SPECIAL REPORT...

So, I was looking at "Special Report" on FoxNews last night. It had been a long time since I looked at it, and I didn't know that Brit Hume was no longer the host.

They've got this new fellow Brett Baer.


He did a good job, and I'll swear, he must be Jethro's boy...tell me he don't favor his Daddy, Max, Jr. Hmmm...I wonder why he didn't name him Max III?





Anyway, Jethro's boy was reporting that President BarackO' had put a swing set deal on The White House grounds for his little girls. I was proud. Every youngun should have a swing set and a tree house.


MSNBC (cough cough) has an article about the whole deal right here. It sure brought back memories of being a kid. We had a swing set when I was a kid. Of course, it was all rusty poles & broke-up plastic seats & an old 7 million degree hot shiny slide...but it was fun.

We also had a tree house. Now, BarackO's swing set there is not really a tree house...but it's close. There's at least a platform up there where the gals can sit and visit together, or with their friends. I'll bet it's tough to have friends over when your Daddy is The President.

Man, I'll never forget that miserably hot southern Summer afternoon when Papaw built our tree house. We had this broken down old wooden picnic table out back that you couldn't really use anymore. Papaw showed up in his old pickup truck with a hand saw, a pencil, a hammer, and a coffee can full of big old long nails. Over the next several hours, my older brother and me helped him transform that piece of junk into a fabulous Chinaberry tree getaway for kids.

It was about 12 feet off the ground. I fell out of that thing once...right square on my head...Heh! Now we understand what happened!

As we got older, we discovered that we could see the screen at The Don Drive-In Theater from that tree house. We couldn't hear the movies, but with binoculars we could look at the dirty films on every other Saturday night. It was quite an education...if you know what I mean.

Anyway, when my oldest boys were 13 & 11 years old, I realized that they had never had a tree house. We were living on an Indian Reservation in SW Colorado at the time, and had this great Sycamore tree out front. I asked my eldest if he wanted to help me build a tree house "for Phil (3 years old at the time)." Man...he was all over it.

The more we got done on it, the more excited he got. So, we're out there working, and one of his Indian buddies Deichman comes walking down the road. "What you doing Dean?" "Uhhh...We're building a tree house...for my 'kid brothers.'" Well, we got it all built sturdy...And you can guess who spent the most time up there. Every kid needs a tree house.

Anyway...Jethro's boy also reported about my worthless, miserable Senator Mary Landrieu and Evan Bayh, and Ben Nelson finally getting some stones about BarackO's budget. But I already told y'all about that.

The only other thing I noticed...and it was troubling to me...it looks to me like Nina Easton (a sometime FOX All-Star) has got hit on her left jaw. Y'all know that television personalities don't go out there in front of the camera without going to "makeup." But it sure looked to me like Nina had been hit on the left side of her face, and the makeup didn't quite cover it all up. Here's a picture of her... She's a pretty gal.

I don't know. I could be wrong, and it just could have been my imagination. Y'all that watch Special Report might take a look and see if I'm right or not. I sure hope somebody didn't hit her. If they did, I sure hope she gave as good as she got!