The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

Renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on the Goldwater Rule: We have a duty to warn if someone may be dangerous to others.
By Bill Moyers | September 14, 2017

There will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important, or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, the work of 27 psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health experts to assess President Trump’s mental health. They had come together last March at a conference at Yale University to wrestle with two questions. One was on countless minds across the country: “What’s wrong with him?” The second was directed to their own code of ethics: “Does Professional Responsibility Include a Duty to Warn” if they conclude the president to be dangerously unfit?

As mental health professionals, these men and women respect the long-standing “Goldwater rule” which inhibits them from diagnosing public figures whom they have not personally examined. At the same time, as explained by Dr. Bandy X Lee, who teaches law and psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, the rule does not have a countervailing rule that directs what to do when the risk of harm from remaining silent outweighs the damage that could result from speaking about a public figure — “which in this case, could even be the greatest possible harm.” It is an old and difficult moral issue that requires a great exertion of conscience. Their decision: “We respect the rule, we deem it subordinate to the single most important principle that guides our professional conduct: that we hold our responsibility to human life and well-being as paramount.” Hence, this profound, illuminating and discomforting book undertaken as “a duty to warn.”

The foreword is by one of America’s leading psychohistorians, Robert Jay Lifton. He is renowned for his studies of people under stress — for books such as Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (1967), Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans — Neither Victims nor Executioners (1973), and The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (1986). The Nazi Doctors was the first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in the Holocaust, from the early stages of the Hitler’s euthanasia project to extermination camps.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump will be published Oct. 3 by St. Martin’s Press.
Here is my interview with Robert Jay Lifton — Bill Moyers
http://billmoyers.com/story/dangerous-case-donald-trump-robert-jay-lifton-bill-moyers-duty-warn/

Mark Wahlburg is a bit of a shit.

Watching his 'show' (really?) on A&E (really?).
About possibly introducing a veggie burger into his chain of burger joints.
Oh dear.

We're about to be 'blessed' with a Whalburger's here in Foley, Alabama.

It will be here, in our brand new Indian paid for 'amusement' park.
http://visitowa.com/

Alex Jones: The Deep State is drugging Trump's Diet Cokes and making him stupid

“It’s known that most presidents get drugged,” Jones explains, after comparing Trump to President Reagan, who was also “doing the right things” his first year in office — you know, before he was shot and given a “cold blood” transfusion which causes brain damage and is totally a real thing that happened.

“They slowly gave him small amounts of sedatives,” Jones continues. “Small dosages of sedatives till they build it up, Trump’s such a bull he hasn’t fully understood it yet.”

But I’ve talked to people, multiple ones, and they believe that they are putting a slow sedative that they’re building up that’s also addictive in his Diet Cokes and in his iced tea and that the president by 6 or 7 at night is basically slurring his words and is drugged. Now first they had to isolate him to do that. But yes, ladies and gentleman, I’ve talked to people that talk to the president now at 9 at night, he is slurring his words. And I’m going to leave it at that. I’ve talked to folks that have talked to him directly.
https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/344712/alex-jones-infowars-drugging-trump-diet-cokes-sedatives/

Four whitetail does just ran across or back yard.

Happily they didn't disturb the great blue heron roosting on the dock.
Ain't nature grand?

Kushner owns the Mark of the Beast?

Today, 666 Fifth Avenue appears to be the most troubled of the projects Kushner left behind for his family to manage. With one-fourth of its offices empty, lease revenue does not cover monthly interest payments, according to lending documents. A $1.2 billion mortgage, with escalating interest rates, comes due in 18 months. A ratings agency has classified a $115 million portion of the loan as “troubled,” and company officials decline to say whether it will be fully repaid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kushners-white-house-role-crushed-efforts-to-woo-investors-for-nyc-tower/2017/09/13/723a9732-82c8-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html

Irmas now Cat. 2 as per cnn. no link.

Dumb Stuff Said On TV About Irma thread. I'll start:

Some guy on MSNBC, I forget who:
"This surge water will be SALT water. That's different from FRESH water."
Uh, yeah. It's got salt in it.
jeez

Please contribute.

Link to fantastic interactive weather map.

Have a hat

It was a cold winter night in Anchorage.

The snow was two feet deep.
I slid into my favorite dive bar, Darwin's Revenge.
I sat down at the small U shaped bar and asked the bartenderess for a beer.
Darwin's staff was all female.

Half way through my beer a guy on the other side of the U shouted "RED HOTS! FOR THE BAR!"

The bartender started pouring shots.
Turned out it was cinnamon schnapps.
Then she slugged each shot with a generous dollop of Tabasco.
And passed them out.
They tasted just like the red hot candies.

Try it on a cold winter night.
You'll like it.