President Barack Obama makes remarks during a ceremonial swearing-in of FBI Director James Comey at the FBI Headquarters in Washington
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C-SPAN has the full coverage of the event and James Comey’s speech was great. You can watch it here
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President Barack Obama pats new FBI Director James Comey on the back as they arrive for Comey’s installation ceremony at the FBI Headquarters
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FBI Director James Comey is sworn in at a ceremony at the FBI Headquarters. Comey was officially sworn in as director of FBI on September 4 to succeed Robert Mueller, who had served as director for 12 years.
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FBI Director James Comey speaks during a swearing in ceremony at the FBI Headquarters
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President Barack Obama talks with FBI Director James Comey during the installation ceremony for Comey as FBI director
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President Barack Obama attends the swearing-in of FBI Director James Comey at the FBI headquarters
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First!!!!!!
Wooooooooooot!!! Thank you UT!!!
You’re welcome, Chips.
Sigh!
And such a gracious and humble one too!
/grudgingly/ I see that you did not actually post the thread, so I guess this was a moral first. /swallow/ /mumble/ Good job, C…..I guess.
Aw, thanks VC!
{{{{CC’s Mommy}}}} Moments like these vividly remind me of your mother.
Chipsticks, you are definitely a WINNER in my book! Congrats on #1, and on 22mil ! Happy 4th Birthday to TOD!
Thank yoooooooou nathkatun, you lovely thing!!!!
Second
Are the TWO cakes ready? And is Danny all brushed and ready to party?
Well, the cakes were ready - and then Danny ate them. He has also, in case anyone is trying to call me, bitten through the landline wire, so: bye bye landline
As Danny’s auntie I strongly, STRONGLY, I say, object to your blaming him for any missing (read ‘unbaked’) cakes. That is too much of a cliched excuse. Cute Little Danny would never have eaten two
of yourcakes! I am outraged!VC, I have photo proof - note how the cakes turned him white:
And puffed him up too! How close is the vet?
[Danny - White - you did us a service because we were expecting homemade cake, not that boxed stuff. Thanks and hope you won't be too uncomfortable for long.]
Run all your sensitive wiring through PVC pipes. Been there, done that.
Ah, great tip LL. The wire he bit - he’s two flippin’ months old with teeny teeth! - was kinda pinned to the wall, but he still managed it. Fiddling with it (being an expert on these things) and if I lie on the floor and hold it at a certain angle the phone kinda works, but with major weirdy noises. He’s asleep now. I hope he’s having nightmares about monster phones chasing him down dark alleys.
Tiny SHARP teeth, and with nothing better to do, like eating his own poop. (Oh, yeah, wait until he starts doing that.)
Thank you for that LL, I have so much to look forward to
You’re lucky if all Danny has done so far is chewed through the land line. My baby, Winston, has chewed through land lines, chewed up one of my nice casual jackets, destroyed a pair of my sneakers, gone into my handbag and shredded money, and this is a short list! He knows I love him dearly. That’s how he gets away with doing some things he shouldn’t be doing. Right now he’s on my bed having a ball playing with one of his squeaky toys. After he leaves his bed in the morning, my bed becomes his bed for the rest of the day. In fact, he thinks he owns me, not the other way around. When I have to go to one of y doctors and he has to stay home, he “punishes” me by jumping up on me and pushing me. He wants to let me know he doesn’t like being left home alone.
“My baby, Winston, has chewed through land lines, chewed up one of my nice casual jackets, destroyed a pair of my sneakers, gone into my handbag and shredded money, and this is a short list!”
Majiir, would you like a new puppy? I have one I can give you.
So he’s a good boy but not perfect?
It’s my fault Dotster, I spent the first three-ish days telling everyone: “He’s perfect!!!!!!” I’m guessing he was offended by that and set about proving that he’s not. He’s succeeded, the rascal.
That’s a tough one to live up to—-perfection. We used to settle for “not perfect, but pretty good” for our doggies—-and kids.
I love the way the kids were an afterthought in your comment Dotster
Great choice!
Great pics, Utal. Thank you. I like Mr. Comey’s speech and his demeanor. Sure wish him a very successful term.
Congrats Chips & vc on 1st place tie. Congrats vetivera on #2
Hold it right there Hopefruit. While me, the winner, and VC, the runner-up, both commented at 5:56 pm, the seconds don’t appear in the time, so clearly I was way quicker seconds-wise.
Frankly, Hf, I think you should have listed my name before Chips’ - that’s the courteous way, to put your ….oops…her guest first.
Now I’m confused….I feel worse than Willard did after PBO told him to “please proceed.”
I tried to do right by both of you, congratulating you on your achievement of being first, and instead find myself on the receiving end of disapproval from you both?
Off to complain to PBO about this!
…PBO is sending the two of you a stern text message as we speak….
Woot! Please ask him to bring it himself; that way we’ll be more chastened, and more contrite.
Heh…Sure vc…but um…if he’s coming, he’ll be handing it to me, who will then deliver his message to the appropriate parties….
No middleman please. You can’t always trust those middlemen. I won’t be answering the door if I don’t see The Beast in the driveway.
You can trust your favorite middleman HF2.
Yea. Sure. I’ll pass, thanks.
I’m not talking to you either! And PBO sent to say that he’s not talking to you, but he will talk to Danny any time. In fact, he will have Danny on a playdate with Bo and Sunny some time toon.
Well, no wonder! You poor thing. Have you had dental surgery, or has your jaw been wired shut? Your art work is somewhat minimalistic.
Reposting from the tail end of the previous thread (this time with the right tweet!):
For @mtmarilyn2 and @carolmaewy
Brokeback Mountain receding into a bygone era. Here’s to Matthew Shepard (who was brutalized and murdered in Wyoming, but Montana and Wyoming share a lot of natural abundance and some like-minded voters):
Thank you Arapaho, I have noticed attitudes have been changing for this. There are still so many tea partiers.
Congrats on first Chips, and MAJOR congrats on passing the 22,000,000 mark!!!! Celebrations are in order……….
The #GetCovered hashtag, introduced by the White House to champion the launch of its online health insurance marketplace, is being used positively by many more tweeters than are using it negatively, according to a sentiment score prepared for Nextgov by the Twitter analytics company Topsy.
Topsy ran a keyword analysis of tweets using the #GetCovered hashtag to determine whether the tweets were positive or negative. A score of 50 out of 100 essentially means there are an equal number of positive and negative tweets, according to a spokeswoman.
The sentiment score for #GetCovered has hovered around 80 out of 100 since HealthCare.gov launched Oct. 1 and was at about 90 out of 100 on Tuesday.
Thank yoooooou LP!!!!
A well deserved thank you would be an understatement
In the 5th pic below the video, PBO smiles just like his Grandpa Dunham.
Twentieth?
30th, actually
Hellooooooo GGail!
Hiya Chips!
My life has been busy busy, but I’m so happy to be here and join in the 22M celebration. Congratulations Chipsticks!
Love ya!
Love ya right back GGail, thank yooooooou!!
Love those photos UT, really beautiful.
Awww….thanks Chiparooo!
I know you’ve all been wondering where I’ve been the past few months…… here you go: because I have no shame.
Yahoo. A real star. Outstanding!
SMOOCH.
Yes, I’m drinking the props.
So when is your tv pilot coming?
Bravo, Tally. Superstar!
Tally!!!!! Look at you looking fabulous!!! Can I tweet you congrats, or are you keeping your identity a top secret?
Tweet away mon cheri!
Go Galaxy Girl!!!!
Look at you! You go girl
BRAVO Tally!!!!!!
Dramatic Kewlness! WTG Tally! Break a leg!
How glamorous!
Looks like a lot of hard work, but you’re rewarded by being in one of the most beautiful areas in Los Angeles county.
Congrats!
Excellent, Tally!
LOOK at YOU, beautiful star!! ARGH, I wish I was near by so I could see your performance!!
Oh Brava to you Tally! This is so cool. I love plays
Brava Tally.
Repost from “tail-end” yardarm.
The effect of those FOUR little words … “I LOVE YOU SWEETHEART”
A group of women were at a seminar on how to live in a loving relationship with your husband.
The women were asked, “How many of you love your husband?”
All the women raised their hands.
Then they were asked, “When was the last time you told your husband you loved him?”
Some women answered today, a few yesterday, and some couldn’t remember.
The women were then told to take out their cell phones and text their husband: “I love you, sweetheart.”
The women were then told to exchange phones with another person, and to read aloud the text message they received, in response.
Here are some of the replies:
1. Who the hell is this?
2. Eh, mother of my children, are you sick or what?
3. Yeh, and I love you too. What’s up with you??
4. What now? Did you crash the car again?
5. I don’t understand what you mean?
6. What the f… did you do now?
7. ?!?
8. Don’t beat about the bush, just tell me how much you need?
9. Am I dreaming?
10. If you don’t tell me who this message is actually for, someone will die.
11. I thought we agreed you wouldn’t drink during the day.
12. Your mother is coming to stay with us, isn’t she??
We love you sweetheart Shipmate!!!
Read the whole thing. It seems when I post the good stuff it’s always after a new post hits.
ABC world news exclusive interview with PBO on the syping programs, etc. (NOW)…
Hmmm, was this interview kept under wraps? You’ll have to tell us what is being said.
It was a highly edited interview,, with the reporter doing more the “reporting” of what PBO supposedly said - nothing new. They did show someone at the end saying that all countries engage in espionage. However, ABC news failed to mention that the spying on Merkel occurred well before PBO ran for President.
Then, according to ABC News, PBO said that he was not able to say whether or not he was briefed by NSA about the spying because it’s classified information. Then they started talking about the ACA website (I stopped watching at that point}.
So now the upcoming mayor of New York *and* the Director of the FBI are both taller than the President.
Sigh, just waiting for the RW talking points to roll in …
Google says that Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education is 6’5″.
I cannot stand Andrea Mitchell—-repeating myself, I know. She’s now on NBC Nightly News using Glenn Greenwald as her featured backup source for her SHOCK on the NSA spying. Gaggy gag gag.
It’s really disturbing how cloistered and uncurious the DC beltway echo-chamber MSM is.
This made me gag. Repeating myself from this morning; the MSM don’t question GG’s motives, conveniently look the other way when GG spews venom against our President and the US (my guess is that his twitter timeline contains zero favorable ones on either subject) and don’t question his motives in teaming up with a fugitive spy who is probably sedated not far from the Kremlin.
BTW, Hopefruit2, in her infinite wisdom assigned Andrea Mitchell to me. I’m dusting off my blonde wig, wheeling out my Ayn Rand-loving husband who probably single-handedly pushed for the repeal of Glass-Steagall out for show on Halloween.
is anyone here listening to the CBS evening news?
What’s being said?
Scott Pelley is still having a snark fest with #ACA. I’m absolutely ticked off that he would allow such snark to come out of his pie hole but the other hand why should I be surprised? He’s part of the #MSM
Twitter Brigade: RT this if you would pls.
Done
NBC’s latest attack was nailing PBO on his statement, “If you like your (insurance) plan, you can keep it.” It’s constant and never ending—-this media attack on PBO. They seem to have really stepped up their game since the shutdown.
God bless you a4alice for composing this tweet. I am sooooo disappointed in Scott Pelley - I thought he would never sink this low!
Twitter brigade - please hit him hard and often!!!!
22 million and proceeding! Congratulations Chips and the TOD family!
Thank yoooooou PrayerWarrior!
Checkout the graphic accompanying this article
I just saw this via “little green footballs” - sometimes the good guys win
Federal judge rules key provisions of Texas abortion laws unconstitutional
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21215002-federal-judge-rules-key-provisions-of-controversial-texas-abortion-law-unconstitutional?lite
Pretty funny that Britney Spears songs are protecting the merchant navy from Somali pirates. Just saw a clip of the navy blasting her “beautiful music” and the pirates went into an abrupt reverse and retreat. Screech! I’m outta here! Can’t stand the noise! Hurts!
it’s so grey. huh. I thought there’d be more colors. I don’t know why.
Sweet!!!
Hey everyone! Once again, whew. This down-sizing thingy is not for sissies! Helps one to create new vows against collecting stuff!! No more garage or estate sales for this cookie! UhUh! Bye again, am just exhausted all the time. Missing y’all! {{{{TOD}}}}
Criminal—-these new voter ID laws. Protecting us against “voter fraud”, which seems to average about 1 incident in each state in the last 10 years—-if that. People aren’t exactly storming the polls.
That funny!
Thank you UT for yet another excellent post! I am proud of President Obama for picking James Comey to be the Director of the FBI. Once again, the President demonstrated his ability and dedication to selecting the best people to serve our country. Comey may be a Republican but he comes across as a man of great integrity. I was especially impressed by his acknowledgement of the FBI’s shameful record of persecuting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I used to be nice and carry bugs I found in the house outside to give them one last shot at life. I have come to the sad realization that I am now meaner in my old age as I have lost patience with the boxelder bugs who show up in mass in the spring and fall. Now—-FLUSH!
that’s OK Dotster don’t feel bad. When BEB’s are bad I get my leaf blower, reverse it, and VACUUM those suckers. It’s very satisfying.
Ha! Fellow bug meanie!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/28/obamacare-lies-dispelled/
Chips, if you have trouble with your pup eating stuff he shouldn’t, use a spray bottle of water or get some apple bitters and put it on the stuff he is chewing on. He will stay away from it. I was really lucky, Megan didn’t get into that stuff, but my sister’s little one did. I used to just howl when she would tell me what Roxie got into next. I can’t even repeat it.
ROTFLMAO!! This is soo true. Buzzfeed has been particularly sickening this news cycle.