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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 11:42 PM
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Protesters? What protesters, asks Laura Bush

Speaking after the shows by children from the Shakespeare Schools Festival, she said: "We haven't seen that many protests. But we have seen many American flags and people welcoming us."

"I don't think the protests have been as large as predicted."

The Queen, said the First Lady, had been "very hospitable and welcoming".

She added: "Someone from Texas might be a little amazed to be staying at Buckingham Palace. The Queen has tried to make us feel comfortable ... and thanks to all the people of Great Britain for their hospitality."

She said that one of the "thrills" of staying at the palace was that she could walk around the galleries and see on display the art from the royal collection.

She had also watched preparations for last night's state banquet, and the attention to detail paid by royal staff, including measuring the distance between place settings.

"We have banquets at home but we're not exactly that exact," she confided.

Asked about the meeting earlier yesterday with the relatives of British servicemen and women in Iraq, Mrs Bush said the families were "incredibly strong".

"We went to comfort them but they really ended up comforting us. Most of them said: 'Stay the course'."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,1090078,00.html
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 11:46 PM
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kalian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 11:46 PM
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2. Excuse me while I.....
:puke:
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 03:45 AM
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25. I'm with you...
I feel sorry for Lady Bush...she has an idiot for a husband and a couple of daughters that will be in "Girls Gone Wild" any day now...

but honestly... :puke:
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loudnclear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 07:56 AM
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32. Laura is a real "dip stick"
But what do you expect? She married Bush.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 08:21 AM
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37. And I thought the STEPFORD WIVES was only a movie
Yikes. Was I wrong. This woman is some kind of sea cucumber.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 11:48 PM
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3. that purple drapedress cut off the flow of blood to her brain
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frank frankly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 11:51 PM
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5. bigidea...thanks!
pickles, you are a robot.
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 03:14 AM
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22. did U C that shapeless
burlap sack she had on 2day. I swear it was burlap cuz it was fuzzy looking, brown w/ a red stripe running thru the fabric. Honest, it was truly ugly!
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 03:18 AM
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23. an encapsulated pickles representation
love it
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 10:36 AM
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47. L-O-L!
wubba wubba wooooooooooooooo
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neuvocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 11:50 PM
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4. "Whenever I close my eyes and ears I don't see or hear them."
"So that means they aren't there."
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Scott Lee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 11:52 PM
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6. I'm gonna puke.
"Stay the course"? THEY said that? Laura Bush is a fucking liar and a half.

Unreal.


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justjones Donating Member (596 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 11:54 PM
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7. OMFG.....
She's talking about "art" and how the staff measures the distance between place settings when down the street the world is calling for her husband's head on a stick......she must be taking tokes from her husband's stash....if not, someone needs to put on those mickey mouse white gloves of hers and bitch slap her.....no one can be that oblivious ....:mad:

Jones
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 07:35 AM
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31. Welcome to DU
THanks for joining us.

And just be aware that many find the term "bitch slap" to be offensive.
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:01 AM
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8. What a fucking Oxymoran™!
She has to be drugged out not to "get it"!

:evilfrown:
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Say_What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:06 AM
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9. Ain't it grand being a Stepford Wife, Laura. You D-Bag.
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pink_poodle Donating Member (605 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:20 AM
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10. A parallel universe! Wow!! -nm
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Wwagsthedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:26 AM
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11. After all, pickles is a liburien
n/t
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Myra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:30 AM
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12. "Let them eat cake"
Immortal words from Married Marionette.



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Djinn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:42 AM
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13. well she was hardly gonna say
"yes it seems my husband IS the most widely vilified President in US History"

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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:52 AM
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14. She used to be a Democrat BEFORE she married that *******.
I understand her mother still belongs to us. So what happened? What does she tell her mother these days?..."Sorry, Mom, I married a monster." Go figure!

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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:59 AM
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15. in nest months issue
of "red book" laura bush reveals her secret recipes for a joyous thanksgiving holiday. "turkey is rather gamey" snickered the first lady. this year we are trying something new. "yes, cooked iragi children," laura announced proudly. "and the best part" laura almost whispers, "is you don't have to mess with butchering, they're already in bite sized pieces."
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 08:19 AM
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36. Where do you get your information about Mrs. Welch being a dem?
....in Midland Texas, I don't think so! But what do I know?
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Myra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 03:37 AM
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24. True, she was in a...*pickle*
Thus the stale old fall back remark about how
the number of protestors was supposedly
less than expected. That's what they say
when there's nothing else they can say.

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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:44 AM
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45. You beat me to it!
I hope our history will be as memorable.
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:07 AM
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16. She is really an Al-Anon wife
she fits the image. She's a woman without an identity. She's used to letting Old George be on center stage. After all the years of George's drinking, her own persona has been pushed into the background, and she really doesn't know who she is.

She enables George to continue his substance abuse. She needs help. Look at her kids. They're following in their dad's footsteps and becoming alcoholics, themselves. It's a family disease.
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Randi_Listener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:10 AM
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17. Laura "Vehicular Homicide" Bush...
...is the biggest dumb C-word to live in the White House.
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:20 AM
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18. Yes, and everytime I see a picture like that I wonder
what the hell was SCOTUS thinking, anyway!?!? They're all equally to blame for all of the murder and mayhem Junior has unleashed. Guilty with blood on their hands...all five of them!



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BringEmOn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:48 AM
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20. Driving lessons?
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montanacowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 10:09 AM
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46. Not...
from my reading of this "accident" she and her boyfriend were the only two cars on the road in the middle of the Texas prairie - no trees or impediments to sight, and she hit him head on? no wonder she fits into the BFEE so well
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:30 AM
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19. Comfort or confront?
Now pickles will come back and want to redecorate the WH to look like Buckingham Palace.

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cyr330 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 03:05 AM
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21. She's more to be pitied
Poor thing. . . . Can anyone imagine the hell she must endure on a daily basis? She's had sex with George W. Bush. She's married to him. She sleeps in the same bed with him at night. Gawd, what a fucking nightmare.

Nonetheless, Laura chose her path. After conveniently ridding herself of her first (ex) boyfriend by killing him with her car,Laura embarked on a new career--husband hunting.

Laura searched all over the place; she wanted a perfect boob this time, and she hit the jackpot when she was introduced to GWB. Laura has gone a long way from being a kindergarten teacher/murdereress.
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TheLastMohican Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 04:02 AM
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26. You are talking about some nightmares here
In one bad with that.... thing. NO, I don't think so, she probably lets Condi sleep with him. No wonder you always see Condi with her disgusted face near the guy, even on the pig farm.
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 04:22 AM
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27. Apparently.....................
Valium Laura doesn't realize that she and her idiot husband have been sheilded from everything unpleasent during their trip. She's under the delusion that all things are normal, that there are only a handfull of people that think her hubbie is an asshole.

These people live in the biggest bubble imaginable. If she was allowed just once to actually see what is going on in the world, they'd have to triple her valium.

This empty headed Stepford Wife is a disgrace. Drapery manufacturers everywhere love her though. She is the perfect mate for the perfect asshole.
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jsw_81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 05:07 AM
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28. Pickles is clueless
What a sorry excuse for a first lady.
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scarface2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 06:18 AM
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29. what about the guy...
she killed in high school after running a stop sign...she should just be getting out on parole now!!
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 06:20 AM
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30. Dubya obviously married her
to make himself look well informed by comparison. I guess she doesn't even get the daily briefings from staff.
Do libraries in America have daily newspapers? I thought that was meant to be her line of work. You'd have thought a little curiosity would have remainded with her.
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Nlighten1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 08:00 AM
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33. "Let them eat cake!!!!!!!"
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 08:03 AM
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34. Junior, 'I dont know they hate me'. Who's more clueless, Pickles or Junior
when asked by reporter at the press conference 'Why do they, English citizens, hate you so much', Junior is quoted above.

So does that mean
1.Junior is stupid?
2.Junior is lying?
3.The CIA is lying to Junior?
4.The CIA is not able to gather this (common) information?
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 08:09 AM
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35. well they left for Sedgefield
Edited on Fri Nov-21-03 08:20 AM by Marianne
looking smug and satisfied. Laura certain that she look "smashing" because I suspect the same people who tell the naked emperor his clothes look fine tell her she is gorgeous, and has the figure of her youth. She has never looked more frumpy than she did on this trip.

bush leaving with Laura

little embroidered hearts on the pockets? Gloves too dark this time--shoes should have been the same color as the gloves--

This one is a gem--here she is at the Faberge museum looking like the old grey mare who ain't what she used to be




jacket too short--can't tell her that, though.



"Thank you, sir. I appreciated it," Bush said to the prince. How crass . http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/bush

It seems Bush made so many conflicting statements about adding more troops in Iraq--no, having less troops in Iraq , no--I take that back more troops--that he finally settled on saying all three in one sentence--to cover up his ignorance about matters in Iraq.

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eileen_d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 08:22 AM
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38. Jeez, that burlap sack!
My grandmother has polyester pantsuits that have more class.
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 08:33 AM
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39. This isn't "country wear" is it?
When they got to Sedgefield, Cherie Blair met them wearing slacks. Seems that would be more appropriate.

And what's with the gloves? Is she picking up style tips fromt eh Queen now? I've never seen her wear gloves like this before.

And I'm sorry, my sisters, for dissing her for her clothes. I know it's wrong but I can't help myself. :evilgrin:
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Stuckinthebush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:32 AM
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40. Why do they always do the "We're just little ol' Texans" bit?
Like they haven't lived a life of privelege.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:35 AM
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41. I thought the CHIMPANZEE was born in Connecticut
Edited on Fri Nov-21-03 09:36 AM by saigon68
And that thee SHRUB family was from New England.
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:35 AM
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42. Go back home and bake your bread with Barbara!!!
These Stefford wives make me throw up!!!

:puke:
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:39 AM
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43. It's not Laura's fault
She led a sheltered and protected life. And look who she has for company.
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phatkatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:42 AM
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44. Isn't that what anti-depressants do?
Allows the brain to deny aspects of reality that you cannot deal with, like being married to the most hated man since Hitler?
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 10:39 AM
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48. Sad, they believe the bubble they created is the real world
When readers "get into" accepting the possibility of the magic and fantasy of fiction its called "willing suspension of belief in reality."

Pickles has apparently been engaged in this process so long she no longer knows where fiction begins and ends...

That or she has drunk from the vessel with the pessle, rather than the flagon with the dragon, or was that the chalice from the palace?

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