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| Former President Bush Gets Extended Standing Ovation at Basketball Game |
| 2009-01-30 |
| A big women's basketball game between No. 2 Oklahoma and No. 4 Baylor just gained added prestige. Former President George W. Bush and wife Laura attended Wednesday's game. The two entered several minutes before the opening tip, flanking Lady Bears coach Kim Mulkey, and received a prolonged standing ovation from the fans at the Ferrell Center. The group was engulfed by photographers and camera crews at the Oklahoma bench. Another round of applause followed during the initial TV timeout at 15:57 of the first half, when the 43rd president was introduced again. |
| Posted by:Gromort Croluling3112 |
| #16 My pleasure, JFM dear. Separately and off-topic, an interesting if long essay at the Wall Street Journal written by John Updike for Commentary Magazine in 1989: On Not Being A Dove will resonate with those who remember Viet Nam and the nonsense that took place back home, and also those of us who have taken the warmonger side despite being out of step with the oh-so-superior anti-Bushies. Mr. Updike wrote, about the anti-Viet Nam war protests The protest, from my perspective, was in large part a snobbish dismissal of Johnson by the Eastern establishment; Cambridge professors and Manhattan lawyers and their guitar-strumming children thought they could run the country and the world better than this lugubrious bohunk from Texas. These privileged members of a privileged nation believed that their pleasant position could be maintained without anything visibly ugly happening in the world. They were full of aesthetic disdain for their own defenders, the business-suited hirelings drearily pondering geopolitics and its bloody necessities down in Washington. The protesters were spitting on the cops who were trying to keep their property—the USA and its many amenities—intact. A common report in this riotous era was of slum-dwellers throwing rocks and bottles at the firemen come to put out fires; the peace marchers, the upper-middle-class housewives pushing baby carriages along in candlelit processions, seemed to me to be behaving identically, without the excuse of being slum-dwellers. As I said, a long piece, but I found it well worth my time to read twice. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-01-30 19:17 |
| #15 Don't forget bird flu. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-01-30 19:12 |
| #14 TW, thank you for carrying my message. |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-01-30 18:15 |
| #13 *sits back down very quietly, hoping she is invisible, because what she was going to say wasn't nearly that important* |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-01-30 15:52 |
| #12 He didn't start an apology campaign like his successor is doing, you anonymous-posting-moronic-multi-nymed- dispschidt. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-01-30 15:12 |
| #11 George Bush: "islam is peace." |
| Posted by: Slaise de Medici2837 2009-01-30 14:32 |
| #10 He's Lemba g(r)om. Lemba The Lemba or Lembaa are an ethnic group numbering 70,000 in southern Africa. Although they speak Bantu languages similar to their neighbors, they have specific religious practices and beliefs similar to those in Judaism, which have been remembered and transmitted orally through the generations. Lembá District Lembá is a district of São Tomé Province. Out of the seven districts that make up the equatorial Atlantic island group of São Tomé and PrÃncipe, its population is relatively small at approximately 9,800, but it is second largest in terms of area covering approximately 229 square kilometers. The district capital is Neves. Lemba [Haitian] A deity, of Congo religion, worshipped in the African cults of Haiti and Brazil Ha? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-30 14:20 |
| #9 I remind rantburgers about the mission1accomplished.com initiative thanking President Bush. |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-01-30 14:03 |
| #8 But the left will say, "So what do you expect from people in Waco, Texas. There all a bunch of David Koresh's there anyway". |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-01-30 12:49 |
| #7 The bottom line is that with each passing month, or even week, increasingly larger numbers of people are going to become severely nostalgic for everything to do with W. Bush. America is soon to learn what it means to live within your budget, at all levels. There is going to be a sharp end to Chinese imported goods (I suggest you stock up now); credit will be only for those who don't need it, with 100% collateral. Many retail chains and stores will be going under and taking popular products and services with them. Gasoline is going to get more expensive. A lot of the US military will have to come home, leaving our allies to their own devices. There are going to be a lot more unemployed, homeless, hungry people, as well as individual and organized crime. The list goes on and on. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-01-30 11:31 |
| #6 We'll even throw in California with the deal. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-01-30 09:17 |
| #5 He's Lemba g(r)om. Take him NOW! Whahhaa. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-01-30 08:44 |
| #4 No, no, no---he's yours. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-30 08:30 |
| #3 He's certainly yours for the asking g(r)om. He's yours for the asking. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-01-30 08:06 |
| #2 Obamba is the best thing ever happened to George II. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-30 05:54 |
| #1 One small slice of the country regains a tiny bit of dignity and sanity. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2009-01-30 02:35 |