May 17, 2015

King of the Blues.. "May his beautiful soul RIP".. Mahalo kpete~

Nerdy Wonka ?@NerdyWonka

The legendary B.B. King singing 'Sweet Home Chicago' with President Obama. May his beautiful soul rest in peace.
8:15 PM - 14 May 2015


http://theobamadiary.com/2015/05/15/early-bird-rise-and-shine-49/

May 15, 2015

"Taibbi is good with rhetoric, but fast and loose with the truth" First comment under

the fourth link.. Perfect!

May 15, 2015

Actually, "They "handed a stinging rebuke" to mcconnell but don't let that stop all those who play

right into corpmedia's hands.

"Democrats on Capitol Hill say the agreement they reached the next day to move forward on the legislation extracted real concessions from Republican leadership."

"The White House named names. And not 24 hours later, President Barack Obama and his aides had a deal to get fast-track back on track."

snip// from the link..

"White House officials said the agreement that will now open debate on the trade package on Thursday only seems like a dramatic turnaround because Tuesday’s doom and gloom was overblown. The president’s trade agenda is moving again, on its way through the Senate and off to the much more problematic House. And the president has regained the momentum."

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/obama-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-117921.html?hp=lc3_4_b1

May 15, 2015

Not sure why this doesn't have lots of Recs.. oh wait..

it's not saying the President is "a liar".

In fact it's the opposite.. oh and the US corp media was all over saying the Dems were "snubbing Pres Obama" yesterday when they were really "snubbing" McConnell.. but they wanted Hair on Fire and so many were willing and ready to play. They got played.

Thanks still one

May 15, 2015

"Democrats on Capitol Hill say the agreement they reached the next day to move forward on the

legislation extracted real concessions from Republican leadership."

The vote yesterday was against McConnell not President.. but the corpmedia wanted their hair on fire.. and those who sucked it up made it about being against Obama. Thanks for playing

"The White House named names. And not 24 hours later, President Barack Obama and his aides had a deal to get fast-track back on track."

snip// from the link..

"White House officials said the agreement that will now open debate on the trade package on Thursday only seems like a dramatic turnaround because Tuesday’s doom and gloom was overblown. The president’s trade agenda is moving again, on its way through the Senate and off to the much more problematic House. And the president has regained the momentum."

HaHa.. Thanks Cali.

May 15, 2015

It's incredible.. and President Obama called Sen Warren "Elizabeth".. Unreal!

E McMorris-Santoro
✔ ?@EvanMcSan
Sherrod Brown calling Warren “Elizabeth” and Warren calling Brown “Sherrod.” https://twitter.com/EvanMcSan/status/598499592393596928 …
https://twitter.com/EvanMcSan/status/598499949278601217 …
4:49 AM - 13 May 2015





http://theobamadiary.com/2015/05/13/chat-away-580/

They can call each other by their first names but boy oh boy.. President Obama damn well better not call her "Elizabeth" or Sherrod will go off the deep end.

May 15, 2015

Mahalo littlewolf.. lucky peeps who will be around then to take advantage! Mahalo Obama and Hawaii

Kaheawa Wind Power, above the town of Maalaea in the West Maui Mountains, is one of the largest wind farms in Hawaii.

The U.S. government is making clean energy a priority. States from across the nation are taking steps toward energy efficiency, alternative energy programs and new policies that will help the country collectively meet the standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan announced last June. And Hawaii is leading the way with a new bill that would require 100 percent of the state’s energy to come from renewable sources by 2045.

http://www.govtech.com/fs/Hawaii-Proposes-100-Percent-Renewable-Energy-by-2045.html

May 15, 2015

James Taylor says Obama is great; riding Hillary train

NEW YORK (AP) — Barack Obama supporter James Taylor doesn't just think the U.S. president is great — he believes Obama is the greatest of all-time.

"I've been watching politics since (Dwight) Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and Obama is my favorite, favorite president," Taylor said in an interview Wednesday. "I am just thankful for every day that he's in office. I am so proud that he represents my country and I think he represents me — I think he represents the America that I know."

snip//

"He promised to give us a health care system, it's a work in progress, but he has put us on a road to that," Taylor said. "I'm so grateful for what he's done for gay rights and for the emancipation of gay people. Particularly from my point of view, I think that was so overdue and so important, and so important for America to be ahead of the curve on this."

Taylor criticized Congress in Obama's defense.

"I've never seen a Congress that has been so obstructive and so contrary and so committed to doing anything that will foul up this administration. I just think it's an absolute scandal that he has had so little cooperation," he said. "So anyway, you hit a nerve and I'll go on forever. But I'll just say it a third time: Every day that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are in the White House is a day that I am thankful for."

snip//

Obama isn't the only politician Taylor is supporting: The singer said he's on the Hillary Rodham Clinton train, too.

"And aside from the fact that she's a woman running, she's the right person. ... The whole point — black or white, male or female, gay or straight, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, atheist — it doesn't matter what these other connections are," he said. "Our country needs to come together and the question is, 'Is this public servant someone who will bring us together?' And I think she is."

MOre..
http://news.yahoo.com/james-taylor-says-obama-great-riding-hillary-train-152514484.html;_ylt=A86.J3aYyVRVDSwAN1IPxQt

I adore James Taylor.. have since 1970~

May 14, 2015

Wow, amazing how the rw asshole putin has supporters on a Dem board! Or is it?

Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America

Russia’s campaign to shape international opinion around its invasion of Ukraine has extended to recruiting and training a new cadre of online trolls that have been deployed to spread the Kremlin’s message on the comments section of top American websites.

Plans attached to emails leaked by a mysterious Russian hacker collective show IT managers reporting on a new ideological front against the West in the comments sections of Fox News, Huffington Post, The Blaze, Politico, and WorldNetDaily.

The bizarre hive of social media activity appears to be part of a two-pronged Kremlin campaign to claim control over the internet, launching a million-dollar army of trolls to mold American public opinion as it cracks down on internet freedom at home.

MOre..
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america#.rjxANxXDQ

FFin' Hypocrites.

May 14, 2015

Mahalo, Detlef.. "Germany finally seeing Vladimir Putin for who he really is".. I don't know if you

have seen this..

snip//

Russia’s unilateral redrawing of Ukraine’s borders has refocused minds in Germany. Putin’s annexation of Crimea, his lies that Russian troops were not involved, and his covert war in eastern Ukraine have eroded trust in the Kremlin. Germany’s political elite — unlike the isolationist, latently anti-American population at large —has no illusions that Putin’s actions are posing the greatest danger to European security since the Cold War.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who hails from the traditionally Russophile Social Democrats, is the starkest example of this evolution. Steinmeier, together with his French and Polish counterparts, tried to negotiate a settlement between Viktor Yanukovych, then Ukraine’s president, and anti-government protesters in February 2014. Later, Steinmeier spearheaded Merkel’s efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the spiraling conflict through the revival of the so-called Minsk agreement. In the process, he suffered the same Kremlin lies that Secretary of State John Kerry complained about last month.

More..
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/03/09/germany-finally-seeing-vladimir-putin-for-who-he-really-is/