I have been reading about earthquakes happening around the world. A few days ago there was one south of Bali, I believe another one in Greece IIRC, and today I am watching the news and there was one in Croatia.
Long Time no see, WhenPamelawandered. 😊🤗☺
VC, it’s your Birthday…🎂🥂🌹🎉🎁👒💁♀️🎶🙌🙏💪🙏😍😍🎶
Congrats, JER for your furst Au ⭐⭐🥇👏🙌
Good Afternoon, TODville.🙏💪🙏
Thank you, NW.👒💁♀️🤗😍
THANKS, TOD-family! This is much appreciated. Going through that memory lane post was ‘just what the doctor ordered’. 😉 TY, Pamela.
ALSO, CHIPS CHICA, whatever you are doing today, know that I’m thinking of you … and your son. 🙂 You have made such a difference in my life with your creation of this village; I still miss you like crazy, and still dream that one of these days you will drop in for a surprise visit.
Call your MoC. Tell them FUCK NO!!! Make sure they hear you!!! He’s taken more than his share already!
So while the states are in the Hunger Games for life and death medical supplies, Trump is finding a way to get more money flowing to himself. You cannot make this up. https://t.co/vnzm2wOVBz
One American News was the news group the female journalist was from that Trump called on a couple days ago. She was the one that said we call food Chinese food and that is not considered racist so Chinese Flu is not racist either. When she said that then Trump went on a rant about the media so I figured she was a plant.
This land is your land and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters Please stay home for you and me#COVIDー19 | #CoronavirusUSA pic.twitter.com/oXDzCvwdXK
Kim Jong-un's sister claims President Trump sent a personal letter to the North Korean leader offering cooperation to help the country combat the coronavirus outbreak. https://t.co/043ZGZyIrH
As expected, while we are all sequestered trying to save our lives and those of our fellow citizens, @AGWilliamBarr and every other corrupt member of Tang’s cabinet is ACTIVELY trying to do everything they can to destroy our democracy & line their pockets.
Listen, these horrible people can and will WAG👏🏾ANY👏🏾DOG! It’s not just a war. It’s not just one thing. We are facing a GLOBAL PANDEMIC and @AGWilliamBarr is coming for our constitutional rights and the courts.
My nephew works at McDonalds his first job (started in January). Luckily he has healthcare from VA through his Mom. Millions of other fast food workers are not so lucky.
A shift manager at a McDonald’s restaurant in Kansas City, Mo., asks why a company that earned $5.3 billion last year can’t guarantee paid sick leave for all of its workers. https://t.co/5AWIY3UORcpic.twitter.com/u1YgHy1rNC
I trust Nancy Pelosi. She probably sees too much of a corporate bailout and not enough people help. Since we know that trump wanted $500 billion to use at his discretion … for HIS companies, I don’t think I’m far off
“Speaker Pelosi a no on Senate bill; will intro her own House bill”
Whew—some very emotional cashiers and stock-people at my local Hanaford. So upsetting that they’re being berated and harrassed by shoppers. Please. Be. Kind. To. People. Who. Are. Working. To. Make. Sure. You. Have. Food.
BREAKING: Big news. There is a now national resource & clearinghouse for N95 masks. This is a place to go if you have of if you need. Consider helping to circulate this.
.@realDonaldTrump, dear Lord—please step up and be a leader. While you have been yammering about hoaxes and fake news, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit all over America. @GovPritzker and others have filled this country’s leadership gap. Lead or get out of their way. https://t.co/36yxpiPS5s
Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events. He was not aware of any direct contact with any infected person.
nstant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin’
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin’ at fools like me
Who in the hell d’you think you are
My new favourite thing is Italian mayors and regional presidents LOSING IT at people violating quarantine. Here's an eng subtitled compilation. "I hear you wanna throw graduation parties. I'm gonna send the police over. With flamethrowers." #Covid19#coronaviruspic.twitter.com/NbYuWePIVt
Shock doctrine opportunism:
“Author, activist and journalist Naomi Klein says the coronavirus crisis, like earlier ones, could be a catalyst to shower aid on the wealthiest interests in society, including those most responsible for our current vulnerabilities, while offering next to nothing to most workers and small businesses. In 2007, Klein wrote “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” Now she argues President Trump’s plan is a pandemic shock doctrine.”
Naomi Klien and Amy Goodman interview:
(https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/19/naomi_klein_coronavirus_capitalism)
—-Mnuchin clearing the way to give cash to Trump’s businesses and others.
—Barr wants to hold detainees indefinitely.
I did a study that showed consistently, over 110 years, Republican presidencies increase violent death rates, while Democratic presidencies decrease them. Same with economic variables. Ordinarily, we would label one disease and the other health. https://t.co/sqZdFpsAT6
The twin brother of (hopefully!!) my next US senator.
In Opinion
Scott Kelly, a retired NASA astronaut, spent nearly a year on the International Space Station. He shares his tips for living in isolation. https://t.co/mcobxpp4ru
Had an interesting experience today. Every Sunday morning about ten or twelve of us gather to discuss the day’s lectionary reading. Being UCC, our discussions do not follow strict dogma or literalism! We did not have church last week or today, but we miss each other. So our leader set us up on Zoom…not exactly a block party but good. I am very impressed with what technology……coming from that dreaded SCIENCE!!! is doing to keep us in touch. We had a good discussion for 40 minutes. Two members of our group are pediatricians. One is an pediatric oncologist at the OU Health Science Center. Her husband is a general practitioner in Chickasha. They will not visit her mother who lives next door, because she is in the senior age group and they do not want to endanger her. The punch to the gut came when Ryan, the gp said, “We expect to get it, but will keep working until then.” They also reiterated the desperate need for ppe. Some people here think we are exempt from the problems of the rest of the country, but right now we have 53 confirmed cases in OK, with more to come I know. We all know that if our adored PBO were president, we would not be in the situation we are in.
Everybody take care.
Hello Carolyn, it’s good to hear from you. I sent you an email a few days ago.
I had Sunday School online with my cousins in Salisbury, NC.
It’s good to be able to fellowship.
Hey let’s keep posting Biden’s tweet in which Ronald Klain explains Trump’s tragic history so far on COVID-19.
And Joe Biden’s plan to help AMERICA the eff out.
imo this is not the time for building walls. It’s a time for building world leadership and co-operation.
A time to mend fences. Not impose sanctions – Pence just imposed more on Iran – on hungry, sick people.
Here's Mitt Romney telling reporters that a group of senators had lunch with Rand Paul on Friday and he's now seeking advice as to whether he should self-quarantine pic.twitter.com/Y0uuww7rYe
Bernie lost because he is a rigid ideologue who fundamentally does not know how to build a governing coalition. There is no socialist majority and insisting there is got him two successive election primary defeats https://t.co/vBuqAfBufk
Sen. Warren: “This is not a bipartisan proposal. This is a Republican proposal at this point, and it creates a slush fund for the big guys and no help for workers and no help for hospitals, and I don't see how the Democrats can possibly support that.” pic.twitter.com/mrbSty8P0r
Yes …sometimes we all get lucky. We were lucky to have President Obama and put FLOTUS for 8 years.
Our country never fully appreciated what they did and tried to do for us. Look at us now. A ship which no captain.
Hard to believe that American doctors and nurses are struggling with lack of equipment and supplies in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, but the #COVIDIOT wrote a letter to Kim Jong-Un promising to help NORTH KOREA??? Really???
Let that sink in….In northern Italy- orders given to no longer give human beings over age 60 access to respiratory machines. These are the choices other countries too might have to face.To all those selfish spring break children in Florida…fuck you! (sorry I am just so mad).
This is the face of someone who just spent 9 hours in personal protective equipment moving critically ill Covid19 patients around London.
I feel broken – and we are only at the start. I am begging people, please please do social distancing and self isolation #covid19pic.twitter.com/hs0RQdvsn3
Those red/purple marks across my face are from my mask and are deeper than you think. Today I have seen just what covid19 is doing and now I just want to scream at people to listen to us.
I volunteered to do this. The consultant anaesthetist I was with volunteered. This is bringing out the best of us. Now can the rest of the country please bring out their best and listen! #covid19
Dear Media … stop covering PP’s briefings … instead , if there is a way you can show the general public what is happening at hospitals, what the nurse in the tweet above is witnessing, then maybe the people will take this pandemic more seriously. Of course this would require all kinds of permission from all parties involved, something to think about.
Humanity will thank you … hugely or ….. yugely (up to you …).
I took a picture inside the Senate GOP lunch when the door was open Friday and saw Rand Paul seated next to other senators. He is visible in this photo. pic.twitter.com/4qwZo5YdBs
Paul was at the Senate gym today and Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas told senators at lunch he saw Paul in the swimming pool today, per a source in the lunch
https://t.co/u0S2Bf13OR Come to Think of it, Your Father: #RonPaul on 16Mar2020 called #COVID19 a Hoax. I'm not being uncaring, but pray tale, what was his take on you now testing positive w/the #CoronaVirus? 330+ dead. Over 30K in the US has the disease. As a Doc, what Now🙏💪🙏
Rand Paul – a doctor – going to the Senate gym while awaiting results of a COVID test is about 1000 times more irresponsible than the very irresponsible spring breakers everyone is dunking on
That is the really sad part…Paul is a medical doctor and SHOULD know better. The Senate gym needs to be shut down just like other indoor gyms in the country. He is so irresponsible.
AS THE @GOP Senate denied witnesses in @realDonaldTrump's "trial" THEY ALONE were given a classified briefing by @WhiteHouse staff of said defendant, on the extreme risks #COVID19 posed,
then with trump WITHHELD that info from AMERICA as they voted to acquit!
I want to thank the many public servants in the military, in @FEMA & other parts of the fed. government who are actually doing the work to keep people safe. My staff and I are grateful for your experience and your willingness to act courageously on behalf of your fellow American.
So Trump's tweet reveals the play: Claims that the federal government is there to back up states "if they fail." Which states need most help right now? Blue states. So sit back, let people die, then, IF Trump decides to step in, blame it on these governors' "failures." He's sick. https://t.co/honDC5maNb
Share this widely. Make it viral… in a good way! Show America that Republicans don’t give a damn about them. Eyes open!
THREAD: Americans who need relief the most, like families, workers, and small and-medium-sized businesses were left out of this Republican-drafted bill.
1. Republican-drafted legislation contains no increase in SNAP benefits to help vulnerable families put food on the table.
The world is DANCING through this moment!!! Enjoy this recap of yesterday’s #dancewithdebbieallen Early Bird class.💕 See you on my Instagram Live —> therealdebbieallen on Wednesday at 1pm PST / 4pm EST for a Salsa class! Stay strong!💋✨ @officialdadancepic.twitter.com/gLJK0xHT4b
1. @SpeakerPelosi & House Dems will decide the final bill.
2. If there’s a single tax item in Senate bill it’s unconstitutional because all tax legislation must begin in the House. Sorry Mitch. https://t.co/XI89Hy5Jp3
The H1N1 swine flu pandemic that infected up to 1.4 billion people and killed up to 575,000 originated in factory farmed pigs in the United States. Yet nobody ever calls it the “American Pig Flu.” Let’s stop calling the coronavirus the “Chinese Virus.” We’re all in this together.
1) If states win – he takes the credit.
2) If states fail – states take the blame.
Journalists!…set up and expose the Confidence Trickster via your questions.
The #COVID19 stimulus package must protect the health & safety of voters + poll workers and our elections:
💰At least $2B in funding to states *now* 🗒️Expand voter registration online 🔉Voter education ✉️Enable vote-by-mail for all voters and expand in-person early voting
He needs to be held responsible for his actions, just like everyone else.
“Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.” https://t.co/TR44aKFoHT
They’re busy trying to blow sunshine up some asses. This is not ok!
I spoke earlier today with the Dir of Emergency Medicine at the largest hospital in Westchester, who told me that the hospital’s supply of PPE was so dire this week that he drove to Brooklyn and bought 1,000 masks at $6.50/mask with his own money. Where is the federal government?
It would be nice if Brian Monahan, Office of Attending Physician, would do a news conference about advice he’s been giving congressional leaders. Why the Senate gym and pool were open this morning. Why tourists poured onto Capitol until March 13. https://t.co/grmLTSnt6Z
Obama White House.gov
Also here: NY Gov. Cuomo gives update on novel coronavirus –
https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-6
Always catch his daily conversations. He’s excellent. Someone else should watch and take lessons
Congratulations JER on 1st.
❤
Thank you NW for everything you do.
❤️
I have been reading about earthquakes happening around the world. A few days ago there was one south of Bali, I believe another one in Greece IIRC, and today I am watching the news and there was one in Croatia.
Does this mean I have to join Insta now???!!😂😂😂
Serious question:) Do I need to join so that I can distance party with Michelle Obama?
I think so 😎
Yes, you have to join in order to view anything on Instagram. Thems the rules.
Yes. Do it!
❤️ for a party with all these amazing people? I might have to!
Last night was so much fun!
So uplifting! And yes DJ called Michelle Obama the First Lady, and then FLOTUS. Damn right! Our Forever First Lady..Michelle Obama!!!
We are old hands at distance socializing here on {{{ ♥️ TOD ♥️}}}
So in a heartfelt effort to ease our hearts, here is a chance to lift us all:
🎼Happy Birthday VeeCee
🎶Happy Birthday VeeCee
Happy Birthday
🎵VCprezofan
Happy Birthday to Thee!🎉🎶
🎂🕰🕉♈️💖🎈
♥️🌏🙏🏼♥️
🕊
And this, so you can breathe again:
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/rise-and-shine-photos-from-israel/
Thank you, everyone, thank you Chipsticks, thank you NerdyWonka (aka UTAL) keep us all the heart, there is Light beyond this darkness..
And @djdnice is havin’ a party for one of our dearest TODObots tonight, (🕕🌟👀 VC) ~ fancy dress optional!!
Happy birthday to our sweetness, VC:)!! Love and hugs and many more!💕🌸🎈
Happy Birthday, VC! 🎂🎁🎈❤️🎉
Thanks Pamela!
Happy Birthday VC!! May this year be the best ever, filled with blessings of faith, family and friendships. We love you!!!!
Long Time no see, WhenPamelawandered. 😊🤗☺
VC, it’s your Birthday…🎂🥂🌹🎉🎁👒💁♀️🎶🙌🙏💪🙏😍😍🎶
Congrats, JER for your furst Au ⭐⭐🥇👏🙌
Good Afternoon, TODville.🙏💪🙏
Thank you, NW.👒💁♀️🤗😍
THANKS, TOD-family! This is much appreciated. Going through that memory lane post was ‘just what the doctor ordered’. 😉 TY, Pamela.
ALSO, CHIPS CHICA, whatever you are doing today, know that I’m thinking of you … and your son. 🙂 You have made such a difference in my life with your creation of this village; I still miss you like crazy, and still dream that one of these days you will drop in for a surprise visit.
🥰😘
So true!!!
Sending you warmest wishes for your birthday, VC. Stay safe and be well.
Happy Birthday {{{{{{{oh quiet one}}}}}}} 🙂
Happy happy Birthday VC. I do hope you do some extra special distance social today.
Call your MoC. Tell them FUCK NO!!! Make sure they hear you!!! He’s taken more than his share already!
Noooooo
Do you laugh or cry?
What is Fox news trying to do to ppl with mis-information?
Kill them off
One American News was the news group the female journalist was from that Trump called on a couple days ago. She was the one that said we call food Chinese food and that is not considered racist so Chinese Flu is not racist either. When she said that then Trump went on a rant about the media so I figured she was a plant.
My nephew works at McDonalds his first job (started in January). Luckily he has healthcare from VA through his Mom. Millions of other fast food workers are not so lucky.
I trust Nancy Pelosi. She probably sees too much of a corporate bailout and not enough people help. Since we know that trump wanted $500 billion to use at his discretion … for HIS companies, I don’t think I’m far off
Comment posts are doing funky things today.
Happy Birthday VC! Wishing you joy and good health, today and everyday.
🎂💃🏾🕺🏾🍾🥂💐😘
Share!!
Hey! Cool!
We gotta do what we gotta do!!
Amen!
Much Respect! 😀
The Hanks’ are cool peeps!
“”What can skinny girls do for you? Doug—not a damn thing!”…I lost it , laughing so hard!.
That’s one of the best SNL skits in the last few years!
WOW!!! Rita Hanks! She can rap…impressed.
Right?
I was corrected – it’s Rita Wilson or Wilson Hanks.
Rand Paul has tested Positive for the COVID19
Karma sure is 💯% that Judicious.
I must not have bad thoughts…… but I do!
Hip Hop Hooray!
OMG
MSNBC is repeating Rand Paul as tested positive. The first US Senator to test positive.
That’s all I have to say about that.
I posted it up thread too
Sorry. Missed that. 😘
I should have posted it as a new post instead of as a reply post.
🤗🥰
Ok
Hello MZ KARMA
Got that right! Always finds you!!
Yup
nstant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin’
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin’ at fools like me
Who in the hell d’you think you are
Bringing everybody back down to planet earth:
Bless the Mayors. A thankless job the world over, even when not in a crisis.
That’s telling them!
Rock on baby!!
Shock doctrine opportunism:
“Author, activist and journalist Naomi Klein says the coronavirus crisis, like earlier ones, could be a catalyst to shower aid on the wealthiest interests in society, including those most responsible for our current vulnerabilities, while offering next to nothing to most workers and small businesses. In 2007, Klein wrote “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” Now she argues President Trump’s plan is a pandemic shock doctrine.”
Naomi Klien and Amy Goodman interview:
(https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/19/naomi_klein_coronavirus_capitalism)
—-Mnuchin clearing the way to give cash to Trump’s businesses and others.
—Barr wants to hold detainees indefinitely.
😂😂😂😂😂🤣
That is so cute!
So funny!
Trump’s cabinet is there to make him more rich, more popular, more powerful.
Not a whit of it is for us.
Sons of bitches. Even a catastrophic event like this can’t change who they really are. Get them the hell out!!
So in other words they can all DIE in the name of the economy, spring break.
Watch the ‘economy’ when the Gulf Coast starts to replate Italy.
replicate
Surely there is something in the water these ppl drink.
Moscow Mitch is trying to take the moral stance “for the American people.” As if. He is the scum of the earth.
And I know you’ve all heard Rand Paul has tested positive for the coronavirus.
What a day.
The twin brother of (hopefully!!) my next US senator.
I dunno why I enjoyed watching this so much. Polishing a coin.
thank you.
Reminds me of Shunyru Suzuki Roshi’s: “To Shine One Corner of the World”.
(http://www.cuke.com/ZIRH/shine/intro.htm)
Had an interesting experience today. Every Sunday morning about ten or twelve of us gather to discuss the day’s lectionary reading. Being UCC, our discussions do not follow strict dogma or literalism! We did not have church last week or today, but we miss each other. So our leader set us up on Zoom…not exactly a block party but good. I am very impressed with what technology……coming from that dreaded SCIENCE!!! is doing to keep us in touch. We had a good discussion for 40 minutes. Two members of our group are pediatricians. One is an pediatric oncologist at the OU Health Science Center. Her husband is a general practitioner in Chickasha. They will not visit her mother who lives next door, because she is in the senior age group and they do not want to endanger her. The punch to the gut came when Ryan, the gp said, “We expect to get it, but will keep working until then.” They also reiterated the desperate need for ppe. Some people here think we are exempt from the problems of the rest of the country, but right now we have 53 confirmed cases in OK, with more to come I know. We all know that if our adored PBO were president, we would not be in the situation we are in.
Everybody take care.
❤️ you take care too! At least we have our TOD family always here for us. Thank you, Nerdy. Now more than ever.
Hello Carolyn, it’s good to hear from you. I sent you an email a few days ago.
I had Sunday School online with my cousins in Salisbury, NC.
It’s good to be able to fellowship.
Stay well 😘
Hey let’s keep posting Biden’s tweet in which Ronald Klain explains Trump’s tragic history so far on COVID-19.
And Joe Biden’s plan to help AMERICA the eff out.
imo this is not the time for building walls. It’s a time for building world leadership and co-operation.
A time to mend fences. Not impose sanctions – Pence just imposed more on Iran – on hungry, sick people.
LOL! Neil Diamond doing his part! 😀
yes
Among other things
just another boon to the super-rich. Means they’ll kill us all to please their bundlers and funders.
Yes …sometimes we all get lucky. We were lucky to have President Obama and put FLOTUS for 8 years.
Our country never fully appreciated what they did and tried to do for us. Look at us now. A ship which no captain.
Let that sink in….In northern Italy- orders given to no longer give human beings over age 60 access to respiratory machines. These are the choices other countries too might have to face.To all those selfish spring break children in Florida…fuck you! (sorry I am just so mad).
The average age of the U.S. Senate is….
Fucking old
ya cracked me up!
Thank you so very much Natalie for your unbelievable generosity. May you be protected.
–with much love.
Dear Media … stop covering PP’s briefings … instead , if there is a way you can show the general public what is happening at hospitals, what the nurse in the tweet above is witnessing, then maybe the people will take this pandemic more seriously. Of course this would require all kinds of permission from all parties involved, something to think about.
Humanity will thank you … hugely or ….. yugely (up to you …).
Too close for comfort, this time around.
Wow.
Rand Pauls’ father, a former Congressman from TX. This was just 6 days ago.
Totally forgot Rand was a doctor.
That is the really sad part…Paul is a medical doctor and SHOULD know better. The Senate gym needs to be shut down just like other indoor gyms in the country. He is so irresponsible.
Maybe that’s why Rand didn’t give a shit in the first place. All a hoax, you know! I hate people sometimes. Especially selfish ones
https://mobile.twitter.com/jbouie/status/1241807003049168905
Hey guys, recently, our Chef Nancie McDermott has been having cooking lessons on FB and at 3:45 y’alls time, today, she will be making biscuits.
❤️❤️
WOOT! I’m not on Facebook but cheer in every way possible! FORWARD to the biscuit brigade!!
Me too!
I hope this not true, but wild speculation.
If true…The GOP should be disbanded as a National Party.
Good for JB!
Share this widely. Make it viral… in a good way! Show America that Republicans don’t give a damn about them. Eyes open!
Kitty Cuteness
Dance Baby Dance!
Wretched excuse for a human being
So good to hear. That said, America should still see the priorities of Senate Republicans.
1) If states win – he takes the credit.
2) If states fail – states take the blame.
Journalists!…set up and expose the Confidence Trickster via your questions.
Harbor Freight is helping our country’s hospitals
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213151585
Was he at lunch with Rand?
Interesting
He needs to be held responsible for his actions, just like everyone else.
A Break…I promise it will put a smile on Your Face.
They’re busy trying to blow sunshine up some asses. This is not ok!
OMG, this is so unbelievably heartbreaking.
Supposed to be the greatest country on Earth. Somewhere Putin is laughing in his brandy
I definitely think that he should try them first. What a damn idiot
❤️ zoo webcams all over the place!!
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/03/22/aquariums-and-zoos-webcams/
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/03/22/meeting-her-queen/
We’re all adults here, luckily.