bush menor invades our little piece of paradise

bush is here, right now, just a couple of miles away from my house at a ridiculously-priced fundraiser for the fossil pete domenici. for $1000, you can choke down some seriously bad new mexican cuisine with him in your general vicinity; for $5000 you can get a photo taken with the president. or, you could pay me $5000 and i will gladly and artfully photoshop you into any picture you like with the president--your choice!

he is at 7205 rio grande blvd. NW in the lovely los ranchos de albuquerque if anyone wants to run out and see him...or the fossil. make sure to bring your protest signs and ask domenici why the hell he refuses to support alternative energy in new mexico. i find it alarming that our self-proclaimed "independent" mayor of los ranchos, larry abraham, is hosting this event. more alarming is that the going rate for air force one is about $60,000 an hour, and we as taxpayers have to pay for bush's visit to raise money for a man that should have been out of office long ago. (and, lucky me, as i pay taxes to los ranchos de albuquerque and i'm sure the fire department and, uh, OUR MAYOR aren't exactly working in my interest right now, so i'm getting hit twice.) bush isn't even making a token public appearance whilst in town; just here for the canned green chile fundraiser. if we were all libertarians, we could legally refuse to pay taxes for this kind of pomp (but then we'd have other problems, i guess).

say cheese!

for cindy (i wish i had thought of this!)

UPDATE: i just drove down the street to see the goings-on (that all of us are paying for) and all i can say is ¡dios mio!--if ever anyone was planning a major crime spree in albuquerque, now would be the time to do it. i think every albuquerque police, bernalillo county sheriff and several other law enforcement from municipalities that i couldn't even identify are here with their vehicles. i mean, there were like over 100 police cars, and we do not live off of a big street. they were just beginning to close rio grande so i guess the prez is leaving soon. couldn't he have at least made an appearance at an elementary school to attempt to make this look like something other than what it is? even a visit to kirtland air force base would be better than just flying to town for some face time with the faithful. and the cadre of pasty portly white folks flowing from the mayor's premises after lunch really looked like they needed to take a powder after hoofing it to their cars--yikes. i am so not voting for our mayor to get re-elected.