On This Day: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama pose for photos at the Instagram #GimmeFive photo booth in the East Room of the White House during the annual Easter Egg Roll, April 6, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Morning everyone, I haven’t been able to be around this week, my mother had a fall and badly fractured her arm so I’ve been back and forward to the hospital. She’s doing well now and is comfortable, so that’s a huge relief.
Endless thanks to Nerdy for doing all the posting, we’d be lost without her.
Heading back to the hospital now but will try to catch up with you all later today. Love and hugs.
omg ((((Chips & Mom)))) I am so sorry ~ I know that had to scare you both so much. Best wishes for a very speedy recovery to Mama Chips and take care of yourself too Chips. Sending out all my healing thoughts to you.
Oh, Chips, I’m so sorry. How frightening that must have been for her and for you. She’s going to need a lot of help to function with one arm for a while. Will she stay with you? Please tell her that all of us at TOD are pulling for her. Hope you’re doing okay.
I know that this must be so scary, Chips. Sending you and your mom thoughts of love, comfort, and strength. The village will be fine, the only thing that you need to do is to concentrate on your mom. Please tell her that another daughter of a beloved mother who is all the way in Florida is thinking of her and praying for her recovery.
Annieb posted this last week, and was wondering if you’ve got any local updates:
#JacksonvilleFL petitions for @FLOTUS visit 1st public food forest in NE Florida on Apr 23.#FLOTUS2SomersGardenhttps://t.co/evCh0PEMgj
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) April 1, 2025
IIRC, annieb posted an update that said FLOTUS’ garden tour later this month doesn’t include the Jacksonville area😦 .
From the article:
“Bringing Food Forests to Northeast Florida said the garden is open for people to pick from 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
‘This is a solution to food scarcity in northeast Florida. We have several food deserts here where people don’t have access to fruits and vegetables, and certainly not organic ones'”
The garden honors garden the life of 9-year-old Somer Thompson, who was murdered in 2009.
GM Chips, thanks for letting your online family know.
Relieved that Mama Chips is recovering, and JackieG is right, she’ll need help doing the simplest tasks, which will no doubt be very frustrating for her.
Healing energy for speedy recovery to our ((( blogmistress’ mother ))).
Dear Chipsticks, thanks for all you do on our behalf.
Sorry to hear about your momma. After breaking her wrist my mother reacted to a pain killer (long story) otherwise she’d have been OK. Love to you both and thanks again.
Oh my goodness Chips - sorry to hear about you mother’s accident, and glad that she’s recovering. Hope she continues to improve, and sending healing vibes and strength to both of you. Meanwhile, Nerdy has been doing a fabulous job here - we can’t thank her enough!!!
Sorry to hear your mom fell and is in hospital, hope she is able to recover quickly and return home. This must be the year if accidents and moms falling. My mom fell hit her head in Feb, an elderly friend of mine fell and hurt her knee last month and now your mom.
Oh man, Chips, what a scary event for you both. Between the hospital and the vet, you’ve had quite the round of terror lately. Please give mum a GENTLE hug from all of us. And keep her away from running down any plane stairwells as she heals!
The Cruz/Bernie wins in Wisconsin mean that: 1) the Bernie people will be insufferable today, even though his delegate haul was small; and 2) there will now likely be a brokered GOP convention since Republicans allocate delegates a different way and Cruz walked away with 33 last night. I believe that HRC now has 1300 delegates and ahead of her are the delegate rich, diverse, closed primary states that are favorable to her. The Democratic race is going to be over long before the Republican one, although Bernie is likely to hold on until the convention just to be a spoiler. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
GM JackieG, hope you’re on the road to recovery (though the recent Arctic blast probably hasn’t helped you😦 ).
Contested conventions can be riveting, but this year is reality’s version of “Dumb and Dumber.” To steal another title metaphor, “Fear and Loathing in Cleveland.”
HRC is finally starting to fight back. She let BS frame her and she had pivoted to the GE. Time to look and be strong, and start framing BS right back.
All the pundits are “advising” her not to piss off the BS supporters, to which I say…. b.s. They are going to whine anyway, they are delusional in their Bernie cult & their hatred of her, and many aren’t Dems anyway. Be a fighter, look strong. Don’t cede the field to BS.
we are not trying to piss off anyone…but it is time to take a stand for what is and what isn’t…and that is what i plan to do…fight on the issues and the facts…
that NYDN interview is rich with fight back material….
It may sound like a smear, but it unfortunately is a fact: Bernie is unfit and ill-prepared to be POTUS. He is a zealot with no interest in governance, although the taxpayers have paid his salary for three decades. He would be a disastrous POTUS. It’s time for Hillary to take the initiative to define him, instead of being defined by him.
Bernie is likely to hold on until the convention just to be a spoiler. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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The DNC….the President and the Hillary campaign…will be meeting to devise a plan when that time comes…because he could try to bust open the Convention…..he will not go quietly into the night!!!
The superdelegates are Democrats. Hillary is a Democrat, who has donated millions to help down ticket Dems. Bernie is NOT a Democrat and has donated zero to other Democrats. In what universe would the superdelegates switch to Bernie?
Post at BJ had Hillary sending a tweet of congratulations to Bernie while them on the other side were sending hate messages. She seems to be the only adult in this primary election.
Congrats to @BernieSanders on winning Wisconsin. To all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: Forward! -H
Why aren’t Bernie trying to help the down tickets cause if by some chance he were the nominee, he couldn’t get all the things done he is promising those young people without help from a Democratic Congress. Seem like to me Bernie might be in just for Bernie. I could be wrong.
He’s spending huge amounts of money on ad buys, etc. and to not much effect. I think it was Maddow, maybe, who asked him if he was going to start contributing to the Dems and he said he was focused on winning the nomination now. She asked about if he’d start later and he said maybe he’d have to see. So yeah it’s all for him and screw everyone else to put it crudely. So strategy it seems insane. I keep hearing what a good campaign he’s running but I think it’s a foolish, short-sighted campaign. Dirty tricks, bleeding through money and no thought to what he would need if he were the nominee- short from other Dems.
And many of them are also candidates themselves. They don’t want to run on a platform of marxist revolution, who will be shredded in one news cycle by the GOP for his marxist past.
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and Ireland-based Allergan Plc walked away from their $160 billion merger on Wednesday, a major win for President Barack Obama, who has been pushing to curb deals in which companies move overseas to save on taxes.
Pfizer said the decision was driven by new U.S. Treasury rules aimed at curbing such deals, called inversions. The merger would have allowed New York-based Pfizer to cut its tax bill by an estimated $1 billion annually by domiciling in Ireland, where tax rates are lower.
This is great! And it’s such a big story, affecting the business world and being about two big companies, that it should get lots of media play. We know that so many of President Obama’s successes are hidden or downplayed. I think this one will make a big splash. It also hits at the Sanders campaign issue “I’m the only one who cares about reining it Big Business/Pharma/etc. He’s all big talk (sometimes less than cogent talk) and no clue about action. Here is someone who doesn’t blow hot air, but quietly gets things done. One of the many things I’ve come to appreciate is how, when big actions can’t be taken, when the full frontal assault won’t work, President Obama finds ways to nibble around the edges, and those nibbles, in time, have big effects. He get very quiet and then, boom! Incremental change, baby! We will will be seeing positive, knock-on effects from many of his actions develop over the years ahead that we have no idea about now.
Republicans consider advantage of ‘losing with Cruz’
Nicolle Wallace, Republican strategist, talks with an MSNBC panel about the considerations being made within the Republican Party about how to supplant Donald Trump as the party’s choice for the nomination and whether it might actually be better to nominate Ted Cruz even if he loses.
In a rare one-on-one interview, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she’s “not even sure” that Bernie Sanders is a Democrat. During Politico’s Off Message podcast, she said: “He’s a relatively new Democrat, and, in fact, I’m not even sure he is one. He’s running as one. So I don’t know quite how to characterize him.” Clinton said she’s frustrated by what she called a “persistent, organized” effort to smear her political record. “I know that Senator Sanders spends a lot of time attacking my husband, attacking President Obama. I rarely hear him say anything negative about George W. Bush, who I think wrecked our economy,” she said. Clinton also said there wasn’t much difference between Trump and Ted Cruz, calling the Texan senator “a very, you know, mean-spirited guy.”
Duke Exec VP is accused of hitting a black worker with his car, calling her "Stupid Nigger" #DismantleDukePlantation https://t.co/SwYAz800pi— zellie (@zellieimani) April 06, 2025
US drugs giant Pfizer has scrapped a planned merger with Ireland’s Allergan amid plans to change US tax laws.
The decision comes two days after the US Treasury announced fresh plans to prevent deals known as “inversions”, where a US firm merges with a company in a country with a lower tax rate.
The Pfizer-Allergan deal, valued at $160bn (£113bn), would have been the biggest example of an “inversion”.
It would also have been the biggest pharmaceutical deal in history.
Pfizer said the move was “driven by the actions announced” by the US Treasury.
Ian Read, Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive, said: “Pfizer approached this transaction from a position of strength and viewed the potential combination as an accelerator of existing strategies.”
He added that the company could look at splitting off part of the business.
GOOD MORNING TOD FAMILY…I HAVE DECIDED THAT MY TOILET SEAT COVER DOESN’T LOOK SO BAD SINCE THEY’VE PLASTERED CRUZ’S MUG ALL OVER FLATSCREENS EVERYWHERE!…YOU CRUZ..YOU LOSE…IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT!
RAN A CHECK ON MY NEW NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR..SO FAR..2 ARRESTS FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND ONCE FOR RESISTING ARREST..HE ISN’T GONNA’ LIVE LONG NEAR MY KITCHEN!
I HAVE TO KICK IT UP A NOTCH AND GET SOME ENERGY MOVING AROUND HERE TO FINISH CLOSET PACKING…I DIALED 1-800-HOUSE FAIRY AND NOONE RESPONDED..I MISS MY TOD FAMILY BUT ONCE I AM SETTLED I CAN GET BACK TO MY MINISTRY WORK…WHICH IS WHY I AM MOVING IN THE FIRST PLACE!..MY LOVE AND BLESSINGS TO ALL………………<3
Continuing on the theme of a transformational Presidency (see my comment to Meta upthread re: Pfizer-Allergan abandoned merger “don’t mess with the White House” quote):
"Wind and solar have grown seemingly unstoppable." by @tsrandall via @MikeDorning https://t.co/2sbEXhKLgm pic.twitter.com/Zr3tgHZSzR
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) April 6, 2025
Wind & Solar Crushing Fossil Fuels. Investment in Renewable Power Cap Beats Fossil 2 to 1. https://t.co/FgECcHd6Gv pic.twitter.com/ROLWnSaWk6
— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) April 6, 2025
If the GOP had any sense, and really wanted to gain traction with American voters, they would not have heeded McConnell’s obstruction pledge in Jan 2008. Instead GOP caved to bigotry and fear.
PBO desperately would like to retrain those dependent on fossil fuels in states like Oklahoma and West Virginia, would love to see those workers retrained in tech (e.g., hardware repair if they’re not interested in sitting at a desk all day) but GOP won’t allow the government to subsidize this training.
Talk about cutting off your nose despite your face (in this case, screwing their constituency).
Producer Debra Martin Chase Sets Up ‘The Black Calhouns’ at ABC as Potential Miniseries
Photo of Tambay A. Obenson
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act
April 5, 2025 at 7:06PM
In author Gail Lumet Buckley’s ambitious “The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family,” the daughter of actress Lena Horne delves deep into her family history, detailing their experiences from the Civil War to the Civil Rights era, starting with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave who used the rare advantage of his education to become a successful businessman in post-war Atlanta. And from there, the two branches of her family that followed: one that stayed in the South, and the other that settled in New York City.
Buckley examines these lives and the major events throughout American history that they lived through. From Atlanta during Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, to New York City during the Harlem Renaissance, and then from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement, combining personal and national history for a unique portrait of 6 generations in times of trial and triumph throughout American history.
That sounds fascinating, rikyrah! I’m putting it on my list of books to read when I retire in June. It’s already quite high😛 and is one of the few things that’s helping me to resign myself to retirement.
Guess who said this? I’m really, really going to miss him. Really badly.
“After all, it’s easy to articulate a belligerent foreign policy based solely on unilateral military action, a policy that sounds tough and acts dumb; it’s harder to craft a foreign policy that’s tough and smart. It’s easy to dismantle government safety nets; it’s harder to transform those safety nets so that they work for people and can be paid for. It’s easy to embrace a theological absolutism; it’s harder to find the right balance between the legitimate role of faith in our lives and the demands of our civic religion. But that’s our job. And I firmly believe that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, or oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose.”
df, I found the article. You gave be enough information to find the article. Thanks>> FYI: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_02/barack_obama_on_the_john_rober059644.php#
Yes, I’ve been there, Chips, my 95 year old Mom has a similiar fall but the good news she did get better, I hope that you Mom’s healing goes as well. Blessing to her from all of us.
US drugs giant Pfizer has scrapped a planned merger with Ireland’s Allergan amid plans to change US tax laws.
The decision comes two days after the US Treasury announced fresh plans to prevent deals known as “inversions”, where a US firm merges with a company in a country with a lower tax rate.
The Pfizer-Allergan deal, valued at $160bn (£113bn), would have been the biggest example of an “inversion”.
It would also have been the biggest pharmaceutical deal in history.
Pfizer said the move was “driven by the actions announced” by the US Treasury.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35974998
See bs and bs bots? This is how you kneecap big corps, not with bs rhetoric.
I chanced over to Old Orange, thinking perhaps this breaking news might be front-paged, but nary a peep, not on the front-page or anywhere on the site. Instead a gaggle of diaries celebrating the pyrrhic Bernie Sanders’ victory last night in WI. Sanders’ outspent HRC 3-1 in that state, and all he got to show for it was a bunch of votes from privileged but clueless Millennials, self-titled “Independents” who are really Republicans of the Snowden-Greenwald-Uygur extraction, and a net gain of 10 delegates which did little or nothing to shift the delegate map or his path to victory as the Dem Presidential nominee.,
But delegate-rich OH, won by HRC with the same margin, is not supposed to be important. Even though OH has double the delegates of WI.
And in case no one has mentioned it, outside of the urban areas, Wisconsinites are gun nuts; so Bernie was a shoo-in. That, and as you said, all the fake GOP who either voted their libertarian b.s. or wanted the weakest nominee (that’s what happened in IL).
“For some political observers, the senator’s difficulty in providing direct answers to some questions reinforced their belief that he lacks a concrete plan to implement his domestic agenda and is ill-prepared to handle the global challenges he would face as president.
“If Hillary [Clinton] gave answers like this to [an editorial] board, she would be crucified,” tweeted Mark Halperin, the Bloomberg television host and co-author of “Game Change.””
White House.gov
Morning everyone, I haven’t been able to be around this week, my mother had a fall and badly fractured her arm so I’ve been back and forward to the hospital. She’s doing well now and is comfortable, so that’s a huge relief.
Endless thanks to Nerdy for doing all the posting, we’d be lost without her.
Heading back to the hospital now but will try to catch up with you all later today. Love and hugs.
omg ((((Chips & Mom)))) I am so sorry ~ I know that had to scare you both so much. Best wishes for a very speedy recovery to Mama Chips and take care of yourself too Chips. Sending out all my healing thoughts to you.
Oh, Chips, I’m so sorry. How frightening that must have been for her and for you. She’s going to need a lot of help to function with one arm for a while. Will she stay with you? Please tell her that all of us at TOD are pulling for her. Hope you’re doing okay.
SO SORRY CHIPS ABOUT YOUR MOTHER’S ACCIDENT…SENDING PRAYERS HER WAY!
I am sorry to hear about your moms fall. Glad she is doing well. I will be sending positive thoughts your way.
Sorry about your mother, Chips. Sending prayers and positive thoughts her way.
I know that this must be so scary, Chips. Sending you and your mom thoughts of love, comfort, and strength. The village will be fine, the only thing that you need to do is to concentrate on your mom. Please tell her that another daughter of a beloved mother who is all the way in Florida is thinking of her and praying for her recovery.
GM CEB.
Annieb posted this last week, and was wondering if you’ve got any local updates:
IIRC, annieb posted an update that said FLOTUS’ garden tour later this month doesn’t include the Jacksonville area😦 .
From the article:
“Bringing Food Forests to Northeast Florida said the garden is open for people to pick from 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
‘This is a solution to food scarcity in northeast Florida. We have several food deserts here where people don’t have access to fruits and vegetables, and certainly not organic ones'”
The garden honors garden the life of 9-year-old Somer Thompson, who was murdered in 2009.
Happy, healing, positive thoughts for you and MamaChips:) Hope that she’s feeling all back to normal very soon:)
GM Chips, thanks for letting your online family know.
Relieved that Mama Chips is recovering, and JackieG is right, she’ll need help doing the simplest tasks, which will no doubt be very frustrating for her.
Healing energy for speedy recovery to our ((( blogmistress’ mother ))).
Lordy be - my message of Love & hugs went nowhere. Probably in that spam place where WP sends me from time to time.
Take care of you both.
Dear Chipsticks, thanks for all you do on our behalf.
Sorry to hear about your momma. After breaking her wrist my mother reacted to a pain killer (long story) otherwise she’d have been OK. Love to you both and thanks again.
My dear Ms Chips!! So sorry to hear about your Mom, wishing her a speedy recovery! 😕
Oh my goodness Chips - sorry to hear about you mother’s accident, and glad that she’s recovering. Hope she continues to improve, and sending healing vibes and strength to both of you. Meanwhile, Nerdy has been doing a fabulous job here - we can’t thank her enough!!!
Sorry to hear about your mother Chips. I hope she feel better soon.
Love and endless prayers for your Mom and hugs for you Chips 💕
And yes, we do appreciate NW 🌹
Sorry to hear your mom fell and is in hospital, hope she is able to recover quickly and return home. This must be the year if accidents and moms falling. My mom fell hit her head in Feb, an elderly friend of mine fell and hurt her knee last month and now your mom.
Oh man, Chips, what a scary event for you both. Between the hospital and the vet, you’ve had quite the round of terror lately. Please give mum a GENTLE hug from all of us. And keep her away from running down any plane stairwells as she heals!
Wishing your mother a speedy recovery, Chips!!!!
Thank you for caring so much for all of us, as well!!!!
{{{{{Chips and Mom}}}}}}
{{{{{ Chipsticks and Mum }}}}} _/|\_
ohhhhh …Ms Chips…please give Momma Chips my best….i hope that she has a speedy recovery…Huggs and Kisses…
Sorry to hear this. I hope she has a speedy recovery.
So Very Sorry to hear about your Mom, Chips.
{{{{{❤ Mama❤ Chips❤ }}}}}
Congrats on 1st Chips. Gm Danny and TOD Family.
Chips, prayers sent to you and your Mom. Take care of her and yourself. (((hugs))) Don’t know ow to send flowers but now, they are on the way.:-)
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Wednesday morning.
Chips, I’m sorry to hear about your mom. I pray that she has a speedy recovery. You be safe and well.
To all, I hope you display an altruistic, magnanimous, and an unselfish spirit toward others today. ❤ ❤❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
The Cruz/Bernie wins in Wisconsin mean that: 1) the Bernie people will be insufferable today, even though his delegate haul was small; and 2) there will now likely be a brokered GOP convention since Republicans allocate delegates a different way and Cruz walked away with 33 last night. I believe that HRC now has 1300 delegates and ahead of her are the delegate rich, diverse, closed primary states that are favorable to her. The Democratic race is going to be over long before the Republican one, although Bernie is likely to hold on until the convention just to be a spoiler. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
GM JackieG, hope you’re on the road to recovery (though the recent Arctic blast probably hasn’t helped you😦 ).
Contested conventions can be riveting, but this year is reality’s version of “Dumb and Dumber.” To steal another title metaphor, “Fear and Loathing in Cleveland.”
HRC is finally starting to fight back. She let BS frame her and she had pivoted to the GE. Time to look and be strong, and start framing BS right back.
All the pundits are “advising” her not to piss off the BS supporters, to which I say…. b.s. They are going to whine anyway, they are delusional in their Bernie cult & their hatred of her, and many aren’t Dems anyway. Be a fighter, look strong. Don’t cede the field to BS.
i agree with you…57…they are not DEMs anyway…
we are not trying to piss off anyone…but it is time to take a stand for what is and what isn’t…and that is what i plan to do…fight on the issues and the facts…
that NYDN interview is rich with fight back material….
It may sound like a smear, but it unfortunately is a fact: Bernie is unfit and ill-prepared to be POTUS. He is a zealot with no interest in governance, although the taxpayers have paid his salary for three decades. He would be a disastrous POTUS. It’s time for Hillary to take the initiative to define him, instead of being defined by him.
Bernie is likely to hold on until the convention just to be a spoiler. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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The DNC….the President and the Hillary campaign…will be meeting to devise a plan when that time comes…because he could try to bust open the Convention…..he will not go quietly into the night!!!
Good Morning, Everyone
Good Morning TODVille!
Well wishes for Chips’s mother on her recovery.
The superdelegates are Democrats. Hillary is a Democrat, who has donated millions to help down ticket Dems. Bernie is NOT a Democrat and has donated zero to other Democrats. In what universe would the superdelegates switch to Bernie?
Post at BJ had Hillary sending a tweet of congratulations to Bernie while them on the other side were sending hate messages. She seems to be the only adult in this primary election.
Why aren’t Bernie trying to help the down tickets cause if by some chance he were the nominee, he couldn’t get all the things done he is promising those young people without help from a Democratic Congress. Seem like to me Bernie might be in just for Bernie. I could be wrong.
You’re right, Bella. He’s in it for himself. He’s also NOT a Democrat and has NO loyalty to the party.
He’s spending huge amounts of money on ad buys, etc. and to not much effect. I think it was Maddow, maybe, who asked him if he was going to start contributing to the Dems and he said he was focused on winning the nomination now. She asked about if he’d start later and he said maybe he’d have to see. So yeah it’s all for him and screw everyone else to put it crudely. So strategy it seems insane. I keep hearing what a good campaign he’s running but I think it’s a foolish, short-sighted campaign. Dirty tricks, bleeding through money and no thought to what he would need if he were the nominee- short from other Dems.
That’s supposed to say “support” from other Dems.: P
Well said, JackieG!
And many of them are also candidates themselves. They don’t want to run on a platform of marxist revolution, who will be shredded in one news cycle by the GOP for his marxist past.
Thanks, Obama!!:)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-allergan-m-a-pfizer-idUSKCN0X3188
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and Ireland-based Allergan Plc walked away from their $160 billion merger on Wednesday, a major win for President Barack Obama, who has been pushing to curb deals in which companies move overseas to save on taxes.
Pfizer said the decision was driven by new U.S. Treasury rules aimed at curbing such deals, called inversions. The merger would have allowed New York-based Pfizer to cut its tax bill by an estimated $1 billion annually by domiciling in Ireland, where tax rates are lower.
Good news. Thanks, Df.
This is great! And it’s such a big story, affecting the business world and being about two big companies, that it should get lots of media play. We know that so many of President Obama’s successes are hidden or downplayed. I think this one will make a big splash. It also hits at the Sanders campaign issue “I’m the only one who cares about reining it Big Business/Pharma/etc. He’s all big talk (sometimes less than cogent talk) and no clue about action. Here is someone who doesn’t blow hot air, but quietly gets things done. One of the many things I’ve come to appreciate is how, when big actions can’t be taken, when the full frontal assault won’t work, President Obama finds ways to nibble around the edges, and those nibbles, in time, have big effects. He get very quiet and then, boom! Incremental change, baby! We will will be seeing positive, knock-on effects from many of his actions develop over the years ahead that we have no idea about now.
to Mama bt
signed danny (& amk)
CALL YOUR SENATORS. CALL YOUR SENATORS. CALL YOUR SENATORS! Enough with these games!
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-garland-idUSKCN0X228I
hmmph
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 4/5/16
Republicans consider advantage of ‘losing with Cruz’
Nicolle Wallace, Republican strategist, talks with an MSNBC panel about the considerations being made within the Republican Party about how to supplant Donald Trump as the party’s choice for the nomination and whether it might actually be better to nominate Ted Cruz even if he loses.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/04/06/clinton-doubts-sanders-is-even-a-dem.html
In a rare one-on-one interview, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she’s “not even sure” that Bernie Sanders is a Democrat. During Politico’s Off Message podcast, she said: “He’s a relatively new Democrat, and, in fact, I’m not even sure he is one. He’s running as one. So I don’t know quite how to characterize him.” Clinton said she’s frustrated by what she called a “persistent, organized” effort to smear her political record. “I know that Senator Sanders spends a lot of time attacking my husband, attacking President Obama. I rarely hear him say anything negative about George W. Bush, who I think wrecked our economy,” she said. Clinton also said there wasn’t much difference between Trump and Ted Cruz, calling the Texan senator “a very, you know, mean-spirited guy.”
Sounds like the gloves are coming off.
Yup, speak the truth. If she loses for “telling it like it is” (the real and true version), so be it. She has got nothing to lose really.
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DISMANTLE INDEED!
GOD’S JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL MY FRIENDS…RACISTS ARE GOING TO FIND THEMSELVES IN A STATE OF..PICK ONE!
Wishing Mama Chips a speedy recovery.
That dog’s fur looks like velvet!
Pfizer abandons $160bn Allergan deal
US drugs giant Pfizer has scrapped a planned merger with Ireland’s Allergan amid plans to change US tax laws.
The decision comes two days after the US Treasury announced fresh plans to prevent deals known as “inversions”, where a US firm merges with a company in a country with a lower tax rate.
The Pfizer-Allergan deal, valued at $160bn (£113bn), would have been the biggest example of an “inversion”.
It would also have been the biggest pharmaceutical deal in history.
Pfizer said the move was “driven by the actions announced” by the US Treasury.
Ian Read, Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive, said: “Pfizer approached this transaction from a position of strength and viewed the potential combination as an accelerator of existing strategies.”
He added that the company could look at splitting off part of the business.
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL..I’LL SNEEZE TO THAT!
Ok, who came up with the idea of Capital One commercials with Sam Jackson, Spike and Barkeley?
BWA HA HA HA HA H HA HA HA HA
Sorry about your Mom. Sending healing thoughts.
G’morning Chips, Nerdy & TOD! Happy Wednesday everyone
GOOD MORNING TOD FAMILY…I HAVE DECIDED THAT MY TOILET SEAT COVER DOESN’T LOOK SO BAD SINCE THEY’VE PLASTERED CRUZ’S MUG ALL OVER FLATSCREENS EVERYWHERE!…YOU CRUZ..YOU LOSE…IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT!
Good morning, dear Chips and TODers.
ICYMI, yesterday’s announcement from PBO has already resulted in a huge victory!
GM Meta.
For those Berniebro emoprogs who whine that this President has done nothing…
(more downthread…)
Great tweet! Thank you.
RAN A CHECK ON MY NEW NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR..SO FAR..2 ARRESTS FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND ONCE FOR RESISTING ARREST..HE ISN’T GONNA’ LIVE LONG NEAR MY KITCHEN!
Stay safe, Sue!
Good morning TOD
Riddle me this…scary.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/04/06/3766739/gun-groups-woo-latinos/
LOLOLzzzzz!!!!
😀😀😀😀😀😀
Especially since DC was busted by the #PanamaPapers expose😉
Funny.
LOL.
Thank you, Bob. How I wish voices like hers could be heard throughout the world. American young people, especially, have to hear stories like hers.
Wishing all of you a fine day ….
#TrustBarack
AMEN INDEED…………………………….
❤
I HAVE TO KICK IT UP A NOTCH AND GET SOME ENERGY MOVING AROUND HERE TO FINISH CLOSET PACKING…I DIALED 1-800-HOUSE FAIRY AND NOONE RESPONDED..I MISS MY TOD FAMILY BUT ONCE I AM SETTLED I CAN GET BACK TO MY MINISTRY WORK…WHICH IS WHY I AM MOVING IN THE FIRST PLACE!..MY LOVE AND BLESSINGS TO ALL………………<3
GM TODville.
Continuing on the theme of a transformational Presidency (see my comment to Meta upthread re: Pfizer-Allergan abandoned merger “don’t mess with the White House” quote):
If the GOP had any sense, and really wanted to gain traction with American voters, they would not have heeded McConnell’s obstruction pledge in Jan 2008. Instead GOP caved to bigotry and fear.
PBO desperately would like to retrain those dependent on fossil fuels in states like Oklahoma and West Virginia, would love to see those workers retrained in tech (e.g., hardware repair if they’re not interested in sitting at a desk all day) but GOP won’t allow the government to subsidize this training.
Talk about cutting off your nose despite your face (in this case, screwing their constituency).
For displaced workers in the energy sector, this is what electing Dem Reps and Senators can do on your behalf:
From Mar 1:
That would be another, better, choice for Sanders to push, rather than free college for all.
Producer Debra Martin Chase Sets Up ‘The Black Calhouns’ at ABC as Potential Miniseries
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By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act
April 5, 2025 at 7:06PM
In author Gail Lumet Buckley’s ambitious “The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family,” the daughter of actress Lena Horne delves deep into her family history, detailing their experiences from the Civil War to the Civil Rights era, starting with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave who used the rare advantage of his education to become a successful businessman in post-war Atlanta. And from there, the two branches of her family that followed: one that stayed in the South, and the other that settled in New York City.
Buckley examines these lives and the major events throughout American history that they lived through. From Atlanta during Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, to New York City during the Harlem Renaissance, and then from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement, combining personal and national history for a unique portrait of 6 generations in times of trial and triumph throughout American history.
That sounds fascinating, rikyrah! I’m putting it on my list of books to read when I retire in June. It’s already quite high😛 and is one of the few things that’s helping me to resign myself to retirement.
COMING UP: Hillary Clinton Delivers Remarks at the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia, PA - http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=2
Guess who said this? I’m really, really going to miss him. Really badly.
“After all, it’s easy to articulate a belligerent foreign policy based solely on unilateral military action, a policy that sounds tough and acts dumb; it’s harder to craft a foreign policy that’s tough and smart. It’s easy to dismantle government safety nets; it’s harder to transform those safety nets so that they work for people and can be paid for. It’s easy to embrace a theological absolutism; it’s harder to find the right balance between the legitimate role of faith in our lives and the demands of our civic religion. But that’s our job. And I firmly believe that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, or oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose.”
Good morning df, do you have a link to that statement made by President Obama? I would like to tweet that as often as possible.
Sorry:) it was from a post by Nancy that was at Washington Monthly…. I’d bring it here , but I don’t know how to do that on my phone
df, I found the article. You gave be enough information to find the article. Thanks>> FYI: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_02/barack_obama_on_the_john_rober059644.php#
The adult, or the 2 year old having a tantrum? No question.
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/04/06/concession-compare-contrast-plus-that-train-wreck-sanders-interview/
He deserved this and then some.
This guy.
Meta, here is my reply to her:
Thx, RanMan!
Sending healing wishes for your mom, Chips.
Yes, I’ve been there, Chips, my 95 year old Mom has a similiar fall but the good news she did get better, I hope that you Mom’s healing goes as well. Blessing to her from all of us.
It is a done deal. We know what it is. Everything else is noise.
US drugs giant Pfizer has scrapped a planned merger with Ireland’s Allergan amid plans to change US tax laws.
The decision comes two days after the US Treasury announced fresh plans to prevent deals known as “inversions”, where a US firm merges with a company in a country with a lower tax rate.
The Pfizer-Allergan deal, valued at $160bn (£113bn), would have been the biggest example of an “inversion”.
It would also have been the biggest pharmaceutical deal in history.
Pfizer said the move was “driven by the actions announced” by the US Treasury.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35974998
See bs and bs bots? This is how you kneecap big corps, not with bs rhetoric.
Exactly. President Obama goes at a problem from all side keeps quiet, until BOOM!
Sanders can’d keep his mouth shut, thus revealing he knows nothing.
the kenyan quietly busts a 160 bn shell game and the emmessem is fixated on know-nothing blowhards.
I chanced over to Old Orange, thinking perhaps this breaking news might be front-paged, but nary a peep, not on the front-page or anywhere on the site. Instead a gaggle of diaries celebrating the pyrrhic Bernie Sanders’ victory last night in WI. Sanders’ outspent HRC 3-1 in that state, and all he got to show for it was a bunch of votes from privileged but clueless Millennials, self-titled “Independents” who are really Republicans of the Snowden-Greenwald-Uygur extraction, and a net gain of 10 delegates which did little or nothing to shift the delegate map or his path to victory as the Dem Presidential nominee.,
That’s why he doesn’t have any money to give down ticket Dems.
But delegate-rich OH, won by HRC with the same margin, is not supposed to be important. Even though OH has double the delegates of WI.
And in case no one has mentioned it, outside of the urban areas, Wisconsinites are gun nuts; so Bernie was a shoo-in. That, and as you said, all the fake GOP who either voted their libertarian b.s. or wanted the weakest nominee (that’s what happened in IL).
Bs & bots would rather yell than govern.
Besides BS proved in the NYDN interview that he hasn’t a clue how federal agencies work.
He’s gotta go. Soon.
This is an excellent read:
I know that he can handle the heat, but I’ll say a prayer for my POTUS.
So Sander’s disastrous interview is getting some media play anyway. I thought maybe they’d bury it to keep his campaign going a little longer.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/05/politics/bernie-sanders-interview-new-york-daily-news/
“For some political observers, the senator’s difficulty in providing direct answers to some questions reinforced their belief that he lacks a concrete plan to implement his domestic agenda and is ill-prepared to handle the global challenges he would face as president.
“If Hillary [Clinton] gave answers like this to [an editorial] board, she would be crucified,” tweeted Mark Halperin, the Bloomberg television host and co-author of “Game Change.””
Good morning Chips, I am so sorry about your mom. Wishing her a speedy recovery!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/04/06/chat-away-806/