I enjoyed Johnathan Last's musings on the Star Wars universe immensely, it does rather occur to me - as a Briton - that this is something of a post 9/11 viewpoint. Here's why, before 9/11 the USA could look back with pride on both their acheivements in WWII and (to a lesser degree) in the American War of Independence. In both cases the US painted herself (accurately or not) as the freedom loving opponent of the tyranny of empire. The British in the former war and the German & Japanese in the latter. Skipping over the nightmare of Vietnam (although this might perhaps have given a clue to the inevitability of a 9/11-like eventuality) the Gulf War could also have been looked at in similar terms, though it's a much tougher fit when both oil and the incredibly undemocratic Saudi and Kuwaiti regimes enter the picture.
But where is the USA now? Undoubtedly the Empire itself. Imagine the city of New York as the Death Star itself, and those precisely planted Boeings as X-Wing fighters. The Force may not have been intended as a martyrs creed, but Obi-Wan Kenobi was a suicide bomber without ANY doubt. And what an economic weapon NYC is, certainly able to destroy a country's economy at will - Argentina provides our best recent example.
Pretty horrible, isn't it? George Bush as the Emperor himself? Colin Powell as Darth Vader? Rumsfeld as Grand Moff Tarkin? Surely not?
I look at the US-backed oppression in the Middle East, the oil producing potential of Afghanistan and the recent (US backed??) events in Venezuela and I have to wonder.
mad dogs and Englishmen indeed, makes perfect sense when you consider that America was built by those same Englishmen. In England we savour every last drop of sunshine we get, as our climate does not allow us to know what tomorrow (or the afternoon, if you're a Scot) will bring.
BUT notice that Pringles potato crisps are called "crisps" worldwide.
ironic then, that they are both American and not actually made from deep fried slices of potato. The fact that Quayle merely followed the plan does not excuse him. Jesus, you'll be telling me how smart Dubya is next...
BUSH QUOTES FROM HIS TONGUE TO YOUR BRAIN
"And so, in my State of the -- my State of the Union -- or state -- my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation
-- I asked Americans to give 4,000 years -- 4,000 hours over the next -- the rest of your life -- of service to America." --Bush at Connecticut
Fundraiser, April 9
"Look, my job isn't to try to nuance, my job is to tell people what I think!" --April 2002 Texas Meeting With Tony Blair.
Dear Jerry, I was watching MSNBC last week, when I had the surreal experience of hearing President Bush, interviewed in Crawford, Texas by a British
journalist, say something to the effect that Clinton's failed peace effort led to the "INFITADA." [Not the "intifada."] I felt a wave of embarrassment for our
country wash over me. For a moment, I wondered if I had heard correctly, but then I was subjected to another un-edifying moment when anchor Lester
Holt asked a guest, "did Clinton's peace effort, in fact, cause the Infitada?" At least they didn't say "Infritata" or use the word "bodacious" in front of it...
Gary Markowitz
"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that
chamber."--Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002
"I understand that the unrest in the Middle East creates unrest throughout the region."---George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
"Here's a vignette we're dying to see on the ABC broadcast of Sunday's Ford's Theatre Presidential Gala: When Stevie Wonder sat
down at the keyboard center stage, President Bush in the front row got very excited. He smiled and started waving at Wonder,
who understandably did not respond. After a moment Bush realized his mistake and slowly dropped the errant hand back to his
lap. "I know I shouldn't have," a witness told us yesterday, 'but I started laughing.'" --Lloyd Grove, Washington Post, 03.06.02.
"But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." --G. W. Bush, White House Press Release, 12.21.01
Bush said..."In all those tasks, it is worth recalling the words from a beautiful Christmas hymn -- in the third verse of "Oh Holy
Night" we sing, "His law is love, and His gospel is peace. Change ye shall break, for the slave is our brother. And in His name all
oppression shall cease." --White House Press Release, 12/6/01
"Truly He taught us to love one another
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
CHAINS SHALL HE BREAK for the slave is our brother
And in His name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
Let all within us praise His holy name."
--"Oh Holy Night," Words by Chappeau de Roquemaure. Translated by John S. Dwight
"Bush promised during the presidential campaign to avoid tapping Social Security except in cases of war, recession or a national emergency. 'Lucky me. I
hit the trifecta,' Bush told Daniels shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the budget director." --Miami Herald, 11.29.01
' I regularly check the Bushisms section of your site to see what new verbal blunder the Resident has made. The latest one is:
"Still nettled by the criticism [about his failure to immediately return to the White House from Florida on Sept. 11, Bush recently]
insisted: 'I wanted to go back to Washington. There is strong advice that I did not, primarily from the VicePresident.'" --TIMES,
11/26/01
Yesterday I bought a copy of the December 3, 2001 International issue of Newsweek; it has Tony Blair on the cover. I'm reading
on article about Bush and his actions and reactions in the first hours after the attacks. On page 22 there is this quote: "I want to
go back to Washington. There is strong advice that I not, primarily from the vice president."
A small difference perhaps, "wanted" has been changed to "want" and "did" is omitted. Nevertheless, the difference is significant
enough to change a nonsensical statement, with discrepancies in tense, to a relatively coherent statement.
I hate the way the press protects his stupidity. --Bushwatcher, 12/03/01
"Still nettled by the criticism [about his failure to immediately return to the White House from Florida on Sept. 11, Bush recently]
insisted: 'I wanted to go back to Washington. There is strong advice that I did not, primarily from the VicePresident.'" --TIMES,
11/26/01
"Mr. Bush said yesterday that the war on terrorism had 'transformationed' the U.S.-Russia relationship." --New York Times, 11/14/01
15 year-old Welsh singing sensation Charlotte "Church recently met George W. Bush but says she prefers Clinton. "[Bush] said,
'So what state is Wales in?' I said, 'Erm, it's a separate country next to England, and he went, 'Oh, OK.' I didn't know what to
say." --Jeannette Wells, 10/30/01.
REPORTER: "You talk about the general threat toward Americans....And people ask us, what is it they're supposed to be on the lookout for?...What are
Americans supposed to look for and report to the police or to the FBI?"
BUSH: "You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report it...."Press Conference,
10/11/01
from the Washington Post, Oct 3: "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly
out of Ronald Reagan Airport." --Washington Post, Oct. 3, 2001
"They misunderestimated the fact that we love a neighbor in need. They misunderestimated the compassion of our country. I think they
misunderestimated the will and determination of the Commander-in-Chief, too" --Bush, 9/26/01, according to two readers' reports.
"But even in the tension of war preparation, Bush gave a clear sign that things were returning to normal, as he employed his favorite malapropism,
"misunderestimate," three times in as many sentences."The folks who conducted to act on our country on September 11th made a big mistake," he said.
"They underestimated America. They underestimated our resolve, our determination, our love for freedom. They misunderestimated the fact that we love a
neighbor in need. They misunderestimated the compassion of our country. I think they misunderestimated the will and determination of the commander
in chief, too."" --Washington Post, 0/27/01 [but see Censored.]
"To the book of "Bushisms," add a footnote on Fleischerisms. Announcing President Bush's schedule on Thursday, White House
press secretary Ari Fleischer said the president was meeting with religious leaders "to talk about the importance of tolerism, er,
tolerance." Later in his morning briefing, Fleischer repeated the nonword, "tolerism." Reporters more accustomed to hearing such
malaprops from the president himself could barely stifle their laughter. Fleischer jokingly begged: 'Don't think what you all are
thinking! That was MY word. Stop it!'" --Washington Post, 9/20/01
"Sometimes we agree. Sometimes we don't. But I tell you we'll always answer his phone." --Speaking to a Labor Day crowd in
Kaukauna, Wis., about Carpenters' Union President Doug McCarron, 9/3/01. AP
"Bush, who has tweaked the press about his choice of Crawford -- a sunbaked crossroads where summer temperatures hover around the century mark --
suspecting them of a preference for 'sucking in the salt air' on the East Coast, displayed similar disdain for those who would vacation on the West
Coast. 'Brie and cheese,' he sniffed after learning one reporter had just returned from California." --Reuters, 8/23/01
"An expert in Texas trees, described by Bush as 'an arbolist,' is coming soon to identify all the varieties at the ranch. 'Look up the
word,' he said. 'I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.'" --Judy Keen,
8/21/01
"Bush at night hatches quizzical new phrases. In Denver and Albuquerque, he talked about the "so- called surplus," making it sound as if he
doubted the existence of the very money he deemed so bountiful that a tax cut was necessary. And Bush at night latches onto adjectives and doesn't let
go. Eight times in about one minute, he called Senator Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, for whom he was raising money at the Albuquerque
event, "passionate," and Mr. Domenici's passions knew no bounds. "Pete is passionate about the budget," the president said. He then erased more than
two months of Congressional history, traveling back to a time before Democrats took control of the Senate, and put Mr. Domenici in charge of the Senate
budget committee once again. "I can assure you, Mr. Chairman," Mr. Bush said to him, hurriedly adding: "Or I wish would be Mr. Chairman -- should be
Mr. Chairman, and will be Mr. Chairman after next 2002." Not to be confused with last 2002." --Frank Bruni, 8/19/01
"Well, sometimes we see the will on the other side, and sometimes that cycle overcomes the will. There's a lot of people in the
Middle East who are desirous to get into the Mitchell process, but first things first. These terrorist acts and the responses have
got to end in order for us to get the framework -- the groundwork, not framework -- the groundwork to discuss a framework, to lay
the -- all right." --Bush Rmks To Travel Pool, 8/13/01
"We will never get to Mitchell until the leadership works to reduce and stop violence. These terrorists acts, which are despicable, will prevent us from ever
getting into the Mitchell process. My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the -- in the Middle East to do everything
they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen. And so long as terrorist activities
continue, it will be impossible to get into Mitchell or any other discussion about peace under the threat of terrorism." --to reporters, 8/13/01
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right," he said, to
the confusion of some of the listening journalists during an informal meeting near the steps of Rome in Italy where orators used
to speak. --Reuters, 7/23/01
"After the [Ellis Island citizenship] ceremony, Bush led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance, mistakenly urging them to hold up their right hands rather
than place them on their hearts, as is customary. 'Right hand up, please,' Bush said, prompting most of the group to follow suit, before catching his
mistake. 'Actually right hand on your heart.'" --Reuters, 7/11/01
"Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for
starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I--it's--I'm a proud man to
be the nation based upon such wonderful values."--Visiting the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001
"I'm sure you can imagine it's an unimaginable honor to live here." --June 18, 2001 in a White House address to agriculture leaders. (thanks, Sari)
"When George W. Bush announced from Sweden on June 14 that he planned to pull the US Navy out of the Puerto Rican island of
Vieques by 2003, it struck some as odd when he referred to the people of Vieques, all US citizens, as "our friends and neighbors" who "don't want us
there." It was as though he was saying Puerto Rico is a foreign country." --Falcon
"We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease."--After meeting with the leaders of the
European Union, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001
"President Bush reports that European leaders are warming up to his missile defense plan now that he has gone over and
explained to them "the logic behind the rationale." Now, whatever you do, don't try to examine the phrase "the logic behind the
rationale" logically. I tried, and the results weren't pretty:
"A rationale, of course, is the logic behind some position or course of action. So the "logic behind the rationale" is the logic
behind the logic behind some position or course of action--a concept I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around. Of course, if
we adopt the more cynical sense of the word "rationale"--the purported but not actual logic behind a position--then Bush's
phrase could have some actual meaning. For example: Maybe he explained to European leaders that behind the official rationale
for missile defense--smacking down missiles launched by wacko leaders of rogue states--lie the actual goals of feeding the
military industrial complex and keeping Donald Rumsfeld off the streets. But somehow I doubt it, even though one of those goals
would indeed be laudable." --Robin Wright, 6/19/01
"Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious--I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well."--Miami,
Fla., June 4, 2001
"Russia is no longer our enemy, and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by
blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's stale."--Des Moines, Iowa, June 8, 2001
"Bush, in a taped interview with Spanish TV 'mispronounced the prime minister's name.' Bush 'said he looked forward to meeting
Aznar -- but the name came out as Anzar.' Bush also 'mangled Spanish grammar with gender disagreement and emphasis on the
wrong syllables.' 'If I don't practice I am going to destroy this language' -- President Bush, on his Spanish." --AP, 6/12/01, as
reported by Hotline.
"Our nation must come together to unite." --Tampa, Fla., June 4, 2001
"If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at
all."--Remarks to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute, Washington, D.C., May 22, 2001
"Thirdly, the explorationists are willing to only move equipment during the winter, which means they'll be on ice roads, and
remove the equipment as the ice begins to melt, so that the fragile tundra is protected." --Conestoga, Pa., May 18, 2001
IS BUSH CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK? Ever since mainstream reporters filed their Bush First Hundred Days
reports, they've gone easy on him about his verbal gaffes. He's still providing his Bushisms, but they're not being reported and the
transcripts of his spur-of-the-moment informal press conferences are being cleaned up. During Friday's sneak attack by Bush on
the English language, a Bush Watcher caught him saying de-ter-iate for "deteriorate," hay-ee-nous for "heinous," and vent-ed for
"vetted." Please keep us informed of future Bush verbal transgressions while the media continues to be derelict in its duties.
--Politex, 5/14/01
"But I also made it clear to [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if
we blew each other up, the world would be safe."--Washington, D.C., May 1, 2001
Here's what Bush said about how far he would have the U.S. go to defend Taiwan: "Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend
theirself." --Good Morning America, April 25, 2001
It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce."--Quebec City, Canada, April 21,
2001
"This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to
bring the solution to an end."--Washington, D.C., April 10, 2001
"The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the
death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's
race."--Washington, D.C., April 5, 2001
"And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move
quickly."--Press conference, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001
"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically."--Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner,
Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001
"But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the--that don't let
people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not
one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer
our defenses; the South Koreans."--Media roundtable, Washington, D.C., 3/13/01
I think there is some methodology in my travels."--Washington, D.C., March 5, 2001, NYT, 3/9/01
State Department Spokesman Says "Bushisms" Caused More Diplomatic Blunders
The State Department is playing down comments by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who officials say misspoke twice last week on key mainstays of U.S. international policy -- one relating to Jerusalem, the other to Taiwan. The controversial statements came during Powell's testimony to Congress about President Bush's international affairs budget and hot spots for U.S. policy. One comment involved U.S. policy on Jerusalem, which both the Israelis and the Palestinians claim as their capital. The United States has long maintained that the fate of Jerusalem is a "final status" issue to be negotiated between the parties. But last Wednesday, when asked by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about President Bush's plans to move the U.S. embassy out of Tel Aviv, Powell said the president was committed to moving "the embassy to the capital of Israel, which is Jerusalem." State Department spokesman Richard Boucher called the comment an inadvertent mistake and said U.S. policy on Jerusalem remained unchanged....
Officials say Powell's other mistake came during testimony last Thursday before the House International Relations Committee when Powell, while talking about arms sales to Taiwan, twice referred to Taiwan as the Republic of China.... According to Boucher, the Chinese called the State Department to raise questions about Powell's comments. "We replied very clearly that U.S. policy has not changed regarding unofficial relations with Taiwan," he said. "We don't normally use the term and I don't think we'll be using it in the future." On the whole, Boucher chalked up the statements to Powell's speaking style. Boucher noted Powell often appears before Congress and the news media without the piles of briefing notes characteristic of his predecessor, Madeleine Albright. "If we want to praise the secretary for being open and speaking English and talking without following a specific script, one would also have to accept that," Boucher said. "The language might be a little looser at times." "So don't get too excited over one word here, one word there," he added." --CNN, 3/14/01
White House Spokesman Says "Bushism" Caused Diplomatic Blunder
"President Bush told President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea today that he would not resume missile talks with North Korea anytime soon, putting aside the Clinton administration's two-year campaign for a deal and the eventual normalization of relations with the reclusive Communist state. Mr. Bush's comments, while couched in reassuring statements about the American alliance with South Korea, came as a clear rebuff to President Kim. Awarded last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to open dialogue across one of the most heavily armed borders on earth, the South Korean leader has told American officials that he believes there is only a narrow window of opportunity to seize on North Korea's recent willingness to emerge from its diplomatic seclusion.
....In a brief exchange with reporters after meeting Mr. Kim in the Oval Office, Mr. Bush said: "We're not certain as to whether or not they're keeping all terms of all agreements." But the United States has only one agreement with North Korea - the 1994 accord that froze North Korea's plutonium processing at a suspected nuclear weapons plant. And at a briefing this afternoon two senior administration officials, asked about the president's statement, said there was no evidence that North Korea is violating its terms. Later, a White House spokesman said that Mr. Bush was referring to his concern about whether the North would comply with future accords, even though he did not use the future tense. "That's how the president speaks," the official said." --NYT, 3/8/01
"Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a state." --Council Bluffs, Iowa, 2/28/01
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman "and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open." --WP, 3/3/O1
BUSH TOP LANGUAGE GAFFES...THIS WEEK
"Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is -- the death tax is. I don't want to get rid of the death penalty, just the death tax." --AP, 2/28
"Education is not my top priority." (REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN APPLAUD) "Education is my top priority." --Budget Speech, 2/27
"My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt." --Budget Speech, 2/27
"[We can learn] from our conscience and from our fellow citizens, the highest PROSSIBLE praise: well done, good and faithful servants." --Budget Speech, 2/27
Feb. 24, 2001..."Laura and I are looking forward to having a private dinner with he and Mrs. Blair Friday night." --Bush to reporters, Reuters
Feb. 9, 2001...""One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams; it's going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read--you ought to listen to her."--Nalle Elementary School, Washington, D.C.
Feb. 8, 2001..."It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy that will affect people's lives in a positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our national--really, our national park system, my guess is you would want to call it."--Washington, D.C.
Feb. 7, 2001..."We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House--make no mistake about it."--Washington, D.C.
Jan. 29, 2001...A president's right to grant...pardons is "inviolate, as far as I'm concerned," he said. "It's an important part of the office. I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but my predecessors as well." --NYT, 1/29/01
Jan. 14, 2001..."Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment." --NYT, 1/14/01
Jan. 11, 2001...He said he wanted his administration to be remembered for making America "a more literate country and a hopefuller country." --Reuters, Bush Chooses Trade Rep
BUSH COMES THROUGH WITH BUSHISMS
What's a Bush debate without Bushisms, right? Here's what Time's James Posniewozik wrote. Bush "did manage a couple of Bushisms, including "There has to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children." Perhaps the most interesting line of the debate, in fact, came when Bush decried how the killers at Columbine could "have their hearts turned dark as a result of being on the Internet." One could say that ascribing a mass medium with the power literally to make people evil is a rather silly and disturbing argument to be put forth by a candidate for the leadership of a democracy. But I digress. Now, go forth, my readers, and kill! Kill! Kill! Rise up, my vast army, and do the sacred bidding of your dark master!" 10/12/00
10/1... AUSTIN, Sept. 30 -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush declared this week that Vice President Gore would create "over 200,000 new or expanded federal programs." He meant 200. Bush said that with education funds, "the federal government ought to have maximum flexibility." He meant that the flexibility should be with the states that receive the money. Bush said he has "ruled out no new Social Security taxes." Of course, he meant he has ruled out new Social Security taxes. In Beaverton, Ore., he said, "More and more of our imports come from overseas." In Redwood City, Calif., he promised "a foreign-handed policy," when he meant "an even-handed foreign policy." --Mike Allen, WASHINGTON POST
9/27... At a town hall-style event in Redwood City, Calif., Tuesday morning, Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush was asked by an audience member if he would have an "even-handed" policy when dealing with the Middle East. Bush reassured the potential voter, "I will have a foreign-handed policy." --John Berman, ABCNEWS
9/8...Republican officials anxious about his slippage in the polls are fair-weather friends, [Bush] said. "That's Washington," he said. "That's people getting ready to jump out of the foxhole before the first shell is fired." Detroit Free Press (thanks to Lois White)
MAJOR LEAGUE BUSHISM "There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times.'' An Aside to Dick Cheney as they stood together this morning on a Labor Day rally platform in Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Cheney responded, "Oh yeah, he is, big time." A Bush spinner said the Texas Governor is angry with reporter Clymer because he wrote about Bush's Texas record. More than once. During the rally, Bush told the crowd that it was "time to get some plain-spoken folks'' in Washington, D.C., but observers assume he didn't mean that plain-spoken. --Politex, 9/4/00 from a Reuters report.
BUSH'S TEXAS CHAIN-SAW MASSACRE (OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
"In the midst of a tour to promote his views on education, Texas Gov. George W. Bush may have set a personal record for bloopers in one speech. In 15 minutes, he mistook "terrors" (or was it "terriers"?) for "tariffs" and "hostile" for "hostage" (twice), and asserted that President Clinton has been in office for four -- not eight -- years." (WP 8/22)
Here are the actual sentences from Monday's speech: ""When we carry Iowa in November, it'll mean the end of four years of Clinton-Gore.... We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile....."I will work to end terrors and tariffs and barriers everywhere across the world so that Iowa farmers can sell their product in countries heretofore where the doors have been closed."
Bush also made sure that entrepreneurs would get a lion's share of whatever he was promising to give out: ''This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead,'' he said. Some observers understood this to mean that Bush no longer feels that the nation's farmers are in need of help from the government. Last Friday on the campaign trail the Texas Governor accused Gore of advocating "class warfore." --Politex, 8/23/00
8/13... "I wish I could turn to the soldiers on that ship," Mr. Bush said, erroneously referring to the sailors on an aircraft carrier in the backdrop, "and I wish they could hear me: stay in the military, there's a new commander in chief coming." --New York Times
7/19... George W. Bush's new Web site, www.georgewbush.com, states that the No. 3 priority of the campaign is "Putting Education First." --Al Kamen, Washington Post
7/1... "Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And we're not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes people." --Cleveland, Ohio
6/28..."The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective." --Wayne, Michigan, reported by Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, June 28, 2000.
6/10... "If you're asking me whether or not as to the innocence or guilt or if people have had adequate access to the courts in Texas, I believe they have." --Response to an AP Reporter
5/18..."[Rudy Giuliani] has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be." --The Edge With Paula Zahn
5/14... "The fact that he relies on facts--says things that are not factual--are going to undermine his campaign." --New York Times
5/10...""I think we agree, the past is over."---On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News.
5/5..."It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."--In answer to the charge that, as Texas governor, he did not make up a state budget, Reuters.
4/26..."I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know." --On Elian negotiations, AP.
3/2... "I've got a record, a record that is conservative and a record that is compassionated." --NYT Debate Transcript
2/23..."It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." (Los Angeles)--Slate, 2/29
2/25... "After he had failed a reporter's pop quiz last fall about foreign leaders, including the name of the Indian prime minister, Mr. Bush winced today when a moderator mentioned the words "pop quiz." Jokingly, Mr. Bush dared the moderator to ask him the name of the Indian president. "Do you know who the president of India is?" the moderator asked obligingly. "Vajpayee," Mr. Bush said, grinning and looking pleased with himself. But Atal Behari Vajpayee is the prime minister of India; the president is K. R. Narayanan." --New York Times, 2/26
2/23... "I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university." --Today
2/23...It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." (Los Angeles)--Slate, 2/29
2/20..."I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?" --Newsweek (Feb. 28 edition)
"I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists." --ibid.
2/20..."Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled." --to Cokie Roberts (This Week)
2/17..."The senator has got to understand if he's going to have--he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road." --to reporters in Florence, S.C. (Slate)
2/16/00... "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." --Hilton Head, S.C. (Slate)
2/15/00... "Bush mispronounced the words "tactical," "nuclear," and Lugar" (as in Sen. Dick) in the course of a single sentence. A few moments later, he mangled "admirably" beyond recognition, and left viewers wondering how many syllables the word "strategic" has. (Two, three or four, by Bush's count.) At another point, he declared that as Americans, "we ought to make the pie higher." Huh?"--Tucker Carlson
2/14/00..."There is madmen in the world, and there are terror." (AP) For parents bothered by the amount of profanity and violence on TV, he recommended a simple solution: "Put the 'off' button on." (AP)
2/7/00 (circa)...Bush recalled his time as a Texas oil man and how the experience shaped his views in support of entrepreneurs. "I understand small business growth.I was one." (AP)
1/30/00..."This is preservation month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve." Presidential candidate George W. Bush, praising students at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H., for their "theme of the month," which was actually perseverance. (Newsweek)
1/19/00..."What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position." (Molly Ivins)
whats's wrong with that? Mayo works pretty well on chips. Why are Americans so blinkered about this kind of stuff? I know McDonald's stuff is ultra bland, but I was always quite partial to a Whopper or three.
no. the things that you call "chips" we call crisps. So it's "Potato Crisps" rather than "Potatoe Chips". I presume that you spell potato this way since your former VP did...
well, they're not games by definition. Yes, I do like simulators - I like simulated driving in GT3 A-Spec on the PS2 and I do my simulated flying in X-Plane on the Mac. I do my simulated anti-gravity racing in wipeout fusion on the PS2 of course... and my simulated conversations on Slashdot.
I'm an Apple fan but I think Apple farms out it's media serving to Akamai - that's who's hosting those webcasts and glorious QuickTime movie trailers. Apple's iTools services, OTOH, are just fantastic.
I'm sure that if OSX's built in software RAID and 4 way ATA system is inadequate, then dropping $400 on the same ATTO UL3D U160, dual channel SCSI card that I've got in my G4 will fix it. I get over 140MB/sec sustd R/W onto 4 striped Fujitsu MANs with my set up. Apple's clients could do a lot worse than add the ATTO UL3D and a rack-mount Medea array to achieve a bullet-proof SCSI RAID set-up. ATTO SCSI cards work just beautifully with Macs, I'd recommend them to anyone.
what are you on? The ATI Rage card that Apple USED TO ship was only 16MB, this card will most likely be the same Radeon 7500 that is poverty-spec on the G4 Powermac. And, yes, it'll be in the AGP slot, not the second GigE you dolt.
that doesn't make much sense - if the machine is physically too small to play a CD then that's that. I've got so many CD players in my house, car, bag and on my desk at work that I hardly need another. I have 2 PSXs, 2 PS2s and XBOX and a GC here at work. That little GC just makes me smile every time. Controllers ARE a bit crappy though, I will admit.
I'm not sure that that's fair. My machine is a G4 450 dual with a Radeon 32MB. This was a stock item, almost 2 years ago and cost me around £1900 direct from Apple. IIRC, the BTO upgrade from the Rage 128 to the Radeon was around £100, and available on ALL G4s (including the Cube). If you bought a G4 in the last 2 years and DIDN'T get a decent video accelerator then it's YOUR fault.
it all depends what you mean by "automatic". In road cars, an auto is usually taken to mean a car with a torque converter transmission. There are also road cars with CVT (continuously variable transmission) systems these days, but they're not usually referred to as autos. Semi-autos were traditionally torque converters with manual gear select (like the Citroen C-Matic) but nowadays are more often of the automatic clutch type. Paddle shifter types are also sometimes sequential 'boxes such as motorcycles have, I believe that Ferrari's road car version is one such. These were sometimes also called "dog" boxes, and are always used in WRC cars. I still prefer a REAL manual, but sequential dog boxes are very quick shifting. The chances of F1 using any type of torque converter seem low.
well, I read an interview with one of the Maya team where he admitted that the code was not multi threaded, and the Maya on MY dual G4 never troubles the upper reaches of the CPU Monitor's graph. Seeing as how difficult cross-platorm benchmarking is anyway, and Alias/Wavefront aren't making any mention of Altivec optimisation (and neither are Apple), yet Pixar are commiting to the Mac platform, the conclusion that Apple have competitive products forthcoming is THAT wild a speculation.
"I don't know how well-tuned Maya is for the G4 vector instructions, but one would expect that Pixar would have less of a programming budget for these kinds of optimazations than a company who's actually selling the software in a competitive market."
I do. Not at all. I beleive that hardly any Maya code is multi threaded either. I'm sure Maya runs best on a high clockrate platform right now, Apple may be able to change this quite soon - so maybe this story indiates that they WILL.
agreed. The best thing that the BBFC could do for this would probably be to cut in some scenes with Harrison Ford in them. You know, that guy with all the charisma in Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back...
best bet is to try and find someone who's upgraded their stock Radeon OEM to something else and get theirs. AccelerateyourMac.com forums are a great place to start looking. You could also probably obtain one as a spare part from an Apple service centre, but e prepared to PAY that way...
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I enjoyed Johnathan Last's musings on the Star Wars universe immensely, it
does rather occur to me - as a Briton - that this is something of a post
9/11 viewpoint. Here's why, before 9/11 the USA could look back with pride
on both their acheivements in WWII and (to a lesser degree) in the American
War of Independence. In both cases the US painted herself (accurately or
not) as the freedom loving opponent of the tyranny of empire. The British in
the former war and the German & Japanese in the latter. Skipping over the
nightmare of Vietnam (although this might perhaps have given a clue to the
inevitability of a 9/11-like eventuality) the Gulf War could also have been
looked at in similar terms, though it's a much tougher fit when both oil and
the incredibly undemocratic Saudi and Kuwaiti regimes enter the picture.
But where is the USA now? Undoubtedly the Empire itself. Imagine the city of
New York as the Death Star itself, and those precisely planted Boeings as
X-Wing fighters. The Force may not have been intended as a martyrs creed,
but Obi-Wan Kenobi was a suicide bomber without ANY doubt. And what an
economic weapon NYC is, certainly able to destroy a country's economy at
will - Argentina provides our best recent example.
Pretty horrible, isn't it? George Bush as the Emperor himself? Colin Powell
as Darth Vader? Rumsfeld as Grand Moff Tarkin? Surely not?
I look at the US-backed oppression in the Middle East, the oil producing
potential of Afghanistan and the recent (US backed??) events in Venezuela and I have to
wonder.
mad dogs and Englishmen indeed, makes perfect sense when you consider that America was built by those same Englishmen. In England we savour every last drop of sunshine we get, as our climate does not allow us to know what tomorrow (or the afternoon, if you're a Scot) will bring.
BUT notice that Pringles potato crisps are called "crisps" worldwide.
....In a brief exchange with reporters after meeting Mr. Kim in the Oval
ironic then, that they are both American and not actually made from deep fried slices of potato. The fact that Quayle merely followed the plan does not excuse him. Jesus, you'll be telling me how smart Dubya is next...
BUSH QUOTES FROM HIS TONGUE TO YOUR BRAIN
"And so, in my State of the -- my State of the Union -- or state -- my speech
to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation
-- I asked Americans to give 4,000 years -- 4,000 hours over the next -- the
rest of your life -- of service to America." --Bush at Connecticut
Fundraiser, April 9
"Look, my job isn't to try to nuance, my job is to tell people what I
think!" --April 2002 Texas Meeting With Tony Blair.
Dear Jerry, I was watching MSNBC last week, when I had the surreal
experience of hearing President Bush, interviewed in Crawford, Texas by a
British
journalist, say something to the effect that Clinton's failed peace effort
led to the "INFITADA." [Not the "intifada."] I felt a wave of embarrassment
for our
country wash over me. For a moment, I wondered if I had heard correctly,
but then I was subjected to another un-edifying moment when anchor Lester
Holt asked a guest, "did Clinton's peace effort, in fact, cause the
Infitada?" At least they didn't say "Infritata" or use the word "bodacious"
in front of it...
Gary Markowitz
"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of
human cloning to come out of that
chamber."--Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002
"I understand that the unrest in the Middle East creates unrest throughout
the region."---George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
"Here's a vignette we're dying to see on the ABC broadcast of Sunday's
Ford's Theatre Presidential Gala: When Stevie Wonder sat
down at the keyboard center stage, President Bush in the front row got
very excited. He smiled and started waving at Wonder,
who understandably did not respond. After a moment Bush realized his
mistake and slowly dropped the errant hand back to his
lap. "I know I shouldn't have," a witness told us yesterday, 'but I
started laughing.'" --Lloyd Grove, Washington Post, 03.06.02.
"But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." --G. W.
Bush, White House Press Release, 12.21.01
Bush said..."In all those tasks, it is worth recalling the words from a
beautiful Christmas hymn -- in the third verse of "Oh Holy
Night" we sing, "His law is love, and His gospel is peace. Change ye shall
break, for the slave is our brother. And in His name all
oppression shall cease." --White House Press Release, 12/6/01
"Truly He taught us to love one another
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
CHAINS SHALL HE BREAK for the slave is our brother
And in His name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
Let all within us praise His holy name."
--"Oh Holy Night," Words by Chappeau de Roquemaure. Translated by John S.
Dwight
"Bush promised during the presidential campaign to avoid tapping Social
Security except in cases of war, recession or a national emergency. 'Lucky
me. I
hit the trifecta,' Bush told Daniels shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks,
according to the budget director." --Miami Herald, 11.29.01
' I regularly check the Bushisms section of your site to see what new
verbal blunder the Resident has made. The latest one is:
"Still nettled by the criticism [about his failure to immediately return
to the White House from Florida on Sept. 11, Bush recently]
insisted: 'I wanted to go back to Washington. There is strong advice that
I did not, primarily from the VicePresident.'" --TIMES,
11/26/01
Yesterday I bought a copy of the December 3, 2001 International issue of
Newsweek; it has Tony Blair on the cover. I'm reading
on article about Bush and his actions and reactions in the first hours
after the attacks. On page 22 there is this quote: "I want to
go back to Washington. There is strong advice that I not, primarily from
the vice president."
A small difference perhaps, "wanted" has been changed to "want" and "did"
is omitted. Nevertheless, the difference is significant
enough to change a nonsensical statement, with discrepancies in tense, to
a relatively coherent statement.
I hate the way the press protects his stupidity. --Bushwatcher, 12/03/01
"Still nettled by the criticism [about his failure to immediately return
to the White House from Florida on Sept. 11, Bush recently]
insisted: 'I wanted to go back to Washington. There is strong advice that
I did not, primarily from the VicePresident.'" --TIMES,
11/26/01
"Mr. Bush said yesterday that the war on terrorism had 'transformationed'
the U.S.-Russia relationship." --New York Times, 11/14/01
15 year-old Welsh singing sensation Charlotte "Church recently met George
W. Bush but says she prefers Clinton. "[Bush] said,
'So what state is Wales in?' I said, 'Erm, it's a separate country next to
England, and he went, 'Oh, OK.' I didn't know what to
say." --Jeannette Wells, 10/30/01.
REPORTER: "You talk about the general threat toward Americans....And
people ask us, what is it they're supposed to be on the lookout for?...What
are
Americans supposed to look for and report to the police or to the FBI?"
BUSH: "You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before
getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report it...."Press
Conference,
10/11/01
from the Washington Post, Oct 3: "I am here to make an announcement that
this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly
out of Ronald Reagan Airport." --Washington Post, Oct. 3, 2001
"They misunderestimated the fact that we love a neighbor in need. They
misunderestimated the compassion of our country. I think they
misunderestimated the will and determination of the Commander-in-Chief,
too" --Bush, 9/26/01, according to two readers' reports.
"But even in the tension of war preparation, Bush gave a clear sign that
things were returning to normal, as he employed his favorite malapropism,
"misunderestimate," three times in as many sentences."The folks who
conducted to act on our country on September 11th made a big mistake," he
said.
"They underestimated America. They underestimated our resolve, our
determination, our love for freedom. They misunderestimated the fact that we
love a
neighbor in need. They misunderestimated the compassion of our country. I
think they misunderestimated the will and determination of the commander
in chief, too."" --Washington Post, 0/27/01 [but see Censored.]
"To the book of "Bushisms," add a footnote on Fleischerisms. Announcing
President Bush's schedule on Thursday, White House
press secretary Ari Fleischer said the president was meeting with
religious leaders "to talk about the importance of tolerism, er,
tolerance." Later in his morning briefing, Fleischer repeated the nonword,
"tolerism." Reporters more accustomed to hearing such
malaprops from the president himself could barely stifle their laughter.
Fleischer jokingly begged: 'Don't think what you all are
thinking! That was MY word. Stop it!'" --Washington Post, 9/20/01
"Sometimes we agree. Sometimes we don't. But I tell you we'll always
answer his phone." --Speaking to a Labor Day crowd in
Kaukauna, Wis., about Carpenters' Union President Doug McCarron, 9/3/01.
AP
"Bush, who has tweaked the press about his choice of Crawford -- a
sunbaked crossroads where summer temperatures hover around the century mark
--
suspecting them of a preference for 'sucking in the salt air' on the East
Coast, displayed similar disdain for those who would vacation on the West
Coast. 'Brie and cheese,' he sniffed after learning one reporter had just
returned from California." --Reuters, 8/23/01
"An expert in Texas trees, described by Bush as 'an arbolist,' is coming
soon to identify all the varieties at the ranch. 'Look up the
word,' he said. 'I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an
arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.'" --Judy Keen,
8/21/01
"Bush at night hatches quizzical new phrases. In Denver and Albuquerque,
he talked about the "so- called surplus," making it sound as if he
doubted the existence of the very money he deemed so bountiful that a tax
cut was necessary. And Bush at night latches onto adjectives and doesn't let
go. Eight times in about one minute, he called Senator Pete V. Domenici,
Republican of New Mexico, for whom he was raising money at the Albuquerque
event, "passionate," and Mr. Domenici's passions knew no bounds. "Pete is
passionate about the budget," the president said. He then erased more than
two months of Congressional history, traveling back to a time before
Democrats took control of the Senate, and put Mr. Domenici in charge of the
Senate
budget committee once again. "I can assure you, Mr. Chairman," Mr. Bush
said to him, hurriedly adding: "Or I wish would be Mr. Chairman -- should be
Mr. Chairman, and will be Mr. Chairman after next 2002." Not to be
confused with last 2002." --Frank Bruni, 8/19/01
"Well, sometimes we see the will on the other side, and sometimes that
cycle overcomes the will. There's a lot of people in the
Middle East who are desirous to get into the Mitchell process, but first
things first. These terrorist acts and the responses have
got to end in order for us to get the framework -- the groundwork, not
framework -- the groundwork to discuss a framework, to lay
the -- all right." --Bush Rmks To Travel Pool, 8/13/01
"We will never get to Mitchell until the leadership works to reduce and
stop violence. These terrorists acts, which are despicable, will prevent us
from ever
getting into the Mitchell process. My administration has been calling upon
all the leaders in the -- in the Middle East to do everything
they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that
peace will never happen. And so long as terrorist activities
continue, it will be impossible to get into Mitchell or any other
discussion about peace under the threat of terrorism." --to reporters,
8/13/01
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and
what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right," he said, to
the confusion of some of the listening journalists during an informal
meeting near the steps of Rome in Italy where orators used
to speak. --Reuters, 7/23/01
"After the [Ellis Island citizenship] ceremony, Bush led the group in the
Pledge of Allegiance, mistakenly urging them to hold up their right hands
rather
than place them on their hearts, as is customary. 'Right hand up, please,'
Bush said, prompting most of the group to follow suit, before catching his
mistake. 'Actually right hand on your heart.'" --Reuters, 7/11/01
"Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of
July of this country. It means what these words say, for
starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with
such values in America. And I--it's--I'm a proud man to
be the nation based upon such wonderful values."--Visiting the Jefferson
Memorial, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001
"I'm sure you can imagine it's an unimaginable honor to live here." --June
18, 2001 in a White House address to agriculture leaders. (thanks, Sari)
"When George W. Bush announced from Sweden on June 14 that he planned to
pull the US Navy out of the Puerto Rican island of
Vieques by 2003, it struck some as odd when he referred to the people of
Vieques, all US citizens, as "our friends and neighbors" who "don't want us
there." It was as though he was saying Puerto Rico is a foreign country."
--Falcon
"We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a
nation that suffers from incredible disease."--After meeting with the
leaders of the
European Union, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001
"President Bush reports that European leaders are warming up to his
missile defense plan now that he has gone over and
explained to them "the logic behind the rationale." Now, whatever you do,
don't try to examine the phrase "the logic behind the
rationale" logically. I tried, and the results weren't pretty:
"A rationale, of course, is the logic behind some position or course of
action. So the "logic behind the rationale" is the logic
behind the logic behind some position or course of action--a concept I'm
having trouble wrapping my mind around. Of course, if
we adopt the more cynical sense of the word "rationale"--the purported but
not actual logic behind a position--then Bush's
phrase could have some actual meaning. For example: Maybe he explained to
European leaders that behind the official rationale
for missile defense--smacking down missiles launched by wacko leaders of
rogue states--lie the actual goals of feeding the
military industrial complex and keeping Donald Rumsfeld off the streets.
But somehow I doubt it, even though one of those goals
would indeed be laudable." --Robin Wright, 6/19/01
"Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious--I'm gracious that my brother
Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well."--Miami,
Fla., June 4, 2001
"Russia is no longer our enemy, and therefore we shouldn't be locked into
a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by
blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's
stale."--Des Moines, Iowa, June 8, 2001
"Bush, in a taped interview with Spanish TV 'mispronounced the prime
minister's name.' Bush 'said he looked forward to meeting
Aznar -- but the name came out as Anzar.' Bush also 'mangled Spanish
grammar with gender disagreement and emphasis on the
wrong syllables.' 'If I don't practice I am going to destroy this
language' -- President Bush, on his Spanish." --AP, 6/12/01, as
reported by Hotline.
"Our nation must come together to unite." --Tampa, Fla., June 4, 2001
"If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to
have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at
all."--Remarks to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute, Washington,
D.C., May 22, 2001
"Thirdly, the explorationists are willing to only move equipment during
the winter, which means they'll be on ice roads, and
remove the equipment as the ice begins to melt, so that the fragile tundra
is protected." --Conestoga, Pa., May 18, 2001
IS BUSH CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK? Ever since mainstream reporters
filed their Bush First Hundred Days
reports, they've gone easy on him about his verbal gaffes. He's still
providing his Bushisms, but they're not being reported and the
transcripts of his spur-of-the-moment informal press conferences are being
cleaned up. During Friday's sneak attack by Bush on
the English language, a Bush Watcher caught him saying de-ter-iate for
"deteriorate," hay-ee-nous for "heinous," and vent-ed for
"vetted." Please keep us informed of future Bush verbal transgressions
while the media continues to be derelict in its duties.
--Politex, 5/14/01
"But I also made it clear to [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think
beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if
we blew each other up, the world would be safe."--Washington, D.C., May 1,
2001
Here's what Bush said about how far he would have the U.S. go to defend
Taiwan: "Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend
theirself." --Good Morning America, April 25, 2001
It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade,
there's more commerce."--Quebec City, Canada, April 21,
2001
"This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an
efficient way. We're making the right decisions to
bring the solution to an end."--Washington, D.C., April 10, 2001
"The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only
reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the
death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them
from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's
race."--Washington, D.C., April 5, 2001
"And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California
and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move
quickly."--Press conference, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001
"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and
Hispanically."--Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner,
Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001
"But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are
not very transparent, that hide behind the--that don't let
people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of
authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not
one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage,
ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer
our defenses; the South Koreans."--Media roundtable, Washington, D.C.,
3/13/01
I think there is some methodology in my travels."--Washington, D.C., March
5, 2001, NYT, 3/9/01
State Department Spokesman Says "Bushisms" Caused More
Diplomatic Blunders
The State Department is playing down comments by Secretary of State Colin
Powell, who officials say misspoke twice last week on
key mainstays of U.S. international policy -- one relating to Jerusalem, the
other to Taiwan. The controversial statements came
during Powell's testimony to Congress about President Bush's international
affairs budget and hot spots for U.S. policy. One
comment involved U.S. policy on Jerusalem, which both the Israelis and the
Palestinians claim as their capital. The United States
has long maintained that the fate of Jerusalem is a "final status" issue to
be negotiated between the parties. But last
Wednesday, when asked by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about
President Bush's plans to move the U.S. embassy out
of Tel Aviv, Powell said the president was committed to moving "the embassy
to the capital of Israel, which is Jerusalem." State
Department spokesman Richard Boucher called the comment an inadvertent
mistake and said U.S. policy on Jerusalem remained
unchanged....
Officials say Powell's other mistake came during testimony last Thursday
before the House International Relations Committee
when Powell, while talking about arms sales to Taiwan, twice referred to
Taiwan as the Republic of China.... According to
Boucher, the Chinese called the State Department to raise questions about
Powell's comments. "We replied very clearly that U.S.
policy has not changed regarding unofficial relations with Taiwan," he said.
"We don't normally use the term and I don't think
we'll be using it in the future." On the whole, Boucher chalked up the
statements to Powell's speaking style. Boucher noted Powell
often appears before Congress and the news media without the piles of
briefing notes characteristic of his predecessor,
Madeleine Albright. "If we want to praise the secretary for being open and
speaking English and talking without following a
specific script, one would also have to accept that," Boucher said. "The
language might be a little looser at times." "So don't get
too excited over one word here, one word there," he added." --CNN, 3/14/01
White House Spokesman Says "Bushism" Caused Diplomatic Blunder
"President Bush told President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea today that he
would not resume missile talks with North Korea
anytime soon, putting aside the Clinton administration's two-year campaign
for a deal and the eventual normalization of
relations with the reclusive Communist state. Mr. Bush's comments, while
couched in reassuring statements about the American
alliance with South Korea, came as a clear rebuff to President Kim. Awarded
last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to open
dialogue across one of the most heavily armed borders on earth, the South
Korean leader has told American officials that he
believes there is only a narrow window of opportunity to seize on North
Korea's recent willingness to emerge from its diplomatic
seclusion.
Office, Mr. Bush said: "We're not certain as to whether or
not they're keeping all terms of all agreements." But the United States has
only one agreement with North Korea - the 1994
accord that froze North Korea's plutonium processing at a suspected nuclear
weapons plant. And at a briefing this afternoon two
senior administration officials, asked about the president's statement, said
there was no evidence that North Korea is violating
its terms. Later, a White House spokesman said that Mr. Bush was referring
to his concern about whether the North would comply
with future accords, even though he did not use the future tense. "That's
how the president speaks," the official said." --NYT,
3/8/01
"Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a
state." --Council Bluffs, Iowa, 2/28/01
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman "and I will carry out this equivocal
message to the world: Markets must be open." --WP,
3/3/O1
BUSH TOP LANGUAGE GAFFES...THIS WEEK
"Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the
heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is -- the
death tax is. I don't want to get rid of the death penalty, just the death
tax." --AP, 2/28
"Education is not my top priority." (REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN APPLAUD)
"Education is my top priority." --Budget Speech, 2/27
"My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt." --Budget
Speech, 2/27
"[We can learn] from our conscience and from our fellow citizens, the
highest PROSSIBLE praise: well done, good and faithful
servants." --Budget Speech, 2/27
Feb. 24, 2001..."Laura and I are looking forward to having a private
dinner with he and Mrs. Blair Friday night." --Bush to
reporters, Reuters
Feb. 9, 2001...""One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the
beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you
can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams; it's going to be hard
to go to college. So when your teachers say, read--you
ought to listen to her."--Nalle Elementary School, Washington, D.C.
Feb. 8, 2001..."It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden.
This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and it's
appropriate we talk about policy that will affect people's lives in a
positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our
national--really, our national park system, my guess is you would want to
call it."--Washington, D.C.
Feb. 7, 2001..."We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House--make no
mistake about it."--Washington, D.C.
Jan. 29, 2001...A president's right to grant...pardons is "inviolate, as
far as I'm concerned," he said. "It's an important part of the
office. I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but
my predecessors as well." --NYT, 1/29/01
Jan. 14, 2001..."Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to
keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from
peacekeepers is going to be an assignment." --NYT, 1/14/01
Jan. 11, 2001...He said he wanted his administration to be remembered for
making America "a more literate country and a
hopefuller country." --Reuters, Bush Chooses Trade Rep
BUSH COMES THROUGH WITH BUSHISMS
What's a Bush debate without Bushisms, right? Here's what Time's James
Posniewozik wrote. Bush "did manage a couple of
Bushisms, including "There has to be a wholesale effort against racial
profiling, which is illiterate children." Perhaps the most
interesting line of the debate, in fact, came when Bush decried how the
killers at Columbine could "have their hearts turned dark
as a result of being on the Internet." One could say that ascribing a mass
medium with the power literally to make people evil is a
rather silly and disturbing argument to be put forth by a candidate for the
leadership of a democracy. But I digress. Now, go
forth, my readers, and kill! Kill! Kill! Rise up, my vast army, and do the
sacred bidding of your dark master!" 10/12/00
10/1... AUSTIN, Sept. 30 -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush declared this week
that Vice President Gore would create "over 200,000
new or expanded federal programs." He meant 200. Bush said that with
education funds, "the federal government ought to have
maximum flexibility." He meant that the flexibility should be with the
states that receive the money. Bush said he has "ruled out
no new Social Security taxes." Of course, he meant he has ruled out new
Social Security taxes. In Beaverton, Ore., he said, "More
and more of our imports come from overseas." In Redwood City, Calif., he
promised "a foreign-handed policy," when he meant "an
even-handed foreign policy." --Mike Allen, WASHINGTON POST
9/27... At a town hall-style event in Redwood City, Calif., Tuesday
morning, Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush was
asked by an audience member if he would have an "even-handed" policy when
dealing with the Middle East. Bush reassured the
potential voter, "I will have a foreign-handed policy." --John Berman,
ABCNEWS
9/8...Republican officials anxious about his slippage in the polls are
fair-weather friends, [Bush] said. "That's Washington," he
said. "That's people getting ready to jump out of the foxhole before the
first shell is fired." Detroit Free Press (thanks to Lois
White)
MAJOR LEAGUE BUSHISM
"There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times.'' An
Aside to Dick Cheney as
they stood together this morning on a Labor Day rally platform in
Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Cheney responded,
"Oh yeah, he is, big time." A Bush spinner said the Texas Governor is angry
with reporter Clymer because he wrote about Bush's
Texas record. More than once. During the rally, Bush told the crowd that it
was "time to get some plain-spoken folks'' in
Washington, D.C., but observers assume he didn't mean that plain-spoken.
--Politex, 9/4/00 from a Reuters report.
BUSH'S TEXAS CHAIN-SAW MASSACRE (OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
"In the midst of a tour to promote his views on education, Texas Gov. George
W. Bush may have set a personal record for bloopers
in one speech. In 15 minutes, he mistook "terrors" (or was it "terriers"?)
for "tariffs" and "hostile" for "hostage" (twice), and asserted
that President Clinton has been in office for four -- not eight -- years."
(WP 8/22)
Here are the actual sentences from Monday's speech: ""When we carry Iowa
in November, it'll mean the end of four years of
Clinton-Gore.... We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation
hostile or hold our allies hostile....."I will work to end
terrors and tariffs and barriers everywhere across the world so that Iowa
farmers can sell their product in countries heretofore
where the doors have been closed."
Bush also made sure that entrepreneurs would get a lion's share of
whatever he was promising to give out: ''This campaign not
only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the
entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get
ahead,'' he said. Some observers understood this to mean that Bush no longer
feels that the nation's farmers are in need of help
from the government. Last Friday on the campaign trail the Texas Governor
accused Gore of advocating "class warfore." --Politex,
8/23/00
8/13... "I wish I could turn to the soldiers on that ship," Mr. Bush said,
erroneously referring to the sailors on an aircraft carrier in
the backdrop, "and I wish they could hear me: stay in the military, there's
a new commander in chief coming." --New York Times
7/19... George W. Bush's new Web site, www.georgewbush.com, states that
the No. 3 priority of the campaign is "Putting
Education First." --Al Kamen, Washington Post
7/1... "Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being
against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And we're not a
party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes
people." --Cleveland, Ohio
6/28..."The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president
when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the
president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more
effective." --Wayne, Michigan, reported by Katharine Q.
Seelye, New York Times, June 28, 2000.
6/10... "If you're asking me whether or not as to the innocence or guilt
or if people have had adequate access to the courts in
Texas, I believe they have." --Response to an AP Reporter
5/18..."[Rudy Giuliani] has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic
mayor because the results speak for themselves. I mean,
New York's a safer place for him to be." --The Edge With Paula Zahn
5/14... "The fact that he relies on facts--says things that are not
factual--are going to undermine his campaign." --New York
Times
5/10...""I think we agree, the past is over."---On his meeting with John
McCain, Dallas Morning News.
5/5..."It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."--In answer
to the charge that, as Texas governor, he did not make up a
state budget, Reuters.
4/26..."I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm
interested to know." --On Elian negotiations, AP.
3/2... "I've got a record, a record that is conservative and a record that
is compassionated." --NYT Debate Transcript
2/23..."It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in
nature." (Los Angeles)--Slate, 2/29
2/25... "After he had failed a reporter's pop quiz last fall about foreign
leaders, including the name of the Indian prime minister,
Mr. Bush winced today when a moderator mentioned the words "pop quiz."
Jokingly, Mr. Bush dared the moderator to ask him the
name of the Indian president. "Do you know who the president of India is?"
the moderator asked obligingly. "Vajpayee," Mr. Bush
said, grinning and looking pleased with himself. But Atal Behari Vajpayee is
the prime minister of India; the president is K. R.
Narayanan." --New York Times, 2/26
2/23... "I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince
those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any
labeling me because I happened to go to the university." --Today
2/23...It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in
nature." (Los Angeles)--Slate, 2/29
2/20..."I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on
the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands,
giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and
still staying on message to win?" --Newsweek (Feb.
28 edition)
"I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it
occur to me that he would become the gist for
cartoonists." --ibid.
2/20..."Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with
the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians
that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled." --to Cokie
Roberts (This Week)
2/17..."The senator has got to understand if he's going to have--he can't
have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and
then claim the low road." --to reporters in Florence, S.C. (Slate)
2/16/00... "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls
and principles, come and join this campaign." --Hilton
Head, S.C. (Slate)
2/15/00... "Bush mispronounced the words "tactical," "nuclear," and Lugar"
(as in Sen. Dick) in the course of a single sentence. A
few moments later, he mangled "admirably" beyond recognition, and left
viewers wondering how many syllables the word
"strategic" has. (Two, three or four, by Bush's count.) At another point, he
declared that as Americans, "we ought to make the pie
higher." Huh?"--Tucker Carlson
2/14/00..."There is madmen in the world, and there are terror." (AP)
For parents bothered by the amount of profanity and violence on TV, he
recommended a simple solution: "Put the 'off' button on."
(AP)
2/7/00 (circa)...Bush recalled his time as a Texas oil man and how the
experience shaped his views in support of entrepreneurs. "I
understand small business growth.I was one." (AP)
1/30/00..."This is preservation month. I appreciate preservation. It's
what you do when you run for president. You've got to
preserve." Presidential candidate George W. Bush, praising students at
Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H., for their
"theme of the month," which was actually perseverance. (Newsweek)
1/19/00..."What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas
they basically delineate based upon whatever. However
they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that
fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative
positions, but that's my position." (Molly Ivins)
whats's wrong with that? Mayo works pretty well on chips. Why are Americans so blinkered about this kind of stuff? I know McDonald's stuff is ultra bland, but I was always quite partial to a Whopper or three.
no. the things that you call "chips" we call crisps. So it's "Potato Crisps" rather than "Potatoe Chips". I presume that you spell potato this way since your former VP did...
and WTF do you think Ketchup is made from? Tomatos and...
well, they're not games by definition. Yes, I do like simulators - I like simulated driving in GT3 A-Spec on the PS2 and I do my simulated flying in X-Plane on the Mac. I do my simulated anti-gravity racing in wipeout fusion on the PS2 of course... and my simulated conversations on Slashdot.
...and play games on your Windows PC? No thanks. It's the PS2 or the GC for me.
what? how the hell are you gonna rip discs for your iPod without Audio CD support? what on Earth are you on about?
I'm an Apple fan but I think Apple farms out it's media serving to Akamai - that's who's hosting those webcasts and glorious QuickTime movie trailers. Apple's iTools services, OTOH, are just fantastic.
I'm sure that if OSX's built in software RAID and 4 way ATA system is inadequate, then dropping $400 on the same ATTO UL3D U160, dual channel SCSI card that I've got in my G4 will fix it. I get over 140MB/sec sustd R/W onto 4 striped Fujitsu MANs with my set up. Apple's clients could do a lot worse than add the ATTO UL3D and a rack-mount Medea array to achieve a bullet-proof SCSI RAID set-up. ATTO SCSI cards work just beautifully with Macs, I'd recommend them to anyone.
what are you on? The ATI Rage card that Apple USED TO ship was only 16MB, this card will most likely be the same Radeon 7500 that is poverty-spec on the G4 Powermac. And, yes, it'll be in the AGP slot, not the second GigE you dolt.
"Dell's $1,500 server uses Intel 32bit processors, Apple's uses PPC 64bit processors."
What, exactly, do you THINK you mean by this?
that doesn't make much sense - if the machine is physically too small to play a CD then that's that. I've got so many CD players in my house, car, bag and on my desk at work that I hardly need another. I have 2 PSXs, 2 PS2s and XBOX and a GC here at work. That little GC just makes me smile every time. Controllers ARE a bit crappy though, I will admit.
I think it does
I'm not sure that that's fair. My machine is a G4 450 dual with a Radeon 32MB. This was a stock item, almost 2 years ago and cost me around £1900 direct from Apple. IIRC, the BTO upgrade from the Rage 128 to the Radeon was around £100, and available on ALL G4s (including the Cube). If you bought a G4 in the last 2 years and DIDN'T get a decent video accelerator then it's YOUR fault.
it all depends what you mean by "automatic". In road cars, an auto is usually taken to mean a car with a torque converter transmission. There are also road cars with CVT (continuously variable transmission) systems these days, but they're not usually referred to as autos. Semi-autos were traditionally torque converters with manual gear select (like the Citroen C-Matic) but nowadays are more often of the automatic clutch type. Paddle shifter types are also sometimes sequential 'boxes such as motorcycles have, I believe that Ferrari's road car version is one such. These were sometimes also called "dog" boxes, and are always used in WRC cars. I still prefer a REAL manual, but sequential dog boxes are very quick shifting. The chances of F1 using any type of torque converter seem low.
"their" automotive software seems to be another version of WinCE. shudder
by "recently" you presumably mean "five years ago". for fucks sake...
well, I read an interview with one of the Maya team where he admitted that the code was not multi threaded, and the Maya on MY dual G4 never troubles the upper reaches of the CPU Monitor's graph. Seeing as how difficult cross-platorm benchmarking is anyway, and Alias/Wavefront aren't making any mention of Altivec optimisation (and neither are Apple), yet Pixar are commiting to the Mac platform, the conclusion that Apple have competitive products forthcoming is THAT wild a speculation.
"I don't know how well-tuned Maya is for the G4 vector instructions, but one would expect that Pixar would have less of a programming budget for these kinds of optimazations than a company who's actually selling the software in a competitive market."
I do. Not at all. I beleive that hardly any Maya code is multi threaded either. I'm sure Maya runs best on a high clockrate platform right now, Apple may be able to change this quite soon - so maybe this story indiates that they WILL.
Well YOU missed the "remember" carnage. Who's laughing now?
agreed. The best thing that the BBFC could do for this would probably be to cut in some scenes with Harrison Ford in them. You know, that guy with all the charisma in Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back...
"Now we get to see whether artistic integrity will triumph over filthy lucre..."
Artistic integrity? Star Wars?? Mod +1 funny.
best bet is to try and find someone who's upgraded their stock Radeon OEM to something else and get theirs. AccelerateyourMac.com forums are a great place to start looking. You could also probably obtain one as a spare part from an Apple service centre, but e prepared to PAY that way...