Presidential Humor

[tongodeon]

''The lessons of Katrina are important,'' Bush said. ''We've learned a lot here at the federal level. We're much more ready this time than we were the last time.'' ''Let's, first of all, pray there's no hurricanes,'' Bush said. ''That would be, like, step one.''

When I went to the hospital a while ago I was acquainted with the FACES Pain Scale

Comments

[john_of_ny]

Hey, I laughed. Of course, it was AT him, not with him, but all the same...

[waider]

Curiously enough that Pain Scale thing was on last week's episode of Scrubs, and I thought it was just a gag for the show.

[tongodeon]

Ah, it's called the FACES Scale.

[john_of_ny]

It's used for kids.

[tongodeon]

Kids, non-native-language speakers, and the cognitively impaired (among others). It's also nicely intuitive. I'm not sure about the color-coding though: "green" means "Mr. Yuk" to me.

[zalriva1]

Considering he had FEMA dismantled in the first place, I'd say he's not exactly the person to "fix" it.

Dude gives me a headache...

[silmaril]

That might be the best response to that quote I've seen so far. I could not write anything about it, because weary semi-amused shaking of head no longer seemed appropriate. That "2" rating on the pain scale seems very appropriate, though.

[leighton]

Ah, our President Empath.