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Saw this on Needlenose and have no idea what this was all about, there are only the pictures, no text:

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 01:29:21 PM EST

Saw that in Natl. Geographic decades ago! Adolescent chimp behavior. Very presidential.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 01:42:51 PM EST
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USMC Graduation???

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson

by NearlyNormal on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 01:44:38 PM EST
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It's a guy thing. Later they chug a quart of beer, don antlers and try to brain each other like goats.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 01:44:52 PM EST
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That's some sort of ritual salute at some sort of military school Dubya visited recently, and apparently he found himself short of breath after it.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 02:02:50 PM EST
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Yeah, it's a Marine thing, I believe.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 02:06:59 PM EST
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And, as we all know, Bush is a big fan of the military. Not big enough to actually do any service of value himself or providing veteran benefits, mind you, but still! Big fan. Always on the lookout for new exciting locations to send his buddies to.

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 04:08:05 PM EST
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Actually, Bush had one of the most (none / 1)

dangerous assignments that the USAir National Guard had to offer: 'driving' F-102s (maybe 106s, but I think 102s). That particular aeromachine had the worst fall-out-of-the-sky record of all U.S. 'fighter' planes ever. The USAF discovered early on that the thing didn't so much fly as wander around the sky for awhile, then succumb to gravity. So naturally they had Convair keep making them and shipped them to the Air Guard units.

paul spencer

by paul spencer (spencerinthegorge AT yahoo DOT com) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 10:57:31 PM EST
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President speaks at Air Force Academy graduation

5/29/2008 - President George W. Bush, Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley participate in the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation at Falcon Stadium May 28. The Class of 2008, the 50th Academy class, graduated 1,012 cadets who will enter the Air Force as second lieutenants.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 02:32:14 PM EST
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