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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a “ConnectED to the Future” conference with school district supervisers and educators in the East Room of the White House
A member of the audience signs the digital Future Ready District Pledge during the ‘ConnectED to the Future’ event hosted by President Barack Obama. The conference is with superintendents and other educators from across the country who are leading their schools and districts in the transition to digital learning
President Barack Obama is greeted by Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho
President Barack Obama greets audience members
President Barack Obama signs S. 1086, the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014, into law in the Oval Office of the White House. Among the things the act intneds to do is strengthen health and safety requirements for child care programs and providers, expand eligibility to child care programs for families and train providers
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President Barack Obama speaks before signing the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 into law, in the Oval Office of the White House. From left are, Rep, Richard Hanna, R-NY., Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa., Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa., Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC., and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell
White House.gov
Congrats to you Dudette! :star:
Hi NCLB!!! Thanks! :-)
Au :star: for our Best, one and ONLY TOD DJ, Dudette ;)
Congrats.
Good Evening TOD!
This EO is taking a life of its own. Brilliant!
All alone here! Well, i like the post Nerdy! Thank you for the terrific and timely updates! :-)
Never alone here! Hi, Dudette and Nerdy!
Hiya job! Glad to see ya! I was getting lonely! :-)
Not alone, Dudette.
I was busy checking my channel guide—-in NYC Univision is on channel 41—-I agree with the TOD folks who think we would be wise to up their ratings.
PBO had a wonderful day brought to us by Nerdy Wonka. Thank you so much NW.
I loved POTUS on facebook. Another smart move.
St. Louis family members say that the St. Louis FD is going on a special alert status Sunday morning. Make of that what you will.
Heeeyyyy Vicki! Glad you’re here!
I cannot wait for that speech! Think I really will break out some popcorn! :-D
Thanks, Dudette.
More are getting this non-coverage news out. I wonder if the country will lean to one side tomorrow night, when we’re all watching Univision?
My company just received notification to watch the President tomorrow. When i saw it pass by on my computer screen, I thought it was my personal email inbox, then I remembered I did have it open.
I’m so stoked!
Wow! Awesome!
I received the invite as well. Yea!
Cool, GGail!
CBS2news, a local station here in SoCal is covering it!
JOB, These corporate media are despicable. We Obama supporters should launch a campaign to urge all decent Americans, who still respect the office of the President of the United States, to boycott ABC, CBS, and NBC. Enough is enough!
With you on that!
And I think we ran into “Enough is enough,” around Jan. 20, 2009, didn’t we?
Hellooooo handsome <3
Well, I can’t recall when someone’s called me “handsome” but I’ll accept the compliment! Hiya Cutie! ;-)
:grin: :grin: Teeheehee! *chuckle!* *chuckle!*
:grin: :grin:
The Media knows it and so do GOPers.
But both DC/NY organized Collaborators are ganging up to make sure that Lies, Distortions and Fabrications twisted in Graphic Scary Music propaganda rule the airwaves, print, websites, etc.
Congrats Dudette :)
Thank you NW!!!
Important …
“Fabled Yom Kippur War commander set to tackle Netanyahu and other ‘professors of no’
Former IDF general Amnon Reshef wants to build on momentum of recent ‘generals’ petition’ to persuade Israelis to support regional peace.
A 76 year old former IDF general who blocked the Egyptian army’s advance in the crucial opening hours of the 1973 Yom Kippur War is now seeking to push Israel to embrace Cairo and other moderate Arab partners in order to bring peace.
Retired IDF Major General Amnon Reshef, who organized the unprecedented petition signed earlier this month by 106 retired generals and spy chiefs that urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to seek a “courageous” regional peace, says that he now plans to commission “top security experts from Israel and other countries” to formulate and publish a detailed plan for regional security arrangements “within a few months.”
Speaking to reporters in New York Wednesday, Reshef said that his ultimate goal is to “very aggressively” change Israeli public opinion “which has been brainwashed for over 40 years with settlements in the West Bank and the Golan Heights.” And while the generals’ petition that was published in Yediot Achronot earlier this month was careful to present its signatories as representing “neither left nor right,” the plain talking Reshef did not try to conceal his disdain for Israel’s current right-wing leaders, whom he described as “professors of ‘no’.””
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.627416
“Obama has given us complete political support while relations on the military level have never been better – so what do we have to complain about?”
ibid
Gracias Roberto!!!!
Lovely to see you! :-D
Thank you Dudette :D
Sounds like a BFD!
If General Reshef and his colleagues are not able to mobilize a majority of Israelis to oppose Bibi, during the next year, he is correct in his assessment of what the outcome will be ….
““If there is no takeover by moderate parties, Israel will go to an unknown place. I am really worried about the future of Israel. We will become a minority in our own state.””
ibid
595 gazillion thanks Nerdy!!!!
Thanks, Chips.
For your reading pleasure…NIck Hanauer:)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/overtime-pay-obama-congress-112954.html#.VG0pYDTF8XV
If you’re in the American middle class—or what’s left of it—here’s how you probably feel. You feel like you’re struggling harder than your parents did, working longer hours than ever before, and yet falling further and further behind. The reason you feel this way is because most of you are—falling further behind, that is. Adjusted for inflation, average salaries have actually dropped since the early 1970s, while hours for full-time workers have steadily climbed.
Meanwhile, a handful of wealthy capitalists like me are growing wealthy beyond our parents’ wildest dreams, in large part because we’re able to take advantage of your misfortune.
In 1975, more than 65 percent of salaried American workers earned time-and-a-half pay for every hour worked over 40 hours a week. Not because capitalists back then were more generous, but because it was the law. It still is the law, except that the value of the threshold for overtime pay—the salary level at which employers are required to pay overtime—has been allowed to erode to less than the poverty line for a family of four today. Only workers earning an annual income of under $23,660 qualify for mandatory overtime. You know many people like that? Probably not. By 2013, just 11 percent of salaried workers qualified for overtime pay, according to a report published by the Economic Policy Institute. And so business owners like me have been able to make the other 89 percent of you work unlimited overtime hours for no additional pay at all.
Well, that hoppin’ ol’ Senate has confirmed a bunch of new Ambassadors by voice votes … to Madagascar and Comoros; to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga and Tuvalu; to Botswana; to Turkmenistan; to Bosnia and Herzegovina, among other “actions.”
Everybody will surely deserve a good night’s sleep after this.
I heart my President.
Can you imagine the feeling at the Latin Grammy’s after the President makes his statement? I’m quite sure the euphoria will be palpable!
Thanks NW! For all those who were claiming on Twitter that ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX not showing the speech was supposed to be “triumph” for the Right whatever the hell that meant…
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/11/19/3594584/when-republicans-supported-going-as-far-as-we-possibly-can-without-congress-acting-on-immigration/
“With his immigration bill dead, the administration rolled out a proposed rule to address some of the major issues in the failed legislation,” the Associated Press writes, before outlining some of the changes the president will enact without the consent of Congress.
But the article isn’t about President Barack Obama’s impending executive action to “expand temporary protections for millions of undocumented immigrants.” It’s from 2007 and it details President George W. Bush’s push to enact changes to immigration law after his own immigration reform bill failed in the Senate.
The rules required employers to dismiss workers whose Social Security numbers don’t match those in federal databases, tightened border security, and streamlined guest-worker programs and urging employers to fire undocumented workers.
In defending his actions, Bush sounded a lot like Obama does today.
“Although the Congress has not addressed our broken immigration system by passing comprehensive reform legislation, my administration will continue to take every possible step to build upon the progress already made,” Bush said.
LOVE my Senator!!
Meta, I love our Senator also. Wrote her a letter two days ago. Yes, Senator Barbara Boxer, you rock!.HZ
Well, I just wrote ABC news again about Jonathan Karl, and his entirely untrue and prejudiced reports. He can fit more untruths in a short report than I believed possible. I am going to keep on their case.
WHY are the networks not airing the president’s speech? Where can I view it? How can they call themselves news stations if they don’t broadcast the President’s speech???
PBO’s address will be aired on Univision and live streamed at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
It is scheduled for 8pm Eastern.
MSNBC is carrying it. But
i will be watching on univision.
and… they put another inmate to death today. Gov Nixon (not my kind of democrat) refused a stay of execution. I believe MO’s 9th death penalty this year.
This explains why he is governor of such a racist state. He is another DINO.
Best.President.Ever
Our CORRUPT media:
planning their negative response based on zero info. racist, corrupt, and despicable.
Hey y’all, whew.
I think that this count should be blasted out and continued every single day!! it gets in people’s head’s…another day and nothing done, another day and nothing…another day and nothing….American public needs to wake the hell up and see who’s gumming up the works!
Too bad Keith Olbermann can only broadcast about sports.
He would have changed his signature count of the number of days since GWB invaded Iraq to what Bobfr tweeted.
Tell it Bob!
Yes Bob. Right on target.
Awesome, Doc.
Danke.
Thank you df, Dudette, Vicki & Nena.
df, I wanted to reduce the reality of the past 6 + years to something so simple that anyone could get it. Hopefully, this is a step in that direction.
#BackBarack …. and WIN ….
Absolutely! Do this same Tweet every day…just change the # of days for each… :) Thanks, Bobfr:)
Truth distilled. Thanks for this Bobfr!
Paging 20committee & Co…
http://image.slidesharecdn.com/potusgettysburg2013-131119185558-phpapp01/95/president-obamas-handwritten-tribute-to-the-gettysburg-address-1-638.jpg?cb=1384918643
One year ago, today …
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/11/19/150th-anniversary-gettysburg-address
We still have a long journey ahead ….
#BackBarack
I Love My President!!!!!
Thanks Bob! Tweetage done!
And while we’re on this subject!
If you check my Twitter header I think you’ll notice how much I admire this particular document, Dudette.
Great Tweet!!
President Obama counts among his many phenomenal attributes a unquestionably seasoned ability to write so beautifully and lyrically. His passion for these subjects are pronounced wondrously in his books and essays. He is such a deep thinker yet has such a fluidity of style and expression that I am often truly mesmerized by what he has to say. That is certainly the case with this handwritten reflection on the Gettysburg Address. I cannot wait for his memoirs. I will savor every word.
Agree 100%!
THISSSSSS!!!
And have upChuck green with envy since his book was shipped to the remainder bins one week after publication, LOL.
I’ll either advance order or stand in line to get PBO’s book on the day it’s released.
Can’t wait — history and poetry in a single volume. Sigh.
<3 :bear: <3
So true, meta!!!
Please retweet (and fave) if you can! :)
Yes.We.Can. :)
Done and done… emphatically!!! :-)
Yep yep!! :-)
when I clicked on the one in the Tweet,it said you had to go to YouTube…so I brought it over for all to enjoy..
You Rock!
No, love…that would be YOU!!
I’ll be standing by My President today, tomorrow and always!
YEAH!!
Great collection of Tweets, NW.
Obrigada.
Danke.
Thank You.
Stupid Republicans and MSM …they will never get it. PBO just cooked their goose, kicked their ass and spit in their eyes all in one swoop:) By NOT working with him and crowing about all this, MORE people are guar parentsranteed to tune in and watch/ listen that before….Know how when your parents told you that you COULDN’T do something…and you wanted to do it even MORE after they said that? Yeah…like that:) Barn burner tomorrow night!!
{{sigh}}} When I type, sometimes my cursor will move…for no reason other than it does….I have NO IDEA what ” parentsranteed” is… I mean GUARANTEED. That is all :)
Now I know not to waste my time with CBS,NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC tomorrow night at 8pm. Thanks to that liberal media who is own by conservative right wing billionaires.
Tapping fingers….Hmmmm…wonder what was different????…
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/bush-immigration-speech-draws-41m-viewers-monday/
When President Bush decided to give a national address on his plans for immigration Monday, the Big Four networks were not interested in disrupting their May sweeps programming to show it. But they relented, and it seems viewers were very interested in seeing it. According to preliminary average audience estimates from Nielsen, the speech, which ran for approximately 15 minutes starting at 8:00 p.m., drew 41.6 million viewers on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, FOX News, HLN, MSNBC, Telemundo and Univision. It averaged a 27.6 household rating and 49 share. By comparison, President Bush’s last address, on Dec. 18, 2005, drew 36.6 million viewers and a 24.0 household rating for ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. Nielsen’s Hispanic people meter samples found that it reached 4.3 million viewers on Azteca America, Telemundo and Univision (the latter two networks are included in both sets of figures).
From May 2006…
Not wanting to be left behind, MSNBC has just announced through Clever Hayes that it will air POTUS’s immigration speech live tomorrow.
bqhatevwr
Hahaha!
Fuck em! They’ll just cut into the middle of his speech with some pundit bullshit!
Nerdy-Geeky, Kewl and Krafty! I like!!! :-D
Looks like all of the above! :)
If it weren’t for the “adult” channels I wouldn’t watch tv at all.
http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2014/11/19/the-reason-why-obama-is-giving-a-major-immigration-speech-in-nevada/
In January 2013, President Obama chose Del Sol High School in Las Vegas to make his remarks outlining his administration’s comprehensive immigration reform principles. Part victory rally, part policy speech, the event was a clear thank-you to the state’s Latino and organized-labor communities for their 2012 support and a down payment on promises to be fulfilled in a second Obama term.
Now, after waiting 17 months for the Republican controlled House of Representatives to follow the lead of the U.S. Senate and pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation, on Friday President Obama will be returning to Del Sol High School to rally support for his administration’s executive action expanding temporary protections from deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants.
The symmetry in selecting Del Sol High School as the backdrop for President Obama’s continued push for immigration reform is no accident. The school serves a majority Latino student body and many of these students come from families who would likely benefit from the president’s executive action. According to the Pew Research’s Hispanic Trends Project, 17.7 percent of Nevada’s K-12 students have parents who are undocumented immigrants.
Sorry for the duplicate if this has been posted already.
Jesus Christ! The only thing missing from that story is the Bada Bing!
Give it time:)
:-D :-D :-D
But you won’t hear this in the MSM. I have not seen this anywhere from the main cable networks like NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, CNN, etc - and this was tweeted over 2 hrs ago.
“Bada Bing!” Hahaha ROFL - Damn, that’s a good one. :D :D :D
The toxicity near Chris Christie is palpable. Those close to him end up resigning. Always.
Bunch of “crooks and liars”
These aren’t “crooks,” these are gangsters.
And the next AG is from the New York New Jersey area, she knows where they hide the bodies. Christi is in deep dodo.
Good point!
#BAM
Just hit me the impact her nomination may have on to the 2016 race! Oh snap!
What midterms!
US media is SO corrupt - they will give air time to anyone from the GOP - but not the President of the United States. Utter Scum. This is aimed at complete government takeover by business - aided and abetted by the SCOTUS
Friday’s tentative schedule:
Looks like PBO’s speech will be at 2ish sharp on the east coast. ;)
Link in tweet provides unbelievable photos from Buffalo NY:
:) :) :)
THIS!! Can someone grab this?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017227646
Great outreach. http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014947810
In a sign of the difficulties GOP leaders face in keeping their unruly caucus on-message, retiring tea party firebrand Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said Wednesday that the immigrants given new protections by the president could become “illiterate” Democratic voters.
“The social cost will be profound on the U.S. taxpayer — millions of unskilled, illiterate, foreign nationals coming into the United States who can’t speak the English language,” Bachmann told reporters at the Capitol. “Even though the president says they won’t be able to vote, we all know that many, in all likelihood, will vote.”
Any questions?? Any at all?
:) :)
Nerdy’s smiles:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/19/end-wednesday-with-a-smile/