Main Entry: los·er

Pronunciation: ˈlü-zər

Function: noun

Date: 1548

1: a person or thing that loses especially consistently

2: a person who is incompetent or unable to succeed ; also : something doomed to fail or disappoint

...I've seen the kind of responses McCain gave (though obviously different contextually) while interviewing residents of LTC facitilites regarding abuse/neglect.

"I've never had panties here."

"Did you have panties when you moved in?"

"No."

"Did you have panties when you moved in?"

"Yes."

"Did they give you panties to wear today?"

"No."

"Did they give you panties to wear today?"

"Yes."

"Is it sunny outside today?"

"No."

"Is sunshine coming through the window?"

"Yes."

Just sayin'...

"studies with aging and dementia show that as people deteriorate cognitively, their underlying emotional and personality structure comes out, unfiltered and undefended. The real McCain is bare to the world-the anger, impatience, and sense of entitlement (read: narcisism)- they are all there. It would be sad, if it didn't show what a self-centered prick he's been all along..."

To be (a wee bit) fair though, we need to stress that "as people deteriorate cognitively" what they are really losing is access to their culturally learned FILTERS. We all have them, but the aging demented (or otherwise demented)have lost access to a learned use of said filters. Fairness also requires that we recognize that brains change with age, and even without a concrete presentation of dementia, this loss of filters occurs in many (but not all) persons.

Is McCain senile? I strongly doubt it. Has he probably undergone some decrease in cognitive functioning? I'd bet a bit on that...and that just makes it all the more sensible not to elect the codger...

..."Dad, we've decided you shouldn't drive anymore." moments.

While probably fine for a while with riding around on a Hoveround, perhaps still paying his own bills, and still effective at self-toileting, McCain is showing us that we don't necessarily want him driving OUR car, paying OUR bills, or...well, you get it.

The weird thing is that this is not already handled. Is it that the hope is that it will eventually just be Palin? THAT's a scary thought...

I guess my best question would be...Cindy, where are you? As the person closest to McCain, she should be able to call some shots...I still don't see senility...but I can recognize slippage that I see all the time, and know where it leads.

...hate America AND drosophila?????????

...Cindy McCain and Karl Rove haunted by the Ghost of Molly Ivins in a public restroom at the Supreme Court while Joe is fixing a toilet.

...Cindy McCain, Kit the Car and Paris Hilton's dog.

to checking your bag though, huh? You betcha!

...Sarah Palin, Marion Barry, and Joe the Plumber's crack.

Todd, John, Santorum.

Don't you mean "Moosegumps"?

Jains

Zoroastrians

Moonies

...are really going to be fucked, and without the benefit of bodily contact. Those who lead lives of quiet desperation in barely-developed economies and who may occasionally have benefited from the largesse of the developed economies will bear the worst of it. People in the US and Europe and large swaths of developing Asia who come through this with most of their stuff - maybe their house, the car, their 201K or its equivalent - and their health have no idea how those great unwashed are going to suffer when the previously mentioned largesse (which already ain't much) dries up as we hold on to ours.

No one I love and care for gets anything for the holidays. I'm buying chickens and goats for complete strangers in Africa.

about things like this much longer. Once I've completed the schematics for the Moon-Thrusters everything will be MUCH better!

...for sending Todd those worn thongs...

I sent her my Gucci bullwhip...

...spent all of her money on crack? I hear aliens from Rigel 3 just can't get enough of the stuff.

...little brats.

I'm putting you on my list for after I finish the Moon Thrusters and break out my faggy brown shirt...

On another note, I should do a meta-analysis on the effect of christianity on the assimiliation of Asian populations into American Kulture. I used to get the most interesting comments during admissions interviews regarding religion as motivation toward medical careers...nearly always followed by diatribes against contraception...made it easier to ignore the 4.0s though.

BTW - FUNNIEST LINE EVER FROM AN ADMISSIONS ESSAY

"I would like to take this oppportunity to address my expulsion from Berkeley."

I made a dress once for a lesbian dachsund once, complete with Elizabethan collar...so I'm sure we could cobble together a union suit for a cat!

See, the Moon Thrusters are going to be built on the moon itself. Once I control the Moon, I will control Earth. See, if I MOVE the moon slightly away from Earth, the seas go flat. No tides. Massive die-offs, probably some profound phsyiological effects across the various kingdoms of life. In order to keep me from doing that, Earth will have to

1. Send all the pearls and smoked gouda to ME and my hench-queers, on the Moon

2. Follow all my rules:

a. World Peace

b. All production owned by workers

c. Governance by global collectiv

d. Healthcare for all

Well, it DOES go on, but you get the idea...

And the people on that list I'm making? For starters, first they don't get any raisins. None. Nada. Zip. Also, they will be gently but forcefully re-educated. (I am working on a pharmaceutical substance which makes stupidity hurt. SO, the only way to keep the medicine from making you hurt is to get SMARTER. Brilliant, huh?).

(...opening a fresh package of swizzle sticks...)

You MUST request your caregiver to decrease your dosage...

Everyone know babies come from Lithuania. They have this big factory outside of Vilnius, down by the meat-pie plant next to the protected wetlands where the Storks hang around waiting for Starlings to bring them Storklets.