Comments on: What's going on in Bush's mind here? http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 07:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Mr_Voodoo http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390658 Mr_Voodoo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390658 I believe he was returning Prime Minister Pete Nice's gasface. I believe he was returning Prime Minister Pete Nice’s gasface.

]]> By: Dan http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390659 Dan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390659 I'd go with exhaling as well, but still... Knowing the little manchild, this shot could have been taken post-tantrum when he was told that he's not going to get that promotion to "Dictator for Life" that he and Cheney had been working so hard to get. I’d go with exhaling as well, but still… Knowing the little manchild, this shot could have been taken post-tantrum when he was told that he’s not going to get that promotion to “Dictator for Life” that he and Cheney had been working so hard to get.

]]> By: Cpt. Tim http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390661 Cpt. Tim Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390661 #47 thats a cheap tactic to take. give us some substance. otherwise i think that just qualifies as a flame. #47 thats a cheap tactic to take. give us some substance. otherwise i think that just qualifies as a flame.

]]> By: Ian Holmes http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390662 Ian Holmes Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390662 He had apparently just met with his outgoing administration -- including Cheney, with whom he <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/cheney-differs-with-bush-wanted-libby-pardoned/">allegedly had an argument with</a> over his decision not to pardon Scooter Libby. If I was in a fight with Cheney I hope I'd come out looking that good. He had apparently just met with his outgoing administration — including Cheney, with whom he allegedly had an argument with over his decision not to pardon Scooter Libby.

If I was in a fight with Cheney I hope I’d come out looking that good.

]]> By: Digital Artz http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390668 Digital Artz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390668 "Really Mr.President the Bush families money was invested with Bernie Madoff" “Really Mr.President the Bush families money
was invested with Bernie Madoff”

]]> By: Stefan Jones http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390675 Stefan Jones Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390675 Why are some people reluctant to stop beating the Bush? Why don't we just "let it go?" From: <a href="http://pfarley.livejournal.com/104911.html" rel="nofollow">All Bread and No Circuses</a> <blockquote>All my life I've heard Baby Boomers bitching about Nixon, even after he was dead. I used to wish they'd just GET OVER IT, but now I understand their bitterness. It wasn't what Nixon did that infuriated them so much. It's what he got away with. Nixon was nudged out of office by a momentary gust of public disfavor over a botched burglary attempt -- not, say, a Congressional investigation into the bombing of Cambodia. There was never a thorough reckoning of the misdeeds of Nixon's White House, just as there will probably never be a full accounting of the perversions and swindles of Bush's presidency. To the majority of Americans, Bush will be that guy who invaded Iraq and wrecked the economy.</blockquote> Why are some people reluctant to stop beating the Bush? Why don’t we just “let it go?”

From:

All Bread and No Circuses

All my life I’ve heard Baby Boomers bitching about Nixon, even after he was dead. I used to wish they’d just GET OVER IT, but now I understand their bitterness. It wasn’t what Nixon did that infuriated them so much. It’s what he got away with. Nixon was nudged out of office by a momentary gust of public disfavor over a botched burglary attempt — not, say, a Congressional investigation into the bombing of Cambodia. There was never a thorough reckoning of the misdeeds of Nixon’s White House, just as there will probably never be a full accounting of the perversions and swindles of Bush’s presidency. To the majority of Americans, Bush will be that guy who invaded Iraq and wrecked the economy.

]]> By: robulus http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390676 robulus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390676 <blockquote>If I was in a fight with Cheney I hope I'd come out looking that good.</blockaquote> Obviously you know not the ways of the evil mastermind. At that point, Cheney was sitting in his wheelchair thinking "I could crush him like an ant. But no, revenge is a dish best served cold. I'll bide my time..."

If I was in a fight with Cheney I hope I’d come out looking that good.

Obviously you know not the ways of the evil mastermind.

At that point, Cheney was sitting in his wheelchair thinking “I could crush him like an ant. But no, revenge is a dish best served cold. I’ll bide my time…”

]]> By: Contrasoma http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390678 Contrasoma Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390678 #40: You might be on to something there. Bush being controlled by a Machiavellian neocon loafer would go a long way to explain the last eight years. #40: You might be on to something there. Bush being controlled by a Machiavellian neocon loafer would go a long way to explain the last eight years.

]]> By: robulus http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390680 robulus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390680 @Resista <blockquote>You think you are the voice of the informed and the literati but really your just the voice of the kool-aid drinkers.</blockquote> That should be <i>you're</i> just the voice of the kool-aid drinkers. @Resista

You think you are the voice of the informed and the literati but really your just the voice of the kool-aid drinkers.

That should be you’re just the voice of the kool-aid drinkers.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390683 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390683 Tim, It's not your call. You also know that you can discuss moderation issues in the Mod thread. If a comment is disemvoweled and you re-emvowel it and repost it, you get unpublished. If you do it twice, you get suspended for a day. Tim,

It’s not your call. You also know that you can discuss moderation issues in the Mod thread. If a comment is disemvoweled and you re-emvowel it and repost it, you get unpublished. If you do it twice, you get suspended for a day.

]]> By: Ian Holmes http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390941 Ian Holmes Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390941 I feel sorry for all you people who're saying he was just sneezing, or preparing for a speech; or that assigning meaning to a few snapshots is pointless. You are missing a wonderful opportunity. Clearly the reason for these facial expressions is that Evil Bob had just departed his body for the Black Lodge, leaving behind the shredded swiss-cheese remnants of W's soul, along with a dawning realization that no supernatural protection now stood between him and the psychic wrath of bOING bOING commenters -- IT'S OBVIOUS, SHEEPLE Your turn. I feel sorry for all you people who’re saying he was just sneezing, or preparing for a speech; or that assigning meaning to a few snapshots is pointless. You are missing a wonderful opportunity.

Clearly the reason for these facial expressions is that Evil Bob had just departed his body for the Black Lodge, leaving behind the shredded swiss-cheese remnants of W’s soul, along with a dawning realization that no supernatural protection now stood between him and the psychic wrath of bOING bOING commenters — IT’S OBVIOUS, SHEEPLE

Your turn.

]]> By: cory http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390687 cory Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390687 #9: god i hope he's handling the transition well, seeing as someone else lives in that house and is running that country now. If they were having trouble getting him out of the bathroom or something, that would be irritating. #9: god i hope he’s handling the transition well, seeing as someone else lives in that house and is running that country now. If they were having trouble getting him out of the bathroom or something, that would be irritating.

]]> By: phlavor http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390689 phlavor Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390689 I bet that's what I looked like the first time I pooped blood. I bet that’s what I looked like the first time I pooped blood.

]]> By: jimh http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390694 jimh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390694 @#55 Contrasoma: I've always thought Dick was more of a Machiavellian neoconservative wing-tip myself... @#55 Contrasoma: I’ve always thought Dick was more of a Machiavellian neoconservative wing-tip myself…

]]> By: arkizzle http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390696 arkizzle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390696 Oh Resista :) Only 'cause you care, right? Oh Resista :)

Only ’cause you care, right?

]]> By: TheChickenAndTheRice http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390697 TheChickenAndTheRice Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390697 Is this the Maxim photo caption contest? Is this the Maxim photo caption contest?

]]> By: eustace http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390954 eustace Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390954 It is appropriate, now that he has relinquished power, to show him mercy and extend the compassion granted us when the Slack of Bob is ours, so long as the True Pipe burns! It is appropriate, now that he has relinquished power, to show him mercy and extend the compassion granted us when the Slack of Bob is ours, so long as the True Pipe burns!

]]> By: snagglepuss http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390700 snagglepuss Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390700 I watched him as he wandered down the hall and out of the rotunda on Inauguration Day, and he looked just as stunned and baffled on live video as he does in this photo. I watched him as he wandered down the hall and out of the rotunda on Inauguration Day, and he looked just as stunned and baffled on live video as he does in this photo.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390703 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390703 may every one of last waking seconds be in pain, and may his afterlife be far worse. may every one of last waking seconds be in pain, and may his afterlife be far worse.

]]> By: htom http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390959 htom Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390959 <blockquote> ... Bush finished his address to the nation, went back out through the doors, and the doors closed behind him and the national TV broadcast went off the air. And then after the live TV was off, the doors suddenly reopened, and he came back in to say goodbye to all the guests – his former cabinet members, his current cabinet members, Dick Cheney, his daughters, Laura and lots of other friends and supporters. ... </blockquote> After the speech, not before. Cory, I'd thought better of you.

… Bush finished his address to the nation, went back out through the doors, and the doors closed behind him and the national TV broadcast went off the air. And then after the live TV was off, the doors suddenly reopened, and he came back in to say goodbye to all the guests – his former cabinet members, his current cabinet members, Dick Cheney, his daughters, Laura and lots of other friends and supporters. …

After the speech, not before. Cory, I’d thought better of you.

]]> By: czechguy http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390716 czechguy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390716 Maybe he just had his mind control program terminated, woke up, and realised what he's been doing for the last 8 years. Maybe he just had his mind control program terminated, woke up, and realised what he’s been doing for the last 8 years.

]]> By: Gutierrez http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390723 Gutierrez Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390723 Got the readout: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/EKG_Asystole.jpg Got the readout:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/EKG_Asystole.jpg

]]> By: mdh http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390729 mdh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390729 He "is not a crook"? He “is not a crook”?

]]> By: Glossolalia Black http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390733 Glossolalia Black Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390733 I'm pretty sure if that many people hated me, I'd have that look on my face, too. I’m pretty sure if that many people hated me, I’d have that look on my face, too.

]]> By: Chris http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390997 Chris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390997 Good. Good.

]]> By: WeightedCompanionCube http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390746 WeightedCompanionCube Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390746 Isn't this the kind of thing tabloid rags do? Grab the most awkward photo they can and assign some kind of stupendous significance to it? Next we'll be hearing he's pregnant. It's lowest common denominator, if admittedly amusing. Isn’t this the kind of thing tabloid rags do? Grab the most awkward photo they can and assign some kind of stupendous significance to it?

Next we’ll be hearing he’s pregnant.

It’s lowest common denominator, if admittedly amusing.

]]> By: Robbo http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390751 Robbo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390751 #1 thought in his mind: "Now what am I gonna do?" #1 thought in his mind:

“Now what am I gonna do?”

]]> By: Chas44 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390755 Chas44 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390755 This is such CRAP. Analyzing micro-second long facial expressions, then assigning importance to them, is worse than paslmistry or reading tea leaves. Will you people PLEASE grow up and realize that everyone can be caught with a strange expression on their face thousands of times a day? Has no one taken a photo of another person before? Yeesh. This is such CRAP. Analyzing micro-second long facial expressions, then assigning importance to them, is worse than paslmistry or reading tea leaves. Will you people PLEASE grow up and realize that everyone can be caught with a strange expression on their face thousands of times a day? Has no one taken a photo of another person before? Yeesh.

]]> By: kiltreiser http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-391011 kiltreiser Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-391011 I'd love to come up with a sharp, witty explanation for his facial expression but I can't. Bcs knw h'd jst bn rpd by bm fr sx hrs strght. "FEEL THE CHANGE BUSH! FEEL IT! TELL ME YOU LUUURVE THE CHANGE!" I’d love to come up with a sharp, witty explanation for his facial expression but I can’t. Bcs knw h’d jst bn rpd by bm fr sx hrs strght.

“FEEL THE CHANGE BUSH! FEEL IT! TELL ME YOU LUUURVE THE CHANGE!”

]]> By: Tom Hale http://boingboing.net/2009/01/27/whats-going-on-in-bu.html#comment-390756 Tom Hale Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-390756 Maybe he having trouble deciding, "Tomorrow, the mansion or the yacht," then, just as the camera snaps, "Oh crap, the yacht's being painted!" Maybe he having trouble deciding, “Tomorrow, the mansion or the yacht,” then, just as the camera snaps, “Oh crap, the yacht’s being painted!”

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