Bush "Picks Up A Pair Of Pruners"...meanwhile, in the Philippines...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040423/photos_pl_afp/040423234635_3lj23xq7_photo0

"US President George W. Bush picks up a pair of pruners as he participates in a volunteer program at Turtle Trail, clearing brush at the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve."



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040519/photos_pl_afp/040519015932_rqeobapr_photo0&e=1&ncid=

"Anti-American sentiment is rising in Asia, in sharp contrast with the dramatic improvement in government-to-government ties between the United States and the region, experts told a forum in Washington to gauge America's role in Asia. Here an anti-US protest in the Philippines."



And above, the winner of this week's "You Call That a HANDSHAKE?" photo, Dybya & Greenie participate in some male bonding.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040518/photos_pl_afp/040518213255_2x62dxuc_photo0&e=8&ncid=

"US President George W. Bush shakes hands with US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in the Oval Office of the White House. Bush renominated Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve chairman, extending his rule even as interest rates appeared sure to rise in an election year."

[politicat]

1. you know, from a psychological viewpoint, you gotta wonder...

about a guy who gets his jollies in his off time pruning and hacking plants and setting bonfires.

round these parts, we call that latter part PYROMANIA and consider it a good sign of deeper mental illness.

Pcat