On This Day: Women react in the Red Room after meeting First Lady Michelle Obama during their White House tour, Feb. 16, 2012 (Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Morning Roberta!!
Congrats on #1 Roberta and Good morning/afternoon/evening to all TODers!
Morning, Roberta and congratulations. That photo is a preview of TOD in June on the WH tour! :)
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Tuesday morning. Congrats Roberta, on being first this morning.
To all, I hope that you are filled with knowledge, understanding, and wisdom in all things you encounter today. <3 <3 <3
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Thanks RanMan, have a great Tuesday.
Thank you RanMan. I love reading your wonderful heartfelt centering and inspiring comments here on TOD. You always bring me back to square one: “Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America”.
Morning all. Congratulations, Roberta. Chips, did your sister decide to take on your newbie boarder? I’m concerned about your well being having to stress out over the tension between Danny and the newcomer. Home has got to be a place where you can shed tensions, not heighten them. Hope you find a good solution quickly.
No takers yet Jackie, my sister’s still thinking about it. And the woman who took him initially texted me this morning to say she might have found someone who wants to take him - but no details. We’ll see. Meanwhile, Danny’s hedgehog is keeping the peace:
They look pretty peaceful there. Good thing you took a photo!
Hope it all comes together for you soonish, Chips, and everyone’s nerves are soothed.
You know Meta, I think I understand now what it must be like to have twins - it’s heavenly when they’re both asleep, but when one stirs the other does too, and the peace is shattered!! :-)
Hahaaaa! They say parents never realize what it’s like, how much more extra work it is, to have two until it’s staring them in the face!
Cute photo. Looks like they’re doing okay together.
Just about tolerating each other, Pkayden!
That’s a huge improvement! Hope you get relief soon whether Newbie stays or goes.
Awww…so cute, with hedgehog the peacemaker! Good luck with everything Chips - you’ve had quite an eventful and exhausting President Day’s weekend!!! Really hope the new guy gets a permanent home soon :) {{{{Chips}}}}
Thanks a trazillion Hopefruit, it’s been a touch stressful alright, I can only salute people with more than one dog, they are heroic!!
Dear Chips, give them time. I have 3 rescue dogs, the oldest 14 (male bichon) 10yo girl (sorta bichon) and my latest and this little girl thinks she is the boss, who is somewhere around 8ish. blind, and a Carian terroir yorkie mix..it takes time - the new one eats outside, but at the moment all 3 are having AM naps on the sofa. Maddie (the newbie) well have my coffee empty in 15 seconds if I leave it for a moment. Yes there at moments when I wonder what the heck I did, but overall these rescues are my joy. Your rescue so reminds me of my first dog. I have a photo of us sitting on the stairs when I’m about 4yo. that was 70+years ago. they do become a part of your heart and life. So proud of you for trying to make this work, it takes time. they have huge egos and love for the head of the house. (you)
YOU LIE. They are bff’s already.
Chips, YOU’VE DONE GOOD!!!!!!!
Two more days, Chip, and you won’t be able to let him go; nor will Danny!
I’m keeping all fingers crossed that you find a safe and happy home for the new one where he can be king of the roost. Then Danny can go back to being the king of his own castle. Always wondered what hedgehogs did, but never imagined them as peacekeepers. Poor thing seems to have lost an eye in the battle, though.
Ha, the hedgehog still has a pair of eyes, promise!!! :-) Just hoping things work out soon, newbie is a dote but I just can’t see it working, Danny’s severely stressed - but being very good about it.
Wowzers!! That’s a steep plummet. Thanks Obama!
That photo in the post brought tears to my eyes. I doubt we’ll see that reaction again from anyone visiting the White House. FLOTUS and POTUS have really inspired many of us and we are grateful to have lived under their leadership and dignity-under-fire.
pkayden, I love the picture too.
GM!!
But Jeb! is fully qualified to be POTUS … you surely cannot make it up
GM Allison & Chips & TOD
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GEEZE, talk about being asleep at the wheel. How did this mope ever become a governor?
Geez, Allison. Forgetting something this important is really “bush” league. Where on earth did he pick up his staff. They must be newbies with zero training and no common sense.
Good morning, good people. Still buzzing from the Grammys last night.
This is Kendrick Lamar’s commitment to MBK:
Good Tuesday, Chipsticks…TOD Family.
Everyone live more, smile more, and love more. :-D
Nice idea, SW. On Thursday I’m chairing a meeting that usually includes a lot of loud Berniebots. I am usually ready to scream by the end of the meeting and my jaw always aches. So far I’ve managed not to throw anything at anybody, so I consider that a triumph of restraint.
The Supreme Court vacancy should make it easier to point out the folly of people on our side attacking each other. We HAVE to come together for our nominee (oh goddess, let it be Hillary).
Many of us in the village are going through challenges in our lives, be it individual struggles, challenges within our families, or challenges among our friends.
To each of you, whether you have come out and expressed it, whether you have kept it within your heart and not said anything, whether you are an active participant on the blog, or whether you are a lurker, I pray for positive outcomes to your struggles and for strength — both physical and emotional - to you, your family, and friends as you deal with your challenge(s).
I also offer this virtual hug to show my support to you.
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What a wonderful expression, swbluega. You speak for all of us!
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Thank you, SW. You are kind, generous and loving and I, for one, am grateful to you.
I am grateful to you as well, JackieG.
Thank you so much. Love and hugs to you ingratitude.
Thank you,CEB . {{{CEB}}}
What a moving message, from the heart to the hearts. Thank you swbluega. Echoing your words, and receiving blessings from them.
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Thank you swbluega, I was just catching up on the older posts and read about VC’s Mom. My prayers go out to her and her family during this time. I know what you mean, all of TOD Family has been here for me and my family and I can’t tell you all enough how much it meant to me. So I give you all the hugs and kisses and prayers for whatever reason.
Thank God for Chips and this site. And all the TB’S.
“Thank God for Chips and this site. And all the TB’S.”
I sooooo agree, Roberta. {{{Roberta}}}
I’m so sorry to hear about VC’s mom. My prayers go out to her and her family.
Can’t begin to tell you what this has meant to me today, swbluega. {{{{{{{{swbluega}}}}}
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Thank you so very much for those lovely words, sw
You’re welcome, canadabarb4obama.
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Thank you swbluega. I wish the same for you and your loved ones. Your words are so timely and so very needed. I can’t think of a more uplifting and wonderful way to begin this day. God Bless You!
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Thanks so much, swbluega!
You’re welcome. {{{{{Judith}}}}}
((SWbluega)), thank you for your beautiful sentiment. I’ll add my thoughts and prayers to the TOD family.
I wish the same for you.
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Cue the feckless RWNJ press corps asking the most inane irrelevant questions - using GOP talking points & lies to frame a bunch of Questions about POTUS “choosing to pick a SCOTUS fight” when he’s simply exercising his constitutionally-given right and fulfilling his responsibility as Commander-in-chief.
They sure won’t ask any questions about the conference. I am so amazed that PBO treats their questions seriously & answers them. I fear I would act more like Trump if I had to continually speak with these fools.
He always uses their questions to highlight their stupidity.
Well said hf.
Hopefruit, I’m willing to bet there will be NO questions about the US-ASEAN talks that will have just concluded and ALL questions about the SCOTUS nomination, which hasn’t happened yet. Trust our press corps to be rude, out of step and unprofessional.
Exactly jg!
THIS x10000000000000000000000. It’s easy to forget what a tough haul this was, every inch of the way.
I can remember when the media kept saying it wasn’t going to happen - supported the GOP every step of the way. The dems in congress started to mumble & then PBO got them together - and it was done.
OMG, it was excruciating. A real sausage factory every step of the way. It’s a miracle, really.
“…how many things had to go just right.” While ACA has not been a failure, it could have been much more successful had it been implemented *as intended*. How many are not insured because GOP governors would not accept Medicaid expansion? What other obstacles have been put in place to make ACA seem not as appealing to some as to others? The savings some have talked about are not realized by others depending on the state where they live. The same options of providers are not available from state to state.
Fortunately, the benefits from ACA have outweighed the perceived issues created primarily by GOP obstruction. All the more reason we need someone who will build on the successes instead of dismantling it potentially leaving us with nothing.
Medicaid expansion would have made a huge difference in the lives of millions of Americans if SCOTUS hadn’t screwed this up with their ‘opt out’ decision. The Republican SCOTUS majority did everything in its power to undermine up the success of OCare, but it’s succeeded despite all of their meddling.
Of course, if Bernie Sanders had been president all he would have needed to do is snap his fingers and we would have had Single Payer from an obedient Congress and SCOTUS.
Bernie is assuming that his white privilege will automatically make the GOP in congress more receptive to his proposals.
That may have been true once upon a time, but I think the extremism has gotten to the point that Bernie’s assumption is a pipe dream.
WE HAVE A RENEGADE…REBELLIOUS CONGRESS INTENT ON RUNNING GOVERNMENT WITH THE 10 COMMANDMENTS INSTITUTED BY THE TEA PARTY…WHITE SUPREMACISTS…NAZIS AND KKK …THEY INTEND TO DEVOUR EVERYTHING IN THEIR PATH AND LEAVE NO PRISONERS!..BERNIE IS DREAMIN’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bernie supporters must believe the same thing swbluega. My question is were have these people been the last 7 years? Have they been sitting in their corner blaming President Obama for everything that didn’t get done, that they wanted. It seem to me these Bernie supporters blame the President more then they blame the tea racists Republican Party.
First of all, expectations were UNREASONABLY high. How people (progressives) were expressing dissatisfaction within the first 2 years of PBO’s presidency to the point that they are telling people to stay home to “teach President Obama a lesson” I’ll never understand… as if it were unreasonable of him to concentrate on getting us out of a recession and two wars rather than their pet issues.
Waiting for Bernie supporters to storm D.C. for a SCOTUS nominee. How’s that working out?
Of course, Bernie thinks they will storm for him, striking fear in the hearts of McConnell, Ryan, etc. Yeah, right. They will call them a “socialist mob”, ready to turn us into the Soviet Union, and we have McGovern all over again.
The stupidity is breathtaking. I’m living through this with my own Mr. 57, and he’s 76 years old! At least he’s listening, and I’m not yelling at him.
This election is starting to scare the hell out of me……..
Me too; I worry about Nevada and the bandwagon effect; the constant barrage of negative articles about HRC, and the relentless and unremitting work of the Brerniebros on twitter is dividing the Democratic party in a way that could lose us the presidency. The media is just awful; I used to like Jon Ralston in Nevada but caught him several times dissing Hillary. When I called him out on it, he dissed me. I just mocked him. Now I read that NV is closing the gap between HRC and BS. How could that be?
I heard on MSNBC that Jon Ralston is now a member of that station. Cannot remember his exact title but seems it is different from when he was on before as a NV journalist. That could explain any differences in his reporting and behaviors. It seems to me since Comcast took over there has been first a slow and not so evident change tilting towards the GOP, then an all out crossing over with no hiding to support the corporate agenda.
It was already starting to give me nightmares as the GOP primary progressed with its frontrunners. Adding Bernie and his bros….
A disturbing tweet yesterday (I paraphrase): “Stop telling me that Trump will be stopped in the general. How’s that working out in the primaries?” Bernie is a destructive force, cynically (or stupidly) feeding “everything is free and will come instantly” to our version of tea-party dumb on the progressive side. God help us.
What’s also scary is that all the rules seem to have been thrown out the window. Campaigns are doing whatever they can get away with and even if they get caught, it doesn’t seem to matter because it doesn’t seem to matter to their supporters. Values, character, responsibility…none of those things seem to matter any more.
Very well stated tweet. PBO is one of the, if not THE, most hardworking president of all time. He never quits.
I AM NEVER GOING TO FORGET THOSE OBAMACARE DAYS AND THE BIG STRAW HATS WITH TEABAGS…THE INSANITY IN THIS SOCIETY IS JUST PLAIN BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION…THANK GOD!
I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE THIS…I’VE ALWAYS SAID TO MY CLOSET RACIST SPOUSE…GOD WILL PUT YOU IN A ROOM WITH ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS,LATINOS,ETC.,ETC…FOR ETERNITY!…THIS IS..MIGHTY AWESOME SAUCE.!
These toons tell the story, Chipsticks.
It’s puzzling to me that RBG and Scalia were such good friends. Apparently, there was more to him once you get past the politics. If that’s the case, saldly, most of us did not get to see more than the politics.
There was no ‘another level’ to him. The fecker loved punching down.
The 5 stages of GOP Grief… one stage does not replace the previous stage, they just seem to accumulate — and then curdle.
Ha, perfect!! :-)
Great series of TOD tweets, Chips. Thanks.
THEY INTERVIEWED ORIN HATCH THIS MORNING ON NEW DAY….SWEET CHRIS WAS OBVOUSLY NOT HAPPY WITH HATCH’S ENTITLED EGO…SAME TRASH……………..I HAVE TO GIVE IT TO CHRIS BECAUSE HE HAS COMPASSION AND KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG. AM HOME ALL DAY AND THRILLED THE ENERGIZER IS GIVING A PRESS CONFERENCE AT 4:30P.M.ET. HAVEN’T BEEN FEELING WELL..JUST TAKIN’ IT EASY HERE!
I AM GOING TO FIND THAT VIDEO W/ CHRIS AND SEND IT TO MY FB…I HAVE A FEW THINGS TO SAY…HOPE THEY HAVE BANDAIDS!
ok, since bt has done my job, I can relax.
You were late! You’re fired!1!1!
Theeeere it is. The cruel bt streak.
Good morning, Ms. Chipsticks and thank you for this beautiful image to open the day. Congratulations to Roberta in MN on FIRST! My friend shared this story from Houston Chronicle; right to the heart, right in the middle of Black History Month. My people, whose history is preserved, celebrated, and whitewashed ad infinitum, have the power to make the answer “No, it’s not too late to save Freedmen’s Town”. http://goo.gl/XGmWdd
https://twitter.com/nanciemac/status/699594835976724480 Trying to post the photo that heads this story on Houston’s historic Freedman’s Town, of Superhero, Ms. Dorris Ellis Robinson of Freedmen’s Town Preservation Coalition. Gorgeous slideshow with story.
Thank you so much, Jazziz2! You came to my TechnoRescue.
I’m shocked that gambling is going in this casino. 😥👮
Good morning TOD :)
Not good news ….
I’m sorry to hear that. Yatsenyuk held things together at a very difficult time before Proshenko was elected. I liked him.
An important reminder …. for everyone ….
Chat on
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/16/chat-away-774/
Good Morning.
“In the year ahead, we’re not going to be on the defensive,
shoring up problems and answering our critics. We are moving forward,
and I have no doubt that when we look back 1988 will be a year of great
accomplishment toward our goals. This is the year when Judge Anthony
Kennedy will be confirmed and the Supreme Court will again be brought
up to full strength. The Federal judiciary is too important to
be made a political football. I would hope, and the American
people should expect, not only for Judge Kennedy’s confirmation but for
the Senate to get to work and act on 27 other judicial nominations that
have been left in limbo for quite awhile now.”
—Ronald Reagan on January 19, 1988, in the last full year of his Presidency.
I PUT REAGAN’S VIDEO ON MY FB THE OTHER DAY…THE RIGHT WINGERS OVER THERE DON’T SEEM TO RECOGNIZE THEMSELVES!
Before he was a U.S. senator or a candidate for president, Ted Cruz argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine times, putting the Texas Republican in an exclusive club.
Over nine trips to the Supreme Court, Cruz clearly lost four cases and won two. The other three rulings were less clear-cut.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/ted-cruz-argued-before-the-us-supreme-court-nine-times-heres-what-happened/comments/#disqus