Here is another of my daughter...
Posted on 06/11/2006 7:39:20 AM PDT by Mo1
I can barely catch my breath...
Taking a pre-beach nap. What's happening?
Hey there, cp :) Having a crazy day. LOL Howboutyou ?
I had to turn it off. The "press" is not worth the effort it takes to ridicule them.
Just laid back here, trying to summon the energy to go walking. What's crazy there?
"I do not exaggerate. Bush-hatred has reached such intensity that CIA officers and other bureaucrats are leaking major secrets about anti-terrorism policy and communications intelligence that undermine our ability to fight Islamic extremism.Would newspapers in the midst of World War II have printed the fact that the United States had broken German and Japanese codes, enabling the enemy to secure its communications? Or revealed how and where Nazi spies were being interrogated? Nowadays, newspapers win Pulitzer Prizes for such disclosures. In Congress and in much of the media, the immediate reaction to news that the National Security Agency was intercepting international terrorist communications was not to say, "Good work - and how can we help?" Rather, it was to scream about a "domestic spying" scandal, as though Richard Nixon were back in the White House and tapping the telephone of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean."
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"People also should heed the warning delivered by Princeton University professor Bernard Lewis, one of the nation's foremost scholars of Islam, before the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life here last month.
Lewis, now 90, cast the struggle with Islamic extremism in WWII terms - it is 1938, he said, and "we seem to be more in the mode of Chamberlain at Munich rather than of Churchill."
Osama bin Laden and other would-be Hitlers, he said, consider the United States "an effete, degenerate, pampered enemy incapable of real resistance." It's part of the pattern that we fight among ourselves as much as against our enemies. This is more than serious. It's dire. "
I don't often agree with Kondracke but on this one he is absolutely right on. In fact, just today, the NY Daily News reported information about the ongoing investigation of a terrorist plot on NY. To what end ? Is NY any safer thanks to that report ? No ! However, it forced the FBI and all the other agencies who have been working on this for months to go public and now the terrorists are scattering like the cockroaches they are.
Oh, nothing all that unusual, just a lot of interuptions, delays, indecisive people, etc. LOL Not much accomplished but it has taken me all day to produce nothing much. LOL
I know the MSM's hatred of GWB is so great they are willing to side with murdering barbarians just to bring him down but sheesh ! I had no idea they'd try to knock off poor ole Larry.
President Has a Smooth Ride on 'Larry King Live'
By Alessandra StanleyTwo kinds of celebrities go on "Larry King Live" on CNN: those with something to sell and those with something to hide.
Al Gore and Brandon Routh, the young star of the newly released "Superman Returns," recently appeared on the show to promote their new movies. The second category includes guests like Star Jones Reynolds, Mary Kay Letourneau, and, right after his indictment in 2004, Kenneth L. Lay of Enron. "Larry King Live" is the first stop in any damage control operation — a chance to explain oneself to the least contentious journalist in the land.
And that is why President Bush invited the CNN talk show host to the White House on his 60th birthday. The standoff with North Korea over its missile tests, the war in Iraq and ever-sliding ratings in the polls have given the president little reason to celebrate. Mr. King gave the president a chance to defend his policies without risk of interruption or follow-up. At times, Mr. King even provided the president with answers. "You've always had a lot of compassion for the Mexican people," the interviewer interjected in a discussion of the president's immigration bill. Mr. Bush seemed a little surprised, but grateful. "Yes, sir!" he replied.
The hourlong interview was taped Thursday in the Blue Room of the White House with Mr. King crouched in the foreground across a small round table from the president and Laura Bush, dressed in his trademark suspenders and cowboy boots.
After a brief, good-humored exchange about how the president felt about turning 60, Mr. King asked Mr. Bush about North Korea vaguely enough for the president to repeat what he said earlier in the day in an appearance with the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, about the need for a united stand to bring the North Korean president to reason. Other than the fact that Mr. Bush promised not to lecture President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia before the Group of Eight meeting next week in St. Petersburg, Mr. King did not elicit news or curveballs from the president.
Even when he ventured into areas like the war in Iraq, public opinion polls or the president's past friendship with Mr. Lay, Mr. King looked less like an interrogator than a hotel concierge gently removing lint from a customer's coat. Mr. King's questions rarely rile his guests; instead, his cozy, incurious style encourages them to expose themselves.
And just as Liza Minnelli seemed to come unglued all on her own in her appearance on the show last March, Mr. Bush at times seemed tense and defensive even without needling from his host. "I've been popular before, as president," Mr. Bush said tightly. "And I've been — people have accepted what I've been doing." He added: "Sometimes things go up and down. The best way to lead and the best way to solve problems is to focus on a set of principles. And do what you think is right."
The president appeared on Mr. King's show twice before, in 2000 and in 2004, but those were campaign interviews. On Thursday, the president was fighting to improve his battered image.
When he was at a loss for words, Mrs. Bush stepped in to speak on his behalf, sometimes with more dexterity than her husband. "Well, sure, you know, we worried about it, obviously," Mrs. Bush replied when asked whether she was rattled by the North Korean missile tests. "But what I spent the day doing actually was watching our shuttle take off from Florida."
Mrs. Bush even managed to politely set Mr. King straight when he somewhat puzzlingly described Mr. Putin as "very Western."
"Well, I don't know if I would say that," she said gently. "I think he's very Russian. But I like him a lot."
It wasn't live, but it was classic Larry King: a warm bath, not a hot seat.
Whew, I know its 5 o'clock somewhere and I'm really ready for sumpin tall and cool. LOL
If you would like to see more photos click on the link below, then click on Slide Show at the upper right and select a 5 second delay.
There are 132 photos.
Then you have a career in the United States Senate!
Beautiful picture Dog. I like the overlay of color and black and white. I always have to relearn it each time but with those coloful roses it was a perfect pic for that.
Good story!
Great pics. The food looks wonderful.
Thanks Pup.
Thanks for the link to the photo album, I have it bookmarked.
We are off to Payson lakes now for an evening stroll; I'll take the camera.
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