Posted on 09/26/2005 4:19:11 PM PDT by snugs
Over the Weekend President George W Bush concluded a 3 day visit to various Command Centres relating to Hurricane Katrina and Rita returning to the White House Sunday afternoon.
Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital for the elective surgery on his knees. It was announced after doing both knees (originally only one was to be done but surgery went so smoothly it was decided to do the other) that he might be in hopital for up to 48 hours, in fact he was only in for 27 hours and walked without any assistance to his limo early Sunday morning.
Today President Bush attended briefings with Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman and also delivers a Statement at the Department of Energy in Washington
Today it was expected that the Vice President would continue his recovery from his Saturday's surgery by working from home.
Today Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had private meetings at the State Department with East Timor Prime Minister Mari Bin Amude Alkatiri, Malaysia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Syed Hamid bin Syed Jaafar Albar and Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs Celso Amorim
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
Here are Laura's dogs who IMHO are the cutest little things ever
Mail back atcha
Nope, and I'm on the mend bigtime, no fever and juices are staying down
And you know what dog spelled backwards is?
I need a good answer for a co-worker. He made some stupid remark today, asking me what my opinion was of the President because he did not respond for seven minutes when told of the planes crashing into the towers.
I have to say, I got a strange feeling, as I do not know what this was supposed to imply. I have heard this inane remark before, but would like to know a) is this true b) what is it that they are surmising and c) what is the right response.
I just said he is a calm and controlled man who did not want to upset a class full of children as well as many adults, so he methodically completed (or seemed to complete) the task at hand and then proceeded to do what had to be done. I have no doubt that he was doing a lot of praying all along.
What's up with this stupid question?
MICHAEL BARONE PUTS IT ALL INTO PERSPECTIVE:
September 26, 2005
The Big Picture
By Michael Barone
It's often hard to keep the big picture in focus. Television news tends to center on bombs going off in Iraq and has mostly ignored several million people voting in Afghanistan. We see footage of angry Palestinians, but not much about the ongoing progress toward democracy in Egypt. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in turn have dominated the news and have made it difficult to get a sense of what is happening in the world.
A world spinning out of control: That is what the old-line broadcast networks seem to be showing us. But I see other patterns. George W. Bush has consistently asserted that one reason for removing Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was to advance freedom and democracy in the Middle East. In spite of the improvised explosive devices, that seems to be happening. Lebanon's Cedar Revolution was as inspiring an example of people power as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Libya has dismantled its weapons of mass destruction. Egypt, by far the largest Arab nation, had its first contested election this month, and, as the Washington Post's David Ignatius writes from Cairo, "the power of the reform movement in the Arab world today ... is potent because it's coming from the Arab societies themselves and not just from democracy enthusiasts in Washington." Which is evidence that Bush was right: Muslims and Arabs, like people everywhere, want liberty and self-rule. Afghanistan has just voted, and Iraq is about to vote a second time this year. Violence continues, but the more important story is that democracy and freedom are advancing.
You can read the rest of Barone's commentary at
http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-9_26_05_MB.html
SOMETIMES IT TAKES A CANADIAN:
David Warren . . .
Consult any authoritative source on how government works in the United States, and you will learn that the U.S. federal government's legal, constitutional, and institutional responsibility for first response to Katrina, as to any natural disaster, was zero.
Notwithstanding, President Bush took the prescient step of declaring a disaster, in order to begin deploying FEMA and other federal assets, two full days in advance of the stormfall. In the little time since, he has managed to coordinate an immense recovery operation -- the largest in human history -- without invoking martial powers. He has been sufficiently Presidential to respond, not even once, to the extraordinarily mendacious and childish blame-throwing.
One thinks of Kipling's "If --" poem, which I learned to recite as a lad, and mention now in the full knowledge that it drives postmodern leftoids and gliberals to apoplexy -- as anything that is good, beautiful, or true:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise...
UNLIKE HIS CRITICS, BUSH IS A MAN, IN THE FULL SENSE PRESENTED BY THESE VERSES. A FALLIBLE MAN, LIKE ALL THE REST, BUT A MAN.
You can read the entire commentary at
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?artID=510
I COULDN'T AGREE MORE:
It's Time to Investigate the Press
With the passage of time, it has become apparent that most of the "evidence" on the basis of which the Democrats launched their hysterical post-Katrina attack on the Bush administration was wrong. As the facts come into focus, the dominant question that emerges is: how could the mainstream media have done such a poor job in reporting on Hurricane Katrina?
You can read this entire commentary at
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/011792.php
Whew!
That's good news. I thought you were still upchucking...
I tried to eat tonight and it stayed down for 30 minutes, I had a turkey breast sandwich And it was really good too :-)
My goodness that is high
They're still on about that?
I believe the actual time was 5 1/2 minutes, but who's counting?
Kerry said he sat stunned at his desk for 45 minutes, so I guess we made the right choice.
You can tell he's thinking during this time when you watch the film, and 5 minutes of thinking is often superior to jumping up and screaming in panic.
Yoiu have FR mail
I actually did that very thing today! I think it is a great idea. :)
Yes indeed they are wonderful creatures and it broke my heart seeing some of them suffering so in NO.
Not really, just this guy.
I get the odd remark.
You don't think it could be because I have President Bush pictures that I keep on my computer background....na, now who in Canada would react unfavourably to that?
I believe there are two implications in that question, never both at the same time though. One implication is that he was too stupid to figure out what to do. The other is that he knew it was going to happen because 9/11 was an "inside job" (as my former best friend believes) and that's why he sat there. Bill Sammon said on Fahrenhype 911 that he asked the president and President Bush said that he could have deepened the national panic by jumping up in a room of second graders and bolting from the room so he took a few minutes to gather his thoughts.
David Warren's article is a keeper and is something that should be covered by Brit Hume and O'Reilly. He hits the nail on the head with his piece... Go Dave Warren
having to leave a pet behind in a hurricane is like leaving your family member behind.
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