{"id":1703,"date":"2013-07-02T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T17:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/wordpress\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2017-08-29T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T18:24:10","slug":"dubya-confuddles-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/dubya-confuddles-me\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dubya&#8221; Confuddles Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/40C2E4F33F17692AC9F49565BC758_h316_w628_m5_cSwqkvJua.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1704 alignright\" alt=\"40C2E4F33F17692AC9F49565BC758_h316_w628_m5_cSwqkvJua\" src=\"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/40C2E4F33F17692AC9F49565BC758_h316_w628_m5_cSwqkvJua.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/40C2E4F33F17692AC9F49565BC758_h316_w628_m5_cSwqkvJua.jpg 628w, http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/40C2E4F33F17692AC9F49565BC758_h316_w628_m5_cSwqkvJua-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/40C2E4F33F17692AC9F49565BC758_h316_w628_m5_cSwqkvJua-500x251.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a>The ex-president who couldn&#8217;t pronounce &#8220;Nuclear&#8221; or &#8220;Inherent Liberties&#8221; if his life depended on it certainly has uplifting behavioral patterns post-Oval Office. While Darth Cheney waddles from the shadows to dole\u00a0scathing political critiques upon every issue beneath our warm, life-giving sun, &#8220;Walker: Texas Painter&#8221; here works at perfecting his hobbies and volunteers for house-building programs in Zambia. &#8220;The Decider&#8221; has made\u00a0a handful of contributions in the years following his wartime atrocities, economic failings, and assaults on American privacy (the gifts that keep giving), but his budding skills\u00a0on canvas and volunteer-carpentry\u00a0caused me to blink unexpectedly at a\u00a0chiMpANzee I once\u00a0thought I had figured out. This, of course,\u00a0doesn&#8217;t change his recent abandonment of\u00a0a Swiss\u00a0banquet for fear of being arrested\u00a0(having admitted to\u00a0torturing detainees), but something in that dopey grin insists the truth of what he has been saying all along:<\/p>\n<p><strong>George W. Bush\u00a0believes\u00a0that his presidential choices were Right and Good.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In parting, here&#8217;s a rather sinister image of his efforts in Zambia&#8230;. unless this is a screenshot of the\u00a0sneaking mechanic in the latest &#8220;Thief&#8221; video game installment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/enhanced-buzz-9431-1372707561-13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1705 aligncenter\" alt=\"enhanced-buzz-9431-1372707561-13\" src=\"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/enhanced-buzz-9431-1372707561-13.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/enhanced-buzz-9431-1372707561-13.jpg 625w, http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/enhanced-buzz-9431-1372707561-13-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/enhanced-buzz-9431-1372707561-13-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-president who couldn&#8217;t pronounce &#8220;Nuclear&#8221; or &#8220;Inherent Liberties&#8221; if his life depended on it certainly has uplifting behavioral patterns post-Oval Office. While Darth Cheney waddles from the shadows to dole\u00a0scathing political critiques upon every issue beneath our warm, life-giving &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/dubya-confuddles-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurbs-and-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullduggery.us\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}