gonna have to print that!

visual reminder, madame!

Yep, he's still it! Rock N Roll, Forever!

He let's it roll right off his shoulders.

What a beautiful smile.

BOG Cha

Thanks for Saturday night at the BOG fresh~

I never knew he was so young when he won the title!



Thanks, freshwest.

Before our President was born ... quite a ride, y'all !!

tick tock~ love it MSS

Love your posts.

Just to keep us apprised.

Thanks Cha, I needed something up-lifting.

I'm thinking, Illyah~

negative 24/7 - kinda reminds of GOPers trying to be I dunno, Liberal - LOL

repeal Obamacare.

It's a good thing this time. It's why PBO requested the vote and at least a delay. It gives Israel an opening to voice concerns.

Normally I'm not Israel's biggest fan - or its biggest critic. I figure everybody over there has responsibility for the mess. But this time, with Syria so firmly on Russia and Iran's team, Israelis and the Palestinians both are in danger. Both short and long term if we don't get a handle on things.

for the report and analysis.

Like we agreed yesterday.. "it's a snake pit" and the President is doing everything he can to unravel it while he's in charge..

This is from his speech in Eygpt that sheshe brought to light on another thread..

And then what?

on since he entered Office.

And, I'm going to remind you again since it's in the OP.. that this is the Barack Obama Group and it's for those who appreciate PBO's words that are put into action.

will be ready for them.

The thing is, it's clear that Assad is no friend of Israel. He's allied with Russia and Iran. Russia supplies both Syria and Iran with weapons. And both those countries threaten Israel. So, Russia is no friend of Israel. It's no coincidence that Putin is using Neo-Nazis to beat up LGBTs in Russia. He is a deadly bigot.

Now, I have an an article for you to read. It seems unrelated, but it's not.
http://www.out.com/news-opinion/2013/08/28/nikolai-alexeyev-kremlin-new-pocket-gay

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"So why, you may ask, am I not surprised by Alexeyev’s outrageous reversal? Because I remember the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Republic.

In the 1970s and 1980s, no one in Russia was talking about gay people. The scapegoats then were the Jews, who were demonized by government propaganda campaigns (under the guise of “anti-Zionism”) and faced widespread discrimination. Russian Jews who wanted to escape this treatment by emigrating were forbidden to do so, and by the early 1980s these “Refuseniks” had become a major problem for Russia’s international relations.

So in 1983, a desperate Russia tried some public-relations trickery. The Department of Propaganda set up the Anti-Zionist Committee and recruited or pressured various prominent Soviet Jews — soldiers, writers, artists, scientists — to join it. To decline meant repercussions. The idea was to show that even the Jews themselves agreed with the Kremlin’s smears. Happily, the effort failed; neither Jews within Russia nor the international community were fooled by the Kremlin’s “pocket Jews,” and the AZSCP collapsed into irrelevance.

If “gays are the new Jews” in Russia, as many people have said, then Nikolai Alexeyev is the new Anti-Zionist Committee. Russia is desperate again: The upcoming Sochi Olympics are important to Putin’s sense of his standing in the world, and the international campaign against Russian homophobia is staining them more every day. This campaign is working, and Russia knows it. What better way to slow this movement’s momentum — and to confuse and discourage those in the West who have been working for it — than for its most visible advocate to minimize its importance and dismiss it as a Western, anti-Russian plot?"
Snip

where their former president repeatedly assured the world there are no gay people at all.

But with his disgusting tolerance of Neo-Nazis beating up gays, his mask has finally slipped.

No one can tolerate any violence from Neo-Nazis. If you do, you're agreeing with where it always leads. They view LGBTs, Jews, Blacks, Asians, the Roma as inferior people who don't deserve to live. And if they live, it is only to serve.

Neos are exactly the same as the originals, without the insistence that the Nazi be German. White is enough. But I can tell you one thing about Vlad. He has always viewed Russia as superior to other nations and Russians as superior to other people. He was in the KGB during the USSR's anti-Zionist movement that started in 1967. Even though Gorbachev declared perestroika after he became Secretary General of the Communist Party Soviet Union in 1985, it wasn't until 1991, 2 months before the USSR fell apart, that diplomatic relations with Israel were reestablished.

seem to hold the belief that those who rail loudest against gays are closeted themselves. Can't think of the title but Al Pacino made a movie about a cop with that problem.

If this is protected group, why do the posts show up on the Latest Threads page? I don't think that other groups have that function. One would think that you all want more privacy.

And some of us also would prefer it didn't . But I don't know if we're in a majority.

I agree with Cha, it is a question for Skinner. I do believe it's been asked before, but won't hurt to ask again.

It just seems odd to me, and seems invasive for you all.

people get to see what's posted in the BOG. They either Rec it or not.

As you can see there are a lot of Recs on some of the OPs here. And, that's a good thing.

I know GLBT gets on the Greatest and I'm so glad they do or I might not see some of the Threads and I do like to Rec them when I can.

My son came to visit this weekend. He's been more critical of Obama than I've been the last 5 years, but he looked at me and said: "Obama's got this! It's about innocent people. Genocide is happening there."
Then I saw this post. I visit here often, it settles me down when I need it.
Finally subscribed.

And, Welcome to the BOG!

You're in Colorado, right? I was born and raised there but haven't been there since 1990. On Kaua'i now.