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hello!
Hellllllllooooooooo!
hello Ms. Chips!
logged on, left my comment, and was immediately interrupted.
hope you have had a great week and that a less adventurous weekend awaits you …. but with your “construction projects” and pet rescues, one never knows
:lol: I’m definitely taking a break from my construction projects, Linda, and prayin’ no more bundles of fluffiness come in to my life - for a while at least. Have a great weekend!
I know I should never admit to my truth - my best effort in construction projects is finding a container to hold the screws and nails that fall out of the little plastic bags. Mr 99 not only reads the instructions - he understands them. I count the screws as I add them to the container.
I’m really reluctant to confess this ….. you know that toilet seat I, um, installed? Well, it’s rockin’ more than Mick Jagger ever did, using it is quite an experience. I think my work may need refining. :???:
Bless you - at least you tried. I once built a small ikea bookcase. It never was straight, there was a gap between the back and one side & books would fall off randomly - usually during the night.
I think it is similar to my sense of direction. When I say turn left, the driver knows instinctively to go right.
:lol: As I always suspected 99ts, we are long lost sisters!!!
It’s my strange Irish ancestors - they made me who I am :)
See? I knew we were related.
Not sure you would want to claim my weird lot - sometimes I would like to think a mistake was made. My favorite was the man who headed into town to register the birth of his first two children (both daughters). He discovered on arrival in town that part of the registration was a request for the date of marriage of the parents - which was well after the birth of daughter 1, but before the birth of daughter 2. So he gave the name of daughter 1 to the birth date of daughter 2 & thus combined them into a single person.
In today’s world of voter id - neither would have been able to register to vote.
Weepin’ - could they not even have had one vote between them?
PS - Daughter 1 was the lass who gave her 3 sons the same name (her father’s name).
#itsatwominjobsmh
As I typed my PRIVATE confession to 99ts, I said to myself: ‘Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease don’t let Mr India see this.’ So much for that. :roll:
you should have gone gary t.
I bloody will next time.
fighting words. them.
The Fightin’ Ireesh, dontcha know?
Hello Linda! Congrats on your first.
Thanks to Chips for this nice caption of our POTUS with today’s good news.
thanks a lot NCLB!
yes, this is good news indeed
Congratulations, Linda! Delightful news on the economic front. The ACA helps a lot with job creation.
thanks a lot!
good economic news is a fantastic way to end the week
That’s why the GOP hates the ACA. The jobs that it has created.
Yes siree, (Missie, in your case) I *am* smiling, Chips Chica - about the great economic news AND the really great “chez Chips” doggie news. :) :)
Thank you Chips. Love good news and pictures of POTUS always brings a smile to my face.
The White House delivered a low blow on Friday, accusing congressional Republicans who are denying the president a chance to pitch his budget of pulling a “Donald Trump.”
Why on earth would this be called a “low blow”. The White house tells the truth. The GOP members of the house are worse than evil. They are evil & racist to the core - care not about the constitution and just want to attack the black guy every chance they get.
Why Bernie Sanders Can’t Govern
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/why-bernie-sanders-cant-win-and-cant-govern/460182/
Some progressives, like Bill Press, have expressed disappointment with Obama’s failure to further their agenda; to one who has watched the lawmaking process up close and personal for more than four decades, his ability to move the ball in the face of challenges from his own party and Republicans, and in the face of huge headwinds from the conservative wind machine, has been extraordinarily impressive.
This should go viral.
SophieCT (@SophieInCT)
.@realBobWoodward So, about that “shouting” thing
youtube.com/watch?v=SRG8t-…
Hmm the above link not working, certainly won’t go viral like that
SophieCT (@SophieInCT) tweeted at 6:14pm - 5 Feb 16:
.@realBobWoodward So, about that “shouting” thing
youtube.com/watch?v=SRG8t-… (https://twitter.com/SophieInCT/status/695747468445753345?s=17)
That’s brilliant!
How did you get the link to work, Chips?
Try this:
Perfect! Thank you! Sharing now…
Hellooooooo Edwina! All you have to do to make the tweet show up is: click on the tweet you want, then copy its url (red arrow) and then paste it in your comment here. De na!
Thanks!
Hiya Madame Soph, I just looked up @SophieInCT’s account and found the link there
Oh Woodward….that’s just the favorite male criticism of women, and they think that is deep and relegates us to the basement. Good for Hillary standing up to him. He is awful, and those men just like to show off by shouting…….then, psychological projection, blame the woman. I guess we can see what she will be up against the next ten months. Someone up above was correct. They won’t feel the world is set right until a white male is back in the White House. That’s why Bernie is getting the more positive press. The idea of a woman in the Oval Office is more than they can stand.
Carolyn, it depresses me that I once admired Woodward - good grief, he’s turned out to be a loathsome pile of crap.
Just got done watching all three nightly newscasts……not a single mention of the jobs report NBC (stories on Olympics & Weed profits in CO more important) ABC (no mention, apparently a liquor store attempted robbery and Johnny Manziel threatening his ex took precedent) CBS was the only newscast to mention the report (15 minutes in a 30 second spot) freaking pathetic.
On a lighter note….
ROTFLMAO!
So next month when even more jobs are reported for March, and February’s numbers are revised up, what will the evening newscasts focus on? Two NYC subway rats making out behind a trash can?… LOL
:lol: Probably!
No doubt! :)
This exemplifies the B.S. & double standard of the media portrayal of Cam Newton…
Aaron Rodgers just to name one example:
That is just soooo telling. I’m trying to work out the difference (other than one cheated to get where he got)
One athlete is black (and never cheated)….I don’t think we need to delve much further than that, 99ts!
I wish him a speedy recovery.
Hhhmmmmm!
uhm….
No comment :-/
ICYMI…Congress was finally doing its job to getting to the bottom of the Flint water crisis….oh who am I kidding :???:
I can not stand that guy Shkreli. He is a disgrace to the world.
“Several U.S. cities and states are currently considering laws to regulate the small, personal-use quadcopters we’ve all agreed to call “drones,” but once those laws are in place, how do you stop drone pilots who violate them? The Dutch National Police are way ahead of us on that one: They’ve been training eagles to take down unruly drones. A video hit YouTube Monday showing an eagle trained by Dutch police and the Hague-based raptor-training firm Guard From Above as it snatches a drone from midair without suffering any damage from its spinning props. At the IEEE’s Spectrum blog, Evan Ackerman raised some concerns Monday about the safety risks of using birds as anti-drone weapons, especially in the U.S., where some eagle species are legally protected….continued”
“If one thing could make Mission Impossible stunts even cooler, it’s robotic landing gear. DARPA conducted an experimental demonstration with a chopper containing four insect-like legs that make landing on uneven and moving surfaces easier and more stable. The articulated, jointed legs can fold up next to the helicopter’s fuselage while in flight. During landing, the legs use force-sensitive contact sensors to determine the right angle to land in real time. In other words, it’s basically a flying metal spider.
The experimental demonstration showed that one of the potential benefits included “landing and take-off on sloping terrain of up to 20 degrees, more than twice current limits,” according to a news piece from DARPA. Other bonuses include reduced risk of damage during hard landings and the ability to land on ships in violent sea states.”
All interesting, these goodies you posted, LP! Thanks!
Howdy, JB! I finally got to catch up on some of *my weirdo interest stories after taking my last exam for the next month :) My next “deep dive” will be all the Auto Shows & the Vegas Consumer Electroincs Show gadgets that peek my interest!
All I can respond to all that is: Yeehaw! :)
Thanks, LP. for all the above info.
Glad I’m not the only one who finds this stuff interesting, sjterrid :)
JER had posted this towards the end of the previous post, so I’m bringing it here for those who missed it.
If you’ve already seen it, I ask your forbearance for the repeat post. :)
oops - forgot the link!
Can’t wait to see POTUS appearance on the Ellen Show. Only POTUS and FLOTUS can get me to watch these shows. I never have watch the show the Real till FLOTUS appearance.
“We’ve seen little flying drones carrying cameras and guns, shooting gorgeous video and crashing the White House lawn. But now they’re carrying spools of rope, and they’re on a mission to build. For the first time, a small flying squadron of drones has built a structure stable enough to stand on. A team of scientists at the architecture and design university ETH Zurich programmed the flying team of self-piloting drones as part of a program to use drones for construction projects. The copters start out by scanning the existing structure — the scaffolding on either side of the room was set up by human hands, and the team manually adjusted the robots’ code to account for the spacing.
“In order to be able to design tensile structures that are buildable with flying robots, a series of computational tools have been developed, specifically addressing the characteristics of the building method,” Federico Augugliaro, one of the researchers who built the drone system, wrote for the release of the video. “The design tools allow to simulate, sequence, and evaluate the structure before building.” Once they have their tasks, the copters automatically get to work maneuvering, weaving and knotting the rope bridge together using 300 feet of rope, fed to the drones via small spools on their back. As they slice through the air, fastening and threading the rope, no human interferes with their work once. Once the bridge was complete, the bridge was strong enough to carry the research team safely across. This kind of structure could be built at any height, and could be useful for emergency situations or at construction sites, where drones are already making their way into everyday use for surveying purposes….continued”
That was very interesting. Thanks!
“Do you feel the bern?” Robyn Gedrich wrote in Tinder messages, according to Buzzfeed News. “Please text WORK to 82623 for me. Thanks.”
Gedrich, a 23-year-old New Jersey resident, sent messages to 60 people per day, according to Reuters. If people sent a text message to the number she provided, they start receiving updates from the Sanders campaign and a link where they would sign up to volunteer.
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Social media is a good resource for campaigns, but this is over-stepping to the point of abusing the resource.
I SAW PBO TODAY MAKING HIS ANNOUNCEMENT…HERE’S THE PROBLEM..IT DOESN’T MATTER IF THERE IS NO UNEMPLOYMENT…REPUGNANTS WILL ALWAYS FIND A REASON TO JAB AT THIS PRESIDENT. THEY ARE ALL ALSO WATCHING THE WORLD FIGURES IN THE STOCK MARKETS…EVERYONE IS AWARE OF THE SPOKE IN THE WHEEL EFFECT…SO AS LONG AS THE GLOBAL OUTLOOK CONTINUES TO RIDE LIKE A ROLLER COASTER…PEOPLE WILL WALK ON EGGSHELLS. THE MARKETS ARE BEING MANIPULATED…IT’S GOING TO BE AN INTERESTING RIDE! I COULD CARE LESS..I’VE HAD MY TIME HERE AND HAVEN’T ENJOYED A MOMENT OF IT.
I was waiting for POTUS comment about Maurice White passing. Who don’t remember Earth Wind and Fire. Always remember EWF.
Whoever came up with this update needs to be smacked upside the head.
I like the idea of something that stops you from losing your place in a conversation, which always drove me nuts, but this is a mess. Half the time I can’t scroll up or down, I’m kinda locked on the tweet that pops up. Yuck!
In theory, it’s a nice idea, but yeah in practice, - I’m with you on this - not so much. It’s clunky, when you x out it takes you to your profile page, then you have to click on notifications to get back to your notifications. It’s an extra step that’s unnecessary. The forward and back buttons don’t work on the tweet, you can’t scroll up or down, if you accidentally get x’d out you’ve lost the entire tweet and have to begin the annoying process again. AAAARGGHHHH!
As I said to you before Nerdy, I’m REALLY tempted to go back to pencil and paper!!
Oh thank you. I thought I had clicked some unknown “free for all” key! I hate that, too. MAKE.IT.STOP.
Truly annoying and one can’t even opt out. *Sigh*
GE NW.
I’ve gotten used to the new feature, and appreciate it now.
Also don’t complain about a free service.
However, this change pales in comparison to how Twitter will really screw things up next week.
How “waspy” country club can you get! Yuck!
dragging your 90 year old mommy to take on the bully? does the pathetic prick even know how pathetic he looks?
This is pitiful, Jeb has to go get Mommie to try and help him out, although Mommie said that Jeb should not run. He should have listen to his Mommie, with that goofy look on his face.
Why do we never see Jeb! with his wife/family?
‘cos they ain’t no waspy bushes.
I think my question was rhetorical - but I was remembering 2008/12 when Michelle Obama was an incredible campaigner - always there when needed, always positive & such a necessary part of the campaign.
Truly sad that a man can’t introduce his partner to the country - cause for better or worse, the First Partner does have a role to play in US politics.
He’s probably afraid Trump would make a crack about deporting her.
more of this please. I love it. Awesome way to showcase the contributions of blacks in USA. All in context. Great find.
This is so awesomeeeeee….i love it….
this shows how important to know your history and the contributions that blk folks have made to America…but not just for blk folks but for white folks as well….
sign seen on road side hotel.
xyz hotel. toilet available.
LOL. what an usp.
Oh my…I was thinking of going to that luxury hotel up the street - but I’ll check instead into the xyz hotel since they have toilet available!!
the best part is it’s just a restaurant. come for the food, stay for the toilet.
Oh that’s even better…Who cares about bed & breakfast, when you can have toilet & tacos!
I have the greatest LOVE and RESPECT for My President but LAWD! LAWD! Sweet Baby Jesus! His stance right here is EVERYTHING and gives me LIFE!. I can’t stop staring. FLOTUS is a very very blessed woman.
The world had been blessed by this President. I wish more people would realize this.
The world realizes it sjterrid - only ones who don’t are GOP politicians and their media supporters. The lies that have been told by both groups to the US people is terrifying if thought about for too long.
Well Idon, I’m not even waiting for Mr. Yardarm…I’m sentencing you straight to the Naughty Mat!!!! :)
Hopefruit2, I need one also. Oh, my goodness, we do have a fine president. He is fine and brilliant. Look at that look that he has on his face as he reads those papers. HZ,
Oh, my.
X 2.
February 05, 2025
Statement by the President on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
Thirteen years ago tomorrow, four first ladies in Africa came together and declared an International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). They knew that by targeting and holding back girls, this practice harms and holds back entire communities. Since then, countless others-from the Middle East to South Asia to here in the United States-have joined these women to say that FGM/C has no place in any community and undermines our efforts to celebrate and empower women and girls.
Some people say that FGM/C is a rite of passage-something families do to help prepare girls for adulthood or marriage. In my travels last year, I made clear my view that “there’s no reason that young girls should suffer genital mutilation.” Just because this is a tradition in some places does not make it right. This practice is harmful, and therefore wrong wherever it occurs. That is why we have funded programming to combat FGM/C in places like Guinea, just as we have launched a range of actions here at home to stop the practice. In the United States, we have criminalized the transport of girls to undergo FGM/C, worked with religious leaders and community-based organizations to raise awareness-especially in some immigrant communities, where the pressures to engage in this practice remain-and provided grant opportunities for domestic NGOs implementing innovative prevention strategies.
Today, we stand with communities here and around the globe working to prevent FGM/C. We call on girls and their families, teachers, health workers, community and religious leaders, and government officials to act together to make a difference. It’s time to put an end to this harmful practice, and to allow communities everywhere to meet their full potential by enabling women and girls to meet theirs.
Recent court case in Australia on this one
Women convicted over ‘repugnant’ genital mutilation of two girls ‘showed no remorse’
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-05/women-convicted-over-genital-mutlation-showed-no-remorse/7145556
One of the convicted was the mother of the girls - just too sad that they continue this.
So I’m a couple of threads behind & still in shock that after years of economic growth & so many positives for the US - congress now refuses to see PBO’s budget.
Every last thing they have tried has failed. The media never reports on their non stop evil actions - but the President carries on regardless - and there is nothing they can do that will make him implode. How truly sad.
And it seems Bernie chose the wrong party - the GOP would have welcomed him with open arms.
Yes, Andy Borowitz, (yuck, Katie Couric): anyone in the Big Apple for this might want to get tickets today!! http://www.92y.org/tickets/production.aspx?ba=1&performanceNumber=122461
My twitter timeline is dominated now with complaints about next week’s new Twitter (see NerdyW’s post upthread).
One final thought:
Great tweet, Chips! If Sanders was such a progressive savior, why didn’t he run for President in 2008 when the economy was on the brink of total collapse? Or, for that matter why didn’t he run in 1984, 1988, 1992,1996, 2000, 0r 2004? The drastic income gap between the 1% and the 99% didn’t start from Nov. 4th, 2008; It’s been growing since the 1980s! But now that the economy is doing quite well, as result of the hard work by President Obama and his administration, Bernie Sanders is ready to ride a Whitehorse to save it. Now that millions of Americans, who formerly had no Health Insurance, are now insured under Obama Care, Bernie Sanders is coming to the rescue with his single payer? Bernie Sanders is 74 years-old. Why did he wait to launch his socialist Revolution after a black guy, who has been an exptional president, was elected Prrsident? If Bernie was a younger man who has not been around since the 1980s, I could understand his passion and his nievity about leading a Revolution as President.
Amen, Chips! I posted it @ http://hillaryclintonsupporters.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5325
I love it! Mahalo~
media can really manipulate the masses => all of a sudden, beltway punditry is working over time to convince the world that a empty-suit hate-filled punk, who plagiarizes PBO’s speeches, has the electoral momentum as election heads to NH
So I lol AND snorted:)
http://juanitajean.com/somebody-is-gonna-get-fired/
:) This may be hard to “rectify” HAHAHAHA
Oh. my.
LOL:
“Now, go back and look at the expression on Ted’s face. Looks like he was smart enough to have the procedure done while he posed for the picture.”
Thanks! OMG. Teh stupid hurts:)
Thank you so much! This was so funny. I had to share it on Facebook.
Thank you Mr. President! Was just speaking to a client last week about how much this practice bugs me.
So many reasons why the congressional GOP don’t want anyone to see the President’s budget.
Thank you, Alycee, for sharing this.
This is great news. I have been putting this out there in my goodness space that our POTUS and his team would reach this goal and even lower before he leaves office. We will continue to keep his back. Thank you, Mr. President.HZ
Chat on
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/05/chat-on-148/