Even if this isn't true, it's worth reading

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/12/24219/8100

:scared:

[VelmaD]

1. Is it the "iced underwear" thing...

that has you scared? *snort*

[adarling]

2. oh dear lord that was funny

and i believe every word of it, even the cheese :). These people are sooo damn crazy that i would believe it all especially the cheney stuff. He does seem like a person that would have bad breath.

[WI_DEM]

3. well, it's fun to read if nothing else

the anti-depressant thing could be--and yes, I would bet the chimp is impotent.

[meegbear]

4. Morans, pschyopaths and mental defectives ...

that is fucked.

[magellan]

5. I read that entire thread and was impressed by the detail

A DUer had linked to it when it was only at page 16. Some of what the guy said seemed silly in the extreme (although I enjoyed the visual on Tom Ridge beating the hell out of his own legs to get the imaginary rats off him), but he was persuasive when it came to background knowledge of how things work -- or don't -- in the dark recesses of DC. So I came away convinced. Days on I'm not so certain, but it was a blast to read in any case.

The way those folks who run our government deal with the truth, who can know for sure? :shrug:

[TomInTib]

6. I can vouch for Cheney's lack of personal etiquette..

I have seen the man eat and it is right out of Animal House. Elbows on table, mouth open and talking while chewing, dribbling foood out of the corners of his mouth, utensils in each hand and face directly over his plate.
And the nose-picking thing is true, as well.

And georgie is almost as bad.

[fooj]

10. Eeeeeeeeewww!

:hi:

[liberalnurse]

7. It all sound very reasonable to me......

I'm sure there is much, much more beyond what is now become the normal routine of this sick administration. What really happens behind closed door may even amaze me.

[Cleita]

8. Something about the block of cheese makes this not ring true to me.

These detailed eccentricities could have been gleaned from insiders spilling the beans on various celebrities and the poster just changed the names to our executive office members. The inside out socks thing and ultra sterilization of everything could have been taken from eye witness accounts of Howard Hughes. I wouldn't doubt that the WH denizens display equally bizarre behavior but it's probably not these behaviors.

It was fun to read anyway. I think we all needed a laugh.

[WilliamPitt]

9. The cheese thing actually seems true

Andrew Jackson did, in fact, have a two-ton block of cheese in the White House. A couple of West Wing episodes used this fact as a foil for the story line.

[Cleita]

11. I guess I'm wrong then.

:-)

That must be one smelly wing where that is stored.

[Clark2008]

16. Actually, the block of cheese is the only thing we CAN verify.

According to fansite Bartlet4America.org<1>, the book Real Life at the White House (ISBN 0415923204), by John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb, confirms that Andrew Jackson did once receive a 1,400 pound, four foot in diameter, two foot thick (635 kg, 1.2 m diameter, 60 cm thick) block of cheese as a gift. After two years of aging, he held a "cheese tasting" that the public was invited to. The event was heavily attended and the cheese was consumed in two hours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Block_of_Cheese_Day

[onenote]

18. verify? if anything it just shows how goofy the post is

The post claims that there is a sealed room in the WH that once held a block of cheese for 30 years. The wikipedia story indicates that there was once was a big block of cheese that was aged for 2 years at the WH and then consumed.

hardly "verification"

onenote

[lildreamer316]

26. WEST WING episode on this very thing..

remember?

[bdamomma]

12. you could take this article a few grains of salt

but you never know, we all know these people are messed up.

[FlaGranny]

13. Ha,ha. I often wear MY socks inside out too.

I hate to have something in common with one of those yahoos. It's about time they started making socks with toe seams on the outside, cause those thick inside seams hurt your little toes.

[Hamlette]

14. very entertaining read...and some of it rings true.

I'd like verification on Ridge though. That sounds...too far fetched. And the iced undies? Anyone ever hear of such a thing?

[underpants]

15. Eh I don't buy it

They may be strange but that aren't that strange.

Without going into each of them the iced underwear thing is just too bizarre.

The block of cheese thing is (West Wing fans remember the "Block of Cheese day" episode with the map) true though.

[annabanana]

17. that is very funny.... who knew Condi smelled so good..

In fact, the writer seems to have a crush on her. So she's a true believer,a girl scout. That means she is pure evil. Unadulterated.

[giant_robot]

19. That's funny as hell, true or not.

I'm always up for poking fun at the mis-administration.

[originalpckelly]

20. Inconsistency: When did Tom Ridge Leave? Arizona Stuff?

Q. "And I suspect that Tom Ridge's OCD or other personality quirks may have had a role to play in him "resigning". Maybe he was too unstable to handle the task at hand, or maybe Bush realized he had picked the wrong man and wanted to try again."

A. "It's a little from column A and a little from column B. He was a wackadoo and getting way, way worse, especially because of the pressure of managing a dysfunctional abortion of a cabinet. We couldn't just can him so we had to wait for the right moment. In a way, we are fortunate that Brown fucked up so badly because it gave us an opening to get rid of him before he set fire to the carpet or called a press conference to declare a war on spiders."

Tom Ridge left in November of 2004 and Mike Brown obviously left in 2005. How could Mike Brown have given an opening to Tom Ridge getting kicked to the curb? That is unless the fella meant Mike Brown was nuts like that too. He didn't say anything about Mike Brown, however, only Tom Ridge.


I will investigate the claim of Chinese goods buried in rail-cars stuff. That should be easy, how many rail-tracks are there in the Arizona desert? I do find it interesting that the fella made mention that he wanted to go live in Arizona, it makes me wonder why this fella has a fixation on Arizona.

Q. "Being a DC native, I'm curious to know if you'd live in the DC area by choice. Do you feel safe living here or do you think its got a huge bull's eye on top of it for the next terrorist strike?

A. "I'm not worried about terrorist strikes simply because I've seen how trumped up most of that garbage is. I am more worried about getting mugged. Way, way way more worried. I hate this city and if I had my choice I would live in quiet Arizona."

:shrug:

[lonestarnot]

23. Maybe something else is in those rr cars in AZ?

[originalpckelly]

24. I am gonna investigate this claim, and there is a good reason.

I don't know if you remember Mike Brown talking about how FEMA had been starved for cash by Tom Ridge and Mike Chertoff, but I think this might actually be true. I think he might have made a simple mistake about the little stuff. Mike Brown is a little flaky as well so it is possible. He seemed to hint that there was something more to Katrina, and I think this might be a part of it. I am now searching over rr tracks in phoenix, and I plan to follow it out to the Sonora Desert. I think there might be a way. Hopefully in Google Earth I can follow it far enough. I am going to start a thread about this investigation.

Furthermore, I will be checking out if the DoD contractor "Savi" that Ridges now sits on the board of, has any properties in arizona or the sonora desert.

[originalpckelly]

25. This was posted on the Something Awful forums (comedy website)!

I am glad that right before I went looking for any more railroads, I found that this came from something awful. It was joke people, and one that wasn't even that good because the person who posted didn't even know the public facts about Tom Ridge. When you look on their site (the awful forums) you find it is archived under the comedy section. So it was a joke. The White House could really be more f***** up.

21. the details, if invented, are quite inventive n/t

[SmokingJacket]

22. He talks about Tom Ridge in the present tense...

though Ridge quit in 2004. But he refers to the shooting, so it's not old...

I think it's probably fake. But I enjoyed it anyway!