amilius,

my theory is that he’s searching for that old bottle of top shelf tequila he hid from Laura during one of his binges.

Why would a man buy a ‘cattleranch’ in Texas that no longer has cattle so he could spend his spare time picking through the brush? I believe that the clue for this mystery is to be found in the pet nickname for his valued adviser, Turdblossom. turdblossoms are fungi that bloom on old cow pies that one frequently finds in the brush of cattleranches in Texas even when the cattle are gone. The fungi is the psilocybin mushroom, a long time favorite of ‘naturalists’ in Texas. Does it all make any more sense now? I bet Laura brews a mighty fine tea to rival anything one would encounter in Jamaica.

Thanks, Sonoma. Have a great one yourself. Does this mean I get the last word? :>)

Grampa: It’s funny. We agree on 99% of this conversation. Suffice to say, once ensconed in the Oval Office, I contend the Boy King’s greasy fuckin rat mentality is more formidable than you are prepared to grant.

That’s it. Not Charlie McCarthy, but a greasy fuckin’ rat.

And on that cheerful note, I wish you a Happy New Year.

Bush is indeed a viscious, pig-headed, bottom feeding bully. He is also glib, self-absorbed, thoughtless, vacuous, and totally lacking in compassion. None of these traits require much intelligence. I’m quite willing to believe they would have gotten him nowhere had it not been for the accident of his birth and the skill of his handlers. His hand-picked audiences, his manipulation of the press, the very words he utters — all, I believe, are conceived and managed by others. Does he understand what’s happening? Does he like it? Probably so. But could he pull it off on his own? Not more than Charlie McCarthy.

365 days of vacation during his 5 yrs in office? that’s 20 per cent!

do you know anyone who gets 73 days, or 10 weeks paid vacation a year? there are plenty of bush travesties to be pissed about but for some reason, this really got to me.

The Chimpster hasn’t been allowed near a chainsaw since he fell off the Segway scooter.

In the background of the photo you can see the real Bushwhackers.

They let the Chimpster pose with a two man saw for this publicity shot.

“He’s never had an original idea in his life”.

No doubt, but that’s true of most.

But lead he does. By my lights, his innate viciousness is sufficient, unto itself, to render any arguement about conventional leadership superfluous.

Too stupid? Hardly.

As Justice Holmes condescendingly said of FDR, his was a second class intellect, but a first class temperement. As much as I still despise the man, Reagan’s temperement was very close to being first class.

There excist degrees of intelligence, if you will.

Bush may possess a bottom feeding intelligence, but he’s smart enough to understand that fact. Thus, the hand picked audiences, and repressive war against honest journalism.

Temperement means little when dealing with cowards, and he has thus far managed to buffalo the spineless. It was hardly a coincidence that the NSA internal surveillance story was courageously leaked to the (once vaunted but now emasculated) NY Times prior to last year’s election. Whoever leaked that information knew full well its import, and trusted the Times to inform the People. What was not anticipated was The Times craven cowardice once in possession of that information.

I doubt very much if the Boy King required a tutor to guide him at that time, and he succeeded in playing Sulzberger like a violin.

Bush, being.. well Bush, runs roughshod over those he best understands. Sulzberger’s conceit that The Times personifies the best and brightest his profession has to offer proved easy pickings, for just that reason.

The pissant Bush is not stupid. Those who think otherwise are kidding themselves.

if this dorky president spent as much time planting trees as he does clearing brush, we’d be a long way toward replanting some of our countryside and solving the Global Warming problem…

oh but I forgot there is no GW problem for GWB!

I bet the secret service goes out every morning to put out some old brush for the bush to clear!

I mean how big is his place and how much brush for the bush can there be laying around after he’s been out there doing all that Hard Work over the last 5 years.

Sonoma,

Because he’s too stupid to lead. I don’t doubt that he digs what he’s doing, but he’s doing what others tell him will make him powerful. He’s never had an original idea in his life.

“Bush, it seems to me, is more led than leading..”

Why anyone is prepared to extend even a shadow of a doubt to that sonofabitch is beyond me. He knows what he’s doing, and he DIGS IT.

Anyone know the location of “his” ranch?

I mean, how would I “call it up” on Googlemaps?

Thanks
Ed Graf | 12.31.05 – 12:41 pm | #

Couple of great links up there, also there’s this guy who’s got a whole page devoted to finding the ranch
http://eyeball.sabotage.org/prez-eyeball.htm

Safety glasses with a hand saw? Wotta Putz!
And besides, who wears brandy-new gloves… unless they don’t do much ‘work’ or ‘often’?

Chance the gardener, Texas-style.
mercury | 12.31.05 – 12:11 pm | #

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LOL – Perfect! Chauncey Gardiner redux. Was Jerzy Kosinski clairvoyant?

Sonoma, Mrs. K8:

I’m not sure the Kaiser Wilhelm comparison is apt. The Kaiser, although mad, had the strength of will do drive his country into a senseless and destructive war. Bush, it seems to me, is more led than leading, listening to Karl, listening to Dick, listening to God. He reminds me more of the “Gee whiz” president in Vonnegut’s Player Piano.

new thread — novosti

the previous owners, the Engelbrechts, had donated land to build the Canaan Baptist Church on — thus the name: Prairie Chapel

Prairie Chapel Ranch

I believe that’s the name of the road the pig farm’s on.

Blub –

Ah, yes, the memoirs. Karen Hughes will write them. She’s the one who’s tasked with doing his remembering, anyway.

BTW, I don’t know how old the satellite images are, but it looks like he’s got enough trees to last him another three years, easily. Heck, if he doesn’t use power tools, they probably grow fast enough that he’ll never run out, even if he gets put in permanent internal exile there.

I am curious about one thing. Most controversial presidents have been, at least in part, vindicated (as thinking men) by their memoirs. Since it is clear to me that Georgy lacks the intellectual capacity to keep thoughtful memoirs, is he going to have to hire a ghostwriter to create them.. a fully synthetic presidency? Happy new year!

Here’s a link describing the exact location of the ranch, including latitude and longitude, so you can find it in Google Maps or Earth.

I didn’t realize it had a name — “Prairie Chapel Ranch”. Geez, how heavily do you think they focus-grouped that one?

I googled “aerial photo bush ranch” and this came up:

http://cryptome.org/bush-ranch.htm

Sonoma –

Thanks for bringing up the Kaiser Wilhelm bit, as I was just about to.

Imperious, grandstanding, mad-as-a-hatter, obsessive-compulsive killer of vegetation, warmonger in a war that made no sense.

What else do they have in common?

Oh, yeah, there was that rumor, which even Bismarck promoted, that Wilhelm was mixed up in that homosexual “scandal” called the “Harden-Eulenburg Affair.”

Am I missing anything?

“The Incredible Story of Mahdi Obeidi,” Part Two
by emptywheel
Summary: The story of Mahdi Obeidi, the Iraqi scientist who turned over nuclear parts and blueprints that had been buried under his rose bush, includes a number of suspicious details. In the first post in this series, I examine the multiple versions that have been told and try to put together a clear timeline of his experience. In this post, I’ll first make two points about Obeidi’s experience: we know his treatment was virtually unique among Iraqi scientists, and we know the CIA misrepresented his story. Then I look at a number of curious details that raise doubts about the materials Obeidi turned over to the Americans. In future post(s), I will pose questions about about the credibility of the Obeidi reporting
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/

off subject, but a great end-of-year rant by Justin Raimando, hoping that 2006 will be the year of trials. Justin’s journaliism tends toward the purple end of the spectrum, but here it is:

“”Bulldog” Fitzgerald has his jaws firmly clamped on a large and very tasty bone, and shows no signs of letting go. With Scooter already nailed, he is looking for more morsels torn from the flesh of Team Bush, starting with Karl Rove, the Republican Rasputin, whose counsels have – until very recently – kept the opposition in a state of panicky, cowardly retreat. Yet he has met, in Mr. Fitzgerald, an opponent who, far from running, has been the aggressor, relentlessly pursuing his target like a veritable Nemesis.

Such are the wages of hubris, a cardinal sin to the ancient Greeks, but the favored vice of the New Rome. What the last year has shown is that Washington, D.C., the epicenter of the new Imperial decadence, is bursting at the seams with corruption, like a corpse wriggling with maggots. In 2006, the whole unsightly spectacle will be exposed to the full light of day.”

Within those two paragraphs are thirteen html links to articles, most of which have been covered at firedoglake at one time or another. I think Raimando’s articles have more html links per paragraph than anybody else on the web.

Here’s a link to the entire article:

http://antiwar.com/justin/

Wrong saw
new gloves
no hat.
goggles
No self respectin
Texan
would look
like that.
Good photo
Bad op
As usual
Over the top!

OT for Prof:

I think I have what was cut off before below.

FWIW, IMO it is really really important to draw the distinctions between habeas suspensions (even though some of those, like the interment types of cases, have a more horrific punch) and suspensions of other civil liberties, especially in an area that is “business as usual” and courts are open and operating.

The only case I know of (Con-law is not my thing, but I have read all the Hamdi decisions and some of the briefs, so I am relying on the research that those guys already did – I may not be sympatico with Justice Scalia, but he doesn’t overlook much Con law precedent) that puts any dent in Milligan is Ex Parte Quirin and that involves some very particular facts – that include someone whose US citizenship is questionable, at best and someone who was a part of the German military and did come under military rules).
Pick up from prior post*****
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“The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information. It was incumbent upon the court, therefore, to determine the boundaries of that constitutional authority in the case before it. We take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the President’s constitutional power. The question before us is the reverse, does FISA amplify the President’s power by providing a mechanism that at least approaches a classic warrant and which therefore supports the government’s contention that FISA searches are constitutionally reasonable.”

So, based upon this dicta in a non-Supreme Court case that is dealing with a different issue, the Government claims the President has inherent Constitutional authority to do warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information that FISA cannot encroach upon. The ignore, for now, limitations imposed by FISA; the fact that the underlying cases dealt with solely foreign persons or entities and not where there was a U. S. citizen involved, and also the fact that, even under this bizarre approach, in a case that was addressing whether FISA could amplify the President’s power, the Court of Review found that, “We acknowledge, however, that the constitutional question presented by this case–whether Congress’s disapproval of the primary purpose test is consistent with the Fourth Amendment–has no definitive jurisprudential answer.” (In re Sealed Case) and the best the Court of Review can do is the “close counts in horseshoes and Constitutional Law accommodation it makes, “Even without taking into account the President’s inherent constitutional authority to conduct warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance, we think the procedures and government showings required under FISA, if they do not meet the minimum Fourth Amendment warrant standards, certainly come close. We, therefore, believe firmly, applying the balancing test drawn from Keith, that FISA as amended is constitutional because the surveillances it authorizes are reasonable.”

Katz (Olmstead type cases have hot links in the findlaw text)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/…..;invol=347
Keith (US v. US District Court)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/…..;invol=297
Truong (I don’t think you can get the Circuit Court decision from Findlaw [or rather – I can’t, but I’m mostly illiternet], just this Supreme Court determination re: bail)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/…..invol=1326
In re Sealed Case
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/…..802opn.pdf
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/…..ol=03-6696

Grampa,

“I’m quite prepared to believe that he took the money but then didn’t deliver the vote, probably because he subsequently sold it to somebody else for more.”

He’s a slick one, I haven’t seen a clear “smoking gun” in all of this yet. Hopefully the feds have one, or more.

we should all pitch in a give him a woodchipper

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/…..46,00.html

Mental evaluation of conservatives…. ^^^

http://fusioner.proboards60.co…..1131129004

Petitions ^^ (I have the ones posted above) – Media contact info.

I heard rumor on the street that NATO has been informed of possible action with Iran.

By this time, you’d think the place
would look like Kansas if he were actually getting anything done.

Best thing for the country is when he’s on vacation. Reminds me of how many events used to find Churchill in his bathtub. At least
Churchill was reading and working and ready to respond.

Since it used to be a pig farm (and never has been a “ranch”), maybe
he just needs to air the ground out.
All that manure would explain why the underbrush grows so well.

It was a major embarassment for the Saudi Crown Prince when news of the land’s former use got out back home – while he was visiting.

Wonder if that copy of “My Pet Goat” will ever go up for auction on E-Bay.

NotThatMo,

“Crawford isn’t a real town either. Before Bush decided to move into the neighborhood, it was considered part of Waco.”

Considering that Waco has given us David Koresh and now Dubya, maybe they should rename it Wacko Tx.

i think he is holding one end of a 2-man saw, with nobody at the other end.

Perhaps his fate will lead him to spend his final years as did Kaiser Wilhelm, after his war. In exile, chopping down a forest worth of trees.

I’m confused. I’da thought Bush’s brush handlers would want to find a way to pose him with the right power tool. Just the right chain saw thrust out into the pines would appeal to the Nascar crowd and to faux woodsmen everywhere. And that saw? It looks like the one they issued me in the trunk of a rental SUV in Costa Rica.

My conclusion is that Bush’s handlers don’t trust him with power tools.

SP CPA –thanks, I hadn’t put those together with the name.

Cozumel,

It’s probably correct. You see, an honest politician is a man who, when he’s bought, stays bought, and DeLay has never been an honest politician. I’m quite prepared to believe that he took the money but then didn’t deliver the vote, probably because he subsequently sold it to somebody else for more.

That photo is so staged. A handsaw for trees instead of a chainsaw? Is this 1940? Oh, puh-leeze!

and i do believe that rustic backdrop from when the white house press hos do their live shots is not a part of the pig farm either — it’s miles away.

disputed any assertion that donations to a nonprofit group linked to the congressman influenced his legislative agenda

yeah, right

DeLay Rep Says Boss Not Swayed by Donors

WASHINGTON – A spokesman for embattled Rep. Tom DeLay on Saturday disputed any assertion that donations to a nonprofit group linked to the congressman influenced his legislative agenda

Those donations, to a now-disbanded nonprofit group called U.S. Family Network, came from interests close to indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a story in Saturday’s Washington Post.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..abramoff_1

He’s just going for the Bono look

I’m still catching up so …

first – I am so relieved that I am not the only person distressed by “pleaded” – phew!

Responses to emails, etc -

I did receive a decent note from Durbin but that was on the PBS issue – and zero from Obama. Nothing from either on the bigger issues.

Conyers office send freuqent updates – and my new fave is the Louise Slaughter, congresswoman from *upstate NY*! who is using her re-election site to really push these issues. Here’s her latest email:

Thursday, December 29, 2005
Dear Christina,

First of all, I want to wish you happy holidays and a very happy New Year. Thanks to all of you for your feedback and comments to my last email, in which I urged you to sign a petition calling on Congressman James Sensenbrenner Jr., Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Congressman Peter Hoekstra, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to hold hearings demanding answers about the Bush administration’s spying on American citizens. If you haven’t signed my petition yet, please join the thousands of other Americans who have signed it already, by going here:

http://www.votelouise.com/DemandHearingsforSpying

But I will not be satisfied just by demanding hearings from my Republican colleagues. I have also submitted a Resolution of Inquiry (H. RES. 644) in the House of Representatives requesting the President and directing the Attorney General to turn over to the House any and all documents relating to the authorization of this secret spying program on American citizens. Here is the text of that resolution:

http://www.votelouise.com/blog…..-americans

The issue here is whether the President violated any rule of law. Here is what indicted Representative Tom DeLay said back in 1998, when he came out in support of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, based on the highest standard of the “rule of law”:

[T]his nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of the rule of law. Sometimes hard, sometimes unpleasant, this path relies on truth, justice and the rigorous application of the principle that no man is above the law. Now, the other road is the path of least resistance. This is where we start making exceptions to our laws based on poll numbers and spin control. This is when we pitch the law completely overboard when the mood fits us, when we ignore the facts in order to cover up the truth. …

No man is above the law, and no man is below the law. That’s the principle that we all hold very dear in this country.

Tom DeLay’s words are deeply ironic, but also illuminating for all of us at a time when we are reading story after story about government spying on American citizens. These stories raise questions about whether the President of the United States violated any rule of law under the Foreign Intelligence Service Act and the United States Constitution by authorizing domestic surveillance over American citizens without first obtaining court-approved warrants.

That is why the House of Representatives must step up and do its part to hold this Administration accountable for its actions and demand answers by conducting thorough and dignified hearings concerning spying on Americans. So, if you have not signed my petition yet, please sign it today and pass it on:

http://www.votelouise.com/DemandHearingsforSpying

Let’s not let up on this issue of spying on our own citizens. I am doing everything I can to do my part as an elected official in the U. S. Congress to seek answers and accountability from this Administration. That is why I submitted the Resolution of Inquiry, which I will urge all of my colleagues in the House to support so that we can get all the facts behind this spying program. Meanwhile, if you have any other ideas, feedback, or suggestions on how we can keep focus on this very important issue in Congress, and maintain this as one of the major topics in our national political discourse going into 2006, please post them on my web journal by going here:

http://www.votelouise.com/blog

Thanks again for your support, passion, and all of your work to restore faith in our democracy.

In Solidarity,

Congresswoman
Louise M. Slaughter

Quite a contrast to Hilary, eh?

“The Golden-cheeked Warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia) is a federally endangered migratory passerine that has its breeding range contained within the range of Ashe juniper (Juniperus Ashei) on the EdwardÂ’s Plateau of central Texas. Its listing as endangered in 1991 was a result of the rapid degradation and increasing fragmentation of habitat, causing a decline in their population…

The species is entirely dependent upon the mature Ashe juniper forests of central Texas for its nesting and foraging substrates. The species builds its nests almost entirely from shredded juniper bark at a height of 4 to 5 meters, most commonly in Ashe juniper and occasionally in hardwoods common to the region (e.g., live oak, Texas oak; Pulich 1976). Only mature Ashe juniper trees shred their bark, limiting the Golden-cheeked Warbler to forests with a high proportion of juniper trees older than 40 to 50 years (Pulich 1976). “

“I think it’s about 20 miles east of Waco IIRC.”

I meant west of Waco ; )

NY Times Sunday: Public editor on ‘loud silence’
behind Times’ eavesdropping story: Developing…

Raw Story

NotThatMo,

“Crawford isn’t a real town either. Before Bush decided to move into the neighborhood, it was considered part of Waco.”

If you go though Waco on I-35 there isn’t even a posted exit for it. I think it’s about 20 miles east of Waco IIRC.

How aggressive will DoJ prosecutors be in the plea deal with Jack? After all their boss is Abu Gonzales.

Of course the “ranch” is all bushit–but what the hell- he’s done worse–MUCH worse.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01480.html

Link to story at WP on Delay Abramoff financial connections.

Let us not forget that this is the Potemkin Ranch. It was built during 2000, and barely finished on Election Day. It was designed solely as a stage set for Presidential vacations. One thing you never see is the pool, built for the twins.

Crawford isn’t a real town either. Before Bush decided to move into the neighborhood, it was considered part of Waco. That was deemed unfortunate, so the Town of Crawford was incorporated.

Funny how no one points this out, eh?

Link

Nope–that ain’t Crawford–there’s a HILL!

shrink in sf – here are links to Dr. Justin Frank’s recent comments in The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..12892.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..11963.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..11537.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..11414.html

The photo is from a 2001(?) healthy forest photo-op (in Colorado?)

John Casper | 12.31.05 – 12:27 pm | — the concept of an “honest conservative” is something of an oxy-moron. Most GOoPer politicians are more interested in power than principle, and they understand that when the BushCo GOP corruption catches up with them, the GOP will be in the wilderness for a long time.

Of course, there’s always the right wing enablers in the MSM — I swear, Goebbels never had it as good as Dubya’s sweet deal . . .

Oy. The whole persona is whole cloth, denim or twill, BS.

100% Total McKrap

Thank you for the tip on the local speech: “cedar chopper.” Oy.

Cozumel | Homepage | 12.31.05 – 12:53 pm | #Thanks for posting the WaPo last night about Delay, Abramoff, and Russia. Made for great reading.

“Could you imagine a chainsaw in the hands of that idiot?
countryjoe | 12.31.05 – 12:57 pm |”

He’s already giving us a Texas massacre without the chainsaw.

“Chance the gardener, Texas-style.
mercury | 12.31.05 – 12:11 pm”

Funny!!

That photo is so staged. A handsaw for trees instead of a chainsaw? Is this 1940? Oh, puh-leeze!

Think about it. Could you imagine a chainsaw in the hands of that idiot?

Ain’t got nothing on clearing brush. Spent some time doing it myself. Clears the ‘ole noggin. It’s like lookin’ at monuments, but different..

Have some sympathy…Anyone who is looking to spend a lot of time huddling in his office with a bunch of lawyers in 2006 probably, well…messing about with chainsaws (heck, a good single malt) is probably on order, then, now, donchathink?

I just wonder what Teddy Roosevelt…would think about his “copycat-outdoorsman-leisure-hunting president” after…oh, say, the fallout from next week’s legal developments begins settling?

Tomorrows news, today…

The NSA’s Overt Problem
So Many Conversations, So Few Clues to the Terrorists’ Chatter

By Michael Hirsh

Sunday, January 1, 2006; Page B01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..techpolicy

That photo is so staged. A handsaw for trees instead of a chainsaw? Is this 1940? Oh, puh-leeze!

Thorazine would be more therapeatic for Brushboy.

We don’t even need to use armchair psychiatry…we got Dr Justin Frank in Bush on the Couch: Inside the mind of the president who diagnosed him as a paranoid meglomaniac, an untreated alcoholic and having a “lifelong streak of sadism”. See review from capital blue here http://www.capitolhillblue.com…..8;num=4687

The people who really run this country — but are afraid of getting in bed with us “impeachment crazies:” in other words, the oligarchs (Barron’s), the judiciary (Luttig), the foreign policy realists (Snowcroft), their chatterers (Will and Krauthammer) and the permanently powerful (e.g. Jay Rockefeller) are signalling to one other that this cabal must go. We need our true believers in Congress (Boxer, Feingold, et.al) to start making visits WAY across the aisle, to the red-state anti-big government GOP Senators who must be scandalized by this unwarranted surveillance. It’s time to build some bridges, people.

2006: It’s the wiretapping, stupid.

Ed Graf | 12.31.05 – 12:41 pm |
Crawford, Texas

Anyone know the location of “his” ranch?

I mean, how would I “call it up” on Googlemaps?

Thanks

That whole “brush clearing” schtick was meant to put people in mind of Ronnie Reagan and suck, lamprey-like from his supposedly *beloved* image. Sooner or later it’ll have to strike the dimwit as having been a hellova lotta wasted effort, as no one loves him, everybody hates him and as pathetic as Ronnie was, Bushie doesn’t rise as far as Reagan’s shoelaces in the public’s eye.

yes, “cedar chopper” exactly. the term is the central texas pejorative for redneck, cf. peckerwood, hillbilly, hayseed, chicken choker…

I was intrigued by his apparent interest in setting fires.

me too. add that to sticking firecrackers up frogs’ butts and i do believe you have two indicators of sociopathic behavior (as if we needed the indicators). but it is nice to have confirmation, i guess.

that article actually has all kinds of interesting snark: 365 days of vacation at the ranch; mention of the previous incarnation as a pig farm. (i’m assuming those 365 days don’t include the camp david retreats)

“Bale that axe and total the shrub.”
Why should he be any more competent in this field? BTW – where’s his bike?

we would have been better off if the percentage was reversed and he’s spent four year cutting trees and brush and only one year ‘on the job’

ck | 12.31.05 – 11:59 am | I think there is some merit to your post, but conservatives have been inexcusably and recklessly silent for far too long. Their silence has enabled Bush and the WH to completely discredit conservatives upon issues that they thought were their’s exclusively, the Bill of Rights, strict constructionism, isolationism, and fiscal responsibility. A very strong push from conservatives for impeachment might help conservatives distance themselves in a very small way from the “Tammany Hall” lawlessness perpetrated upon not just the U.S., but upon the whole world. The fact that the major dailies, WaPo, NYT’s, LAT’s, Chicago Tribune, and others have still not yet called for impeachment hearings says to me that conservatives are continuing their silence. Drudge has not even posted the latest scoop about Delay’s Russian connection. George Will has questioned Bush about “domestic spying,” but he fell short of calling for impeachment.

Somewhere a while back I saw an aerial view of the ranchette. There’s not a stick of vegetation in sight. Or in the surrounding landscape. Methinks “brush clearing” is code for . . . what? Falling off the wagon? Again.

Loggin’ without a hardhat, which may explain a few things…

Is there a pic of him where he isn’t repugnant?

Where can I get a vacation package like that?

Chance the gardener, Texas-style.

C’mon. Bein’ Presnit’s hoarde woorke!

I was intrigued by his apparent interest in setting fires.

From my amateur psychologists chair, that’s interesting to me.

Als, should we be surprised that Bush’s favorite pastime is killing plants?

Mike

So I guess those aren’t his reading glasses.

Those look like pine trees to me, which do not grow anywhere near Crawford. Also, no Texas cedar chopper with a half a brain ever used a saw like that. Used to be axes. Nowadays think “Stihl”.

Fitz!