President Bush was visiting a primary school. One of the classes was in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meaning. The teacher asked the president if he would like to lead the discussion of the word "tragedy." So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a tragedy.
Little Jimmy stood up and offered, "If my best friend, Johnny, who lives on a farm, was playing in the field and a tractor ran him over and killed him, that would be a tragedy."
"No," said Bush, "that would be an accident."
Little Suzie raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."
"I'm afraid not," explained the president. "That's what we would call a great loss."
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Bush searched the room.
"Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of tragedy?"
Finally at the back of the room Little Johnny raised his hand. He said: "If Air Force One carrying Mr. and Mrs. Bush was struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy."
"That's right!" exclaimed Bush. "Can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"
"Well," said Little Johnny, "it has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."
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I trust it will be fixed by morning US time, but allow me to pace a bit over that next juicy 25 dollah GC to Uncommon Goods I was about 10 points away from.
(are you reading this one, Frank? You really should be reading this one, Frank)
Bush--There is so little funny in this administration that even such jokes evoke sadness. A small ray of hope, at least for entertainment, though, that I heard tonight. Apparently HBO is going to take on the treasonous criminals of Deibold and their employers with a series labeled "The Hacking of America," just in case there are still any people left who don't understand the almost unbelievable and brazen manipulation of the last two federal elections. Maybe, just maybe, a few more people will wake up and see what is right under their noses. Dare we hope that some criminals will actually pay for some of their crimes? Probably not, though.
Note the interesting debate going on between the real world and the administrations propaganda machine about how many innocent people have been killed by this insane war. Gee, maybe the rest of the world is wrong and its not in the hundreds of thousands. But ask yourself a question. How many people would you or I have to kill before we were labeled murderers? Somehow, I think the standard is different for our brave leader of the free world.
On the Bush thang, you already know how with you I am on that score.
(Stalker, Internet surviellance dude... same same)
I wouldn't dream of missing Jon Stewart...too bad you can't watch him in Sweden..is there a way to see him on the computer more
Hell, we even have indoor plumbing!
Agreed.
I live in Japan and have signed so many petitions over the last 5 years since I feeli t is one of the only things I can do to make my views heard. Everytime I go to the states, I worry if I will pulled aside and questioned, but so far, I have gotten thought immigration without any trouble. I would love to hear what happened to you and juniper, and why you think it is that you were pulled aside. Also, when did this happen?
Olga, Jon Stewart's show is the only thing that keeps me sane. I have so much admiration for him, and you know, polls are now saying that his fake news show has as much integrity as the broadcast news. For many, it has more integrity.
Lori, love the joke! Thanks.
I like Jon Stewart's new Seat of Heat. When he had Pervez Musharraf Prez of Pakistan, he was asked who would win an election there, Bush or Osama? His answer? Both would lose miserably.
LA, if you were a smoking pumpkin, you'd get pulled aside too.