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Wonderful tweet!
Looooove that toon!
Love that cartoon, Chips! Mornin’!
Love that cartoon, Chips! Hope you have a great MLK day. My niece is visiting, here in L.A., on her way home to Australia so I’ll be taking her around and showing her the sights today. I am hoping the sun will come out today as it’s real cloudy right now. So thankful that President Obama is still our president today :D
awesome set of videos…
watch Dr King spar with the media re: his stance against the VietNam War…listen to how they try to trip him….media is …as the media does…DR King is Awesome
Folks often forget that Dr King was not considered well in some circles…esp when he came out against the Viet Nam war……..he was seen as a rabble rouser..a divider…communist…etc…same as they say of the President today…. as you can see from these videos…
Dr King…was clear and concise and grounded….
Thank you, Prettyfoot, this is so amazing still!
indeed…his poise under fire…the clarity of his convictions…how smoothly he navigated from one topic to another…how he was focused to avoid the bombs that the interviewers were throwing at him…it is simply AWEsome
Thank you so much Prettyfoot for sharing this. Dr. King was a fearless moral leader!
i love how poised he is…how confident…how grounded …how focused…how he was able to connect all the dots….and how he was able to see the traps before they came….he reminded me of the President here…when the President is being grilled by the press at a press conference
Love that toon:) Says so much.
Heh !!! That was my toon!!!!
I think you are mistaken, sir:) Unless you normally read a blog from Arizona….WHICH IS WHERE I FOUND IT!
and I released it from that jail.
HAHAHAHAHA! You did. You certainly did…however, you did not FIND the toon, you FREED the toon!
findersfreers keepers.Just as slum lords are sometimes sentenced to time living in their dilapidated housing, those responsible for this outrage (from the governor to the “emergency managers”) should be forced to live in Flint for a time under the *same* conditions that these citizens are experiencing. They wouldn’t think it’s acceptable for them; why would they have thought it was acceptable for the Flint citizens.
THIS IS WHY I BELIEVE ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS NEED TO SPEND 2 WEEKS IN THE INNER CITY ON THE SAME DIET AS THE POOR….AND IF I HEAR ONE MORE PERSON CUT THOSE WHO ARE ‘AFFLICTED’ WITH LIFE ON FOOD STAMPS…I AM GOING TO SHOW THEM THE OTHER END OF MY BOOTS!…POSSIBLE BELOW THE BELT BRAIN CONCUSSION INVOLVED…THAT’S ‘TOUGH LOVE!’
I MUST SAY THAT WITH ALL OF THE POOR AND HOMELESS I HAVE WORKED WITH…THEY HAVE THE SWEETEST,MOST GIVING SOULS. THE INNER CITY IS MY EARTHLY HOME…THAT’S WHERE I AM MY HAPPIEST WHILE I AM STUCK ON THIS PLANET.
TAIN’T THAT THE TRUTH!
Ahem! LOL!
Dudette this is the United States of America ISIS.
BELLA……………………ABSOLUTELY CORRECT…FRANKLY…THIS IS ANTI-CHRIST BEHAVIOR! JUST HOLD ONTO YOUR FAITH BECAUSE GOD’S JUSTICE IS REAL AND IT WILL COME IN GOD’S TIME NOT OURS. WE HAVE TO PATIENTLY WAIT…HE NEVER BREAKS A PROMISE.
I COVERED THE EAST TROY,WISCONSIN PCB LANDFILL SPILL…THOSE PEOPLE WERE ON SHIPPED IN BOTTLED WATER FOR 2 YEARS!
loving these tweets from the King Center
Me too. So much awesomeness there!
THE FIRST THING I HEAR FROM CERTAIN DEPTS…ARE COMPLAINTS REGARDING THE REQUIREMENT TO HIRE MINORITY OFFICERS…WHITES OFTEN ACT LIKE THEIR COLOR NO MATTER WHAT UNIFORM THEY ARE WEARING. RACISM BEGINS AT HOME…THIS IS TAUGHT…NOT BIRTHED…ANOTHER REASON WHY I CANNOT STOMACH MY ROOMMATE. I HEAR AND SEE THESE THINGS TOO OFTEN…BUT I MAKE THE BEST OF A BAD SITUATION AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE….GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF THE REST.
INDEED!..WE WANT TO KEEP OUR SLAVES AND EVERYONE ELSE’S BANK ACCOUNTS. DON’T BOTHER US…WE’RE BUSY AT THE BAR!
TODAY..IT IS WHITES SAYING THOSE OF COLOR ARE FREELOADERS!…THEY MAKE FUN OF THE POOR…AND SEEK VIOLENCE INSTEAD OF PEACE…ALL IS IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL IN THE END DAYS..THE BASTARDS WILL MULTIPLY. TO THINK THAT I HAVE HAD TO FIGHT TO CREATE A HOMELESS MINISTRY IS BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION…AND AFTER I MOVE…GOD WILLING I WILL BE DOING THIS IN MY NEW AND AMAZING…’ALL COLORS OF THE RAINBOW’ CHURCH!
PBO IS ANOTHER MLK…EVEN THOUGH HE IS SO HUMBLE THAT HE WOULD NOT HOLD THAT COMPARISON…I SINCERELY BELIEVE MLK’S ROAD WAS PREPARED FOR HIM. WATCHING PBO WORK HAS GIVEN ME SOME OF THE ULTIMATE BEST MOMENTS OF MY LIFE….WE DO NOT DESERVE HIM IN THE SOCIETY WE HAVE TODAY!
Great cartoon! And did the hungry boy turn into a TV watching girl?
It was always a girl…look at the hair.
AMEN!
AWESomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee tweets….thsnk yiou for bringing them here,,dudette
My great pleasure, pf! 😌😘
IT DOESN’T MATTER FOR EITHER CANDIDATE…THEY ARE BOTH WORN OUT….!!!!..IT SHOWS ACTUALLY..IF I CAN SEE IT..I AM SURE OTHERS DO!
i’m not a berniebot by any means, but that’s a dumb article by cohen. he could lob many of those same claims to hillary, yet only applies them to bernie? if the plan was 10 pages instead of 8, would that make him happy with bernie’s single payer plan? of course, we all know these plans are subject to massive alterations when working with congress, just as happened with just about anything president obama has gotten passed, so are more about the direction each candidate would try to take the country. we’re not talking about paul ryan-level nonsense “plan” here, after all.
and cohen, josh marshall and others keep up their dismissive attitude toward martin o’malley, who probably is the most well-spoken on the issues, young and vibrant, good-looking, and long history of executive office accomplishments, yet this is what they call “unelectable?!?” he’s the best debater too in my opinion, directly answering questions with clear, concise sound bites and within time limits.
i literally cannot listen to hillary talk. there isn’t a shred of sincerity in anything she says, and i’ve been saying this for decades now, and her actions over time prove this. i’ll vote for her if she’s the nominee, but still praying for some sort of big shakeup to happen somehow. she cannot win a national election. she’s losing ground to the disheveled “hey you kids, get off my lawn!” angry grandpa, when she should be starting to seal the deal. just a horrible, horrible candidate that’s doing this to feed her ego. nothing more.
Bernie’s plan resembled GOP plans: everyone will get health care, only the rich & employers will pay for the bulk of it, any other deficit will be made up with “cost containment”, with no details. A consensus is building that the “cost containment” will have to come from procedures being denied - not by insurance companies but now by the government. It reminded me of all the GOP “jobs bills” that cut taxes on the wealthy and magically led to jobs.
I simply cannot take Bernie seriously. After 40 years of saying he could do everything better, he doesn’t seem to care about showing us how he intends to do that. And how do you not have a way of diffusing “Democratic Socialist” that will change at least a few minds? It’s a childish campaign. Releasing the SP plan a few hours before the debate was a cheap shot. And “revolution” as his main approach is downright terrifying.
God knows I wish it was Biden instead of Hillary. But I think Bernie is a disaster waiting to happen, feeding the red meat of progressives. However, the difference between progressive red meat and conservative red meat - conservatives vote. All the time, no matter what. This is not the election to play around. ANY GOP POTUS will destroy the country, perhaps irrevocably. I fully expected Bernie to win me over. I am aghast at his political deafness. That is what I took from the Cohen article.
I think he screams and is rude during a debate. I think Hillary has matured, but I will never love her or completely trust her. But I do think she would be competent. Bernie is simply not presidential.
And the latest national poll still has Hillary up 25 points.
If Bernie is the nominee I will support him because I will do everything in my power to elect a Democrat, even one who has been a Democrat for five minutes and done nothing to help progressives get into Congress.
You and I saw the debate differently. I didn’t see “clear, concise comments.” I heard that if he didn’t have an answer, he brought it back to what Cohen called “one-dimenional” answers.
I understand the loathing of Hillary. But I think Bernie as a candidate is a reckless choice with a RW media out of control and a GOP Congress made up of blithering nuts.
all fair enough. fyi, i was referring to martin o’malley about the concise answers. i think the powers-that-be in “the news” decided early on to keep o’malley off the t.v., since he’s actually the most “electable” on so many levels, and they do not want him messing up their goal of having another big biz friendly clinton in the white house, or a republican. they win with either of those (a clinton or a republican) since they’ll be allowed to conglomerate more and more, and avoid any major tax changes. o’malley would mess that plan up for them, so he needs to be marginalized through “the news.”
Sorry, 4more! I’m reading while listening for my sociopathic boss’ footsteps! In my perfect world, if I can’t have Joe Biden, I would have loved for the party, and especially Hillary, to groom the next generation of Democratic leaders instead. But this is far from a perfect world……….
4morefor44. I agree with you 100%. That is why I refuse to just accept this coronation of someone we all know does not have ” a shred of sincerity in anything she says. won’t do it.
But I think Bernie as a candidate is a reckless choice with a RW media out of control and a GOP Congress made up of blithering nuts.
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Amennnnnnnn….57….
YOU HAVE NOW EARNED 44 DITTOS…I LOVE THIS!
oooo….44 of them! ;)
Ah! 57, didn’t see you post when I posted the same below.
Good Morning Chips and TOD.
LIVE NOW: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Event In Columbia, SC - http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
IT LOOKS LIKE THE MEDIA HAS FORGOTTEN ABOUT DR. KING TODAY….THEY ARE TOO BUSY WITH THE IRAN DEAL AND THE DEM. DEBATE….IT’S A SHAME!
MLK WOULD NOT ACCEPT TODAY AS IT IS…SELMA WOULD BE ON FIRE WITH HIS SHOE LEATHER! HE’S UP THERE WITH GOD…THEY HAVE PLANS!..<3
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I hope he goes down in flames and humiliation…..
The problem we have to face is the other GOP candidates are no better then Donald Trump.
THAT’S RIGHT BELLA…THE ONLY ONE I DO FEEL THAT IS A GROWN UP AND REALLY TRYING IS JOHN KASICH…THAT’S WHY HIS NUMBERS ARE LOW. PEOPLE WANT IT ALL…THEY WANT IT YESTERDAY…AND THEY DON’T CARE HOW YOU GET IT…THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO MORAL COMPASS AND THE ONLY WORD THEY RECOGNIZE IS ‘SELF!’
Don’t be fooled by John Kasich’s words………Look at his actions. He and his Republican friends who own Ohio have been terrible for the people.
I HAVEN’T CHECKED JOHN’S HISTORY….NOT VOTING REPUBLICAN ANYWAY.
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, etc and Happy MLK day everyone! :)
G’morning, darlin’!
LOL! 😄
Referenced tweet…
This article is right on. Merely shouting your ideology about how billionaires are responsible for all evil in the world is not governance. Many are now noting how Republicans are out their defending Bernie now. They want him to be the candidate. Then they will destroy him, not just as a radical socialist, but as a radical communist who hates America. This video is just a foretaste of what’s to come if he is the nominee. If he is the nominee, which I doubt will happen, nearly every Democratic candidate will repudiate him because they don’t want the entire party to go over a cliff with him, and have the GOP totally dismantle, not only the legacy of President Obama, but also that of former Dem presidents all the way back to FDR. Whether we like Hillary or not, the entire accomplishments of our dear President, and former presidents, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA,Civil Rights protections, same sex marriage, public lands and any sound governance, are all dependent on the election of Hillary Clinton.
Perfect, Bill.
at least you know what you are going to get and he says what he believes.
hahaha!!!
I LOVE THIS AND I AM SO IN LOVE WITH JOHN LEWIS…HIS FACE SPEAKS VOLUMES!
Karma may be on the move:)
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/key-house-republican-faces-wall-street-revolt#break
I pray so. Because it has been a long time coming.
Morning DF!!
Morning to you, africa:) !!
Happy MLK Day TODers!!
Heeeeeya Chips!!
BBL…CARPEL TUNNEL OF THE MOUSE FINGER…LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL…WORK CALLS!..HAVE A BLESSED MLK DAY……………………..{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}!
JUST SAW THIS…TRADE HAS BEEN HALTED IN ITALIAN BANKS…..IT’S GOING TO BE AN INTERESTING RIDE…………………
No words.
CNN, MSNBC, and of course FIX noise desperately want ill douche to be president no matter how unpresidential he behaves. Thank GOD there are other sources of news and young people don’t bother with these corporate sponsored talking regurgitated heads.
I was wondering about that same thing, why is MSNBC and CNN carrying that B.S. of Trump?
How beautiful.
She is REPUBLICAN and came out strongly against same sex marriage. I dislike her with every fiber of my being.
Love the people of the Obama Administration! They don’t just talk the talk.
President Obama’s cabinet emulates him.
PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL!
Turn on the news bc things are starting to get interesting again.
Then, trump has a rally… Cable news gives road block coverage??
Let’s see if I got this right?
The president announces freed prisoners from Iran… No coverage, or not for long, cut off???
Lol lmao
I am watching the UK debate banning Trump from entry on cspan. It is really interesting.
Some are calling him a racist and homophobe
Something must be going on because twitter is down at the moment.
It’s working for me.
igor volsky is kicking much behind again today, as he did with n.r.a. donations. today it’s the hypocrisy of republicans supporting martin luther king:
Sen. Kirk, we stay out of white neighborhoods cause if some citizen in the neighborhood doesn’t kill you, the police will. By the way Senator, you’re a piece of crap.
wow…powerful statement annie…
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/01/18/mlkday-a-word-from-the-president/