He said he was "heading back to the heartland,'' his 1,600-acre ranch near Crawford, Texas, where he was expected to spend the entire month of August. "I love to go walking out there, seeing the cows. Occasionally they talk to me, being the good listener that I am,'' Bush said.
The cows talk to him.
Really, that explains so much, doesn't it? I wonder how many people would have voted for him if he'd said that before the election?
And how is it, I wonder, that after only six months or so on the job, he gets to take a full month of vacation? I mean, yes, very stressful job and all that, but damn! At this rate, by the end of his term, he'll have taken at least a full eight months of vacation. I don't think I've taken eight months of vacation, combined, in the past eight years.
(This entry title courtesy of the "Twin Beaks" episode of Darkwing Duck, copyright Disney TM, all rights reserved and all that fun stuff.)
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
[Archives: 2001 and after]
Archives before February 5, 2001
Search entries:
12/19/2001: vive la france
12/19/2001: princess, redux
12/19/2001: yemen and rumsfeld
12/18/2001: you're NOT in the army now
12/18/2001: interesting donation
12/18/2001: shame on winn dixie, indeed
12/18/2001: saudi princess
12/17/2001: new resolve
12/17/2001: a victim of the attack ... yeah, right
12/17/2001: polluters ho!