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Howdy!
Hi and congrats CarolMae!
Thank you!
Congratulations, CarolMae! Feeling relieved today that Oregon stepped ahead on reducing gun violence and passed our bill. We have more work to do. Next session, we will bring back the Charleston Loophole bill and pass it on the third try. Meanwhile, we are getting ready to defeat two more terrible GOP legislators so our majorities will be even more robust.
Way to go JF!
Great job, Judith. Congratulations.
Judith is my hero!
Thanks Judith. Thanks for all you do!
You are amazing Judith.
When I say, that these teens have NFTG:
Bam!
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
R.Kelly, Omarosa and and other black people on the #Wakanda travel ban list: https://t.co/wPCnnmvDAK pic.twitter.com/SwwRStSKTe
— The Root (@TheRoot) February 23, 2018
OMG
Had me hollering!!! The only one on the list that I would give a pass to is vegetarians.
LOL!
They forgot Stacey Dash,
that damned Sheriff Clarke, and that Pastor Mark whatshisname that goes on tv capping for Orangolini!
From Wikipedia –
Wauconda, Illinois:
Traditions say that Wauconda was named for an Indian chief by that name (originally spelled “Wakanda”), who is buried somewhere on the southern bank of Bangs Lake, where the town hall was later built. The word translated from its Indian language means “Spirit Water”.
JUST IN: Special Counsel Mueller files criminal information against Rick Gates in sign he is to plead guilty pic.twitter.com/Z1qVO7drnw
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) February 23, 2018
This man is at work at 4 in the morning, bouncing and smiling everyday. I don’t how. 😁
Maybe it’s those socks! 🙂
They are quite lively! 😄
This was the aim of Carter G. Woodson, a black historian and originator of Negro History Week in 1926. He believed that appreciating a people’s history was a prerequisite to equality. He wrote of the commemoration, “If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world.” That is, no amount of legislation can grant you equality if a nation doesn’t value you.
This is the story of black America — underappreciated and perpetually experiencing trickle-down citizenship wherein progress only reaches us if the nation’s cup runneth over.
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This line stands out to me in fact it cut me deep…
This is the story of black America — underappreciated and perpetually experiencing trickle-down citizenship wherein progress only reaches us if the nation’s cup runneth over
grant us equality….
.i bristle at that statement….Equality is NEVER granted…..it is Fought For…..it is Won……and most of all…Defended!!…Defended!
Equality is our GOD GIVEN RIGHT……NOT GUNS!
JUST IN: New criminal information filed against Rick Gates. It includes two counts, conspiracy and making a false statement. Still no hearing scheduled, but this is usually the harbinger of a plea https://t.co/260IrsAOOl
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) February 23, 2018
from watergate to all other scandalxxx gates, it’s ironic that a corrupt twerp named gates is indicted.
ha, gatesgate.
A “plea agreement” hearing has now been scheduled for 2pm ET in federal court in Washington.
— Mike Levine (@MLevineReports) February 23, 2018
Oh, my
So that’s Dana Rohrbacher.
My guess.
Yes based on some tweets I’ve seen it’s Russian agent Dana Rohrbacher
Wow.
MSNBC is covering Twitler ‘s live news conference so I switched to the Hallmark channel
OMG! 👀 I don’t know how to deal… I can’t!
wow
This thread is full of magic!
The scarf is BOSS!
“RIP Marco Rubio, Killed by a Teen’s Tweet”
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Sarah Chadwick tweeted this late Thursday night:
Still looking for a live feed of PBO’s sports conference appearance but some people are tweeting that it will not be livestreamed. He hasn’t appeared yet……..
Thanks, JER. I was really hoping we could hear him today.
Hello TODbots.
CarolMae, congrats on your Au ⭐
Thanks, NW.
TGIF, Finally. Lots of snow. But It was not as heavy. One Neighbor did the unexpected, he snow plowed off the packed heavy snow piled up by the City Snow Plowers. 1st time ever. Wow!
{{{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}}
❤ TODville Community.
So Gates has now been Meullerfied 😉
OK, then.
Manafort statement on Gates: “I had hoped and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to prove our innocence. For reasons yet to surface he chose to do otherwise.”
— Julian Borger (@julianborger) February 23, 2018
ShaZaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam
Mueller is my guy.
I don’t blame him. He is a 30yr sheriff officer and close to retirement. He took the cushy job because it was “safe”. A quiet well off community who knew a deranged student would come to school with a AR-15. He was probably armed with a regular sheriff issued 6 shooter. How can you defend yourself let alone students up against an AR-15. When the bank robbers armed with body armor, keffler helmets were shooting it out with the L.A. PD in 2000, the LAPD was out gunned and had to take over AR-15 weapons from a local gun store to defend themselves. ONE officer can patrol a whole school. What if the gunman takes him out first? Some kids will get away but not all. It boogles my mind that the 14/15yr old that was shot 5 times and survived. He will need YEARS of surgery and mental therapy.
The thing is, those kids were UNARMED heroes without the officer’s professional training. They were shot holding doors to either protect others or help them escape.
He’s getting heat because he left those kids to fend for themselves. Might the officer have been able to locate the shooter by the sound of the shots and try to take up a position to at least disable him?
We’ll never know.
Could not agree more ….
Yup
“White House Easter Egg Roll” on the wall
At first I also had to stop and wonder because it’s rare that we see new photos of them. They’re adorable!!
2016
Good find!!
Probable …. but oh so foolish to mess with Mueller & Co …..
Yeah. Right.
Manafort didn’t get a salary either…
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“Trump says Kelly will decide on Kushner clearance”
Speaking on Friday at a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Trump defended his son-in-law, saying that he is doing important work at the White House and not accepting a paycheck.
“He has done an outstanding job,” Trump said. “I think he has been treated unfairly. He is a high-quality person. He works for nothing. Nobody ever reports that. He gets zero. He doesn’t get a salary.”
The president said he trusts that Kelly will make the right decision on whether to revoke Kushner’s clearance or not.
So is “Silent-J” getting paid by the Russians and Chinese governments for USA secrets?
Good point. I can’t imagine Kushner, or anyone of his ilk, working for free; especially with all the debt his family/business is in.
I was thinking that too … maybe Kushner might be passing secrets in exchange for huge sums of $ from Chinese investors.
Who is fooling?
Havin’ fun
Plus…
Wow!
wow is right
NEW superseding indctment from grand jury against Manafort. It alleges he “secretly retained a group of former senior European politicians to take positions favorable to Ukraine, including by lobbying in the United States” https://t.co/KyDiby8e4O
— The Moscow Project (@moscow_project) February 23, 2018
Where are politicians sending their kids to school? Not public schools I bet. Send Cadet Bone Spurs for security duty! He missed his chance to fight for his country …
Gotta say, PBO’s tweet “…we have been waiting for you” to the students almost made me cry.
One comment over at DU … GOP = Government of Putin). LOL
YES WE CAN
kremlin klan. lol.
Teresa Zimmerman, director of marketing for Personify Corp, Wild Apricot’s parent organization, said late Friday that she has asked the NRA to remove Wild Apricot from the gun lobby’s website.
All the blue state univs and other ‘librul univs’ in red states should come out with these open statements. Stop the gunnut racist pos mofos from ‘punishing’ the kids meaningless.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/02/23/you-can-huff-and-puff-but-change-will-come/
PLEASE share broadly with your networks. 2018 is CRITICAL to Census2020.
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