the master of low expectations 2004

Jan 16, 2004 14:58

last night - it was coooooooooold, face-breaking-to-pieces cold - Ioana and I hung out with the heater cranked up to hesus and at some point we went in search of some bushisms.

I'm the master of low expectations." - George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

"This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed." - George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov. 6, 2003

The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2003

See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." - George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace." - George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 25, 2003

Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous." - George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 16, 2003

"It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America." - George W. Bush, Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003

Now, we talked to Joan Hanover. She and her husband, George, were visiting with us. They are near retirement - retiring - in the process of retiring, meaning they're very smart, active, capable people who are retirement age and are retiring." - George W. Bush, Alexandria, Va., Feb. 12, 2003

for some odd reason I went back to my November "novel" yesterday and wrote about 8 pages from the new perspective. I was actually very pleased with them.

random thought that's been on my mind since the new snow: what can I say, sparkly night time snowfalls make me delirious with joy. If I were to freeze to death in a spectacular snowstorm I might actually die happy, pfft. Or maybe I it's just that grandious displays of aesthtics give me mental orgasms ;)

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