The First Lady embracing Beyonce at yesterday’s Global Citizen Festival, “I am honored to follow a woman who I admire & adore,” she said.
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mornin’ TOD - Good grief. I missed all this last night duh. Hope everyone is going to have a lovely Sunday :D
Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorning Alice!
:-)
Good morning TOD
Morning Marlz!!
Morning Chips.
Yesterday was a beautiful day. So much positively!
Has anyone seen or heard from anyone else in the political arena about yesterday’s events?. The only tweet i saw was from Donna Brazil.
Anything from the candidates about #62milliongirls?
Good Morning Ms. Chips!
Good Morning Everybody
Goooooood morning to ya, Linda!
G’morning Chips, TOD, even amk, lurkers, and congrats alice on #1 :) Happy Sunday everyone!
Mooooooorning Hopefruit!!
Thanks, AMK. That’s an amazing fact I never heard before. The arrogance of Republican candidates who presume to know more than the experts on science and the pope on religion is truly astonishing. They are incapable of self reflection.
rethugs are the excellent example of empty vessels make the most noise.
Morning Chips. Our VP seems imbued with a special spirit lately. He’s really bringing it on in his speeches and presentations-as if truth were just shining in him. I hope he makes his decision soon. Everyday I stare at my Biden for President buttons, hoping they will be prophetic.
:-)
Good ‘afternoon’, Chips Chica; hope you had a good night’s rest! ;) ;)
Good Morning/Evening, TODobots! I suppose you are all on a high from the unrelenting ‘goodies’ dished out this week! Off the top of my head I cannot think of a week that has been more jam-packed with positives, day after day after day! :D **Life’s good.**
A special *THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH* to the TOD staff for making it so much easier to get a cohesive recap of what-all happened!
Thank *YOU* too to our research-photographer, JER, and to ALL TOD reporters and contributors!
You have all made our village into a terrific place to discover what’s going on on any given day, and (on behalf of all of us) we all thank you! Pat yourselves on the back, please. :)
Couldn’t agree with you more, VC. It’s been a stellar week, complete with the joy of having my son home again and spending time with him.
So you and Mr. G ‘found’ him on Saturday, did you? :D :D
Pleased to hear you all are enjoying some good together time .
Yes, VC, we found him, cleverly getting off the plane he was supposed to be on. It’s been 16 months since he was last home, so we have LOTS to catch up on.
^5 :D :D
WOW…unless “think” is just a euphemism for paranoid…this tweet reflects some kind of delusional thinking about Snowjob.
Hf, Snowden should be in prison. End of story.
jackie, I agree with you 1000%.
Has Snowden made us think about the problems that we as a country and as world citizens face? Like poverty, wealth inequality, finding effective cures for cancer, AIDS, diabetes or serious mental illness like schizophrenia, bipolar depression and PTSD? Or how to re-assimilate our veterans with jobs, healthcare and social support after they return from war? Or how to prepare our young girls and give them equal opportunity in education and all other facets of life? Or how to solve the problem of mass incarceration? Police brutality? Inner city crime, violence, and poverty? Rural poverty & hunger, lack of access to resources? Alcoholism epidemic among Native Americans?
Did Snowden make us think about the racism that is alive and well in this country thanks to Republican politicians and parts of their racists supporters. When the Tea Party started their racists B.S., if the leaders of the Republican Party had stood up and spoke out against that kind of talk, they might not be dealing with the likes of Donald Trump now, or Boehner wouldn’t have been run out of town by 30 or 45 tea party racists. Instead all the leaders were concern about was winning. As Grandma used to say, when you jump in bed with a snake know that sooner or later you will be biten.
victim mentality of well-off americans is amazing for people from the rest of the world. you are living in the most free of the countries in the world - your rwnj’s on the street, on air and on teevee - are prime examples of your freedom and yet you act like as if you are living in a middle eastern or even north korean dictatorship.
GOOOOOOOd Morning, Chips and TOD!
Here is the Global Citizen festival in full if you missed.
Important work being done and also great entertainment like Beyoncé, Pearl Jam, etc.
I read that Jay Z and Blue Ivy were backstage last night.
Yup - I saw a picture of the two of them on a tumblr site. :)
Those heels FLOTUS is wearing, I am liking them, but could never wear them.
Thank you Chipsticks for posting FLOTUS speech from last night, so I can listen to it again..
seeing some stuff about jeb BUSH! losing steam. as yogi berra would say, it’s deja vu all over again:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071000759_2.html
i think they do this so the “the news” can build up a “comeback story.” also let’s them make the guy from immense privilege and wealth seem like an underdog. people love underdog stories. doesn’t matter that any BUSH boy is the literal opposite of an underdog…the news will repeat it incessantly and the people will believe. i’m still convinced bush the 3rd will be the repub nominee. amazing rehab job by “the news” given how horribly bush the 2nd destroyed the family name just a few short years ago…
Happy Sunday TODers!!!
Heeeeya Chips!!!
Good morning, Chips and TODville.
The Pope is killing it right now.
http://www.cbsnews.com/live/
WOW…It’s almost as if the Pope and PBO sat down together and had consensus on what the Pope would focus on during his visit here…
It’s really a good demonstration that they really are simpatico. Having a Latino pope for the first time has really brought into close focus all the same issues we struggle with in our own country.
Yes, meta, and consuming becomes an addiction because people try desperately to overcome the loneliness with more things. “If I only had…., I’d feel better” They jokingly call it ‘retail therapy.’ But it never works and it’s never enough.
Thanks a lot for reminding us of this link, Meta. I think the translator is doing a terrific job! He is so aligned with the Pope that the flow of his translation enhances the message as opposed to inhibiting its flow. He also gives me a chance to realize that (though I cannot speak it) my A-level Spanish wasn’t a total waste - I’m amazed that I still understand enough to be a 1/4 step before the translator (at least in my mind). :D
I wish I spoke Spanish. I understand some but I agree, the translator is doing a great job. I love his inflections.
I read it well enough, Meta, but cannot speak it.
Yes, the translator is the best I’ve heard in a long time (in any language). IMO he did a great job because the Pope did not have to make awkward pauses for him to translate. Yes his inflections were ‘natural’ - like he himself was preaching, like he was involved …. as opposed to just parroting - a great job!
Exactly!
nuts I just missed it.
This is huge.
He said this off script and he added, “God weeps.”
It’s earlier than usual for the @Interior ‘drop’ but seeing a4Alice up top (waving to you, a4A) decided me on an earlier move. :D
Here you go…
Yay! :-)
{{a4A}} :)
Thank you, VC!
My honest pleasure, Terri! Hope your Sunday is going great.
More of this, please.
Oh my, Pope Francis is showing us all what it really means to have a loving heart. Faith, Hope and Charity and the greatest of these is charity-the pope lives it.
Boehner is a good golfer I hear.
Lindsay Graham opens his mouth and brays, which means that LG is an actual jackass.
And he’s at 0% in the polls …. I’d zip my lip if I was him and limp on home.
Morning Jackie!
If Lindsey Graham is the saner part of the Republican Party, then that party is in BAD shape. Hay my run for President is stinking up the place, so how do I get some attention from my right wing racists I Hate Obama base? Poor Lindsey, he need to do what Scott Walker did.
VP Biden is polling better then Lindsey Graham and he isn’t running. Or haven’t announced that he is running.
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HF2 asks: If the pope, as head of the Catholic Church can directly address child sexual abuse by the clergy in a speech, then why can’t the leaders in the GOP directly address the racism in their party?
Because they want those votes, and maybe alot of them agree with Chief Justice Roberts who think that racism is gone.
Short answer, HF2 = the Pope is an *intelligent and caring* **leader**/individual.
I caught a glimpse of our guy!!
Are you speaking of the one HZ and I called The Silver Fox? If so, I’d love a link so I can see him. Thanks in advance.
No, it’s the first one, the bald man that PBO brought back to straighten out the SS and serve as Director. I just caught a glimpse of him as the Pope was on his way to Marine One.
Daddy Warbucks?
Yeah!
Thought so. :)
Clancy is his name.
Yes, Joe Clancy. :) We here on TOD just affectionately call him “Daddy Warbucks” because of his bald head and facial structure/features!
Director Joe Clancy. I love him.
great moon today on my part of the 3rd rock. anything special? paging mp.
Stay tuned, at moonset you may be able to catch a glimpse of the final stages of the eclipse. T’was brilliant here last night, approaching full.
thanks mp. It was a brilliant yellowish red a few hours back.
Wow, they made him a chair.
So interesting how Pope Francis are mimicking each other…amazing
Oh, it is a beautiful chair!
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
I had a great time last evening at jojo’ birthday party 🍰🍸🍸
Mooooooooooorning GGail!!! Did you belly-dance??
Moooooorning Chips, no belly dancing - this party was held in jojo’ lovely home. We’ll save the dancing for when we got to the Kurdish restaurant 😀
But we had a fun time nonetheless!
:-) Most excellent to hear, hope you had a ball!!!!
Oh we did! And have pics too 😋
Pope Francis is live now with the prisoners:
We will never know whether Matthew 25:35 and onward looked like this in Jesus’ eyes …
What about FLOTUS (personally introduced by Beyonce) and VP Biden - who were actually there in person?!?!?
I’m just happy they called him President!
DOJ and HUD Target Redlining
Regular readers know that one of the untold success stories of the Obama administration that I tend to focus on is the way the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice has been reformed after it was decimated during the Bush/Cheney years. Under the initial leadership of Thomas Perez (who is now the Secretary of Labor) and now Vanita Gupta, the division has been aggressively investigating police brutality and defending voting rights. And so, of course, I noticed this story reported by Sarah Lynch:
Hudson City Bancorp will pay nearly $33 million to settle civil charges alleging the New Jersey-based bank wrongfully discriminated against prospective black and Hispanic home buyers, in a case that marks the largest ever redlining settlement in history, the U.S. government said on Thursday.
The joint action by the U.S. Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said that Hudson City Savings Bank tried to avoid locating branches and marketing mortgages in neighborhoods with a majority of black and Hispanic residents…
“This case should send a message to lenders throughout the country that the Justice Department will not tolerate racial discrimination in the extension of credit,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, in a statement…
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http://immasmartypants.blogspot.ca/2015/09/doj-and-hud-target-redlining.html
dumbya 3 is languishing at 7% in the latest nbc-wsj “poll”.
When I killed the unions and ate their entrails for breakfast walker got kicked in his nuts after leading the polls just a month back , who does dumbya, who never crossed double digit, is still in the race? mittbot proved all that billion did jacksquat for him.
who doeswhy is dumbya 3 …LOL
via raw story
I see we had the same idea! Just posted a comment on that (I’m watching via my DVR, so catching up a bit!).
I’m still on Pope Watch. Ha. But I’ve recorded some of the morning proceedings, so I’m a bit late watching.
Thought it was interesting that the wooden chair the Pope is sitting on - to make remarks at the Philly prison he’s visiting today - was made by the inmates. What a welcoming touch! MSNBC says there will be about 100 inmates present, ages 18-21. (I believe family members, also.)
Please let his visit to the prison give pause to those in our society who think incarceration (also part of our systemic racism) is the only answer.
Good morning, TODville!
Did you see his address to the Bishops this morning? Very good message.
Yes, and I agree. Very profound message. I pity those who don’t accept it fully … because the tide has finally turned.
I feel like the tide has been rolling all along with our generation. Witnessing so much historic change and movement so fast.
Oh, yes, you are right, I believe. Glad we’re here to see it continue, too!
By the way … of course, the most profound message was when he said, “God weeps.”
I can imagine there was much love and excitement and some disbelief while the chair project was happening. How lovely for those men to have something like this visit from the Pope to look forward to. Then to see him sitting in the chair they created. Healing.
Well said. It was lovely.
what is the purpose of Bill Clinton…
Bill wants him to win the GOP nomination as it would make it easier for HRC if she wins the Dem nomination.
Watching Bill build up Trump makes me sick and, yes, that’s exactly why I call it self-serving. But seriously, if you can’t win an election against Trump, then you’re not worthy of the nomination.
IMO, trying to make what’s-er’-name look really good, but it ain’t workin’, is it?? Joke’s on hillbillybob.
POTUS in NYC. FLOTUS is likely still there, too.
I’m sure FLOTUS is still there because she will be doing some speaking and interviews about Girls education, and she will tape an appearance on Stephen Colbert Late Show for Monday night.
Well, great! They will have a nice rendezvous.
The Philly Prisons Commissioner told the Pope that the chair the inmates built for him represents “the talent and beauty that lies within all of us.”
” … Prison industries work programs have grown from deep-seeded roots which have withstood the challenges of time. From the late 1700s, spanning the Civil War, Great Depression, World War II and other major conflicts, and despite periods of criticism from detractors, increasingly constrictive procurement laws, misinformation and stigma associated with the value of inmate-made goods, prison industry work programs have endured.”
http://www.unicor.gov/FPIHistory.aspx
The Archbishop told the prisoners that the Pope is the successor of St. Peter, who also spent a little time in Rome prisons.
And, on a couple of side notes, the Federal Prisons Industries is a huge deal … sat on many a chair and at many a “Navy tanker” desk that were made by talented prisoners, when I was a federal employee … and I thought another nice touch was the white plastic lawn chair provided for the Pope’s interpreter. Ha.
what i love is how We will not let folks rewrite history…..NOOOOOOOOOOPE we wont…
embedded tweet…
Hello TOD.
I’d like to respond to something Meta wrote yesterday about Bill Clinton sabotaging his wife.
I emphatically agree. I think what Bill’s behavior demonstrates is that if he has his way, in the Clinton Family there will be only ONE president.
In conversation over lunch 2 years ago with my politically connected and/or interested friends we pretty much all agreed that HRC would have a better chance if she divorced Bill well before a run.
Now, as this sad joyless campaign lurches on, I am flabbergasted that with the array of enemies both overt and subtle, that Hillary persists in running this race. Debbie Wasserman Schultz as your biggest ally bodes ill, doesn’t it?
I think that comment was written by someone else.
I’m kind of two minds about it. On the one hand, I don’t think he wants to see his own presidency eclipsed (we see this in some of his silly criticisms of PBO). On the other hand, I think he sees it as a kind of do-over for himself and a consolation prize to his long-suffering wife, a kind of personal redemption payback for all the crap he’s pulled over the years. In any case, I’ve never appreciated his political instincts and I think we’re about to see a redux of his worst moments from the 2008 campaign.
When will they just go away?
Something else at play in my opinion. Bill Clinton absolutely LOVED being POTUS and has missed it since he left the Oval. He kinds of dream of a third term by proxy. I have no doubt he respects his wife a lot and feels guilty about how the crap he’s put her through. But he’s also in love with the idea of being “there” for every big decision.
And, frankly, this is one of my problems with Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. I think the democratic insiders would consider it a “co-presidency” . Hillary would have some difficulty to establish her authority on the government apparatus. People would constantly try to get to Hillary through Bill.
Another problem I have, and this is absolutely not fair to Hillary: I SERIOUSLY doubt that swing voters and independents will be enthusiastic to put back the Clintons in the White House, especially Bill. Unless the republicans nominate a lunatic like Trump or a third Bush, swing voters will be very very tempted to vote for a “new face” (John Kashich for example) instead of voting for the Clintons.
Seems to me many democrats, in the party establishment AND in the “base”, are living in a bubble. Just because Hillary Clinton and her husband are popular among democrats doesn’t mean they are a shoe in in the general. FAR FROM IT.
I agree with your insights. I really do think Bill can’t wait to get back into the WH, back into the spotlight. He’s incredibly needy.
Of course it did. It’s called self face smacking.
I really hate that their focus is now on how victimized she is by the MSM. PBO never stopped to whine like this. He just kept moving, inspiring us to walk the blocks, register people to vote, stay clearly on our message and keep going.
If she’s going to be the nominee, she’s going to have to get much, much better at this. And having Bill be her attack dog is not going to fly.
so true….
Is it me or is wallace actually some journalism of late? I read he took donald dreck to task in the furst it’s all hot air event.
As I recall, Wallace occasionally slips into reality … more so than most on Fox. I think he walked off the set once, a while back.
But then he swings back, to keep his job and $.
guess gotta a smidgen of proof to maintain all that fair & balanced bs of a lie.
The week ahead
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/09/27/the-week-ahead-37/
Good day TOD ….
Good morning you lot! ;-)
