Yesterday, the LA Times ran an article about how President Bush made a bunch of five-year-olds cry.
I'm serious.
One hundred Brentwood kindergartners, many dressed in costumes, were all set to go see "The Wizard of Oz" on Friday when their first-ever field trip was blocked by the nation's 43rd president.
They never got to see the wizard.
President George W. Bush, his Marine One helicopter grounded by fog, brought morning rush hour to a standstill while his motorcade proceeded from West Los Angeles through the San Fernando Valley to Simi Valley for the dedication of the Air Force One Pavilion.
"We had buses all loaded up - but by the time they got to school it was too late," said Julie Fahn, a volunteer mom at Kenter Canyon Elementary in Brentwood, where girls had dressed as Dorothy to see the play performed in Malibu.
"My poor children - they were so disappointed. They're all so sad. They were inconvenienced by a silly motorcade down Sunset (Boulevard)."
The grown-ups weren't terribly happy about Bush's stunt either, and their reactions were somewhat less adorable.
On Friday, police were alerted just before Bush began his commute. With only a few minutes' notice from the U.S. Secret Service, LAPD and city Department of Transportation cops shut down Sunset Boulevard west of the San Diego Freeway from 8:15 a.m. to 10 a.m.
...As the presidential motorcade turned from Sunset onto the northbound 405 for a dignified crawl on a freeway cleared of other cars, the CHP closed freeway entrances and exits along the entire motorcade route.
"Southbound was wall-to-wall, creeping, except for the car-pool lane," said Dan Page of Simi Valley, who saw the deadlock from his Toyota Prius as he threaded the jam in the HOV lane heading for his job at the UCLA Health Center.
Like many from a region that overwhelmingly cast votes against Bush in 2004, Page was critical of the president's decision to disrupt the nation's busiest freeway commute.
"If he can sneak in and out of Baghdad without anybody knowing it, it seems like he could slip in and out of L.A. without disrupting rush hour - twice."
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This is entirely off-topic but right up your alley: zombies! In Wisconsin!
http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/node/408
FREAKING SWEET! It's funny, because I just bought a new zombie-themed funnybook today...the universe is trying to tell me something. It's either "the zombies are coming and we must defend ourselves" or "the zombies are coming, and you should start eating brains now so that you can say you were doing it before it was cool."
Oh, having actually read the post now:
They grounded all aircraft within 30 miles of Simi, meaning we couldn't fly our little spy planes. They shut down the 118 for a good hour so he could drive to the Reagan library -- and then he flew out on Marine One, a bigass helicopter. Why didn't he fly in? Not enough of an entrance, I guess -- even though he stopped not once and talked to no one. Oh, and Marine One was staged out of a soccer field about a quarter mile from where I work, and ruined the turf where it landed, so the kids can't play soccer for a few days while poor Haggis (that's what we call him, he's this ancient long-haired Scottish guy who cuts the grass) repairs the field.
I think I liked it better when he was on vacation.
Pay no attention to the future indictee behind the curtain . . .
Boston is beautiful, I can see why you went there, but in four years did you ever see the sun?
"The former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, Lord Palumbo, who lunched with Mrs. T[hatcher] six months ago, told me recently what she said when he asked her if, given the intelligence at the time, she would have made the decision to invade Iraq. "I was a scientist before I was a politician, Peter," she told him carefully. "And as a scientist I know you need facts, evidence and proof -- and then you check, recheck and check again. The fact was that there were no facts, there was no evidence, and there was no proof. As a politician the most serious decision you can take is to commit your armed services to war from which they may not return.""
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-dyn/content/article/2005/
10/12/AR2005101202328.html
I do hope that's a true quote, I know so many Thatcher haters I want to rub in that.
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