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SUCH A BEAUTFUL PICTURE AND NATIVE PROFILE…THIS SYMBOLIZES SO MANY THINGS….:)….OFF TO THE DOCS TODAY…ITS PAIN WEEK AND SOMEONE STOLE MY COIN PURSE AT THE GROCERY STORE YESTERDAY…I’M TRYING TO LOOK AT IT IN A POSITIVE WAY AND PRAYING FOR THE THIEF….PRAYERS FOR THE ENERGIZER…HIS SAFETY AND COMFORT…BLESSINGS EVERYONE!
Morning, Sue. Hope you get good news at the doctor’s office-my least favorite place to be.
Moooooooorning Sue, moooooooorning everyone!!!
Hi and Congrats on first Sue! Take it as a sign that today is a bright & positive one for you! Be well!
THANK YOU EVERYONE…I LEFT RATHER QUICKLY THIS MORNING…HOPE YOU HAVE ALL HAD AN AWESOME DAY…CHECKING IN TO CATCH UP…..
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, even amk, and congrats Sue on #1! Happy Friday everyone :)
Also:
((Joe Biden)). Hope he does something fun today in celebration.
MERCI AND GRACIAS HOPEFRUIT AND A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR JOE!
Morning. I miss our President and hope he comes home soon, although he’s probably just as glad to be away from the lunatics. At least Congress will be out for a week, which is a welcome relief for the whole country.
Today is Mr. G’s birthday and I am madly planning favorite treats and surprises. You are NEVER too old for birthday treats!!!!
Good morning Jackie, Happy Birthday to Mr. G and VP Biden. 🎂🎇🎈
Hiya JG!
Happy Bday to Mr. G! 😀🎂🎈🎉
VERY BEST birthday wishes to Mr. G!! Have fun planning all the surprises. You two are a great team!!
Happy B’Day to Mr. G!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. G…AND COULD WE MAKE THE CONGRESSIONAL OUT PERMANENT???
Happy Birthday to Mr. G.
Morning everyone! Happy Friday! Happy Birthday to the BEST VP ever to sit in that office. Love you, VP Biden!! A very Happy Birthday to you:) Many, many more.
jackieg….Happy Birthday to Mr. G :) NEVER too old for treats!!
All the people on Twitter supporting Elise Labott on CNN for being suspended, seemed unaware that she spend a good two hours attacking POTUS’ on Twitter, saying that his press conference was “going very badly” and he’s “on the defensive” and his ISIS Strategy was not working. Meanwhile, she immediately apologizes for her tweet about refugees which got her a 2-week suspension on CNN….but no apology for attacking POTUS with GOP talking points while he’s on foreign soil.
Exactly, Hope. Before I saw her tweets about the president, I was mad at CNN. But all of these people think that some how their claim to fame is to disrespect President Obama. We no longer have a media.
And CNN is allegedly part of the liberal media. **rolls eyes**
I was busy yesterday and missed a lot. WHAT THE F IS THIS??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Df, that this man is ahead in the polls among Republican voters is absolutely chilling. Americans should hang their heads in shame that a fascist like this has been allowed to get this far.
This actually made me sit here and cry. They have no understanding of America and its values and its history. This is nearly too much to bear…and every damn reason to get out and vote!!!
the best part of this was the questions from the reporter….doing what a reporter is supposed to do…PUSH BACK
President Obama would never dodge a question like that and Candidate Obama Never Did
Trump is so RICH why are we the taxpayers paying for his Secret Service?
First thing he wants to know is where the reporter is from. And it turns out to be NBC, who is so disturbingly friendly to Trump, it should frighten us all. Kudos to the reporter who persisted and asked the questions that need to be asked. I especially liked it when he said: Should Muslims be fearful? Trump deserves nothing but shame.
And this is the man who a majority of Republicans want to be President. Scary. The man is a bigot and a loudmouth idiot. His Presidency would be a disaster for the entire world — probably worse than Bush 43.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Friday morning. TGIF>> Congrats Sue, on being first this morning.
To all, I hope you have phenomenal and remarkable day today. <3 <3 <3
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Perfect
Exactly!
America mocked France yesterday by voting to keep out Syrian refugees when France is doing the exact opposite.
Thank you, Rep. Russell. You do us proud on this issue and it should be acknowledged and praised.
http://www.alternet.org/immigration/republican-combat-vet-eviscerates-xenophobic-conservatives-isis-wins-if-you-block
“While I have tried to focus my comments on actions that we should take to eliminate ISIS, one action we should not take is to become like them. America is a lamp that lights the horizon of civilized and free mankind,” he said on the House floor.
“The Statue of Liberty cannot have a stiff arm. Her arm must continue to keep the torch burning brightly,” Russell continued. “If we use our passions, anger, and fear to snuff out her flame by xenophobic and knee-jerk policy, the enemy wins. We have played into their hands, period.”
Read the rest…some things may surprise you.
Read his entire speech to Congress, here:
https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/item/speech/CREC-2015-11-18-pt1-PgH8350-2.chunk1/rep-steve-russell-isis-crisis
Read it few minutes ago and wrote it down in my notes/’links’/reference notebook. Excellent.
Have a good day, df, and others.
you too:)
Thanks for posting this. Russell is my representative…..I am pleasantly stunned. I hope some Republicans listen to him, and I hope our Senators listen to him and take his advice. I should write him and thank him for that speech and his sensible stand.
You should…its rare to hear a Republican make sense these days. Don’t agree with what he had to say about PBO’s ME strategy, but he was spot on with his empathetic embrace of the refugees. He should be commended.
I have to disagree with him re: PBO ME strategy….but was referring to the acceptance of refugees into the US, solely
I just heard on MSNBC that even though Russell gave that impassioned speech he voted to support the bill he railed against. Apparently he crumbled under GOP pressure.
All I keep hearing is that Eugene Robinson called the president peevish and petulant.
Is this true?
Why did he say this?
Now Robinson is assured an invite to all the cool Georgetown parties.
Say what?
Pretty much the entire MSM was calling the President similar names since he pushed-back at the GOP nonsense a couple days ago. This is not unique to Robinson - who is a media puppet just like his colleagues.
Happy Friday TODers.
Heeeeeeeya Chips!!
Happy Birthday VP. So wish you were running for President.
Miss Honduras dead: Boyfriend of Maria Jose Alvarado’s sister, who went missing days before Miss World, confesses to her murder
Police say Plutarco Ruiz admitted shooting the two women dead before taking officers to the burial site
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The boyfriend of Miss Honduras’ sister has confessed to killing her and the 19-year-old beauty queen, a leading police officer has said.
Two bodies believed to be of Maria Jose Alvarado, who was due to compete in the Miss World Pageant in London in December, and her sister, Sofia, 23, were found buried on a river bank in mountains near Santa Barbara in Honduras on Wednesday
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/miss-honduras-dead-suspect-confesses-to-killing-beauty-queen-and-her-sister-9871690.html
Oh how horrible!
Sad.
Good Morning, Everyone :)
That Hawaii Congresswoman we all love (hate) was on New Day running her mouth, of course talking about why she vote along with the Republicans yesterday on the refugee bill. I had to turn the channel.
I am still so disappointed in those 47 weal knee cowards call Democrats. If that bill call for picking up Muslims putting them in camp, these weak knee Democrat would have voted for it.
What an insult to Rep Keith Ellison, who is himself Muslim. Shame on all of the Democratic Congress people who voted in favor of bigotry and Islamophobia.
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Happy birthday VP Biden 💕
Happy birthday to Mr. G 🎂
The more I see of Bernie, the less I like him. I always respected his intellect and progressive heart. I now think he isn’t very bright, is completely tone-deaf politically, and would make a horrible POTUS. Don’t bother reading the comments, but the diary sums up my feelings exactly:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/19/1452366/-Sanders-Campaign-fumbles-again
While I doubt he’ll win the Democratic nomination, it appears that he’s pulled Secretary Clinton to the left which is good. I don’t mind Sanders overall but despite the enthusiasm of his supporters, can’t see him going very far.
Gooooood Morning Family! 😃
Good morning Dudette, pretty clever tweet😘
Hiya G! Thanks!
All of a sudden, World Leaders are handsome hunks!?!?!?! Who’d a thunk it—
Seriously! :)
I know, right? 😉
I hope they are more then handsome hunks. I know the guy in the middle is.
^5!
For realz Vicki!
Good morning, TOD.
Yesterday the unemployment numbers and other economic indicators were posted but not much remarked upon.
This is because the news is Good.
Unemployment Down.
Other economic indicators UP.
Media is a 24/7 POTUS-Bashing entity.
Doom gloom and all things awful entirely due to PBO is what they are selling and all we are going to see.
Vicki, you are right about the media.
Media is owned by (1) Republicans, (2) Racists (3) Corporatists.
All of these feel highly threatened under an Obama Presidency - thus the horrific skewed reporting…
Maybe i’m just slow to the game here, but I just noticed on the presidents pictures down thread that he shakes peoples hands with his right hand. He’s left handed right? That seems like something he must take practice. Also he’s raising his right hand in that group photo, even though one of the other guys is left handed as well.
I just find it interesting is all. I wonder if he trained to shake hands right handed to avoid awkward ones with people that just always go in right handed and assume the other party will as well. Maybe this is something all left handed people do? haha, like i said i’m slow to the game.
Maybe this is off the wall, but in some cultures, offering the left hand is an insult.
Right hand is for contact.
Left hand, in cultures without toilet paper, for example, consider the left hand unclean. Sorry if that is too disgusting.
I’m left-handed and was taught you always shake with right hand.
Plus the cultural thing that Vicki raised. 😏
Huh?
I’m left handed and it’s natural for me to shake hands using my right hand. I don’t know any left handed person who shakes with their left.
Same here. Left-handed but always shake with right.
Lefties early on get used to functioning in the right-handed world. We are accustomed to doing many things in an uncomfortable way. I was taught that you shook hands with your right hand, and you just do it.
As a lefty I can say there is less dominance overall. Needs be one can switch hands and function. With a brand new physical endeavor it can be confusing which hand to use. Maybe that’s why it used to be common to force lefties to switch writing hands. They could manage it.
Paul Krugman made the point in his column today that the US GOP RW response and hysteria about Ebola was the same scenario we are seeing now. The subject is refugees, not germs. The behavior of our Corporate Rulers is strikingly similar.
“Keep those people away from us”
more or less
“This country is for the Privileged Class. All others quarantined, stopped at borders—-and so on.”
Donald Trump gets called out big time at Latin Grammys
No one had more fun than Will Smith rapping (in Spanish!) at the Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday night.
But the performance Twitter can’t stop buzzing about belonged to California band Los Tigres Del Norte and Mexican rockers Maná, who got together and sang Somos Más Americanos. At the end of the performance, they held up a sign reading, “Latinos unidos no voten por los racistas,” which translates to: “United Latinos, don’t vote for racists.”
Of course, folks at home were quick to draw parallels to a certain 2016 candidate, Donald Trump, who in the past has called immigrants from Mexico drug-dealers, criminals and “rapists,” and called for a mass deportation of those living in the United States.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-gets-called-out-big-time-at-latin-grammys/ar-BBne9c2?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCDHP
Very strange that the media isn’t challenging Trump about his claim that he would deport all Muslims from the U.S., that Muslims should be forced to wear symbols so we can know who they are, and that he would shut down Mosques. He’s a fascist and if we had a “liberal” media, they would call him out on his dangerous hate talk.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/11/19/3723996/republicans-back-shutting-down-mosques-poll/
http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/2154843/trump-wouldnt-rule-making-muslims-wear-special-ids-register-database
Tonight A and E network has “Shining a Light. A concert for Progress on Race in America. 8-10. Then a follow up talk about it.
Other channels Lifetime, for example, are carrying the concert but not the conversation after the concert..
Big names on schedule include Pharrell, John Legend, Bruce Springsteen, Morgan Freeman, Sting, Smokey Robinson and many more.
Yep. 6 cable networks carrying it.
see from hf2 above that elise larobot is standard issue “reporter” who can’t tell any story involving president obama without twisting into a negative for him, while republicans such as colin powell are geniuses!
i see obamabot maggy destroyed larobot’s moronic reasoning, yet elise didn’t respond to any of that truth-telling of course, but did respond to others. elise can argue repeatedly that the powell doctrine, as defined by her, would work great against isis instead of obama’s failured strategy and no one at c.n.n. bats an eye, but say one thing kinda sorta against republicans then immediate suspension. crazy. yes, that “powell doctrine” was so great in iraq/afghan with the 10 plus years, hundreds of thousands of innocents killed, 4-5 thousand u.s. troops killed, and no end-goal/exit strategy in sight, yes elise, keep on promoting that, you stooge, and your career in “the news” will skyrocket.
http://www.today.com/parents/how-amber-scorah-whose-baby-died-daycare-turning-heartbreak-crusade-t56931
After learning of the death of Amber Scorah’s baby at daycare, our First Lady writes her a letter.
Lots of good stuff on the Labor Dept TL @USDOL
Nicki did a good job reading Maya’s wonderful poem.
I have a transgender cousin and I thank everyone who has fought for their right to equal protection under the law.
Good morning and Happy Friday, TODville!!
I love Joe Biden!!
A nice man, would have made a nice President.
<3
Chat on
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/11/20/happy-birthday-vp/