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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 01:57 AM
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Bushes will host *26* White House Christmas Parties for 9000 guests
Dance, George! Dance Laura!


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The White House halls are decked this year with fresh pears, tangerines, roses and lilies. First lady Laura Bush selected elements of nature to bring light to the season, and chose hot pink, lime and tangerine to adorn the more than 200 boxwood wreaths, 580 feet of garland and 18 trees. About 45,000 people will walk through the floral wonderland during the holidays, the first lady said. More than 9,000 of those guests will attend one of the 26 Christmas parties hosted by the Bushes.

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051203/LIFE/512030313/1005
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...of J.Temperance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 02:04 AM
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1. You
Deserved a vote for that graphic, so ah gave you one.

That graphic should be on billboards across the entire nation. People NEED to be confronted with what this Bush bastard has DONE. Thousands of young men and women are dust because of Junior's inferiority complex-battle-mano to mano to try and prove he's better than Poppy.

Ah tell ya, Junior's gonna burn in the deepest part of Hell.

He's having Christmas parties for 9,000 of his fellow sociopaths, thats just great, I hope he falls over and breaks his damn neck.

:cry:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 02:31 AM
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7. I look at all those beautiful faces, all dead.
For what?


For what? :(
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:34 PM
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22. I'm sure the families who love those faces will be having a MOST
festive party season this Christmas, also.

What are these, anyway, GOP fundraisers?
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 06:49 PM
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33. We're all pawns. In their game. To ease our use of oil and resources.
Fewer of us means a lesser strain...

When people realize they're about to be fucked over too...

Or why previous politicians didn't do a damn thing (apart from Carter, but that cost him his job and even Nixon set up federal speed limits, dismantled in the late 1990s... :mad: )
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Aimah Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 02:29 AM
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2. Who's paying for this? nt
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SammyBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 02:30 AM
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5. Who's paying for this? WE ARE!!!! WE ARE!!!!
And we aren't invited!!!!
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niallmac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 11:54 AM
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12. That's right. We're paying for the dance AND the death. nt
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 02:30 AM
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6. Why, we all are!
Why do you hate Christmas? :sarcasm:
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MsConduct Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 02:41 AM
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9. The rich man does the dancing while the poor man pays the band. n/t
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 11:45 AM
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11. Not Pinhead and Pickles, that's for sure.
Another 'fabulous year, eh George? DISGUSTING! :puke:
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 03:21 PM
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29. I like your My Pet Goat pics
but maybe the second on should say The Musical instead of Volume 2? :hi:
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SammyBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 02:29 AM
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3. May I use your picture for my blog post tomorrow?
Please?
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 02:29 AM
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4. My pleasure. nt
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 11:41 AM
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10. Send me an url! :)
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 02:37 AM
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8. W & Laura laugh
As the coffins march on through Dover.

Laura wants to bring "light" to the season for the festivities through fresh flowers.

They should cancel these obscene festivities when so many of our troops are dying. They won't, and the coffins will continue. The only flowers our families of the dead for his war will know, will be funeral flowers.

But the Bush's are the rich oil elitists, they nor their children will ever have to work or fight for their country. And they won't.
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 11:58 AM
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13. Its hard work being the president.
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:02 PM
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14. Kicked and nominated.
Your graphic pretty much says it all.
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:02 PM
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15. I didn't realize..
.. there were that many pioneers and rangerovers or whatever bushinc's supporters are called.. you know.. the haves and havemores.
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:03 PM
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16. hot pink, lime and tangerine for xmas decorations??
Edited on Sat Dec-03-05 12:04 PM by shanti
good grief...well, her taste isn't exactly noteworthy, not to mention that this is just obscene. do you think they'll invite the families of the dead soldiers?? :grr:
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:08 PM
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17. And while people go hungry all across the U. S., Herr Busch hosts....
...very expensive parties for the Top One-Percenters paid for by the other 99%.
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:40 PM
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24. Not to mention the families in NO still sleeping in tents.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051203/NEWS0110/512030366/1002/NEWS01


"Winter is coming to Mississippi, and too many people are still living in tents or carports" Trent Lock


<snip>

Landrieu warned her colleagues in November she would use Senate rules to keep them in session until they approve Cochran's bill. "We will not be going home for Christmas until the people of the Gulf Coast know they will have a home to go to — if not this Christmas, at least the next one," Landrieu said.

<snip>
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:10 PM
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18. It's a pretty safe bet that no one
but big contributors will be walking through the doors of that "floral wonderland."

I'm reminded of the author Amy Tan's recent memoir in which she states that for a long time after her father and brother died, she couldn't stand the smell of fresh flowers because it reminded her of funerals. Of course, that wouldn't bother the Bush Crime family. They are responsible for the deaths, but the funerals are somebody else's problem.
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:24 PM
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19. Deck the halls with tiny coffins...
Perhaps we could get a florist to deliver a tree to the whitehouse
With tiny flag draped coffins, skulls and little green army men ORNIMENTS.



This is shamefull, the Bloody Wankers!
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:27 PM
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20. There they are dancing to "Support The Troops"

They are sinful!
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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:33 PM
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21. There should be no Christmas celebrations by Bush or his administration.
We are at war. This administration has devastated and divided this nation. There is little to celebrate.
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:50 PM
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26. I feel guilty ordering out a pizza!
The bu$h family are just simply MONSTERS!



SHAME SHAME SHAME on them!
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:34 PM
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23. Conservatives really know how to represent the common man
:sarcasm:
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:42 PM
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25. It's Hard HARD Work. Hard. n/t
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BloodyWilliam Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:54 PM
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27. Bush XVI?
Versailles wasn't this arrogantly opulent.
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 01:22 PM
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28. Absolutely obscene
I thought there was a "War" on Christmas?? :sarcasm: :puke:
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 03:51 PM
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30. RSVP and BYOB n/t
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 06:47 PM
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32. And to the soldiers, RIP. nt
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 10:12 PM
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36. Will protests outside the WH that night even be covered on the news?
Good post Bluebear. The Prince of Peace somehow got ignored in the Vulcans rush to war. For the life of me I can't figure how *'s evangelical base got conned into this Iraq detour...well, yes, believing the lies of course. But once fooled twice shy, you'd think, huh ?
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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 06:32 PM
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31. Pageant of Peace
The Pageant of Peace is a month-long celebration in Washington D.C. which kicked off on Thurs. with the lighting of the National Tree. I listened on the radio (WTOP) as they kept cutting to it, praising Laura Bush for her "beautiful white outfit" and adding that GWB looked 'very presidential' in his suit. I had to turn it off, sickened that the biggest warmonger on the planet and his hag were present at the "Pageant of Peace". Those beautiful clothes were bought with bloody money.
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Jose Diablo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 06:52 PM
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34. Uh, Bu$h is hosting this?
Gosh, this must be costing him a fortune, or will he put this love fest, like the Reagan love fest, on our credit card.
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 08:55 PM
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35. It's payoff for the minor contributors, petty officials, local repubs.
And guess who's paying for it?
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psychopomp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:17 AM
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37. Dancing on the graves
Merry Christmas
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