It's raining men
=v= Okay, no doubt by now you've read all the jokes about G. W. Bush falling off an alleged bicycle. You know, the pun about how he can't "handle bars," or speculation that he was wearing a mouth guard so as to avoid another pretzel mishap. (Mouth guards are much more common for motorized cycles, so perhaps that's what he was riding, since everything else he does supports fossil fuels. In which case he might've fallen off because he forgot to turn it on.)
But no, you've already read all that stuff. The part that interests me is this official White House explanation:
"It's been raining a lot and the topsoil is loose," the spokesman said. "You know this president. He likes to go all out. Suffice it to say he wasn't whistling show tunes."
It has been raining a lot, it's true, but not in Crawford, Texas. A look at The Weather Channel shows zero inches of rain for the last week.
=v= Looks like The Daily Kos is way ahead of me. They looked up two weeks of rainfall and have input from someone who lives near El Rancho Arbusto (and says it's "bone dry and hot as Hades").
Amongst the nearly 200 comments are the suggestion that Resident Bush was whistling show tunes, and this is a preëmptive denial. Suggested show tunes are included.
The more serious issue is: Why did they feel they had to lie, even about this?
Posted by Jym on May 25 2004 06:44