hope he recovers quickly.

Old people fall - but if you fall out of a wheelchair, you don't "break you neck."

And if you do fall and break your neck, it's not "one day" in the hospital.

But one day is all it takes to go and pick up the neckbrace -- and use it as a prop.

Sorry. He's faking it.

or perhaps not....

It's not like he's out for money and wants to sue. Would you have said the same think if President Carter had fell? Well why not? He's around his age.

I think an accurate translation of this media story may be as follows:

"Not wanting to answer questions from the FBI about possible criminal activity dating to back to
his days as CIA director and just prior to that, and continuing to the present time, former US President GH Bush
has decided to pretend he has a medical emergency, preventing him from being able to speak or answer questions.

Consequently, GH Bush is now wearing a neckbrace -- and falsely claiming: he fell out of his wheelchair, onto his 'neck' and 'broke his neck.'

But miraculously: no injury to his neck exists, no spinal cord injury exists, and how one falls out of a wheelchair onto one's neck has yet to be explained or disclosed by any medical professional.

Obviously, GH is currently unavailable to now answer questions in an on-going criminal investigation. By virtue of his fake medical story, he publicly announces and directs that others involved in his decades conspiracy of criminal acts also pretend to likewise be unable to speak."

Accurate translation? Yes, I think so. Call me a cynic. Call me crazy. But former CIA Director GH Bush must be feeling some heat, IMO.

Besides, he doesn't need to injure himself to avoid questions from anyone.

He can claim he doesn't remember shit, or spout of some story about how he and Reagan were on a boat together once. He can say stuff like "wasn't he the pope who did the thing to that library?" Or some other nonsensical crap and nobody is going to say anything about it.

Just explain it to me, because: I don't know.

I don't know the circumstances of the fall, but he may have twisted his neck suddenly while trying to recover from the fall, he may have struck something with his head - causing the neck to whiplash, or any number of things.

Have you ever broken bones? I've broken a bunch. The first was at age 7 while JUMPING ROPE. Broke my little finger.

Now you explain to me how I managed to do that, and we'll both know.

Especially if you're in your 90's. What they're saying is not farfetched at all.

First I've ever heard of bones in the neck that are superfilous, but that wouldn't be the first time since I only know of the spinal cord bones in the neck...there must be some not so important ones that I don't know anything about.

according to the reports I've heard.

People at that age can break bones very easily.

And require more than one day in the hospital, IMO.

A few years ago I had major shoulder surgery to install 18 bolts due to a horrific break.

They said I could go home the same day if I had someone to drive me.

I didn't, on that day, and I was released first thing the next morning when a friend arrived to pick me up.

The article says they didn't know how long he'll be there.

Or are you just making shit up?

And at 91! Had no idea Poppy was that old.

If all you do is "crack" the bone, about the only thing you'll experience besides the pain is swelling. Keep that under control and your spinal cord will be fine. Technically it doesn't even have to cracked all the way through to be a "broken bone".

So it is a fractured bone in the spinal cord, must be a tiny fracture.

It will require a brace regardless.

It's a cracked/broken vertebrae, not the spinal "cord". The cord is a nerve that runs down a path in the vertebrae.

He must have fallen and landed on his neck.

Though painful, breaking a bone in the neck is not life-threatening unless the spinal cord is damaged. The neck brace will prevent that from happening. Scary, however, especially in someone over 90.

To avoid testifying. Believe it or not, people get hurt, even politicians.

I believe GH Bush is a liar, for various reasons known to me.

Others have their reasons for also believing GH Bush is: a liar.

From ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/grover-norquist-george-h-w-bush-lied-to-the-american-people/

Grover Norquist: George H.W. Bush 'Lied' to the American People
August 19, 2012
By JAKE TAPPER via THIS WEEK


Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist dismissed recent criticism of his tax pledge from former President George H.W. Bush, saying the 41st president had "lied" to the American people by raising taxes while in office.

"When George Herbert Walker Bush ran for president, he promised the American people he wouldn't raise their taxes," Norquist said this morning on "This Week." "He lied to them. He broke his commitment to them and they threw him out of office four years later."

Bush famously said "Read my lips: no new taxes" during his 1988 campaign, before going on to raise taxes during his only term as president....

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