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Stockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 01:28 AM
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Sweden suffers another heavy blow
Edited on Mon Apr-03-06 01:40 AM by Stockholm
Having gone through a couple of rough years with the Tsunami and the Hurricane Gudrun, Sweden was starting to recover.

But this morning the little Nordic country suffered another blowback - George W. Bush is Swedish?

A collective WTF went through the capital as the people opened their morning papers. It turns out that the origin of the Bush family can be traced back to the little village of Sillerud in the County of Värmland (northwest of Sweden). According to reasearch the forfather Måns Andersson left Gothenburg for America in 1639 and settled in the Swedish colony "New Sweden" in Delaware.

The ship (Kalmar Nyckel) was apparently one of the first ships to leave for America and according to records the passengers were mainly soldiers or criminals, who could not make a decent living in Sweden. When considering George Walker Bush of today, I think we can all agree which category his forfather belonged to.

After the initial shock subsided, it all started to make sense. Massive public spending, taxing the middle class to death, accepting a huge deficit for political reasons...




http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/utrikes/did_12274793.asp
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,803619,00.html

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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 01:31 AM
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1. assuming this isn't a belated april fools' post--my condolences to
sweden--what an awful burden. (have you seen the pic of the sign that reads "welcome to connecticut; home of george w. bush. underneath is the rest of the sign: we apologize)
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 01:31 AM
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2. We need to lift off, and nuke that site from orbit.
"It's the only way to be sure."
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file83 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 01:36 AM
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3. Are you suggesting W. is an "Alien"?
Edited on Mon Apr-03-06 01:36 AM by file83
LOL :rofl: :rofl:
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 02:09 AM
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6. Maybe not, but can we really afford to take that chance?
Presented for your consideration:





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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 01:47 AM
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4. will everyone please quit calling them "bluebloods" now?
Honest to God, I absolutely wretch when I see posters do that. Look at this, for crying out loud:

The ship (Kalmar Nyckel) was apparently one of the first ships to leave for America and according to records the passengers were mainly soldiers or criminals, who could not make a decent living in Sweden. When considering George Walker Bush of today, I think we can all agree which category his forfather belonged to.

For sure his cowardly genes didn't come from a soldier! But we can sure see plenty of evidence that he's a crook!!!

BTW, did you click the links and see the goofy photos they used? Hilarious!!




Cher



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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 01:58 AM
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5. "Mansson"??? Any relation to Charles Manson?
Another manipulative heartless killer who got others to do the dirty work?
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 02:18 AM
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7. Not a blood relation, but maybe an 'inside joke' by Manson's backers.
Manson was an abandoned infant; his official birth certificate
listed his name as "Baby Boy Doe".

But I have long believed that he was not just a random nutjob,
but that he was one of the more extreme experiments the "Black Ops" folks
was doing to investigate the usefulness of LSD in 'mind control'.

It is no longer a secret that such people were VERY interested
in the more esoteric uses of LSD at that time.
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melody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 02:37 AM
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10. He was raised with the last name Maddox, fyi n/t
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 02:41 AM
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11. Yup. "Manson" was a name he used as an adult. nm
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melody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 02:22 AM
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8. My son dated his niece. Her family loves Bush. No, I'm not kidding. n/t
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melody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 02:35 AM
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9. To be fair
He's primarily English and Scots-Irish. The Swedes need only regret a little bit of him.

We, on the other hand, have the whole package 24/7.
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oscar111 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 02:47 AM
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12. Swedish colony? April Fool???
is this a joke?

never heard of that colony.

and what is that about some hurricane in Sweden? never heard of any such.
must all be a joke post.

Mr. Stockholm, any confession?
and, you are so lucky to be over there.
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melody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 02:53 AM
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13. I'd never heard of snow in Long Beach either before 3 weeks ago :)
Nothing surprises me anymore.

Anyway, the rest of his genealogy looks correct, so at least that part may be.
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Stockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-03-06 02:56 AM
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14. I wish it were an april fools joke
Edited on Mon Apr-03-06 03:20 AM by Stockholm
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