Morning Chips and TODers. Who wouldn’t love a man who takes so much joy in babies, kids and puppies and also happens to be the most brilliant and effective leader in the world. I truly pity anyone who tries to fill his shoes.
Thanks, Jer. My prediction is that the jacket PBO wore in Alaska is going to become a best seller once people figure out where he got it.
He looked terrific in it and many wives, SO’s and girlfriends are going to be eyeing it as a birthday/Christmas present.
This is all kinds of precious. PBO showed such respect ad love by going all in and actually being a part of the community while he was there. I know that this meant so much to all of the communities he visited. He brought himself as well as the more tangible help and investment from the various governmental agencies that he oversees. He let the people know that they ARE American citizens and that he IS their president.
Greetings from my overcast, muggy corner of the world! Luckily today I do not have to move if I don’t want to!
Warm and uplifting thoughts going out to all those in the village who need a pick-me-upper or a ‘thank you’ sent to the powers that be on their behalf!
Good Thursday morning everyone:) PBO with puppies:) I’ll join the pile if jellied legged TOD’ers! More than sweet… Today is my son’s 21st birthday. He’s excited…seems like just yesterday that he came into the world..my little boy is now an adult. True of it all, I think he’s been an adult for some time. Wise beyond his years and more mature than me, half the time. So blessed that he’s my son. Family’s going out to eat together….and the obligatory drink :)
Meantime, I have to work…and watch to see if the rest of the Dems join the right side of history today. So many thanks to go around for all the hard workers in this Administration and this President…never slowing down for the people. I feel love this morning.
She will, thanks.
Now that you’re at loose end, you coming over for a quick Labour Day visit? No promises of barbecue or anything, but I could brew pots of freshly picked mint tea. :D:D
Happy Birthday to your son, Df. It’s stunning to think of the years that have sped by since our children were born. My son will be 43 this month and I cannot for the life of me figure out where all the time went.
I miss those days, I miss those days when the teacher handed out exams on warm freshly copied paper. The ink would still be warm and my friends and I would spend about five minutes sniffing the ink. Man! I get the shakes even thinking about it.
Well, Rikyrah, one thing I never saw in school was a calculator or a computer. In the olden days, the math whizes had slide rulers. Can’t remember seeing a tv set in a classroom either. And no, it wasn’t a one room school house on the prairie, just an average suburban school system in the 50’s.
Good morning TOD!
Congratulations Jackie!
It never fails as soon as I start talking to myself the post changes.
It let’s me know that Ms, Chips and I are on the same page somewhere, somehow in cyberspace.
Our agendas are the same though, to be inspired, encouraged hearts enlarged for our President.
I am so happy for him that after all the hard work that he does for us, he has Michelle and the girls to come home to keep him grounded, loved and laughing.(the most important part)
Off to do errand.
I will be lurking when I can.
That’s what we do when we can.
High five, LDS! Whenever I see you heading off for a walk or to be reflective, I take a mental stroll with you for a wee bit (before I get distracted again) so I can feel like I did a little itty bit of *exercise*. ;) Have yourself a very good Thursday!
‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ cast: Where are they now?
If you’re in the mood for a little nostalgia, we have something for you: It’s been 25 years since “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” debuted on television — seriously. While Will Smith hasn’t gone anywhere, the rest of the cast haven’t necessarily stayed in the spotlight. To celebrate this big anniversary, find out what the stars of the classic sitcom have been up to since the show ended.
Watch Preview of ‘Being Mary Jane’ Season 3. Premiere Date Set + Loretta Devine and Jill Scott Join Cast
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act
September 2, 2025 at 6:24PM
Announced this week, the 3rd season of BET’s hit original drama series, “Being Mary Jane,” will premiere on Tuesday, October 20 in a new time slot, at 9 pm ET (it previously aired at 10 pm).
Also announced, Loretta Devine and Jill Scott have both joined the series as guest stars for the season.
Devine will play a character named Cecilia, a bookstore owner whose car was hit by Mary Jane’s vehicle in the final moments of the season 2 finale. And Scott will play Jackie, Niecy’s (Raven Goodwin’s) mother.
Season 3 of the series will pick up immediately after last season’s finale: a newly promoted Mary Jane learns the truth about the relationship between Lisa (Latarsha Rose) and her ex David (Stephen Bishop), just after she broke up with Sheldon (Gary Dourdan).
When Pope Francis celebrates a canonization Mass for a Spanish-American missionary in Washington this month, he will do so in a language that the new saint, Junípero Serra, would recognize: Spanish.
There’s a number of reasons for that, said Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington who will be hosting the pope on the Washington leg of his three-city U.S. visit later this month.
First, Spanish is the pope’s mother tongue; he was born in Argentina.
“But it’s also a recognition of how large the Hispanic population in the United States is,” Wuerl said. “And also because he is canonizing a Spanish speaker. And he’s coming as the first pope from the New World, and the language, the predominant language of the Western Hemisphere, is Spanish.”
Pope Francis just keeps bringing it. I think this is a wonderful tribute to the growing Latino/Hispanic people in the US. Love the idea that the predominant language of the western hemisphere is Spanish. US centric nutjobs will have hard time coping with that reality.,
I heard on NPR that the Catholic Church is 60% Spanish and only 7% of the 40k priest are Spanish. They are in need of new priest and are going to recruit more Spanish speeking priests.
LIVE NOW: Vice President Joe Biden meets with Jewish community leaders in Miami and delivers remarks on the nuclear deal reached with Iran. http://www.msnbc.com/shift/watch/live-biden-meets-with-florida-jewish-group-518626883724 (WARNING: DWS is introducing him.)
How very charitable and caring of the Hungarians to find a way to “exclude” those who need a home. I guess the concept of “doing unto others as you would have done unto you” eludes them.
Gee…maybe they “forgot” about this! They were given refuge, but now refuse others?
http://www.unhcr.org/452665e92.html
As 23 October progressed, tens of thousands of people poured on to the street – and the initial demonstration very quickly turned into something else altogether: a full-scale revolt against the regime and its Soviet masters.
Twelve days later on, on 4 November, the Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest. The city endured days of heavy shelling and street battles, and Hungarians started to flee at the rate of thousands a day to neighbouring Austria. By the time the borders were fully sealed, some 180,000 Hungarian refugees had made their way to Austria and 20,000 had headed south into Yugoslavia.
Within days of the exodus starting, an extraordinary operation sprang up in Austria, not only to care for the refugees, but to move them out of the country almost as fast as they arrived. In the end, 180,000 were resettled from Austria and Yugoslavia to a total of 37 different countries – the first 100,000 of them in under ten weeks. The performance of the Austrians, the aid agencies and the resettlement countries was truly remarkable.
The 1956 uprising and its aftermath helped shape the way humanitarian organizations – not least UNHCR – were to deal with refugee crises for decades to come. The episode also left an indelible mark on international refugee law and policy.
But the people it marked most of all were, of course, the Hungarians themselves – both those who stayed and those who left. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution, Refugees magazine has interviewed seven Hungarian refugees who subsequently settled in seven far-flung foreign lands.
Sound somewhat like the GOP - and many in my country - it seems we go to war/drop bombs and create thousands of refugees but then want to send them back to their war torn countries. So pleased PBO (and Europe) do not want to create the same situation in Iran.
Good morning, everyone.
PBO flew all night. I am always glad when he arrives safely home. This trip was an absolute smashing hit. POTUS looked so happy the entire time. And the laugh he got with the over-excited fish was wonderful to see.
Now back home to the insane congress and their repulsive lies.
And eventually, maybe?, a victory lap when the Iran deal is where the President wants it to be. We know by the numbers that the deal is done. When President Obama signals the deal is done in his eyes, too, perhaps we will have a speech or a celebration of some kind. If not it will be because PBO doesn’t want to rub their loss in GOP faces. PBO is kind that way.
Me, not so much.
I don’t feel very kind, either, Vicki, but I think that our President has so many fish yet to fry (not over excited salmon) that he’s going to be very cautious about victory laps. He doesn’t want a government shutdown this fall and he’s got projects we wants completed, so he will continue to maintain careful, non antagonistic relations with Congress, unless they deliberately try to sabotage him and the country on the budget.
ME…NOT SO MUCH EITHER! BEEN EXPLAINING CLIMATE CHANGE TO THE ALLEGED CHRISTIANS ON MY FB THIS MORNING…THEY DON’T BELIEVE IN IT AND HAVE BEEN IN THEIR OWN WORLD FOR SOME TIME NOW…BUCKET THAT!
President Obama is not only an exceptional world and national leader, first and foremost he is an extraordinary human being, who has an immense capacity to bring a loving and healing presence wherever he is.
Chemi Shalev has a tweet up but it’s in Hebrew so no use to me.
Anyway Chemi says that in the tweet, Bibi is getting blamed for the Iran deals’ success—-Directly caused by his dopey strut down the US Congress aisle.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
GOOD MORNING TOD FAMILY…I PUT PBO DANCING ON MY FB…EXPECTING RIGHT WING SPIT ON MY KEYBOARD ANY TIME NOW….I LOVE MY PRESIDENT…WISH HE COULD HAVE STAYED LONGER BECAUSE HE LOVED EVERY MOMENT!
I love VP Biden…he is breaking this down in plain English….Hope that he decides to run. Maybe Americans will listen to this man explain some truths that they refuse to listen to the current President about….Thank is, VP Biden. He really is in his element now
I just wanna ask…..how come every article the NYTimes is doing on Detroit involves White People?
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Last Stop on the L Train: Detroit
By JENNIFER CONLINJULY 10, 2015
Detroit, Just West of Bushwick,” read the first billboard that popped up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, this spring, with a working class scene from one of Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry” murals. “Detroit, Be Left Alone,” a second one preached soon after, again in Bushwick. And then a third sign appeared, in two locations in Brooklyn and two in Manhattan — “Detroit: Now Hiring.”
No one quite knew where they were coming from or who had put them up.
But when an unrelated photo popped up on Instagram — “Move to Detroit” spray-painted on a girder of the Brooklyn Bridge — the campaign’s anonymous crusader finally revealed himself.
“I rent billboard spaces where others don’t see value. That is how I saw Detroit on my first visit four years ago,” said Philip Kafka, the 28-year-old man who then put his passion behind the billboards with his SoHo-based company, Prince Media. “I saw great buildings, a deep and rich cultural history, and met amazing people.”
He now owns six buildings in the Motor City, one of which will house his new restaurant, Katoi, across the street from Detroit’s most photographed “ruin porn,” the Michigan Central Station. “I want people to know that in Detroit you can afford to make art, be a chef, buy houses, start a business, do anything if you work hard,” he said.
TUESDAY, APR 8, 2025 01:34 PM CDT
Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities
Too many claim white people are at risk in communities of color. Really, it’s those communities that are threatened
DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER
A few years back, when I was still a paramedic, we picked up a white guy who had been pistol whipped during a home invasion in Williamsburg. “I can’t believe this happened to me,” he moaned, applying the ice pack I’d given him to a small laceration on his temple. “It’s like a movie!”
Indeed.
While film narratives of white folks in low-income neighborhoods tend to focus on how endangered they are by a gangland black or brown menace, this patient was singular in that he was literally the only victim of black on white violence I encountered in my entire 10-year career as a medic.
“What is distinctively ‘American’ is not necessarily the amount or kind of violence that characterizes our history,” Richard Slotkin writes, “but the mythic significance we have assigned to the kinds of violence we have actually experienced, the forms of symbolic violence we imagine or invent, and the political uses to which we put that symbolism.” Slotkin was talking about the American frontier as a symbolic reference point for justifying expansionist violence throughout history. Today, we can see the mytho-political uses of symbolic violence in mainstream media portrayals of the “hood.”
Pull up a chair.
Grab a cup of your favorite sipping beverage.
Now enjoy this stunning display of intellectual prowess from one of Kentucky’s finest! 😆😆😆
For my 2,015th tweet, I just want to remind everyone that the Earth is 2,015 yrs old & God did not let gay dinosaurs get married #KimDavis
— Clerk Kim Davis (@ClerkKimDavis) September 3, 2025
Dudette, because you insisted (the things I do for you :roll: ), I peeked at her TL. Seems to be your typical potty-minded *christian* looking for attention! smh Wouldn’t surprise me if she ended up a professional/political grifter like the Alaska Barbie.
Who…
…taught him how to beg?
…exposed him to milk chocolates (which I thought I heard somewhere isn’t safe for dogs?
… is not discreet when eating his milk chocolates?
Any Alabamians in house? - Department of Justice - The beat goes on even when we are not apprised of all the wheels that are turning daily.
Alabama Real Estate Investor Admits to Bid Rigging and Mail Fraud Conspiracies Involving Foreclosed Homes
A southern Alabama business man has pleaded guilty for his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in southern Alabama.
Michael P. Barbour admitted to conspiring to fraudulently acquire title to foreclosed properties at artificially low prices by agreeing with others not to bid against each other at public foreclosure auctions in southern Alabama.
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he investigation into fraud and bid rigging in the Alabama real estate foreclosure industry is being conducted by the Washington Criminal II Section of the Antitrust Division and the FBI’s Mobile Field Office, with the assistance of the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Alabama. Anyone with information concerning bid rigging or fraud related to public real estate foreclosure auctions should contact the Washington Criminal II Section of the Antitrust Division at 202-598-4000, call the Antitrust Division’s Citizen Complaint Center at 1-888-647-3258 or visit http://www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm.
The charges were brought in connection with the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. The task force was established to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys’ offices, and state and local partners, it’s the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud. Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets; and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations. Since fiscal year 2009, the Justice Department has filed over 18,000 financial fraud cases against more than 25,000 defendants. For more information on the task force, please visit http://www.StopFraud.gov.
Schroder & Co. Bank AG Reaches Resolution under DOJ's Swiss Bank Program and Agrees to Pay $10.3 Million Penalty http://t.co/hEHCAud1tz
— Justice Department (@TheJusticeDept) September 3, 2025
Schroder & Co. Bank AG Reaches Resolution under Justice Department’s Swiss Bank Program and Agrees to Pay $10.3 Million Penalty
The Department of Justice announced today that Schroder & Co. Bank AG has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.
“As today’s agreement reflects, Swiss banks continue to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding bank accounts opened and maintained for U.S. individuals in the names of sham structures such as trusts, foundations and foreign corporations,” said Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division. “The department’s prosecutors and the IRS are actively following these leads to criminally investigate and prosecute those individuals who willfully evaded or assisted in the evasion of U.S. income tax obligations.”
The Swiss Bank Program, which was announced on Aug. 29, 2013, provides a path for Swiss banks to resolve potential criminal liabilities in the United States. Swiss banks eligible to enter the program were required to advise the department by Dec. 31, 2013, that they had reason to believe that they had committed tax-related criminal offenses in connection with undeclared U.S.-related accounts. Banks already under criminal investigation related to their Swiss-banking activities and all individuals were expressly excluded from the program.
She was sure smiling all over Vice President (I swear I first typed “President” there!) Biden, when he was standing next to her in FL. I’m beginning to think “the limelight” has taken her over.
I am thoroughly disgusted by her. Between Schumer in the Senate and her leading the DNC I don’t know what to think of the Democratic Party. In 1960 Kennedy had to give a speech saying that his allegiance would be to the country not his Faith or the Pope. My how things have changed.
Morning Chips and TODers. Who wouldn’t love a man who takes so much joy in babies, kids and puppies and also happens to be the most brilliant and effective leader in the world. I truly pity anyone who tries to fill his shoes.
Good morning to ya Jackie - POTUS with puppies, how am I supposed to carry on today? :-)
It’s too much, isn’t it? Pete Souza, conspiring with PBO, is trying to turn us all into jelly. And it’s working!!!
Totally working, knees jellified!
Jackie, congratulations on first. This post melts my heart, too!
:-) Wobble.
I know right?
We should name him President Emeritus effective Jan 20, 2017!
Yes, please. <3
Love it! Morning Mister!
eewropeans total around 400 mil. Refugees around 400 k. Talk about 0.1%ers freaking out 99.9%ers.
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, even amk, and congrats jackie on #1! :)
Thanks Chips for this lovely R&S, and Happy Thursday everyone. I hope our President gets to take a nap today! :)
Goooooooooooooood moooooooooooooorning Hopefruit!
Good Morning BFF and TOD.
I can hear him say, “if we must let’s go home”. He sure had fun the week after vacying.
And I am sure that part of the fun was that he did not have to wear a suit for 3 days.
Thanks, Jer. My prediction is that the jacket PBO wore in Alaska is going to become a best seller once people figure out where he got it.
He looked terrific in it and many wives, SO’s and girlfriends are going to be eyeing it as a birthday/Christmas present.
I have already begun to look for it.
CEB, let me know if you find it. I think a lot of us will be glad to find the source.
Good morning TOD! Actually, I was even more impressed with the shirt he had on last night at the HS rally. It was incredibly stylish!
The President arrives Joint Base Andrews. Click here ► ► http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Thanks JER for the link!
Such beautiful children.
This is all kinds of precious. PBO showed such respect ad love by going all in and actually being a part of the community while he was there. I know that this meant so much to all of the communities he visited. He brought himself as well as the more tangible help and investment from the various governmental agencies that he oversees. He let the people know that they ARE American citizens and that he IS their president.
CEB - beautifully said. We get t savor every day of this historic Presidency while the deluded can’t see the wonder of it.
Our President has landed at Joint Base Andrews. :)
Greetings from my overcast, muggy corner of the world! Luckily today I do not have to move if I don’t want to!
Warm and uplifting thoughts going out to all those in the village who need a pick-me-upper or a ‘thank you’ sent to the powers that be on their behalf!
Good Thursday morning everyone:) PBO with puppies:) I’ll join the pile if jellied legged TOD’ers! More than sweet… Today is my son’s 21st birthday. He’s excited…seems like just yesterday that he came into the world..my little boy is now an adult. True of it all, I think he’s been an adult for some time. Wise beyond his years and more mature than me, half the time. So blessed that he’s my son. Family’s going out to eat together….and the obligatory drink :)
Meantime, I have to work…and watch to see if the rest of the Dems join the right side of history today. So many thanks to go around for all the hard workers in this Administration and this President…never slowing down for the people. I feel love this morning.
Happy BIRTH day to you, Desertf, and ‘Happy 21st Birthday’ to your baby! May life continue to shower him with blessings as he charts his path.
{{{vc}}} Thank you!
Happy Birthday df hope you do some things special.
Not MY birthday, jojo:) Son’s 21st today….going out to family dinner.
vc tricked me with the “birth” bay congrat…..Wow 21st BD for son now you can celebrate with champagne :)
Greetings, Jojo! You’re up and about earl - did you do an airport run? :D :D. It’s actually Desertf’s *son* who has a special day today.
No airport run she drove herself….we did a test run so I hope she made it. My guess she will check in once she’s settled in at the airport.
She will, thanks.
Now that you’re at loose end, you coming over for a quick Labour Day visit? No promises of barbecue or anything, but I could brew pots of freshly picked mint tea. :D :D
I’ll be there (wink wink) ;) ;)
Cool, will head out to cut the sprigs of mint soon. :)
Happy Birthday Son of DF! Have fun, but spare Mom the details. 😀
:D :D
Happy Birthday to your son, Df. It’s stunning to think of the years that have sped by since our children were born. My son will be 43 this month and I cannot for the life of me figure out where all the time went.
The time literally flew by. Sadly. I love every bit of time with my kids:)
Congratulations on raising a fine son to adulthood. That’s a major accomplishment! Happy Birthday to him.
Wishing you son a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! May he continue to be Blessed with love, peace, and joy!
A very Happy 21st Birthday to your son, DF.
LOL to this article.
18 Things Today’s Kids Will Never Experience in School
http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family/18-things-todays-kids-will-never-experience-in-school/ss-BBm3heU?ocid=HPCDHP#image=2
Sort of:) We still have regular pencils ( MY preference!!) and gym class:) The rest…not so much
I miss those days, I miss those days when the teacher handed out exams on warm freshly copied paper. The ink would still be warm and my friends and I would spend about five minutes sniffing the ink. Man! I get the shakes even thinking about it.
:) Remember!! We’re showing our age….( again)
Well, Rikyrah, one thing I never saw in school was a calculator or a computer. In the olden days, the math whizes had slide rulers. Can’t remember seeing a tv set in a classroom either. And no, it wasn’t a one room school house on the prairie, just an average suburban school system in the 50’s.
Not even in middle or high school?
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Welcome home President Obama.
Good morning TOD!
Congratulations Jackie!
It never fails as soon as I start talking to myself the post changes.
It let’s me know that Ms, Chips and I are on the same page somewhere, somehow in cyberspace.
Our agendas are the same though, to be inspired, encouraged hearts enlarged for our President.
I am so happy for him that after all the hard work that he does for us, he has Michelle and the girls to come home to keep him grounded, loved and laughing.(the most important part)
Off to do errand.
I will be lurking when I can.
That’s what we do when we can.
High five, LDS! Whenever I see you heading off for a walk or to be reflective, I take a mental stroll with you for a wee bit (before I get distracted again) so I can feel like I did a little itty bit of *exercise*. ;) Have yourself a very good Thursday!
Loved me some Fresh Prince.
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‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ cast: Where are they now?
If you’re in the mood for a little nostalgia, we have something for you: It’s been 25 years since “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” debuted on television — seriously. While Will Smith hasn’t gone anywhere, the rest of the cast haven’t necessarily stayed in the spotlight. To celebrate this big anniversary, find out what the stars of the classic sitcom have been up to since the show ended.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/the-fresh-prince-of-bel-air-cast-where-are-they-now/ss-AAdSu01?ocid=HPCDHP
for those fans
Watch Preview of ‘Being Mary Jane’ Season 3. Premiere Date Set + Loretta Devine and Jill Scott Join Cast
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act
September 2, 2025 at 6:24PM
Announced this week, the 3rd season of BET’s hit original drama series, “Being Mary Jane,” will premiere on Tuesday, October 20 in a new time slot, at 9 pm ET (it previously aired at 10 pm).
Also announced, Loretta Devine and Jill Scott have both joined the series as guest stars for the season.
Devine will play a character named Cecilia, a bookstore owner whose car was hit by Mary Jane’s vehicle in the final moments of the season 2 finale. And Scott will play Jackie, Niecy’s (Raven Goodwin’s) mother.
Season 3 of the series will pick up immediately after last season’s finale: a newly promoted Mary Jane learns the truth about the relationship between Lisa (Latarsha Rose) and her ex David (Stephen Bishop), just after she broke up with Sheldon (Gary Dourdan).
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/watch-preview-of-being-mary-jane-season-3-premiere-date-loretta-devine-and-jill-scott-join-cast-20150902
Bet you this will send some over the edge….
http://www.12news.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/02/papal-mass-washington-spanish/71580850/
When Pope Francis celebrates a canonization Mass for a Spanish-American missionary in Washington this month, he will do so in a language that the new saint, Junípero Serra, would recognize: Spanish.
There’s a number of reasons for that, said Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington who will be hosting the pope on the Washington leg of his three-city U.S. visit later this month.
First, Spanish is the pope’s mother tongue; he was born in Argentina.
“But it’s also a recognition of how large the Hispanic population in the United States is,” Wuerl said. “And also because he is canonizing a Spanish speaker. And he’s coming as the first pope from the New World, and the language, the predominant language of the Western Hemisphere, is Spanish.”
Pope Francis just keeps bringing it. I think this is a wonderful tribute to the growing Latino/Hispanic people in the US. Love the idea that the predominant language of the western hemisphere is Spanish. US centric nutjobs will have hard time coping with that reality.,
My thought, too:) Wonderful and amazing pope….a pope for the 21st century, I think.
Are you going to get anywhere near Pope Francis during his visit?
GO POPE FRANKIE!!
I heard on NPR that the Catholic Church is 60% Spanish and only 7% of the 40k priest are Spanish. They are in need of new priest and are going to recruit more Spanish speeking priests.
LIVE NOW: Vice President Joe Biden meets with Jewish community leaders in Miami and delivers remarks on the nuclear deal reached with Iran. http://www.msnbc.com/shift/watch/live-biden-meets-with-florida-jewish-group-518626883724 (WARNING: DWS is introducing him.)
Go Joe! This is an important speech.
Hungary has decided the refugees are ” economic migrants ” so they can stop them from crossing their borders.
How very charitable and caring of the Hungarians to find a way to “exclude” those who need a home. I guess the concept of “doing unto others as you would have done unto you” eludes them.
Gee…maybe they “forgot” about this! They were given refuge, but now refuse others?
http://www.unhcr.org/452665e92.html
As 23 October progressed, tens of thousands of people poured on to the street – and the initial demonstration very quickly turned into something else altogether: a full-scale revolt against the regime and its Soviet masters.
Twelve days later on, on 4 November, the Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest. The city endured days of heavy shelling and street battles, and Hungarians started to flee at the rate of thousands a day to neighbouring Austria. By the time the borders were fully sealed, some 180,000 Hungarian refugees had made their way to Austria and 20,000 had headed south into Yugoslavia.
Within days of the exodus starting, an extraordinary operation sprang up in Austria, not only to care for the refugees, but to move them out of the country almost as fast as they arrived. In the end, 180,000 were resettled from Austria and Yugoslavia to a total of 37 different countries – the first 100,000 of them in under ten weeks. The performance of the Austrians, the aid agencies and the resettlement countries was truly remarkable.
The 1956 uprising and its aftermath helped shape the way humanitarian organizations – not least UNHCR – were to deal with refugee crises for decades to come. The episode also left an indelible mark on international refugee law and policy.
But the people it marked most of all were, of course, the Hungarians themselves – both those who stayed and those who left. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution, Refugees magazine has interviewed seven Hungarian refugees who subsequently settled in seven far-flung foreign lands.
Sound somewhat like the GOP - and many in my country - it seems we go to war/drop bombs and create thousands of refugees but then want to send them back to their war torn countries. So pleased PBO (and Europe) do not want to create the same situation in Iran.
Good morning, everyone.
PBO flew all night. I am always glad when he arrives safely home. This trip was an absolute smashing hit. POTUS looked so happy the entire time. And the laugh he got with the over-excited fish was wonderful to see.
Now back home to the insane congress and their repulsive lies.
And eventually, maybe?, a victory lap when the Iran deal is where the President wants it to be. We know by the numbers that the deal is done. When President Obama signals the deal is done in his eyes, too, perhaps we will have a speech or a celebration of some kind. If not it will be because PBO doesn’t want to rub their loss in GOP faces. PBO is kind that way.
Me, not so much.
I don’t feel very kind, either, Vicki, but I think that our President has so many fish yet to fry (not over excited salmon) that he’s going to be very cautious about victory laps. He doesn’t want a government shutdown this fall and he’s got projects we wants completed, so he will continue to maintain careful, non antagonistic relations with Congress, unless they deliberately try to sabotage him and the country on the budget.
ME…NOT SO MUCH EITHER! BEEN EXPLAINING CLIMATE CHANGE TO THE ALLEGED CHRISTIANS ON MY FB THIS MORNING…THEY DON’T BELIEVE IN IT AND HAVE BEEN IN THEIR OWN WORLD FOR SOME TIME NOW…BUCKET THAT!
LIVE NOW: VIce President Biden In Miami - http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Thanks, I like this link better….I can’t see DWS face.!
Good morning Chips and TOD. Congrats in furst JG. What is not to love about this President. He is such a special person. We are so blessed.
President Obama is not only an exceptional world and national leader, first and foremost he is an extraordinary human being, who has an immense capacity to bring a loving and healing presence wherever he is.
Chemi Shalev has a tweet up but it’s in Hebrew so no use to me.
Anyway Chemi says that in the tweet, Bibi is getting blamed for the Iran deals’ success—-Directly caused by his dopey strut down the US Congress aisle.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Karma, baby!
The thing about Karma is that she don’t take prisoners.
GOOD MORNING TOD FAMILY…I PUT PBO DANCING ON MY FB…EXPECTING RIGHT WING SPIT ON MY KEYBOARD ANY TIME NOW….I LOVE MY PRESIDENT…WISH HE COULD HAVE STAYED LONGER BECAUSE HE LOVED EVERY MOMENT!
I love VP Biden…he is breaking this down in plain English….Hope that he decides to run. Maybe Americans will listen to this man explain some truths that they refuse to listen to the current President about….Thank is, VP Biden. He really is in his element now
Hmmph
Hmmph
I just wanna ask…..how come every article the NYTimes is doing on Detroit involves White People?
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Last Stop on the L Train: Detroit
By JENNIFER CONLINJULY 10, 2015
Detroit, Just West of Bushwick,” read the first billboard that popped up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, this spring, with a working class scene from one of Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry” murals. “Detroit, Be Left Alone,” a second one preached soon after, again in Bushwick. And then a third sign appeared, in two locations in Brooklyn and two in Manhattan — “Detroit: Now Hiring.”
No one quite knew where they were coming from or who had put them up.
But when an unrelated photo popped up on Instagram — “Move to Detroit” spray-painted on a girder of the Brooklyn Bridge — the campaign’s anonymous crusader finally revealed himself.
“I rent billboard spaces where others don’t see value. That is how I saw Detroit on my first visit four years ago,” said Philip Kafka, the 28-year-old man who then put his passion behind the billboards with his SoHo-based company, Prince Media. “I saw great buildings, a deep and rich cultural history, and met amazing people.”
He now owns six buildings in the Motor City, one of which will house his new restaurant, Katoi, across the street from Detroit’s most photographed “ruin porn,” the Michigan Central Station. “I want people to know that in Detroit you can afford to make art, be a chef, buy houses, start a business, do anything if you work hard,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/fashion/last-stop-on-the-l-train-detroit.html?smid=tw-nytstyles&_r=0
TUESDAY, APR 8, 2025 01:34 PM CDT
Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities
Too many claim white people are at risk in communities of color. Really, it’s those communities that are threatened
DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER
A few years back, when I was still a paramedic, we picked up a white guy who had been pistol whipped during a home invasion in Williamsburg. “I can’t believe this happened to me,” he moaned, applying the ice pack I’d given him to a small laceration on his temple. “It’s like a movie!”
Indeed.
While film narratives of white folks in low-income neighborhoods tend to focus on how endangered they are by a gangland black or brown menace, this patient was singular in that he was literally the only victim of black on white violence I encountered in my entire 10-year career as a medic.
“What is distinctively ‘American’ is not necessarily the amount or kind of violence that characterizes our history,” Richard Slotkin writes, “but the mythic significance we have assigned to the kinds of violence we have actually experienced, the forms of symbolic violence we imagine or invent, and the political uses to which we put that symbolism.” Slotkin was talking about the American frontier as a symbolic reference point for justifying expansionist violence throughout history. Today, we can see the mytho-political uses of symbolic violence in mainstream media portrayals of the “hood.”
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/08/gentrifications_insidious_violence_the_truth_about_american_cities/
Those poor communities didn’t just happen overnight, decades of neglect is what happened to those communities.
May I just say that VP Biden was terrific just now…if you get a chance to watch the replay, do.
I just scolded CNN for not covering it and focusing on the ” Trump Loyalty Pledge ”
They were also suggesting the gay couple ” just go to another county ” for their marriage license…….what is the big deal ?
As soon as I can get home and draw a warm bath, and perhaps a bowl of cap’n crunch.
:bear: <3 :bear:
I guess it is now ok to cheat in America…….
Judges nullifies Brandy 5 game suspension.
Hey kids, It is now ok to cheat…… ( what a role model Brady is )
All about the $$$$$$$. Integrity be damned
Goooood Morning Family!
Pull up a chair.
Grab a cup of your favorite sipping beverage.
Now enjoy this stunning display of intellectual prowess from one of Kentucky’s finest! 😆😆😆
So I guess this is her version of going to the mattresses.
😄
This image blew by me on Twitter. Could find the original tweet, but Google had it! I nearly choked laughing so hard!
Hysterical. I was also thinking Rapunzel, since the one on the right could sit on her hair.
Dudette, because you insisted (the things I do for you :roll: ), I peeked at her TL. Seems to be your typical potty-minded *christian* looking for attention! smh Wouldn’t surprise me if she ended up a professional/political grifter like the Alaska Barbie.
I’m sure she’ll be adding “Fox News Contributor” to her resume’ very soon.
Yep, the steps to FOX are now well understood.
jtp begging for my milk chocolates. fuck him. … shoo, shoo, go away, you psycho.
Who…
…taught him how to beg?
…exposed him to milk chocolates (which I thought I heard somewhere isn’t safe for dogs?
… is not discreet when eating his milk chocolates?
#anddon’tswearneartheyoungun #setanexample
oh, great. he just now attacked, killed and ate a blacky hoppity insect whatchamacallit.
IOW - he’s
starvedhungry, feed himyou scroogearen’t insects supposed to be healthy ‘cos protein?
After you clean and wash ’em. You didn’t say anything about cleaning. :D
trust the stomach to do a better job than the hand, dontya?
Not all live healthy lifestyles, though.
Geez louise, couldn’t you have left out the visual!!!! Imaginations need attention too, you know!
Please provide context!
me+milk chocs >>>>>> jtp’s greed. let him eat
cakeinsects.Any Alabamians in house? - Department of Justice - The beat goes on even when we are not apprised of all the wheels that are turning daily.
Alabama Real Estate Investor Admits to Bid Rigging and Mail Fraud Conspiracies Involving Foreclosed Homes
A southern Alabama business man has pleaded guilty for his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in southern Alabama.
Michael P. Barbour admitted to conspiring to fraudulently acquire title to foreclosed properties at artificially low prices by agreeing with others not to bid against each other at public foreclosure auctions in southern Alabama.
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he investigation into fraud and bid rigging in the Alabama real estate foreclosure industry is being conducted by the Washington Criminal II Section of the Antitrust Division and the FBI’s Mobile Field Office, with the assistance of the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Alabama. Anyone with information concerning bid rigging or fraud related to public real estate foreclosure auctions should contact the Washington Criminal II Section of the Antitrust Division at 202-598-4000, call the Antitrust Division’s Citizen Complaint Center at 1-888-647-3258 or visit http://www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm.
The charges were brought in connection with the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. The task force was established to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys’ offices, and state and local partners, it’s the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud. Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets; and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations. Since fiscal year 2009, the Justice Department has filed over 18,000 financial fraud cases against more than 25,000 defendants. For more information on the task force, please visit http://www.StopFraud.gov.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alabama-real-estate-investor-admits-bid-rigging-and-mail-fraud-conspiracies-involving
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family. Off to Georgia I go 😀
Good west coast morning - sitting in the airport, are you?
And yet Dems don’t bother to show up to vote in off-year elections, allowing monsters like this to stay in office:
Schroder & Co. Bank AG Reaches Resolution under Justice Department’s Swiss Bank Program and Agrees to Pay $10.3 Million Penalty
The Department of Justice announced today that Schroder & Co. Bank AG has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.
“As today’s agreement reflects, Swiss banks continue to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding bank accounts opened and maintained for U.S. individuals in the names of sham structures such as trusts, foundations and foreign corporations,” said Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division. “The department’s prosecutors and the IRS are actively following these leads to criminally investigate and prosecute those individuals who willfully evaded or assisted in the evasion of U.S. income tax obligations.”
The Swiss Bank Program, which was announced on Aug. 29, 2013, provides a path for Swiss banks to resolve potential criminal liabilities in the United States. Swiss banks eligible to enter the program were required to advise the department by Dec. 31, 2013, that they had reason to believe that they had committed tax-related criminal offenses in connection with undeclared U.S.-related accounts. Banks already under criminal investigation related to their Swiss-banking activities and all individuals were expressly excluded from the program.
Under the program, banks are required to:
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http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/schroder-co-bank-ag-reaches-resolution-under-justice-departments-swiss-bank-program-and
Don’t know why my comment showed up as a response to you and Scott, 57. Apologoes
Thanks for the hint, I guess.
Then move to Israel and give up your citizenship here, Debbie . Take Schumer with you.
But, Debbie, no one is doubting that your heart is Jewish, but you swore your loyalty and allegiance to this country.
She was sure smiling all over Vice President (I swear I first typed “President” there!) Biden, when he was standing next to her in FL. I’m beginning to think “the limelight” has taken her over.
GM Meta,
I am thoroughly disgusted by her. Between Schumer in the Senate and her leading the DNC I don’t know what to think of the Democratic Party. In 1960 Kennedy had to give a speech saying that his allegiance would be to the country not his Faith or the Pope. My how things have changed.
what are the odds that she loses her CD (prolly jewish?) come 2016?
If its one thing that I’m grateful that Netanyahu has done is that he has made these Democrats show their hand.
Any difference between DWS and Kim Davis - both quote their religion above their country
Sorry, Trump: Past businessmen did poorly as presidents http://on.mktw.net/1NPbEIw
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/09/03/obamamania/