June 19, 2013

Friday Evening Thread: Song Of The Day

November 16, 2012 by 124 Comments

Dedicated to the ever delusional GOP – especially Romney, McCain and Rove.

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  • Miranda

    Oh so this is why McCain losing his mind? Cuz he knows he’s about to go the way of the dodo bird?

    John McCain’s Benghazi Committee Plan Would Give Senator New Relevance

    WASHINGTON — Just four years ago, John McCain was the leader of the GOP. Today, he’s the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, a perch from which the former fighter pilot is deeply engaged in the national conversation over war, terrorism and intelligence gathering.

    But in January, the Arizona senator will lose his top-ranking committee seat due to term limits. The only ranking Republican spot available to him next session will be on the Indian Affairs Committee.

    Unless, that is, the Senate creates a brand-new select committee. On Wednesday, McCain, flanked by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), proposed just that: a select committee with extensive authority to investigate the Benghazi, Libya, attack and the U.S. government’s response.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/john-mccain-benghazi-committee_n_2145457.html

    • Tx_Girl_in_LA

      Oh are you kidding me?

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      This sorry ass mofo right chere….

    • conlakappa

      He is going to be Teabaggered out/need to retire the next go-round any way. I said it this week–Graham’s State party basically outed him (the half-toe that is still in the closet) in 2010. With Lieberman now gone, that triumvirate of whining and bitter will no longer be around.

  • creolechild

    Maybe Obamacare isn’t driving the doctor shortage

    It’s well-known in the health-care world that we have a looming doctor shortage, with a growing gap between the medical services we need and the doctors who can provide them. This often gets chalked up to the Affordable Care Act: Expanding insurance, the thinking goes, will hugely increase demand for doctors’ services.[....]

    New research in the Annals of Family Medicine throws some cold water on that theory: Researchers there suggest that it’s population growth and aging largely driving the demand for doctors, with the Affordable Care Act playing a more minor role. [....]

    They estimate that the United States will need 52,000 additional primary care doctors by 2025. Of those, about 33,000 are due to population growth and 10,000 would be needed to meet the needs of the aging. Then, there would be 8,000 doctors demanded by the insurance expansion.[....]

    Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/16/maybe-obamacare-isnt-driving-the-doctor-shortage/?tid=ts_biz

    H/T Sarah Kliff

  • creolechild

    Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Rolling Jubilee’ Raises Enough To Abolish $5 Million In Debt

    Members of Occupy Wall Street last week announced the formation of “Rolling Jubilee,” a fundraising campaign that would be used to purchase outstanding debt and then abolish it. And as of Friday, the campaign has already raised enough to eliminate more than $5.7 million in personal debt, according to its web site. The group’s plans are to buy outstanding debt from financial institutions for a small price, but instead of collecting on the debt, it will forgive it in order to relieve student loan, medical, and other forms of debt.

    http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/11/16/1205991/occupy-wall-streets-rolling-jubilee-raises-enough-to-abolish-5-million-in-debt/

    H/T Travis Waldron

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      Good idea!

      • GN

        Credit where credit is due; that’s quite fantastic.

        • conlakappa

          Sorry, I need to see receipts. Them telling me they did it has not a lot of resonance with me.

          • GN

            That’s a good point right there.

          • qosine

            Good point. They can post the proof online. Otherwise, too Mitt-like.

    • AxelFoley

      ‘Bout time they get something right.

  • creolechild

    Chicago’s urban farm district could be the biggest in the nation

    Chicago’s Black Belt area, on the historic South Side, was once a hub for jazz, blues, and literature, but today is riddled with vacant lots, poverty, and blight. Now, a new plan envisions the area as a thriving urban farm district.

    In the coming weeks, the city’s planning department is expected to approve the creation of a green belt with a strong focus on urban agriculture within the neighborhood of Englewood. The plan is an element of Chicago’s Department of Housing and Economic Development’s (DHE) Green Healthy Neighborhoods initiative, designed to shepherd and foster redevelopment in 13 square miles of the South Side.[....]

    Read more: http://grist.org/food/chicago-urban-ag-farm-district-could-be-the-biggest-in-the-nation/

    H/T Lori Rotenberk

    • nellcote

      I love the urban farm movement.

  • creolechild

    Large Employers Attempt To Lower Health Costs At The Expense Of Their Workers

    According to CNN Money, the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance plans rose by just 4.1 percent this year, representing the lowest increase in employer health expenditures in 15 years. Premiums have continued their upward trend since the Bush Administration, but their rate of increase has seen a decline under President Obama, while government programs such as Medicare Advantage have actually seen a net reduction in premium costs.

    Although the latest figures on employer-sponsored health insurance premiums are encouraging, they are largely a result of employers simply shifting health care costs onto their employees by increasing workers’ contributions to health coverage and offering expensive, risky “high-deductible health plans.” Employers have been engaging in a misleading blame-game, citing Obamacare as an excuse for their shoddy cost-shifting practices when they are actually just trying to squeeze out extra profits[....]

    Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/15/1194651/large-employers-lower-costs-workers/

    H/T Sy Mukherjee

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    Reid tells McCain to drink some prune juice and let that Benghazi isht go.

    Reid to McCain: No need for special Libya panel
    By DONNA CASSATA
    Associated Press / November 16, 2012

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic leader in the Senate is rejecting Sen. John McCain’s request for a Watergate-style congressional committee to investigate the deadly Sept. 11 raid in Libya.

    In a letter Friday to McCain, Sen. Harry Reid said he refuses to allow the Senate to be used as a ‘‘venue for baseless partisan attacks.’’ Reid said several committees in the House and Senate are already investigating the attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

    MORE: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/2012/11/16/reid-mccain-need-for-special-libya-panel/GEeHPYYtD51voyxqTrhM7L/story.html

    • GN

      Reid is in serious “who gone check me boo” mode and has been for some time. Delightful to observe.

      • conlakappa

        And another one mocked hard by the emoprogs. One day they’ll back a winner.

    • AxelFoley

      I guess McCain ain’t see what Reid did to RMoney all summer. He ’bout to get his chin checked.

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    Fox Covers Up Acknowledgement That Petraeus Was OK With Benghazi Talking Points

    JEREMY HOLDEN

    [...] In an interview immediately after that hearing explaining what Petraeus said, King said that the CIA initially wrote in its assessment that attack was connected to an Al Qaeda-affiliated group, but that point was removed during a standard review by the broader intelligence community.

    King said that Petraeus testified that he was not upset that the reference to Al Qaeda was removed from the intelligence assessment before it was made public. In fact, King made clear that the CIA OK’d the assessment after the reference to Al Qaeda was removed:

    Yeah, they said, “OK for it to go.”

    But when Fox interviewed King, anchor Megyn Kelly made no reference to King’s earlier statement making clear that Petraeus was not upset that the reference to Al Qaeda was removed from the assessment before it was made public, or that the CIA OK’d the assessment Rice relied upon.

    MORE: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/16/fox-covers-up-acknowledgement-that-petraeus-was/191439

  • GreenLadyHere

    Good Evenin’ miranda/POU FAM♥ ***BIG HUG*** :>)’

    - – - GOP Delusion,- -Wingnut- – –AnnnndDAZED annnd CONFUSED!!- — -LOL

    - – - -LOL- – –U!- – -AIN’T! –NEVA!- – -LIED!!- – LOL- -

    —NEXT: – — – — -Ooooo-Kaaaay???_ – —

    – — One More Reason Petraeus Might Have Resigned
    [He was on the list for access to nuclear codes: Marc Ambinder]    - –

    - – - - Marc Ambinder of the The Week reports on an intriguing and little-known factor that may have contributed to David Petraeus’ quick decision to resign: It seems Petraeus was on the list of people who would have access to the nation’s nuclear codes should the rest of Washington be wiped out in an attack. And the people on that list are held to ultra-high standards under something called the Personnel Reliability Program. “Adultery is not a minor sin under the PRP rules,” writes Ambinder.

    It’s all part of the nation’s secret Continuity of Government plans in the wake of a catastrophe. Petraeus’ “exalted” role in those plans might well have led national intelligence chief James Clapper to insist he step down as quickly as he did, writes Ambinder. Read the full post here.
    THERE IS MORE.- – – - – -INTRIGING- — – — “SPY v SPY- – -LOL

    ****sigh***

    Gotta “hit da road”- – -C U Sooon. ♥

  • creolechild

    Appeals court finds Michigan affirmative action ban unconstitutional

    The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals narrowly ruled on Thursday that Michigan’s ban on affirmative action, passed by a ballot initiative in 2006, is unconstitutional.[....]

    In the majority opinion, Judge R. Guy Cole Jr. writes that while a student has many paths to protect legacy admissions that give special preference to her family’s alumni connections under the state’s constitution, “Thesame cannot be said for a black student seeking the adoption of a constitutionally permissible race-conscious admissions policy. … The existence of such a comparative structural burden undermines the Equal Protection Clause’s guarantee that all citizens ought to have equal access to the tools of political change.”[....]

    Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/16/appeals-court-finds-michigan-affirmative-action-ban-unconstitutional/

    H/T Kay Steiger

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    ABC Cancels Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue by Kimberly Roots

    ABC has done what the U.S. Armed Forces could not: It sunk the Colorado. The network is choosing not to move forward with Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue, TVLine has confirmed.

    Read More at: http://tvline.com/2012/11/16/last-resort-666-park-avenue-cancelled/#utm_source=copypaste&utm_campaign=referral

    http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q615/sepiaobot/34fjupu_zps743fadb6.gif

    • gc

      Por Braugher. o good, and can’t buy a hit. But it is not just his shows. Programs get yanked after three airings now. They say there is only one solid “hit” from the current season; POI. I got into a habit years ago after being disappointed too often. Before watching anything, I check its Nielsen’s to see if it has “legs.”

      • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

        I figured something was up because Braugher was on a lot of ABC shows this week promoting the show.

        It’s a damn shame because he’s a helluva actor and the show is very good! :-(

        • qosine

          Braugher is SO good. Really disappointed, here.

    • rikyrah

      damn

    • AxelFoley

      *looks at that .gif*

      I cain’t. I just cain’t.

    • MsKitty

      Looks like I can delete both from the DVR sight unseen. I’ve been burned so much by the networks and their itchy trigger fingers that if I’m interested in a new show I’ll let all the episodes for the entire season pile up, and will watch them only if there will be a season 2. I’m so over getting invested in a show to have it yanked after a couple of weeks.

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
  • Camille

    May I just say that Rev. Al has essentially elevated and dramatically improved the quality and substance of news shows on MSNBC.

    Politics Nation has been like today’s show proved, one of the most substantial and truly informative on U.S television.

    To think the stone loudly rejected by by the bloviating phony pretend builders has indeed become the magnificent cornerstone.

    Rock on Rev. Al, rock on!

  • gc

    Nobody’s Learned Nothing Dep’t: A TODer is freaking out. “OMG the SCANDAL is going to hit the White House….poor Obama…yada yada.”
    All I get from The Scandal, is after deciding our media could not be more inconsequential…it is.

    People have affairs, men are more culpable than women, participants try to cover it up. We are fighting to keep Obamacare and not go cliff jumping. The availability of guns in the country is appalling, and the Middle East is “on the cliff.” (and I will not discuss the politics of it, just that human beings are dorkwads. Not all Jews are Zionists, but I stay away from those conversations, lest anti-Semitism creeps in) The militants want to secede and I am just now starting to breathe again after facing the nightmare scenario of being a xx lower sentient being.

    I”ve been offline with Discus problems and living in 3-d, so I may be out of the loop.

    • annvic

      People like that, for all their tears and hand wringing, get a kind of joy out of freaking out over imagined crisis. PBO just body slammed Mitt Romney and the GOP two weeks ago and they can’t even take a breath before they go heaving over Benghazi. News flash: if the GOP couldn’t ties PBO to a cover-up before the election, then the evidence simply doesn’t exist. Lord, I wish I had the ability to slap people over the internet.

      • AxelFoley

        Thank you.

    • nellcote

      What Scandal?

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    So, basically, Dana Milbank thinks Ambassador Susan Rice is an ungrateful, uppity nigra who doesn’t know her place….(h/t Skeptical Brotha)

    Among those she has insulted is the woman she would replace at State. Rice was one of the first former Clinton administration officials to defect to Obama’s primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. Rice condemned Clinton’s Iraq and Iran positions, asking for an “explanation of how and why she got those critical judgments wrong.”

    Clinton got a measure of revenge in 2010 after she worked out a deal with the Russian foreign minister on a package of Iran sanctions to be adopted by the U.N. Security Council. The White House wanted Rice to make the announcement (part of a campaign to increase her profile that included high-visibility foreign trips and TV appearances), but a Clinton aide got Kerry to ask Clinton about the matter during an unrelated Senate hearing.

    Rice’s put-down of Clinton was tame compared with her portrayal of McCain during 2008, which no doubt contributes to McCain’s hostility toward her today. She mocked McCain’s trip to Iraq (“strolling around the market in a flak jacket”), called his policies “reckless” and said “his tendency is to shoot first and ask questions later. It’s dangerous.”

    MORE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-susan-rices-tarnished-resume/2012/11/16/55ec3382-3012-11e2-a30e-5ca76eeec857_story.html

    • Ebogan63

      Have a roomfull of seats Dana!

    • Miranda

      He really needs to be pimp-slapped for this insulting bullshit.

      • conlakappa

        Might return his face to normal, such that it was. Dude is seriously looking like there’s a Botox-crusted needle somewhere in the Washington Post building with his initials on it.

        • GN

          _________________________

          +++RIP, gn

        • Miranda

          *DEAD*

        • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

          Oh my gentle Jesus! *faints*

    • MsKitty

      Get the bail money ready. If I catch him or Luke Russert on the street…well y’all know the rest.

    • Camille

      When I tell you guys that the Clintons are still very much aligned with McCain etc, believe me.

      As for Dana Milbank, he is still and always will be the sadistic racist asshole willing to be used for a sport he enjoys greatly – maliciously blindsiding, deeply hurting and sticking it to others.

      Dana Milbank’s Karma will come in time, but right now, pay attention to the characters, their co-conspirators and shenanigans in the malicious web he weaves. It is important.

      John McCain, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton.

  • lamh36

    Just saw James Bond Skyfall. It was great. If you are a fan if the whole series with all the Bonds, you’ll love the momentos. If u just love the modern series you’ll still love it. I think it’s the best of the Daniel Craig series

    • GN

      Can’t wait to see it.

    • GN

      Can’t wait to see it.

    • rikyrah

      thanks for the review

  • conlakappa

    Okay, which one of you mischief-makers designed this t-shirt?! http://www.donkeyts.com/design/1655+HATERS+GONA+HATE+funny+oscar+grouch+hip+Tee

    • GN

      lmao, that’s hilarious and oh so true!

    • Aquagranny911

      GLH? Green is her signature color, lol.

      • GreenLadyHere

        HEEY Aquagrnny911 – — -***BIG – - -GREEN –HUG*** LOL – -

        THANK U. :>) How R U? – – - -Good 2 C U. :>)

  • GN

    Earlier this week, I think it was Sepia who posted the twitter link to an Ebony magazine interview in which Cornel West and Tavis Smiley repacked themselves as “loving” misunderstood “supporters” of the President. It’s irritating that at such an amazing moment in time in terms of civil rights victories and black unity on an unprecedented scale, Smiley and West continue to get opportunities in large venues to promote themselves and rewrite their history of hating on President Obama. So I ended up having an exchange with the Ebony twitter account. Caveat: they get points for engaging respectfully, but disappointingly, I don’t think that really they got it with respect to why West/Smiley are so objectionable to many of us. Here’s the exchange:

    @EBONYMag:
    [EXCLUSIVE] Tavis Smiley and Cornel West on their “loving” criticism of the president, how they plan to support him: http://www.ebony.com/news-views/interview-tavis-smiley-and-cornel-west-867 …

    @GN192:
    @EBONYMag Saying the President is a Republican in blackface is def. not “loving”–why give these 2 magazine space at such a wonderful time??

    @EBONYMag:
    @GN192 That is not a quote from our interview, perhaps you could read it and then offer feedback. Thanks!

    @GN192:
    @EBONYMag Understood, but that is a quote stated by Dr. West recently, which makes it difficult to see his attacks on the WH as loving.

    @EBONYMag:
    @GN192 What did you think of the interview?

    @GN192:
    @EBONYMag I thought the questions were okay, but I wish more attention was given to orgs like 1911United which promote unity & positivity.

    @EBONYMag:
    @GN192 The job of any publication reporting on the news is not to be “positive,” but to be balanced. Thanks so much for your feedback!

    @GN192:
    @EBONYMag I thought Ebony’s job pertained more to a positive agenda for black people and informing readers, not pushing West/Smiley’s agenda

    GN192:
    @EBONYMag I respectfully hope that in the future, more positive, constructive, & successful examples of blk political activism are featured.

    @EBONYMag:
    @GN192 If you read the site and magazine, you will see lots of that as well. Thanks so much!

    @GN192:
    @EBONYMag I didn’t see it in the Smiley/West article, as these two are on the absolute wrong site of history; thx for the debate.

    **************
    I didn’t like that “balanced” stuff. There are already too many publications which for “balance” promote haters of various superlative black people. No need for Ebony to go down that road IMO.

    • Kennymack1971

      Tavis and Cornel still have friends in Black media who will give them a platform for their self promoting BS. It doesn’t matter though because they have completely torn their draws with the majority of the Black community and there is no way they can erase that. They have revealed themselves as bitter jealous haters and Ebony can’t clean that up.

      • GN

        Indeed; Dr. West is so utterly transparent. He gave a “I’m a loving supporter of President Obama” stuff in one interview (which has a pro-POTUS readership), while calling President Obama a “Republican in blackface” in another interview (which has a fauxgressive audience). Seems like the only commonality here is self-promotion. I’d imagine that most of us are not buying this bs at all.

        • Kennymack1971

          It was a wrap when Tom Joyner finally told Tavis to go sit down somewhere. The majority of Black folks see Tavis and Cornel’s act for what it is: two dudes mad that a Black man became President and didn’t kiss their rings to do it.

          • Town

            Tom Joyner is trying to slide back into Tavis’ good graces. He didn’t want to leave Tavis’ side…Sybil & J. Anthony Brown & Huggie Lowdown think the opposite. Rest assured, if Barack Obama had lost last week, Tom would have been back up in Tavis’ grill.

          • qosine

            I just have to say, after reading this magnitudinous thread, that POU (the trustees’ weekly African Americans’ accomplishments series, Cheryl’s great website, and the great commenting crowd, does what “balanced news” no longer provides. There’s so much uplift, pride, fun, smartness here. Hope and change live here.

        • Miranda

          I had to say something back on twitter….John Johnson would have NEVER EVER EVER put some negative bullshit about the first black President who has been exceptional in every way in his magazine. Anyone who has read his words on why he started the magazine and what he hoped to accomplish would know that.

          • GN

            It’s a shame because if this is the new editorial direction, his wishes are not being honored.

          • Ebogan63

            Absolutely! John Johnson would never countenance the idiocy of Tavis and Cornel. How far has Ebony fallen. SMH.

          • AxelFoley

            This rightchere.

    • GreenLadyHere

      HEEY GN. ***BIG HUG** :>)

      – - -THIS: – –☻@EBONYMag:
      [EXCLUSIVE] Tavis Smiley and Cornel West on their “loving” criticism of the president, how they plan to support him: http://www.ebony.com/news-view… …

      — – -EBONY 4-got THIS!! – –LOL

      Good post. :>) Good 2 C U. :>) — -

      • GN

        lol, indeed, GLH!

      • trose1

        Hey GLH
        that picture say it all

        • GreenLadyHere

          Heey trose1♥. I’m tryin’ THIS – -again. :>) THANK U. :>)

          ***BIG HUG*** :>)

    • conlakappa

      What a dumbass. The multiple cases of “thanks so much” would have me leaping through the computer or calling him/her everything but a child of G*d. The articles about the First Couple returned Ebony to any sense of relevance and were guaranteed best sellers. Them going to Corn Flakes and Tavis was them trying to be “fair and balanced.” If I were the White House, I wouldn’t grant another interview with that rag. Daggum, Desiree, get over it.

      • GN

        The articles about the First Couple returned Ebony to any sense of relevance and were guaranteed best sellers.

        Yes! If the editorial view is to now feature superlative black people and “balance that” by providing space to their haters, that’s a seriously flawed editorial choice.

    • Miranda

      @EBONYMag:
      @GN192 The job of any publication reporting on the news is not to be “positive,” but to be balanced. Thanks so much for your feedback!

      ____________________________John Johnson did not create Ebony to be some bullshit black Fox News believing that being “fair and balanced” means giving the illogical and irrational a place to bash and then claiming its “fair and balanced.”. Ebony was created for BLACK POSITIVITY….PERIOD. Who the hell is this person who is this ignorant of the history of their own place of employment? John and Eunice did not create Ebony for any reason other than to have our people portrayed in the most uplifting and positive light. Even when the magazine has done portrayals of hard times in urban and rural America, they did so in a way that always managed to give a sense of hope – and never would they have EVER put a foul word about PBO in their magazine, anybody who ever read a word about John Johnson knows damn well he would never stand for it.

      • GN

        Well said!

        John and Eunice did not create Ebony for any reason other than to have our people portrayed in the most uplifting and positive light. Even when the magazine has done portrayals of hard times in urban and rural America, they did so in a way that always managed to give a sense of hope…

        EXACTLY. I was taken aback.

      • annvic

        Ding! The truth that none of these people want to admit is that you cannot get a piece of that white corporate money if you are pro-black. As soon as you are acquired, the race is on to water down your blackness into something that poses no threat to the establishment and/or morph into something that is anti-uplift and degrades black people (*cough* BET *cough*). Ebony is just another example of a pro-black entity that gets swallowed up by corporate America and re-emerges a de-fanged, huddled mass of B.S. The first post-election issue and you focus not on the President, but two men who make their bread insulting him? Even though black America at large hates their guts? Hmm, yeah I’m sure there was no agenda there. John is spinning in his grave at the idea of a man who would call our first black president “A Republican in blackface” being ANYWHERE near an Ebony publication.

      • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

        All of this.

      • Camille

        This is so spot on.

        Sorry I didnt read beyond GN’s post before angrily writing my response to it. I would have saved everyone my long post that said so much of what the many responding posts did if I had.

        Next time I’l, read through first and shoot later. I just get so mad while reading and have to learn patience.

        • GN

          Oh heck no, so glad you responded; both of these posts are stellar.

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      What a bitchy, condescending response! And they wonder why they’ve lost relevence.

    • Camille

      You are a much better and more patient human being than I’ll ever be GN.

      Ebony magazine can’t hide it’s painful mediocrity behind this useless and now throroughly debunked and certainly exposed as completely bogus and worthless this shallow manipulation and public stabs in the back with proclamations of “balance” in “reporting”.

      They know exactly what they are doing by throwing shade on behalf of the now marginalized but formerly self-important, self-absorbed, green-eyed, self-appointed “black leaders” and “black high society” who always called the shots, led the way in their minds, constantly leveraged their perceived roles and earned the exclusive perks from white America and its top politicians in return for endorsing and supposedly rallying the black vote behind their guy, who are now seething and heart-heavy as they slip into complete irrelevance in the age of Barack and Michelle Obama.

      They never saw this 21st century man and wife coming and they’ve done everything to stop them.

      The people Ebony magazine are shilling on behalf of have tried everything to take down the Obamas—

      They have tried to maliciously malign, besmirch, attack, question, slander, cast aspersions on – in public and private – this great man and his amazing wife who just happen to be the first black President and First Lady of the United States.

      No, Ebony magazine isn’t looking to do “balance” all of a sudden— they wouldn’t know what that was if it hit them in the face seeing as they never did “balance” in their many years of existence.

      That was never the point for Ebony as a magazine. That is not what it was set up to do. It always highlighted, uplifted, supported and proudly celebrated the best and brightest of black America, not to tear down, but to inspire, give credit and celebrate especially where other traditional, mainstream media refused to.

      Suddenly that’s all changed now, and only because the Obamas represent to the purveyors of Ebony magazine, its benefactors and the folks that make up the Ebony magazine inner circle alike, the very same threat they pose to the Donald Trumps, Michael Bloomberg’s, Bob Woodards, Bill O’Reilly’s, Rush Limbaugh’s on the other side of the ODS color divide.

      How ironic that once upon a time, it would have been Ebony magazine front and center fighting for the Obamas against the massive envy, petty jealousies and mainstream attempts to deny them their rightful place in history.

      And how ironic that when Ebony magazine finally goes out of business for failing to do what it once did so well— highlight the positive and uplifting stories about black America instead of trying to cater to a very narrow and fleeting audience with a negative agenda that at once depresses and diminishes for the sole purpose of destroying the first black President—

      When Ebony finally dies that death, watch for them to blame it all on Barack Obama.

      One of the most telling stories from this time will be how much of formerly “important” black America, misbehaved and self-destructed from envy and the fear of irrelevance at the rise of a young, brilliant, intrinsically decent, great black man and his equally formidable black wife.

      • Worldwatcher7

        Not only should this be a comment of the week, it is the beginning of a rather brilliant book proposal.

        • GN

          Ditto on both counts.

      • edp4bho

        Bravo, Camille. Ebony was a comfortable fixture in many a black household throughout our childhood and onward. Now, I pick it up only when either Obama is on the cover or inside. I think I mentioned here last month that PBO’s enemies were included within last issue. I have noticed the minimal coverage over the years that its staff gives on any story- no longer the indepth exposes we thrived on, which always inspired. John Johnson would be very dismayed.

      • Town

        Well, Desiree Rogers IS the editor in chief or CEO or something like that so……………

      • rikyrah

        Bravo and Thank you

      • conlakappa

        You really should this in to Ebony. I doubt they would publish it but they really need a wake-up call on the editorial decisions being made.

  • isonprize
    • crazycanuck

      Love, Love, this picture. They are so sexy. Take a look at Flotus muscles. I think I have Flotus envy lol.

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda — —Jus’ MUSIN’: – — – -Ya KNOW how I like 2 “serve up” – -refreshing DRANKS. :>)

    WAY-ELL – –THIS – –is 4 ALL da – –RE-THUCKERS —-so that they can – -LET da ELECTION annnd BENGHAZI — -Gooooooooooo —–LOL – –

    O.K. – –NOW where was I? – –LOL

  • GN

    Heh:

    @MormonDemocrat
    So #Petraeus says the #Benghazi video excuse was to keep the terrorists comfortable why we find them. #GOP: lift foot, insert in mouth. #p2

  • Aquagranny911

    I wanted to share this clip here. It’s long about 90 minutes & I’m not sure how long it will stay up but it is a really good honest piece on border issues done by someone who lives there….

    http://tucsoncitizen.com/living-on-the-border/2012/11/13/the-untold-truth-about-the-americanmexican-border-watch-the-complete-96min-documentary-on-line-here-at-the-tucson-citizen/

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - -Ohhhhh – - — -THIS is WONDERFUL – –annnd – - -POWERFUL!♥-

    – - -Democratic Congresswomen Come to Rice’s Defense – -

    - – –Susan Rice is receiving spirited defense in her battle to become Sec. of State. Rice, a career diplomat who is currently ambassador to the United Nations, is expected to be nominated by President Obama to replace outgoing Sec. of State Hillary Clinton. However Rice has run into a wall from Senate Republicans.

    An Associated Press article in the Grio said that Sen. Lindsay Graham and Sen. John McCain have been particularly vocal in their criticism. Earlier this week Graham and McCain criticized Rice’s comments over the U.S. embassy attack in Libya, calling her “untrustworthy” and “unqualified.” Republicans are upset that Rice said the attack was a result of a protest over an anti-Muslim film. They feel it was an act of terror. – - -[McAncient - -SAAAAAA-LAP!!]-

    – -THIS- — – — >More than a dozen congresswomen decried the Republicans’ criticism of Rice as sexist and racist.

    “It is a shame that anytime something goes wrong, they pick on women and minorities,” said Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, the next chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. — [:>) @ dannie22]-[I hope I got that right. :>)]

    “To batter this woman because they don’t feel they have the ability to batter President Obama is something we the women are not going to stand by and watch,” said Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis. “Their feckless and reckless speculation is unworthy of their offices as senators.”

    In response to questions of how she handled the Libya incident, Rice said she gave the best response she could at the time with the only information on hand. –
    THERE Is MORE.

    -POWERFUL – –SISTAS!! -:>) — – - BLESS ALL — U LADIES!!:>) – - -

  • GN

    The Mittmentum story was overblown per Pres O’s pollster:

    @jpodhoretz:
    Obama pollster Benenson says there was no Romney surge, no Romney momentum. http://politi.co/ZZUJaM

    • conlakappa

      You know my thoughts on polling: another industry whose death was aided by Team O.

      • trose1

        Yes

    • Ebogan63

      As I have stated before: This is why any campaign worth its salt has BETTER polls than the public ones. The Romney ‘surge’ was more about the media than reality.He was NEVER gonna beat PBO, he never lead OH or any of the battleground states

      • conlakappa

        Team O has come right out and said the truth that was right on the tip of the MSM’s toffee noses: we don’t do national polling. It is only at the State level.

  • lamh36

    Alright, I love Melissa McCartney and I love Sandra Bullock, so ya know I’m gonna love this one…LOL!

    “The Heat” New Trailer

  • lamh36

    There is a Whitney Houston tribute on CBS right now!

    • GreenLadyHere

      HEEY lamh36. ***BIG HUG** :>)

      Am I in the wrong -TIME ZONE?? – - – -I saw the ad – - -but NOT the show. :>)

      RIHEP — -Dear — -DIVA WHITNEY. – -AMEN.

      Good 2 C U lamh36. :>) – - – -STILL – -Prayin 4 your family. :>)

  • GreenLadyHere

    HEEY trose1. ***BIG –HAPPY 2 C U – - HUG!!***

    I KNOW – -HUH? —LOL

  • GreenLadyHere

    moved.

  • GreenLadyHere

    HEEY trose1. – –***HAPPY 2 C U – - – -HUG!!**

    I KNOW– -HUH? – - -LOL

    Ohhh SHOOT. C’mon Disqus. LOL
    ANY-hoo. I mean well – –trose1.♥ — – :>)

  • lamh36

    Jennifer Hudson singing “How Will I Know” in a “whitney” wig from the video, just not that gawd-awful orange color

  • crazycanuck

    Evening everyone. Checking in late today. Rikyrah, I’m hooked on POI. Thursday’s is my night POI, and then Scandal. I’m NOT to be interupted on Thursday night lol.

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - –MR. PRESIDENT KNOWS – - – - -HOW 2 SHUT ‘EM – – -DOWN!! – - -LOL — -

    – - – -John Boehner Hates the World Until President Obama Mentions His Birthday – -

    — – –While meeting in front of the press to discuss the fiscal cliff Speaker John Boeher looked like he hated the world, but he lit up when President Obama mentioned his upcoming birthday.

    Video:

    – - – -SNIP – —

    Speaker Boehner’s expression transformed from somebody who was watching their own funeral to a big smile, and a playful nudge of the president’s arm – —

    - – - – - -”DA TAMIN’ -of DA SHREW!!”. – - -LOL — -

    • conlakappa

      ::gurgle::

  • lamh36

    Ok. So I saw James Bond tonight (Daniel Craig…yum) but there is no way that he could do all that damn running in them tight ass pants! Jeez, they are making suit pants tighter and tighter now-a-days.

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - -[Apologies iff a dup.] – - –YA KNOW – -HE FLIP-FLOPS 2 !!! – - -

    – - -
    Gingrich Lacerates Romney Over Why He Lost     – -

    – —Newt Gingrich told Evan Smith that Mitt Romney’s explanation of why he lost the election — by giving “gifts” to minorities and young people — was “insulting and profoundly wrong.”

    Said Gingrich: “He had enough billionaire supporters that if buying the electorate was the key, he could have got all of his super PAC friends together and said, ‘Don’t buy ads, give gifts.’”

    Here’s the video: – -

    – - – -CARE!! – - – -

  • lamh36

    Whitney Houston had some demons you, but man the voice of an angel. even at her worst, she was still better than any of the new singers today. Even though we never met her or saw her in concert, it was like losing a sister or beloved cousin or aunt…man. RIP Whitney Houston

    • GreenLadyHere

      lamh36 – - -AMEN! – - –AMEN! – annnd AMEN -

      –***tears** annnd ***smiles***

  • lamh36

    Oh and another thing, WTF do Scientologist feast on baby tears and children’s dreams…I saw the preview for Tom Cruise new move “Jack Reacher” and my gawd THE.MAN.DOESN’T.SEEM.TO.AGE!!!! Ugh, I honestly find him freaky and I’m not a fan, but Jeezus H. Christ…he has aged better than his ex-wives!!!!

    • Aquagranny911

      Totally bogus! I’ve read all Lee Child’s “Jack Reacher” books where Jack is described as this 6 foot 4inch blond, bruiser ex-army MP dude. Cruise will not cut it for me as Reacher besides I despise that swarmy little nutcase! I wouldn’t spend a dime on any of his films & will certainly dis this one.

    • conlakappa

      Um, maybe his wives age badly because of him?

  • GreenLadyHere

    -miranda – — Uhhhh – –I’m NOT finished — GLOATIN’ – — LOL —

    —- -Clean Sweep for Democrats – -

    - – - -The Economist: “The Democrats won 50.6% of the votes for president, to 47.8% for the Republicans; 53.6% of the votes for the Senate, to 42.9% for the Republicans; and…49% of the votes for the House, to 48.2% for the Republicans (some ballots are still being counted). That’s not a vote for divided government. It’s a clean sweep.” - – -

    – —JUS’ –SAYIN’. . . .:>) – –LOL – –

  • lamh36

    My last thought tonight just to blow ya’lls mind. I don’t understand the fanaticism over “Love Jones”. Maybe it’s because I didn’t see the movie until I was an adult woman, so no teenaged delusions about love. Maybe it’s because I rather stick a HIV-infested needle into my eyes and veins than sit through a slam poetry session (sorry Jessica). But the only thing I liked about “Love Jones” was that Lauryn Hill song, The Sweetest Thing. THAT IS ALL.

    • conlakappa

      Most of the people I know who love Love Jones saw it in their 20s. I don’t care for it either but no for the slam but for the marginal acting, contrived storylines, and people living in homes their careers wouldn’t seem to support. It is Friends with a sepia wash and poetry.

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - – JUDICIAL -NEWS – - -

    – - -BREAKING: Judge Issues Injunction Over Contraception Mandate – –

    – — -A federal judge Friday night sided with a Christian publishing company in a lawsuit against the requirement included in Obamacare to provide co-pay free contraception to employees. US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton issued a temporary stay on the rule. The company, Tyndale House Publishers, sued to be exempt from providing any contraception it equated with abortion, including Plan B and intrauterine devices (neither is actually an abortifacient). While this has become a pet issue of the religious right, in actuality, religious institutions are exempt from contributing to contraception cost. Instead, insurance companies must provide birth control free of charge to employees of such institutions — a requirement that a majority of Americans support.

    – — Uhhh —WHAT did THEY win??? – — FRIVOLOUS!! – geesh!! – -

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – -MORE – — GOOD ELECTION NEWS – - –

    – -GOP Rep. Bilbray concedes his race – -

    - —Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) has conceded to Democrat Scott Peters in one of the nation’s closest — and most expensive — House races.

    Bilbray had trailed Peters by just a few hundred votes on election night, but that gap has now expanded to more than 3,700 votes. The San Diego-based district was a top target by both parties and saw a total of $7.3 million in independent expenditures pour in, making it one of the most expensive House races in the country.

    Peters’s win means Democrats netted four seats in California, half their total gains in the House.

    – - -SNIP – -
    Bilbray’s concession leaves just four seats undecided. Reps. Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.) and Ron Barber (D-Ariz.) have narrow leads in their races, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) is awaiting a court decision on whether he can force a recount in a race he trails in, and Reps. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La.) and Jeff Landry (R-La.) will face off in an early December runoff election.
    THERE IS MORE.

    [I believe - -rep. allen west - --LOST!! - -- LOST! - --LOST!! LOL]

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda — -[With all the -T(r)avesty/Cornrow posts -- -I hope this is not a dup.] – –

    - —CEO of Chicago Public Media Finally Responds to Tavis and Cornel- –

    – — -*The ruckus between Tavis Smiley and Chicago Public Media CEO Torey Malatia was just dulling down, until the other day.

    It seems Malatia (pictured below) wasn’t going to let the issue get swept under the rug, so he wrote an op-ed, defending the cancellation of the show.

    “I am among those who believe that complete objectivity in journalism and public affairs is humanly impossible, but I reject the notion that public media should veer into advocacy,” Malatia wrote in the Nov. 9 op-ed, posted on Current, a public media trade publication. “Advocacy journalism elevates the voice of one citizen – that of the journalist,” Malatia said. – -[THIS!]-

    The letter went on to criticize Cornel and his new found approach to advocacy journalism; saying the show upset listeners from either side of the political balance.

    “Those who wrote to us seemed to be arguing that we should shoot journalism in the chest to balance those who had been shooting it in the back,” Malatia said. — [***Hands out BAND AIDS*** --LOL]

    (Read the full version of Malatia’s op-ed.)

    (Read Tavis Smiley’s open letter to Malatia here.)
    THERE IS MORE.

    TRANSLATION: —- U 2 BLOVIATING BUFFOONS AIN’T WORTH da AIR TIME. AIR TIME COST $$$ — -annnnd – –I’m LOSING IT BEHIND U 2!! —

    – –A PHOTO-OP! — -LOL – - -

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - –WORTH REPEATING!! – - –:>) – –

    – - -Conrad: Rice criticisms ‘completely unwarranted’ – –

    — -CASE — -Sooooo —CLOSED!! – —

    – - -2 All ACCUSERS: – - -SAAAAAAAA-LAP!!- –

  • Camille

    So the Dana Milbank hit piece on Susan Rice has been scrubbed. Page now no longer found.

    But here’s an interesting tweet from the other anti-Obama punk, Ben Smith at Politico:
    buzzfeedben Ben Smith
    Alternate hed for @danamilbank column: Don’t Mess With the Clintons http://t.co/ge4BwJ09

    And here’s a general sampling of tweeted responses to punk asshole Milbank’s sleaze job:

    http://topsy.com/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-susan-rices-tarnished-resume/2012/11/16/55ec3382-3012-11e2-a30e-5ca76eeec857_story.html

    • Camille

      Weird, I was able to access it again, so maybe not.

  • Camille

    A pretty good response from someone to the sadistic idiot Milbank:

    Milbank: I don’t buy it. So, Rice is pugnacious? Good. She displeases the Putin tyrant? Good. She arouses hostility in Republican cowards like John McCain? Good. She is precisely who we need as SOS. Obama dealt a complete and humiliating defeat to the Republicans. They are in no position to dictate terms or cabinet appointments to Obama. Strike now, Mr. President. The Republican Tea Party is not your friend, with a proven track record of shrill disregard for America’s best interests.

    Milbank, go stick your head in the nearest toilet.

  • Camille

    This whole attack against Susan Rice has my blood boiling.

    And this is the awesome standard Dana Milbank thinks Susan Rice a Stanford, Rhode scholar couldn’t possibly exceed as Secretary of State..?!

    Get the fuck outta here with this ridiculous blatant whitewashing and revisionist history.