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npincus

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:06 PM
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B*sh invented IEDs... for FROGS

http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-growingup.html

revisting an oldie...

Before he grew up to be a catastrophic president, Litle B*sh was an inventor; the precursor to the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) we see in Iraq today didn't come from Iran, those were were itty bitty firecrackers shoved up the asses of helpless frogs by our Compassionate Conservative Commander-in-Chief. Frogs, humans, what does it matter?

NEW YORK -- So when he was a kid, George W. enjoyed putting firecrackers into frogs, throwing them in the air, and then watching them blow up.

Should this be cause for alarm? How relevant is a man's childhood behavior to what he is like as an adult? And in this case, to what he would be like as president of the United States.

Cruelty to animals is a common precursor to later criminal violence. But in rural West Texas, where George W. grew up, it was not uncommon for some boys to indulge in such cruelty.

His blowing up frogs or shooting them with BB guns with friends does not have the same significance it would have if, for example, a city boy blew up the family cat. In fact, George's childhood friend, Terry Throckmorton, openly and laughingly admits, "We were terrible to animals."

But there were surely many boys in George's hometown of Midland, Texas, who would have been repelled at the thought of blowing up frogs. So how much importance should we attribute to this early behavior?

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Virginia Dare

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:09 PM
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1. Yep, he was destined to become either the POTUS or..

Edited on Fri Feb-16-07 03:10 PM by Virginia Dare

a serial killer. Oh wait, maybe both!

One small quibble, I think da shrub grew up mostly in Connecticut, he may have spent some summers in Texas or something.

P.S. When I first read the title, I thought you meant the French! :P

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Mandate My Ass

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:11 PM
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2. Animal cruelty-one of the triad of behaviors that serial killers

Edited on Fri Feb-16-07 03:30 PM by Mandate My Ass

and sociopaths exhibit before they start killing people on a large scale.

the other two are bedwetting and firestarting.

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jilln

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:14 PM
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3. Bedwetting??

I never heard that. I wonder if it's some genetic disorder or if it's because they get ridiculed for it and act out later?

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China_cat

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:18 PM
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5. It's a trait of sociopaths. Not because of the ridicule

but because they don't feel they have to conform to the conventions other people do. If that means being too lazy to get up and use the bathroom, well...that's their right.

(I know, my youngest is one. Diagnosed at age 13)

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jilln

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:21 PM
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6. wow, sorry to hear that :-(

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npincus

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:29 PM
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9. so sorry, too

Edited on Fri Feb-16-07 03:29 PM by npincus

I hope it can be treated.

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China_cat

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Fri Feb-16-07 04:20 PM
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12. No, actually it can't.

I've been told that some (actually most) sociopaths grow some empathy after they turn 50. Don't think I'll be around that long.

I've done what I've needed to to protect the rest of my family. That means keeping the youngest away from us. And finally realizing that it's nobody's fault, no matter what he tries to make others believe. He's just wired wrong and always has been. The other 2 had the same upbringing and they're fine.

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Mandate My Ass

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:33 PM
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11. I'm sorry (n/t)

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China_cat

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:16 PM
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4. But Bush has renounced his serial killer ways

when he put them to death one at a time in the Texas death chamber and has become a mass murderer.

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Jim Warren

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:24 PM
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7. There is no one I have less respect for.

What a waste of protoplasm. I will despise this piece of shit forever.

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Stephanie

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:27 PM
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8. He also used to shoot his brothers with a bb gun.

And remember he is much older than Neil, so at the time he was around 16 and Neil was maybe 8 or 9.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13603-2004Nov25.html

When George W. Bush was 16 or so, the frogs in the pond outside his boyhood home in Midland, Tex., weren't the only targets the future president shot at with his trusty BB gun.

"He said, 'I'm going to count to 10, and you run all the way down the hall,' " the president's little brother, Neil Bush, recalled at a Utah Republican Party dinner in Provo two years ago, according to the Deseret News.

Ralphie's quest for a BB gun in the cult film "A Christmas Story" speaks to the nostalgia society has for the toy. (Mgm / Zuma Press)

Big brother drawing a bead on the backsides of siblings Neil and Jeb must have left a mark because Neil also told the story to a class of Richmond second-graders. "I was running as fast as I can with my little lightweight summer pj's on, and then '7, 8, 9, 10!' Boom! I felt it on my right cheek," the Richmond.com news reported his recounting.

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C_U_L8R

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Fri Feb-16-07 03:31 PM
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10. Speaking of frogs !!

http://paulgoscicki.com/files/CF_Axel_F_400x300.mov

sorry :-)

But i do wish this froggie would visit the White House

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kskiska

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Fri Feb-16-07 04:46 PM
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13. Documentation

Edited on Fri Feb-16-07 04:49 PM by kskiska

(snip)

More on Georgie's frog-exploding activities:
Someone asked me for the source on young George W.'s frog-exploding experiments, so I did some searches and came up with some ... interesting stuff. Interesting? How about terrifying? This is a real life horror story. It ain't no Stephen King movie. The real life Dubya inspires images of the devil's child in the movie "The Omen". Or worse.

In biographical sketch of Bush in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristoff quotes Bush's boyhood friend Terry Throckmorton as saying, "We were terrible to animals." When the frogs came out after a rain, the kids would get BB guns and shoot them, Throckmorton said, or worse. "Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up."

http://www.davidcogswell.com/MediaRoulette/HighKilling.html

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