (To me, you’re like a baby.) Happy Birthday Week, anjo!
Happy Birthday early Anjo. Mine is on Thursday. You need to come to Missoula next Tuesday evening. We will be having our annual Aries birthday party. We have been doing this for 30 years.
Have a great week.
Happy Early Birthday, Anjo. I hope you enjoy your birthday week!
A few lovely gifties for you all, thanks, in a very round about way, to Liberal Librarian. I was catching up on posts at TPV and found one by LL about April being National Poetry Month. When I had finished watching one of the videos in the article, as usual with YouTube, other videos came up. I saw one about Morgan Freeman’s 10 Rules of Success and flipped to that because I love his work. And while it was playing I saw, to the side, additional videos by Evan Carmichael for POTUS and FLOTUS, and a few others I will watch. I had never seen these before and thoroughly enjoyed them. Thought you might as well. Be sure to watch FLOTUS all the way to the end as there is bonus material for her. 🙂 🙂
PBO’s 10 rules should be a bible for the resistance.
Listening to MO gives me chills and tears of gratitude and pride.
He needs to resign. Does he go to jail?
Yet another GOP ‘leader’ with questionable morality?! Whaddaya kno
This guy is a piece of work; he walks around with a perpetual hard-on.
http://inhabitat.com/worlds-first-ocean-trash-recon-mission-is-complete-and-the-results-are-way-worse-than-we-thought/
Thor Heyerdahl predicted this by 2050, so how far ahead of the curve has capitalism brought us all?
I remember when Oprah did a show about this at least 10 years ago when there was trash the size of Texas and nothing was being done about it. People have to be swimming in it off the pristine shores of our beaches before anyone will do something about it.
Good morning, TODville.
Part of me thinks that we should leave them alone to enjoy their private and beautiful life away from the public after giving the world so much at great sacrifice, then there is the other part of me that longs to see them, maybe as a touchstone and a reminder that for 8 years they helped us to be better by giving us a vision and an example of what we could be as individuals and as citizens. A reminder needed so much in these dark days.
When they are on vacation I wish they would be left alone, just so they could get alittle peace. But that don’t mean that I don’t miss them, I do. I hope they enjoy their vacation.
That’s going to be one heck of a well deserved lawsuit.
Calamity reigns.
@RedTRaccoon 4 hours ago
On #NationalSiblingsDay let’s send the Trump children a message that we want them out of the White House.
RETWEET TO TELL THEM TO LEAVE!
Hello TODbots on a Dull Chilly Monday Morning, nearing Midday in MN.
TOD, Rocks.
Thank You, All.
Congrats, Tally on your Au ⭐
And now, this:
Then why waste almost one hundred million dollars on tomahawk missiles? And if that’s the case why announce it to the world, wasn’t it Trump’s big thing about not telling the enemy your intentions. This is some major league fuckery.
As always, a Comedian doing a Job US News Media should be doing.
Since O’Reilly and his ilk love the free market so much, I wonder how do they feel now that the free market told O’Reilly to go fuck himself.
Sebastian the Hungarian Nazi.
Just imagine if the Obama Administration had someone with that much of a connection to a Nazi group…we sure wouldn’t be seeing them making media appearances without it being blasted 24×7.
United’s actions are so outrageous and grotesque, its as if they are devoid of any customer service skills. What company in their right mind would drag on the floor one of its patrons? I’m not a frequent flyer unless its job related, but I will never in my life fly United under any circumstance. Fucking ghouls.
I bet Jared & Ivanka will be there?
President Jarud will be hosting I presume.
I would add Trump/Putin too….
Very Interesting.
Cable/TV & their Pundits didn’t help #Liar45* get a Bump.
Karma? Many Americans Growing Up?
Oh well, since DJT’s stock was invested in the 59 some missiles used why should he care? Snark.
I’m not sure what this is all about.
Any CA TODbots ready to inform Us?
LIVE STREAM: BREAKING: Shooting At San Bernardino Elementary School – http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video/channel/322-cbs2-live-newscasts-and-breaking-news/
I just watched Newtown documentary on Netflix last night and sobbed through the whole thing. This gun culture is so unconscionable crazy.
I’m with you Meta. Cannot believe we are forced to live with this day in and day out.
Or kiss your butts goodbye.
This is clickbait that takes you to a spam virus page.
If you are lucky enough to have a Sibling, Congrats.
Those who are without siblings, I share mine with you.
Until Our side Vote in a Larger Number, Mid-Term Elections will continue to be a gateway for #GOP’s survival.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/04/10/a-nation-of-immigrants/