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In reply to the discussion: House stenographer hauled from floor [View all]avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)66. She could have had a mental break(down).
Many people who have a mental breakdown who may not be particulary religious normally, will verbally start talking in religious terms that may not make sense.
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I don't think it's funny. I agree with Zwillich that it's sad and troubling.
highplainsdem
Oct 2013
#7
Maybe you don't have a host of different medical conditions that could cause this
bottomofthehill
Oct 2013
#22
No smartass, but a coworker who just watched someone's life go to hell for the world to see
bottomofthehill
Oct 2013
#28
Maybe because I just watched them put her in an ambulance to go to the hospital
bottomofthehill
Oct 2013
#42
You realize this very thing happened to a Jet Blue airline pilot some month back yes?
LanternWaste
Oct 2013
#86
Which seem both irrational and unstable given the context of her position at that particular moment.
LanternWaste
Oct 2013
#107
Medications don't make you believe that freemasons are trying to overthrow the government
Fearless
Oct 2013
#116
Classical definition of faith is merely a belief in that if which we do not posses all relevant know
LanternWaste
Oct 2013
#110
Yes, that was my first thought- If I had to pass all that poison through my body to record it,
NBachers
Oct 2013
#16
Ah, that is who it was. I hope she appreciates the mental health part of ACA. But wtf?
uppityperson
Oct 2013
#6
Sadly, most of the recent administrations have tended to ignore the good bits like that ...
Nihil
Oct 2013
#78
Nice to see the famous DU empathy and compassion are alive and well in this thread
Hekate
Oct 2013
#18
So far the pundits and Republicans who know her say this woman is normally soft spoken and reserved.
avaistheone1
Oct 2013
#68
It's definitely one of the more annoying popular beliefs around here, isn't it?
Posteritatis
Oct 2013
#79
I have a hard time feeling bad for someone who deliberately waisted the Nation's time
tenderfoot
Oct 2013
#113
On a brighter note, I hear there's a job opening for a new stenographer at the US House of Reps.
TwilightGardener
Oct 2013
#23
Facts don't matter to RW Dobson AFA religious types. Sorry, but they have faith-based "realities".nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#93
Closet teabagger fundie gets caught up in the excitement and does something irresponsible.
BluegrassStateBlues
Oct 2013
#45
Would someone 'splain this to me? She disrupted a single house chamber meeting where, if they had
jtuck004
Oct 2013
#48
If you think that's bad, there are hundreds of people like her in the military
Crowman1979
Oct 2013
#50
That sounds like half the religious zealots in my little Bible Belt hometown.
Jamastiene
Oct 2013
#62
I know. A couple under a tree by a lake,..."We should get married. We both hate the same things."
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2013
#63
If she had shouted 'All'hu Akbar!' it would have been reported VERY differently. (nt)
ehrnst
Oct 2013
#84