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Bush Unintentionally Lets Fly The Word Heard Round The World

There was George Bush, the ever sanctimonious ethical leader of our worrisomely wayward land, caught in the midst of an off-mike talk with Tony Blair, as he let fly the generally harmless, but in his case, revealing word heard round the world.

Yep, out of his usually sacrosanct yapper slipped the word that rhymes with “knit.”

Did the offensive gaff exert a humanizing effect on him? Even more optimistically, did it perhaps cause him to falter just a tad in his persistently righteous rigmaroles? Not a bit.

There was the nation’s self-consecrated administrator of research funds, confidently vetoing the hopeful stem-cell research bill passed by the Senate and House.

And there went crashing down the hopes of ill people worldwide for a progressive US effort to bring the hopes of the new science to the aid of the crippled and the dying.

It seems we will have to leave the work up to other technically capable nations or to state funding, such as the ambitious effort recently announced by the motorcycling governor of California, at least, until we have something wiser to adjudicate the worthiness of our research allocations than what we currently have in the White House, which, as recorded, often presents itself as what the world refers to as, at cruder moments, “shit for brains.”

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