*curses*

[conuly]

Look, I know Bush makes a lot of mistakes in his speech. And, while I still maintain that many of his errors in English are signs of a learning disability rather than stupidity, I appreciate that it can be fun to mock them. Okay. But please. Grow up, and stop mocking valid and common dialectal differences as mistakes. That's petty, and a bit ignorant. You all know people who say "Afriker" or "idear", and if you don't, you've at least heard of people who do. Unless you believe that r-adding is really a sign of unintelligence/ignorance (are are willing to do a large scale study to prove it), please, stop.

Also, please stop mocking the guy's coordination. That's another thing that doesn't indicate stupidity. Oh, so he fell off a bike. I can't even RIDE a bike. Oh, he choked on a pretzel. I can barely eat with silverware, and that is a fact. I'm not stupid. While Bush's intelligence is debateable, it makes all of us look bad when the only "facts" you can point to to prove this are "well, he's uncoordinated and he doesn't speak like I do". Try pointing out his foreign policy (or lack thereof), or his stubbornness, or his assumptions that we can't remember what he's said from one speech to the next. You know, something that's actually important.

Oh, and please stop comparing Bush to a chimp. That's insulting to the chimp.

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Re: Cocaine Induced Brain Damage?

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

From Erowid's Cocaine vault: "Heavy, regular use of cocaine is known to cause restlessness, anxiety, hyperexcitability, paranoia, irritability, insomnia, weight loss, and a variety of other less acute psychological symptoms. Insufflation of any substance can lead to damaging the cartiledge and mucosa in the nose, eventually leading to a hole in the septum (the soft structure separating the nostils). If injected, cocaine use can lead to a wide variety of problems including life-threatening infections, shared needle-related blood diseases, etc."

Doesn't sound like Bush, but it doesn't not sound like him. It would be a stretch to say that his etiology is cocaine, based only on his coordination and language issues.