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Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior By TERESA HAMPTON Editor, Capitol Hill Blue Jul 28, 2004, 08:09 President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned. The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President’s mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately. “It’s a double-edged sword,” says one aide. “We can’t have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally.” Angry Bush walked away from reporter's questions. Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay. “Keep those motherfuckers away from me,” he screamed at an aide backstage. “If you can’t, I’ll find someone who can.” Bush’s mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about increasing concern among White House aides over the President’s wide mood swings and obscene outbursts. Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports as 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. The doctors also worry about the wisdom of giving powerful anti-depressant drugs to a person with a history of chemical dependency. Bush is an admitted alcoholic, although he never sought treatment in a formal program, and stories about his cocaine use as a younger man haunted his campaigns for Texas governor and his first campaign for President. “President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies,” Dr. Frank adds. The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment on this article. Although the exact drugs Bush takes to control his depression and behavior are not known, White House sources say they are “powerful medications” designed to bring his erratic actions under control. While Col. Tubb regularly releases a synopsis of the President’s annual physical, details of the President’s health and any drugs or treatment he may receive are not public record and are guarded zealously by the secretive cadre of aides that surround the President. Veteran White House watchers say the ability to control information about Bush’s health, either physical or mental, is similar to Ronald Reagan’s second term when aides managed to conceal the President’s increasing memory lapses that signaled the onslaught of Alzheimer’s Disease. It also brings back memories of Richard Nixon’s final days when the soon-to-resign President wandered the halls and talked to portraits of former Presidents. The stories didn’t emerge until after Nixon left office. One long-time GOP political consultant who – for obvious reasons – asked not to be identified said he is advising his Republican Congressional candidates to keep their distance from Bush. “We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United States is loony tunes,” he says sadly. “That’s not good for my candidates, it’s not good for the party and it’s certainly not good for the country.”

So what exactly was Dubya getting at, that the rich knew how to cheat their taxes, so they wouldn't REALLY have to pay the new taxes assigned to them? Looks like he is getting smarter every day.....

One factor that could be attributed to lowered crowd reaction could be the fact that he was jamming through the speech. He could have stayed paused longer at certain moments in the speech, but chose to start back up pretty quickly.....

Wrong thread. nah, I didn't want to go search and ressurect a buried thread, so I decided to post the question in here since it sort of relates.....since afterall Zombi 2 was originally made as a sequel to Dawn...

this has been posted already, but you are new so I will cut you some slack.......but hell yeah I am excited.....thank goodness I held out from buying the dvds 1 at a time.

For the record, I was the one that set the building on fire......

I didn't see anything in that video that tried to claim "Kerry won Vietnam" It was a nice video piece. To me, it was more harping on the fact that he was concerned with saving his fellow soldiers life. Of course it was fluff, what in the hell do you expect for them to show at the DNC?

The thing is he didn't say ANYTHING. The EXACT SAME speech could be made by someone at a Republican event. Kerry talked about everything but policy. I'm not even sure he mentioned his time in the Senate. Of course, one could ask if your friend even knows what those issues are, considering he doesn't really follow politics. Also, anybody can grasp the issues. We all have the exact same goals. The difference lies in our methods to achieve those goals. Unfortunately, Kerry didn't say anything substantive. Right, but that is standard convention protocol anyway. It was not like he was expected to say anything other then sugar-coated fluff. Conventions are just feel-good rallies to get the base excited, and he is mostly addressing a room full of people who are voting for him regardless. I am sure it will be much of the same at the RNC.

So did anybody go to their local Best Buy(or whatever else) and pick up the 2-disc Zombi 2 SE DVD? I am heading straight to Frys after work. Hopefully they have it, because amazon.com is already out of stock and on back order

.....wow, producers yelling over the beats....another totally original concept

I will concede to that. Like I said, what little I have heard, I almost have to enjoy for the sheer comedic factor to the music, but never would I take the guy serious as an "artist" It is just generic dance club/100,000 watt stereo music.

my friend passed out in the little trench between the sidewalk and the road once. A cop picked him up at about 3am asked him if he was aware that he was underage, dropped him off at his apartment, and drove off.......nice cop if I may say so~!

#1 Reign in Blood - Slayer #2 Master of Puppets - Metallica #3 Paranoid - Black Sabbath #4 Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer #5 Ride the Lightning - Metallica That would be my Top 5.

I'll go with Skip Bayless on Mike Tyson in agreeing he is probably the biggest con artist Boxing has ever seen(well besides Don King) What has the guy done in the last 10-12 years to actually make people think he is a heavyweight threat? Yes, he had some impressive KO's early in his career, but a lot of those guys were over-the-hill (SPinks, Holmes) and once Tyson lost that first fight, he has basically been all hype and no bite. Tyson, go away...please.

You're a very, very white person aren't you? That song bumps- and thinking that Dave Chapelle has ANYTHING to do with Lil Jon's sucess means you just don't understand hip-hop music. Obviously I am not referring to the song itself, rather the video. The video consists of guys riding around in a car and dancing in a club with lots of bright colorful lights going on in the backround.........Sounds like the same fucking video I have had to witness over the past ten years. There is nothing "Best" about it, except maybe "Best imitation of the last guy who did this same exact gimmick for a video" category. Oh and for the record at best Lil' John deserves only to be thrown in the "Funny because it's not supposed to be funny" genre of rap, where every song is basically about the same two or three subjects, has about two lines of lyrics repeated over and over again, and features a bunch of , "yeaaaaaaaaaaahs" and "okaaaaaaaays" over and over enough to make the entire album mundane halfway through track 2. Like I said, Funny stuff, but mainly because he thinks people are supposed to take him serious as an artist rather then the comedy act he is.

and people want to fight to keep marijuana illegal!?!

How much will they bitch that their Freedom of Speech is being violated? -=Mike well I dunno, being confined to a cage like an animal might bring out the uglier side in people...

So the thread has now been reduced to what size reactions every line of speech received? Wonderful. The speech was fine. Not the greatest ever, but it was a good rallying cry for the base, which is what the conventions are for. Personally, give me the debates over the conventions anyday of the week. One thing I think will stick is the whole, "I will only take us to war when we have to, not when we want to" line. I am sure it will be brought up and used over and over ad nasuea in the next few months. I'm still not voting for Kerry. Despite a good speech on the surface, the fact that I have to actually buy into it rather then just like it, is keeping me from throwing support behind him, among other reasons.

Just go read PNAC which is signed by Rumsfield, Cheney and many others that specifically say they wanted to go in and invade Iraq,(note the letter is from 1998) however it would be necessary for a modern day pearl harbor to be able to sway the public support for such a thing......Also note there is little to nothing concerning Al Qaeda in their letters of concern until recently. It seems pretty obvious there was a concious effort to go into Iraq before even Bush went into office, and they were just biding their time until they got another republican in office.

It's isn't that I am "hoping to see them" I was just wondering if there would be a lack of coverage of them, much like there was a lack of coverage of the protestors at the DNC. It seems the common theme is that neither party wants to act like there is opposition from everyday people. Not that they need to parade the protestors around like celebrities, but it would be nice to see the media cover the fact that there are a lot of people that don't like either party.

yeah that is what the show I watched pretty much said, but my question/concern is about the protestors for the RNC when there will presumably be 100x more protestors. I mean what if the "box" fills up before half the people even show up, are they just going to be told to turn around and go home or something? I see it as a potential mess waiting to happen, add to that the fact that putting people in cages usually increases the chance of them acting like animals.....

Are there just not that many protestors out there, or are they just being quiet or are they not being covered? I saw a show last night on an independent media network, that showed the cages the protestors have to be in, and to me it seems like city officials are just asking for trouble, and/or they are trying to make the location so unappealing that no one will want to participate anyway. There is usually a presence of opposition at both conventions, so I am just wondering if I am just at work/school when the news speaks about them.....!?!

Considering that "Yeah" video by Usher/Lil' John features one of the most repetative, overused, tired, old, boring gimmicks for a hip hop video, you have to wonder if it would have been given any more then a blip on the radar screen if it hadn't been for Dave Chapelle's Lil' clips.

I'd say most college coaches are overrated in general, considering most of the coaches that considered great, had teams stacked with NFL prospects in key positions and were going against just yer average guy during the course of a season.