Seriously: how much freakin' brush is ON that goddam ranch?

There was a funny headline on Yahoo that said President Bush Marks Earth Day and it seemed funny to me because I pictured him marking the Earth like a dog marks his territory. Hey, maybe we should make a George/Calvin sticker showing him peeing on the Earth!

Anyway, there was this quote:

' "I'm looking forward to getting my hands dirty," Bush, who spends hours during his down time clearing brush on his Texas ranch, told young people awarded for their environmental work at the White House on Thursday. "Looking forward to getting outside of Washington." '

Jesus, isn't his "ranch" fucking BARREN by now? Every time I see him, he is dragging the same damn branches around. If I had somebody that inefficient helping me clear land, I'd fire 'em.

so the only thing they raise there is weeds and dirt. Someone has to harvest all of it :)

I guess he'll have to order more from the "prop" department. You know, the same place where he gets those fake bales of hay that the "reporters" stand next to.

That he'd just have some brush shipped in from somewhere else.

That he's probably ordering the brush in and then moving it from place to place like set dressing so the "ranch" will look just like all the other fake ranches on t.v.! :rofl:

with the rusty equipment in front of it.


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on that dry gulch Prairie Chapel, never shows where it went after it is cut. No wheelbarrow, no truck to carry it away--I have the feeling he loves to show he knows how to wield a chainsaw, and then leaves all the brush he cut up for someone else to clean up and cart away.

From somebody who has used a chainsaw for years * does not know how to.

From the Aug of '01 film w/ him and his Stihl saw you can see the man is useless.
He was cutting a log while being down hill, got it stuck, and had a piece of it
almost hit one of his handlers. True story.

Give that boy a saw (If he can start it) and send him out alone .......LOL

and ask him to juggle.

One of my co-workers, who trains forestry technicians, says that she wouldn't want him on her crew! He'd injure himself or someone else. (The man should take a safety course, rather than relying on "spotters" all the time.)

"Out here, Secret Service agents trained to take the bullet for the president ensure falling trees do not strike him. Some watch the perimeter around Bush, while those closest to him guide cedar away from his head."


http://www.sptimes.com/2002/08/11/Worldandnation/Working_on_range__hel.shtml



p.s. he also makes his aides drag the cut branches over to the burn piles. I'm sure there are more important things they could be doing with their time, such as making sure he reads important-sounding stuff like terrorism warnings?

.... please do.

I saw it Dec. '04 and for the first time I really laughed after the election .....
Log uphill
* downhill

but he cut through the log so fast from the top it pinched the bar on the
saw. If not he would have seen wood.

What a turd.

I have never seen a foto of the house! Just the gulleys, a couple o' trees, his bike path, the hay bales the reporters prop up... Heck, Dubya & his wife didn't buy the ranch till 1999 & then quick! had to build a house & guest house... at least the Reagan ranch house was visible from above. I dare say we have never seen any shot of the Bush hacienda.

the overthrow of our country without risking any bugging or uninvited ears or witnesses. You don't think they were playing down there before 9-11, do you?

I had no idea!

There is an entire staff who replaces the brush once * returns to DC.

I seem to recall he has it registered as a tree farm.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040404/news_1n4tax.html

"...Of course, many property owners who receive the tax breaks have no intention of developing their land. President Bush, for example, receives the agricultural tax break for his 1,582-acre ranch in Crawford, Texas, saving $23,679 last year on what would otherwise have been a $44,617 tax bill. "

on the cutting edge.

and just napalm all that brush.

Who was always chopping wood for staged photo-ops. Same shit, different scum-bag. Still make murikkkans feel good. We can't help it if we're cheap and easy.

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Brush comes up every year in the southwest. Get while its young and tender, and it ain't too much of a chore (depending on how many acres you have). If you are living on the land, some you must clear. It is good exercise.

Even considering all that, I join with those who see Bush's brushmania as basically a photo op -- just like everything else at the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford.

That is, if he were actually running cattle on his "ranch"--would he need to cut brush?

Yes, I'm a Texan. But there's no brush here in Houston.

Here's a few of the 'hands' planning for next week's clear cut ...

who replant "brush" in between his vacations.

It's not easy, since there is never more than four or five days between vacations.

She told me that, the way he's doing it, there will always be brush. Apparently there are other techniques that are more efficient (if he really wants to open up the scrub for planting wildflowers) -- such as mechanical clearing, controlled burns, and even "goating" (careful grazing management). Because he insists on using those Gator vehicles all the time, he can't really argue that his way is more environmentally-friendly (just as much disturbance and soil compaction).

She noted that George W. has also been spreading a couple of misconceptions -- that the cedar is an exotic species (fossil pollen evidence suggests it's native) and that killing it off will liberate large amounts of water for future use (it actually prevents erosion and soil damage, and other tree species are responsible for high water consumption).

http://members.toast.net/juniper/
http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/brush.html

"the way he's doing it, there will always be brush."

Sisyphus is best known for being punished in the Underworld by rolling a stone with his hands and head in an effort to heave it over the top of a hill; but regardless of how much he pushes, the stone rebounds backwards again and again.

But * is "a determined guy" (as he told the Canadian press)
:crazy: :dunce:

Yes -- it seems he's condemned himself to continued "hard work", as long as he owns that property. (Watch for it to show up on the market in the spring of 2009, possibly earlier if he realized that he doesn't have to campaign again.)

If it were anybody else, that obstinacy in the face of nature would be cute.

They'll eat anything--note the ecologist specified "careful" grazing.

Lots of goat cheese is made in Texas--some land won't support cattle.

out of the ground in his frantic search to find his next fix! It keeps him motivated to follow his honey do list!

Ever notice that he is always sporting some new injury every time he comes back from that ranch? He falls down an awful lot while clearing brush too!

Truthfully, I think he's attempting to immitate Reagan. Reagan ACTUALLY did have a WORKING ranch and he ACTUALLY did go there to work!

Sorry for any spelling errors, trying to download something and play on DU too. Spell check is too slow on a dail-up while doing that!

Supplied by the same people who bought and built that "ranch" for photo ops...oh, and bought him, too.

believe that Fortunate Son clears brush - like he ever did an honest day's work in his privileged, mindless, parasitical life. Not that he even rises to the level of a parasite - they, too, have their place in nature. The only descriptions I've ever seen that I thought fit him have been posted here - in addition to the hilarious ones, someone called him Demon Spawn. That about says it

I get a cool podium to rename my place the Cool White House instead of the Western White House as he uses it now.

I get a full security detail

I get catered meals

I get a kickass stereo/videoconferencing system

I get to hang out there on a regular basis and call it work

People have to come see me at my place

Free helicopter and private flights

I could probably convince bands to come play at a "fundraiser"

I could have a cheesesteak from Geno's in Philly flown in for lunch whenever I wanted it.

Man, I need to work on this...

I'll call my friends in Texas and tell them quit dumping their brush on Bush's ranch every time he leaves for DC. You're no fun. So I'm not telling you what we did to our Governor durring the elections. :P

Then he can just shovel it up, carry it back to DC, and call it an "agenda" without wasting paper.