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The Pope's Visit to Texas

While touring the state of Texas recently, the Pope took a couple of days off to visit the coastal area for some sightseeing.

He was cruising along the seawall on Galveston Island in his popemobile
when suddenly, he noticed a frantic commotion just offshore.

He got out of the vehicle and held binoculars up to his eyes to get
a better look. And lo and behold, he was startled to see that about 50 feet away in the bay waters, was no other than Senator John Kerry, splashing and flaying about in the water, struggling frantically to free himself from the jaws of a 25-foot long shark!

Horrified, as the Pope continued to watch the spectacle, a speedboat
suddenly raced up to the scene of John Kerry thrashing about in the water,
and it had 2 men on board.

He saw one of the men was President George Bush, who then quickly
fired a harpoon into the shark's side, and that the other man accompanying
him was Dick Cheney, who reached over the edge of the boat and managed to pull the bleeding, semi-conscious, exhausted and waterlogged John Kerry inside the boat.

Then using baseball bats, the 2 heroes beat the shark to death, and hauled it from the water into the boat.

Immediately the Pope shouted to George and Dick, "I give you my blessings, for your brave actions!" the Pope exclaimed. He further shouted "I've heard there has been some bitter hatred between President Bush and John Kerry, but now I have seen with my very own eyes that this is totally untrue."

The Pope then got back inside his popemobile and drove off.

Bush asked Cheney "Who was that guy?"

"It was the Pope," Dick replied. "He's in direct contact with God and
has all of God's wisdom."

"Well," President Bush said, "he may have access to God's wisdom, but
he doesn't know diddley squat about shark fishing!--by the way, how's the
bait holding up?"