@dougmillsnyt: HEROES @POTUS meets with the three young Americans who responded heroically on the train in Paris last month.
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Congrats mtmarilyn
Marilyn!!!!!
Congrats, Marilyn!
Thanks NCLB. Some times things work out right.
That is a great picture. One of my favorite TV show is Dancing with the Stars and Alex (can’t spell his last name) is on it. He is good looking and s good dancer. Now I have to get back to work.
First ? Maybe
WIW, you are one of my heroes. You do so much for everyone on your website. Thank you!
Wonderful.
First time checking since morning and discovered…. 4 handsome men. Wow!
Thank you Chipsticks!
Life is Good……..
is that 2….folks of color on the front row….EGADSSSSSSSSSS!! :o
Beautiful, Chips. Thank you.
Congrats MtMarilyn on your Gold :star:
9-17-15
#IranDeal is Now Officially History. Thanks ;) ‘Obama’
WH Presser LIVE, already in proress with Josh “The Voice” Earnest
Hmm?
It’s about Ratings, $$$$ and Never about Integrity, Journalism, Facts, Informing the Public and the Democratic Process.
GM Nena and TOD. It is sad that running for President has been reduced to an entertainment show and ratings, for such a serious office.
Well really, it was a CLOWN SHOW :-(
Nena, it is about ratings, and Wasserman-Schultz shouldn’t cheat the Dems out of their chances to get some of the ‘ratings’. It would be nice for some of these viewers to see that not all the contenders think running for president is a joke.
I agree, VC.
Once again, Dems allow the News Media and the GOPers to drive the political debates……..Pres Obama and HRC were their targets last night…….all Cablers and all TV Networks today ignored FACTS as they tout GOPers Views and their dastardly backward messages across USA.
:( It’s a bit depressing to realize this kind of mockery can be showcased so prominently.
meta, are the tweets of discontent about Dem lack of debates going to PBO’s twitter site?
I find it hard to believe that he has not heard our displeasure at the lack of debates and not attempted to correct it.
Maybe y’all should start a tweet with a request to PBO and get it trending. (just a thought) :-)
I think it might be hard for him to step into the middle of this, short of sacking DWS. Most people think HRC is behind it (even though she expressed a lukewarm interest in more) so it’s bound to become a thorny issue for him.
Maybe a twitter brigade requesting more debates sent to Valerie, VP Biden and PBO?
I just believe that they need to hear from us directly that we want more debates!
I really don’t think that the President or VP should be the focus of these tweets. The tweets should be directed to the DNC, DCCC, DSCC.
That’s why I refuse to watch. In addition to not wishing to be horrifically insulted & horrified by these idiots, it’s just one MASSIVE manipulation by MSM for MONEY.
More details about today’s US-Iran deal vote:
Senate Democrats blocked a resolution disapproving the Iran nuclear deal for a third time Thursday, sealing a major foreign policy victory for President Obama.
Senators voted 56-42 against ending debate on the resolution of disapproval, falling short of the 60 votes needed on the procedural motion.
Democratic Sens. Ben Cardin (Md.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Bob Menendez (N.J.) and Charles Schumer (N.Y.) for a third time bucked Obama and voted “no” on moving to a final vote.
GOP Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) missed the vote, while Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) voted to end debate. All four took part in Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate in California.
The vote came just hours ahead of the deadline for lawmakers to pass a resolution on the deal. With neither chamber of Congress expected to take another vote on Iran, the administration is poised to protect the agreement after months of intense lobbying aimed at solidifying Democratic support.
Opponents of the deal appeared to acknowledge defeat ahead of Thursday’s vote.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/254030-senate-dems-stonewall-iran-resolution-handing-victory-to-obama
Putin wants a “Come to Jesus” moment.
“Please lift the sanctions. Pretty please?”
This guy is in love with himself!
I got a bag of dog Poo I could send him.
At this point he’s got every right to. The media and GOP base is handing it to him.
But it is True. Facts matter. No Trump, No ratings………Not this size.
This why the Dems need to have their Debates to stamp off some of the ill, filthy, false diatribes coming out of both the MSM, Fox and the GOPers 24/7.
No Trump, No ratings………Not this size.
This in a nutshell.
Trump don’t understand that some people are tuning in because they want to see him fall flat on his racists, sexists face.
I agree but your sentence said it all. For or against they’re tuning in to see him.
DerBingle, you know how Americans are, they will flock to a train wreck, a car wreck.
But it wasn’t higher than the Fox debate ratings - HA!
1M watching on Line.
Many Listening on the Radio.
CNN has International and CNN the Spanish version……..those were Not factored in.
CNN did better than my predictions. I predicted 12-17M. There are Fox Viewers that will Never watch CNN.
I only repeated what was reported on the local news this morning. I don’t know nor do I care what was or was not factored in.
He also knows that he is only an entertainer enjoying all of this free publicity. MSM has created this monster and I don’t think it’s going anywhere any time soon.
Voters who aren’t millionaires and are gullible enough to get him to the General Election are the GOP’s secret weapon. They like being ignorant and the GOP counts on it.
Unfortunately, if this country can’t muster enough sense to outnumber them and keep him away from the WH, it deserves what it gets.
THIS x 100000000000
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I support either one but I’ve found many people trashing Hillary and saying the same thing. Not accusing anyone, just stating what I’ve noticed.
This was in response to the notion coming from HRC crowd that VP Biden doesn’t have the right to enter the race because he’ll split her vote and then Sanders, who is not a Democrat, wins. That once he enters he’ll only be a spoiler. That’s ludicrous on the face of it.
I agree with that notion being ridiculous and dishonest.
I have on the other hand heard many claim that they wont vote for Hillary or Bernie but rather stay home if Biden doesn’t run. Heard people on here saying that. I find it disturbing that anyone would stay home of Trump or Fiorina gets the nomination.
Yeah, that’s crazy.
Nobody on TOD has ever threatened Not to vote, Jeff.
You must have TOD confused with another website.
Right on Jeff. Whatever problems I have with Hillary or Bernie pale in comparison to the Mayberry Machiavellians on the other side of the aisle.
What is going on?
I don’t like Airline scary stories.
So I am keeping my fingers crossed.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-james-blake-mother-weighs-race-relations-article-1.2364319?utm_content=bufferf0c2a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw
Betty Blake, 80, is the mother of retired tennis star James Blake. Betty, who is white and grew up in England, talks about raising two sons who are black.
In an interview about the events last week that happened to my youngest son, I said that it takes an incident like this to make me truly realize that two of my sons are black.
When you love someone you see the inside, not the outside. I know James wants to focus on the unnecessary aggression, and he’s right, but when you hear (all too often lately) of a confrontation between a white police officer and a young black male, the inference is unavoidable.
https://mediasite.howardcc.edu/Mediasite/Play/f90b77d3e2f1416290ee5c01cbd907e11d
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These cops didn’t have anything better to do than to stand around bus stops to harass Black children.
There’s no other REAL CRIMES that they could be handling right now.
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Published on Sep 16, 2025
The kid got stopped for “jaywalking” when he barely got out of the bus he was 2 feet away from the sidewalk when the cop stopped him for jaywalking. The cop was telling him to take a sit but the teen kept walking to his bus but the cop kept grabbing his arm & the kid took off the cops hand off his arm so the cop took out his baton, that’s when all this happened
I am telling you we are going to have to hire the meanest lawyers in captivity and sue some municipalities out of existence. That’s the only thing that’s going to get thru to these animals.
OMG, THAT MAKES ME SO ANGRY.
How much more?
Look at all of those cops for just one child?
This is pure harassment. Jaywalking a couple of feet ??
I hope the officer gets disciplined for excessive use of force.
Michael Brown was killed for jaywalking.
Absolutely sickening……
This is MY America:
Under the delusional Judge Roy Moore. They can cite her all they want, she’s yet to win one single case and she isn’t going to.
Me, too.
How adorable is this trio?
Anyone interested?
WOW…
Wow!
This is Great!
A school with fresh air, open minds and a love of discovery and learning. Like American schools used to be.
That’s wonderful - I hope Ahmad’s parents take Mr. Fenton up on his offer. Plus, I hope a whole bunch of other gifted children’s parents inquire into Wilbraham Monson Prep School too!
They’re doing it because they’re not called out on it.
Republicans have no ethics and no respect of rule nor tradition. The only way to make them behave is if they have a price to pay. In this case the only possible price is a political one.
They have to be called out on it. Either by the media, or by the President.
The only reason the President doesn’t denounce them constantly, I think, is because there are so many urgent and important matters where Congress needs to act, (Iran Deal, budget to name a few) he can’t raise a ruckus because those assholes will get revenge. They are out of control, and sadly, the President doesn’t have that much leverage against them. When the opposition party doesn’t care if their actions hurt people, or hurt the country, when the media is totally useless, what’s a president to do ? He has to pick his battles.
Sigh… how can this problem be resolved ?
I know that the solution resides first in media reform somehow. A democracy can’t function if the media doesn’t play its role of arbiter of the truth, if the media doesn’t call out the abuses of power, doesn’t denounce the people who don’t respect the rules of democratic institutions.
But HOW can you reform the american media ? How ??
When the GOP does things like this…their voters reward them…it is up to US to stop them…by voting..whoever sits in the halls of Congress…makes laws and influences policies
The President has shown us how to win….
LoveP, have you been in my head? This is so uncanny but for days now I’ve been asking myself similar questions, writing out my thoughts because I’ve been so bothered by the fact that there seems to be no resolution to years of this irresponsible and damaging GOP behaviour. The only difference is that I’ve been asking myself how can one reform the system. That smirk of McConnell actually makes me wish someone could slap him, really hard. Each time I see it, I’m convinced that it’s a smirk of triumph because he knows he did not legitimately win his senate leadership.
VC, I think your Queen would be quite upset if she knew you are so bothered by American politics than you are about the Country in which you live :-)
Hey, what’s with you, GxG? This isn’t the first time you’ve reminded me that I do not have US citizenship….yet. Well, if you don’t think it’s okay for me to be involved and share my opinion as a citizen of the world, I’ll remind you that my dad owns his home in Texas. Who knows? If he wills it to me, and my sister, we may just become homeowners in *your* country. :D :D
Seems the GOP/MSM wants to see Carly Fiorina rise in the polls (I assume to be Jeb’s running mate in battle against HRC). The uniformity of the propaganda concerning Fiorina is the “tell”. GOP establishment really fears Trump because he is not capable of winning a general election (there is a reason GOP presidential candidates all run to the “center” for general elections. i.e., the GOP base is not big enough to elect a President by itself). Those fretting about the GOP having more debates or getting more attention I think are mistaken, the GOP presidential candidates are making fools of themselves. This foolishness appeals to a lot of Americans, but again, there are not enough of them to elect a president. The MSM reflects everything through a GOP-centric POV which makes it seem like Trump is more popular than he really is. In other words, Trump is popular among the GOP base, but despite what the media would have you believe, the GOP base is not America (if it were PBO would not have won election and reelection). Lastly, I don’t think it is wise to use 2014 midterm election as any sort of predictor to what will happen in 2016. Dems don’t vote during midterm elections, that is a reality and a serious problem, but is not predictive of behavior during a Presidential election.
Carly Fiorina claimed she lost a child to a drug overdose last night, didn’t she ?
Well, the person was the daughter of her 2nd husband who struggled with alcoholism also bulimia and substance abuse. She was 35 when she died.
Rachel Maddow will be fact checking Carly tonight and just said that most of her claims are ” fact free “.
the most annoying thing was how beer isn’t as dangerous. Utterly ridiculous considering that way that huge amounts of people died from beer.
It’s very possible that Mrs Fiorina had a deep affection for her step daughter, and considered her like a true daughter. We don’t know.
We shouldn’t go there.
Just think about Beau Biden, how Jill loved him like a son. Yeah she raised him. But I don’t want us to quantify that kind of thing and make comparisons.
failing to see why.
I’ve known way more people who’ve died because of alcoholism than any other drug.
Twitter is down. Nobody panic. I REPEAT, THERE’S NO NEED FOR PANIC!!11!!
Hahahahahaha! LL that’s funny :D
Good day TOD! As a break from the GOP debate news, I am focusing on the fact the Iran deal now moves on to implementation. It is here, and nothing this crazy Congress can do to stop it. This video basically is an ad for Ploughshares Fund but they worked hard to support the deal and it is very uplifting for anyone else in the mood to celebrate PBO’s historic achievement.
http://ploughshares.org/issues-analysis/article/iran-nuclear-agreement-inspiring-video
Also here: http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/19283671-story
TYVM, JER!
And here: http://livestream.com/accounts/6396566/events/2598525
bb in a few hours ….
Research free pandering by the GOP ?
During the second GOP presidential debate Wednesday night, Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) said they would be open to putting civil rights activist Rosa Parks on the $10 bill. But the Republican candidates might be surprised to learn that Parks sat on the national board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, one of the GOP’s biggest political enemies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rosa-parks-10-bill_55faee9ae4b08820d917b12a
That was quite the intro for VP Biden. He is so loved and appreciated.
http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-the-africa-burkina-faso-coup-1980s-20150917-story.html
The African coup
The coup comes with democracy being whittled back in some parts of Africa, as leaders ditch constitutional term limits to stay in power, often for decades. The Ugandan and Zimbabwean presidents have ruled since the 1980s; Burundi is edging toward civil war after the president insisted on a third term; and the presidents of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo seem set to ditch the constitutional limit so they can stay on.
Unless the Burkina Faso coup leaders back down and a compromise deal is reached, the impoverished, landlocked country will doubtless be stripped of the Western aid it is utterly dependent on, risking collapse.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/09/17/how-president-obama-turned-a-great-recession-into-a-growing-economy/