A day in the life of President Bush (photos): 9/17/02

yahoo.com, whitehouse.gov

[rintense]

In an effort to improve students' knowledge of American history, increase their civic involvement, and deepen their love for our great country, President Bush began the announced this morning new History & Civic education initiatives in public schools. Bush later headed to Nashville, Tennessee to campaign for Lamar Alexander, and to attend the Pledge Across America event at East Literate Magnet School. Also today, the White House released an official response to Iraq's alleged unconditional acceptance of UN inspectors. The White House Response

Meanwhile, First lady Laura Bush, along with Lynn Cheney, hosted a symposium on Women of the West in the East Room of the White House. Enjoy your daily dose of Dubya!

[Wait4Truth]

I'm not very good at subtle...would you help me work on that?

[lonestar]

OWF is obviously brilliant!

Correct!

It's Mr. ohio's birthday; she doesn't have a headache so has gone to bed.

[GretchenEE]

In an effort to improve students' knowledge of American history, increase their civic involvement, and deepen their love for our great country, President Bush announced this morning new History & Civic education initiatives in public schools.

Best education news I've heard in a long time.

[lawgirl]

Did she write "A Lantern in Her Hands"? Growing up in Iowa I LOVED that book but I can't remember who wrote it.

[Kath]

He majored in Sweating

[chnsmok]

Famous Nebraskans

Grace Abbott social worker, Grand Island
Grover Cleveland Alexander baseball pitcher, Saint Paul
Fred Astaire dancer, actor, Omaha
Max Baer boxer, Omaha
Bil Baird puppeteer, Grand Island
George Beadle geneticist, Wahoo
Marlon Brando actor, Omaha
Warren Buffett investor, Omaha
Dick Cavett TV entertainer, Gibbon
Montgomery Clift actor, Omaha
James Coburn actor, Laurel
Sandy Dennis actress, Hastings
Mignon Eberhart author, Lincoln
Harold Edgerton inventor, Fremont
Ruth Etting singer, actress, David City
Henry Fonda actor, Grand Island
Gerald Rudolph Ford U.S. president, Omaha
Jay W. Forrester inventor, Climax
Bob Gibson baseball player, Omaha
Hoot Gibson actor, Tememah
Howard Hanson composer, conductor, Wahoo
Leland Hayward producer, Nebraska City
David Janssen actor, Naponee
Susette La Flesche artist, Omaha
Francis La Flesche ethnologist, Omaha
Frank W. Leahy football coach, O'Neill
Malcolm X civil rights advocate, Omaha
Irish McCalla actress, Pawnee City
Dorothy McGuire actress, Omaha
Nick Nolte actor, Omaha
Roscoe Pound educator, legal scholar, Lincoln
Red Cloud Indian rights advocate, leader
Mari Sandoz author, Sheridan Cty
Standing Bear Indian rights advocate, leader
Inga Swenson actress, Omaha
Robert Taylor actor, Filley
Paul Williams singer, composer, actor, Omaha
Don Wilson announcer, Lincoln
Julie Wilson singer, actress, Omaha
Darryl F. Zanuck film producer, Wahoo

[cubreporter]

Yes, she does look beautiful but oh when she wears blacks, navy blues and that deep blood red color she is awesome. Either way she has a happy face, a nice smile and smiling eyes. We are blessed to have this beautiful woman who is truly the First Lady of the United States so she could wear jeans and I wouldn't care. However, she knows how to dress for each occasion and is just a shining light in the White House.
Lynn Cheney is a darling lady too. Very sweet. So bubbly and bright and has smiling eyes and a nice smile too. Both these ladies are intelligent, strong yet feminine women.

Look too at both their husbands. Intelligent, distinguished, funny, and both in love with their wives. Both respect their wives. Both put their wives first. Gosh, that sure explains a lot, doesn't it?

God bless the whole administration and the wives who keep them going. :) Have a good night everyone.

[Kath]

Think about it. Bush several points ahead of Gore in California, a LIBERAL state!!!

[chnsmok]

Whoops! Forgot to add chnsmok to the list of famous Nebraskans!

[reDublican]

Yes, she does look beautiful but oh when she wears blacks, navy blues and that deep blood red color she is awesome.

I like her in red, too. Especially that brick or rusty red color. That's my favorite color for her.

:-)

[lawgirl]

What about Johnny Carson?

[MamaB]

Did you ever milk a goat??? I did a few times. My much older brother had to drink goat milk so we had one for him. Very interesting! We grew all our own veggies, fruit, beef, pork, etc. That is how the folks in and around my home town got through the depression so I've been told. Before my time! LOL. Back then, I thought it was awful having to "work" but as I look back on all of that, it kept lots of kids out of trouble. They just did not have time to do anything else!!

[chnsmok]

OMG I forgot him. I used to sell everything the school and the Girl Scouts forced me to sell to his parents. His dad worked for the power company.

[Wait4Truth]

Bush ahead of gore by 12% in California is a milestone! It says so much about our President and so little about the algore. I hope he wins the nomination, though I don't think he will. The clintons want John Edwards so he will probably get it. He is from the South and he is cute and a smooth talker like clinton. He was also a bigtime trial lawyer so President Bush will have a field day with him. President Bush hates trial lawyers. It could be a tough race, but I'm not sure. Edwards has come out strongly for going after Saddam. John Kerry on the other hand, wants to wait for the U.N. to act. He's toast.

[lawgirl]

Lincoln right?

[chnsmok]

I had to drink goat's milk also. Don't know why. Won't touch any milk now.

[chnsmok]

Columbus.

[lawgirl]

Ah.

In Iowa we had Fred Grandy (Gopher from The Love Boat) as our pubbie congressmen for years. That was pretty exciting. ;-D

[mtngrl@vrwc]

Psalm 68

The Glory of God in His Goodness to Israel

¹ Let God arise,
        Let His enemies be scattered;
        Let those also who hate Him flee before Him.
        ²As smoke is driven away,
        So drive them away;
        As wax melts before the fire,
        So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
        ³But let the righteous be glad;
        Let them rejoice before God;
        Yes, let them rejoice exceedingly.

        ⁴Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
        Extol Him who rides on the clouds,^[1]
        By His name YAH,
        And rejoice before Him.

        ⁵A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
        Is God in His holy habitation.
        ⁶God sets the solitary in families;
        He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;
        But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

        ⁷O God, when You went out before Your people,
        When You marched through the wilderness,Selah
        ⁸The earth shook;
        The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God;
        Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
        ⁹You, O God, sent a plentiful rain,
        Whereby You confirmed Your inheritance,
        When it was weary.
        ¹⁰Your congregation dwelt in it;
        You, O God, provided from Your goodness for the poor.

        ¹¹The Lord gave the word;
        Great was the company of those who proclaimed it:
        ¹²"Kings of armies flee, they flee,
        And she who remains at home divides the spoil.
        ¹³Though you lie down among the sheepfolds,
        You will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
        And her feathers with yellow gold."
        ¹⁴When the Almighty scattered kings in it,
        It was white as snow in Zalmon.

        ¹⁵A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan;
        A mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
        ¹⁶Why do you fume with envy, you mountains of many peaks?
        This is the mountain which God desires to dwell in;
        Yes, the LORD will dwell in it forever.

        ¹⁷The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
        Even thousands of thousands;
        The Lord is among them as in Sinai, in the Holy Place.
        ¹⁸You have ascended on high,
        You have led captivity captive;
        You have received gifts among men,
        Even from the rebellious,
        That the LORD God might dwell there.

        ¹⁹Blessed be the Lord,
        Who daily loads us with benefits,
        The God of our salvation!Selah
        ²⁰Our God is the God of salvation;
        And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.

        ²¹But God will wound the head of His enemies,
        The hairy scalp of the one who still goes on in his trespasses.
        ²²The Lord said, "I will bring back from Bashan,
        I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
        ²³That your foot may crush them^[2] in blood,
        And the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

        ²⁴They have seen Your procession, O God,
        The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
        ²⁵The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after;
        Among them were the maidens playing timbrels.
        ²⁶Bless God in the congregations,
        The Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
        ²⁷There is little Benjamin, their leader,
        The princes of Judah and their company,
        The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

        ²⁸Your God has commanded^[3] your strength;
        Strengthen, O God, what You have done for us.
        ²⁹Because of Your temple at Jerusalem,
        Kings will bring presents to You.
        ³⁰Rebuke the beasts of the reeds,
        The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
        Till everyone submits himself with pieces of silver.
        Scatter the peoples who delight in war.
        ³¹Envoys will come out of Egypt;
        Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

        ³²Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth;
        Oh, sing praises to the Lord,Selah
        ³³To Him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which were of old!
        Indeed, He sends out His voice, a mighty voice.
        ³⁴Ascribe strength to God;
        His excellence is over Israel,
        And His strength is in the clouds.
        ³⁵O God, You are more awesome than Your holy places.
        The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people.

        Blessed be God!

[El Gato]

Oohhh not true! Many a pioneer planted themselves in Nebraska! Have you heard of Bess Streeter Aldrich? Wonderful author in the 20's and 30's...wrote of those who made Nebraska their home in the 1800's. Wonderful books!

Of course, along with E. Pound and Willa Cather.

Some of those pioneers who planted themselves in Nebraska were my ancestors, on both sides. Lee & Harrison via my paternal grandmother, Kunz and other good German names via my maternal grandmother. We don't know much about either grandpa, both were orphans. The same holds for my wife's family. The farm now owned by my father in law in the northeeast part of the state has been in his family since the 1860s. Her Danish ancestors started west with a Mormon group, but when they found out who and what (polygamists) their companions were, they decided to look into dropping anchor in Nebraska. Didn't homestead though, but they bought the place from the folks who did but couldn't make a go of it. Lived in a dugout and all that.