'The Google' lets homesick president keep an eye on the ranch

[kskiska]

Two years ago George Bush told the world about things he'd heard on "the internets". Since then the US president has progressed, becoming more familiar with the hi-tech world he leads.

This week, Mr Bush expressed his enthusiasm for "the Google". In a cable news interview he was asked if he had ever used the search engine, and if he had ever Googled anybody.

"Occasionally," Mr Bush told MSNBC's Maria Bartiromo. "One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see that. I forgot the name of the program, but you get the satellite and you can - like, I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes. Yeah, I do it some."

(snip)

"I tend not to email," he said, before clarifying his position. "Not only tend not to email, I don't email, because of the different record requests that can happen to a president. I don't want to receive emails because, you know, there's no telling what somebody's email may - it would show up as, you know, a part of some kind of a story, and I wouldn't be able to say, 'Well, I didn't read the email'. 'But I sent it to your address, how can you say you didn't?' So, in other words, I'm very cautious about emailing."

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[featherman]

1. is the Google delivered in tubes?

[htuttle]

4. Yes, unless they're clogged up with commercial movies and stuff...

In which case, it might take your internets several days to arrive.

[smtpgirl]

11. yeah, like those drive-up bank tubes?

[hootinholler]

43. With the recent acquisition...

It is now the GooTube

-Hoot

[niyad]

2. hey george!! if you are so damned homesick for the prop ranch,

PLEASE go park your hate-filled, incoherent ass there and STAY THERE. clear brush, clear your head, and leave us alone. Resign, even. we won't mind.

[bigworld]

3. It's at 97°32'51"w 31°34'49"n

if anyone has this alleged Google thing...
:)


Jim

[whistle]

20. Where is the pResident's Paraguay ranch located?

[Radio_Lady]

36. Seriously, Google Earth is a very interesting web link.

Here is the link:

http://earth.google.com/

It's been in "beta" and you do have to download it.

I just assume most people at the DU know about it.

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[skids]

5. Hrm -- explanation for the brush cutting?

Maybe he's trying to draw something he can see from "the outer space."

[Nevernose]

6. Smarter than Nixon: now we know for certain

"Not only tend not to email, I don't email, because of the different record requests that can happen to a president. I don't want to receive emails because, you know, there's no telling what somebody's email may - it would show up as, you know, a part of some kind of a story..."

If he's smarter than Nixon, that leaves only one option -- plain ol' evil.

Will Satan have to invent a new layer of Hell for this son of a bitch?

[civildisoBDence]

52. And Al Gore was ridiculed for his work on the Internets

leading to the canard that he said he'd "invented" it. I mean, them.

Newsprism

[Bozita]

7. I use the google to help in sorting out the internets ... It's hard work

Real hard.

[smtpgirl]

12. Whew, I have got to sit down because I'm

so tired of working those internets tubes you know!!

[Robbien]

8. How can he be homesick? One has to be away from home

to be homesick but Bush is there more than he is at 1600 Pennsylvania.

[Ferret Annica]

9. It's hard working in D.C. putting food on his family

I can relate to his desire to be home firing up his potatoe gun instead of sitting there and catapulting the propaganda and farting for the sensory pleasure of his staff.

[Lisa]

10. and also -- he must have a warped sense of nostalgia ...

I thought you had to have some past history with a place to feel "homesick" for it, and Bush certainly didn't live in Crawford prior to 2001, when his new house there was completed -- they didn't close the deal until he was already campaigning for the presidency, and they only spent a few weeks on the property prior to the recounts.

Tom Toles did a great cartoon, where it's pointed out to a shocked Bush that he did NOT actually grow up on "my beloved hardscrabble ranch".

[Bozita]

13. IIRC, there were stories of GWB "retiring" to Houston in '09

If true, the word "nostalgia" needs a new definition.

[sui generis]

18. house arrest, retirement, either way, whether he ends up

at The Hague or not he's going to be hard pressed to even take a quick crap without a security detail surrounding him, for the rest of his life.

The prison he longs for will be of his own making.

[Straight Shooter]

14. Once again pandering to his ignorance-obsessed base.

You can bet that son-of-a-bitch has a Blackberry and all sorts of high-tech gadgets.

Gawd, that man is such a worthless poseur.

[RaleighNCDUer]

27. You are assuming that HE is smart enough to figure out how to

use them.

I wouldn't give him that much credit.

[Straight Shooter]

39. You don't give him enough credit.

He is a sleazy, cunning, son-of-a-bitch. An inability to articulate and enunciate is not necessarily a factor in native intelligence. He's smart enough, but very ethically and spiritually challenged, like a megalomaniac on steroids.

[alfredo]

15. Do they have The Google in Federal prisons?

[jadedconformist]

16. He's probably using Google Earth to find Bin Laden. n/t

[Phillycat]

47. LOL! Like he gives a shit where Bin Laden is. nt

[jmowreader]

53. Or someplace to go to flee justice

Which are, coincidentally, in the same place.

[Lindacooks]

17. That's right, chimpy - emails can be used as evidence at

the Hague. Cover all your tracks - that was Nixon's downfall, you know.

:sarcasm:

[bigluckyfeet]

44. Don't send any emails georgie

The NSA will read your mail.

[DWilliamsamh]

19. I doubt that ignorant Monkey can SPELL Google much less

Use Google earth...

Yeah I can see why he's so home sick for the ranch.. I mean it's not like he has been there 50+ times in 6 years.

What a retard!

(And before get Totally spammed, sorry to all the mentally and physically challenged, some times I just HAVE to say things that aren't politically correct)

[Mind_your_head]

24. He probably goes to "www.goggle.com"

Over 777,000 people have already (I'm sure the chimp is among them)....then they can't figure out what the big excitement is about "goggle" - lol

Welcome to DU, btw :hi:

[DWilliamsamh]

38. Thanks for your welcome

And thanks for not getting mad at my terminology.

More to the point: I am about the world's worst typist. I had never even heard of www.goggle.com before you mentioned it. Now I'm sure that most who end up there realize their mistake and just re-type the address and go on their merry way..... BUt there is a certain imbecilic percentage who would do exactly as you posit. I have no doubt, the Chimp in Chief is among the imbeciles.

[Auggie]

21. Proving, once again, how out-of-touch this bozo is

[Laurab]

22. I think he has a tutor who stands over him while on the computer

who shows him pictures of his ranch on "the google". Kind of like what I do with my 4 year old grandson. Could someone PLEASE teach this guy English - he needs a full-time tutor!

I wish he'd type the word "asshole" in "the google" - I don't know if he still comes up immediately, but he used to.

[Javaman]

23. He likes to watch the building of his new bunker. nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

25. I wonder if he's ever Googled "miserable failure"?

Much hilarity ensues... :evilgrin:

[high density]

26. Bush avoiding email isn't a new revelation, I guess

But I still don't know how anybody can function today without it. I guess that's just another reason why he's doing such a horrible job.

[Ferret Annica]

34. It is no mystery why he hates E mail

He know how easy it is to cheat with electronic voting machines and he sees how dangerous the Internet is as people figure out that 9 11 was an inside job, his Pop actually worked for the CIA before he said he did and helped murder John Kennedy.

[Zodiak]

28. Can someone explain to me why

Greg Palast is questioned for photographing an oil refinery.

But you can go to Google Earth and get shots of Bush's ranch, the White House, etc.

If I were a terrorist and wanted a ground-plan of a target site, then a satellite photo might just do the trick.

Wouldn't homeland security black-out such "sensitive" locations?

[Dr Fate]

29. But they ran the Swiftboat Ads- and reported their lies as fact too. Liars.

What about all the ads and fake news that disparages Democrats?

Liars, hypocrites and BIASED as hell.

[Dr Fate]

31. Opps- wrong thread!!! n/t

n/t

[bling bling]

30. Hey George, next time type these into the google and see what you get:

1. Pretzeldent
2. Chimp
3. Antichrist

You're famous!

[dflprincess]

32. Letterman mentioned this and suggested that Bush use "the Google"

to find Bin Laden.

[pointblank]

33. The funny thing is

that he probably thinks that by using 'the google" earth program that he is actually viewing the satellite pics in real time, when they are actually just photos. I'm sure the SS lets him believe that he is actually controlling a his own satellite everytime he uses it.

[Montauk6]

35. I'm convinced more than ever that this is just a cynical ploy, this idiot pose.

This is SO a la Vinny The Chin's insanity schtick, gimme a break!

[shaniqua6392]

37. I wish he would take a long vacation at the ranch......

for the next two years!! He is about to become a LAME DUCK anyway so he might as well.

[wicket]

40. The Google - part of the tubes on the internets

:rofl:

[rail]

41. if he was really 'homesick', shouldn't fake-cowboy have The Google aimed at Connecticut?

Well, at least this way he can sorta watch the brush grow; so he knows to head out there when an emergency is about to hit the US.

[RedSock]

42. need some wood?

need some wood? check the google.

...

what a dolt.

[electropop]

45. email will make great forensic evidence when the investigations,

impeachments, indictments, and imprisonments begin.

That's why W is agin' it.

[gaspee]

46. Oh boy

Does he not realize he has access to the most, and best satellites in orbit and doesn't really need google to look at his "ranch." He can point those satellites anywhere he wants at any time.

The stupidity, it burrrrnnnnsssss

[confludemocrat]

48. He's basically saying if you're working to fuck the world, leave no e-trail

get him to really speak unscripted and unguardedly as to what he thinks is about something trivial and he will show what a goddamn criminal or psycho he is

[NorthernSpy]

51. or even if you're just working to fuck some pink-cheeked lad...

Looks as though Georgie has spent a lot of time recently in sober contemplation of the example of his fellow Republican, Mr. Foley.

[Earth_First]

49. You certainly wouldn't want to create copious amounts of evidence with email...

now would you, George?

[NorthernSpy]

50. if only he were back at the ranch 24/7, wearing one of those ankle bracelets...

... awaiting trial.

It's so lovely to imagine!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

54. So let me get this straight...the man has access to US military sattelite

information and he looks things up on "the Google."

What a fucking tool.