Posted on 06/11/2006 7:39:20 AM PDT by Mo1
Nearly a 15 hr thread kill, am I good or what...
Those are breath taking......
Thanks for the lovely treat in the heat!:)
When you think about how long all the DD / Freeople threads have been going on, we have beat out most TV shows. We saw the coming and going of the whole 'Survivor' thing for example.
It is HOT here, too.
I am enjoying Tyler, and having my friend's grandson has made me appreciate Tyler that much more. I will be SO glad to take this kid home in the morning...assuming he lives till morning.
When we get to Kentucky, I can let my dad and my sister keep Tyler amused and busy for a couple of days, then maybe I can get some sleep!
LOL!
How is Biloxi looking ?
Wife ? Naw, he isn't married. He was married but he dumped his wife for "Hootchie Mama".
Uh-huh.... now we know the real reason why she has been so "tired" lately. LOL
That looks like fun. Did he already know about the exhibit or did you get to tell him first ? I've forgotten, how old is Tyler now ?
How beautiful ! You must have taken those 2 pics, especially the hydrangea, before the latest round of rain and hailstorms.
Since gran isn't around today.... The flower in gran's photo is a Hydrangea. They look very similar to the Snowball. Depending on the acidity of the soil, hydrangeas are either blue, pink or chartreuse and grow on bushes. Viburnum or Snowball trees do, indeed, grow almost as wide as they do tall. I've seen photos of pink Snowball trees but down around this part of the country I've only seen the white ones. My grandmother had several in her garden and they were just as showy as her hydrangeas and peonies.
Still pretty dreadful but not because of inactivity. Demolition and reconstruction are happening everywhere but the enormity of the task means that it will take many more months to get the job done.
The Palace, Imperial Palace, Isle of Capri and Boomtown are open with the Beau Rivage and perhaps a smaller, temporary Grand Casino due to open next month, the latter on the site of the Grand's Bay View hotel. Most former home sites remain empty but for the debris that Katrina scattered about. The Grand Casino hotel (Island View), casino and theater are demolished and the Casino Magic hotel appears to be awaiting major renovation. Considering the destruction that took place, things look pretty good.
Unplugged Bush, Blair speak frankly on Mideast, G8* The disclaimer in parens is part of the story from Reuters, the wireservice that will not call a Terrorist a Terrorist.(Please note strong language in paragraphs one and eight) *
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - A microphone picked up an unaware President Bush saying on Monday Syria should press Hizbollah to "stop doing this shit" and that his secretary of state may go to the Middle East soon.
Bush was talking privately to British Prime Minister Tony Blair during a lunch at the Group of Eight summit in St Petersburg about an upsurge of violence in the Middle East.
Neither immediately realized a microphone was transmitting their candid thoughts on that and other issues.
"I think Condi (Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) is going to go (to the Middle East) pretty soon," Bush said.
Blair replied: "Right, that's all that matters, it will take some time to get that together." Rice said on Sunday she was thinking of going to the region if it would help.
However, Rice headed back to the United States after the G8 summit closed on Monday, a State Department spokeswoman said.
Blair added: "See, if she (Rice) goes out she's got to succeed as it were, where as I can just go out and talk."
Bush replied: "See, the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hizbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over."
While his language was salty, the message from Bush was what it had been throughout the summit -- that Syria is supporting Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon and should force them to stop shelling Israel and return abducted Israeli soldiers.
U.S. officials believe that if Hizbollah did so, Israel's military strikes on Lebanon might stop.
Bush also seemed to complain about U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan wanting an immediate ceasefire to stop the violence between Israel and Hizbollah.
"I don't like the sequence of it," Bush said. "His attitude is basically ceasefire and everything else happens."
Blair said: "I think the thing that is really difficult is you can't stop this unless you get this international presence agreed."
A G8 statement on Sunday suggested the U.N. Security Council should consider an international security and monitoring presence on the Lebanon-Israel border, an idea Blair is pushing.
Later, Bush said he felt like telling Annan to telephone Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "and make something happen."
"We're not blaming Israel and we're not blaming the Lebanese government," he said.
NICE SWEATER
The two leaders also appeared to chat about the stalled Doha Round of world trade talks.
"I just want some movement," Bush said, to which Blair replied: "It may be that it's impossible." Later, plans were announced for ministers from six key trade powers to meet in Geneva from Monday to try to unblock the talks.
Ultimately Blair noticed the microphone and hastily switched it off, but not before the recording had reached news media.
In the chummy conversation between long-time allies, Bush teased the British leader about a sweater Blair had apparently given him.
"Thanks for the sweater, it was awfully thoughtful of you. I know you picked it out yourself," Bush said.
"Oh, absolutely," said Blair.
Bush also said that when he next spoke to G8 leaders, he would keep it brief. "I'm not going to talk too long like the rest of them. Some of these guys talk too long. Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight," he said.
My Godchild and her husband were here over the weekend, they're heading in that direction later in the week after a stop in NO for a day or so. Its a business trip for him and she is along for the company. He has been there often in recent months but this will be the first for her since the storms.
LOL The Hell you say !
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