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I missed the final vote in the House on the amendment to keep military pay funded during the shutdown. Else where in cyberdom, I’m reading that all the House Dems voted for that provision. I guess I should go and do the googly woogly to verify, but thought maybe someone here may know.
Congrats on 1st cookemom.
Wooooot! It’s Cookem! /waving/ 😛
🙂
Buon Giorno!
Hi UT, I think I am going to have to get off the tubes for awhile. It is so damned depressing. Didn’t watch any shows either.
Roberta, take care. That’s what I had to do during the Sandy Hook shootings. Even sites sympathetic to the victims and gun control became too much for me. Those hugs are for you.
{{{{hugz}}}}}
Morning all. What a crazy night watching the drunk representatives playing with the lives of the American people.
Heard about the smell of booze on the floor – that true?
It appeared that way. People were hollering and slurring their words. They also partied before the session so we can draw our own conclusions
Heard from Smartypants. She has a a message on Twitter to her link explaining what is going on. Wish er the best. She is going to need all the help and blessing she can get from all of us. Thanks.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PBO The Soul in Action. Help is at hand.
Her tweets are protected; I saw mention on Twitter that she’s facing some difficulties.
None of my business to know what she’s going through, but wishing her the best to get her through her struggle.
She performs a valuable service to sanity on the web.
What a perfect way to help everyone step away from the craziness for awhile and remember that we are all need a little more love and appreciation. Great idea UT!
Thanks!
Thank yoooooooou for the huggy post UT, sweet!!!!
You’re welcome Chiparoo. I figured, after the week we’ve had, we could use some smiles.
+ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!
VC – Since you said the sun’s keeping you awake anyway, would ya like to join me in “our” morning bike-ridin’ exercise? Found a song for us, but then I noticed this beautiful post from UT and it kinda fits all of those photos, too (even the ones where it looks as though the Prez is gonna kiss our Joey right on the mouth – hey, Mr. President, me first!):
Thank you, I actually paused to ride to that! It seemed long tho as I was eager to get back. 😀
Not too long! 🙂
Hey, I’m not complaining, as that ‘gentle’ reminder encouraged the only exercise I’ve done in a week. So my body is appreciative and my mind feels marginally less guilty. 😀
I felt marginally less guilty with my own lack of performance while gently nudging you! 🙂
We are quite an exercise team! /beaming with pride/
Ha! Yes.We.Are.
oh hey I just saw this tweet go by this could be helpful for someone
Boehner is speaker in name only. He will go down as the worse speaker ever. I hope his family is proud of him, cause no one else is. And that deceased Dad of Boehner who must have been crying out of proud, has to be crying from shame.
I love the respect between the President, VP, First Lady and Second Lady.
hey anyone from Texas here – this may interest you
Loving those hugs, Ms Utal!
(btw- anyone ever tell you that drivers can slow down so their touring passengers can ‘oooh and aaaah’ at the beautiful scenery every now and then?) 😀 😀
Oh, “false memories”? AKA “lies”?
Don’t you just ‘love’ the euphemisms they come up with to avoid calling GOPs liars!
Yes, and it makes ’em liars, too! Sad.
I was hoping when Cruz and even Chuck Todd deny something they obviously did that tweeters and U-Tubes would flood the Internet, phones, whatever with clips of them actually saying it as Tim Russert used to do in his interviews.
Spread the word!
I came back to the last post and added this. I’ll bring it over. It is a great article to understand Kansas.
I just found this article from the Boston Globe written back in April about a community in Kansas. This is the area I grew up in and still have lots of relatives. Everything he says is true. It is very frustrating for me to go back to family reunions and keep my mouth shut. This is why we are having so much trouble with the Tea Party. No open minds. The picture could be of my hometown.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/04/03/conservative-kansas-district-cheers-its-congressman-for-being-thorn-side/CFIcoTVhIzzPMUAYoSVh1J/story.html
I spent two years in Kansas while cookeman was in the Air Force. I feared that I wouldn’t have any brain cells left by the time I got back home. The mindsets were not open for any new way of thinking, and not just on social issues either.
I so understand what you are saying, FayPax is there now and we had the same conversation. I love my family, I wouldn’t trade my growing up there for anything, but it is hard to be there for any length of time. They really don’t believe they are hurting the whole country and they consider themselves good Christians.
When I think of Kansas, I think of our President’s mother. How tragic it was for her to die at 52, without knowing that her son’s greatness was confirmed by the American people.
What a difference she would have made while he is President — no birther nonsense, her being able to address the concerns of Kansas, Missouri, and other places in the nation’s heartland.
I guess its true that greatness is tested by events in life, and our President had to endure being an orphan when he campaigned and assumed office. Just a shame that his mother and grandmother couldn’t have been along for his first inauguration and beyond.
Here’s an apt quote.
And I took the liberty of tweeting this article:
Thank you so much Arapaho! That makes me cry, I do so love Kansas of my childhood, so many wonderful memories. But now I cry from frustration. Have you read the books about PBO’s mother? (Can’t remember the title). I so understand the Kansas part. I would have loved for her to have lived to see PBO as President. But for whatever reason his close “white” relatives are all gone.
Love the Will Rogers’ quote. He had so many true quotes!
Health care tweets:
Waving from abu dhabi aeroporto. Have you all been good? Unlike the rethugs?
Hey bt, 2400 bucks or the blog gets it. Also. Too. 5 bombay sapphire. Stat.
And thanks vc, for having my back against bt’s virulent attack.
5 huh? I kinda thought you’d have more 😉
Safe travels Amk!
that’s 5 x 1 liter bottles which the bt owes me. Along with the other money.
Thanks. Another 5 hour flight to home. Yay.
OMG you just made me snort with laughter. “see ya” when you get back to home base.
Just saw this, after asking elsewhere where you are. I’m hopping all over the place today – very confusing! Enjoy the last 5 hours in the air and try to sober up, please! I wouldn’t want you to be too sloshed to recognize Mrs. Amk immediately.
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
You are TOO much!! Safe travels, crazy man!
Iranians like Americans, which is more than can be said for the GOP:
And I found this funny:
Love the tweets about how the Iranians feel!
The Iranians are amazing people.
They are at the heart of Western Civilization as we know it (the Europeans were the barbarians when Persia was establishing civilzation and culture).
I so hate GWBush for so many things, but his Axis of Evil was so reprehensible.
Did you see The Daily Show when Jason Jones visited Iran around the time of the 2009 demonstrations? Of course he interviewed mostly education Tehranians, but it was heartwarming (hope this is the right clip, having connectivity problems now, unable to confirm).
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-23-2009/jason-jones–behind-the-veil—ayatollah-you-so
And for another perspective on how ancient Europeans were viewed:
Thank you for this wealth of info! I shall pass it along!
I LOVE that Cartoon.
It is Netanyahu 101.
bbc fp news is awful with so many innocent people getting killed in nigeria, pakistan and iraq.
Hey Amk bro, safe travels😀
Thanks zizi. I am off. See you later.
And how do they negotiate a CR/debt debt, by giving the radical extreme racists Tea Party Republicans everything they want.
Hell No. If that is what going to happen President Obama might as well not won the election.
How come Bill Clinton didn’t negotiate to prevent the last Republican shut down. These media idiots, like Mark Halperin, think that we are all afflicted with Romnesia!
OK I gotta go do chores and get things ship shape around here. BBL
Dear Chips and ‘old’ TODobots:
Sharing a quick ‘hello’ from CJ Julisch, who asked me to say hi a while ago! Though she is preparing for hip surgery in a couple of days, CJ is otherwise okay, lurking from time to time. Be sure to send her some virtual good wishes (for) tomorrow – more or less the day of her surgery.
Best wishes, CJ. Here is to your coming out of surgery kicking.
You FINALLY back, safe and sound?
Not yet. Now in abu dhabi. Next flight in 30. Home in another 6.
Okay
I’m no good at time zones – she’s in Switzerland and her surgery will be on Oct. 1st. Just send her good wishes in the next couple of days, okay? 😀
Time difference between USA and Switzerland is:
+6:0 hours
Switzerland is 6:0 hours ahead of USA
Okey-dokey & TY, Layla. I will try ro remember.😀
Thank you VC!! Wishing you the very best CJ Julisch, hope the operation goes perfectly.
Fellow addicts, I come to praise Caes…oops! I come to say ‘I’ll be back’. “The heights by great men, reached and kept, were not attained by sudden…….er……where did that come from? I tell you family, I’m definitely heading headlong towards senili…..
Too funny! By the way, there is no “senility” as the road gets longer, despite what you hear … I prefer to think of it more as “being misunderstood” by the “poor babies.”
Ted Cruz has a 1 million dollar Loan from the Senate Credit Union…..
I was just looking around at his Personal Finances on Open Secrets….
GA TODers.
What?
His wife works for Goldman Sachs or so. I wonder how a senator gets $1M in a loan with his salary?
He is worth millions already.
So true. Nixon had Impeachment over his head. John Boehner has Michele Bachmann, Virginia Foxx, Rafael Edward Cruz, etc over his head.
Actually, Forus, I’m wondering about the 20 percent. How could anyone, except possibly his mother, approve of Boehner? I’ll be even his wife is sick of him.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dead-including-intruders-pa-home-invasion-20406983
Another day, another senseless killing that is routinely found in USA.
A couple broke into a Pennsylvania home and killed the woman’s mother and brother before being shot to death by her father, the culmination of a long-running feud fueled by what a relative said Saturday was the woman’s “hatred” for her family.
State police said the home invasion happened Friday night in Ashville, a rural community about 40 miles southwest of State College in central Pennsylvania.
New post!
https://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/29/dawn-of-a-revolution-in-health-care/
John Boehner is now blaming the Senate for not coming back to vote today.
Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening my TOD family. I have been trying to catch up with everything. I was up very late last evening, , and that was a mistake, but I had difficulty sleeping after viewing the clown show. I dislike these people so much that I need serious prayer, TOD family.
Then I went through the daily mail, and stayed up reading my Part D plan for 2014. Another headache, but will get some more information next week via phone convos. It never ends.
I did a little too much, but that is who I am. Beautiful experience at the Hair Salon. I was able to talk to the grandchild of my hair-stylist about college. Show her how to get infor. from the Dept. of Edu. on different areas of concerns. It was so rewarding. Left my personal number with her grandmother to call me anytime, day or night to get more information if needed. Spreading goodness of all of the hard work POB has done.
Then drove my ‘fast’ self to the mall to shop at my favorite tea shop, Teavana. Put down $400.00 to the penny. It was nice to get my supply. Great place for tea lovers. After my shop visit, hit the gas to come home and noticed my PSI was low on tires. Another prayer for a great hubby. No, just kidding. I had my love of my life twice. Set in my ways now, but it might be nice.
Thanks Chips for your constant focus and loving spirit to keep us informed with truth and respect to POB.
Thanks to all of the beautiful and brilliant contributors who help so much to make this the Best Place Ever.
Shout out of my loving hugs to my:
Yardarm(((((( Healing love, our dear Yardarm.HZ
((((( Healing hugs to my Desertflower)))))))HZ
(((((((Happy Birthday to my Jojo)))))))))) Have a beautiful day. It is lovely weather out on the west coast too. Laugh, Eat, and Dance.HZ
((((((( Hugs to Jovie)))))))HZ
(((((((Layla, hope you are fine, my dear one.)))))))HZ
((((((((Lots of loving healing hugs to my MightyPamela)))))))) Candles going.HZ
May all of our dear TOD family members who are working so hard to help us get the news out about ACA will be granted the strength, the love of sharing, and the heart to stand firmly behind POB and VPBiden to get people enrolled next week. I have used some of the great information to help some friends. Thank you so much, Chips and UT, Zizi, Vc, DF, Donna, and the entire TOD brilliant leaders here.
Everyone, have a great Sun. Enjoy your loving families and give thanksgiving for our wonderful President.
AMK, please travel safely. We miss you. I hope you brought something very special, besides you, ofcourse for Mrs. Amk. Right? HZ
Thank you HZ….sending you lots of love and hugs, good thoughts and energy to get you through the mounds of medicare paper work. It was a lovely day in SoCal. I went to a Vegan brunch then we went to the Abbott-Kenny Art Walk and I bought a lovely picture of 395 SoCal Sunsets.
Majestic. Awesome. Brilliant. Love is in the Air always with those Four-some.