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Another potential voting pool for democrats.
1 posted on 04/18/2011 10:39:24 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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So all liberals will have dimentia?


2 posted on 04/18/2011 10:48:01 PM PDT by Porterville (Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.)
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Adopting a new political affiliation or religion late in life - changes sometimes attributed to a midlife crisis - may actually be the result of brain deterioration that might lead to dementia.

Oh please! It's more likely they are waking up. I think they are afraid of some 'rats leave the pack in '12.
3 posted on 04/18/2011 10:58:50 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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This explains the 40% approval rating for the Liar in Chief.


4 posted on 04/18/2011 10:59:38 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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5 posted on 04/18/2011 11:03:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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Do you think they’re kidding?


6 posted on 04/18/2011 11:07:37 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Shemp was the Fourth Stooge of the Apocalypse.)
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Older people should simply assume that everyone they talk to is lying.

Yeah. It gets harder when you can't find your glasses and can't tell if their lips are moving.

7 posted on 04/18/2011 11:07:58 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Neurodegenerative process.

With the occasional alien hand syndrome things and cluster migraines that only subside when my entire body feels sunburned and my feet go numb... I be rocking and rolling large. Been neurodegenerative for forty years now.

These things are not identifiable, categorized, predicted, prevented or treated. They are realities of human form that simply must be accepted.

There are forms of epilepsy that momentarily present, vanish, and defy any detection method.

I know this to be a fact.. After a dozen cats, dozen mri's, few radial skull x rays... and some rather unpleasant things being stuck down my throat.

9 posted on 04/18/2011 11:13:31 PM PDT by mmercier (my face is numb)
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Bttt.


11 posted on 04/18/2011 11:26:22 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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15 posted on 04/18/2011 11:33:16 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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Sarcasm - the last refuge of an empty mind.


17 posted on 04/18/2011 11:36:23 PM PDT by Milhous
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Cluelessness, as in an inability to tell when people are lying or using sarcasm.

This bodes ill for my wife. I'm not worried though, because she was always like that.

20 posted on 04/18/2011 11:51:47 PM PDT by dr_lew
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I speak fluent sarcasm. But get this: A friend was diagnosed with dementia. His wife kept saying he was mean, so the Dr. put him on an anti-psychotic. We didn’t see much change, except he kept complaining about being dizzy and stuff. We could not see any signs of dementia.

The guy was always grouchy and sarcastically funny. He started to develop what looked like Parkinson’s sypmtoms. So, the doctor started giving him meds for Parkinson’s and tripled the anti-psychotic. He turned into a zombie that could hardly speak. He ended up in the hospital nearly dieing.

While in the hospital, he didn’t take the drugs for a few days and he got better - until they put him back on the anti-psychotic. By then, we discovered that Parkinson’s symptoms were a side effect of the anti-psychotic. Also, that it was not recommended for dementia patients.

We went with our friend and his wife to one of their Drs. appointments. The wife wanted our friend off the anti-psychotic medication. I was shocked when the Dr. told her he’d return to his sarcastic self. As if there is something wrong with that! I wish he would. He’s finally off the drugs, but isn’t the same man. And, it turns out he doesn’t have dementia. The doctor was wrong.


21 posted on 04/18/2011 11:53:35 PM PDT by stansblugrassgrl (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!! YEEEEEHAW!)
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"These patients cannot detect lies,"

This is quite useful to vendors of overpriced pseudo-collectible pseudo-coins.

25 posted on 04/19/2011 12:21:54 AM PDT by cynwoody
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Failure to spot sarcasm and lies leads to a diagnosis of dementia? Could failure to spot these also lead to a diagnosis of stupidity?


29 posted on 04/19/2011 1:58:48 AM PDT by Nucluside (ready)
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I’d be in real trouble in that case. If it weren’t for sarcasm, I wouldn’t be able to communicate.


31 posted on 04/19/2011 3:02:56 AM PDT by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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It does explain why scam artists consistently target old people—and not just of the political variety.


32 posted on 04/19/2011 4:42:56 AM PDT by rbg81
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Obama can go into dementia prediction when he is retired.


34 posted on 04/19/2011 5:57:46 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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There's still no foolproof way to predict who will develop dementia, but brain scientists say they have identified a new clue:

Cluelessness, as in an inability to tell when people are lying or using sarcasm.

THIS IS SERIOUS! The fact that Chairman O's approval is even double digit is evidence that dementia (e.g., cluelessness) is an epidemic in this country.

35 posted on 04/19/2011 6:03:07 AM PDT by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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paranoia-because-it-might-be-genetic ping


37 posted on 04/19/2011 6:07:11 AM PDT by esquirette ("Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." ~ Augustine)
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Another potential voting pool for democrats.

Wonder how many votes for the Democrats the SEIU drones were able to deliver from the nursing homes.....

38 posted on 04/19/2011 6:08:01 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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