We Don't Rent Pigs

[Zomby Woof]

You're nearly a laugh, but you're really a cry... - Pink Floyd, "Pigs (Three Different Ones)"

Well, we don't rent pigs. I figured it's better to say it right up front - 'cause a man that does like to rent pigs is - is hard to stop. - Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


Germany has endured two major embarrassments this past week. First, their soccer team, favorites as the hosts of the World Cup, ultimately settled for third place. Then today, Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, with a grimace barely concealing her disbelief and chagrin, suffered the presence of the pork-obsessed narcissist who still poses as Our President.

As Israel rains death and ruin upon the helpless Lebanese over two kidnapped soldiers, as Bush's doppleganger in North Korea - a similarly deranged narcissist - shoots wannabe nukes into the Sea of Japan, as Japan itself considers military action in retaliation, as Baghdad rages and riots, as American soldiers continue to be demoralized, depleted, and as we have seen lately, dehumanized; as Mexicans protest in defense of democracy in ways we Americans are much too complacent to dare emulate... as we watch in a mix of despair and surreal disbelief, with only slight punctuations of relief provided by Colbert, Olbermann, or Stewart. And as we all wonder how much more can go wrong, and will go wrong...

"I thought you were going to ask about the pig."

In one smirking utterance - from a mouth that has spewed forth literally thousands of them in the past five and a half long, long years - in one self-absorbed, self-satisfied, smug, pinheaded... aw fuck it, I won't waste any more adjectives on him.

In one sentence, a motto for the world's unraveling was born.

With Bush, it is always about the pig. The pig in the mirror. The pig wrapped in a flame-retardant blanket of red, white, and blue. The pig happily rolling in his own shit. The pig with a vague and irritating smirk, with a snout that smells of cheap scotch, oil, and Condi's backside.

It's no wonder they call it pork-barrel spending. Bush has us all in deep in debt beyond the lives of our grandchildren's grandchildren, and as he blithely and arrogantly smirks his way into oblivion, he wants, as all narcissists do, to take us along.

Be mindful of Germany this week. The last time they were humiliated, we all know how that turned out...

[Swamp Rat]

1. "And any fool knows a dog needs a home, "

"a shelter from pigs on the wing."

[Mythsaje]

2. And lest we forget

the pig in the poke the American people were sold when they voted for the yammering fool in the first place.

[bluedeminredstate]

3. Perfect description of the Chimp's

contempt for anything not about him. I just saw those remarks replayed moments ago and that poor woman looked horrified as she endured the shame of having to act as though everything was just fine while a preening, smirking simian publically humilated her.
This defies rational anlysis and discussion - it's just that appalling. Excellent post. I never imagined Gus's words would describe our president so perfectly.

:hide:

[TomInTib]

4. "I thought you were going to ask about the pig."

Oughta be rated with a bullet on Al-Jazeera.

Send 'em a case of chitlins, Idiot.

Beats the hell out of a chocolate cake and a bible.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. "I thought you were going to ask about the pig."

Reply "Which one?"

[Felinity]

10. Which one?

Possible responses:

1. The Pretty One
2. Karl
3. The Secretary of State

I'll stop here, and give the rest of you a chance to "pile on".

Is it any wonder the illegally elected president would be fixated on a pig? He and his band of piglets have been wallowing in the mud for five+ years now.

[Bigmack]

6. Jon on TDS...

showed video. I cannot believe he's that ..... strange!

Merkel looked like she was gonna gently puke.

[Malidictus Maximus]

17. Off his meds?

That's what my wife thought.

[newyawker99]

41. Hi Malidictus Maximus!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[vickitulsa]

47. Now that you mention it, "off his meds" might be part of the picture.

I know you were probably just joking. However, consider this...

I've been avoiding listening to our own dear leader speak by muting the audio, but since I've been tuned in to (so-called) news channels the last few days to see what's happening in Israel/Lebanon, I've seen Chimpy more than once in his trip appearances. I always mute it fast!

But even so, I have noticed his body language and observable demeanor, and I've thought he's seemed way more subdued while in Germany, perhaps overwhelmed by all the things going wrong on his watch at this point. He seemed to be pre-occupied, worried, maybe a little ill ... or something that I couldn't put my finger on but definitely not quite the grinning, or smirking, arrogant asshole we've all become accustomed to seeing.

Now I realize that among those other things, it could well be that he's been under treatment for -- "stress," let's call it -- by a shrink of some sort or maybe just his regular physician, who could prescribe anything he wanted to. And if so it's likely our pResident would be medicated. That's what physicians do nowadays, ya know -- they dish out the meds, by the handfuls, and often mixing multiple meds with unpredictable results. Even advisors or wives to presidents are reluctant to try to overrule a doctor's treatment recommendations. And we all know about the fratboy-in-chief's history of, uh, "self-medicating."

So..... Dubya could be on prescribed meds to deal with his many problems and the fear and loathing he must feel coming at him from the entire outside world -- outside of his bubble, I mean, so "outside world" includes U.S. citizens who despise him and let him know it.

And if he's having problems with taking meds, perhaps had to go off them -- or maybe he was switched from one to another, trying to ward off adverse side effects, and the new one isn't working right? It could be any of various scenarios along those lines and produce the unusual behavior I've observed the last couple of days.

Or maybe not. :) He could just be morphing into a more-stressed-out version of the Chimpy we've known all along, so that he's even more inept at conversation with normal humans than before!

[Malidictus Maximus]

49. Gee, imagine

Coming off of a five or ten year *SERIOUS* prescription drug binge to find out that your handlers got you selected president and that you subsequently wrecked the budget, pissed off the Russians and Chinese and started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And I thought waking up in a strange apartment after a two day drunk was bad :-{

[FighttheFuture]

43. The daily Show last night was painful and funny...

Painful as an American, Bush as so humilated this nation, and continues to do so.

Funny, as usual, with the "it" Clown-n-chief! Laughing at Bush is the only way I've found to not throw up at him.

What an asshole!

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Great post! And I wonder if he...

asked where the corn on the cob was at dinner?

Maybe he brought some Bud Light as a state gift.

And as Merkel, doctorate and all, is already reeling from the humiliation of of Shrub calling her his "best friend," he pulls this, causing younger Germans to ask their parents and grandparents

"These are the people who kicked our asses?"

[anarch]

52. well, the Red Army were the ones who kicked most of the asses

I cannot believe how much of a humiliation this so-called president is, though. What a cretin.

[CTyankee]

57. Remember who led the nation during that war

FDR and then Truman for the aftermath.

[Olney Blue]

8. And we don't rent TO pigs. Your lease is up. Get out.

[SheilaT]

9. What pigs?

What is this a reference to? Or was it some totally random remark, sort of like a brain-damaged person (with sincere apologies to all those who have brain damage who DON'T make random, offensive remarks) might make?

Since I pay as little attention to W, what he says or does, as possible, I often miss things I probably shouldn't so help me out here.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. This one

They really shouldn't let that freak handle knives. What a security threat.

[acmavm]

12. Okay, anyone left running around who had doubts about the

mentality and instability of bush**s mind should now be clear on the fact that he's a low I.Q. idiot.

[DinahMoeHum]

24. . . .his age is now higher than his IQ.

:evilgrin:

[crjudge]

13. Funny he should talk about the pig

I've felt for sometime that the current crop of swine in charge of the US provide at least one poignant analogy with Orwell's Animal Farm. Remember Snowball? He was the good revolutionary who was in process of securing power for the farm animals when he was run off by Napoleon (who determined that "some animals are more equal than others")who seized power under the pretense of a threat from outside.

I've been thinking lately about how Clinton was run out of town by the Republicans, publicly humiliated and marginalized by George's minions even as George took the throne on the basis of a stolen election. There's a lot to be made of the analogy between Bush's "America Incorporated" and Orwell's "Animal Farm." But for now I just wanted to compare the pigs in each. ;-)

[Zomby Woof]

26. Welcome to DU!

Good analogy. Not only am I serious appreciator of Orwell, but the Floyd lyrics I allude to were inspired mainly by "Animal Farm".

:toast:

[rosesaylavee]

14. Did I read that that single party cost the Germans

about 15 million? I think the German people were pretty upset BEFORE he came for his visit just because of the costs being laid out for the creep.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. Germany wasn't favored to win the Cup by a long shot

Otherwise, good post.

[druidity33]

18. exactly...

they should be happy to have gotten third place... still a major accomplishment for that team! I was rooting for Ecuador... but they were an even longer longshot. Oh well, whaddya gonna do...

[LaCrosseDem]

19. God bless the Black Stars

Ghanaaaaaaa!

[Zomby Woof]

27. I was giving them "home field" advantage

The way things turned out, they had a decent chance as any. Portugal, my underdog favorite, wasn't supposed to go to the semis either. Spain and England dependably choked, and Brazil's loss was the only real surprise in the late rounds.

I am not alone... many major sports analysts gave Germany decent odds to at least make it to the finals.

But if my World Cup reference was the most controversial part of my post, I can live with that. :D

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. Nah...Germany did terribly in friendlies and most counted them out

early. Home field was about it with them. Few commentatorsa picked them for the finals at the outset.

Portugal wasn't exactly an underdog either, having gone to the finals in the Euro Cup two years ago.

[Zomby Woof]

30. Yes yes...

But what about the pig, dammit??? :P

[alcibiades_mystery]

32. You had me at jello

;-)

[Alcibiades]

58. They were wrong to discount Germany

Though, as everybody knows, it was Brazil that was heavily favored to win it all.

It was hardly only homefield advantage--Germany fielded a talented team as always, and Klose and Podolski both played superbly.

[bridgit]

16. but they are beginning to flap their wings...

[cain_7777]

20. Why was Bush waiting for a question about Rove?

The commander and chimp has to change the subject of any question about what's going on in this world because he has fucked everything up, Everything. Can we have Bush declared incompetent and lock him in a retirement home that practices torture in bratslavia?

[ellie]

21. My God, I hate him

[redqueen]

22. great sig line

may i steal it please?

[susu369]

23. "Let's go eat," he said.

Seems like the majority of news stories about bu$h* make some damn food reference. :wtf:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13855682/from/RS.3/
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - President Bush brought a straightforward message Friday to Russian leader Vladimir Putin and world leaders gathering for a weekend summit: when possible, speak with a single voice in combating crises such as the flare-up in the Middle East.

Followed by a host of global troubles, Bush arrived in St. Petersburg in the afternoon to an understated welcome.
--snip--

Dan Bartlett, counselor to the president, said the White House understands the Russian desire to have an announcement during Bush’s visit, but that they weren’t quite there yet.

Bush finished his German visit by joining Chancellor Angela Merkel for a wild boar barbecue feast at a restaurant in the small village of Trinwillershagen. He told invited guests that, coming from Texas, being treated to a barbecue was “one of the greatest compliments.”

“Let’s go eat,” he said, then shook the hands of hunter and restaurant owner Olaf Micheel and sliced several pieces off the boar on the spit and served them to guests.

[JanusAscending]

35. OK !! I'm taking odds !!!

How many of you think he really "ATE" any of that pig??? You'll notice it says he served the pig to others. He's too scared shit less that some one will poison him, he "brown bags" it wherever he goes, or makes pickles taste the food first!! What a bad actor he is!!! :yoiks:

[janetle]

37. Yes--Bush is scared of Europeans (Vienna and Budapest)

A couple of weeks ago we were in both Budpest and Vienna shortly after Bush was in each city. We got an earful. People didn't take kindly to our pres. A person we talked to in Hungary explained they shut down the entire city of Budpest without regard to its citizens---we are not talking about blocking traffic on a couple of streets for an hour or so---but the entire city. Then Bush insults the Hungarians by making some ridiculous statement about how Hungary's struggles in the past are the same as those in Iraq. You do not lecture people with a sensitive sense of history and try to spin it into Iraq--didn't go over well.

Then in Vienna, our cab driver gives us the same story about how all of Vienna was shut down for two days. The road to the airport was closed. Not only did our cab driver lose two days of business, he wasn't even allowed to return to his home in the city to be with his family. He said to us, "How do I tell my child I can't come home because Bush is sleeping here?" He then remarked that if Bush is so terrified of the citizens of Vienna, he should just stay home.

The arrogance of this man--how does he sleep at night??

[mojowork_n]

39. Security requirements in Vienna and Slicing, but no Eating or other...

I read a report on The Chimp's state visit to Vienna, on the 4th of July, on a website we're not supposed to mention here At DU. (So, Principal Skinner, excuse me for cutting and pasting, but both the serendipity and the opportunity to get a second opinion are just too tempting..) I won't post the link:

Did you happen to hear any of this, or would you know any one in Vienna who could verify this information *was* in the papers?


"...Even Bush's crap is classified top secret. According to our Austrian sources, Austrian newspapers are currently abuzz with special security details of George W. Bush's recent trip to Vienna. Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bush's visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House "toilet security" ("TOILSEC"), which has Austrians talking the most. The White House flew in a special portable toilet to Vienna for Bush's personal use during his visit. The Bush White House is so concerned about Bush's security, the veil of secrecy extends over the president's bodily excretions. The special port-a-john captured Bush's feces and urine and flew the waste material back to the United States in the event some enterprising foreign intelligence agency conducted a sewage pipe operation designed to trap and examine Bush's waste material. One can only wonder why the White House is taking such extraordinary security measures for the presidential poop.

In the past, similar operations were conducted against foreign leaders to determine their medical condition. However, these intelligence operations were directed against dictators in countries where even the medical conditions of the top political leaders were considered "state secrets." The Israeli Mossad conducted one such operation against Syrian President Hafez Assad when he visited Amman, Jordan in Feb. 1999 for the funeral of King Hussein. The Mossad and its Jordanian counterpart installed a special toilet in Assad's hotel room that led not to a pipe but to a specimen canister. Assad suffered from diabetes and cancer and the operation was designed to discover the actual medical condition of the ailing leader. During Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Washington in 1987, the CIA reportedly placed a special trap under a sewage tank to collect the Soviet leader's bodily waste for analysis. More recently, the CIA was reported to have collected waste samples from Ugandan President-dictator Yoweri Museveni's toilet when he visited Washington.

Even Bush's toilet paper was flown in from the U.S. Air Base at Ramstein, Germany. In addition, Bush's food was flown in from the United States and tested with special chemicals before he ate it. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was shot by a firing squad in 1989, was the last major European leader to constantly use a food tester. The last frequent state visitor to Vienna, who always relied on a food tester, was Adolf Hitler..."

[sui generis]

25. I love sentences that begin: "Apart from the pig, Mr. President,..."

Apart from the pig, Mr. President, what sort of insights have you been able to gain?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

29. Exactly...the German press does not appear to be our lapdog press

Great post, Z-Dub!

[Zomby Woof]

31. Good Morning, Teena!

I told Nini I had to vent after seeing Bush say that on a newsclip. Good a time as any to get back waist deep in the GD muddy...

We tried a new sushi place last night. It was okay - nothing to refuse by any means - but we damn sure need to get our butts back up to Thousand Oaks with Capn Sunshine, catzies, and the gang!

:donut:

[IselaB]

33. You know what the problem is...

Somebody has convinced this doofus that he's charming. They've decided to "let Dubya be Dubya" figuring his folksly shtick is gonna win people over despite bothersome realities.

I'll bet it wasn't hard at all to sell this guy on the idea. I'm sure he finds himself dazzling.

[rhiannon55]

34. Looks like we misunderestimated him again...

The moronic lows that idiot can go to are incredible.

And in front of the whole f*cking world!

Sheesh. Will this nightmare never end? :dunce: :banghead:

[anarch]

53. I totally misunderestimated him

While accurately perceiving his ability to lead and form coherent sentences, I totally underestimated his amazing talent for making a complete ass of himself, and by extension and association, all Americans. It is phenomenal.

[ms liberty]

36. Big man, Pig man, ha ha charade you are...

I've had that line running through my head. I just looked at the lyric sheet in my copy of the Animals LP; it's amazing how closely it tracks to events of today.

I saw Pink Floyd when they toured for this LP. It was April 24, 1977 at Tampa Stadium. It was the last concert I attended there; rock concerts would be banned shortly after that, when a spring thunderstorm led Led Zepplin to refuse to finish their show, causing about 80,000 fans to riot. The ticket was 10 bucks, and it was festival seating; we had great seats, about halfway up on the west side, about a third of the way from the stage, which had been set up in the south end zone area of the bowl. They had the pig and sheep balloons, and raised them during the show although I don't remember if they moved them around too. They had surround sound with speakers positioned around the top of the bowl, and a round screen behind the stage that projected throughout the show various psychedelic/kaleidoscopic pictures and also film I think, it seems like it was film of the various balloons flying around or hovering over the landscape that is in the pictures on the LP cover. Or they might have been just pictures, too - hey, it was the late 70's, I was 18 and about 6 weeks from high school graduation; and I was most certainly enjoying herbal and liquid refreshment...it was a great show.

I've never been more embarrassed and disgusted with * as I was when I heard him during this press conference. Gawd, how mortifying to see the person who's supposed to be representing me and my country act in such a shallow, callow, self-absorbed way. It makes me feel sick.

Excellent post. I particularly enjoyed this most appropriate description:
"the pork-obsessed narcissist who still poses as Our President"

[Zomby Woof]

42. Great memories!

I sure miss 10 dollar seating, lol. I never had a chance, based on where I lived at various times, to see Floyd until 1994. I have always defended "Animals" as the most underrated Floyd album because it just happened to be sandwiched between "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall". But it holds up well in its own right, doesn't it? :-)

How low can he go? His callowness and smarminess know no boundaries. A charade, indeed.

[Amonester]

55. I had the chance to see Roger Waters live with Pink Floyd twice!!

Once on the Meddle tour (1971), and once on the Wish You Were Here tour (1975). These shows were (are still) unforgetable. I'll never forgive myself for missing the Animals tour, though, and at the Olympic Stadium venue in particular (that show was the one that 'motivated' Roger Waters to 'create' The Wall). I also saw him on his In The Flesh 1999 tour (Solo). Roger Waters is one of the best lyricists in rock. He also recently wrote and released an Opera called 'Ca Ira' based on a story about 'La Revolution Francaise' (The French revolution).

Like the genius songwriter predicted!! ;)
(I'm sure he must think about that today!!) :)

Pigs (Three Different Ones) (excerpts)
...
You fucked up old hag
Ha, ha, charade you are
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass
You're nearly a good laugh
Almost worth a quick grin
You like the feel of steel
You're hot stuff with a hatpin
And good fun with a hand gun
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry
Hey you, Whitehouse
Ha, ha, charade you are


And also, from 'The Final Cut' album:

The Fletcher Memorial Home (opening)
Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home
A little place of their own
The fletcher memorial
Home for incurable tyrants and kings
And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit TV
To make sure they're still real
It's the only connection they feel
Ladies and gentlemen
Please welcome
Reagan and Haig
Mr. Begin and friend
Mrs. Thatcher and Paisley
...
(Dedicated to his father, Fletcher Waters, who was killed in Italy, during WWII, when Roger was still just a young boy.)


"This species has amused itself to death"
- Roger Waters (From 'Amused To Death' 1992 solo.)


On edit: This one from 'Pink Floyd, The Wall':

BRING THE BOYS BACK HOME!!

Indeed...

[Greyhound]

38. On behalf of the pigs, I object!

Though you two-leggers have yet to recognize them, porcine rights are being violated by your continual aspersions against our natures.

We are far better than that monstrosity, and your insults have not passed unnoticed.

[krkaufman]

40. What a twisted spin on Bush.

From the Tribune article...

If this 13th century setting and formal news conference seem an odd stage for presidential banter, the 21st century problems that Bush confronts often prompt him to attempt to defuse the tension in the room with a dose of humor.

Are you kidding me? It's not as though he has any other option.

When you don't have a clue how to respond to a question, when you're wholly lacking the knowledge or equipment to generate a response, "I thought you were going to ask about the pig" is NOT humor. It is childish evasion. And the American press corps, and especially the Chicago Tribune's Mark Silva in this case, are the weak parents allowing the child to escape responsibility for the mess he has made.

[Peanutcat]

44. AND BEHOLD! THE ACTUAL PIG CLIP!

Watch it and weep!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/14/tds-bush-and-the-pig/

[neuvocat]

45. Typical.

The guy just keeps dodging the real questions by talking about something else (a pig) and somehow its supposed to be folksy sort of humor.

Even without all the crap going on around the world, it just isn't funny to hear a grown man bellyache about dinner like a five year old.

[democrank]

46. Bush. The 60-year old juvenile.

Yuk it up, Junior. I mean, there`s SOOOOOOOO much to laugh about these days.

[PATRICK]

48. This may never hit the fan, but

this sounds like cheney style paranoia added to a very great certainty that an independent analysis of Junior's bodily fluids would indeed reveal some disturbing type of medication or worse. if not, they certainly would not have done that weird action- although one cannot rule out simple stupid weirdness. They do not care about whether WE pass about theories of medication, point out his earphones feeding him scripts. They do wax paranoid about going to Europe where they face enmity, resistance and real Intelligence. They KNOW it is apparent Bush is medicated. Rendering our 'warlord" mentally incapacitated would definitely screw any attempts to lead the world to another war. Knowing the precise medication offers other possibilities.

But this is Cheney style thinking at its 'darkest" dimmest and bizarre ugliest.

And it raises the question whether they ever did this poop scoop before, like with Pres. Ronnie on brain burning stimulants. Psychotropic drugs or other wilder Rx's are something any sane European leader might want to know that now is only attributable to garden variety power madness and burned out middle intelligence.

[CatWoman]

50. great post, big brother

:hi:

:loveya:

I've been wondering where you where :cry:

[Zomby Woof]

51. Hi Midoributt!

:loveya:

Been busier than a one-legged man in a hopscotch tournament on hot asphalt. :D

[Mandate My Ass]

54. heh heh, huh huh

he said "hot ass...fault."

:thumbsup: on the post.

[dweller]

56. there simply is not enough lipstick ...

sigh.


dp

[Alcibiades]

59. I'm not afraid of Germany

Our president makes an ass of himself and they are humiliated? I think not. The German press hates the chimp, they have been onto him from day one. Germans expect Bush to act like an ass.

Bush himself is waaay scarier than any German.

[Zomby Woof]

60. It was just a little creative license on my part

Give the venting a bit of historic color. By no means should my rants be taken internally. :-)

But my rage and disbelief are very real.

[Cleita]

61. Pigs are smarter than Bush and much more likable sort of like

dogs when you befriend them. Bush is just a reptile, a dumb incoherent, snapping at bugs reptile. Great rant though.