President George W. Bush met Nadine Gulit upon arrival in Seattle, Washington, on Thursday, June 17, 2004. Gulit, 73, founded Operation Support Our Troops to show appreciation for our men and women in uniform.
Posted on 08/06/2005 12:40:58 PM PDT by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: With the President, First Lady and the dogs relaxing at the ranch this weekend, there are no new photos to post. So I've selected a theme -- GWB and our Armed Forces -- and found many photos to let us enjoy a walk down memory lane. The theme photos are all from early in his presidency. They show GWB's closeness with our military both before and after 9/11/01.
THE WEEK AHEAD:
Monday, the President travels to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He will be touring the Sandia Laboratory there, and then will be making remarks after signing the comprehensive energy legislation that passed recently.
Tuesday, the President is going to have his economic advisors to the ranch. He will participate in a briefing with them on the state of our economy. Afterwards, GWB will make some remarks and participate in a press availability.
Wednesday, President Bush will traveling to Aurora, Illinois, where he will sign the transportation legislation. Aurora is the largest town in the north-central Illinois congressional district of House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
Saturday, tentative, but the President usually participates in an RNC event in August at the ranch. As of yesterday, the President's schedule was not firmed up beyond Wednesday.
QUOTE OF THE DAY Excerpt from the presidential radio address, Saturday, August 6, 2005:
As families across the country enjoy the summer, Americans can be optimistic about our economic future. In the past four years, our economy has been through a lot: we faced a stock market decline, a recession, corporate scandals, an attack on our homeland, and the demands of an ongoing war on terror.
To grow the economy and help American families, we acted by passing the largest tax relief in a generation. And today, thanks to the tax relief and the efforts of America's workers and entrepreneurs, our economy is strong and growing stronger.
This past week, we learned that America added over 200,000 new jobs in July. Since May of 2003, we've added nearly 4 million new jobs. The unemployment rate is down to 5 percent, below the average of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. And more Americans are working today than ever before in our nation's history.
We need to make the tax relief permanent, end the death tax forever, and make our tax code simpler, fairer and more pro-growth.
Excellent post on the Japanese internment during WWII.
I'll add also that there were Japanese subs off our Pacific coast. We definitely had to shut down and protect ourselves from invasion.
I had not heard that they invaded Alaska, though. Thanks for the information.
LOL! If only...they don't deserve the respect most WH Press Secretaries accord them.
Thank you so much, and welcome to the "Day in the life..." threads, nicknamed "the Dose." Rintense started these daily threads early in GWB's presidency, and several volunteers have helped keep them going every day since. We have a huge ping list. If you're interested in getting on it, let GretchenM know via FReemail.
We call the Dose "sanity island," because we mostly leave the political conversation for other threads. This one is just to follow the daily activities of President Bush and others in his administration. The Dose is a great substitute for the many people who are at work when live events occur.
There are many ways to fight a war, and what happens on the home front is equally as important as what happens on the battlefield. In some respects, more so.
You're welcome, of course. As for the photos of W in his cowboy hat, jeans and shades, let's face it...from a woman's perspective, he is HOT when he dresses that way!
You're very welcome. I'm glad so many people enjoyed this thread and the selection of photos.
Glad you liked it.
3-4 June 1942
Japan Invades Alaska
The Japanese drop bombs on Unalaska /Dutch Harbor in the eastern Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
A friend of mine born here as her parents had her family
rounded up because their origin is Japanese.
They are major Conservative Republicans and you don't
mention FDR to them.
Glad they didn't round up the Germans as my family is
part German some generations back.
Thanks, Mike. Coming from you that's high praise, indeed. There are literally thousands of photos archived at the WH website. Unfortunately, their photo search engine is very weak. You can only search by date, so I went through every photo for 2001 and 2002 to find these. The good thing about weekends in August is that I can plan these things ahead of time. You folks who do such a great job during the work week don't have that luxury, so you actually have a harder job, in my opinion.
These are excerpts copied from an Alaskan newspaper review of local history: (I'll go back and get the credit)
"June 3, 1942, Japanese bombers from carriers in the North Pacific attacked an Alaska town! - Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island, home of a small naval facility. After that first news break, the U.S. military high command slapped an immediate blackout on any news of the ensuing war in Alaska. Postwar commentators remarked that America would surely have panicked had it known that the enemy had attacked American soil - and could envision the enemy continuing down the West Coast to major cities! That news blackout was the reason so few know about the Alaska theater of war.
"Two days later, June 6, the enemy occupied Kiska and the following day troops invaded Attu, both of the islands located on the western end of the Aleutian Chain.
"The year-long fighting that followed the enemy attack, invasion and occupation in Alaska stretched along a thousand-mile front that would be the site of the only World War II land battles on the North American continent!
"U.S. Forces in May of 1943 reclaimed Attu in the only major land battle of war fought on American soil! Kiska was reclaimed in August, Americans discovering that 5,000 enemy troops had already been evacuated from the island some weeks before.
It was from Sitnews of Ketchikan, Alaska.
THE FORGOTTEN WAR: June 3, 1942 - August 1943
By June Allen, June 03, 2002
I have seen several photos of GWB voting at the fire station and it alway seems a strange venue. Is this a normal one in the US as the UK it is normally school or church halls? (In my area anyway)
Suggestion: All over the country 'dosers' cold email their local MSM rag this list of the President's activities during the next three days of his 'vacation.' They probably will need the heads-up!
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Monday, the President travels to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He will be touring the Sandia Laboratory there, and then will be making remarks after signing the comprehensive energy legislation that passed recently.
Tuesday, the President is going to have his economic advisors to the ranch. He will participate in a briefing with them on the state of our economy. Afterwards, GWB will make some remarks and participate in a press availability.
Wednesday, President Bush will traveling to Aurora, Illinois, where he will sign the transportation legislation. Aurora is the largest town in the north-central Illinois congressional district of House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
Yes! For almost an hour we hear how Wayne is on his way to kill Clift, and then the moment happens where they meet face-to-face and we expect a knockdown, drag-out fight, but before the fight really begins, a woman (a character that we barely know) comes in and stops it, acting hysterical like Scarlett O'Hara on speed. LOL! What a terrible ending to what had been a great movie.
(BTW, I want to apologize for my tone in post #171. I wasn't speaking to you, but to the writer that you quoted :)
In the U.S., voting can take place pretty much anywhere. Each state establishes its own rules for voting. In California (and probably most, if not all states), each county has an appointed Registrar of Voters who is responsible for the entire process within his or her county.
Each county is divided into multiple precincts, and each precinct has its own place where the residents of that precinct go to vote. The idea is to have a precinct within a mile or less of every resident in every county in our vast country.
It could be a private home -- the owners volunteer to turn one room in their home into an election-day polling place. Or it could be a school or other public or privately owned building. It would not likely be an actual church, although it could be a school building associated with a church.
Last year, I voted in the local American Legion building. The American Legion is a private-sector veterans' organization.
Yeah, I agree. Even though the President's schedule is released every week, either in the press secretary's news briefing or in a printed press release, the media still seems incapable of spotting a working vacation when they see one.
As I said I cannot remember however ever seeing a fire station used for voting maybe they do in some areas mainly it tends to to be schools or church halls in my experience and certainly I have never heard of a private house used but that could be the case in the very remote areas in Scotland such as some of the very small islands but I would think then it would be more likely a house connected with something like a post office or local community police house.
President George W. Bush met Nadine Gulit upon arrival in Seattle, Washington, on Thursday, June 17, 2004. Gulit, 73, founded Operation Support Our Troops to show appreciation for our men and women in uniform.
The Leftist loons never made it to within five miles of the ranch, but they did stage a mini demonstration and confrontation with the police for the media's benefit.
Three pics to follow in next post.
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