It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year already since that fateful morning when I turned my car onto M Street SW and looked ahead at all hell breaking loose right before my eyes. I had no idea what was happening. The ambulance and police sirens were deafening and what seemed like hundreds of the DCPD whizzing past me at warp speed. I didn’t know whether to turn the car around and go home or to continue to the parking lot.
I called my office from my cell and asked if they knew what was going on. They didn’t have a clue. It was all happening in real time. The news stations hadn’t caught up with what was taking place.
As I practically ran to my office there was someone who seemed to be injured outside of the CVS that is on the corner of my building. Another man was walking (briskly) with his daughter and said he heard there was an active shooter in the area. I ran with all my life to the building.
I would later find out that the person outside of the CVS was the first fatality of the Navy Yard shooting. Vishnu Pandit, who had spent 30 years with the Navy, had been shot in the temple of his head. Some of his co-workers knew they had to get him help so they strapped him into an evacuation chair and hauled him down several flights of stairs at their own risk where a security guard in an unmarked car took him up to where my building was and asked the police to get him an ambulance. He was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at George Washington Hospital.
We were on lock down all day as reports of more than one shooter emerged. Finally at the end of the day we were escorted to our parking lot by DC’s finest. In all 13 people died (including the shooter) and 8 were injured including a police officer. It’s one of those days that will remain with me forever.
All over DC the city is paying tribute. This evening there will be a remembrance of the victims, the survivors and the heroes of that day at the Canal Street Park across the street from my office. Rep. Steny Hoyer, Mayor Gray of DC, The Vice Admiral of the Navy and many from the M Street area who will be in attendance tonight.
It’s always a bit ‘interesting’ to discover I’ve been blocked when I haven’t a clue why. I have no memory of having encountered @worldmist1 so discovering I’m blocked when I tried to retweet the above was surprising. Maybe the other me offended her at some point in *our* (?) limited past. :-/
Someone explained this to me once: You could have gotten caught up in some tweet and re-tweets where one of the replies offends the tweeter, and you get “blanked blocked”. Happened to me with someone I really like and it’s frustrating to not be able to retweet him.
‘Blanket blocked’, eh? That would have to be the explanation since I generally try not to be offensive. Yea, there are two people (1 male, 1 female) who almost always have something meaty/insightful to say and who have blocked me for no reason I know, and it frustrates me sometimes to not be able to retweet them. Ah well, maybe their block has been improving my character. ;);)
In the instance I’m referencing, I’d never even written a reply - just retweeted. So there’s a long conversation, someone retweets someone’s offensive reply, and you get caught in the loop.
“President Obama” or “PBO,” not “this President.” Don’t let the Republicans influence how you think about and refer to our President. Have a pleasant evening. :)
The President is doing the right thing. Ebola could spread here. My heart goes out to the brave servicemen and women who will be tasked with setting up the infrastructure to fight this disease in Africa and help prevent its spread. They couldn’t do more important work for the people of our planet. ISIL and Ebola - two extremely difficult problems for Obama at the moment. I will always have faith in his wisdom and tenacity and know he will do everything in his power to keep us safe.
I’m going to try to talk Mr. 57 into cutting up the potatoes and onions exactly the size and shape that I want; scrub the carrots instead of peeling and cutting them to the perfect size, wash the roaster. And I will do the creative work of making my famous beef stew.
He had made dinner. I’m grateful, of course because he’s home and Mr. 57’s way of providing for my old age was finding me a full-time job (working for a crazy person).
I had bought stew meat (grass-fed, organic) which was sitting in the fridge. He defrosted filet mignons ($19/lb), cut it into strips, marinated it and made a stir fry. Out of $19/lb steaks! I started to gripe about it, and then poured a glass of wine and ate his delicious dinner.
We’ll freeze the stew meat and conquer it over the weekend.
I have to say though that sometimes I’ve wondered if men deliberately do things the wrong/hard ($19/LB) way around the house so that they’ll be relieved of the task. :grin:
Or the shorter version (just opined by a friend): men are dumb.
Mr. 57 likes to cook. However, he didn’t cook at all until we met, so some of his concoctions are - shall we say - “unique”. Mr. 57 likes olives. He likes honey. So he puts honey and olives in the same dish.
In all fairness a lot of what he cooks is fantastic. The good thing: we excel at different things that we cook. He doesn’t make stew, I don’t make his bean soup. We have two areas of contention: chili and turkey stuffing. We will never agree, not ever.
“Whose turn is it to make the stuffing this year?” I ALWAYS say it’s my turn. Sometimes he truly doesn’t remember and I win!
Ukrainians Literally Throw Politician Into The Garbage (VIDEO)
A Ukrainian politician was surrounded by protestors who threw him into a dumpster on Tuesday before holding him down, splashing him with water and smacking him with a stray tire.
The subject of the dumping, Vitaly Zhuravsky, is a former member of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych’s political party and reportedly had a hand in legislation restricting freedom of speech in the months leading up to the country’s regime change, according to The Washington Post.
After Zhuravsky was pelted with the tire, nearby security began to wheel him away in the dumpster before he crawled out of the container and fled.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board is finding against the CNN cable television network in an 11-year-old labor dispute, ordering the network to rehire or compensate about 300 workers and former workers.
The NLRB agreed with a November 2008 ruling by one of its administrative judges that CNN improperly replaced a unionized subcontractor, Team Video Services (TVS), with in-house non-union staffers, claiming “anti-union” bias.
The board gave CNN 14 days to rehire the former TVS employees for “their former positions or, if those jobs no longer exist, to substantially equivalent positions.”
It also told CNN to pay bargaining union employees for any adverse tax consequences that may result from the lump-sum reimbursements.
G.W.BUSH WAS NEVER A PRESIDENT…HE WAS A PUPPET FOOL FOR CHENEY AND THE KOCH BROS…AS ALL REPUBLICANS ARE. PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS BEEN ABUSED BY THE RACIST AND HATEFUL EVER SINCE HE FIRST TOOK THE OATH!
Another non-thinker; just goes down the list of the talking points. They obviously never hear what they say; otherwise, they would know how ridiculous they sound.
I guess she was either brave or stupid to take the position, no matter how short the tenure.
MERCI….’GRACIAS….AND THANK YOU…WAITING AND WILL BE WATCHING….SHOOK UP MY PASTOR TODAY IN CONFLICT WITH HIS WIFE OVER THE TRASH SHE SPREADS ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA…IT HAS BEEN A ROUGH DAY! I AM TIRED OF RIGHT WING FOOLS AND THEIR POISON………….
THANKS TOO FOR THE REVIEW OF PBO’S CDC SPEECH TODAY…GUTTTTTTTTTTTTT WRENCHING INDEED…THE EBOLA VIRUS…PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE SUFFERING THIS WAY…ALL NATIONS MUST WORK TOGETHER…THIS IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM.
After all of the blocking, they will pick up seats if the election took place today, according to Sam Wong(sp) the pollster. Apparently these are gerrymandered districts.
I wonder why Gen. Dempsey had to say that there was a possibility about ‘boots on the ground’ after President Obama, the CIC, made it clear that this was not going to happen—-with the expected result of sending the news media into a breathless frenzy.
This!!! I cringed when he said that because that statement will be played on a 24/7 loop. Watch Rachel lose her mind and jump out of her chair tonight.
PRECIOUS…LOVIN’ THE SKIN YOU’RE IN…WE ARE ALLPRECIOUS AND PRICELESS IN GOD’S EYES…CREATED IN HIS IMAGE FOR HIS UNIQUE PURPOSE WHILE WE SERVE HIM ON HIS EARTH…………………..
Hay Mark will FLOTUS be at the picnic for Congress? I read where she suppose to be visiting St. Jude Children Hospital tomorrow evening. Beside who really want to have a picnic with Congress.
White House.gov
Afternoon all.
:cool:
Wait up!
Hey Chips.
We three queens….
Add me too!
Good Afternoon Everyone!
Congrats to Vetivera on her afternoon 32 carats gold medal. :star:
Holy smokes, it’s the Terrifying Triplets: COS, VC and vetivera24!
And they dance too!
Thanks NCLB it was a triple crown win
That’s really cool!
Congratttttttttttttttttttttttt….WeThree Queens………
Of obamaworld are …..
I am jumping in just to break up the all girls club.
That is what I call courage, Japa. :-)
:) Admit it, Japa - you feel like a prince among queens (there’s no intent to ‘break up’ the girls just to be in their midst).
Well, I must admuit there are many worse places to be than in the midst of you three.
What a compliment, you charmer, you! :roll:
3 Times a Gold :star:
Vetivera, VC+VC and COS
:star: :star: :star:
Congrats!
:) TY /whisper - though shouldn’t vc+vc get a split personality star? just asking between us/
:star: ;) :star: for VC
You know I was just being greedy, but not seriously so, dontcha?
;)
:grin: :grin:
Oh my God:
LIVE NOW: President Obama - http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
<3
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year already since that fateful morning when I turned my car onto M Street SW and looked ahead at all hell breaking loose right before my eyes. I had no idea what was happening. The ambulance and police sirens were deafening and what seemed like hundreds of the DCPD whizzing past me at warp speed. I didn’t know whether to turn the car around and go home or to continue to the parking lot.
I called my office from my cell and asked if they knew what was going on. They didn’t have a clue. It was all happening in real time. The news stations hadn’t caught up with what was taking place.
As I practically ran to my office there was someone who seemed to be injured outside of the CVS that is on the corner of my building. Another man was walking (briskly) with his daughter and said he heard there was an active shooter in the area. I ran with all my life to the building.
I would later find out that the person outside of the CVS was the first fatality of the Navy Yard shooting. Vishnu Pandit, who had spent 30 years with the Navy, had been shot in the temple of his head. Some of his co-workers knew they had to get him help so they strapped him into an evacuation chair and hauled him down several flights of stairs at their own risk where a security guard in an unmarked car took him up to where my building was and asked the police to get him an ambulance. He was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at George Washington Hospital.
We were on lock down all day as reports of more than one shooter emerged. Finally at the end of the day we were escorted to our parking lot by DC’s finest. In all 13 people died (including the shooter) and 8 were injured including a police officer. It’s one of those days that will remain with me forever.
All over DC the city is paying tribute. This evening there will be a remembrance of the victims, the survivors and the heroes of that day at the Canal Street Park across the street from my office. Rep. Steny Hoyer, Mayor Gray of DC, The Vice Admiral of the Navy and many from the M Street area who will be in attendance tonight.
Sending healing thoughts your way Donna
What a horrific memory, Donna. I remember the shock of that day, and learning that you were so close to all of it.
It’s always a bit ‘interesting’ to discover I’ve been blocked when I haven’t a clue why. I have no memory of having encountered @worldmist1 so discovering I’m blocked when I tried to retweet the above was surprising. Maybe the other me offended her at some point in *our* (?) limited past. :-/
Someone explained this to me once: You could have gotten caught up in some tweet and re-tweets where one of the replies offends the tweeter, and you get “blanked blocked”. Happened to me with someone I really like and it’s frustrating to not be able to retweet him.
‘Blanket blocked’, eh? That would have to be the explanation since I generally try not to be offensive. Yea, there are two people (1 male, 1 female) who almost always have something meaty/insightful to say and who have blocked me for no reason I know, and it frustrates me sometimes to not be able to retweet them. Ah well, maybe their block has been improving my character. ;) ;)
In the instance I’m referencing, I’d never even written a reply - just retweeted. So there’s a long conversation, someone retweets someone’s offensive reply, and you get caught in the loop.
Your character is just dandy, vc.
‘Your character is just dandy, vc.’
See, their block is working! :grin: :grin: TY, 57F
NASA being forced to spend Billions on Private schemes.
Suppoeted by this president.
“President Obama” or “PBO,” not “this President.” Don’t let the Republicans influence how you think about and refer to our President. Have a pleasant evening. :)
Thank you.
The President is doing the right thing. Ebola could spread here. My heart goes out to the brave servicemen and women who will be tasked with setting up the infrastructure to fight this disease in Africa and help prevent its spread. They couldn’t do more important work for the people of our planet. ISIL and Ebola - two extremely difficult problems for Obama at the moment. I will always have faith in his wisdom and tenacity and know he will do everything in his power to keep us safe.
I think I’m going to the kitchen to see if I want to cook today or not. BBL or BBS (s = soon) ;)
I’m going to try to talk Mr. 57 into cutting up the potatoes and onions exactly the size and shape that I want; scrub the carrots instead of peeling and cutting them to the perfect size, wash the roaster. And I will do the creative work of making my famous beef stew.
Sound like a plan?
To me it does!
Did it work, 57F? :grin:
He had made dinner. I’m grateful, of course because he’s home and Mr. 57’s way of providing for my old age was finding me a full-time job (working for a crazy person).
I had bought stew meat (grass-fed, organic) which was sitting in the fridge. He defrosted filet mignons ($19/lb), cut it into strips, marinated it and made a stir fry. Out of $19/lb steaks! I started to gripe about it, and then poured a glass of wine and ate his delicious dinner.
We’ll freeze the stew meat and conquer it over the weekend.
:) Nice to hear you had a delicious meal, 57F.
I have to say though that sometimes I’ve wondered if men deliberately do things the wrong/hard ($19/LB) way around the house so that they’ll be relieved of the task. :grin:
Or the shorter version (just opined by a friend): men are dumb.
Mr. 57 likes to cook. However, he didn’t cook at all until we met, so some of his concoctions are - shall we say - “unique”. Mr. 57 likes olives. He likes honey. So he puts honey and olives in the same dish.
It’s a work in progress……
It’s a work in progress……
:grin: Mr. 57 is at least willing to try.
In all fairness a lot of what he cooks is fantastic. The good thing: we excel at different things that we cook. He doesn’t make stew, I don’t make his bean soup. We have two areas of contention: chili and turkey stuffing. We will never agree, not ever.
“Whose turn is it to make the stuffing this year?” I ALWAYS say it’s my turn. Sometimes he truly doesn’t remember and I win!
And there was the tuna casserole debacle when he used sweetened condensed milk instead of evaporated milk.
But this has nothing to do with obama so we can’t blame him… :) :)
Ukrainians Literally Throw Politician Into The Garbage (VIDEO)
A Ukrainian politician was surrounded by protestors who threw him into a dumpster on Tuesday before holding him down, splashing him with water and smacking him with a stray tire.
The subject of the dumping, Vitaly Zhuravsky, is a former member of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych’s political party and reportedly had a hand in legislation restricting freedom of speech in the months leading up to the country’s regime change, according to The Washington Post.
After Zhuravsky was pelted with the tire, nearby security began to wheel him away in the dumpster before he crawled out of the container and fled.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ukrainian-politician-thrown-in-trash
I can think of several politicians that I would like to throw in a dumpster.
Wow, LInda, I can think of many US politicians who deserve this treatment, if only we all had more creativity and courage.
We must not be pissed off enough, yet.
There he laid, as per NBC.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board is finding against the CNN cable television network in an 11-year-old labor dispute, ordering the network to rehire or compensate about 300 workers and former workers.
The NLRB agreed with a November 2008 ruling by one of its administrative judges that CNN improperly replaced a unionized subcontractor, Team Video Services (TVS), with in-house non-union staffers, claiming “anti-union” bias.
The board gave CNN 14 days to rehire the former TVS employees for “their former positions or, if those jobs no longer exist, to substantially equivalent positions.”
It also told CNN to pay bargaining union employees for any adverse tax consequences that may result from the lump-sum reimbursements.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/nlrb-cnn-ruling_n_5828106.html?utm_hp_ref=media
Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt · 2h
President Obama participates in a briefing at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. #Ebola
Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt · 48m
President Obama meets with Emory University doctors and healthcare professionals at the CDC. #Ebola
Okay just ignore the Hillary swooning in this video.
G.W.BUSH WAS NEVER A PRESIDENT…HE WAS A PUPPET FOOL FOR CHENEY AND THE KOCH BROS…AS ALL REPUBLICANS ARE. PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS BEEN ABUSED BY THE RACIST AND HATEFUL EVER SINCE HE FIRST TOOK THE OATH!
LIVE NOW: President Obama departs Atlanta.
I predict Nicole Wallace will not last on the View….
They will chew her up and spit her out. Her body language is very revealing in this clip.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/nicole-wallace-obama-view-fight-rosie-odonnell_n_5830170.html?utm_hp_ref=media
Another non-thinker; just goes down the list of the talking points. They obviously never hear what they say; otherwise, they would know how ridiculous they sound.
I guess she was either brave or stupid to take the position, no matter how short the tenure.
I’VE LOST TRACK TODAY…WHAT TIME DOES HE SPEAK HERE?…AM GUILTY OF A LONG NAP…LOL…………
Cool ….
LIVE NOW: Awaiting President Obama’s arrival at Mac Dill AFB. (Expected arrival - 6:50 p.m.) - http://www.abcactionnews.com/video/abc-action-news-now
MERCI….’GRACIAS….AND THANK YOU…WAITING AND WILL BE WATCHING….SHOOK UP MY PASTOR TODAY IN CONFLICT WITH HIS WIFE OVER THE TRASH SHE SPREADS ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA…IT HAS BEEN A ROUGH DAY! I AM TIRED OF RIGHT WING FOOLS AND THEIR POISON………….
I HAVE A BIG MOUTH AND I’M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!
Well Sue Duvall Smith, Bravo to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS FOR THE ABC PEEK…..HE LOOKS HIS USUAL AWESOME SELF……MAKES ME SMILE…WISH I HADN’T MISSED SO MUCH 2DAY!
THANKS TOO FOR THE REVIEW OF PBO’S CDC SPEECH TODAY…GUTTTTTTTTTTTTT WRENCHING INDEED…THE EBOLA VIRUS…PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE SUFFERING THIS WAY…ALL NATIONS MUST WORK TOGETHER…THIS IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM.
LIVE NOW: President Obama arrives at Mac Dill AFB - http://www.abcactionnews.com/video/abc-action-news-now
Thank you BFF!!!
:)
After all of the blocking, they will pick up seats if the election took place today, according to Sam Wong(sp) the pollster. Apparently these are gerrymandered districts.
I wonder why Gen. Dempsey had to say that there was a possibility about ‘boots on the ground’ after President Obama, the CIC, made it clear that this was not going to happen—-with the expected result of sending the news media into a breathless frenzy.
All Gen. Dempsey said was that if he thought they were call for he would make a request, and POTUS can say No!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No to that request.
yanno…sometimes these generals get beside themselves…as my grandmother would say….
This!!! I cringed when he said that because that statement will be played on a 24/7 loop. Watch Rachel lose her mind and jump out of her chair tonight.
PRECIOUS…LOVIN’ THE SKIN YOU’RE IN…WE ARE ALLPRECIOUS AND PRICELESS IN GOD’S EYES…CREATED IN HIS IMAGE FOR HIS UNIQUE PURPOSE WHILE WE SERVE HIM ON HIS EARTH…………………..
LOVE THIS!!!!
VERY AWESOME….LEAVE IT TO OUR COMFORTER-IN-CHIEF….THEY LOVE TO SEE HIM ON THOSE MILITARY BASES….
Always good to show that you support the military families. That’s what Joining Forces is all about.
FLOTUS and Dr. Biden does a great job with that.
But but but Travis sez…
Who is Tavis?
That, and you were UnAmerican.
I remember that old so well. That changed when the Tea Republicans and their racists base couldn’t stand that black President.
Paging little Nate!
I saw that Mrs. Sam Kass is back on her show today.
Baby on the way….
Are you kidding hopefruit2?
Yes I am, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear an announcement soon. :) Heh!
But General Dempsey sez…
All that matters is what CIC says …
But cnn sez…
Please note that if you view the video, this is war, unvarnished ….
He’s been talking about that picnic since yesterday. He might not even sleep tonight…..
Hay Mark will FLOTUS be at the picnic for Congress? I read where she suppose to be visiting St. Jude Children Hospital tomorrow evening. Beside who really want to have a picnic with Congress.
Man charged with cooking dog and serving it to ex-girlfriend. Be careful about having dinner with your ex.
Good meal for Knoller and the press.
To the dogs lovers, I should not have said that. :(
Chat on
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/09/16/chat-away-436/