Posted on 08/05/2006 2:18:44 PM PDT by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President and Mrs. Bush, and the dogs, are vacationing at their Crawford, TX, ranch for the next couple of week. However, no president is ever truly on vacation. Today, through White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who is at the ranch, President Bush issued a statement saying he is pleased with the draft UN resolution regarding the war in the Middle East. Here is an excerpt from the widely circulated AP story:
Bush Happy With Draft U.N. Resolution
By NEDRA PICKLER, The Associated Press
Aug 5, 2006 12:11 PM (46 mins ago)CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush has signed off on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending fighting in the Mideast and is "happy with the progress being made," his spokesman said Saturday.
But the president knows there could be a long road before violence stops, White House press secretary Tony Snow said.
"I don't think he has any delusions about what lies ahead," said Snow, accompanying Bush on his vacation to his private ranch.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley arrived at the ranch Saturday to consult with Bush as the full Security Council began discussions on the agreement reached by France and the United States.
The draft calls for Hezbollah to stop all attacks and for Israel to stop "offensive military operations." But it would allow Israel to defend itself if attacked.
Israel, backed by the U.S., has insisted it must have the right to respond if Hezbollah launches missiles against it.
In an important, but largely overlooked domestic story, Congress sent a major pension overhaul bill to President Bush yesterday for his signature. Here's an excerpt from the story on ABC News:
Congress Sends Major Pension Overhaul Legislation to President Bush
By JIM ABRAMSWASHINGTON Aug 4, 2006 (AP)— Congress passed major pension legislation designed to assure American workers, including millions of baby boomers nearing the end of their working careers, that the pensions they have been promised will be there when they retire.
The Senate, in its last vote before adjourning for a four-week summer break, approved the 900-page bill that compels employers with defined-benefit pension plans to meet their funding obligations and seeks to prevent companies from terminating plans and shifting the financial burden to the taxpayer. The House passed the bill last week.
PRESIDENTIAL VACATION SCHEDULE: From the White House press gaggle by Tony Snow.
The President's day today: he got up early, received his national security briefing, recorded the radio address -- which is about border security and immigration. Then he went out and did some brush-cutting and trail-clearing, followed by a bike ride, and will be doing other vacation relaxation sort of things for the rest of the day.The week ahead has more of the same, through Wednesday. On Thursday, the President will participate in a tour of Fox Valley Metal-Tech, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he will make a statement on the economy. While in Wisconsin, the President will attend a 'Gard for Congress' reception in Oneida, before returning to Crawford for the rest of the vacation, such as it is.
On the 11th, he'll attend a Republican National Committee reception and barbecue at Broken Spoke Ranch in Crawford. Then he'll spend Saturday in Crawford and return to the White House at a time to be determined on Sunday, the 13th.
The president plans to return to his ranch near the end of the month for a few days. But that trip is scheduled to be interrupted with other travel away from Texas, including a visit to the Gulf Coast to mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Glad you like it :)
It didn't help you today, hehehe
LOL ;)
hehehe....I wasn't trying.....but I guess I need to step up the pace....btw...how much room do we have on our profile page, I gonna need more space....lol
Too bad about the doggies, Wolfie.
My family almost always has a dog, but I've only had birds and fish as my own pets. The fish I usually discover belly up, and most of the birds except for two went suddenly as well.
I didn't put Angie down because despite her tumors, she was sitting on her swing and singing all day. I figured she was still happy so I left things to nature.
I tried to have Angel put down when he couldn't stand up anymore, but it was the middle of the night, and I couldn't find an emergency vet. I put some water in a milk cap and put him in a shoebox with a clean towel on the bottom so he wouldn't have to lie on the floor of his cage. He made it through the night (I didn't think he would) and found him perching on the side of the box looking at me the next morning. When He even tried to sit on my finger and chirped when I petted his belly.
He still had a hard time standing after that, but he was able to stay on the perch. With Angel, the problem was organ failure, and he got weaker because nothing he ate was getting into his system. Still, he was eating like a pig, so I know he ate least felt like he had a full tummy. Since he didn't seem to be in pain, I let him go too. He passed away peacefully in my hand about a week later.
I've noticed that too.
I can't remember very many--or any--photos of Gore or Kerry with babies, crying or otherwise.
That's why I link all mine :) JimRob might zot you for using so much bandwidth ;)
I've been thinking of doing that...but where do I put them?...and how do I link them?
There is one with Kerry, but the kid looks like she's not at all happy to be there. I suppose that's natural though. He looks relatively harmless if you don't know him.
BTW, I'm honored to be a part of your page, Buddy :-D
lol...sorry....can I put those toasters on photobucket?
Or you can make links out of the toasters already on your page by right-clicking on each one, choosing properties, copying the image url, then pasting it into your own link.
Example:
1) Your toaster: 
2) Your toaster's url:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/fairlands/Free%20Republic/Mystery-akrunnerup1.jpg
3) Pasting the url in your own link:
< a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/fairlands/Free%20Republic/Mystery-akrunnerup1.jpg"Toaster< /a>
4) Your toaster is now linked
You can, but photobucket has a limit to how much bandwidth you can use on their free side. And toasters use a lot of bandwidth--especially yours ;)
Imageshack.com is completely free and they don't have any limit. I upload my toasters there.
God bless all our friends, and keep them safe.
Signing off for now. I'll be back later to collect my toaster :)
Dubya always gets down to the kids' eye level, or holds babies up to his. That way, he doesn't look like a towering threat to them.
He likes the kids more than he likes the photo ops - just the opposite of some politicians I will refrain from naming. :-)
Thanks...I'm working on it now...
You're right. He does. I wonder if he learned by watching his dad. I'll bet Bush Sr. used to hold Dubya that way.
thank you!
Jonny...I need another site for my toasters other than photobucket....do you know another free site?
I use tinypic.com.
There is one disadvantage to that site, however. It gives you a link and an html, but I could not figure out how to store personal photo albums or put images in folders like on photobucket. Instead, I pick a name for each picture and paste the links and htmls into a Microsoft Word document next to the name. Otherwise I do not know how I would keep track of them.
That's a great pic of his father doing the same thing. That must be where he learned it.
Neither of them has ever seen a kid they didn't like.
Remember when hillary went to the children's cancer ward at Georgetown hospital for a photo op, and made the staff bring in their kids from the day care center, because the kids on the ward all looked sick? :-)
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