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11-10-2007, 09:37 AM
Inside the Beltway
John McCaslin
November 9, 2007
Going home
One thing is for certain about the post-presidency of George W. Bush: "Under no circumstances" will first lady Laura Bush spend her retirement years living at the much-ballyhooed Texas ranch that she and the president have been "escaping" to for the past seven years.
Or so one gentleman in the know tells Inside the Beltway, explaining that the Bush family will settle down in Dallas and visit the Crawford ranch for weekend getaways.
Once writing about the ranch in the publication Cowboys & Indians, Eric O'Keefe recalled that, in 1999, when Gov. Bush gave architect David Heymann a list of design priorities for the new ranch house, his "top three requests were anything but extravagant: a king-sized bed, a good shower and some comfortable chairs on the porch."
The new Bush home, our source assures us, will be far more extravagant and certainly less dusty. In fact, Mrs. Bush yesterday commented three times in one sentence about the infamous Texas dust during a visit to Amarillo and Midland, both in western Texas.
Texans, meanwhile, are said to be following what Ken Herman of the Austin American-Statesman describes as Mr. Bush's "last roundup," "final rodeo," "last stampede," to gauge what impact his low approval ratings might have on the image of Texas.
:D
And in other news.....
Tough snorting
The Drug Enforcement Administration says our nation's capital is one of several major cities across the country experiencing a "cocaine shortage."
The announcement singling out Washington was made yesterday from Bogota, Colombia, where DEA Administrator Karen Tandy and John Walters, director of national drug control policy, joined high-level Colombian and Mexican officials to release an analysis showing a disruption of the cocaine market in the U.S.
It so happens the average price per pure gram of cocaine in the U.S. has increased by 44 percent between January and September. The average price per pure gram of cocaine now is $136.93, compared with $95.35 in January. The increase in price has been accompanied by a 15 percent reduction in the average purity of cocaine.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071109/NATION02/111090097/-1/RSS_NATION_POLITICS
John McCaslin
November 9, 2007
Going home
One thing is for certain about the post-presidency of George W. Bush: "Under no circumstances" will first lady Laura Bush spend her retirement years living at the much-ballyhooed Texas ranch that she and the president have been "escaping" to for the past seven years.
Or so one gentleman in the know tells Inside the Beltway, explaining that the Bush family will settle down in Dallas and visit the Crawford ranch for weekend getaways.
Once writing about the ranch in the publication Cowboys & Indians, Eric O'Keefe recalled that, in 1999, when Gov. Bush gave architect David Heymann a list of design priorities for the new ranch house, his "top three requests were anything but extravagant: a king-sized bed, a good shower and some comfortable chairs on the porch."
The new Bush home, our source assures us, will be far more extravagant and certainly less dusty. In fact, Mrs. Bush yesterday commented three times in one sentence about the infamous Texas dust during a visit to Amarillo and Midland, both in western Texas.
Texans, meanwhile, are said to be following what Ken Herman of the Austin American-Statesman describes as Mr. Bush's "last roundup," "final rodeo," "last stampede," to gauge what impact his low approval ratings might have on the image of Texas.
:D
And in other news.....
Tough snorting
The Drug Enforcement Administration says our nation's capital is one of several major cities across the country experiencing a "cocaine shortage."
The announcement singling out Washington was made yesterday from Bogota, Colombia, where DEA Administrator Karen Tandy and John Walters, director of national drug control policy, joined high-level Colombian and Mexican officials to release an analysis showing a disruption of the cocaine market in the U.S.
It so happens the average price per pure gram of cocaine in the U.S. has increased by 44 percent between January and September. The average price per pure gram of cocaine now is $136.93, compared with $95.35 in January. The increase in price has been accompanied by a 15 percent reduction in the average purity of cocaine.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071109/NATION02/111090097/-1/RSS_NATION_POLITICS