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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 07:56 PM
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George Bush and his Facial Injuries. Is the Press Protecting Him?

No normal person sustains this many injuries to his face. If the President is impaired it's the responsiblity of the press to report on what they know. If they are covering up for a President who is impaired on duty, they are complicit.




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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 07:57 PM
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1. Based on my extraordinary in-depth, expert analysis....
Haemophilia, anyone?
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 12:33 PM
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63. Laura or one of the girls
protecting herself.

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snowbird42 Donating Member (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 07:58 PM
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2. Clearing brush is tough work!
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:00 PM
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6. And yet, he doesn't appear to have worked with his hands this week.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 07:53 AM
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41. Look how lopsided his face is in this picture
He looks almost as if he's had a stroke. The right side and the left side seem to be doing things separately. The droop of the left side of his mouth. the squinty right eye compared to the slack left eye. The man is diseased. I just don't know how.

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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 06:13 PM
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47. That sure looks like the bad end of a stroke to me
and if he has suffered a bad stroke, it would account for an awful lot.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:33 PM
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73. That's exactly how he has looked since around early October.
That's when I first noticed the lopsided thing. It looks as if he had a stroke and has lost some muscle control on the left side of his face. You can't just MAKE that kind of face, with one eye droopy and the other showing expression, one side of your mouth smiling and the other side slightly frowning.

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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:06 PM
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10. American Cancer Society: Kaposi Sarcoma
Detailed Guide: Kaposi's Sarcoma
What Is Kaposi Sarcoma?



In the last 20 years, however, the vast majority of KS cases have developed in association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), especially among homosexual men. With the use of new treatments for AIDS, this is turning around, and the number of KS cases due to HIV infection is decreasing.

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<snip>

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http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_1x_what_is_kaposis_sarcoma_21.asp?sitearea=cri






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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:00 PM
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3. Maybe Laura's beating up on him?
:shrug: :nopity:
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:00 PM
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4. Recurring facial herpes?
You're right. The media won't say shit about Bush, though. We're long past the days when the media scrutinized Republican presidents. Long past. Scrutiny and distortion is ramped up for Dems, though.
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newsguyatl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:00 PM
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5. and if you think of their reasonings
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 08:01 PM by newsguyatl
ie, "fell off a bike," "choked on a pretzel" -- the answer becomes clear.

in any other time, in any other place, with any other person, this would all be ludicrous... but we live in bushworld -- the surreal becomes reality.
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Ravenseye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:44 PM
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78. I don't know
A good friend of mine of about 15 years is the clumsiest guy I know. Great guy, smart, funny....but man....physically he's just not together. He seems fine, he'll go mountain biking....he'll play sports...

Then he'll stand up and smack his head against a lamp hanging from the ceiling...again....and again.....forgeting it's there. He'll fall of his bike, he'll trip on the sidewalk. He doesn't even SEEM clumsy, he just falls alot, and hence since I've known him it's fairly regular he's cut cuts and scrapes and bruises.

Not saying this is Bush, just saying it's possible.
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:00 PM
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7. he's a drunk, drunks fall down
Reagan had Alzheimer's on duty and they covered for him. Yeltsin was drunk on duty and they covered for him. It's pretty standard to cover for leaders of large dangerous nuclear-equipped nations that are being run by impaired leaders.
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AliciaKeyedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:05 PM
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9. Or he could be clumsy
Chevy Chase made his career out of mocking Ford and Ford only had a couple years of clumsiness in office.

Honestly, I have no idea one way or the other.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:36 PM
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20. Ford wasn't constantly covered with scrapes and bruises
W is clearly falling down on the job. It happens everytime he takes a little break. Drunks tend to fall down and get hurt a lot. Coincidence?
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AliciaKeyedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 07:31 AM
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40. He's out in public a lot
And drunks do a lot of things he isn't doing. And you downplay the impact (very appropriate word) of Gerry Ford's presidency. He was falling down everywhere -- all the time.

I remain unconvinced but open minded on the subject.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 06:17 PM
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48. There's a telling photo upthread
The left side of his face droops. I think the man has had a bad stroke in recent years. For that, my sympathy would extend to him. Terrible, debilitating things, strokes....
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 01:30 PM
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67. What do drunks do that he doesn't? I'm curious.
eom
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 05:35 PM
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45. gerald ford is an alcoholic, Alicia
As is Chevy Chase.

Gerald Ford's wife Betty was famous for her work with her own recovery issues including alcoholism and the Betty Ford Clinic operates to this day.

I'm surprised you just thought Ford was clumsy. I thought the Fords' problems with alcohol were very well known, but I'm guessing I'm quite a bit older than you from your screen name.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:02 PM
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70. Even Ford didn't keep injuring his face
It is very rare for an adult - even an alcoholic - to keep damaging their face in this way.

See BouncyBall's post below. Some alcoholics work out compulsively and some have neurological problems, and they're the ones who always look beat up.

I guess what I am saying is that I think W is an alcoholic, but even that doesn't completely explain his facial injuries. There's even more to the story.
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BrightKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:12 PM
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91. deleted -n/t
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 05:14 PM by BrightKnight
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 03:20 PM
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86. Ford was actually quite graceful
A good enough football player, a fine dancer...he just took a few falls that were well photographed, and then, when he slammed that drive into the crowd golfing, it was just TOO EASY to make fun of him.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:05 PM
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8. Do ya remember Fearless Fosdick?
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 08:09 PM by SpiralHawk
He was a character in Al Capp's cartoon series, L'il Abner.

At any rate, our Imperial FaceFirst Fraud-in-Chief reminds me a lot of old Fosdick, an arrogant, swaggering little twit, who was forever falling on his mug because he just did not have the wherewithall to live up to his pretenses.

To answer the first question, yes - I do think the press is protecting him. I am ashamed of the American press corps, and how it has sold out on all its crucial responsibilites. I no longer have any faith in this once-respected institution.

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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:44 PM
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21. I'm waiting for him to turn into Joe Bfptsfkst
or however the hell Capp spelt that poor guy's name...
:evilgrin:
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 03:23 AM
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57. btfsplk
you're welcome

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seasat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:28 PM
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26. Jack S Fosdick...
there's no Jack S like our Jack S. LOL, I played him in the play Lil' Abner and that was a great line.
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MurrayDelph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:39 PM
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77. Corrections:
The Senator was Jack S Phogbound,
The detective (who was not in the play/movie, but was a
strip within the strip) was Fearless Fosdick
Joe Btfsplk: World's most loving friend and worst jinx who always travels with a dark cloud over his head.

(This last one taken from www.lil-abner.com)

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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:07 PM
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11. Can't tel lif those last couple are facial cuts --
-- or lobotomy scars.

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chomskysright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:14 PM
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12. obviously self-mutilation as he must hate himself...
dickwad that he is.
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:15 PM
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13. Yet they wouldn't leave Kerry alone about his botox or his tan
The double standard practiced by the press is ridiculous.
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:16 PM
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14. Gawd...does he shave drunk with an old straight razor??
What the hell is that May 04 bruise?? Is that where he wiped out on his Segway??
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:36 PM
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19. I think May '04 was the face-plant off the mountain bike.
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 08:37 PM by ocelot
That's when he was out riding around the pig farm and went down a hill or something (Hills? In Crawford?), and wiped out. Then his handlers blamed the fall on the loose, muddy soil because of the recent rain.) Only problem is, the NWS has no record of any rain in Crawford at that time.) We couldn't be allowed to think it was because WeeCowboy is a clumsy drunk who is so athletically inept that after a couple of visits from his good pal Jack Daniels he can fall off a bicycle on a dry path....
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nascarblue Donating Member (693 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:26 PM
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15. Maybe he did more Texas style date raping?
Remember the Bush rape of that black woman Margeret Schoedinger? She filed suit in 2002 against Bush claiming that he raped and drugged her with 3 FBI agents and then ended up "suicided"?
http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/knowdeat.html
Maybe he had himself a little extra curricular Texas style fun...

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CelticWinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:28 PM
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16. May 04 looks
like a carpet burn...whats he doin in the oval office?
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:29 PM
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17. Is the press protecting him?
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:32 PM
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18. *IF* the media is covering up for him??????
:wtf:

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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:51 PM
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22. Every time I see these pictures I think of Lucianne Goldberg. I used
to get freeper juice by looking at her comments. This was during the time Bush was running (for office) and after the Supreme Court marched him into the White House. Each day she would have the latest photo of him with adoring comments.

The thoughts about how he got these facial scabs is not so adorable.
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gypsy11 Donating Member (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 08:59 PM
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23. He's a drunk
and he's falling down.
January 02 looks like someone punched him though.

Is the press protecting him? Absolutely.
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FlaGranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:12 PM
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24. Does this have something
to do with a snippet I heard today on AAR? I did not catch the whole thing - something about the bulge in his jacket being a defibrillator? What I heard did not make sense, though, because they said he was wearing a defibrillator because of a mild stroke. I don't believe a defibrillator is used for stroke, but for prevention of "sudden cardiac death" due to atrial fibrillation. I imagine an external defibrillator could be worn as a temporary measure, but they usually implant the defibrillator. Anyhow, they mentioned that he got the "pretzel bruises" from the mild stroke. Atrial fibrillation could cause a stroke, but he is a bit young for strokes and atrial fibrillation.

I agree that he gets way too many bruises on his face not to have a serious problem of some kind, whether being falling down drunk, just very clumsy, or possible fainting spells from cardiac arrhythmia. Makes you wonder.
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verdalaven Donating Member (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 01:48 PM
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69. A bit young.,........
Yesterday I attended the funeral of a friend of mine who died suddenly after an ultra short illness. She was a long time alcoholic, dry only three or four years. She was 55.

Alcoholism has the power to kick the crap out of a person's longevity. If he is having strokes young, I am not surprised.
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Danocrat Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:18 PM
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25.  a LifeVest wearable defibrillator clearly visible underneath his suit jac
George W. Bush apparently is wearing a medical device for "persons at risk of cardiac arrest." It is a LifeVest wearable defibrillator. He started using it sometime after his January 2002 fainting spell, which was attributed to choking. Based on photos showing him wearing the device, one can conclude the fainting was due to atrial fibrillation (AF), which his father also had. His father's AF was caused by Graves' hyperthyroidism, which his mother also has. Bush likely has AF and less likely Graves', based on his family history and symptoms. The AF may have caused a stroke or TIA (mini-stroke), of which physicians watching the debates detected symptoms. Observers have noted psychological symptoms consistent with this and with Wernicke-Korsakoff disease.

In contrast, the photos below show Mr. Bush at a presidential debate, with parts of a LifeVest wearable defibrillator clearly visible underneath his suit jacket.

This news could turn out to be the story of the year -- for 2005.

Some time between the fainting (pretzel) incident of January 2002 and the following summer, the president apparently began wearing the device. The photo of Mr. Bush at his ranch was taken on August 9, 2002.

http://atlanta.indymedia.org/newswire/display/35360/index.php

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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:30 PM
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27. Here's one from 1999 where he sent two other people to the hospital
Bush slightly injured while jogging

November 1, 1999
Web posted at: 3:29 p.m. EST (2029 GMT)

AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush suffered minor cuts and bruises Monday after jumping out of the path of a dump truck while jogging, according to campaign officials.

Bush spokesman Brian Jones said the governor, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, was running with his protective detail near the governor's mansion when he heard a dump truck behind him. Bush jumped out of the way of the truck to avoid being hit, but in doing so suffered a bruise to his hip and minor abrasions on one leg, Jones said. First aid was administered on the scene.

A member of Bush's protective detail, riding alongside the governor on a bike, was hit and taken to a local hospital. The dump truck driver was also transported to the hospital.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/01/bush.injured/


He's not only a danger to himself, he's a danger to everyone around him in more ways than one.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 12:16 PM
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61. Sorry about that ! My dump truck needed to take a dump!
And W looked like shit, so the gears got excited and thought the latrine was nearby...
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mountainvue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:30 PM
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28. I don't know. But when I watched the press conference today
I swore that he looked like he'd had "something done" over the holidays. The wrinkles were less prominent and his skin seemed a bit tighter.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:49 PM
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29. Oh well there you might be on to something.
A laser treatment could leave a burn shaped like that.
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mountainvue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:57 PM
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32. That's true. He looked "rested." n/t
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:51 PM
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30. Something is seriously wrong with him
n/t
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Undercover Owl Donating Member (621 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:54 PM
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31. he sleeps with Satan!
Satan gets a little rough sometimes, in bed.....
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Kansas Wyatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:58 PM
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33. Hammered or Cheney Wins The Fights.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:01 PM
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34. No reports on Cheney's whereabouts last week
News searches on him turned up nothing. Hmm.
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Kansas Wyatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:25 PM
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36. Battered pResident Syndrome?
Maybe Shrub did get tired of getting his ass kicked, and added Cheney to the long list.

No, Cheney is planning the next terrorist attack, so they can impose martial law and launch another war.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:04 PM
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35. He's a real "Bad-luck Schleprock" for ALL of us!
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:03 PM
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37. Here's the deal folks:
Count the number of times you have INJURED your FACE in the last four years. Go ahead, count.

My count is zero, what is yours?

There might be a few people here and there who have freak accidents involving their face, but this much is true: it is HUMAN INSTINCT to reach out your hands to STOP a fall and protect the face, the most important exterior part of your body (though guys might disagree).

So why in the WORLD would you have FOUR facial injuries in four years?

That's unheard of if the person is conscious and able to move their arms. You can't HELP but throw out your arms to protect yourself.

There's something seriously weird about four facial injuries (that we know of) in four years. I haven't had four facial injuries in all my life. Heck, I haven't even had ONE, but I can see if, say, something from ABOVE bonked someone or something unexpected came out (door) but even in the door case, you'd throw out your hands if you even got half a second to do so!

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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 02:33 AM
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38. Eggg-zackly
I'd like to see actual stats on this, but I completely agree with your post. It is seriously suspect that he would do this at all, let alone four times in four years. And it goes completely unremarked by the gotcha press.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 06:51 AM
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39. Harpo, Zeppo. and Curly, Larry and Moe did it...
...all the time, and they were all smarter than *!
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paulie5 Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 08:18 AM
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42. He looks like
He looks like he sniffs paint or glue. He probably likes to go around government motor pools inhaling gasoline from car fuel tanks..

One thing we all know. He is one twisted (you know what).

P5
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 08:58 AM
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43. I know you're right! :-) n/t
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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 05:46 PM
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46. Good point..well said!
you are so right...just did my own self survey...once in my lifetime did i have a facial injury and i am 63 years old...just asked my SO and he said also one time..and he was in viet nam..and was shot there twice...thinking of my own children..three of them..youngest is 40..the answer is never...yep...you have got it with that analysis.
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LizW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 06:41 PM
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50. In our family of four
There have only been two facial injuries and those were the kids. First son fell on the stairs and had to have stitches in his eyebrow. He was fourteen months old at the time. Second son got a black eye from a missed baseball when he was nine. My husband mountain bikes and trail runs and he's fallen lots of times, but it's always his hands that get hurt, not his face.

If I saw a woman with those injuries and the cover stories, I know exactly what I would think.

A man with so many facial injuries is very strange.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 01:14 AM
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52. "my husband,...it's always his hands that get hurt, not his face"
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 01:17 AM by Stephanie


Well there you have the difference between a normal person and... this president.

WTF? Who falls, on their FACE? I have tripped once recently, on the subway steps, in my pointy boots. But I did not fall on my face.

I biked and bladed all last summer and did not fall, but maybe I'm just not an aggressive athlete.

It defies logic. If you think of the most agggressive, male, weekend warrior athletes that you know - how many of them have injured their FACE, FOUR TIMES, in the last four years?

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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 01:28 PM
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66. My eleven year old son has had stitches to the face twice
He's ADHD and an Aspie, doesn't always think about what he's doing. The first time - He was playing around in class, bonked head on teacher's chair, 3 stitches above the eyebrow. The second time - Recess at school...He walked across the playground just as another kid threw a stick at someone else. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thirteen stitches by a plastic surgeon along one side of his nose.

Both of these happened in the same school year, three years ago. He hasn't had a facial injury since.

For a grown man, * just has too many.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:34 PM
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75. In the second instance
it doesn't sound like he had time to react to the stick flying at him.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 03:03 PM
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83. No, he didn't
He was a second grader at the time.

I'm a natural born klutz, but my face doesn't get involved.
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mrbassman03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 03:32 AM
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58. My ONLY one was a rugby injury...
but other than that, my face has been safe.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 03:17 PM
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85. My lifetime count is THRICE (and I am old)
I wasn't looking where I was going once and walked into a phone pole, just like a cartoon character, I overshot jumping on beds when I was a kid and hit the wall, and once a book fell off a shelf and slammed me in the nose but good. Each incident was greater than eight years apart, none caused any laceration, or even bruising, just mild swelling, and, knock wood, I've learned to watch where the hell I am going and haven't had any face to solid plane encounters since!!!
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KenCarson Donating Member (170 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 05:28 PM
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44. all of those would be hard to cover with makeup, so there is
always a story that comes out beforehand to explain it

BUT

what about injuries that makeup can cover? he has a team of people. is there someone who decides "we can spackle this one, no need to release a cover story" or not
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paulie5 Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 06:28 PM
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49. There is also the possibility
That he has a brain injury considering all the head trauma he's obviously sustained. That would explain a lot of his weird behavior and poor judgement.

Either that or he was born stupid.


PA 3immon
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 06:46 PM
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51. EVERYBODY is protecting him!
Edited on Tue Jan-04-05 07:33 PM by Malva Zebrina
that should be obvious by now.

It is the shame of this nation.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 01:21 AM
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53. This injury is so symmetrical, I am really thinking it's a laser treatment
I think he was burned by a laser. We must have a cosmetic surgeon at DU. Please comment.
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muse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 01:45 AM
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54. Well, it doesn't look like he got any laser work done on his
forehead, that's for sure.

I can't remember ever getting a facial injury as an adult.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 01:55 AM
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55. I can't remember getting a facial injury EVER
I remember my sister got one at the age of about four. She fell and cut her cheek on the door of the cabinet. My brother, who was hellbent on injuring himself, never did, in the face. Nor did I. This is bizarre.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:02 AM
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56. To me, the marks look like psoriasis
but that's nothing shameful, and everyone would accept it: "Oh, Bush has psoriasis. So do lots of other people."

But these odd stories about him getting "facial injuries" all the time make me think that it's not psoriasis after all but symptomatic of something worse, such as a more serious disease that manifests itself on the skin or a neurological difficulty that makes him prone to falling.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 12:00 PM
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59. But why do the injuries occur when he's been in seclusion?
We only saw him once last week, during the greatest disaster in our memory. We saw him once on Wednesday, pre-taped. Otherwise he was completely out of sight. What was he doing? And how did he injure his face?
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 07:02 PM
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94. Well, see, that's why it's so weird
It looks like psoriasis, but psoriasis is quite common in middle-aged people and would NOT be something to hide.

So even if it looks like psoriasis, it probably isn't.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 12:10 PM
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60. It's called telepathic cold-cocking!
And if I could just find out who is doing it to up the intensity a tad bit...
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CWebster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 12:23 PM
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62. Stone cold flat face drunk
Words for his tombstone:

Drunken Frat Boy ran Country into ditch

What more is there to say?
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 01:10 PM
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64. My stepfather used to get quite a few facial injuries
but then he was and is a raging alcoholic.

One of the facial injuries was from thinking he could run on his treadmill while he was drunk (he was always drunk) and he stumbled and landed face down at the end of the treadmill. Had some nice tread burns on his forehead, nose and chin.

Sometimes alcoholics exercise compulsively in an effort to "work" the alcohol out of their bloodstream and nearly all his facial injuries occurred when he was trying to work out while drunk.
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MrsCheaplaugh Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 01:26 PM
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65. Bing-bing! A Winner!
Perfect analysis, Bouncy. Does the press protect him? Do bears shit in the woods?
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 01:42 PM
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68. I've long suspected
bush's workouts were to "work out" the alcohol from his bloodstream more quickly.

But now with some mysterious medical problems, he cannot work out like he once did.

I'd bet $500 he's still actively drinking and has been.

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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:04 PM
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71. I think you are right
It's possible that W tries to bicycle while drunk, but more likely he tries to work out on a treadmill and he keeps falling down.

I can just see him charging around the pig farm insisting that he's perfectly fine, he's the president and everybody has to keep their hands off him, while he's making a drunken mess of himself.

Dozens of people must know all about this.
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:31 PM
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72. *'s facial injuries remind me of my father
who was an alcoholic. He would get drunk, try to walk and fall, cutting or scraping himself, usually on the face. I remember one time when dad tried to get out of the house at 2 in the morning by going through the screen door - and I mean through. He had facial scrapes and cuts all over.
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Razorback_Democrat Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:33 PM
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74. Yes, alcohol and drug impaired people fall on their face
because they don't have fast enough reflex action to catch themselves with their hands

so they are enabling our president to continue to use alcohol and drugs and fall on his face

(or else he is just a huge klutz who has not reflexes to begin with?)
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:39 PM
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76. I think I'll go with your first theory.
I can't even think of why a normal, non-impaired human being would not have instincts. Our instincts are primal, for crying out loud. Hard wired into the genetic code. Like I said upthread a ways, just TRY falling forward and NOT putting your hands out. Even with your hands tied behind you, the muscles in your arms and shoulders contract and try to force the arms forward.

Someone who is an active alcoholic, however, will often have facial injuries because their reflexes have been dulled so much and their response time is so slow. This is mainly what makes driving while drunk so dangerous.

Now, there COULD be other explanations, such as seizures (I guess?) but they could give him medication to help with that and it would surely lessen that problem.

Alcoholism, however, is a real bugaboo. He can take Antabuse and try to stay off the hootch, but I've known some alcoholics who take Antabuse AND drink, which is extremely dangerous.
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CWebster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:45 PM
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79. Even without the bashed up face
there is no doubting the appearance of a drunk.

Sometimes it is all too obvious he has a severe hangover too. Actually, he has been keeping a lower profile since the election, but I've noticed the signs more frequently than ever before.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:55 PM
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81. Yep. His behavior
reminds me of a "functioning" alcoholic. Always has.

And just look at that clip from him debating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial debate vs. the debates we just had. My GOD. He was talking so fast, I thought at first that something was wrong with the video clip. He was alert and aware, no uuuuhhhs, rapid blinking, long silences, blank stares.

Here's a link to that clip: http://interestingtimes.typepad.com/interesting_times/2004/10/video_raises_qu.html
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:53 PM
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80. Oh and by the way,
of COURSE the press is protecting him. If they weren't, they'd be ASKING questions, probing questions about why they put off his physical until AFTER the election, why the ONLY official summation of a physical for him that exists is from 2001:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010804-2.html

(there are NO other official summations of his physicals posted on the White House website, only this one...and by the way, for his 2004 physical, they used the same wording almost word for word in the press releases).

They'd ask what the thing was on his back in those pictures and at the debates. They'd ask about the slackness on the left side of his face that has been present since early October.

And just to give you an idea of how the press CAN probe, in 1996, right after Clinton's physical, his press secretary talked to the press about it and there were no fewer than THREE reporters asking if he had a sexually transmitted disease.

Then there's this:

White House Releases Clinton Health Information

Reuters (09/13/96)

Abstract: In response to challenges from Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, the White House released on Friday President Clinton's medical records. The documents included a report that Clinton, as part of an insurance physical, tested negative for HIV in 1990. The medical summary also said Clinton "has no history of hypertension, diabetes, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted disease, cancer, stroke, or heart disease."

So get THAT! Can you imagine a Dem saying "HEY! What's wrong with your FACE? I challenge you to release your medical records IN FULL!"
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:59 PM
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82. More here:
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 03:08 PM
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84. Postural hypotension?????
Be interesting to see his salt levels.

Something ain't right.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 03:29 PM
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87. Death by 1,000 Paper Cuts
He keeps dozing off while trying to read Federal Budget and thumps his face on it.
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greyfox Donating Member (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 03:40 PM
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88. Once a drunk....
always a drunk. THAT is his main problem besides illiteracy and hypocrisy!
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paulie5 Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 03:54 PM
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89. Alcohol maybe
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 03:55 PM by paulie5
But in my humble opinion I think he sniffs airplane glue. Paint thinner. Anything he can stick his nose in (lines of cocaine included)

I suspect he also probably does a lot of Xanax and gets pumped full of speed when they need to have him say something.

Paulie5
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greyfox Donating Member (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:13 PM
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90. Oh?
Has he said something? Hahahahahaah
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BrightKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:17 PM
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92. Perhaps Laura is a sadistic dominatrix.
King George apparently likes to be beaten and humiliated. This might explain what he is doing to the country.
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:27 PM
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93. Carbunkles!
Rosacea?

Bike wrecks?

Guilt-ridden scratching?
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