April 2, 2014

The contrast cannot be any more clearer. Wake up, America. Vote for yourself....

Found on the Obama Diary

April 2, 2014

The White House's Elegant Farmer...

First Lady Michelle Obama, School Children, and Foodcorps Leaders Plant the Sixth Annual White House Kitchen Garden

Found on the Obama Diary

April 2, 2014

Wile E. Coyote fails again....

Found on the Obama Diary

April 1, 2014

I got your back partner...

Looks like no one is going to harm this guy. No one is getting near. Talk about loyalty and devotion. What could be better than having your dog guard you with his life. That is TRUE LOVE and it doesn't say it any other way. Having a magnificent German Shepherd lying right on you is comforting and I bet he was with him all through his tour.
Picture of a soldier sleeping during an airport layover with his canine partner. There is no measure of loyalty greater than that shown here. Sleep soundly soldier.

April 1, 2014

Traditional marriage" doesn't mean what conservatives think it means.

April 1, 2014

This is the picture I presented to President Obama this year!

https://twitter.com/henryhealy/status/450425458199633920/photo/1


http://theobamadiary.com/2014/04/01/rise-and-shine-788/

April 1, 2014

As ACA Climbs Higher, GOP Denial Digs Deeper

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People wait in line at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, Calif. on March 27, 2014.

There is not yet an official announcement about exactly how many Affordable Care Act enrollments there were during the open-enrollment period. The Associated Press and others are reporting that the Obama administration believes it’s “on track” to sign up more than 7 million Americans for health insurance, but there’s been no official confirmation.As a practical matter, it really doesn’t much matter whether the total is 6.9 million or 7.1 million – it’s almost a matter of bragging rights at this point, but it doesn’t really affect the structural integrity of the system –

and it’s also worth noting that yesterday wasn’t necessarily the inflexible deadline anyway. Coverage through Medicaid expansion will continue, and those who began the process before the deadline will still be allowed to finish.But the larger takeaway remains the same. First, “Obamacare” is succeeding in ways no one was predicting a few months ago. Second, Republicans are in deep denial over facts that contradict everything they’ve chosen to believe about reality.

More here: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/aca-climbs-higher-gop-denial-digs-deeper

April 1, 2014

He’s All Ivy — Accepted To All 8 Ivy League Colleges

In the next month, Kwasi Enin must make a tough decision: Which of the eight Ivy League universities should he attend this fall? A first-generation American from Shirley, N.Y., the 17-year-old violist and aspiring physician applied to all eight, from Brown to Yale. The responses began rolling in over the past few months, and by late last week when he opened an e-mail from Harvard, he found he’d been accepted to every one.

School district officials provided scanned copies of acceptance letters from all eight on Monday. Yale confirmed that it was holding a spot for Enin. The feat is extremely rare, say college counselors — few students even apply to all eight, because each seeks different qualities in their freshman class. Almost none are invited to attend them all. The Ivy League colleges are among the nation’s most elite.

"My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight," says Nancy Winkler, a guidance counselor at William Floyd High School, where Enin attends class. In 29 years as a counselor, she says, she's never seen anything like this. "It's a big deal when we have students apply to one or two Ivies. To get into one or two is huge. It was extraordinary."

For most of the eight schools, acceptance comes rarely, even among the USA's top students. At the top end, Cornell University admitted only 14% of applicants. Harvard accepted just 5.9%.

But Enin has "a lot of things in his favor," says college admissions expert Katherine Cohen, CEO and founder of IvyWise, a New York-based consulting firm.

For one thing, he's a young man. "Colleges are looking for great boys," Cohen says. Application pools these days skew heavily toward girls: The U.S. Department of Education estimates that females comprised 57% of college students in degree-granting institutions last year. Colleges — especially elite ones — are struggling to keep male/female ratios even, so admitting academically gifted young men like Enin gives them an advantage.

More here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/31/ivy-league-admissions-college-university/7119531/?sf24515598=1

http://theobamadiary.com/2014/04/01/rise-and-shine-788/

April 1, 2014

Luckovich toon

http://theobamadiary.com/2014/04/01/rise-and-shine-788/

April 1, 2014

Obamacare enrollment is projected to grow to 22 million by 2016

http://theobamadiary.com/2014/04/01/rise-and-shine-788/