Comments on: More Clapping, Please… http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:23:32 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: darraugh http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-390286 darraugh Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:45:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-390286 <p><a href="http://www.LouDobbs4President.com">www.LouDobbs4President.com</a> Petition</p> http://www.LouDobbs4President.com Petition

]]> By: molly http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389948 molly Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:55:45 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389948 <p>Interesting thoughts about Bush and his drinking..also about AA. I’ve been an addiction nurse and lived around drunks all my lfe..so often the case. Bush is definately high on something at times. His complexion looks like booze. If you have ever seen videos of his running for gov. That looks like the dry drunk time. I think there is something else going on with him and his dad. Being drunk does not always mean meaning and syntax are so mangled in speech. The closest thing I can think of is “word salad.” It is a characteristic of schizophrenia. There are different levels of mental illness and some people are pretty high functioning. Bush isn’t one of them.Addictions often go hand in hand as self medication.</p> Interesting thoughts about Bush and his drinking..also about AA. I’ve been an addiction nurse and lived around drunks all my lfe..so often the case. Bush is definately high on something at times. His complexion looks like booze. If you have ever seen videos of his running for gov. That looks like the dry drunk time. I think there is something else going on with him and his dad. Being drunk does not always mean meaning and syntax are so mangled in speech. The closest thing I can think of is “word salad.” It is a characteristic of schizophrenia. There are different levels of mental illness and some people are pretty high functioning. Bush isn’t one of them.Addictions often go hand in hand as self medication.

]]> By: Mary McCurnin http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389786 Mary McCurnin Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:38:34 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389786 <p><a href="#comment-389615"><em>GrandmaJ @<br /> 132 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>This conversaion is very interesting. Not only in light of what Bush is doing or thinking, but to my personal situation. As many here know, my son lost his wife earlier this year and his son had a terrible brain injury, now healing.</p> <p>He sank quickly into an old nemisis of alcohol and recently came from a 30 day treatment facility. He is not drinking but very depressed, and certainly into magical thinking. So, we take care of him as best we can and hope<br /> that reality comes soon. </p> <p>I wonder if anyone is telling Bush the truth these days.</p></blockquote> <p>But Bush would not recognize the truth anyway.</p> <p>Hope you son and grandson are doing better. My thoughts are with you.</p> GrandmaJ @
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This conversaion is very interesting. Not only in light of what Bush is doing or thinking, but to my personal situation. As many here know, my son lost his wife earlier this year and his son had a terrible brain injury, now healing.

He sank quickly into an old nemisis of alcohol and recently came from a 30 day treatment facility. He is not drinking but very depressed, and certainly into magical thinking. So, we take care of him as best we can and hope
that reality comes soon.

I wonder if anyone is telling Bush the truth these days.

But Bush would not recognize the truth anyway.

Hope you son and grandson are doing better. My thoughts are with you.

]]> By: ruffian http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389658 ruffian Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:34:13 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389658 <p>ah Professor-once again you organize the chaos in my mind into simple, clear statements.</p> ah Professor-once again you organize the chaos in my mind into simple, clear statements.

]]> By: Madison Guy http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389652 Madison Guy Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:23:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389652 <p>There is a real world out there, outside of all the Inside the Beltway posturing about whether to go long or whether to go big, but certainly not to go home. In that real world, people go away and die and never come back. Don’t miss Chris Ware’s stunning, <a href="http://letterfromhere.blogspot.com/2006/11/new-yorker-offers-exponential.html">mournful meditation on war and memory</a> on the (four) cover(s) of this week’s Thanksgiving New Yorker and in the longer narrative on their website, which is so evocative of that larger, real world.</p> There is a real world out there, outside of all the Inside the Beltway posturing about whether to go long or whether to go big, but certainly not to go home. In that real world, people go away and die and never come back. Don’t miss Chris Ware’s stunning, mournful meditation on war and memory on the (four) cover(s) of this week’s Thanksgiving New Yorker and in the longer narrative on their website, which is so evocative of that larger, real world.

]]> By: Professor Foland http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389639 Professor Foland Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:12:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389639 <p>The last paragraph</p> <blockquote><p>“The problem is that every time there’s a sensational event, that starts the whole sectarian cycle again,” said Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the chief spokesman for the American command in Iraq. “If we could stop the cyclical nature of this in Baghdad, we could really change the dynamics here.”</p></blockquote> <p>is unbelievable. It’s hard enough to think any grown-up could utter them to anyone over the age of twelve; let alone to another grown-up who’s been paying attention for the last three years. Hello?</p> <p>If only there weren’t gravity, we could jump up in the air and really change the dynamics around here!</p> <p>General Caldwell: not only is this primitive behavioral cycle <em>incredibly predictable</em> to anyone who’s ever watched an evening news report on Israel-Palestine (or, say, Serbia-Croatia-Bosnia); you should know that there are <em>people specifically planning</em>, every day, for these “sensational events”. These events are neither a random force of nature, nor simply a phase we’ll soon pass through. It’s a cycle of provocation <em>being driven</em> by people who, right now, are <em>outsmarting you</em>.</p> The last paragraph

“The problem is that every time there’s a sensational event, that starts the whole sectarian cycle again,” said Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the chief spokesman for the American command in Iraq. “If we could stop the cyclical nature of this in Baghdad, we could really change the dynamics here.”

is unbelievable. It’s hard enough to think any grown-up could utter them to anyone over the age of twelve; let alone to another grown-up who’s been paying attention for the last three years. Hello?

If only there weren’t gravity, we could jump up in the air and really change the dynamics around here!

General Caldwell: not only is this primitive behavioral cycle incredibly predictable to anyone who’s ever watched an evening news report on Israel-Palestine (or, say, Serbia-Croatia-Bosnia); you should know that there are people specifically planning, every day, for these “sensational events”. These events are neither a random force of nature, nor simply a phase we’ll soon pass through. It’s a cycle of provocation being driven by people who, right now, are outsmarting you.

]]> By: marksb http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389634 marksb Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:08:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389634 <p><a href="#comment-389608"><em>katie Jensen @ 123</em></a><br /> Brilliant. Thank you.</p> katie Jensen @ 123
Brilliant. Thank you.

]]> By: jeffreyw http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389633 jeffreyw Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:08:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389633 <p><a href="#comment-389611"><em>rwcole @<br /> 128 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>I’m successfully avoiding work by not having any.</p></blockquote> <p>Ditto</p> rwcole @
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I’m successfully avoiding work by not having any.

Ditto

]]> By: montag http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389630 montag Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:07:36 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389630 <p><a href="#comment-389626"><em>kristinejoy @ 140</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Not working, is er um hard work. The imaginary banks require two forms of id to cash the imaginary checks, and sadly “Jesus Christ” is not the name on my birth certificate.</p></blockquote> <p>Well, maybe if he could co-sign? :)</p> kristinejoy @ 140

Not working, is er um hard work. The imaginary banks require two forms of id to cash the imaginary checks, and sadly “Jesus Christ” is not the name on my birth certificate.

Well, maybe if he could co-sign? :)

]]> By: montag http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389628 montag Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:06:45 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/20/more-clapping-please/#comment-389628 <p><a href="#comment-389627"><em>Cozumel @ 141</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Working is <em>so</em> last century</p></blockquote> <p>Years from now, that will be the pre-Bushian era.</p> Cozumel @ 141

Working is so last century

Years from now, that will be the pre-Bushian era.

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