enigma wrote:
Robert wrote in
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Welcome to 2009. The year we lose our TV signals. What a way
to start the year, knowing in another month and a half, we will
lose our tv reception, unless we subscribe to costly cable or
satellite tv.

you do realize that you can not only live without television, but you
might even get more things accomplished. you could use the time you
waste watching tv to learn something new or work on hobbies.
i get my local weather & news online. i haven't watched tv in well
over 20 years. there's really nothing worth watching (although i do
have satellite for Discovery channel etc for other members of the
family). i also have a book addiction...

Of course there is one good thing about 2009, we'll lose BUSH
!!!! A much welcomed loss.......

do you think he'll have a library? if so, what books would it
contain?

He who? Bush?

According to the White House, Bush has read about 40+ books in 2008 (186 in
the last three years), in addition to daily Bible passages. Some of which
we

American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin (a biography of Robert
Oppenheimer)
Day of Battle, by Rick Atkinson
The Coldest Winter, by David Halberstam
Gettysburg, by Steven Sears
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power, by Richard Carwardine
Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, by Ronald C. White Jr.
Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
My Pet Goat, by Siegfried Engelmann (re-read)
Nine Parts of Desi The Hidden World of Islamic Women, by Geraldine Brooks
Personal Memoirs, by Ulysses Grant
Polio: An American Story, by David Oshinsky
Prisoner Without a Name..., by Jacobo Timerman
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, by Leigh Montville
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, by
John M. Barry
Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky
Spanish Civil War, by Hugh Thomas
The Stranger, by Albert Camus