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Another gem by Jacqueline OBoomer
The Great Emancipator
Mocked and vilified in life
Stares down from his portrait
At the new President’s wife
My dear Mr. Lincoln
As you look down from on high
May we present Mrs. Obama
With a tear in our eye
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President Barack Obama visits the Dubliner, an Irish pub in Washington, D.C., with his Irish cousin, Henry Healy, center, and Ollie Hayes, a pub owner in Moneygall, Ireland, right, on St. Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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When it seems like the world is whirling too much in a maelstrom, one needs to stand back, take a breath, and laugh.
“HISHE” is the Youtube sensation “How It Should Have Ended”. They’re short animation clips which present alternate—and more logical—endings for Hollywood blockbusters.
So, without further ado, it’s time for the funny.
(FYI, there are spoilers in these clips, so if you haven’t seen the movies and still want to see them, don’t play the clips.)
“Oblivion”
This is what the GOP wants to shutdown the gov’t for: pic.twitter.com/6qihNumFbq
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) September 18, 2025
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GOP have decided to extort the President of the United States with the threat of shutting down the government unless Obamacare is defunded
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) September 18, 2025
Anyone trying to destroy the gov’t by shutting it down does not have the best interest of the United States at heart. This is thuggery.
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) September 18, 2025
In 2 weeks, Health Care exchanges open. Uninsured can now buy inexpensive healthcare coverage because of free market competition. Obamacare
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) September 18, 2025
Obamacare was an idea by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative “think tank”. Now conservatives want to disown it because Obama started it
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) September 18, 2025
Best definition I heard all day:”Black-tracking” - Changing your long-held position because President Obama agrees with you.
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) September 18, 2025
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The President and First Lady’s Day
Tags: business, children, comment, dakota, food, Michelle, Obama, photos, President, remarks, roundtable, text, video
Text of the President’s remarks here
…. introduced by Boeing CEO James McNerney
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Text of the First Lady’s remarks here
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks on food marketing to children at an event in the State Dinning Room at the White House
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In case you missed it in the comments today, a beautiful story from Dakota:
Good Afternoon TOD Family.
Off the topic at hand, but I have been trying to post this uplifting story all day keep getting interrupted by less important things like…work and a stupid fire drill with a loudly blasting horn, that SOME folks didn’t seem to think applied to them!!! Anyway, now that’s off my chest…here’s my story.
I work for a hospice company and one of duties is supervising home health aides. All of our aides must be certified and are paid at a higher rate, so the good news about minimum wage and overtime protection doesn’t really apply to them. Whenever we get a new client, an entire team is at their disposal, aides, doctor, nurses, volunteers if desired, social worker and a chaplin. We actually have two chaplins.
A couple of weeks ago, one of our chaplins, whose office is right next to mine put up a photo of President Obama. It’s the one in front of the capitol building when he was campaigning in 2008. Now, I was surprised at this because not only are we not supposed to to talk politics in the office (HA! Just about all of the people who work in this office are PBO supporters), but the owners of our company are religious right-wingers who have held fundraisers for our rethug governor. Now to be fair, the CEO has always been very supportive of me and I do appreciate that. Last Wednesday, she came to our office because we finally had this stupid audit that they’ve been driving us nuts with it for a year! Well, wouldn’t ya know she parks her stuff right in the chaplin’s office right in front of this 8×10 photo of the President on her desk! I thought to myself, “Oh, shit,” but nothing was said.
Turns out that the chaplin, who is female, was instrumental in starting a hospice in Honolulu, HI…the very same one that took care of the President’s grandmother. The photo is a copy of one that was given to the hospice aide and signed by the President. The inscription reads “Thank you for taking such good care of my Tutu. Barack Obama.” Someone at the hospice, sent the photo to the chaplin a long time ago, but she decided she was going bring it into the office and keep it on her desk. Her feeling is that this is was a wonderful tribute to hospice workers and that no one would dare part their lips to complain and no one has. I really like this chaplin…she’s a sweetheart.
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We’ll catch up with newsie stuff in the morning - for now, chat away!
PS Huuuuuuge thanks again to LL for today’s wonderful post.