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Hi!
Bye!
I see DannyO is back on track! See ya!
VC, I read your Post - very good girl, we’re gonna have to give you diplomatic immunity if you keep this up!
Thanks; I’m already immune though.
:-)
I just finished reading AG Loretta Lynch’s speech - you should too. Here is an excerpt
And as painful as it is to watch someone suffering or possibly even dying, the result has been an opening of the discussion in ways that we have not had in significant years. And so the onus is on us to seize this moment. The onus is on us to continue this discussion, to continue this debate. Because now the world knows what we always knew. That people in Ferguson were being taxed for walking down the street and being the wrong color. The world knows what we always knew that young men of color’s interactions with the police are fundamentally different than other children’s. And that as parents, and as siblings, and as family members that we have a responsibility to point this out and talk about it as well as educate our children.
But we also have to acknowledge more than just the actions, because there’s something that goes on as well, something that’s deeper when we have these situations. We have to acknowledge the anger and the despair, the feelings that develop. You know people they always talk about wanting us to handle things in a certain way, and that’s true and and this country was built on peaceful protest. It is a fundamental right of ours and it can achieve a great deal of change. But we also have to acknowledge the anger and the despair that develops when these concerns that we now see on tape are still pushed aside by so many people as if they don’t exist. You have to acknowledge the kind of pain that develops. You have to acknowledge that feeling… and you know that people say “Well I don’t think it was that bad.” “Well I don’t think they meant it that way.” Or even, “That just didn’t happen.” You know, it just didn’t even happen. And so when that happens to people, to a people, to our people time and time again, you have to have within our community a sense of disconnection and despair that is as dangerous as any bullet or any billy club. It absolutely is.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/111490-transcript-of-loretta-lynchs-congressional-black-caucus-foundation-speech-is-deeply-moving
GGail, I really do love the way AG Lynch speaks truth and doesn’t mince words or beat around the bush. This isn’t lawyer talk. This is a heart speaking.
Jackieg, I was spellbound while reading her words. She really touched on the truth and the reality of life for African Americans. That’s why I brought it here for everyone to read.
Young men of color have been saying this for years and thank God for cell phones to document the police abuse. We all knew the “he went for his waist ban” were lies police used to justify killing unarmed poc. I will never forget the pain a young AA man telling me how LAPD made him lay down in oil in the street. He was dressed in white going home from his prom..they did not care.
Yes jojo, our story is finally being seen by many who didn’t believe it happened as we said it did.
The GOP has been committing ECONOMIC TREASON against this country since January 20, 2009.
Rikyrah, I wish I could put that statement up in lights around Times Square and get about 100 million tee shirts made with it.
Happy walking (running!!) with Danny, Chips - and great toon, btw!!
Talk about an upset and some very happy folk ….
bbl …
I love my President.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPSB_oSUwAArnoT.jpg:large
Failed attempt!
Good Afternoon TODVille!
LOVE THOSE TOONS!!!!…THAT’S WHERE THE REPUGNANTS BELONG…ON THEIR KNEES…IN A BUCKET OF SLIME!…IF YOU’RE OUT OF SLIME…GET SOME HORSE MANURE! I’M IN MY USUAL INDIANA CHEERFUL MOOD!…:(
My wife and I have the perfect date night planned:
Black Mass, and then come home and watch President Obama at the CBC.
Let us know what you think of Black Mass!
I think I saw a Politico headline that said VP Biden got a tepid reception from the CBC because they feel it’s HRC’ turn. 😳
I saw that too. But of course, no surprise there. Thankfully, the CBC doesn’t represent the the majority of Black voters - if anything, they have been at odds since PBO became President…
He blew up their hustle of talking but not doing. Then went into their house and let them know about it. They’ve never forgiven him for either. Well that and beating Hillary. She was their meal ticket to continue the hustle.
CORRECT.
Love how he confronted them in 2011: PRESS ON
The best part where he tells them to take off their slippers and put on their marching boots:
You are absolutely on point.
So true HF. The don’t represent all black folks
GGail, how sad that the CBC does not get that nobody is owed the Presidency and it’s nobody’s turn. The office has to be won through enormous hard work, unrelenting determination and great strength, courage, flexibility and intelligence. Remember when PBO said in 2008 that the journey to the presidency sometimes felt like the march to Bataan. I believed him.
I always thought that was a Republican thing. It’s my turn. Democrats don’t do that. Not until recently anyway.
Sadly, we will have to show them how we feel about VP Biden, jackieg.
GGail, that might be true. I can not say it isn’t true, but it comes from Politico and I don’t believe everything they say.
We will have to show them much love for VP Biden, Annieb 😎
Don, I hope you’re also treating her to a great dinner.
:D
LIVE NOW: Pope Francis in Cuba - Welcome ceremony in Havana
Also here: http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Thank you, JER.
Thanks JER
I read that a lot of Cuban’s traveled from the U.S. To be there
Many thanks JER!!! Love seeing him with children; as with PBO!!
The Pontiff is about to land in Cuba.
Hello TOD.
In our political world, here in USA, I truly believe now that Jebbie Bush is missing a few cells in the Brain.
Nena, little does Jeb! know that the words, “I am a Bush,” send chills done the spines of tens of millions of Americans. He might as well as say, “I am a walking, talking foreign policy disaster.”
His audience right now is the republican base. Hence he doesn’t mind praising his brother. But wow, he’s giving fabulous ammunition to democrats in a potential battle against him.
Jeb, yes he is a Bush, but he also is a darn joke.
#wevehadenoughbushes. Right, AB? <3
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!!!!!!!!
As we await the arrival of His Holiness Pope Francis, I find myself pondering on how President Obama has again gone beyond all past presidents in having dignities of such high stature as HH Dalai Lama, and now the Pope, invited to the White House. Surely no one has ever made such advancement toward world peace by working with many powerful and influential people. God Bless Him, he is untouchable!!
He is, indeed, MP. We will never know his like again, so we need to savor every single moment left in his presidency.
PBO has a very healthy spiritual life and he appreciates and respects all cultures. A real human being, all heart.
I could be wrong but I can’t imagine Joe saying anything like this:
Lord have mercy.
What does HRC really mean by that? That their agenda is not hers? That she’s doesn’t want their baggage? That deep down inside she feels she has an identity crisis so she needs to separate herself from her presidential predecessors? I really would like to know the context of that quote.
What an insecure, lame person she is ….
#LetsRollJoe
It seems like each day, she’s almost daring VP Joe to run.
Well, for sure meta, the day he announces his candidacy is the day Hillary should retire from politics unless she wants to get stomped a second time in the primaries …. and, I’d venture to say this time around will be even worse for her than what PBO dished in ’08.
#LetsRollJoe
Who said she was running for President Obama’s 3rd term.. Some times I just do not care for Hillary. Oh how I wish VP Biden would run.
Maybe the statement about not running for Obama’s third term is a preemptive statement she is using to reflect on Biden if he runs. Anotherwords set the idea forward for others to apply to Biden. Although I think others do not need the suggestion since it is easy to think of it on their own.
Each time I watch this, I find it so moving and staggering, really. So much has been done and even MORE since this video was made. Thx, pf.
yesssssssssss…you have to ask …WHYYYYYYYYY are the Dems NOT Standing on the STRONG shoulders of Barack Obama his accomplishments…Whyyyyyyyyyy do they feel that they have to oppose him on something….
It’s their own ego. In my mind, PBO will never be eclipsed. It’s his brilliance, the circumstances of his terms - which are considerable on ALL fronts, the nature of the opposition and the full-blown racism and bigotry. NO ONE will have to face what he’s faced.
#spinnin’herwheels
uh uh uh
Gee…what a great idea:) (we’ve said this all along!)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/19/democrat-introduces-bill-aimed-at-stripping-congress-of-their-paycheck-if-the-government-shuts-down/
If Republicans insist on shutting down the government, they should automatically lose their paychecks.
And that’s exactly why Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan introduced a bill on Friday that would do precisely that.
In October 2013, Senator Ted Cruz persuaded House Republicans to shut the government down in an effort to repeal Obamacare. As the economy lost billions of dollars, government workers were sent home from their jobs, and businesses suffered setbacks, Cruz and the other assholes who caused the turmoil in the first place were still receiving their taxpayer funded paychecks.
Now Cruz wants to shut the government down again over Planned Parenthood funding. It looks like it’s going to happen since House Republicans just passed a government funding bill that strips funds from the women’s health organization. And you can bet Cruz and his accomplices will all expect to collect their paychecks, while they harm this country out of petty ideological bullshit based on heavily edited videos that are nothing more than complete lies.
But Nolan’s bill would ensure that even members of Congress feel the pain of a government shutdown.
“It’s time to put an end to government by crisis management,” Nolan said.
Sad truth - most of them don’t need it
Unfortunately, Boehner will never let this bill come up on the floor to even vote for.
The Ladies, speak
http://margaretandhelen.com/2015/09/17/the-republicans-are-as-likely-to-find-bigfoot-as-they-are-to-find-that-fetus-carly-referenced/
Off to eat B4 my head starts to protest!
At what time is our President speaking at the CBC event? :)
Scheduled for 9:15, Hopefruit!
Oh THANK YOU Chips! :) That will give me time to get a few things done in the next couple hrs before settling down for my PBO fix. :)
You are highly welcome young lady!!
Some of these Saudi Arabian Diplomats are truly pushing the buttons when most Americans are justifiably sick of their double talks.
Don’t these Saudi Royal families have enough money to go rent a race track so they can race, why must they be so stupid and risk others lives?
He doesn’t have diplomatic immunity. He’s a punk that should have his license revoked
So MSNBC and CNN is showing that racists bafoon Donald Trump talking about why he didn’t defend Obama. The media is just as much a bafoon as Trump is.
Disturbing that Sanders is doing a speech at a majority white conservative college while he’s been failing on every level in securing the black vote.
He thrives on the adulation Jeff - not so different from Trump.
This was built as a rally event and Jebbie could not fill this small room.
He has the most Dollars…….he has the name ID……….but is the man dull and at times fatuous? You Bet!
I gather the GOP will still not accept that there base consists of dumb racists - now blaming the “liberals” for the Trump questions. The mind boggles. Maybe when the GOP is in power - the freedom of the press is gone & only old white f…ts can vote - then the media will accept that the GOP is insane.
WHAT THE PHUCK?!?!?!??!
Georgia opens first prison charter school
3:55 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 | Filed in: Politics
FORSYTH — Behind barbed-wire fences and imposing guard towers, the painstaking work has begun across Georgia on building a new education prison system.
About 250 educators, administrators and other staffers have been hired to teach prisoners. Nearly 100 inmates have signed up for charter school courses. And 19 high school diplomas have already been awarded in a pilot program.
But the evolving program is about to face its biggest test. The first of what Gov. Nathan Deal envisions to be a statewide network of prison-based charter schools officially opened Thursday at the Burruss Correctional Training Center in Middle Georgia, and state policymakers and education analysts will carefully chart its progress.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/georgia-opens-first-prison-charter-school/nnhJN/
Carefully chart its progress, my a**. This is just another way for corporations masked as charter schools, to get our tax money. Man, they just don’t stop coming up with ways to rob us blind.
the call for more debates grows louder
and louder!
The comments seem to support our belief that DWS is working to crown HRC against all objections.
even if the DNC only has 6…other organizations such as the League of Women Voters …should be allowed to host debates
That is definitely the part that strikes an odd note for me, Pf & GxG. Why ban the candidates from participating in other venues if they so choose? Their position almost suggests someone is ‘afraid’ to let HRC expose herself too much.
what is she afraid of? We need more debates!
So, you’re on the brandy? :roll:
more than a month since moi touched a drop.
Oh, I’m so proud of y….. Wait a minute. …. not touched a drop of what; and does this mean you’ve been imbibing far more than a ‘drop’? I vaguely remember that joke of yours about only drinking water, or something such.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
I see you are as skeptical as moi :D
Just a little! :-)
;) ;)
You know how he always tells you to show him the proof? This might be your moment to ask for proof ….. signed by the wifey unit, of course
Both of you in one place - good. What was that link for making a poll again?
HA!
Yeah…”Kill-the-Bill” Howard has not been right on anything since his 50-state strategy.
For Dudette….
Happy Birthday… :D
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“Another attendee [at the CBC prayer breakfast] noted, however, that unlike Clinton, Biden can fully embrace the Obama legacy without looking for points of differentiation or dispute — a factor that could ingratiate Biden to Obama supporters and the black community.
“‘Hillary tries to distance herself from the president. He doesn’t have to do that,’ said the attendee, who asked not to be identified because of his business relationships with Washington-based clients. ‘He can embrace him.'”
The fact remains that Sec. Clinton doesn’t need to - and really should not - distance herself at all from President Obama’s record and legacy. That she keeps trying to do so, and stumbles each time it happens, provides teaching moments that demonstrate she really hasn’t learned the lessons of 2008. Just the other day Clinton said she was “putting the White House on notice” that she’s going to take a position on the XL Pipeline. Well, whoop-dee-doo, nobody at the White House cares if she does or not. But judging from the social media reactions, loyal Obama voters saw that statement as another sniping, petty subterfuge of the first order.
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https://www.tsu.co/post/80504934
I just came back from grocery shopping and on the streets in the neighborhood, I saw Halloween decorations on houses - already????!!!!!! And more in the supermarket. I still have Labor Day bbq sauce on my fingers! :shock:
I saw my first Christmas ad last weekend. I was grossed out!
New post
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/09/19/the-congressional-black-caucus-foundations-awards-dinner/
bless these parents