A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos): 6.29.06

yahoo.com, whitehouse.gov, washingtonpost.com, foxnews.com ^ | Thursday June 29, 2006 | GretchenM

[Texagirl4W]

Our president looks extremely happy today. God bless him.

[retrokitten]

We've been really lucky in that the storms we are getting here aren't that big. It's been raining almost every day, but only for about a half hour each time.

It's really playing havoc with my allergies, though :-( This morning I left work for a few minutes (our coffee maker isn't working and I really, really wanted a coffee Coolata from Dunkin Donuts :-D) and when I came back a was a sneezing mess!

The good thing is that I can blame any air-headed screw-ups on too much allergy medication. :-)

[retrokitten]

Yahoo! didn't have an explanation for why we were looking so ... British.

LOL!!! "The redcoats are coming! The redcoats are coming! And they brought their fifes!"

[GretchenM]

KB, I am sorry to say I still find it somewhat disturbing to see their flag. (Wish they'd change it.) It brings back thoughts of such a devastating, hard, time. I don't have anywhere near the same reaction to Germany's flag; possibly because Hitler was so identified with his Nazi flag and that went into great disfavor and disuse in Germany after WW2.

[GretchenM]

Have you gotten a toaster award before?

[Kenny Bunkport]

Interesting, Gretchen. I had the same thought seeing the US flag and the red-dot Japanese flag together. Japan is a good friend and ally, but it's understandable that it would still elicit a cringe from Americans. Can you imagine West Germany keeping the swastika after the fall of Hitler?

[silent_jonny]

The good thing is that I can blame any air-headed screw-ups on too much allergy medication. :-)

That's why I always keep a bottle of NyQuil handy.

"It's wasn't me! The NyQuil made me do it!" ;)

[Kenny Bunkport]

You know what bothered me? -- Visiting Pearl Harbor about ten years ago, and seeing all the Japanese tourists snapping pictures of the memorials to the sunken ships and lost crews. Maybe it shouldn't bother me, because the war is now a couple of generations past, but it still did. Forgiveness is easier than forgetting. I suppose, in a sense, we should never forget.

[silent_jonny]

Have you gotten a toaster award before?

Many times, but not for ... let's see ... two months!

Mystery and I were tied for a while, but she has the lead now

[GretchenM]

We are sharing a brain on the topic. No, I can't imagine Germany retaining the Nazi flag. I think they knew no nation would take them seriously as proclaiming themselves defeated and ready to take their place as a peaceful entity among the nations after they started two world wars in just a few decades, ending in the slaughter of scores of millions.

[Kate of Spice Island]

Hey, there!

You never sent me the pictures of the Presidential Wizard of Oz joke.Did I accidentally send a wrong e-mail address?

[GretchenM]

I was pretty sure you had quite a collection, but you sounded so happy to get this one that I had to ask.

Silent Jonny has one more toaster than mystery_ak.

[silent_jonny]

I wish tonight was Elvis night :)

[GretchenM]

I don't know if this would work for you, but perhaps it might make it easier to remember that visit if you could look at their picture taking as a positive thing -- if we had not come out the victor in WW2, the Japanese wouldn't be there as tourists. And then focus on how relations have changed since then; change hardly seems a strong enough word. It is as though the US and Japan turned the world upsdie down after WW2, in regard to the power and influence that have come out of the postwar rebuilding of Japan, our alliance with that nation, and her people's willingness to become an ally of the nation that beat them.

[GretchenM]

Thank you for reminding me. I haven't been able to get them to go through via Email. Let me try again.

[Kate of Spice Island]

YOu may need to save them and then attach them.

Gotta head out for a while, but will check the dose when I get back.

[GretchenM]

I just re-sent it. Let me know if you don't receive it, okay?

[silent_jonny]

After careful consideration, I think I'll go with this photo for the toaster ...

[GretchenM]

Where did you get that Elvis gif?

[GretchenM]

Jonny,
um ......
do you think it was very nice to
include mystery ak on that ping? ...