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Congrats…..speak the truth!
Hey Sailor how’s it going?
Finer than frog hair! ;-)
Ahoy Sailor! :-)
Tell it, Donna!
Congrats on First! :-)
Great tweet, Donna! Congratulations on arriving first and posting this as well!
Right ONNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!
Amazing FLOTUS always pushing for better for young people. What an Inspiration!
What a great idea! This Administration is just THE coolest!
:)
If you’re not following @draftbiden, maybe you should, to give them some numbers.
Is that Tally on the right in pink? :)
Racial Profiling Via Nextdoor.com
White Oakland residents are increasingly using the popular social networking site to report “suspicious activity” about their Black neighbors — and families of color fear the consequences could be fatal.
By Sam Levin
The strange glances are starting to become more frequent. James Fisher, a fourteen-year-old freshman at Oakland Charter High School, has noticed that as he gets older, more people on the street eye him with suspicious or fearful stares. “Some of them just look at me, and then they’ll look away,” he said. “Or sometimes, I go into stores, and they look at me like they think I’m going to do something bad.”
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But he and his parents are not just worried about hurtful stares from neighbors or passersby. Over the last two years, their neighborhood has become overrun with racial profiling — but not by police, rather by mostly white residents incorrectly assuming that people of color who are walking, driving, hanging out, or living in the neighborhood are criminal suspects. These residents often don’t recognize that they may have long held racial prejudices or unconscious biases, but recently, they’ve been able to instantly broadcast their unsubstantiated suspicions to thousands of their neighbors with the click of a mouse.
Nextdoor.com, a website that bills itself as the “private social network for neighborhoods,” offers a free web platform on which members can blast a wide variety of messages to people who live in their immediate neighborhood. A San Francisco-based company founded in 2010, Nextdoor’s user-friendly site has exploded in popularity over the last two years in Oakland. As of this fall, a total of 176 Oakland neighborhoods have Nextdoor groups — and 20 percent of all households in the city use the site, according to the company.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/racial-profiling-via-nextdoorcom/Content?oid=4526919&showFullText=true
oh I love his restaurant. Was there just a year so ago. Fabulous as always…..
Oooo, look……even the journos are coming unglued.
BOOOM! Great tweet, pf.
Greg got nasty with me yesterday when I asked him to explain his tweets about HRC and her challenges to PBO on guns EAs. Maybe he needs a vacation.
Dudette, you just appropriately and effectively served Greg Sargent. 👊✊ 👊✊ 👊✊
:-D Thanks RM! :-D
Dude, really just needs to get a grip. There’s still more than a year left of campaigning.
Joe will announce or not announce when he’s damn well ready. Not at the media’s convenience.
Who does he work for? Who in the hell is HE to tell the VP of the USA to “cut the crap”? There’s not enough “NEWS” out there that he has nothing else to do but sit on the VP’s steps wondering when he’s gonna announce. My answer is “When he is good and F#@king ready”.
You go sister! I am so sick of these propaganda hacks who out there pretending to be journalists.
Why is Greg Sargent being such a dumb ass?
I don’t know but I find it very, very offensive. VP Biden doesn’t owe him the time of day.
I know, right? People have just gone of the deep end.
PROBLEM OF THE PAST?
what da phuq?
it was the REPEAL of Glass-Steagall, DURING BILL CLINTON ‘S ADMINISTRATION, which set into place, the conditions that brought about the greatest econonmic collapse this country has seen since The Great Depression.
I say again..
what da phuq?
Pay no attention to what my husband did to help bring about the huge fucking disaster with the world economy!! my head hurts.
To be fair, if I remember well, President Obama also said that Glass-Steagall wouldn’t be appropriate now. The ones asking a return to it are not necessarily experts.
WTH kinda parents are walking around in this country creating these freaking little monsters? What are these folks doing? Really, I wanna know! People are sick!
But it’s minorities, abortions, gays, and working white women who are ruining the fabric of this country.
“Taaaawd, where are my readin’ glasses! I need to make some calls!” :-)
Dudette, you stole the day with that tweet. Funniest ever.
LOL! Thanks JG! :-D
:) :) :)
I hope our first couple has a great, quiet dinner together tonight, and laughs their butts off over the cadre of losers that thought they could derail his presidency, only to have karma come knocking instead.
And another one bites the dust
Paging Bobfr:)
here ya go:
Donna has the Golden :star: :)
Congrats.
Speak, Mister ;)
Forbes, Too? Hmm?
All those who didn’t vote in 2010, you are to responsible for the mess in the House. We had a outstanding Speaker in 2010 Speaker Pelosi, but you wanted to send the President and Democrats a message so you didn’t vote. Well thanks for nothing to those who didn’t go to vote 2010. You are just as much to blame for those crazy ass tea party right wing radical Republicans.
Absolutely!
You’re absolutely right, Bella. The consequences of that one stupid decision by Democrats not to vote in 2010 created all the chaos, disruption and dysfunction that we see today in the US House. My breaks my heart to think of what we could have accomplished with a Democratic House.
That’s the truth. And they still don’t take any responsibility for it, or even acknowledge their part.
Yes, Bella. Right you are.
You absolutely spot-on, Bella! All those who sat on their behinds instead of going out to vote gave us these crazies running Congress. You know PBO went around the country pleading with us not to give these crazies the keys to the car, given their history of running the car into the ditches every time they were behind the wheel.
They’ve done is so many times - the only congress that actually passes required legislation in a timely fashion is a dem congress - yet again and again people vote for this lot of crazies. Weird.
On the question……why Speaker of the House was created.
Thank you all for my incredible birthday wishes. It is much appreciated. Chips, thank you for my Jackie birthday song - love it! I love my TOD family. Next up is JO’B. I think her birthday is next week.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jackie!! Enjoy your celebration!!
Happy Happy Day, J4O! Hope it’s FABULOUS!
Happy birthday, my friend.
Happy Birthday Jackie, I hope you’ve had and continue to enjoy your special day. 🎉🎊🎈🎂
Happy Day Jackie - keep celebrating :)
Wow, this could really lead to something big! [no pun intended… okay, a little.] :-)
Good for Lincoln Chafee.
Please proceed, GOPers in the HORs
He said that yesterday and today McCarthy dropped out. It was the 1st thing of thought of when I heard the breaking news today.
umm…. the plot thickens!!!!
Yep. An a-hole like McCrappy is bound to have some verrrry interesting skeletons!
:) I guess it’s better for you than the popcorn I popped to watch it earlier….
Yep!
Happy, Happy Birthday, Jackie 4O!!!!
GAWD, the Blue Angels just flew so low over my apartment that they totally blocked out the sun. Now the car alarms are going off in the neighborhood. UGH!
Wow! Where are you?
In San Francisco. Every year it goes on for 4 days and it’s just too much.
Oh sorry! :-(
And for your afternoon enjoyment…this is what 90 years old looks like ;)
Love it, love it, love it! I wanna be just like her when I grow up! :-D
role model! want to be able to move like that! :D
The post about ‘skeletons in the closet’. Uh, I just saw on Facebook story from the examiner that there’s video of McCarthy and Renee Ellmers.
Someone was ready to release it. ??????? Plot indeed thickens.
I saw it as well. It’s all over FB right now.
{runs to facebook}
Someone from the Freedom Caucus, or Ted Cruz ?
It’s an extremist, that’s for sure.
THIS.
Wonderful tweet. TY, Donna
Karma is everywhere!
One day, Putin is praised for the precision of his missiles, riding high and laying only 9 ft away from their targets in Syria. That was a gift to the Beloved-shirtless-leader whose masculinity has no match when compared to the Leader of the Free World.
But then came today, where those same missiles seem to have had an erratic flight and landed… on Iran, cancelling nut-an-YAHOO!’s trip to Germany for fear of, shall we say, repréailles.
I blame Karma for it all.
Karma don’t play.
An actual Republican Congressman from Missouri tweeted this!
I freaking kid you NOT! I had to look the dude up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Long
Little jerk …..
Right about now would be the point in the movie where the aliens just say “Screw it, let’s end this mess”, point the quantum phasers at Earth and blow the damn thing to smithereens, cuz too much crazeee down here.
Amen!
I think I did a McCarthy there — “unprofessionalism” LOL!
This has got to be a joke. Plz tell me this is a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gm from my world donna - some days maybe I shouldn’t go to sleep - wake up to yet another round of dysfunctional GOP proving that you need to have a brain to be part of a system of democratic government & brain surgery is know known to be easier than doing anything else if you are a member of the GOP.
The Onion is going to have fun with the Speaker Options as presented by the GOP
I figure that would come up next. Ever the opportunist.
Bingo!
I like this line in the following article >> “Obama isn’t only paying lip service when he says he’d be happy to sign things that fix the flaws in his sprawling, complicated health care law.””
Congress Passed A Bill To Change Obamacare. What Happened Next Will Amaze You.
Turns out, Republicans in Congress can make Obamacare better when they want to.
by Jeffrey Young
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Wednesday, which is pretty boring in and of itself. The legislation is kind of boring, too. But what made the moment significant is it’s the first time in four years that Congress has sent the president a bill expressly intended to make Obamacare work better, not ruin it.
Obama did not hold a signing ceremony or pass out pens to beaming lawmakers when turning a bill into a law that eases health insurance regulations for small employers, but this simple event deserves commemoration because it was such a departure from the normally ugly politics of health care reform. This time, lawmakers identified a problem and worked together to pass legislation to deal with it, and then the president signed it. Just like they teach in social studies.
Everyone knows by now that congressional Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It’s one of their favorite things to do, and the House has passed dozens of bills that would erase all or part of the landmark health care reform law, or defund it or pull out pieces of it that would make the rest fall apart on its own. The ACA went on the books in March 2010, and little has changed in the politics of Obamacare since then. If the GOP primary debates are any indication, we’ll still be arguing about this in 2017.
What gets less notice is that Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree on what some of Obamacare’s real problems are — and sometimes the White House does, too. Obama isn’t only paying lip service when he says he’d be happy to sign things that fix the flaws in his sprawling, complicated health care law.
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So does this quiet chorus of “Kumbaya” mean the Obamacare debate has turned a corner? Hardly. The ACA has plenty of other problems everyone knows about but that Congress won’t touch.
And, alas, the very day the House passed the small business bill, GOP-run committees began carrying out a plan to repeal the whole law again.
Am I the last one to see the rumor that MSNBC might be bringing back Keith Olbermann, to precede Rachel’s show?
Rumor that he’d come back has been swirling about for a few week,s but where they’d put him has been more of a mystery.
I saw something a day or two ago - instant thought MSNBC has discovered their complete turn right has lost them all their viewers & there is an election coming with ALL media supporting the GOP
No idea if true or not.
It’s all getting a little too surreal, isn’t it? People are losing it, from all corners.
Wow! I thought it myself, just didn’t think media would actually dive into the gutter along with me.
GQ, of all things!
Instead of “who would you like to have a beer with” type president with the GOP “who would you NOT want to be in a 7-11 late at night with” type president.
Oh My!!!!
Wow! The mag actually said what most of us think… Damn!
The comments are ridiculous.
The cluelessness about when a statement is ‘racist’ is very telling. It sounds like a bunch of ‘baggers looking to throw the term back at anyone to deflect from ACTUAL racists in their ranks.
I don’t even think they read the Carson quotes.
Anybody know what this is about?
Yeah. David Axelrod’s tweet yesterday gave me pause. I hadn’t thought of it in that way. I guess that VP Joe had the same reaction as David.
Something tells me that David made a call to the WH????
Wouldn’t surprise me.
That’s interesting because I’ve seen reports where Josh had high praise for it.
I do think it’s a good idea to just hold off another few days. There are several reports out there that VP will be gathering his family this weekend to focus on a decision. I guess we’ll know soon enough.
I thought it walked a line, but since it wasn’t put out by his people, found it okay.
I can see his side too though. If he does run, he’s already gonna have people claiming he’s playing up sympathy for political edge.
I hear you but we all also know he’ll slam down those thoughts ASAP just by doing what he’s doing.
Wow, look at these…
More in the article
Phenomenal!! Thank you.
Wonderful. I’ve seen a few Pow-Wows (open to the public) in a few states, too, and they are glorious.
Suddenly the media is talking about a dysfunctional GOP - where have they been for the past 6 years - head buried in sand - drinking the cool aid. The media supported the crazies - karma is having a wonderful week
Can I plz tweet that?
any time donna - no need to ask
Yep. And they’ve been dysfunctional (as in - not there to govern), this go-around, since the ’90s, when their main goal was to go after Clinton. Not govern.
;)
Happily retweeted!
Pierce has a similar idea
“Is this finally enough for the elite political press to notice that half the American political process is in full-blown dementia? Or does Jason Chaffetz have to lose, too?”
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38672/kevin-mccarthy-republicans-id-ego/
I BELIEVE THERE IS A SET UP FOR A GOVERNMENT OVERTHROW IN THE WORKS AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE EXTREMELY ALERT…………………………….WATCH OVER THAT PRESIDENT!
Now, that’s impressive!! TY Dudette :)
That’s so cute…..
Of course, in the grand scheme, it’s not really “amusing,” is it?
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/10/08/a-tweet-or-two-333/
I’m not a Bernie Sanders fan at all and this article validates all my reasons. Must read if you want a gut check.
hahahahahahahahahaha. hohohohohohohohoho.
go on, teanuts, burn the house down. 6 years of accumulated karma, bitchez.
I say to the Republicans and their corporate media enablers: “The chickens are coming home to roost.”