Posted on 08/06/2005 12:40:58 PM PDT by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: With the President, First Lady and the dogs relaxing at the ranch this weekend, there are no new photos to post. So I've selected a theme -- GWB and our Armed Forces -- and found many photos to let us enjoy a walk down memory lane. The theme photos are all from early in his presidency. They show GWB's closeness with our military both before and after 9/11/01.
THE WEEK AHEAD:
Monday, the President travels to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He will be touring the Sandia Laboratory there, and then will be making remarks after signing the comprehensive energy legislation that passed recently.
Tuesday, the President is going to have his economic advisors to the ranch. He will participate in a briefing with them on the state of our economy. Afterwards, GWB will make some remarks and participate in a press availability.
Wednesday, President Bush will traveling to Aurora, Illinois, where he will sign the transportation legislation. Aurora is the largest town in the north-central Illinois congressional district of House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
Saturday, tentative, but the President usually participates in an RNC event in August at the ranch. As of yesterday, the President's schedule was not firmed up beyond Wednesday.
QUOTE OF THE DAY Excerpt from the presidential radio address, Saturday, August 6, 2005:
As families across the country enjoy the summer, Americans can be optimistic about our economic future. In the past four years, our economy has been through a lot: we faced a stock market decline, a recession, corporate scandals, an attack on our homeland, and the demands of an ongoing war on terror.
To grow the economy and help American families, we acted by passing the largest tax relief in a generation. And today, thanks to the tax relief and the efforts of America's workers and entrepreneurs, our economy is strong and growing stronger.
This past week, we learned that America added over 200,000 new jobs in July. Since May of 2003, we've added nearly 4 million new jobs. The unemployment rate is down to 5 percent, below the average of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. And more Americans are working today than ever before in our nation's history.
We need to make the tax relief permanent, end the death tax forever, and make our tax code simpler, fairer and more pro-growth.
Well said.
Fate is the Hunter is a movie I haven't seen in ages...another good movie.....H&M is dated and the dialogue a little corny, but it's a Wayne film and a must see and own...
btw...my dad was an USAF pilot....was your Dad Air Force?
Me! How did I do that ..??
Too many removed posts --too confusing. Calls for a Board of Director's decision .. LOL. You and snugs can decide who's first today ..
Navy, Air Crew, Communications....back in the days when they needed an expert in Morse code reading and sending...as they didn't have voice communications back then.
First to come up with J. Paul Bremmer as the one who introduced President Bush on Thanksgiving 2003.
For coming up with Bremmer as the answer, I say give Cyberant the toaster! lol
The irony that they are college educated rich kids is too much.
Movies like the High and the Mighty often did things first when they were fresh and new. After that everyone copying them made them corny.
I have this belief that any art medium has a certain lifespan, where most of what can be expressed is said/done in that medium and after that most is repetitious and rarely is there anything fresh and new and good done.
I think movies are reaching the limit of what human actors and human story/plots can express that is P.C. and hasn't already been done before.
Then a new medium comes in that opens new avenues for expression of ideas and stories, and you go through the cycle again.
Computer generated special effects have extended the lifespan of the movie medium by making it possible for them to tell some stories (like LOTR's) that regular film couldn't have done justice to, or to remake stories that were done well before, but not with the updated special effects and the current cultural orientations (P.C. refashioning of the tale, current fads in acting styles and dialog). [Now there's a run-on sentence!]
Anyway. I'll have to see the High and the Mighty to decide if it seems corny from the view of our current cultural thinking or if the many airplane movies that came after it made it cliche.
The H&M was the first airline disaster film..it was a huge hit in its time...and you are correct that it has been copied, it only makes sense that it would be. The soundtrack is also great...I even remember my dad, who coud whistle, whistling the theme song as Wayne does.....let me know what you think when you get it.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU . . . These photos poignantly underscore the incredible bond between our Commander in Chief and his troops!!
This bond will enable the CinC and his troops to win the War on Terror DESPITE unprecedented attacks from the Democrats/rightwing isolationists and their media enablers -- only Lincoln had to endure more treasonous behavior!
May God continue to give President Bush the strength he needs to win this war regardless of the political consequences!
Harvey and Rear Window are 2 of my all time favourite films along with Hitchcock's Marnie
What is the difference between digital and broadband then because with my package my broadband comes off the digital box.
Cherie IMHO is more left wing than Bill Clinton though she may be more in tune with Hilliary.
I think Cher and Hill and two peas in a pod.
Didn't Cher open her mouth on what her husband
is doing re civil rights in trying to keep a lid
on problem folks.
Thanks for your efforts look forward to reading the dose again tomorrow when I am more awake great photos.
(((((((( Wolfstar))))))))).
Thank you for your work in bringing us these great pictures of our wonderful President and our wonderful military.
Of course, I also LOVE, the pics of W with his white cowboy hat and cool shades... I looovvveeee those pics!!!!!
Oh good grief .. lots of people knew that! LOL!
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