Posted on 08/22/2006 5:09:45 PM PDT by ohioWfan
After calling President Karzai of Afghanistan to discuss security measures and a potential visit, President Bush left the White House early this afternoon to go to Minnesota. In Minnetonka, he participated in a panel discussion on health care, and also signed an Executive Order to help increase the transparency of America's health care system - empowering Americans to find better value and better care. The order will require various federal agencies to compile information about the quality and price of health care they pay for, and share that information with their customers and each other. The White House website has posted a FACT SHEET about this order.
The President also attended a fundraiser for Minnesota Congressional Candidate, State Senator Michele Bachman after the panel discussion, and stopped for a frozen custard in Wayzata.
Enjoy your trip to Sanity Island on the Daily Dose!
So many things we share...so many thing with two different names...
;)
"mmlo = marshmallow
Did I translate correctly? :)"
Yes indeedy!
"And if you look at these handwrtiting samples" (belch) "you'll see ..."
Night Miss Emmie!
I would never flame you. It just means there is more available for me.
Indeed it is :)
I just wish he wasn't eating that frozen custard.
It's giving me a real craving for ice cream.
I'm 100% Swedish but all the names were changed from what they were there..........from Nilsson's and Persson's and names like that.
Lots of 'lunds' in Minnesota, though...........you're right about that!
It could be~! It's been a long time since I stole it, I don't remember where or from who!
thanks for the description of the fish process.
It helped me lose my appetite ... for everything.
Now I don't even want ice cream anymore.
That's what I tell people... more chocolate for YOU!
(But OH, so yummy!!)
AWESOME DOSE!
FROM MINNESOTA . . .
informational article and THREE videoclips:
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=132668
another article and complete video of the President's remarks:
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S18348.html?cat=1
MUST READ . . .
FEAR GOD AND DREAD NOUGHT
By Mark Noonan at 09:11 AM
That really should be the motto of President Bush and his Administration - rarely in human history has a group of people shown such steadfast courage in the face of adversity than President Bush and his Administration. Yesterday, President Bush allowed everyone to see where this spirit resides:
Q Mr. President, polls continue to show sagging support for the war in Iraq. I'm curious as to how you see this developing. Is it your belief that long-term results will vindicate your strategy and people will change their mind about it, or is this the kind of thing you're doing because you think it's right and you don't care if you ever gain public support for it? Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Look, Presidents care about whether people support their policies. I don't mean to say, I don't care. Of course, I care. But I understand why people are discouraged about Iraq, I can understand that. We live in a world in which people hope things happen quickly, and this is a situation where things don't happen quickly, because there's a very tough group of people using tactics, mainly the killing of innocent people, to achieve their objective. And they're skillful about how they do this, and they also know the impact of what it means on the consciousness of those of us who live in the free world. They know that.
And so, yes, I care, I really do. I wish -- and so, therefore, I'm going to spend a lot of time trying to explain as best I can why it's important for us to succeed in Iraq.
Q Can I follow --
THE PRESIDENT: Let me finish. On the other hand, Ken, I don't think you've ever heard me say -- and you've now been covering me for quite a while, 12 years -- I don't think I've -- 12 years? Yes. I don't think you've ever heard me say, gosh, I'd better change positions because the polls say this or that. I've been here long enough to understand you cannot make good decisions if you're trying to chase a poll. And so the second part of your question is, look, I'm going to do what I think is right, and if people don't like me for it, that's just the way it is.
Our liberal and left friends don't get it right now, and it will be some years before they admit it, but we're going to miss President Bush when he leaves office - what we're going to miss is a President who will do the right thing no matter what the polls say. In our modern, media-driven age, such courage as President Bush has shown is a very rare bird, and it may be a generation before we see its like again in the White House.
http://blogsforbush.com/
Another thing with same name but different product what is frozen custard?
The dreaded red x, Emily! WHAT guy?
Howdy OWF, Thanks for the "Dose"
LOL! I know what you mean! I've "borrowed" more than a few pictures myself. I love it when folks ping me on a squirrel or sunset pic. Dolly and Jonny are good ones for doing that.
When does that happen?
I mean...it's happened to me, too. One day I was nagging ... a few days (years) later, I'm being nagged.
Duh!
"Those who know me expect squirrels and/or apples! Just ask around...sunsets, too."
Jonny told me he was gonna save that carved out one for the next time he saw you post.
I thought it was a great idea!
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