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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (117430)	12/18/2000 12:02:32 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

If the economy turns … The voters have clearly indicated it is time for compromise and cooperation in government, and the politicians have been promised just that. But if partisanship again dominates, we'll see how significant a lack of a mandate can be, and the tech community will feel the effects. And it seems to me the Democratic Party could see a lot to gain by stubbornly demanding its own agenda. Democrats feel they were robbed and deserve some giveback. And no one really knows how the public will react. Unless, of course, the economy turns sour. Presidents always get blamed for that. (For that matter, I wonder how President-elect Bush feels about Federal Reserve Chairman Al Greenspan, the man his father accused of costing him re-election?) That's the biggest risk to Bush and to a technology industry the American public already looks on as suspiciously privileged. If unemployment and the nation's debt start growing and the country slips into a recession, the fence-sitting public may fall off to the side that asks for more government protection. The Clinton administration deftly sat on the fence right next to the American public, ready to fall right along with them. Will Bush prove to have the same talent? If not, we may see the biggest backlash against a sitting president since the Nixon administration. After all, everyone knows he was elected by accident anyway. "Imagination is more important than knowledge." – Albert Einstein Richard L. Brandt..........Upside.com

To: PartyTime who wrote (117430)	12/18/2000 10:04:15 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

We have much more in common than I thought. Here's one of mine. Forgive the off-topic length. Milagro Sunrise Margie called from Uncle Sam's cafeteria. "Come down here and see this sunrise," she said. "Hurry!" she said, "It's changing by the minute!" From where I sit on the south side of the building at this time of year the sun peers through a breach in the mountains only briefly, mid afternoon. I went to Uncle Sam's on the east side of the building and watched, awestruck. My watch read 8 am. The sky, blood red in the faraway V-shape of Stephens Passage, brooded ever darker as God pulled it over the sparkling city of Juneau like a cloak. Blood red parted, revealing indigo, cobalt, Prussian, azure, aquamarine. Blood red gave itself to mandarin, then to colors no one but God can name. juneauphotos.com People came to the cafeteria and stayed, talking in hushed tones. Claudia turned the lights down. All eyes turned east. juneauphotos.com My watch read 8:30. The cloak, now clearly composed of shimmering angel down, continued its passage over the city. Seagulls and ravens rose up, then settled back in their resting places. A bald eagle flew by, dipping his wings for a better look. My watch read 8:45. A small aircraft flew down the channel into the sun, its wings afire. Moments later a jet rising out of the airport passed overhead, a white hot arrow shot into the sun. Forty miles away I saw him change course at the last possible moment. Seattle, after all, was his destination. At 8:55 a fiery halo rimmed a faraway mountain; then a brilliant arc peeked over the mountain's left shoulder. The sun continued its rise to a quarter circle, a half circle, finally revealing that it would be a round in full. My watch read 9:00 am. The faraway V-notch cradled a perfect sun. juneauphotos.com Unable to resist looking directly into the sun fully risen, I closed my eyes and saw it still. Looking away, a red orb lingered on my retinas. Time to go. My own south-facing window greeted my return. Outside the trees and mountains and snow glowed momentarily, then went dead as the angel down cloak paled into winter grey, finally obscuring the sun altogether. It's grey now, just another Juneau winter day. My thoughts return to last night's moonrise over Thunder Mountain. God made the moon the brightest of the century and cleared up the sky last night just so I could see it. juneauphotos.com juneauphotos.com I think of my blessings, how incredibly rich I am. I write this down. I think about family spirits, my riches. Spirits must be at work today. I give this to them. My friend Pat Costello takes these beautiful pictures. Please don't abuse his copyright.