Posted on 12/12/2006 4:02:37 PM PST by GretchenM
President Bush had breakfast with Bob Gates, who will be sworn in Monday as the new Secretary of Defense.
He met with Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi in the Oval. Also in the meeting were Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Stephen Hadley, and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten. He participated in a video teleconference, that included Donald Rumsfeld, with combatant commanders and the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq.
At the State Department, Secretary of State Rice met with Iraq Vice President Tariq Ahmed Baker Al-Hashimi, and also met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Australian Secretary of Defense Brendan Nelson and held a news conference with Downer. Rice witnessed the signing of the Joint Strike Fighter Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Australia.
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If you br for line break it puts the extra line breaks in but p only does 2
Thanks for posting...
(I'm soft on pets.)
Thanks for advising who it is
Hey what an English expression happy camper did not know you used this in the US
Wow that is a lovely one
Ignorance is indeed bliss.
Great photo
Uh huh....SURE!
We believe you, Gretchen.
Same here, and the more puppyish or kittenish, the softerish over here.
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Your computer nerd skills are impressive, Snugs ;).
HEADS UP . . .
CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON
Wednesday, December 13 at 10 PM EST
Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw will return for a third year as hosts of TNT’s annual presentation of CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON, featuring popular recording artists Taylor Hicks, Il Divo, Gretchen Wilson, Chris Brown, Corinne Bailey Rae and Bianca Ryan. Annually attended by the President and First Lady and other Washington VIPs, this concert celebrates the holiday in musical style while benefiting the National Children’s Medical Center. CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON will be taped at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., premiering on TNT Wednesday, Dec. 13, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).
http://www.tnt.tv/title/?oid=635099
MUST READ . . .
MORE JOBS, MORE APPLAUSE
Investors approve of the continuing Bush boom.
By Jerry Bowyer
It may not get as much press as the 2006 elections, the war in Iraq, or the incendiaries fired daily by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the monthly jobs report is always big news on Wall Street. Last Friday, investors once again liked what they saw.
The Labor Department’s household survey showed a robust gain of 277,000 jobs for November, while the narrower payroll survey — which measures corporate tallies instead of individual responses — posted a respectable increase of 132,000 jobs. The Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 each gained on the news, with the Dow adding nearly 30 points to its already near-record high and the S&P padding the six-year high it had just established.
As the above table shows, the total number of jobs created since Bush’s 2003 tax cuts has risen to a whopping 8 million according to the household survey and 6.2 million as per the payroll survey. Notable in the November jobs report is the fact that the market absorbed almost all of the roughly 300,000 individuals who sought employment during the period.
You can read the entire article at
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTIyY2M2ZjgwMTZlYjQ2YjA5MGQxMWYyOThkMWZlN2Q=
BAKER A LA CARTE
How Bush will pick and choose from the 79 varieties of recommendation.
by Fred Barnes
12/18/2006, Volume 012, Issue 14
President Bush won his first skirmish with the Iraq Study Group. James A. Baker III and Lee Hamilton, the ISG directors, insisted the president adopt all 79 of its recommendations for changing policy in Iraq. Bush balked, and for good reason. A sizable chunk of the ISG's advice--its call, for instance, for a new diplomatic outreach to Syria and Iran--is unrealistic and wrongheaded. Within 24 hours of the report's release, Hamilton conceded he and Baker had never expected full compliance by Bush.
You can read the entire article at
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/065ycxmc.asp
I ENCOURAGE YOU TO VISIT THE PRESIDENTIAL PRAYER TEAM WEBSITE:
http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ppt_homepage
(I'm posting it here just in case you couldn't get it elsewhere.....)
I'm too tired. I'll try that one out tomorrow. Thanks.
AWESOME PHOTO . . . You obviously had a great time in DC!
Thanks Maj :)
Do you think we'll ever get out of this depression we're in? LOL!
I remember knowing what to buy for Christmas to go with it but not eating it LOL but yes I would have checked first just in case I did not like :0).
LOL!
You are becoming my favorite YouTube pinger!
That was just lovely.
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