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1st!
On a roll!
Don!!
Chips!
It’s Jaqueliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!! :-)
Who cares, I’d add.
Interesting timing!
CLOSE GITMO
Is she a reporter? The price for a private person is off the charts unless it’s only 2 or 3 pages.
It probably took this long to find all the paperwork hidden in the bushes. . .
reporter from the Miami Herald. Guantanamo is her beat.
Thanks. Corporations can afford a dollar a page for all that paper. I couldn’t back in 1999. But it’s probably on a computer disk now.
I was also asking a different agency.
I just found out that my health insurance rate went up substantially, I’m not at all upset by that fact. The fact is I’m able to pay it and not really worry about it. I’m more satisfied by the fact that more and more people will be able to get health insurance because of Obamacare.
Health insurance premiums go up for a lot of reasons. Obamacare is not the only reason, no matter what you’re told. They went up astronomically BEFORE ACA, which precious few people care to admit.
You are correct, I’m happy because many people for the first time because of Obamacare are able to get health insurance.
Plus if you pay more in premiums than in the care you received you will get a refund of some portion of it. My brother just received a $200 refund check. Thank you Obama.
P.S. there’s no more pre-conditions th will cancel your insurance.
The no more pre-conditions aspect of Obamacare is what I love the most about the entire thing.
Me too:)
Things I thought I’d never see: Same-sex marriage is legal; the Confederate flag is coming down. Thanks, Obama!
Huh?
I guess that’s one way of looking at her tenure.
They have to say something which may or may not make any sense to the rest of us.
Brava, PF! It’s sad to see these Clintonites joining the right wingers in the mission to re-write history during the Obama presidency.
LOL, and as can we can see, Presta’s shilling tweet only has just 1 RT after almost 2 hrs…that’s how many people it resonated with.
OMG. LOLz.
this has GOT to be satire. lying liar and the lies she tells.
Or one of her “people” tossed it out there. Ugh.
Just a reminder, for us all!
Our First Lady is fabulous.
FABULOUS!!
Agree 100% rikyrah.
I rise to see the media and aviation industry in a snit about personal drones but nothing about guns…….PRIORITIES?
Look who is singing at the White House? I like this song.
What is this young lady’s name?
I got her name, it is Andra Day :)
furst.
hi don.
hi, amk.
For a moment yesterday as I was watching Jake Tapper take a sledgehammer to Jeb Bush’s balls. I felt sorry for Jeb as he valiantly tried to defend his brother in regards to 9/11.
This is a Dem from PA:
this is MY Congressman.. :D
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In 1992, Bill Clinton did not win Iowa, and he came in second in NH.
Why did I know this at the time and no one else did? Maybe because about 98% of the people thought the planes were hijacked by Iraqis and not mostly Saidis. One from Yemen and one from Egypt if I remember right.
This is who they are. HOw many times must this be said?
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Busted: Watch Mississippi lawmaker openly race-baiting at GOP rally to oppose black school funding
David Edwards
19 Oct 2025 at 10:29 ET
Video shot by a local radio broadcaster caught Republican Mississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter using racial language to suggest to fellow Republicans that a ballot initiative to improve education was actually a plot to fund black schools at a cost to white schools.
The Clarion-Ledger reported that Carpenter was filmed by WMRG while speaking to the Tishomingo County Midway Republican Rally about the danger of Initiative 42, which would give a Hinds County judge control of school funding if the Mississippi legislature failed to lift the state from its last place national ranking on education.
According to the Clarion-Ledger, Republicans in the state had been using the phrase “Hinds County judge” as a racial dog whistle because the county is predominately black and has two female black judges.
But Carpenter dropped the coded language in a plea to defeat the initiative.
“If 42 passes in its form, a judge in Hinds County, Mississippi, predominantly black — it’s going to be a black judge — they’re going to tell us where the state education money goes,” the lawmaker warned. “So what’s he going to do? ‘[Predominately white] Tishomingo County, you’ve got a little bit of extra money, we’re going to take a little bit of that — I can see the happening, it may not, but I can see it — we’re going to help [schools in predominately black] Rolling Fork because they don’t have as good a tax base as you guys do, so we’re going take a little bit of that money and we’re going to to transition it to Rolling Fork.’”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/busted-watch-mississippi-lawmaker-openly-race-baiting-at-gop-rally-to-oppose-black-school-funding/
To be honest I stopped reading after the first sentence, Mississippi, Bubba, case closed.
This!
^5
hahahahahahahahahahaha
Oooooo! My tweet is on the front page at
https://bettermakeroom.org
Use the hashtag!
She gets more stunning and gorgeous every year.
Because they could not prove that service would be provided otherwise.
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Federal judge orders Louisiana to fund Planned Parenthood clinics
Reuters
19 Oct 2025 at 11:13 ET
A federal judge has blocked Louisiana’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood clinics in the state, finding that more than 5,000 low-income patients would have their healthcare disrupted by a move he ruled likely ran afoul of the law.
U.S. District Judge John deGravelles issued a temporary restraining order late on Sunday requiring Louisiana to continue providing Medicaid funding to the reproductive health organization’s clinics for the next two weeks as the legal fight over the payments continues.
The judge said Planned Parenthood and its patients would likely suffer irreparable harm if funding for medical services such as cancer screenings and other preventative healthcare was suspended
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/federal-judge-orders-louisiana-to-fund-planned-parenthood-clinics/
Come on, folks…..
you can tell rikyrah…..
anyone else have an issue with this picture?
yes, I do rikyrah.
LOL! That’s not the only overwhelming thing I noticed
Rikyrah are you LiberalPhenom on Twitter?
i can no longer take the white only s***
You are not alone prettyfoot.
No blacks, what will Bill Clinton our first black President have to say?
……you ever been to the oval office, honey?
Uhm…another horribly misguided decision. Not a single woman of color - no African-, Asian-, or Hispanic- or Native-American. Where are the Blackademics on this matter? Can’t find their tongues?
Hopefruit2, I was just about to ask where are the Blackademics. They are where they’ve always been, waiting to criticize President Obama. Hopefully they will crawl back under the rock from which they came.
ASK IT, DON!!
where are the Blackademics?
Sen Obama received the opposite……..98%, Caucasians and overwhelmingly, Males.
Equal Treatment?
Nope.
Special Treatment by the Corporate Media to avoid being tagged with Sexism? Hmm? In 2008, those covering HRC were mostly Male and Caucasian.
But look at all the different (HAIR) colors! There’s your diversity.
More tone-deafness from HRC.
It is glaring! We cannot be silenced anymore.
2016 DNC want to win WH for HRC witn zero minority i volvement…good luck wit dat.
Where is the Racial Diversity that is the representation of different racial or ethnic groups in American?????
where are the men? I have an issue with that as well. discrimination is discrimination.
THE WORD IS GENTRIFICATION
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Scenes from a Changing Detroit
When you talk to Detroiters about the city’s much-publicized rise and fall then another rise, they describe a longtime focus on recovery that has come in fits and starts. This is not the first time optimism has been in the air, they say. But what’s different today is the coalition of local, regional, and national partners behind this latest promise of a new Detroit.
http://www.politico.com/sponsor-content/2015/06/9-scenes-from-a-changing-detroit/?cmid=ww201509hp
Spot on, rikyrah, make way for the Priuses and the BMWs, along with the overpriced lofts and the gourmet takeout.
This is the kind of enthusiasm that will be needed to generate and motivate the DEM Electorate…
❤️ I do this too. I get the blues so easily. I need to get away from the constant talk about 2016.
I.W.A.S.T.H.E.R.E!
yayyyyyyyyyyy
i have been listening to the speeches of the President during his first run for office…and how he was able to bring together the historic “Obama Coalition”..black…whites…Asians…Latinos….rich …poor…young… old…DEMs…REPs…Indies…garnered 59 million votes….it must have scared the bejesus out of the Powers That Be…
hence…the TP…and all their ugliness…the obstruction of the GOP….but the DNC and PL played a role as well with their own version of ODS…
I hear you loud and clear, prettyfoot58, it seems as though the DNC and the PL are hell bent on acting like the last eight years didn’t happen, or worst. They act as though President Obama somehow interrupted their plans.
PF, actually, President Obama, in 2008, received almost 70 million votes, and in 2012, he got almost 66 million votes.
i gladly stand corrected…. :D
Tomorrow is my birthday, I’ll be 49, and this morning my wife and I had a twenty minute discussion about flavored teas. When did I become that guy, when did I start thinking about drinking tea in the morning? Life is cruel.
Life changes, my friend……..
I horrified my 17 year old goddaughter because I choose comfortable shoes for my bad back over fashion.
Flavored teas are the ish, tbh.
I love the vanilla.
No! Do NOT say that! President Obama drinks TEA!
I’ve been drinking tea in the morning since I was 10 years old Don. Just the best way to start the day. Life is good.
I think of a better use of your time Don. If you were turning 29 you know what conversation you two would have :) ;) :)
Hello TOD on a Manic Monday Noon from MN. It will get to 74F today ;) Partly cloudy.
Congrats Don on your Many Au :star: wins lately ;)
Congrats to all the Au :star: winners, since Saturday late Afternoon.
10-19-15
LIVE and already in Progress…….WH Presser with Josh “The Voice” Earnest
Having my :oops: moment now, please pardon me.
Here’s the right WH Presser link :)
Thank Goodness for Josh Earnest. ❤️ 💖🍁
He is the best. Thanks for posting. Glad I looked through comments before I double posted.
Don’t worry about your “moments” Nena. It’s my status all day. 🎃
Thanks Carol ;)
Sigh,,does the count go away in 2017 too?
The main reason…..John Ellis Bush, aka, JEB….. should have listened to his mother…….Americans have had enough of the Bushes……
I’m tempted to enter, but with my luck I’d win and would actually have to show up.
Hangout in Houston with G. H.W. and G.W. and Barbara, well well well. Let me say this……No Thank you Jeb! I rather hangout with a skunk.
We’ve met their family if you were born over twenty years ago….no thanks.
Taken Tapper 13 years to discover that GOP politicians don’t follow the “rules” - US media promoted the GOP Benghazi witch hunt.
$5K is way too cheap.
Hey fools, Pres Obama won 2X with 70M votes in 2008 and 65.9M votes in 2012.
Of course.
Testing. . .
Am I blocked from posting?
Yes.
Don are kidding?
Opps. I meant to write - are you kidding?
Time out needed to write letter to editor. I’ll need rest of day if not more. Where can I find hints for getting my letter posted.
There is so much blowback it takes nerves of steel to go through with it. Hopefully I can come back to TODville.
So sad.
Guarding and protecting a domestic abused who was getting treated in the Hospital…….and yet, this dedicated lawman was killed by the abuser with this 24 yrs experienced own gun.
I wonder what the Evil NRA would say? Go to Blazes NRA!
Is Black Lives Matter to blame for this officer death?
No.
How did you come to that question?
Because the right wing idiots are trying to blame Black Lives Matter for the recent death of police officers.
Ava DuVernay @AVAETC 3h3 hours ago
David Oyelowo to play OTHELLO on Broadway! One would think NYT would lead w/ the actor who plays the lead. But nah.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/artsbeat/2015/10/19/daniel-craig-and-david-oyelowo-to-star-together-in-off-broadway-othello/?referer=https://www.google.com/
Can’t have a car that breaks down - add that to the list of things Black people can’t do.
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Family of victim killed by Palm Beach Gardens officer stunned
UPDATED 2:15 PM EDT Oct 19, 2025
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. —One day after a Palm Beach Gardens police officer fatally shot Corey Jones, 31, his family says they can’t understand what happened.1 dead in officer-involved shooting
According to family members, Jones, who worked for the Delray Beach Housing Authority and played in the band Future Prezidents as a drummer, was on his way home from a performance when his Hyundai Santa Fe broke down on the southbound exit ramp of I-95 and PGA Boulevard around 2:30 a.m.
Jones called his brother and asked him to call for a tow truck.
“Eight minutes later my husband called him back, and there was no answer,” said Denise Jones. “So we figured he got the tow truck and my husband went to bed. At 3 p.m. in the afternoon, a sheriff’s deputy came to the house and said there had been an altercation between Corey and an officer, and he was shot and killed.”
The Palm Beach Gardens Police Department said officer Nouman Raja was on duty in plain clothes and in an unmarked police car when he stopped to investigate what he believed to be an abandoned vehicle on the exit ramp. As he exited his vehicle, he was suddenly confronted by an armed subject.
As a result of the confrontation, the officer discharged his weapon, killing Jones, a release said.
Raja is on paid leave while the Sheriff’s Office investigates the shooting.
A source in the department said the officer involved in the shooting is a rookie officer.
“He was just a quiet guy who, when he wasn’t working or playing drums, was sleeping,” said a tearful Jones. “We just can’t understand how this could have happened.”
http://www.wpbf.com/news/family-of-victim-killed-by-palm-beach-gardens-officer-stunned/35922984
“plain clothes and in an unmarked police car”
Black man cannot have a gun for protection it seems - how was he to know this was a policeman? The latter seem to shoot first, ask 2nd.
A rookie out on his own in an unmarked car? How stupid is this police dept.?
yes!
Please proceed, Frank Luntz.
Now Politico is authoring a piece? Hmm?
Using 1984 decision to 2015 when Mr is today the VP is Lazy, Lame and Yellow Journalism.
31 yrs later? Grow the eff up Kornacki.
so, you mean that Texas’ investigation came up different than all the rest of those states’ investigations?
oh….it didn’t…
well now….
hmmmmmm
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State to drop Planned Parenthood from Medicaid over videos
AUSTIN — Texas health officials have decided to cut Planned Parenthood out of the state Medicaid program entirely because of issues revealed in a controversial undercover video, the Houston Chronicle has learned.
…Officials plan to inform the women’s health organization of their decision Monday.
“The State has determined that you and your Planned Parenthood affiliates are no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal and ethical manner,” inspector general Stuart Bowen wrote in a letter to be sent to the organization
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/State-to-drop-Planned-Parenthood-from-Medicaid-6577380.php?t=a313f4e721438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium
Grounds for slander, IMO.
And still women vote for these people to have political power.
Chat away
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/10/19/chat-away-692/
Checking into and refreshing TOD and Googling often today, credit card handy, ready to donate to the Biden 2016 campaign the MINUTE he announces. As I commented before, if he decides not to run, I will vote for the Dem nominee, but will be sending my donation dollars to the Obama Foundation.
But I’m feeling pretty hopeful, excited, ready-to-be-totally-stoked that he is running…
Hmmnnn…… I’ll need to finally get my car washed, in preparation for a bumper sticker
Madamesoph, I am with you all the way!
You will never see anything cuter!