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Happy Birthday, VP BIden!
My, oh my. Sweet potato pie:)
Goooooooooood morning DF!!! Moooooooorning everyone!
Morning Blog Goddess! Gonna be a good day today:)
:-) Yes it will be, DF!
Joey
Could you NOT kiss those cheeks? What a good guy:) Morning, TOD! Today is gonna be a special day…remember where you where when RW head’s exploded…..
Fill in the blank. This time it was ebola. Can’t they tell they’re being played like a fiddle?
This is a sad loss. Director Mike Nichols has died.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30129848
This is indeed a sad loss. Loved him as a stand up comedian in the olden days and loved him more as a director.
GOOD morning, Chips, NW and Obots! And a VERY Happy Birthday to our beloved VP. He’s the best VP EVAH! And Dr. Jill is likewise.
Niiiiiiiiiice :)
Good morning, df!!
Morning. Happy Birthday to VP Biden and to my husband who was born on this day just a few years after our VP. Since I will be taking him out to dinner this evening I will miss our president’s big announcement. Will count on TOD to fill me in on all the goodness when we get back.
Happy BD, Mr. G.
Hope your BD is filled with warm and a paucity of snow-shoveling. ;)
Enjoy your evening out.
Happy Birthday VP Biden !! You really haven’t changed much.. same lovely vibrant smile :) Happy Thursday TOD :) Soooo looking forward to POTUS speaking tonight!
Morning sherijr! The President will be speaking at 8:01:30 - love the precision of the time!
I guess the network has doled his time slot out by the second like a commercial break!
And now, a word from our sponsor!
:-) I’d love to know what agonizing they’re going through, they sooooooo want to snub the President, but at the same time they know how important this address is. What a dilemma for the worthless bunch of scummy shills.
ohh I like that too :)
Director Mike Nichols has passed away. Some of his artistic achievements:
The Graduate
Angels in America
Silkwood
Catch-22
Who’s’ Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Rest in Peace.
Sad news. May he RIP.
Forgot about Silkwood and Catch-22.
Funny how MSM fail to mention Silkwood in the tributes I’ve heard this morning, a film that was probably the most “American” of all of his films.
Yeah, Silkwood was a haunting exposé that spoke truth to power.
Good morning, As is typical when the president is going to do something important, the NBC/WSJ has a poll out saying 48% of people don’t want the president to issue an executive order on immigration.Their game is getting so old.
Morning, Diane. The media has become so obvious, they’re comical at this point. Wonder if they polled people before every other president issued an EO. Somehow I think not.
MSM desperate to keep their politic jobs.
They should be ignored because they’re irrelevant and should be out pounding the pavement in search of an actual productive job.
Did the Republicans pay any attention to the polls when they show that 90% of Americans want some form of gun reform, back ground check. How about minimum wage increase? NBC/WSJ is a right wing poll, you might as well say NBC/FOX.By the way sometimes you do things cause it is the right thing to do, I am sure most of Americans would not have supported the civil right’s act, voting right’s, how many would have supported allowing blacks to go to whites school? How many would have supported blacks and whites being able to marry? As I said sometimes you do things because it is the right.
Because it is right.
Fox = WSJ = Murdoch.
Yeah..thugs. Definitely thugs. Hilarious.
AH! I just remembered that I have to tutor tonight!! I’ll miss the announcement from the President..I know that you’ll have it posted here…so grateful for that, but geez….I kinda wanted to see it as it happened:)
So apparently Jim Webb announced his formation of an exploratory committee to run for president in 2016 with a very funky video. Funky as in, UGH. I haven’t seen it yet. I’ve never been impressed with him and I think he has ZERO chance of gaining any traction.
What is he running as? Hi Meta!!
A Dem, I guess!
Good morning!
Meta, I don’t see how he could ever win a primary. I would never vote for him and I don’t think he’s remotely capable of winning the support of the Obama coalition.
Dog whistle much?
Wow, way to be an a$$, Jim. It is long past time for this BS. If people are stuck in that mindset then it’s ok to leave them behind and get on with mature, healthy community building.
Jim Webb has the personality of a gnat. He will not win.
Just what we don’t need. A Corporate Dem with a giant ego.
In other and better news Bill deBlasio announced supportive immigration measures the day after PBO made it clear his EO would be this week. On Jan 1 the new NYC municipal ID card will begin its rollout. It is noteworthy because not only will it make life easier for undocumented NYers it offers benefits so that ALL citizens will be tempted to appy for this ID. The idea is that no stigma will attach!!!
Mayor deBlasio met with Valerie jarret in the WH yesterday. Privately.
Oh, that’s interesting!
Happy Thursday TODers!!
Heeeeeeeya Chips
Will they tell us again that President Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing? I’m thinking there’s some hurt going on here….sorry to the Russian people for this, but Putin needs to go….
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-18/russian-accountant-loses-tooth-in-ruble-devaluation.html
morning,africa:) I’m so glad you’re here…
GM TODville.
Congrats to DF and isonprize, dual early bird worm-catchers!
Happy BD to a man who lights up every room he’s in, Mr. BFD himself.
Today will be a great day, as in two-fer, BOGOF, heh.
As you know, Los Angeles is nothing if not an immigrant paradise. So it’s no surprise that immigration has long been headline news here. Here’s one of @latimes’ (many) home page headlines this morning:
The rope-a-dope strategy of #POTUSunleashed has at last awakened our moribund MSM, at lease here in LA. Let’s see if MSM’s pack-mentality picks up on the points raised in this article.
“Republican leaders are increasingly concerned that if Obama follows through, the anti-immigrant fervor in their party will rise to an unappealing crescendo and the rank-and-file’s desire to confront the president will overtake other party priorities.”
and…
“Some Republican lawmakers want to approve only a series of short-term spending bills, so they can revisit the issue every few months and maintain some leverage over the White House.”
and…
“The president’s expected announcement Thursday leaves Republican leaders with little time to contain the fallout before the Dec. 11 deadline to approve new funding to keep the government operating.”
Please proceed, GOP
Also, I hope Tom Wolf pays heed — the stories from Philadelphia public schools, the birthplace of American democracy — have been dismal for all the years Corbett was Governor.
Love that our tech/community colleges are reaping the benefits of having the 1% pay their fair share to enjoy the bounty of this country.
Comcast alone should gladly contribute to the well-being of one of this country’s most vast and beautiful states:
Sales Tax is like our GST - proportionally it hits the poor - much more than the rich - RW governments use it to keep the wealthy happy.
Special delivery for Japa21 and Mr. 57F (I know you’re in the Chicago area, but you’re familiar with this):
Snow is wonderful. CA is hoping for the same stuff to fall up in the mountains. Most folks in CA want all the benefits of snow just so long as they don’t have to shoverl the stuff. Wimps.
You’re right about wimps.
My back aches just looking at this photo.
Have always wanted to experience the joy of Spring crocuses peeking up through the snow — daffodils have been a fav of mine since I was little.
It’s a great day in America!
Barack Hussein Obama is still President and Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Is right beside him! Woot!
:) :)
I hope birthday Biden won’t mind me saying that I am really looking forward to today’s announcement on immigration. It’s a BFD! Happy birthday to our VP!
Catch ya later! :-D
G’morning Chips & TOD! Happy Birthday to our great, handsome VP - Joe Biden!!
Morning Hopefruit!!! Mooooooorning everyone!
VPOTUS has changed.
He has changed from sweet and cute to grown and sexy.
I Love Ride or Die VP Joe Biden!
Well, I’m a lucky girl! I share the birthday month with wonderful Joe! My birthday is Sunday…..just three days after his, and three years before. My entire family will be here Saturday to celebrate my 3/4 of a century birthday!!! Still teaching, and kicking, and loving life. also, still have my original color of hair, no gray, no dye :-)
Happy “shared” birthday dear VP!!!
” still have my original color of hair, no gray, no dye”
hmphhh! I had gray hair since I was about 19 years old. genetics. Dye is one of my best friends. lololol
Happy pre-birthday to you carolyn. :-D
Happy Early Birthday, carolyn:) I admire your spunk and spirit so much…you have been an inspiration to me when you speak of your students …I feel the same way, but you have more “experience” than I…..hugs to you…put the cake order in with Chips now..or she’ll clean the kitchen or something:) PS…I had first grays at 18…now I don’t even worry about them. Earned every one.
Good Morning Chips and TOD.
Jimmy Fallon explains the meaning behind President Obama’s lesser-known facial expressions…
:) :)
That wasn’t that funny. Jimmy Kimmel is better then that Jimmy.
that was cute. Especially the ‘sup girl”.
hahaha
YES WE CAN!!
Indeed - PBO’s goal was intended to leave these fools scratching their heads after the midterms wondering “wh’appened?!?!?” He has pretty much erased their smug euphoria from the morning after the election. Now, on an almost daily basis, is giving them something to talk (angrily) about….Their heads are spinning while he’s doing the work for the American people…
If I remember correctly…he did the same after the 2010 election and got EVERYTHING he wanted including raising taxes on the rich.
Only The Dream Act didn’t get passed.
POTUS didn’t even give them a full 24 hours before throwing serious shade. hahahahahaha
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Happy birthday VP Biden, it is a BFD today :-)
Ron Fournier is simply obsessed with PBO… I don’t know what he’ll do after 2017, probably just collapse into a deep depression void…
Methinks he will not be alone….
Yes, there is something about THIS particular pic that has always moved me….
Is Dotster on vacation - I haven’t seen her in a while?
I really don’t want Bill Cosby’s bullshit to suck up the energy from PBO’s Immigration announcement tonight and rally tomorrow. I know the MSM would very much want that to happen. These damn networks would prefer to spend the whole day talking about Cosby rather than airing our President’s speech.
Cosby’s crap has been going on for 30 years - ain’t nothing new, and he deserves whatever punishment there is for that. But this is not a priority in the grand scheme of important news in the mainstream and urgent issues of the country needing to be addressed.
Our media will prioritize the violent or salacious over news that actually improves people’s lives every single time. This is what for-profit news has wrought. It’s not a public service to inform the citizenry anymore; it just another way to make money for the oligarchs.
Look at the charts in this article:
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/fascinating-graphic-shows-who-owns-all-the-major-brands-1599537576
Cosby deserve punishment if he is guilty. I don’t know one way or the other. I haven’t been paying that much attention to it.
exactly
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/immigration-shutdown-worst-republican-idea-ever.html
The Republican Party has had some bad ideas, but it has never come up with a political tactic as obviously stupid as shutting down the federal government to protest President Obama’s immigration policies. It is almost a masterpiece of self-sabotage, harnessing the party’s most self-destructive short-term political maneuver to its most dangerous long-term demographic liability. It is the sharks-with-laser-beams of political maneuvers.
Incredibly, in the short time since the midterms, the prospect of a shutdown has progressed from unthinkable to probable enough that Republicans are apparently wracking their brains to come up with an alternative. Politico earnestly reports:
Well, they could — I dunno, just spitballing here — try maybe not shutting down the government. It’s just crazy enough to work.
Morning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/20/rise-and-shine-960/
I am absolutely sick of the heartlessness of some people.
Got a response to the Depew NY tweet above (which was a joke, since NO ONE likes to shovel snow) — the areas that get abundant snow are rewarded by their glorious summers, incredibly long nights and twilights which basically said that Californians are all gonna die b/c no water.
We’re all at Mother Natures’ fury, and must respect her. But to wish 38 million Americans a slow death from thirst is uncalled for.
And then there’s this:
I’m so excited about Pres Obama’s announcement. We can count on him to do the right thing. What a president!! And the picture of VP Biden as a young man is so lovely. Open, honest, positive. And even more so now. What a great day!! I’m so glad to have TOD to share it with. :)
I have so much admiration for Jane Goodall. This interview is amazing and full of hope for us and the planet.