At the bottom of the mail, click the subscription option and then on the subscription, choose to unsubscribe from all e-mails. I did it and so far no more mails.
Weren’t we all? Be warned: if you leave your computer and come back, even if you’re still logged in, you have to RE-CHECK the box at the bottom of your comment to make sure it doesn’t continue to happen. This is Bullshit.
Fortunately I have Gmail, so it’s all in one nice bundle, but, yes, seems as if WordPress is having issues again. Usually you have to opt in to follow a thread via email. Now it seems like WordPress is defaulting to that setting.
My experience is that you will have to continue to uncheck the box. It appears to default back to that setting if you leave the computer for awhile. I keep TOD up all the time so this is a major pain in the ass that I don’t have time for.
Ohhhh! You’ll have the time of your life. I was at OSU in 2010. 35,000 people. I was shocked. Of course these kids later didn’t vote, but this time DA MAN is on the ballot. Have fun, we expect full report!
PJ, On a serious note. Please, please, remember to have something to eat before you go. Go potty before you go. There is A LOT OF WAITING!!! Minimize what you carry. Wear comfy shoes, ID, keys, and if you’re like me, lipstick, (gotta have it or some kind of lip moisturizer.) And of course, wear some Obama swag. That should be it. And some cash… There will also probably be vendors selling stuff. I know it’s not campaign stuff, but in Philly there was some unique Obama gear. They may not let you take water in unless absolutely medically necessary. But they usually have free bottled water inside.
The large rallies are worth the wait, they really are!
But fo’ sheezy, my PJeeeezy, THERE IS A WHOLE LOTTA WEEEEZY!!
Near the end of West Wing Week, there is that brief glimps of PBO reaching over to embrace Michelle and to pull her in for a kiss. So sweet and loving. There is just something about a man who has an unabashed love and respect for his wife that makes him even more attractive. Most who see this have no designs on the couple involved: they are just glad to know that such a love really does exist and that it may be possible for them. Additionally, there is something comforting and reassuring in knowing that the First Couple have a vibrant love between them.
Yes, yes. And no, I have no designs on the couple, but in my dreams, PBO is hard to resist…LOL ! Of course, it is his high intellect that slays me most. They both are two lucky people.
"President Obama was in office less than one day when his opponents were literally plotting against him." #edshow… fb.me/13uROe9IH— Ed Schultz (@edshow) May 03, 2012
For those way younger than me, you likely have no experience crouching under your grade school desk (1950s) as the sirens blared once a month in practice drills for ‘the big one’ and the announcer on the radio would say ‘This is a test’ and you’d it would beep for a minute. That’s the essence of this >>> #AmericaThisIsNOTATest
Because 6 Nov 2012 is not a test, it is the day we determine the fate of the Republic, for real. This is ‘the BIG ONE’!
Great work Bob. And I do remember those drills. November 2012 is the continuation of a better value system for the country, if folks are so inclined to see it through.
Hopefully, you all know by now, I’m not into drama or hyperbole.
The hash tag #AmericaThisIsNotATest occurred to me one night as I pondered the severity of the crisis within our Republic.
No external organization, not China or a bunch of thug terrorists, pose nearly the threat to the one guiding force for justice and the rights of each person, that the #KOCHSTERS, the #NEOCONSTERS, the MIC, yes, the very white, ultra-wealthy, totally avaricious few ‘Americans’ do.
Every great civilization has always been most threatened by the few, WITHIN.
That is America, TODAY.
What we do, or don’t do, on 6 Nov 2012, determines the fate of the Republic – IN REAL TIME.
Make no mistake, anyone — other than the very few, totally ANTI-REPUBLIC, ANTI-democracy few — who awaken on 7 Nov 2012 to anything other than a resounding VICTORY by President Obama and a majority of Democrats in the House & Senate & State Houses will awaken to the equivalent of the Confederacy being victorious in 1865, compounded by the fact that the Confederacy of 2013 will be a NUCLEAR #NEOCONSTER PLUTOCRACY.
They are re-showing the Brian Williams special about the killing of bin Laden. I watched it last night, and it was well worth the watch. Our President made me so proud we elected him.
Watch the TED talk. It’s 9 minutes of hilarious coincidence regarding all the things that happen at 4am. It’s entertaining and bemusing. Not negative, just odd
Don’t you apologize, Chips. You do the lord’s work for us. You do what you have to do. We behaved. Honest we did.
Seriously, if it weren’t for you and the great contributors here (PSSSSTTT – shout out to What is working!!, there is much I wouldn’t know about PBO and this administration.
Is there anywhere on line to finish the “Situation room” video? I watched the 11 minute video that chips put up on the last post.. but would like to see the rest of it. All of you who called it “riveting” really nailed it.
Regarding the sudden ‘surge’ in emails from wordpress … seems that sometime earlier today, they began having the default in the Comment panel include a check in the box next to “Notify me of follow-up comments via email.” Be sure to check and deselect if you don’t want suddenly to have lots of email
So, the #KOCHSTER minions are moaning about the Julia web tool ….
I feel GREAT about our Julia web tool & LOVE the Repub freak-out RT @JasonBWhitman so how is this #Julia narrative working out for you?— Jim Messina (@Messina2012) May 03, 2012
That tool was great–I sent it far and wide. I hated that Julia’s time line didn’t go on past the age of 67. We left her working in a community garden. What happens next? If the right wing didn’t like this, tough. Maybe if they actually did something FOR women instead of waring AGAINST them, they’d have something of their own to offer. The president’s team is awesome and unbelievably creative.
Yes, Jackie, it would have been good for them to extend it even further … and, perhaps that’s the plan … let the #KOCHSTERS whine and then go, well, if Mitt had been elected President Julia would likely not have made it to 67, let alone where we will find her by the end of President Obama’s 2nd term – happily celebrating her 72nd birthday
The Julia tool is, to quote my 16 year old nephew, boss. Simple to comprehend and makes it known how Repub policies will jack your life up if you are a woman. The Obama campaign are doing great at maintaining the narrative and making it relatable.
Chips, most days you provide us with such a wide array of pics, stories, comments, fun stuff as well as a forum for discussion. How you do it remains a mystery to me. I can’t even find time to write a few words on my blog once a week. Bless you for all you do.
President Obama is also good for ratings….according to TVByTheNumbers:
“On Tuesday, Jimmy Fallon delivered his biggest 18-49 audience for a regular episode so far this season with a special telecast from Chapel Hill, N.C. featuring President Obama, which delivered 853,000 adults 18-49 for a 0.7 rating in that key category. In total viewers, Tuesday’s telecast averaged 2.0 million persons, a 19 percent jump versus the 1.7 million the show has averaged this season in comparable “live plus same day”
Same here! And probably many more like us tuned in last nite. Heck I even gave his website hits by watching there. And I’m sure I’ll give them more hits.
CNN is really on a steep decline lol, their highest number was the Situation Room a little over 400,000 viewers..P. Morgan average about 369,000 viewers last night. Rock Centre beat all the cable news network last night.
website TVbythenumbers…they report next day ratings
for cable news, cable networks and the major networks, Huffpo get their
ratings from this site as well. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/
YW, I was always curious to see how those cable news networks were doing,
since they have been so negative on President Obama, especially CNN and MSNBC Morning Joe
it reflects in the ratings, every time the go negative on President Obama their ratings take
a nose dive…Morning Joe, Tweety and CNN has suffered the most for going negative.
Ford, General Motors, Chrysler-Daimler, Audi, BMW, Porsche and Volkswagen announced they would display the new charging systems during the upcoming Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles.
The companies said the chargers would combine “one-phase AC-charging, fast three-phase AC-charging, DC-charging at home and ultra-fast DC-charging at public stations into one vehicle inlet.”
3 questions:
Does this woman not have a mirror in her house?
Does she not have any friends or family?
If not, doesn’t she know how to look up psychotherapist in the Yellow Pages?
Just thinking, can you imagine a man so powerful, awesome and intimidating that a group of cads feel that they must secretly meet to (try) to hold him down?
Many people wonder why some are so hard on President Obama. Did Frederick Douglass predict the answer many years ago?
“Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements.
In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress.
If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence.
Frederick Douglass – September 25, 1883
Frederick Douglass sought to embody three keys for success in life:
Believe in yourself.
Take advantage of every opportunity.
Use the power of spoken and written language to effect positive change for yourself and society.
Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so our children could fly!!
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”
Frederick Douglas
I also got slews of emails of comments. I did what I thought got me off the subscription list, and when I just closed this blog and went back to my email, I had one comment in my email…..I followed the subscription management and was asked if I wanted to “unfollow” the blog. I checked yes, and the message came that since I had “unfollowed” I would get no more emails. We’ll see. I put “unfollowed” in quotation marks, because that is not a true word, and that made this English teacher gnash her teeth…..can’t stand those phony made up words.
Anyway, I’ll report back on the massive emails. I deleted all of them, then deleted my delete file so they won’t fill up my mailbox…..here’s hoping.
hilarious and exactly as i expected…elizabeth warren goes full-on obama with her latest ad, and “true progressives” start getting uncomfortable and their feeble minds can’t compute. dailykos has a frontpage post right now (refuse to link there) from a main contributor, and it’s blaming the victim, as in warren, for not responding just right to the latest republican/media creation. it’s a complete non-issue the republican/media cabal are flogging right now, yet leave it to the dkos frontpager, who has never run a campaign or probably has rarely even supported a winning campaign, to fall right into the trap and lecture elizabeth warren on how to run a campaign. comical!
for a while there have been comments at those places starting to sour on warren since she keeps talking nicely about PBO, but now the frontpagers will start and the floodgates will open. exactly as the republican operatives planned. just wait until warren is a senator and has to start voting, then they’ll really freak! we should not be concerned about pleasing “true progressives” at all, and should be encouraging them to start 3rd party or nader right now! go away! they diminish anything they touch.
yes, it sure is! i like her more and more, and it will be a tough choice in 2016 between her and martin o’malley for our presidential candidate (if they run of course!). we can’t go wrong either way.
I just checked my email, and no blog messages. Checking “unfollow” The Obama Diary took care of it. I have a feeling different pages come up for different people…..this is the first time I’ve ever had anything from WordPress.
Yes, I noticed that amk. Fortunately, an overabundance of fatigue, coupled with all the work of springtime taking me six times as long to do has kept me from commenting much. So — no follow up comments. What a thing to be made a default!!
Proof that the “left wing” media will spin like a top to get a close race. The headline says it all: Poll Shows Competitive Presidential Contest in Virginia. A competitive race is 5 points not 7.
Hay pollsters, we believe it’s going to be a close race, that’s why we are going to fight our butts off to do whatever we can to help re-elect our President. We will take nothing for granted.
BREAKING: Obama's May 10 fundraiser with George Clooney now sold out, expected to raise $12 MILLION: bit.ly/IqRIWG— Dark spud (@Darthtater36) May 04, 2012
My nephew’s school had a contest where the students had to draw a picture of the school mascot, the winner’s drawing would be made into a t-shirt. Well my nephew’s drawing won the contest and his drawing was made into shirts for the whole school and the t-shirts included his signatures as well. I photoshopped the signature (to protect the innocent…lol), but here is the finished product. My sister is SOOOO proud.
Clooney’s Obama Fundraiser Expected to Collect Record $12 Million
President Barack Obama’s dinner with George Clooney has officially sold out and campaign sources are telling The Hollywood Reporter that the event is expected to raise up to $12 million for the president’s reelection, making it the biggest presidential fundraiser in U.S. history.
Thanks, BWD! I read some of the comments and they’re too funny. It seems brainwashed idiots like to go to The Hollywood Reporter and show off their stupid. They’re all banning Clooney Movies for LIFE!!
Congrats to Labour! I hope the rightwingers in the US keep pushing their austerity garbage and we will see if they can hold their heads high after PBO gives them a historical political beat-down
RT @postpolls: New Post poll, Obama up 51 to 44 percent, among registered voters wapo.st/KhgdvK //IN VIRGINIA— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) May 03, 2012
Willard the Dullard is the one who’s Lying and Smearing his way through his campaign but he’s the one taking self inflicted wounds. It shoulda happened to bush too.
going through my physical exercise so that I can be fit enough to perform my volunteer duties for POTUS and FLOTUS’ rally at The OSU on sat.
advantage of volunteering in the ultimate swing state and living on the boundary with your almuni campus is that you are regularly able to give it your all and also get to see and greet the President, First lady multiple times. yes on one occasion, I was able to shake hands with ALL human members of the First Family. the kids were cute and very much younger then
we are excited and hope to keep this state blue this nov
GLOBALCITIZENLINDA!!! You are the woman!!! So happy for you! Gotta love it when POTUS & FLOTUS come your way often. Philadelphia has been great for that. And now, we’ll also get to see VPBiden and Jill alot. WOOOOT HOOOOOOOO
Sure does fit them, but I doubt they’d go for it . You know, wrong “kind” of music for the demographic they want to appeal to. Here’s something that might work better…
Lovely kasai…you have a FEISTY side! I would LMAO. I keep seeing him in those jeans….trying to sing along to this, and dance. Good God. Where’s my gin and tonic?
We should have a little game and post all the videos that we think they could use…you know, “help them out” for their campaign…..:)
Good job!
Dudette, I’m watching it also. And when I think of that lying Mitt Romney talking about anyone would have made that decision, even Jimmy Carter. Romney is lying again. This was a show of true leadership by President Obama, and the people who are not quiet sure about who to vote for need to watch this. And you will see a real leader at hand, someone you can have real confidence in to do the right thing for this country. President Obama. And the way Mitt Romney has flip flop over ever dam issue under the sun, you can not be sure he would have made the same decision President Obama made. This program is worth watching.
Robme couldn’t even stand up to the nut jobs in his party over a gay spokesperson.
Not that I feel for the guy or any gay, female, colored ppl who think there is a place for them in the newest incarnation of that once proud and Grand Old Party!
Get rid of the gay spokesman because he is gay, not because of the disrespect, ugly, nasty tweets he sent out. That’s mitt Romney for, a true lying non-leader.
I feel the same way anniebella. I’m grateful that NBC/MSNBC broadcast. Although it’s certainly not their motivation, I see the broadcast as a rebuttal to whiny prattle from Romney and his minions.
Tweety sure ripped old vile lying Mittens good in his “let me finish” segment today for speaking disparingly about Prez Carter. He virtually called Mittens a coward with no backbone.
the upcoming rally by POTUS and FLOTUS at OSU this sat is making me feel nostalgic. for some reason, I am remembering the very first visit PBO made to our college town and how many “establishment Dems” shunned him!
of course our college contingent that worked to organize the rally and was very loud and excited. we made so much noise that by the time PBO took the stage we had almost lost our voices!!
on a personal note, apart from the memories and photos from that cold day,
I got three things I treasure namely:
(a) a group photo with PBO with him standing just one person away;
(b) my volunteer pass and admission ticket – yes I saved these
and
(c) signature from PBO in his two books which I then promptly delivered to my father back in Africa. My parents are great admirers of PBO and FLOTUS and so my father is able to pose to everyone whom he can talk to that he is probably the first person in our continent to receive autographed copies of PBO’s books. Yes he has read them over, and oover, and over
In ‘The Hollywood Report’ photo of President Obama & George Clooney’s article (link above somewhere)…….. did anyone else notice Ed Henry in the background taking a pic of the President while he was speaking?? I still remember that night when President Obama was getting ready to leave…. Ed Henry was almost latched on to him trying to be in the same camera shot as PBO lol
This is for ACooper and his denial of the War on Women.
Keeping with the TED theme, it is by Eve Ensler: Embrace your inner girl. She is the woman who wrote The Vagina Monologue but no, this is not The Vagina Monologue but about her experiences working with women from Africa to LA
Powerful testament to power of your inner girl. Be sure to watch the poem at the end inspired by a young lady from LA
Got a question about the Life of Julia graphic (http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia) that I’m sure some of my astute TOD family members will be able to answer:
Got to the page where Julia is 42 and wants to start her own business. Does anyone know the significance of the number 1523 on the wall poster? Is it a statue number of something. I just kinda stands out like it means something. Anyone?
China says blind dissident Chen Guangcheng can apply to study abroad, potentially indicating a way out of the diplomatic crisis with the US over him.
A Foreign Ministry statement said Mr Chen could “apply through normal channels in accordance with the law”.
Mr Chen fled house arrest late last month to the US embassy. He later left but now wants to go to the US with his family.
His case has overshadowed high-level US-China talks taking place in Beijing.
“If he wishes to study overseas, as a Chinese citizen, he can, like any other Chinese citizens, process relevant procedures with relevant department through normal channels in accordance to the law,” Xinhua news agency quoted spokesman Liu Weimin as saying.
That guy should not be allowed. He’s crazy and we have enough nuts here to contend with already. He makes me think Orly Taitz every time I hear anything of his behavior.
The next thing you know he gets naturalized while some kid whose grown up here gets reviled, their family broken apart and deported.
I am particularly incensed at the way the ‘do nothing congress’ behaved with him.
heard a report on NPR that in the past, the “option to study abroad” is a typical way that has chosen to classify the departure of high-profile activist to the US during sticky situations. this way China saves safe and the activist gets their objective
There was a guy that wrote a book about the OBL raid. He was only the Daily show. The interview is in two parts and is worth a watch: http://www.thedailyshow.com/
He made it very clear that the call was a risky call and certainly NOT everyone would have made it. Someone at the time said the odds that the individual WAS bin Laden were lower than the odds of finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
It shouldn’t be close. What the hell is wrong with some people. All I have to so is look at where we were when President Obama took office and where we are today and know that this President deserves a second term. Again what the hell is wrong with some people?
Cheryllou–They think they’re discouraging us with these slanted polls, but they only serve to activate the president’s base even further. We’re smart enough not to be taken in. But if it makes the R’s just a little more complacent, I say great.
How can anyone take these polls seriously, after all their manipulations and lies have been exposed time and again, is beyond me. I for one refuse to be played like a puppet, reacting how they want, when they want. No wonder ppl are wound up so tight.
crap, just as I’m running out the door. A meeting of policy & economics is what comes to mind with the two of them together.
Hope it was a successful visit and further hope SOMEONE in the #mediafail will report on it as breathlessly as they did for the idiot from house arrest.
I was watching on BBC World News. The press conference has ended. They did not take a lot of questions. If I find a link to the press conference, I will post it here.
I have no skin in that game whatsoever and I’m still doing the happy dance!
Fervently praying the fog of insanity also clears the skies on this side of the pond come Nov 6.
Good evening Chips and friends.
Here!!!
Crap!
Sorry Kari, I beat ya.
Congrats, COS!
I was screwed by WordPress.
Wait for me guys, am heading home soon! hey, Commander!
Me too…just deleting a swarm of email msgs…
At the bottom of the mail, click the subscription option and then on the subscription, choose to unsubscribe from all e-mails. I did it and so far no more mails.
Thanks – unchecked!!! I’m not sure how it got checked in the first place
And I, what a WP surprise!
Me too—WP has gone beserksville!
Too bad there’s not a “Like” button. Just sayin’.
Weren’t we all? Be warned: if you leave your computer and come back, even if you’re still logged in, you have to RE-CHECK the box at the bottom of your comment to make sure it doesn’t continue to happen. This is Bullshit.
excuse me: re UN-CHECK the box. I had it unchecked, went to do a few things for a few hours, came back and my inbox was full of messages.
Chips do I eventually get my prize?
Seems like the deep sense of victory and satisfaction should be enough…..
I’ve been only a lurker, first post, Hi TOD
Hello!
yo why do I keep getting so many freaking emails?
Fortunately I have Gmail, so it’s all in one nice bundle, but, yes, seems as if WordPress is having issues again. Usually you have to opt in to follow a thread via email. Now it seems like WordPress is defaulting to that setting.
I have Gmail too but geez lol. I just unchecked the box thingy.
My experience is that you will have to continue to uncheck the box. It appears to default back to that setting if you leave the computer for awhile. I keep TOD up all the time so this is a major pain in the ass that I don’t have time for.
Just picked up my VIP ticket for Saturday’s rally in Richmond!
PJ will be in the heezy for sheezy seein’ my Preezy! WOOOOOOT!!!!
Yeaaaah!!!
*Lil’ Jon/Howard Dean Scream* YEEEEEAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
PJ, I’m happy for you.
Thanks, anniebella!
nice job – Have fun then come back and tell us all about it. ‘kay?
Definitely — on both counts!
Ohhhh! You’ll have the time of your life. I was at OSU in 2010. 35,000 people. I was shocked. Of course these kids later didn’t vote, but this time DA MAN is on the ballot. Have fun, we expect full report!
I’m gonna have a ball, BWD, and report back with all the deets!
On what time is it?
The doors officially open at 1:45 pm. No word on when the event will actually start.
Is it before or after the OSU rally?
it is after the OSU rally. I will be at The OSU
Ohhh. Good for you. Have fun and tell the kids to go to vote this time!!
was there at OSU last time too volunteering at the Oval (and all rallies PBO and FLOTUS have held in or near Columbus).
I recall the blog post (and photo stream) you made about it then and some of the feedback from you know who —-
^^GASP^^ sooooooo jealous! I’ll be watching on teevee.
Awwww, I’ll wave atcha, Lisa!
PJ will be in the heezy for sheezy seein’ my Preezy! WOOOOOOT!!!!
Uh PJ, please tell us how you really feel about the rally this Saturday. I’m not sure I understand what you are trying to convey. LOLOLOL
PJ, On a serious note. Please, please, remember to have something to eat before you go. Go potty before you go. There is A LOT OF WAITING!!! Minimize what you carry. Wear comfy shoes, ID, keys, and if you’re like me, lipstick, (gotta have it or some kind of lip moisturizer.) And of course, wear some Obama swag. That should be it. And some cash… There will also probably be vendors selling stuff. I know it’s not campaign stuff, but in Philly there was some unique Obama gear. They may not let you take water in unless absolutely medically necessary. But they usually have free bottled water inside.
The large rallies are worth the wait, they really are!
But fo’ sheezy, my PJeeeezy, THERE IS A WHOLE LOTTA WEEEEZY!!
Thanks for the advice — I can tell you’re a pro at this!
OH WOW, PJ!!!! You are going to have a crazyyyyyy good time!!!!
I just got the email from Joe to put up a note on their screen thingy. That should be cool.
Can’t wait, meta! First rally of the campaign…woot!
WooooHooooT! Yippee for you, PJ!
ZOMFGIAMSOJEALOUS!!!
He loves his wife so much. It’s just too beautiful for words.
So true. I went back to those last few seconds of the vid a couple times.
I did not. Nope. Not at all. Don’t tell me I did. I did not!!
okay, I “did not” (wink, wink, wink) rewind that portion a number of times! ha, ha, ha, I will rot in h— for lying!
NEVAH.
well since you confessed I guess I wll also lol
me too…restores my faith in love every day.
I must confess that I did the same thing
You are so sharp, I missed it, and when I read what you wrote, I went back to watch it, again, and again
Near the end of West Wing Week, there is that brief glimps of PBO reaching over to embrace Michelle and to pull her in for a kiss. So sweet and loving. There is just something about a man who has an unabashed love and respect for his wife that makes him even more attractive. Most who see this have no designs on the couple involved: they are just glad to know that such a love really does exist and that it may be possible for them. Additionally, there is something comforting and reassuring in knowing that the First Couple have a vibrant love between them.
Yes, yes. And no, I have no designs on the couple, but in my dreams, PBO is hard to resist…LOL ! Of course, it is his high intellect that slays me most. They both are two lucky people.
I thought I was being secretive about it
Stay constantly focused on the facts:
For those way younger than me, you likely have no experience crouching under your grade school desk (1950s) as the sirens blared once a month in practice drills for ‘the big one’ and the announcer on the radio would say ‘This is a test’ and you’d it would beep for a minute. That’s the essence of this >>> #AmericaThisIsNOTATest
Because 6 Nov 2012 is not a test, it is the day we determine the fate of the Republic, for real. This is ‘the BIG ONE’!
#PRESSON
Passing the message to others, as well as Ed ….
And many more ….
#AmericaThisisNotATest
#LandslideOBAMA2012
#LandslideDEMS2012
Great work Bob. And I do remember those drills. November 2012 is the continuation of a better value system for the country, if folks are so inclined to see it through.
Duck and cover drills leave a scar on a young primary student that last a lifetime. It seems that we have been at war all of my life.
So very true, Sonjia. And, thank you EDP4BHO!
Hopefully, you all know by now, I’m not into drama or hyperbole.
The hash tag #AmericaThisIsNotATest occurred to me one night as I pondered the severity of the crisis within our Republic.
No external organization, not China or a bunch of thug terrorists, pose nearly the threat to the one guiding force for justice and the rights of each person, that the #KOCHSTERS, the #NEOCONSTERS, the MIC, yes, the very white, ultra-wealthy, totally avaricious few ‘Americans’ do.
Every great civilization has always been most threatened by the few, WITHIN.
That is America, TODAY.
What we do, or don’t do, on 6 Nov 2012, determines the fate of the Republic – IN REAL TIME.
Make no mistake, anyone — other than the very few, totally ANTI-REPUBLIC, ANTI-democracy few — who awaken on 7 Nov 2012 to anything other than a resounding VICTORY by President Obama and a majority of Democrats in the House & Senate & State Houses will awaken to the equivalent of the Confederacy being victorious in 1865, compounded by the fact that the Confederacy of 2013 will be a NUCLEAR #NEOCONSTER PLUTOCRACY.
No joke.
No hyperbole.
#AmericaThisIsNotATest
#PRESSON
His speech was a 4am! Gotta find the TED talk that talked about the import of 4am in the psychie of mankind. LOL
Worth the time to watch
http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_on_4_a_m.html
They are re-showing the Brian Williams special about the killing of bin Laden. I watched it last night, and it was well worth the watch. Our President made me so proud we elected him.
It is on MSNBC.
I’m expecting any day for willard to say he was on SEAL Team 6…..
I should probably be ashamed to say I watched it three times. Once on TV and twice back to back online last nite.
But I won’t be. It was riveting
Only three times?
Didn’t want to overdose on his Badass Barackness
Oh, yeah. Any antidote for all that overdosing?
I am proud to say I watch it three times also. I love smart men who can solve big problem without getting rattled
Is there a truth there? 4am gives me the creeps when I work nights.
Watch the TED talk. It’s 9 minutes of hilarious coincidence regarding all the things that happen at 4am. It’s entertaining and bemusing. Not negative, just odd
Thanks lunarsea. I was expecting something deep and eerie. It was actually light and fun.
Thanks to all the TODers for the warning about the comment follow ups.
I’m going to watch the Brian Williams special now for the first time.
Thanks, it was fun and funny. I am not crazy after all. I love paul simon’s song and wondered if there was a reason.
Don’t you apologize, Chips. You do the lord’s work for us. You do what you have to do. We behaved. Honest we did.
Chica, THIS!! clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap!!!
Don’t you apologize, Chips. You do the lord’s work for us. You do what you have to do. We behaved. Honest we did.
Seriously, if it weren’t for you and the great contributors here (PSSSSTTT – shout out to What is working!!, there is much I wouldn’t know about PBO and this administration.
Man, watching the local election results in the UK. The Tories and LibDems are taking a shellacking. Austerity and its discontents, indeed.
Tories = conservatives?
Correct.
Good!
Is there anywhere on line to finish the “Situation room” video? I watched the 11 minute video that chips put up on the last post.. but would like to see the rest of it. All of you who called it “riveting” really nailed it.
All 5 parts are here:
http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/02/11493919-president-obama-bin-laden-raid-is-most-important-single-day-of-my-presidency?lite
oh thank you bwd.. can’t wait to finish it
At that link they flow from one part to the next. Or at least on firefox browser it does.
thank you also LunarSea
Regarding the sudden ‘surge’ in emails from wordpress … seems that sometime earlier today, they began having the default in the Comment panel include a check in the box next to “Notify me of follow-up comments via email.” Be sure to check and deselect if you don’t want suddenly to have lots of email
#PRESSON
It will continue to default back. Leave your computer for a little while and you’ll have an inbox full of emails. This is totally absurd.
I unchecked the box but I keep getting emails! :-/
Skynet is Online!
I used the red delete option, seems to have cured it.
http://nbc12.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/shaka-smart-to-host-obama-vcu-rally/
VCU coach to introduce the President at the rally!
Shaka Smart is awesome. Very intense, positive guy. I’m looking forward to it!
So, the #KOCHSTER minions are moaning about the Julia web tool ….
Jim Messina takes no prisoners, that’s for sure!
http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia
Do give Jim some love on Twitter!
#PRESSON
That tool was great–I sent it far and wide. I hated that Julia’s time line didn’t go on past the age of 67. We left her working in a community garden. What happens next? If the right wing didn’t like this, tough. Maybe if they actually did something FOR women instead of waring AGAINST them, they’d have something of their own to offer. The president’s team is awesome and unbelievably creative.
HA HA HA HA I love to watch them squirm…. LMAO
Go Messina!
Yes, Jackie, it would have been good for them to extend it even further … and, perhaps that’s the plan … let the #KOCHSTERS whine and then go, well, if Mitt had been elected President Julia would likely not have made it to 67, let alone where we will find her by the end of President Obama’s 2nd term – happily celebrating her 72nd birthday
And, LunarSea, I agree – HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ….
#PRESSON
That was great to see Jim Messina tweet that he loves “the Repub freakout.” He’s just like us!
Shorter Messina: You mad, bro?
The Julia tool is, to quote my 16 year old nephew, boss. Simple to comprehend and makes it known how Repub policies will jack your life up if you are a woman. The Obama campaign are doing great at maintaining the narrative and making it relatable.
Chips, most days you provide us with such a wide array of pics, stories, comments, fun stuff as well as a forum for discussion. How you do it remains a mystery to me. I can’t even find time to write a few words on my blog once a week. Bless you for all you do.
Evening TOD
President Obama is also good for ratings….according to TVByTheNumbers:
“On Tuesday, Jimmy Fallon delivered his biggest 18-49 audience for a regular episode so far this season with a special telecast from Chapel Hill, N.C. featuring President Obama, which delivered 853,000 adults 18-49 for a 0.7 rating in that key category. In total viewers, Tuesday’s telecast averaged 2.0 million persons, a 19 percent jump versus the 1.7 million the show has averaged this season in comparable “live plus same day”
What were the ratings for last nights Brian Williams thingy on Bin Laden?
Without even looking I can tell it was his best night in decades
It was the first time that I watched it.
Same here! And probably many more like us tuned in last nite. Heck I even gave his website hits by watching there. And I’m sure I’ll give them more hits.
Only this time
So far it appear Rock Centre got its best numbers since it premiered on NBC.
CNN is really on a steep decline lol, their highest number was the Situation Room a little over 400,000 viewers..P. Morgan average about 369,000 viewers last night. Rock Centre beat all the cable news network last night.
Where are y’all finding these ratings numbers?
website TVbythenumbers…they report next day ratings
for cable news, cable networks and the major networks, Huffpo get their
ratings from this site as well. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/
Thanks for the link, I was wondering the same thing.
YW, I was always curious to see how those cable news networks were doing,
since they have been so negative on President Obama, especially CNN and MSNBC Morning Joe
it reflects in the ratings, every time the go negative on President Obama their ratings take
a nose dive…Morning Joe, Tweety and CNN has suffered the most for going negative.
Cool. Thanks!
Ford, General Motors, Chrysler-Daimler, Audi, BMW, Porsche and Volkswagen announced they would display the new charging systems during the upcoming Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles.
The companies said the chargers would combine “one-phase AC-charging, fast three-phase AC-charging, DC-charging at home and ultra-fast DC-charging at public stations into one vehicle inlet.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/automobiles/225311-automakers-agree-on-single-port-charging-system-for-electric-cars
Once they get a handle on the charging of electric vehicles, the market will really take off.
I’m excited
Didn’t Jay Carney announced today that POTUS will be going to Virginia tomorrow to speak at a high school?
Completely and ridiculously Off-Topic:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=us_t2#/video/offbeat/2012/05/03/ac-ridiculist-over-tanning-mom.cnn
WTH?!!
Speechless
3 questions:
Does this woman not have a mirror in her house?
Does she not have any friends or family?
If not, doesn’t she know how to look up psychotherapist in the Yellow Pages?
That is all.
Is that tan woman, from John Boehner family? She more like a bar-be-cue woman.
SMDH. She looks like a piece of beef jerky. She also has the Michele Bachmann thing going on in the eyes. Ca-ra-zy!
Just thinking, can you imagine a man so powerful, awesome and intimidating that a group of cads feel that they must secretly meet to (try) to hold him down?
That’s looking at it from the glass-half-full perspective. Good point!
Many people wonder why some are so hard on President Obama. Did Frederick Douglass predict the answer many years ago?
“Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements.
In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress.
If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence.
Frederick Douglass – September 25, 1883
Frederick Douglass sought to embody three keys for success in life:
Believe in yourself.
Take advantage of every opportunity.
Use the power of spoken and written language to effect positive change for yourself and society.
Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so our children could fly!!
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”
Frederick Douglas
Beautiful and profound, yardam!
Thank you for posting this Yardarm 756!
AWEsomeeeeeeeeeeee
He is so powerful, vital, dynamic and terrific that on his very FIRST DAY on the job a few cowardly jerks want to (try) to do him in.
I also got slews of emails of comments. I did what I thought got me off the subscription list, and when I just closed this blog and went back to my email, I had one comment in my email…..I followed the subscription management and was asked if I wanted to “unfollow” the blog. I checked yes, and the message came that since I had “unfollowed” I would get no more emails. We’ll see. I put “unfollowed” in quotation marks, because that is not a true word, and that made this English teacher gnash her teeth…..can’t stand those phony made up words.
Anyway, I’ll report back on the massive emails. I deleted all of them, then deleted my delete file so they won’t fill up my mailbox…..here’s hoping.
Yup. That’s what I did and no more mailalanche.
I am getting tons of emails also. I keep deleting and unchecking the box on this thread. Don’t know what’s happening.
hilarious and exactly as i expected…elizabeth warren goes full-on obama with her latest ad, and “true progressives” start getting uncomfortable and their feeble minds can’t compute. dailykos has a frontpage post right now (refuse to link there) from a main contributor, and it’s blaming the victim, as in warren, for not responding just right to the latest republican/media creation. it’s a complete non-issue the republican/media cabal are flogging right now, yet leave it to the dkos frontpager, who has never run a campaign or probably has rarely even supported a winning campaign, to fall right into the trap and lecture elizabeth warren on how to run a campaign. comical!
for a while there have been comments at those places starting to sour on warren since she keeps talking nicely about PBO, but now the frontpagers will start and the floodgates will open. exactly as the republican operatives planned. just wait until warren is a senator and has to start voting, then they’ll really freak! we should not be concerned about pleasing “true progressives” at all, and should be encouraging them to start 3rd party or nader right now! go away! they diminish anything they touch.
uugghh. what a cesspool.
Her homepage is worth a link:
http://elizabethwarren.com/
yes, it sure is! i like her more and more, and it will be a tough choice in 2016 between her and martin o’malley for our presidential candidate (if they run of course!). we can’t go wrong either way.
I want them both for the winning ticket.
I don’t watch CNN but I saw a couple of tweets about Anderson Cooper, like this one
Chico Delainky @ChicoDelainky
Why @andersoncooper, why did you say the War On Women was the fault of Democrats?! You’re wrong Anderson, very wrong! @AC360
So ok
There’s no war on women, if there is, it’s the fault of the Democrats.
Anderson Cooper said so.
It’s no wonder they lost so many viewers.
Someone needs to ask him about these!
http://pol.moveon.org/waronwomen/
Good link, df!
Made use of it …
#PRESSON
ChristiMTL, A. Cooper is another one I can’t stand. I do not watch him anymore.
OKAY, WordPress has TOTALLY GONE OFF THE DEEP END. I hadn’t checked my email in a while.
I have gmail, which allows for neat labellling, but JEEEZZZZ LOUISE,
I HAD 200+ emails! WHAT THE HELL???
Ooooooooooooooooo weeeeeeeee
What’s up with that? What’s up with that?
Thanks. Now I have that song stuck in my head!!
LOL!
Not funny, Dudette
It’s the same as “It’s a Small World”….might need that gin and tonic after all….
Go ahead, watch this. You KNOW you want to!
/saturday-night-live-what-up-with-that-al-gore
NO! NO! NO!
The skit that follows What’s Up With That is pretty good. At least, I laughed out loud at it!
Except that Al Gore in what’s-up-with-that shows that he’s become very handsome, very handsome indeed.
the emails….hahahah….
I just checked my email, and no blog messages. Checking “unfollow” The Obama Diary took care of it. I have a feeling different pages come up for different people…..this is the first time I’ve ever had anything from WordPress.
I suspect it’s the check mark in the little box below that notes: “Notify me of follow-up comments via email.”
It didn’t used to default to have a check in that box. What a pain in the ass. I didn’t even notice it before.
Wow, WordPress, REALLY???
carolyn – I did what worked for you and I’m still getting the emails.
I don’t like EJ Dionne
ChristiMTL, I agree with you, and add Eugene Robinson in there too.
Oh yes anniebella, that’s another one I can’t stand..
okay, this email thing is a PITA!
I’m not the only one who has done everything everybody suggested with no luck?
Okay, mine appear to have stopped. Whew.
Mine, too. FINALLY
Sigh of relief here, too.
ha, looks like I’m now also getting all the comments coming to my email… glad I read about it here first.
Mine stopped, but have restarted – I just got two more. It’s like maybe the afterbirth? More like a horror show.
Mine finally stopped. Between logging out of WordPress, un-following, and un-notifying, something did the trick.
For me, as well. Fingers crossed!
I’m still getting them…hopefully it’ll end on it’s own , the same way it seems to have started.
Overnight, I received three more, then it stopped again. You?
No it seems to have stopped this morning.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/05/republican_national_committee_21.html
Republican National Committee used Philippines firm to set up call blasting Obama on unemployment.
Outsourcing anyone? can’t make this stuff up…..
SMDH… we really MUST beat these phu*kers in November.
They’re practically begging us to. I hate stupid.
The frigging notify me of comments seems to have been checked as default. FU wp.
Yes, I noticed that amk. Fortunately, an overabundance of fatigue, coupled with all the work of springtime taking me six times as long to do has kept me from commenting much. So — no follow up comments. What a thing to be made a default!!
Proof that the “left wing” media will spin like a top to get a close race. The headline says it all: Poll Shows Competitive Presidential Contest in Virginia. A competitive race is 5 points not 7.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/a-competitive-presidential-contest-emerges-in-virginia-poll-shows/
Hay pollsters, we believe it’s going to be a close race, that’s why we are going to fight our butts off to do whatever we can to help re-elect our President. We will take nothing for granted.
Sweet!
Wow!!
WOOT.
Hell yeah!!!
ALOHA EVERYONE!!!!
Amen!!
Evening all.
My nephew’s school had a contest where the students had to draw a picture of the school mascot, the winner’s drawing would be made into a t-shirt. Well my nephew’s drawing won the contest and his drawing was made into shirts for the whole school and the t-shirts included his signatures as well. I photoshopped the signature (to protect the innocent…lol), but here is the finished product. My sister is SOOOO proud.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/nellybell28/Artwork.jpg
wow thats very impressive.. Huge Congratulations to you Nephew.. he did beautiful work !
Impressive!!!
Well done by the young Graphic Artist in Residence! Congrats on the win!
Awesome! He’s GOOD!
A long distinguished career awaits him! Give him my congrats and an extra heap of ice cream for me.
That’s Colorful and very Riveting! Congratulations to you nephew, lamh!
That’s very cool. Congrats to your nephew!
Clooney’s Obama Fundraiser Expected to Collect Record $12 Million
President Barack Obama’s dinner with George Clooney has officially sold out and campaign sources are telling The Hollywood Reporter that the event is expected to raise up to $12 million for the president’s reelection, making it the biggest presidential fundraiser in U.S. history.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/obama-george-clooney-fundraiser-12-million-320069
But, but, but Mark Knoller told me…
Snark Knoller’s better..more entertaining ’cause you know what your getting.
Sold out already? Damn! I only got to enter the contest one time.
I bet even some Republican signed on for that!
I think you’re right
Thanks, BWD! I read some of the comments and they’re too funny. It seems brainwashed idiots like to go to The Hollywood Reporter and show off their stupid. They’re all banning Clooney Movies for LIFE!!
UK councillors election results so far
Labour +399
Cons -245
Libdems -122
Austerity, how is that working for ya camie boy ?
Congrats to Labour! I hope the rightwingers in the US keep pushing their austerity garbage and we will see if they can hold their heads high after PBO gives them a historical political beat-down
Holla!!
Willard the Dullard is the one who’s Lying and Smearing his way through his campaign but he’s the one taking self inflicted wounds. It shoulda happened to bush too.
going through my physical exercise so that I can be fit enough to perform my volunteer duties for POTUS and FLOTUS’ rally at The OSU on sat.
advantage of volunteering in the ultimate swing state and living on the boundary with your almuni campus is that you are regularly able to give it your all and also get to see and greet the President, First lady multiple times. yes on one occasion, I was able to shake hands with ALL human members of the First Family. the kids were cute and very much younger then
we are excited and hope to keep this state blue this nov
Good for you ..I’m so jealous! Go Linda!!
GLOBALCITIZENLINDA!!! You are the woman!!! So happy for you! Gotta love it when POTUS & FLOTUS come your way often. Philadelphia has been great for that. And now, we’ll also get to see VPBiden and Jill alot. WOOOOT HOOOOOOOO
we are lucky indeed – have so many great memories of POTUS and FLOTUS at close range
Hey everyone:-)
I emailed /RNC chairman and told him..that if they really want to be cool… I suggested they play this song for Romney Campaign and tweeted…LOL!!!
Better yet have Willard sing it in one of his campaign rallies
Sure does fit them, but I doubt they’d go for it . You know, wrong “kind” of music for the demographic they want to appeal to. Here’s something that might work better…
We should have a little game and post all the videos that we think they could use…you know, “help them out” for their campaign…..:)
Good job!
Hey Desert:-) I couldn’t help it…lol I even tweeted…Nice to see ya Desert (hugs)
You did good:) Nice to see you, as well! Big hugs for you!!!
How about this?
OMG – Winnerrrrrrr!
Can’t go wrong with MJ!!
I KNOW!
I love Michael….
He’s the MAN~~~
MJ, I grew up a fan of his. Still miss him.
heheheh…they may take me up on that suggestion….hahaha
I went to check what it was all about…
A lot of people are not happy with Anderson Cooper tonight
Here is why
Keeping them honest
KTH: ”Are Republicans waging a war on women?”
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/03/kth-are-republicans-waging-a-war-on-women/?hpt=ac_mid
If this is the kind of political stuff he’s going to be putting out, Anderson should stick to covering overcooked Barbie-Q
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=us_t2#/video/offbeat/2012/05/03/ac-ridiculist-over-tanning-mom.cnn
Now he’s defending himself on twitter
Anderson Cooper
@andersoncooper
.@JonathanJewel I never said there’s not a war on women. I said, in this specific instance, the facts dont back their claim.
ok so I guess there is a war on women..
He got some push back but oh my, he has his fan club as well….
@kathygriffin Your boy @andersoncooper is in a tweet argument with some angry #360 viewer. You gotta help him!..
Tweet THIS and ask him WTF?!
http://pol.moveon.org/waronwomen/
Better yet. THIS!
http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/updates/2011/statetrends12011.html
LOL I just tweeted this!!!
@AndersonCooper @AC360:If U still question if WAR on Women is real think again:GOP gave us zero jobs,while busy w/THIS http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/12/27/395239/the-gops-10-most-extreme-attacks-on-a-womans-right-to-choose-an-abortion/
Really? Where did a 1000 Anit-Abortion Bills come from? (GOP)
-Personhood Bill
-Forced Vagina Ultrasound Bill
-Person hood Bill…..Should I go on?
I am about to tweet him
Thanks Christi…
Don’t forget – Life begins first day of last menstrual cycle in AZ – so basically, BEFORE SEX.
Party Councils Councillors
Total +/- Total +/-
Labour 48 +20 1002 +429
Cons 26 -9 509 -245
LibDems 3 -1 189 -125
Yessssss!
Heads Up: Rerun of NBC Rock Center Death of OBL playing on MSBNC in Ed Schultz’s 10:00 slot
Watching …
Dudette, I’m watching it also. And when I think of that lying Mitt Romney talking about anyone would have made that decision, even Jimmy Carter. Romney is lying again. This was a show of true leadership by President Obama, and the people who are not quiet sure about who to vote for need to watch this. And you will see a real leader at hand, someone you can have real confidence in to do the right thing for this country. President Obama. And the way Mitt Romney has flip flop over ever dam issue under the sun, you can not be sure he would have made the same decision President Obama made. This program is worth watching.
Robme couldn’t even stand up to the nut jobs in his party over a gay spokesperson.
Not that I feel for the guy or any gay, female, colored ppl who think there is a place for them in the newest incarnation of that once proud and Grand Old Party!
Get rid of the gay spokesman because he is gay, not because of the disrespect, ugly, nasty tweets he sent out. That’s mitt Romney for, a true lying non-leader.
Exactly
I feel the same way anniebella. I’m grateful that NBC/MSNBC broadcast. Although it’s certainly not their motivation, I see the broadcast as a rebuttal to whiny prattle from Romney and his minions.
Tweety sure ripped old vile lying Mittens good in his “let me finish” segment today for speaking disparingly about Prez Carter. He virtually called Mittens a coward with no backbone.
From SmartyPants blog: ReTHUGlicans – Hypocrits!!! But then what else is new???
Oh, this is rich! Scott Brown’s daughter covered under ACA
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2012/05/oh-this-is-rich-scott-browns-daughter.html
the upcoming rally by POTUS and FLOTUS at OSU this sat is making me feel nostalgic. for some reason, I am remembering the very first visit PBO made to our college town and how many “establishment Dems” shunned him!
of course our college contingent that worked to organize the rally and was very loud and excited. we made so much noise that by the time PBO took the stage we had almost lost our voices!!
on a personal note, apart from the memories and photos from that cold day,
I got three things I treasure namely:
(a) a group photo with PBO with him standing just one person away;
(b) my volunteer pass and admission ticket – yes I saved these
and
(c) signature from PBO in his two books which I then promptly delivered to my father back in Africa. My parents are great admirers of PBO and FLOTUS and so my father is able to pose to everyone whom he can talk to that he is probably the first person in our continent to receive autographed copies of PBO’s books. Yes he has read them over, and oover, and over
messed up my signing in – sorry
Perhaps more irony than comedy, but certainly worth a couple of giggles:
/saturday-night-live-adulterers-press-conference-cold-open
/saturday-night-live-obama-afghanistan-cold-open
We night owls shift deftly from the from the silly (SNL skits above) to the sublime:
Mr. Joshua Bennett performing Tamara’s Opus at the White House Poetry Slam, May 12, 2009
Enjoy!
Oh, thank you so much. I love poetry!
Councils Councillors
Total +/- Total +/-
Labour 49 +21 1042 +441
Conservative 26 -9 510 -250
Liberal Democrat 3 -1 199 -130
Talk about shellacking.
In ‘The Hollywood Report’ photo of President Obama & George Clooney’s article (link above somewhere)…….. did anyone else notice Ed Henry in the background taking a pic of the President while he was speaking??
I still remember that night when President Obama was getting ready to leave…. Ed Henry was almost latched on to him trying to be in the same camera shot as PBO lol
Ha! Sounds kinda like the Salahis in the SNL skit that I posted above (scroll up a bit).
This is for ACooper and his denial of the War on Women.
Keeping with the TED theme, it is by Eve Ensler: Embrace your inner girl. She is the woman who wrote The Vagina Monologue but no, this is not The Vagina Monologue but about her experiences working with women from Africa to LA
Powerful testament to power of your inner girl. Be sure to watch the poem at the end inspired by a young lady from LA
http://www.ted.com/talks/eve_ensler_embrace_your_inner_girl.html
If you missed the Rock Center with Brian Williams broadcast of “Inside the Situation Room” or you just want to watch it again online,
here are links:
Inside the Situation Room, Part 1
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339
Inside the Situation Room, Part 2
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47272390
Inside the Situation Room, Part 3
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47272478
Inside the Situation Room, Part 4
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47272581
Inside the Situation Room, Part 5
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47272702
Inside the Situation Room: Online Exclusive
What Were They Watching
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47250513
Inside the Situation Room: Online Exclusive
Situation Room Guided Tour
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47251154
Inside the Situation Room: Online Exclusive
Hillary Clinton: Bill Didn’t Know
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47255334
Inside the Situation Room: Online Exclusive
President Obama on Telling His Daughters about bin Laden raid
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47255304
Inside the Situation Room: Online Exclusive
Keeping a Secret
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47255404
Inside the Situation Room: Online Exclusive
On Seeing bin Laden’s death photo
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47254658
Inside the Situation Room: Online Exclusive
Pres. Obama: ‘This was the longest 40 minutes of my life’
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47238608
Inside the Situation Room: Online Exclusive
Pres. Obama describes Osama bin Laden raid one year later
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/47272339#47218575
Got a question about the Life of Julia graphic (http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia) that I’m sure some of my astute TOD family members will be able to answer:
Got to the page where Julia is 42 and wants to start her own business. Does anyone know the significance of the number 1523 on the wall poster? Is it a statue number of something. I just kinda stands out like it means something. Anyone?
Sorry, “Go” to the page…
Very interesting “1523″ question. Good eye! Did a search but nothing popped up that seemed to reveal anything much about why it was used.
Myth Robme (aka as Winters Breath) in disguise as a corporate raider at the North Pole
/saturday-night-live-glengarry-glen-christmas
Back in the days of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt “almost every good citizen was associated with politics”…
Check out this video of the Former First Lady/US Ambassador to the UN on “What’s My Line” circa 1954.
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal-aka-fran/open-thread-298
China says blind dissident Chen Guangcheng can apply to study abroad, potentially indicating a way out of the diplomatic crisis with the US over him.
A Foreign Ministry statement said Mr Chen could “apply through normal channels in accordance with the law”.
Mr Chen fled house arrest late last month to the US embassy. He later left but now wants to go to the US with his family.
His case has overshadowed high-level US-China talks taking place in Beijing.
“If he wishes to study overseas, as a Chinese citizen, he can, like any other Chinese citizens, process relevant procedures with relevant department through normal channels in accordance to the law,” Xinhua news agency quoted spokesman Liu Weimin as saying.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17951502
Eat it mitt.
That guy should not be allowed. He’s crazy and we have enough nuts here to contend with already. He makes me think Orly Taitz every time I hear anything of his behavior.
The next thing you know he gets naturalized while some kid whose grown up here gets reviled, their family broken apart and deported.
I am particularly incensed at the way the ‘do nothing congress’ behaved with him.
There I said it. LOL
heard a report on NPR that in the past, the “option to study abroad” is a typical way that has chosen to classify the departure of high-profile activist to the US during sticky situations. this way China saves safe and the activist gets their objective
There was a guy that wrote a book about the OBL raid. He was only the Daily show. The interview is in two parts and is worth a watch:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
He made it very clear that the call was a risky call and certainly NOT everyone would have made it. Someone at the time said the odds that the individual WAS bin Laden were lower than the odds of finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
anybody up…..
I am up and I too am wondering WHERE everyone else is!
in the middle of getting ready for work, so popping in now and again
Present!
The Today show is saying there’s a new poll showing President Obama and Romney neck and neck. What poll?
that quinnapiac (sp?) poll has them essentially tied in OH and Mitt up 1 in FL.
It shouldn’t be close. What the hell is wrong with some people. All I have to so is look at where we were when President Obama took office and where we are today and know that this President deserves a second term. Again what the hell is wrong with some people?
Cheryllou–They think they’re discouraging us with these slanted polls, but they only serve to activate the president’s base even further. We’re smart enough not to be taken in. But if it makes the R’s just a little more complacent, I say great.
How can anyone take these polls seriously, after all their manipulations and lies have been exposed time and again, is beyond me. I for one refuse to be played like a puppet, reacting how they want, when they want. No wonder ppl are wound up so tight.
Obama 2012 running ahead of Obama 2008 National/Ohio/Virginia/Florida
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125134400
Here’s the link to the Cinco de Mayo speech, for those like me who missed it:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2012/05/03/president-obama-speaks-cinco-de-mayo-reception
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner are giving a press conference right now in China.
crap, just as I’m running out the door. A meeting of policy & economics is what comes to mind with the two of them together.
Hope it was a successful visit and further hope SOMEONE in the #mediafail will report on it as breathlessly as they did for the idiot from house arrest.
Where are you watching this?
Good morning zizi2,
I was watching on BBC World News. The press conference has ended. They did not take a lot of questions. If I find a link to the press conference, I will post it here.
And now for today’s “No Shit, Sherlock” column, we have this gem:
Some voters still balk at supporting black candidate
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47290132/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/
Party Councils Councillors
Total +/- Total +/-
Labour 62 +27 1296 +547
Conservative 32 -12 674 -327
Liberal Democrat 4 -1 250 -162
I have no skin in that game whatsoever and I’m still doing the happy dance!
Fervently praying the fog of insanity also clears the skies on this side of the pond come Nov 6.
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