“Our rights, our freedoms—they are not given. They must be won.” —President Obama on the Civil Rights Act #CRA50 http://t.co/HDoGzwHe7i
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 02, 202550 yrs ago, I stood with LBJ as he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, THE most important vote of my career. Watch: youtu.be/sQsVVYpY6pI?t=…
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John Dingell (@john_dingell) July 02, 2025****
Dow when Obama took office was 8000.
Dow expected to reach 17,000 today.
#SoSueMe http://t.co/CIjuUmeSXM
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Libby Reale (@LibbyReale) July 02, 2025"Dobby must punish himself most grievously for requesting birth control, Sir. Dobby only wanted to prevent unwanted pregnancy. - Hobby Dobby
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(@pourmecoffee) July 02, 2025****
Pres Obama talks w USA soccer goalie Tim Howard and team captain Clint Dempsey pic.twitter.com/415DqvQvBp
— petesouza (@petesouza) July 2, 2025
So awesome. Classy guys all around. Raw Video: President Obama Calls Clint Dempsey & Tim Howard http://t.co/dWY6b0bB4s via @youtube
— ForUS50 (@FORUS50) July 2, 2025
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WE DID IT!
@Target took a stand for the safety of our families by asking its customers to leave their guns at home! http://t.co/qlH96wWM4O
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(@Everytown) July 02, 2025Closely held 21,000 employee, 572 store $2.28 billion dollar retail craft store chains are people, my friend.
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(@pourmecoffee) July 02, 2025*****
Man, just say Obama is BLACK BLACK BLACKETY BLACK and you don't want his black ass in your WHITE house. Keep it real.
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DALAYYYY (@TheToast2013) July 02, 2025Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray my Boss my benefits keep
He watches me through day and night
Telling me what's wrong and right
Amen
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(@pourmecoffee) July 01, 2025****
Come on people, fuck @QuinnipiacPoll
("Hello Teabagger, how much do you hate the black dude? A lot or a huge lot?") http://t.co/EW0XltJtwa
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) July 02, 2025If you didn't get enough today and still want to watch people block absolutely everything but ultimately lose, there is the House GOP.
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(@pourmecoffee) July 02, 2025****
anniversary of civil rights act a reminder to liberals to stay optimistic. our setbacks today nothing compared to what they faced, and won
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Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 02, 2025Clearly not Mitt. RT @sppeoples Voter to Romney: "Please run!" Romney: "We'll get someone who can win."
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(@LOLGOP) July 02, 2025****
Civil Rights Act passed 73-27 in Senate, 289-126 in House. 80 % of Republicans voted for it. Can you imagine that happening today?
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) July 02, 2025Recall that the view that Hobby Lobby just brought to the mainstream was voted down by 58 percent of Mississippi voters.
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Irin Carmon (@irin) July 02, 2025****
Maybe we should stop calling it "birth control" and calling it "child support prevention". If it's for *men*, well, then it's untouchable.
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Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) July 02, 2025M'am, the AK is fine but you'll have to leave the Plan B outside. We're not *that* open carry.
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(@LOLGOP) July 02, 2025
White House.gov
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Oh no you did not Ms. Chips. :) :) :)
But it’s Nerdy’s post COS, so my actions were entirely moral - and triumphant. —-> :star:
I can accept that Chips. :)
Well I cannot - *she* uploaded it! Don’t let her bamboozle you, COS ;)
Foul. You posted it. You had inside knowledge. Therefore you are not first. COS is first. Stop cheating, Chips.
Hey NW.
Hey, COS.
Hey!
Thanks a traaaaaaaaaaaabillion Nerdy!
You’re welcome.
Ah damn! I just assumed I was behind the curb and go distracted. Then I finally did scroll and saw “Leave a comment”.
By then it was too late! Woe is me!
Well, Dudette, there are those who could be contenders and are contenders and there are the rest of us Terry Malloys who never make it to the top. It’s a good club, though.
:-D
One of these days - when you are not too busy & if there are not too many steps to it - you’ve got to teach me how to cut a video for exactly the portion you want.
Girl, I wish I DID know how to do that. I just find stuff on YouTube that works. :-)
:cry: TY though.
Stuff I find there usually has more than I want to share/say when I’m trying to make a point. Case in point, see the end of this video (I don’t want the slap as I find it’s ‘too much’, but don’t know how to slash it off.)
I see what you mean. :-)
I knew you would! Sometimes people don’t get when enough is enough (including me - at times). ;)
ROFLMAO — Hobby Dobby! :-D :-D :-D
Seriously. Funny. :) :)
Awesome set of tweets, NW. As usual you hit all the right notes.
Thanks, Jackie.
Fine, fine Tweet selections. :cool: Thanks NW.
:star: For :cool: Chips and another :star: for COS
Thanks, Nena.
NW, GREAT tweets. I especially like Chips tweet!!
Huh, you soccer nuts always like vulgarity :roll:
Hahaha, especially when it drives the message home!
http://www.mediaite.com/online/audio-emerges-from-thad-cochrans-hijacked-press-call/
Political Twitter was transfixed earlier today with what reporters described as a pandemonium that erupted on a Thad Cochran press call over a question about the campaign “harvesting black votes” like black people harvested cotton. And now there’s audio.
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Keep talking mister.
This guy joked about the indecent things he did with animals.
Keep talking. At 76, this guy may not be all there. Yet Better him than Daniels.
C?
I have Grown Weary of he press milking this….why doesn’t the press find out what forces motivated and organized blk folks to the polls…this meme that blk folks were stupid and naïve is irritating…
It’s interesting to note that there is not one woman member of Congress at the signing of the Civil rights Act. We’ve still got a very long way to go to achieve equality in the US congress, but such a momentous signing would be a different picture today.
There would be no such signing if it were today. Remember what kind of Congress we have right now.
Witness the kinda crap going on around the “debate” over immigration reform today.
http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2014/07/usa-belgium-second-most-viewed-mens-soccer-telecast-ever-in-u-s/
Combined TV, Digital and Audio Coverage Posts Average Minute Audience of Nearly 18 Million
ESPN Telecast Averages 16,491,000 Viewers and 9.8 HH US Rating
Match Generates WatchESPN Viewership Records
ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC Telecasts Reach Nearly 100 Million People
Significant Viewership Growth Over 2010 and 2006, including in All Key Demos
Match Sets Rating Record in 20 markets; Washington, D.C.; New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles Highest-Rated Thru 56 Games
ESPN’s telecast of the United States’ 2-1 loss to Belgium in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Round of 16 on Tuesday, July 1, averaged 16,491,000 viewers and a 9.8 US HH rating, making it the second most-viewed men’s soccer match in the United States ever, across all networks (behind the 18,220,000 viewers and 9.6 US HH rating ESPN earned for USA vs. Portugal on June 22).
However, in the US of A the number one sport will always be American football.
It is and always will be. :)
Never say never Jovie. As USA demographics change and it is changing fast, I would not be surprised that Soccer will beat out Baseball and be the number three most popular game…Football, Basketball, Soccer and Baseball. Baseball is dying…..
Thanks Obama.
London musician Aleksander Kolkowski is giving new life to a dying musical format—by turning it into an even older format. His idea: repurpose the compact disc to play like its musical predecessor, the vinyl record. “I’m taking the optical digital back to analogue,” he says. Using a modified Wilcox-Gay Recordette—a 1950s home stereo and recording device—Kolkowski cuts grooves into a CD, making it playable on a turntable. The re-engineered CD plays at 45 rotations per minute for up to two minutes and 50 seconds. The audio result is “a nice, warm sound, like it’s been remastered through an overdriven tube amplifier.”….
….His CD-Recycled 45rpm project is part of a larger series of work having to do with repurposing, remaking, and recreating, including an installation at the Science Museum in London called The Exponential Horn. For the exhibit, Kolkowski helped reconstruct a 1930s loudspeaker to broadcast newly-created sounds, music, and spoken word, in an exploration of its original intention to establish a benchmark in audio quality. He’s also recreating one of the first-ever recordings of a symphony onto wax discs in a project for the Royal College of Music. “In 1913, in Germany, one of the very first attempts was made to record a whole symphony. We are re-enacting that recording session using wax discs. No one has actually attempted a full orchestra using a wax recording lathe before, so it’s a serious research project, as well as a lot of fun.”
Kolkowski, who collects string and wind instruments as well as gramophone and phonograph players, says he’s always been interested in early recording formats and has “a fascination with the listening experience.” “As a sound artist, I’m interested in using antiquated audio technology to challenge notions of obsolescence and, as well as making connections with the past, in giving a new perspective on our current relationship to recordings, amplification and digital sound.”
This is cool!
I thought so myself, MS. If I ever make it to London would love to check out his exhibit! …..always wished I had enough creativity to make a living as an artist & travel the world :)
Fluffy Christie has Vetoed the Gun Rights Bill in NJ. In 2013, it was the High capacity Bullets.
I’m still mad at NJ Dems for punking out and voting for that creep. Ugh!
It’s so nice to be home from work! Today was my Monday and it lived up to its billing. Time to get my chill on:
Target did the right thing after all this time? Too bad they allowed guns in the first place, if they did.
I don’t know if anybody posted this, but Chris Rock’s monologue was pretty funny(many won’t get some of the jokes)……..the best riff was on Scandal FF to 3:30 mark:
“The real reason Scandal is such a hit is b/c every thursday at 10 america gets to tune in and there is a white president…..”
He was AWESOME. I watched it live and he was spilling truth, left, right, and center. When he interviewed white people about BET and what N.W.A. stands for and a white woman responded with “National White Association.” I almost choked on laughter. Chris’s WTF expression was gold and had me cracking up.
So wonderful to see him hosting again.
He’d be fantastic at the WHCD. (Desertflower’s wonderful idea)
I spit my drink out during that bit at the monster truck rally…….my favorite was the guy who was asked if he ever tried dating a black woman…..priceless!!!
Aw! :-)
I watched the raw video of the President congratulating Clint and Tim. When he started talking about Tim fabulous blocking I could see the President wanted to ask Tim he could give him pointers since he’s been blocking the GOP BS for six years…..
So true, jojo. I hope that all is well, and remember to stay cool in our lovely heat. I was out most of today, but I kept my water with me and made it back home safe after being out in the heat. {{{{{{{{{{{ Love you, jojo}}}}}}}}}HZ
Hello My Darling Sweet HZ. Yes all is well and I am staying cool in all our heat. Hope you are doing well, so glad that you are staying hydrated while you are out and about. There was a lot fireworks going off about an hour ago. I am praying there are no fires due to careless people with fireworks. I wish they would ban them throughout CA due to the drought Please take care over this 4th of July Weekend. (((( lots of hugs and love to you too )))).
…….interesting
Seriously?
Wow.
Facts Matter.
Those who ignore the Facts where this POTUS is concerned are Liars or Rcaists or both.
Pow! Right to the kisser!
Bill Clinton was lucky to have Bill Gates was very much pulling the world economy along all through the 90’s.
Er, :oops: Usage? Whoa..
One of my Very Favorite Tones ;)
Thank you Sweet Dudette <3 it
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One of my all-time favorites. Love it!
:-)
Wow!
Never change Fox *News*……..
I think this is all a ruse to make Rupert look good while Roger Ailes runs the GOP broadcasting netwrok
Immigration Reform Can’t Wait http://online.wsj.com/articles/rupert-murdoch-immigration-reform-cant-wait-1403134311
There is rarely a good time to do hard things, and America won’t advance if legislators act like seat-warmers:
When I learned that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor had lost his Republican primary, my heart sank. Not simply because I think he is an intelligent and talented member of Congress, or because I worry about the future of the Republican Party. Like others who want comprehensive immigration reform, I worried that Mr. Cantor’s loss would be misconstrued and make Congress reluctant to tackle this urgent need. That would be the wrong lesson and an undesirable national consequence of this single, local election result. People are looking for leadership—those who stand for something and offer a vision for how to take America forward and keep our nation economically competitive. One of the most immediate ways to revitalize our economy is by passing immigration reform………
Shouldn’t the image in the Fox graphic be a Native American, rather than the Statue of Liberty, to go with “Defending the Homeland”?
I’ve always HATED Bush’s use of the term “homeland,” after 9/11, anyway. So reminiscent of Nazi Germany to me. Just my own personal opinion.
how is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZJj3JdVzuo from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px3xytbNzcs
Loved this when it was live and love it still.
Thanks for reminding us of the wonderful performances of that night, Dudette.
You’re more than welcome Nerdy. I love all of the musical performances that POTUS and FLOTUS have showcased over the years. I found this one especially stirring. Can’t wait to see what else might be in store for us from the next performance night whenever that may be.
How long? Not long.
That’s exactly right. Was just having a long talk with my 23-y/o granddaughter about all this. She’ll be voting with me in November.
Excellent. Tell her to talk to her friends about it too.
I will!
Think I’ll head off to dreamland. Thanks for the music!
:-) YW!
And on that Rainbow, G’Nite and sweet Dreams.
Beautiful!
G’night Nena! That was lovely!
I was not pleased with the bumbling answers given by Gov. Howard Dean and Steve Schmidt on Lawrence’s show tonight, regarding the Murietta issue. Was especially disappointed with Howard Dean. Schmidt always play that both sides crap.
The part was in the end they were taken to San Ysidro and was warmly greeted along the roadside. I am glad they saw not everyone is mean and heartless as those Murrieta assholes.
Thank you Nerdy for the fun and fantastic post! I have been out for the last few hours so this was fun to see as I checked back in woo hoo, I made the front page lol. We’ve been having some wild rain storms in Chicago; here’s a picture from last night. This guy has some amazing photography if you want to follow him on Twitter you will not be disappointed.
Sometimes I think the east coast forgets that the west coast exists.
Case in point.
@LATimes headline:
NASA carbon observatory finally reaches space: Let the CO2 hunt begin!
The rocket launched at 2:56 am PDT this morning from Vandenberg AFB, near Santa Barbara at Point Conception.
Rockets launched around sunset (or just after) provide an amazing light show for all of SoCal. I grew up in the San Diego area and our girl scout troop was mesmerized around the campfire one evening (it must have been summertime).
This is what NASA tweeted:
You’re right. Tell ’em!
Good to read that Target gained some sanity - BUT - I would think this wasn’t for the benefit of its customers, rather for the benefit of the bottom line - Target sales must have been hurting.
Of course. First they let millions of customers credit card info get stolen around Christmas time, now this. I’m one of those people who’s bank forced them to replace their card as a precaution. I haven’t shopped there since. Then they’ll letting people walk around with weapons of war through their aisles? They had no choice but to relent. The fact that they took so long to stop that madness shows just how insincere they were about caring for the customers “experience.” Fuck them.
Used to love that store. For years. I don’t plan on going there ever again.
#TrustBarack
#OWNthe114th
Yes WE MUST
good night TOD
one item before departing …
Yes indeed, Bob! As always you are so good at going to the heart of the matter while using very few words. We must never let right wing ideologues, media pundits, and the Bill Clinton worshipers, forget the reality that President Obama faced, from day one of his presidency.
This might be one of the strangest games ever. The last place Chicago Cubs in Boston and they trounce the Red Sox. I mean the Sox are bad, awfully bad this year with a record the same as the Cubs but the Sox are in the American League East so the Cubs are like a farm team in comparison (sorry Cubs fans I’m a Cubs fan too but facts are facts). The Cubs have trouble scoring more than 1 or 2 runs a game. WTH.
Nite nite y’all!
Sweet dreams y’all.
Thank you for the music Dudette - I got waylaid on the last thread listening to your choices. :)
:-) Glad you’re enjoying int 99ts!
I know “everybody” got one, but I’m laughing my ass off. Me! I’m a lifelong member of the fictitious Athletics Anonymous organization, and even I got one of these thank-you’s. Very good public relations, if ya ask me!
Ha! Love it! Looking good! :-)
I could probably fool some kids with this, but I’ll let it go and just enjoy the moment. Ha!
Never heard of this kid before. He’s got SKILLS! I like very much!
Pretty cool mentor to luck into…
I think I want to buy everything this woman sings.
This’ll do it for me tonight, guys!
Dream wistfully! Sleep restfully! Big <3 to you all!
Had to come back and post this. :-)
… and this. :-)
We keep similar hours Dudette - but at opposite ends of the equator :) Sweet dreams
:-)
Brava, Dudette! You are truly a lady of all seasons! I know you may have gone to sleep by now, but I wanted to thank you for sharing great music, and for sharing positive information on the Obama economy. Here is my personal anecdote about the Obama economy. Today I got a letter, dated June 30, 2014, from the Assessor’s Office, informing me that the value of my home, from January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2014, went up by 26%. In some areas in San Diego, the letter said, some home values have gone up 33%. This, of course, means that my property taxes will go up. Fortunately, the increase will only be 2%, which is not unbearable. But believe me, I am so delighted, and thankful to President Obama’s economy, that the value of my home has gone up.
Thank YOU Nath! Music just feeds me in so many ways. I’m glad I have TOD to share it.
I’m also delighted at the resurgence of our economy under President Obama. I laughed out loud when I got my last property tax increase too, because it meant the value of my house had risen back to what it was before the economy tanked. One of my cousins thought I was nuts. She doesn’t get how that means the local economy is recovering. You try to explain stuff to some folks. Not everyone gets it. I keep trying though. :-)
A good thread on BJ - but this comment is the best - has to be a TODer in disguise
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/07/02/stockpile-open-thread-a-history-of-violen-t-stupidity/#comment-5043071
President Obama may yet end up on Mount Rushmore.
followed by 32 major achievements - and no doubt many missing from the list
Of course, it’s Obamas fault. Not congress? Of course!
Alito brief: if you’re pregnant get back in the kitchen and bare foot dammit.
Happy Thursday, everyone!
Happy Thursday VC and TOD.
Moooooorning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/03/early-bird-chat-286/