Posted on 12/01/2007 4:17:50 PM PST by STARWISE
India .. and there was a rumor of
another dog, but I’m not sure that’s
been confirmed.
LOL ..
Now that’s the ticket !
No, thank YOU.
Looks good to me! :D
I’m sure they’ll find a way to have it “blend” with that
beautiful seacoast. At least they aren’t like Teddy “not in my back yard” Kennedy!
STARWISE:
LOVE all of the photos — the Mt. Rushmore photos are particularly inspired and inspiring!!
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As a follow up to Krauthammer’s commentary from last evening:
BUSH & EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH
The Anchoress
When Republicans complain to me about how George W. Bush has “betrayed” them or “let them down,” I try to re-iterate things he has done, positions he has taken, that they tend to forget. Like his refusal to submit his nation to the International Criminal Court and his refusal to hog-tie us to the very unworkable Kyoto Treaty that the press likes to pretend enjoyed huge support in Congress (they rejected it unanimously). And I always remind them that in August of 2001, he drew a line in the sand on Embryonic Stem Cell Research and said, “no, we’re not publicly funding it.”
You can read the rest of this excellent commentary here: (Don’t forget to read the ‘comments’ at the end!)!
http://theanchoressonline.com/2007/11/30/bush-embryonic-stem-cell-research/#comments
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BUSH REBOUNDING
By Clark S. Judge
November 30, 2007
As our Long-March presidential campaign picks up its pace, its road map to victory or defeat may soon change radically.
For the more than a year, the Democratic presidential candidates, the mainstream media and the smart Washington money have all assumed an unpopular and discredited George W. Bush would drag down the Republican ticket, making next year’s balloting a sure-thing replay of 2006. Now, amazingly, the president may be set for a comeback.
You can read the entire article here:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071130/COMMENTARY/111300014/1012/commentary
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[’Purist’ conservatives have CREATED a Reagan MYTH that enables them to criticize President Bush relentlessly and degrade EVERY GOP candidate]
GOP INVOKES A REAGAN WHO NEVER WAS
Record shows their hero was no model of ideological purity.
By Steven Thomma
WASHINGTON – They want to put his face on Mount Rushmore, but Republicans today are demanding such ideological purity that they might not even nominate Ronald Reagan for president if he were to run now.
Abortion? He was for abortion rights before he was against them. Taxes? He raised them as governor, and raised them several times as president after his big 1981 tax cuts.
Immigration? He signed the law that Republicans now call amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Foreign policy? He negotiated with the “Evil Empire.”
In fact, they’d find him wrong on almost every hot-button issue of the 2008 campaign.
Most of those stands are overlooked in the Republicans’ rear-view idolization of Reagan as an unwavering conservative icon. But they serve as a reminder that even the revered Reagan was a pragmatic politician whose stands often changed and might not fit in today’s politics.
The real Reagan story is forgotten as Republicans this year attack one another for past offenses even if they’ve moved toward conservative orthodoxy since. They criticize Mitt Romney for once supporting abortion rights, though he now opposes them. They tear into Mike Huckabee for raising some taxes as governor, ignoring his vow not to raise them as president. They rip Rudy Giuliani for once welcoming illegal immigrants to New York, though he takes a hard line now.
Through it all, they ignore the real Reagan.
You can read the rest of the article here:
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/534392.html
Oh no it’s not a rumor I’ve seen him/her. Looks like a hunting dog...he was a pup light brown/bronze looking.
Thanks for all the great links, Deb. Must go check ‘em out!
Thank God for his strong position on Stem-cell Research. Now
they have found that SKIN cells do as much and aren’t devastating!
Thanks for the great links, Deb .. any pictures yet?
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For inspiration ~~~ from Rush (and everyone knows, Rush
is right ;)
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You know, this election is a serious thing. All elections are. But I just want to assure you that my optimism here is not artificial or phony, nor is it based on a narrow, limited look and perspective of what life in this country is all about. Quite the contrary!
You know, I’m 56 years old, and I don’t mean to be playing the violin here, but I’ve been broke a couple of times, and I’ve earned so little money that my house payment and my MasterCard bill came in the same two-week period in the month, and I couldn’t make ‘em both. So I had to buy potato chips at the little Kwik Shop back when grocery stores didn’t accept credit cards because I never had any cash.
I’ve been fired seven or eight times. Don’t tell me... I think I’m perhaps one of the greater living examples of what this country is capable of and what people who live here are capable of, contrary to people telling me I’m out of touch and so forth, and the optimism is artificial.
I know optimism is hard and looking forward down the line seeing good things, it’s hard because it’s not the natural human disposition or proclivity.
But what is to be afraid of with the Democrats? They are imploding in a lot of ways! Now the Drive-Bys may not be saying so, but it’s still there happening.
The attitude, the hatred, the general disgust and anger and misery that they run around with, it’s ripe to be mined in a positive sense, but if our elected officials are themselves mired in depression and angst over this, well, yeah, then I am going to be worried, because they’re the guys out there that are running for office.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_113007/content/01125109.guest.html
aMEN, Starwise! You have hit the nail right on the head!
Barney and Miss Beazley, by a red decorative ornament tree at the White House last year.
And the beautiful Miss Beazley
Dear Barney, in a meeting with the President in the Oval Office last year
No, that's not Dasher, it's the energetic Miss Beazley in the East Wing Colonnade of the White House last year (Barney, you're lagging ;)
Ooooooooh! That’s a beautiful outfit for Spot. I’ll vote for THAT!
But in fairness to all the Dosers who have taken Spot into their hearts, I think we’d better have a vote on it. Evrybody’s opinion is invited, old or new or visitors. Should Jonny knit an outfit like that for Spot? (I’d do it, but I’ve broken both hands chopping down a twenty-foot Christmas tree for Jonny’s house on his Pacific island where he lives like a king and has thirty-eight maids to wait on him, while poor Spot and I...)
Thanks.
We really like Jenna, but Barbara is an absolute FOX!!!
It’s charming kitkat, but how about a widdle white beard?
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