Bush to have knees examined (MRI)

[doxieone]

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Bush to Have Knees Examined with Magnetic Scans
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ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites), who gave up jogging because of a knee injury, will have both knees examined on Thursday using magnetic resonance imaging devices (MRI), the White House said.



Since injuring his right knee, Bush has turned away from running and to other aerobic activities, like water jogging and using an elliptical trainer, which limits shock to joints during exercise.


On Wednesday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters traveling to North Carolina the president would undergo the MRI exams on both knees during a previously scheduled visit to Walter Reed Medical Center to meet wounded U.S. troops.

[NNN0LHI]

1. Can they examine his head while they got him there? n/t

[latebloomer]

2. I had the same thought n/t

[Robb]

22. I did too. nt

[malachi]

3. What for?

They won't find anything.

[jbfam4]

6. you took the words

right out of my mouth.

[MurrayDelph]

17. Yeah, but if you use the patella hammer on it

you should get QUITE a resonance!

[malachi]

19. I agree.

Kind of like when Moe hits Curry with a sledge hammer.

[LiberalFighter]

36. I wouldn't use a patella hammer!!!

I would prefer to use a rock pick. Don't weigh much. About 14 or 22 oz. It is used for delicate work.

[Sparky McGruff]

50. If the loose screws in his head are magnetic

The MRI's magnet may pull them right out!

[LiberalFighter]

84. Which way?

Through the back of his skull or straight out?

[0007]

27. There is no known technogoly for this kind dyslexia ...

but it could be debated if junior is an idiot, or a moron! And dyslexia is his cover.

[Blue_Roses]

28. I really

needed that laugh this morning! :7

[Zech Marquis]

31. that'll be one fast head mri scan

abig empty space will show up :evilgrin:

[rfranklin]

37. They only have to go up about 20 inches...

because his head is up his ass.

[ixion]

44. lol... you beat me to it..

n/t

[Sugarbleus]

52. ROFL..... I wish it were true...thanks for the giggle..n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

65. Nothing To Examine

It's pretty obvious that it's empty.
The Professor

[retread]

75. For that he would need a proctologist.

*

[Stupdworld]

4. he forgot his knee pads

from s'in the d of evil corporations like halliburton and enron

[Rainbowreflect]

23. My thoughts too!

[KalicoKitty]

90. Walter Reed Hospital

What was sad was watching on the news the maimed soldiers in Walter Reed Hospital. Smirky went there for a pain in his knee. But many of these heroes had their entire leg MISSING!

[catmandu57]

5. The real problem is higher up

maybe they'll give him some hillbillie heroin for his pain? or maybe he can get some of the pigboys stash.

[peekaloo]

7. unlike some of the soldiers he's visiting he has knees to examine

wimp

[VLC98]

72. More or less what I said this to my husband this morning.

Except I included some curse words. My husband is getting sick of my ranting, as soon as I turn on the "news" each day, but I can't stop myself.

[peekaloo]

78. I was on my best behavior with that post

;-)

belated welcome to DU and remind hubby, if you aren't pissed off you're not paying attention.

:hi:

[VLC98]

87. Thanks for the welcome!

Don't get me wrong, my hubby is on the right side. However, he's active duty Air Force, so he can't be too vocal. He's probably jealous of me spouting off all the time! He is 37 and will be voting for the first time since he was 18, next year. Moving from base to base has made voting difficult in the past, but he is determined this time!

[LiberalFighter]

85. Are you Sally Baron's daughter or granddaughter?

LOL

[VLC98]

88. Ha ha! I would be proud...

if Sally Baron was my Grandma. I get my feistiness from my Dad. I grew up watching him swear at the T.V.

[doxieone]

8. It seems like this is the exact time he had a physical

done last year.

I won't be surprised to hear he has to have surgery. I wish him.....

Well, nevermind.

[CO Liberal]

11. All Presidents (And Pretenders) Have an Annual Physical

I believe they started this after FDR's physical consition was kept secret, until after he died of a cerebral hemmhorage.

[Spentastic]

9. Yep

All that kneeling down sucking corporate dick will do that.

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. But I thought W was falling on his knees every morning

to pray to Jesus? At least that's what his staff claims.

[Spentastic]

21. hu huuh huh

I'm sure someone is taking care of his "staff"

[DoYouEverWonder]

30. I didn't know that Monica

got her WH job back?

[LiberalFighter]

39. It wasn't Monica

Remember... It was Linda Tripp. That was why she was upset about Clinton.

[Bhaisahab]

54. har har har!!!

you americans are TOOOO much!

[LiberalFighter]

38. If he did...

Maybe he did it on cement floors and jumping up and down on his knees.

[devinsgram]

32. My sentiments exactly,

guess all great minds think alike.

[qanda]

10. Maybe he won't be able to "run" in 2004

I know-- wishful thinking!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

12. They could do an EEG...

During the examination.

Stick the electrodes up his ass, to get a good reading.

[Jacobin]

13. Or, maybe an examination like this?

[Dudley_DUright]

15. Another brilliant piece by Steve Bell

I like the touch of the hangman's noose in place of Chimpy's uvula.

[The Zanti Regent]

48. Oh, that Steve Bell is Priceless!

I can't stop laughing!

I can't wait for the UK Guardian to publish an American edition and teach the idiots at the Screw York Times and Whoreshington Post what REAL reporting is!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. "Injury"? Wha hoppen?

He run into a tree while jogging drunk?

[LiberalFighter]

40. Maybe some of his army buddies in Iraq will help him

[amazona]

69. he fell off a Segway while "driving" drunk in well-publicized stunt

His knee was never the same although he later tried to downplay the impact of the fall.

Jogging is hell on knees anyway; people his age shouldn't jog. I know Clinton jogs, but it still doesn't make it smart thing to do. Jogging is a sport with a very high risk of injury. If you are trying to "keep in shape," find another way that has less impact. Of course, if that's your sport, that's your sport, but sooner or later, you will have an injury. OK, enough sermonizing on this topic for one day....I'm speaking to myself more than to the forum. It's so tempting just to run or jog and call that exercise instead of doing a safer but more involved work-out...and running does become an addiction. It's better than some addictions but, in the end, ultimately it does cause harm.

[seasat]

18. I heard his knees became weak...

due to his love affair with wars, deficits, tax cuts, and big corporations.

[cosmicdot]

20. must be nice to have the luxury of decent health insurance

has he met his deductible for the year? will there be a co-pay?

[Gin]

24. Symbolic of his supports collapsing......velly interesting.

gin

[ikojo]

56. More importantly, if he is seeing a specialist

did he get a referral from his primary care physician? If he needs a prescription will he be forced to use a mail order pharmacy instead of the locally owned and operated pharmacy (they still exist).

[LiberalFighter]

86. Maybe his doctor will have to prescribed RU-486

for a purpose other than approved by the FDA. But of course the right-wingers would object to any use of RU-486 even if it was for pain relief in his knees or to help him function with his brain.

[leftchick]

25. If he would walk like a normal human being...

Instead like he has a full load in his fucking pants perhaps it would not stress out his joints....

[callous taoboy]

26. Doctors suspect

that bush's knee problems stem from the debilitating process of de-evolution.

[leftofthedial]

29. what if they have to amputate?

I'd say remove everything just below the scalp to be safe.

[davidinalameda]

33. from the neck up would be helpful

:bounce:

[flatbroker]

34. were the saudis at the ranch again

he should probably ask the sultan if he can wear knee pads next time.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

35. See what sucking off corporate America will do to you?

[BiggJawn]

82. That's scary. My thoughts exactly.

Ruined his knees out there on the hard campaign trail.
:7

[LizW]

41. Aaaagghh! Could we have a mass memory wipe

of the image that just jumped into everyone's mind upon reading that subject line??

The kids have a couple pairs of old skateboarding knee pads lying around. I think I'll box them up and send them to the Corporate Fellator in Washington.:7

[freepotter]

42. Too much stress

from having to remain in an upright bipedal posture for long periods will destroy a chimp's knees!

[DemonFighterLives]

43. Who is tending to Dick?

While he's out. I know Cheney is already the puppetmaster, but without his puppet. Oh lord!

[drb]

46. Bush has been "tending" to...

...Dick. That's why his knees are sore! :)

[joanski01]

45. Did he hurt his knee

when he fainted from choking on a pretzel? It sure wasn't an old football injury or a war injury.

[Nigel_Tufnel]

47. the title of that article is just asking for it!

didn't he hurt his knee on that segway, a few months back? the one he "didn't fall off of?"

[roguevalley]

49. There's nothing in his head. They are checking for brain slump.

[PennyLane]

51. Seems Like.......

........it should be Karl Rove or Laura that has the bad knees! ;)

[gauguin57]

53. It's all a smoke screen

They couldn't find weapons of mass destruction when they looked at Saddam's tonsils, so they're doing a full-body scan on Bush to double check.

Examine Chimpya's nail beds ... maybe THAT's where those pesky WMD's are!

[ikojo]

55. It's the media and other politicians who DO NOT stand up

to Bush who need their knees AND spines examined. Do they have spines? Why are their knees so bruised and aching?

There is only ONE politician currently running for president who has the SPINE to stand up to the Bush Machine and that person is Dennis Kucinich. He consistently speaks out against the corporate media (even more so since ABC pulled their embedded reporter from his campaign).

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[lumpy]

59. Speak for yourself, lady.

Bush has disrespected and degraded the office of the President of the United States all by himself.

[SmokeyBlues]

60. You folks take the same class or something?

What's with all this crapola about poking fun at Bush is making us (not sure who 'us' are) look bad to the world? This mantra has been repeated quite a bit on DU recently.

Anyway, it is sad. Sad that we (American people) "looked liked idiots" the very first day *hole took office. And each day that *hole squats illegally in the office of the president, it sinks lower and lower.

If you really want to deliver a message, how about telling *hole to get his nasty ass out of the people's house so we can fumigate it.

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[ProfessorGAC]

66. Were You Paying Attention In 2000?

Geez, look it up.
The Professor

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[ProfessorGAC]

77. Try A Google Search

Look into the Florida election results.
- The ORC recount analysis.
- Illegal disenfranchisement of black voters. (They were scrubbed from the voter rolls because their names were the same as someone convicted of a felony. Funny that his brother and a campaign leader, K. Harris, were involved in that illegal "mistake".)
- Voting irregularities in Dade County.
- Incitement to mob violence in Palm Beach County.

Do a search into Supreme Court precedents apropos state election protocols and rights of states' to oversee their own elections. Then read their decision that stopped the recount in Florida. If you don't see the Constitutional disconnect, read it again.

Do a search on the ads run against John McCain which were libelous and folks in the McCain staff were recommending litigation. Look that up.

These guys broke laws to get him nominated. They broke laws to get him an electoral edge and the SC violated our very Constitutional principles to put this dolt in office.
The Professor

[absolutezero]

63. bush has done alot worse

for the office then our mocking of him ever will....

we can't be serious all the time...a few humorous threads are needed to counteract the clarkie-deanie war threads

welcome to DU :hi:

[leftchick]

67. speak for yourself...

what is with the "we"?? The drunken moran in the WH is NOT my president.....

[Maeve]

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[ProfessorGAC]

79. Look. Let's Make This Clear

I don't WANT A LEADER! I want a chief executive. For that reason, the office is owed no more respect than any other job in this country. I never see the president as a leader of the american people. Only the head of state, or chief operating officer of the gov't.

And, in case you've forgotten, this is a govn't of, by, and for the people. WE ARE THE GOV'T!!! These guys are in there to represent us, not lead us and tell us what to do, what to think, and how to act.

When a guy misrepresents the purpose and tenor of this nation as badly as this braindead syncophant has, he is undeserving of respect.
The Professor

[smirkymonkey]

70. You mean, kind of like the way

the Repukes respected Clinton when he was in office? God, that really made them look bad...

[amazona]

71. look he injured himself while drunk...

...this is not presidential behavior. It is a disgrace to the world. When he fell off the Segway for all the world to see, drunk on his tailbone, then I was in a foreign country. While the country I was in was making plans for a business alliance with its neighbors, the news from my home country was about a drunken idiot falling off a supposedly "idiot-proof" device. It is said that he was in such a clueless state that he didn't even turn on the Segway before operating it.

It isn't as bad as his dad getting on drugs and vomiting on the Japanese prime minister's shoes but it is pretty bad.

I am tired of being ashamed to tell people I am from the U.S. I just tell them I am from Louisiana but nowadays the people of the world are quite aware and they know perfectly well that Louisiana is one of the U.S. states...

If you have any experience with drunks, you know that it harms them in their recovery to "enable" them by pretending not to notice they're drunk and active in their addiction. Our media is what is "sad." Our Congress and our Courts which refuse to cry out when the drunk is staggering around -- that is what is "sad."

People here speaking honestly from the heart and mocking the drunk's behavior are not "sad" -- they are taking a tiny step into the honesty that the drunk needs to face before he cleans up his act.

Any compassion we show that encourages the drunk to stay in denial is a FALSE compassion. It is a form of hate. It encourages the drunk to continue to lie to himself and to the nation -- which in turn leads to his causing more harm to self and others.

Just my two cents in hopes you'll get a better understanding of where we're coming from. The easy compassion is not always the genuine compassion. It is a difficult issue but in this case I honestly believe that the tough love of mockery is the right thing to do. It's just a coincidence that it happens to be more fun too! :-)

[retread]

76. "..only make us look like idiots to the rest of the world."

There is nothing that can be said here that would even come close to the job * has done.

[lumpy]

58. Sounds like a case of weak knees acerbated

by his turkey trip to Iraq and the impending scandals he is facing.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

61. Kenny Boy fclears his conscience by pay ing for the medical procedure

[lumpy]

62. Prostitutes deserve t o get paid.

n/t

[NashVegas]

80. I Hope Someone Shows Him the Bill for This

I had two MRIs taken last year, at $1,000.00 each. My insurance covered the second, the first came out of pocket.

Results: doctor said, 'yep, that's a cyst, all right.'

[Demonaut]

81. message deleted

thought I'd preempt the moderator, what would shcrub be doing on his knees??

[Cannikin]

83. ABC Radio news headline: Pres. Bush is tough on his knees

I had to laugh...

[KalicoKitty]

89. Top 11 reasons Dubya will have his knees examined.

11. They've already examined his head and found nothing.

10. If the aqua-jogging pictures get out, he'll be former President Bush before you can say "water-wings."

9. It's sort of like University of Michigan center (and former President) Gerald Ford's knee injury, only from cheerleading at Andover Academy.

8. Researchers think that the Bush knees are the key to keeping one's head up one's own ass.

7. Pharmaceutical industry promised him he could get "bionic makeover" like the Six Million Dollar Man.

6. Rove insisted: Dubya on an elliptical machine is a bad political metaphor.

5. Running on concrete in 100 degree heat isn't stupid, it must be the knees' fault.

4. Pain and stiffness make it difficult to count beyond 10.

3. Device that increases his height for photo ops has jammed (see Growth In Office Top 11 list).

2. It's just a cover story to explain why he falls down so often.

1. Halliburton and Bechtel are complaining about the service.


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