On This Day: Sen. Barack Obama plays a game of pool during a stop at Schultzie’s Bar & Hot Spot, May 12, 2025 in Springhill, West Virginia. (Photo by Scout Tufankjian)
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MoooOOOooorning - Happy Monday!
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GM Chips and all
And does PBO have to look good at everything - he really isn’t giving any other President a chance :)
99ts, Congrats on being first this lovely Monday Morning.
Thank you RanMan - you could get yourself into trouble with that there football question - but it seems MS Chips is in a bright and breezy mood this day :)
:-) I’m breezy-ish this morning 99ts, but definitely not bright!
Good evening 99ts!!
GM USA - there I was chatting to vc - and I held the door for her - and she has darn disappeared
She’s probably back on a May 12 (2010) post chatting to herself, 99ts.
GooOOOood MooOOOoorrrning, Chica! FYI I was doing my once-every-3/4-months (or when the bugs bite) *exercise*, so eat your heart out!
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So, is there something at May 12/2010 that I need to check out? Speak now or forever hold your peace.
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Howdy TODobots all! :) ;)
She’s caught up!!!! Mooooooorning VC :-)
You are such a rat! Just to be sure I wasn’t missing anything momentous I traveled back to May 12/2010…….
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where you had fortuitously ‘closed’ everything. Nothing will convince me that you didn’t close them just immediately before you dropped that red herring, knowing *I* would be sure to follow the trail…..just in case! Grrrr! ;)
Anyhoo (Hi Cookemom!) Chips Chica, the first pic was a pretty pic so I forgive you….. for now.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family. I hope all is well with everyone. So Ms. Chips and NW, now that Manchester City has won it all, where does the leave the both you? Just asking. :) :) :)
GM Chips and all my TOD friends. Happy Monday morning.
Gooooood mooooorning COS!
:-) Moooooorning Ranman!! There will be footballing peace between me and Nerdy until August, now that the season is over!
Really, or just until you stir her up when the devil moves you? /clasping hands and giving thanks for however long the footballing peace lasts/
Does this truce also apply to Lib_L, DCplod (?), and all the others?
:lol: It’s a complete truce VC, we have nothing to fight about until new season starts, so peace has broken out!!
A ‘complete truce’ - wow! I am so proud of you all! :grin: :grin:
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Now, I know you! Don’t go looking for anything to stir the others up over the next (blessed) 3-4 months.
G’morning Chips & TOD! Congrats 99ts on #1 :)
Moooooooooorning Hopefruit!
Thank you hf - have a great day
Good morning TOD family, I love the serenity that the early morning provides. It is in these moments that I draw strength that will ready me for the approaching storm.
Good morning Don, a happy Monday to you!
LOL….thank you
Good morning, Chips.
Good Morning Chips, Danny and all TODer’s. I was busy watching some of C-Span and missed to new thread. SOOO this is a late GM.
Have a great day. Will be back later today.
So bt, what’s beebs got against man c? Relegated from the fp. Never made the fp till now. What did you tell them??
Our last phase of elections over tonight. And our stock market bubble keeps ballooning setting record highs.
Wot? Me no understand!
yeah right.
Ah, no mention of Man C on the Beeb’s front page??? Quite right too, time to move on, that’s history.
bittah, bittah, bittah.
Not half as bittah as the people who bought this t-shirt:
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ooo, a collector’s dream.
Morning all. House is eerily quiet today as all offspring have gone, although tomorrow we travel for long delayed visit with MIL. We’re one week away from the PA primary and desperate governor candidates are working feverishly to knock at Tom Wolf’s lead. I don’ think it’s going to happen. I’ve even got my name on the ballot for committee membership, although it’s pretty much pro forma. Turnout will be low in this area, but Philadelphia teams are working hard to get turnout there. Have a great day!
The five stages of GOP scandal-mongering: A reader’s guide
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/05/08/the-five-stages-of-gop-scandal-mongering-a-readers-guide/
Great link, thank you Ladyhawke, have included it in R&S.
“THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE EXPOSED” (Beyond Brilliant)
Last Week Tonight Presents A Statistically Representative Climate Change Debate
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/05/last-week-tonight-presents-statistically
JOHN OLIVER: You don’t need peoples opinions on a FACT.
Beautiful Monday Morning Chips, my Danny and TOD family. Nice to be up early. These new computer devices going off with alarms that I had no idea that I set. Onward with the sprint in my step to get to the exercising bike. I am sure that is one reason my loving brother gifted me with this new tablet. Lovely chimes though.
Have a lovely day my TOD family. HZ
Good morning our beloved HZ!!!
Oh, my goodness. Good morning my beautiful Chips. This bike thing is a work of art. I will deliver myself to the desires of the pedals. Slowly now. These legs are not what they use to be. HZ.
The word “jorts” makes me laugh——-every single time I see it. (news you can’t use)
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Gooooooood morning GGail!
Chips, your good mornings always starts my day with a smile <3
Morning TOD:) This is a morning MUST READ..wherein Bob Cesca BRILLIANTLY rips George Will a new one….I don’t know, but i think he’s starting to sound a bit like Pierce when he gets spun up:) Absolutely spot on! THIS shows you specifically, and with clarity, why Republicans JUST DON’T GET THE 21st CENTURY! (Among other things)
http://thedailybanter.com/2014/05/george-will-bringbackourgirls-remarks/
Toxic Tribalism Poisons Hope for Infrastructure Plan
BY Norm Ornstein
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Among the most embarrassing and unconscionable failures of the 113th Congress has been the inability to act in any way to help the economy through an infrastructure initiative, including but not limited to energy. The country’s infrastructure is crumbling, and the energy infrastructure is outmoded.
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Polarization does not explain the failure to act on bills that transcend typical ideology. In a “normal” polarized environment, the fact is that Congress could and would pass bills that require no appropriations, no increases in government spending, the active participation of labor and business, and a way to prepare for the economy of the rest of the 21st century by borrowing low to create higher economic growth and improve the environment. Instead, we have an abnormal, tribal environment, where any bill that would accomplish a signing ceremony in the Oval Office or the Rose Garden is actively shunned. Low interest rates will not last forever; not to take advantage of them now to provide a better future for our children is simply pathetic.
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http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/toxic-tribalism-poisons-hope-for-infrastructure-plan-20140507
R&S!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/05/12/rise-and-shine-816/
Dear God…save them from themselves. Do it Now.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/total_lack_of_focus_for_bengha050297.php
But Gowdy wants to explore the policy behind our presence in Benghazi, and Speaker Boehner says he wants to explore the lack of security.
Appearing on Fox News on Sunday morning, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took a slightly different approach. While he said the select committee should focus on the events leading up to the Benghazi attack, he specifically said that members should investigate “the number of requests for more security and why it was not provided.”
Was he sleeping when they refused to fund embassy security? I hope this bites them in the ass.
No df - no-one should save this lot