😀Hey Dudette, I hope all is well with you this lovely Friday morning. Congrats on being first.
My “Obama – An Intimate Portrait” came via UPS early this morning, which is very unusual for UPS to deliver in my subdivision at 9:00AM CST, especially on a Friday when the Trash trucks art out on Friday’s here.
I notice each time I open the book and reflect on the lovely pictures, there is this salty-discharge emanating from eyes. This condition did not exist prior to me opening this book. If there is a Doctor in the TOD-House, please tell me what’s wrong. 😂😂😂
Howdy RanMan! I’m doing great and hope you are too! Good to see you! 😃
I’m no doctor, but if memory serves me, I believe that salty discharge is just a symptom of your humanity exerting itself. It’s normal for it to do that from time to time. All is well. Just find a tissue and enjoy. 😘
My daughter was born the day Trump was elected, but she'll know her first president was Barack Obama. Excited to back @lauraolin's Our President Was Called Barack. https://t.co/7FHkNBK1MJ
Today would have been Hedy Lamarr's 103rd Birthday. She became a movie star, got bored, then got into science. She helped the Allies during WWII, developing spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology. Her work created the basis of modern Wi-Fi & Bluetooth. She was amazing. pic.twitter.com/UyNQunTd3Y
And my grandfather was “in love” with her, according to my grandmother’s casual news alert to me when I was about 8 years old, in the 1950s. #GoGrandpap
White House economic advisor Cohn also refers to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as "welfare," hints that President wants to do something about it (CNBC) pic.twitter.com/LfFpQZVM9b
From the article: “And last but not least is one particularly unique piece of cargo: a virtual-reality camera that can shoot video in 3D and 360 degrees. European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli will use this camera to film around the inside of the ISS for National Geographic’s upcoming television series “One Strange Rock.”
“The idea is to use all of that footage to document a day in the life on the space station,” Matt Zymet, executive director for advanced formats at National Geographic, said during a teleconference. Nespoli’s footage will serve as a “virtual-reality companion” to the new series, Zymet said. “One Strange Rock” is slated to debut on the National Geographic Channel in 2018.”
Proud to have served in the @USNavy for 25 years. Salute to all who have served this great country. Thank you for your commitment & sacrifices. May we honor all veterans today and always. #VeteransDaypic.twitter.com/hw2MAqNK7t
This #VeteransDay, remember our deported veterans. Here, a group of deported veterans commemorate Memorial Day 2017 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. pic.twitter.com/9tm6nGxAUv
I’d like to thank all our veterans for their service protecting our great nation. It’s absolutely disgusting that Republicans obstructed the Veterans Jobs Bill and push for food stamp cuts that would impact 1.5 million of our servicemen. There is no excuse for this #VeteransDay
Happy #VeteransDay to all of the brave women and men who have sacrificed so much for our country. We honor you today, and every day, by fighting to make the country you worked so hard to protect a safe place to live for everyone.
Veterans in emotional crisis and their loved ones can call the free & confidential Veterans Crisis Line at 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1, chat online, or send a text message to 838255 to connect w a caring, qualified VA responder who can deal w any immediate crisis. #VeteransDaypic.twitter.com/pceafknW3y
This #VeteransDay we honor our employees who have served in the military and continue to make an impact on humanity. Thank you for your service! pic.twitter.com/ooOtEa75Rr
🇱🇷In honor of #VeteransDay, we acknowledge those who have sworn to protect our rights & our nation. We pay homage to those who have served & to those who continue to serve our country w/ dignity, pride, and bravery. We are the LAND of the FREE b/c of you all, The BRAVE!✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/c2wPsPTmcP
Happy #VeteransDay to all who served. Sincerest thanks. Mark Isham ~ On the Threshold of Liberty (Rules of Engagement soundtrack) https://t.co/C6acZ7v3sB
No concept of what being qualified means, although he always gets the “best”… and the GOP is okay with that.
Republicans approve Trump federal judge nominee, 36, who has practiced law for three years and was rated Not Qualified but loves the NRA and has denounced “Hillary Rotten Clinton”: https://t.co/fJETJnPnof
Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee, denouncing “Hillary Rotten Clinton” and pledging support for the National Rifle Assn.
The Koch Brothers have used their $80 billion fortune to attack public health care programs, including Medicaid and Medicare. Now they're coming after the Department of Veterans Affairs. https://t.co/wWwY0otRxN
Innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections. I believe Leigh Corfman. Her account is too serious to ignore. Moore is unfit for office and should step aside.
Okay brace yourselves. 😳 This may be upsetting but it drives home the point. [unintended pun]
The 2018 #ACA enrollment period has been shortened from 90 to 45 days. The advertising budget has been slashed from $1M to $100K in effort to sabotage #Obamacare. So @NanaBcool decided to make his own campaign, spread the word, you only have until Dec 15th to enroll! pic.twitter.com/Byh0Uspyb7
All men need to do better. Some men just need to do more better than others. But all men can do better. We can stop encouraging bullshit. We can stop "laughing" at "jokes" we suspect are admissions of guilt. We can start snitchin. We can respect boundaries. We can believe women.
Ex-Trump bodyguard told investigators he rejected offer to send women to Trump’s hotel room ahead of 2013 trip to Moscow, sources tell @ABC. http://abcn.ws/2Aq9POs
Happy Friday to everyone. What a week! And we haven’t seen the last of it. Case in point, Roy Moore’s days as an aspiring GOP RWNJ senator may be numbered.
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National Republican Senatorial Committee ends joint fundraising agreement with Roy Moore campaign
The GOP’s Senate fundraising operation filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to end its agreement with Moore, a day after The Post published an article in which a woman said Moore had initiated a sexual encounter with her in 1979, when she was 14 and he was 32. Moore is the GOP nominee to fill a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama.
The NRSC made no announcement and did not respond to messages seeking comment.
I fear you two are overly optimistic! He has a cult in AL and they will provide funds. This is the guy who was kicked off the bench TWICE for refusing to follow the law. And his name cannot be removed from the ballot at this point so why quit? Given that DT was elected under arguably worse circumstances (admitted to sexual assault on tape) he just may well be elected. I have no faith in this part of our country that supports these people.
Roy Moore was kicked off the Alabama Supreme Court twice for choosing to violate Supreme Court Law. He's now accused of violating young girls. If support that, you support filth. #RoyMooreChildMolester
Army officials say emergency relief efforts in Puerto Rico are drawing to a close, though recovery continues at a slow pace in parts of the island. https://t.co/NdiqpJfoRhpic.twitter.com/0b36EYm072
I was thinking about”the shirt” today, and enjoying the memories of how much fun we had here. Naughty mats were seriously needed when this photo came out 🤣
With all the dreariness of these days, this will warm your heart and soul:
Stay for video of @TVietor08 sprinting around Veterans Auditorium during the sign wars in a red velour tracksuit from Wal-Mart: https://t.co/JSvzrMvmqn
If I had to go to court for committing a crime, one of the worst punishments would be having Obama in the jury and having him give me the disappointed look. pic.twitter.com/pGERla7HC7
I understand a jury is composed of our peers. . . Dwell on it, PBO essentially cannot be seated on a jury, for so many reasons. I suspect he would enjoy it tho. 😉😎👁👁🗝
Puerto Rico’s Commissioner of Emergency Management, Abner Gomez has resigned, according to Gov. @ricardorossello The Governors Office previously told us that Gomez was on a 2 week vacation because he was “exhausted” Gomez signed several emergency contracts after hurricane Maria
“We’re out of the crisis,” says 3 star Army General Jeffrey Buchanan who’s announced today that he’s leaving next week. Buchanan has coordinated the federal military response in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria pic.twitter.com/8sz6OY0Dfd
I hope “investigating” isn’t code for *threatening* or *harassing* them.
Roy Moore speaking to Sean Hannity: "I dated a lot of young ladies" and said his campaign team is investigating the women who accused him of assault/harassment. https://t.co/xapcLVJwvG
He was swoon-worthy in everyone. He even has beautiful feet (remember the photo where all had to take off their shoes to visit a Buddhist Temple). We should get all of the photos of PBO in those shirts (BWD posted our favorite one) and post them all over social media. A c/c photo with 44 and 45 would be even better.
The code talkers saved our asses in WWII. The greatest irony that the language and the people that white folk tried to destroy, ended up saving so many lives and helping to win the war. The lesson: everyone is valuable, everyone has something to offer. Outside of the morality of treating people justly,we cannot afford to destroy, misuse, or ignore any group in our country because you do not know who or what will be our saving grace. I feel that a time is coming, sooner than many think, that all of the US bills will come due; a reckoning is coming for the 300 plus years of destroying the land and its various peoples.
On this Veteran’s Day observed, ponder this, and wonder why MSM hasn’t kept us informed of this? (Let me know if I’m mistaken — since I don’t have a TV, it could be widely covered by network and cable news, but it’s just me that thinks it’s underreported.)
On this #VeteransDay observed, ponder this about the person who currently occupies the WH: "'I haven’t spoken with him,' Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told reporters Nov. 8 in Brussels." https://t.co/psetNKuq1r
Here’s how the grotesque evil occupying the WH *actually* greets our troops in harms way on foreign soil (not implying that our troops are in danger in pacifist Japan, but they are in peril because of TGEOTWH [FUBAR]):
DJT expressing great solidarity w/ US military upon arrival at US Air Force Yokota base in Fussa, Tokyo on Nov 5, 2017. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG https://t.co/EdrNi6VhpH
And here’s some warming news for this weekend (radio tells me that more than 50% of the country will experience sub-freezing weather this weekend — sorry for the early frost for those in the upper Midwest and Northeast):
(1/2) "There’s no way Manafort is going to do 25 years in jail if he can avoid it. He can’t last. I would be greatly surprised if Papadopoulos is the only person who’s been cooperating with Mueller." https://t.co/WukroXtxpt
(2/2) Mueller "knows these guys are not seasoned criminals. And he knows they’re going to roll over on each other. Mark my words, it will start becoming a race to the special counsel’s office."
BREAKING: @raghavanWaPo: Body of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of four US soldiers killed in an ambush by Islamist militants in Niger, was found with his arms tied & a gaping wound at the back of his head, suggesting he may have been captured & then executed https://t.co/uvUgf0DKPS
He has never tried a case. At 36, he is 3 years out of law school. He is unanimously ranked "not qualified" by the ABA. Yesterday, GOP Senate Judiciary Committee members approved the blogger & #Trump nominee to a lifetime post … as a federal judge. https://t.co/kilg6FEiKp
GOP ignored >dozen women who allege Trump sexually harassed. Rs condoned lying, bullying and willful ignorance by man the dont trust w nukes. So why let child sexual exploitation claims muck up a Senate seat? ttp://wapo.st/2zKycKi?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.a58b26969bd3
Thank you so much, criquet, for sharing this. It’s absolutely beautiful! It definitely captures the true essence of President Obama and First Lady, Michelle Obama. They both were, and still are, such a blessing to this country.
The Obama Diary 
😁😁😁
😀Hey Dudette, I hope all is well with you this lovely Friday morning. Congrats on being first.
My “Obama – An Intimate Portrait” came via UPS early this morning, which is very unusual for UPS to deliver in my subdivision at 9:00AM CST, especially on a Friday when the Trash trucks art out on Friday’s here.
I notice each time I open the book and reflect on the lovely pictures, there is this salty-discharge emanating from eyes. This condition did not exist prior to me opening this book. If there is a Doctor in the TOD-House, please tell me what’s wrong. 😂😂😂
Howdy RanMan! I’m doing great and hope you are too! Good to see you! 😃
I’m no doctor, but if memory serves me, I believe that salty discharge is just a symptom of your humanity exerting itself. It’s normal for it to do that from time to time. All is well. Just find a tissue and enjoy. 😘
Thank you My-Friend for diagnosing it down to one of life’s Least-Common-Denominator (LCD); Enjoyment! 👌👊👍
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❤️😂
AMAZING! Happy Birthday, Hedy….A Progressive woman before her time!
she was one of my favorites. Also today would have been my brother’s 54th birthday 🙂
((( sherijr )))
thank you Dudette, so much.
😘💋
Sherijr
sending a virtual hug. Birthdays and holidays are bittersweet.
agree otter, they can be.
And my grandfather was “in love” with her, according to my grandmother’s casual news alert to me when I was about 8 years old, in the 1950s. #GoGrandpap
Thanks Bella.
You Welcome JER
❤️😍❤️
I love Herbie Hancock. What a wonderful Friday!
Me too! 😁
From the article: “And last but not least is one particularly unique piece of cargo: a virtual-reality camera that can shoot video in 3D and 360 degrees. European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli will use this camera to film around the inside of the ISS for National Geographic’s upcoming television series “One Strange Rock.”
“The idea is to use all of that footage to document a day in the life on the space station,” Matt Zymet, executive director for advanced formats at National Geographic, said during a teleconference. Nespoli’s footage will serve as a “virtual-reality companion” to the new series, Zymet said. “One Strange Rock” is slated to debut on the National Geographic Channel in 2018.”
What a lovely way to start Friday!
No concept of what being qualified means, although he always gets the “best”… and the GOP is okay with that.
Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee, denouncing “Hillary Rotten Clinton” and pledging support for the National Rifle Assn.
The GOP’s dream…a blockhead RW extremist who’ll uphold RW policy. There has to be a way to get this disaster-in-waiting off the bench.
Beside his most elegant teacup! ❤️👁👁🕯🙏🏼
I thought the Koch Brothers were busy trying to find counterfeit wines or some shit?
Oh my goodness I’m posting Mitt Romney!
Okay brace yourselves. 😳 This may be upsetting but it drives home the point. [unintended pun]
Okay, now. But,hey; whatever it takes to #getcovered.
I warned ya. 😏
Definitely not what I expected.
Yep 😑
Woooooot!
Such a positive message.
@ABC 15 minutes ago
Ex-Trump bodyguard told investigators he rejected offer to send women to Trump’s hotel room ahead of 2013 trip to Moscow, sources tell @ABC. http://abcn.ws/2Aq9POs
I’m glad he told the Senate investigators that he rejected the offer. Now I want to see him tell Mueller that he rejected the offer.
Yes it’s all about #SayItUnderOath
Good Afternoon TODVille.
Happy Friday to everyone. What a week! And we haven’t seen the last of it. Case in point, Roy Moore’s days as an aspiring GOP RWNJ senator may be numbered.
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National Republican Senatorial Committee ends joint fundraising agreement with Roy Moore campaign
The GOP’s Senate fundraising operation filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to end its agreement with Moore, a day after The Post published an article in which a woman said Moore had initiated a sexual encounter with her in 1979, when she was 14 and he was 32. Moore is the GOP nominee to fill a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama.
The NRSC made no announcement and did not respond to messages seeking comment.
Yep, Moore’s days might be numbered. Once the Republicans start to withhold funds you can bet its all but over.
I fear you two are overly optimistic! He has a cult in AL and they will provide funds. This is the guy who was kicked off the bench TWICE for refusing to follow the law. And his name cannot be removed from the ballot at this point so why quit? Given that DT was elected under arguably worse circumstances (admitted to sexual assault on tape) he just may well be elected. I have no faith in this part of our country that supports these people.
You may be right.
There are some very young psychopaths out there!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/1/1711681/-White-College-Girl-Poisons-Black-Roommate?detail=emailLL
I guess everyone believes her now?
For sure many of us believed her then, it was all so heart-wrenching. We shared her pain. #metoo
Line repaired by Whitefish Energy failed. If anything was paid to them, can it be recouped?
Good question.
I was thinking about”the shirt” today, and enjoying the memories of how much fun we had here. Naughty mats were seriously needed when this photo came out 🤣
smilin
It is so NOT fair to shock my senior heart with this sudden sexy exposure……LOL, but hey, thanks !!
smilin
It is not fair to plaster that picture here at this hour.
smilin
Lovely stuff on this thread!!
With all the dreariness of these days, this will warm your heart and soul:
I cried watching this. My heart aches for those times.
Me, too, mtmarilyn.
Just Because:
When the troop returned the next year wearing tiaras, PBO wore one as well in the photo that they took together. It was too cute.
Thanks for posting this.
I understand a jury is composed of our peers. . . Dwell on it, PBO essentially cannot be seated on a jury, for so many reasons. I suspect he would enjoy it tho. 😉😎👁👁🗝
Oh, I would SO love to see Nunes take a dive, too.
Did he or didn’t he resign?
I cannot wait to see that day when this noxious little weasel is crushed.
What a mess…..
Wow, just look at these guys.
I hope “investigating” isn’t code for *threatening* or *harassing* them.
He was swoon-worthy in everyone. He even has beautiful feet (remember the photo where all had to take off their shoes to visit a Buddhist Temple). We should get all of the photos of PBO in those shirts (BWD posted our favorite one) and post them all over social media. A c/c photo with 44 and 45 would be even better.
The code talkers saved our asses in WWII. The greatest irony that the language and the people that white folk tried to destroy, ended up saving so many lives and helping to win the war. The lesson: everyone is valuable, everyone has something to offer. Outside of the morality of treating people justly,we cannot afford to destroy, misuse, or ignore any group in our country because you do not know who or what will be our saving grace. I feel that a time is coming, sooner than many think, that all of the US bills will come due; a reckoning is coming for the 300 plus years of destroying the land and its various peoples.
🙌🏾
I hope so CEB- a reckoning.
BEAUTY BREAK
Can you imagine how amazing this dinner must have been??!!
My POTUS, always serving the greater good.
GE, TODable TODbots.
Congrats, Dudette on your Au ⭐ Furst 😉
Thanks, NW!
❤ ❤ ❤ TOD Community.
This SH** Never Ends…NEVER!
GE TODville.
On this Veteran’s Day observed, ponder this, and wonder why MSM hasn’t kept us informed of this? (Let me know if I’m mistaken — since I don’t have a TV, it could be widely covered by network and cable news, but it’s just me that thinks it’s underreported.)
Here’s how the grotesque evil occupying the WH *actually* greets our troops in harms way on foreign soil (not implying that our troops are in danger in pacifist Japan, but they are in peril because of TGEOTWH [FUBAR]):
And here’s some warming news for this weekend (radio tells me that more than 50% of the country will experience sub-freezing weather this weekend — sorry for the early frost for those in the upper Midwest and Northeast):
Here’s the article:
Trump doing all he can to make America powerless… Putin’s dream.
This is heartbreaking.
I’m with Barbara Boxer…. “that (R) behind their name?!..(R) is for Repulsive” new name for Republicans…REPULSIVE indeed
While I’m not optimistic, maybe there’s a chance he won’t be confirmed by the full Senate…. yeah, right.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/11/10/honoring-our-veterans/
Good Memories!
Thank you so much, criquet, for sharing this. It’s absolutely beautiful! It definitely captures the true essence of President Obama and First Lady, Michelle Obama. They both were, and still are, such a blessing to this country.