THIS Time I'm Not Lying. Honest! ---pix->>>

[Stephanie]

President Bush pauses as he speaks about his war policy to an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005 in Washington. Bush accepted responsibility for going to war with faulty intelligence. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051214/480/dcpm11012141735

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. You lie everytime you open your damn mouth, W.

[mike_c]

2. damn-- he's working HARD....

:rofl:

[seabeyond]

12. bah hahaha. hard work just isnt the same since bush

everytime i hear this is hard work, bush face, i laugh and have to make a crack

[stop the bleeding]

3. what is up with him "pursing his lips" keeping them all tight like that ?

that is wierd.

[mr blur]

4. It stops the drool from trickling out. (nt)

[thereismore]

5. he's trying to stop the jaw from swinging. nt

[stop the bleeding]

8. to the 2 people that answered this- LOL I guess that would require

all of his brain power - that is minus Rove

[DistressedAmerican]

6. CAPTAIN DOOFUS STRIKES AGAIN!

D'UH!

[renate]

7. did the media always show such unflattering pictures?

Or is this a relatively new development?

I don't remember seeing pictures like these pre-Katrina. The fourth from the top is the only one I can imagine being shown before his ratings started to plummet. And the one of Condi et al isn't too bad.

[CottonBear]

15. It is not possible to take a flattering picture of an evil man like Bu$h*

He has a mean and ugly soul and it shows on his face.

[MODemocrat]

23. David Letterman has said that Bush is the "cutest" president ever

I wonder if he really means it or is he kidding? How could anyone think W. is cute or good looking?
:+ :shrug:

[expatriot]

9. He's got a wad of tobackie in his lower lip. nt.

[seabeyond]

10. ooops. i saw a few with mouth open. was too lyin, betcha n/t

[babylonsister]

11. Why does this feeble guy require his posse to accompany

him everywhere?:shrug:

[seabeyond]

13. cause, he is a coward n/t

[Stephanie]

20. Because if he doesn't convince us, they're all going to jail.

Just look at them! LIARS one and all. And Hadley! What do you know about the Plame leak, Steve? What about the forged Niger docs?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

14. It's hard work . . .

. . . trying not to crap my britches! Now where's the door? Hope those bastards didn't lock it, like those Chinamen did!

[deminks]

16. Condiliar looks like she is having quite a day trip there.

Trying to visualize her "husband" in a different reality, no doubt.

[Supersedeas]

25. maybe she thinks that he is the most intelligent person that she's met too

[Skittles]

17. lord he is one butt-ugly SOB

:puke:

[Mabus]

18. An interesting site about reading body language

Facial expression. A usually negative cue produced by pressing the lips together into a thin line.

Usage: Lip-compression is a specific version of the TENSE-MOUTH display. A sudden lip-compression may signal the onset of anger, disliking, grief, sadness, or uncertainty.

Observation. Barely noticeable lip-clenching may signal unvoiced opposition or disagreement. Like other lip cues, in-rolling is controlled by "gut reactive" special visceral nerves.

***

RESEARCH REPORTS: 1. In rage, "The mouth is generally closed with firmness . . ." (Darwin 1872:236). 2. Apes express anger by staring, clenching the jaws, and compressing the lips (Chevalier-Skolnikoff 1973:80). 3. In chimpanzees, a compressed-lips face "typically accompanies aggression" (Goodall 1986:123). 4. "In an aggressive mood, the lips are compressed in a tense face with frowning eyebrows and piercing eyes" (Waal and Lanting 1997:33). 5. In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, when men were asked to show what they would do when angry and were about to attack, "They pressed their lips together" (Ekman 1998:238).

source: http://members.aol.com/doder1/compress.htm (Sorry, I had to highlight the chimpanzee observation.

Here's another from the same site:




Facial expression. 1. A gesture produced by compressing, in-rolling, and narrowing the lips to a thin line. 2. A position of the mouth in which the lips are visibly tightened and pressed together through contraction of lip and jaw muscles.

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Observations. 1. Subliminal (i.e., barely noticeable) tension in a wife's lips prompts her husband to ask, "What's wrong?" 2. A CEO's tense-mouth face greets staff as they enter the conference room, creating a guarded atmosphere in which nobody speaks. 3. "Nothing's the matter," a boyfriend says. But his mouth's unusually thin line belies the point. His girlfriend asks, "Is there something we should talk about?"

U.S. politics. 1. The lips of a chronically angry, anxious, or intense individual may "freeze" in a permanently tight-lipped expression, as shown, e.g., in 1960s photos of FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover. 2. The tense-mouth is visible in AP photos of President William Jefferson Clinton, sitting in the Map Room of the White House on August 17, 1998, minutes before making a televised statement to the American people: "Indeed, I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate."

***

RESEARCH REPORTS: 1. In Old World monkeys and apes, tense-mouth expressions convey threat and dominance (Van Hooff 1967). 2. Rolling the lips in is a socially avoidant cue in children (McGrew 1972). 3. In children, smiles in threatening situations are combined with tightening and compressing the lips (Stern and Bender 1974). 4. Monkeys and apes perform the tense-mouth with lips closed or nearly closed, mouth narrowed to a slit, and jaws tightly closed prior to an attack (Givens 1976). 5. In babies, lip-compression and brow-lowering (combined in the pucker face) appear when mothers persist in playing or feeding beyond an infant's tolerance (Givens 1978C). 6. Lip-compression (lips pressed tightly together and rolled inward) often appears in the company of strangers, where it correlates with gaze avoidance, non-contact, and distancing between individuals (Givens 1978D). 7. "You glance toward Mom at the other end of the table. You notice that her eyes are focused on Dad, and her lips are pressed tightly together. You brace yourself. You are about to get it. That look always means 'you're in hot water now!'"(Richmond et al. 1991:75). 8. The lip bite means "I am angry." The angry gesturer "bites his own lower lip with his teeth, shaking his head from side to side vigorously as he does so" (Morris 1994:154). 9. The tense-mouth is an aggressive sign in our nearest primate relative, the pygmy chimpanzee or bonobo (Waal 1997).

source: http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/tensemou.htm

The homepage for this website is: http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm#The%20NONVERBAL%20DICTIONARY
The dictionary covering nonverbal cues from the Adam's-Apple-Jump to the Zygomatic Smile is located here: http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/entries.htm#Entries

[Stephanie]

22. Wow! Thanks for the info.

George is pissed about having to defend himself. He's furious about being busted on his lies. How DARE anyone challenge him. He is the CHIMPEROR.

[triguy46]

19. It looks like Condi is picking a zit or something

while staring in rapture.

[zbdent]

21. The first picture looks like he's about to bust out laughing

at the BS he's about to read . . .

[Cha]

24. I don't know why I

torture myself looking at his fucking picture..masochistic, I guess.