Bush’s blood pressure: the man has ice water in his veins
In keeping with the modern taste for intimate disclosure, the White House has released the results of President Bush’s most recent physical.
First, the bad news: he’s shrunk a quarter of an inch. Haven’t we all? And gained five pounds, although he still has very little body fat, especially for a man his age (sixty, prime of life!).
The rest of the statistics are astounding, especially for a man under the sort of stress a post-9/11 war president endures. Blood pressure? 106/68, a level usually achieved only by young children, and by yogis who’ve attained nirvana. Pulse? 46 beats per minute, the sort of thing usually only found in elite athletes. His cholesterol is a very respectable 174, although I’m puzzled by the article’s emphasis on the fact that he’s lowered his cholesterol: down from 178 last year. Big deal; well within the range of test variation.
Because he had a precancerous lesion removed, doctors reminded him to wear sunscreen. If he’s like most of the men I know, he’ll promptly and totally ignore that advice.
Meanwhile, another leader isn’t doing quite as well.
Why is it that, now that the Soviet Union is gone, we haven’t just gotten rid of Castro?
Shoot, I’d sign up for that if I weren’t an out-of-shape, 42-year-old woman with flat feet.
On behalf of the unmissed, banned trolls, let me offer this ravingly paranoid opinion. Not my own, by the way.
“Pant, pant, heave, heave, wheeze… It’s proof, proof positive I tell ya! Somethings not right with BushChimpyMcHitler! It proves without a doubt he did 9/11! Can’t you see? It’s so obvious! All of the better people agree… wheeze… Chimpy… New World Order enslavement… hideous conspiracies… respect for third world cultures… pacifism… wheeze”
LOL… love you Cappy. 🙂
Dicentra, We tried once. Bay of Pigs. Look it up. We were beaten.
If we invade, Cubans will defend their revolution with all their might and all their strength. If you think the situation in Iraq is bad, just think what will happen if we invade Cuba, a country where the government actually has massive popular support (unlike Hussain’s government in Iraq).
If we invade Cuba it will, very likely, be the mother of all quagmires.
After Castro croaks, and his alcoholic younger brother proves incompetent, Cuba will be invaded en masse by the current Cuban-American residents of Dade County. This time with money instead of guns, and they’ll win.
And regarding health reports of current and former Presidents, I wonder if Clinton has managed to keep himself in shape. He did have heart surgery about two years ago.
– his numbers are better than mine, though I still don’t need to be on any meds (knock on wood)
Perry, “we” weren’t beaten. The Agency tried to do it on the cheap without good tactical intell and deluded themselves about the Cuban people.
Zhombre, absolutely correct. The Cuban people are going to expect some kind of reward for their patience and the exile groups in Florida will be much more flexible when El Barbudo is gone. The currency control system in Cuba is vulnerable to an influx of dollares yanqui. Dollars are the smart bombs of economic warfare.
With Raul, a drunken old queen, in charge the house of cards is ready to topple. As soon as Raul, a doctrinaire socialist hardliner, does the expected, the Cuban people will say, “Ya basta”.
Perry
I’m not in favor of invading countries just because we don’t like them, but using the WH/4 operation (“Bay of Pigs”) as an argument against the possible effectiveness of an invasion isn’t much of an argument. 1511 infantry supported by 11 B-26s, all Cuban ex-pats, barely qualifies as an invasion.
Dicentra, We tried once. Bay of Pigs. Look it up. We were beaten.
What I’ve read indicates that the invasion was initially a success, and that Castro’s guys were getting the s**t kicked out of them, but Kennedy flinched when it was time to provide fighter support, and
Castro’s fighters shot down the B-26s and bombs were dropped near the supporting merchant ships.
The supporting ships scooted, and without air or sea or logistic support, the invasion was bound to fail.
Actually, my blood pressure is generally 110/70…or less.
(And I’m pushing 50…)
Okay, I officially hate the President. My BP is 120/80-some, my cholesterol’s 204, I’m not revealing my pulse, and I’m only 36.
Grumble…
Camojack: 110/70? Pushing 50? (*Bleep*…). Dammit, who do I have to kill around here to get a body transplant??!!
I need a job that doesn’t involve sitting in front of a computer all day…