The Strange HIstory of George Bush's Facial Injuries ---pix->>>

Is the press hiding something ELSE from us? Now that we live in a Nanny State where the press would rather go to dinner parties with politicians than tell us the truth about them in the paper, I have to wonder what other stories they have been sitting on for a year or more. For instance, how many of you, DU, have injured your face once in the past five years? How many more than once? How many have ever injured their face? Yet it seems to happen to George Bush whenever he gets a few days off.

What is WRONG with this president?





President Bush makes a few remarks after visiting wounded soldiers at Brooke Army Medical Center, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2006, in San Antonio, Texas. President Bush is sporting a cut on the left side of his forehead from cutting down brush on his ranch. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060101/480/txlj10601012145






From an archived DU thread >

yep

or is better to say he is - VERTICALLY challenged from the looks of those pics! HEHE...

Kerry was 10 times as active as W without the injuries.

Kerry was 10 times as active as W without the injuries.

he is under the influence of sociopaths and not connected bodily - as many victims of sociopaths will find. Or skin cancer.

Don't know. But that would be my guesses.

I doubt being in close proximity with other sociopaths would make all that much difference.

He is a patsy.

I've believed for some time (since 2001) that Bush was just a figurehead but I think the reason he makes a good figurehead is because he doesn't care to be bothered. I do think he's a sociopath but I also don't think he's the head sociopath - that title would need to be fought over by Cheney and Rove.

"Individuals approaching the psychopathic extreme are not totally wanting in morality, but they do sense a weakness, an awareness that something is missing, which frightens them. They also suspect that their love is not all it could or should be. In order to adapt they begin to compensate for these deficiencies by becoming morally rigid.

Since compensated psychopaths cannot depend upon eros, their egos work out a moral system which is fool-proof in any and every situation. The result, as paradoxical as it may seem, is usually a well-developed morality with an emphasis upon the ego's role but woefully lacking in love.

Compensated psychopaths have played significant parts in society and in history. The more psychopathic compensated psychopaths are - in other words the more they have to compensate - the more sinister they are..."
Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

3000 Americans dead on 9-11. 10,000 Americans dead from Katrina. 2000+ American soldiers dead in Iraq. 100,000+ Iraqis dead.

And he doesn't care one bit.

Again as an aside . while Governor of Texas Mr. Bush was interviewed by Talk Magazine concerning the impending execution of fellow Christian Karla Faye Tucker. Bush imitated Tucker's appeal for him to spare her life . pursing his lips, squinting his eyes, and in a squeaky voice saying, "please don't kill me".
http://www.opednews.com/lang040804_bush_christian_fascism.htm

:rofl:

but the previous ones were so bad. I mean most alcoholics don't do shit to their faces like that unless they fall down a lot.

Putting the whole alcohol thing aside for a moment -

Maybe Pickles just gives him hell once in a while. Might be a hidden abuse thing, after all I bet his Mommy was abusive, maybe he seeks the same behavior in his spouse.

I always figured GW for the abusive one, but maybe they throw down now and then. Laura could always cover up any mishaps to her face with lots of makeup.

Or, it could be his handlers who beat him up when he isn't being cooperative.

One of my old roommates was an alcoholic. I say "was" because he's dead now. He used to run into things pretty regularly when he was drinking - door frames, the table, the wall, the floor - and caused injuries to his face. He even had a bicycle accident once coming home from his local bar. He hit the brakes too hard while heading down a hill and flipped over the handlebars. He broke several ribs, scruffed up his face and arms and totaled his bike (which he was riding because his license was suspended from his most recent DUI). He didn't learn from either the bike accident or the string of DUI's he had compiled over the years. After the bike accident he started drinking at home. (On a side note, the bar he stopped going to went out of business after he stopped going. The bar owner came over to the house to check up on him and offered to give him rides to and from the bar. Looking over his credit card reciepts after he died I realized he was spending between $2,000 and $2,500 at the bar on a monthly basis. He used to get to the bar by opening (11 a.m.) and would stay there often until closing. He did eat there at least once a day but the majority of his expenses were booze).

He was constantly bandaged and bruised up. It got so bad at one point that the neighbors thought I was beating him or something. I could tell they thought something was up because they started giving me the fish eye whenever I saw them. One afternoon (he usually started drinking around 10 or 11 a.m.) when he was falling down drunk he ran into the door frame while trying to get into the bathroom and knocked himself out. I got several of the neighbors to help pick him and get into a chair (his bedroom was upstairs and we couldn't carry him). When they came in they saw the numerous beer bottles around the house and he smelled to high heaven. He never really forgave me for getting the neighbors involved. He was so embarrassed and he was so pissed at me for calling them. Unfortunately he thought my "outing" him and his drinking problem to the neighbors gave him a reason to drink more. After another year or so of trying to help him I realized I was destroying myself more than helping him and moved out. I really did love him. He had been my friend for close to 15 years and my roommate for five years. He didn't like "those drunks" at AA, he didn't like counseling and he refused seeking help except when ordered by the courts. Of course my moving out was another excuse for drinking (I'd abandoned him) and he spent the next year drinking himself to death. He never forgave me.

way out of their addiction. That doesn't mean that you have to take on part of their problem. When I was a bartender I had several customers similar to your friend. When they came in scratched and bruised, it was referred to as so and so's been eating the concrete again.

Unlike the image of the mean drunk, most of these career drinkers were very mild-mannered and very nice. Many of them also would come in at opening time and leave at closing when they had a day off. Most of them worked at jobs too. Amazing, isn't it that they could pull it off?

he was a quiet and generous drunk. People "loved" him because he would buy rounds.

I agree with you about his addiction. He was never a very happy person. Most of the time that we were roommates I was in grad school, worked thirty hours a week and wasn't home a lot. It wasn't until after I graduated and was around the house more that I realized how screwed up he was. It was after he started blaming me for his drinking that I decided I wasn't doing either of us any good. After I moved out I realized how much of a toll he had taken on me mentally and emotionally. I tried. It was up to him.

my brother had similar problems to the drunk you tried so hard to help. David moved in with our elderly parents and for about 15 years was able to be sober enough to do their food shopping and shlep them to dr.s appointments, and also since he was a CPA, do their taxes. That was between his drinking binges. But when he had his first stroke he couldn't drive any more so there had to be home caretakers. That was when I began to commute from CT to Dallas.

David died in May of 2004, during another stroke (he was in a nursing home from his second stroke but had never stopped smoking).

My family had a history of alcoholism: a cousin who drank himself to death and an uncle whose death was alcohol related (in a fire at his house while he was drunk). I also lost a neice when her step grandfather got drunk and pulled a gun out (which of course was there to prevent burglary)and started shooting (he hit her dead-on over her left eye. She died instantly and was 24 years old).

My friend's name was David. Before I moved in we had agreed that I would move out in late 1998. By then I would have graduated, found a job and finished working on his house (which was my rent). I stayed two years longer than I had intended because Dave had his second big heart attack on August 19, 1998. If that date sounds familiar it should. Dave had his heart attack half an hour after Clinton's televised confession. He didn't think it when the paramedic was asking questions and I said "All I know is he didn't think Clinton did it. When he found out that Clinton did get a blowjob his heart gave out." The paramedic thought it was funny. Dave didn't. I became his "caretaker" after that.

What we didn't know at that time was that Dave had already suffered several smaller ones (per enzyme/protein tests and "old" damage to his heart). It took him months to recuperate, not that he ever fully did. He was responsible for his own health slide. Within hours of getting out of the hospital he had ordered a meat pizza, dug out one of his alcohol stashes and was smoking a cigar. All I ended up doing was slowing down his slide. I was hoping to give him enough extra time to change his ways but he was hell-bent on suicide. He refused to take some medications because it "didn't go well with his beer". He smoked until the day he died. By the end he was also drinking a couple of cases of beer and at least a fifth of gin per day. On "good days" he would do tequila shots. It ate me up inside to watch it and I had to get out. One of the last phone calls I made was to his mom. She's an alcoholic trust fund baby too. She never liked me much. She thought I was too serious and a party pooper. That woman is preserved in alcohol. I honestly don't know how that woman is still alive.

Anyway, Dave moved in with her after I left and she was ecstatic. She had someone to drink with and spend the day insulting again. She loved telling Dave, who was an only child, how much she wished she'd "had a kid that she could be proud of". Then she'd hug him and tell him "he'd have to do". She'd tell him the reason he was stupid was because she "was out back smoking a cigarette when the stork was handing out brains for babies", then she'd end it with "oh well, good thing they have slip-on shoes, god knows he's not smart enough to tie up laces." She also used him as an example, to anyone who would listen, that he was actually the result of an abortion that he gone wrong. She's such a lovely person :sarcasm: and, if there is a heaven, I'm sure there's a special place for people like her.

Dave died in her house watching television and clutching his beer bottle. The only reason I found out that he died (since she wouldn't allow him to talk to me) was that I was in his will so I was contacted by his attorney. I was the only person in his will. The rest (and vast majority) of his estate and trust went to funding a scholarship for his field of study. Years earlier I had convinced Dave, against his mom's wishes, to go back to school and finish his degree. I took that a sign from Dave that my pushing him to finish school was something, maybe the only the thing, he was really proud of in his life.

I've got some alcoholic relatives on both sides of the family. I've lost several relatives who were killed in or near bars. My little sister was out drinking when she was 29. She was refused service at one bar because she was already drunk and was on her way to try another one when she got hit by a drunk driver. The first drunk hit her on his way out of a parking lot. The impact tossed her into another car at such a speed that when the second car hit her she flew about thirty feet forward before she hit pavement. She has brain damage and is crippled now. In fact, right now she's still recuperating from her latest round of surgery on one of her legs. It does looks like she may be able to walk again someday. Her facial reconstructions have gone well too. People no longer cringe when they see her. The biggest challenge we've had with her these past few years is balancing her schizophrenia medication with her pain pills. She's 33 now.

Alcoholism is such a nasty thing. It can so easily destroy so many lives. It sounds like it has taken its toll on your family. You aren't alone. None of us are. :hi:

goes overboard with the whips and chains every once in a while.

I have to admit, my face did look like that once about 7 years ago when I slipped on some ice in my driveway and landed on my cheekbone -- but I have an excuse. This is ALASKA -- it's ICY. I think the (p)Resident's got a problem.

You might have had you been drunk while on ice.

Now, there is a holiday show!

lol

I hadn't thought of it that way!

i wonder how much the press (more than just the dinners, or riding bike with him, or clearing brush with him) is being paid to hide the fact that he slithers like a snake down the corridors of power, or the backroads of his ranch.

When I bought my house in 1998, there was a lot of work to be done. I cut down 20 trees and dug up over 20 stumps. There were times that I probably looked worse than Bush. After an ice storm that took down 18 trees (5 on the house), I came out looking like shit.

The point is, go after policy, and not some perception you can not prove, Thank you.

just making a suggestion. My point is that an active person can get those injuries. Believe me, I know. I'm terribly clumsy and should stay away from yard work. I usually come out on the losing side.

And if you think he's doing yard work you're a sucker. This is the first time they've used brush clearing as an excuse, BTW. The first time, in 2000, it was a "boil." Then he had the run-in with the pretzel. Then a bike accident. Then an unexplained injury. Now, brush.

want to continue this discussion via PM?

I lived there in 1988 on E 85th between 1st and 2nd. Ever been to Fitzpatricks, Dorians, or the Mad Hatter? Assuming the're still there.

certainly wouldn't drink anything while working with tools. (chainsaw, axe, etc.) I'm clumsy enough as is.

Hee hee.

I do like to have a beer. The quote, I thought, was pretty cool.:toast:

Just sayin'.

and comes in with scratched arms, but so far no scratches on his face. (BTW, our brush-cutting is fire prevention - we leave the junipers alone, except for some lower branches, cut the manzanita, etc.) The only time I've seen scrapes like some of those is when my mother, then 96, fell straight down on a sidewalk when her legs gave out on her. She's begun to take lots of falls, but only once hit her face.

Why ?

What do I do for a living? -- "Rough In" carpenter, I frame houses.

Do I ever clear brush, and have I cut my face in the process? ----- Yes, I've "cut in" fire trails and cleared about a quarter of an acre of thorny black berry bushes last year. I cut my face and arms more then twice. Once in a while branches will get pinned down, then snap back up toward your face.

Have I done one or more nose-plants after slipping on the ice. --- Yes, ---- I live in ice country (Northern Idaho) and when your hands hit the ice they usually slip out and the face is next.

Have I ever crashed and burned while riding a bicycle and injured my face? ----- Yes.

Do I drink very much? ------- YES !!



WOW, I finally did it, ----- 100th Post !!

Always wear gloves. As a figure skater, the first thing we were told was, 'when practicing always wear gloves', which will prevent your hands from slipping across the ice.

The only time I ever injured my face in a fall, (even when I skated every day and fell many times) was on the ice. Only once.

I also clear brush in our yard, trim trees, rake etc. and have had scratches, but never facial injuries like that. In the past five years? Not once, and I do ride a bike AND occassionally eat pretzels.

years. Also on carpet in the office and on the next to last stair in my house. I was told to "pick up my feet" which I think was the problem, because I was cold sober and my meds weren't making me wobbly. It just started to happen as I grew older. I am now terrified of breaking my neck.

you should check into getting some physical therapy for balance problems. A little training ahead of time has been shown to prevent serious injury from falls for older people. It's also helped restore mobility for a lot of people who didn't have any injuries but just had gotten "frail" and couldn't walk well. I've seen it help several friends and wish I could talk my mother into going.

But come to think of it I do feel out of balance some time but I have installed grab bars in the bathroom and I am muchmore careful with stairs. I am only 66 and in great health. I have been working out 6 days a week, until I had my latest fall combined with a sports injury to my elbow from lifting weights. So I have just started back with Jazzercise and will start at the gym, but only on the treadmill and the leg weights (no arms)until I can get to the Orthopedist for my appointment.

Ugh.

Riding down a hill lying face first was fun but I scraped my face up pretty good. I told everyone I was in Desert Storm and got in trouble for that. It happened when I was in second grade.

My mom beat me with a stick which left a scar on the side of my face for the longest time. It's still there if you look closely.

Oh yes, soccer can be a violent sport sometimes. I got headed (head-butted) in the teeth once in tenth grade. I had my teeth in a splint for a month and had a root canal on 2 of them. That was about 6 years ago and I still can't get used to the way my teeth are now. Braces are just not worth it. The school considered mouthgards after that but decided against it since I was the only one to ever injure my teeth while playing soccer.

So I guess that's 3 facial injuries for me. Unless you count cuts from shaving.

It was a high-speed flying fall. But I think you'd have to be drunk for your face to get scraped like that. Otherwise your body just seems to do whatever is necessary to protect the face whether you think about it or not.

it's bizarre

I am related to people who've taken a dive off bikes and scooters -- however their excuse is they were really young.

I have to wonder why someone Bush's age seems to just attract this kind of accident, but I don't really care.

What I do care about is his juvenile, self-centered, tone deaf, non-empathic, and totally inappropriate sense of humor. From looking for WMDs under the sofa to joking to amputees and burn victims about his boo-boo, the man just doesn't seem to have any understanding of the tragedies that befall other human beings.

He's an embarrassment to this nation.

Hekate

to seriously injured and maimed soldiers whose injuries were the direct result of *'s policies and decisions. It honestly scares me to think of how little empathy and connection to reality this man possesses.

It doesn't interfere with any serious policy question or investigation, so who cares. It is weird that the man is getting hurt all the time. My sil is a construction worker and he doesn't get hurt as often as Bush does. My father did auto body work for over 50 years, and he didn't get hurt as many times in his entire life as Bush has in the last 5 years. It's peculiar. The OP didn't make any unsubstantiated claims, just posted pictures and asked a question. The pictures record facts, what's the answer? Aren't you curious why he's hurting his face all the time?

Condi

He could like that rough sex. :)

He gets drunk and he falls on his face. Gotta be.

In fact it is unlawful. If this man has some physical/mental ailment, you're damn right we have a right to know and that is my own perception. What the hell goes on at this "ranch"?

"Clearing Brush" is not the same as cutting down trees or digging up stumps.

Those of us who remember his campaign for Governor remember a man who could actually speak in public. He never impressed me as more than a half-bright fratboy, but his mental capacity has deteriorated since then.

Is his facial injury history related to his mental problems?

We've got plenty of energy left to go after policy.

We cleared up after three hurricanes here in 2004 (MANY more than 20 trees to deal with) and NOBODY down here came up with that many facial injuries-neither relief workers or regular citizens. You can bet the same can be said of the relief workers in NOLA, too. Protecting ones face is a basic instinct that only real mental or physical impairment can override. If Bush* is impaired, you damn well better believe the people of this country have a right to know about it!

Maybe not while he's in office, but... while JFK was in office, it was certainly not general knowledge that he was a serial womanizer. However, it later became general knowledge. After they're out of office (or, in JFK's case, dead), people aren't so afraid to talk. Do they have to die b/f people start talking? I don't think so. Look at the tales they told of Nixon--before his death. And don't forget Clinton. We sure know plenty about him.

Okay, I agree that one can get a scratch on the face from going out and clearing brush. However, if you look at the majority of the photos above, those are ABRASIONS, not scratches. That, to me, clears Pickles of suspicion of abusing her darling. (When you punch or slap someone, they don't get an abrasion.) It also rules out being scratched by brush.

An abrasion to the face is the result of its coming into hard, jarring, contact with something that is NOT sharp like a tree branch.

To me, those look like injuries from falling or running into stuff. Like... the floor.

I think he's drinking. And we know he can't handle drinking--he has a history of not being able to do it in moderation.

I only wish it would hurry up and incapacitate him.

when I fell and hit my nose on the edge of a table - I was SHITFACED at the time!

People have a very strong protection instinct when it comes to the head/face. You will always get your hands up to protect yourself... unless you are unable to because you are unconscious or impaired in some way that your reaction is too slow.

This guy has GOT TO HAVE a drinking problem!!

I have never injured my face. I can't think of any of my friends who has had a facial injury in the past five years. This behavior is ODD.

I have gotten scratched, getting a little too rough playing with a big dog. Accident, just rough housing. Course, he doesn't have a big dog - just a little one. And, those aren't scratches.

There's a possibility it's some other downer, besides alcohol, of course. At one point Colin Powell was discussing sleeplessness with someone, and he reportedly said something like, 'why haven't you tried Ambien -- everyone around here takes it.'

Ambien is a strong drug that is supposed to be used short term to help one sleep. The list of possible side effects is quite long, including possible paranoia and a raft of other things.

Another possibility, but I don't actually buy it, is that someone -- not Laura -- is roughing him up. I don't buy it because why would they do it somewhere that could be easily seen, like the face?

But, if you wanted to, um, impress a Supreme Court justice, wouldn't a brief beating, do the trick? It's not like you can fire them.

My story on that, taken from the sources below....

Souter Attacked by Assailants April 2004

On April 28, 2004, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the cases of two American citizens being held as enemy combatants, Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla. According to a report at Indymedia, David Souter was critical of the government's position.

Two days later, Justice David Souter was attacked by unknown assailants, while out jogging. It was a Friday night at 9 p.m.. He suffered minor injuries, was taken to a hospital, and released about 4 hours later, in the wee hours of the morning. Kathleen Arberg, the Supreme Court's public information officer, said the justice was attacked by "several young men."

Robbery was not involved, Ms. Arberg said.
Justice Souter, 64, is an avid jogger and hiker who runs regularly around the track at Fort McNair, an Army base near his apartment in the Southwest section of Washington. For "security reasons," the court did not identify the precise location of the attack. Nor was the number of attackers or a description of them immediately released. {One might ask, WHY NOT?!?!?!}

The attackers, who escaped, did not appear to be armed, Ms. Arberg said.
A spokesperson for Washington Metropolitan Police said last week that no suspects had been arrested and that an investigation continues. He said police do not know the motivation for the attack.

Souter is very private, is among the youngest justices and is a regular jogger. He is a lifelong bachelor who lives alone and is the justice least likely to be seen on the speaking circuit or at Washington parties.

When justices of the Supreme Court make speeches or attend functions in their official capacity, they are accompanied by court police officers or U.S. marshals. But in their daily lives, they go about their business mostly on their own.

The incident recalled a mishap last summer involving another justice. It was just a week after the Michigan affirmative action decision and the Texas sodomy decision of the Supreme Court last summer that a heavy frame nearly collapsed on Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The decisions came down the last week of June, 2003.

During July 4th, 2003 festivities in Philadelphia, a large piece of a wood and steel stage frame came crashing down, narrowly missing Justice O'Connor. She was not hit but was heard through an open microphone saying "we could all have been killed." Several other people, including Phily's mayor, were hit. Three were hospitalized and released. At the time of the incident last summer, a spokesperson for the Constitution Center said officials were trying to determine what went wrong.

Sources:

Justice Souter Is Attacked While Jogging
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: May 2, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/politics/02SOUT.html

Attack on Souter shows justices' minimal security
By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY
May 2, 2004
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=news&start=0&num=1&q=http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-05-02-souter-usat_x.htm

Supreme Court Justice Souter Assaulted
Was Jogging On City Street In Washington
KDKA Channel TWO http://kdka.com/topstories/topstoriestv_story_122171152.html

Justice Souter assaulted during jog
Police sources: Attack appears to have been random
Saturday, May 1, 2004 Posted: 4:48 PM EDT (2048 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/01/souter.assaulted/index.html

I guess they ran out of anthrax.

Hi Zan! I was at Mark's last night just before you got on the phone with him! Too funny. :hi: Happy New Year to you, and the tappans!

On October 1, I was walking out of a restaurant, and didn't notice that there was a small curb of about an inch, and my foot caught on it. I fell forward, my knee hit the pavement hard, I went down, but not once did my face get injured. Some kind guy helped me get up, and my knee was a mess (still is, three months later!) but everything else is intact.

No, I wasn't drinking--I was preoccupied at the moment it happened--but I knew enough instinctively to protect my face.

It seems to me that all these cuts and bruises to the pretender's face might be related to skin cancer, but the scars and such don't seem to bear that out. Blackouts, where you wouldn't be able to instinctively protect yourself, sound more likely as time goes by.

However, and I say this with some caution, it could just be a matter of him losing so many brain cells from his alcoholism and coke use, and being unable to think straight and move when a big branch is heading directly at his nose or cheek.

i've had a couple of basals removed from my face, and they never looked anything like those photos those are cuts and scrapes, but the bandaid photo i cannot make a guess. something is definitely up that we are not privy to.

See, http://www.williambowles.info/guests/2005/bush_cancer.html

many of us are at the point that we believe NOTHING that they say.

(btw - the link says those are actinic keratoses (basically sun damage), and are precancerous. basals ARE cancerous, no pre about it).

peace

had blocked in by parking on front of me and also blocking half the alley. There was NO WAY I was getting out as the person behind me was also touching my damn bumper. As I was looking over at my car, bitching, I was not paying attention to my walking, and stepped into one of those curb cuts and started falling forward. Since I tried to stop my fall, I only ended up accelerating, so when I did hit, my arms automatically went out to break my fall and I was going about a hundred MPH as well. Ended up fracturing my wrist and hand, but my face never hit, even when I bounced sideways my hands were protecting my face.

BTW, hubby got us out of the parking spot by easing up onto the offenders bumper, and literally pushing him up into the alley...went to hospital.

To this day, I have nerve damage in half of my left hand from that fall (my pinkie, the finger next to it, and my hand down to my wrist are always half asleep). But, I did not hit my face (was sober as hell too)

That's why nature gave us ARMS.

I've fallen down outside... either from the dog tugging on the leash too much, or like last month, when I tripped on a garden hose. But even then I was able to break my fall with my arms and hands, so I ended up with scraped hands--and my face didn't get hurt.

However, an alcoholic relative of mine went to a concert some 10 years ago, and showed up afterward with a swollen lip and abrasions to the face. He'd fallen down while leaving the concert, and his face just went SPLAT on the sidewalk. Because he was so shitfaced that his reflexes didn't allow his arms to raise up and stop him from going all the way down.

Who DOES this remind you of...
(In a metaphorical sense, of course...)

The Two Beasts

13And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name <1> of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded <2> to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue <3> forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life <4> unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive <5> a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

BHN

I remember that, vividly. It was a nasty-looking thing, too. I was happy when he slapped that bandaid over it. That thing erupted on his face during the post-election fight over Florida. I wasn't exactly sympathetic to his plight over a boil, believe me.

What happened to the end of his nose in that picture, I have no idea.

I think Laura gets drunk and beats him. But if anyone asks, you didn't hear it from me.

maybe we should send her a really nice alabaster rollling pin?:shrug:

to sport those marks all the time too as I recall.

I fell our of a parked car once ,drunk on my ass and had to have 20 stitches in my head

... even Pickles can only take so much.

Or maybe it's someone else. Perhaps someone should investigate the the corelation between what's going on in his public life and the bruising ...

"You nominated WHO for the Supreme Court? Take that, you idiot!"

"So you PUBLICLY admitted spying on Americans? I'll TEACH you to go opening your big fat trap!"

Rove? Cheney? Or maybe Scottie McC, who has to EXPLAIN all of this crap to the public ...

Was he there the night of the pretzel?

"Take that, you little bastard. Maybe now you won't be TELLING ME who's on top and who's on the bottom!"

Nothing.

with the ... sheep. and.... jeff.

*cough*

don't you think?

don't you think?

The man is totally stupid as in mentally handicapped so maybe he has real problems that are being hidden from the public

Because otherwise how do you fall off a bike and land on your FACE?

the weird walk and the loss of word mentality.He has some problem for sure

Too many things fit it - the aphasia, the odd mannerisms, the blank look, the box under the coat (because electrical impulses can help prevent seizures in short term, stressful situations), the degeneration of his ability to make himself understood....

and some of the mannerisms. But I looked at devices that provide electrical stimulation and those I found were implanted and a magnet is worn on the wrist or in the pocket to stop them temporarily. Didn't find any that would explain the back box. Are there some worn that way?

Unofficially, who knows?

And there's always self-medication and prescriptions.

Id happnesh all da time.



Glad he's grounded.

A) He's blackin' out while taking "Texas size shots of JD" or whatever.
B) Laura's whoopin his ass.
C) The puppet masters are smacking him around.
D) Skin cancer
E) WHO THE HELL KNOWS!

But VERY odd indeed to say the LEAST.

Lu

In a mental facility would help him.One with a padded cell

its that damn brush he is always clearing.It probably hates him and knocks him on his ass!!!

That, my friends, is the result of a right hook. I know, I used to practice martial arts and I have had them. That is exactly what they look like.

The questions are: Who and why?

Babs would kill them unless she is the hitter,hmmmmmmm interesting as poppa bush had them too

he keeps falling off his rocking horse

The turkeys did.

:)

is something to consider, his lack of social skills, antisocial behavior and emotional problems socially..

i have Asgerbers, and i have an IQ of 164, but am functionally illiterate.

socially 'Blind' as it is described.. explains his calling people names and insulting psychopathic dictators in N Korea calling him a mental Midget during delicate negotiations and starting a nuclear arms race..etc..

Well what ever the problem he needs to step down and quit causing all the hate and discontent on this planet!!!!
They need a regime change .There have been so many murdered for no reason other than this assholes ego

a conscience. And they are often brilliant in their special area.

Mr. Bush doesn't seem to have either of these qualities.

By all accounts he's a vey skilled social manipulator, and the president of his fraternity. I say sociopath, myself.

I recently fell in NYC. Onto my knees.
Fell off a bike a couple years back. Knees again.
BAD scraping off a wheeled sled as a kid; knees and hands, NO face.

IOW, Bush hasn't been able to lift his head or otherwise protect his face (and the chin, not the cheekbones, would likely take the brunt) in his accidents. so the question is why?
"Brush" isn't wild jungle he has to machete through. If he hit his head or face falling off his bike, he'd have worse injuries.
The chin/nose/hands photo looks like a fall while jogging. Still, he couldn't keep from hitting his NOSE?
But the cheekbones injuries/scrapes? Very odd. Right-hook from Mom? Heh. Maybe so!

Laura is beating George up??

:spank:

his battleship of a mother would be the likely candidate unless condi uses him for a punching bag as she is so crazy about him and jealous

It's really creepy...

Do you think she gets that in "pill form"?

Doug D.

She doesnt even believe in george's politics,loves to shop and buy glamourous gowns ,is a luthern and doesnt believe in his religion crap and I think if a guy paid attention to her she would fall all over him

Doug D.

:thumbsup:

Did any of you read about how neal bush's wife was kicked to the curb after 25 yrs and threatened by the bush family???
He was over in china or some where in asia all the time going to prostitutes.Nice family,now Neal is traveling all over with the rev moon as in the moonies

:shrug:

these repeated facial eruptions sure look a lot like the damage that shows up on chronic, long term crystal meth adherents. If I could take a look at his real teeth, I might make a more accurate, Fristian, diagnosis.

So he's been sporting falsies? Must have gotten sensitve 'bout all the jokes. Last time I saw a photo with his teeth they looked like little baked beans.

George Bush was a fighter pilot MY *SS!

Doug D.

George Bush was fast as lightning
In fact was a little bit frightening...

Well.. George is just a little bit frightening anways...:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Doug D.

...of him and Condi and Cheney sitting around a table, before the Supreme Court decided the election? He had a band-aid on his face then... anyone have that photo?

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

the satanist Michael Aquino who was commander of Offut.

http://www.rinf.com/
http://www.raven1.net/grenbaum.htm*

Crime/Corruption Opinion (Published) Keywords: BODY-COUNT
Source: The Village Voice
Published: 9/7/99 Author: James Ridgeway

'The Village Voice' does the 'Clinton Body Count'

-"Clinton Body Count Latest 'Victim' Falls "

There's no question an unusually high number of people around the president— according to some lists as many as 100— have died accidental, violent, and at least superficially suspicious deaths. The latest occurred the week before last when Lieutenant Colonel Mark Cwick, a Marine Corps helicopter pilot who was a member of the unit that ferried the president and other high-ranking officials around the Washington area, died when his car swerved off the road to avoid a collision with an auto that had just passed him. Cwick, 41, was pronounced dead on August 20 in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Within Cwick's elite Marines unit, two other strange deaths are known to have occurred. In April, Major Marc Hohle, who had been a pilot for Clinton in the first year of his first term as president, died in a helicopter crash on Okinawa. In March, another member of the special unit, Corporal Eric S. Fox, a helicopter crewman, was found dead of a gunshot wound to his head. Fox's body was found near a West Virginia schoolyard after his auto crashed. His death was ruled a suicide, but no explanation was given.

No doubt the deaths of Cwick, Hohle, and Fox will join the growing list of names that Linda Tripp has referred to as the Clinton "body count." The list includes names like Vince Foster as well as the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who died in a plane crash in April 1996, but who conspiracy mongers claim was shot. And then there's former Clinton bodyguard Jerry Luther Parks, onetime head of the Clinton-Gore 1992 security team, who was gunned down in 1993 while driving his car in Little Rock. The Octopus - Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro
Chapter 17

By Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith
1996

Shortly before noon, on Thursday, August 8, Danny Casolaro checked into room 517 of the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg. Sometime I will get ahold of the "Octopus" to compare notes...

===
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/0394939

http://www.hermes-press.com/CIA_terrorism.htm

=CIA Official Challenges Agency on Terrorism
Defying orders to halt his public criticism, the author and former chief of the Bin Laden unit outlines failures in combating Al Qaeda.

Ford had a certain -- how to say it? -- elegance when he took a tumble (I'm thinking primarily of his misstep when he was leaving AF1). Heck, he was up and dusting himself off even before the SS guys had reacted. Perhaps that comes from being a former athlete as opposed to a guy who never picked up anything heavier than his cheerleader horn (or a 12-ounce Lone Star).

But I wonder sometimes. It would make a heckuva story -- a total schlub elected to the country's highest office who is completely beholden to his masters and handlers who monitor every public appearance and knock him around whenever he makes a mistake, and he can tell no one about it. There's absolutely no one who can help him escape from his hellish existence. You could turn that into a novel that'd have people crying and rooting for the guy by page 200.

For any character with a personality other than boosh's, that is. As it sits, I'd have Laura surreptitiously ordering a set of brass knuckles before the fifth chapter.

I think so for Michigan or Michigan State?

Doug D.

With some distinction, I think.

"President Ford was a three-year varsity letterman as an offensive lineman. He played both as a center and as a guard and was a member of the University of Michigan's National Championship football teams of 1932 and 1933. In 1934 he was named the U of M's most valuable player."

Apparently he could have turned pro and was offered contracts from Green Bay and Detroit but decided to go to law school instead...

I guess pro football didn't pay then like it does today...

Doug D.

He was left-handed, and the Secret Service were more used to right-handed presidents at the time. (They had to get used to it, though, because Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton were all left-handed.)

Anyway, from what I've heard, at least some of the time it would be people bumping into Ford, because they were expecting him to turn right instead of left. (My dad, who's also a leftie, says that people in his office would often accidentally knock stuff off his desk because they weren't expecting it to be set up that way.)

I love your story idea. Under his expensive suit, the poor guy would probably be a mass of bruises because his handlers would be elbowing him or kicking him under the table when he wasn't responsive enough for their liking. Naturally his quarters would be bugged so he couldn't vent to his family -- even if he did trust them. Maybe he would be able to sneak onto the Internets and pour out his woes on some secret blog (or even, under a pseudonym, on some opposition discussion board?).

A while ago, I came up with a plotline about a Westworld-type theme park in the distant future, featuring androids built to emulate US Presidents ... and the George W. droid is always trying to escape, because it's a sophisticated artificial intelligence forced to pose as a nasty dimwit (Bush's policies violate two of Asimov's laws, which prohibit robots from either harming humans or allowing harm through inaction). Plus, during the day there's always a huge lineup of people who want to slap or punch the George W. droid, and the park lets them do it if they pay extra.

I've got a terrible sense of balance, but aside from being bitch-slapped with a few branches that didn't really leave a lasting mark, I can't recall any facial injuries from falling (since I ate it on a carpet when I was like, 8).

The only facial and head injuries I can recall in my life are two black eyes, a carpet burn, a goose egg from a car door (I'm clumsy!), and a scar on my forehead from hitting the corner of a wood couch. That's a lifetime list from 30 years of being accident prone, and 3/5 are from before I was 10.

There's something going on here. Even if he's actually literally falling off his bike, it doesn't make sense that he'd have that many facial injuries but no sprains, or broken bones, or other injuries. The hardcore mountain bikers I know have broken a few bones as a matter of course, but they're bombing down mountainsides in California, not riding around a groomed trail in Patuxent, MD.

Also, even though he's a shithead, he's still the president and he has a responsibility to not get himself killed through something as moronic as a bike accident or cutting brush. If he's that clumsy, he needs to find another form of excercise.

That bitch-slapping stuff sounds altogether unpleasant. The tobaccos can help you rework your relationship with the tree nations if you put it to the chiefs in a respectful manner, and let them know about how things are and how you would prefer them to be.

in pic #1?....and, looks a little "scarred" too! Liver problems?

Retarded monkeys are more coordinated than this jackass.

Just keeping him in line, you know? Perhaps with a nice thick cane.

Check out who Bush spent Christmas with: "Joining the president and his wife, Laura, at the wooded Camp David compound in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains are Bush's parents, the former President George H.W. Bush and wife Barbara; Mrs. Bush's mother, Jenna Welch; and the first couple's twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna."

camp david---they(mommy and poppy, and bubba) feel like they own it--not like it is the people's house but they have to slither in and out the back door this time around like venemous serpents that they are.

(i'd seen on the news how laura's mom hung to laura's arm as they went in to the plane that carried them to texas...and wondered where the old man bush and his rabid wife were...and of course, where were they? slithering in, or out through the back door. who do they think they are fooling?

however, i would attribute the facial bruises and lesions more to mommy babs than to poppy. poppy has always given sonny a pass and a pardon from high crimes and misdemeanor.

Somewhere, locked away in an attic, is a portrait of him. In it, his face is never messed with.

The Right Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
(the A stands for Awesome)

... in his wife-beater T-Shirt:

See, http://www.williambowles.info/guests/2005/bush_cancer.html

Otherwise, he's clumsy and his wife beats him.

the physician who made THAT incision (Jan 2002) if it were skin cancer. That would be the most botched up skin cancer excision I ever saw.

He had some serious AK lesions, if they had to go that deep. If you read the story, I explain that he's likely taking at least one medication with psychoactive side-effects to prevent relapses or a worsening to the next stage.

That might also provide part of the answer to his bizarre behavior and memory lapses.

removed and also a skin cancer. Actinic keratoses, by their very nature, are superficial - just on the surface of the skin. Isolated keratoses are removed by freezing (which leaves only a small red spot). For large areas, like I had over my entire forehead, a cream is used that chemically peels skin, but it doesn't look anything like that cheek "lesion." It winds up looking more or less like a peeling sunburn. If it were cancer, it would be biopsied, and then a Mohs excision performed. My husband just had Mohs surgery on his cheek. He wound up with an incision almost an inch long and after the sutures were removed it was nearly invisible. I've worked in hospitals and doctors offices and seen lots of people, including acquaintances, who've had skin cancers and keratoses. I never saw a result like that before. It looks more like he got hit with a baseball bat with a resulting laceration and severe hematoma.

Edit: I can't imagine that he had a huge lesion that would have needed very extensive treatment. If he had, it would have been visible previously.

at those times. Your comment does cause me to consider the possibility that Babs hit him in the face with a baseball bat. Bad Dubya, bad! ;)

;-) If that was an AK it would have been very visible before the procedure to remove it. Another possibility is that it was a small lesion that got infected, I guess.

That's road rash. 1/02 is his head-first dive into the coffee table from the "pretzel incident."

Let's face it, Junior leads with his empty head.

were removed from his nose, cheeks and arm. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/11/politics/main660500.shtml

He falls on his face. Sorry, but he does. Check out 5/04. Check out the Segway pictures of him actually falling. Oh, look, he ran into a cop in Scotland last year.

The picture in 11/00 is of a bandage over a large, fat, liquidy boil that grew on his face during the post-election period. Those of us here in Texas got lots of up-close and personal looks at it on the news every night (Oh, yippee) before they finally decided it was grotesque enough to slap a bandaid on it.

I've been treated with liquid nitrogen on my leg. It looks nothing like his "combat" with everyday objects. He falls. A lot. Grinds his jaw, too. That's not normal, either.

:shrug:

(Although I really think that what's wrong with him can be found in the White House liquor cabinet and that little candy dish with the white powder in it.) Let's say that something else could be wrong with him. He could have Parkinson's Disease, which can make you unbalanced and prone to stumbling.

He could have an inner ear problem that could also affect his balance and cause him to stumble as well. I'm sure there are many other medical conditions that could affect him. Now why would they keep it quiet? There is some history of hiding Presidential infirmities in the past.

For instance, FDR was in a wheel chair but few outside of Washington knew it and JFK had a crippling back condition that most did not know about.

What if the Anti-Christ is sick & tired of being stuck in the body of an idiot, and is trying to escape it's idiot host?

It isn't drinking (directly) or any of those other things. We know what kind of harridan his mother is, how she makes statements to the press that make Freddy Krueger look like a saint.

Barbara Bush is beating up on her son. She is taking the stick to him for disobeying her orders. She is practicing the same kind of "Christian love" on him that she wants to perform on Al Franken and many others.

They were together at Camp David, then he and Pickles went to Crawford with just her mother.

Very strange.

when I fell out of bed. No lovemaking gymnastics either. It was a weird dream and I rolled out of bed and my face hit a drawer handle. Now that's another theory. Maybe Shrub has weird dreams and sleepwalks into stuff.

right... something major is being kept from us, who knows what, a seizure disorder, drinking bouts, whatever...

You can't bullshit me, sir. You've got a problem and little Georgie is the one suffering for it. For God's sake, man, get help.

in the 60's!

Ah, those were the daze!

His various cuts and bruises seem to last a long time, and often they leave scars (the discoloration from the "pretzel fall" was still apparent more than a year afterwards).

My mom, a former public health nurse who has treated a number of patients for skin problems, noted that his facial boil appeared to have become infected, and scratching or picking at it (or -- apologies to everyone who has just eaten dinner -- attempting to squeeze it) is the most likely reason.

Just for interest -- I jog on rough pavement and have had two spills during Bush's time in office. I'm younger than he is, but have rather slow reflexes, so it should even out (especially since Bush claims to be in top physical shape and was supposedly certified to fly fighter jets). For both of those falls I suffered "road rash" on my knee but no facial injuries. Interestingly, Bush fell while running in 1999 and did NOT injure his face, even though it sounds more sudden (and more serious).


"A truck pulling a dumpster-like trailer was traveling on the street that parallels the jogging trail when the trailer overturned. Debris - including chunks of concrete and wood - were dumped across the jogging path.
"I was at the end of a three-mile run when I heard the noise, looked back, saw it start to tip and my instincts were to dive," Bush said.
Bush said he scraped his right leg and hip when he dove behind a bridge support. He said he was not struck by the debris from the truck.
"I've got a significant strawberry," Bush said."


http://www.caller2.com/1999/november/02/today/texas_me/378.html

happens a lot, b/c I read today that out of not quite 5 years of being in his current job, this sucker has had 365 days of vacation.

Now, THAT'S what I call a BENEFITS package!

It seems simple. When he gets a few days off, he knows he can get shitfaced. So he does.

AND we all know that alcoholics take more time off work than do most other persons.

Few days off, less structured time, and he goes on some benders and some obsessive behaviors.

I'm 29 and can't remember the last time I buggered my face that bad. Now my hands yes, I have a burn on the upper side of my hand right now actually.

My almost 2 year old son tried to play 'catch' with me a couple of months ago using a screw driver I was working with and it clipped my face about 2 inches below my eye, left a small mark gone in a week or two.

My father in his late 50s has farmed his entire life and I've never seen his face buggered up like Bush, now his hands look like sandpaper with cuts, bruises and cracked skin but his face no real injuries.

I think the guy has a mental sickness that effects his balance.

then that would be very interesting. of course, there must be some correlation because he's always on some sort of vacation.