“President George W. Bush and Bono discuss global AIDS and Africa policy in the Oval Office Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005, following lunch in the White House. White House photo by Eric Draper”
White House photo. (Is the portrait behind them crooked?)
Scottie hasn’t announced his daily press briefing yet. C-SPAN has nothing scheduled either.
P.S. C-SPAN has all of Harriet Miers’ submitted questionnaires. (Check the middle column, under Featured Links.)
OPEN THREAD!
No potrait is not crooked. The only thing crooked in this photo is the guy on the left…teehee!
The entire picture is tilted slightly, probably as a result of George Washington spinning so fast in his grave.
I mean portrait but you folks know that right? Good morning Susan!
Hi, honey … well, it’s afternoon now / sorry to reply so late. Took a little nap. Damn it’s cold.
“Bono Gives George Bush Cover”
Bush could not give a holy crap about either Aids nor the poor in Africa. The only thing in Africa that concerns him is the oil offshore and nothing else.
And those Harriet Miers questionnaires … I read excerpts at the WSJ a couple nights ago.
Holy smoke. Any ONE of us here could write circles around her, and have equivalent — and, in very many cases, superior — backgrounds to her! It’s just pathetic.
She is comma-challenged as well as being able to write solely in cliches, as Robert Bork opined the other day.
This is a travesty. However, let’s let the Republicans sweat it out. It’s their ballgame 🙂
Was it bush or scotty who said she was ‘meticulous’?…well after reading that she forgot to pay her dues to the bar in D.C., then reading she was some sort of deadbeat property owner, I read this morning that she also forgot to pay her dues to the bar in Texas…yeah she’s meticulous alright-meticulous in apparently not being meticulous.
Really, could she be any more of a unqualified, incompetent, crony hack?
The Guardian has an interview with a Swedish economist who while acknowledging the success of the Nordic economies, still has a soft spot for American capitalism.
In response, readers had a few comments about America and its economic model:
I’m not sure I ever considered Americans “cool”, being an uncool American myself. But I do like the comment about cars and home appliances! One thing I have noticed in the past ten years is the precipitous fall in the quality of merchandise sold in this country. I am staggered by how bad things are made, and how the desire for ‘low prices” has seemingly trumped any concept of quality.
from Ms. Miers:
“In addition to my practice of law, my experience includes running and holding public office.”
Running? And this is relvant HOW?! The woman cannot write, but worse than that, she cannot find one competent proofreader!?
Fucking sad.
No wait, maybe it’s this one:
“I have also had the opportunity to serve in the White House in three separate positions.”
Wow! Three whole separate ones?? It just begs the question, which ones, doesn’t it??
If the rule of law is not that “a rule of man” then what the hell is it? Are we talking divine intervention here? And reading her is TORTURE!
Sounds like not only doesn’t she belong on SC but she doesn’t have any business being a lawyer..what’s that bush likes to babble about-‘soft bigotry of low expectations’ bullshit’-which kinda makes no sense itself but seems to fit here for some reason. Did she pass law school with a D+?
Where is she admitted to the bar? Does Texas have relatively low standards? In New York, for instance, I’m told that passing the bar is seriously difficult.
But, then, that’s a blue state. </snark>
My job requires me to write summaries of court cases. Please, please don’t make me have to try to tease out meaning from such tortured syntax!
Have you seen anything more about this article I just read via Raw Story: U.S. forces have started fighting Syrians at Iraq’s border. Can anybody say ‘Cambodia’?
I just did a diary about that before I popped in here.
Does “Counsel to the President” draw a salary?
If so, why does Harriet Miers’ financial disclosure list NO non-investment income??
What the hell is up with that?
Go to C-Span’s webpage and click the Part 3 link….and see page 2 of the PDF.
I think you have a diary in the making with all of your research into the Miers questionnaire. 🙂
Bri, you really SHOULD do a diary on it…. it’ll be entertaining as all get out.
And it is stunning that no one competently proofread her documents.
Well it was no doubt a faith-based proofreading-faith that according to bush-her religion means a lot to her-faith that god would sort it all out and quicker than you can say ‘bibbity bobbity boo’ god corrected all the mistakes. Apparently she forgot the ‘bibbity bobbity boo’ part.
Where does WaPo hide its link to their video coverage of Scotty’s follies? I can’t find it.
I can’t use the WH streaming because it completely slows down my system.
C-SPAN 3 has Judy Miller on testifying to the committee.
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What do they have in common?
I believe Bono has true concern for Africa.
Bush as true believer, beliefs only in himself and has no message for any of the others.
The US suggested 28 amendments to the convention, which were almost unanimously rejected by Unesco delegates.
It was feared that today’s vote could isolate the US, which rejoined Unesco in 2003 after a 19-year absence.
As another Global Heated Hurricane Wilma threatens the U.S. Coast of Florida.
PS In Bio-chemical terror, how many Americans die or become ill each year due to dumps, landfill, sewage, pollution or poor management of our environment?? [Answer >70,000!]
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Btw, posting this photo is part of my ongoing Bono penance.
And my daughter just sent me this:
Bono Suffers Eye Condition
U2 singer Bono is never photographed without his trademark sunglasses because he suffers from an eye condition. The star is aware his ever-present shades have given him a reputation as a poser, while the initial ‘B’ engraved on the side of them – which he claims stands for the brand, Bulgari – doesn’t help either. He tells the New York Daily News, “(I have) very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. A lot of people think that, when they see a ‘B’ on the side, that it’s just my own megalomania. Only half the time it is. I’m the (former Filipino first lady) Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.”
Hey, Susan –
Nice link to your Russert work at “Oh Russert, Where Are Thou?” at firedoglake.
Thank you! It’s really flattering … and I’m a huge fan of the movie she made … will watch it anytime it’s on.
Good news! The Guardian reports that its reporter Rory Carroll, kidnapped yesterday (day before?) in Baghdad, has been freed and is safe.
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(AFP) Oct. 18, 200 — Iranian police said they had defused a large bomb planted under a bridge in the restive southwestern city of Ahvaz just days after a double bomb attack there killed six people and injured more than 100.
The police information centre told state television that local residents tipped off police after spotting a suspicious package under a busy bridge in the city, the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province and dominated by ethnic minority Arabs.
The report said the package — wired up and containing eight anti-personnel mines, around a kilogram (two pounds) of TNT, one stun grenade and a large number of fuses — was successfully defused late on Monday.
Khuzestan’s deputy governor general in charge of security affairs, Gholam Reza Shariati, and other officials also told the student news agency ISNA that the bomb was clearly aimed at destroying Kianpars bridge, which links the east and west of Ahvaz city.
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This photo op reminds me of Richard Nixon with Elvis Preseley in Dec. 1970 Perhaps it’s an omen for Bush’s future.