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Congrats on furst!
I always thought Tonya Lewis Lee was the brains of the family.
:-) annieb
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbmSl8qUcAAr_gm.jpg:large
I hope someone smart about these things would post this for me - please & thank you :-)
Here ya go.
Hey Sailor - you did it too? Thanks! :-)
Old & slow but steady as I go. :-)
We love you just as you are :-)
LOL! Love it! :-D
worked….take the :large off at the end
{{{{PF}}}}} thanks :-)
smilin
Congrats axel.
That is a powerful quote.
Excellence!
I need to run an errand but we need to collect the contact info and bombard these 11 with phone calls, tweets, emails, ETC
Does Cruz have some kind of auto pen or did Mike Lee forge his signature ?
gm Meta
Just woke to this - a good post on BJ about it
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/02/23/aux-armes-citoyenes/
“It’s just being reported that the GOP caucus in the US Senate has decided that Presidenting while Democrat and/or Black is not to be allowed to happen.”
…
“I and a majority of my fellow citizens voted President Obama into office twice. The disrespect to him is something he can handle (better than I ever would). But it’s the delegitimizing of my vote, my choice, my place in American democracy that has just gotta stop. The current Republican Party has to be destroyed, root and branch. They are blight on policy, and a boil on the body politic. Time for them to go.”
I so hope this converts into votes against the GOP - millions of them.
Grassley (Iowa) and Lee (Utah) are running for re-election in November, and Vitter (Louisiana) is retiring at the end of this term. Perhaps these are races we need to focus on to oust them.
Every single one of these mofos needs to step down from office. Today.
Does anyone if this is a true story????
UNREAL. Obama Meets With #BlackLivesMatter Hate Group After Supporters Beat & Rob A Hero http://fb.me/7LjjwLzn1
I doubt the credibility of any report that comes from someone describing BLM as a “hate group.”
Yea, I was dubious too HF. Thanks!
GM GGail.
I wouldn’t place any credence from GatewayPundit, a notorious RWNJ site.
Didn’t click on any links in the article, but article describes a group of people who allegedly mugged someone asking if the victim believed in BLM. Who knows if it’s true or not, might be something the victim fabricated. Can’t control who uses your message — there’s probably been some really vile people who have invoked the name of noted pacifists and peacemakers.
Hey arapaho. Thanks for the heads-up :-)
Russert-Potatoe-Head got his job ’cause his dad is dead.
Hey Lukewarm Russert. It appears that McTurtle does not know WHEN a politician is consider a ” Lame Duck ” and neither do YOU !
lame duck
noun
North American
an official (especially the president) in the final period of office, ” AFTER ” the election of a successor.
Hey Cruz…….why don’t you move to dumbfuckastan ?
I have a family member who is a Special Agent for ICE…… They DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT GO DOOR TO DOOR LOOKING FOR UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.
Cruz is incompetent.
Every last one of the Republicans running for President are incompetent.
Alright, then. Let make sure they loose the Senate.
I guess President Hillary and the Democratic Senate can name Scalia replacement.
Good guess. These GOP are fools.
Good Afternoon TODVille!
More pictures and back story:
Great story!!
What an amazing story! She obviously was, is and always will be beautiful inside and out. Imagine volunteering 40 hours a week at the age of 106. I am totally in awe!!!
She acts more like 76 than 106.
Beautiful lady! I WANT those shoes!
Rubio Campaign Hires Top Koch Brothers Strategist »
Marc Short, the Koch brothers’ top political adviser in Washington and a trusted member of their inner circle for five years, is making a surprise move to the Marco Rubio campaign as a senior adviser as the Republican establishment ramps up efforts to stop Donald Trump.
Short — president of Freedom Partners, the Kochs’ umbrella political organization — will join the campaign in about a week and brings deep connections to the donor and grass-roots worlds.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/marc-short-marco-rubio-219664#ixzz411RaGCo1
So, in other words, the puppet Rubio is openly acknowledging his masters, the Koch Brothers. They will be the ones pulling his little strings.
Thank you, Edwina. This is truth.
I can understand M. Winterdale’s point. It is no longer enough to vote for the lesser evil. That person has to earn a vote.
It is unfortunate that the DNC and DWS got us into this mess where there were no other alternatives for voters to choose from. I guess they figured forcing a vote for the preferred candidate whether we liked it or not is perfectly fine. They took a chance that eventually folks would hold their noses and roll with it just like we always do. I guess we will all have to see how that strategy works out.
And no…I don’t think the rationale of “well we can’t let the GOP win” is enough of a scare tactic to drive voters to the polls. At some point, folks are going to say… fuggit. Look at the turn voter turn out. That is why you have folks now demanding that POTUS “run like he is the candidate.”
Sometimes we never seem learn and it won’t change unless sh*t hits the fan. Just saying.
check out Joy Reid’s TL re: GITMO
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid
:) :)
:)
She’s speaking the truth and slaying the devil! ;)
yup..
RT’d by our Ambassador to Ukraine ….
Brilliant.
The true is I would love to see those young, athletic revolutionaries who will leave their cell phones or tablets behind to charge against the obstructionists that populate Congress.
“The truth” (pardon me!)
But they’d do it for Bernie and not for Evil Incarnate PBO. Great progressives, these people are.
Right after he figures out why they didn’t deliver the NV primary for him…
:) Pretty sure MadameSoph wanted to see this…
DF! :-) :-) :-) Watched it last night live. Normally I DVR and watch the next day, but my early morning students are out of town this week so I attended the LA Italia Film Festival and got home just before Colbert.
CAN’T WAIT for the eventual Trump “Tribute to the Fallen” :-)
Me too. I bet it’s going to be a monumental ‘tribute’. :D
Quick hello! Had the pleasure of spending the day wit JoyBarbados. Will fill you in next week! TOD — bringing the world together! Thanks, Chips! Thanks, President Obama!
Wow, stay classy Bernie supporters:
Another reason why he will lose.
Even when I was open to him in the beginning, I wondered if he would stand up to the rigors and scrutiny of a national campaign. Either he is no leader at all, or this campaign reflects the petty ugliness within him. I’m so disappointed.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA
WOW! That was one of my all time favorite episodes of the little rascals.
LIVE NOW: US Sec’y of State John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Hold Joint Press Conference - http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=2
Hello Obama Faithful
If any of you are feeling frustrated by the Republican’s unwillingness to hold hearing on the President’s SCOTUS nomination, there are 2 ways you can help.
1. Help our team call into Arizona to invite folks to a March 3rd rally that will be pressuring Flake and MCain to #DoTheirJob.
These are easy calls to make since everyone on the list has already signed the petition supporting the President’s right to nominate a SCOTUS replacement. You will be calling OFA supporters. Send a note to [email protected] if you can make some calls between now and March 2nd. I will send you everything you need to make the call plus I am happy to offer lots of encouragement. :->
2. Call their offices.
Our talking point is fairly simple:
There is a constitutional obligation by the President to put forward a nominee and the Senate has constitutional obligation to provide fair hearing and up/down vote.
Arizona, Jeff Flake
DC office: 202 -224-4521
Local Offices: Phoenix Office - 602-840-1891 // Tucson Office - 520-575-8633
Arizona, John Mccain
DC office: 202 224-2235
Local Offices: Phoenix, (602) 952-2410 // Prescott Office (928) 445-0833 // Tucson Office(520) 670-6334
They need to be bombarded with calls!
will do and will pass on.
I don’t usually post cutesy stuff, unless it has dogs in it, but this is tres adorbs:
:D :D
<3 <3 <3
and Bobfr, they allowed it to happen. smdh!!
Congrats for your Au :star: , Axelfoley.
Good Evening.
Scalia never stated these issues publicly.
Once in a while, very rare, I get to say: “I told you do.” This is one of those times. On a post a while back, I said: “Scalia was a heart attack waiting to happen.” Love to be confirmed by doctors. I bet his arteries were so clogged they were solid. Obesity could be seen, and diabetes does not surprise me. Also, no one in his family clamored for an investigation. They were well aware of his health, or lack thereof.
Most families never want an autopsy in this situation. They well know the details of his death.
“After last-year break caused by escalation of Russian aggression on its territory, Ukraine is coming back to the Eurovision Song Contest, hosted this year by Stockholm,with a powerful composition‘1944’ telling about tragic Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars from Crimea in 1944.
Haunting and strong song of Crimean Tatar singer Susana Jamaladinova, who performs under the stage name Jamala, was chosen by majority of Ukrainian TV viewers yesterday at the national selection final.
“When strangers are coming… They come to your house, they kill you all and say ‘We’re not guilty’ ”.
Jamala’s composition is anything but a standard entertaining song of Eurovision format. This is a voice of Crimean Tatars, who again, after 70 years, have been exposed to Russian oppressionin Crimea. This is a voice of the whole Ukraine that has been suffering from Russian mean aggression on its territory. This is a plea to the whole world to live in peace and to be tolerant.”
bbl …. take care everyone ….
So i just sent upchuck grassley a love note urging him to allow our new scotus nominee a fair hearing and vote as per our constitution. WiW had a list of all members yesterday and i urge anyone reading this to do the same.
Guys, this is a serious must-read.
I read it. This is a totally flawed candidate, and that’s without considering his overwhelming baggage from the past.
Thanks, Bill R. Regardless of Hillary’s candidacy, I think Sanders is a disastrous candidate, far more flawed and uninformed (or unwilling to put facts against his zealotry) than I ever imagined.
WOw!
Oh…..Chips, you got a response from Susan Sarandon :)
Someone’s had a talking too….!!!
First, I saw the tweet from earlier today where Bernie quiets his rude crowd who regularly boos the mere mention of Clinton’s name and now Sarandon shows up in Chips timeline with a “clarification”. I think they are hearing the whispers of voices saying y’all have lost it over there in BernieLand. They’re trying to do a course correction.
Yup, she must have been getting an earful from many of her (now former) fans…plus she looks like a plain racist bully in that video…
She came across as a bully. That was ugly.
and Josh’s response:
They start out by calling President Obama exotic, and they end up not even allowing a vacancy on the SCOTUS to get a hearing.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/23/question-and-answer/
“I applaud the President for his continued determination to close this dark chapter of our history. Congress must thoroughly review this plan for how to move our national security and American values forward.”
Lost respect for two former favorites recently: Bill Cosby and Susan Sarandan. However, I remember wearing a tee shirt with the words on it in 2008 that said “Anyone, but Hillary” and now she is the candidate of my choice!