I'm reaching for the straight-jacket as I speak...

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Every so often, Inmates, someone actually comes up with a bit of GOOD news. After the initial suprise of the unexpected, Good News quickly gives you the kind of gratifying thrill that only the Hope of Natural Justice can give...

There was I, in the Nurse's Lounge (having spent the entire shift chasing Larry Northern 'round and 'round and 'round the High Security Excercise Yard, attempting (and failing) to give him his hourly Anti-Shithead injections), my ravaged feet soaking in a hot bowl of Epsom Salts, when I noticed a fresh memo pinned to the notice-board.

It was from Professor Pizzo, from the News For Real Research Hut over in the American Annexe, who's tirelessly dedicated the last few years to trying to find a cure for Presidential Bird-Brained Flu. He's had some VERY encouraging confirmation of his data, and it's so good I'm reproducing it in full:

Is Bush Out of Control?

Buy beleaguered, overworked White House aides enough drinks and they tell a sordid tale of an administration under siege, beset by bitter staff infighting and led by a man whose mood swings suggest paranoia bordering on schizophrenia.

They describe a President whose public persona masks an angry, obscenity-spouting man who berates staff, unleashes tirades against those who disagree with him and ends meetings in the Oval Office with “get out of here!”

In fact, George W. Bush’s mood swings have become so drastic that White House emails often contain “weather reports” to warn of the President’s demeanor. “Calm seas” means Bush is calm while “tornado alert” is a warning that he is pissed at the world.

Decreasing job approval ratings and increased criticism within his own party drives the President’s paranoia even higher. Bush, in a meeting with senior advisors, called Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist a “god-damned traitor” for opposing him on stem-cell research.

“There’s real concern in the West Wing that the President is losing it,” a high-level aide told me recently.

A year ago, this web site discovered the White House physician prescribed anti-depressants for Bush. The news came after revelations that the President’s wide mood swings led some administration staffers to doubt his sanity.

Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a “paranoid meglomaniac” and “untreated alcoholic” whose “lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad” showcase Bush’s instabilities.

“I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed,” Dr. Frank said. “He fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated.”

Dr. Frank’s conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School.

As a recovering alcoholic (sober 11 years, two months, nine days), I know all too well the symptoms that Dr. Frank describes and, after watching Bush for the past several years, I have to, unfortunately, agree with him.

Conversations over the last few weeks with longtime friends who work in the Bush White House confirm even more what Dr. Frank says and others have suggested.

The President of the United States is out of control. How long can the ship of state continue to sail with a madman at the helm?

© Copyright 2005 by Capitol Hill Blue

...original article here

I don't know about YOU, but the fact that enough strssed-out mutterings have now leaked out of the woodwork of Capitol Hill to result in this kind of reporting might be the first omen that the lid is about to blow right off the White House pressure cooker, especially now it seems that Blunderer-In-Chief's relationship with the Pentagon is turning sour, just as he's about to go Nuclear Poo-Poo in Iran...

It just goes to prove that no matter how hermetically sealed your Rocket-Proof triple-glazed Oval Office windows are, and no matter how ruthlessly efficient your Pitbull-Powered, Truth-Erasing air conditioning is, the stench of a truly evil Fart will always make its way out of the building.

Bush Ignored the Truth About Iraq

Slowly but surely the hardhead who occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is realizing what his military experts and others told him all along – he cannot and will not win the war in Iraq.

The Washington Post reported over the weekend that Bush senior advisors say the President is accepting the harsh reality that the U.S. will probably leave Iraq in worse shape than it was before we invaded the country in 2003.

Sadly, the experts in the Pentagon told Bush from the beginning that he could not achieve his goals in Iraq and, had he listened, nearly 2,000 American men and women might still be alive (not to mention the many thousands more wounded and maimed), along with more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians.

“Senior Pentagon officials are quietly urging President George W. Bush to slow down his headlong rush to war with Iraq, complaining the administration’s course of action represents too much of a shift of America’s longstanding “no first strike” policy and that the move could well result in conflicts with other Arab nations,” this web site reported on January 22, 2003.

“We have a dangerous role reversal here,” one Pentagon source told Capitol Hill Blue. “The civilians are urging war and the uniformed officers are urging caution.”

...rest of article here

There's hope for us yet, Inmates! Must dash, though... It's time to give Inmate Blair his colonscopy.

He doesn't need it, I just feel like giving him one!