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I’m back!
MP! Solid gold medal coming your way.
Isn’t it so much fun when you have come in from shopping, put away all the groceries, made a cup of tea, not in a hurry at all - then sit to check in/up on TOD, and Chipsticks aka CIC has a brand new silky thread just awaitin’ for ya’!? Nothing like awesome timing, where’s amk - sleeping, I suppose.
WOOT YOU!!!!! :D :D :D
Hi Tally!!!!
MightyP!!!!!!
See ya all later, gotta create something spectacular in the kitchen :cool:
/Oh ho! Hope she leaves whatever is created in the kitchen in the kitchen /
MP wit Au and Ag Medals, Yes!
That Toon up thread is Perfect.
Then show while PBO’s back is turned how the GOP baby just loves them some Obamacare.
:) with Cruz’s Green eggs and Ham…..
:D good one jojo
Good moves there, Pamela!
Here’s a call for those who have something to say about the O-coalition and the next election.
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo the US Media Hate group……their answer is Trevor Noah is Anti-Semitic?
Wow…..I wish the same Over Judgmental Prism is applied to Journalism, Politicians, Police, etc……
i believe that all this hoopla would not be occurring if Trevor were a white man
From Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who asked for horror stories about Obamacare and was instead deluged with stories from people who have been helped by it:
The stories are largely around pre-existing conditions and those that are getting health insurance up to age 26.
that’s what SHE says because she says the GOP “alternative” will keep those popular parts of the program. the few snapshot views I saw of comments talked about subsidies, affordability, in addition to pre-existing conditions.
The Romney/GOP b.s. “alternatives” only talk about covering pre-existing conditions if you are transitioning from employer - provided insurance. NOT the all-encompassing provision of ACA.AND - there is no mention of what it will cost to cover pre-existing conditions if there is no mandate or subsidies. They may be covered, but unaffordable, you GOP nitwit!
Totally agree with you. In any event, in order to keep their popularity with their “base”, every single RW Tbagger will repeal O’Care and leave millions of us stranded… and dying.
Double shame!
Funny how only AA school districts were targeted. You can’t tell me that other non-minority school districts weren’t cheating too. I don’t see the point of putting teachers and administrators in jail for cheating and getting bonus yet Wall Street gets fined and continue working.
great insight in this interview…..
When asked to choose between Bo and Sunny, Pete ‘prefers’ Bo - he has known him longer, plus Bo likes to hang around the Oval Office in the mornings. :grin: Interesting interview
Because of the way *he* operates there are always fresh pictures to take (even with the same people meeting in the same rooms)! :grin:
Poor Pete looks tired……he probably would have rather stayed home and rest but wanted to give this guy the interview. Pete has had only one vacation in six years, I guess he should be tired. Very few people has the energy for this job and thank GOD PBO is one of them.
THANKS for bring this to my/our attention, NC. It was 52 minutes well-spent!
Good West Coast morning (for another 13 minutes) everyone!
It looks like it’s make or break time on the Iran talks. Time to send all your good energy, thoughts, prayers for peace. If negotiators don’t find a way to a political agreement, it seems likely it will be the end of the process and the warm mongers on both sides will have the upper hand.
Afternoon everyone:) Do your part to conserve water…win a Prius!
http://www.mywaterpledge.com/campaign/national-campaign-2015/
Hey DF, thanks! I joined the pledge and sent my link to others. Gooooood luck :-)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/us/california-imposes-first-ever-water-restrictions-to-deal-with-drought.html?module=Notification&version=BreakingNews®ion=FixedTop&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=31892819&pgtype=Homepage&_r=0
TICK TOCK
Jake Tapper just said that Indiana and Arkansas DO NOT have same sex marriage…
WRONG….WRONG….WRONG…. Indiana does and the Arkansas ban was overturned and currently has a stay until the Supreme Court rules in June.
Why do the CNN ” reporters ” cough…cough….not know the facts about the subjects they discuss ????
He is a propagandist and will have a job so long as he does not flub his GOP-approved talking points. If he started advocating raising 1%ers/corporations’ taxes or calling out the GOP’s bigotry and treasonous behavior he would be fired immediately. Instead he is a propagandists who can get away with saying he is ashamed to be an American because PBO did not partake in the photo op in Paris and not wake up to a pink slip.
Chalk another one up to President Obama’s push to raise the minimum wage…
Power to the People!
It started with GAP a year ago….cities like Seattle that made it $15/hr….then Walmart, Target…now McDonalds….the dominoes continue to fall.
yes…between the courageous workers themselves…SEIU….and the President…a paradigm changed
I am glad for the workers………
As am I….the bigger significance is McD’s employees 90K, which will now pressure all other fast-food companies.
Yay! Great news. Thank you President Obama. No, I am not kidding. An expanding economy thanks to PBO is one of the factors causing wages to go up.
As is The President and his Administrations campaign to Raise the Wage. PBO makes good things happen.
Thanks President Obama!
also too, Thanks LP for bringing the good news to our attention. Think I’ll stop and get a small fries in support this evening :-)
The McD french fries are so good :D
Not so much bluster today from Iran and Russia. Their presumptuous announcement of a deal surely didn’t work out yesterday.
I don’t know if less bluster is a good thing or a bad thing at this time.
All *I* know for sure, Vicki, is that I want there to be a deal, if only to shake up the years of stagnancy and ‘war’ talk and to reset the approach to international dialogue. Plus, I know if PBO agrees to a deal it will be because he believes is the best outcome under the circumstances. No deal while PBO is in power, IMO, will put us right back into the depths of the war mongers’ default position - sound and fury, incessant anger, bombast, and nothing productive.
I feel just what you do, also named Vicki. I want this deal to happen because it is clearly the best path for the world to follow, away from endless war.
Not as high-minded but just as sincere is that I want President Obama to have this victory. This deal, if it happens will be an historic legacy piece just as Obamacare is.
No matter what the GOP does.
Osama Bin Laden is dead and Obamacare lives.
I hope we have another Big Win to celebrate.
I hope we have another Big Win to celebrate.
Yes. The O-Admin has worked hard enough, and consistently enough and have earned this.
It would also be fulfilling his promise to the Nobel Peace Committee upon his receiving the prize at the beginning of his presidency.
What a bunch of stupid morons. Unless you are some big time corporate franchise who is already established like Chick-ful-a-shit why would you go on camera to be part of the backlash? Either you are stupid or a plain moron. Their Yelp page is taking a brutal beating with all the comments and maybe only one is supportive. Maybe if you go on Insanity Hannity show and get some Faux News folks to help you out. They need this business to get braces for the daughter and so she can buy some make up.
OMG, I love what Michael N. of WEHO stated in his tweet/comment. He’s right! No self-respecting gay couple would eva be caught dead serving pizza at a wedding reception - PLUEEZE! And the pizzeria only had…how many customer reviews in 9 years - get outtahere!
“Do not give them any more oxygen” - AMEN & two snaps up :D
51-40 support now:
Wow…….
Well, well….
WHOA, 14 counts….
Hey Meta, what is the difference with this case compared to Charlie Rangel?
I’m not sure of all the details but Menendez is accused of a quid pro quo relationship with a donor.
If I recall correctly. Rangel’s ethics charges had to do with non-disclosure of assets and using his office stationary to raise funds for a college construction project that was to be named after him.
Yes, meta. Rangel’s offenses were less serious.
This is more like the Governor of FL, Rick Scott’s crimes.
Thanks Meta and Vicki.
Another reason there should be term limits, perhaps!
I don’t believe in term limits if there is NO gerrymandering. The voting process if it is not bastardized and good/honest candidates is the way to get rid of bad politicians.
but in light of the fact that we don’t have that…term limits is the only way to get them out of office,,,but until the electorate understands the connection between their lack of voting and bad policy…it might not matter…
Well, that’s true. Here’s to NO gerrymandering!
I agree with term limits as well jacquelineoboomer.
Sometimes it would help us out!
Seems he will be no loss to his political party
“Even while under federal investigation, he has used his leadership position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to criticize negotiations between President Barack Obama’s administration and Iran on its nuclear program and has been outspoken in opposition to normalizing relations with Cuba.”
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/65615613edeb4ccbbd053daa380912df/new-jersey-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-corruption-charges
As usual - it seems Federal government money exists to be shared with friends
“The investigation focused on whether the senator had improperly advocated on Melgen’s behalf, including by intervening in a Medicare billing dispute.” …
“Melgen came under renewed scrutiny when government data last year showed he had received more in Medicare reimbursements in 2012 than any other doctor in the country.”
I am sure that they would find a lot of the same if they checked under the hood of all the republicans, although, I have no sympathy for Melendez.
“Menendez”.
I don’t doubt it COS - it is always about the money. I was seriously amazed when I discovered how much time US politicians spend fundraising. If I gave the amounts given I might be expecting some favorable attention myself - which is why the money has to somehow be taken out of elections. It seems the limits that used to exist have disappeared the way of any checks on finances in the “free market” economy.
The Senator from AIPAC is going down. No tears from me, that’s for sure.
Wow….
You know how people born and educated in the U.S. go to Israel and become politicians and Ambassadors to the U.S. ……this is what I see in Bob’s future:
The only downside is NJ law allows Christie to appoint a GOPer (like he did in ’13) until a special election. At this point I could care less because this moron Menendez says he will probably abstain from voting for Lynch for A.G. b/c of indictment….so he is useless in my book anyway.
Good slogan, although I think they’re probably close partners.
Governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and former Texas Governor Rick Perry, all staunch opponents of President Barack Obama’s 2010 Affordable Care Act, have collectively applied for and won at least $352 million through grant programs set up by the law, federal records show.
The action is at odds with the public stance of all four potential candidates, who have blasted the law as an unprecedented expansion of government and called for its repeal.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/01/anti-obamacare-republican-governors-352-million-health-care-grants.html
They need to change from an Elephant to a Hippo….as in hypocrite.
Can a whole group of (GOP) people collectively be called the “ANT-Christ”?
These sick m—-rf—ers should all STFD and STFU.
Yes! Deatheaters, the lot of them.
I’m for THAT!
how do they continue to exist as a viable party of the people
They are not exactly a ‘viable party of the people’, Alma-b. The real problem is it’s taking the people as a whole too long to realize this.
Five ***** comment, VC
Took them 6 years to realise GWB and his GOP were bad for the US - seems they are doing it again - sigh - the social issues this lot are legislating are taking the US internally where GWB took it externally. Both are disgusting places to be.
BTW & FTR Alma-b, that island in the sun visit seems highly, highly unlikely. First my friend was ‘on a call’ on Monday and promised to call back then didn’t/hasn’t. An email reminder today at her work got a quick response that things are very busy there - which makes sense as it’s one of the venues - and I’ll get a call on Friday as that’s a holiday. We’ll see, but I suspect Friday is too late for *our* dreams to be accommodated. :(
Doesany of this undermining and sabotage of the President hold any legal repercussions
THAT is what I’d really like to know; if not, why not?
someone told me that it does not meet the Treason requirements
I figured that out a while back because the treason reqs included something about war. However, IMO, the Republicans have shown that *something* needs to done about their ruling techniques/strategies. They have done NOTHING to help the country as a whole and a whole lot to sabotage its progress. They have audaciously shouted ‘no’ to every measure to move the country forward while still collecting a hefty salary. In no other field could an employee so blatantly and consistently try to gum up the works and not be held accountable. Having Republicans set such negative governing precedents with no legal recourse to stop them should be a wake up call to all serious law makers. The irony of course is that they themselves are the majority lawmakers so though their methods are unpatriotic in the extreme, I currently see no way to get around them.
perhaps we should be talking about Sedition….A revolt or an incitement to revolt against established authority, usually in the form of Treason or Defamation against government….
http://legaldictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Sedition
pf and vc—I read the definitions of sedition you provided and I don’t think the GOP behavior gets to sedition. GOP does everything up to but NOT including advocating overthrow of our gov’t.
There are probably no legal remedies available for us.
The DNC DCCC and DSCC should be handling this with vigorous campaigns in support of PBO and his policies. MIA before the mid-terms and now.
Those orgs are dead—useless. They only stick their heads up when they stick their hands out.
I fear the next 2 years will be tough for us and with Lady Walmart the only candidate in sight, I see no relief for liberal progressive democrats.
My ticket would be Biden/Castro or Biden/de Blasio.
John del Cecato tweeted today that Bill de Blasio is on his way to Iowa to raise his national profile. Since he can’t be HRC’s VP due to Pres and VP cannot come from same state law, I have to wonder what my excellent Mayor is up to.
Why oh why wouldn’t it? We keep waiting for the answer.
Gee, here’s an idea:
Stale nonsense. Dems just seem to be taking the path of least resistance to people they think are owed something. 2016 writ large.
Ed Schultz is interviewing Ambassador Joe Wilson on Iran talks
Wolf is interviewing Tom Cotton
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/01/texas-religious-freedom_n_6987458.html#comments
Republicans now defending the Indiana anti-gay law by invoking the Nazis.
Great interview with our fabulous Pete Souza.
LOLzzzzzz
PBO is drinking his milkshake, or whatever that saying is exactly. hahahahahaha
Yeah, for sure. That is WH beer, too!! Bwwwhahahaaa!!
New post
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/01/an-interview-with-pete-souza/
Californians, please take note of Gov Brown’s presser today on water conservation: 25% reduction goal for all.