On This Day: President Barack Obama says goodbye to students after a visit to the Yeadon Regional Head Start Center in Yeadon, Pa., Nov. 8, 2011 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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Hoot - I’m first!
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit’s Ms Australia - good evening to ya, 99ts! :-)
Howdy Ms Chips - that’s arriving at the right time - dropped by for relaxation after sending another load of what might have become family heirlooms to the bin.
congs!
ty ty
Congrats!
ty x2 :)
:star: 99ts, how are the new digs?? Have you both survived the move? _/|\_
9 days to go - survival is in doubt!
atta boyz.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
watering that damned liberty tree is so doggone hard. 8-)
fascinating info about elections in your country amk
yup, it’s all a big tamasha.
Morning, AMK. That looks like the line for the Ladies Lounge at every major Kennedy Center performance DC.
Any performance anywhere, really. I once read that the ratio of men’s bathrooms to women’s bathrooms should be something like 3 to 1. Instead of which they are 1to 1. A case of equality, but not equity.
Howdy!
I bet there are two invisible fences to the immediate right and left of these dogs, No way they were all going to line up so docilely!
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Hmmmm. Or maybe the effect is from your favourite - #photoshop.
#cyniccanook
#noquestion!
I bet you think this is a photoshop too.
Nah; that’s Superdog, struggling home after a hard night’s work. Don’t you know anything?
That is my sons dog, Buster! I’m so original, Not!
Love, love, love this photo!
Goooooooooood Morning…MsChipssssssssss
Congratsssssssssssssssss////99
Goooooood Morning everyone…..
heading out to breakfast with my sister….have a good morning…i wonder what the President is having for breakfast ;)
We had bacon & eggs etc etc for brunch - not listening to the stories that said bacon is bad for your health. Enjoy :)
Morning! Congrats, 99ts:) Hi there, Chips!
Hellooooooooooooooo DF, have a superb Sunday!
I shall:) Have to get daughter to airport….going off for a few days to visit friends, see a concert:)
Sounds like fun, hope she has a great time!
thanks! me too…she hates to fly…
Good Morning Ms Chips!
Good Morning Everyone!
Have a fantastic day
Moooooooooooooooooorning Linda!!!!
jtp’s
Look how well behaved your babies are. I informed unohoo that he was no longer allowed sleep on human beds …. then I went upstairs to get something:
:roll:
prolly you miser just bought him a sheet and told him it was a bed?
He has several comfy doggy beds but appears to find them a bit restricting
what do you think he is, a pug?
:lol: No, a thug!
Good Sunday Morning TOD family, Chipsticks, Dannystixs, and lurkers.
Chips you might as well by that boy his own twin, full, queen size mattress because a “doggy” bed will not do. :) :) :)
mebbe you oughta read this and memorize it.
lol, he’s so damn irresistible, Chips :) :)
He’s a hooligan, sherijr!!! Good morning to ya! :-)
good morning to you Ms Chips :)
I love that grin!
:-) :-) :-) That is just too damned funny.
Right on, DannyO’! Take the path less traveled! Hilarious pic, Chipsticks!
A Happy Content Danny.
Hello Danny ;)
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, even amk, and congrats 99ts on #1! Happy Sunday everyone. :)
Moooooooooooooorning Hopefruit!!!
Happy Sunday TODers!!
Heeeeeeeeeeeeya Chips!!!
Heyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Africaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! :-)
Good Sunday Morning TOD
PBO Loves Kids and They Love Him Back
Loooooooooove it, Donna!!!! :-)
That Spiderman pic gets me every time.
I just love this!
GM, TOD ohana. Lovely rainy Sunday morning with slightly lower temperatures at last.
Have a great day eeryone.
PS. I would love to be privy to the meeting between PBO and Bibi. It is “come to Jesus time.”
So Let It Be Done…
There once was a candidate named Benjamin
Who lost his cool, every now and thenjamin
Blamed the liberal media, as it stands
Slapped its faces with his Gifted Hands
Give up the run, stick with medicine, Benjamin.
Happy Sunday Morning, JO’B!
You sure you want Carson sticking with medicine - pediatric medicine? I say it’s time he ALSO retires from the public sphere to take care of himself.
It’s blissful to have this year’s elections behind us with no tasks to perform, or calls to make. Yet my inbox is filling up with urgent pleas from the DCCC and the infamous Dick Schumer to try to get me worked up and fretful about 2016. The problem in the US is that election anxiety is ginned up to be constant and at a fever pitch and it’s one of the reasons why so many people burn out or get sick of politics. It isn’t just money that corrupts US politics its the fact that it never ends. It’s the same spirit that says I need to worry about Christmas before it’s Halloween. When did Americans stop learning to enjoy the moment?
jackie, Thanks a million for all you do! Glad you can “take a breath.” I agree 1000% with your comments about our politics/elections and love the comment about living in the moment.
Good and blessed day wished to all. We are off to church, then a busy afternoon as we host our Life Group (small group) tonight. Have most of the work done, but last minute things tend to take over.
I join in thanking you for all your election-year(s) efforts, jackieG!
“Enjoy the moment.” What a concept!
And what great advice for all of us. Thank you, again!
^5 ^5 - as soon as big dark money recognized exactly how to burn people out, that is when. They do not want the electorate to remain interested and involved, so they can do as they please and blame it on us.
2 year election cycles is nutz. So are first amendment, second amendment, judge-till-you-die posts.
I don’t know, Tweet of God; seems more like it’d be to keep comedy in and meaningful debate out.
A very *Good (non-working?) Sunday morning* to you, Ms Chips! May your day be warm and uplifting. :)
Sunday Greetings, TODobots! I really shouldn’t be online, but I don’t really feel like doing any of the chores I ought to be doing so might as well search for *inspiration* ;) ;) here as in a novel.
Ben Carson and the Tale of Redemption
By Kevin Drun
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Are these embellishments unnecessary? Sure. But Carson knows his audience. Serious evangelicals really, really want to hear a story about sin and redemption. That requires two things. First, Carson needs to have been a bad kid. Second, redemption needs to have truly turned his life around. He was already a student smart enough to get into Yale, so he needs more.
That’s where these stories come in. He needs to exaggerate how violent he was when he was young. And after he finds God, he needs to exaggerate how great everything turned out. This culminates in the absurd story about his psychology class. No one who’s not an evangelical Christian would believe it for a second. But evangelicals hear testimonies like this all the time. They expect testimonies like this, and the more improbable the better. So Carson gives them one. It’s clumsy because he’s not very good at inventing this kind of thing, but that doesn’t matter much.
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http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/11/ben-carson-and-tale-redemption
I don’t buy it.
<3
Good morning, TOD
A few random thoughts. As Don reported yesterday and TheHill is concern trolling, it looks like a Guantanamo announcement from PBO is imminent. I plan to enjoy the spectacle of the GOP flailing and failing against POTUS. No, they never learn.
VP Biden, when getting sustained applause this weekend, told the audience to “stop or I might change my mind.”
Yes, I know it was a joke.
And last, When Bibi arrives on our shores, instead of a WH meeting I wish he’d be handed over to The Hague and asked about whether imprisoning 1.8 million people endlessly is a war crime.
How about bulldozing their factories that provide food?
Or the destruction of 6,000 housing units and then forbidding building materials to enter Gaza?
Instead, the media is focused on “forgiving.”
I hope President Obama can show the world how small and ugly Bibi is.
Good morning Chips and TOD. So happy to be able to join you all on Sunday I have been without the internet at home for what seems like an eternity. Vicki, I wish Joe would change his mind because I just can’t get my heart and mind around Hilary.
The final state election results are out. modi’s bjp thrashed 3 to 1.
from what you know of PM Modi, is he capable of learning the correct lessons from these results?
can he and his team focus their work on things that matter most in the lives of ordinary people?
do you expect the whipping up of religious differences to tamper down after this?
or is this wishful thinking on my part?
I doubt he would listen to the moderates. He has an ‘advisor’ & ‘confidante’, a la turd blossom, in amit shah, who wouldn’t let him.
ok, thanks;
immediate future is likely to continue to disappoint many whose hopes were temporarily raised;
The prime ministership needs a statesman, not a politician, and 18 months into the job Modi is yet to learn the difference between the two.
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Modi can thus do with taking more than a leaf from his friend Barack’s book on how a national leader lends an assuring voice to a troubled populace.
http://www.rediff.com/news/column/5-things-modi-needs-to-do-asap/20151108.htm
worth a read.
read it, learned a few more things;
thanks a lot
What happens when one unintentionally wakes up at oh-dark-thirty, feeling rested as though she’d slept until noon, and she slowly starts paying attention to the world like a prairie dog’s head poppin’ out of the desert floor.
I saw a quote, an old adage, something like “All things are difficult before they are easy,” attributed to the writer Thomas Fuller. Went to wiki, and confirmed it. While there, I found this introduction he wrote … still laughing because this is from the 18th c., and here in the 21st c., we just call it “SpellCheck.”
“Good Reader, I suspect I may have written some Things twice ; if not the same in Words, yet in Sense, which I desire you to pass by favourably ; forasmuch as you may well think, it was as difficult and dull a Thing for me, in so great a Number of independent Sentences, to find out the Repetitions, as it would be in a vast Heap of different Coins and Medals, confusedly thrown together, to pick out here and there one that bore the same and like Inscription, with some other among them. Besides the Pains, such a Search would cost me more Time, than I can afford it ; for my Glass of Life running now low, I must not suffer one Sand to fall in waste, nor spend one Minute in picking of Straws. And moreover, my aged Eyes being grown weak and dim, I fear they will become quite dark, by much perusing and poring ; or at least so far, so as to render me unable to perfect several Papers now lying by me, which I would willingly make a Present of to you.”
Okay, I’ll stop. :) See ya later!
Here I am again, and with a little less guilt. I deserve a medal I think. :D Why? Remember earlier I wasn’t planning on doing any chores because I didn’t feel like it? Well I actually washed my tiny kitchen floor, and since I was ‘on a roll’ washed the hallway floor too, and put away one load of laundry! Now I can really chill out with an almost guilt-free mind. :D :D Yea, Sunday!
You’re just a clean machine this morning. Ya wanna head south because I have a few rooms that could use your cleaning prowess :lol:
More a guilt machine than anything, DD. :D If I had the dough I could easily franchise out my *needed* cleaning.
Sunday greetings to you, and yours (including the little princesses, of course)! :) :)
Hey VC. I’ve been bedridden the last couple of days with strep throat so I can only get pictures & phone calls from the princesses this weekend. :( I’ve got good meds so I should be up and around in a day or two
Aaaw! Sure hope you and the meds make short work of knocking this out of the way.
Anyone have the nerve to watch Donald the racists Trump on has been Saturday Night Lost. I watch something alot better, College Football.
Wasn’t long before I was having a good night sleep.
Maybe next SNL host will be Ben Carson.
spot the terrorist who stopped a cricket match.
http://s.ndtvimg.com/images/content/2015/nov/806/bengal-vidarbha-ranji-match-snake.jpg?downsize=764:573&output-quality=80&output-format=jpg
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeesus.
whhaatt, the dude was jus’ minding his own business, ok?
The fielder looked rattled, tho.
yup, all the cowards left the field and match was scrapped. the snake was prolly loling all the way.
That’s hissterical.
gud gawd. where is my FRIGGIN’ DESK?
Don’t be mad, cutie pie(thon).
hiss, boo.
You two wordsmiths always make me laugh (with accompanying eye-rolls) when you’re on a stretch.
Hmm?
Wasn’t Sanders’ Gig all about Authenticity?
Hmm?
And yet, the ratings for this hot mess were the highest for SNL since Jan 2012…. //smdh
“And yet, the ratings for this hot mess were the highest for SNL since Jan 2012…. ” In a trainwreck sort of way…
desertflower, all that proves is that there are alot of stupid idiots out there. I’m sure every racists were watching their fellow.
Palin got high ratings there too - watching a politician do stupid is seen as entertainment - sad
A little inspiration for TOD’s sexagenarians? [We won’t mention the fact that you probably need to have been doing this from way back when.]
http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/06/11/teacher-dancing-uptown-funk-breakdancing-handstand-shirley-clements/
son unit just now caught a cute live mouse by its tail and was terrorizing my niece and her mother with it. fun was had by all.
what? he was a cute lil one and while all the wimmin in the house wanted him dead (smh), we let him out in the garden and told him not to come back.
When I rule the world, you and your son are going to Guantanamo - for life.
and peeps keep telling the lie that wimmin are the fairer ones. /smh
good plan - send the snakes and mices with him
Sigh! It’s a bit worrisome to see a piece of you in *your* son. I think I prefer wifey’s son.
#ratcist
#definitely
#batcist2
#notashamed2ownup
Chat on
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Good Afternoon Everybody.
Hello there, JER! Sending Sunday blessings for you and all you do here for our visual minds! :)