On This Day - Pete Souza: “Much to Sasha’s chagrin, the President starts dancing to the music at the Fiesta Latina event on the South Lawn of the White House.” Oct. 13, 2009
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Today
The President has no public events scheduled
6:0 EDT: First Lady Michelle Obama addresses Fortune’s 2015 Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, DC
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On This Day: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wait to welcome South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Lee’s wife Kim Yoon-ok on the North Portico of the White House, October 13, 2025
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MoooOOOooorning!
White House.gov
GM Everyone!!
Congrats Allison. You have a contender :-)
:-)
friggin’ iranians approve the deal 161-59. now what?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34513363
If this is a real question here is a real answer.
Monday October 19 has been declared “Adoption Day” by Iran and they say that the terms of the Deal’s implementation will begin then.
The Done Deal getting Done.
GM TOD. Chips I hope things went okay with Danny yesterday.
The Bernie supporters will be shocked I tell ya to see two young women in the Senators demographic that don’t have a clue who he is and the bonus is that they say VP Joe is definitely going to run… :)
Mooooorning Donna, moooooorning everyone!!
GM DonnaD, TODville.
This is hilarious IMHO, (Colbert on CNN’s breathless coverage of a non-event [continuing their speculation track-record, i.e. MH370 ]).
More on how CNN chooses to deliver (non) “news:”
Sensational clip!!!!
Thank you Arapaho
HAH that Colbert clip is so funny! CNN makes it too easy for him, they really do.
toon of the day.
:lol:
Good Morning BFF and TOD.
Mooooooooorning BFF! Run Joe Run!
Such a great ad. From the heart. PLEASE RUN, JOE!! We need you and we trust you to be the one to carry on this amazing President’s path….
GM JER.
Looks like this time #DraftBiden team is serious (latching onto CNN Biden-debate hype frenzy — see response to DonnaD upthread):
And here’s total snark (by the #GOPolitico reporter who is second to loathsomeness there to Edward Isaac Dovere):
This ad is perfect in tone and message. Please—run, Joe, run.
just love this ad! I so hope joe will run.
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Good morning TOD folks! have A great day!
Janet Jackson Makes History With Seventh #1 Album
Oct 12, 2025
Janet Jackson is no stranger to chart-topping success but it must be especially sweet with Unbreakable, her first release since 2008’s Discipline. The release is her 7th #1 album release but it comes with another distinction as well. Jackson is only the third artist to have a number one album release in three different decades.
Billboard.com reports:
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Oct. 24-dated chart (where Jackson is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s Web sites on Tuesday, Oct. 13.
Unbreakable — which was released on Oct. 2 — arrives atop the chart with 116,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, the set sold 109,000 in pure album sales.
http://blackamericaweb.com/2015/10/12/janet-jackson-makes-history-with-seventh-1-album/
Hell yes, it’s too young to suspend a student
Always trying to CRIMINALIZE BLACK CHILDREN.
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Is kindergarten too young to suspend a student?
October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM ET
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/videos/#159266
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/angus-deaton-awarded-nobel-prize-economics/
f democracy becomes plutocracy, those who are not rich are effectively disenfranchised. Justice Louis Brandeis famously argued that the United States could have either democracy or wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but not both. The political equality that is required by democracy is always under threat from economic inequality, and the more extreme the economic inequality, the greater the threat to democracy.
The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care; they have every reason to support cuts in Medicare and to fight any increase in taxes. They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone, or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country. They will oppose any regulation of banks that restricts profits, even if it helps those who cannot cover their mortgages or protects the public against predatory lending, deceptive advertising, or even a repetition of the financial crash.
To worry about these consequences of extreme inequality has nothing to do with being envious of the rich and everything to do with the fear that rapidly growing top incomes are a threat to the wellbeing of everyone else.
What we fight for….and what this Administration has been trying to say all along….
Sorry….missed the entirety of the word. “If” democracy becomes plutocracy….
Morning all. I want VP Biden to run so much, my heart just aches with it. Won’t be seeing much of you until Sunday night. Have a great day and for those of you who are watching-enjoy the debate.
Hope all’s good Jackie?
Chips, we have our three-year old granddaughter visiting with us for the whole week-daughter and SIL don’t arrive until the weekend-so I am 1000 percent occupied in keeping her entertained, safe, clean, fed and happy. My whole world is three-year old based right now-nothing else seems real. Oh and every night at about one am, we hear, “I want my mommy,” which takes at least an hour of soothing and assurances before anybody can sleep again.
Oh crikey Jackie, I’m exhausted just reading that!! There’s no way you’re going to make it here on Sunday, you’re going to be curled up in a ball catching up with all that lost sleep!! Wishing you the very best for the week ahead, give that little bundle of energy a hug for us!!
I’ve been sick and out of touch - what’s wrong with Danny?!?!?!?
I hear that one jackie - and bless you for helping out - 1 night is more than my quota!
Morning Jackieg, have fun with your grand baby 💕
Well, their Sugar Daddies will take care of them.
UGH, Drezner is writing nasty columns/tweets about VP.
I saw that!
Good Morning Meta, I just read a story at the NY Times that now says it could be sometime in November before he decides.The suspense is killing me. I know that the media pushes stories just to keep speculation going. I also know that only VPJoe knows what will happen but I’m starting to look at the primary calendar. If he waits until late November how does he form an organization and ground game in a month to be competitive in Iowa? Do you think he plans to skip Iowa and NH and go straight for a win in SC? I wish I understood what the plan is.
For me, reading this endless speculation by the DC press is excruciating. At first I of course read every word but now I’m really starting to question their motives and skip their idle speculation. Today they’re full of demeaning criticism because Joe hasn’t fulfilled their dire need for more of a Dem horserace and many of them are showing their clear bias for HRC.
Like everyone here, I wish I knew. All I can tell (my logical brain) is that he hasn’t said NO. That means that he’s still doing something behind the scenes, whether that’s mulling or preparing is the question. As PBO said, he’s saying to himself, “I could do a really good job.”
I don’t see that he has the time to make waves in Iowa or NH, so it wouldn’t surprise me if he skipped those but he has to have a good rationale for that for people in those states who would eventually support him. There are some deadlines he has to meet. Here are the filing dates by state:
http://ballotpedia.org/Important_dates_in_the_2016_presidential_race#Federal_candidacy_registration
So we’re getting awfully close to the wire. And, like you, I wish we knew more.
He’s threatened.
No idea why this showed up here. WP!
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
I hope Danny is behaving at the Pet hospital ☺️ Woof woof
G’morning Chips, TOD even amk, lurkers, and congrats Allison on #1! Happy Tuesday everyone. :)
In Gainesville, Ben Carson preaches return to God, war on the ‘PC police’
October 12, 2025 | Filed in: Ben Carson, Elections - President.
GAINESVILLE — Presidential hopeful Ben Carson told a packed Hall County megachurch this morning that he would bring God back to the forefront of American life, and he would go to war with the “PC police” to do it.
Georgia has looked a little like New Hampshire this weekend, with the two polling leaders for the Republican presidential nomination almost bumping into each other. Donald Trump staged a rally in Norcross on Saturday afternoon, then Carson signed copies of his new book up the road in Lawrenceville on Saturday evening.
This morning, Carson spoke to thousands at the Free Chapel in Gainesville and signed copies of A More Perfect Union, as part of a book tour not planned or staged by his campaign – but unmistakably part of his quest for the presidency:
“A lot of people have said to me: ‘Why are you willing to get into this fray when you had such a wonderful career and reputation and you were blessed financially and you could just sit back and relax?’
“Well, I’ll tell you why: it’s because America is worth saving. If that means getting into a war with the PC police, I’m ready to fight that war. And I hope you will join me.”
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/10/11/in-gainesville-ben-carson-preaches-return-to-god-war-on-the-pc-police/
Seriously, I just threw up a little in my mouth.
What is “PC police?”
politically correct police—-whatever that may mean to anyone
It means if you’re nice and give a damn how other people feel about how they are labeled, there is something wrong with you.
Sociopaths. Every last effing one of the GOP.
What an effing idiot. The way to fully ruin the America is to turn us into taliban-lite.
Then go be a minister, Ben Carson. You do not get to shove your religion on our strong, pluralistic society.
More Barbara Byrd-Bennett CPS Contracts Under Scrutiny
There are more questions about multimillion-dollar contracts Chicago Public Schools gave to firms that had previous associations with disgraced schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett.
“Chicago Tonight” has learned of a probe into another contract where a firm with ties to Byrd-Bennett received CPS business. This as Byrd-Bennett is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to charges that she steered $23 million in CPS money to SUPES Academy and Synesi Associatesin exchange for bribes and kickbacks.
The arrangement in question: a $31 million contract to help CPS manage the controversial closing and consolidation of 50 schools that took place two years ago. It’s under scrutiny, “Chicago Tonight” has learned, because of ties between former CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and one of the companies that received that business.
A company called Global Workplace Solutions won the $30.9 million bid to help close the schools. The duties involved relocating records, removing contents, furnishings and equipment from the closed schools, and then securing the closed schools. A portion of the business was subcontracted to a company called The Robert Bobb Group, a company run by Robert Bobb, the former Emergency Financial Manager for Detroit Public Schools. Bobb hired Byrd-Bennett in Detroit in 2009 as Chief Academic Auditor and paid her a salary of $18,000 per month.
A document explains what his private company did during the CPS school closing deal, including “managing and processing the active business and financial records during the consolidation of the closed Chicago Public Schools” and “collecting, processing, sorting, batching, packing, annotating boxes … shipping student records.”
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2015/10/12/more-barbara-byrd-bennett-cps-contracts-under-scrutiny
Fifteen members of a pro-confederate battle flag group are facing trial after a Georgia grand jury indicted them on terrorism charges. http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/15-face-trial-in-racially-charged-confederate-flag-confrontation/
Good Morning Ms. Chips and all TODers!
Pay no attention, world…
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/10/13/3711603/deja-vu-hottest-year/
Déjà Vu Again: Hot September Drives 2015 To Hottest Year On Record
AH! http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-media-memes-survive.html
Actually I hope that the statement Bernie made about PBO being “naive” does come up tonight. I want his perspective debated.
Bernie has this notion that because all these people are turning out for this rallies that if he became President that they will remain as engaged as they are for his campaign and somehow these millions of people will put so much pressure on Congress that they will just have to bow to his wishes. PLEASE, PLEASE let this topic come up tonight. PBO formed OFA to do just this and we presented Congress with millions of signatures, made hundreds of calls to Congress and it didn’t move this determined to obstruct everything Obama Congress one iota. He is living in a fantasy world and I want the nation who tunes in tonight to see it for themselves. I sure hope someone else on that stage calls him out on this as well.
From the article:
An awful lot of folks in the media are worried that tonight’s debate between the Democratic candidates will be boring because it will focus on the issues.
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I find it fascinating how the press thinks that a focus on issues is considered boring…the MSM is used to using sensationalism without substance…i hope that there are citizens tuning in who want that substance…however i think that CNN…will try its best to inject a lil sensationalism into the debate
Awesome…as always. Pass it around. Everyone should have the opportunity to read and think
http://www.stonekettle.com/2015/10/big-damned-heroes.html
Chat on!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/10/13/chat-away-689/
well, there you have it, you “loyal” gop voters. vote for me and get your medicaid screwed and heh, you’re better off uninsured.