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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:07 AM
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who here lives near where there are ranches?
I live in Norfolk Va. (not many ranches here) and I was just wondering what you see as the difference between the Texas Whitehouse and a real working ranch.

Other than the asses are in the barn.... not in the house.
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:09 AM
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1. I do
Two major diffences:

1) Ranchers actually DO work.
2) Ranchers actually produce something, other than cleared brush.
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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:11 AM
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4. This being said....
I am curious as to how many REAL ranchers still support the chimp.
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SCDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:10 AM
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2. People actually have to work on a ranch
BS just doesn't cut it.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:10 AM
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3. The * 'ranch' was a pig farm before he bought it.
Big difference. Huge.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:12 AM
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5. You mean
It's not a Pig Farm Now?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:12 AM
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6. And the difference between....
A pig farm and what's going on there now is..... what?
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:14 AM
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7. Not me
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woofless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:15 AM
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8. A real rancher
has the bullshit on the OUTSIDE of his boots.

(paraphrase:Jim Hightower?)
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:15 AM
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9. that piece of crap in TX is nothing more than a stage backdrop for photos
and interviews.

It's just a sham.... like the people in it. All hat and no cattle.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:18 AM
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10. We have an honest-to-goodness Texas Rancher here at DU.
Talk to efhmc - she can give you chapter and verse on being a rancher in Texas.

She'll tell you that *'s ranch is as phony as his Texas accent.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:26 AM
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11. BTW-W bought the "ranch" in 1999 moved in Feb.2000
purely political

http://austin.about.com/cs/bushbiographies/a/crawford_ranch.htm

George W. and Laura Bush purchased around 1600 acres just outside of Crawford in 1999. Located 18 miles southwest of Waco, Crawford is about 90 miles north of Austin and convenient to Fort Hood for those flights in on Air Force One. The ranch itself, eight miles northwest of Crawford, is in an area known as Prairie Chapel.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 09:39 AM
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12. Texas Monthly had an article: "George Bush's Crawford"
Don't have a link--registration is required--it's in the November 2002 issue.

The article is quite surprising & was the first hint the magazine was stepping away from full-time Bush fellating.

A rancher was interviewed--a real one--who owned a place next to the pig farm. He expressed a real link to the land. He doubted that Bush shared that feeling.

www.texasmonthly.com/

(Registration is free & you can avoid getting on the advertising mailing lists if you stay alert. You'll also get access to Kinky Friedman's monthly column--including the one in which he criticized hunting!)
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TX-RAT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 11:55 AM
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13. ranches
I have a small ranch in west tx 1920 acres, it seems to take up all of our time.Don't have time to travel,constantly repairing fences, sick cows,hauling water,and always feeding.What's funny is we never see bush doing any of that.We also have full time jobs. We're tired.
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ChickMagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:27 PM
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14. Welcome to DU!
Fellow Texan!
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TX-RAT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:45 PM
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16. Thank you ginbarn
Want to buy a ranch?
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ChickMagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:59 PM
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18. Nah
Too much of a city girl :)
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SpaceCatMeetsMars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:27 PM
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15. I read an article where he was driving somebody around and when
they saw some cows, Bush said, "Bovine." He didn't add anything to that, just "Bovine."

I grew up on a farm with beef cows and there were a lot of dairy farms around there too, and we always just called them "cows." And my dad always had a lot to say to the other farmers about the cows, they would talk about breeds and health problems and so on, so I don't think Bush has ANYTHING at all to do with that ranch.
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eissa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:58 PM
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17. My boss owns one
Lots of maintenance needed; the soil, the animals, upkeep, etc. They have hired help, which I'm sure * has as well.
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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 01:07 PM
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19. The Ranch 
People here in Texas think of  1500 acres as a farm, not a
ranch.

Ranches here are huge because if the cattle are going to
graze, they'll need lots and lots and lots of land to do it on
if they're not going to overgraze it or starve to death.

Something the size of Bushes place is just a farm - -
especially if it doesn't have any cattle, horses or sheep on
it.

What he's got there is a country place,  not a ranch.
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