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Post #178,413 by jbrabeck 10/8/04 9:08:09 AM 10/8/04 9:09:26 AM Reply	Did you follow both links? Take from the second [link\|http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/\|link]... Not being a professional medical researcher and clinician, Fallows cannot be faulted for not putting two and two together. But he was 100 percent correct in suggesting that Bush's problem cannot be "a learning disability, a reading problem, [or] dyslexia," because patients with those problems have always had them. Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President, can represent only one diagnosis, and that is "presenile dementia"! Presenile dementia is best described to nonmedical persons as a fairly typical Alzheimer's situation that develops significantly earlier in life, well before what is usually considered old age. It runs about the same course as typical senile dementias, such as classical Alzheimer's -- to incapacitation and, eventually, death, as with President Ronald Reagan, but at a relatively earlier age. President Bush's "mangled" words are a demonstration of what physicians call "confabulation," and are almost specific to the diagnosis of a true dementia. Bush should immediately be given the advantage of a considered professional diagnosis, and started on drugs that offer the possibility of retarding the slow but inexorable course of the disease. Remember our non discussion on Shrub's skipping his annual physical? A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!" Edited by jbrabeck Oct. 8, 2004, 09:09:26 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #178,427 by bepatient 10/8/04 9:51:52 AM Reply	So we're back to that. President's CRAZY I tell ya! :-) If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #178,429 by jb4 10/8/04 10:03:40 AM Reply	What IS it about Repos... ...that cause them to run certifyible Looney Tunes as president? (I suppose they are easier to control by their ~~puppetteers~~handlers this way...) And perhaps a more pertinent question would be: What is it about certifiable Looney Tunes that makes the Peepul want to elect them president? (Oh, I forgot...the last certifiable Looney Tune was appointed president. My bad! But that still doesn't explain Reagan. Or Nixon, for that matter....) jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #178,439 by mmoffitt 10/8/04 11:35:49 AM Reply	OT: Nixon. I watched a Frontline story about Nixon and Watergate recently. It is amazing how similar Nixon's attitude toward dissent is to the current crop's. During the show, Lowell Weicker (sp?) said that what he was struck by most was the existence of an "Enemy's List". Paraphrased, Weicker said, "Enemy is such a strong word. This country was built on dissent. It is a part of our foundation. I could understand an 'Adversaries List' or an 'Opponents List'. But 'Enemy's List'? That's un-American." Among Nixon's wetdreams must have been the establishment of an institution to keep track of his enemies (read: Department of Homeland Security). Why no one has called for the execution of the current cabal (including the Rehnquist Five) for treason is beyond me. bcnu, Mikem "The struggle for the emancipation of the working class is not between races or religions. It is one of class against class. Every trace of anti-Semitism, or any form of race hatred cannot assist the oppressed, it can on the contrary only aid the exploiters. Workers of all nationality, religion or creed must stand together against the common enemy: capitalism." -Ted Grant

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