I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Oh good, he's gonna be pretty for his press conference on Monday!
Man, Bush gets pwned by everything: al Qaeda, insurgents, pretzels, his own staff, Segways, bikes...
My post from the thread below is here ON topic:
Regarding the accident, a Bush spokesman said, "Suffice it to say he wasn't whistling show tunes."
Oh, you mean Bush isn't like the fags who love musical theatre? How do the Bush whores manage to, well, drag in this incredibly irrelevant point when Bush falls, looking to all the world like a cheerleader who can't make the football squad?
This just in:
Ann Coulter decrees Bush's balky mountain bike "treasonous"! Suggests that it "hang by its kickstand until it cannot harm the country any longer"!
Film at 11:00!
Titter. Too easy, as you say.
"And if you don't..." *whack* "...continue to do what we say, then..." *smack" "...we'll have to go on ANOTHER bike ride, Mr. President."
Don't you know the Secret Service guys were probably laughing like hell while trying to appear concerned?
Moore reportedlt said at Cannes that he hoped chimpy wasn't eating a pretzel when he heard that Moores' film won....perhaps he was taking a bike ride instead??? Just a thought
opps that should read 'reportedly'
Oh good, he's gonna be pretty for his press conference on Monday!
Zombiebirdhouse
Makeup will cover all.
As a person who used to race the occasional mountain bike circuit.....
we call this a 'head plant'.
Gee. Too bad ESPN wasn't there to capture it on film. Fuck if that wouldn't be funny. Wonder if he caught the handlebar neck in his nutsack? Or maybe a pedal? A chainring in the leg always hurts like hell too.
I AM laughing my ASS OFF.
LAURIE
Tell your friend Potus that he’s got a funny name and he should learn how to ride a bicycle.
SAM
I would, but he’s not my friend, he’s my boss, and it’s not his name, it’s his title.
LAURIE
"Potus"?
SAM
President of the United States. I’ll call you.
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As a biker myself, I do have a certain level of appreciation/sympathy for Bush--no matter how careful you are, sometimes you take a header. I hope he wasn't wearing a helmet, however.
Now what will all of the wingnuts do who used Kerry's bike fall a couple weeks ago as a testament to his unfitness to lead? Oh, of course, the cognitive dissonance will protect them.
More from Iraq
It is worse then even people here can imagine.
Regarding the accident, a Bush spokesman said, "Suffice it to say he wasn't whistling show tunes."
frankly0
Attempted rethug meme: "He might look like a clown, but what a maaan!"
You might say the psychotic compulsion to spin absolutely everthing shows a deep-seated, pathological insecurity. Oh, wait...
Brillant, Atrios, brillant!
Bush should quit eating those tequila flavored pretzels of his while doing activities requiring cordination. He had enough problems staying on a couch. Keep both hands on the handle bars!
Bush was wearing his bike helmet and a mouth guard when the mishap occurred.
Do people normally wear mouth guards during biking?
Is he having epileptic fits? Is this a way to deal with his fall.
Secret Service Agent "Okay, he had another fit, we've already used the pretzel choking ruse, what can we do now that isn't so stupid? How about a fake bike accident? It would be consisitant with a fall and it will make him look more action oriented than watching TV and eating snacks.
That excuse was designed to show he was just a regular slob like the rest of the base, a guy would could easily choke on a pretzel when he got excited watching a game. It was also so silly they wouldn't think to ask, is there some real aliment that he isn't telling us about?"
Do you ever get the idea that if you just had him on the stand in front of a tough lawyer he would crack like a DDT laced egg shell? That he would start spewing stuff so absurd everyone would have to realize that he thinks he is the Messiah and has been out of his mind since 1999?
drunk again
Great,
we have a president who can't ride segway and ate pretzel without killing himself in the process.
And we expect him to lead the country?
OT,
but this is a snotknocker from tomorrow's Post...
Post Exclusive
Lawyer: Top U.S. Officer Aware of Prison Abuse
By Scott Higham, Joe Stephens and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 22, 2004; 6:30 PM
A military lawyer for a soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib abuse case testified that a captain at the Baghdad prison said the highest-ranking U.S. military officer in Iraq was present during some "interrogations and/or allegations of the prisoner abuse," according to a recording of a military hearing obtained by The Washington Post.
The lawyer said he was told that Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez and other senior military officers were aware of what was taking place on Tier 1A of Abu Ghraib. The lawyer, Capt. Robert Shuck, also said a sergeant at the prison was prepared to testify that intelligence officers told him the abuse of detainees on the cellblock was "the right thing to do..."
Sounds like he doesn't understand the need for training wheels....in either article!
This was too close to call.
One bad turn and Dick Cheney gets sworn in as president.
Sympathy on the part of moderates allows the fascists to once again take advantage of a tragedy(hahaha!) by exploiting it for ultimate gain.
The dumbassed dittoheads would be demanding that Kerry resign and Cheney be allowed to serve till he no longer feals the grief of dear leader's death.
This would of course lasted another 12-16 years or till the nearest heart attack.
They would then make all kinds of changes. They would try to pass an amendment to rename Washington DC Bushingrad, DC.
Then there would be the onslaught of schools changing names, George W. Bush elementary. Of course the republicans would demand that only colleges be named after Bush since they know there would be comments that elementary schools are the highest level of education Bush managed without buying out the teachers.
Then there are the airports, streets, and monuments. Statues of Bush standing tall with his 'bold vision for america'.
Either way we would never see the end of it. It would be worse than all the people wanting to put Reagan's sourpuss on everything.
Of course we could always enhance the Reagan symbols by adding Bonzo, which we could say was as close a resemblance to Bush as they could possibly get.
MYOB'
.
God's punishing the idiot
Too bad he didn't fall on a rattlesnake.
That would have been really easy.
"Bush had gone 16 0f 17 miles" Yeah, sure! Man, they even lie when he busts his ass. I hope Wimp Jr. recieved a busted lip.
Too bad he didn't fall on a rattlesnake.
One that was sleeping in a big patch of cactus.
Okay, this the THIRD time in the past four years that this guy has had facial lesions large enough to require public explanation. What the hell is really going on?
And they lie about the weather:
"It's been raining a lot. the topsoil was loose," the White House spokesman noted.
According to the Weather Channel, it hasn't rained in Crawford for 7 days.
Perhaps W. is too competitive, I never hesitate to slow down during downhill when I approach a hairpin curve, a log etc.
Downhill... are there any mountains in Crawford?
CBS is reporting that Jenna is getting a degree in English and Barbara is getting a degree in the Humanities.
Thankfully they appear to bring to the family two things missing in their father, a command of English and some Humanity.
Good thing it's Dick and not Chimpy who likes to go duckhuntin'. Who'd want to be within a mile of this guy with a gun in his hands?
at least HE didn't cuss out the SS guy.
compassionate dude.
Projectile Vomiting engaged...Sean Hannity profiled on CBS Sunday Morning tomorrow.
About loose topsoil: can one trip because of it? One can get bogged down. OTOH, freshly watered grass can be slippery. Most probably, someone dropped a pretzel on the trail.
My 10 ft. pole is still hanging in the Garage.
topsoils of mass distraction......axles of evil..
Do people normally wear mouth guards during biking?
My kids' dentist suggests it. If I were mountain biking, I'd do it...I've come to enjoy my teeth and would regret their absence.
So - Iraq is going to hell in a handbag, scandals erupting left and right, FBI issuing more terrorism warnings -- WTF is pResident Bunnypants doing taking a seventeen mile bike ride on his ranch in Crawford?
As for the facial lesions that need explanation -- yeah, I had a couple of alcoholic great uncles who had the uncanny ability to walk into doors or step on rakes. Frequently...
Here's a picture of the bike accident!
Okay, this the THIRD time in the past four years that this guy has had facial lesions large enough to require public explanation. What the hell is really going on?
Epilepsy.
There's no shame in it. 8 million Americans have it.
Like others have said, he's either drunk or Laura went after him with a wire coat-hanger. Or maybe it was his grandmother, Babs.
Whoever did it - Laura, Babs or the bottle - Dubya got his ass kicked again.
Alert Secret Service agents wrestled the mountain bike to the ground.
Imagine him flying over the bars and landing on his face in the dirt.
Funny! Especially since it really happened. Maybe. I think Laure slugged him.
HA HA!
My personal theory is that he goes to Camp David and the ranch to drink. For someone who has been as serious a drunk as GWB, with the stress he is under, I can't imagine that he is not drinking or using something to keep hm functioning.
I knew the motherfucker needed training wheels years ago.
. "You know this president. He likes to go all out. Suffice it to say he wasn't whistling show tunes."
Little-known fact: Dubya's uncle Jonathan (Bush 41's kid brother) was in the chorus of one of the replacement casts of Oklahoma! during its original Broadway run. See Meryle Secrest's recent biography of Richard Rodgers.
I can't speak for Dubya, but after reading and seeing news from Abu Ghraib, this 100% heterosexual male sitting right here has been whistling plenty of Kurt Weill lately.
We are now in a world straight out of a Brecht/Weill musical.
Californian - what was the third time he had facial lesions? This time, the pretzel thing, and ...?
Oh the shark has, teeth like razors...
Handing this asshole the presidency was the equivalent of giving a 15 year old delinquent a case of beer and keys to your corvette. You just knew he'd fuck up the world like he has fucked up everything else he has ever touched in his miserable existence. Again, the king with the Fecal touch. But shit, I thought he was competent enough to ride a goddamned bike.
radmanthys - The Segway accident.
One word:
Breathalyzer?
Oh, I didn't know he actually got bruised up from the segway thing. This is what happens when you stop watching t.v. - you miss out on all the visuals that go with the stories.
The troops live under
The cannon's thunder
From Sind to Cooch Behar
Moving from place to place
When they come face to face
With a different breed of fellow
Whose skins are black or yellow
They quick as winking chop him into
Beefsteak tartar
An alert secret service agent seized the bike and wrestled it to the ground.
Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?
"And they lie about the weather:
"It's been raining a lot. the topsoil was loose," the White House spokesman noted.
According to the Weather Channel, it hasn't rained in Crawford for 7 days.
Abreact | Email | Homepage | 05.22.04 - 6:59 pm | # "
Oh, man. Good catch. We've got to double check everything Chimpy's handlers say. Catch them in their lies.
W is so obviously drinking again. I heard a story once that Spencer Tracy would go on benders every so often. He would lock himself in a hotel, strip naked, get in the bathtub, and drink insanely for days. Just shit himself and everything. Betcha anything the ranch is just another cover for Junior's alcoholism. Pathetic.
"You know this president. He likes to go all out. Suffice it to say he wasn't whistling show tunes."
Except, of course, for his favorite: "Springtime for Hitler".
I think we have reached the point where it will be harder to catch them telling the truth than to catch them lying.
Everything is theater to them (though I guess not musical theater)
In the words of the frighteningly prescient Firesign Theatre:
"Hey? Paolo? I think he broke the President..."
That just great talk about fair and BALANCED I hope he landed on a "Turd Blossom"
I'm looking forward to woot's comment
I've been on road and mountain bikes most of the last 20 yrs. and never seen anyone with a mouthguard. Yeah, I could maybe see it if he was bombing down the Porcupine Rim Trail in Moab, but pussyfooting around his flat-ass Texas ranch? Gimmie a break. He reminds me more and more of Mike Myers' A.D.D.-kid character on SNL each day... Somebody please check his meds...
Great pic, Jesse...
Sorry, Andrew. Didn't see your post.
CONSPIRACY!!!
I say it's a cover story. Who did he get bitch slapped by ... Cheney, Rummy, Condi???
God is trying to tell you something, George.
I found this photo of just before Bush's accident in Crawford.
Oh, and speaking of "drunk again":
Jenna Bush skips own graduation
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- President Bush wasn't the only one who skipped the pomp and circumstance of his daughter's graduation from the University of Texas on Saturday. Jenna Bush did not participate either.
Despite her name being listed on the commencement program, Bush was not among the more than 150 English majors receiving degrees Saturday afternoon at the Austin campus. Attendance at the event is not required to graduate from the university...
A White House spokeswoman said she did not know why Jenna Bush did not attend the commencement but added that the administation declines to comment on matters related to the president's daughters.
Guess she was sharing a very special tequila sunrise with dear ol' dad...
CONSPIRACY!!!
I say it's a cover story. Who did he get bitch slapped by ... Cheney, Rummy, Condi???
VMA: Apology accepted.
In the words of the frighteningly prescient Firesign Theatre:
"Hey? Paolo? I think he broke the President..."
Bush reminds me of the George Tirebiter campaign spot:
"And you can believe me, because I never lie, and I'm always right."
Californian - what was the third time he had facial lesions? This time, the pretzel thing, and ...?
radmanthys
I was referring to the Florida recount:
"Bush, by contrast, has seemed his unusual plain, calm-if slightly miffed-Fella from the Heartland. For a few days after the voting, he turned up with a big bandage on his face where a boil had erupted ..."
Source, among others.
If he had a bandage on his face after the Segway incident, that would be four.
I thought the mouth guard thing was odd too. Maybe the doctor he was riding with suggested it, not out of concern for his well being, but to make sure he wouldn't have to listen to him talk during the long ride.
As a biker myself, I do have a certain level of appreciation/sympathy for Bush--no matter how careful you are, sometimes you take a header. I hope he wasn't wearing a helmet, however.
NTodd
yeah, hate to see a good helmet go to waste
Also... when Bush fell off the bicycle, this disturbing item was found.
Dirt, bitch!
What are they gonna do on Monday for his primetime acting. Sympathy votes because of his damaged face?
This whole story is a concoction. His dad beat him up big time for fucking up the Bush legacy forever.
Remember when they went mano y mano after jr. drove home drunk and hit a trash can in the front yard and with little bro' Marvin in the back seat?
radmanthys & Californian -
I spoke too quickly, the Segway fall does not look like it caused any facial scrapes.
Did you all forget that Kerry recently fell off his bike while riding on pavement?
Poor bike. I suppose it's being shipped to Abu Ghraib even as we speak.
Also, with the segway thing, that got caught on tape, didn't it? with the incidents that are said to have caused the wounds, we just have their words for it as to what the cause was...
But did he come to a sudden arboreal stop?
the pretzel incident was actually a failed attempt by CIA for preemeptive action against the guy they knew would take down the honor of The United States of America.
"Did you all forget that Kerry recently fell off his bike while riding on pavement?"
Kerry was riding in Concord, MA and skidded when he hit a patch of sand. I live a few miles away and bike there a lot. They sand when it snows and don't sweep up till late spring.
radmanthys - Old Hat's post upthread at 6:39 has a link with pictures of his facial abrasions and four pictures from the Segway fall tape. Makes me wonder how many of these we never will know about due to his makeup artist.
He actually said this:
(Source dubyaspeak.com)
"And I call upon the Iraqi people to reject violence, band together to insist that the country move toward a peaceful tomorrow. Iraq is changing for the better. I mean, look at the soccer team."
Washington, D.C., May 20, 2004
Monday's "IRAQ: Staying the Course" speech should be a winner. I wonder if he will work that sports and steroids don't mix.
Oh, come on folks. I wouldn't even *contemplate* a 17-mile ride. If I did attempt it, by mile 16, I'd probably be a bit tired as well. (Of course, I'm no expert, given that I can't get my bike to go into any other gear than 2 on the handlebar with 3 settings and 6 on the handlebar with 7 settings.) In any case, this non-event has absolutely nothing to do with Pres. Bush's foreign or domestic policies, both of which I thoroughly detest.
Atrios,
You are on a roll! Make mine sourdough, no butter, okay?
AKA Donna
I caught the bike accident update on Fox News while flipping through the channels. They also mentioned John Kerry was on two wheels today as he rode his $6,000 bike through the streets of Boston.
Strange. There was no mention of the value of Bush's bike.
aReader, cute link, but "Anyone Can Whistle" is a great early Stephen Sondheim musical. It's about local government shenanigans too! No wonder Boy George had it.
AKA Donna
It's been raining a lot. the topsoil was loose," the White House spokesman noted.
According to the Weather Channel, it hasn't rained in Crawford for 7 days.
Abreact |
This is great Abreact. Now why couldn't
AP include that in the original report.
So easy to check.
Let us see if Wash Post guys say something about that tomorrow.
Jim Van Dehie, Dana Milbank and Mike Allen of Wash Post are great in catching this kind of stuff.
How does one skin both knees when cycling? As an avid cyclist, it's always one or the other...unless of course it's just booze and falling down the steps of one's house. Have another drink, Mr. Preznit. And bring me sum turkee, bitch!!!
By the way, he has two graduation parties to go to tomorrow for his daughters, right?
Plus he is going to be on TV monday night.
I hope Michael Moore stil has time to edit his film.
Mountain bikes were invented in Marin County. Coincedence?
I wouldn't even *contemplate* a 17-mile ride. If I did attempt it, by mile 16, I'd probably be a bit tired as well.
Isn't Bush supposed to be a healthy, exercising kinda guy? 17 miles is nothing--I do regular rides 3 times (and more) as long in freaking Vermont.
The drunken Nazi shit fell down, again.
Someday the truth is going to be admitted to, and thousands of Freepshit heads will implode, benefiting mankind greatly.
"You know this president. He likes to go all out. Suffice it to say he wasn't whistling show tunes."
The prancing flight suit boy ain't no fag! He's all man!
The minute they fuck up anything they go for the gay-baiting. Poor pathetic, clumsey, shit-eating, insecure, bastards.
Good thing that THEY ARE SO GONE!
From AP:
Bush left Crawford shortly after the bike mishap for Austin, where he was attending a private party of his daughter, Jenna, who graduated from the University of Texas earlier in the day. When he arrived in Austin, Bush was not wearing any bandages, although scrapes were visible on his right temple and on his chin.
As he departed from the presidential helicopter with his wife, Bush paused to give photographers a chance to take his picture, then shrugged, waved and got into a waiting limousine.
...
Told about Bush's mishap, Kerry said, "I hope he's OK. I didn't know the president rode a bike."
manoman,
no. Jena's was today and even she didn't attend. Barb's is Monday.
Barndog....Now I'm laughing my ass off too....We will all be so distracted Monday evening it will be hard to listen....Oh....nothing new...
I hope w's "bike fall", due to all the rain that hasn't happened, doesn't impede his famous ability to talk straight. America has been embarrassed enough already.
This is the very first time I've ever even heard of Bush riding a bike.
Is there any public record of him being on a mountain bike before?
Call me cynical. I'm not buying this at all.
does anyone doubt that cheney, rummy, and bandar are working overtime on the next mass casaulty 'event'? using the bush family, i.e. marvin and jonathan, again is too damn risky. and jeb--jeb with his state of emergency planning last time. what nerve. he almost blew the whole thing. at least they dealt with the 'dean of electronic warfare' and the other two raytheon global hawk experts. they're doing fine, keeping the low-pro. this whole, down-and-dirty terror biz has gotten so much more difficult.
The best of us have fallen off a bike before, so this event is rather mundane. However, what is telling is that his handlers have an explanation for why he fell. "Loose topsoil". Uhhhh... ok. Why not just say, "He fell, he's human, and he'll be ok"? Or would that detract from his Superman image?
Did he do this to get out of this week's speech?
Did he do this to get out of this week's speech?
Alert Secret Service agents wrestled the mountain bike to the ground.
Andrew
-...and shot out the tires...
hmm...will the "wartime prezint" be awarding himself a Purple Heart?
I thought Kerry's quote was kinda sly...
Holy Fucking Shit!!! Tucker Carlson just said on Chris the Screamer's show on NBC that Bush is going to lose! Has the damn finally burst? Tucker's no saying that this wasn't a conservative's war. So now the spin point is that it wasn't a Republican's war, Chris just repeated it. Fucking bitch Gloria Borger is blathering on about Bush's resolve, and leadership, puke, make me nauseous. Howie Kurtz is slobbering on Bush's knob hard. They're all fawning over the idea of Kerry/McCain presidency, meanwhile, Earth to pundits, hello, McCain has already slapped that idea down many times.
Well... technically it isn't a "conservative's war". Any true conservative should not have supported it.
I liked the part about Bush's "mouth guard" the best...
this string of commentary is sad.this is the inanity to which we have descended. civil discourse of any sort is verboten. what the hell does anyone accomplish for picking on a guy for falling off a bicycle. i am 54 yrs old and i fear for our republic.the lowest common denominator reigns triumphant on both sides of the ideological divide. god help us!!
this string of commentary is sad.this is the inanity to which we have descended. civil discourse of any sort is verboten. what the hell does anyone accomplish for picking on a guy for falling off a bicycle. i am 54 yrs old and i fear for our republic.the lowest common denominator reigns triumphant on both sides of the ideological divide. god help us!!
what was his blood-alcohol level?
Have some postum, Mr.Jansen.
All that talk angries-up the blood.
what is postum??
john jansen, compared to right wing commentary and not just what you hear on hate-talk-radio this is elevated. You ever listen to the acclaimed Washington Journal?
never heard of washington journal....i will confess to being more right than left.do listen to right wing talk radio in day time since i lost my job. rush limbaugh rather intelligent but obnoxious.sean hannity embarassing and obnoxious without the intelligence. both sides wallow in the muck and mire of the gutter.internet it seems to me has increased the decibel level of debate but intelligence quotient seems inverse to decibel level on each side. honestly and retrospectively the right led the charge with it's blind hatred of the clinton's who deserved much of the opprobium heaped on them. so i guess payback is sweet.
I didn't see anyone mention this, but isn't Bush supposed to be giving his 'clear strategy' speech on national TV monday night?
When I was five years and learning to ride the bike I fell off once and scratched both knees and both elbows.
I remember being extremely proud of having altogether a total of eighteen scratches from one fall. But then I was riding down a deep hill, and I didn't know how to steer yet. So maybe Shrub was just starting to learn?
Postum is a coffee substitute favored by old folks.
I admit I am one. But I've never tried Postum.
Montgomery Burns likes it.
No schadenfreude over his fall. Recall that, firstly, Ford was actually a much better president (see O'Neill/Suskind), and secondly, the only pain we wish for the wahhabi al-Bushi is that after we arrest and try the filthy child-murdering criminals, they be marched to all the mothers and fathers they stole children from and be made to personally and verbally apologize, door to door, and then spend the rest of their lives in medium-security isolation (and apart from eachother) so they cannot infect anyone else.
radmanthys--
I dunno the official count of facial abrasions but I remember when Bush was inaugurated he had to pose near the fireplace with his face turned slightly away from reporters because he had some big sick splotch on his face then.
Washington Journal on C-span. Not that it's important.
I agree with Bill Moyers on the internet. He said a couple of weeks ago that it is revitalizing journalism the way printing presses becoming more readily available did in the early nineteenth century. Granted some of it isn't too elevated, I'm as guilty as anyone, but it doesn't have lower standards than TV or radio (than which lower standards are hard to come by).
Why does loose dirt hate America?
john jansen, the consensus here seems to that Bush is not a conservative, but rather something else. I don't know what. A Corporatist? A Doomsday cultist? Absolutely a criminal and a traitor. I don't know what his guiding philosophy is. He's been lying to us about it. I do know that his goal seems to involve a lot of damage to our country.
Yes, EPT, that was a good interview with Moyers. I'm not sure how I would feel without having access to internet for news and alternative viewpoints.
Still, I suspect this is only a phase and most blogs will somehow disappear in the future or get absorbed by mainstream media outfits. That's why it's fun to be in on this period.
Interesting how they didn't want to televise the monday "speechification" and now this.
Hmmmm.
He fell off his bike when he heard the news at Cannes.
And smart sincere conservatives are more than welcome here.
"Still, I suspect this is only a phase and most blogs will somehow disappear in the future or get absorbed by mainstream media outfits."
I'm waiting for my check. The media big boys are competing for my 50 or so loyal readers.
OK, this Trent Duffy press spokesman dude gave us some key info about how Bush was NOT whistling show tunes, but, as far as I'm concerned, he failed to answer three key questions:
1. Did Dubya cry or not?
2. Was he wearing the "flight suit"?
3. Were the training wheels on?
Chris Matthews: Howard?
Howard Fineman (shaking his head reverentially) Chris, this President . . .
Mr. Pretzel, I didn't know you rode a bike.
Oh. Mine doesn't have a cupholder...
Clonecone, one must start somewhere!
Besides, the survey of blogreaders showed that they overwhelmingly think of themselves as opinion leaders, so fifty readers is probably changing many times that number of minds! Maybe.
Echinde,
Half of them are LC members so I'm preaching to the chior.
Ntodd,i have taken a header off a 10-speed and managed to land on my ass and get run over by the bike. you gotta know how to fall.
BUT this is good that george DOESN'T know how to fall. tragic accidents can happen.
maybe this is why he can't let his feet touch the earth.
Few of you will appreciate this like I do. I was one of the crazed Northern Californians who in the '70s developed the sport and the equipment we now know as mountain biking.
See my website if you don't believe me. My internet handle is a reference to the races I put on back in the day.
The original reason for riding out on those trails was to smoke a little "bush." Who knew that one of the bikes would smoke a BIG Bush!
My machines... Do. My. Bidding.
Clonecone, how can you tell who your readers are?
Maybe one of those Son of a Bitches
pushed him?
"I'm preaching to the choir"
I meant to say that I am energizing the base. I must not forget to use the proper terminology.
You guys are chasing the wrong conspiracy theory. They are banging Bush up so they can replace him with a smarter lookalike. Three months before the election he'll drop the moron act and start debating like Clarence Darrow. No one will think twice about the fact that he looks slightly different than he used to.
"...how can you tell who your readers are?"
Mostly from the comments and the referring pages. Amy and David from blogamy, NTodd, Mustang Bobby, upyernoz, etc...
john jansen,
I certainly agree that this thread is a little silly, but that is certainly fine. Overall, this blog features quite serious posts and invites very interesting responses, Indeed, I think the vast majority of people here enjoy thoughtful conservatives dropping by from time to time. That is why we are liberals!
But every now and then its just good to have a little fun. It relieves stress. Look around man, there is some very disturbing stuff going on in the world.
clonecone,
Well, when I go to your site I don't use the link on my blog (I click on favorites), so I'm an 'unknown' on Haloscan, for example.
That's what I meant. Also, I'm not sure if the comments are a good indicator of readership as there are lots of regulars I have from exotic places who never comment.
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Back to the topic of the blog: I don't think that Bush's accidents are worthy of discussing unless they stop him from doing the job (though whether he can do it even when well is an interesting question). This would be the case if he's really drinking, say, and the accidents are presented as something else. Other than that, it's just sort of funny to imagine him riding his bike earnestly for sixteen miles of what I assume is pretty flat countryside, and then falling at the very end. Maybe a good metaphor of what we wish the last four years will produce?
I'm just surprised that no one has blamed Clinton for the fall from the bike. The spin tomorrow will be that Bush inherited the fall from the previous administration.
Another round of tax cuts would prevent further falls.
Snoozer. Ohhhhh. Good one. I read a science fiction story about that once. I also saw the movie "Dave" and another movie "Moon over Paragore" Or some such title.
It could happen...
Maybe they have been growning a clone of him in the basement for just such an emergency. Or Bush IS the clone (no one that age could be that stupid) and he is so dumb because they accelerated his growth rate, but they couldn't speed up his learning speed. That's why he still reads kids books. George is Charlie! Charlie from flowers for Algernon.
to smarty jones......there is some very disturbing stuff going on in the world and i am a conflicted conservative trying to work out a course of action. gw was the first republican i had ever voted for at presidential level. my first vote was for mcgovern v the trickster in 1972.but the clinton's were embarassing and crooked.spent my life in a trading room and hilary's cattle futures escapde was so unbelievable as to be sickening. voted for nader in 96 as i couldnt bear to pull lever for bill that yr. in 2000 the hypocrisy of liberal support of bill through the monica thing impelled me to vote for gw. dont know where i wil find a home this time. i am afraid to say this here as bloggers will lob stones my way but i thught iraq invasion was brilliant construct. execution has neen less than brilliant. a super power cant walk away. real politik dont function that way. so whomever wins we are gonna stay. i just dont see mr kerry offering a "vision thing"(to coin a phrase) on that one.so where i end up this time is up in air. hope folks here dont mind my rambling. john jansen
People people people ... why the fuck was his personal doctor along for the ride? Maybe the doc is an avid biker his own damn self, but the mouth guard and the epilipsy rumours has me wondering. Do they have to keep an eye on this guy when he exercises?
A mouth guard on a bike ride? Kerry's training wheels line was appropriate and well delivered.
john jansen,
A conservative with an open mind is indeed welcome here.
Stick around awhile and you'll get quite an education. Sounds like you could use one.
Do you know what a "troll" is?
no idea what a troll is
... why the fuck was his personal doctor along for the ride?
Exactly what I was thinking.
Was he expecting that he might have an "accident"? Why would a JohnWaynesque tough guy like w need a namby-pamby doctor following him around? It's a Goddamn good thing his doctor just happened to be a biker (like we all were aware w is.) /sarcasm
That road rash can be a mighty fearsome thing.
If Bush does indeed suffer from epilepsy, I feel bad about making fun of him in my previous posts.
Had to get that off my chest.
For me, the humor lay more in the juxtaposition of Thursday's stupid and insulting "training wheels" metaphor and today's spill than in the spill itself.
I do, however, want to know if he was wearing the infamous flight suit when he went over the handle bars.
A troll is a deliberate attempt (or person attempting) to derail a thread. Viz, in the Moore thread, a total stranger who pops up, says something about "the Jews", then disappears. More irritating is the troll with enough of a superficial understanding of debate to be insulting but nothing to actually say. This is the same idea, derailing with distractions about personal insults or startlingly awful illogic. The word comes from the fishing practice, going near-randomly trolling for anyone who'll bite.
Show Tunes, eh?
How about something from Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins?"
"Sweeney Todd" perhaps?
Re: Kerry's "training wheels" remark.
Remember the source is Drudge, so don't take it for a true account until it shows up reported someplace reputable.
I followed a link up-page about Bush and seizures, seemed a little tin-foil but who knows.
john jansen,
A troll is someone who isn't interested in honest discourse, but only posts comments intended to cause disruption to the thread.
Stick around awhile and I'm sure you'll see for yourself.
According to Drudge, Kerry was caught on camera saying about Bush's accident, "Did his training wheels fall off?" Supposedly reporters are now debating whether to treat the comment as off the record.
Pity he hadn't hit his head on a rock. Oh wait, he's already a vegetable. Nothing would have changed.
Scooped by kei & yuri!
john jansen,
obviously I don't agree with your views on Iraq, but that's alright. I am confident that you have an open mind and will continue to assess events and candidate positions, etc.
on the subject of "trolls," it is a hoot to go to rabid winger sites like lucianne.com and see a liberal drop by.
There will be a thread where everyone is talking about the need to drop MOABs on Fallujah or Najaf, and then the liberal will say something like "Can't we just send you guys in?" It just makes 'em go crazy!
Oops -- guess others had already remarked on Kerry's "training wheels" joke.
Was the mouthguard there so he couldn't put his foot in it?
Wait a minute - that's why he fell off.....
This is off Drudge:
"President fell off bike today... Kerry told reporters in front of cameras,'Did the training wheels fall off?'... Reporters are debating whether to treat it is as on or off the record... Developing... "
Got to admit,that's pretty damn funny.Who knew?
I'm surprised to find that he obeys the law of gravity. He just hasn't found a way to break that one yet I guess. Maybe that's why he wants to go to the moon?!?
fourlegsgood - I would hope it was
a democrattle snake if one had been
near by.
It is late, the sun was hot, the
yard work vast, mea culpa.
"i thught iraq invasion was brilliant construct. execution has neen less than brilliant"
JJansen:
For now, let's not debate the wisdom of the invasion itself. Assuming it made sense, it seems to be generally conceded that the two biggest failures were going in with too few troops and too little foreign support. (Two sides of the same coin, if foreign support=foreign troops). The only hope of success in the long run is to increase our strength and legitimacy with increased participation from allies. Kerry will not cut and run, and is in a much better position to gain support from those allies. Remember, they have every reason to sit on their hands now so as not to help Bush win. Conversely, they would have reason to help Kerry if he wins. Not to do him any favors, but because a failed Iraq is not in their interest either. Moreover, they stand to gain much more from Kerry, who is likely to reestablish our commitment to international initiatives such as the Kyoto accords. So, if you want to see us succeed in Iraq, Kerry is your man.
A Republican, Jack Webber, IIRC, who was assistant Sec of Def under Reagan, said that the decision to invade Iraq was the worst strategic mistake ever made by a US president.
Time to really get the Training Wheels for Bush" project into high gear!
why does bike month hate America?
vma......i think youare probably right.i am leaning to the view that if bush and his advisors were running a corporation ,the shareholders would demand a change of mangement.and as thigs stand now ,voters will probably provide with an opprtunit to do alot of bike riding next january.....will be an interesting time as govt will stay divided with republicans still holding congress. wonder what it will be like when jfk redux appoints judges. they will get wonderful reception from the senate.whatever,it will be interesting to see campaign unfold. i saw a poll here or similiar site the other day which had bush triling kerry by 5pts inn ohio......if that be accurate he is in big trouble cause he would have to snatch two iowas, minnesotasoregons or washingtons to replenish his total. that doent seem likely.
apologies for too numerous typos..............bed time
G'night JJ,
Good to have you here.
They are just softening you up for announcing Bush's health problems.
"I've been on road and mountain bikes most of the last 20 yrs. and never seen anyone with a mouthguard."
The Bushliar mouthguard:
http://tinyurl.com/2vtcp
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"...They are banging Bush up so they can replace him with a smarter lookalike."
Sounds good to me...couldn't be any worse than the dumb one we have now...Could they please replace him ASAP?
No, the wahhabi al-Bushi inevitably disappoint. He really will turn out to be as stupid as he looks.
Huh, someone in another threade had mentioned that it had not rained in Crawford in 8 days before W fell off his bike, the spin that WH put on it was that the topsoil was loose from heavy rains. Cant they tell the truth about ANYTHING? Not even the weather?!??!
Since when does the rain make soil loose? Wouldn't soil be more coherent (excuse the clumsiness), and dry spells make it grainy and crumbly?
I bet there are 100,000 US soldiers that would rather be gayly riding mountain bikes in a warm Texas spring rather than getting shot or shooting men and women on his orders.
I remember the photos of Johnson in office ... anguishing in the command center at the mess in Vietnam. Not Bush - he goes on vacation.
Worst President EVER ... EVER
he's drinking again. seriously. i'm not being snarky. i'm an alcoholic myself and i can certainly spot a drunk. takes one to know one.
Did anyone else have trouble with the trail? Wouldn't they be trying to emphasize what a tricky patch of gravel it was?
"Whee, look at me. I'm Lance Armstrong,
17 hours ahead on the last leg of the
2004 Tour de..."
"Careful there, Mr Pres...."
"As he approaches the finish line, traveling at over 120 miles per hour,
Lance throws up his arms to the adoring
crow...AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
Mmmm. Imagine. That skin tight outfit. Those bulging muscles. Those muscular legs driving like pistons as he climbs those mountains and FIGHTS his way through every obstacle. His bulging manhood enhanced by his safety cup...
Ride, Mr President. Ride like the
wind. Show us the way. You
magnificent bastard.
I think all these facial bruises are definitely something to be concerned about. They've definitely been too frequent. I do think it's all covering up alcohol recivitism or another, more serious medical condition.
BTW, this wouldn't be the first time something minor covered up something major. Remember this tidbit from history class:
"The President is laid up with rheumatism in his knee and foot, but will be out in a day or two. No occasion for any uneasiness.
It was the lie the Secretery of War Lamont foisted upon the public when Grover Cleveland was getting his fucking upper jaw removed and replaced with a rubber prothesis.
Obviously the fall was the fault of some Secret Service SOB!!
You SOB Secret Service Agents!!
http://it1.de/
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The accident...was able to ride back home.
That's Bush - the biggest accident the world has ever known.
For the rumor it's worth, here's a link to a detailed post from an unnamed WH press reporter who states that Bush has been having "seizures" for the past few years.
Normally I might file this is the "to be documented later" file, but some of the other assertions made in the article are completely true.
The daily prayer meetings in the White House are madatory.
Bush can no longer deal with ad hoc events or meetings where he might be quizzed. It's the reason that he can't answer non-scripted questions, and mainly gives speeches.
Thus, we see Bush calling on press from a pre-arranged list, often reporters who have vetted their questions beforehand.
Bush has even started to do this in the privacy of meetings with Republican Senators. Last night on "The Capital Gang, Bob Novak (of all people) said that the famous meeting the week between Bush and the Repub Senators was a "disaster". Bush showed up, gave a speech, would not answer any questions, and left.
I don't know about epilepsy, but the description certainly sounds as if he has a brain lesion. The messianic convictions, the glossolalia, falling-down seizures, the fact that his eyes often appear not to be pointing in the same direction - no wonder he needs so many vacations.
This would also explain why Bush hasn't been providing "leadership" on Iraq, a charge even his compatriots are levelling. He has to conserve his strength, and thus can either campaign or govern.
I wonder what he's like at these $25K a plate fund-raising dinners. Is being a Rich Republican rather like being a Scientologist - by the time you've paid enough to get to the inner circle, you get information that makes you embarassed to tell anyone what you spent all that money on?
level of hysteria here ramping up.powest common denominator triumphing.attack his policies ,not some seeming lack of coordination and dont bother to repeat some concocted story about an alcoholic relapse.you demean and trivialize your arguements and opinions by trashing his humanity.there is enough in his policies and programs that are offensive and frightening without resorting to national enquirer type postings.please raise the level of the dialouge.
Bush is a mad, mad tyrant. why doesn't he just shut his fucking mouth. what a fucking loser. and richard myers? who the fuck is he anyway? he makes lemnitzer look good by comparison.
OK!
My husband is a rugged working man and he rarely gets the crap beat out of his face by working or playing outside.
Bush constantly has abrasions, cuts and scrapes on his face.CONSTANTLY!
Which can only lead me to wonder if Laura doesn't beat the shit out of him on a regular basis, and then of course, they blame it on "biking accidents."
Either he is clumsier than Gerald Ford or Laura gets sick of his stupidity and knocks the shit out of him.
I am starting to think it's the latter.
READ THIS
"We invited Bush on a mountain bike ride," said Peter Heumann, promoter of the Southern California Bicycle Expo and member of the Concerned Off Road Bicyclists Association (CORBA). "He said it's something he's never done but would like to try."
The Bush has epilepsy (or worse) rumor makes no sense. He is out at fund raisers and photo ops all the time.
This was a fun, lighthearted topic that seemed like a natural counterpoint to Kerry's bike fall. Maybe the next phase of this "developing" story (as Drudge might say) will have an unnamed secret service agent leak the fact that as Bush went down he was heard to mutter "merde!" And that he did the same when he fell from the segway.
Speaking of segues to things French, I got a chuckle out of this response to Michael Moore's winning the Palme D'Or:
"A White House spokeswoman, Suzy DeFrancis, tried to shrug off the decision to honour the documentary.
"It's a free country. It's what makes America great."
Last time I checked, Cannes still in France. ...Developing....
Hi Guys,
I aaaam aliiive an well thank yew, but I think that Rumsfield is trying to assassinate me so I don't tell you the whole truth about what has been going on in the White House. Please contact the CIA and FBI and tell them that I am being held hostage and pumped full of drugs so I dont blow the lid on the whole operation.
I love y'all
Georgie-babe.
I went to a site that someone linked above, turned out to be Conspiracy Planet. Hard to make much of the article, interesting as it was, but it did have a line that caught my attention "At one point during a staff conference, the President stood up and began to speak in an unknown language."
I'm guessing english. Any other guesses?
I think Bush was "speaking in tongues", otherwise known as glossolalia. Interesting psychological phenomenom, interpreted by Charismatics and Evangelicals as the "heavenly tongue".
rainfall stats for Waco, TX
courtesy of the Weather Underground:
month to date: 3.86"
normal: 3.20"
last year: 1.85"
year to date: 23.91"
normal: 13.00
last year: 7.27"
Crawford is about 20 miles w/sw of Waco
Waco precipitation in 2004 is 184%
of normal.
alright, actually studying meteorological records is taking this a bit much further...
I aaaam aliiive an well thank yew, but I think that Rumsfield is trying to assassinate me so I don't tell you the whole truth about what has been going on in the White House. Please contact the CIA and FBI and tell them that I am being held hostage and pumped full of drugs so I dont blow the lid on the whole operation.
...Also muttered something about an old LSD(?) experiment he and Dick covered up?
...Anyway, Am getting a very strong urge to jump out a third story window this evening. If you peeple never see me again, tell Condi, er, Laura, I luv her.
GWB
Two observations:
1. This a-hole is so self-important that he doesn’t even go biking without a mouthguard and his personal physician. But he’ll gleefully (see opening to “Fahrenheit 9/11") send 150,000 or so troops into harm’s way with varying levels of missing personal safety equipment.
2. 60 Minutes (or someone with equivalent street cred) needs to devote an entire program to chronicling just what the cost to us proles is every time this jackass packs up the Executive Branch and moves it to Prairie Chapel (ick) for a weekend’s personal amusement. Based on a program devoted to Air Force 1 I saw a while back on Discovery Channel or some such, the costs have to be quite breathtaking. And given the royalty-like opulence that surrounds the modern POTUS, the visuals would be a real wake-up call to all those retards who have this mental picture of Bush as being just a good ol’ boy like themselves who they could sit down and “have a beer with.”
Well, If the press thinks falling off a bike is painfull for the preznit, they should consider what taking shrapnel from a mortar round or catching a bullet from a sniper must feel like. But hey, I'm pleased to hear that Georgie is back up and enjoying his weekend. Don't worry about a thing, George. I mean, it's not as if there are kids being killed in a war or something - oh wait!
He was probably trying to eat pretzels and ride at the same time. Fuckwit. The best part of him ran down his father's leg.
> rainfall stats for Waco, TX
> courtesy of the Weather Underground:
>
> month to date: 3.86"
But we are already close to the end of May, and weatherunderground.com doesn't give the rainfall stats for the past week. www.weather.com does.
Select the weather for Crawford, TX. The select "Yesterday". You will get a choice of "Past Weather as reported at: McGregor/Waco/Temple, TX." Select any one of those towns. About halfway down the page you will find "Weather Trends: Past 7 days." For all three towns surrounding Crawford, it is 0 inches of precipitation every day from Sunday May 16 through Saturday May 22.
The White House lies by reflex. They lie out of habit. They lie even when it doesn't help them to lie.
Look, he took a fall. He could have been choppered out. But the President is brave and resolute. He did not cry. He toughed it out. He got back on his bike and rode the final mile. That's the kind of man he is. And that is why he is an inspiration to our troops.
> rainfall stats for Waco, TX
> courtesy of the Weather Underground:
>
> month to date: 3.86"
But we are already close to the end of May, and weatherunderground.com doesn't give the rainfall stats for the past week. www.weather.com does.
Select the weather for Crawford, TX. The select "Yesterday". You will get a choice of "Past Weather as reported at: McGregor/Waco/Temple, TX." Select any one of those towns. About halfway down the page you will find "Weather Trends: Past 7 days." For all three towns surrounding Crawford, it is 0 inches of precipitation every day from Sunday May 16 through Saturday May 22.
The White House lies by reflex. They lie out of habit. They lie even when it doesn't help them to lie.
....i will confess to being more right than left.do listen to right wing talk radio in day time since i lost my job
Mr. J, want to know why we treasonous Lefties have become so uncivil? It's because we've lost it. You know, mad as hell and we aren't gonna take it anymore. It's really quite frustrating, knowing that a bunch of incurious, ignorant American yahoos may well return an unelected president to the White House, and continue the shameful slide into chaos, both security- and economy-wise, that Bush has visited upon us.
Take you, for example. You lost your job, and while shit happens, there seems to be a lot more shit, in the era of Shrub. But people like yourself will vote against your own interests, for no other reason than people with persuasive propaganda and a "nice guy" image convinced you that you are a "conservative".
So either get a clue, put up with our inappropriate behavior, or give us all better drugs for the duration.
lol, eman, it bears repeating
axles of evil
"I've been on road and mountain bikes most of the last 20 yrs. and never seen anyone with a mouthguard."
The Bushliar mouthguard:
http://tinyurl.com/2vtcp
So it appears they lied about the rain? Why did they lie? Even I would not have made fun of the president for falling after successfully riding 16 miles on a mountain bike. Heck, after five years of grad school, I no longer can do that any more - and I'm a young'un!
I think these people are congenital liars!
"A White House spokeswoman, Suzy DeFrancis, tried to shrug off the decision to honour the documentary.
"It's a free country. It's what makes America great."
Last time I checked, Cannes still in France.
Reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) story about the time Yogi Berra was introduced to the Jewish mayor of Dublin. Quoth Yogi: "Only in America."
Heck, after five years of grad school, I no longer can do that any more - and I'm a young'un!
I think these people are congenital liars! - DAS
OTOH - it has occurred to me that most people wouldn't need such intense medical care after sustaining this sort of fall. One time my dad, who used to ride is bike to work, was knocked off his bike and roughed up by some houligans for #@$%s and giggles. He was able to go to work just fine ... of course he was around 50 at the time, but still - 7 years is not that much of a difference.
Is the CiC actually in good enough health to be CiC? 16 miles is impressive, but something seems amiss. I am so clumsy that Chevy Chase would love to play me in a movie-biography of my life. But even I have fewer pratfalls than our side-kick in chief. Is he back on the sauce maybe?
(close the door and the light stays on!)
perhaps he should "have another blue moss".
Last time I checked, Cannes still in France. ...Developing....
Hey, France is a free country (mostly, as long as you don't try to wear a headscarf to school). The USA? Hmmm...
Okay, I can remember four or more episodes of Bush with abrasions:
Pretzel incident, boil on the face, was struck in the face while clearing brush, Segway incident (no apparent abrasions, but incident was at least recorded, unlike these others save for their aftermaths), and the mountain bike "accident". I say he's an epileptic and probably a self-induced one, due to cocaine/alcohol abuse. Maybe his first big "revelation" to quit drinking at age 40 was the end result of a serious grand mal seizure. Also would explain his apparent druggedness at some press events (phenobarbitol? dilantin?) and the records (redacted) of the two meds he takes daily. No harm in being an epileptic, my youngest sister was and so was one of our neighbors, but I'm just pointing out what others have also stated.
Last thing: Preznit Gimme Turkee Must Eats Lots of Turkee Due to the "Trip"tophan that He Enjoys.
Sorry, but I had to use it somewhere.
jane_al - you may be on to something. I dunno, though - something else might be going on. I have a friend who was/is epileptic. He was put on the standard, let's give him more phenobarbital until he stops having siezures course of therapy. He's effectively now tolerant (addicted?) to the phenobarb (and - knock wood - is siezure free) to the point where you wouldn't have any clue that he is on the stuff (e.g. he can drink normally, etc.): I guess the liver is a Nietschean organ: that which does not kill it only serves to make it stronger (same reason why those workers exposed to DDT got liver cancer at lower rates than did everyone else) so he really has quite a tolerance for anything, actually.
I guess he does have an intense stare all the time, but that's the only thing unusual about him (that can be attributed to the phenobarb at least ) - and even that may just be his personality.
I wonder if something else is going on besides relatively controlled epilepsy. It would explain the grounding, though - but why not just come out with it and end the GWB was running drugs for the CIA speculation? I guess it goes back to this admin being full of congenital liars - they cannot help themselves but be deceptive.
DAS -- One other thing. Remember the thread we had here regarding Bush's intolerance of silverware at one of his campaign stops/dinners? Epileptic seizures can be triggered by high pitched noises, flashing lights, etc. Maybe that's why he has an intolerance for ringing cellphones, the tinkling of lots of silverware in a big auditorium, etc. By banning these things outright, it saves him the possibility of having a seizure. As for the blank stare, that is also a symptom of a petit mal seizure; my kid sister used to just literally space (blank stare, dropped jaw) mid-sentence and then come back as if nothing had happened.
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