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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Flipside on December 14, 2008, 06:55:18 pm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7782422.stm
Geroge Bush has shoe thrown at him in Iraq, not big news, but check out that dodge, pretty nifty...
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Pretty good dodge. Expected of a dodgy president. :)
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Secret Service Screwups: Vol. I
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Could you shed some light on how the Secret Service had ANYTHING do do with this? At all?
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Because if that had been a nade, we wouldn't have a president right now?
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Because if that had been a nade, we wouldn't have a president right now?
Metal detectors detect grenades, not shoes.
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Apparently throwing a shoe is the worst insult possible in Iraq.
Damn fine way to end his presidency, if you ask me.
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Could you shed some light on how the Secret Service had ANYTHING do do with this? At all?
The didn't, obviously.
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The secret service should have theoretically prevented that from happening
I hope they let the guy go.
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Pfft. I had this in IRC hours ago before this :)
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I got it on my BBC RSS feed hours ago, but it didn't strike me as important enough to mention.
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Were to begin....
The obvious:
Well that's 2 things Bush has dodged now. The draft and a shoe.
The Sick:
Where was Richard Reid when we needed him?
The perverse:
Did he keep it?
The obvious:
Was it a sandal?
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(http://www.rightwinged.com/images/photoshops/bushmojo.jpg)
I mean honestly, Who throws a shoe?
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Did anyone else hear the Matrix bullet-time sound in their head?
It would have been awesome to see a secret service goon leap in front of the Bush and take a shoe to the torso.
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I mean honestly, Who throws a shoe?
that's exactly what i thought. it would have been better if he'd hit him.
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No one else noticed his ackward rebuttal afterwords.. seems he was still recovering from teh shock.
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Secret Service Screwups: Vol. I
Aside from pulling out a Glock and shooting it from the air mid flight i'm not exactly sure what they could have done to prevent that :P I suppose in the future they could force people to remove their footwear.
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Now you've said it.
I really wouldn't put it past them.
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Press conferences will henceforth be conducted with all members of the press in the buff. :p
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Just for the comedic value, that would be awsome.
Oh wait . . . I'm going into journalism.
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Secret Service Screwups: Vol. I
Aside from pulling out a Glock and shooting it from the air mid flight i'm not exactly sure what they could have done to prevent that :P I suppose in the future they could force people to remove their footwear.
Their reaction time to the event sucked. It must have taken at least five seconds for the man to take off his shoes, reach down, pick them up, stand up, aim, and fire. And that would have looked strange enough to garner attention.
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Secret Service Screwups: Vol. I
Aside from pulling out a Glock and shooting it from the air mid flight i'm not exactly sure what they could have done to prevent that :P I suppose in the future they could force people to remove their footwear.
Their reaction time to the event sucked. It must have taken at least five seconds for the man to take off his shoes, reach down, pick them up, stand up, aim, and fire. And that would have looked strange enough to garner attention.
Not when everyone is paying attention to a bush.
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Secret Service Screwups: Vol. I
Aside from pulling out a Glock and shooting it from the air mid flight i'm not exactly sure what they could have done to prevent that :P I suppose in the future they could force people to remove their footwear.
Their reaction time to the event sucked. It must have taken at least five seconds for the man to take off his shoes, reach down, pick them up, stand up, aim, and fire. And that would have looked strange enough to garner attention.
Not when everyone is paying attention to a bush.
Oh.... Wow.... Um....
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Seriously, that's a great setup for a joke.
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I'm not going to go there, though. Those be treacherous waters.
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The secret service is supposed to be paying attention to the crowd.
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Anyway, that was nothing TR took a bullet to the chest during the 1912 election and still finished his 90 minute speech.
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That's badass
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Apparently there are marches demanding the Journalists' release.
To be honest, had he simply stood up and verbally attacked Bush, I'd have agreed, that is, after all, the quintessential Freedom of Speech, however, a Shoe is a weapon, even if a rather silly one, but if I attacked someone with a Rubber Duck, then it would be a weapon.
I don't like Bush, I don't agree with him on pretty much anything, but an assault is an assault, regardless of where, when and why it took place, just as Bush should not be above the law, nor should be those who say so.
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Honestly, if he just got charged with battery or some such and got a fine or a bit of jail time, I would be fine with it. My worry is that he's going to end up in a gitmo like environment, and although he's demonstrated a certain lack of self preservation, I don't think he deserves it.
I would budge an ounce of respect for Bush if he pardoned the guy.
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Personally, I'd settle for an on-air apology, mostly to his fellow journalists for forgetting the prime rule of journalism, don't make it personal.
Yeah, if it became a Gitmo situation, I'd be pissed, if Bush turned around and said 'No harm done, he's entitled to his opinion, though I'd prefer it if he didn't use footwear as punctuation', I'd grudgingly give him, or at least his speech-writer, some respect.
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(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/3240/bushoesxt9.gif) (http://imageshack.us)
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The gravest form of insult in the Middle East is...flinging a shoe?
We really need to introduce them to the fine art of yo momma jokes.
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Anyway, that was nothing TR took a bullet to the chest during the 1912 election and still finished his 90 minute speech.
yeah, a 22 bullet. People have been shot by that caliber bullet and not even noticed it before.
Secret Service Screwups: Vol. I
Aside from pulling out a Glock and shooting it from the air mid flight i'm not exactly sure what they could have done to prevent that :P I suppose in the future they could force people to remove their footwear.
Their reaction time to the event sucked. It must have taken at least five seconds for the man to take off his shoes, reach down, pick them up, stand up, aim, and fire. And that would have looked strange enough to garner attention.
According to the video, it barely took three for the guy to charge up there and unload both shoes at the president.
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Yeah but in the chest? And it's still a good story.
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Yeah but in the chest? And it's still a good story.
I like the one better where a guy got shot in the head with a nail gun and not noticed it until the next day. Apparently, he had long hair.
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Or the one who lived after getting shot in the head with a railroad spike. Phineas Gage, the split personality.
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(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/3240/bushoesxt9.gif) (http://imageshack.us)
That's awsome! :lol:
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Wonder if Dubbaya plays Wii Fit, specifically the football (soccer) goalie game. You certainly learn to dodge cleats in that game.
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This is what really happened: http://www.break.com/index/what-really-happenend.html
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This is what really happened: http://www.break.com/index/what-really-happenend.html
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This is what really happened: http://www.break.com/index/what-really-happenend.html
Who makes this ****? Some Star Wars geek? If it is a SW geek they should go back and rewatch the movies, they can't even get the damn faction colours right for the laser blasts (Tie Fighter firing Rebel Red bolts)
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at least it wasnt a flying dildo
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at least it wasnt a flying dildo
Yes. We should be grateful for the little things.
And no, that isn't meant to be a double entendre.
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Who makes this ****? Some Star Wars geek?
That's actually below the level of even the worst YTMNDs. When it comes to these things you either have to be technically good (so it looks a little real) or you have to be funny. Preferably you should be both.
This was just poor across the board.
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Yeah but now we know the truth. It was the Empire.
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Now if anyone did that in a country ruled by an evil warlord or bloodthirsty dictator (like North Korea, or former Soviet Russia under Stalin), none of the reporters would be alive today, and we'd even never know about the incident.
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If they did it in modern russia, they'd just die of Polonium poisoning five years later.
But lets be honest, we don't know what's going to happen to the shoe thrower yet.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7790318.stm
I love the fact that they blew up the shoes.
Maximum Sentence of 15 years for aggression towards a President. Wisdom suggests a slap on the wrist, it would be about the best PR move that the US could make, and, I suspect, the eventual outcome. This, to my mind, really is a mountain/molehill conversion.
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:lol: @ blowing up the shoes. :D
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They should have been saved for posterity.
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Indeed. You could have made a fortune selling them on eBay.
Judge Dhiya al-Kenani said the court had refused the journalist's request for bail "for the sake of the investigation and for his own security".
Yeah. He could be in serious danger of injury from all those people slapping him on the back. :D
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He should come to the US, he'll get free drinks for life.
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Well he's probably a Muslim so they'd have to be Coke or orange juice. :D
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I thought about that. To be fair, many Musilims in Indonesia have no problem drinking alcohol. Iraq might be a bit more by the book about that
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Just heard Nike is taking advantage of the situation and coming out with a new BushWacker line. :nervous:
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Just heard Nike is taking advantage of the situation and coming out with a new BushWacker line. :nervous:
lol.
and they weren't blown up, it says they were destroyed while BEING CHECKED FOR explosives.
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Damn, apparently they've been beating the poor SOB.
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Thanfully George is uninjured
(http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/51/bushoeei4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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so they blew it up... poor shoe