Bush used to practice "Shock and Awe" on little frogs ?

[kentuck]

Is that true? Did he use to put rubber bands around their little bodies, stick a firecracker under the rubber band, light it, then throw them in the air to explode, and then laugh maniacally, hoping someday he could do something like that when he was king of the world?

[Bluebear]

1. Kaboom! SPLAT! Hahahahahahahaha! Link here.....

MIDLAND, Texas ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2000

An alert for American voters and humane educators everywhere appeared on May 21 in the 61st through 64th paragraphs of a 76-paragraph NEW YORK TIMES feature on the childhood of Republican candidate for U.S. president George W. Bush -- if anyone noticed.

«One of the local rituals for children,» reported Nicholas D. Kristof of Life in Midland, Texas, when George W. was a boy, «were meetings with cookies and milk at the home of a nice old lady who represented the SPCA. The cookies were digested more thoroughly than the teachings.»

«`We were terrible to animals,' recalled Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush borne turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. `Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,' Throckmorton said. `Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.'»

Kristof made plain that «we» explicitly included George W. Bush, and that George W., the Safari Club International «Governor of the Year» in 1999 for his support of trophy hunting, was the leader among the boys who did it.

http://www.all-creatures.org/aip/nl-3nov2000-frogs.html

[noamnety]

2. Yep

Nothing much has changed, he's traded the firecrackers for light sticks, and the frogs for iraqi children.

[solinvictus]

3. You know something..

one time, I placed a large number of baby frogs in a plastic bucket. I was about 9 or so, and in my logic, I thought they needed water ASAP. Unfortunately for the little creatures, I turned a hose on them full blast and killed half of them accidentally. I felt so awful.

[yorkiemommie1]

4. him and frist.... such soulmates

n/t

[FourStarDemocrat]

5. His pen pal, cat-killer Billy Frist recommended he start there. n/t

[TheFarseer]

6. Alot of kids did that

I didn't but alot of kids did stuff like that and grew up to be normal.

[Skink]

7. Disecting frogs stem cells what the difference...

Just a thought I had during todays Frist bashing on CSPAN. Poor republican party can't stay together. Shucks.

[ugarte]

8. Anybody else stick firecrackers in ant bed holes?

God, I musta killed a million. Like little bunker busters hitting their world.

[eleny]

9. Yes and more

His brother Neil tells the story about how W would shoot his siblings with a bb gun and get a real kick out of himself. W is someone so easy to loath.

Here, I just found a link to a Washington Post story with quotes from Neil.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13603-2004Nov25.html

"Not Your Dad's BB Gun
More Powerful Models Used in Shootings Giving Toy a Bad Name

By Don Oldenburg
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 26, 2004; Page C01

When George W. Bush was 16 or so, the frogs in the pond outside his boyhood home in Midland, Tex., weren't the only targets the future president shot at with his trusty BB gun.

"He said, 'I'm going to count to 10, and you run all the way down the hall,' " the president's little brother, Neil Bush, recalled at a Utah Republican Party dinner in Provo two years ago, according to the Deseret News.

Big brother drawing a bead on the backsides of siblings Neil and Jeb must have left a mark because Neil also told the story to a class of Richmond second-graders. "I was running as fast as I can with my little lightweight summer pj's on, and then '7, 8, 9, 10!' Boom! I felt it on my right cheek," the Richmond.com news reported his recounting."

[freeplessinseattle]

10. wow, this should be kicked. more people should see this n/t

[anarchy1999]

11. Maniacal, evil little shits, this type are!

I know from personal experience. One of my ex's favorite story's to tell was how he threw a little kitten into the lake over and over.

Anyone that can be so incredibly cruel to animals has no conscience or soul.

(ex also had lots of firecracker/animal related stories, southeast Texas red neck jerk, he also spent 4 years on the deck of a naval ship stoned out of his head)

[Disturbed]

12. Shrub turned out to be a seriel killer.

He smiles and smirks when death is brought up. He reminds me of Ted Bundy but dumber.