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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:41 PM
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PHOTO: The dinning table at the George W. Bush childhood home.
Edited on Tue Apr-11-06 11:42 PM by Bluebear
Evidently, when a journalist goes into that home s/he loses all ability to spell.


Caption: "A view of the dinning table that sits in the kitchen area of the childhood home of President George W. Bush, in Midland, Texas, Monday, April 10, 2006."
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:43 PM
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1. Is this where...
...the Bush family used to sacrifice humans to the Dark Master?
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blitzen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:44 PM
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2. such a modest upbringing, humble origins, heartland and all that n/t
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:56 PM
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9. well, and Babs, let's not forget....
A font of tolerance and love for all men and women.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 01:11 AM
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16. As if she ever actually cooked. nt
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madaboutharry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:46 PM
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3. Maybe Dan Quayle helpped with
the copie!
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:46 PM
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4. Ward! Call Wally and the Beaver in-- supper's ready....
That's just too Americana for words. Dinning, huh?
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:48 PM
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5. Somebody sure got a cushy job buying all of the "right" stuff to put
in the house. We're supposed to believe Babs embroidered doileys and napkins?
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:51 PM
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6. This is a dumb question, but did they keep this house like it was
for 40 years, or did they restore it recently? Aparently no one lives there anymore.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:55 PM
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8. This house is being trotted out quick .....
.... show the good folks bush's down home values. Just like the "ranch" he loves so much was built
in 1999.

All smoke and mirrors.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:57 PM
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10. Oh I realize that, and I'm not surprised that it was redone in
1950's style. I guess Im just surprised that they still own the place....or did they recently buy it back??? Hmmm....
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 12:06 AM
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13. From what I can tell this was rush job.
Edited on Wed Apr-12-06 12:07 AM by Botany
The sod out front was dead and just newly laid. (I am a landscaper)

The rove/fox/creative response concepts/RNC spin machine is in full
panic. Got to get some good bush info out. The heat is really on *.

BTW he went to Andover Academy Prep School in Connecticut after 13
This humble little house was long gone after H.W. had his oil well come in.

they also had this little place in Maine too.

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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 01:11 AM
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17. Excellent post as usual. They are "homespun" like I am royalty. nt
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 10:01 PM
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38. A non profit organization was formed
which raised the money to buy the house, and the house across the street as a welcome center, and restore it and endow it. I think the total cost was around $ 1.5 million, I guess mostly for the endowment.
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 10:00 PM
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37. It's been restored
I went by last fall and it was being worked on. There was only one worker there and I got to talking to him and he took me through the whole house telling me what they weredoing and what was left over and what had to be found or restored.

It was very nice of him to do. Pretty interesting.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:52 PM
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7. He grew up middle class
Edited on Tue Apr-11-06 11:56 PM by Botany
What bullshit .... his family was millionaires thanks to Prescott's little dealings w/ the
Nazis and I.G. Farben which made something called Zyklon-B (used to gas Jews)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

IG Farben (short for Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG) (and also called I.G. Farbenfabriken) was a German conglomerate of companies formed in 1925 and even earlier during World War I. Farben is German for "paints", "dyes", or "colors", and initially many of these companies produced dyes, but soon began to embrace more and more advanced chemistry. The founding of the IG Farben was a reaction to Germany's defeat in the First World War. IG Farben held a near total monopoly on the chemical production, later during the time of Nazi Germany. It is the German chemical firm that was the financial core of the Hitler regime, and was the main supplier of Zyklon-B to the German government during the extermination phase of the Holocaust. Before the war the dyestuff companies had a near monopoly in the world market which they lost during the conflict. One solution for regaining this position was a large merger.
IG Farben consisted of the following major companies and several smaller ones.

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Jigarotta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 11:59 PM
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11. the dimming table, ... yes he spelt badly.
where dimson was hatched.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 12:00 AM
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12. I hate that man. Seriously. And I frankly could care less about his
roots, and these are not them. :puke:
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Meldread Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 12:16 AM
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14. Wow. They are pimping the bastard hard...
...how much lower can you go? Who wants to bet that table is a complete fake and is just a prop for a photo op?

They are getting desperate when they have to do shit like this.

"Let's talk about happier days in our Wonderful President's life."

"You mean like before he was President?"

"Hmm... yeah. Good idea."

"Okay I'll get right on that."

(Thirty Minutes later.)

"Apparently he spent most of his life before becoming President, zapping retarded people in Texas, and before that he was drunk all the time and high on coke - and not the type that comes in the bottle."

"Damn it. Go further back."

(Fifteen minutes later.)

"I did some more digging, apparently we might be able to get a photo of the table he ate at as a child - before he could speak."

"Great work!"

"Thanks, Karl Rove just needs a few hours to set the place up and then I'll send a Cameraman on over!"
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 01:06 AM
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15. all Billionaires live like that.... when they are slummin'n it in Texas
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 01:17 AM
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18. Someone opened the oven today and a moth flew out of it.
Tell me Barbara Bush ever cooked a thing herself.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 01:19 AM
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19. I HAVE those dishes..
EEEEEEK...

really..I did have them, but gave them to my son when he moved out.. :)
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 01:22 AM
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20. Franciscan Ivy?
They have always been one of my favorites.
Makes me sick to think that Babs likes them too.:puke:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 01:23 AM
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21. Babs never saw the pattern before today.
Some food stylist concocted the whole tableau, rest assured.
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 02:37 AM
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24. Martha Stewart did the decorating as payment for
Edited on Wed Apr-12-06 02:39 AM by gbrooks
being let out early.

I like how the new wallpaper matches the forty year old
dishes. What else is in the attic a mint American Flyer?

This must be the Potempkin Homestead I read about.
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Mojorabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 04:49 AM
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26. That is my china
Yikes!
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pstokely Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 01:30 AM
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22. Where's the real house? They can't fool me.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 01:34 AM
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23. Daughter of McCall's and Redbook
What a humble life. :eyes:

And come on, nobody had ivy wallpaper, turqoise appliances, and red accessories. Nope, not even Babs has that bad of taste.

Just another prop, I bet Bar washed the memories of that "dump" right out of her beautiful mind the day she left it.
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wickerwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 03:33 AM
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25. Of course it was the nanny's kitchen...
not the family's.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 04:54 AM
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27. And you KNOW her name was Consuelo....
and that she was :timpani roll: one of them pesky "ILLEGALS". But it's different if you're Republican.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 05:28 AM
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28. Gee, they must have lived on the set of the 'I Love Lucy' Show
Apparently, this was Lucy's dish pattern on the show.

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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 10:03 PM
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39. Funny
because when I went through the house the thing I kept thinking of was "I Love Lucy." It kind of reminded me of the house I grew up in.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 05:12 PM
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29. "dinning table" -- maybe because Bar was yelling at them all to shut up?
Hence the "din"?

(Dubya's mangling of the English language is so contagious, even walking into a house he vacated almost 5 decades ago is enough to set it off!)
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 05:18 PM
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30. Is the hellmouth under that table? n/t
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 05:23 PM
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31. A Norman Rockwell 'everyman's' family dinner table.
About as authentic as the 'Western White House'.:sarcasm:
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 05:31 PM
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32. I like the fact that they still keep a chair there for him. (nt)
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linazelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 05:56 PM
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35. Yep. That has to be his baby chair.
Edited on Wed Apr-12-06 05:57 PM by linazelle
Who says you can't go home again? Go home George. Go home PLEASE!

:rofl:
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 05:36 PM
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33. BEEF
It's whats for dinnner!!!

:hi:
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 06:25 PM
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36. BEEF! don't you mean BFEE? it's what's for EVER!
sure hope not
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 05:39 PM
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34. is this the house where they all slept in the same bed?
Seriously. The whole family slept in the same bed in the early days. Ma, Pa, and all the little ones. Really.
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