A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos) 2.13.04

White House, Yahoo | 2/13/04

[MJY1288]

President Bush speaks at the Central Dauphin High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on education, he later released his entire Military record for the Vultures in the Press who seem to have tunnel vision these days.

Welcome to Sanity Island

[homemom]

What a WONDERFUL picture! I think your collection must be almost as big as Ohio's. PLEASE feel FREE to share MORE!

[DrDeb]

"I'll be doing what I can, also, in the meantime I'm setting up several blogs and several websites at free areas. If you google Dubya and almost every word relating to media accusations, what comes up is a slew of nasty negative sites and misinformation. If we sprinkle the Internet as much as possible with pro-Bush sites crammed with links to positive info, it could make a difference to the mushy uninformed middle."


EXCELLENT IDEA -- I must get my computer wiz of a hubby to develop some blogs!!!!

[NordP]

YOU are a true patriot!!!

[Tamzee]

Found a way to get the rest of my kids who want R&R out of here

I've thought this many times reading your posts.... they are so very lucky to have you watching out for them.

[prairiebreeze]

thank you for the link

[mike1sg]

Happy Birthday, everything is going great here. Your doing a great job keeping all the spirits up. But, I'll buy you the beer either way.

[MJY1288]

LOL, I became an old fart a few years back :-) In the year 2020 I'll be older than dirt

[Mudboy Slim]

Jay F'in Kerry was a big proponent of the..."Kosovo Slaughter"
(To be sung to Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water")

Yugoslavs thought they were sovereign...
Forgot 'bout that New World Order...
'Cuz NATO wanted a li'l more Power...
And Clinton's motives were VILE!!
Yeah, Slick Willie had a problem...
His Impeachment was bringin' him down...
Said, "Networks need 'em a story...
I'll bomb them Serbs outta town!!!"

Kosovo Slaughter...Death rainin' from the sky!!
Innocents slaughtered!!

Slick burned down that Waco House...
Kids FRIED!! What an Evil Sound...
In Viet Nam, Slick LIED and chickened out...
Now, Bill LOVES puttin' kids underground!!
When it all was over...
Them Sheeple they knew their place!!
But Slick's time is runnin' out...
SEEK JUSTICE...Slick must be DISGRACED!!! Vile Waco Slaughter...small children, they did fry!!
Innocence slaughtered...

(Excellent guitar jammin')

We FReeped Slick up on Capitol Hill...
Slick's heart's empty, cold, and hard!!
Yes, we'll keep FReepin'...we must not stop!!
Left's just not Right!! The Righteous the Left doth fear!!
It's a worthwhile fight...gotta use our heads (UNNNHHH!!)
Truth's gonna save the day...
No matter what...Bill will feel Justice!!
We know...Slick knows...FReepers never forget!!

Kosovo Slaughter...Death rainin' from the sky!!!
Dethrone the TYRANT!!

MUD

[GretchenEE]

Ladies and Gentlemen. Another day in Paradise.

Hmmmmmm. I correspond (anonymously) with a couple inmates through a Christian program. One of the guys always signs his letters, "Just another day in Paradise."

I hope it's not really as bad as prison!

[Tamzee]

It's getting big now... I keep posting pics to the Dose as I find them, though.

Give me another month or so and I'll be buying a bigger harddrive ;-)

[samantha]

Don't worry we won't have to. The only sitting Senator to be elected as President that I can recall was John F Kennedy,and he was not uglee,and shaped like a crowbar. HE also had the news media covering his dalliances,and his daddy bought him the electon,by buying Chicago gangsters. Governors win Presidential elections thank god...George Bush gave the media,the weekend to read and weep over his document dump. He He He..

[GretchenEE]

Remember the days when all we had to worry about was The Great Pretzel Incident? It looks like this one was taken at that time.

[homemom]

***From The Elijah List Christian newsletter today***

Could you please ping me to that newsletter? Sounds very interesting. I'd at least like to check it out.

[mystery-ak]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mikey

[MJY1288]

Mike, If I ever have the good fortune to meet you, You'll have to fight me to keep me from picking up the tab, not just a beer.

God Bless you my friend, You'll never know how proud you make us all

[DrDeb]

. . . before saying goodnight, I just want to share one informational item and one EXCELLENT article.

INFORMATIONAL ITEM
Bush to visit Fort Polk Tuesday
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1077803/posts?page=1
[The President needs to be with his troops -- and we need to vicariously share in this experience!!]

ARTICLE
By Paul Johnson

As the U.S. Presidential election gets under way, I find my admiration for George W. Bush rising. With voters focusing more closely on the economy, the temptation for the President is to follow suit. But Bush's State of the Union Address showed that he's determined to treat security as America's number one issue, and he is right. The U.S. and the world must be made safe from terrorism; otherwise growth is an illusion. Mr. Bush believes security and growth go together but that security must take priority.

History shows that the best political leaders are those who have a few central ideas that they push with all their will. I am thinking of Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Konrad Adenauer, Margaret Thatcher. Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) also belongs in that select company, as, I now believe, does George W. Bush.

I used to get angry when my French friends would dismiss Bush as a "Texas cowboy." I told them that Texas has better art galleries than France does--the Louvre being the sole exception--and that although Texas is only one state in the union it has more first-class universities than the entire country of France does. (Indeed, the French are just waking up to the plight of their higher education system. Recently a main story in Le Monde, "La Grande Misère des Universités Françaises," reported that in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's rankings of the world's 500 best universities the top university in France, Paris-VI, ranked only 65th, followed by Paris-XI at 72nd and Strasbourg at 102nd.)

Bush Is No Booby

Nowadays, however, I no longer get angry. I just laugh. The recent economic conference in Davos, Switzerland had the advanced nations effectively lining up behind U.S. leadership. It's clear where the balance of power now lies.

Nor am I impressed by American criticisms of Bush. The tell-all book of a former Cabinet member, tinged with bitterness because Bush fired him, declares the President a booby who has to have everything done for him. But lightweights often say such things about strong, silent men. Take George Washington, who was well described as "the supreme example of eternal taciturnity and enigmatic wisdom couched in stoic silence." Timothy Pickering, first a military aide and then a member of Washington's Administration, claimed that the great man often dozed off in Cabinet meetings; never read dispatches; wrote few, if any, of his own speeches; needed chalk marks on the floor to know where to stand in public; and was a semiliterate figurehead who had to be propped up by his staff.

Generations of historians and the publication of countless papers have shown how false Pickering's impression was. Even when Washington's speeches were written by the brilliant Alexander Hamilton, study of the early drafts has established that the key points always sprang from Washington himself.

Presidents whose verbalizing--or lack of it--does not fit into the average academic's idea of what constitutes intelligence have always been subjected to this kind of dismissive attack. I recall vividly that during his presidency Dwight D. Eisenhower was written off as a near-zombie who was always out playing golf while the real decisions were made by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and aides such as Sherman Adams.

This was all nonsense, of course. Ike deliberately cultivated the relaxed, golf-playing image, seeking to lower the political temperature during some of the hottest days of the Cold War. As Richard Nixon, Eisenhower's vice president for eight years and no mean judge of Presidents, told me, Eisenhower was "the most devious man I ever came across in politics." Presidential papers show that Secretary Dulles, when negotiating abroad, always had to get clearance from Ike for any decision of substance. Ike's phone logs prove he was often hard at work early in the morning, when even his press secretary believed he was still asleep. Research confirms that Eisenhower was the man in control and that his policies were his own.

Similar nonsense was written about Ronald Reagan, another man of numerous firm and clear ideas that were pursued with obstinate determination and huge amounts of willpower. Reagan's lack of formal education and his attachment to publications such as the Reader's Digest were enough to discredit him among academics and media folk who, at a superficial level, form the image of leaders.

But Reagan's record speaks for itself, as does the simple but profound wisdom on which it was based. The publication of his letters has demonstrated the admirable consistency of his views of the world--and of the interests of America and the West--over many decades, the ways in which those views were elaborated during his presidency and how they have stood the test of time.

Old Europe Stops Sneering

There is nothing flashy about George W. Bush. He does not play with words or use more of them than necessary. He has a few clear ideas, shared by most Americans, and the willpower to back them. With Bush, you know where you are and where you are heading. Hence, even in Old Europe, the sneers are dying down. Most sensible Europeans--not just those in England, who have always recognized Bush as a "sound type"--are beginning to admire Bush, and the prospect of his having a second term is increasingly welcomed as an assurance of stability and continuity.

Paul Johnson, eminent British historian and author, Lee Kuan Yew, senior minister of Singapore, and Ernesto Zedillo, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, former president of Mexico, in addition to Forbes Chairman Caspar W. Weinberger, rotate in writing this column. To see past Current Events columns, visit our Web site at www.forbes.com/currentevents.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/fo/20040212/bs_fo/fa9e3e5deebcd95bc2a07d8e838505f4

[MJY1288]

You're a little early, My birthday is March 1st :-)

[MJY1288]

Dr. Deb, you're a God send

[Tamzee]

This is a google search link for "free websites", there are many types of sites still out there that help you put one up for nuthin ;-) I'm going to put one up at EVERY free area out there and the same with blogs. I have one now but am still a bit uncertain... I'll set up a group of them once I get the hang of it :-)

Please, let me know if your hubby has any tips on the best way to put up links so they get scooped up by the search engines?


http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=free%20websites

[mike1sg]

No, it's not that bad. Maybe I'll come up with soething else. It has been very nice the last several days.
Gonna be sunny and warm today, one of my chores for today is laundry, should dry quickly out there today.