Lady found time in her busy busy full time employee/student duties to forward me this LA Times article: 'Burnishing an Image at the USA Corral' about what the hell it is that W bought and vacations at down in Crawford, TX. Is that stupid thing a ranch?
From the article, I learned that the plot of land spans 1583 acres and that twenty years ago, anything under 300 cattle was not considered a working ranch, but times have changed. There are currently four or five cattle on the whatever-it-is. I'm still not calling it a ranch. I'll call it his gigantic Texas property.
The article also points out how this was an attempt, I'd say pretty obvious, to downplay his upbringing of a New Haven, CT born, Andover, Yale, Harvard schooled [I wouldn't say educated] son of a Director of the CIA, Vice President and President. Can you get more north-eastern elitist than that?
He's not a fucking rancher and he doesn't live on a fucking ranch. He's a shitty president. He's a shitty public speaker. I will say that the year of vacation in his five years on the job has kept him looking good though. As Jon Stewart pointed out a couple of weeks ago, presidents tend to leave office looking like shit, W, on the other hand, looks better now than he did when he was campaigning and is undoubtedly in better shape than he was in his coke and alcohol binging days.
5 cattle?
1 2 3 4 5?
Hell, that's lunch! Did somebody bring the chuckwagon beans?
Those acres are just a grass parking lot. He went to Manhattan once and it scared the UConn crap out of him. Heard he was having daymares and nightsweats, cuz he can't parallel park...
Posted by: Jerome Gaskins | August 29, 2005 at 07:50 PM
You may want to read this, if you didn't yesterday:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/12493911.htm?source=yahoodist&content=phi_news
PS: Thanks for your comment; I'm just ruminating. More news at 11, ok?
Posted by: Jerome Gaskins | August 29, 2005 at 07:54 PM