Is that the best story they could come up with? Really, do they think anyone except for the most gullible will believe that?

It would be grand if we could keep all like this off the House floor.

then how would they be able to achieve a quorum?

Only if you are gullible enough . She saw her chance of 10 seconds of fame , and took advantage of a public forum .

I still haven't heard a point other than the freemason constitution thingy...

She's nuts.

This has zero to do with religious freedom; she claims a disembodied voice that she decided is "god" told her to flip her lid at her job on the floor of the House and after telling a psychiatrist that story they just let her go home? She should have been admitted for at least a couple of days for an evaluation. She made a scene like that under the circumstances and they think she's good to go? I'm not understanding that at all.

Sometimes a relative can help someone get put on a 72 hour, or if a crime has been committed, but if she was functioning, however oddly, it's hard to do.

Hopefully the glitches will be fixed soon so people like this can get the help they need.

That you are 100% correct in your assessment!

Something may rub-off...

True story.

To call her up and sing 'liar liar pants on fire'.

more than anyone else. As often as they hammer at the lies over the airwaves, it's not a surprise they think the noise in their head while they sleep is God's.

He tells me to go to the bathroom and pee. Thank goodness he never told me to do that in the House chamber.

Nevermind I thought I was in The Lounge.

We're lucky to have a potty chair... somewhere...

and he wrote a book

Is she Catholic? The Catholic Church is anti-Free-Mason, but at least my strongly, strongly protestant family wasn't. Some of my family even belonged to the Masons.

So, somewhere she got the idea that God and the Free Masons are or were opposed.

Masons were craftsmen and mathematicians. Some of them built cathedrals. Why would God care whether Free Masons wrote the Constitution? They were enlightened people. Some sort of confusion and anxiety in her mind caused her dreams.

But she is right. Many of our founding Father were Free Masons.

For those who speak in the language of New World Order woo

Jews. That's just more nonsense.

If the woman is inclined to believe in such things (which is usually the case when people start ranting about masons in government)

I didn't think you believed that. So, I understand you may have misunderstood what was behind my post. I agree with you.

she HAS to wear skirts past her knees and buttoned up to her neck every day...

....knows theres a time and a place. She knew her outburst was the wrong time and place... "reluctance and doubt"....yet did so convinced by the "spirit" talking to her. Yea, shes a hardcore bible-thumper...and thats the kind of stuff that comes out when you have a mental breakdown. The right will view her as a hero....she should get help...and hopefully she gets a job elsewhere, before the spirit tells her to use a weapon next time.

she was wearing a hijab? Oh, wait. She wouldn't have been allowed in the door. Crazy comes in all varieties, but the only crazy allowed within our hallowed halls are the Xian ones (by the boatload.) And I predict we'll be seeing more and more of this if we don't nip it real soon.

that didn't even occur to me.

the speaking in tongues is God speaking through them literally....I called that as soon as she popped up...I recognized the demeanor of a Pentecostal.

"Speaking in tongues" = "Can't drink beer so I'll get fucked up some other socially approved way"

But I guess not.

sorry but anyone that really thinks god is talking to them needs meds...seriously....

Pentecostals believe in speaking in tongues....if you have never seen that I HIGHLY recommend you try to Google for it...CRAZY entertaining....and this gibberish that comes out of their mouths is supposedly the HOLY SPIRIT! They are totally into laying on of hands....many do not believe in medical intervention. Women are property of their fathers and husbands and must dress covered up from neck to past knees...

There used to be a couple on late at night that did the babbling speaking in tongues on TV...she was like a Crypt Keeper version of Tammy Faye Baker on Crack...with PINK poodle puffy hair!

My grandmother married one...when she went to his church...men all sat on one side of the room and women on the other...marrieds did not sit together. My grandmother did not like THAT at all and she never went back to his church again. He was welcome to go to hers and that is what they did....but she wasn't putting up with that sexist Pentecostal stuff! THAT'S how bad it is....

Used to love to come home with half a buzz and turn those two one for about 30 minutes to laugh my ass off! The pink hair was TOO much!

I grew up surrounded by them. It's damn scary in person.

But if you want to shake up those greedy bastards in Congress, expect them to change.....going to need/do something a bit more drastic. Maybe a lightning strike on the speakers seat or something like that.

I have a friend who says her grandpa was one...she said its a group that protects the secrets of Jesus...mainly that he was married.....

i dont get it...

What else can I say?

from the likes of Michelle Bachman and other representatives

"...today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s end times history."

That's what Ted Cruz's dad is too..

after wrapping her mouth around the Weiner. She'll have to stick to her day job.

She's been Weinered.

Great minds think a like.

Hope it does things for ya.

so many captions I can think of for those pictures but I'll be good and keep them to myself.

OK, yes I am groveling, please share.

It's always some old testament outburst about how we are all 'sinners'. Almost like Jesus never happened....

Otherwise, you grab the reins of reality and hang on for the ride.

... "god told me to do it". There is a fine line between stupid and insane.

seem to be 2 ways of looking at the outburst by the House Stenographer the other night... many here are critical, making fun, etc... and then others here see it as mental illness and believe we should be mindful of the need to help those afflicted

We don't really know in the case of the Stenographer... but, I think, therein lies the problem... what is the dividing line between religious zealousness and mental illness especially considering that we have so many political figures spouting the same kind of religious sentiments that this woman did...

scary stuff to ponder in the 21st... indeed

it is scary stuff to ponder in the 21st.

They do that stuff all the time....its part of their dogma...they believe in speaking in tongues and that God literally and regularly speak through them. These are the original Holy Rollers and who the term was invented to describe. They shall we say "carry on" at their services....Some small bands of them handle snakes! They don't really believe in modern medicine...they pray on you and "lay hands on" to cure the sick....

Her outburst is totally normal to them.

Waving arms, spewing jibberish fucking wackos

that pointed me in the right direction

But God or Freemason's, no

Now if you plug me into the energy in the Capitol
and pay my health care and make me listen to
435 dueling egos for a few years ....

and yes Mental Illness is an issue that must be addressed.

Why are there so many religious zealots that appear to be mentally ill in congress?

totally normal..to them...

Or it was that turkey chili you ate before retiring. Just sayin'.

Just curious. In the age of video cameras, one would think a stenographer would be as obsolete as a town crier.

I guess because of longtime tradition and nothing else...

why does a House Stenographer make 126K/year?

Talk about Dang Gubmint Waste!

A video simply will not do.

I have to be able to refer to the proceedings by date, page number, paragraph, and line. Can't do that with a video.

-Laelth

I was a secretary/stenographer in the Army, so I do respect the profession. When I was training my replacement prior to returning to the states from Vietnam, it broke my heart to see him enter the colonel's office with a tape recorder. Gregg Diamond Jubilee Shorthand was plenty good enough for me!

blessings to her life for telling it as she sees it.

Or Joan of Arc, or Bernadette of Lourdes. God spoke to them & told them to act. Were they all mentally ill, sufferring from manic delusions?

I say probably.

BTW, she wasn't wrong. Freemasons did write our Constitution, and we are NOT onenationundergod, that was added later. Much later, in 1948.

Benjamin Franklin was one. Several others may have been, depending on which sources you read.

I got a kick out of her bum rushing the House dias and her fundy rant on the Founding Fathers.

Hubby is probably ticked she blew a good job.

Job ability should be based on more objective criteria.

It would be a better world if people were free to act wildly now and again without serious repercussions.

but she sure got God's message out there - we're all talking about it!

Teabagger bullshit !

She's a kook.

These types are going to be death of America.

based on schizophrenia causing here to hear voices. Happens more than you might think. The truly insane hear voices from external sources like electrical outlets. Voices in the head are another story.

I might get up and rant too!

She'll get her full salary for a while and if she can't return because of the voices she'll be terminated. Since she hears voices, her transcripts may contain information from the voices, and as such, unreliable. I imagine SSD is about $2400 a month now.

to survive with just 770 a month from SSD.

how much is put into the system. The max to a claimant is about $2400.

...in her head. Did any doctor or police person ask if she or her husband own a gun?

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need to haul her away to a padded room.

As good a place to begin the discussion of mental healthcare in this country as any.

... this sounds like a cousin of "speaking-in-tongues", which back-in-the-day was frowned upon, even among the faithful. Question is... are they going to let her back in the well of the House as a stenographer?

and praising the glory of her god Ted Cruz.

to relay his wisdom rather than have her write it down.

Sounds like textbook bipolar disorder to me.

J

she believes that. - Gifts of prophesy, messages from God, being led by the Holy Spirit to reveal some great truth - these are normal notions in that micro-world