*ahem* *cough* ‘We Chelsea fans are pure and abhor cheating.’
Is that so? ‘Pure’? I never knew that! /takes off hastily, heading around nearest corner of the nearest building/
The #BRA v #GER match also set a TPM record: Khedira's 29' goal (0-5) saw 580,166 TPM. #WorldCup http://t.co/188YGgrgZg— Twitter Data (@TwitterData) July 09, 2025
I love seeing this. When we lived in Boulder Colorado we owned a pool hall with a lunch counter in downtown Denver. This was in the 70’s. My husband was the pool god and I cooked. I loved it. So many stories go with this, but I had a serious car accident and we lost it.
Love to see the President having some fun. Very busy day so haven’t caught up on the posts. But I am so tired of hearing the Repubs telling the President what he needs to do to avoid his Katrina. I trust this President. Thank you Chips and Nerdy Wonka for keeping us so informed.
While Republicans say the influx of undocumented children from Central America is a pressing issue that requires immediate attention from the president, they aren’t willing to approve funding to address it.
The president “is asking to use billions of taxpayer dollars without accountability or a plan in place to actually stop the border crisis,” Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement.
Asked if he thought lawmakers would approve the proposal, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said, “No, given the mood here in Washington, I don’t have confidence it will happen.”
The president’s $3.7 billion request (a drop in the federal bucket) would, among other things, fund additional processing facilities and the personnel needed to run them as well as hire additional judges and lawyers to manage the legal necessities and ramifications of deportation.
The president’s proposal demonstrates that he is serious about tackling the issue in a prudent manner, but Republicans have other ideas.
Delurking to post this excellent article. For those who tweet please consider using this article (New Republic) to mock Andrea Mitchell. Chuck Todd and various other fools now criticizing ‘the optics’ of the President playing pool. This article clearly shows the difference between moronic ‘feed the beast’ cable hot air and decent analysis of the current border situation.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118591/child-migrant-border-crisis-isnt-obamas-katrina-not-even-close
cluny, thanks for bringing this article to TOD.
“Above all, though, there is the failure to consider even the most basic differences in context between the crisis in New Orleans and the Gulf coast in 2005 and what has been unfolding on the border. In the former instance, we were presented with an administration that willfully downplayed both the immediate threat of the approaching storm and the broader threat that, if the climatologists are to be believed, was represented by the storm.
In the latter instance, we are presented with an administration struggling to contain one particularly dramatic manifestation of a problem—a broken immigration policy—that the administration itself has been trying to fix, has indeed made its chief priority for the remainder of the president’s term, but has been stymied in comprehensively addressing by the identity crisis–driven obstructionism and indifference of the party that controls the House of Representatives. Other than that, yes, this is just like Hurricane Katrina. And the women and children lingering on the border, and the overwhelmed Border Patrol personnel trying their best to manage their presence, will be awaiting the magic word of whether the president’s caravan will be arriving on the horizon, which will surely solve everything.”
Hey Sailor man! Glad to see you back. Hope your stay in the Dells was refreshing. All has been secure on the home front and I believe we are making steady progress despite contentious headwinds. :D ( I have been keeping watch undercover 8)
This kind of programming on msnbc makes me furious. Joy Reid’s whole program so far has been airing Obama critics on the border hullabaloo—-first the usual critics and now the full speeches of McCain and Cornyn on the senate floor, now Jeff Flake chiming in. Who in the H does msnbc think are watching their channel. All the Obama haters who would just love this programming are watching FOX and are not straying. Obama supporters would tend to watch msnbc, if anything. I don’t understand this—-at all—-it’s just dumb. Idiotic. We have enuf of the garbage everywhere else. Can’t they spare us a bit on msnbc and try to find a couple of Obama admin. supporters to feature?
No, Dotster3. This is what all-out War against The President looks like.
On every channel.
Up late last night I wanted to see how the Mideast was doing and some disgusting guy on Al Ajazeera was calling PBO responsible for the entire tragedy in Israel and Gaza and The West Bank. Yes it was POTUS who kidnapped and killed both the three Israeli teens and burned to death the Palestinian youth.
The charge was that by not leading the entire world to peace this very second President Obama is the cause of the mayhem. The young peoples deaths were on him
This is beyond crazy and way into Evil.
There was no identifying nametag shown and I couldn’t tell if the monster speaking was israeli, Palestinian or American.
Yet they didn’t even bother to air pres Obama’s speech in Denver.
The so called MSM, once again, Flaming distorted, one sided negative diatribe against pres Obama.
These same people could careless about the plight of fellow citizens in Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, NOLA, Appalachia, Mountain Regions, Rural corners of USA, etc.
The effort gets clearer every day.
As the President detailed in his speech, The Media’s job is to depress sane people so much that they don’t vote.
The GOP uses fear and racial hate to get their nutjobs to the polls.
Democrats are deprived of a media platform. ALWAYS got LESS time. (GOP Sunday mornings)
Now the idea is to give us NO time.
Take solace in the fact that everyday more and more people are waking up to truth of what you stated. The best way to combat the GOP’s propaganda apparatus is to spread the word about what our media has devolved into. Without the media, the GOP will lose one of its greatest weapons. If we can discredit the msm by exposing the game being played, the ability of the GOP to convince people to vote against their own interests will be greatly diminished. A party that only looks out for the interests of 1-2% of the population cannot maintain power in a democracy without 1) control of the media to spread propaganda and 2) a populace who willing accepts the propaganda as truth. We cannot strip the GOP of its control of the media, but we can educate people about the role the msm plays in spreading pro-GOP propaganda.
Lawrence O. joined in the circus last night on his show.
If he goes to the border, then the pictures of George B. “real” Katrina moment will be placed next to a picture of President Obama at the border with the news headlines;
“Bush and Obama Looks on and They Did Nothing”
This is political in the worse way because they (repukes and MSM) only want to tie President Obama to Bush and his airplane moment. Congress repukes and some Dems can go to the border.
The hoopla is that the President brought this on himself because he is in Texas worried about fund raisers instead of the “crises.” You can’t even watch the local news here because it is dominated by the repukes talking points; the President created this, the President will not go to the border blah…blah….blah….. you know, that Charlie Brown moment when Lucy is talking and the horn is sounding.
Dotster, I turned away from Joy after the first 3 minutes or so. Also did not watch Lawrence last night after he showed those daily comments before his show. When I saw Andrea Mitchell’s comments, was my que not to watch. I really hope that PBO does not go to the border.
Joy even dug up an old clip from when PBO was in El Paso during his campaign talking about immigration, and made references to moats and alligators on the border.
I am starting to regret the day I wish for Joy Reid to get her own show. Once you get the show you have to write what the producers, the owners want tyou to say, when you are a guess you speak your mind.
Rusty Orange Crush Boehner has disdain for Palin and her Impeachment diatribe….this author says…..Hmm? But frivolous suing and charging the current president of breaking some trumped up law by Boehner is OK?
Watch John Boehner Barely Disguise His Disdain for Sarah Palin http://t.co/OowWTfZ2sL (VIDEO)
I’m filling in on Wednesday mornings for Storytime at one of our libraries which is without a children’s librarian. Today was our first day back after a 2 week break. After the Storytime, one of the moms pulled me aside and said “My daughter has been talking about Mr. LL the whole time you were off. I’m so glad you’re still here.”
Should I admit that I don’t remember the commercial, I wonder? I really never watched TV much growing up; maybe that’s why I was able to give it up so easily in 2008. ;)
Same reason every other fake scandal involving a Dem President has a “gate” added to it (a la Watergate). What Katrina and Watergate have in common are they happened to a GOP president, so the media to feed the “both sides do it” nonsense will struggle to fit anything a Dem president does into one of these two boxes (to convince public that Dem Presidents are as incompetent and corrupt as GOP Presidents, even though reality does not bear this out). This is also why the GOP is so fixated in forcing a Dem president from office via impeachment (payback for Nixon). As the assault on voting rights and women’s reproductive rights clearly illustrates, the GOP never gives up a cause or forgets a slight. Many in the GOP are still pissed at FDR for Social Security. Since the MSM is the communications arm of the GOP, we are to be forever bombarded with Watergate and Katrina (and to a lesser extent Iraq War) comparisons whenever we dare to elect a Dem President.
We should all inundate their twitter, e-mails, phones and mail delivery with pictures of the “real” Katrina.
Those images of how people suffered and died will be ingrained in my mind and heart forever.
Apparently they don’t remember what happened in that storm called Katrina.
They only want to bring President Obama down to George B. level of incompetency; decisions that he made that cost human lives.
They are itching for a picture of President Obama at the borders so that they can place it next to George B. airplane moment when he was doing nothing for the people of New Orleans and surrounding areas after Katrina.
I pray that President Obama “will not make their day.” Let Congress go, they aren’t working anyway, they have nothing but time.
The more the GOP use a phrase that was harmful to themselves in relation to smaller less severe event on the other side the more they deescalate the negativity involved against themselves for the first event.
Rep Gohmert is a former Judge. He has been representing TX for over 7 yrs now……elected in Nov 2004, 1st sworn in Jan 2005.
TX is today a Minority majority state. 38% are Hispanics, 14% Black and 3-5% Asians, American Indians, etc. So in this fools twisted mind, president Obama is doing what exactly to make TX Blue? TX can be blue this Nov if those who are Dems come out and vote. They could have since 2002……when only 22% of those eligible to vote went to the polls.
Of course all this hysteria in the news about the President and fundraising and border stuff, is driven solely by GOP emails.
They don’t want him fundraising, they hate it.
smh - you’re supposed to use this sparingly and strategically! It’s not meant as a lazy tactic! /in exasperation/ Didn’t you read the fine print for use?
Katrina, Katrina, Katrina……the only female name the media and GOP love the most in their failures to decimate pres Obama. Are We there yet? 11 Katrinas in my count to date.
optics: a word journalists now use because they think it makes them sound smarter than "appearance" or "how it looks"
After the loss, many Brazilians were strongly questioning whether holding the event was worth it, a bad omen for President Dilma Rousseff. She is campaigning for a re-election bid in October that many think could be made tougher by the soccer team’s poor showing.
“Like many Brazilians, I’m very, very sad because of this defeat,” Rousseff said as she took to Twitter to try to rally the nation. “I feel bad for all of us — for fans and for our players. But let’s not be broken. Brazil, ‘get up, shake off the dust and come out on top.’ ”
Although few thought Brazil’s humiliating loss would spark renewed mass protests, it is sure to put a severely sour taste back into the mouths of the nation’s fans.
“I hope this can make people wake up and start thinking with their heads and not their emotions and that people translate the anger they are feeling at the ballot boxes,” said Antonio Hipolito, who works at a bookstore in a wealthy part of Rio but lives in a distant, hardscrabble neighborhood.
“Soccer is just an illusion and we need to wake up to reality,” he said.
“But perhaps more important in this regard are three other data points reported in the Russian media over the last two days. First, polls show that large shares of Russians do not want to fight in Ukraine and are not prepared to boycott Ukrainian goods to bring Kyiv to heel.
Second, divisions about Ukraine are beginning to appear in the political elite. Mikhail Kasyanov, who served as Putin’s prime minister between 2000 and 2004 but later broke with him, says that Kyiv will never agree to recognize the pro-Moscow separatists as “a legitimate side in any negotiations,” something Putin has been seeking.
And third, anger about Moscow’s spending on the occupation of Ukraine’s Crimea is now spilling into the streets of some Russian cities. In Novosibirsk today, there was a demonstration scheduled against spending money that protesters say should go to Russians at home.”
The young man Anthony who came into IMentor office to model his new suit for his day with FLOTUS, Anthony looked handsome. You can’t help but being proud of young people like that.
Wise advice. Since the long view and the 24/hr news cycle are not compatible, I suggest folks take a break from the msm’s spewing of propaganda. It is bad for one’s mental health to try to make sense of the latest insanity the msm/gop is pimping. You won’t be missing much (can anyone remember what the msm had you upset about this time last week? The week before?). Recognize the game. Don’t let yourself get played. Life is too short to allow evil people to play with your emotions
yup. shiny object every week. regular as a clockwork. If you’re freaking out over what the msm does, you’re neither helping yourself or PBO. Mock them. Shoot the fact bullets at their smug faces.
yup. ditch the dutch is my mantra today. But is the mantra strong enough to keep me awake after midnight ? … Ok, lemme think this over a snifter of scotch.
Oh no! The showdown at the Ok Corral in big “A”. Austin, Texas. I am thinking Gov. Perry wear the glasses cause he can’t see, or he think they make him look smart.
White House.gov
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Indeed you are!
And I am a fair person - congrats to you 57 on our twin First place positions :-)
Didn’t even notice. You are a shining example of Graciousness.
:-)
Fast footwork - way to go around here!
And you were right on our heels vc
Just brushing away the dust you and 57F stirred up. ;)
Don’t stumble on the curb in the dust storm, vc!
*cough! I’m being careful, TY.
Now I know Nerdy would not cheat me out of First place :-)
btw - great summary of POTUS’ speech NW
I’m not Chips. I’m not a Manchester United fan. We Chelsea fans are pure and abhor cheating.
YOU HEAR THAT, CHIPAROOO?!?!
Congratulations, GGail.
Here’s your prize.
*ahem* *cough* ‘We Chelsea fans are pure and abhor cheating.’
Is that so? ‘Pure’? I never knew that! /takes off hastily, heading around nearest corner of the nearest building/
WooooWeeeeee - what a prize! Thanks NW :D
:lol: I hear ya Chelsea Girl, thank yoooooou for the post - PS United rule the world. (Or will, soon).
Is it a crime to save GGail’s prize to one’s own computer? Asking for a friend.
J’OB, girl, you and the whole world can save my prize, you can print it out and even post it on your bedroom wall. Enjoy!
Bedroom wall. Now there’s a thought!
Down, girl.
Hubba hubba :D
Ha!
Excellent ammunition on Boehner’s ‘jobs bills’:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/has-boehner-read-his-list-jobs-bills
GGail and 57andFemale clocked in at the same time, earning the Au :star: :star: ;)
Indeed, DD4O
Why Ooooo Why does what she says matter. For me, I say, please Palin, keep talking.
They all do. I’ll say one thing for Palin she knows that the rubes aren’t only in the Republican base.
So BRA and GER Game on 7-8-14 ‘broke’ Twitter ;)
Republican Argument for Suing Obama Goes Down In Flames As Fact Checkers Expose the Lies
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/07/09/republican-argument-boehners-lawsuit-pants-fire-rating-politifact.html
I love seeing this. When we lived in Boulder Colorado we owned a pool hall with a lunch counter in downtown Denver. This was in the 70’s. My husband was the pool god and I cooked. I loved it. So many stories go with this, but I had a serious car accident and we lost it.
Love to see the President having some fun. Very busy day so haven’t caught up on the posts. But I am so tired of hearing the Repubs telling the President what he needs to do to avoid his Katrina. I trust this President. Thank you Chips and Nerdy Wonka for keeping us so informed.
Awesome video!
http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2014/07/do-something-no-dont-do-something-2.html
While Republicans say the influx of undocumented children from Central America is a pressing issue that requires immediate attention from the president, they aren’t willing to approve funding to address it.
The president “is asking to use billions of taxpayer dollars without accountability or a plan in place to actually stop the border crisis,” Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement.
Asked if he thought lawmakers would approve the proposal, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said, “No, given the mood here in Washington, I don’t have confidence it will happen.”
The president’s $3.7 billion request (a drop in the federal bucket) would, among other things, fund additional processing facilities and the personnel needed to run them as well as hire additional judges and lawyers to manage the legal necessities and ramifications of deportation.
The president’s proposal demonstrates that he is serious about tackling the issue in a prudent manner, but Republicans have other ideas.
Why Republicans need to become obsolete.
What time is the other soccer game? I hope the people of Brazil have recover.
4:00 PM EDT
3:00 CT
2:00 MT
1:00 PT
On ESPN and ESPN Spanish
LIVE Streaming too.
Thank you Nena. I might watch some of it. I missed every second of Brazil-Germany.
So Glad this Dog helped catch the person who stabbed him.
Made me laugh too!! LOL
Good, honey! (I don’t usually go after appearances, but if you’re a Republican, I lose all control. Ha!)
You probably aren’t an expert pig deballer though——-or if you are, bragging about it as if it was your biggest accomplishment.
No, I am not. Let me make that clear.
(She’s a wreck, isn’t she?)
Delurking to post this excellent article. For those who tweet please consider using this article (New Republic) to mock Andrea Mitchell. Chuck Todd and various other fools now criticizing ‘the optics’ of the President playing pool. This article clearly shows the difference between moronic ‘feed the beast’ cable hot air and decent analysis of the current border situation.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118591/child-migrant-border-crisis-isnt-obamas-katrina-not-even-close
Thanks, cluny. Will do.
cluny, thanks for bringing this article to TOD.
“Above all, though, there is the failure to consider even the most basic differences in context between the crisis in New Orleans and the Gulf coast in 2005 and what has been unfolding on the border. In the former instance, we were presented with an administration that willfully downplayed both the immediate threat of the approaching storm and the broader threat that, if the climatologists are to be believed, was represented by the storm.
In the latter instance, we are presented with an administration struggling to contain one particularly dramatic manifestation of a problem—a broken immigration policy—that the administration itself has been trying to fix, has indeed made its chief priority for the remainder of the president’s term, but has been stymied in comprehensively addressing by the identity crisis–driven obstructionism and indifference of the party that controls the House of Representatives. Other than that, yes, this is just like Hurricane Katrina. And the women and children lingering on the border, and the overwhelmed Border Patrol personnel trying their best to manage their presence, will be awaiting the magic word of whether the president’s caravan will be arriving on the horizon, which will surely solve everything.”
Excellent piece!
The rethugs and talking heads have a new battle cry. “The President should visit the border.”- sheesh
Whatever he does, I’ll support, but that battle cry is more pre-bashing. If he goes, they bash. If he doesn’t, they bash. WTF.
I concur.
Hey Sailor man! Glad to see you back. Hope your stay in the Dells was refreshing. All has been secure on the home front and I believe we are making steady progress despite contentious headwinds. :D ( I have been keeping watch undercover 8)
8-) !
This kind of programming on msnbc makes me furious. Joy Reid’s whole program so far has been airing Obama critics on the border hullabaloo—-first the usual critics and now the full speeches of McCain and Cornyn on the senate floor, now Jeff Flake chiming in. Who in the H does msnbc think are watching their channel. All the Obama haters who would just love this programming are watching FOX and are not straying. Obama supporters would tend to watch msnbc, if anything. I don’t understand this—-at all—-it’s just dumb. Idiotic. We have enuf of the garbage everywhere else. Can’t they spare us a bit on msnbc and try to find a couple of Obama admin. supporters to feature?
X 1,000,000 !!! I’m sick of it, and furious, too.
They will repeat this shit over and over again for some time, so…..
No, Dotster3. This is what all-out War against The President looks like.
On every channel.
Up late last night I wanted to see how the Mideast was doing and some disgusting guy on Al Ajazeera was calling PBO responsible for the entire tragedy in Israel and Gaza and The West Bank. Yes it was POTUS who kidnapped and killed both the three Israeli teens and burned to death the Palestinian youth.
The charge was that by not leading the entire world to peace this very second President Obama is the cause of the mayhem. The young peoples deaths were on him
This is beyond crazy and way into Evil.
There was no identifying nametag shown and I couldn’t tell if the monster speaking was israeli, Palestinian or American.
Yet they didn’t even bother to air pres Obama’s speech in Denver.
The so called MSM, once again, Flaming distorted, one sided negative diatribe against pres Obama.
These same people could careless about the plight of fellow citizens in Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, NOLA, Appalachia, Mountain Regions, Rural corners of USA, etc.
The effort gets clearer every day.
As the President detailed in his speech, The Media’s job is to depress sane people so much that they don’t vote.
The GOP uses fear and racial hate to get their nutjobs to the polls.
Democrats are deprived of a media platform. ALWAYS got LESS time. (GOP Sunday mornings)
Now the idea is to give us NO time.
I am sickened by this.
Take solace in the fact that everyday more and more people are waking up to truth of what you stated. The best way to combat the GOP’s propaganda apparatus is to spread the word about what our media has devolved into. Without the media, the GOP will lose one of its greatest weapons. If we can discredit the msm by exposing the game being played, the ability of the GOP to convince people to vote against their own interests will be greatly diminished. A party that only looks out for the interests of 1-2% of the population cannot maintain power in a democracy without 1) control of the media to spread propaganda and 2) a populace who willing accepts the propaganda as truth. We cannot strip the GOP of its control of the media, but we can educate people about the role the msm plays in spreading pro-GOP propaganda.
Lawrence O. joined in the circus last night on his show.
If he goes to the border, then the pictures of George B. “real” Katrina moment will be placed next to a picture of President Obama at the border with the news headlines;
“Bush and Obama Looks on and They Did Nothing”
This is political in the worse way because they (repukes and MSM) only want to tie President Obama to Bush and his airplane moment. Congress repukes and some Dems can go to the border.
The hoopla is that the President brought this on himself because he is in Texas worried about fund raisers instead of the “crises.” You can’t even watch the local news here because it is dominated by the repukes talking points; the President created this, the President will not go to the border blah…blah….blah….. you know, that Charlie Brown moment when Lucy is talking and the horn is sounding.
I envision President Obama saying;
“I GOT THIS!”
It will all be gone, come monday. Mark my words.
THIS!!!!!!!
Right here! This is much ado about nothing.
And yet - it’s still being kept alive - why people - why?????
Can anyone explain that to me?
Dotster, I turned away from Joy after the first 3 minutes or so. Also did not watch Lawrence last night after he showed those daily comments before his show. When I saw Andrea Mitchell’s comments, was my que not to watch. I really hope that PBO does not go to the border.
Joy even dug up an old clip from when PBO was in El Paso during his campaign talking about immigration, and made references to moats and alligators on the border.
I am starting to regret the day I wish for Joy Reid to get her own show. Once you get the show you have to write what the producers, the owners want tyou to say, when you are a guess you speak your mind.
I ment to write “you”
Go, unions!
The wicked irony?
Rusty Orange Crush Boehner has disdain for Palin and her Impeachment diatribe….this author says…..Hmm? But frivolous suing and charging the current president of breaking some trumped up law by Boehner is OK?
ONLY 17 is needed to unseat this DC town-crier.
#OWNthe114th
Yes WE MUST
Morning all. (Yes, it’s still morning.)
Why do I love my job? I’ll tell you.
I’m filling in on Wednesday mornings for Storytime at one of our libraries which is without a children’s librarian. Today was our first day back after a 2 week break. After the Storytime, one of the moms pulled me aside and said “My daughter has been talking about Mr. LL the whole time you were off. I’m so glad you’re still here.”
Squee!
Hi Mr. LL : )
HAPPY BEAUTIFUL HUMP DAY!!
Now that alone is worth getting up and going to work for. How precious.
Just for that, I am wishing you a 1,000,000,000,000,000 x’s an AWESOME and SPECTACULAR DAY - ENJOY!!!
that is so sweet.
Pretty much made my day.
https://twitter.com/Interior
:oops: Wrong link shared above. Here’s what I wanted to share
Thanks vcp,
I like to watch this; brings a smile every time : )
YW. I actually haven’t watched it myself. :grin:
It’s cool; allowing for our childhood moments to resurface, too many adult things to deal with : (
Do you remember the soap commercial; take me away calgon!
In this environment of ugly politics - we all need a calgon moment.
Should I admit that I don’t remember the commercial, I wonder? I really never watched TV much growing up; maybe that’s why I was able to give it up so easily in 2008. ;)
Ha! Cnn played this clip In a loop since it happened. And then had on Jim Acosta WHPC.
He said this is like Katrina was for bush.
Wtf?
Why is everything this president does like Katrina, according to the press?
The press is dumb, ignorant, narrow-minded? The only comparison they can think of is Katrina?
Same reason every other fake scandal involving a Dem President has a “gate” added to it (a la Watergate). What Katrina and Watergate have in common are they happened to a GOP president, so the media to feed the “both sides do it” nonsense will struggle to fit anything a Dem president does into one of these two boxes (to convince public that Dem Presidents are as incompetent and corrupt as GOP Presidents, even though reality does not bear this out). This is also why the GOP is so fixated in forcing a Dem president from office via impeachment (payback for Nixon). As the assault on voting rights and women’s reproductive rights clearly illustrates, the GOP never gives up a cause or forgets a slight. Many in the GOP are still pissed at FDR for Social Security. Since the MSM is the communications arm of the GOP, we are to be forever bombarded with Watergate and Katrina (and to a lesser extent Iraq War) comparisons whenever we dare to elect a Dem President.
;) I was being a bit snarky in response to Jovie, prolly because I think Jovie likes to tease us with GOP stupidity. :grin:
We should all inundate their twitter, e-mails, phones and mail delivery with pictures of the “real” Katrina.
Those images of how people suffered and died will be ingrained in my mind and heart forever.
Apparently they don’t remember what happened in that storm called Katrina.
They only want to bring President Obama down to George B. level of incompetency; decisions that he made that cost human lives.
They are itching for a picture of President Obama at the borders so that they can place it next to George B. airplane moment when he was doing nothing for the people of New Orleans and surrounding areas after Katrina.
I pray that President Obama “will not make their day.” Let Congress go, they aren’t working anyway, they have nothing but time.
The more the GOP use a phrase that was harmful to themselves in relation to smaller less severe event on the other side the more they deescalate the negativity involved against themselves for the first event.
Rep Gohmert is a former Judge. He has been representing TX for over 7 yrs now……elected in Nov 2004, 1st sworn in Jan 2005.
TX is today a Minority majority state. 38% are Hispanics, 14% Black and 3-5% Asians, American Indians, etc. So in this fools twisted mind, president Obama is doing what exactly to make TX Blue? TX can be blue this Nov if those who are Dems come out and vote. They could have since 2002……when only 22% of those eligible to vote went to the polls.
Of course all this hysteria in the news about the President and fundraising and border stuff, is driven solely by GOP emails.
They don’t want him fundraising, they hate it.
one more hour …. hmmmm. worth waiting ???
Of course…
It’s Not gonna be a repeat of BRA and GER. 1-7 Game in never to be duplicated in my life time.
That one is for the ages ;)
Yes….worth the wait, indeed.
If it is not a arg-5 ned-0 match, then what’s the point?
Expectations too high after yesterday’s azz-whooping - eh?
call me rotten. spoiled. one. or the other. or both.
even amk can get spoiled rotten :-)
universal consensus.
I say go to bed. Someone will fill you in tomorrow.
ok, what’s up? I smell a #conspiracy.
I’m no conspirator - simply a friend who thinks with all that traveling you need your beauty sleep. :grin:
smh - you’re supposed to use this sparingly and strategically! It’s not meant as a lazy tactic! /in exasperation/ Didn’t you read the fine print for use?
don’t make me do it again.
:roll: :) :)
The Optics, the Optics…..
The Incentivize, the Incentivize……
Katrina, Katrina, Katrina……the only female name the media and GOP love the most in their failures to decimate pres Obama. Are We there yet? 11 Katrinas in my count to date.
Both candidates in the Indonesia presidential election have claimed victory based on unofficial results.
Jakarta governor Joko Widodo told a news conference shortly after polls closed that “at the time being” early vote counts showed he was the winner.
An hour later, former army general Prabowo Subianto said estimates showed he had “received the support and mandate from the people of Indonesia”.
The official tally is expected to be announced on 21-22 July.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/live/football/28200377
first afghanistan, now indonesia.
juuuust great.
As a few of us were saying…
Diss PBO, watch your illusions fall to ash.
Article here: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/brazil-struggles-big-wcup-loss-germany-135639376-spt.html
The entire senior management team of the Vatican bank is to be replaced as part of extensive reforms of the Catholic Church’s central government.
Pope Francis has sought to stamp out corruption and other abuses at the bank, which handles the Church’s funds.
French financier Jean-Baptiste de Franssu will take over as head of the bank from Ernst von Freyberg.
The bank will also eventually give up its investment activities to focus on serving religious orders and charities.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28221671
this pope dood walks the walk.
Sure does!
Wow, he means business
Katrina!
LOL.
“But perhaps more important in this regard are three other data points reported in the Russian media over the last two days. First, polls show that large shares of Russians do not want to fight in Ukraine and are not prepared to boycott Ukrainian goods to bring Kyiv to heel.
Second, divisions about Ukraine are beginning to appear in the political elite. Mikhail Kasyanov, who served as Putin’s prime minister between 2000 and 2004 but later broke with him, says that Kyiv will never agree to recognize the pro-Moscow separatists as “a legitimate side in any negotiations,” something Putin has been seeking.
And third, anger about Moscow’s spending on the occupation of Ukraine’s Crimea is now spilling into the streets of some Russian cities. In Novosibirsk today, there was a demonstration scheduled against spending money that protesters say should go to Russians at home.”
http://www.interpretermag.com/having-failed-to-stage-short-victorious-war-in-ukraine-putin-faces-problems-at-home/
CSPAN video link to PBO’s Denver speech - http://www.c-span.org/video/?320355-1/president-obama-remarks-economy
What was that you said, sen Mitch “the Turtle” McConnell. Say that a little louder, Mitch ;)
The young man Anthony who came into IMentor office to model his new suit for his day with FLOTUS, Anthony looked handsome. You can’t help but being proud of young people like that.
Well you never know, could be one of those right wing extreme radical Tea Party dog. So the cop has to search him.
heh ! don’t go insulting the dog now.
I apologize to the dog.
:)
FP stuff from a reliable source
I’m glad to brought this tweet over amk!
Wise advice. Since the long view and the 24/hr news cycle are not compatible, I suggest folks take a break from the msm’s spewing of propaganda. It is bad for one’s mental health to try to make sense of the latest insanity the msm/gop is pimping. You won’t be missing much (can anyone remember what the msm had you upset about this time last week? The week before?). Recognize the game. Don’t let yourself get played. Life is too short to allow evil people to play with your emotions
yup. shiny object every week. regular as a clockwork. If you’re freaking out over what the msm does, you’re neither helping yourself or PBO. Mock them. Shoot the fact bullets at their smug faces.
Are you shouting against Hollerland and Argie-tina tonight?
yup. ditch the dutch is my mantra today. But is the mantra strong enough to keep me awake after midnight ? … Ok, lemme think this over a snifter of scotch.
So you’re supporting the ref?
scapegoating started already? see, that’s why I want to ditch dutch.
J’OB, “ghastly image” - ha!
Don’t be so mean :D
Can’t make any promises!
scotch is here, where id the effing match?
look who is talking.
Ugh, beer!
You are a force of Time Events where POTUS, FLOTUS, VPOTUS and SLOTUS are concerned……Well done JER ;)
Thank you Nena.
If there is no goal in the first five min, I am going to bed.
Yes, spoiled rotten.
Wuss.
well, wusses too need their zzzz’s.
Wuss x 2
I blame the aggro wimmin here.
Put your pj’s on amk
Would 5 robed Men at the SCOTUS reverse themselves? Nope. I say: UT get ready for same sex marriage in your state…..soon, wellsometime this year.
Let the Game begin.
ARG don’t Messi ;) it Up.
Win ARG, Win, Win!
Nerdy’s very lovely new post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/09/do-not-let-them-win-by-you-being-cynical/
Oh no! The showdown at the Ok Corral in big “A”. Austin, Texas. I am thinking Gov. Perry wear the glasses cause he can’t see, or he think they make him look smart.