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More Humiliation for Tony Blair
Last week, the White House released a seven-minute video (see script below) in which the Bush family Scottish terriers, Barney and Miss Beazley, are deputized "junior park rangers." The video co-stars President George Bush; first lady Laura Bush; their daughters, Jenna and Barbara; and Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne. The item of greatest interest is a cameo by Tony "Yo" Blair congratulating Barney and Miss Beazley. This video snippet should eliminate whatever's left of the former British prime minister's onetime reputation for media savvy. Doesn't he remember that when he stepped down last spring he was widely reviled as Bush's "lap dog"?
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The humiliation for Tony Blair is nothing compared to the fate of Junior Rangers Barney & Miss Beazley if they actually tried to go to a national park. Outside of the White House land and a handful of other national parks dogs are not welcome in American national parks. Not beyond 15 feet from any paved surface in Yellowstone, on not trails and not out of the valley in Yosemite, not below the rim in Grand Canyon, on only one measly trail in Zion and on and on. Maybe Barney & Beazley can go to Canada where they can go just about anywhere in the national parks.
--crudbay
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