Absolutely, Donna! Now if the MSM would just make it as clear as he did that the Republicans are behaving in a treasonous way when they try to overthrow the results of the last election.
Yes, unfortunately the T’Baggers are going to shut the government down next week. Just wonder how long it will last. I feel sorry for Americans who will suffer because of these evil politicians. They just don’t care about us.
If I may add: Mr. Alfred Nobel must be smiling from ear to ear.
His invention of dynamite earned him a fortune, which changed the course of warfare.
Perhaps that is why he made a provision in his will for a prize to be given annually to promote peace.
President Barack H. Obama truly has earned this prize and is an honorable recipient despite all the opinions of the clueless naysayers.
I have been thinking of the foresight the Nobel committee had that awarded PBO with the prize at the beginning of his presidency. When it was awarded many were skeptical of its merit. PBO used the time in his speech to declare he would try to live up to the honor. I have been thinking about how he so deserves it and more for a few weeks now, but scared to mention it in case I jinxed any good results from happening.
It may translate as “may god be with you”, it essentially is a term of “goodbye”. This is diplomacy. I am sure the Iranians would appreciate the gesture.
Just like the President’s good manners prompted him to write a letter to Hassan Rouhani, congratulating him on Rouhani’s election win, I’m sure the President was behind returning this ancient Persian artifact back to Iran.
RT @BahmanKalbasi: Breaking: US returned this 7th century Persian artifact to #Iran this wk. Got it from a smuggler. pic.twitter.com/qHTpEfMoAh
Here’s a little more info about the President’s call to Rouhani (on his last day in NYC) which mentions Kerry’s one-on-one with Iran FM Zarif for 30 minutes yesterday.
Obama speaks with #Iran's @HassanRouhani by phone http://t.co/Ec7EmZfl83 pen pals, now phone buddies!
Ha! What ya wanna bet Boehner is on the phone right now asking Nancy Smash can she come up with enough votes to get a clean CR passed in the House. :cool:
Not sure who caught the gentlemen who appeared on C-Span at the end of what I think might have been a House Tea Party foolish press offering a while ago. The citizen with the placard called the Rs “demons” (quoting Maxine Waters!) and said his group will be holding an exorcism at Capitol Hill to drive out the demons who are “worse than the Navy Yard shooter.” He got the teabaggers to break up their lying briefing.
Actually, I’m rummaging through my posts on TPV, gathering where I’ve written about it before. Probably won’t write it today, as I’m basking in the glow of the missus having a job.
I knew she’d get this job. When she picked up the application they were already talking as is she was hired. It seems they’re growing fast, and need help quickly. The devil will be in the details: how many patients a day will she be able to see, how many days will she have clients, how far will she have to drive. But, it’s a start.
So glad for you LL. My D and her boyfriend moved here to CA and are having a very hard time finding work. I am pretty worried even though it’s only been 6 weeks.
What a waste of time to have that dingbat on his show. She didn’t answer a question he asked of her. And most of the people showing up in the ER is not immigrants.
I LOVE this story……If Rusho is talking about it, that means his so called 20M listenings will hear it. So now praying to stop governing from crisis to crisis has a Liberal Bent?
The Prayer by Chaplain Barry Black:
“Keep us from shackling ourselves with the chains of dysfunction. Use our senators today to serve your purposes for this generation, making them ever mindful of their accountability to you. Lord, deliver us from governing by crisis, empowering us to be responsible stewards of your bounty”.
Ted Cruz just said that the Senate refused to listen to the American people. I swear - he just said it on C-SPAN! I laughed out loud at my desk. He said he hopes all of the repugs stand together against the Senate to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
He is the smartest ‘Pub in the building. He will add to his coffers, keep himself in the spotlight, and laugh at his distinguished colleagues all the way to the bank. Then when he retires from government, he runs a think tank and manages his pac money, while he continues to lead what’s left of his party down the rabbit hole.
They were warned to speak out against this infiltration and refused to do so. Now they’re reaping the results of the foolishness they helped sow.
Well, cookemom, here’s hoping that his “retirement” from government happens in 2016. There are going to be a lot of Republican knives out to be sure this “senator” has a short career.
So Mitt ‘47%’ Romney, takes Rafalca out of the stall, rides him up to the ‘Pub hitching post and tells them that shutting down the government is not a good idea. Yeah, like they’d listen to him. They blame him for PBO’s second term.
Poor Rafalca, destined to never serve a political purpose again, back to eating oats and apples from the barn.
You may have seen on Martin Bashir’s show that the CEO of Barilla has said they won’t show any LGBTs in their pasta ads, preferring to use the “traditional family” approach. Of course, they’re walking it back, right now.
@BarillaUS Pasta for "straights" only? No thanks. #OnABarillaFreeDiet #EqualPastaRightsForAll #BadTaste
Non mi piace BarillaUS pasta, compro solo pasta fatto in Italia e quasi tutta la pasta BarillaUS è fatto qui negli Stati. E ora ho un’altra ragione…
Sei ItaloAmericano LL? (excuse me using the familiar/tu form, but, after avidly reading your posts at TOD and TPV for so long, I feel like you are part of my liberal family :-))
It’s my fave pasta too, have a bunch in pantry right now—-darn it—-now I’ll feel guilty if I try to eat it and will get a tummy ache and ay yi yi. Heard the Barilla guy say he was fine with gay marriage, just not gay parents. He should have just shut up—stupido. I bet some day soon there will be all varieties of fams in their advertising.
For once I don’t have a problem - I’ve never liked Barilla pasta - bought it once because it is cheaper than most other brands in my world - big fail - so I am happy to never buy it again
Said Reid: “I want everyone to listen and to hear: the United States Senate has acted. This is the only legislation that can avert a government shutdown, and that time is ticking as we speak.”
I love the “giddy” comment. That means there was a lot of excitement in the room. It’s interesting that the call wasn’t pre-arranged. The President just said, “get me Rouhani on the line” and there he was! Love it!
What is it about Obamacare that compels seemingly intelligent people to explode in bubbling spasms of stupid? Are they misinformed? Unable to see past the rage-fueled partisan sweat dripping into their eyes? Or just plain dishonest?
No matter. At this point, it has become obvious that history will look back on the four-year war on Obamacare as one of the saddest, most bizarre, and most dishonestly embarrassing episodes of our time. I have given up trying to understand the vehement opposition of so many who cannot offer up truthful reasons for their objections, and instead fuel the hatred and fears of the uninformed with the most illogical, mendacious, and fundamentally bizarre arguments that have ever been marshaled. By comparison, Joe McCarthy’s McCarthyistic McCarthyism was an exercise in reason.
They know it will work and don’t want the “Kenyan Socialist Muslim” to get the credit for bringing affordable healthcare to millions of people. Ironic because much of the law is from Heritage Foundation, which is a conservative lobby.
“Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole suggested the House focus on adding one provision to the spending bill that has had some bipartisan support in the Senate - a repeal of the tax on medical device manufacturers that helps fund part of Obamacare.”
Let’s repeal the tax on the scooter barkers - that helps the deficit exactly how?
I have a better idea, Rep. Cole: Let’s repeal the Bush tax cuts for anyone making more than $200,000 and let’s have Single Payer and free college tuition for All.
that does have some support among Dems in the Senate. But they’ve said that they won’t support it as a condition for either funding the govt or raising the debt ceiling. They really are idiots.
Many democrats have said they could support replacing the medical device tax with another funding mechanism. But the democrats are not going to negotiate on this especially if there is no replacement for the medical device tax.
President Obama spoke by phone with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani Friday, both leaders said, following Iranian media reports of the call.
@BarackObama called as @HassanRouhani en route to airport. Iranian interest came in last day. http://t.co/1va06QudjU pic.twitter.com/FmwFEs6R65
— The Lovely Plains (@DaRiverZkind) September 27, 2025
The 15 minute phone call was initiated by Obama at 2:30pm Friday as Rouhani was in a car being driven to the airport on the last day of a four day trip to New York. The Iranians reached out today expressing interest in the call, the White House said. It came a day after Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met one on one for thirty minutes to jump start nuclear negotiations.
Obama, in the call, congratulated Rouhani on his election, and urged the two leaders to seize the opportunity for a nuclear deal, a senior White House official said Friday. A “breakthrough on the nuclear issue could open the door to a [more constructive] relationship between the US and Iran,” Obama said, the White House official summarized.
I saw on the twitter sphere… that during a background briefing w/ reporters, after PBO’s press conference… that they had already spoke to the Isreali’s, and were in the process of debriefing allies.
:cry::cry: I’m home now, but WHY IS THIS VIDEO ‘PRIVATE’? I want to hear whatever you guys are raving about in my own ears!!! O, and in the president’s own words!!!! HELP!!!
John Connelly was not watching when Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said his name during Cruz’s 21-hour marathon speech on the Senate floor earlier this week to rally fellow Republicans against the Affordable Care Act.
Cruz: Rutgers student John Connelly b/c buried in debt thanks 2 Obamacare
Connelly: Um, not really bro.
http://t.co/PWjZEWwjm4 via @ajam
— The Lovely Plains (@DaRiverZkind) September 27, 2025
Connelly, a 22-year-old college student at Rutgers University, only heard about it the next day when a friend messaged him on Facebook to tell him the news — and he was not exactly thrilled. In fact, Connelly is supportive of the law and has already reaped some of the benefits of the ACA, often referred to by its detractors as “Obamacare.”
Khodahafez is a Persian-language expression that’s used to say goodbye. It’s sometimes written as two words: “khoda hafez” and literally translates as “God be with you.”
@BarackObama ended his call to Rouhani by saying "Khodahafez." Here's why that word is significant: http://t.co/b5K21ONael via @Max_Fisher
— The Lovely Plains (@DaRiverZkind) September 27, 2025
You can practically hear cable news talking heads trying to decide whether they should be outraged by this choice of words, but it’s really just a friendly colloquialism.
….In fact, it’s a point of contention in the Islamic world. The Persians tend to say “Khoda Hafez” and [for] lots of people, it’s the standard slang. But the hard line Sunnis now say “Allah Hafez,” because they don’t like the Persian word “Khoda,” which is “God.” But that’s inside baseball.
I read this and while part of me loves the symbolism and decency in this, the nerdy part of me just likes this for the sake of this guy being nerdy enough to sso often use foreign language expressions. I sometimes wonder how often someone at the WH gets assignments like “Could you pleace check what ________ means in _________?” :D
More on “khodahafez,” from a Sunni Muslim vs. Persian perspective:
Obama ended his call to Rouhani by saying "khodahafez." Here's why that word is significant: http://t.co/eouJKNGP8v
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) September 27, 2025
And WTH is this? Now MSM is claiming that President Obama was “scooped” by Rouhani????
As if the President is at their beck-and-call, and needs to be put in his place (because he’s being uppity????). The MSM is now curling into its fetal position, relying on what they know, which is White Privilege. Just beyond vile.
I can’t see bit.ly at my current location. If someone could provide the long URL, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Those writing Obama was scooped by Rouhani's tweet should also note he was scooped by IRNA story. http://t.co/1LK84I5Zrj
Just dumb inside baseball, echo-chamber blather……. He was musing earlier he had to spend the next few hours writing a comprehensive write-up that only “7 people will read, because it is Friday mid afternoon” I provided the URL, it is in Farsi… will have to use a translator.
This is getting very little press, but i think the reason the GOP is so scared of ObamaCare is because people can register to vote when they sign up. VERY BFD! MILLIONS of people will be signing up for ObamaCare. MILLIONS!!!!!
So I was on FB yesterday right before going into the bowling alley for my league and I just happened to read this post from my friend He has linked to a comment from some dude about his insurance company cancelling his policy and about his premiums going up. So I just half-read the comment, but once it called POTUS “our fearless leader” and then read the comments in response to it, which were all the same anti-Obama “fearless leader” crap, I told my friend that he needs to start paying attention to the comments on post like that one he posted as a heads up to the fact that maybe the post is not legit and is just another way opponents of the system to muddy the waters on the ACA so that people will be more likely to not trust the system and therefore be more likely to not be able to see the benefits.
More of his friends posted more comments, basically selfish ass, “I got mine” type of bull, so I gave up on them and decided to post the following to my FB page along with the pic.
I know I post alot of needless, useless pop culture information on my FB…lol. But occasionally I do post things that are meant to be informative and gives important information. For the past week, at least, I have been posting link to some non-partisan sties and a few partisan sites about the upcoming implementation of the new Affordable Care Adt or “Obamacare”. Why? So that people I know can make informed decisions about the new law and not rely on “he said/she said”, “well I heard”, or whatever the latest conspiracy theorist or chain letter email you receive from your “crazy relative” or what “this dude” you know says. Ignorance is spread when people who know better just let incorrect information stand without being challenged. I’m keep on posting my links. At the very least, I don’t need it to be said that I didn’t try to make sure that my peeps didn’t have as much of the cold hard facts as anyone else!!!
there is too much info on the ACA/Obamacare for people to buy the okey-doke by opponents to ACA! pic.twitter.com/nP2CrafSUQ
White House.gov
PBO was great!
Donnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Hey Chips!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve been busy as can be so only able to peek in now and then but wasn’t gonna miss my President speaking today.
Thank you to you and at the BT’s who keep me up to date on all things “Obama” on a daily basis ;)
Absolutely, Donna! Now if the MSM would just make it as clear as he did that the Republicans are behaving in a treasonous way when they try to overthrow the results of the last election.
He could not have been clearer!
Yes!
WOW WOW WOW, POTUS was en fuego. He really just let it all out!!
POTUS was fantastic.
I think we very well could have a shut down. I think the President based on his remarks is preparing for it.
Yes, unfortunately the T’Baggers are going to shut the government down next week. Just wonder how long it will last. I feel sorry for Americans who will suffer because of these evil politicians. They just don’t care about us.
WOWIE!!!!
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383683122270703616
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383683347894915072
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383683530217103360
!!!!
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383677581586755585
That is just FANTASTIC!!!! :lol:
I’m speechless and choked up!! This is just amazing what our POTUS can do. Astonishing!!
It’s just staggering Meta, one Nobel prize is not enough!
I’ve been thinking that, too, Chips! Pres. Obama deserves two! And maybe another one after that.
It should be an annual award to him J!
If I may add: Mr. Alfred Nobel must be smiling from ear to ear.
His invention of dynamite earned him a fortune, which changed the course of warfare.
Perhaps that is why he made a provision in his will for a prize to be given annually to promote peace.
President Barack H. Obama truly has earned this prize and is an honorable recipient despite all the opinions of the clueless naysayers.
I have been thinking of the foresight the Nobel committee had that awarded PBO with the prize at the beginning of his presidency. When it was awarded many were skeptical of its merit. PBO used the time in his speech to declare he would try to live up to the honor. I have been thinking about how he so deserves it and more for a few weeks now, but scared to mention it in case I jinxed any good results from happening.
This is an incredible turn of events!!!
Only our PBO could have made this happen.
Seems that bomb bomb bomb Iran was eons ago.
Thank God we elected the right person for these times.
We are twins, Donna!
It may translate as “may god be with you”, it essentially is a term of “goodbye”. This is diplomacy. I am sure the Iranians would appreciate the gesture.
Beautiful. Thank you, jersey girl.
In my translation it may mean: “Peace be with you.”
He is having a very hard time keeping the twinkle out of his eye and the smile that keeps creeping up on his face when he says “It ain’t gonna happen”
Just like the President’s good manners prompted him to write a letter to Hassan Rouhani, congratulating him on Rouhani’s election win, I’m sure the President was behind returning this ancient Persian artifact back to Iran.
Here’s a little more info about the President’s call to Rouhani (on his last day in NYC) which mentions Kerry’s one-on-one with Iran FM Zarif for 30 minutes yesterday.
Ha! What ya wanna bet Boehner is on the phone right now asking Nancy Smash can she come up with enough votes to get a clean CR passed in the House. :cool:
I hope so, Donna. But he’s so stupid, he’s probably somewhere crying.
He made that call and headed right out to pay a visit to Jack (Daniels).
Ha!!!
Hope so Donna. The votes are there if he partners with the Dems.
We can hope so. He needs to stop allowing the T’Baggers to drag him around by his orange nose.
Not sure who caught the gentlemen who appeared on C-Span at the end of what I think might have been a House Tea Party foolish press offering a while ago. The citizen with the placard called the Rs “demons” (quoting Maxine Waters!) and said his group will be holding an exorcism at Capitol Hill to drive out the demons who are “worse than the Navy Yard shooter.” He got the teabaggers to break up their lying briefing.
Jake Tapper has Mark Levin on for an interview ?
lol
I think it’s time for me to write another in my series of pieces detailing how maneuvering the GOP to eat itself has been a long-term goal of PBO.
Go for it LL!! :lol:
Actually, I’m rummaging through my posts on TPV, gathering where I’ve written about it before. Probably won’t write it today, as I’m basking in the glow of the missus having a job.
It’s been a beautiful day LL, first your wife’s job, now Iran!
Again, thrilled for you both.
I knew she’d get this job. When she picked up the application they were already talking as is she was hired. It seems they’re growing fast, and need help quickly. The devil will be in the details: how many patients a day will she be able to see, how many days will she have clients, how far will she have to drive. But, it’s a start.
Terrific news! Wish her well.
Congratulations to your wife on the new job - LL! Time for celebration!
So glad for you LL. My D and her boyfriend moved here to CA and are having a very hard time finding work. I am pretty worried even though it’s only been 6 weeks.
HEATED: CNN Wolf Blitzer Goes After Michele Bachmann
LISTENING TO MICHELLE BACHMANN SOUNDS LIKE THIS ……..
Would read the transcript but I just can’t watch Bachmann. Like Palin, she makes my head spin.
It was 100 % Word Salad, just like Sarah.
What a waste of time to have that dingbat on his show. She didn’t answer a question he asked of her. And most of the people showing up in the ER is not immigrants.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/limbaugh-hits-senate-chaplain-for-squeezing-leftist-agenda-into-prayer/
I LOVE this story……If Rusho is talking about it, that means his so called 20M listenings will hear it. So now praying to stop governing from crisis to crisis has a Liberal Bent?
The Prayer by Chaplain Barry Black:
“Keep us from shackling ourselves with the chains of dysfunction. Use our senators today to serve your purposes for this generation, making them ever mindful of their accountability to you. Lord, deliver us from governing by crisis, empowering us to be responsible stewards of your bounty”.
Barry Black is African American so of course Rush has a problem with him. This is not surprising.
That is close to the best prayer I have ever heard
Hilariously, @Lawrence debuted a new segment last night… “Pinheads or White House correspondent?” (A riff from Bill O’Reilly’s “Pinhead or Patriots.”)
MSNBC’s viewership would skyrocket if each of their hosts had similar segments.
Ed Henry’s ACA ignorance was skewered last night. 7 minutes of pure joy:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49263362#53118621
Carney needs to stop calling on Henry.
Just watched - a good segment - but my paranoia wonders if Lawrence is trying to take some heat of Chuck Todd
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383683122270703616
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383683347894915072
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383683347894915072
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383684756803567616
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383684909815959552
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383685096403779584
https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/383685172345860096
Ted Cruz just said that the Senate refused to listen to the American people. I swear - he just said it on C-SPAN! I laughed out loud at my desk. He said he hopes all of the repugs stand together against the Senate to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
He says this with a STRAIGHT face.
He is the smartest ‘Pub in the building. He will add to his coffers, keep himself in the spotlight, and laugh at his distinguished colleagues all the way to the bank. Then when he retires from government, he runs a think tank and manages his pac money, while he continues to lead what’s left of his party down the rabbit hole.
They were warned to speak out against this infiltration and refused to do so. Now they’re reaping the results of the foolishness they helped sow.
Well, cookemom, here’s hoping that his “retirement” from government happens in 2016. There are going to be a lot of Republican knives out to be sure this “senator” has a short career.
GGail, I guess we are not Americans. But if truth be told we are more Americans than Ted Cruz is.
So Mitt ‘47%’ Romney, takes Rafalca out of the stall, rides him up to the ‘Pub hitching post and tells them that shutting down the government is not a good idea. Yeah, like they’d listen to him. They blame him for PBO’s second term.
Poor Rafalca, destined to never serve a political purpose again, back to eating oats and apples from the barn.
LMAO!
Uh Oh, Rubio and Cruz are standing in front of the mics…they really think people buy their b-s
Lee says they want to protect the American people from this harmful law - WHAT? :shock:
You may have seen on Martin Bashir’s show that the CEO of Barilla has said they won’t show any LGBTs in their pasta ads, preferring to use the “traditional family” approach. Of course, they’re walking it back, right now.
Barilla US is doing damage control. On Barilla’s Italian account, the CEO is apologizing profusely. (Yes, I read Italian. I rock.)
LL, yes, you are on Cloud Nine today - U Rock!
You do rock. Even if you didn’t read Italian!
Non mi piace BarillaUS pasta, compro solo pasta fatto in Italia e quasi tutta la pasta BarillaUS è fatto qui negli Stati. E ora ho un’altra ragione…
Sei ItaloAmericano LL? (excuse me using the familiar/tu form, but, after avidly reading your posts at TOD and TPV for so long, I feel like you are part of my liberal family :-))
No, io sono Cubano-americano, mai ho studiato l’italiano nell’universita.
(And I hope I didn’t mangle that.)
These folks never learn!
That is FABULOUS.
It’s my fave pasta too, have a bunch in pantry right now—-darn it—-now I’ll feel guilty if I try to eat it and will get a tummy ache and ay yi yi. Heard the Barilla guy say he was fine with gay marriage, just not gay parents. He should have just shut up—stupido. I bet some day soon there will be all varieties of fams in their advertising.
I did like Barillo pasta, too. Now, I’ll never buy it again. I’m good with boycotts.
For once I don’t have a problem - I’ve never liked Barilla pasta - bought it once because it is cheaper than most other brands in my world - big fail - so I am happy to never buy it again
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/09/27/house_must_pass_senate_bill_to_avert_shutdown.html
Said Reid: “I want everyone to listen and to hear: the United States Senate has acted. This is the only legislation that can avert a government shutdown, and that time is ticking as we speak.”
Pres. Obama wins the day.
I’m feeling pretty “giddy,” myself. Well done, Mr. President!
I love the “giddy” comment. That means there was a lot of excitement in the room. It’s interesting that the call wasn’t pre-arranged. The President just said, “get me Rouhani on the line” and there he was! Love it!
Agree! Love it.
I think WH staff on a ccall to media is saying they spoke through a translator. So, there’s that/
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/eichenwald/2013/09/republicans-know-obamacare-will-work
What is it about Obamacare that compels seemingly intelligent people to explode in bubbling spasms of stupid? Are they misinformed? Unable to see past the rage-fueled partisan sweat dripping into their eyes? Or just plain dishonest?
No matter. At this point, it has become obvious that history will look back on the four-year war on Obamacare as one of the saddest, most bizarre, and most dishonestly embarrassing episodes of our time. I have given up trying to understand the vehement opposition of so many who cannot offer up truthful reasons for their objections, and instead fuel the hatred and fears of the uninformed with the most illogical, mendacious, and fundamentally bizarre arguments that have ever been marshaled. By comparison, Joe McCarthy’s McCarthyistic McCarthyism was an exercise in reason.
They know it will work and don’t want the “Kenyan Socialist Muslim” to get the credit for bringing affordable healthcare to millions of people. Ironic because much of the law is from Heritage Foundation, which is a conservative lobby.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Perfect response.
I love it.
Oh holy shit:
“Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole suggested the House focus on adding one provision to the spending bill that has had some bipartisan support in the Senate - a repeal of the tax on medical device manufacturers that helps fund part of Obamacare.”
Let’s repeal the tax on the scooter barkers - that helps the deficit exactly how?
I have a better idea, Rep. Cole: Let’s repeal the Bush tax cuts for anyone making more than $200,000 and let’s have Single Payer and free college tuition for All.
Negotiate!
that does have some support among Dems in the Senate. But they’ve said that they won’t support it as a condition for either funding the govt or raising the debt ceiling. They really are idiots.
Many democrats have said they could support replacing the medical device tax with another funding mechanism. But the democrats are not going to negotiate on this especially if there is no replacement for the medical device tax.
Twitter is just so *amazing,* especially because the MSM is to be avoided at all costs.
And Twitter’s CEO tweeted this last night at about 9 pm Eastern time (before today’s awesome Rouhani tweets).
President Obama spoke by phone with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani Friday, both leaders said, following Iranian media reports of the call.
The 15 minute phone call was initiated by Obama at 2:30pm Friday as Rouhani was in a car being driven to the airport on the last day of a four day trip to New York. The Iranians reached out today expressing interest in the call, the White House said. It came a day after Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met one on one for thirty minutes to jump start nuclear negotiations.
Obama, in the call, congratulated Rouhani on his election, and urged the two leaders to seize the opportunity for a nuclear deal, a senior White House official said Friday. A “breakthrough on the nuclear issue could open the door to a [more constructive] relationship between the US and Iran,” Obama said, the White House official summarized.
Wonder what Netanyahu is doing?
I saw on the twitter sphere… that during a background briefing w/ reporters, after PBO’s press conference… that they had already spoke to the Isreali’s, and were in the process of debriefing allies.
The GOP can’t be trusted either.
The diplomatic efforts this man juggles left right and centre baffles me again and again. He get far too little credit for it. Far too little.
^^^ THIS.
There was a song by Men at Work…..It’s a Mistake.
That is what the TBGOPers are. A bunch of Mistakes.
This POTUS is far too smarter and faster than their little minds can contain in/at a given moment.
:cry: :cry: I’m home now, but WHY IS THIS VIDEO ‘PRIVATE’? I want to hear whatever you guys are raving about in my own ears!!! O, and in the president’s own words!!!! HELP!!!
Try it again. It has been reduced to the actual size. Perhaps it was being edited when you tried ;) :?:
{{{Nena}}}
TY! TY! TY for answering. The current one is only 151/2 mins but I’m happy with even getting a portion! Thanks.
That is the REAL and the Whole speech. The stuff prior, I could not tell what were in it. I followed the instructions at went to the 32mins directive.
Heartfelt THANKS!
And went to 32 mins as directed. Oops.
I love it when these guys hand it back!!
Go on, Dan!!
John Connelly was not watching when Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said his name during Cruz’s 21-hour marathon speech on the Senate floor earlier this week to rally fellow Republicans against the Affordable Care Act.
Connelly, a 22-year-old college student at Rutgers University, only heard about it the next day when a friend messaged him on Facebook to tell him the news — and he was not exactly thrilled. In fact, Connelly is supportive of the law and has already reaped some of the benefits of the ACA, often referred to by its detractors as “Obamacare.”
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Just saw him on Ed’s show. I love how he was so enthusiastic about Obamacare. I really hope he contacts Ted Cruz’ office about this blatant lie.
Khodahafez is a Persian-language expression that’s used to say goodbye. It’s sometimes written as two words: “khoda hafez” and literally translates as “God be with you.”
You can practically hear cable news talking heads trying to decide whether they should be outraged by this choice of words, but it’s really just a friendly colloquialism.
….In fact, it’s a point of contention in the Islamic world. The Persians tend to say “Khoda Hafez” and [for] lots of people, it’s the standard slang. But the hard line Sunnis now say “Allah Hafez,” because they don’t like the Persian word “Khoda,” which is “God.” But that’s inside baseball.
I probably saw Max’s tweet because you posted it here. LOL.
But what’s with the other tweet in Max’s timeline (see below).
I read this and while part of me loves the symbolism and decency in this, the nerdy part of me just likes this for the sake of this guy being nerdy enough to sso often use foreign language expressions. I sometimes wonder how often someone at the WH gets assignments like “Could you pleace check what ________ means in _________?” :D
More on “khodahafez,” from a Sunni Muslim vs. Persian perspective:
And WTH is this? Now MSM is claiming that President Obama was “scooped” by Rouhani????
As if the President is at their beck-and-call, and needs to be put in his place (because he’s being uppity????). The MSM is now curling into its fetal position, relying on what they know, which is White Privilege. Just beyond vile.
I can’t see bit.ly at my current location. If someone could provide the long URL, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Just dumb inside baseball, echo-chamber blather……. He was musing earlier he had to spend the next few hours writing a comprehensive write-up that only “7 people will read, because it is Friday mid afternoon” I provided the URL, it is in Farsi… will have to use a translator.
http://www.irna.ir/html/1392/13920705/80834832.htm
Thanks, LP (and thanks too for your wonderful TOD posts and tweets!).
No sweat, Arapaho! Just trying to keep up with you :)
Arapaho415
Here is the long version of the ULR.
http://www.irna.ir/html/1392/13920705/80834832.htm for this( bit.ly/14PSUBs)
Thank you!!!
Great tweet, Chips! Thanks for all your wonderful posts today. I am now barely catching up. I still have to go back and read Zizi’s post.
Thank you Nathkatun, I’m still catching up too, it’s been a breathless day!
This is getting very little press, but i think the reason the GOP is so scared of ObamaCare is because people can register to vote when they sign up. VERY BFD! MILLIONS of people will be signing up for ObamaCare. MILLIONS!!!!!
And now that I think about it, people without insurance are probably more likely to vote Democratic. The poor and minorities.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/white-house-americans-can-register-to-vote-when-signing-up-for-obamacare
Sup guys.
So I was on FB yesterday right before going into the bowling alley for my league and I just happened to read this post from my friend He has linked to a comment from some dude about his insurance company cancelling his policy and about his premiums going up. So I just half-read the comment, but once it called POTUS “our fearless leader” and then read the comments in response to it, which were all the same anti-Obama “fearless leader” crap, I told my friend that he needs to start paying attention to the comments on post like that one he posted as a heads up to the fact that maybe the post is not legit and is just another way opponents of the system to muddy the waters on the ACA so that people will be more likely to not trust the system and therefore be more likely to not be able to see the benefits.
More of his friends posted more comments, basically selfish ass, “I got mine” type of bull, so I gave up on them and decided to post the following to my FB page along with the pic.
New post!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/27/a-unique-opportunity/
Oh, good, EMILY’s List has moved over to 2044 … putting aside 2016 for a bit.
Ha!