Bush Knocks over Lab Samples

[doxieone]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060221/480/3cd8abb5558e479b83a843a45e99e6c2

Soo.... is it breaking news?? Probably not... but... Gerald Ford had to go through grief by the press for falling all of the time.

Good thing the anthax samples were not out today.

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EDIT: Now THIS is funny!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060221/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_7

"You're doing great work here," said Bush, who picked up a bottle of clear-colored ethanol and smelled it.

(((No idea at this point if he was sniffing alcohol before or after the spill.)))

[wordpix2]

1. drunk again

[marmar]

3. He can't ride a bike, he can't walk upright, he can't open a door...

Either he's a fall-down drunk :beer:, or he's truly an unevolved primate :think:, or both. :freak:

[0007]

32. junior can eat Bananas with the best

[lebkuchen]

67. Bush is your basic simian

[annofark]

4. hahahahahaha

Why the heck was he touching them in the first place?? Good lord!

[Radio_Guy]

23. For this reason

Ever been to the grocery store with a pre-schooler? They have to touch EVERYTHING! The same thing applies to Bush.

[Maru Kitteh]

65. Yeah, I can see that . . LOL - and welcome to DU!

It also explains why he wiggles around and slumps in his chair like a little kid at church whenever he has to do any "big boy" stuff like attend a UN conference or a funeral.

[jamesinca]

72. Does Pickles look like Leona Helmsley in your pic

I think she has a certain resemblance.

[susu369]

73. Yes, Pickles does look like The Queen of Mean

good catch!

[WinkyDink]

47. Were they bald?

[Texacrat]

55. Sniffin the ethanol

LOL!!!

[burrowowl]

62. Hey!

If you can't drink it, sniff it!

:rofl:

[Dulcinea]

64. Can't dress him up, can't take him out.

He's like a 2-year-old.

[Tanuki]

2. Proving yet again

that he f*cks up every single thing he touches.

[liberal N proud]

5. Don't let him visit a nuclear facility

[Gidney N Cloyd]

27. Think he's spill a Pepsi on the control board?

[hatrack]

37. "I have nothing against nuclear power . . .

It's the best thing that ever happened to me."

Arguably the greatest SNL sketch ever.

[LiberalFighter]

49. If he does visit a nuclear facility make sure...

that they have a fail safe to lock down everything so IT doesn't get out in a hazardous situation.

[FormerDittoHead]

6. One of his less life-threatening mistakes... n/t

[Rose Siding]

7. He thought he found wmd

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, our Designated Dimson.

[dweller]

19. nor the brightest crayon on the cake...

(it makes sense with the *moron)

dp

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. Like a moran in a china shop

Jeez, wotta maroon.

[Gregorian]

13. Absolutely. For more, look at this link...

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,15410-13382008,00.html


Some of us saw this guy coming long before any selection took place. Americans must be total dumbshits to still support this idiot.
(Makes Ford look graceful.)

[louis-t]

9. president dumbass

What an embarrassment.

[BlacknBlue in Red NC]

10. What an idiot! Picking up a bottle in a lab and smelling it?

He's lucky his nose hairs didn't melt.

[Cassandra]

11. He still has nose hairs after all that coke?

Who knew?

[BlacknBlue in Red NC]

15. My mistake. I stand corrected, thank you. LOL

n/t

[Beausoir]

12. BWAHAA! What a tool. He was probably looking to get high.

Either that or he was hoping it was vodka.

[Mithras61]

17. No kidding!

Last time I checked, many acids are clear & come in bottles in a lab. Too bad this wasn't something that could have cooked his goose, but I'm not sure "President" Cheney would be any better (and probably far worse, once he's the "real" president)...

[antonialee839]

25. I'm surprised he didn't try to stick his finger in the bottle

and taste it.

[DS1]

31. You think the Secret Service would allow him in a room with anything

more dangerous than a hard rum and coke?

[EuroObserver]

34. Never received basic lab safety lessons n/t

[Texacrat]

56. The guy's an alcholic.

Is it surprising he's sniffing ethanol

[modrepub]

14. Too bad it wasn't ether

now that would have made a great picture!

[Wickerman]

16. Numb-nuts makes Homer Simpson look competent. n/t

[Mandate My Ass]

20. lol

Funny and true. :rofl:

[VegasWolf]

18. Bush thrives in the low end of the gene pool. nt

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

42. hahahaha---WEll said !!!!!!!! n/t

[oneighty]

21. It had to be staged

Nobody in their right mind would sniff a container of unknown chemicals.

"Now Georgie in the lab there will be a vile of colored water. Pick it up and sniff at it just as if you knew what it is you are doing."

180

[Pachamama]

61. Key word "Nobody in their right mind would sniff a container of unknown

chemicals"....

We know he isn't in his "right mind", so this shouldn't have surprised anyone....

[woodsprite]

22. Good thing it wasn't an IVF clinic with test tube babies. n/t

[wordpix2]

35. too bad it wasn't a clinic for the animal-human hybrids!

[anotherdrew]

52. he just wants to ban that so he can remain one of a kind... . n/t

[VegasWolf]

24. It's consistent. A Chimp's primary source of information is smell! nt

[midnight armadillo]

26. This is not really news

Seriously, it's easy to bump things in a typical lab with lots of bottles etc. placed about. One skill I picked up in grad school was to always keep my hands in my pockets when in someone else's lab to avoid knocking stuff around.

Sniffing a bottle of chemicals though, is foolish. You should wave the fumes towards your nose with your hands if you must smell it. Pure ethanol has a powerful stench too.

[bushisaturd]

28. wafting....

Wafting is always the best way to smell those unknown chemicals.

Unless, of course you enjoy the burning essence of cooked nose hairs and nasal membranes. :rofl:

[karlrschneider]

29. Actually, it has virtually no smell at all...

...

[eppur_se_muova]

39. Wow, you must have really fried your olfactory bulb.

I can't stand the smell of abs. EtOH. Smells like ... well, an organic solvent.:D

[karlrschneider]

68. I believe you may be thinking of methanol. And I can smell a gnat fart

50 yards away. :D

[eppur_se_muova]

74. No, I use abs. and 95% EtOH in the lab. Stinky to me.

But I'm not a drinker, so maybe that's why. All those other solvents smell pretty nice, even the ones that rot your brain (mmmmmm...cyclohexane!). Gives a false sense of security if you don't watch it.

[AlienGirl]

30. Picture of Bush after smelling a bottle in the lab:

[NorthernSpy]

36. LOL

:rofl:

[maseman]

60. That is f-ing hysterical..

I just scraped myself of the floor laughing. Great art.

[doxieone]

63. lol n/t

[WhiteTara]

33. did he knock the samples over before or after

he huffed the ethanol? What a putz!

[Lisa]

44. after, I think -- look at the pic of him with the ethanol

Photo from this thread:



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=481916&mesg_id=481916


It looks as if the container of wood shavings hadn't been knocked over yet.

[tonekat]

46. That picture in #44 sure looks like he's bongin' it!

Did he want to go outside and do donuts in the parking lot while Metallica played on the 8-track afterward?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

50. After booze:

[chemteacher]

51. It sickens me to see that pic.....

I recognize that lab and those biomass samples on the table in front of the monkey. I worked at NREL actually from the time it was the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) until '96 when the first major round of budget cuts hit, thanks to the Contract ON America. I did all the analyses on those biomass samples to determine the effects of aging. In other words, how viable would the feedstock be if you harvested it once a year but needed to keep it laying around while the ethanol plant operated 365 days a year.

Now, I'm a high school science teacher....Turned out to be a fantastic move for me.

[WhiteTara]

54. oh, you are right. This should be

a commercial to keep children off drugs. :rofl:

[sakabatou]

58. Dim Son didn't take chem class

That's not how you smell chemicals, dumbass!

[sakabatou]

59. Bush on a bong

[GregW]

71. Couple more from my collection...

[Andromeda]

70. He appears to be enjoying it.

Maybe they stopped the photo shoot before he got to the wood chips.

[jbnow]

38. That's nothing compared to the farce

of the visit itself. You announce how we'll develop alternative energy, then cut 20 million from that lab and 32 are laid off.

Then when he's going there they restore 5 million to their budget, rehire the workers just in time. What must they think? He wants them for a photo op to show he was sincere in POTUS. But he the money for the renewable energy programs
is still short by 15 million.

Will they be cut again after he leaves?

Sniffing and spilling ethanol is stupid but it fits the stupid visit.

[MisterP]

40. you can dress him up but you can't take him nowheres

[Joey Liberal]

41. Boosh is a fruitcake n.t

[Iris]

43. Did he kill the snowflake babies? Our country's tiniest citizens?

[formercia]

45. While he was away from the White House

someone placed a brick as a place holder in his chair in the Oval Office.

[newscott]

48. Here's my caption for that photo

Is this the ricin or the anthrax?

[Canuckistanian]

53. Probably foiling a human hybrid experiment

Trying to combine ape genes with a pretzel...

[QC]

57. Glad they weren't showing him ebola. n/t

[PassingFair]

66. Lovely, Potemkin Laboratories!

"Two weeks ago, 32 workers, including eight researchers, were laid off at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. The lab helps develop the very renewable energy technologies the president is promoting.

Then, over the weekend, just before Bush's planned visit to the lab on Tuesday, the government restored the jobs."

...and when the story gets out, it seems the layoffs were a "mix-up"! :sarcasm:

[JustDoIt]

69. priceless

geee dubbyya

why are you so dumb?