Congrats on first LL. Happy Valentine’s Day to all. I love this place and love reading all the posts. I can’t tell you the number of times I have both laughed and cried. This is a happy place. Thanks Ms. Chips
Our President must be so buoyed by all the ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ that are open to him. I’d bet they help to cancel out the hateful karma emitted by emotionally bankrupt GOPs
I’m alright, thank you Nena, except for some disgruntlement at Windows Explorer technical department. I trust you are enjoying Feb. 14 and all the resultant hoopla? This is one of those dates I rarely remember unless someone mentions it.
Morning Chica! Is that an offer to get me a Mac for my birthday? Thanks! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ You can be such a sweetheart! The fact you have a month and a bit to make a fitting choice leaves me feeling quite ecstatic, and quite optimistic that my problems will soon be o’er. {{CC}}
No. No. Please don’t rush your purchase! I want to feel that you spent time thinking about what would be right for me. There is time to comparison shop – I mean, I may not want a black one, for example and i definitely don’t want green – to choose the system that best matches my personality. Not to mention choosing an appropriate accompanying card, wrapping paper, etc.
I’m not ready to give up hope YET, CC. Like PBO I’m hanging in there while hanging on to you….and to hope.
And don’t forget that you still have a month and a week to shop. Thought I’d forgotten about your Mac offer, eh?
What edition do you have? I have Vista, which means they will not support or update anything until I buy Window 8 or a new computer. It’s a bummer. Are you using a laptop?
I am on my laptop and I have Windows 7, I think. Problem is they keep phoning me which is awfully irritating. I’ll tell you guys about it later; they annoyed me so much this morning that right now I’m trying not to think about it just so as to clear my head. Later….
I have to say, I live here in Decatur Georgia and I couldn’t be more thrilled that Obama is technically around the corner from me. I am also pissed an embarrassed that no high official greeted him at the airport. Sometimes I hate this racist state!!
That was so true! He touched upon one of my pet peeves – the fact that a rebuttal is supposed to address what was actually said and is not really meant to be chart its own path, so to speak.
A big Texan stopped at a local restaurant following a day roaming around in Spain …
While sipping his wine, he noticed a sizzling, scrumptious looking platter being served at the next table. Not only did it look good, the smell was wonderful.
He asked the waiter, ‘What is that you just served?’
The waiter replied, ‘Si senor, you have excellent taste!
Those are called Cojones de Toro, bull’s testicles from the bull fight this morning.A delicacy!’
The cowboy said, ‘What the heck, bring me an order.’
The waiter replied, ‘I am so sorry senor. There is only one serving per day because there is only one bull fight each morning. If you come early and place your order,we will be sure to save you this delicacy.’
The next morning, the cowboy returned, placed his order, and that evening was served the one and only special delicacy of the day. After a few bites, inspecting his platter, he called to the waiter and said, ‘These are delicious, but they are much, much smaller than the ones I saw you serve yesterday.’
The waiter shrugged his shoulders and replied, ‘Si, Senor.
Sometimes the bull wins.’
I was just lurking over at GOPolitico and on board AF1 on way to Decatur, GA this morning, a white house reporter asked Deputy Communications guy Earnest if PBO should be taking the weekend off visiting friends in Palm Beach, FL this weekend with the sequester debacle going on. Anybody else heard PBO was spending the weekend in Florida? Of course, the jackals think he should never get a break! But never mention the House critters left town for 10 days starting this past Wednesday. Jerks!
Thanks Chips! First I had heard and I live in Florida, Gulf Coast side. I too think he deserves more than just a weekend. Maybe he is bringing a case of Polar Spring water for Rubio to enjoy!!!!!!
Why don’t that idiot go as John Boehner and the Republicans the same question. I guess POTUS can stay in D.C. and work out something all by himself., while the Republicans are gone. These reporters are so darn stupid at times.
Let’s see what Knoller have to say about the sequestered spending cuts not going on vacation with John Boehner and the House. Pelosi wanted them to stay in D.C. and work.
i love this! and good morning chips and tods!
busy lately, so more lurking than commenting, but you are all my valentines! (right after hubby of course )
President Obama struggles to find GOP's integrity (College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center) http://t.co/fdD3gEsO— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) February 14, 2013
I find it somewhat funny (not in a mean way) to see the teachers/parents behind Pres O continually nodding their heads at his observations re student readiness.
I remember Bush speaking. I was embarrased. I'm watching President Obama speak now and I'm so proud. He cares and he's smart. Thank God.— Wylie Jones (@Wylieknowords) February 14, 2013
I remember cringing with every W appearance too——and share that sentiment of great pride at every President Obama appearance. What a huge, enormous improvement, like night and day.
And haha—-one of the little kids asked Obama if he was their teacher.
PBO is ready to sign an executive order that women aren’t allowed to date until age 35. That would solve a lot of his problems in that area. By the time Malia is 35, he will be past 70 yrs old and looking forward to peaceful retirement and some grandbabies.
Hay I saw on the local news that POTUS got some bar-be-que yesterday when he was in Asheville. There was some people who had gather outside the place waiting to see him, but they were at the wrong place. bet it was good, with that coleslaw, hush puppies, ice tea. How is Georgia Bar-be-que? Not as good as North Carolina.
” How is Georgia Bar-be-que? Not as good as North Carolina.” No it’s not. No offense to the Georgia peaches here. Hubby’s family roasts a pig at every family reunion and that NC sauce they make is screamin’!
I thought this was key too—–this is why many in the rt. wing religious conservative community are always criticizing public education and college. They don’t want their kids to learn to think critically. They don’t want their kids to think. I think President Obama was making clear that our country is dependent on an educated public so that we don’t have so many people willing to believe dumb stuff, to be vulnerable to the manipulated message of the tea party types, to swallow blindly the propaganda of FOXNews.
OMG Pres @BarackObama says kids will develop "critical thinking skills"? That's precisely what wingnuts don't want!!!— zizi2 (@zizii2) February 14, 2013
Hagel fought and bled for this nation….why is it so easily believed by these wicked idiots that he would ever betray a nation that he gave his BLOOD for and put his life on the line for??
These people are EVIL as far as I am concerned. They are beyond despicable.
“These people are EVIL as far as I am concerned. They are beyond despicable.”
Nena, I agree with you 100%! The way some of these chicken hawks are treating Sen. Hagel, a decorated combat soldier, makes me ill. Again the MSM are totally AWOL. Instead of calling out these evil people for the way they are maligning a decent man, all they are interested in is looking for sensational stories.
President Obama so upbeat and cheery today. And I especially like the bright blue tie.
The Hagel delay is starting to worry me. Just praying that Hagel can hang on and get through.
The longer this goes on the more convinced I am that the real underlying problem is his enlisted rather than officer background.
As the day progresses it is getting more and more dire. Aides are saying that they do not have the 60 votes. Republicans are actually filibustering a sane, but conservative Republican. It boggles the mind.
Hagel is a fighter. He fought for this nation, without ever being asked. So long as he hangs on, this president will be at his corner. What TBGOPers in DC are doing is beyond madness. Every rule in the senate has just about been breached so that TBGOPers can have their ways. It is sad that Boxer, Feinstein, Levin, and 5 others went along with John McCain on the No for talking Filibuster. Once again, TBGOPers lost the election, but they have for the last 4 yrs been using weak Dems to control the senate. Nothing stops Joe Biden to go to the senate and call for point of order and challenge what is currently happening. But it will never happen. Dems are not like TBGOPers when the need to Let Rules be darned are needed.
Don’t know if it’s true, but CNN said earlier that they’ve heard of a deal in the Senate. Reid will delay the vote, if this is true, until after their recess, giving Chuck Hagel time to satisfy more requirements of the Rethugs for missing documents and other made-up things, then the Repukes will “promise” not to filibuster. Or maybe not, because you sure can’t trust any reporting out of CNN.
President Barack Obama will speak at the Hyde Park Academy on Friday, returning home to push his second-term economic agenda and curbs on gun violence just a few blocks from his Kenwood home–and not far from where 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was gunned down on Jan. 29.
Obama makes the afternoon trip at the school, 6220 S. Stony Island Ave., as the last of a three-city swing to bolster the plans he discussed in his Tuesday night State of the Union Address. Today Obama is in Asheville, N.C. and tomorrow he is in the Atlanta area.
Well, hello there.
LL?! First?! Huh?!
Hellooooooo LL!
I was channeling Dirty Tackle’s version of Dmitar Berbatov with my greeting. Helloooooo Chips. Your cat tyrant actually looks like my Emma.
Hmmmmm…… have you seen your Emma lately? Are you sure she isn’t in my garden?
Oh, kitty does have a name. I love Emma! <3 Hope that's a heart.
I spotted a photo of her and tweeted it around my not read twitter. Don’t know how to get it here.
Emma has taken to tyranting over my desk chair.
Ah, okay – she has an alibi then.
Woo Hoo (or however you spell that) congrats on first LL! Happy Valentines Day to you and Mrs. LL!
I’m never sure how to spell “woo hoo” either Daisy
Happy Valentines LL. . Congrats!
Congrats on first LL. Happy Valentine’s Day to all. I love this place and love reading all the posts. I can’t tell you the number of times I have both laughed and cried. This is a happy place. Thanks Ms. Chips
Happy Valentine’s Day, You all
Hi!
Hi LL! Hi Nene!
Our President must be so buoyed by all the ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ that are open to him. I’d bet they help to cancel out the hateful karma emitted by emotionally bankrupt GOPs
How Do You Do, Lovely VC?
I’m alright, thank you Nena, except for some disgruntlement at Windows Explorer technical department. I trust you are enjoying Feb. 14 and all the resultant hoopla? This is one of those dates I rarely remember unless someone mentions it.
“… except for some disgruntlement at Windows Explorer technical department.”
See, Mac folk don’t have any of those problems
Morning Chica! Is that an offer to get me a Mac for my birthday? Thanks! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ You can be such a sweetheart! The fact you have a month and a bit to make a fitting choice leaves me feeling quite ecstatic, and quite optimistic that my problems will soon be o’er. {{CC}}
For you, anything my love – here ya go:
No. No. Please don’t rush your purchase! I want to feel that you spent time thinking about what would be right for me. There is time to comparison shop – I mean, I may not want a black one, for example and i definitely don’t want green – to choose the system that best matches my personality. Not to mention choosing an appropriate accompanying card, wrapping paper, etc.
pssst, CC! You really shouldn’t talk with your mouth full, even it it’s only with fruit! I know mom tried to teach you that!
Shlorry
I’m not ready to give up hope YET, CC. Like PBO I’m hanging in there while hanging on to you….and to hope.
And don’t forget that you still have a month and a week to shop. Thought I’d forgotten about your Mac offer, eh?
BTW, why do we ‘blame/praise’ moms for stuff that happens well beyond their time of nurturing influence?
Morning, Pamela! I saw your email earlier and tried to print the card using a colour printer, with no success. Thanks though.
What edition do you have? I have Vista, which means they will not support or update anything until I buy Window 8 or a new computer. It’s a bummer. Are you using a laptop?
I am on my laptop and I have Windows 7, I think. Problem is they keep phoning me which is awfully irritating. I’ll tell you guys about it later; they annoyed me so much this morning that right now I’m trying not to think about it just so as to clear my head. Later….
Yes, enjoy you’re Valentines Day.
Great welcome for the President!
I have to say, I live here in Decatur Georgia and I couldn’t be more thrilled that Obama is technically around the corner from me. I am also pissed an embarrassed that no high official greeted him at the airport. Sometimes I hate this racist state!!
He had you to greet him in your heart, and I’m positive he knows that! Love the signs waiting for him, too!
Chips, Stone kettle has a must-read on the State of the Union!
http://www.stonekettle.com/
Brilliant article – tweeted!
That was so true! He touched upon one of my pet peeves – the fact that a rebuttal is supposed to address what was actually said and is not really meant to be chart its own path, so to speak.
Other local streams: http://www.cbsatlanta.com/category/213030/breaking-news-live-stream AND http://www.wsbtv.com/s/news/live/
I just love President Obama
My all time favorite First Couple ♥ Video
Hey Donna!!!!
Heyyyyy Chips!!!
I just read that your Cat has wondered off somewhere. I hope you find her soon!
wandered not wondered
Either will do Donna, she’s gone wandering and I’m left wondering
Thank you Donna! It’s turned in to quite a saga, almost a week now, but I’m NOT giving up – I’ll find her!
It’s almost Friday!
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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO ALL.
Verrrrrrrrrrry pretty Carol, thank you!!!!!!
I love this blog.
Spanish Oysters
A big Texan stopped at a local restaurant following a day roaming around in Spain …
While sipping his wine, he noticed a sizzling, scrumptious looking platter being served at the next table. Not only did it look good, the smell was wonderful.
He asked the waiter, ‘What is that you just served?’
The waiter replied, ‘Si senor, you have excellent taste!
Those are called Cojones de Toro, bull’s testicles from the bull fight this morning.A delicacy!’
The cowboy said, ‘What the heck, bring me an order.’
The waiter replied, ‘I am so sorry senor. There is only one serving per day because there is only one bull fight each morning. If you come early and place your order,we will be sure to save you this delicacy.’
The next morning, the cowboy returned, placed his order, and that evening was served the one and only special delicacy of the day. After a few bites, inspecting his platter, he called to the waiter and said, ‘These are delicious, but they are much, much smaller than the ones I saw you serve yesterday.’
The waiter shrugged his shoulders and replied, ‘Si, Senor.
Sometimes the bull wins.’
Agggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! I’m gonna faint!!!!!!
Please get some Rubio water and hydrate.
And the thing is, the mention of oysters and wine had me going “mmmmmmmmm” …. and then I read on.
Remind me never to let you cook a meal for me!!
I wouldn’t cook anything like that. Now chitterlings are a different thing. :-p
The bull always loses!
Not all the time.
Not that time. ;( we call them Rocky Mountain Oysters.
I thought the “Rockies” came from swine?
You are right, but I think the come from bulls too. I think they would eat any species.
I dunno ’cause I don’t eat either one. I used to watch folks eat ‘em along with brains. Ugh!
I didn’t dare say it!
I was just lurking over at GOPolitico and on board AF1 on way to Decatur, GA this morning, a white house reporter asked Deputy Communications guy Earnest if PBO should be taking the weekend off visiting friends in Palm Beach, FL this weekend with the sequester debacle going on. Anybody else heard PBO was spending the weekend in Florida? Of course, the jackals think he should never get a break! But never mention the House critters left town for 10 days starting this past Wednesday. Jerks!
Hiya LB, yep, he’ll be in Florida from Friday to Monday, apparently – I just wish he’d take a week, he deserves it.
Thanks Chips! First I had heard and I live in Florida, Gulf Coast side. I too think he deserves more than just a weekend. Maybe he is bringing a case of Polar Spring water for Rubio to enjoy!!!!!!
Remember POTUS didn’t get his entire Christmas vacation.
Why don’t that idiot go as John Boehner and the Republicans the same question. I guess POTUS can stay in D.C. and work out something all by himself., while the Republicans are gone. These reporters are so darn stupid at times.
I love my President.
I guess the dough nuts aren’t coming fast enough for Mr. Knoller.
Let’s see what Knoller have to say about the sequestered spending cuts not going on vacation with John Boehner and the House. Pelosi wanted them to stay in D.C. and work.
A couple of cute pics already from the kindergarten:
http://www.gettyimages.ie/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=en-GB&family=editorial&assetType=image&p=obama
Adorable. Pres. Obama has as much fun as the kids! Here’s to having fun every day, just like he does. #GottaHaveGoals
Cutest thing everrrrrr!!
i love this! and good morning chips and tods!
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busy lately, so more lurking than commenting, but you are all my valentines! (right after hubby of course
This is adorable.
Saw a 4 yr. old told President Obama, “I saw you on TV”. (not crediting tweet of the bad knoller)
Decatur schools on break this week, invited to come back for this special presidential visit, a large number did.
Oooooh, they’re playing Change Gonna Come, my most loved song EVER
http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=4
Best song at the first Inaugural concert – remember?
I was already a wreck by then Jacqueline, that finished me! You too, I’m sure
Yes, mostly the look on Pres. Obama’s face when he was listening to the words! Still feel like cryin’.
Is it on YouTube? Can’t get flash on iPad.
And now Mercy Mercy Me by Marvin!
The music is WONDERFUL!!!!
LOL!
OMG. Every breath you take!!!! I’m gonna faint!!
OMG! Missed it. My then-teenage son and I used to sing along to that on VH-1! I couldn’t get enough of it!
I’ll be watching you!
I find it somewhat funny (not in a mean way) to see the teachers/parents behind Pres O continually nodding their heads at his observations re student readiness.
He’s so cute…paraphrasing “all that investment just leads them to have dates, sleepovers, go away” talking about Malia and Sasha.
I remember cringing with every W appearance too——and share that sentiment of great pride at every President Obama appearance. What a huge, enormous improvement, like night and day.
And haha—-one of the little kids asked Obama if he was their teacher.
I think POTUS enjoy seeing these kids. I think he gets tired of the spoil, rotten, nasty, lazy kids he have to deal with on Capital Hill.
Well characterized, anniebella!
Yes.
I always feel a huge sense of pride when PBO is speaking.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TOD! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Love to you, Chips, TOD Family, The First Family, and all people of good will!
Thanks, Chips. I LOVED this part!
PBO is ready to sign an executive order that women aren’t allowed to date until age 35. That would solve a lot of his problems in that area. By the time Malia is 35, he will be past 70 yrs old and looking forward to peaceful retirement and some grandbabies.
Hay I saw on the local news that POTUS got some bar-be-que yesterday when he was in Asheville. There was some people who had gather outside the place waiting to see him, but they were at the wrong place. bet it was good, with that coleslaw, hush puppies, ice tea. How is Georgia Bar-be-que? Not as good as North Carolina.
I heard his staff picked it up “to go”, and they ate it on AF1 on the way back to DC.
” How is Georgia Bar-be-que? Not as good as North Carolina.” No it’s not. No offense to the Georgia peaches here. Hubby’s family roasts a pig at every family reunion and that NC sauce they make is screamin’!
What is pulled pork?
Oh hush puppies, I love hush puppies, I haven’t had a good one since we left NC in 1974.
I thought this was key too—–this is why many in the rt. wing religious conservative community are always criticizing public education and college. They don’t want their kids to learn to think critically. They don’t want their kids to think. I think President Obama was making clear that our country is dependent on an educated public so that we don’t have so many people willing to believe dumb stuff, to be vulnerable to the manipulated message of the tea party types, to swallow blindly the propaganda of FOXNews.
GOP tears are hilarious.
Yeah. That makes pretty much their entire lives empty. Ha!
Hagel fought and bled for this nation….why is it so easily believed by these wicked idiots that he would ever betray a nation that he gave his BLOOD for and put his life on the line for??
These people are EVIL as far as I am concerned. They are beyond despicable.
These Republicans are evil. I can honestly say I don’t know of one Republican that I respect as a politician or human being.
“These people are EVIL as far as I am concerned. They are beyond despicable.”
Nena, I agree with you 100%! The way some of these chicken hawks are treating Sen. Hagel, a decorated combat soldier, makes me ill. Again the MSM are totally AWOL. Instead of calling out these evil people for the way they are maligning a decent man, all they are interested in is looking for sensational stories.
President Obama so upbeat and cheery today. And I especially like the bright blue tie.
The Hagel delay is starting to worry me. Just praying that Hagel can hang on and get through.
The longer this goes on the more convinced I am that the real underlying problem is his enlisted rather than officer background.
As the day progresses it is getting more and more dire. Aides are saying that they do not have the 60 votes. Republicans are actually filibustering a sane, but conservative Republican. It boggles the mind.
Hagel is a fighter. He fought for this nation, without ever being asked. So long as he hangs on, this president will be at his corner. What TBGOPers in DC are doing is beyond madness. Every rule in the senate has just about been breached so that TBGOPers can have their ways. It is sad that Boxer, Feinstein, Levin, and 5 others went along with John McCain on the No for talking Filibuster. Once again, TBGOPers lost the election, but they have for the last 4 yrs been using weak Dems to control the senate. Nothing stops Joe Biden to go to the senate and call for point of order and challenge what is currently happening. But it will never happen. Dems are not like TBGOPers when the need to Let Rules be darned are needed.
PBO will re nominate him.
That’s what I heard somewhere. 
Dems lack 60 votes in Senate to confirm Hagel as Defense secretary
By Jeremy Herb and Ramsey Cox
Senate Democrats will not have enough votes by Friday to confirm former Sen. Chuck Hagel as Defense secretary.
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Well, that’s that!
Don’t know if it’s true, but CNN said earlier that they’ve heard of a deal in the Senate. Reid will delay the vote, if this is true, until after their recess, giving Chuck Hagel time to satisfy more requirements of the Rethugs for missing documents and other made-up things, then the Repukes will “promise” not to filibuster. Or maybe not, because you sure can’t trust any reporting out of CNN.
Memories…
I’ve listened to that 50 times since that day. Thank you.
Is this on YouTube? I mean the entire concert?
Have any information been release about POTUS speech in Chicago tomorrow, like the time and place.
Posted it yesterday Anniebella:
President Barack Obama will speak at the Hyde Park Academy on Friday, returning home to push his second-term economic agenda and curbs on gun violence just a few blocks from his Kenwood home–and not far from where 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was gunned down on Jan. 29.
Obama makes the afternoon trip at the school, 6220 S. Stony Island Ave., as the last of a three-city swing to bolster the plans he discussed in his Tuesday night State of the Union Address. Today Obama is in Asheville, N.C. and tomorrow he is in the Atlanta area.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2013/02/obama_to_speak_at_hyde_park_ac.html
New post: http://theobamadiary.com/2013/02/14/childs-play-8/