Yay! The Obama family home safe and sound after a long and I hope, wonderful vacation.
Thank you Chips for the coverage.
Apparently Frank Lampard will not be coming to NYC anytime soon. The NY sports pages say that Manchester is not letting him go. Manchester considers NYC a farm team or something and owns Lampard’s contract, so as long as he is playing as well as he has, too bad NYC.
Oh, I LOVE playing darts at a pub. And I’m pretty good. :cool: But if you’ve ever watched a darts match it’s like a WWE event! They’ve got the signs, and the players march in like wrestlers. It’s actually quite fun.
It is so sweet to see our president bond so beautifully with his daughters. They’re old enough now to fully understand how lucky they are to have such an extraordinary, brilliant, loving man as their father. By 2017, Malia will have fully matured into young womanhood in the White House with Sasha not far behind her. They will both have witnessed first hand their father’s greatness and will be old enough to grasp what a seminal figure he is in history. That can’t help but transform their whole lives for the better.
I thought “Egyptian influence” at first, and decided to google it.
Since pre-historic times … tattoos over the body were related to healing … religion … punishment … differentiation between the “roles” of men and women … war-inspired … slavery-inspired … traditional cultural symbols … decoration … an adjunct to body painting and piercing … for identification on the high seas and during military service … to include being used to mark Jews during the Holocaust, of course - in that case, to further demean them as property, while the world remained, once again, in its cocoon.
And for many, many other reasons, not to mention to recognize one’s favorite band or singers at the present time through a large tattoo on the back of your head. #IKnowPeople
Delurking for a moment. Malia and the President seems to have bonded more on this trip. Pictures haven’t shown Sasha very much. I sorta think that she doesn’t care much for all the pictures and fuss over the family. Malia seems to take it more in stride.
POTUS always says it best. I know most every night when I was traveling on business back in the 90s (my job included about 70% travel) the one and only channel I would watch in the hotel room after I got back from a business dinner was ESPN Sports Center. I wasn’t that interested in politics at the time and I didn’t need to know the local news and the national news I got with the USA Today newspaper under the door in the morning. So I always watched ESPN as my primary interest was every type of US sport. I’m sure I’ve watched Stuart Scott more than any other sports personality or newscaster and he made me appreciate other players who weren’t on my home/favorite teams. I’m so sad he’s gone.
Indeed he was! Did not realize that until I saw the sad news here and went to read this feature story about his life and work. http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/12118296/stuart-scott-espn-anchor-dies-age-49
From this ESPN story:
“‘Stuart was born in Chicago, but he, along with two sisters and a brother, spent his formative years in North Carolina, where their father was a postal inspector who always had time to play after work. Stuart went to R.J. Reynolds High in Winston-Salem and then the University of North Carolina, where he played wide receiver and defensive back on the club football team, joined Alpha Phi Alpha and worked at the student radio station, WXYC. After graduating in 1987 with a degree in speech communication, Stuart was hired by WPDE-TV in Florence, S.C. He says that’s where he first came up with the pillow metaphor. “People say I stole it from a movie,” he told an interviewer in 1998, “but I first thought of that and said it on my first job … I just liked it.” ‘
and this:
‘ “Some of his best moments on the air came when he adopted the persona of a preacher: “Can I get a witness from the congregation?!” And one of his best moments off the air came when a producer suggested he change a reference on his NBA show from Omega Psi Phi, the fraternity of Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal, to something more universal, like Animal House.
“I have friends who have no idea what that movie is about,” Stuart told him. “That movie was made two decades ago, and black fraternities have been around since 1906.” ‘
A great loss to the world on so many levels.
I’d heard about Warby Parker a while back, but then life happened and it slipped my memory. I was just thinking about purchasing new glasses and trying to find a time within the week to browse online for stores and styles, then BAM! LL to the rescue.
I’m going to use them since they don’t just take in all the profit but actually pay it forward.
Now, the tricky thing is getting your pupil measurement. You can do that at pd.warbyparker.com. Amazingly, it worked for me ONLY on Internet Explorer. I know you have a Mac, so hopefully it’ll work on Safari. Otherwise, go into a Warby Parker store and they’ll do the measurement there.
No doubt part of DonnaD’s delicious dinner that she has abandoned TOD for, while we patiently wait for her invitations. ;)
Also don’t get today’s infatuation with tattoos. My father was a WWII vet, a Navy lifer, and he instilled at me at an early age the taboo against tattoos (and this was in San Diego, which was chock-full of tattoo parlors back in the day).
I do carry biases from my early years — like Gary Cooper admonishing Audrey Hepburn about how “tacky” ankle bracelets were.
this is example A-Z of why Black conservatives are despised by the larger Black community.
She is nothing but a modern day slave catcher.
……………….
Mia Love defends Scalise
By Kevin Cirilli January 04, 2015, 10:40 am
Rep.-elect Mia Love (R-Utah) on Sunday defended House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and said he should remain in House leadership despite having spoken to a racist group in 2002.
Love, who is the first African American Republican woman elected to the House, denounced the racist groups on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
“I believe he should stay in leadership,” Love said.
reminds me of a talk given by MalcolmX re: the House Negro and Field Negro…
this defense of Scalise by black folks are to let other white folks know that “I am one the OK Negroes”…they are NOT to convince blk folks because we already know the deal..
The revved-up U.S. economy probably produced another large batch of new jobs in December, setting the stage in 2015 for the quickest spurt of growth in at least a decade.
The U.S. likely added at least 220,000 jobs in the final month of 2014, according to economists polled by MarketWatch. And the preliminary 321,000 increase in November—the third-biggest gain since the recession ended in mid-2009—could be revised higher if recent history is a guide.
Add it all together and the economy might have generated nearly 3 million new jobs in 2014, the best performance since the U.S. created some 3.2 million jobs in 1999.
Oprah Prime - Celebrating Dr. King and the Selma Matches 50 years later.
Tonight, 9pm EST on OWN
Oprah’s Master Class- Stories from the Civil Rights Era from following:
Dr. Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Lionel Richie, Berry Gordy and others
Tonight, 10 PM EST on OWN
THANK YOU RIKYRAH…I’LL BE WATCHING!…KEEP IN MIND THAT THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM THE IGNORANCE AND ARROGANCE OF OTHERS WILL SEE THE PROMISED LAND…THOSE WHO INFLICT SUCH DAMAGE…WELL…FILL IN THE BLANKS!
this random killing of black folks by the police department hearkens back to the time when the Klan terrorized the blk community…the NYPD for decades operated on a policy of Stop & Frisk…Deblasio stopped the policy of Stop & Frisk and is attempting to rein in & hold the police accountable for their abuse of power….this defiance by the NYPD…is a direct result of a police force that does not recognize the authority of the Mayor or his Police Commissioner…
#nyc police defy their commissioner's plea and turn their backs on Mayor @BilldeBlasio. https://t.co/1SqaX27Ie2 pic.twitter.com/4vWExhBZL2
They are diminishing themselves before this Nation.
A Funeral is a supposed to be for Mourning, Remembrance, Reflections, Respectful and Honoring…..Never for protesting your grievances.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove
Well it will be sad to see Barack and Michelle leave that White House January 2017, but one thing we can be sure of and that is they both will continue to do great things for the better of the people and this country.
-29 blow with the wind factored in.
-7 blow today.
Had Not cracked above One today. But it has been Sunny and Brisk.
MN, my state…..Love it, Hate it, Love, Love it.
Why did only 36% of Americans got out to vote in November 4 midterms? At this point i couldn’t care less about Abc, CNN, NBC, Gallup and all the other polls.
GOOOOOOOAL
Two Goooooooooooals, GGail!!!!!!!! :-)
Chips, I enjoyed the game with you today ((((hugs))))
bbl
Me too GGail, ain’t no stoppin’ us now!!!
Wooooooooooooot!!!! :-)
Congrats GGail on #1 :)
Now I have to scarf down my breakfast, slurp my coffee, and get ready to go to Church!
Yay!
Home sweet home.
Congrats to GGail on her GOOOOOOOAL!
Suh-weet! The Obamas are back, AND, most importantly, they had some legitimate down time away from the hustle and bustle of the paparazzi! :) :)
OhMyGerd, PBO is wearing khakis! INPEECH!!!
Patiently waiting for congratulations on Man United’s spectacular 2-0 win over Yeovil :cool:
Hah! Yeovil acquitted itself admirably.
Yay! The Obama family home safe and sound after a long and I hope, wonderful vacation.
Thank you Chips for the coverage.
Apparently Frank Lampard will not be coming to NYC anytime soon. The NY sports pages say that Manchester is not letting him go. Manchester considers NYC a farm team or something and owns Lampard’s contract, so as long as he is playing as well as he has, too bad NYC.
Chelsea 3-0 Watford. That’s more like it.
I guess that’s why they call them the Blues.
Do you see what I did there?
*rimshot*
50 is way too young to die. RIP Stuart Scott.
Can someone explain to me why darts is a thing in the UK?
Bizarrest of all, it’s HUUUUUUUGE in Holland!!
Just about every pub in Britain has a darts board, the people who play it convince themselves they’re athletes.
We need to get Toon Moone to comment on this STAT
Yikes, I better correct that to Netherlands or Toon will have me for lunch.
I think it’s the weather — they needed an indoor activity.
Growing up in SoCal, recess and PE were always outside.
When it rained we were cooped up inside the gym and had to play ridiculous games with a giant ball that we kicked around.
Darts takes more skill, but of course isn’t safe for kids inside a gym. :(
Oh, I LOVE playing darts at a pub. And I’m pretty good. :cool: But if you’ve ever watched a darts match it’s like a WWE event! They’ve got the signs, and the players march in like wrestlers. It’s actually quite fun.
One of the first true vacations for POTUS, right?
My President is rested and ready to kick some GOP/MSM arse.
It is so sweet to see our president bond so beautifully with his daughters. They’re old enough now to fully understand how lucky they are to have such an extraordinary, brilliant, loving man as their father. By 2017, Malia will have fully matured into young womanhood in the White House with Sasha not far behind her. They will both have witnessed first hand their father’s greatness and will be old enough to grasp what a seminal figure he is in history. That can’t help but transform their whole lives for the better.
Okay this is completely off topic but can someone explain to me why people cover their entire body with tattoos?
A tattoo on the back or arm or leg or whatnot I understand but from neck to ankles makes no sense to me and how is this considered good looking?
Okay I got that off my chest. Now I must go prepare dinner for the family this evening
Pot Roast with veggies
Baked Chicken over rice
Collard Greens
Rolls
Sweet Tea
Apple Pie (from Costco’s)
Later everyone!
I thought “Egyptian influence” at first, and decided to google it.
Since pre-historic times … tattoos over the body were related to healing … religion … punishment … differentiation between the “roles” of men and women … war-inspired … slavery-inspired … traditional cultural symbols … decoration … an adjunct to body painting and piercing … for identification on the high seas and during military service … to include being used to mark Jews during the Holocaust, of course - in that case, to further demean them as property, while the world remained, once again, in its cocoon.
And for many, many other reasons, not to mention to recognize one’s favorite band or singers at the present time through a large tattoo on the back of your head. #IKnowPeople
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tattooing
I’m sure you knew all this and were asking a rhetorical question, and may I add I don’t get full-body tattooing, either! U-G-L-Y.
Chips and GGail are doing cartwheels because of 2-0?!
Pffft…that’s weak.
Come meet Chelsea at the 3-0 mark.
Time of goals:
64
90
The pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew sound you hear is me :???:
I am a bit miffed that the Chelsea game wasn’t televised.
There are other cures for insomnia though LL, just Google them /runs
Sighs, I do.
Sasha must be freezing, cause she is marching to get in the White House.
She have lefted the rest behind.
Glad to see they have arrived home safely.
Delurking for a moment. Malia and the President seems to have bonded more on this trip. Pictures haven’t shown Sasha very much. I sorta think that she doesn’t care much for all the pictures and fuss over the family. Malia seems to take it more in stride.
Welcome home to the President and his adorable family!
Welcome Home Mr President…Back in the WH where you belong.. :-D
POTUS always says it best. I know most every night when I was traveling on business back in the 90s (my job included about 70% travel) the one and only channel I would watch in the hotel room after I got back from a business dinner was ESPN Sports Center. I wasn’t that interested in politics at the time and I didn’t need to know the local news and the national news I got with the USA Today newspaper under the door in the morning. So I always watched ESPN as my primary interest was every type of US sport. I’m sure I’ve watched Stuart Scott more than any other sports personality or newscaster and he made me appreciate other players who weren’t on my home/favorite teams. I’m so sad he’s gone.
I think Stuart Scott graduate from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Yes he did. :)
A Tarheel
Indeed he was! Did not realize that until I saw the sad news here and went to read this feature story about his life and work. http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/12118296/stuart-scott-espn-anchor-dies-age-49
From this ESPN story:
“‘Stuart was born in Chicago, but he, along with two sisters and a brother, spent his formative years in North Carolina, where their father was a postal inspector who always had time to play after work. Stuart went to R.J. Reynolds High in Winston-Salem and then the University of North Carolina, where he played wide receiver and defensive back on the club football team, joined Alpha Phi Alpha and worked at the student radio station, WXYC. After graduating in 1987 with a degree in speech communication, Stuart was hired by WPDE-TV in Florence, S.C. He says that’s where he first came up with the pillow metaphor. “People say I stole it from a movie,” he told an interviewer in 1998, “but I first thought of that and said it on my first job … I just liked it.” ‘
and this:
‘ “Some of his best moments on the air came when he adopted the persona of a preacher: “Can I get a witness from the congregation?!” And one of his best moments off the air came when a producer suggested he change a reference on his NBA show from Omega Psi Phi, the fraternity of Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal, to something more universal, like Animal House.
“I have friends who have no idea what that movie is about,” Stuart told him. “That movie was made two decades ago, and black fraternities have been around since 1906.” ‘
A great loss to the world on so many levels.
Ok, so I’m going to order my new glasses from Warby Parker. For every pair of glasses you buy, they donate a pair to a person in need.
This is one more reason I loooooove TOD.
I’d heard about Warby Parker a while back, but then life happened and it slipped my memory. I was just thinking about purchasing new glasses and trying to find a time within the week to browse online for stores and styles, then BAM! LL to the rescue.
I’m going to use them since they don’t just take in all the profit but actually pay it forward.
Thanks, LL.
But if you buy these, they’ll donate a striker to Atletico Madrid /runs
:) I don’t know where you find these things, but,
You know what….
YW Nerdy.
Now, the tricky thing is getting your pupil measurement. You can do that at pd.warbyparker.com. Amazingly, it worked for me ONLY on Internet Explorer. I know you have a Mac, so hopefully it’ll work on Safari. Otherwise, go into a Warby Parker store and they’ll do the measurement there.
Also they will send you five frames to try on and see if you like any of them. No cost, no shipping back and forth! Wonderful company to deal with.
Good News.
Yes that is good news hopefruit2.
EXCELLENT!!
Testing
I have written two posts that WP have eaten so far today :(
Sorry Donna, just found them in spam and freed them, a word in them must have matched a nutjob’s name!
Ahh that explains it. Thanks Chips!!!!!!!
No doubt part of DonnaD’s delicious dinner that she has abandoned TOD for, while we patiently wait for her invitations. ;)
Also don’t get today’s infatuation with tattoos. My father was a WWII vet, a Navy lifer, and he instilled at me at an early age the taboo against tattoos (and this was in San Diego, which was chock-full of tattoo parlors back in the day).
I do carry biases from my early years — like Gary Cooper admonishing Audrey Hepburn about how “tacky” ankle bracelets were.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-sports-world-reacts-stuart-scott-20150104-htmlstory.html
ALL I CAN SAY IS..I’M REALLY SORRY THEY COULDN’T HAVE STAYED LONGER…:(
this is example A-Z of why Black conservatives are despised by the larger Black community.
She is nothing but a modern day slave catcher.
……………….
Mia Love defends Scalise
By Kevin Cirilli January 04, 2015, 10:40 am
Rep.-elect Mia Love (R-Utah) on Sunday defended House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and said he should remain in House leadership despite having spoken to a racist group in 2002.
Love, who is the first African American Republican woman elected to the House, denounced the racist groups on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
“I believe he should stay in leadership,” Love said.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/228434-mia-love-defends-scalise
reminds me of a talk given by MalcolmX re: the House Negro and Field Negro…
this defense of Scalise by black folks are to let other white folks know that “I am one the OK Negroes”…they are NOT to convince blk folks because we already know the deal..
So what do Ms. Love think of David Duke?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/december-likely-to-cap-off-best-year-of-job-creation-since-1999-2015-01-04?link=MW_Nav_NV
The revved-up U.S. economy probably produced another large batch of new jobs in December, setting the stage in 2015 for the quickest spurt of growth in at least a decade.
The U.S. likely added at least 220,000 jobs in the final month of 2014, according to economists polled by MarketWatch. And the preliminary 321,000 increase in November—the third-biggest gain since the recession ended in mid-2009—could be revised higher if recent history is a guide.
Add it all together and the economy might have generated nearly 3 million new jobs in 2014, the best performance since the U.S. created some 3.2 million jobs in 1999.
MEDIA ALERT
Oprah Prime - Celebrating Dr. King and the Selma Matches 50 years later.
Tonight, 9pm EST on OWN
Oprah’s Master Class- Stories from the Civil Rights Era from following:
Dr. Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Lionel Richie, Berry Gordy and others
Tonight, 10 PM EST on OWN
thanks for the update
THANK YOU RIKYRAH…I’LL BE WATCHING!…KEEP IN MIND THAT THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM THE IGNORANCE AND ARROGANCE OF OTHERS WILL SEE THE PROMISED LAND…THOSE WHO INFLICT SUCH DAMAGE…WELL…FILL IN THE BLANKS!
Thanks…..I will Try to catch some of them.
Off to tutor:) bbl
this random killing of black folks by the police department hearkens back to the time when the Klan terrorized the blk community…the NYPD for decades operated on a policy of Stop & Frisk…Deblasio stopped the policy of Stop & Frisk and is attempting to rein in & hold the police accountable for their abuse of power….this defiance by the NYPD…is a direct result of a police force that does not recognize the authority of the Mayor or his Police Commissioner…
Now to me THIS is a place where the appropriate descriptive word would be, “Thugs”.
Indeed…
Yes they are the “Thugs” in blue.
IMMATURE OFFICERS TARNISH THE BADGE AND RUIN IT FOR THE GOOD ONES…THIS DISGUSTS ME!
Behaviour is disrespectful. Similar to what a 4 year old might do in the middle of a temper tantrum.
They are diminishing themselves before this Nation.
A Funeral is a supposed to be for Mourning, Remembrance, Reflections, Respectful and Honoring…..Never for protesting your grievances.
Sunday, January 04, 2026
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove
Pigs are flying outside.
I know it’s selfish but I wish President Obama would remain in the White House forever.He is The Greatest
TO BE SURE…I DON’T WANT TO BE IN THIS COUNTRY WHEN HE LEAVES…:(
Well it will be sad to see Barack and Michelle leave that White House January 2017, but one thing we can be sure of and that is they both will continue to do great things for the better of the people and this country.
BBL…IT’S DARK OUT AND SAD LOOKING AND SNOWING…………………………..
-29 blow with the wind factored in.
-7 blow today.
Had Not cracked above One today. But it has been Sunny and Brisk.
MN, my state…..Love it, Hate it, Love, Love it.
Excellent Pictorial Post.
Awesome post, Chipsticks.
GGail has the Gold :star:
Chat on
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/01/04/chat-on-65/
Why did only 36% of Americans got out to vote in November 4 midterms? At this point i couldn’t care less about Abc, CNN, NBC, Gallup and all the other polls.
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