On This Day: President Barack Obama looks out the window in the Blue Room of the White House before holding a press conference, Nov. 3, 2010 (Photo by Pete Souza)
Good morning, JackieG! Congrats on 1st! Glad to hear your Salsa event was such a big success. On my way to poll watch; will dip in and out during the day.
Thanks, Jazziz. Good for you for poll watching. It’s one thing I can’t do with my hearing problems and I also go a little stir crazy sitting indoors. Husband is much better at that particular task than I am.
My best friend’s husband is up for reelection as a county supervisor(?) in some rural PA county. We never saw him as a politician, but he has gotten results and infiltrated his area with stealth progressive policies. He is expected to win reelection, but we’ll see.
Pf, the US media is terrified of Republicans, so they will never call them out. Only Democrats are fair game because they act like adults and don’t retaliate.
although it may seem like fear…i am not sure what it is…i think that today’s journalists have no idea what it means to be a journalist..and indeed i wonder how many of them have a journalism degree…media is so expansive…what is journalism now…and with the corporate ownership of the media…one has to wonder how independent and free thinking they are….the media protested when the President wanted to exclude fox news because they are not a news station…yet it is crickets when Trump bars Latino reporters from a Spanish speaking network from covering his events and then the RNC cancels the next debate with TELEMUNDO……
and now this stunt…with Israel…a foreign country hosting a Presidential debate…because the country is Israel…they may get a pass…but suppose the country was Russia…would there be any outrage….this is where we are…
and Jackie in our state..a low turnout is predicted….even though the stakes can’t be higher…3 Supreme Court openings…a state governement that is being held HOSTAGE by the GOP who will not compromise because nothing less than capitulation by the Governor is acceptable and a media that wants to blame both sides….
yesterday you mentioned that Hillary will have to create her own structure and bypass the current State Dem structure as PBO did…she started a Hillary for NY org…composed of elected officials…community leaders…grass roots folks…these kind of structures to not do well…they are usually dominated by the elected officials and the grass roots & community leaders are usually just window dressing to give the committee legitimacy…i hope that this does not happen in this case….but we shall see…
Congratulations on opening the thread, Jackie! I share your sentiments about voting. Nothing to vote on in my district, so I will be watching for the results of the stupid gun nut ballot measure in Coos County OR. They think they know more about what is Constitutional than our Constitutional scholar President and that they don’t have to follow state law.
Yeah, Df, I do notice the crickets. It absolutely kills Republicans and the media that the economy is doing so well. Having people be happy and employed is bad for their business. Since they specialize in doom and gloom, they want everyone to be miserable.
This would make a great poster, AMK — also billboards, handouts, button, t-shirts and hats. I can see a whole cottage industry grow out of this image alone. WOW!!!
:( Grumpy about the fact you are still stubbornly ‘off’ twitter. #grump-grump
Anyhoo I agree with you on this one - maybe others can tweet it along. It ties in nicely with Pres O’s reminder that the government is *us*. Since I don’t know how to position an NBC vid, I’ve tried to note the most relevant section.
IMO Nick Anderson's 'toon goes beautifully w/ the last part of this vid (start ~22:20). https://t.co/DkDlbj6X8v pic.twitter.com/9myRCAqsnP
Kentucky has seen the largest drop in its uninsured rate of any state in the country. It’s currently 9 percent, down from 20.4 percent before Obamacare, according to the Louisville NPR affiliate.
And yet, they have an election today, and they are actually considering electing a muthaphucka that would take away their health insurance.
and, if they do….no sympathy for them.
if they’re too stupid to understand that
KYNECT=OBAMACARE
Keystone pipeline dead? Company requests suspension of permit
Elana Schor, energy reporter for Politico, talks with Rachel Maddow about the broader context and likely political calculations behind TransCanada’s request that their U.S. permit for the Keystone XL pipeline be suspended
PHILADELPHIA RESIDENTS COULD WIN $10,000 for Voting.
It’s a lottery designed to improve voter turnout. One lucky Philadelphia resident could win a $10,000 payday just for casting a ballot in the mayor’s race. Non-profit media organization the Philadelphia Citizen announced Thursday that a random voter will be selected on election day to win $10,000 just for voting. ..
The Philadelphia Citizen acknowledges that even though the lottery is “kinda icky,” voting is so important that “desperate times call for desperate measures.”http://time.com/4085367/philadelphia-voting-lottery/
It’s illegal under federal law to pay for turnout when there is a federal candidate on the ballot, but when there’s no federal candidate the election rules are up to the state, explains Richard L. Hasen, a professor at U.C. Irvine School of Law specializing in election law.
Donna, the stakes are so high in PA today with THREE Supreme Court vacancies to fill that I’m glad for anything that increases turnout in Democratic Phillie. If our Dem candidates are going to have a chance it will be because of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/2/15
9/11 first responders wait for GOP to act on popular health bill
Dan Moynihan, 9/11 first responder, talks with Rachel Maddow about the lobbying effort to generate support for the Zadroga Bill to help with the health care of 9/11 first responders. The bill enjoys wide support but needs House Republican leadership, including new Speaker Paul Ryan to bring it to a vote
HE HAS A NAME: 9 year old, TYSHAWN LEE, was fatally shot on his way to his grandmother's house today in Chicago. https://t.co/EQYkhL4baN— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) November 03, 2025
Melania Trump, the Silent Partner
By GUY TREBAY
SEPT. 30, 2015
Lying prone on a rug adorned with the Great Seal of the United States, the woman who might someday be first lady is wearing high-heeled sandals and a crimson bikini.
The date is February 2000. Donald J. Trump hasn’t yet thrown his hat into the ring as a Reform Party candidate, yet he’s already set in motion a machine that 15 years on will turn a voluble political maverick into the front-runner for the Republican Party presidential nomination.
The woman on the rug is Melania Knauss, a Slovene model, who at 29 is almost a quarter-century younger than her billionaire future husband. The rug is a prop in an Oval Office set mocked up in a Manhattan photo studio. Spread across two pages of the now defunct Talk magazine, Mr. Trump is seen in an inset close up; telescope back from the picture and what you’d see is Mr. Trump seated behind the presidential desk and at his feet his future wife, a woman striking in her beauty and docility.
If it is always the case in politics that you “play a role,” as Ms. Knauss observed in a caption accompanying those photos, you do this because politics is, above all else, “a business.”
Observers of the business and ongoing theater of a Trump candidacy are bound to be struck by the passive role played by the candidate’s wife, one seeming to predate gender equality, in an embrace of values from an era when a potential first lady might be less likely to have served as her husband’s former law firm mentor (as Michelle Obama once was) than his carpet ornament.
“Why do we not see her?” Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, asked recently, referring to Mrs. Trump’s near invisibility on the campaign trail, her sole appearance a wordless photo op for which she smiled prettily as her husband announced his candidacy. “One reason is that Republicans take a traditional view of marriage,” Mr. Luntz said. “And she is not a traditional spouse.”
I listened to the epic speech that the President gave last night in NY at the Hamilton fundraiser….the last part of his speech…in which he addressed the issue of his running for a 3rd term(if anyone can extract that..i would be so ever grateful)….he speaks of the reason why he cannot run again…Unconstitutional…FLOTUS would not let him…and then he says….how when he ran in 2007…it was not about HIM…it was about us…the slogan was not “Yes I can”…it was YES WE Can……that is has always been our us….
Phenomenal statement from a Phenomenal President….
^5 Prettyf! I honestly thought of you when I listened to that portion of the speech earlier. In fact, I tried to make a tweet about it which I posted above ….
Like you I would <3<3 if someone can isolate that section (sadly I only know how to set the timer on YouTube videos). That portion is a terrific and timely reminder on our responsibility as voters and supporters of democracy. Not to mention that it again highlights the fact Pres Obama ran for president with goals that centred, not around himself but, around citizens! Sure hope a knowledgeable person here will cut out this portion of the video so that we can save and use it going forward.
I think those GOP crybabies should man up and let PBO moderate a debate. I would like them try to bully and lie their way thru a debate he is in charge of!
Black people have been dying early for generations…..was there ever this kind of concern?
Hmmmmmmmmmm
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Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds
NOV. 2, 2015
Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.
That finding was reported Monday by two Princeton economists, Angus Deaton, who last month won the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, and Anne Case. Analyzing health and mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from other sources, they concluded that rising annual death rates among this group are being driven not by the big killers like heart disease and diabetes but by an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids.
The analysis by Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case may offer the most rigorous evidence to date of both the causes and implications of a development that has been puzzling demographers in recent years: the declining health and fortunes of poorly educated American whites. In middle age, they are dying at such a high rate that they are increasing the death rate for the entire group of middle-aged white Americans, Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case found.
The mortality rate for whites 45 to 54 years old with no more than a high school education increased by 134 deaths per 100,000 people from 1999 to 2014.
“It is difficult to find modern settings with survival losses of this magnitude,” wrote two Dartmouth economists, Ellen Meara and Jonathan S. Skinner, in a commentary to the Deaton-Case analysis that was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
These are the same demographics that vote GOP 99% of the time and are against “Obamacare”, extending Medicaid to poor adults under 65 yrs of age. The GOP is slowly killing it’s electorate.
I admit…I thought he was Black for awhile there. Still give him the side eye.
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Tom Jones to get his DNA tested for black ancestry because ‘a lot of
black people still tell me I’m just passing as white’
It is unusual.
Singer Tom Jones plans to get his DNA tested to find out if he has some black ancestry, he told The Times of London magazine in an interview published Saturday.
The 75-year-old Welshman gained international fame in a career that has spanned over 50 years with hits like “It’s Not Unusual,” “What’s New Pussycat” and “She’s a Lady.”
Jones, whose parents were Welsh and English, said his signature baritone voice and thick, curly hair has prompted questions about his race for years.
“A lot of people still think I’m black,” Jones said. “When I first came to America, people who had heard me sing on the radio would be surprised that I was white when they saw me. Because of my hair a lot of black people still tell me I’m just passing as white.”
Well I’m AA and I have a Welsh maiden name and I’m still waiting to meet an AA person my color with that last name. My one cousin and her hubby were passing. To protect them, only my mother associated with them and only in our community. Their daughter had blue eyes and blond slightly wavy hair. Everyone else I’ve met with that surname was clearly Caucasian.
White House.gov
Morning all. It’s election day and while I LOVE voting, I hate sweating out results.
Good morning, JackieG! Congrats on 1st! Glad to hear your Salsa event was such a big success. On my way to poll watch; will dip in and out during the day.
Thanks, Jazziz. Good for you for poll watching. It’s one thing I can’t do with my hearing problems and I also go a little stir crazy sitting indoors. Husband is much better at that particular task than I am.
Mooooooooooorning Jackie, moooooooorning everyone!
Morning Chips. Congratulations on surpassing the 33 million milestone. If there was champagne popping, I must have missed it.
Congrats, jackie!
My best friend’s husband is up for reelection as a county supervisor(?) in some rural PA county. We never saw him as a politician, but he has gotten results and infiltrated his area with stealth progressive policies. He is expected to win reelection, but we’ll see.
Hi, 57. Good luck to your husband’s friend. Would love to know what county he’s in so I can follow election results.
Jackie…i saw this in the previous spread….
this is so OUTrageous…
Will the media call this out …or will this be another thing that attempt to normalize and mainstream….
Pf, the US media is terrified of Republicans, so they will never call them out. Only Democrats are fair game because they act like adults and don’t retaliate.
although it may seem like fear…i am not sure what it is…i think that today’s journalists have no idea what it means to be a journalist..and indeed i wonder how many of them have a journalism degree…media is so expansive…what is journalism now…and with the corporate ownership of the media…one has to wonder how independent and free thinking they are….the media protested when the President wanted to exclude fox news because they are not a news station…yet it is crickets when Trump bars Latino reporters from a Spanish speaking network from covering his events and then the RNC cancels the next debate with TELEMUNDO……
and now this stunt…with Israel…a foreign country hosting a Presidential debate…because the country is Israel…they may get a pass…but suppose the country was Russia…would there be any outrage….this is where we are…
and Jackie in our state..a low turnout is predicted….even though the stakes can’t be higher…3 Supreme Court openings…a state governement that is being held HOSTAGE by the GOP who will not compromise because nothing less than capitulation by the Governor is acceptable and a media that wants to blame both sides….
yesterday you mentioned that Hillary will have to create her own structure and bypass the current State Dem structure as PBO did…she started a Hillary for NY org…composed of elected officials…community leaders…grass roots folks…these kind of structures to not do well…they are usually dominated by the elected officials and the grass roots & community leaders are usually just window dressing to give the committee legitimacy…i hope that this does not happen in this case….but we shall see…
GM…Voted today…i asked them ..where is my “I Voted today” sticker… :)
Congratulations on opening the thread, Jackie! I share your sentiments about voting. Nothing to vote on in my district, so I will be watching for the results of the stupid gun nut ballot measure in Coos County OR. They think they know more about what is Constitutional than our Constitutional scholar President and that they don’t have to follow state law.
Well look at that I actually made first. And how did we get past another million milestone without a party?
GM, TOD ohana.
A gallon of gas: 1.95.
Fuel credits that have twice lowered my electric bill to 77.24.
PBO and MO: unleashed for 14 more months: priceless.
:) Yes…gas is now under $2/gal here as well:) When I use my points from shopping…I can get it down to around $1.50/gal…..notice the crickets>
Yeah, Df, I do notice the crickets. It absolutely kills Republicans and the media that the economy is doing so well. Having people be happy and employed is bad for their business. Since they specialize in doom and gloom, they want everyone to be miserable.
Correct!
Morning everyone! Don’t forget to VOTE!!! Bring your friends, make a party! Just Do IT! Congrats to you, jackieg:)
Good morning TODVille.
Good morning TOD folks! PBO was a delight last night.
loved it.
http://assets.amuniversal.com/31a4d86063df01331817005056a9545d,jpg
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, even amk, and congrats jackie on #1! Happy Tuesday everyone. :)
Good Morning, Everyone :)
This would make a great poster, AMK — also billboards, handouts, button, t-shirts and hats. I can see a whole cottage industry grow out of this image alone. WOW!!!
yup!
Yup, it would make a great ad material. Dems should talk to this oonist about marketing this.
:( Grumpy about the fact you are still stubbornly ‘off’ twitter. #grump-grump
Anyhoo I agree with you on this one - maybe others can tweet it along. It ties in nicely with Pres O’s reminder that the government is *us*. Since I don’t know how to position an NBC vid, I’ve tried to note the most relevant section.
Kentucky has seen the largest drop in its uninsured rate of any state in the country. It’s currently 9 percent, down from 20.4 percent before Obamacare, according to the Louisville NPR affiliate.
And yet, they have an election today, and they are actually considering electing a muthaphucka that would take away their health insurance.
and, if they do….no sympathy for them.
if they’re too stupid to understand that
KYNECT=OBAMACARE
No sympathy at all.
If all the obamacare benefactors had turned out in 2014, we would be talking different scenarios now.
beneficiaries …
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/2/15
Keystone pipeline dead? Company requests suspension of permit
Elana Schor, energy reporter for Politico, talks with Rachel Maddow about the broader context and likely political calculations behind TransCanada’s request that their U.S. permit for the Keystone XL pipeline be suspended
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/permit-withdrawal-could-mean-keystone-demise-557767235846
Good Morning BFF and TOD.
PHILADELPHIA RESIDENTS COULD WIN $10,000 for Voting.
It’s a lottery designed to improve voter turnout. One lucky Philadelphia resident could win a $10,000 payday just for casting a ballot in the mayor’s race. Non-profit media organization the Philadelphia Citizen announced Thursday that a random voter will be selected on election day to win $10,000 just for voting. ..
The Philadelphia Citizen acknowledges that even though the lottery is “kinda icky,” voting is so important that “desperate times call for desperate measures.”http://time.com/4085367/philadelphia-voting-lottery/
Is something like this even legal?
BTW Good Morning JER, Chips and TOD
Good Morning donna dem.
It’s illegal under federal law to pay for turnout when there is a federal candidate on the ballot, but when there’s no federal candidate the election rules are up to the state, explains Richard L. Hasen, a professor at U.C. Irvine School of Law specializing in election law.
http://time.com/4085367/philadelphia-voting-lottery/
Wow. Good to know. ;)
Donna, the stakes are so high in PA today with THREE Supreme Court vacancies to fill that I’m glad for anything that increases turnout in Democratic Phillie. If our Dem candidates are going to have a chance it will be because of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Today’s election results will be known immediately ?
An Oldie But A Goodie.
It’s Election Tuesday so please share with family and friends to #GOTV
Today I’m voting in my new District for the first time. And I’m excited 😎
EXCELLENT- Way to go GGail!!!!
Good morning Donna, thanks 😊
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Chips, thanks for posting the video. We are the best news source in the whole wide World!!!
that shocked look is the birthright of effing pugs.
you think that roaches are icky and bad, dontcha? well, think again.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34517443
Off to work I go…
Have a great O’Day Everyone!
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/2/15
9/11 first responders wait for GOP to act on popular health bill
Dan Moynihan, 9/11 first responder, talks with Rachel Maddow about the lobbying effort to generate support for the Zadroga Bill to help with the health care of 9/11 first responders. The bill enjoys wide support but needs House Republican leadership, including new Speaker Paul Ryan to bring it to a vote
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/9-11-responders-bill-waits-for-house-gop-557776451942
can’t be repeated enough since the voters have the memory of a sieve.
God, another waste of a young life!
From SPACE dammit!
#JebNeedsJob. Take it away, todweeters.
Melania Trump, the Silent Partner
By GUY TREBAY
SEPT. 30, 2015
Lying prone on a rug adorned with the Great Seal of the United States, the woman who might someday be first lady is wearing high-heeled sandals and a crimson bikini.
The date is February 2000. Donald J. Trump hasn’t yet thrown his hat into the ring as a Reform Party candidate, yet he’s already set in motion a machine that 15 years on will turn a voluble political maverick into the front-runner for the Republican Party presidential nomination.
The woman on the rug is Melania Knauss, a Slovene model, who at 29 is almost a quarter-century younger than her billionaire future husband. The rug is a prop in an Oval Office set mocked up in a Manhattan photo studio. Spread across two pages of the now defunct Talk magazine, Mr. Trump is seen in an inset close up; telescope back from the picture and what you’d see is Mr. Trump seated behind the presidential desk and at his feet his future wife, a woman striking in her beauty and docility.
If it is always the case in politics that you “play a role,” as Ms. Knauss observed in a caption accompanying those photos, you do this because politics is, above all else, “a business.”
Observers of the business and ongoing theater of a Trump candidacy are bound to be struck by the passive role played by the candidate’s wife, one seeming to predate gender equality, in an embrace of values from an era when a potential first lady might be less likely to have served as her husband’s former law firm mentor (as Michelle Obama once was) than his carpet ornament.
“Why do we not see her?” Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, asked recently, referring to Mrs. Trump’s near invisibility on the campaign trail, her sole appearance a wordless photo op for which she smiled prettily as her husband announced his candidacy. “One reason is that Republicans take a traditional view of marriage,” Mr. Luntz said. “And she is not a traditional spouse.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/fashion/melania-trump-the-silent-partner.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1
I listened to the epic speech that the President gave last night in NY at the Hamilton fundraiser….the last part of his speech…in which he addressed the issue of his running for a 3rd term(if anyone can extract that..i would be so ever grateful)….he speaks of the reason why he cannot run again…Unconstitutional…FLOTUS would not let him…and then he says….how when he ran in 2007…it was not about HIM…it was about us…the slogan was not “Yes I can”…it was YES WE Can……that is has always been our us….
Phenomenal statement from a Phenomenal President….
^5 Prettyf! I honestly thought of you when I listened to that portion of the speech earlier. In fact, I tried to make a tweet about it which I posted above ….
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/11/03/early-bird-rise-and-shine-128/#comment-1434297
Like you I would <3 <3 if someone can isolate that section (sadly I only know how to set the timer on YouTube videos). That portion is a terrific and timely reminder on our responsibility as voters and supporters of democracy. Not to mention that it again highlights the fact Pres Obama ran for president with goals that centred, not around himself but, around citizens! Sure hope a knowledgeable person here will cut out this portion of the video so that we can save and use it going forward.
I think those GOP crybabies should man up and let PBO moderate a debate. I would like them try to bully and lie their way thru a debate he is in charge of!
Would be lovely !!
Black people have been dying early for generations…..was there ever this kind of concern?
Hmmmmmmmmmm
…………………………………………..
Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds
NOV. 2, 2015
Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.
That finding was reported Monday by two Princeton economists, Angus Deaton, who last month won the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, and Anne Case. Analyzing health and mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from other sources, they concluded that rising annual death rates among this group are being driven not by the big killers like heart disease and diabetes but by an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids.
The analysis by Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case may offer the most rigorous evidence to date of both the causes and implications of a development that has been puzzling demographers in recent years: the declining health and fortunes of poorly educated American whites. In middle age, they are dying at such a high rate that they are increasing the death rate for the entire group of middle-aged white Americans, Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case found.
The mortality rate for whites 45 to 54 years old with no more than a high school education increased by 134 deaths per 100,000 people from 1999 to 2014.
“It is difficult to find modern settings with survival losses of this magnitude,” wrote two Dartmouth economists, Ellen Meara and Jonathan S. Skinner, in a commentary to the Deaton-Case analysis that was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rates-rising-for-middle-aged-white-americans-study-finds.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
These are the same demographics that vote GOP 99% of the time and are against “Obamacare”, extending Medicaid to poor adults under 65 yrs of age. The GOP is slowly killing it’s electorate.
Twitter has made changes once again…you never know what will happen in twitter land
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/11/03/chat-away-705/
I admit…I thought he was Black for awhile there. Still give him the side eye.
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Tom Jones to get his DNA tested for black ancestry because ‘a lot of
black people still tell me I’m just passing as white’
It is unusual.
Singer Tom Jones plans to get his DNA tested to find out if he has some black ancestry, he told The Times of London magazine in an interview published Saturday.
The 75-year-old Welshman gained international fame in a career that has spanned over 50 years with hits like “It’s Not Unusual,” “What’s New Pussycat” and “She’s a Lady.”
Jones, whose parents were Welsh and English, said his signature baritone voice and thick, curly hair has prompted questions about his race for years.
“A lot of people still think I’m black,” Jones said. “When I first came to America, people who had heard me sing on the radio would be surprised that I was white when they saw me. Because of my hair a lot of black people still tell me I’m just passing as white.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/tom-jones-dna-tested-black-ancestry-article-1.2420821
Well I’m AA and I have a Welsh maiden name and I’m still waiting to meet an AA person my color with that last name. My one cousin and her hubby were passing. To protect them, only my mother associated with them and only in our community. Their daughter had blue eyes and blond slightly wavy hair. Everyone else I’ve met with that surname was clearly Caucasian.