I want to add my thanks and appreciation for keeping the TOD family home open and fully furnished with everything we want and need. Thank you so very much.
Every time I see a photo of PBO, or of the First Family, or the Bidens– my heart just melts. These good people have given so much to our country, knowing that the Rethugs were scratching at the door, wanting to rip up everything they achieved. And still, their grace, their dignity, their humanity and humor and personal beauty shine like a candle, offering hope. Yes we can. Yes we have. Yes we will.
Deepest gratitude to you NerdyWonka, and all who keep the lights on here. You’re my church wardens! ❤
The same WH that just agreed to sell your browsing history won't disclose visits to WH to protect privacy of lobbyists. Swamp wins again. https://t.co/CaWgxxa8H4
"The common thread of humanity that connects us all … is our shared commitment to love our neighbors as we love ourselves." –@BarackObamapic.twitter.com/Uxa6A9M5cZ
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) April 14, 2017
“Doom to you who legislate evil, who make laws that make victims — laws that make misery for the poor, that rob my destitute people of dignity, exploiting defenseless widows, taking advantage of homeless children. What will you have to say on Judgment Day, when Doomsday arrives out of the blue? Who will you get to help you? What good will your money do you?” (Isaiah 10:1-3, The Message)
Easter Lilies are Deadly to Cats
Lillium sp. and Hemerocallis sp. of lilies, including Easter, Asiatic, tiger, and day lilies are all incredibly toxic to cats. It is not known what causes this toxicity.
Ingesting any part of the Easter lily plant causes acute kidney failure in cats. This appears to be due to the death of kidney cells, but the exact mechanism by which it occurs is not known. Cats can be poisoned by Easter lilies in the following ways:
Eating less than one lily leaf can cause a cat to develop kidney failure.
Cats may rub up against the lilies or walk through pollen that has dropped from the flowers. When they groom the pollen off of their fur or paws and ingest it, they can be poisoned.
Chewing on and swallowing the flower of the Easter lily results in toxicity.
Signs of Easter Lily Toxicity in Cats
The following signs are seen in cats that are poisoned by Easter lilies:
Within two hours of ingestion:
Vomiting is often the first sign of Easter lily toxicity.
Anorexia, or unwillingness to eat accompanies the vomiting.
The cat develops lethargy, and doesn’t want to move around or play.
Increased urination may be present in between two and twelve hours after the cat consumes the lily. After that, the cat may stop producing urine altogether, as the kidneys shut down.
Death usually occurs within three to four days of lily toxicity that is untreated.
If you know or even suspect that your cat may have ingested any part of a lily plant, take your cat and the plant, if you have it, to the veterinarian immediately.
The following therapies are all used to treat cats that have ingested lilies:
Induction of vomiting to remove as much of the plant as possible before it is absorbed into the cat’s system. This needs to be done fairly quickly after ingestion.
Activated charcoal is administered to the cat to absorb as much of the remaining plant product from the stomach as possible and carry it through the GI tract without allowing to be absorbed.
Intravenous fluid therapy is administered at a high rate in order to flush the system of the lily toxins and support the kidneys.
If treatment is delayed until eighteen hours or more have passed since ingestion of the lily, your cat’s prognosis for recovery decreases dramatically. When it is caught early and treated aggressively, lily toxicity usually carries a good prognosis for full recovery.
If I'm reading this right, Cernovich is blackmailing the White House to keep Bannon with threats of releasing sexual dirty laundry. https://t.co/v4UzyEUfEz
hmmm, my opinion on this… convenient call up- gets him off the teevee for a bit, with an attempt to make him look “patriotic/manly/dutiful” when he’s as deep in do-do as he can be.
Locally, we have 4 or 5 closed Facebook groups. I shared the following personal story on 3 of them today.
A personal story showing we never know the impact our words have. Wednesday I called Jason Zachary, my state rep. My message was: Vote to drop the Durham Rule so Medicaid can be expanded in TN. I added that no one can say he/she is pro-life if the person doesn’t support Insure TN because people are dying every day in TN w/out health care. You can’t say you are pro-life and oppose people having health care. Yesterday I called back with two messages: Oppose the House bill about the gasoline tax. And, ask that he support ANY gun safety measures because “as I said yesterday, one cannot be pro-life and oppose any gun safety measure.” The woman said, “You said that yesterday and I want you to know I have thought about it since then.” She opened the door so I walked right through.:)I explained (as I see/understand this issue) the difference between being pro-life and pro-BIRTH. Gave some examples to back it up: healthcare, education, gun safety, clean air/water, etc. I said to me, ‘life’ means just that–all the succeeding years that that baby lives after it is born and the kind of life the child has–in every area/aspect. The woman thanked me again for making that point and said she would continue to think about it. #speakup
This is what happens when you speak deeply and sincerely from your heart with conviction. Bravo, tnmtngirl!!! This is how we win hearts and minds. With facts and honest, straight forward common sense.
CENTCOM releases a statement after The Hill quoted an anonymous spokesman saying stuff that raised eyebrows after use of the MOAB pic.twitter.com/sIMhCEljIe
Many TODers probably browse Balloon juice on occasion. I was there earlier and one of the posters had just become a US citizen and was talking about it.
He said one good thing about the ceremony – usually the President records a message – which is played to the new citizens – but it seems the current pretender to the roll hasn’t bothered to do this – so they had an alternative recording.
He does NOTHING that he is supposed to do. He seems to have no advisers that have any idea what he should be doing and his life is spent golfing and telling himself how great he is. I don’t know what goes on in North Korea but otherwise I can’t think of another world leader who does less than this excuse for a person.
I was reading that story this morning as I was getting ready for work. The insane part of the story was that Ala Damn Bama was in a rush to execute these men because their drug supply was about to expire.
How many laws must Trump break before he’s held accountable? What irks me the most is that this guy gets away with breaking the most obvious laws, I could understand if the guy ran some sort of complex scheme to break the law. But no, this guy walks around stealing apples from apple carts in broad daylight in front of everybody and nothing happens to me.
Hello TODville Community.
It’s Saturday…… my Salute to all who will be Showing Up Today Protesting across this nation to #Resist the #Liar45* on his blanket refusal to release his Tax Returns.
TOD, Rocks! Thank you TOD for being here!
HILARIOUS: FoxNews and The Intercept join forces to complain about @Maddow reporting "so much" about Trump-Russia. https://t.co/WDOUBYiLfU
Dr. Maddow was instrumental in:
Fmr Gov of VA & Co……Her reporting help marginalized their Rise to power…..in the future.
Gov Christie of NJ……BridgeGate.
Gov Bentley of AL.
Maddow has covered other stories…….But she has proven that serious Journalism is Not dead……even though, she doesn’t call herself a Journalist.
Trump is also HEAVILY provoking an attack on the U.S.A. from ISIS.
So one more thing Trumputin can do: 1) open his gob 2) wave hands about and 3) sign off regardless on military.
Rexxon and longtime buddy Putin just met behind closed doors – topic most likely was sanctions blocking their Exxon/Rosneft deal.
Please tell me in what possible way the Trump Administration is preventing Putin’s proven ongoing attack on our nation.
The Trump White House is so incompetent that they found a Trump adviser not by interviewing experts, but by having Jared Kushner search Amazon.
Vanity Fair has the inside story:
At one point during the campaign, when Trump wanted to speak more substantively about China, he gave Kushner a summary of his views and then asked him to do some research. Kushner simply went on Amazon, where he was struck by the title of one book, Death by China, co-authored by Peter Navarro. He cold-called Navarro, a well-known trade-deficit hawk, who agreed to join the team as an economic adviser. (When he joined, Navarro was in fact the campaign’s only economic adviser.) Kushner operated in much the same way when it came to crafting Trump’s tax plan—calling up someone for help out of the blue. Given the initial absence of pros who could do the job properly, he also tried his hand at writing speeches. Responding to criticism from the boss (“Jared, this is terrible!”), Kushner said, according to a person familiar with the episode, “I’m not a fucking speechwriter. I am a real-estate guy.”
They will make a mockery of the Presidency, loot the coffers, redistribute wealth to the top, and use the position to increase their own wealth. Had Enough??
We were wondering why the president's motorcade took a longer than usual route home from golf: to avoid #TaxMarch protesters pic.twitter.com/Y00d6ynvlJ
If right wing conservatives thought President Obama didn’t pay taxes, oh my gosh. They would be ready to throw him out of this country. But it is just fine for the white orange rich liar man not to pay taxes.
Visit to the Hall of Fame in 2014. On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball. — petesouza
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Thank you, Nerdy and Meta!
✨
Thank you, Pamela!
I want to add my thanks and appreciation for keeping the TOD family home open and fully furnished with everything we want and need. Thank you so very much.
And I think I’ll add my thanks to your thanks! Thanks, Nerdy darlin’!
😀 😀 😀
Thank you, idon.
I joint the others in thanking you too Nerdy for all that you do for us. We all love and appreciate you, I hope you know that.
Thank you.
You are very welcome. (sorry about the “joint”, didn’t see it until now. Wish we had an edit button 😀 )
Every day I miss him more and more. Can never be less.Thank you Nerdy.
Every time I see a photo of PBO, or of the First Family, or the Bidens– my heart just melts. These good people have given so much to our country, knowing that the Rethugs were scratching at the door, wanting to rip up everything they achieved. And still, their grace, their dignity, their humanity and humor and personal beauty shine like a candle, offering hope. Yes we can. Yes we have. Yes we will.
Deepest gratitude to you NerdyWonka, and all who keep the lights on here. You’re my church wardens! ❤
House Intel member Rep. Quigley (D-IL) went to Cyprus to investigate Trump collusion: “Cyprus has a reputation as a laundromat for the Russians who are trying to avoid sanctions.” Trumputin WH withholding Bank of Cypress ties and info plus Manafort links.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/house-intel-member-heads-to-russias-money-laundering-island-cyprus-to-investigate-trump-collusion/
spot on
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/the-obamas-are-hanging-with-oprah-and-tom-hanks-on-a-yacht.html
This makes me happy:)
What do we do if the FBI finds that there was collusion between trump and Putin…Will Congress act…will the DOJ arrest
Hmm. Bet he was noted in the visitor logs. — petesouza
Pete Sousa. Unleashed. Love him
People that have nothing to hide, hide nothing. Who’s walking in and out of the People’s House, president Asshole?
Well, well:)
I wish he was our President now.
The GOP. Fucking over America for generations.
Believe I heard that salesman has no military experience himself. But somebody else’s kids? No problem.
Correct.
my son turns 18 in July. I am terrified for him and all of our young people.
One more time…
could play on a loop….
Yes! Thanks JER
Stupid ass drank the Koolaid. Too bad. Hopefully he’ll be voted out soon.
https://thinkprogress.org/jeff-flake-town-hall-trump-mar-a-lago-2726fb9c44b8
This.This, this, this, and this. I’m a bit frustrated will all the folks who think impeaching Trump will solve anything.
“Doom to you who legislate evil, who make laws that make victims — laws that make misery for the poor, that rob my destitute people of dignity, exploiting defenseless widows, taking advantage of homeless children. What will you have to say on Judgment Day, when Doomsday arrives out of the blue? Who will you get to help you? What good will your money do you?” (Isaiah 10:1-3, The Message)
They harm all but the wealthy – many of whom are weak. It is not weak and strong – it is the wealthy and trump sycophants vs the rest.
And Xylitol is toxic to dogs and cats….in EVERYTHING! BEWARE!
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2017/04/14/a-holiday-public-service-announcement-for-our-cat-owners/
Change that “toxic” to DEADLY.
H/T BJ….
Easter Lilies are Deadly to Cats
Lillium sp. and Hemerocallis sp. of lilies, including Easter, Asiatic, tiger, and day lilies are all incredibly toxic to cats. It is not known what causes this toxicity.
Ingesting any part of the Easter lily plant causes acute kidney failure in cats. This appears to be due to the death of kidney cells, but the exact mechanism by which it occurs is not known. Cats can be poisoned by Easter lilies in the following ways:
Eating less than one lily leaf can cause a cat to develop kidney failure.
Cats may rub up against the lilies or walk through pollen that has dropped from the flowers. When they groom the pollen off of their fur or paws and ingest it, they can be poisoned.
Chewing on and swallowing the flower of the Easter lily results in toxicity.
Signs of Easter Lily Toxicity in Cats
The following signs are seen in cats that are poisoned by Easter lilies:
Within two hours of ingestion:
Vomiting is often the first sign of Easter lily toxicity.
Anorexia, or unwillingness to eat accompanies the vomiting.
The cat develops lethargy, and doesn’t want to move around or play.
Increased urination may be present in between two and twelve hours after the cat consumes the lily. After that, the cat may stop producing urine altogether, as the kidneys shut down.
Death usually occurs within three to four days of lily toxicity that is untreated.
If you know or even suspect that your cat may have ingested any part of a lily plant, take your cat and the plant, if you have it, to the veterinarian immediately.
The following therapies are all used to treat cats that have ingested lilies:
Induction of vomiting to remove as much of the plant as possible before it is absorbed into the cat’s system. This needs to be done fairly quickly after ingestion.
Activated charcoal is administered to the cat to absorb as much of the remaining plant product from the stomach as possible and carry it through the GI tract without allowing to be absorbed.
Intravenous fluid therapy is administered at a high rate in order to flush the system of the lily toxins and support the kidneys.
If treatment is delayed until eighteen hours or more have passed since ingestion of the lily, your cat’s prognosis for recovery decreases dramatically. When it is caught early and treated aggressively, lily toxicity usually carries a good prognosis for full recovery.
GE/GM DF.
In tweetable format:
Many thanks:)
It’s all connected….
Well, well, well.
GE Nena.
This is simply jawdropping.
Have heard zilch on this, would think it would be headline news now (no TV, so it might be on cable news, though seriously doubt it).
Response to Vali’s tweet — perfect… I’ve been calling DJT president FUBAR (courtesy @brucebarlett), now will refer to Tex Drillerson instead of Rex…
@cbsradionews is bending over backwards making excuses for DJT — he’s so damn unstable, and he’s all alone at MAL this weekend…
And Spicey’s doing his patriotic duty…
more…
Our previous Ambassador to Japan (from 2013):
hmmm, my opinion on this… convenient call up- gets him off the teevee for a bit, with an attempt to make him look “patriotic/manly/dutiful” when he’s as deep in do-do as he can be.
Look at that, it is lovely. Bless Janet and her son.
A Nice Big Smile on My Face upon seeing this GIF.
Sweet mother of God. Thank you.
Down, girl. LOL.
🙂 NO!!!! 🙂
birthday present for the little prick? I said it.
Locally, we have 4 or 5 closed Facebook groups. I shared the following personal story on 3 of them today.
A personal story showing we never know the impact our words have. Wednesday I called Jason Zachary, my state rep. My message was: Vote to drop the Durham Rule so Medicaid can be expanded in TN. I added that no one can say he/she is pro-life if the person doesn’t support Insure TN because people are dying every day in TN w/out health care. You can’t say you are pro-life and oppose people having health care. Yesterday I called back with two messages: Oppose the House bill about the gasoline tax. And, ask that he support ANY gun safety measures because “as I said yesterday, one cannot be pro-life and oppose any gun safety measure.” The woman said, “You said that yesterday and I want you to know I have thought about it since then.” She opened the door so I walked right through.:)I explained (as I see/understand this issue) the difference between being pro-life and pro-BIRTH. Gave some examples to back it up: healthcare, education, gun safety, clean air/water, etc. I said to me, ‘life’ means just that–all the succeeding years that that baby lives after it is born and the kind of life the child has–in every area/aspect. The woman thanked me again for making that point and said she would continue to think about it. #speakup
This is what happens when you speak deeply and sincerely from your heart with conviction. Bravo, tnmtngirl!!! This is how we win hearts and minds. With facts and honest, straight forward common sense.
What a great story. This is why calling is so important. Thank you for your persistence.
So well done- and nicely/respectfully, Tnmtngirl- thank you for sharing this exchange.
I just Love these kinds of stories.
The Youth & Education are the Future.
GE/GM TODville.
For those interested in what’s happening in North Korea, @w7voa is a good source of information.
Our dear leader seems to have a lot in common with Pyongyang’s dear leader…
Looks like it’s OK for DJT to holed up at MAL this weekend…
Although…
Background on William J. Perry:
Oops, posted wrong tweet from @w7voa. This is the correct tweet:
Many TODers probably browse Balloon juice on occasion. I was there earlier and one of the posters had just become a US citizen and was talking about it.
He said one good thing about the ceremony – usually the President records a message – which is played to the new citizens – but it seems the current pretender to the roll hasn’t bothered to do this – so they had an alternative recording.
He does NOTHING that he is supposed to do. He seems to have no advisers that have any idea what he should be doing and his life is spent golfing and telling himself how great he is. I don’t know what goes on in North Korea but otherwise I can’t think of another world leader who does less than this excuse for a person.
Hello, is anyone here, you kids stay out all night long partying and doing the devils work.
Rest easy. Done doing devil’s work…now just housework. Shoulda stayed in bed:) Morning, Don. Happy “Jackass Don’t Pay Taxes” Day
president FUBAR is perfect. president with a small p…because he doesn’t think it’s worthy of much either.
Attorney General Robert Kennedy and his brother President John Kennedy, photographed at the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
JFK’S “CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS” SPEECH (10/22/62) (COMPLETE AND UNCUT)
I remember
Everyday I wake up, I think of what PBO said….” The only thing that’s the end of the world, is the end of the world.”
Oh thank god! The Federal Ct. blocked 7 of the executions in Ala Damn Bama.
I was reading that story this morning as I was getting ready for work. The insane part of the story was that Ala Damn Bama was in a rush to execute these men because their drug supply was about to expire.
$$$$ over people. As always
Oh dear…. another day, another centipede shoe
How many laws must Trump break before he’s held accountable? What irks me the most is that this guy gets away with breaking the most obvious laws, I could understand if the guy ran some sort of complex scheme to break the law. But no, this guy walks around stealing apples from apple carts in broad daylight in front of everybody and nothing happens to me.
thread
Sadly
Hello TODville Community.
It’s Saturday…… my Salute to all who will be Showing Up Today Protesting across this nation to #Resist the #Liar45* on his blanket refusal to release his Tax Returns.
TOD, Rocks! Thank you TOD for being here!
Dr. Maddow was instrumental in:
Fmr Gov of VA & Co……Her reporting help marginalized their Rise to power…..in the future.
Gov Christie of NJ……BridgeGate.
Gov Bentley of AL.
Maddow has covered other stories…….But she has proven that serious Journalism is Not dead……even though, she doesn’t call herself a Journalist.
Trump is also HEAVILY provoking an attack on the U.S.A. from ISIS.
So one more thing Trumputin can do: 1) open his gob 2) wave hands about and 3) sign off regardless on military.
Rexxon and longtime buddy Putin just met behind closed doors – topic most likely was sanctions blocking their Exxon/Rosneft deal.
Please tell me in what possible way the Trump Administration is preventing Putin’s proven ongoing attack on our nation.
Of course they do, they see America as the land of milk and honey.
DESPOTISM leads to collapse.
And Trumputin is the perfect tool for the corporate right and any hostile nation that wants to take down the U.S.A.
Hoping someone recorded herstory. May she know deep peace.
The fallout of this short-sighted, grossly egotistic, power mad act is on Trump and his military.
Ah a nice spot of fear and chaos — right up GOP/Trumputin’s alley.
Jesus.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/15/impeachable-incompetence-jared-kushner-trumps-china-adviser-surfing-amazon.html
The Trump White House is so incompetent that they found a Trump adviser not by interviewing experts, but by having Jared Kushner search Amazon.
Vanity Fair has the inside story:
At one point during the campaign, when Trump wanted to speak more substantively about China, he gave Kushner a summary of his views and then asked him to do some research. Kushner simply went on Amazon, where he was struck by the title of one book, Death by China, co-authored by Peter Navarro. He cold-called Navarro, a well-known trade-deficit hawk, who agreed to join the team as an economic adviser. (When he joined, Navarro was in fact the campaign’s only economic adviser.) Kushner operated in much the same way when it came to crafting Trump’s tax plan—calling up someone for help out of the blue. Given the initial absence of pros who could do the job properly, he also tried his hand at writing speeches. Responding to criticism from the boss (“Jared, this is terrible!”), Kushner said, according to a person familiar with the episode, “I’m not a fucking speechwriter. I am a real-estate guy.”
They will make a mockery of the Presidency, loot the coffers, redistribute wealth to the top, and use the position to increase their own wealth. Had Enough??
If right wing conservatives thought President Obama didn’t pay taxes, oh my gosh. They would be ready to throw him out of this country. But it is just fine for the white orange rich liar man not to pay taxes.
Talk about Concealed Weapon, hmm?
You never want to go to war with the Navy Seals; they always come out on top.
The navy seals have a long history.
Navy seals do most of their work undercover; they’re usually in and out before you know what hit you.
He’s here every Friday and Saturday! LOL…hilarious:)
Visit to the Hall of Fame in 2014. On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball. — petesouza
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/04/15/the-power-of-obamacare/