I understand that our bicycle challenged President was out for another spin on the bike yesterday when he had another "accident". As I understand it, he ran into a British bobby.(?) What is it with Shrub and bicycles. The two do not go togther well.

Here he is, right before the accident.

Any word if the challenged guy was wearing his mouthguard this time as we was during the previous incidents. What an idiot!

Two random thoughts on this:

--Now George Bush has to give up the yellow jersey

--Didn't the first episode of "The West Wing" include a storyline about President Bartlett hitting a tree while on a bicycle?

wink

~Adam

Are we sure he is not drinking again?

Yes, it did. Of course, Bartlett ran into a tree because he was so incredibly pissed off when some anti-abortion activist sent his grand daughter a Raggedy-Ann doll with a knife through its abdomen because of some pro-choice comments that had been published in a teeniebopper magazine. Or, it could have been the MS.

What's Bush's excuse?

For Pete's sake already, grow up!

So the guy gets into a bicycle accident, so what? He's an idiot for this? I'm surprised you weren't the one who started this thread with another one of thise inane CNN links.

My quite athletic and coordinated cousin just got into a major bicycle accident last week when the chain on his bike simply popped. He ended up with cuts and bruises on his arms, legs, and face after the bike stopped but he didn't. I didn't call him an idiot, even though it's the third time it's happened to him in a year.

There's a reason why they call these things accidents.

He was an idiot long before he had this accident and will be long after.

Ahem.

On these long summer evenings, I like to play wall ball. That's where you throw a lacrosse ball against a wall and catch it with your stick. Sometimes the ball will take a nasty hop and come back at you faster than you're expecting. On more than one occasion I've been smacked in the face with a lacrosse ball. That's no fun. I wear a mouthguard when I play wall ball.

On the Fourth of July, I puttered around the house all day long, jamming papers into a bag. After dinner, I took them to the recycling bin and dumped them. I also took not only my lacrosse stick, but a hockey stick and a pair of inline skates as well. I intended to stop at the city's killer app, a lighted, outdoors inline hockey rink. Possibly it would be in use, and I would play wall ball instead. Maybe I could engage in a pickup game of roller hockey there. Instead, it was wide open, all mine. I skated around for about an hour, missing all the fireworks. Big deal; they'll have more next year. I wore a mouthguard.

Sometimes when I'm just cruising around on my bicycle, I wear a mouthguard. When I go skiing and snowboarding, I wear a mouthguard. Root canals are expensive, and I've had three of them.

If wearing a mouthguard is what it takes to make one an idiot, then count me in.

[ July 08, 2005, 10:19 AM: Message edited by: twin58 ]

Hey, "judge" calm down, you're getting so upset you can't even spell correctly.

As someone else said, no, he's not an idiot for getting into a bicycle accident (this is incident number four after the pretzel coking, the segway and the other bicycle accident), there are so many other reasons the guy is an idiot.

Never immune to typos, I see only one in my original post, bobbie, which I'm sure you've never done. (And I'm not even going to correct it. )

[ July 07, 2005, 01:16 PM: Message edited by: MIB ]

The docket is light today "judge?"

MIB, since he's petitioning for your attention(s), why not issue an OSC v. Mr. Raze re: sanctions for abuse of logic and the English language, and compulsorily join Mr. B in the proceedings? Actually, I can well understand anyone's desire to keep those two off their calendar! How far is Gitmo from DFW, BTW?

Interesting proposition, gmg. I find it funny that "Raze"/"bobby" are never here at the same time. Quite interesting indeed. Hmmm...

Back to the topic, I find it telling that this man, the President of the most powerful nation on earth, would not have the good sense NOT to go biking out on in rainy, slick weather, but then it has often been said that some people are too stupid to come in out of the rain. (And the British cop he ran into had to go to the hospital.)

I also recall that his opponent in 2004 was mocked for being shown balancing himself on a windsurfing board with sail, which I can say having tried it is pretty difficult. I do know I've been able to stay on a bicycle and a Segway without difficulty, the first since I was about six years old and the second after a few demonstrations. I guess W will finally get it together one of these days--his father's made it past 80, hasn't he?

One final point--when Tony Blair was speaking before the assembled world leaders at the G8 Summit about the terrible events in London, I could not help but notice that W could not maintain a sufficiently adult expression. What on earth is wrong with this man? Jacques Chirac is a vile crook, but I mean, he, like the other leaders, including ring-snatcher Putin, was at least was able to express concern FACIALLY about the loss of life of citizens of a fellow nation. W, who was to Blair's right, kept darting his eyes around and had that stupid, bored, doltish schoolboy look on his face! Really, the man is disgraceful. He wouldn't be the first klutz we've had as president (Gerald R. Ford, remember?), but can't Rovie, before he's indicted, teach W at the very least how to look concerned or at least repeat, "London England people died, bad, bad bad"? Sheesh!

[ July 07, 2005, 09:25 PM: Message edited by: fantomas ]

Well, I'm one individual who never understood the Right's and the media's obsession with that John Kerry wind surfing photo. Even the late night talk show hosts used it for fodder. I just never found it to be damaging to Kerry. In fact, I kinda like to see such individuals doing normal things like that. What's the big deal about Kerry on a wind surfer? He wasn't dorky looking like Dukakis when he looked like Snoopy in that tank wearing a helmet.

So Kerry was catching a wave. So what.

I really dislike stories like this. I think it is tacky of the media to do stories like this about anyone, regardless of political affiliation. As much as I dislike Bush and his administration, it is discomforting to see him take a spill on his bike.