[Rhodes22-list] The Post Turtle (Humor/Political)

[elle]

Can anyone say 'inarticulate?'

elle

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--- On Tue, 6/17/08, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] The Post Turtle (Humor/Political)
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 6:40 PM
> Hank,
> 
> This is the latest from the 'Lamb of Chicago' -
> 
> "And, you know, let's take the example of
> Guantanamo. What we know is that,
> in previous terrorist attacks -- for example, the first
> attack against the
> World Trade Center, *we were able to arrest those
> responsible, put them on
> trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons,
> incapacitated."
> 
> *Uh, no, actually, Abdul Rahman Yasin (93' WTC bomb
> designer) lived as
> Saddam Hussein's guest until the invasion and we still
> haven't caught him
> yet.  How many times do we have to listen to this nonsense
> before we can
> call Obama STUPID without being called a racist?
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Hank
> <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The Post Turtle
> >
> > While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old
> Texas rancher, whose hand
> > was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor
> struck up a
> > conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic
> got around to Obama and
> > his bid to be our President.
> >
> > The old rancher said, "Well, ya know, Obama is a
> 'post turtle'." Not being
> > familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a
> 'post turtle' was.
> >
> > The old rancher said, "When you're driving
> down a country road and you come
> > across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top,
> that's a 'post turtle'."
> >
> > The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's
> face, so he continued to
> > explain. "You know he didn't get up there by
> himself, he doesn't belong up
> > there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up
> there, and you just wonder
> > what kind of a dumb ass put him up there."
> >
> >
> >  The Post Turtle
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