This is what it is all about, helping someone so if God forbid they have to go through some medical crisis, they won’t have to worry about being wiped away financially. But with the Republicans it’s all about hate to them, their hatred of this President. I am praying and hoping for the best from the Supreme Court, to keep politics out of this, but I don’t have much faith in them. And by the way, I am going to email Chuck Todd and tell him about this couple here and how Obamacare help them, I want Chuckie to know that Americans like those people will be the loser if the Supreme Court plays politics with this law.
I am working on being first because I am so tired of being last. But given the fact that I am on the Mexican border, and I have tendency to stay up late at night (well past midnight any way) I doubt that I will ever be first. But I really think It’s so much fun to see people racing to be first to post on this truly fabulous site. I think it must be because of the fabulous prizes awarded by Chipsticks.
Yes, and I am so grateful that they will grace us with their presence and wisdom and love and personalities for 4 more years. I love the Obamas, yes I do, I love the Obamas–how about you?
I was going to post this on the last thread but found myself alone there. It seemed fitting among all the inspiring vids of the last post, but since we’re all here now, to which I must say, ChipsChica you are blazing fast with these videos… Anyway this is from one of my favorite speeches.
Thanks Chips for posting all those wonderful videos! What a wonderful way to end a busy & crazy week!
Shockingly I did NOT win the Mega Millions lottery. Even though I don’t believe in the lottery, as you’re more likely to get struck by lightening 305 times, than to win the lottery. For this time, I made an exception.
But even though I did not hit the jackpot, I chipped into CollegeKay’s grassroots fundraiser
Though if I had, you’d have gotten a much bigger donation
WOW. Most doctors you speak with are under the assumption that EC DOES, in fact, prevent implantation. If it doesn’t, that huge. If it doesn’t there needs to be something that does.
And I don’t care what the Crazies® think – a fertilized egg = fertilized egg and that’s ALL it is. It can no more turn into a human at that point than a goldfish. But of course, in their minds, masturbation for men is abortion as well. You just can’t fix delusional.
Okay, I tried this the first time and got locked out of WP, which, once again, wouldn’t accept my password. Grrrrr. Wanted to say that this cover photo should be shown to every women who thinks she won’t bother to vote this year. Substitute any hat and it applies everywhere.
good night ck. you must tell us in riveting detail everything about how your call goes (I’m putting positive energy toward it and imagining that is is happening!) will put in another tomorrow!
For those of you who aren’t interested in “Dinner with Barack” or “Grab a Bite with Mitt”, you’re in LUCK! You can now donate to Santorum and experience the pleasure of winning his fundraising competition!
Announcing the “Sensual Spanking from Santorum” fundraising incentive. The winner with top $ donations gets to be spanked by Frothy himself. Donate now! No more excuses
It’s bad enough I envision the angry, joyless, wince inducing sex Santorum has. Like his body betrays him or something as he prays to God throughout. (Yes, I have thought about it. It kinda cracks me up half the time. )
And having dinner with Mitty would put me asleep, I think I would (rather) drown in a bowl of my soup.
Ok—-Bill Maher’s show can be so maddening it’s unwatchable at times. But tonight it was pretty decent, covering a wide range of topics—Sup. Ct., healthcare, Martin case, environment, gun laws, or lack thereof, Repub increasing stupidity. Van Jones was one of the guests and was good tonight. Another guest I enjoyed was the producer for Mad Men. And let’s see if I can tell this in the right way. But they were talking about racism, and the producer noted that young people are not racists—-and I believe that’s true—-and that they are marrying whomever—-and that racism—the last desperate gasps of it—will thus fade, fade, fade away—-once and for all. They noted that California is increasingly populated with bi-racial couples—–and of course one of the guys said “everyone looks like Mariah Carey.” I’ve thought of this too—-and thought of a conservation I had with my daughter who’s a teacher in Indy this week. Her school was playing in the state bball finals. And I had read a write-up in the Indy Star about the game, and there was a photo of one of their star players—–and I asked my daughter if she had had him in class—-really cute guy, “looks like Obama”, I said. And she said, “Mom, this whole school is full of Obamas–well over half have bi-racial parents.” I hope I’m not offending anyone. Just an interesting observation that I am noticing everywhere also. The country is changing, it’s happening, and the old white racists know it, and they are desperately flailing about in their final death throes.
My sons are all biracial.. and I used to say when they were little – 30 yrs ago.. I look forward to the day when the world is mostly brown joking, however.. my two adult sons have both dated women of all races and cultures.. caucasian women, women of Trinidad, Korea, Mexico and even Kenya my 4 grandchildren are the most beautiful mix of humanity
My girls are biracial also. And like your sons have dated guys from different races and cultures. They don’t even stop to question it. Which is why I suppose if you’re into the supreme-ness of your race (whatever it may be) the new reality could be very threatening.
But it’s not just my girls, their friends of mixed and single races do it also. Most of the young from this next generation, and the generation yipping at their heals, just don’t care to be separated by race, for the most part.
And yet they are still proud of the various races of their heritage. They have learned about the inherent cultures through stories from the old folks and I do believe they will always appreciate the many gifts and accomplishments of those cultures.
As one daughter told me: “I like being bi-racial. I define ‘me’ by the parts I choose to embrace.” (paraphrasing) I had never thought about it quite that way before.
One daughter did have a little bit of a quandary when filling out a questionnaire that asked for race. I believe she picked ‘other’ LOL
Oh yeah, and we’ve always celebrated different traditional cultural holidays with the different family members, so they are comfortable in many of these settings. They’ve come out with some good observations through the years. Changes a lot of the way you look at these things. LOL
My niece is bi-racial, AA/Vietnamese, she is so beautiful and smart – the best from each of them. She considers herself vietnamese for now, she’s only 10. I believe that in the next 20 years America will mostly be people of mixed race and being LGBT will be no big deal.
I bet that race question will disappear from all questionnaires. I like how your daughter said she defines herself. My Chgo daughter and fam are coming out to visit today, which includes my “adorablest” little 2 yr. old grandson, whom they adopted and who has a delicious Hispanic/white heritage, a real little charmer, the center of their universe. Lots look like him in Chicago too.
That’s true! In my comment, I was just stating a positive feature of diversity of genetics where the products of that diversity reflect the beauty of all the different combinations.
I know you didn’t mean anything by it. I was just thinking out loud. Every ethnic group has their certain features (for want of a better word) that define them, and that is beautiful. And at the same time it is nice to see these same features blended together to create something new out of the best each has to offer. Evolution?
Odd how we started as 1 (Lucy) and evolved into many adapting to our survival needs, only to see the possibility of the evolution of the many into a possible new 1. Cycles on a grand scale? Food for thought
I have three biracial grandsons — Caucasian and AA — and they are the most beautiful boys! I’m very proud of them because they’re not only beautiful and kind and thoughtful, but they’re extremely smart: one is just finishing up a medical degree, the second oldest is a pianist, the youngest one is still in high school. I’ll have to wait to brag about him!
LunarSea and Sherijr, and anyone else who have biracial kids, we are very lucky. As I’ve said before on this site I have always had melanin envy, and it’s become acute since we’ve been blessed with our lovely President and First Lady.
I wish they’d get the death throes over with so they can stop hurting people and being stupid. It’s so important that you people learn the importance of voting since they can’t take for granted that their own attitudes will be reflected in law makers. This will be a far better world when the current generation of young takes over the reins of power.
I wish this was true for all young people but Tim Wise thought it was very troubling the reaction some young people had to the black character (who is biracial in real life) in the Hunger Games.
I agree with some of your statement, especially for states like California, but there are still pockets of young people who reflect the biased and prejudiced thoughts of the last generation – the teen convicted of a hate crime in Mississippi for running over a black man. Even before the Martin case in Sanford the son of a Sanford police officer was accused of beating a homeless black man. And there have been other cases involving young people. Like a group of young people who kidnapped a young black woman, in West VA, I think, and held her hostage and tortured her. (Sadly, I think she had dated one of the young men).
Sometimes it just feels like one step forward and two steps back, so I’m not sure that racism is just going to fade away, even with the increasing number of multiracial families because if you think about it multiculturalism has existed in the black community for some time. Look at the wide range of hues, complexions, hair texture, ect. We black Americans have been a mixed race people for a while, in part, due to the consequences of slavery.
Growing up there was a family in my community that could have passed for white – all of them. But it was well known that they were a “black” family. The one-drop rule made a lot of people just black. Its more accepted to say multicultural or biracial now and I how that trend continues but the rhetoric in this country now around race and from high ranking politicians is not a good sign to me.
bullies are loudest, but I do believe them to be in the minority. Yes many young ppl still learn to hate at an early age. I think that is what scares santorum about college. That these youth who have learned to fear ‘the other’ soon realize that ‘the others’ are no different from themselves when thrown together in the college environment.
Bobfr, You are such an exceptional human being! I really feel so privileged to know that I share views about our president with such an amazing human being as you. Even at 64, you have not lost a step. Unlike some of us oldies who are so clueless when it comes to things like twitter and face book.
Keep on Pressing On, Bobfr. And keep inspiring us to remain positive and focused.
Well, nath, I’m older than Bob, but I’ve figured out how to link to my FB page and how to tweet and retweet. I get in a fix if things get more complicated than that–I still don’t know how to embed to this site, but step by step, I’m figuring things out. Biggest sign of my age–I prefer to use a landline to make voter calls–a fact that makes younger people look at me like I was an antique.
Bob, once again, I’m just so in awe of your talent. I hope you don’t mind the fact that I retweet so much of what you do. It’s just too brilliant not to share.
Thank you Chips and everyone here for making this whole week a sense of purpose to me. Every post this week has kept me getting up and moving, pressing on, standing tall, standing still. But must of all gave me hope that we are in the right place at the right time. There are those here hear who just have a way with words, smart as heck and just plain funny (you know, the lol run to the bathroom type), the fearful, chicken little run to the hills type. The point is we are family and that is what a family is mad up of. Of course, unless you are perfect like the Romneys and most Repugs.
No one family is perfect in real life. So yes, we will bump heads and disagree but the common goal here is to re-elect this wonderful Preaident for a second term……with love. I love the pocket card suggestion, that’s positive and informative. As the months grow closer to the election, we need to share positive stories as we interact, educate and inform people how much we need to get out and vote not just for the presidency, but for primary, judgeships….everything. We literally have to unbrainwash all the damage the media, Repugs and the SCOTUS have done to Americans, decades of pollution and toxics that even some of us show signs better known as fear.
What a steady Commander in Chief we have to bring peace of mind with his words, smile and even his walk (known as swagger) to some. But the womenfolk in my house called it rhythm, walking withthe movement of the waves or flow.
As he steps up the pace as the days and months grow closer, we will wait for our marching orders and get in step to do whatever we must on love and respect for the people here and the people we love in our homes.
@DesertFlower you have been in my spirit all day: Desperation is better than despair. Remember, our faith did not create our desperate days. Faith’s work is to sustain us through those days and to solve them. Yet, the only alternative to desperate faith is despair. Faith holds on and prevails.
When obstacles and trials seem
Like prison walls to be,
I do the little I can and leave the rest to Thee.
And when there seems no chance, no change,
From grief can set me free,
Hope finds its strength in helplessness,
And calmly waits for Thee.
Thank you for thinking of me, LDS. I always hope. I’m so grateful for this family to help get through the hard patches that life throws our way. Thank you again:)
Lovely to drop in after watching those great videos. This place certainly helps my nights to fly by. Great folks, great conversation, great observations and of course lots of videos with that wonderful man and his equally delightful wife.
more like KO was shown the door and told to take a hike. From what I’ve read he plans to sue Current. I used to like KO during his msnbc days but when he started attacking PBO that was it for me. I never followed him to current and I wish him well but no one will hire him until his attitude changes.
I used to like Olbermann also, but he does appear to have some issues. And here is a man who don’t feel like it’s worth his time to vote, but it’s worth his time to criticize the President. maybe he’ll end up on FOX.
My daughter-in-law is Hispanic and my son is Finn. One of their children is brown with beautiful brown eyes and heavy dark hair–beautiful child. The other one has thin blondish red hair, very pale skin, freckles–another beautiful child. They look so different, you would never know they are related–it’s an exceptionally lovely family. Don’t I sound JUST like a proud grandma?
auni–you are truly blessed with such a family. I do think that that was the original intention of mankind. Only sick minds started creating divisions by races. We are all one and that’s what I think we were meant to be. In fact, you could write a version of Paradise Lost based on the premise that of separation of races led to all of man’s troubles–the original sin.
Maybe this should be a great poster for racism?! So lovely to read and see.
But then, thankfully, I am exposed to a country filled with tones, hues, shades and mixtures of all kinds.
Hi Donna, the elusive one! Always nice to see you. I’m on my way out for a little bit so will watch this later, but thank you cause I missed it yesterday. Enjoy your day.
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE..HAVEN’T BEEN AROUND MUCH BECAUSE MY BROTHER IS HERE…BUT I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A BEAUTIFUL SATURDAY…I HAVE A HOMELESS FEED ON PENN. AVE. TODAY AND MY BROTHER IS GOING WITH ME! OH HAPPY DAY…I LOVE MY PBO AND WISH HIM A WONDERFULLY RESTFUL WEEKEND. I’LL CATCH UP…I PROMISE! MY BROTHER IS HERE TILL WEDNESDAY…NICE LONG VISIT! BLESSINGS EVERYONE!..:)
And a blessed day to you and your brother. Enjoy your visit.
Blessed day to all the TOD family.
I received a heart breaking phone call late Thursday night. The husband of a couple in Fairfax had a massive stroke Thursday evening around 7:00. They have been very close, dear friends for many years. I had just talked with both of them Wednesday afternoon. Long story short–it doesn’t look good either in the short-term or the long-term (if he survives these next few days). Wife and sons have some difficult decisions to make. Please say a prayer for them. This has me so upset. It is on my mind constantly.
President Obama is urging Congress to pass the “Buffett Rule,” saying lawmakers who oppose it will have to “go on record” and explain to the American people where they are getting the money to keep funding tax breaks for the wealthy.
“We have to make choices. When it comes to paying down the deficit and investing in our future, should we ask middle-class Americans to pay even more at a time when their budgets are already stretched to the breaking point? Or should we ask some of the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share?” Obama said in his weekly address.
The president’s proposal would require those making more than $1 million a year to pay at least the same tax rate as middle-class families. The rule is named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has said publicly that he should not pay a lower tax rate than his secretary.
The winning lottery ticket was in Baltimore, MD. The RW are going to have fun with this – they might say that it’s PBO who rigged the lottery to make someone from MD (who’s probably voting for him) win.
Vice President Joe Biden says he is confident the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of President Obama’s signature health care legislation.
I know exactly where the ticket was sold in Bmore. That’s where I’m from lol. It was at a 7-Eleven on Liberty Rd. I bet someone black won b/c that’s a majority black area. LOL
If you ever win a huge lottery drawing the first thing to do -before declaring- it to create a trust and have the trust be the winner. That way should anything happen to you before it’s paid out the beneficiaries of the trust keep receiving the money.
Okay, the three winning tickets sold in MD (PBO), Kansas (PBO’s relatives) and Illinois (PBO’s former hometown) – the RW NUTZ are going to have even bigger issues with that!
I donated $10 for you. I hope I did it correctly. I clicked on the link Chips provided on one of the other threads. If it did not go toward your totals, please let me know. I will donate again.
I might have missed it, but the donations amount started at $10 when I tried to donate the first time, that’s why I did $10. So please let me know where I go so that I do it correctly. For sure, I can donate some more. I am not on TOD much because of my schedule, but please let me know so that I can donate to you.
I feel good now that I am able to contribute. For a long time I couldn’t and it feels wonderful.
Red Bud, Illinois—-never heard of it but a little town near St. Louis—-checked the county ’08 voting results—was a 49/50 split—so winner could still be a Friendly.
True for all you know, the winner might be a PBO supporter. Regardless, the RW will say that PBO rigged the numbers for a “swing” district in Illinois.
UP With Chris Hayes is terrific this morning. This discussion has been very informative. It looks like he is spending the entire two house on the Affordable Care Act. There are excellent points being made. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was great. I am looking forward to watching this again.
Monday- hosts leaders of Canada and Mexico for a North American Leaders’ Summit
Tuesday- speaks to newspaper convention
Wednesday- Hosts an Easter prayer breakfast for Christian leaders, signs the STOCK Act restricting Insider Trading in Congress
Thursday- Signs the JOBS Act
Friday – forum on “Women & the Economy,” hosts a Passover Seder in the PM
If that is the republican ‘jobs act’ that was nothing but a give away to big business and an assault on recent reforms and worker rights, then I am not clapping. Shame on the congress critters who could vote for this but not for the end to oil subsidies! I hope there are signing statements
President Obama knows how important women’s health is, and he respects the right of every woman to make her own medical decisions. Watch the video to see his special message to Planned Parenthood Action Fund supporters — and then sign our letter thanking him for standing strong for women’s health: http://bit.ly/GU7tG4
Obama 2012!!
Yay, Dave, I am still going to call you Dave, as magapie is just to much for me to manage, unless you really love it! Then I will try to love it too!
I appreciate that very much!!! Magapie is a silly nonsense name I babble at my kid, so I like that too.
Awww…Dave…Magapie…..Howdie Doodie. Doesn’t matter. We love ya.
This is what it is all about, helping someone so if God forbid they have to go through some medical crisis, they won’t have to worry about being wiped away financially. But with the Republicans it’s all about hate to them, their hatred of this President. I am praying and hoping for the best from the Supreme Court, to keep politics out of this, but I don’t have much faith in them. And by the way, I am going to email Chuck Todd and tell him about this couple here and how Obamacare help them, I want Chuckie to know that Americans like those people will be the loser if the Supreme Court plays politics with this law.
Winner!!!
Call it gratuitous. We are TOD-ers and we don’t care!!!!! To be FIRST is…..is…..is…….IS….. uh…. JUST PLAIN FUN!
I am working on being first because I am so tired of being last. But given the fact that I am on the Mexican border, and I have tendency to stay up late at night (well past midnight any way) I doubt that I will ever be first. But I really think It’s so much fun to see people racing to be first to post on this truly fabulous site. I think it must be because of the fabulous prizes awarded by Chipsticks.
You are the queen of the world. Going to tweet.
My heart is peace filled with President and Mrs. Obama in the White House!
Yes, and I am so grateful that they will grace us with their presence and wisdom and love and personalities for 4 more years. I love the Obamas, yes I do, I love the Obamas–how about you?
You love the Obamas? I do, too!
We love the Obamas cause they’re so true. We love the Obamas through and through.
What’s this? You two working on the lyrics for a new song?
♪♪♪
I love the Obamas, yes I do,
I love the Obamas–how about you?
You love the Obamas? I do, too!
We love the Obamas. Yes we do.
♪
Yes we love the Obamas me and you. We love the Obama children too!
you all just gave me such a smile.. wonderful team work
Cause we love the Obamas yes we do. We love the Obamas-how about you? OBAMA/BIDEN2012!!!!
Don’t tell anyone, but I love POTUS and FLOTUS too. The entire Obama family, Bo too.
That is just between us now.
Sung to the tune of “We Love You, Birdie” from Bye, Bye Birdie — right?
Alycee, if you’ll take care of the tune, I’ll continue with the gathering of the lyrics (trans.= can’t sing)
♪♪♪
I love the Obamas, yes I do,
I love the Obamas–how about you?
You love the Obamas? I do, too!
We love the Obamas. Yes we do.
Yes we love the Obamas me and you.
We love the Obama children too!
CHORUS: Cause we love the Obamas yes we do.
We love the Obamas – how about you?
That is just between us, so you know
Love the entire family, even Bo
Babies love the Obamas, yes they do.
Children love them too, wouldn’t you know.
The world loves the Obamas, I tell you true.
Ain’t no other First Family for me and you!
CHORUS:
♪
Awesome…love it!
That’s TOD teamwork for you, MB!
Beautiful song!
Some more lyrics to ADD to verse:
What makes us love them? I’ll give you a clue.
It’s their kindness, their grace and intelligence too!
Chipsticks – blog extraordinaire.
As they say on Shark Tank……”I’m Out”
have a pleasant evening everyone
Night GGail, sleep well, see you tomorrow
Good night Ggail. Pleasant dreams.
nite GGail
I was going to post this on the last thread but found myself alone there. It seemed fitting among all the inspiring vids of the last post, but since we’re all here now, to which I must say, ChipsChica you are blazing fast with these videos… Anyway this is from one of my favorite speeches.
When will will.i.am do another one of these?
Great clip. Ya’ll think Romney can reach out to people like that? Feel their pain? BAH!
Thanks Chips for posting all those wonderful videos! What a wonderful way to end a busy & crazy week!
Shockingly I did NOT win the Mega Millions lottery. Even though I don’t believe in the lottery, as you’re more likely to get struck by lightening 305 times, than to win the lottery. For this time, I made an exception.
But even though I did not hit the jackpot, I chipped into CollegeKay’s grassroots fundraiser
Though if I had, you’d have gotten a much bigger donation
thank u pink bunny; the amount of contributions is what counts.. like (5) $3 donations for example
thanks again
btw- the jackpot is now 975 million. Just crazy ridiculous
Well, a winning ticket was sold in Maryland — maybe a TOD’er…
Twitter suddenly seems empty. A lot of folks must’ve gone to check their (NON) winning tickets.
I’m late to the party:) This is for Tally:)
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/03/30/454446/ecbc-emergency-contraception-is-birth-control-not-abortion/
WOW. Most doctors you speak with are under the assumption that EC DOES, in fact, prevent implantation. If it doesn’t, that huge. If it doesn’t there needs to be something that does.
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/27/what’s-in-label-why-package-insert-plan-b-is-wrong…and-why-it-matters
And I don’t care what the Crazies® think – a fertilized egg = fertilized egg and that’s ALL it is. It can no more turn into a human at that point than a goldfish. But of course, in their minds, masturbation for men is abortion as well. You just can’t fix delusional.
If there are any lottery winner, I’m almost willing to bet it’s in Repub districts.
Good night all. Chips I watched this video again and choked up in the same spot. Thanks and know that I appreciate you and the work you do,
Thank you geeja, sleep well, see you tomorrow.
Thanks for the video Chips. Just tweeted it and I’ll do it again tomorrow. This is another reason why #ILikeObamaCare.
Wow. http://www.texasobserver.org/images/banner-covers/april2012cover.jpg
Wow indeed. Amazing.
Good god, this just gave me chills.
whoa! that’s telling it like it is.
And that’s about the long and short of it.
One of many reasons why losing this election is just Not. An. Option.
I want change
Not An Option. For reals.
Okay, I tried this the first time and got locked out of WP, which, once again, wouldn’t accept my password. Grrrrr. Wanted to say that this cover photo should be shown to every women who thinks she won’t bother to vote this year. Substitute any hat and it applies everywhere.
Exactly.
Good night all.
How will you sleep, ck? You must be so excited.
I haven’t been sleeping well. I want this to be over to I can’t win lol
good night ck. you must tell us in riveting detail everything about how your call goes (I’m putting positive energy toward it and imagining that is is happening!) will put in another tomorrow!
For those of you who aren’t interested in “Dinner with Barack” or “Grab a Bite with Mitt”, you’re in LUCK! You can now donate to Santorum and experience the pleasure of winning his fundraising competition!
Announcing the “Sensual Spanking from Santorum” fundraising incentive. The winner with top $ donations gets to be spanked by Frothy himself. Donate now! No more excuses
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah…….I am so tweeting this! OMG Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
OH. HELL. NO. The mental image this “fundraiser” conjures up is too disturbing.
Just mentioning that buzzard’s name kills the appetite, doesn’t it?
ewww Or as Homer Simpson would say “Doh!”
…excuse me while I go barf…
Ugh.
It’s bad enough I envision the angry, joyless, wince inducing sex Santorum has. Like his body betrays him or something as he prays to God throughout. (Yes, I have thought about it. It kinda cracks me up half the time. )
And having dinner with Mitty would put me asleep, I think I would (rather) drown in a bowl of my soup.
I don’t think Santorum is the pious Puritan he pretends to be. I’ll bet he’s got a real lascivious streak.
I know you like this one BWD, just put it on the new(ish) YouTube account:
Ohhhhhh, what a great thing to watch before bed. I adore this clip. Thanks, my love.
Just finished watching this… again. A perfect note to end the night on!
love this one
most of these videos have restrictions when I press play
“This video contains content from SME. It is restricted from playback on certain sites. Watch on YouTube”
Am I the only one getting these messages?
Gosh I just love that video, and that song too.
Pssst: If you want to win the Mega Millions, all you need to do is a naked rain dance while shouting beam me up Scotty!
I hear Gov. Etch-A-Sketch was last seen baying at the moon when he heard PBO won the Jackpot.
Hope nobody got that on video! I’d just like him to go away, so President Obama can run TOTALLY unopposed. We should write that into our Constitution.
Chips Chica, thank you for a lovely, lovely day! I don’t know how you do it, but I am immeasurably thankful that you do.
Thanks also for standing so staunchly with the Obamas.
Sweet Dreams, and may your rest tonight be all that your body and mind need! Good Night Mother-who-pampers-and shares great videos!
nitey nite TOD – thanks for all the vids Chips!
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Ok—-Bill Maher’s show can be so maddening it’s unwatchable at times. But tonight it was pretty decent, covering a wide range of topics—Sup. Ct., healthcare, Martin case, environment, gun laws, or lack thereof, Repub increasing stupidity. Van Jones was one of the guests and was good tonight. Another guest I enjoyed was the producer for Mad Men. And let’s see if I can tell this in the right way. But they were talking about racism, and the producer noted that young people are not racists—-and I believe that’s true—-and that they are marrying whomever—-and that racism—the last desperate gasps of it—will thus fade, fade, fade away—-once and for all. They noted that California is increasingly populated with bi-racial couples—–and of course one of the guys said “everyone looks like Mariah Carey.” I’ve thought of this too—-and thought of a conservation I had with my daughter who’s a teacher in Indy this week. Her school was playing in the state bball finals. And I had read a write-up in the Indy Star about the game, and there was a photo of one of their star players—–and I asked my daughter if she had had him in class—-really cute guy, “looks like Obama”, I said. And she said, “Mom, this whole school is full of Obamas–well over half have bi-racial parents.” I hope I’m not offending anyone. Just an interesting observation that I am noticing everywhere also. The country is changing, it’s happening, and the old white racists know it, and they are desperately flailing about in their final death throes.
My sons are all biracial.. and I used to say when they were little – 30 yrs ago.. I look forward to the day when the world is mostly brown
joking, however.. my two adult sons have both dated women of all races and cultures.. caucasian women, women of Trinidad, Korea, Mexico and even Kenya 
my 4 grandchildren are the most beautiful mix of humanity 
My girls are biracial also. And like your sons have dated guys from different races and cultures. They don’t even stop to question it. Which is why I suppose if you’re into the supreme-ness of your race (whatever it may be) the new reality could be very threatening.
But it’s not just my girls, their friends of mixed and single races do it also. Most of the young from this next generation, and the generation yipping at their heals, just don’t care to be separated by race, for the most part.
And yet they are still proud of the various races of their heritage. They have learned about the inherent cultures through stories from the old folks and I do believe they will always appreciate the many gifts and accomplishments of those cultures.
As one daughter told me: “I like being bi-racial. I define ‘me’ by the parts I choose to embrace.” (paraphrasing) I had never thought about it quite that way before.
One daughter did have a little bit of a quandary when filling out a questionnaire that asked for race. I believe she picked ‘other’ LOL
Oh yeah, and we’ve always celebrated different traditional cultural holidays with the different family members, so they are comfortable in many of these settings. They’ve come out with some good observations through the years. Changes a lot of the way you look at these things. LOL
My niece is bi-racial, AA/Vietnamese, she is so beautiful and smart – the best from each of them. She considers herself vietnamese for now, she’s only 10. I believe that in the next 20 years America will mostly be people of mixed race and being LGBT will be no big deal.
beautifully said LunarSea.. your girls & their friends sound much like my sons & their friends.. I like to believe thats the world we’re heading for
I bet that race question will disappear from all questionnaires. I like how your daughter said she defines herself. My Chgo daughter and fam are coming out to visit today, which includes my “adorablest” little 2 yr. old grandson, whom they adopted and who has a delicious Hispanic/white heritage, a real little charmer, the center of their universe. Lots look like him in Chicago too.
Is it me, or are bi/multiracial kids the best looking?
ALL kids are beautiful
That’s true! In my comment, I was just stating a positive feature of diversity of genetics where the products of that diversity reflect the beauty of all the different combinations.
I know you didn’t mean anything by it. I was just thinking out loud. Every ethnic group has their certain features (for want of a better word) that define them, and that is beautiful. And at the same time it is nice to see these same features blended together to create something new out of the best each has to offer. Evolution?
Odd how we started as 1 (Lucy) and evolved into many adapting to our survival needs, only to see the possibility of the evolution of the many into a possible new 1. Cycles on a grand scale? Food for thought
I have three biracial grandsons — Caucasian and AA — and they are the most beautiful boys! I’m very proud of them because they’re not only beautiful and kind and thoughtful, but they’re extremely smart: one is just finishing up a medical degree, the second oldest is a pianist, the youngest one is still in high school. I’ll have to wait to brag about him!
LunarSea and Sherijr, and anyone else who have biracial kids, we are very lucky. As I’ve said before on this site I have always had melanin envy, and it’s become acute since we’ve been blessed with our lovely President and First Lady.
I wish they’d get the death throes over with so they can stop hurting people and being stupid. It’s so important that you people learn the importance of voting since they can’t take for granted that their own attitudes will be reflected in law makers. This will be a far better world when the current generation of young takes over the reins of power.
I wish this was true for all young people but Tim Wise thought it was very troubling the reaction some young people had to the black character (who is biracial in real life) in the Hunger Games.
I agree with some of your statement, especially for states like California, but there are still pockets of young people who reflect the biased and prejudiced thoughts of the last generation – the teen convicted of a hate crime in Mississippi for running over a black man. Even before the Martin case in Sanford the son of a Sanford police officer was accused of beating a homeless black man. And there have been other cases involving young people. Like a group of young people who kidnapped a young black woman, in West VA, I think, and held her hostage and tortured her. (Sadly, I think she had dated one of the young men).
Sometimes it just feels like one step forward and two steps back, so I’m not sure that racism is just going to fade away, even with the increasing number of multiracial families because if you think about it multiculturalism has existed in the black community for some time. Look at the wide range of hues, complexions, hair texture, ect. We black Americans have been a mixed race people for a while, in part, due to the consequences of slavery.
Growing up there was a family in my community that could have passed for white – all of them. But it was well known that they were a “black” family. The one-drop rule made a lot of people just black. Its more accepted to say multicultural or biracial now and I how that trend continues but the rhetoric in this country now around race and from high ranking politicians is not a good sign to me.
bullies are loudest, but I do believe them to be in the minority. Yes many young ppl still learn to hate at an early age. I think that is what scares santorum about college. That these youth who have learned to fear ‘the other’ soon realize that ‘the others’ are no different from themselves when thrown together in the college environment.
He’s the most hateful of them all
You Can’t Buy Empathy…………..Mitt.
That video, as mentioned in an earlier thread, inspired this and I hope it sticks:
#PRESSON
#AmericaThisIsNotATest
You’re such a love Bob, what lovely tweets those are.
Thank you Sheri.
Good night everyone …
#PRESSON
Bobfr, You are such an exceptional human being! I really feel so privileged to know that I share views about our president with such an amazing human being as you. Even at 64, you have not lost a step. Unlike some of us oldies who are so clueless when it comes to things like twitter and face book.
Keep on Pressing On, Bobfr. And keep inspiring us to remain positive and focused.
Well, nath, I’m older than Bob, but I’ve figured out how to link to my FB page and how to tweet and retweet. I get in a fix if things get more complicated than that–I still don’t know how to embed to this site, but step by step, I’m figuring things out. Biggest sign of my age–I prefer to use a landline to make voter calls–a fact that makes younger people look at me like I was an antique.
Bob, once again, I’m just so in awe of your talent. I hope you don’t mind the fact that I retweet so much of what you do. It’s just too brilliant not to share.
Jackie and Nath, your comments warm me to the core, as does Sheri’s and others in this wonderful community Chips created.
Jackie, I smile every time I see one of your RTs and appreciate each one of them.
#PRESSON
Good night, Chips and TODers – See y’all tomorrow!
G’night from here too… rest well all of you.. happy dreams~
Thank you Chips and everyone here for making this whole week a sense of purpose to me. Every post this week has kept me getting up and moving, pressing on, standing tall, standing still. But must of all gave me hope that we are in the right place at the right time. There are those here hear who just have a way with words, smart as heck and just plain funny (you know, the lol run to the bathroom type), the fearful, chicken little run to the hills type. The point is we are family and that is what a family is mad up of. Of course, unless you are perfect like the Romneys and most Repugs.
No one family is perfect in real life. So yes, we will bump heads and disagree but the common goal here is to re-elect this wonderful Preaident for a second term……with love. I love the pocket card suggestion, that’s positive and informative. As the months grow closer to the election, we need to share positive stories as we interact, educate and inform people how much we need to get out and vote not just for the presidency, but for primary, judgeships….everything. We literally have to unbrainwash all the damage the media, Repugs and the SCOTUS have done to Americans, decades of pollution and toxics that even some of us show signs better known as fear.
What a steady Commander in Chief we have to bring peace of mind with his words, smile and even his walk (known as swagger) to some. But the womenfolk in my house called it rhythm, walking withthe movement of the waves or flow.
As he steps up the pace as the days and months grow closer, we will wait for our marching orders and get in step to do whatever we must on love and respect for the people here and the people we love in our homes.
@DesertFlower you have been in my spirit all day: Desperation is better than despair. Remember, our faith did not create our desperate days. Faith’s work is to sustain us through those days and to solve them. Yet, the only alternative to desperate faith is despair. Faith holds on and prevails.
When obstacles and trials seem
Like prison walls to be,
I do the little I can and leave the rest to Thee.
And when there seems no chance, no change,
From grief can set me free,
Hope finds its strength in helplessness,
And calmly waits for Thee.
Thank you for thinking of me, LDS. I always hope. I’m so grateful for this family to help get through the hard patches that life throws our way. Thank you again:)
Take good care of yourself, df. We are all there for you.
Peace.
Lovely to drop in after watching those great videos. This place certainly helps my nights to fly by. Great folks, great conversation, great observations and of course lots of videos with that wonderful man and his equally delightful wife.
Night all…see you in the am
You are so welcome. Sweet sleep……
So olbermann picked up a fight and quit… Again.
gore picked a loser… Again.
more like KO was shown the door and told to take a hike. From what I’ve read he plans to sue Current. I used to like KO during his msnbc days but when he started attacking PBO that was it for me. I never followed him to current and I wish him well but no one will hire him until his attitude changes.
I used to like Olbermann also, but he does appear to have some issues. And here is a man who don’t feel like it’s worth his time to vote, but it’s worth his time to criticize the President. maybe he’ll end up on FOX.
There they have all kinds of nuts.
My daughter-in-law is Hispanic and my son is Finn. One of their children is brown with beautiful brown eyes and heavy dark hair–beautiful child. The other one has thin blondish red hair, very pale skin, freckles–another beautiful child. They look so different, you would never know they are related–it’s an exceptionally lovely family. Don’t I sound JUST like a proud grandma?
THAT’S BEAUTIFUL AUNI…THAT’S HOW GOD CREATES OUR WONDERFUL RAINBOWS! WE ARE BLESSED WITH DIVERSITY EVERYWHERE!…:)
auni–you are truly blessed with such a family. I do think that that was the original intention of mankind. Only sick minds started creating divisions by races. We are all one and that’s what I think we were meant to be. In fact, you could write a version of Paradise Lost based on the premise that of separation of races led to all of man’s troubles–the original sin.
sweet
Maybe this should be a great poster for racism?! So lovely to read and see.
But then, thankfully, I am exposed to a country filled with tones, hues, shades and mixtures of all kinds.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123050/Look-The-black-white-twins-turn-seven.html#ixzz1qhxEymzq
Chips here’s the video of the Maine speech:
Hi Donna, the elusive one! Always nice to see you.
I’m on my way out for a little bit so will watch this later, but thank you cause I missed it yesterday. Enjoy your day.
thanks so much. I searched last nite and couldn’t find it anywhere
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE..HAVEN’T BEEN AROUND MUCH BECAUSE MY BROTHER IS HERE…BUT I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A BEAUTIFUL SATURDAY…I HAVE A HOMELESS FEED ON PENN. AVE. TODAY AND MY BROTHER IS GOING WITH ME! OH HAPPY DAY…I LOVE MY PBO AND WISH HIM A WONDERFULLY RESTFUL WEEKEND. I’LL CATCH UP…I PROMISE! MY BROTHER IS HERE TILL WEDNESDAY…NICE LONG VISIT! BLESSINGS EVERYONE!..:)
And a blessed day to you and your brother. Enjoy your visit.
Blessed day to all the TOD family.
I received a heart breaking phone call late Thursday night. The husband of a couple in Fairfax had a massive stroke Thursday evening around 7:00. They have been very close, dear friends for many years. I had just talked with both of them Wednesday afternoon. Long story short–it doesn’t look good either in the short-term or the long-term (if he survives these next few days). Wife and sons have some difficult decisions to make. Please say a prayer for them. This has me so upset. It is on my mind constantly.
I am sorry to hear that
Collegekay, just 16 more hours.
I know!! I’m on pins and needles. I feel sick to my stomach I’m so nervous.
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I gotta build on that lead today.
May you and your dear friends be sustained by your faith and your family. Good thoughts go with you today, TN.
wishing all strength and clarity for whatever fateful decisions need to be made
President Obama is urging Congress to pass the “Buffett Rule,” saying lawmakers who oppose it will have to “go on record” and explain to the American people where they are getting the money to keep funding tax breaks for the wealthy.
“We have to make choices. When it comes to paying down the deficit and investing in our future, should we ask middle-class Americans to pay even more at a time when their budgets are already stretched to the breaking point? Or should we ask some of the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share?” Obama said in his weekly address.
The president’s proposal would require those making more than $1 million a year to pay at least the same tax rate as middle-class families. The rule is named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has said publicly that he should not pay a lower tax rate than his secretary.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/political-punch-obamas-weekly-address-making-the-country-a-little-fairer/
Winning lotto ticket sold in Baltimore—-hope it’s a TODer—–new Obama super-pac!
The winning lottery ticket was in Baltimore, MD. The RW are going to have fun with this – they might say that it’s PBO who rigged the lottery to make someone from MD (who’s probably voting for him) win.
Also Kansas and Illinois. Total of 3. Of course Kansas is red and the part of illinois it was sold in in red.
Hmm, as our (Dutch) conventional wisdom says: Give money to left-wing types and they turn right-wing.
[ The president of the Dutch national bank was a Socialist In Name Only - look it up: Duisenberg ]
Vice President Joe Biden says he is confident the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of President Obama’s signature health care legislation.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/biden-confident-supreme-court-will-uphold-health-care-law/
I know exactly where the ticket was sold in Bmore. That’s where I’m from lol. It was at a 7-Eleven on Liberty Rd. I bet someone black won b/c that’s a majority black area. LOL
The name I heard was Tom Kreft.
interesting, if I had just won millions I wouldn’t want my name revealed lol
Me neither. I don’t know what this guy is thinking. The $$ has really “gone to his head.”
If you ever win a huge lottery drawing the first thing to do -before declaring- it to create a trust and have the trust be the winner. That way should anything happen to you before it’s paid out the beneficiaries of the trust keep receiving the money.
Okay, the three winning tickets sold in MD (PBO), Kansas (PBO’s relatives) and Illinois (PBO’s former hometown) – the RW NUTZ are going to have even bigger issues with that!
BOOM!
Hey Collegekay,
I donated $10 for you. I hope I did it correctly. I clicked on the link Chips provided on one of the other threads. If it did not go toward your totals, please let me know. I will donate again.
If it’s a link Chips provided then it was correct. Thank you
btw, I might need you later lol
my competition gets (3) $3 donations to boost the totals.
I might have missed it, but the donations amount started at $10 when I tried to donate the first time, that’s why I did $10. So please let me know where I go so that I do it correctly. For sure, I can donate some more. I am not on TOD much because of my schedule, but please let me know so that I can donate to you.
I feel good now that I am able to contribute. For a long time I couldn’t and it feels wonderful.
In the box where it says “Other” you can put “3.00″ or any amount that is not listed. :- )
And I know what you mean… especially since it costs 32k to pay an organizer. It’s good cause.
It was in a little downstate town in Illinois, deep in the heart of RWNJ territory in Illinois.
ah I see. Interesting.
Red Bud, Illinois—-never heard of it but a little town near St. Louis—-checked the county ’08 voting results—was a 49/50 split—so winner could still be a Friendly.
True for all you know, the winner might be a PBO supporter. Regardless, the RW will say that PBO rigged the numbers for a “swing” district in Illinois.
I like the way your think lol
So in all likelihood, 2 of the winners (KS, IL) will be screaming about the taxes they ahd to pay.
This is the first time, I have learned anything from Chris Hayes show. Good discussion about HC.
It really is a good discussion about ACA. I like the guy with the glasses. He explains constitutional law very well.
THIS!!! Impressed with him….does it in an easy understandable way.
UP With Chris Hayes is terrific this morning. This discussion has been very informative. It looks like he is spending the entire two house on the Affordable Care Act. There are excellent points being made. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was great. I am looking forward to watching this again.
Does this fall into the ‘too little too late’ category. Why yes, I think it does.
Hahahahahahaha.
PBO schedule for next week:
Monday- hosts leaders of Canada and Mexico for a North American Leaders’ Summit
Tuesday- speaks to newspaper convention
Wednesday- Hosts an Easter prayer breakfast for Christian leaders, signs the STOCK Act restricting Insider Trading in Congress
Thursday- Signs the JOBS Act
Friday – forum on “Women & the Economy,” hosts a Passover Seder in the PM
Thanks collegekay for the schedule. And I believe the WH Easter Egg Roll is on the following Monday (April 9).
If that is the republican ‘jobs act’ that was nothing but a give away to big business and an assault on recent reforms and worker rights, then I am not clapping. Shame on the congress critters who could vote for this but not for the end to oil subsidies! I hope there are signing statements
PBO’s schedule for the upcoming week. http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/03/president_obama_official_sched_865.html
This PBO gif is funny.
http://i.imgur.com/1UTK8.gif
HAHA! My President is a pro-skateboarder!
A Bad Ass Leader of the Free World. The only one cool enough to skate board to a world summit LMAO
Testing 1, 2, 3
Oh, yeah. finally can comment from my desk top. WordPress is nuts sometimes.
The world is watching. No peace until Zimmerman is arrested, brought to trial and convicted.
WOW!
Wow…how kool is this…
Social Media is our connection to the world…and world issues….what a powerful thing it can be…
loving it
Collegekay just went over two grand. Nice!
Gooooood Morning….Chips..Goood Morning…TOD fam…
Chris Hayes had a great program to day on ACA….i hope you get a chance to watch the video….
Morning everyone
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/03/31/rise-and-shine-141/
President Obama knows how important women’s health is, and he respects the right of every woman to make her own medical decisions. Watch the video to see his special message to Planned Parenthood Action Fund supporters — and then sign our letter thanking him for standing strong for women’s health:
http://bit.ly/GU7tG4
I don’t think I will ever eat Brocoli again.
Just saying!
Has anyone seen this article?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/police-honor-jason-smith-kansas-city-boy_n_1392727.html?ref=good-news