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GM Chips, Danny O
Goooooood morning Roberta!
Yippee for Roberta!
Am I really 1st Woooootđđđđđ
Love those pics with the President talking to children.
Gâmorning Chips and TOD! Congrats Roberta on #1 :)
Gooooooood morning Hopefruit!
Thanks hp I never am ready when Chips decides to post. I was scanning laptop fir virusâs & lo & behold I got a notice. đđđđ
Morning Roberta in MN, Morning, hopefruit2, Morning, Chips….morning John boy…. :)
:lol: Night Elizabeth!
:) :) Find your hairbrush yet? Danny didnât eat that….youâll find it sooner or later….fingers work to do your hair with….like youâve just been to the beach:)
I am still hairbrush-less, DF - I took Danny for a swim yesterday evening and I got some very funny looks. I was hoping people would just think my hair was windswept, even though there wasnât any actual wind. And I donât have time today to go out and buy a new one, working from home, so the tragedy persists. By the time I get one, or find the old one, my hair will be unbrushable. Pray for me.
My mom took me to see my dad at work after picking me up from a lakeside girl scout camp. I canât remember if I had a brush or comb with me, but I obviously didnât use it after swimming twice a day for 2 weeks. My dad took one look at me and said, “Take her to the beauty parlor”—-I must have been a fright. My hair had reached the crisis stage where a brush was no longer effective, could not make it thru my tangled locks, and I had to have it all chopped off.
So—-maybe youâd look cute with a new little pixie cut, no brush needed.
“I had to have it all chopped off.”
That is now my greatest fear, Dotster!!!! :)
Well…as someone who cut her waist length hair off years ago…until now when itâs VERY short and sassy….itâs liberating! Cut it off! Cut it off! One less thing a busy woman like yourself has to worry about:) My hair always looks fabulous!
GM DFL, hope you all at TOD have a good one. We have sunny skies this morning more âĄď¸This afternoon. We had a pretty nasty storm last night but nothing like NE & SD.
Good Morning BFF and TOD.
PRESIDENT OBAMA TO VISIT TechShop IN PITTSBURGH TODAY.
Moooooorning BFF!!!
Morning. Those are the cutest kids, especially the little one the president is pointing to-a real heart stealer. There have been some discouraging articles in the news lately about Latinos not coming out to vote in November. We canât let that happen. I think the message has to be clear that as long as Republicans lead the US House nothing will be done to help Latinos because they simply donât care. Weâre having another Latino rally/fiesta this summer and Iâm looking for a “caring” message to characterize Dems in one quick phrase, even though some Dems miserably fail to live up to that message. Still, we have to keep trying.
Yes…donât let it get you down…they know whoâs trying to help them :)
http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2014/06/17/infographic-gop-has-a-lot-to-win-or-lose-on-immigration-reform/
Lots of goodies to check out in here
Well, Df, based on these polls, I hope Republicans donât wake up before November. The GOP has done nothing in all their years of House control, except to vilify and stereotype Latinos. I donât want anyone to forget that because they tried to save their own sorry bacon before the election. Aside from immigration reform, itâs the every day war Republicans wage on education, minimum wage, health care and all the other issues that affect Latinos and other Americans. Slapping lipstick on the pig at the last minute does not make the pig an attractive date.
“There have been some discouraging articles in the news lately about Latinos not coming out to vote in November”
I think we need to be VERY careful about what we hear “in the news.” There were similar stories about Latinos in 2012…and the general reporting in “the news” is to get DEMOCRATS upset, discouraged, deflated by framing things in the most negative way - even if it renders them completely untrue.
Note the contrast - where Eric Cantorâs massive defeat was NEVER foretold or even hinted at in the media - his corrupt pollsterâs “numbers” were accepted and promoted by “the news.” And if there was any evidence to the contrary, we didnât hear about it because “the news” made sure that nothing negative a prominent Republican was going to be reported.
I agree, Hf, but it does tend to discourage Dem workers who keep asking how they can get Latinos to the polls. Throughout 2012, I could feel the love for our president and knew that was going to make a difference. The name ‘Obamaâ was magical when you said it. We are sadly lacking in similar charisma in our current Dem candidates and while many of us try to model the presidentâs heart, there are some who canât help saying something stupid. In our organizing meeting last week, things were said that alienated a number of new Latino committee members. Now we have to spend our time mending fences. We canât allow ourselves to be our own worst enemies.
Morning toddies :-) PBO preparing a statement on Iraq -soon on morning shows.
Thanks Kathleen for the heads-up.
Good Morning…
I woke up to Bill Kristol on MSNBC and Paul Wolfowitz on CNN
Cable News is a Comedy Show.
Amazing, isnât it? The sheer audacity of it all…you can clearly tell they think Americans are stupid idiots and have no recall of the Bush Debacle in the ME.
Unfortunately, enough Americans for them *are* stupid idiots. Thereâs the rub.
I. JUST.CANâT.
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Auditions held for Rob Ford The Musical
By Shawn Jeffords,Toronto Sun
First posted: Monday, June 16, 2025 04:36 PM EDT
Kevin Jollimore strolls into the audition, a pillow stuffed down the front of his shirt, his blond hair spiked, suit jacket tightly buttoned. For a few minutes, he is Mayor Rob Ford.
Jollimore is the last in a long line of seasoned thespians â and more than a few amateurs â desperately trying to channel Torontoâs crack-smoking chief magistrate.
He sings, he dances and he performs a monologue at Second Cityâs training room Monday afternoon. He does it all without mentioning taxpayers, subways or the gravy train. Rather than busting out some patented Ford cliches, Jollimore wants to show off his acting chops in a bid to land the lead role in Rob Ford The Musical: The Birth of Ford Nation.
âHeâs not all evil,â Jollimore said of Ford after the audition, unbuttoning the suit jacket and pulling the pillow out from under his shirt. âHeâs just a guy with some problems.â
Jollimore has been a professional actor for years and even has a role as Richard Nixon in a production set to hit the cityâs Fringe Festival this year. Anyone looking to land the Ford role has to infuse it with a little humanity, he said.
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/06/16/auditions-held-for-rob-ford-the-musical
Great toon :) http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/files/2014/06/Negotiation.jpg
Here! Here! http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gregory-meeks-john-mccain-iraq
Dem Rep.: The Media Should Stop Consulting John McCain On Iraq
Hits head with a hammer…..
Wisdom and perspective on combing his hair with spit ? I think I will send this to Cuomo
Fucking ghoul. Yes…send it to Whatâs His Face…Wisdom and Perspective? STFU, Cuoma!
Send this to him too.. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/watch-paul-wolfowitz-said-not-worry-about-sectarian-violence-iraq-bush
Enough to make you want to chug antifreeze (as Charles would say!)
I know Jon Stewart can be extremely maddening, but this was excellent and on the money last night…
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stewart-who-cares-about-iraq-opinions-of-people-who-got-the-fcking-thing-wrong/
But the insults those a.h.s throw around are beyond belief - I didnât know just how revolting, insulting and down right evil is Lindsay Graham - until I watched that
Dear heavens - they rewrite history - it seems President Obama started every war in history - way back to the civil war!
Very good piece. Thanks jer. effing media are the fifth columnists.
Speaking of stupid… http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/16/jindal-legal-action-on-the-table-to-combat-epa-rules/
Because the people of LA donât NEED clear air to breathe! And quit making those polluters clean up their damn oil spills. Damn regulations!!
Good Morning/Night TODobots!
All the hair talk above is making me feel quite self-conscious. What does it matter how your hair loooks when you are working from home, Chips Chica? Iâm sure DannyO loves you just the natural way you are - probably the exact reason he hid the brush!
Happy Tuesday TODers
Congrats on 1st Roberta
Heeeeya Chips!!
Hellooooooooo Africa!! Found and freed ya from pending, yet more WP glitches :roll:
Muchos Thank You!! :)
/waving/ Hi Roberta, itâs good to see your face way up there! :grin:
Good Morning TODers
The other day, there was a lady who had written to say she needed to take a break and how the negativity & POTUS bashing was discouraging.
I could totally understand her POV. While twitter has taken over some parts of my life, I sometimes think it would be better if I could cut it cold turkey. Its so depressing to read day in and day out of the Right Wing stupidity & bigotry.
On the one hand, I know we canât turn a blind eye to what they say, we should be prepared to counter and fight their talking points. But sometimes itâs just too draining. How do you argue against someone so freaking insane and hateful?
This for me is just the tip of the iceberg for what represents the rotting humanity of Conservatives:
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Representatives of prominent conservative groups converged on the Heritage Foundation on Monday afternoon for the umpteenth in a series of gatherings to draw attention to the Benghazi controversy.
But this one took an unexpected turn.
What began as a session purportedly about âunanswered questionsâ surrounding the September 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Libya deteriorated into the ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-heritages-ugly-benghazi-panel/2014/06/16/b8bd423c-f5a3-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html
I posted this last night and had pretty much the same comment as you…the ignorance and hatefulness is just stunning. They really are just hate filled people that revel in their ignorance. We just put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward. Eventually, theyâll die out. Sorry, but itâs true..
Honestly, thatâs the only thing I console myself with too, that eventually they will “Darwin” themselves out…
Believe…and keep working toward equality.
And with that image-the harassment of a young Muslim woman-the Republicans lost every Muslim American in the US as well as their friends and those with common sense. The more they descend into outright, open bigotry, the more their true nature is known to everyone. They have reached the point where they are desperate. The GOP is becoming so outrageously, obnoxiously far right that they have no means of appealing to anyone with a working brain, so they dumb down, farther and farther until theyâre speaking to the part of the brain that only reacts without thought. If there are thinking Republicans left in this country, they should be the ones who are discouraged, not us.
AMEN SISTER!
‘And with that imageâthe harassment of a young Muslim womanâthe Republicans lost every Muslim American in the US as well as their friends and those with common sense.â
Morning JackieG!
But only if the image is shared far and wide, which I suspect will be up to #wethepeople. The media is hardly like to do adequate spreading.
Joe Cirincione @Cirincione ¡ 12h
Must see to believe. 2 articles by Kristol & Kagan, both about What to Do in Iraq, one from 2002, one today. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/the-past-is-never-dead-bill-faulkner-said-but-what-did-he-know/372887/ âŚ
GOOD. This is what needs to be done. We the people need to actively stand up against brainwashing from media propaganda.
‘The Past Is Never Dead,â Bill Faulkner Told Usâbut He Didnât Know About the Iraq War
By James Fallows
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Am I sounding a little testy here? You bet. We all make mistakes. But we are talking about people in public lifeâwriters, politicians, academicsâwho got the biggest strategic call in many decades completely wrong. Wrong as a matter of analysis, wrong as a matter of planning, wrong as a matter of execution, wrong in conceiving American interests in the broadest sense. None of these people did that intentionally, and many of them have honestly reflected and learned. But we now live with (and many, many people have died because of) the consequences of their gross misjudgments a dozen years ago. In the circumstances, they might have the decency to shut the hell up on this particular topic for a while. They helped create the disaster Iraqis and others are now dealing with. They have earned the right not to be listened to.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/the-past-is-never-dead-bill-faulkner-said-but-what-did-he-know/372887/
Testing.
Youâre freed Africa, donât know what happened with your earlier comments, had you a typo in your sign-in maybe?
Thanks, Chips. I donât usually sign in. Cause I just leave my computer on TOD. Think my hubby used it last night, oh, well.
In any case, thank you!!!! I am in now and happy as a lark!! :) :)
:-) Welcome home Africa!!
I just saw some comments somewhere else (sorry, not sure where) referring to Cuomo actually coming down hard on Wolfowitz. hope thatâs the case, âcause anyone not doing so should immediately turn over any rights to practice journalism.
Can someone Tweet this? http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/facebookevilidiots.jpg
TY!
Hi DF
Done!!
Morning, africa:) Thank you!
Tiny Balls / No balls defense… http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2014/06/16/political-responsibility-rests-on-size-of-your-balls/
Iâd laugh hard. AH! Russia! Canât you just SMELL the Freedumb? !!
Ha! Ok now Snowden, out with it!
Silly girl! He has no balls..if he did, heâd be here facing the music for his treasonous ways!
This is the 2nd or 3rd time that Knoller has tweeted about the DNCâs outreach to the LGBT supporters at tonightâs fundraiser, since word of PBOâs executive order came out yesterday. Knoller is trying to imply that the executive order was done because of the upcoming fundraiser. Yet nary a peep from Knoller when his RNC pals routinely “fundraise” off their bigoted supporters by resorting to the lowest common denominator.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND COSTLIEST MISTAKES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Panic over the ISIS Offensive in Iraq: “Everyone should take a deep breath.”
By Paul Pillar
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Two final observations are directed especially at those who supported the game-changer of eleven years ago: the launching of the Iraq War. One is that all of the immense costs of that ill-fated expeditionâthe thousands of lost American lives, the greater numbers of broken bodies, the trillions in long-term monetary costs, and all the restâare sunk costs. There is no way to get them back. There is thus no basis for investing still more in Iraq in a feckless effort somehow to gain redemption for one of the biggest and costliest mistakes in American history. Launching the Iraq War was a blunder; accept that and get over it. The psychological urge is strong to double down on losses with the idea that those who died shall not have died in vain. But psychological urges do not make good policy.
The last observation is that ISIS is a direct result of the U.S. launching of the Iraq War. Before the American invasion, nothing like it existedânot in Iraq anyway, but only in the fevered minds of war-makers eager to find themes to use as selling points to get public support for the war.
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http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/the-isis-offensive-iraq-10656
(h/t Joe Cirincione)
It would have been helpful for them to provide a link to show the types of jobs.
R&S!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/06/17/rise-and-shine-845/