Bush resolves "to work tirelessly for peace abroad and prosperity at home"

[Stephanie]

But tomorrow he will be pulling hard for the Longhorns.

Bush to Pass Quiet New Year's Eve at Ranch

59 minutes ago

CRAWFORD, Texas - Peace and prosperity. It's a well-worn New Year's resolution, but that's what President Bush is wishing for 2006

"The president's New Year's resolution is to continue to work tirelessly for peace abroad and prosperity at home," White House spokesman Trent Duffy said Saturday.

Bush and his wife, Laura, and her mother, Jenna Welch, will be dining at the Bush ranch here, but it's unclear whether they'll stay up long enough to ring in 2006.

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The president is ending his weeklong stay at the ranch, where he cleared brush, rode his bike and prepared for his sixth year in office, with a steak dinner. Also on the New Year's Eve menu: tamales, green chili and cheese grits, grilled vegetables, black-eyed peas, a Texas grapefruit and mozzarella cheese salad, and chocolate cake.

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On Wednesday, Bush is expected to watch the Rose Bowl, which pits No. 1 Southern California against No. 2 Texas for the national title.

"As a huge college football fan, the president is looking forward to the Rose Bowl and pulling hard for the Texas Longhorns," Duffy said.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051231/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_new_year_s_1

[stevedeshazer]

1. Change the "quiet" in the headline to "quietly" and that works for me

And I hope the Trojans kick some Longhorn ass.

[Stephanie]

8. you bad!

:)

[acmejack]

11. Well we are in accord on the first of your wishes!

But please, a team named after a brand of prophylactics? Hook'em!

[stevedeshazer]

13. LOL!

We'll see. :)

[Stephanie]

14. Which came first, the condom or the team?

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[Cha]

2. Fuck him and his fucking

LIES..he shoulda thought of that in 2001 after his consiglieres stole the election.

[MidwestTransplant]

3. I think I see My Pet Goat on the bookshelf behind him?

Anybody with photoshop could probably help!

[peekaloo]

4. pulling hard On a longhorn is more apt.

been yanking us for 5 years now.

[enki23]

7. i think his wife already told that joke

.

[peekaloo]

12. I'm just milkin' it .

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5. that whole scene looks way too sterile

A real office has messes here and there, crumped papers, coffee cups, lamps. fake fake fake

[FreedomAngel82]

17. At least the desk anyways

My grandfather had a home office and his desk was always organized but had stuff all over the place. He had a calendar on the desk and had numbers and appointments. Various stuff like that.

[Oldtimeralso]

26. Clean office

What kind of mess can he make with crayons?

[enki23]

6. presumably by expanding the war in the mid east, and ending the min. wage.

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[Stephanie]

18. peace is for suckers

and prosperity is for Bush and his pals

[LiberalinNC]

9. He'll work tirelessly by going on vacation.

The man doesn't know the meaning of the word WORK!

[undeterred]

10. is this the opposite game?

"to work tirelessly for war abroad and poverty at home" is more like it

[FreedomAngel82]

19. So when is he leaving Iraq?

And at that the office he got illegally?

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. He's been clearing the same damn brush pile for 5 years.

I think they truck in brush from neighboring farms...just like they rent animals for special photo ops.

[Stephanie]

16. Local rancher: "All that brush clearingis for show. It's not necessary."

But on August 16 one Crawford landowner, Fred Mattlage, stepped in to help, by offering up his property for them to continue their protest. With this, another Crawford was put in the spotlight. This Crawford sees the growing divide between rich and poor in their community and a president who is responsible for it and accountable to no one.

One such Crawford citizen is Larry Mattlage, Fred's distant cousin, whose family has been in Crawford since 1887 and who owns a farm three-quarters of a mile from Bush's property. Mattlage is the real Crawford cowboy—with land, goats, sheep, a white beard, legs that stretch a mile—and he believes that Bush has done nothing for his beloved town except exploit it. First off, the idea that Bush is some kind of "rancher" just makes him laugh.

"He don't know dirt," says Mattlage, who is friendly with Bush's ranch foreman, Robert Blossman. All that brush clearing, Mattlage says, "is for show. It's not necessary.… is where the birds live. That's birdseed. That's deer food. That's cow food.… makes cedar posts. If they're grown properly, they make a good post that will last forever." Bush's ignorance on the matter doesn't surprise him. "You don't move into these boonies and really understand the land, you know?" says Mattlage. " got a lot of money, and they got access to a lot of machinery and a lot of bulldozers and a lot of destructive equipment, and before you know it, they can screw up something so damn bad.… A rich man with a bulldozer is a dangerous thing!" Furthermore, the notion that Bush is "friends" with anyone in Crawford is hogwash. "He's a visitor to this group of people," says Mattlage. "Nobody knows anything about him. I know you better than I know my neighbor."

http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/051107roco01?print=true

[FreedomAngel82]

21. Very telling isn't it?

And remember the stories of how they bought the place. Just shortly before the 2000 election. Before that they apparently lived in a gated community. Wasn't it in Houston?

[Lisa]

29. Exactly. * is trying to landscape it to look like an Eastern woodland ...

A Texas landscape ecologist told me that clearing cedar by hand is not only ineffective, but can damage habitat used by endangered species like the golden-cheeked warbler -- and will lead to soil erosion if the person doesn't know the environment well.

I thought it was interesting that just about the first thing * did after buying the property in 1999-2000 was to put in a big artificial fishpond! (Not really an appropriate use of water, in an arid area, due to the high evaporation rates ... and the pond gets so warm in the summer that most of the fish die.) He's acting like he's in Connecticut, for example, where there's a lot more water.

And even though he brags about being a Texan who likes the open plains, he spends most of his time down in the canyons, where the trees are. He's become obsessed with creating little meadows full of wildflowers down there, next to the creek ... which is what East Coast woodlands look like in the spring.

He is trying to impose his own ideas on the landscape, by force ... regardless of the actual conditions in the area ... and forgetting all about the cost (and the fact that this is an artifical illusion which will require continued maintenance -- he'll be clearing brush until he's too old and decrepit to go out there, and someone else would have to keep doing it then). Larry Mattlage summed it up -- "A rich man with a bulldozer is a dangerous thing!"

Pretty well sums up *'s view of the world.

[lpbk2713]

20. "Now if ya'll will excuse me, git off my property. I'm on vacation."

"Don't call me. I'll call you."

27. look at that neon jacket on grandpa george

He is as bad as Babs with the glow-in-the-dark outfits.

(She probably bought it for him, just occurred to me).

[pinniped]

22. The drunk sap's head had to be propped up for that photo-op.

Nice opener, 30% of the saps will believe this, too.

--Peace and prosperity. It's a well-worn New Year's resolution, but that's what President Asshat is wishing for 2006--

[vademocrat]

23. uh oh - we're in trouble now -

Anything he "works tirelessly" on seems to be worse after he's done!

[XanaDUer]

24. 'Bout five years too late...

:eyes:

[Oldtimeralso]

25. "to work tirelessly ..."

I thought that Shrub wasn't going to rest until they caught OSB! So how can he work tirelessly unless he is talking about how the wheels fell off of his administration?

[Evergreen Emerald]

28. umm...if is going to work for peace abroad...

...he better stop fu*kin bombing people. If his future work towards prosperity is any thing like his past work, his buddies should be very happy.

[walldude]

30. What? Is he in competition for Miss America? n/t