Saturday, January 8, 2005

A TOPSY-TURVY WORLD What would you do if you were a liar, a war criminal, an economic failure, a paranoiac, and a Conservative Republican to boot? How could you keep your personal and fake world from crumbling altogether? There is only one solution, you turn everything upside down. You accuse your opponents of being liars and paranoiacs. It has been done before. And the advantage is that you wouldn't have to explain your own actions any longer. AnotherDayInTheEmpire: "It's not the stolen election or the war crimes committed in my name. It's not the fact Bush is a liar and a criminal. It's not the Strausscons in the White House and the Pentagon, plotting multiple wars in the Middle East and elsewhere. It's not Congress, sold out to neolibs, multinational corporations, and Wall Street loan sharks. It's me. I'm suffering from 'political paranoia' and need Paxil, a prescription drug for the treatment of anxiety and depression. It's not the 100,000 dead killed by my government in Iraq. It's not torture or loose talk of nuking enemies. It is a serotonin imbalance in my brain. I suffer from any number of possible maladies - depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (thus writing this blog every day), and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I suffer from mental illness and need help. Congress may come to the rescue - and soon. 'When the 109th Congress convenes in Washington in January, Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would define 'political paranoia' as a mental disorder, paving the way for individuals who suffer from paranoid delusions regarding voter fraud, political persecution and FBI surveillance to receive Medicare reimbursement for any psychiatric treatment they receive,' writes Hermione Slatkin, Medical Correspondent for the Swift Report. 'Rick Smith, a spokesman for Senator Frist, says that the measure has a good chance of passing - something that can only help a portion of the population that is suffering significant distress.'" What the heck! Why not declare all democrats demented? Even before Bush it was dangerous to question government actions. Only in America, folks, only in America! 12:36:48 PM

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