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Zorro

(15,749 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:38 AM Sep 2012

George W. Bush Returns To America After Spending 4 Years In The Himalayas

Garbed in unwashed robes and wearing a long, gray, wispy beard, former president George W. Bush returned to the United States this morning after spending four years on a spiritual journey in the Himalayas.

Sources said Bush, who hasn’t been seen in America since abandoning his Crawford, TX ranch and Secret Service detail at the end of his presidency, appeared on the shore in Jacksonville, FL, emerging from what appeared to be a crude self-built wooden boat and exhibiting a gentle, placid countenance as he addressed surprised onlookers.

“Nearly four years have passed since I embarked on my search for the answers to life's mysteries, and now the complex passages of time have returned me here once more, to my homeland,” said the bedraggled yet serenely smiling 43rd president of the United States, accompanied by a young monk named Dawa whom he met during his two years studying in a Tibetan monastery, and by a mountain goat he reportedly adopted as a spiritual companion. “I return to my home enlightened by the wisdom of 10,000 lifetimes, so that I might guide all idle souls along the oft secluded path of generosity, truth, and righteousness.”

“I am but a gently falling leaf, buoyed by mountain winds,” the 66-year-old former Texas governor continued. “To see the way forward is to be connected to your own reality and be one with your consciousness—complete and pure, unburdened and without want."

More at: http://www.theonion.com/articles/george-w-bush-returns-to-america-after-spending-4,29688/

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George W. Bush Returns To America After Spending 4 Years In The Himalayas (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2012 OP
this actually made me lol, jaded as i am, even after more than a decade of shrub mockery! unblock Sep 2012 #1
This post title was a dead giveaway tularetom Sep 2012 #2
"accompanied...by a mountain goat he reportedly adopted as a spiritual companion" MgtPA Sep 2012 #3

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
2. This post title was a dead giveaway
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:52 AM
Sep 2012

Sometimes it's hard to tell the satire from reality but this title just screamed "Onion".

Pretty effin funny though.

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