Re: Bush veto...this evil mother f-er won't be happy until his legacy is worse than Nixon's. I know it is becoming redundant and cliche', but really...WORST PRESIDENT EVER.

Bush's medicine is out of whack, I'm sure of it. In addition to saying "shit" -- big deal, right? -- he came up behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel and gave her a freaking "MASSAGE", with which she was obviously displeased. He's fucking frat boy with a chemical unbalance. See

http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/aktuell/2006/07/18/merkel-bush-liebes-attacke/merkel-bush-liebes-attacke.html

Is Bush off the substance-abuse wagon again? I am sure if there was ever a job that would drive an alcoholic to drink, it would be President of the United States with the country on the brink of WWIII.

But, is this guy really stupid or just a stupid(er) drunk? Everyone, in 2006, in an American workplace (I imagine the EU also has similar anit-harassment laws, as well), knows you just don't go up to a woman (or a man, for that matter), in a bar, at work, at work-function at a bar, etc. without so much of a "hey, baby, you look tense, let me rub your sholders?" (the question (mark) being the first part of the ask, a "yeah, that would be nice" as the second part (which that german offical's face definately does not convey)

DIe Bild is (I think) the largest circulating rag in Germany, but it's a tabloid... you can tell by how they write but if you don't read German you just need to look at their homepage: http://www.bild.t-online.de/

Also don't be so hard on Nixon. he did create the EPA.

She's not a German "official"; she's the top dog. The Number One. Bush's counterpart in the third-largest economy on earth. Somebody get this man an intern so he blow off a little steam behind closed doors and stop embarrassing the United States.

I'm still amazed that, even with $14.6 billion to work with, the contractors used GLUE (epoxy is glue) to hold the Big Dig bolts in place. Imagine how much more it would've cost if the engineers actually had to do a good job.

This is all bad news for the Nickels Tunnel Plan. BTW, Parsons Brinckerhoff, who's planning the viaduct tunnel as if it's already been green lighted... also helped with engineering with the Big Dig. What happened is at least partially on their heads.

There's no reason to disparage glues of all kinds. Many epoxies are stronger than you could imagine. This implementation, clearly, was shitty. But I won't have you talking shit about glue. Glue rocks.

Yes, Der Bild is a tabloid. That doesn't alter the facts, which are that the President of the United States came up behind the most powerful woman in the world and gave her an impromptu "massage". "Hey, baby, you look tense, let's loosen you up a little, heh heh". On camera. It makes him look not just stupid and incompetent but mentally ill.

LOL glue activism.

One of the worst things about the impromptu groping of the German prime minister is that, here you have a woman who's risen to the top electoral position in one of the world's leading nations. And in one (to all outward appearances - look at the video footage) drunken idiotic embarrassing moment, the leader of the free world abruptly reduces her to "just a woman" again.

That's the kind of thing that's grossly inappropriate to do at work, particularly with members of the opposite sex.

It happened to me once, almost exactly like that. The clueless numbnuts in question came up quietly behind me and PUT HIS HANDS ON MY NECK, just like King George did to Merkel. I don't know WHAT he was thinking, but unfortunately for him, I'm the youngest of 13 (NEVER come up behind me!), and I'd just completed a self-defense class where they'd taught us, among other things, how to break a chokehold applied from behind.

I bloodied his nose. I felt a little bad about it, but the fool never came within 10 feet of me again without warning. I wish the German prime minister had reacted the same way (she damn near did - watch the video, it is MUCH worse than the still photos).

Pay particular attention to the expression on King George's face. He looks completely, utterly hammered beyond recall.

You know, if he didn't have a Diplomatic Passport, he'd be doing six months in jail for sexual harassment - ok, that plus the fact Bush is gay.

Laura should read him the riot act. Republicans will cringe over this too. Yuk!

FOX NEWS: "O'Reilly Comments On World Reaction To 'The Grope' - Does This Spell a Liberal War On Neck Massages? We Report You Decide."

*ahem* It's...

*Die* Bild-Zeitung

Bild-Zeitung is the full name of the tabloid. Zeitung is a feminine noun and therefore the proper article for the newspaper in question is Die. (This message brought to you by the Society of Language Geeks With Too Much Time On Their Hands)

My apologies. Aus ausser bei, gegenüber, mit nach seit von zu. That's the only German I remember from high school -- the prepositions made into a football cheer.