“I think it’s generally irresponsible to throw around casual accusations that someone is, in fact, bonkers,” writes Atrios. “I don’t mean bonkers or nuts in the casual every day conversation way (Rick Santorum is nuts!) but in the genuinely mentally ill something is quite wrong with his/her melon way.”
“But I really agree with Stephen Pizzo. Something is not right with Rumsfeld,” Atrios concludes.
P.S. BooMan is in his new home. But the cable people couldn’t hook him up to the Internet. Maybe tomorrow, they say. BooMan is frustrated, although the cable people did manage to hook up his TV. He’s very anxious to get back “home” here! OPEN THREAD …
Something new I learned last night: Raccoons like pumpkin pie!
I’vthought that Rumsfeld’s mental and emotional condition has deteriorated quite markedly over the last few months, as though whatever remaining threads that anchored him to at least a semblance of functionality in the real world are now being severed one by one.
I never regarded him as an architect of the current disasters particularly except to the extent that his ideas for a smaller human military with bigger and more expensive weapons played into the rubric of the neocons and their greddy enablers in the defense contracting sphere. I’ve always thought of Rummy as being on the “working end of the leash” so to speak; his neck in the collar of the leash rather than it being his hand on the other end of the leash.
His wild clawlike gestures put me in mind ofthe wicked witch of the west character in Oz.
I’d say there are probably close to 20 or so full-blown clinically dysfunctional psychopaths at or near the top of the Bush pyramid who, in addition to their rigid delusions of grandeur and infallability are also functionally irrational to the point of absurdity. Michael Ledeen isone such person, as is Ann Coulter, O’Reilly, and quite a few others. I’ don’t think Rumsfeld was always this far gone, but he surely is now.
For the good of the country he needs to either be fired or “Baker Acted” ASAP.
here’s another groaner of a joke from my next-door (in real life) neighbor:
The Gay Cowboy
A successful rancher died and left everything to his devoted wife. She was a very good-looking woman and determined to keep the ranch, but knew very little about ranching, so she decided to place an ad in the newspaper for a ranch hand.
Two cowboys applied for the job. One was gay and the other a drunk.
She thought long and hard about it, and when no one else applied she decided to hire the gay guy, figuring it would be safer to have him around the house than the drunk. He proved to be a hard worker who put in long hours every day and knew a lot about ranching.
For weeks, the two of them worked, and the ranch was doing very well. Then one day, the rancher ‘s widow said to the hired hand, “You have done a really good job, and the ranch looks great. You should go into town and kick up your heels.”
The hired hand readily agreed and went into town one Saturday night – One o’clock came, however, and he didn’t return. Two o’clock, and no hired hand. He returned around two thirty, and upon entering the room, he found the rancher’s widow sitting by the fireplace with a glass of wine, waiting for him.
She quietly called him over to her. “Unbutton my blouse and take it off,” she said.
Trembling, he did as she directed.
“Now take off my boots.” He did as she asked, ever so slowly.
“Now take off my soc ks.” He removed each gently and placed them neatly by her boots.
“Now take off my skirt.” He slowly unbuttoned it, constantly watching her eyes in the fire light.
“Now take off my bra.” Again, with trembling hands, he did as he was told and dropped it to the floor.
“Now,” she said, “take off my panties.” By the light of the fire, he slowly pulled them down and off.
Then she looked at him and said, “If you ever wear my clothes into town again, you’re fired!”
I think it was last week, I said that it wont be very long till PP’s job will be taken over by someone else. He is not following the guidlines as was described to him before his placement in his current position…:o) He is not playing by the favorite rules of his master. NO not at all!!!!
Yes rummy was getting this way for a very long time. I think, tho, it is in his nature to be like this old mean man. When ever he is rebuked in public or corrected at any time, by anyone, he becomes hostile and conbative to others. Sometimes, I wonder if it is not in the water at the WH that does this to those who live there….;o)
Maybe he is suffereing the same illness that ronnie had…
Anyhow, it is just a matter of time…he is on his way out…ppl are talking in DC, within the beltway….they notice rummy’s mental thing too..