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GGaaaaaaaaail!!!! Our boys are winning 2-0!!!!!! đ
WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!
GGaik wins! GGail wiiiinnnnnns! đđđ
Hey gurl ! :-)
3-0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rooooooooooney!!!!
Whaaaaatâ????!!!!!
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Itâs a goal-a-rama!!!!
This was the first one, by Martial â¤ď¸
I love how you entertain me with these lovely visuals and commentary :-)
Suuuuuueeeeeetttttttttt !
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL
I see youâre back in love with Martial - :D :D :D
Iâm in serious love with the whole team again :-)
smh - your love is …. is…. so ….. ephemeral….. so transitory. I think itâs price less.
:-) My love for them used to be unconditional - but that was when they were winning things!1!1!
*Tee-hee-hee* I bet!
Hey Chips.
Congrats Gail.
COS, by the time I came back from my phone call, I expected to see you in First. Thanks for leaving it for me :-)
My pleasure Gail. :)
Thanks yâall :-)
This one had my name on it. I refreshed and was about to leave a comment, when my office phone rang. I answered it, handled it and hung up. By then I just knew someone had slipped into First - but nooooo, it was left for me :-)
Thanks :D
THEY BROKE THE MOLD ON PBO AND THEIR JEALOUSY OF HIM WILL NEVER END!
RAISE THE WAGE WOULD BE NICE…MY HUSBAND HASNâT HAD A RAISE IN THE POLICE DEPT. FOR 10 YEARS…HE STARTED WITHDRAWING PENSION AND SOCIAL SECURITY TO MAKE ENDS MEET….THIS IS GETTING TO BE A COMMON STORY FOR MANY………………
These are 1970âs min. wages, food prices have tripled since then and people are supposed to live and pay rent depending on tips to bring their wages up to 2015 cost of living.
I HEAR THAT…WE PAY RENT TOO!
RENT HAS TRIPLED JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GREEDY AND THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE…IT NEVER ENDS!
Rent is high because property taxes go up, apartment buildings sell higher so mortages are higher so rent has to cover this and increased insurance, increased water, heat, & electricity. Nobody is getting that rich owning rental property. Corps write off depreciation and take losses but eventually sell when property values increase, then cycle repeats.
NOT TRUE…LANDLORDS DO GET RICH…THEY BECOME SLUMLORDS…HIKE THE RENT AND DONâT REPAIR PROPERTY…YOU SHOULD SEE OUR HOUSE…THATâS WHY WE ARE MOVING ALONG WITH THE FACT THAT THIS IS NOTHING BUT A RACIST…KKK AREA!
MINE HAS 6 HOUSES…SHE GOES TO MEXICO EVERY WINTER AND HAS A NICE HOT TUB IN HER HOUSE…MY TUB IS 30 YEARS OLD AND DOESNâT WORK. THE GOOD SIDE IS…GOD KNOWS WHO THE SELF CONSUMED ARE…………………..
PEOPLE AND LOTS OF THEM WOULD NOT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THESE PAIN MEDS IF THEY COULD AFFORD OTHER PHARMACEUTICAL TREATMENTS. I HAVE TO TAKE VICODIN EVERY DAY FOR MY PAIN..I CANâT AFFORD THE GOOD STUFF!…BIG PHARMA IS AN EVIL PRACTICE AND IT HAS KILLED MANY!
Just curious…
Congratulations, GGail! My husband on en route to the Twin Cities to be with his hospitalized mom. A snowstorm between Denver in Minneapolis may ground him in Colorado. Not good timing!
Oh, Judith, I wish him safe travels and I hope your mother in law improves very soon.
Thanks Judith.
Safe travels for your husband. Donât stress, if you remain calm and positive, it will good for him and heâll be calm when he gets to his Mom. Thoughts and prayers going out your way {{{hugs}}}}
safe travels for your husband
Why didnât the camera operator give him a signal to turn around? :D :D
This is good news, Donna. I have been very concerned about Latinos overcoming a disinclination to vote for a woman. Hoping HRC chooses one of the Castro brothers as a running mate. Either one of them could run circles around the empty-suited Rubio.
I noticed Christie called Rubio “the boy in the bubble.” Iâd call Christie “the bubble,” if I cared enough to think about him one more second.
She also beat him on “economy is most important” by 9 points.
So who voted for him? The “destroy the government and weâll have utopia” crowd?
Ahhh Congrats Congressman Castro:
Welcome to this crazy mixed up world, little one. Weâre trying to leave something behind for your generation. Thanks Obama
What a beautiful family!
Yes. Iâm hoping one of my beloved Castro brothers will be my President in 2024.
SUCH A GORGEOUS FAMILY..I JUST LOVE HIM….WONDERFUL NAME FOR HIS SON…WE ARE ALL TRYING TO LEAVE A BETTER WORLD FOR OUR CHILDREN………………
Awww! Hope to see this family live in the White House someday.
Spoiler Alert! Itâs me with another of my favorite…
Thank you!
It amazes me that in reading this the full transformational miracle of this president is not fully realized in the mind of the author. I see no blunders, only incredible grace and wisdom. I cannot relate to those that always must say things like “worts and all” when they praise him. I need no disclaimers and havenât since I saw him for myself just after the nomination when he campaigned in a high school gym and later at a hog buiding at a fair ground. My mind and heart soared with him. The second time I saw him speak I walked up to one of the local cops working security and thanked him for guarding this man. He said he would do it without pay. I am not AA and the officer was not. That was the effect he had on us. It was like brotherhood was his aftershave and we were all enveloped in the sweet aroma. God bless our President I say cuz thatâs where I think he must go for inspiration. He seems to understand loveâs miracle and strive to be in concert with it.
Catrst…..that is a wonderful response to the article. I was left feeling the author had given the president a backhanded compliment. However, we all come from different places and I appreciate the authorâs trying to express himself.
catrst, beautiful words with powerful emotions behind them. I felt everything you wrote. Thank you for writing it.
“I need no disclaimers”.
Me neither!
Catrst, thank you for saying what I felt after reading that article. We saw him, February 2007 at a local gathering in OKC…..we were for him before that, but for us that absolutely cemented our support. Whenever someone on TV would say “He is now talking about x, y, or z…” my husband would say…..He talked about that here. He is consistent and trustworthy.
I cannot imagine anybody else in the world being president these past eight years, and have a hard time imagining that someone else will be president in a year. To me he embodies the very meaning and nature of “president.” Others just acted a role.
I donât need a disclaimer either. Iâm not black so either, but I think PBO has been an amazing, transformational president.
Thank you - my first thought when reading the intro - “what blunders”
GE 57F.
Agree with catrst, caryl, ggail and caroline.
Seemed to me that every other paragraph cast doubt on President Obamaâs achievements.
Itâs understandable that many African Americans who can remember the promise of Dr. King only to live through the ugly reality of the 1970s busing confrontations would become cynical of any promise of “hope and change.”
But these observations are uncalled for…
“though clearcut triumphs have been rare ”
“he has us in mind but not at the table. As president he decides things only as himself”
“The failures, the over-compromises, are Obamaâs acknowledgment of defeat; that includes his almost total silence on the subject of blackness itself, which for black folks feels like the worst defeat of all.”
IMHO, the author is too full of herself and not willing to look toward the younger generations who have benefited and now have a concrete example of what success looks like.
So, no thank you, Erin Aubry Kaplan, who has no idea what greatness PBO has already inspired (and will continue to do so after Jan 2017).
I shouldnât have posted it. I did not read it carefully enough, and the headline was deceptive. I agree, and I apologize.
Oh, 57F.
You DEFINITELY donât need to apologize — I fault @angryblacklady for her tweet.
This “article” (aka book promo) was written by the same “author” (whom Iâm familiar with since Iâve read @latimes on and off forever) who penned this abhorrent Op-Ed yesterday headlined “President Obamaâs inability to integrate a divided America.”
I respect you so much (and your adorable bundles of love), I hope you didnât take my comment as directed to you personally — hadnât put the pieces of motivation together until after I posted comment last night. :(
The good news is that I think I posted this after the next thread opened up. ;)
Thanks for your kind words. It is still upon me to do my homework before posting anything. You KNOW I donât support those terrible views, and the tweet was, to say the least, misleading. Still, I shouldnât subject my beloved TOD family to garbage like that.
Hey, weâre family. We all make mistakes!
I have an 83 year old neighbor. We are close friends, and I excuse her constant repetition of stories.
Bernie is starting to remind me of her: no matter what the conversation, he goes back to the same lines heâs been yelling for 30 years.
I FEEL FOR HIM…HEâS TOO OLD BUT YOU HAVE TO GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR TRYING BECAUSE IâM WILLING TO BET HE HURTS EVERY NIGHT!
I read an article about him being a one issue man. The president had arranged a briefing for the senators o some important foreign policy thing having to do with Iraq/Afghanistan/Al Qaida/ISIS/something-big-but-I-donât-remember-what. The Senator being quoted, who was a friend of Sandersâ, said he got up to the podium, talked for a couple of minutes about the situation and before they knew it heâd pivoted to income inequality and the other senators were saying “There goes Bernie”. This is not the man to be president. Heâs been in his own little slot for too long.
I remember reading that, too. There was some question he was asked on a Sunday show, and he took everything back to the same line. Itâs just fine to care about economic issues, but his repetition word-for-word is what happens when you can no longer string thoughts together. His dimness on FP has horrified me. No excuse.
And he has his supporters convinced that there is only one issue too. Thatâs one reason why they donât admit gender and race have any place in the campaign - because Economic Inequality Will Solve It All. I am sad to say that someone very close to me has taken on this attitude and I only hope that as the debates move on it will be clearer to him that apart from this one issue, there is no ‘thereâ there. I think Sanders is mistaken for pushing for more debates. Any debate that is not focused on that single issue will reveal his lack of ability to function in any other area.
I DONâT KNOW WHY THE YOUTH ARE ATTRACTED TO HIM…I THINK HILLARYâS PROBLEM IS THAT SHE COMES OFF AS A DRILL INSTRUCTOR INSTEAD OF SOMEBODYâS MOM AT A SLEEPOVER. BERNIE IS A JOKER…FRANKLY THESE KIDS DONâT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. HOPEFULLY PBO ON THE ROAD CAN STRAIGHTEN THAT OUT!
I LOVE THE PHOTO OF PBO IN THE CAR…HE CANâT WAIT TO GET OUT OF THE BUBBLE! I HOPE THERE ARE MANY GOOD THINGS WAITING FOR HIM IN HIS FUTURE!
SATURDAY, JAN 30, 2025 02:30 PM CST
Obama as folk hero: To be what heâs trying to be â black, idealistic and president â is nothing less than superhuman
Obamaâs had unprecedented importance for black people. We even forgive his blunders, because heâs one of the family
ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN
Excerpted from “I Heart Obama”
The unlikely heroism of Barack Obama began for me the first and only time I saw him, on a warm winter day in Los Angeles in 2007. He had just declared his candidacy for president and was holding a rally at Rancho Cienega Park in the Crenshaw district. Crenshaw is the last primarily black area left in the city; it is next to Dorsey High School, one of three majority black high schools left in the 700,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District, and for nearly twenty years it was the site of the African Marketplace and Cultural Faire, held in late summer. In other words, anybody holding an event at Rancho Cienega was trying to get a message out to black folks. The fact that lots of white folks lived pretty close by, some just across the street at Village Green, a leafy condominium community built as a prototype of utopian urban living in the 1940s, didnât matter. Nor did it matter that whites live in considerable numbers in Ladera Heights, a few miles north of Rancho Cienega, and in much greater numbers in Culver City, a couple of miles southwest. The proximity of these places doesnât connect them at all. Crenshaw is a black nation-state, so those whites who do live here donât live outdoors, are never seen on the streets, and more than likely tell their white friends and potential visitors that they live not in Crenshaw but in adjacent places like Culver City or West Los Angeles. They will acknowledge black neighborhoods only when special events are held there such as the African Marketplace or the Martin Luther King Day parade, when the place itself is the point; on those occasions, Crenshaw lights up as local exotica, an in-house tourist destination. But for most of the year, as far as Los Angeles and Southern California and the rest of the country and the rest of the world are concerned, Crenshaw, like black hubs in big cities anyw
AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED..PRESIDENT OBAMA HAD NO BLUNDERS…HE PUT UP WITH THE ULTIMATE TRASH IN DC AND SHOULD BE NOTHING LESS THAN A SAINT FOR HOLDING ONTO HIS INTEGRITY! I WOULD HAVE DUG SEVERAL ANAL TUNNELS..THE WH LAWN WOULD LOOK LIKE A MOLE PARTY…TUNNELS ALL THE WAY TO TEXAS!
Joy Reid â@JoyAnnReid 8h8 hours ago
#IowaCaucus turnout:
GOP 180,000 (vs prev record of 121,000 in 2012);
Dems 171,109 (vs prev record of 239,000 in 2008)
Thatâs not what your face and demeanor express! LOL.
SOMEBODY ROLL DOWN THE WINDOWS!,,,CHECK THE FLOOR TO THE RIGHT…LOLLLLLLLLLLLLDROWNING HIS SORROWS!
Donald doesnât look as smug as he usually do. Wonder why?
Ha - He also looks a little OCD, the way those papers are lined up so perfectly in front of him. And I thought I heard he doesnât like other peopleâs germs or shaking hands with âem. The perfect diplomat and politician. Too bad, so sad.
PROBABLY HAS A BOTTLE OF GERM-X IN HIS POCKET…REMEMBER WHEN BUSH PULLED THAT ON PBO?
I remember when Bush wiped his hand on Bill Clintonâs shirt, after Bush had shaken hands with some people in Haiti - if thatâs what you mean. Ugly guy. Argghhh.
LOL! đđđ
SOME OF THEM MANAGE TO FALL THRU THE CRACKS ON THE CONVEYOR BELT AND LAND HERE…TED CRUZ HAS MORE THAN ONE CRACK!
An identity series that explores the importance of a comprehensive black history education. Through personal essays, we tap into the power of that knowledge. We will share a weekâs worth of submissions, highlighting a new piece everyday.
ONE MUST LOOK TO A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF BIBLICAL HISTORY AND NEVER EVER FORGET IT…IT IS NEVER TAUGHT OR ENHANCED BY THE WHITE POPULATION…BUT AS FASCINATING AS THE GOOD BOOK IS…THIS STORY IS VERY SYMBOLIC OF THE AFRICAN AMERICANSâ HIGHLY HELD POSITION IN THE EYES OF JESUS CHRIST…IT IS NEVER TAUGHT AND SHOULD BE…SIMON OF CYRENE HAILED FROM AFRICA AND HE WAS THE CHOSEN ONE TO HELP JESUS CHRIST CARRY HIS CROSS TO CALVARY……………………THIS…SPEAKS VOLUMES! WHITE DO NOT MENTION THE IMPORTANCE OF AFRICANS IN THE BIBLE…THEY TOTALLY WHITEWASH IT!…GOTTA GO…GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
I see that the kickstarter Little Spout Big MIssion has been fully funded! Yay! I look forward to my spouts making my life easier and a little more splash free! :D
donna that is so right. I remember that so many times and also Sen. Obama and President Obama didnât make up lies about G.W. Bush, or Mitt Romney. Every time the Republicans open their mouth about POTUS they are making up lies.
christie calling rubio a bubble boy is ironic.
Christie wanted to say it first before the word crosses Rubio ‘s mind.
go foxes. go spurs.
Itâs not bad for me.
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/02/leaders-dont-wait-for-a-revolution-they-effect-change/