[silent_jonny]

Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

[silent_jonny]

Quote of the Day:

GretchenM (May 18, 2007): All of life is full of crazies. FR, when I came upon it in 1998, had a craziness to it because of everything Clinton was doing to put it to the American people. FR had wild arguments, stupid accusations, massive anger, and thousands of truly ignorant people who were also belligerent, just as there are today. I come here for the news and to enjoy interacting with people whose posts stand out to me. I don't have the constitution for the rough and tumble, so I have avoided it.

The craziness created by Clinton passed as the course of time allowed us to clean the excrement from the Oval Office and the things Clinton did to soil the presidency, and the American culture.

I am counting on the same result here. In the interim, conservatives need a place where they can get information and post their thoughts. Just as every unit of society has its crazies and its injustices, so does FR. Wise visitors will be able to sort the wheat and chaff. This forum is widely read by people in every strata of political life and party. I don't understand much about what is going on here, except for this: The place is under attack and I will not abandon ship in this storm. I fully expect that this, too, shall pass, and until then, the conservative cause needs little old me to keep rowing with my one little oar. I believe I must know our enemy and stand to the ranks or risk being run over by those whose ideologies are repugnant to me, and, I believe, detrimental to this nation I love.

Photo of the Day:

President Bush walks from the White House to Blair House for a going away party for budget director Rob Portman in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007.

[STARWISE]

Sad.

[Jemian]

Good evening. Pray for those in Minneapolis.

[silent_jonny]

Special Dose Ping!

Please wait for the "All Clear" before posting or reposting pictures and graphics.

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Special Dose Ping!

Please wait for the "All Clear" before posting or reposting pictures and graphics.

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President George W. Bush talks with Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki of Iraq via a video teleconference Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, in the Situation Room of the White House.

[ConorMacNessa]

Thanks for this thread, silent_jonny. I only knew GretchenM briefly, but found her to be a person of great kindness. We will all miss her dearly.

[silent_jonny]

Mrs. Laura Bush views photographs Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, during her visit to the National Gallery of Art exhibit, FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945. Mrs. Bush toured the exhibit with Mrs. Náda P. Simonyi, wife of Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi.

Mrs. Laura Bush and Mrs. Náda P. Simonyi, wife of Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi, talk to members of the media after they viewed photographs Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, at the National Gallery of Art exhibit, FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945.

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First lady Laura Bush and Nada P. Simonyi, wife of Hungary's ambassador to the U.S., Andras Simonyi, visit the National Gallery of Art's exhibition 'Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945', in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. The exhibit, sponsored by the Central Bank of Hungary, examines the period of photography's phenomenal success in Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Austria during a time of social and political upheaval.

[SevenofNine]

Rack the photos

I never met Gretchen one thing for sure I always look for her post on Daily dose or Canteen

RIP Gretchen

[lysie]

Thank you for this special Dose.

[silent_jonny]

Yesterday

Vice President Dick Cheney leaves a Republican Senatorial luncheon, Tuesday, July 31, 2007, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Saudi King Abdullah welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice upon her arrival in Jeddah July 31, 2007.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (R) welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her arrival in Jeddah July 31, 2007.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates on their arrival in Jeddah July 31, 2007.

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Sharm El-Sheikh July 31, 2007.

Saudi King Abdullah meets with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Jeddah July 31, 2007.

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[arbee4bush]

RIP Gretchen. You will be missed. Prayers being said for your brokenhearted family—at home and here on FR/Daily Dose.

[Majie Purple]

Nice and fitting & best place to honor & remember Gretchen,for sure and for certain!
Now I also know what one of those folkloric E’s in her old screen name stood for!
:)

[silent_jonny]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice looks towards Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abu el-Gheit during a press conference following her meeting with selected Arab Foreign Ministers in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt Tuesday, July 31, 2007.

[silent_jonny]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice looks on during a press conference following her meeting with selected Arab Foreign Ministers in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, Tuesday, July 31, 2007.

[silent_jonny]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets with selected Arab Foreign Ministers at a hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt Tuesday, July 31, 2007.