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LP, you’re on a roooooooooooooooll!!
I am! I started to put together a post of Souza’s greatness….should have saved you the time instead of converting some of my favs to format WP (my apologies, Chips) ….
Noooooooooo worries, LP!
Congratulations, LP!! These photos are breath-taking! Yay for Sen. Bennet, and a huge BOO for Cardin.
Isn’t it Alycee’s birthday today? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Congrats LovelyPlains.
Thank you Chipsticks.
Way to go LP!!! Gold is yours.
Love all the Star Wars tech stuff you are telling us about. Know my sons will love this information.
Today is #ForceFriday Marilyn! :D :D :D
Oh my LP!
Good morning, I am listening to Beau Biden’s intro to his father at the Democratic Convention in 2012. Tears are flowing, what this man has been thru and still have the heart his has is so amazing. I love this man, VPOTUS.
These pictures of Alaska now bring a smile to my face, What a team we have. Don’t think there will ever be another duo like these 2 are.
UGH
Phuck him. He can go to hell and stay there.
and hopefully Cardin will be voted out.
I don’t see that unfortunately.
Well either he’s voted out or he drops dead from a massive stroke/heart attack. Either one will be fine with me.
actually I do see it happening via primary.
I do too
he will be because I am voting for anyone but Cardin and will encourage everyone else to do the same.
Taking names……….
We can only lose one more because Manchin said he wont filibuster the hypocrisy of cloture
….get back to me when you figure out what the hell he is talking about, Meta :???:
Dems are supposed to be pure and never filibuster, so the RWNJ GOP can filibuster everything.
WTF????
Sen. Manchin, the Republicans set a record filibustering, a record these last few years.
So just what is Manchin talking about?
38 Senators and a great amount of House Dems voted for the Iran Nuclear deal…voted for Diplomacy/Peace over WAR yet the WP calls this a blow to the White House..This is actually a blow to Sen Cardin…who sided with the warmongers against his President and Senate Leader..
Thank You. How is it a blow when he’s has the votes to sustain his veto? He’s three away from blocking this mess altogether.
Why am I not surprised. This has been the media pattern from day one. A win for Obama is a lost for Obama. A lost for anyone anywhere in the world is a blow to Obama.
Ha, I didn’t see your comment, and I said the same thing.!
Case & Point, PF:
This guy won over Mfume in order to run for the Senate.
May Karma’s visit to him be soon.
I hate that Washington Post says this is a symbolic blow to the White House. This is BS. We have at least 38 in support of the agreement. He’s only the 3rd dem to say no, but this is what they have to resort to.
Washington Post is just looking for something negative.
Eskimo kisses - :)
Isn’t he just wonderful?!
Go get him, Donna. Either a lot of money is flowing Cardin’s way or he’s stupid because his statement just makes no sense. I hope he has a determined primary challenger next year and gets knocked out for this foolishness.
Congrats LP on your Au :star:
What close call?
“In the op-ed, Cardin criticized the nuclear deal for referencing “good faith” and “mutual respect” between Iran and other nations, saying that “there cannot be respect for a country that actively foments regional instability, advocates for Israel’s destruction, kills the innocent and shouts, ‘Death to America.’ ”
It’s like he lifted this straight from Chuck Schumer. Just say I did what Bibi told me to do and get on with it.
I doubt anyone in Europe is blaming Iran for the current refugee situation. Seems those that oppose the deal are surely “actively fomenting regional instability”. These people are reflecting on themselves and their countries.
Peace is hard - truly hard - few US politicians are prepared for the work involved - easier to drop bombs - walk away and leave the cleanup to whoever - the payback is not a thank you.
Happy Birthday Alycee!!!!!
Wow! And Happy Birthday, Alycee, from me, too!
The perfect pic for our Alycee!!
Happiest of birthdays to Alycee!! Hope there is lots of cake and fun in the near future!
HAPPY,HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALYCEE…………………….DANCE ALL NIGHT!!!!!…:)
Happy Birthday, Alycee!
Happy Birthday, Alycee! Hope you dance, dance, dance!
Happy Birthday Alycee! :)
Happy Birthday Alycee. Hope you have a wonderful day.
Have a glorious day and many many more.
Happy B-Day Alycee
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Alycee!!!!
Hi, Chips! Can’t wait to look at these lovelies from Pete …
… especially after seeing “Hungary’s Katrina” (although different circumstances) play out on cable news. Not sure I’ll get any of the photos of the immigrants in Europe out of my brain, any time soon.
Good Morning All
This article has probably been posted but in case anyone missed it, I am posting again. When I sent this out to our OFA volunteers - they were pretty excited to know that OFA would have a life after PBO retires. Please share with your networks, and consider joining OFA. If there is not a team near you send me a note and I can help you find your state leader. There is a way for you to get involved if you have the will. [email protected]
http://www.politico.eu/article/marty-nesbitt-building-barack-obama-future-us-legacy-chicago/
Thanks, WIW!!
thank you…iget so excited when i read about the President’s Foundation
Great article Linda - thanks!!!
The usual trick is to blame the students, their families, and their communities for the crisis in urban school systems. And, now, the curtain has been pulled back a bit so we can see the absolute power and injustice in having ignorance rule from the very top. Failure would be the only option under these circumstances.
All aboard! Claypool transfers CTA pals to CPS
Rahm’s schools CEO is putting a new spin on an old Chicago budget trick.
It’s budget season at the Board of Education, which means we’ve entered that twilight zone of misdirection where the bosses say one thing and do something else.
In this case, Forrest Claypool, Mayor Emanuel’s latest schools CEO, is making a big public to-do about how he’s cut central office spending to the bone. All so that teachers, facing a 7 percent pay cut, and principals, worried about millions in budget cuts, will not feel so alone. Or as Claypool, who the mayor brought in from the CTA, recently put it during a press conference: “Everybody’s got to pitch in.”
Meanwhile, very quietly—with nary a press conference—Claypool’s padding the payroll with various rubber stamps, most of whom have no experience in public education. (If you think you’ve seen this trick before, you’re right: Ron Huberman, Mayor Daley’s last schools CEO, tried much the same thing.) As exasperating as this practice sounds to anyone who has to teach or attend a public school, it’s sort of a field day for reporters looking for examples of double standards in Chicago.
Just a few days ago, George Schmidt, the ageless writer for Substance News, broke the story that Claypool had hired a former CTA staffer named Ronald DeNard as his $225,000-a-year senior vice president of finance. (He’s at least the third former CTA official Claypool has brought on. If you hear of any more, let me know.) Basically, DeNard is now the guy in charge of the budget. CPS already had a high-ranking guy in charge of the budget, Tim Cawley, so now we have two. Lucky us.
Then Lauren FitzPatrick, ace education reporter for the Sun-Times, revealed that DeNard lives in Flossmoor. So the board needed to give him a waiver on the requirement that school employees live in Chicago.
Curiously, Cawley also needed a waiver to take the job, because he lived in Winnetka. Apparently the mayor can’t find any decent accountants who live in the city.
I now feel compelled to follow up on Schmidt’s and FitzPatrick’s pieces with a schools-CEO-budget-game-column. (It’s been five years since I wrote the last one, which was about Huberman. I guess annual columns—unlike central office budget cuts—aren’t what they used to be.)
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/forrest-claypool-board-of-education-chicago-public-schools/Content?oid=18943081
Possible arson in Washington State at a PP facility and a cross burning in NY state..both of these incidents were above the Mason-Dixon Line….
We chronicle every day some kind of assault on our human and civil rights….we must defend them at all costs…
as the beast gets more and more desperate these assaults have increased …what will we do about them…they will not just go away….
we must follow the lead of the President…
We Must Organizeeeee….Motivate…Organizeeeee…and VOTE….it matters who sits in the halls of Congress and the state houses…they determine the law and policy…
And another vote for #IranDeal. Is this #38?
YES!
thanks meta…..trying to keep up
Let’s keep pounding!
i think its 38…but don’t quote me..:-D
Happy Birthday, Alycee!
I hope you are chillin out and enjoying some cool jazz later on.
I wish you many, many healthy more.
See, I gotta get in on grift like this.
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For $525, You Can Learn How To Fight Terrorists (Muslims Need Not Apply)
September 04, 2025
“I’m going to try to scoot you guys across the finish line before you suck a bullet,” barks Larry Vickers, addressing his men with disdain. He was once among elite U.S. Army warriors, but today his troop is a ragtag assortment of two dozen male gun enthusiasts, predominantly white and beefy, on a sandy gun range in a rural South New Jersey abyss between Philadelphia and Atlantic City.
The men sport earmuffs and digital camouflage cargo shorts bought on clearance, and their beer bellies hang over gun belts stocked with pistols and extra clips. Lunch was at a diner where every overstuffed sandwich came with a side of soup—plus somebody’s wife made brownies. Yet they soldier through the cheeseburger-and-chicken-noodle fatigue.
At the sound of a beep, they stagger into grunting sprints, turn around and unload hell on paper targets. Next, to simulate the position they might assume in hiding behind a car door during a firefight, they drop to their knees—some go one-kneed but Vickers advises the “double-kneeling Monica Lewinsky” for stability—draw their pistols again and open fire, ejecting spent clips to the dirt and a spray of golden shells everywhere, including on each other. A shooter’s jeans rip down the side.
When the firing stops at one point, the air filled with the smell of gun smoke, Vickers trudges up and studies the targets closely.
His verdict: “You fuckers suck.”
Vickers lives in North Carolina but travels the country teaching classes to a loyal contingent. The students today include, among others, an IT guy, a software engineer, a dog breeder and a cell phone tower installer. They’ve come from all over the Northeast and paid $525 to receive tactical training from one of the best-known instructors in a burgeoning cottage industry that takes itself deadly serious.
BEER BELLY FACISTS WITH DUNLAP’S DISEASE…AN EXPOSED CRACK AND ALL OF THE CLASS A MOUTHFULL OF OVERLY REGURGITATED CHAW CAN MUSTER…WHAT A PICTURE…UNFORTUNATELY INDIANA IS FULL OF THEM. I HEAR JOCK ITCH IS PAINFUL IN THE HOT SUMMER!
Genius is not an adequate enough word to use for Pete Souza.
Stunning work!
Thanks, Chips.
Beautiful….heartfelt photos…full of emotion…i loved each one….thank you for this tweet…for all you tweets actually…
thank you for your coverage of the President’s beautiful trip to Alaska
I cannot see Bernie Sanders connecting with children like this. This is one reason why PBO is so special.
Oh please, don’t get me started on Bernie Sanders!
The thing that really gets me about Bernie Sanders is…
Take it Don!
Yeah Don I want to hear what you think.
I see you’re looking to get Don started…
KIDS ARE ALWAYS FASCINATED WITH HIS HAR…SOOOO FUNNY!
THAT’S HAIR!…GEESH!
Ben Cardin vote does not surprise me one bit. And Joe Manchin and this filibuster B.S of his piss me off.
Tally, I can see you doing this job. Watch out Kentucky!!!!
Me too Marilyn. Tally would be perfect for that job :-)
That top photo: Where POTUS is standing there used to be a giant glacier…… and it’s mostly GONE. Horrifying.
But the Republicans says there is no climate change.
THE REPUBLIICANS ARE BUSY COLLECTING KICKBACKS FROM CORPORATIONS THAT DON’T WANT TO BE STUCK WITH EMISSIONS REGULATIIONS..THEY ARE PAID OFF TO PREVENT STANDARDS…IT HAS AWAYS BEEN THAT WAY!.BBL……………………….
I’d like that idiot Senator w/snow ball explain what happened to all the ice on that glacier.
:D
Good West Coast morning & East Coast afternoon Chipsticks & TOD family. I seem to be operating slightly behind everyone today. I just finished breakfast and they’re ready for supper 😳
How is your vacation going??? Hope you are having a great time!!! You are on vacation, your on your own time.
Hi Marilyn, it’s good to see family & weather is also good, warm & no rain/humidity 😎
Is it Beyonce’s birthday? Happy Birthday Beyonce.
Happy Birthday to you too, Alycee.
Let they ass know, Michelle!
Nice of FLOTUS to give a shout out to Beyonce :-)
Take that Fuckabee…
the friggin’ kenyan does fotograph well, doesn’t he?
President GQ, he is :cool:
THE ESKIMO KISS IS PRICELSS…A GUY WTH A REALLY BIG NOSE COULD HAVE LOTS OF GIRLFRIENDS….:)…………………ALL PACKED HERE……………..YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS…ON WEEKEND COUNTDOWN!
So Sarah. Palin had something to say about the President visiting her state. I didn’t even read what she had to say.
Maybe I should read the article.
YOU’LL HAVE TO USE FLASHCARDS TO TRANSLATE ANYTHIING SP COMES UP WITH………………….
:)
Happy Birthday, Alycee. I hope that you will have a lovely day of celebration.
As for Sen. Cardin: watched him during hearings, and he had such a negative attitude. People like Sen. Cardin need to go home and NEVER come back.HZ
Happy Friday, HZ. Always so great to hear from you, and I agree about Sen Cardin. Never did feel good about him. Always too negative.
Chips, thanks for posting some of Pete’s pics. The one that really made me laugh is the one where PBO is holding the fish and it begins to leak onto his shoes. His facial expression is priceless (What the Hell??!!! is this fish doing to my shoes!!!!@@!!!@@@_), then he looks up in the next pic and he’s smiling, but I bet he immediately had his shoes cleaned off :D :D :D :D
Serena Williams fans, she plays tonight.
Serena Williams haters, to hell with you.
SueDuvallSmith, that isn’t nice is it.
LOL……………PBO WAS LAUGHING OVER THE FISH..HE SAID”SHE WAS HAPPY TO SEE ME!” I THINK ALASKA WAS ONE OF THE BEST TIIMES OF HIS LIFE!!!!
This is no surprise. Lipinski is a RW loon that the DNC continues to support.
New post
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/09/04/a-record-breaking-66-months-of-job-creation-thanks-president-obama/