Wow, what a week! Been lots of action this week. We are doing voter registration tomorrow. I hope everyone finds a way to support the Obama/Biden 2012 campaign.
Too late, GOP, there is no where left to hide! What’s wonderful is you have done this to yourselves! Enjoy the plummet, your parachute has failed to open! May you all learn a great deal as your lives flash before your eyes!
Hopefruit, Thanks for handling business about the lame, lame, lame, TIRED, TIRED, TIRED effort to blame black people for losses when it comes to gay righta. I AM SO TIRED OF THE DIVIDE AND CONQUER TACTICS of hateful people.
You’re more than welcome isonprize..just humbly doing my civic duty to help educate and inform! I agree with you the divide and conquer tactics of haters will not work.
“Not first” I say that to myself whenever I get to a new post. I’m always way behind everyone else, leaving behind messages that no-one will ever see… I’ve learned to accept it…
I’m soooo mad with my laptop & wordpress! I can’t believe I wasn’t logged on, or so they said!
BTW, does anyone else keep getting cut off of wordpress for no apparent reason? This has been happening frequently for at least a week. Is it my laptop or what?
Anyways, enjoy FLOTUS’ address and save me some visuals for after work.
Hey, VC, I think this is what is happening to me sometimes, has been weird for about a week… I don’t even know about logging in, or whatever, what I generally do is come in via the email, and only rarely have to enter my name and email address to gain access.
A surprising development on Wall Street Thursday could magnify a little-discussed but key difference between President Obama and Mitt Romney — one with enormous consequences for public policy.
On a conference call with analysts, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon announced that his firm had lost $2 billion investing in the same species of derivative that exacerbated the 2008 financial crisis.
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This is exactly the type of major loss of depositor money that the Obama administration sought to ban with one of the major planks of its 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law — the Volcker Rule, named after former Fed chairman Paul Volcker. And that’s bad news for Romney, who wants to repeal the whole law, Volcker Rule and all.
I can’t wait for the DNC ads that take on this issue. There is enough evidence already to disqualify Mitt Romney for the presidency, but the fact that he has said out loud that he wants to repeal Dodd-Frank is just beyond the pale. It’s remarkable that he has not been challenged on this idiotic and reckless statement. But it looks like the feckless media will be compelled to ask for comment now. This J.P. Morgan debacle is politically toxic for Romney. As usual, he’s on the wrong side of the issue.
Good west coast morning Chipsticks!
Good west coast morning my TOD family!
I had a marvelous time yesterday when President Obama waved at me – just me!!!!!
I also saw myself and my t-shirt (POTUS getting out of the Beast with the Ray-Bans on) on Fox 11 News last night and again this morning. HA!
You are funny. I have been here. I went into lurk mode for the last several days. I won’t go into details, but there were times I was going to make some rather intemperate comments about things I read in the threads and decided it was better to keep my mouth shut. But it would be nice to see a fellow TODer on the news.
japa and Chipsticks, James Koh General Assignment Reporter, is the name of the reporter who did the segment last night on KTTV FOX 11. I know Chipsticks was successful last year in locating a segment after I gave her the station and the reporter’s name. If she can work her magic again, maybe we might be able to see me
I KNOW Pamela, Fox 11 is NOT my local station of choice – so I wondered why God put that station at my group when Channels 2, 4, 7 & 9 were stationed at the other groups, but it is what it is and they showed my brief interview where I said that I was hoping that the President would see my t-shirt and give me a thumbs up. I’m hoping that one of the techies at OFA hdqtrs can help me locate the segment today.
Just watched the View and Eva Langoria was with them and of course she is the co-chair with PBO and
said that her job is to EDUCATE ALL women specialy Latina women and the Latino community. He also said
the this election will be the most importan ever she was realy fantastic. just love My sister.
Huh? I remember his character from ‘The Social Network’ What does that even mean? They’re set to launch the Facebook IPO and it’s valued as very very worthwhile and lucrative.
From what I’ve gathered, he’s pulling a Romney. Trying to lower his tax bill on the $96 billion expected to be garnered through the IPO. The 1% – at it again.
Bye, bye…don’t let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya. He was born in Brazil and he became a citizen to take advantage of the education system here if he remained a citizen. He was a co-founder of facebook because he had money to fund the endevor. According to the movie, he was so concerned with making chump change he couldn’t see the forest for the dollar signs. If it were not for the Napster guy who introduced Zuckerburg to investors, Facebook would be a college social site. Eduardo is just a opportunist who will be a man without a country. He has no allegiance to no one or any country especially if they have taxes.
Renouncing US Citizenship don’t get you off paying US taxes for a numbers of years, and any income you derived from US source business is US taxable. Hence Mitt parking his funds overseas….what the IRS don’t know it can’t tax.
I think part of the advantage is renouncing the citizenship before the IPO takes effect. They did say in the article that those renouncing have to pay an exit tax, but I think it gets counted as capital gains as though they sold actual stock (which is taxed lower). I don’t know investment finance more than at a rudimentary level to say more than what I read in the article, so I’ll defer to you, since it sounds like you know what you’re talking about.
I just finish listening to our wonderful First Lady, and she was wonderful as usual. Boy do we have a lovely inside and out ,First Lady. And we want 4 More Years ……4 More Years…..4 More Years
iamh35, Thank you for posting these articles. This information has to be widely distributed. SO TIRED of the blame being placed on black people. We aren’t going for the okey doke, not falling for the divide and conquer IT WON’T WORK, NOT THIS TIME!!!
Thanks for the link, lamh35! Black folks have been the most loyal Democrats since 1960. The same could not be said of the so called FDR’s Democratic coalition. The so called progressives must stop demonizing Black people.
The Obama administration will soon announce $1.3 billion in rebate checks to nearly 16 million Americans from health insurance companies.
Mark Halperin: “From almost the moment the Affordable Care Act (a/k/a “ObamaCare”) was signed into law, the administration has been playing defense… But the rebate provision of the law — the fruits of the so-called ’80/20 rule’ — is about to kick in big time, as millions of Americans receive rebate checks or premium reductions from insurance companies who have failed to spend enough on patient care. This cash could be a true game changer in public attitudes about whether the law actually is beneficial and good public policy.”
Come about matey……What flag is dk flying? She appears to have struck her ‘jolly roger’ and hoisted an American flag. I wonder if she had a mutiny on board?
Nebraska had public hearings on the Anti-Discrimination Law they are trying to pass.
Watch the man sitting behind the speaker…it is hilarious.
I only listened to her for a few minutes and then put it on mute…..his facial expression says it all. She was ranting that Hillary’s roommate in College is gay…therefore so is Hillary. That gays molest children because children do have AIDS….yet.
a “homocider”, “orgyer”……she probably sits in her living room clipping sick articles about the gay surrounded by her numerous cats ( i am cat lover, so I am not making fun of cat lovers).
but you know what LInda – the positive aspect of that clip is the kid behind her. He was cracking in disbelief at her level of ignorance.
There is hope in our future generation. If you played this clip over and over again to the overall public, it would help make the case to the American public. It highlights for me how absolutely ridiculous this debate is. Discrimination in any form is wrong and it can fry your brain cells. Case and point, poor Granny in that video. lolololol
You did good to post it. I hope it goes viral. This is the best case for this issue.
Awesome!!!! I know George Clooney has said that he always brags about his basketball skills to PBO and Tobey Maguire aka Spiderman is a big Lakers fan.
Progress on a Key Goal to Train 500,000 Workers for Jobs in Manufacturing Sector
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On June 8, 2011, President Obama announced key steps by private sector partners towards building the educated and skilled workforce U.S. manufacturers need to successfully compete in the 21st century economy. This includes a five-year goal by the Manufacturing Institute and its partners to award 500,000 industry-based credentials to individuals, positioning them for employment and advancement in manufacturing jobs.
In less than a year, the Manufacturing Institute and its partners have announced significant progress towards achieving that five-year goal. Over the past year, the certification bodies partnered with the Institute have issued 84,738 certifications to students and incumbent workers that cover in-demand, portable skill-sets necessary across multiple manufacturing sectors.
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This is just one part of President Obama’s comprehensive effort to build an economy built to last, based in part on a strong manufacturing sector and a skilled workforce.
Thanks UT. We can file this one under “If Congress Won’t Do It, I Will”. President Obama is making government cool again. This is what leadership looks like. Score one for the importance of public-private partnerships. This has been one of PBO’s most effective approaches for circumventing the intransigence of the House Republicans in congress. Even with their relentless obstruction, he is making progress on job creation and leaving them in the dust. >>>>>>>>>FORWARD.>>>>>>>>>
Thanks JER.. our Pres just ran down the stairs and walked towards a crowd gathered. The local media are beside themselves with excitement. One of the reporters was going on and on about AF1 how excited she felt seeing it land!
one of mittbot’s classmates from high school, who wasn’t even there for the torture event mittbot led yet decided to go on tv yesterday to *try* to defend mittbot (but failed miserably) has a linkedin page. i see gregg dearth used to be “VP of Communications at The French Culinary Institute.” wonder if he and mittbot frolicked in france together, while so many blue-collar kids were dying in vietnam so that later, vulture capitalists like mittbot and friends could then destroy whatever families those that came back from vietnam were able to create. mittbot is a truly vile robot.
Tamryn Hall just blew a gasket and it was a great!!!! Go Tamryn, she said to Mitt’s rep, “look I was tougher than Mitt was when I was in high school so don’t mess with me”. Then she told the guy she wasn’t going to let him insult her or the network and that he was irritating her. Go girlfriend!
I stepped away for a minute and didn’t see it. I was watching Tim Carney being a jerk while talking about the Romney assault story. Hey cookemom can you fill us in on what exactly happened? Full story please.
Full story? She said “F*^%K you and the horse you rode in on, you %&&*^ idjit. Now I’m done with your MFing low down dirty dawg flea bag behind, you a-hole you” He goes, oh really? She goes, “you don’t want a piece of me numbnut, I didn’t cut guys hair off with scissors in high school, I cut off balls! Now get the hell off my show!”
YESS! that was so sweet., if only all journalists did that. We just found out what goes on behind the media curtain, there are no ‘Gotcha” topics, guests are briefed ahead of time as to what is going to be discussed. Tamron “brung it” she said you knew what we were going to be talking about, in other words, if you don’t want to address the topic, take your sorry self home, but don’t try to snow me with some ish. drops the mic.
You have the Republican Party who has proven that their governing strategy is filibustering, obstructing, delaying, sabotaging and hostage taking. They are morally bankrupt. And you think you can have a gentleman’s agreement with them. Are you freakin’ kidding me? The Senate is sometimes called the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” What a joke. The Republican Party has trashed the institution. They have rendered our government dysfunctional with their abuse of the filibuster. It’s unprecedented. They can’t be reasoned with. it’s party over country. It’s long past due for the nuclear option. It’s hard to believe all of the Republicans actually took this oath of office:
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I, ___ ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
She just acknowledged the tweets coming in on her page. There was a slight chuckle, but for the most part she never missed a beat after her blow-up. She remained cool as a cucumber afterwards.
I know what Mitt Romney suppose to have done was long time ago. But we all know that alot of people are affect by things that happen to them along ago. And alot of people are affect by how they were treated in high school, if you were treated bad those things can stay with you.
With all the talk over Mitt Romney’s bullying of a presumed gay classmate, some have questioned whether it’s fair to judge someone on their actions in high school. But everyone agrees that anything from a recent political career is fair game.
So it’s telling that one doesn’t have to reach that far back to find other incidents of LGBT bullying from Romney’s close staff. Romney campaign senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom (of Etch-a-Sketch fame) outed a transgender woman in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, effectively ending her political career, when he was a reporter for the Boston Herald.
America Blog reminds us of the incident, relayed in a GQ profile, which tells of Fernhstrom’s apparent “glee” when he found the representative’s birth certificate:
Fehrnstrom saved his cheap shots for smaller-time Massachusetts pols. When a political activist and gadfly named Althea Garrison was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the fact that she was transgender was an open secret in Boston political circles. But Fehrnstrom was the first one to put that information into print—”I can remember his glee when he found the birth certificate,” says former Herald reporter Robert Connolly—thus bringing a swift end to Garrison’s future on Beacon Hill.
Romney himself also abolished a commission working against LGBT bullying in Massachusetts as governor..
Today, behind closed doors in Charlotte, North Carolina, legislators from 15 states will meet with the oil and gas industry to discuss so-called “model legislation” as part of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The result could be laws that handicap renewable energy targets — while creating loopholes for fossil fuels, written directly by the oil and gas industry itself.
They don’t care about anything but money. Forget about the lives of people and the planet. You can bet the filthy polluting Koch bros have a hand in it too since they are Fossil Fuel Kings.
hey!
Hey you!
You! did it!
Wow, what a week! Been lots of action this week. We are doing voter registration tomorrow. I hope everyone finds a way to support the Obama/Biden 2012 campaign.
Oi way
Hello!
Wow, I was just strollin’ in. How’s the TOD family today?
The Gop is looking for cover. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/romney-volcker-dodd-frank-jp-morgan-wall-street.php?m=1
They are flailing. Just one more thing PBO has when it comes to the debates.
Too late, GOP, there is no where left to hide! What’s wonderful is you have done this to yourselves! Enjoy the plummet, your parachute has failed to open! May you all learn a great deal as your lives flash before your eyes!
This is what we call a power packed minute, look at all the time stamps! And I am not even supposed to be here!
Sen. Mark Warner is speaking now. Is he still a Senator? Anyway, still waiting for First Lady Obama to speak.
Hi Pamela! Im supposed to be working. How about you?
Not first
But, you are still wonderful, HF!
Thanks Pamela
Here, Here! I truly value hopefruit. She is not only fearless but she is also a first rate intellect.
Hopefruit, Thanks for handling business about the lame, lame, lame, TIRED, TIRED, TIRED effort to blame black people for losses when it comes to gay righta. I AM SO TIRED OF THE DIVIDE AND CONQUER TACTICS of hateful people.
IT WON’T WORK. NOT THIS TIME!!!
It really is getting tiring, and people should know better. It is so offensive
You’re more than welcome isonprize..just humbly doing my civic duty to help educate and inform! I agree with you the divide and conquer tactics of haters will not work.
“Not first” I say that to myself whenever I get to a new post. I’m always way behind everyone else, leaving behind messages that no-one will ever see… I’ve learned to accept it…
Congrats Ison!
I’m soooo mad with my laptop & wordpress! I can’t believe I wasn’t logged on, or so they said!
BTW, does anyone else keep getting cut off of wordpress for no apparent reason? This has been happening frequently for at least a week. Is it my laptop or what?
Anyways, enjoy FLOTUS’ address and save me some visuals for after work.
WP knocked me out AGAIN and I had to sign in AFTER having done so for the initial comment! Not sure what’s up with that. Toodle di doo!
Hey, VC, I think this is what is happening to me sometimes, has been weird for about a week… I don’t even know about logging in, or whatever, what I generally do is come in via the email, and only rarely have to enter my name and email address to gain access.
New Wall Street Scandal Threatens Romney
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A surprising development on Wall Street Thursday could magnify a little-discussed but key difference between President Obama and Mitt Romney — one with enormous consequences for public policy.
On a conference call with analysts, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon announced that his firm had lost $2 billion investing in the same species of derivative that exacerbated the 2008 financial crisis.
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This is exactly the type of major loss of depositor money that the Obama administration sought to ban with one of the major planks of its 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law — the Volcker Rule, named after former Fed chairman Paul Volcker. And that’s bad news for Romney, who wants to repeal the whole law, Volcker Rule and all.
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/romney-volcker-dodd-frank-jp-morgan-wall-street.php
I think this is another lightning rod moment for the campaign. Perhaps Swiss Mitt will also need to suspend his campaign to deal with it. Morons.
I can’t wait for the DNC ads that take on this issue. There is enough evidence already to disqualify Mitt Romney for the presidency, but the fact that he has said out loud that he wants to repeal Dodd-Frank is just beyond the pale. It’s remarkable that he has not been challenged on this idiotic and reckless statement. But it looks like the feckless media will be compelled to ask for comment now. This J.P. Morgan debacle is politically toxic for Romney. As usual, he’s on the wrong side of the issue.
This is big and it should, now let’s see if the MSM brings this issue up front!!!!
Good west coast morning Chipsticks!
Good west coast morning my TOD family!
I had a marvelous time yesterday when President Obama waved at me – just me!!!!!
I also saw myself and my t-shirt (POTUS getting out of the Beast with the Ray-Bans on) on Fox 11 News last night and again this morning. HA!
Any chance of posting a video from their web-site?
japa!
Where’ve you been hiding all this time!?!?!?
He was probably plotzing form the FLOTUS pictures yesterday.
Where have you been? I almost put out an APB for you. Did POTUS shutdown your “looooooooooooove” and “luuuuuuuuust” for FLOTUS?
You are funny. I have been here. I went into lurk mode for the last several days. I won’t go into details, but there were times I was going to make some rather intemperate comments about things I read in the threads and decided it was better to keep my mouth shut. But it would be nice to see a fellow TODer on the news.
japa and Chipsticks, James Koh General Assignment Reporter, is the name of the reporter who did the segment last night on KTTV FOX 11. I know Chipsticks was successful last year in locating a segment after I gave her the station and the reporter’s name. If she can work her magic again, maybe we might be able to see me
Top of the day to you japa two one. I too am in a lurk mode. All is well?
All is well wingman. Maybe in the next few days I will write an explanation for my absence from commenting.
No problem. Be at peace.
I’m going to the OFA Hdqtrs this afternoon and I’ll see what I can get japa.
I want to see that GGail! Never watch Pox news, actually, never watch any news… Just the web…
I KNOW Pamela, Fox 11 is NOT my local station of choice – so I wondered why God put that station at my group when Channels 2, 4, 7 & 9 were stationed at the other groups, but it is what it is and they showed my brief interview where I said that I was hoping that the President would see my t-shirt and give me a thumbs up. I’m hoping that one of the techies at OFA hdqtrs can help me locate the segment today.
Just watched the View and Eva Langoria was with them and of course she is the co-chair with PBO and
said that her job is to EDUCATE ALL women specialy Latina women and the Latino community. He also said
the this election will be the most importan ever she was realy fantastic. just love My sister.
Okey dokey. FLOTUS is about to speak.
WHY?
Goodness gracious! Not good news when they’re already struggling through the IPO.
Huh? I remember his character from ‘The Social Network’ What does that even mean? They’re set to launch the Facebook IPO and it’s valued as very very worthwhile and lucrative.
From what I’ve gathered, he’s pulling a Romney. Trying to lower his tax bill on the $96 billion expected to be garnered through the IPO. The 1% – at it again.
What a choad.
Here’s an article on it. Seems to be the latest trend among the very wealthy. They don’t want to pay their fair share – moving on to greener pastures.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-11/facebook-co-founder-saverin-gives-up-u-s-citizenship-before-ipo.html
Those short-sighted strategies will backfire. They may find out that those “greener pastures” only look that way from a distance.
Bye, bye…don’t let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya. He was born in Brazil and he became a citizen to take advantage of the education system here if he remained a citizen. He was a co-founder of facebook because he had money to fund the endevor. According to the movie, he was so concerned with making chump change he couldn’t see the forest for the dollar signs. If it were not for the Napster guy who introduced Zuckerburg to investors, Facebook would be a college social site. Eduardo is just a opportunist who will be a man without a country. He has no allegiance to no one or any country especially if they have taxes.
Then we welcome a new patriotic American entrepreneur who would like to educate and employ Americans for the next generation. Fuck him.
There are millions who will come to this country, make their wealth, give back to their country, and be grateful.
Renouncing US Citizenship don’t get you off paying US taxes for a numbers of years, and any income you derived from US source business is US taxable. Hence Mitt parking his funds overseas….what the IRS don’t know it can’t tax.
I think part of the advantage is renouncing the citizenship before the IPO takes effect. They did say in the article that those renouncing have to pay an exit tax, but I think it gets counted as capital gains as though they sold actual stock (which is taxed lower). I don’t know investment finance more than at a rudimentary level to say more than what I read in the article, so I’ll defer to you, since it sounds like you know what you’re talking about.
Maybe he’s tired of paying taxes?
Bye, again…. Will be back when I can… Window and deck cleaners were standing at the door when I arrived, so I had a little extra time, zoom zoom zoom!
I love MIchelle Obama. She is so honest, so real, so smart, so touching. LOVE HER, LOVE HER, LOVE HER!!!
isonprize, I agree with you 100% about our First Lady.
BOOYAH! Welcome to the age of Obama. Where Wall Street is held accountable for their risky and stupid stupid moves.
I just finish listening to our wonderful First Lady, and she was wonderful as usual. Boy do we have a lovely inside and out ,First Lady. And we want 4 More Years ……4 More Years…..4 More Years
A little food for thought for some people.
“It’s Not About Black Folks
by BooMan”
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/5/11/111229/439#11
iamh35, Thank you for posting these articles. This information has to be widely distributed. SO TIRED of the blame being placed on black people. We aren’t going for the okey doke, not falling for the divide and conquer IT WON’T WORK, NOT THIS TIME!!!
I can imagine, isonprize! I’m Tired of it TOO!
This stuff should be posted everyday until November, like Isonprize, tired of the blame black folk meme
Thanks for the link, lamh35! Black folks have been the most loyal Democrats since 1960. The same could not be said of the so called FDR’s Democratic coalition. The so called progressives must stop demonizing Black people.
“Redstate Blogger Busts Politico Trying To Blame Black Voters For Amendment One
by Tommy Christopher”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/redstate-blogger-busts-politico-trying-to-blame-black-voters-for-amendment-one/
“Health Care Game Changer?”
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/05/11/health_care_game_changer.html
If even Halperin is praising this, then it will be interesting what kind of twisting of the facts will occur to make this good for the GOP.
Rmoney will say that he is writing the check from his personal bank account and that’s why he’s saved so much money…he knew this day was coming.
Yes – somehow we MUST find a way to give credit to Romney. It’s only fair.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/11/1090723/-It-s-time-to-help-him-win-
Contrast this with Romney at PBO ‘s age.
Come about matey……What flag is dk flying? She appears to have struck her ‘jolly roger’ and hoisted an American flag. I wonder if she had a mutiny on board?
Lots more sense there of late. I’ll only link to good stuff. No TOD but a great many have come around.
Maybe they know something that we don’t,eh?
time to get the hell on the right side of history.
I really don’t think people know just how many time bombs the ACA has in it.
read views on Obama same sex marriage. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/09/us/politics/same-sex-marriage.html?ref=politics
Tweety to be given an award of recognition during Howard University’s graduation ceremonies tomorrow.
Arnie Duncan will be the keynote speaker there.
LOL!
Nebraska had public hearings on the Anti-Discrimination Law they are trying to pass.
Watch the man sitting behind the speaker…it is hilarious.
I only listened to her for a few minutes and then put it on mute…..his facial expression says it all. She was ranting that Hillary’s roommate in College is gay…therefore so is Hillary. That gays molest children because children do have AIDS….yet.
oops…s/b…”don’t have Aids yet…”
a “homocider”, “orgyer”……she probably sits in her living room clipping sick articles about the gay surrounded by her numerous cats ( i am cat lover, so I am not making fun of cat lovers).
lololololol This is funny as hell. Ignorance at it’s finest people. lolol This woman is 2 cents shy of a nickel.
I can’t even call her a bigot. She is absolutely psychotic. lolol
This has to be satire. Tell me this isn’t real.
I can easily hear her repeating the same thing about “the blacks” or “the latino”
“Jesus was kissed by Judas a homo. You have to choose Jesus a celibate and not Judas a homo”.
She had me dying. Someone come get grandma and give her her medication. She lost it.
Linda, I don’t know how that kid wasn’t on the floor dying with laughter at this nut job. He did good. lololol
It is real alright……This is what we have to deal with…..
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!
but you know what LInda – the positive aspect of that clip is the kid behind her. He was cracking in disbelief at her level of ignorance.
There is hope in our future generation. If you played this clip over and over again to the overall public, it would help make the case to the American public. It highlights for me how absolutely ridiculous this debate is. Discrimination in any form is wrong and it can fry your brain cells. Case and point, poor Granny in that video. lolololol
You did good to post it. I hope it goes viral. This is the best case for this issue.
Perfect poster child for why Planned Parenthood and abortion are really necessary!
The elderly lady sitting next to him apparently agreed too. There certainly was some deranged thinking going on there, but it wasn’t from ‘the gays’!
Just heard that PBO played an hour long game of pick-up basketball this morning with George Clooney and Toby McGuire. Cool!
How freakin’ cool is that? I mean, really?!!
That’s about as freakin’ cool as it gets. I can’t wipe the smile off my face. They are two handsome rascals. I just love their friendship.
Awesome!!!! I know George Clooney has said that he always brags about his basketball skills to PBO and Tobey Maguire aka Spiderman is a big Lakers fan.
Mark Knoller was giddy/thrilled/angry/exited/happy/agitated/ by this at the same!
I like George, but I hope President Obama slam dunk in his face.
Unless George was on his team.
Progress on a Key Goal to Train 500,000 Workers for Jobs in Manufacturing Sector
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On June 8, 2011, President Obama announced key steps by private sector partners towards building the educated and skilled workforce U.S. manufacturers need to successfully compete in the 21st century economy. This includes a five-year goal by the Manufacturing Institute and its partners to award 500,000 industry-based credentials to individuals, positioning them for employment and advancement in manufacturing jobs.
In less than a year, the Manufacturing Institute and its partners have announced significant progress towards achieving that five-year goal. Over the past year, the certification bodies partnered with the Institute have issued 84,738 certifications to students and incumbent workers that cover in-demand, portable skill-sets necessary across multiple manufacturing sectors.
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This is just one part of President Obama’s comprehensive effort to build an economy built to last, based in part on a strong manufacturing sector and a skilled workforce.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/11/progress-key-goal-train-500000-workers-jobs-manufacturing-sector
Awesome! Gonna tweet it.
Thanks UT. We can file this one under “If Congress Won’t Do It, I Will”. President Obama is making government cool again. This is what leadership looks like. Score one for the importance of public-private partnerships. This has been one of PBO’s most effective approaches for circumventing the intransigence of the House Republicans in congress. Even with their relentless obstruction, he is making progress on job creation and leaving them in the dust. >>>>>>>>>FORWARD.>>>>>>>>>
PBO arriving in Reno now: http://ww2.kolotv.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?vt1=l&d1=0&ClipId1=mms%3A//a1345.l1185333344.c11853.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1345/11853/v0001/reflector%3A33344&LiveURI=mms%3A//a1345.l1185333344.c11853.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1345/11853/v0001/reflector%3A33344&h1=Live%20Video%20Stream&at1=Sales%20-%20Valentines&LiveURITitle=Live%20Video%20Stream&LaunchPageAdTag=Sales%20-%20Valentines&fvCatNo=undefined&secure=undefined&akPort=undefined&akProfile=undefined&rnd=64352879
Thanks JER.. our Pres just ran down the stairs and walked towards a crowd gathered. The local media are beside themselves with excitement. One of the reporters was going on and on about AF1 how excited she felt seeing it land!
LOL! Someone gave their baby to PBO to hold
Very cute.
PBO will be visiting a local family today – The Kellers.
He just picked up another cute baby! Nice.
PBO has now boarded the beast – en route with his Motorcade to the Kellers’ house in Reno.
Local Reno news (KOLOTV.com) will have a report with the Keller Family for us tonight at 5PM Reno local time.
one of mittbot’s classmates from high school, who wasn’t even there for the torture event mittbot led yet decided to go on tv yesterday to *try* to defend mittbot (but failed miserably) has a linkedin page. i see gregg dearth used to be “VP of Communications at The French Culinary Institute.” wonder if he and mittbot frolicked in france together, while so many blue-collar kids were dying in vietnam so that later, vulture capitalists like mittbot and friends could then destroy whatever families those that came back from vietnam were able to create. mittbot is a truly vile robot.
Uh Oh, Tamron Hall just went off on a guest. I’m not sure why. That is so uncharacteristic of her. I’ll have to wait for the clip.
Tamryn Hall just blew a gasket and it was a great!!!! Go Tamryn, she said to Mitt’s rep, “look I was tougher than Mitt was when I was in high school so don’t mess with me”. Then she told the guy she wasn’t going to let him insult her or the network and that he was irritating her. Go girlfriend!
it was great, then she gave him the ‘talk to the hand’
Of course she didn’t use these exact words : ) But that’s probably what she meant!
I stepped away for a minute and didn’t see it. I was watching Tim Carney being a jerk while talking about the Romney assault story. Hey cookemom can you fill us in on what exactly happened? Full story please.
Where is the clip?
Full story? She said “F*^%K you and the horse you rode in on, you %&&*^ idjit. Now I’m done with your MFing low down dirty dawg flea bag behind, you a-hole you” He goes, oh really? She goes, “you don’t want a piece of me numbnut, I didn’t cut guys hair off with scissors in high school, I cut off balls! Now get the hell off my show!”
Did she really say all those words?
Almost. But she definitely gave him the hand.
Ok, I may have to leave wifey for Tamron. Ho.Ly.Shit. Go girl!
Oh, snap!!
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YESS! that was so sweet., if only all journalists did that. We just found out what goes on behind the media curtain, there are no ‘Gotcha” topics, guests are briefed ahead of time as to what is going to be discussed. Tamron “brung it” she said you knew what we were going to be talking about, in other words, if you don’t want to address the topic, take your sorry self home, but don’t try to snow me with some ish. drops the mic.
Tamron’s beauty is deceptive. Behind the lovely face is a mind of steel. You GO, Tamron!
Yea, Go Tamron, Go Tamron
Lovely view of AF1 on Reno Airport:
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Tamron Hall just made me jump up & down cheering as she told Robney’s guy to shut up. It was a joy to watch.
Senator Harry Reid publicly endorses filibuster reform on the Senate floor.
To Senator Reid, it should have been done along time ago.
The “Worlds Greatest Deliberative Body”??
You have the Republican Party who has proven that their governing strategy is filibustering, obstructing, delaying, sabotaging and hostage taking. They are morally bankrupt. And you think you can have a gentleman’s agreement with them. Are you freakin’ kidding me? The Senate is sometimes called the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” What a joke. The Republican Party has trashed the institution. They have rendered our government dysfunctional with their abuse of the filibuster. It’s unprecedented. They can’t be reasoned with. it’s party over country. It’s long past due for the nuclear option. It’s hard to believe all of the Republicans actually took this oath of office:
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I, ___ ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
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Reid: Supporters of Filibuster Reform Were ‘Right,’ ‘The Rest Of Us Were Wrong’
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/11/482497/reid-supporters-of-filibuster-reform-were-right-the-rest-of-us-were-wrong/
Link to Reid’s endorsement of filibuster reform:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-senate-just-took-a-big-step-towards-filibuster-reform/2012/05/11/gIQAmd4OIU_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost
Wow. I posted the above link as a followup almost an hour ago. Then I came back and found the post still hadn’t gone through…
Holy smokes! Twitter is blowing up about Tamron Hall’s verbal smack down of Tim Carney the jerk from Washington Examiner.
I wish I could use that twit machine, cause she grabbed that dude by the ankle like a little chihuahua and took him down. Death by gnarl.
She just acknowledged the tweets coming in on her page. There was a slight chuckle, but for the most part she never missed a beat after her blow-up. She remained cool as a cucumber afterwards.
Wish I could see T. Hall smackdown.
I don’t even have a tv but from reading TOD.. TH sounds infinitely better than Melissa Harris Perry!
I know what Mitt Romney suppose to have done was long time ago. But we all know that alot of people are affect by things that happen to them along ago. And alot of people are affect by how they were treated in high school, if you were treated bad those things can stay with you.
I lying bully nasty ass arrogant superior acting punk…..Mitt Romney
It seem he hasn’t changed that much.
Willard “is the vicious bully who never grew up”.. he has a distinct “pattern of cruelty.”
With all the talk over Mitt Romney’s bullying of a presumed gay classmate, some have questioned whether it’s fair to judge someone on their actions in high school. But everyone agrees that anything from a recent political career is fair game.
So it’s telling that one doesn’t have to reach that far back to find other incidents of LGBT bullying from Romney’s close staff. Romney campaign senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom (of Etch-a-Sketch fame) outed a transgender woman in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, effectively ending her political career, when he was a reporter for the Boston Herald.
America Blog reminds us of the incident, relayed in a GQ profile, which tells of Fernhstrom’s apparent “glee” when he found the representative’s birth certificate:
Fehrnstrom saved his cheap shots for smaller-time Massachusetts pols. When a political activist and gadfly named Althea Garrison was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the fact that she was transgender was an open secret in Boston political circles. But Fehrnstrom was the first one to put that information into print—”I can remember his glee when he found the birth certificate,” says former Herald reporter Robert Connolly—thus bringing a swift end to Garrison’s future on Beacon Hill.
Romney himself also abolished a commission working against LGBT bullying in Massachusetts as governor..
think progress
So now they want to question the fairness of judging someone on their actions as a young person? Frigging hypocrites!
Today, behind closed doors in Charlotte, North Carolina, legislators from 15 states will meet with the oil and gas industry to discuss so-called “model legislation” as part of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The result could be laws that handicap renewable energy targets — while creating loopholes for fossil fuels, written directly by the oil and gas industry itself.
http://thinkprogress.org/?mobile=nc
They don’t care about anything but money. Forget about the lives of people and the planet. You can bet the filthy polluting Koch bros have a hand in it too since they are Fossil Fuel Kings.
Okay, work day is over. Briiing on the weekend!
It’s such a joy when you get to work very close to home and end up with minimal traveling time.