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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:22 PM
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what is "clearing brush" a euphemism for at the White House?
"He's clearing some brush this morning," deputy White House press secretary Trent Duffy said Tuesday.


he's always off doing this when something happens.....is this the White House's way of saying he's drunk off his ass and can't come to the phone?
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:23 PM
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1. you know, trimming some bush
locking locking (?) locking
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:24 PM
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2. "Nursing a hangover"
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 09:13 PM
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17. ny thoughts exactly
eom
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dave123williams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:25 PM
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3. Banging Condi?
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:47 PM
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10. making on oral presentation for her?
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trayfoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 10:26 PM
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24. I don't know............
The Gay and Lesbian Community seem to think Condi is a Lesbian??????? Of course, there are those who think shrub is bisexual........
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Technowitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:26 PM
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4. "He's on one of his usual two-week benders."
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:27 PM
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5. "The Preznit can't talk right now... The scriptwriters aren't available."
Or, his battery is recharging.
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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:27 PM
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6. "Beering some Crush"
I heard he likes to drink beer mixed with grape Crush. Sounds pretty gross to me.
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DakotaDemocrat Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:35 PM
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7. He's sharing his love with someone...
...or some thing...
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:41 PM
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8. R is for REHAB...BUSH + R = BRUSH
Just made it up. But it works for me!



1st Amendment Shoppe
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:43 PM
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9. Ooooh -- also, BRUSH = SHRUB rearranged
:tinfoilhat:
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 06:06 PM
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12. So, is shrub getting clear?
Like, he's secretly converted to scientology?

Okay, I need to lie down and rest now.
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 06:20 PM
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15. Clear Channel? Clear Skies? New-Clear? Clearasil?
Edited on Wed Dec-29-04 06:20 PM by Sparkly
Or as you said, scientology...
:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:
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idiosyncratic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 06:19 PM
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14. Molly Ivins would be so proud. :-)
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 09:14 PM
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18. and isn't a shrub similar to brush?
but then what do i know....i'm just a liberal yankee city-slicker
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:47 PM
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11. Meeting with Karen Hughes to plot ways to confiscate returnables from
homeless people
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FreeCajun Donating Member (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 06:18 PM
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13. burning fraud evidence...
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 07:26 PM
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16. Seemed a bit pale at that press conference - no "clearing brush" glow
Looked like he was bloated and hungover to me.
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 09:24 PM
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19. not to mention burst blood vessels in his cheeks
syrosis of the liver next perhaps?
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ShadesOfC Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 09:40 PM
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20. Hmmmm.....
....it means he's finetuning his image, that of the "shoots straight from the hip" proud but manly leader. :shrug:

I guess Bush can't help how he projects, he is what he is: feeble-minded, shiftless, soulless and combative. What a scumbag!!!
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 06:10 PM
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29. Hi ShadesOfC!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 10:01 PM
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21. It means he's undergoing medical treatment.
That's why he goes to Crawford after a "grueling" schedule. Grueling to him, anyway, not to someone who is actually accustomed to working for a living.

But I digress. Little Boots has a mini medical complex at Crawford and receives specialized medical treatment which he requires on a continual basis. This explains why, frankly, he looked like total crap when he gave the statement. Even makeup cannot disguise his ill health.

Expect to see Little Boots going to Crawford on a fairly regular basis, more so than he did his first term. Makes you wonder if Osama isn't the only one on dialysis, eh?
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 10:08 PM
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22. I agree, I've always thought that
...it is a euphemism for "medication adjustment." Some of those stronger drugs are hard to tolerate, they cause loginess, weight gain, and eliminate the highs and lows that happen in "normal" life, at least for some patients. He probably isn't super-compliant, and I'll bet he "forgets" to take his daily dosage if the Lump isn't around to remind him....

As for Osama, I think that dialysis thing is bullshit. I think they may have used it temporarily after a severe kidney infection (probably due to dehydration, very common in that end of the world) and he probably has weak kidneys, but I'll bet they haven't failed...and if they have, he probably bought a couple off some poor, well-matched Pakistani villagers.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 06:16 PM
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30. I bet ol' Osama
Doesn't have much of a problem finding voluntary kidney donors in that part of the world.
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American Tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 04:54 AM
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34. The bottom line is that we don't know
We really don't know much of anything about Osama bin Laden's present condition. He seems to be doing well enough to continue to send us his vacation tapes though.
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 10:13 PM
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23. Being butch and manly
It doesn't have a shred of truth to it; his handlers bring him his chainsaw as the sedan chair footman place him for the photo-op.

If they were living trees, I might believe it.

He wants to be Reagan, but unfortunately, even Reagan wasn't Reagan; in a way, they're birds of a feather: ciphers who dance whatever tune is most convenient. Like St. Ronnie, Junior has no core; there's no there there, and the posturing just accentuates that.
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Piperay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:30 AM
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25. Dead drunk nt
:beer: :hangover:
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 05:26 AM
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26. Getting help with...
the consumption of pretzels.
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Borgnine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 05:48 AM
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27. Trimming his pubic hair?
Condi likes her men neat and tidy.

And with that visual, I shall bid you a good night.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 06:41 AM
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28. Hitler lost the war sleeping in on D DAY nursing a hangover
with orders not to be awakened FOR ANY REASON..... WHAT ONLY A FEW PEOPLE KNEW AT THE TIME...he was a dying man...ravaged by syphlis, he didn't give a shit. He woulda lost the war anyways but the point he was not in the right frame of mind.

Bush is not in the right frame of mind too.... and Just like Hitler, and Idi Amin, etc etc, his handlers spin the shit into ice cream for consumption by the masses... most of whom will find it tasty....

What does Bush Have???....in terms of a disease???.......... I don't know but.......there are too many bizzarre incidents.... that something is amiss. ... In Hitlers case, motion pictures of him throughout the 30's and 40's until his death.... show an advance of trembling in his left hand.... at first ...the doctors studying the films thought it was parkinsons.... but then...shifted to Syphlis...

What does Bush have??? that would cause a complete disregard for the Future and the American People in general?
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marcologico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 03:02 AM
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31. working with his reading specialist
because Laura gave up
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 03:20 AM
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32. i think he goes there to meet with his mafia handlers.
everything that happens there is off the record. he meets with his cronies and his criminal underworld controllers, and figures out exactly what points of the constitution and law that they want him to subvert next.
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Sandy_0 Donating Member (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 03:41 AM
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33. Some of us have known about this since before the election
Please check this out. He Bush may have had major surgery.
PHOTOS Show George W. Bush Seriously Ill Physically

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4891

George W. Bush apparently is wearing a medical device for "persons at risk of cardiac arrest." It is a LifeVest wearable defibrillator. He started using it sometime after his January 2002 fainting spell, which was attributed to choking. Based on photos showing him wearing the device, one can conclude the fainting was due to atrial fibrillation (AF), which his father also had.

His father’s AF was caused by Graves? hyperthyroidism, which Barbara Bush also has. Bush Jr likely has AF and, less likely, Graves?, based on his family history and symptoms. The AF may have caused a stroke or TIA (mini-stroke), of which physicians watching the debates detected symptoms. Observers have noted psychological symptoms consistent with this and with Wernicke-Korsakoff disease.

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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 05:41 AM
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35. bush-whacking n/t
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frustrated_lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 07:12 AM
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36. Naw,
it just means he's a good republican.
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baldingrockwarlord Donating Member (114 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 08:04 AM
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37. .
brush is shrub spelled sideways, sort of.....
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marcologico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:37 AM
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38. wanking in the Lincoln bedroom
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