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Good Morning BFF and TOD.
Good morning JER & Congrats on FIRST :-)
Good Morning :-)
ok no. 10. then what?
Is this the dashboard of your Bugatti Veyron?
Good morning Chips, JER (First), libra, amk (‘Furst’) ….
a bunch of other updates in the sidebar, some of which are wagging the tail of the previous post ;)
#TrustBarack
bbl …………..
Bob, thank you for continuing the bring light to the plight/triumphs/ hopes/fears of the Kurdish. Your tweets are the only consistent source of information many of us have and you’ve opened our eyes to an amazing people who have been too long forgotten and misunderstood.
Delighted to do so, Jackie. Thank you!!
ditto for me
How gorgeous those snow leopards are!
via lolgop via digby
Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald Calls Out Media For Enabling The Benghazi Committee’s Partisan “Political Theater”
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/22/newsweeks-kurt-eichenwald-calls-out-media-for-e/206350
This “calling out” should have happened a long time ago. Every so called Republican ‘investigative committee’ has been a cheap stunt to undermine the president and Democrats. That some are just seeing or saying this now is inexcusable malfeasance on the part of media commentators.
after the fiasco that was benghazi, now boner has set up a ‘committee’ to investigate PP. they have such temerity because the effing msm will cover for them.
Yep, and because of gerrymandering, there are no real electoral consequences for them, no matter what they do. They could strip naked and jump around like chimpanzees and they’d still be re-elected. This is the true disgrace of the US electoral system-that we are strapped into a system of grossly distorted state congressional districts that makes electing a Democratic majority literally impossible in many states.
In a way, they screwed themselves into a corner. Now, even if they want a sane candidate, it’s not gonna happen.
Morning, AMK. I admit the competition for most repellent in the US Congress is stiff, what with Ted Cruz and all, but Paul Ryan is such a smarmy creep, he literally turns my stomach.
yup, he is the very epitome of the oily pol.
G’morning Chips, TOD, even amk, lurkers, and congrats JER on #1! :) Happy Saturday everyone.
Morning all. I don’t know what states have important elections in ten days, but the stakes are really high here in PA. Not only do we have a host of local elections that determine how municipalities and counties are run, we have Supreme Court races of historic proportions. Not since PA was an English colony have three Supreme Court seats been vacant at the same time. Voters in this state literally get to choose the makeup of this critical body for the next ten years, during which we will have another census and redistricting. We’ve got great Democratic candidates, but getting complacent Dem voters to the polls is a frustrating challenge.
GM JackieG, I wish you all the best turnout. Let’s GO PA!
Morning JackieG. After reading your comment, I will be thinking of PA during this time and hoping that your efforts, and that of other concerned and involved PA-ians, will help you all to see the needle move in the right direction. It’s so discouraging when some work their hearts out while others neglect to do even the basics by voting.
Unfortunately, although Dems NOW have the edge in registration, Delaware County will maintain the status quo and reelect a rethug county council and courts. Reason? The county Dems ROYALLY screwed the pooch this cycle — failed to submit petitions with the correct supporting doc, hence, all county DEM petitions and the candidates had to run a write-in campaign during ther primary. Meanwhile, if the LOCAL Dems can file correct petitions, why can’t the county Dems. Write in was successful, however, GOTV has been minimal, and to top it off, Dems pulled out of the ONLY scheduled debate on the DAY OF! In my community, Dems should be able to sweep the four council seats as we have a full slate and the repubs have only one candidate… Saving my pennies to move to St Kitts !
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
I’m up this early because I didn’t want to sleep through the ManU match…only to discover that the game is tomorrow, not today :shock:
Dammit, I cannot go back to sleep :-(
My iPhone did an update yesterday and now I have to insert my log in info each time I want to comment on TOD! Arrgh!!!
amk, I am so tempted to return to android!
The choice of phones and price range is mind boggling. I spend 200 to 300 bucks and get the latest phones every six months or so.
Why do you do that???????? It takes me that long to become familiar with the features of the new phone :D :D
here is your range. 1 buck = 60 bucks. do the math.
http://www.smartprix.com/mobiles/smartphone-type?uq=1&sort=price&asc=1
Let me read this - I’ll get back to you regarding payment (and I’m typing on my Mac not my iphone)
Geez, all that info gave me a headache, then I had to do the math - #forgetaboutit
There were a lot of brands that I have never heard of. What is that, some underground network????
So she won after all - right?
Good Morning, Everyone:)
Off to swim and run errands.
Rather hyperbolic (& not something I’d RT), but if the election was 8 Nov 2025 instead of 2016, probably correct ….
Good morning Bob, you’re correct, in fact, I even saw some high praise written here on TOD about her. But remember folks, this was a rather controlled event that she was comfortable with handling for the umpteenth time. I still don’t believe she has the character to be our FIRST female President of the United States.
She currently has much much more character than anyone running for the republican party
Happy Saturday TODers!!
Heeeeeeya Chips!!
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD familly, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Saturday morning. Congrats JER, on being first.
To all, I hope you have one of the best days of your lives today. <3 <3 <3
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Lovely Day:)
love it that on the day dumbya 3 announced his ‘cuts’, donald dreck was trolling him in his own backyard.
Do not believe it. They did the same thing to John McCain In 2008. There were endless reports of his campaign demise before the republican establishment, along with the media elites decided he was their best candidate to go up against then senator Obama. Jeb Bush is their guy. They’re going to do everything in their power to try and resurrect his campaign. Just wait until late December or early January to see the media change the script by declaring Jeb the comeback kid. Don’t fall for the okey dokey. It’s going to be Bush 3 vs. Clinton 2.
The rw electorate in 2016 is vastly different from 2008, having moved further and further away to the right. However desperate dumbya 3 in avoiding his family name, it ain’t working. And remember, even in 2008, the rw’ers ditched mittbot, the so called establishment candie, for mccain, the ‘maverick’.
They ditched Mitt because they thought foreign policy was going to be the main campaign issue (we were in the middle of 2 wars). They were not expecting the economy to take center stage like it did. I mean we had the collapsed of the auto industry, Lehman Brothers, foreclosure, etc. Believe me, if they had foreseen all of that happening before the primary election, they would’ve chosen Mitt Romney. Also, it was McCain’s turn since he lost to Bush 2 in 2000.
Jeb has the money to stay in for the long haul. I don’t see anyone else taking this away from him. I may be wrong, but time will tell. Who do you see getting the republican nomination besides Jeb Bush?
It’s hard to predict with the current kkklowns and at present, my money is on donald dreck. This is a serious anti-establishment wave fuelled by teabaggers and to be frank, of all the other scary klowns, trump is the least scary. Money alone isn’t going to win dumbya 3 the nomination. The fecker has zero charisma.
Oh my, I’d love it if Donald Stunk is the nominee. But I don’t think republicans are going to make it so easy for democrats to retain the white house. They want the white house so bad so they can destroy everything President Obama he worked hard to build. They are pure evil. In the end, the republican voters will fall in line with whoever the establishment picks for them. Like they say, democrats fall in love with their candidates, and republicans fall in line.
Normally, they do but not this time. Look at the house disarray and threats to primary mcturtle. The establishment couldn’t control either and if it shoves another shrub down their throat, they are gonna gag and go with not-bush candie.
GM Jewelz.
Agree with amk.
Two things are significantly different than 2007, when McBitter was running out of $$$.
1) Citizens United — think our beloved @VP decision whether or not to run for President would have been different had SCOTUS not upheld this assault on democracy.
2) #WhitePrivilege MSM legitimizing #racism cloaked in TeaParty and providing coverage to any RWNJ who damned this President — had @GovernorOmalley gotten the press coverage that Ted Cruz got before he was a TX Senator, we might have an actual contest now for Dem Presidential nomination.
Americans who follow politics only when its unavoidable (most Americans) no doubt think there are only two candidates for the Dem nomination now — MSM really is to blame for low name recognition for O’Malley. :(
Jeb should have listen to his Mother.
Morning everyone!! Lovely Saturday:)
Morning DF! great Saturday morning song - thanks! :-)
Morning, GGail! I think so too:) Great ANY DAY song!!
So true DF 😘
IT’S A VERY LOVELY DAY!.:)
Are you clouding the issue with facts? Eyes are going to glaze over at the mere thought…..Morning, Busy Bob:)
Morning df :) You know I’m a big fan of big clouds of big data ….. let it pour …. see’ya later ….
:) :) Enjoy your day!!
“Canada has a reputation for dullness. Back in the 1980s The New Republic famously declared “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative” the world’s most boring headline. Yet when it comes to economic policy the reputation is undeserved: Canada has surprisingly often been the place where the future happens first.
And it’s happening again. On Monday, Canadian voters swept the ruling Conservatives out of power, delivering a stunning victory to the center-left Liberals. And while there are many interesting things about the Liberal platform, what strikes me most is its clear rejection of the deficit-obsessed austerity orthodoxy that has dominated political discourse across the Western world. The Liberals ran on a frankly, openly Keynesian vision, and won big.
Before I get into the implications, let’s talk about Canada’s long history of quiet economic unorthodoxy, especially on currency policy.”
This may be petty of me because I’m sure I’d agree with everything he says. However it irritates me that once again, it sounds as if no other world leader reverted austerity. Well isn’t that what President Obama has done for the last 7 years? And yes, we could have done more if the Republicans hadn’t been evil, but President Obama’s policies have kept us streets ahead of other nations who embraced austerity. I realize that the point of the article is about the difference between this and European governments and our own Republicans, but couldn’t there have been a nod toward President Obama who has consistently lead the way on this?
Science ….. the bane of republicans & other knowledge-averse creatures ….
bb much later, hopefully ………………………. ;)
Weekend greetings, everyone! (Do notice I didn’t say ‘Saturday greetings’ in case I mess up the days. I’m pretty sure it’s the weekend though - so have a good one! :) :)
It is the weekend, vc. 🎈🎃😄. Hope all TODer’s have a good one!
Weekend before my husband has back surgery-Thursday……on his birthday no less.
TY, TnMG. :) Have a good one, and may all go superbly for your husband on his birthday and with his upcoming surgery!
i’m not willing to write off his campaign yet. they did this similar storyline with mccain and money, and then “the news” could build up the big underdog/comeback story that so many people fall for over and over. it was weird those last two presidentials how fast “the news” pivoted from doom and gloom to momentum! one caveat though this time is that “the crazy” has been unleashed like never before in modern times, so that could change the calculus and make the past strategies not work this time in “the news.” republicans/libertarians are good at falling in line when needed though and i still think most of the crazies will robotically back king bush the 3rd, as they’re told to do. still putting my money on a clinton/bush presidential election since “the news” has been trying to build that for years and wants to protect their investment, and then i’m not sure i’ll be able to keep my sanity…for real.
IIRR, the noun, the verb and 9/11 guiliani had loads of ca$h in 2008 and was the first to drop out. mccain won in NH and built on that momentum. dumbya3 is gonna lose all early states IA, NH and SC. He is losing to that upstart water boy in his own state ffs. The primary winner can be anyone but it definitely won’t be dumbya3.
LOL.
I’m attempting to set my log in info at TOD on my damn phone.
Rule No. 1 : No blogging via phone.
Rule No. 2: See rule no. 1
That must be what something is trying to tell me, cuz, it didn’t set. Sooooo, I’m taking this damn phone to Sprint and make them fix this today! I can’t be setting up my name & email address each time I want to comment, I’ll forget what I want to say !!!@@!!##!!!!!
GOOD MORNING TOD FAMILY…IT’S A VERY DARK SATURDAY HERE………BUT MANY ERRANDS TO RUN REGARDLESS….MY LANDLORD HAS A REPUBLICAN SIGN IN MY YARD SO I PLACED IT WHERE THEY PICK UP THE TRASH…:)….I LOVE MY ENERGIZER PRESIDENT…FOLLOWING THE HEARING WITH HILLARY AM SURE THE GRUMPY CATS HAVE SOME RATHER FULL LITTERBOXES!.ADIOS…BBL…HAVE A BESSED DAY EVERYONE!
As always, certain people do know how to play the system and get away with millions!
The Bureau of Land Management ‘lamented “Mr. Davis’ deceitful actions.” ‘, but ‘Federal and state authorities in Colorado declined to prosecute Davis for his actions’
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The nation’s largest buyer of wild horses repeatedly lied to federal officials and sent roughly 1,700 mustangs to the slaughterhouse, according to a scathing federal report issued Friday finding significant oversight lapses within a Bureau of Land Management program that is supposed to provide the horses with good homes.
Between 2008 and 2012, La Jara rancher and livestock hauler Tom Davis bought 1,794 horses from the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program, which manages tens of thousands of mustangs that roam across the West and are, to many, potent symbols of the land’s unbridled majesty. The next-largest buyer purchased 325.
When investigators from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General confronted Davis about the purchases and asked him how many of those horses had been resold for slaughter, he told them, “Probably close to all of them.”
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In a written response provided with the report, Steven Ellis, the BLM’s deputy director of operations, said the BLM has procedures in place to make sure wild horses go to good homes and lamented “Mr. Davis’ deceitful actions.”
“The BLM has taken additional steps to strengthen our ability to prevent this type of situation from happening,” Ellis wrote.
In 2013, the BLM implemented new rules eliminating the bulk sale of more than four horses at a time, unless the buyer obtains special approval.
Federal and state authorities in Colorado declined to prosecute Davis for his actions, according to the inspector general report.
Davis could not be reached for comment Friday.
In a statement, Suzanne Roy, the director of the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, criticized the length of time it took to produce the report and called on the BLM to take greater responsibility for failing to keep the horses from slaughter.
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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29014000/federal-report-colorado-wild-horse-buyer-sold-mustangs
It always seems to be a government organisation that gets blamed for the illegal activities of people circumventing the regulations/legislation the former sets up.
I find this way of reporting simply adds to the RW efforts to disband all government agencies.
I don’t know, TS, they could have charged him…at the very least…. even if his lawyers got him off.
In the current climate - would end up like the Texas ranchers - the media has well helped develop the meme that the government is bad & these folks breaking the law are just good ole Americans doing their thing. Thus everyone “blames the government” - this happens rarely in other democracies. IRS is another good example - in my world the equivalent (ATO) can investigate anyone anytime without the media or the opposition wanting to “close it down”
And gm from my world - I’m way behind as you would have noticed :)
Good Australian Morning, to you! You’ll soon catch up - everyone’s been on slow-mo today. :)
Wow!
Epic Toon!
So happy to see that Hurricane Patricia lost strength as it made its way to land and is now a tropical storm.
To all those in the path of the storm - stay safe.
As for us here in SoCal, I’m happy to report that we will have warm dry evening for Tallly’s “Edgar A. Poe” performance :-)
I need a cigarette; because of the email I just sent I’m in a post-email glow. This morning when I got to work a coworker had waiting for me a nasty email concerning an issue from yesterday. Ladies and Gentlemen when I tell you my response was one for the ages, it was truly one for the ages. It contained all of my usual charm and sarcasm, and as an added bonus it dripped with contempt. Every couple of minutes or so I have to go back and reread it, not unlike a baseball player watching his homerun sail over the outfield wall. Sometimes I even surprise myself, I am truly in awe of my work.
Keep it handy…savor it….roll around in it….I’m sure the coworker deserved every bit:) Doncha hate stupid?
Your way with words is well known at TOD. Guess you still have ta coworker who has only just discovered this fact :)
As an ex-smoker I so understand those first 4 words.
I think Jeb Bush’s problem was that he let himself be defined as opposed to going out and defining himself. In boxing terms President Obama is the classic defensive/counter puncher. President Obama’s best offense is his defense, it didn’t matter how he was being defined, he turned an attack on himself into an introduction of himself. President Obama is the rarest of politicians in that he will let you throw the first punch, because he knows that whatever you throw at him will not define who or what he is. President Obama views all attacks as welcomed opportunities.
<3 Mornin' y'all.
Ugh, I feel like bat guano, and not just b/c Chelsea is playing like a Sunday pub league team. Staying in my jammies today.
west ham’s golden run continues?
CFC to 10 men. Mourinho sent off as well.
jose sent off. Why am I not surprised? He is an effing sore loser.
This season the leader has strange names, west brom, leicester, CP, west brom, spurs.
I feel like the British surrendering at Yorktown. The world’s turned upside down.
Especially the blues - from c’ship to relegation zone? Must be furst, oui?
Not common, no.
he does not have the money to run every day operations…he is in a similar position that Walker was in…downsizing paid staff is not a good sign…
Hello TOD.
Congrats to all the Gold :star: winners starting with this post and 2 posts back.
One of my favorite stars has passed on……Maureen O’Hara. RIP
She was also in the original Parent Trap with Brian Keith and Haily Mills.
I am thrilled that Patricia the Hurricane has left and thus far, No Deaths connected to that 5 Category Beast of a Storm.
I am with Amk on the freak Trump and his path to the GOPer Nomination. Jebbie is now looking more like Perry in 2012. McCain was loved by the Press. He gave them access and they viewed him as the “Maverick” a far cry from how the Press and the RWNJ Press view Jebbie. The MSM like Rubio. Trump provides Ratings for them. They don’t care for Carson or Cruz. They love Kacich(sp). The Press would love to make him the winner come Nov 2016.
Good morning, TOD! If I hadn’t checked in on a short PBS news show, I would not have known about this colorful conference held in Salt Lake City, this month.
“The Parliament is the oldest, the largest, and the most inclusive gathering of people of all faith and traditions. The first Parliament took place in 1893. Since, this historic event has taken place in Chicago, USA • Cape Town, South Africa • Barcelona, Spain • Melbourne, Australia - and now in Salt Lake City, Utah!”
Next, I’ll check out the “Indigenous Peoples’ Program”:
http://www.parliamentofreligions.org/parliament/salt-lake-2015/indigenous-peoples-program
Here’s one segment on Climate Change (Al Gore’s daughter’s in it, too):
Excellent read…. http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-way-of-whigs.html
Doesn’t this sound strikingly familiar?
When it came to Catholics, Know-Nothings recorded a lurid, paranoid imagination in fictional accounts of seditious sex acts and infanticide, stoking the enmity of nativists already not kindly disposed to people they denigrated as “papal slaves” bound to follow their priest’s orders in the voting booth. The longstanding native suspicion of Catholics deteriorated to a new low in the mid nineteenth century, as 3 million immigrants escaping famine and persecution in Europe poured into cities along the Eastern seaboard. Almost half of the new arrivals were Irish Catholics…
Anti-immigrant feeling was the sole requisite for the spread of Know-Nothings, who eventually organized in full public view as the “American Party,” and, for all we know, vowed to “make America great again”…But the Whigs soon found that, having fanned the embers of bigotry to bind divergent interests together, they could no longer control the flame. Someone could always be more anti-immigrant.
Totally familiar. “History repeats itself,” unfortunately, over and over again.
Chat away
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/10/24/chat-away-696/