Posted on 01/30/2008 3:40:01 PM PST by daisyscarlett
Great photo of the day
Thanks for posting Texas Gal’s great reply to the Achoress
Sounds a good idea I am avoiding those threads I do not want to fall out with people that at other times I respect and enjoy a civil discourse with.
There’s no entrance exam for grade school which goes up to 8th grade. There is an entrance exam for highschool which goes up to twelfth grade, but the exam is more to see just where the student stands and if he/she needs any remedial help before acceptance. At least, that’s how it is in the ones I know about. I would guess that there are some exceptions.
Thanks for stopping by and stay as long as you would like. I have been surfing around other forums and there is a whole lot of venting going on.
Thanks. I chose it because he looked so very happy to be getting out of D.C. for a few days. Less than a year and he will be back in Texas and I bet he can’t wait.
Think I’ll go do some venting on the kitchen. Slamming a few pans around is good therapy, at least for me. Thanks for the Dose tonight. President Bush will be in my area (Kansas City) tomorrow from what I heard on the local news tonight. Wish I could go see him. Having to work really gets in the way of a good time.
Let us know if W gets good coverage in the KC press. If not, you will have to come to the Dose to see what he did in KC...lol..
Thank you for the Dose, Daisy :)
Freepmail coming
OOh ... they’re BOTH SO GREAT!!
Many, many thanks, snugs ... LOVE them!
Thanks for the Dose .. took a nap and woke
up just in time for the debate.
I LOVE that picture of Laura and the girls.
You can see tears in Barbara’s eyes .. ;(
Just remembered that I wanted to post this here. It
was on the SOTU thread. Think about all the truth herein.
Thanks for posting it, geo .. ;) God bless and protect Pres. Bush.
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A friend of a friend of my mom’s hairdresser leaked Bush’s resignation speech:
BUSH’S RESIGNATION SPEECH
Normally, I start these things out by saying “My Fellow Americans.” Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don’t know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you’re really not fellow Americans any longer.
I’ll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: There’s been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office. The reason I’m quitting is simple. I’m fed up with you people.
I’m fed up because you have no understanding of what’s really going on in the world. Or of what’s going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.
Let’s start local. You’ve been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that’s despite record numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we’re mentioning minorities, I’ll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton administration. I’ve mentioned all those things before, but it doesn’t seem to have sunk in.
Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there’s increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property
than your economic security.
We face real threats in the world. Don’t give me this “blood for oil” thing. If I were trading blood
for oil I would’ve already seized Iraq’s oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don’t give me this ‘Bush Lied; People Died’ crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could’ve easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be ‘discovered.’ Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.
Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named ‘ Clinton ‘established that policy. Bet you didn’t know that, did you? You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to outspend and out-tech them.
That’s not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don’t care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That’d be fine, as long as they weren’t also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and the terrorists are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven’t gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you’re not. That’s because you’ve got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that.
When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I’m disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of ‘Survivor.’ Instead, you’ve grown impatient. You’re incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.
Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat’s political campaign, well, dang it, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.
In this day and age, it’s easy enough to find the truth. It’s all over the Internet. It just isn’t on the pages of the New York Times or on ABC or NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you’d be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch “American Idol”.
I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you’re too stupid to leave a city that’s below sea level and has a hurricane approaching. I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I’ve come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.
So I quit. I’m going back to Crawford. I’ve got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I’m done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again.
Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.
Oh, and by the way, Cheney’s quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You want a Democrat for President in 2009? You can have one early.
That is frightening!
I just wish he could have a 3rd term!
Oh, how we wish it could be so .. ;)
Yes, indeed. Especially in light of the clowns who are left
in the running now. EGAD!
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