My Pet Goat..

See the man above?..What do you think?.. Is he dead or alive?..

Now, it ain't as simple as that. The richest country in the world is spending HUGE amounts of money to ascertain JUST that. If they could find the answer to this billion dollar question on the blog of a eighteen-year old kid, the dichotomy of it all would give Bush and his comrades a cardiac arrest. Or would it?..

The thing about Bush is, you can never say. Come on man, he's the guy who kept staring at this book called "My Pet Goat" for a good-ish 20 minutes when one of his guys told him that his nation was under attack. Now, I am no crisis management expert. But if my country was being attacked by terrorists and thousands were dying, I'd consider putting down "My Pet Goat". So what if people were jumping off buildings hit by planes? He had to know what happened to the goat and the girl who owned him. Apparently, this book caught Bush's goat. Big Time!...

As expected, Bush got a lotta flak for his "emergency response" (technically, you can't call it a response. He just kept on reading). As expected (again), Bush mumbled something about keeping his cool uder pressure and got away with it. It didn't do a lotta good to his image and approval ratings. But it sure did a lotta good to the publishers of "My Pet Goat".

Wikipedia says, "Amazon.com sold out of all copies of the book, with a one-month backorder, and users posted satirical reviews of the book, for example: "Presidential material, through and through! [...] The tempo, the choice of words, and the layout on each page captured my imagination so much that it took me about seven minutes to recover my bearings." Amazon has since deleted these reviews, though new ones continue to appear."

Osama had a couple of things to say about this episode as well. In one of his tapes (Veerapan-inspired?), he uttered the following words. Bush's butler recalls his boss weeping under his table, clutching a printout with the following words on it :)

"We had agreed with the (Sept. 11) overall commander Mohamed Atta, may God rest his soul, to carry out all operations in 20 minutes -- before Bush and his administration could take notice. It never occurred to us that the commander in chief of the American forces would leave 50,000 citizens in the two towers to face those horrors alone at a time when they most needed him because he thought listening to a child discussing her goat and its ramming was more important than the planes and their ramming of the skyscrapers. This gave us three times the time needed to carry out the operations, thanks be to God." (Actually, thanks be to Wikipedia. I sourced this from them).

Ah! well..what can I say?..The person in question ACTUALLY got re-elected.

Apparently, everyone in the United States of America REAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLYYYYYYY likes "My Pet Goat". There can be no other explanation.