White House Demands The Truth: What Bush Was Really Doing On August 30, 2005
White House Demands The Truth: What Bush Was Really Doing On August 30, 2005
The Bush administration has really nailed the New York Times on a story about the administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina. The paper claimed that Bush was on vacation on August 30, 2005. In fact, according to the White House, “the president was closely monitoring the situation and not ‘on vacation.’” Scott McClellan lays the smackdown:
[I]t is sad and irresponsible that The New York Times is rewriting history to fit an inaccurate storyline and conveniently ignoring key facts.
This is an outrage. The New York Times should immediately print a correction, along with a photo of what Bush was really doing on August 30, 2005:
As you can see, just as White House notes, the president “was focused on saving lives.”
UPDATE: For more, see our Katrina Timeline.
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he was busy ’saving votes,and gland handing repub. donor money’.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:29 amHeh.
“Lookie me, Pickles! I can play gee-tar!”
Nero fiddled; Bush strummed & picked.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:30 amIf I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: good music ruins lives.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:31 amMinority Report calling for removal of Chertoff.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:33 amwell it obvious folks, while it looks like bush was playing the gee-tar, he was actually looking at a monitor that was closely montoring the situation in New Orleans..just goes to show ya, he is quite the multi-tasking guy..
February 13th, 2006 at 10:34 amA person drowned while this picture was taken.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:34 amScooter Mac obviously does NOT know about that infamous picture. Everyone else who’s ever been on a blog, however, does. It’s so sad how out of touch this group is.
Oh, the money I would pay to have a WH reporter stand up, show Scooter that picture, and then reask the question of what GB was actually monitoring…
February 13th, 2006 at 10:34 amEverything they say is a lie.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:39 amThis picture sums up the whole bunch. Truly disgusting. In Texas the lilly white freaks can’t decide whom they hate more: The dead or the living in New Orleans for making their master look stupid.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:41 amWith Donk losers like Blanco and Nagin “on the ground” one might reasonably conclude that the President of the United States of America should personally take charge of everything in an emergency. We should further reason that in a Donk state the Federal Government (only if run by Republicans)should take over control. To hell with the State’s responsibility to do anything. If there’s a problem lay it at the feet of the Leader of the Free World.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:43 amScottie should remember that the president’s where abouts and activities were well covered and documented. Scottie would be wise not to rewrite history, nothing pisses off the press than an administration screwing with publicily known facts.
Some one needs to Scottie to stop making shit up to suit the president. Has Scottie no pride?
February 13th, 2006 at 10:44 amW was only singing instructional lyrics, jeesh!
February 13th, 2006 at 10:45 amThere is a pattern of neglect in NO not exclusive to Bush’s initial response, IRI.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:49 amThis clown thinks he’s a freaking celebrity!
February 13th, 2006 at 10:49 amSo #4, the question becomes what did he do for the rest of those 24 hours after the photo op was completed? It apparently didn’t have much to do with “work”. Of course, that pretty much describes the rest of this loser’s life as well.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:51 am#1: gland handing? sounds disgusting.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:54 amWal,
Do you really think that a co-ordinated press event only takes two minutes?
Given that Bush likes an early night (let’s be nice and say nine pm)
and that he probably spends at least fifteen minutes getting ready for bed then that would mean that three and a quarter hours of that twenty four hour period are gone already.
Assuming that he sleeps for 8 hours then he won’t have woken up unti five AM. and assuming it takes him half an hour to get up, bathe, shave and get dressed we’ve lost another 5.5 hours.
That twentyfour hour period is now only 15 1/4 hours. Give thirty minutes each way driving to and from the speech/event and one hour for the speech (on the subject of how the terrists must not be allowed to get the Iraqi oil wells) and fifteen minutes backstage with the photographer and we’re down to thirteen hours.
Presidential meals will take another couple of hours, so we’re down to 11 hours. Add an hour in the Gym and another half hour showering and changing and he only has nine and a half hours left.
Given the text of the spech (Katrina was briefly mentioned) he obviously wasn’t worrying too much about New Orleans during the remainder…
Z.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:55 amSo if he was on the job, what did he do exactly, besides “monitor”? You’d think they wouldn’t want to argue he was in charge right before the release of a report saying the federal government did a supremely negligent job.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:55 amScottie get a life…….
February 13th, 2006 at 10:57 amSo W didn’t know about the levee collapse until a day after the fact (according to his own account) and was closely following events (according to Scottie). Somehow that defies logic, but W claims that he does not watch TV news which could explain what Scottie said if they were using carrier pigeons for information transfer. And what about that infamous CDROM or DVD that W’s staff put together to pop his attention? Am I missing something here?
February 13th, 2006 at 11:00 amThis prez gets off being the “frat boy” life of the party. He is an inmature adult who is emotionally still playing the college party boy. He has no patience for dealing with real world adult problems. His choice of activities on 8/30/05 is what he prefers to do. “… closely monitoring the situation” of the greatest natural disaster to strike Americans tells us all we need to know about his priorities. It just didn’t give him enough staged public adoration to make it worth his full time attention. That’s the issue of this story.
February 13th, 2006 at 11:03 am“Katrina may rock the House of the Rising Sun (N.O.), but I am gonna rock this house!”
I feel bad for whoever that singer is… every time this picture is shown he’s in it, too… I guess nothing could interrupt Brownie’s dinner or the presidential guitar lesson…
February 13th, 2006 at 11:04 amhttp://www.bu.edu/globalbeat/index090505.html
“The day after Katerina, President Bush posed for a photo-op with Country Western singer Mark Wills in Coronado, California. By the end of the week, Bush had decided to cut short his 5-week summer vacation and return to Washington.”
mark wills, and others, were with al franken on the uso tour in december…
i read there was a “round of golf” that day also…
February 13th, 2006 at 11:16 amI would encourage everyone to write the New York Times and tell them how important their delivery of the truth is. Resist intimidation by the Bushista thugs and tell the truth about this inneffectual and criminal administration.
February 13th, 2006 at 11:17 amBTW i’m finding that there’s a really good collection of katrina stories at that site, f.y.i. :
February 13th, 2006 at 11:23 amhttp://www.bu.edu/globalbeat/index090505.html
If not saving lives, at least staying out of the way…….
February 13th, 2006 at 11:27 amSo we are to believe that Bush was closely monitoring the situation…and yet ignored numerous calls regarding the damns failing and after all the devastation Bush made the Presidential decision to do nothing for a number of days?
That kind of says more than simple incompetance. It says Bush is criminally negligent. If he was watching the situation so close and did nothing then that is much worse than someone simply not being in the know.
February 13th, 2006 at 11:29 amThe White House Press Corps long ago figured out that Scottie just makes stuff up, pretends it’s true, and fakes outrage if anybody from the reality-based community disagrees with it. At this point he has about as much credibility as Baghdad Bob.
February 13th, 2006 at 11:32 amIf I were Scottie, and thank heavens I’m not because I’d have to committ seppuku, I’d just leave it alone. That picture is deadly.
February 13th, 2006 at 11:53 amAnd by the bye, what does Scottie have to say about the House select committee that reported on Katrina:
February 13th, 2006 at 11:54 am“The 600-plus-page report [by a House select committee] lays primary fault with the passive reaction and misjudgments of top Bush aides…†the Washington Post reports. “Regarding Bush, the report found that ‘earlier presidential involvement could have speeded the response‘ because he alone could have cut through all bureaucratic resistance.â€
This guy lives in a glass house.
Bush was goofing off that day like usual!
He was not concerned about people drowning in New Orleans!
February 13th, 2006 at 11:58 amMinority Report calling for removal of Chertoff.
February 13th, 2006 at 12:11 pmBush’s new defense: “At least I didn’t shoot nobody with that there gi-tar.”
February 13th, 2006 at 12:13 pm“There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans, and this great city will rise again.”
I live in New Orleans. Believe me when I say that nothing has changed in New Orleans since Bush’s B.S. speech on Sept 15. Sixty to eighty percent of the city is still in ruins. Our pre-Katrina population was 464,000 and now it’s 164,000. Small businesses are finding it difficult to impossible to continue (I own a small business). Our unemployment rate is at 17%. Our infrastructure — street lights, electricity, sewerage, trash pickup, gas, etc. has barely improved. Nothing is being done. So, Bush, let’s not rewrite history. Make good on your promise to make our “great city rise again”. Douche.
February 13th, 2006 at 12:25 pmMinority Report calling for removal of Chertoff.
Comment by Harman, Rockefeller=DINO #4
Harman,
Hell, they shouldn’t forget his boss!
Remember Bushiva has been responsible for some pretty fouled up personnel moves:
Cheney as VP
Rumsfeld at defense
Bolton at the UN
Condi as NSA
Hadley at NSA
Brownie at FEMA
Tenet at CIA (he kept him on too long)
Chertoff at Homeland inSecurity
Bremer (the thief of Baghdad…$9 billion missing on his watch alone!)
Where the hell does the buck stop?
BTW, if there are ANY Bushites left after last night’s “60 Minutes” report on the billions missing and fraud in Iraq…
…they should be executed!
February 13th, 2006 at 12:37 pm#34 – Thanks, Vaughn. We need to hear more from people actually in New Orleans.
February 13th, 2006 at 12:37 pmDon’t forget he was busy celebrating John McCain’s BDay too.
February 13th, 2006 at 12:41 pm#10
Exactly! Finally we agree. Just like in Florida when they had their hurricane! The Feds swoop in and save Bushes ass in the upcoming elections. I mean save people devistated by the hurricane.
February 13th, 2006 at 12:50 pmLest we forget, Scootie is complaining about a news report about a committee consisting of 11 Republicans and no Democrats. See:
February 13th, 2006 at 12:52 pmhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0602130174feb13,1,6120068.story?track=rss
Looks like the GOP is going to have to apologize to the Bush administration.
Bull Sh** Bush didn’t show up for over 4 day’s. All of us remember and this could be prooved by our posts and CNN coverage if it’s still available..Wonder what Federal judge ship Bush is going to reward Chertoff with.. That’s next….Gotto go write some more scathing emails to the slow leakers we all call representatives…..Blessings
February 13th, 2006 at 1:02 pmThe Bush Administration accused the New York Times of trying to rewrite history? Bush is the King of projection.
February 13th, 2006 at 1:09 pmSad and irresponsible are words that describe the Bush Administration perfectly. He has been an irresponsible misleader of the country from day one. Very sad.
#40 Chertoff was a federal judge on the same circuit as Sammy Alito, a cabinet office is much higher but there’s always the supreme court. Remember in this admin failure is guaranteed a promotion as long as you don’t dump on bush
February 13th, 2006 at 1:24 pmThat’s not even a real guitar chord! His guitar teacher obviously helped him craft his foreign policy.
February 13th, 2006 at 1:26 pm#43 That’s OK that’s not really a president he fronts for Dick Cheney while good ole dick is out shooting hunting partners er I mean quail
February 13th, 2006 at 1:43 pm#43. He’s just one fret off of a “G” chord. G for George. Hee-Haw. Seems like George is always one off something.
February 13th, 2006 at 1:55 pmHere in California I watched George Bush doing a fund raiser out here while he played a guitar with Mark Willis looking on smiling. Next came the victims of the flood begging for help. Back east Connie Rice was shown shopping for shoes as she looked up at the screen showing same victims begging for help. The story has changed several times as to where Bush was but the press was to busy getting his photo to realize that it would backfire. Now Scotty can say Bush has a clone and that might work as a reason but as with the Abramoff photo’s a picture tells a thousand stories. Boy does Chris Matthews, Katie Couric and Tim Russert have their work cut out to spin/blame/lie about this story.
February 13th, 2006 at 1:57 pm“#43. He’s just one fret off of a “G†chord. G for George. Hee-Haw. Seems like George is always one off something.”
Yup. Looks like he’s trying to be a “G#,” but he left half the strings flat. Sort of symptomatic of his madministration, isn’t it?
I suspect he doesn’t even know any chords, and just put his fingers onto a “chord-like” position to look good. He figures it doesn’t matter; they’ll fix it in the mix.
Ed
February 13th, 2006 at 2:03 pmIf you look closely people you’ll notice that it is an F chord. F as in Fuck You. He must have known you’d be looking.
February 13th, 2006 at 2:22 pmthanks iri for you helpful post. without people like you we may never know that W hates America.
February 13th, 2006 at 2:26 pmthat’s a real crappy G chord. moron. supposed to be done on the 2nd and 3rd frets.
February 13th, 2006 at 2:59 pm#10- Yo, SIMPLE SIMON!!! Your President says that it is his job to keep the American people safe. He feels that this “duty” outweighs any and all objections to how he goes about it. Okay then, he doesen’t get to pick and choose the times to do it. It’s ALL or NOTHING!!!
February 13th, 2006 at 3:17 pmHe is giving the American people the FINGER.
When he came out in Peru with his underwear sticking out of his zipper, the coked-up fool thought he was being clever. So with this photo.
So with the photo of him sitting in Stalin’s place in the famous photograph.
So with the photos of him with the Presidential Seal around his head like a halo.
So with the photos of him GIVING THE FINGER TO THE CAMERA.
And so on. This isn’t highbrow — it’s shocking negligence and SCORN for Americans. He hates poor people, fuck them.
Now watch this G# chord.
Oh, and did I show any of your amputee soldiers my ‘war wound’ from the cedar chip? A-ha-ha-ha. No WMD under my pillows — how about yours?
February 13th, 2006 at 3:41 pmThe person who holds the office of President of the United States regardless of party can never take a vacation. Only a change of scenery can be offered to the person who is followed by the nuclear football. For an average American, a vacation is to completely forget about one’s job, and those who are politically inclined to believe that the holder of the nuclear football has done that are only insulting themselves. Those of us who have to be available 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year have an understanding of the responsibility of the presidency in the most infinitesimal measurements. He deserves an apology, as does every president to hold the office from FDR forward involving vacations.
February 13th, 2006 at 4:06 pmMichael our President Bush really never actually works > he is on vacation most of the time! He does a lot of fundraising events, but that is his choice and not part of being president! As for the nuclear football > there is NO “Cold War” with the Soviet Union any longer, so no need to sweat pushing the red button if the Commies attack! He is on call to be woken up if an emergency, but unlike a doctor who might rush off to do emergency surgery, he usually can go back to sleep!
February 13th, 2006 at 4:16 pmJay, you are funny! Unless you are serious, then you are scary. I do not like the president but I am not going to say that while on vacation he is able to manage a country, a war, and be reelected even if he did poorly. That is a little too impressive and I do not think that was your intent. In addition, I would not be so cavalier involving nuclear weapons. Its simple physics, expensive but simple physics, and we and the Russians are not the only ones to have it. Anyways, back to the point whoever holds that office never is out of the loop on vacation. That is why they age 20 years within one term. They deserve apologies, all of them.
February 13th, 2006 at 4:44 pmI want to be perfectly clear that I am not defending Bush! I am defending the office of President of the United States! Unfortunately, Bush happens to be in that office.
February 13th, 2006 at 5:07 pmW has been in office for over 5 years and has yet to enter the loop.
February 13th, 2006 at 5:20 pm[...] Think Progress » White House Demands The Truth: What Bush Was Really Doing On August 30, 2005 Who you gonna believe, Scottie or your own eyes? The paper claimed that Bush was on vacation on August 30, 2005. In fact, according to the White House, “the president was closely monitoring the situation and not ‘on vacation.’†Scott McClellan lays the smackdown: [...]
February 13th, 2006 at 5:37 pmMichael, sorry, I don’t agree. I believe in our constitution and my duty as a ciizen of our country says when our government officials commiet crimes of war, treason , wiretapping and crimes against a foreign country and abandement of our own people we must do all we can to replace them with good people. Respect for an office is hollow. People earn my respect or not. Bush and company is definately a not…….Blessings from a lead person. If you aren’t the lead horse your view never changes..Following get’s a person killed.
February 13th, 2006 at 5:52 pmMichael, sorry, I don’t agree. I believe in our constitution and my duty as a ciizen of our country says when our government officials commiet crimes of war, treason , wiretapping and crimes against a foreign country and abandement of our own people we must do all we can to replace them with good people. Respect for an office is hollow.
Comment by Sharon Cox
You have a duty to be better informed but of course there is no solution for the intentionally self deluded. Certainly your respect for the office is hollow. Do us a favor and don’t vote.
February 13th, 2006 at 5:57 pmI’m sure that Sharon is on the “don’t vote” list allready.
February 13th, 2006 at 6:04 pmWrong, I will vote just to cancel out your’s…Lol
February 13th, 2006 at 6:33 pmWe have plenty of respect for the office dumbass, just not the person who currently occupies that office.
February 13th, 2006 at 6:34 pmDo us a favor and don’t vote.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I #60
IRI,
You should be castrated if you attempt to cast a vote…
…oh sh*t, that’s right…
…you have to have a pair…
…and the ones on your chin don’t count…
…maybe Bushiva will let you borrow his, since you always seem to have them anyway…
February 13th, 2006 at 8:00 pmMichael > I do NOT believe that Bush deserves any apology from anyone! Nobody twisted his arm to become president! He wanted the position, as well as the power, and has done a poor job in office! Respect is something earned! Bush should apologize to the entire nation for invading Iraq using lies as a cover to seize oil fields!
Since you believe that the office of the presidency is an honorable vocation, then by all means seek the office, because America needs someone who believes in noble service like yourself! I wish you well if you decide to seek it!
February 13th, 2006 at 8:55 pmWho’s rewriting history? I’d say this administration is trying real hard, but their efforts will ultimately fail.
What I want to know is who in our government is going to hold this administration accountable for all the wrongs they’ve committed on our people, our country, and the citizens of Iraq? Who?
February 13th, 2006 at 9:22 pmBush was workin’ on his $1.6 Billion public relations tour.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:21 pmAnyone else notice he’s slyly giving us the finger?
February 14th, 2006 at 1:02 amHere’s what Bush was doing the day Katrina came ashore:
10 am MST (1700 UTC) President Bush appears at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in El Mirage, Arizona for a Medicare event as the hurricane makes second landfall. [32] He adds, “I want to thank the governors of the affected regions for mobilizing assets prior to the arrival of the storm to help citizens avoid this devastating storm.” [33]
Here’s what Bush did the following day:
Tuesday, August 30;
President Bush spends the day at the North Island Naval Base in San Diego making a speech to commemorate the September 2 anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender [45]
Here’s what Bush did on Wednesday, August 31st:
President Bush heads back to Washington from vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Though he does not stop in Louisiana, Air Force One flies low over the Gulf Coast so that he can view the devastation. [55]
President Bush declares Gulf Coast a Public Health Emergency. [56]
Thursday, September 1
President Bush tells ABC’s Diane Sawyer: “I fully understand people wanting things to have happened yesterday” (ABC)
(Links can be found here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Hurricane_Katrina
Later that night:
Sept. 19, 2005 issue – It’s a standing joke among the president’s top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, or, as he is known in West Wing jargon, POTUS. The bad news on this early morning, Tuesday, Aug. 30, some 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina had ripped through New Orleans, was that the president would have to cut short his five-week vacation by a couple of days and return to Washington. The president’s chief of staff, Andrew Card; his deputy chief of staff, Joe Hagin; his counselor, Dan Bartlett, and his spokesman, Scott McClellan, held a conference call to discuss the question of the president’s early return and the delicate task of telling him. Hagin, it was decided, as senior aide on the ground, would do the deed.
The reality, say several aides who did not wish to be quoted because it might displease the president, did not really sink in until Thursday night. Some White House staffers were watching the evening news and thought the president needed to see the horrific reports coming out of New Orleans. Counselor Bartlett made up a DVD of the newscasts so Bush could see them in their entirety as he flew down to the Gulf Coast the next morning on Air Force One.
How this could be—how the president of the United States could have even less “situational awareness,” as they say in the military, than the average American about the worst natural disaster in a century—is one of the more perplexing and troubling chapters in a story that, despite moments of heroism and acts of great generosity, ranks as a national disgrace.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/site/newsweek/
February 14th, 2006 at 1:15 amSharon,
February 14th, 2006 at 1:39 amRead carefully, on February 13, 2006 @ 6:04 pm: I said “don’t vote†list, not “didn’t vote” list. There is a nuance there. I was referring to the “don’t fly” list with a twist towards the disenfranchisements in the 2000 and 2004 “elections”.
Give an old fart some room.
My dearest WORFEUS WORMWOOD.
I am pleased you have finally decided to join us down here where the real work is being done.
While you are of course, far too green to be considered a valuable asset to our cause, your development will nonetheless reveal your true talents, and we will of course, exploit them.
I am troubled however with regards to this matter of the homeless being evicted only now from their spoon-fed homes of luxury.
These hotel rooms in which these cretins and refuse are occupying have a vastly greater importance to our cause than merely housing these filthy indigent wretches.
Many important and powerful humans are scheduled to indulge in divinly hedonistic rituals and succulent delights in these hallowed halls of indulgence, and your tardiness in facilitating the delousing of these sacred hostels will not bode well for you in your upcoming report to our benevolent and kindly benefactor.
I trust this letter will serve as a motivating influence upon your future undertakings, and will steer you back onto the path which we have so carefully laid out for you in our tender and philanthropically intended orientation.
Do not despair. Your capabilities will increase with repetition, and remember, we are always listening to offer assistance whenever needed.
Your loving Uncle always, ScrewTape
February 14th, 2006 at 1:46 amEchoes of Nero, folks. Bush pickin’, while New Orleans drowns. How did Nero’s story end again?
February 14th, 2006 at 2:39 amGood Morning Walt. Sorry I should of made my point by name. It wasn’t directed at you, it was for (R) wrong. My iMac and I are a lot slow in getting posts done. Often by the time I get the post response done several have posted in front of me. Oh Well! I knew what you ment by the way and figure I have been on the no fly list since I started my campaign to get these bums out of office. LOL. I don’t like to fly any way except on my broom…..Blessings
February 14th, 2006 at 9:46 amnote to sharon – i’ve heard you say it many times: your old, slow iMac…being an avid Mac fan myself, i feel i must stand up for the poor thing – the problem is most surely your internet connection and not the computer…dial-up, while being economical is agrivatingly s l o w … but it gets there non the less… with my 2 kids in school, now college, they would gripe about how slow my computer was (ethernet at college = zoom!) so i signed up for a 3 month trial period with my cable co. (i know – boooo), and well, i just can’t go back…
February 14th, 2006 at 10:34 amdon’t blame your mac…check out sofware upgrades too…most are free
bless you!
Just let McClellan have this one: Bush was on the job, fully informed, in command, and (from the picture) multitasking like a multitalented fool. And he is fully responsible for everything.
February 14th, 2006 at 11:36 ambrownie made a point the other day that was actually a good one — if Katrina had been a terrorist attack how would Bushie have responded? another question – if it has been direct hit to Bushie’s corner of the world — the Planet Houston — how would Dumbya have responded? six months on would Houston still be 60- 80% in ruins as is new orleans?
the bushie response is intentional negligence designed to undermmine the notion of federal government. It was also mean-spirited, spiteful, and racist – pure & simple, from day one. it wasn’t do your best for your fellow americans – it was, say we’re doing our best and then just wing it — just like the war in iraq, just like no child left behind, just like catching osama, etc, etc, etc. say one thing do another. this is the say one thing do another administration!
this country is, for all practical purposes, operating without a leader, with a cabal of wealthy elitest liars, thieves, & crooks who do photo-ops and pundit shows — and probably if the truth were known, are also perverts.
February 14th, 2006 at 1:18 pmThank You Katy, I make excuses for the iMac and I, truth is I love it, a great gift from a friend. I am self taught on the puter and just as slow. Took it in and had more memory put on last year and had it fixed, broke or had a mini stroke a month after I got it. Friend’s told me I was crazy to spend $400 on a old mac when I could of had another new pc for the price. Thing is I find it to be bomb proof, pretty much. Doesn’t matter how I screw up it keeps going. Need to spend some time with my ” Mac for dummies book”, but been to busy with major issues to do that. High speed is not in my budget right now, when I get fast enough maybe I will be able to afford it. Ha Ha!…..Blessings
February 14th, 2006 at 2:27 pmsharon – you can’t go wrong with a mac…i’m self taught also…never had another kind…not even sure what “right click” means :-)
if you have to get another, just spend a little more and get the best, a mac…
not sure about these new pentium chips inside, but many are happy about it…i won’t know for years, as my latest iMac is just 2yrs old…
i used to ask my kids for help all the time – they’d say “just play with it…try it…see what happens…” i’m very fond of that “undo” command! it’s great!
on to the newer threads – it’s been fun!
February 14th, 2006 at 5:06 pmto correct my mistake: it’s intel chip inside, not pentium…
February 14th, 2006 at 10:29 pmi really don’t know what the difference is…oh well…
[...] The fact that the administration is refusing to cooperate fully with the inquiry into the Hurricane Katrina response, tells us everything we need to know about this administration and the fact that the Bush apologists continue to provide him cover, tells us everything we need to know about their character and ethics. They desperately tried to blame local officials (who certainly carried some of the blame) and stood by and supported the administration as they lied about when and how they learned about the catastrophic damage that was taking place in NOLA. [...]
February 19th, 2006 at 9:16 amCan’t even play a ‘G’ chord right….incompetent to the finish!
February 20th, 2006 at 12:31 am[...] It’s just one example, of course, and there are some people who still say that he’s doing the best he can and he’s a good Christian man so we should stand behind him because he’s our president that was elected by the majority of people, but this is a guy who on the above video heard dire warnings from a whole room of people (including the much-maligned Mike Brown) and then seemingly ignored them and went on literally three days of campaign stops (including this gem). [...]
March 1st, 2006 at 11:58 pmhe is an idiot he cares nothing for our country
April 19th, 2006 at 4:32 pm[...] the location of the President, but was was still on vacation and not leading. But on 8/30/05 he was really doing [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 9:49 pm[...] the location of the President, but was was still on vacation and not leading. But on 8/30/05 he was really doing [...]
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