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Happy Birthday Bo!
Way to go Allison.
Congrats Allison! :)
Love the photos, NW!! Thank you and happy Friday to you and the TOD community!!
#LetsRollJoe …. whenever YOU decide to hit the afterburners …..
Happy Friday to you too, Bob. :)
Hi and Congrats on first Allison!
Congrats Allison! Good evening/morning/afternoon to all TODers! AND Happy Birthday BO!
Good afternoon TODville. I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Friday. TGIF
Hiya RanMan! Hope you are well too! Happy Friday!
The President arrives Eugene, Oregon. Click here ► ► http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml or http://www.kezi.com/livestream
I’M GETTING A REALLY POOR CONNECTION ON CBS
SWITCHED TO KEZI…AND OF COURSE MISSED PBO…THIS HAS KIND OF BEEN MY DAY…………..PRAYERS UP FOR THE ENERGIZER…:)
Congratulations to Allison on first. Still on pins and needles with President Obama in Oregon. Wish all of us could be there to demonstrate our respect and support.
I’LL SAY JUDITH…SOCIETY HAS FALLEN INTO A CESSPOOL…………………………THEY DON’T APPRECIATE PBO’S COMPASSION AND DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT COMPASSION IS………………………………
Happy Birthday to Bo. 🐾🎂
Happy Birthday Bo!!!
Recycling this tweet:
A wonderful Bo Thread, NW. Thank you.
Congrats Allison on your Gold :star:
Amk’s Avi is Gracing the Post :)
Happy Birthday, Bo Obama!
I knew there was something about Bo other than being owned by the Best President there is…He shares my birthday!
Happy Birthday Bo and Happy Birthday Marlz! :)
Happy birthday!!!!!!!
Thank you 57!
Happy B’Day, MJG (and same to First Dog Bo)!!
Thank you Playden…
Wishing you a wonderful birth afternoon with lots of good company and good food, Marlz!
Marlz, Happy Birthday 🎈🎈🎈🎈
Heeey MJG Happy Birthday! Be sure to something wild and crazy! I highly recommend Air Guitar! :-)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BO! SUCH A SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL BOY HE IS!!!!
FLOTUS IS SO GORGEOUS….I DON’T KNOW HOW PBO LEAVES HOME WITH ANY SANITY……………………….BBL…………………
That’s what I like about The Obama’s they think what’s best for others even though it might not be best for them. I understand FLOTUS was new to the pet game but with the help she’s gotten at the WH and the newness of a puppy wore off for the girls, they knew Bo needed a “buddy” and got Sunny.
Happy Birthday Bill R, MJG, and Bo!
Adorable.
I just got my electric bill from running the air-conditioning a lot for the past July & Aug months and it’s almost $300. It will be the same for Sept & Oct with over 100 degree this entire weekend.
Wow, that’s a reality sandwich. Our local forecaster says there MIGHT be some rain by next weekend but you know how that goes.
Ouch jojo 😩😩
Yikes!
For those with short memories ….
#LetsRollJoe
bbl …………..
Armed Protesters Gather As Obama Visits Oregon Shooting Victims’ Families
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-roseburg-shooting-armed-protesters
Gee I wonder what happened to the 8,000. Looks like around 12 people showed up to protest.
SICK BASTARDS…ALL THEY DO IS INCITE HATRED AND PUT THE GIDDYUP IN EXTREMISTS!…WORTHLESS…USELESS WASTE OF AIR! THERE ARE THOUSANDS OUT THERE SUFFERING FRON THE RESULTS OF GUN VIOLENCE. PLEASE GET PBO OUT OF THERE ASAP!
Linda, for some reason, I do not believe that this protest has anything to do with guns.
This is kinda hilarious and worth the click:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/09/1429949/-He-d-be-an-awful-president
Got to laugh when DK starts accusing people of dampening enthusiasm among democrats.
Phew….. I’m back, and just in time for Bo’s b-day celebration! Thanks NerdyW. Seemed like almost all 80k residents of my little town decided to do their early grocery shopping at exactly the time I chose! :D
VC, you and offspring, check your emails
Offspring is out of town, celebrating on his own I think, as a weekend isn’t enough of a break to come home.
Without prompting from you, he won’t check his email till Christmas. Leave him a Vm for me please 😘
:D :D He’s really not quite as techie-backward as his mother but I’ll check in with him over the weekend. He’s in class as we speak (or should be), and he’s part of the “special music” team at a friend’s wedding tomorrow so I’m assuming there’ll be some Saturday morning rehearsal, or something.
I forgot about the performance
I wouldn’t have minded being a listening fly on the wall, just to see what they were doing at this wedding. In fact, I’m a bit surprised at how many weddings he has mentioned in the past year ( at which he was a guest - mostly at the ceremony portion). This is the first one where he’ll be playing (with an ensemble/duet (?) I believe).
I hope he records it so he can share it with us
I doubt that - he doesn’t usually think that way. smh - Sadly, he’s not much of a salesman of himself. I think he plays mostly for his own enjoyment, period.
Aha, COSTCO was crowded huh?
Yes indeed. I can’t believe so many people chose the same time I did. My entire rationale was to get in and out before people left work but from the crowd there I suspect many skipped work. :D
Too funny because I can visualize you trying to get what you want and get out of there!
Exactly! :D It’s probably worse in there, and on the roads, right now as it’s the end of the work day for many, so now I’m glad I went when I did.
2 school shootings in one day. What is the world coming to?
Think it’s an “only in America” event Jeff - not so much the world.
Bye for now. Off to a women’s retreat for the long weekend. Stay safe and keep President Obama in your thoughts. XOXO
Have a lovely time refurbishing the bonds of friendships with your fellow retreat-ers, Judith! :)
Have a wonderful time Judith!
Have a great time Judith! Come back relaxed and refreshed!
Happy birthday Bo 🎂
In summary …..
#LetsRollJoe
hopefully will be able to visit this evening, if not then I’ll just wish a fun weekend for all of you ….
Greetings, TOD’s worker bee! I don’t know how (or why) you do it, Bobfr, but you sure do keep on the run! Have a happy long weekend, yourself! :)
EVERY WEEKEND AT MY HOUSE IS A PACKING WEEKEND…A LITTLE AT A TIME TILL IT’S DONE!
Can’t believe this horrible guy is governor.
Hahahahaha poor mean people
Some jackass just answered this tweet saying he counted “at least three times as many.” Okay - a couple hunder does not equal 7,000. And shame on CNN for reporting that 7,000 were “expected”. Because you sign something on FB doesn’t mean it is “expected” to be true.
Have no words …
Looks like he could be Charles Manson’s brother
Hmm?
This guy shot-put a Jewish Center, then is having a lover, Male and Black……but he is a White Supremacist?
The guy is twisted.
Did he think he would get away with that lie!
MJG, with that base of voters who support him, no big deal. They will blame the media or blame President Obama.
Anybody really surprised?
I am going to turn on my TV now but I don’t understand what the Oregon protest is about. The President’s skin color? PBO is meeting with the families privately. How is that anybody’s business?
If any family doesn’t appreciate the gesture they get to stay away. TOD, please explain because I must be missing something.
They’re angry over the statements he made after the shooting. They cherish their guns day and night and are nothing without them. So they think showing up with their guns to protest PBO means something to somebody. Pathetic freaks.
Thank you, Meta.
No wonder I didn’t understand.
These uneducated neanderthals are beyond anything I can possibly comprehend.
2 more campus shootings today. This country is in deep trouble. Not for the first time, glad I am old.
There was a third! … Three today!
WILL CHECK BACK LATER..KEEPING MY EYE ON PBO………………………….I HATE T WHEN HE GOES TO PLACES WHERE NASTY PEOPLE ARE LOCATED…………………GUN LOVERS GONE MADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!
A couple of threads back several TOD-bots were talking about wouldn’t it be great if Nancy Pelosi could become Speaker again. Well, I figured out that with 188 Democrats in the House, she would only need 30 Republicans to cross over to our side to vote her in. Pretty slim chance I thought.
And then Nena posted links to 2 articles in the last thread that may show some sign that it could be possible. This article, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pete-king-boehner-debt-ceiling?utm_content=bufferc5a2d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer is Republican Pete King calling for Boehner to raise the debt ceiling. And this article, http://thehill.com/policy/finance/256504-ex-im-backers-move-to-force-vote is about 2 Republicans who got 218 House members, both Democrat and Republican, to sign onto a discharge petition to bring the Export-Import Bank reauthorization up for a vote, going around the usual committee process.
And I read in another article about something called the Tuesday Caucus, made up of moderate leaning Republicans. I can’t seem to find anything on line about this group or how many members are in it. But certainly these moderate Republicans are disgusted with what is happening to their party, and possibly they might team up with Democrats to elect Nancy Pelosi, just so everyone can get back to governing, like they haven’t done for several years now. Maybe?
“Maybe?”
CD4B, I’ll say you are a dreamer….. but I like your dream. :D
Everyone knows Nancy has the experience to do the job (even without the help of a giant sized gavel)!
Happy Birthday, Bo.
If I were an animal, I’d want to be Bo:)
The indictment of Barbara Byrd-Bennett—Mayor Rahm’s front woman at CPS
Posted By Ben Joravsky on 10.08.15 at 05:15 PM
Appropriately, Mayor Emanuel’s name isn’t mentioned in the 43-page indictment on bribery charges handed down today by the feds against Barbara Byrd-Bennett, who was hired by the mayor to run the Chicago Public Schools.
It’s appropriate because, as near as I can tell, the main reason Emanuel hired Byrd-Bennett was to be the sympathetic public face—thus shielding him for blame—for the cuts, closings, testing policies, and other bad things he was doing to the schools.
Not the least of which was hiring Byrd-Bennett to run them.
I urge every citizen of Chicago to read the indictment. But in case you’re too busy, I’ll give you a few lovely details.
For almost a year before Mayor Emanuel hired her as CEO—I did mention that she was hired by Rahm, right?—Byrd-Bennett was a “paid consultant” for the Supes Academy.
That’s an educational consulting firm in Wilmette run by two guys named Gary Solomon and Thomas Vranas.
The central accusation is that Byrd-Bennett used her influence at CPS to squeeze about $24 million worth of contracts from a broke-ass public school system whose leaders—Mayor Emanuel chief among them—constantly told the public it didn’t have a dime to spare.
So stop asking for more money for things like toilet paper and janitors and books.
And you wonder why so many Chicagoans don’t believe CPS is really broke.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2015/10/08/the-indictment-of-barbara-byrd-bennettmayor-rahms-front-woman-at-cps
Oh wow!
What’s wrong with this woman??
I do not care for this woman. It seem like she has some issues she need to deal with.
This!
I saw the show for it was DVR’ed by a family member.
The topic was about how some names are detrimental to Job offers and 2nd call backs for Job interviews.
The Comedians on the show read off some names and so did Raven-S.
She does act a tad off. But it was Nothing like this headline was suggesting.
Thanks…I was just going by the headlines!
Should watch before I comment further.
I have not change my opinion of Raven Symone, because I remember how she agreed with what that guy who was fired from Univision when he said that the First Lady belong on the Planet of the Apes. She lost me then and there.
On the same show, she said that America was a racist Nation……for which Whoopi hushed her immediately,….Whoopi went on to say that South Africa was a racist State, but Never USA.
Funny how the Slave trade and State Sanctioned laws for Centuries…..denying Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and the denying of Native Americans their Nation, including uprooting them to ‘silos’ where their way of life was permanently destroyed didn’t somehow equate to what South Africa was doing was interesting difficult to hear.
What’s Whoopi problem?
A couple of things, IMO:
Corporate-controlled media doesn’t want too much truth leaking out, so their ’employees’ need to toe the line to keep their paychecks and show gigs.
Whoopi has a weird apologist thing going on. She defended Mel Gibson after he was recorded telling his girlfriend she’d be ‘raped by a pack of n*****s’, and she defended Justin Bieber’s n-word use as well. Maybe it’s more toeing the party line to stay in line and get paid.
When you hear Bernie or Hillary or anybody else for that matter, promising to punish the Bank Executives that caused the 2008 crash, keep in mind that if it were possible to do so it would already have been done.
The Bad Guys emoprogs refer to Mostly cannot be indicted, much less prosecuted and convicted because as egregious as their behavior is and was, it generally is not illegal.
Rich people write the laws and have platoons of attorneys who help them thread the needle.
Politicians routinely promise to go after Bigshots they know full well they have very little chance of ever bringing to justice. Meanwhile it makes whoever is holding office seem like they’ve fallen down on the job. In other words the politicians doing this are taking “cheap shots.”
Of course, when I hear any criticism of POTUS, I am unhappy and uncool.
Anyone know who’s moderating the Dem debate? Are the questions topical or open?
Rachel’s blog says she’s moderating the one in South Carolina.
Don’t know about the questions, but Anderson Cooper is moderating the CNN sponsored debate
Anderson Cooper. Helped by Dana Bash and some others. I don’t know about the ????
Nerdy…this happened…OM!
PBO is in Marine One about to head to the airport. I guess they kept him away from the RWNJ’s that were on the street with weapons. I’ll be glad when he’s out of that joint completely.
The President departs Eugene, Oregon. Click here ► ► http://www.kmtr.com/news/live or http://www.kezi.com/livestream
So I guess that makes 3
It will end when Citizens vote out the legislators who will not vote for gun control
Judge rejects House, Senate redistricting maps, recommends challengers’ plan
BY MARY ELLEN KLAS
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis on Friday rejected the Florida Legislature’s third attempt at redrawing its congressional districts and recommended a map proposed by the challengers — including a redrawn configuration of two Miami-Dade County districts — to the Florida Supreme Court for its final review.
Lewis adopted the bulk of the map approved by lawmakers in the northern and central portions of the state but specifically rejected the proposed boundaries for District 26 in Miami-Dade, now held by Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo.
The challengers, a coalition of League of Women Voters and Common Cause of Florida and a group of Democrat-leaning individuals, agreed with the Legislature’s configuration of 20 of the 27 districts proposed in a staff-drawn base map but asked the court to adopt their changes to the remaining districts. Lewis agreed.
“The Legislature has thus not met its burden of justifying the proposed versions of Districts 20 through 27,” he wrote in a 19-page ruling. He said that a map drawn by the challengers “best complies with the directions” set out by the Florida Supreme Court in July and “I therefore recommend its adoption.”
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article38398038.html#storylink=cpy
Julian Castro is going to endorse HRC next week.
what?
Maybe he genuinely prefers Hillary. But there also may be some political calculus at play. Castro has big political ambitions and the Clintons are known for having LONG memories.
Not good news
Sure won’t be VP pick if Joe gets nod. Neither will de Blasio, thanks to his “we have enough candidates’ remark.
This makes me doubt my belief that VP Biden is going to join the race.
I was thinking the same thing
3 shootings in one day?? WTF America, what will it take for us?
I meant “school” shootings.
I smiled at the phrasing ‘clearly a political posturing, part of the iClinton6 product roll out’ even though it’s not funny her posturing is so accepted/known by everyone.
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Angelina Burnett: Klein and I are of one mind on this. I don’t understand this sort of positioning. I suspect anyone who even knows what the TPP is knows Clinton was an early negotiator/supporter of it. Are all the union bosses she needs at her back really so willing to buy into kayfabe here? The whole thing baffles me.
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Al Giordino: I see this as about Tuesday’s debate. She was going to be hammered by Sanders and O’Malley on it and needed to neutralize that. Interestingly, not even she has read the final version of the trade agreement, so it’s clearly a political posturing, part of the iClinton 6 product roll out. Of course she is just as capable of turning around later and saying, “you know, now that I’ve read it, I support it!” But what she wants to avoid is a bad debate.
………………….. in the 08 campaign both Obama and Clinton pledged to rewrite NAFTA, and technically TPP *is* a rewrite of NAFTA - …….
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So she even had some wiggle room to support TPP as her way of having kept the 08 pledge. But it’s clear she doesn’t have core values on this entire question, that’s what bugs people on both sides of TPP.
https://www.tsu.co/groups/the-democratic-convention
http://www.theday.com/military/20151009/longtime-eb-spokesman-submarine-portrait-to-be-given-to michelle-obama
Oops! I made a mistake.
Is this where we’re headed America?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/10/07/kosovo-smoke-bomb-parliament_n_8265626.html?utm_hp_ref=world
Whew! Now we can all start breathing again, especially Sue :-)
First let me say I utterly detest the headline of this piece, and I reject the notion that Democrats are equally to blame for the Republican madness we’re all suffering from now. But digging into the article, there are some very good points.
‘ Republican extremism should have been the most fundamental campaign issue for every Democratic candidate for every elected office since about 1991. Every silly thing said by Michele Bachmann, say, or Louie Gohmert should have been hung around the neck of Republican politicians until they choked themselves denying it. (I once spoke to a Democratic candidate who was running against Bachmann who said to me, “Well, I’m not going to call her crazy.” She lost badly.) The mockery and ridicule should have been loud and relentless. It was the only way to break both the grip of the prion disease, and break through the solid bubble of disinformation, anti-facts, and utter bullshit that has sustained the Republican base over the past 25 years. Instead, and it’s hard to fault them entirely for their sense of responsibility, the Democrats chose largely to ignore the dance of the madmen at center stage and fulfill some sense of obligation to the country. (In no way does this excuse the far too many Democrats who chose to join in the dance, however briefly. Hi, Joe Lieberman!) Now, as we saw on Thursday, it well may be too late. The national legislature has been broken by crazy people. ‘
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38715/democratic-party-blame-crazy-republicans/
Democratic candidates who run from President Obama’s record need to be held accountable as well. The Republicans have provided a target-rich political environment for decades- why run against a supremely successful and charismatic president of your own party? When he’s not even running? Dem leadership, if you’re reading this (and you should be reading TOD religiously) it’s time to expose the crazy at the center of Republicanism’s stinky heart.
Thank you so much, Susanne Holland for sharing this piece by Charlie Pierce. Unlike you, I have absolutely no qualms with the headline because I truly believe that Democrats are implicated for failing to aggressively expose GOP craziness. I also think this statement by Pierce goes to heart of the matter:
“The primary obligation of each of the two parties to their members is to win elections. The primary obligation of each of the two parties to the country is to govern it. Therefore, given all this, if one of the parties goes as thoroughly, deeply, banana-sandwich loony as the present Republican Party has, the other party has a definitive obligation to the Republic to beat the crazy out of it so the country can get moving again. This is a duty in which the Democratic Party has failed utterly.
Republican extremism should have been the most fundamental campaign issue for every Democratic candidate for every elected office since about 1991. Every silly thing said by Michele Bachmann, say, or Louie Gohmert should have been hung around the neck of Republican politicians until they choked themselves denying it. (I once spoke to a Democratic candidate who was running against Bachmann who said to me, “Well, I’m not going to call her crazy.” She lost badly.) The mockery and ridicule should have been loud and relentless. It was the only way to break both the grip of the prion disease, and break through the solid bubble of disinformation, anti-facts, and utter bullshit that has sustained the Republican base over the past 25 years. Instead, and it’s hard to fault them entirely for their sense of responsibility, the Democrats chose largely to ignore the dance of the madmen at center stage and fulfill some sense of obligation to the country. (In no way does this excuse the far too many Democrats who chose to join in the dance, however briefly. Hi, Joe Lieberman!) Now, as we saw on Thursday, it well may be too late. The national legislature has been broken by crazy people.”
I agree with you- the Dems have not made good use of the many opportunities to excoriate Republicans for their crazy talk and acts. I also love the paragraph you quoted! But it’s not okay for Republicans and their voters and financiers to be let off the hook for this mess. Yes, we could have done a much better job of holding them responsible, but what they’re responsible for is their own mucky mess.
oh and I got a Ben Carson robo call today.. figure that one out as I have been a registered voting Democrat for 40 years. Hung up did not care to listen to repub nonsense today.
Sherijr, I don’t know how Ben Carson gained the reputation of being an accomplished surgeon. What seems self evident to me, based on his repeated crazy utterances, is that Ben Carson has lost his marbles. If I were a member of his family, or his friend, I would be begging him to go see a shrink. By the way I am glad you hang up on the “Ben Carson robo Call….” I do the same thing all the time when I get these insane calls.
Nath - I have no understanding as to why Ben Carson thinks he has a hope of winning the GOP nomination. His brain is detached from his physical self.
Thanks a million Nerdy!!
Chat on:
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/10/09/chat-on-122/
Just watched Air Force1 actually take off, /gulp/ had to catch my breath and hold my stomach just like when I am flying! I wasn’t planning on seeing the plane as it lifted off the ground as that is one of three flight points when I’m most nervous.
fetching life… cute