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Monday, April 24, 2006

We were warned

Shooting frogs with BB guns was apparently pretty standard entertainment for young boys in Texas in the 1950s. But for added amusement, George W. Bush and his friends used to tuck firecrackers into the anuses of frogs, throw them in the air, and watch them explode. This may go a long ways towards explaining his hatred for the French. Anyone have a spare SideWinder missile laying around that we can use to return the favor?

The story — recounted with fondness by a Bush childhood friend in a long, flattering New York Times profile of Bush during the 2000 presidential election campaign — never became an issue on the campaign trail. Yessir, the mainstream media most certaintly is tilted to the left. This would have been front page news if it were Al Gore instead of "da shrub".

Despite psychiatric evidence that children who are cruel to animals often go on to be abusive adults, the U.S. media apparently decided that the torture of frogs was nothing more than a charming little anecdote from Dubya's early years. (Imagine what the media would make of a charming little childhood anecdote like that, if it were in Saddam Hussein's background.) He probably was into kicking donkeys as well. I'll avoid going into sheep territory in this post.

It should have at least been a clue that Bush — now the most powerful madman in the world — has a taste for blowing things up, not to mention an insensitivity to suffering. I truly miss Clinton; he merely had a taste for being blown. At least that makes sense to me.

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6 Comments:

Blogger Andrew Kaduk said...

I can't believe you're even implying that it would have been wise to use childhood frog scrapping as a "campaign issue." Could you possibly get more petty?

HA! Democrats.

Just keep that kind of stuff up and you guys will never win anything again!

title="comment permalink">April 24, 2006 11:46 PM  
Blogger Jason said...

"the most powerful madman in the world" -- that's good.

I miss Bill too. Once-in-a-generation type of leader.

title="comment permalink">April 25, 2006 9:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for the chuckle! Kinda makes being blown in the White House seem pretty trivial now that you put it into perspective.

title="comment permalink">April 25, 2006 1:59 PM  
Blogger John Good said...

Andy- It's far far better than half of the crap that Karl Rove comes up with AND. . .it's TRUE. Maybe you aren't bothered by a man who tortured/killed animals as a boy. I am.

Jason- I'm hoping for a two-fer in our generation. It'll take a Clintonesque leader to fix the fucked up mess that shrub has made of the world.

Stan- Let's concentrate on blowing THIS one out of the White House.

title="comment permalink">April 25, 2006 7:53 PM  
Blogger fairplaybeach said...

George W. Bush would always ask WWJD, and didn't Jesus get mad at a fig tree and send it to oblivion once?

Jesus said that it was ok to burn animals as a sacrifice to God (Matthew 5:18-20). Once Jesus gave permission to some demons to kill a heard of swine by making them drown (Matthew 8:31-32)

If Jesus had firecrackers at George's age and time in history of course "He" would be exploding their anuses...

title="comment permalink">April 26, 2006 10:42 AM  
Blogger fairplaybeach said...

...and I forgot about the turning water into wine trick. Jesus would also be responsible for some public intox's.

title="comment permalink">April 26, 2006 3:15 PM  

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