At 08:54 PM 9/15/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 9/14/01 1:11:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>writes:
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Ronn Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> > Some of us cannot even locate our own backsides with a map . . .
>> >
>> > ;-)
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>>Please please please please do not post the map of your backside.
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>
>The return of poor taste humor. There is hope for all of us yet.
>
>My two cents - Rudy G who I dislike was magnificent. George W who I
>dislike was not. I particularly like the justification for him not using
>Air Force One to return to the White House because it was targeted. Well
>how about Air Force 3 or Air Force 56432. He is the president, he could
>have any plane he wanted. A man of true leadership would have returned
>immediately. He would have ordered his security people to get him back to
>Washington safely.
Did you listen to VP Cheney's interview this morning on _Meet the
Press_? Because Pres. Bush was out of town, as soon as word of the
hijackings reached the White House, the Secret Service whisked* the VP to
the bunker under the WH, from where he called AF1 and told the Pres. that
he should not return to Washington but go to a secure location, in
accordance with the plans that had been made for a situation in which
Washington was targeted for attack. That is also why VP Cheney has spent
much of the past week at Camp David: so no single attack could get both
the Pres. and VP.
*If you had not heard it before, VP Cheney explained that when a threat
situation exists, the SS does not _take_ orders from the Pres. or VP, but
_gives_ them. He said that the agents grabbed him on each side and his
feet "occasionally" touched the floor as they moved him downstairs to the
bunker.
Incidentally, the poor taste humor never left: I for one have just been
keeping it a little more low-key, as some people (elsewhere) have expressed
their feeling that such was not appropriate at this time. Also, there have
been a lot of times during the past few days that I did not feel much like
humor.
-- Ronn! :)
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Stand beside her, and guide her
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From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam�
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