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First the graph is wrong because there is at least one other military transport aircraft. But to act like this is new and isn’t at least equal to the entourage that went with Clinton is just more asshat Bush bashing.
Could you cut down on the advisors and aids, and reps from other US Departments, if we had a smarter president?
Heck for that matter he probably doesn’t listen to any one other then Cheney, Rove, so why does he need all the other folks….
Nice post Uncle Dave.
John Stone
Only four cooks? And where are the praetorian guards?
It is money well spent if we can keep him out of the country until his term expires.
Bush to any other head of state: Mine is bigger than yours!
No wonder they start to feel and act like Elvis.
Apparently Reuters can’t afford artists who know how to speeeell aides – or copy editors literate enough to catch such elementary-school errata, either.
Pathetic.
#5
I think a prince of Saudi Arabia has ordered that new double-decker Airbus A380.
“phftttt,” mine will be bigger.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/12/business/air.php
Hey GigG
Didn’t you know Billy and Hilly flew coach and rented at Budget. After all, they’re just ordinary folk like you and me,
#7, Three headed cat.
Aids is correctly used. An Aid is an assistant. Aide has more of a military tone to it, although I think colloquially it is also correct.
Aid (Merriam-Webster)
Main Entry:
2aid
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
(snip)
3 a: an assisting person or group — compare aide
Aide (Merriam-Webster)
Main Entry:
aide
Function: noun
Etymology: short for aide-de-camp
Date:
1777
: a person who acts as an assistant; specifically : a military officer who acts as an assistant to a superior officer
Can’t expect the workers to stay home now can we?
JH – you are correct, but nevertheless it is not the usual modern usage. Aid-without-the-e, in my lifetime, has been used exclusively to refer to inanimate objects, and aide to refer to humans.
From the spelling of ‘armoured’, we may safely infer that this graphic originated in the UK; however, I have likewise not seen Brits since WWII use that variant form in either media or literature. I contend that the by-far most common, and therefore the de facto standard, usage, in at least the USA and the UK, is to use the final ‘e’ to denote humanity.
Of course, I suppose we could always ask Anthony Burgess…
Question: Is this unusually large for President Bush, or did previous presidents have comparable entourages?
#1 – But to act like this is new and isn’t at least equal to the entourage that went with Clinton is just more asshat Bush bashing.
Chill out.
I see nothing in the graphic or the post to indicate anyone thinks its new or that this is “Bush bashing” (not that that asshat Bush hasn’t earned it)
#10 – Wow… a useful post from James Hill? That’s something you don’t see every day… or even once a month…
#12 – If you have a Chicago Manual of Style or an AP Style Guide handy, you could just look it up.
I think they forgot the people who have to translate everything he has to say into phonetics. Heck, he can’t pronounce anything with more than two syllables.
How many of those people could just telecommute?
It certainly seems to make the American president (regardless of party) have less freedom/flexibility to travel.
Cat, would that include mistakenly hyphenating “elementary school” and writing “errata” where the correct word was “errors?”
>>Cat, would that include mistakenly
>>hyphenating “elementary school”
As a compound adjective, I believe “elementary school” in the construct “elementary-school errata” should be hyphenated. As is “Three-Headed Cat”.
You seem to have caught the Ghoti con Tres Cabezas with the “errata” thing though.
Neither was an error.
‘Errata’ is the plural of ‘eratum’, which is an error in writing or printing.
‘Elementary-school’, with the hyphen, is a compound modifier.
So, as you can now see, had I not correctly inserted the hyphen, then my phrase would be open to confusion. Did I mean errata at a level taught in elementary school, or ‘school errata’ which were elementary? The inclusion of the hyphen effectively collapses the probability of reader error.
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Anything else you were wondering about?
>>‘Errata’ is the plural of ‘eratum’, which
>>is an error in writing or printing.
Not sure if you’re one a them thar dictionary guys, Poisson, but the term “errata” (and its singular,erratum) usually refers to a LIST of errors, rather than the actual errors themselves.
http://tinyurl.com/2wyoh9
Check out the security when a Presidential candidate comes to your city. All the overtime for those cops doesn’t come cheap. The helicopters add some serious coin to your tax bill as well. Don’t worry though: It could be for your own good, as well as theirs, who knows yet.
Damn! No Lincoln convertible limo!
I believe Bush has spinners on his lowrider limos where Bill and Hillary only had curb-feelers. You can’t see it from the graphic but all his support (secret service) vehicles are identified with fuzzy-dice and shag carpeting dashboards. Bill had another group of 12 nappy-headed-ho’s that he traveled with.
This isn’t really about Dem/Rep, Bush/Clinton bashing…just a general note on HOW much money/effort it takes for the President to take a little vacation.
If you want to raise a bitch, the point would be that sure Clinton & Bush both used the same level of ‘staff’ in travel…but Bush (and Republicans in general) CLAIM to always be for smaller less expensive government, so they SHOULD be using lesser/cheaper travel than the Democrats, otherwise they’ll just bs’ing. So much for their complaining about the costs of government. Funny, actually the number of Federal employees, overall spending doesn’t change whether you elect Democrats or Republicans. When our “lives” were at stake, Bush took 10s of thousands of private sector employees and made them government employees (TSA). So no matter what either party says, when the President leaves office (Democratic or Republican) the government’s budget will be bigger, and the number of Federal employees will be larger.
>>Funny, actually the number of Federal
>>employees, overall spending doesn’t change
>>whether you elect Democrats or Republicans.
You may be right, but at least 416 days from now, we can toss the current trash to the curb and replace him and his puppetmasters with someone who will use all that money and all those employees for something that is beneficial to someone other than Halliburton, Blackwater, and President Cheney’s Secret Energy Cabal.
Don’t forget the fighter escort, the airborne refueling tankers, the AWACS, and the fleet of military cargo transports required to carry 40 armored vehicles and the helos.
And it should be noted that the Clinton Administration racked up more air miles than any administration in history.
It should also be noted that while Bush is a indisputable moron, any President should be escorted with this much security and the cost isn’t even worth discussing when compared to things that cost real money…
…like the War in Iraq.
If I am elected President, I *promise* to DRASTICALLY reduce my entourage to only ONE 747, a single stretch limo, and a staff of only sixteen (personally selected Playboy Playmates).
ME FOR PRESIDENT!!!
#23….DaveW…..sick little bitch aren’t you? You must be from one of those paradise countries that instead of elections just shoot their leaders when done.
We have had some bad President’s in this country, but none that deserve to be killed…..and to make a reference like that show’s what a sorry little minded loser you are.
But, that’s just my opinion. 🙂