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August 4, 2005
WB: Nice Work if You Can Get It
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Nice Work if You Can Get It-Very few jobs with that much time off in the civilian sector I’m afraid, but I know of a career that will start you out with one full month of paid vacation a year. Just take the advice of John Wayne, 1972 Laugh-In:
The sky is blue,
The grass is green,
Get off your butt
And join the Marines!
I even hear they are hiring.
Posted by: harv | Aug 4 2005 5:46 utc | 1
Here in Europe…… you work part-time……. you still get 4 weeks holiday pay.
Posted by: Friendly Fire | Aug 4 2005 6:43 utc | 2
I have no objection to him taking a long vacation. Why doesn’t he stay there for the next three years?
Posted by: hopping madbunny | Aug 4 2005 7:31 utc | 3
Yeah, first of all, all the liberal blogs last month were full of the crap that Bush was already squalking like a lame duck, and there wasn’t much to worry about. Then he gets a supreme court nomination, maybe two in the near future, and changes the complextion of our nation maybe forever, passes CAFTA, the energy bill (kept working on that one), threatens his first veto over his royal right to torture, appoints Bolton, steals a congressional seat, and god remembers what else he did. Oh, and flips the press the bird in public and gets away with it. Imagine if Clinton…..Oh, what’s the use.
I hate to say it, but I do believe that he has been the most successful presidential politician that I can think of. He seems to get what he wants easier than Roosevelt did. Between the Democratic opposition and the press…. Oh, never mind!
Now he wants to be as far away from Washington as possible while the Abu Graib photos come out, Rove gets indicted, or whatever. Oh, and yes, come September we are do the rollout of a new product. I guess that means that we are in store for a new massive terror attack. Best to stay out of Washington for a while.
Malooga: Like you, I’m seriously wondering if this doesn’t mean another even bigger attack in a few months. Wouldn’t surprise me, for sure.
Posted by: Clueless Joe | Aug 4 2005 10:02 utc | 5
all British members of parliament take an 80 day recess every year from august on. even this year. nice.
http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000849.html
oh yes- in relation to your lets give everyone uranium blog it may interest you to know some news that came out yesterday. the british civil service provided the heavy water Israel used to build its first nuke. against the wishes of the US, and in secret. nice.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3122458,00.html
the israeli government can plays both the UK and US government like starivarius.
Posted by: james governor | Aug 4 2005 12:01 utc | 6
I don’t believe Bush is in excellent health. I think it is all they can do to keep him patched together. Extended time offstage is a necessity that also accommodates his laziness.
Posted by: emereton | Aug 4 2005 12:11 utc | 7
The Green party in Louisiana just applied for major party status. They have enough members now. First time since 1916 that a third party in Louisiana has done this.
Posted by: jd | Aug 4 2005 15:00 utc | 9
“Billmon, Bernie Sanders is I-VT, not D-VT.”
I SHOULD read “S-VT” But you’re right. Thanks for catching that.
Posted by: Billmon | Aug 4 2005 15:12 utc | 10
i remember reading that bush’s guests & business matters at the ranch are not subject to public disclosure, unlike the public housing he occupies in d.c.
Posted by: b real | Aug 4 2005 15:12 utc | 11
Huh.
My husband, after 9 years at his gig, gets one week of paid vacation. No paid sick time. He’s afraid to ask for more.
Me? If I can’t get someone to cover my shifts, I can’t go anywhere… unpaid OR paid.
I have a second PT job that I enjoy much more, and if I can go FT, there will be benefits.
Why do we do it?
Can’t quit now.
Kids to feed, mortgage, etc.
I am sooo burnt out.
This President… gah. I have never slept so poorly, worried so much, felt so fatalistic.
Posted by: ohwhatever | Aug 4 2005 17:16 utc | 12
We are about to go off on our “vacation”. As self-employed persons, we can take all the time off we can afford to finance. This year we are treating ourselves to three whole weeks.
Still no response from George Paine’s warblogging site. Bilmon, do you have any idea what went down, so to speak? At first I suspected hacker problems, but it has been nearly a week now.
Posted by: ralphieboy | Aug 4 2005 18:25 utc | 13
C’mon. The fourth anniversary of September 11 is coming up. It’s gonna take Dubyanocchio and his stringmen five weeks to concoct a speech and get in the necessary practice time commemorating the event that saved the Great Vacationer’s career.
Posted by: Meteor Blades | Aug 4 2005 22:49 utc | 14
Speaking of vacations, one of the WH reporters, Danielle Crittenden, has a pathetic post complaining that conditions at “Camp Crawford” are worse than Gitmo. I found it offensive & on par with Bush’s search for the WMD under his couch.
Posted by: Hoosiercat | Aug 5 2005 2:54 utc | 15
I say let him stay in Texas and quick!, give Texas back to Mexico. Hurry. Shut down the borders fast.
Posted by: jdp | Aug 5 2005 3:08 utc | 16
i’ve been hearing rumblings this summer in the great white north of shutting down all non-essentials. everyone daydreams about the beach all day anyway. productivity is very low. why not?
Posted by: lenin’s ghost | Aug 5 2005 5:55 utc | 17
“A Crawford Rex Idiotorum para lusus naturae īdem!”
Posted by: lash marks | Aug 5 2005 6:00 utc | 19