Hi Jackie4O. Would you believe I just signed it at the opportune moment, though I thought I was taking my own sweet time? It’s true. I didn’t feel like signing in at 7am so I was sure I was too late for ‘early bird’. :grin: Life’s good!
{{{{{Chips Chica}}}}} The sun is struggling to make itself felt, and my world is starting to look up, CC. /whisper/ I am in negotiations with your Petal, for a truly awesome gift for my upcoming birthday. I already told him no petals! I figure if I start pointing him in the right direction early enough, I’m more likely to steer him away from some inappropriate mosquito swatter or other little doodad. Some min can be so dense! :roll: Will let you know how it turns out.
Ah! I forgot you were down *there* with Desertflower. I gripe about winter, but I know I couldn’t take the 80s, 90s, and sometimes 100s that you guys get. It’s one of the reasons I don’t gripe too, too loudly about the cold. ;)
We were finally seeing a serious melt of snow, with temps above freezing even at night. I actually saw grass where there was waist-high snow a week ago. I went to work without boots yesterday. Hurray! Spring was coming…….
We are now awaiting a major snowstorm tomorrow - we’re expecting about 8 inches in Chicago.
My advice = Don’t scream, and don’t await the snowstorm. Enjoy the in-between while it lasts!
Like Cookem, I’ve decided not to pay too much attention to shoveling for the rest of the season - unless of course I can’t get out of the driveway when i need to. This too will pass….I think.
‘The new law appears to be achieving its top goal….’
Really? Honestly, I haven’t read the article. Reading the summary above though, I am *surprised* the author seems surprised the law is starting to work the way the President SAID it would. :roll: They still haven’t accepted that he likes to know what he is talking about before he speaks. I *love* the way *they* are so careful to couch this (=his) positive accomplishment with such detached language.
O Ms Chipsy-wispy, I forgot my manners! How *are* you? And Mama C? And the ‘little’ canine one? And young nephew? Sure hope everyone is bouncing along with a smile and a twinkle in the eye. Wishing you all a very special Tuesday! :grin::grin:
I saw the crew who comes on Today after Matt and Savannah goes off at 9am, talking about POTUS interview with Zach Galifianakis, they were talking about how funny POTUS was. So I said I just have to see it, and I come here and here it is, thanks alot. POTUS is the best.
I love what Aretha said, spelling and giving it is a huge difference. Hear that Republicans. By the way I’m sure anyone with any sense knows President Obama can spell RESPECT.
Thanks, dudette. Thee are members of my family who fit each of these descriptions, especially ..”the ones who take care of everyone else’s needs…” Bottom line: there’s no one you know or ever will know who doesn’t need love.
Good morning. Spring has decided to come on stage for a bit before the cold weather reappears on Thursday, so I’ll be stepping out today to enjoy it while I can. Today is the day that all nominating petitions are due in the state of PA, so we’ll know soon who made it or who didn’t. Then there’ll be a period of “challenges” as the stronger candidates contest the weaker candidates’ petitions. It’s impossible to know the strength of the Democratic ticket until all the jockeying and challenging ends, so we’ll see what kind of fight we have on our hands. What’s happening in other states?
Morning everyone:) Well worth the read this morning… http://thedailybanter.com/2014/03/five-years-later-the-tea-party-still-doesnt-understand-taxes-or-the-boston-tea-party/
The New York Times reports this morning that Chris Christie’s administration used wreckage from 9/11 as “politically motivated gifts,” part of a politicization of the Port Authority that is coming under increasing scrutiny from federal prosecutors in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal.
For a state that lost hundreds of lives on Sept. 11, the gifts were emotionally resonant: pieces of steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center. They were presented by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to 20 carefully chosen New Jersey mayors who sat atop a list of 100 whose endorsements Gov. Chris Christie hoped to win.
snip/
Turning wreckage of the twin towers into politically motivated gifts before Mr. Christie’s 2013 re-election was only one example. The authority became a means to reward friends (or hire them) and punish adversaries, and a bank to be used when Mr. Christie sought to avoid raising taxes. Major policy initiatives, such as instituting a large toll and fare increase in 2011, were treated like political campaigns to burnish the governor’s image.
“Lawyers for two key figures in a political payback plot ensnaring New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration will be in court to try to convince a judge not to force them to turn over text messages and other private communications to state legislators investigating the matter.
Fired Christie staffer Bridget Kelly and two-time campaign manager Bill Stepien say complying with the subpoenas carries the risk of self-incrimination. Kelly planned to be in court on Tuesday; Stepien does not.”
Okay, I have decided that complaining about this winter isn’t doing any good as we have 6-10″ coming in tonight. So, I am going to try reverse psychology.
Have I told everybody how much I love winter. Man, I hope it keeps snowing right into June, I love it so much.
Morning, Japa! Let’s take it easy on the reverse psychology re winter and snow, please. I know I’ve always felt that God has a sense of humour (specifically in regard to my own life) but I’m not sure, and don’t want to take any chances on his/her understanding of reverse psychology. Let’s not take the chance now that we’ve made it almost to the middle of March, okay?
For those that won’t click on this link…it appears that Mr. Stockman is partying with some Young Republicans at CPAC…..in a bathroom. While some guy is IN THE TUB. Oh, those judgmental little hypocrites……
You know Donna, I didn’t want to say it, but I too got the distinct impression that they were trying to one-up his video interview, which is STILL the #1 trend on Twitter.
Is Knoller paid to send out numbers in tweets - he does nothing else - ever - I would really love a job like that. Does he ever report/write news in any other medium? What did he do before Twitter? Weird guy, weird employer.
He is the WH correspondent for CBS news. During the press briefings he sits there with a little note pad and occasionally asks a question. I guess he’s just jotting down numbers and figures on that note pad and nothing else.
Sure is a nice job. DF and I have already vowed to find out how we can apply.
I wonder if there are media jobs like that in my world? I’ll have to find out. I’m very good with counting now the grand babe is turning into a toddler :)
Knoller has to be friends with someone to keep that job going.
Yes we have! We can job share, hf….we’d work twice as hard for half the salary…..such a deal! AND we know what we’re talking about!! CBS give us a call!!
So certain folks in the media, along with Feinstein are in outrage mode this morning. The media is once again looking for something they hope will embarrass the Obama administration. Something tells me that by the end of the day, this crap will have fizzled out and some people are going to have egg on their faces and it won’t be the administration.
Would guess that @SenFeinstein gave her speech on #CIA criminal conduct this am knowing Brennan due to speak at CFR at 1030. Wow.
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) March 11, 2025
Senate Intel comm chair Dianne Feinstein says CIA conducted unauthorized search of committee computers, internal work. Echoes of Watergate
This has been brewing for a long time and it’s getting pretty complicated. DiFi has called for an investigation from the DOJ.
Brennan’s testimony will most likely set the RW/MSM’s hair on fire.
Rozen seems to think that Brennan is a fraud - and that the WH is naive about him (See my tweet above). I’m not sure what her basis for saying this is. If it’s only on Feinstein’s unchallenged account, she may have a lot of walking back to do later today and in the coming days.
Yeah, I’ve been reading her tweets all morning. Her tweets often seem like “thinking out loud” hasty responses and that was my initial impression again this morning. DiFi appears to be out for Brennan’s head but I myself would like to know how and why removal was accomplished by committee staff.
I think I read somewhere that PBO favors some declassification. Am I right about that?
Yes, it seems to me that there’s a lot of ignorance flowing through the media - in their desperation to find the slightest speck of dust to throw at the Obama administration.
Is anyone left in the GOP sane - from NYT’s piece on Christie and the Port Authority today
“Mr. Wildstein, a onetime anonymous political blogger who, like Mr. Baroni, has resigned in the wake of the lane closings, was hired in 2010 and quickly developed a reputation as the governor’s enforcer at the agency. He was known to schedule meetings with subordinates early on Monday mornings — never specifying the topic, leaving them to fret for the weekend — then cancel. He seemed to appear from nowhere in officials’ doorways, staring until they invited him in.”
kinda says it all…..Cancer Patient Who Claimed In Attack Ad Obamacare Is 'Unaffordable' Will Save More Than $1K; http://t.co/cMgSkPaSWd
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 11, 2025
Boonstra’s old plan cost $1,100 a month in premiums or $13,200 a year, she previously told The News. It didn’t include money she spent on co-pays, prescription drugs and other out-of-pocket expenses.
By contrast, the Blues’ plan premium costs $571 a month or $6,852 for the year. Since out-of-pocket costs are capped at $5,100, including deductibles, the maximum Boonstra would pay this year for all of her cancer treatment is $11,952.
When advised of the details of her Blues’ plan, Boonstra said the idea that it would be cheaper “can’t be true.”
“I personally do not believe that,” Boonstra said.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140310/LIFESTYLE03/303100100#ixzz2vfD3b997
And G.W. Bush was on vacation when his pal Putin invaded Georgia and Bush stayed on vacation too. Now what would those racists right wing media haters say if President Obama had done that. Bush didn’t do a darn thing about Putin invading Georgia.
White House.gov
Good Morning!
A tie? Stupid wordpress login!
You didn’t want to enter with me? :cry:
hand in hand, my friend. Let us saunter through together…….
Phew! That’s better, although if we saunter now we’ll surely be left behind. :grin:
I saunter pretty slowly at my age…….
Morning VC. You must live with your hand on that send bottom.
Hi Jackie4O. Would you believe I just signed it at the opportune moment, though I thought I was taking my own sweet time? It’s true. I didn’t feel like signing in at 7am so I was sure I was too late for ‘early bird’. :grin: Life’s good!
Have yourself a lovely Tuesday!
You too!
Mooooooooorning VC, mooooooorning everyone!
{{{{{Chips Chica}}}}} The sun is struggling to make itself felt, and my world is starting to look up, CC. /whisper/ I am in negotiations with your Petal, for a truly awesome gift for my upcoming birthday. I already told him no petals! I figure if I start pointing him in the right direction early enough, I’m more likely to steer him away from some inappropriate mosquito swatter or other little doodad. Some min can be so dense! :roll: Will let you know how it turns out.
bt, remind to go vamoose in exactly a week and four days.
Congrats on first VC! Have a lovely day.
TY - U2!
Really?
Yes, it is a good morning! :grin: Hi, 57F, nice to enter with you. How’s the weather today?
We are in the 80’s here. We didn’t have a winter here in Arizona this year.
Ah! I forgot you were down *there* with Desertflower. I gripe about winter, but I know I couldn’t take the 80s, 90s, and sometimes 100s that you guys get. It’s one of the reasons I don’t gripe too, too loudly about the cold. ;)
We were finally seeing a serious melt of snow, with temps above freezing even at night. I actually saw grass where there was waist-high snow a week ago. I went to work without boots yesterday. Hurray! Spring was coming…….
We are now awaiting a major snowstorm tomorrow - we’re expecting about 8 inches in Chicago.
We want to SCREAM.
My advice = Don’t scream, and don’t await the snowstorm. Enjoy the in-between while it lasts!
Like Cookem, I’ve decided not to pay too much attention to shoveling for the rest of the season - unless of course I can’t get out of the driveway when i need to. This too will pass….I think.
Gotta shovel a path for the pups. At least it will start melting within a few days. No way we’re facing another three months of snow cover, right?
Right?!?!?!
/said firmly/ Right! :grin: from our fingers to the weather god’s ears.
For R&S
Latinos seem to be lagging in enrollment is the reason PBO did his spanish teevee appearance?
‘The new law appears to be achieving its top goal….’
Really? Honestly, I haven’t read the article. Reading the summary above though, I am *surprised* the author seems surprised the law is starting to work the way the President SAID it would. :roll: They still haven’t accepted that he likes to know what he is talking about before he speaks. I *love* the way *they* are so careful to couch this (=his) positive accomplishment with such detached language.
Goooood Morming Friends!
I’m kimda dragging this morning!
Sure wish I could just go back
to sle….
…zzzzzzzz
You can, you know, Dudette. Tell the boss your eyes refused to corporate. :grin:
Yeh, that’d work! Thanks! Helpful! Uh-huh!! :-D
Just a suggestion. :lol: :lol: You never know, you might discover s/he has a sense of humour. No?
O Ms Chipsy-wispy, I forgot my manners! How *are* you? And Mama C? And the ‘little’ canine one? And young nephew? Sure hope everyone is bouncing along with a smile and a twinkle in the eye. Wishing you all a very special Tuesday! :grin: :grin:
Pretty funny—-starting with the name of the program——“Between 2 Ferns”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-grilled-by-zach-galifianakis-on-between-two-ferns/
LOL!
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Congrats VC and 57 on first place tie!
Morning, west coast neighbour! Life’s good this week. :razz:
Grrr, rub it in
:lol: :lol: Wasn’t sure you’d notice. ;)
Your words will echo in my head as I drive to work
Gee thanks :-)
Concentrate on the drive, please.
BEST. VIDEO. EVER.
President Obama can do it all.
Be an A+ President? ✓
Be a great husband? ✓
Be a great father? ✓
Look like a GQ model? ✓
Become a comedian? ✓
Okay now THAT woke me up!
My President is the coolest! :-D
LOL - very funny. Our President is the BEST!!! :)
That.Was.Hilarious.
He was so good in this!!!
Toooooooo Funny….
My favorite line…..
PBO says: “Do you think that Michelle would marry a nerd?”…HA!….nuff said…
“Why don’t you ask her if she thinks I’m a nerd…Can I? No, I’m not gonna let her anywhere near you.” :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
There’s a reason the WHCD has become such a hit in recent years. It’s because of PBO!!!
I saw the crew who comes on Today after Matt and Savannah goes off at 9am, talking about POTUS interview with Zach Galifianakis, they were talking about how funny POTUS was. So I said I just have to see it, and I come here and here it is, thanks alot. POTUS is the best.
Dang - there’s nothing he can’t do!!!! :D :D :D
I love what Aretha said, spelling and giving it is a huge difference. Hear that Republicans. By the way I’m sure anyone with any sense knows President Obama can spell RESPECT.
Thanks, dudette. Thee are members of my family who fit each of these descriptions, especially ..”the ones who take care of everyone else’s needs…” Bottom line: there’s no one you know or ever will know who doesn’t need love.
So true jg
Yes, I just watched it - it was HILARIOUS!!! I will watch it - AGAIN :)
I can’t watch it enough. He has such a great sense of humor.
Gov O’Malley feels the same way apparently!! :) Heh..he included the video in his tweet.
Thank you Governor O’Malley. Imagine if the rest of the Governors were looking out for their citizens like Gov. O’Malley.
Good morning. Spring has decided to come on stage for a bit before the cold weather reappears on Thursday, so I’ll be stepping out today to enjoy it while I can. Today is the day that all nominating petitions are due in the state of PA, so we’ll know soon who made it or who didn’t. Then there’ll be a period of “challenges” as the stronger candidates contest the weaker candidates’ petitions. It’s impossible to know the strength of the Democratic ticket until all the jockeying and challenging ends, so we’ll see what kind of fight we have on our hands. What’s happening in other states?
Whoa. When was this?
4th of July, 2013. Notice the clothing? Remember the salmon color debate TOD had? :D
Ahhh, yes! The dreaded salmon-colored shirt debate. :D :D
clay
:-D
I was about to say the Easter Egg event, but it is the 4th of July. I remember POTUS shirt and FLOTUS dress.
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Morning everyone:) Well worth the read this morning… http://thedailybanter.com/2014/03/five-years-later-the-tea-party-still-doesnt-understand-taxes-or-the-boston-tea-party/
Still stupid after 5 years….
And proud of it……
Ah man! The sewer that is Chris Christie’s soul just sunk to a new low.
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/03/11/nyt-christie-turned-twin-towers-wreckage-politically-motivated-gifts/
The New York Times reports this morning that Chris Christie’s administration used wreckage from 9/11 as “politically motivated gifts,” part of a politicization of the Port Authority that is coming under increasing scrutiny from federal prosecutors in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal.
For a state that lost hundreds of lives on Sept. 11, the gifts were emotionally resonant: pieces of steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center. They were presented by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to 20 carefully chosen New Jersey mayors who sat atop a list of 100 whose endorsements Gov. Chris Christie hoped to win.
snip/
Turning wreckage of the twin towers into politically motivated gifts before Mr. Christie’s 2013 re-election was only one example. The authority became a means to reward friends (or hire them) and punish adversaries, and a bank to be used when Mr. Christie sought to avoid raising taxes. Major policy initiatives, such as instituting a large toll and fare increase in 2011, were treated like political campaigns to burnish the governor’s image.
I am so glad this Christie mess is not going away. I want him to go down, and go down hard.
WOW!…incredible…yet he knowssss nothing!
Also today - from the same link
“Lawyers for two key figures in a political payback plot ensnaring New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration will be in court to try to convince a judge not to force them to turn over text messages and other private communications to state legislators investigating the matter.
Fired Christie staffer Bridget Kelly and two-time campaign manager Bill Stepien say complying with the subpoenas carries the risk of self-incrimination. Kelly planned to be in court on Tuesday; Stepien does not.”
Have a great day everybody’
Okay, I have decided that complaining about this winter isn’t doing any good as we have 6-10″ coming in tonight. So, I am going to try reverse psychology.
Have I told everybody how much I love winter. Man, I hope it keeps snowing right into June, I love it so much.
:) . That’s the spirit.
Yes, we know you love the snow! Doesn’t the sight of snow (along with the subfreezing temps) just put your whole mind and body at ease Japa?
Morning, Japa! Let’s take it easy on the reverse psychology re winter and snow, please. I know I’ve always felt that God has a sense of humour (specifically in regard to my own life) but I’m not sure, and don’t want to take any chances on his/her understanding of reverse psychology. Let’s not take the chance now that we’ve made it almost to the middle of March, okay?
Steve Stockman (RWNJ- TX) PARTY ANIMAL!!
For those that won’t click on this link…it appears that Mr. Stockman is partying with some Young Republicans at CPAC…..in a bathroom. While some guy is IN THE TUB. Oh, those judgmental little hypocrites……
And folks will still vote for him - sad
I know…BECAUSE of that, which is lunacy! I hope that he goes far, far away and we never hear from him again. Ever.
Goood morningggg, TODville.
POTUS is really too funny for words!
Indeed NW. This is incredible!!! :) :) It’s now the FIRST trend (after the promoted one)!!
Incredible.
Breakfast time. BRB
Exactly Donna, when President Obama circumvents the media firewall it drives them crazy.
The media could have helped millions of people get health insurance - they prefer to carry water for the GOP and help deny people Insurance
Someone should tweet that. Of
course, some like Chuckie will snort that it’s not their job to help people. SMH
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/03/11/religious-crusades-deny-americans-constitutional-rights.html
My Canadian friends would SO do that! That’s why I love them:)
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/443380499273494529
What is she up to now?!?!? She has been at it all morning and carrying on (Re the CIA and other)….
The President was getting too much positive press this morning so cold water must be thrown on it.
You know Donna, I didn’t want to say it, but I too got the distinct impression that they were trying to one-up his video interview, which is STILL the #1 trend on Twitter.
So, I think I have shamelessly watched that Zach Galifianakis interview with President Obama at least 15 times since I arrived at work.
You’re not the only one CK - it’s the #1 or #2 trend on Twitter now.
Love!
Must be trying to make up for the little “math opps” from yesterday….he’s only good for 1 + 0. Got it.
Is Knoller paid to send out numbers in tweets - he does nothing else - ever - I would really love a job like that. Does he ever report/write news in any other medium? What did he do before Twitter? Weird guy, weird employer.
He is the WH correspondent for CBS news. During the press briefings he sits there with a little note pad and occasionally asks a question. I guess he’s just jotting down numbers and figures on that note pad and nothing else.
Sure is a nice job. DF and I have already vowed to find out how we can apply.
I wonder if there are media jobs like that in my world? I’ll have to find out. I’m very good with counting now the grand babe is turning into a toddler :)
Knoller has to be friends with someone to keep that job going.
Yes we have! We can job share, hf….we’d work twice as hard for half the salary…..such a deal! AND we know what we’re talking about!! CBS give us a call!!
Was Knoller the Count on Sesame Street? Seems like all he wants to do is count.
:-D
So certain folks in the media, along with Feinstein are in outrage mode this morning. The media is once again looking for something they hope will embarrass the Obama administration. Something tells me that by the end of the day, this crap will have fizzled out and some people are going to have egg on their faces and it won’t be the administration.
This has been brewing for a long time and it’s getting pretty complicated. DiFi has called for an investigation from the DOJ.
Brennan’s testimony will most likely set the RW/MSM’s hair on fire.
Rozen seems to think that Brennan is a fraud - and that the WH is naive about him (See my tweet above). I’m not sure what her basis for saying this is. If it’s only on Feinstein’s unchallenged account, she may have a lot of walking back to do later today and in the coming days.
Yeah, I’ve been reading her tweets all morning. Her tweets often seem like “thinking out loud” hasty responses and that was my initial impression again this morning. DiFi appears to be out for Brennan’s head but I myself would like to know how and why removal was accomplished by committee staff.
I think I read somewhere that PBO favors some declassification. Am I right about that?
Those were CIA computers, not the committee computers….this will go nowhere fast.
These people are paranoid…..
Does she think the data Snowden stole was from a computer at his work station was his ?
Yes, it seems to me that there’s a lot of ignorance flowing through the media - in their desperation to find the slightest speck of dust to throw at the Obama administration.
Good morning y’all!
Is anyone left in the GOP sane - from NYT’s piece on Christie and the Port Authority today
“Mr. Wildstein, a onetime anonymous political blogger who, like Mr. Baroni, has resigned in the wake of the lane closings, was hired in 2010 and quickly developed a reputation as the governor’s enforcer at the agency. He was known to schedule meetings with subordinates early on Monday mornings — never specifying the topic, leaving them to fret for the weekend — then cancel. He seemed to appear from nowhere in officials’ doorways, staring until they invited him in.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/nyregion/even-before-fort-lee-lane-closings-port-authority-was-a-christie-tool.html
Could be some crazy talk if Wildstein ever decides to give evidence to the NJ enquiry.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Tears…..I needed that.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/11/foxs-elisabeth-hasselbeck-inappropriate-for-the-president-to-be-advertising-a-law/
Like I said above - sanity and the GOP have parted company.
They are all pissed and afraid that the #ObamaCare is spreading deep and wide.
The bleach is getting to her brain….but….what is Kilmeade’s excuse ?
Boonstra’s old plan cost $1,100 a month in premiums or $13,200 a year, she previously told The News. It didn’t include money she spent on co-pays, prescription drugs and other out-of-pocket expenses.
By contrast, the Blues’ plan premium costs $571 a month or $6,852 for the year. Since out-of-pocket costs are capped at $5,100, including deductibles, the maximum Boonstra would pay this year for all of her cancer treatment is $11,952.
When advised of the details of her Blues’ plan, Boonstra said the idea that it would be cheaper “can’t be true.”
“I personally do not believe that,” Boonstra said.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140310/LIFESTYLE03/303100100#ixzz2vfD3b997
Heh..AP doesn’t want to miss out now…
I thought Bush was at the Summer Olympics in Beijing when Russia invaded Georgia……
Russia invasion was Aug 7-16 2008
Oylmpics was Aug 8-24 2008
And G.W. Bush was on vacation when his pal Putin invaded Georgia and Bush stayed on vacation too. Now what would those racists right wing media haters say if President Obama had done that. Bush didn’t do a darn thing about Putin invading Georgia.
Good Morning Chips and TOD.
LIVE NOW: Oral Arguments, New Jersey BridgeGate Scandal - https://twitter.com/cbsdigitalweb
Rise and Shine.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/03/11/rise-and-shine-771/