Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch [Time.com photo essay]

[truthisfreedom]

bUSH HAS SPENT 20% OF HIS DAYS IN OFFICE AT HIS RANCH, OR ALMOST 2.5 MONTHS PER YEAR.

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040112/bushranch/index.html

...Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
At the Western White House in Crawford, Texas, for the holidays, President Bush spent his days relaxing, working and tending to his sprawling homestead. Exclusive pictures for TIME by Brooks Kraft

[kalian]

1. Burning down and chopping up trees....

great...just great... :eyes:

[Voltaire99]

7. He's like one of the Orcs...

Or should I say Dorks?

[are_we_united_yet]

2. Puts new meaning into working from home

[rumguy]

3. What's the purpose of all that chainsawing and burning?

I grew up on Montana, close to some big ranches, and I've never seen any so-called "rancher" spend so much time doing this.

Is it some kinda non-native tree species or something?

[truthisfreedom]

4. man, that brush smoke sure works up a powerful thirst.

y'know what i mean? oh, crap, laura'll scream at me... heh-heh-heh, the last time i tied one on, i got that awful shiner.

[KC21304]

5. He thinks he is Tim " Tool Time" Taylor. RRRRRGGGHHH !!

[PartyPooper]

6. Hmmm...do those two over-stuffed club chairs give us a fashion preview

for what sort of 'haute couture' Pickles will be wearing in the spring?

Dontcha' especially love the pattern and the colour? Gee, I wonder who the designer is.

:eyes:

[frylock]

8. their ranch home looks like the bathroom at a highway rest stop.

Honey, that dump just took the life right outta me. Do you mind driving the rest of the way?

[truthisfreedom]

9. leash that animal!

[truthisfreedom]

10. and while you're at it, put the dog in protective custody!

[DU9598]

12. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Gives it a whole new meaning and one just as frightening.

[babzilla]

11. the big brother video screen is creeping me out.

Is that Cheney eating soup on the left side of the screen? What the hell is that?

He looks so much happier and harmless on the ranch.

C'mon America, we should all get behind our president...and vote him out of office so he can fish and drive his truck and chop down his trees to his hearts content.

[truthisfreedom]

13. no, we should all get our president behind us. and move on. 8^)

[babzilla]

14. well that would be the bonus situation

in that little scenario.

But really, is this Cheney eating soup via video conference or what?

[truthisfreedom]

16. he's adjusting his mic from the shadow government's underground bunker,

obviously. i hope bush checked for ticks before wearing those outside clothes to his meeting.

[babzilla]

18. not to worry

Tom Delay was sent out on a tick round-up before bush was allowed outside.

[Minstrel Boy]

21. "Cheney eating soup"!

Cheney on the Big Brother Screen - man, that's straight out of the animated "George Bush Show".

http://www.ebolaworld.com/mainpage02.html

[tabasco]

15. Ah, gee, what a regular manly guy.

This dumbass never worked a day in his life and whoever published this should get some pictures of him passed out drunk. That's the condition he was in until he was 40 years old. This regular joe propaganda makes me laugh and then HURL!

AWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOLAWOL

[kskiska]

17. What gets me

is how his flunkies are giddy at the thought that the Chimp may let them help with the hard labor (that he could well afford to have professionals do). And how in the summer they're thrilled to death to be allowed to run withthe idiot in 110 degree heat and get their very own Chimp t-shirt.

[Lefta Dissenter]

19. The fact that Laura is having to hold him up in #7,

is that a clue as to what he's drinking in #4?

And my, what a good example he's setting in #8 - driving without a seatbelt and with a dog in his lap. Brilliant. I live on a small farm, and even if I'm just driving my truck across the field, I have my seatbelt on, and my dog is NOT wrapped around my steering wheel!

And is the quail hunting he did earlier in the week at all related to the contained quail hunt that Cheney did last month? I don't know if anyone posted on that or not - maybe I have to run to NYTimes to find a link. Disgusting. Great white hunters. Sons o' bitches.

edit: found the article - nope, unrelated. MY BAD. It was a pheasant hunt in Pennsylvania that Cheney participated in, NYTimes, December 15, 2003

one paragraph snipped from there - don't want to hijack the thread, just want to clarify what I said:

All of which brings us to Mr. Cheney's bird-hunting trip at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania last Monday, when he and nine others in his party shot some 400 out of 500 pen-raised pheasants released for the morning hunt. No one might have noticed the episode if The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had not reported it, including the detail that the vice president had shot more than 70 of the ring-necked pheasants himself.

[truthisfreedom]

20. excellent observation! after laura killed her boyfriend at a stop sign, he

should certinly be wearing a seat belt and have his accident-prone dog locked down in an on-board kennel. this symbolizes the recklessness with which he runs our country. no seat belt, dog on lap.