Imagine what was happening inside her head.

Something happens inside her head? I was picturing howling winds of desolation and tumbleweeds.

I guess she got a bad dose of botox

Imagine what was happening inside her head.

Nothing...

Imagine what was happening inside her head.

Putt, putt, ding, ding, putt, putt, ding, ding...

.........of course a deer in the headlights would tend to blink rapidly

Well, this proves it--Bush is not the Hidden Imam.

I clocked her at 60 to 90 Blinks Per Minute. Impressive. Imagine what was happening inside her head.

Blink --- click --- Reset
Blink --- click --- Reset

Or, maybe she was just gasping for breath like that alien Will Smith chased down at the start of MIB I.

Here are some SOTU Caps

I'd like to see some professional body language analysis on the Pelosi.

Should be a hoot!

You mean there's something actually going on in her head? ~_^

I'm not too impressed with her, nor with most dems in general!

I never watch the View.. but for some reason I did today.

Rosie was very emphatic that someone needs to stand up and call for the impeachment of Bush. I need to go google her exact statement.

The Islamists welcomed Rosie with open arms.

"I'm a ltittle teapot short and stout..."

She just cannot stand it that GW gets to talk at all. She wants everyone to listen to her and her alone.

Perhaps she was replaying and trying to figure out why she had left her left turn signal on that afternoon.

Maybe the botox is loosing its oomph and her eyelids are doing like a window shade does when you pull it down and let it snap back up.

As to what goes on inside her head, just go read the writings of Lenin, Stalin, etc. and that will tell you.

Gah. I listened to the Fox intro and turned it off.

I didn't miss anything.

Imagine what was happening inside her head.

With all that blinking, sounds like she's continually rebooting. Must be a bug. Perhaps a virus.

#8 taxfreekiller

Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them. In the time of their suffering when they cried to You, You heard them from heaven, and according to Your abundant mercy You gave them deliverers, who saved them from their enemies.

But after they had rest, they did evil again before You; therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to You, You heard them from heaven, and many times You delivered them according to Your mercies,

And reproved and warned them, that You might bring them again to Your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not heed Your commandments, but sinned against Your ordinances, which by keeping, a man shall live. And they turned a stubborn shoulder, stiffened their neck, and would not listen.

~ Nehemiah 9:27-29 (Amplified Bible)

OT

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Rosie was very emphatic that someone needs to stand up and call for the impeachment of Bush. I need to go google her exact statement.

She has just taken over that show, hasn't she? I thought it was bad enough with that poor man's Bette Midler, Joy Brayhard.

The Islamists welcomed Rosie with open arms.

They must have awfully long arms.

I just checked The View's website. Their "daily recaps" are not until 2 PM EST.

Wonder if Rosie' little speech and the audience's wild approval will be there.

Curious, but hardly relevent to anything.

Isn't blinking alot a sign of being deceitful?

It wasn't blinks, it was morse code:

... --.- .- - . - - .-- -. - -. . - - . -- -.-- .- .- . - -. --. --. -- - -. -

And then there was the dems threat. I e-mailed Webb and told him, 'as one Vietnam vet to another, you're an ass'.

#7 V the K
In your "blue nic" blog address, you've got an extra letter in *.com (comt)

#23 Chyron
yes.

#26: That's because I suck.

Rosie said more than just someone should "impeach" Bush. She also defended Clinton and his impeachment, that is was for an "affair" in the Oval Office and called Bush something akin to a dictator. And how last night Bush honored the man who saved someone in the subway but Bush sent 3 thousand to die in Iraq, that if they were in the subway, they would have been saved.

I know.. I need the transcript.

Our blink rate reflects psychological arousal in the manner of a polygraph test. The normal, resting blink rate of a human being is 20 closures per minute, with the average blink lasting one quarter of a second (Karson 1992). Significantly faster rates may reflect emotional stress, as aroused, e.g., in the fight-or-flight response.

The blink reflex originates in paleocircuits of the AMPHIBIAN [Lizards!) brain. Nervous impulses travel from vision centers of the superior colliculi to the facial nerve's motor nucleus, causing involuntary contractions in the eyelid portion of orbicularis oculi muscles.

Neuro-notes. We blink faster when excited because eyelid movements reflect bodily arousal levels established by our brain stem's reticular activating system (RAS). Emotion from the limbic system stimulates the RAS to act on our midbrain's substantia nigra, which releases the excitatory chemical, dopamine, to the superior colliculi (Karson 1992:417). Thus, we bat our eyelids faster in courtship when speaking in public, and when lying.

Imagine what was happening inside her head.

The rodents in there were restless....

Isn't blinking alot a sign of being deceitful?

It reminds me a lot of Hillary's constant "you know" whenever she is answering a tough question.

I heard a professional on body language say, that when you rapidly blink your eyes, it means that you are lying. Also if you look to the left, when being spoken to, signifies the same thing. Fox usually runs segments with a body language specialist. Would be interesting to see what she picked up.

#23 Yes, it is a sign of being deceitful, also a sign of a lack of self-confidence. Bush's blinking rate was widely reported (as being too high) in the 2000 election. It was said that fast blinkers don't win elections.

I bet his blinking rate is a lot lower now.

#28 V the K

#26: That's because I suck.

No, not that at all. I just checked out your blog after I sent that note. The blond under the car sure got my atttention! Now, I cant spel write, ether.

#24 Peacekeeper
Please translate? :)

Staring at her sour face for 1 hour straight should be a mandatory punishment for anyone convicted of a serious crime.

Pass the asprin...

All I can think of is that this airhead is next in line after Cheney to be our Commander in Chief!

a whirlwind of noxious hate and repressed self loathing... the camera turned away right before her eyes rolled back and her head spun around. wasn't the first time kennedy was projectile vomitted on...

It was probably a not-quite-suppressed nervous twitch. Think about having to sit in a direct camera shot for almost an hour resisting the urge to pick that nagging little piece of buritto out of your teeth or wipe the sweat from your eyes without smudging the mascara. Brutal.

Imagine what was happening inside her head.

Charles, unbeknownst to the BBC, they already reported on this in 2005.
[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

Maybe the repeated botox injections have damaged the ability of her tear ducts to make an adequate amount of fluid for the eyes, and hence the irritated blinking.

Blink rate of Nancy Pelosi?

Are we so bankrupt of ideas, that we have to resort to this as a discussion point?

And, you wonder why the Republicans lost big in the November elections.

Imagine what was happening inside her head.

I was going to write something devilishly clever here, but you people have left me nothing! Absolutely nothing!

I've been having a difficult time getting into LGF --just me?

Anyway, I saw Pelosi sway and head bob as well as blink a lot. I thought, she is either very tired or not well. It wasn't Parkinson's type swaying, more like exhaustion. She looked very old.

Rosie was very emphatic that someone needs to stand up and call for the impeachment of Bush. I need to go google her exact statement.

You know I am this close ( puts thumb and index finder almost touching ) to rooting for the implementation of Sharia Law in America, just to see how the Islamists deal with Rosie

this close

"...too...much...does...not...compute...BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED...must...stay...awake..."

She's a confused liar, a nervous twit(ch) which painfully shows how weak her character is.

I think she's just a high-strung type, and feeling a little excited with her present situation and she's, um, a woman. All women are a little neurotic like that.

Okay, I'm just funning about women. I suppose. But really, pointing out that the woman blinks a lot isn't going to score as political leverage. Who cares?

44 continuum

I'm curious. Have you heard of "humor" or "funny"?

/probably not

Compulsive blicking is also a sign of Tourette's syndrome.

She was mad that it was not her at the podium. To Dems power is a right and it can not be taken away.

#47 shug

One good thing the islamofascists would do with Rosie is put her in a burkha.

OK make that two......

They would put her out in the pen with the rest of the livestock.

Found this link on WND this am re: pelosi's eye blinks. Some of the comments are funny.

[Link: www.broadcastingcable.com...]

#54 JT

ROTFL

From the comments at your link:

at 1/24/2007 3:58:20 AM, Frankie G said:
Pelosi was obviously high. No one blinks that much unless they are tweaked

I never considered that possibility.

Can't real see much humor in making fun of people's physical characteristics . . . . I see the previous comments in the same category of those folks who made fun of Bush's dad getting sick in Japan.

As some of you guys count eye blinks, I've counted 28 American soldiers killed over the weekend.

Doesn't seem like some folks have their priorities straight.

Actually, I've read that involuntary facial tics are a common side effect of most SSRI antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs. Pelosi's constant, and apparently involuntary gumming and chewing motions are a very common characteristic of people using such drugs for some time. That bothered me even more than the blinking.

Pelosi Blinking Decoded

S ...
U ..-
R .-.
R .-.
E .
N -.
D -..
E .
R .-.

Charles,

Gotta bust yer chops a bit....counting blinks of some lefty chic during a president's speech is "Conduct Unbecoming An Anti-Idiotrian."

Leave that kind of crapicola to the lefties.

LOL!

#2 shug

I guess she got a bad dose of botox

Nah, that would paralyze her eyelids (just speculating here).

#56 continuum 1/24/2007 10:24AM PST

Can't real see much humor in making fun of people's physical characteristics . . . . I see the previous comments in the same category of those folks who made fun of Bush's dad getting sick in Japan.

Then don't laugh. It's a free country - for now. And for crying out loud - Pres. Bush One threw up on the prime minister of Japan (who handled the situation very well) - some people will mock. Personally, I was freaked out by it, but impressed that they all handled it well. Again, you don't have to laugh, but you don't control other people's laughter.

As some of you guys count eye blinks, I've counted 28 American soldiers killed over the weekend.

And probably lots of other bad things happened over the weekend. It's still funny to watch Rep. Pelosi bat her eyes.

Doesn't seem like some folks have their priorities straight.

Here's a clue - you are being judgmental. You do not control other people's priorities. You are not boss of the world.

#15 Paul Atreides

Maybe the botox is loosing its oomph and her eyelids are doing like a window shade does when you pull it down and let it snap back up.

You own me a new keyboard for that one.

/Note to self: Do not drink Coke and read LGF posts.

#56 cont

Sorry we're offending you by exercising our freedoms,comrade.

SHe is creepy. She creeps me out. Pure and simple.

Catttt

Thanks for clearing things up for me.

I respect your judgement that I am being judgmental.

Now, I see that blinking one's eyes is really funny . . . ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ROFLMAO . . . I apologize for not previously recognizing just how funny it is.

#65 continuum

I wasn't being judgmental - I was noticing that you are a control freak.

#57 benthoven

Actually, I've read that involuntary facial tics are a common side effect of most SSRI antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs. Pelosi's constant, and apparently involuntary gumming and chewing motions are a very common characteristic of people using such drugs for some time.

That could explain a lot.

And thank goodness for the Congressional health benefits. If she's this awful under treatment, I don't want to see her without.

/Not being snarky; my best friend is on anti-psychotics and everyone watch out when she forgets to take them. Sigh.

It really annoyed my wife. Me, I just focused on our fearless leader.

Continuum is a DU refugee, if I had to guess, and is just seeking confirmation that conservatives laugh at people in wheelchairs and like to torture kittens.

Catttt

I again apologize for not using the correct words.

I respect your noticing that I was being judgemental, . . . I mean control freak.

Hopefully, in the future, I'll conform to what everyone else on the board is saying. I'll try not to express my own thoughts.

But, you guys got me there. Pelosi's blinking her eyes. Wow, that is really, really, really funny. How could I have been so mistaken.

And, as for counting the guys who did over the weekend. I'll just tell them to count how many times Nancy blinked. They'll probably get a kick out of it, too.

continuum, it is an observation.

Plain, simple, observation.

As far as I can tell through the thread, posters are joking with this.

Yes, the loss of our volunteer forces over the weekend is a tragedy, thank you for your concern.

I would assume in comparison with the topics at huffpo, and their analysis on the loss of American lives in theatre, well, I can see where we might have our priorities mixed up.

She appeared to have smoke coming out her ears from a short circuit if you watch closely. I was fully expecting her to be launched from the seat at anytime.

Non Sequitor! Non Sequitor! Non Sequitor!
Illogical! Illogical! Illogical!
Can not compute! Can not compute! Can not compute!

It happens to San Fran libs when cornered with the truth.

I forgot to watch the SOTUA. I hope there is a clip of Rep. Pelosi blinking posted on youtube.

Continuum- you'll feel more welcome at KoS or Demonratic Underground.

70 continuum

Hon, you are repeating yourself. You might want to let it go, because you're not getting anywhere with it. Or - continue to obsess, if it makes you feel superior better. Of course, I reserve the right to continue to fisk or mock (or ignore, which is looking like a good option).

/yawns

72 goodbye_natalie

Herbert! Herbert!

/;)

Ed

I apologize to you, too.

I get the joke now.

I was really misinformed to think that any contrary opinion is acceptable. In the future, I will only agree with what everyone posts here.

Besides, I understand now. Blinking eyes ---- humor, wow, like I said ROFLMAO.

#76 Catttt,

Herbert! Herbert!

From one old fart to another - nothing I love more than good posters and old Trek flicks...

#76 Catttt

Madam,you have Space Hippies!

/weird Trek,SouthPark fusion

Besides, I understand now.

Somehow, I think not.

#77 continuum
Besides, I understand now. Blinking eyes ---- humor, wow, like I said ROFLMAO.

Give it a rest, you've already made your point and it was a bad one at that.

Pelosi looked scared to me, like a 10 year old sitting on a stage in grade school. Im no doctor, but rapid blinking is a sign of a nervous disorder IMO.

#77 continuum 1/24/2007 11:19AM PST

In the future, I will only agree with what everyone posts here.

I disagree.

Agree with me, Norman (winks at goodbye_natalie). Go on.

"Give it a rest, you've already made your point and it was a bad one at that."

Maximus, you are right.

81 posts dealing with Pelosi blinking her eyes.

What an absolute disgrace.

Meanwhile, the latest news in Iraq is that . . . .

Now that is funny

Catttt

" I disagree."

I finally agree with you. :)

#56,65,70, etc., etc.

GAZE

/why do I have to be the one....?

You know why,

pttthhh!

It's like jelly-fishing.

81 Maximu§

I think you are right. She was probably quite nervous, and the blinking was a reaction to that. She had reportedly spilled coffee or chocolate on herself before the big moment and had to change clothes - I'd say that was nerves as well.

I personally don't blame her at all. (I still enjoyed the mocking of her, though.) It gave me a flashback to junior high, thinking of her position. I had to stand up on stage before the entire school and give a little speech about the Drama Club. If there hadn't been a podium, I would have fallen into a quivering heap. (Somehow, appearing on stage as someone else is totally different from appearing there as yourself.)

#83 continuum

It is Funny, Charles comments about this event had me laughing so hard, it hurt my stomach and a good laugh is like medicine....ask any Doctor.

Perhaps it is wrong of me, but I'm trying to think of songs to use to as background music for a youtube bit.

Anvil Chorus?

The music they used to play on Ed Sullivan as background for the knive throwers and plate twirlers?

Hmmmm.

#82

Re: the Q Continuum. Remember, for the DU, logic is a wreath of pretty flowers.... ....that smell bad.

The blink o'meter went off of the chart, that's for sure. She needs to get some eye drops to keep the contacts moist.

I understand that she had to do a quick clothes change because she had chocolate on her outfit. The burning question I have...What was she eating during the SOTU?

I looked it up on Google and it came up with Wrongdiagnosis.com :

"Some causes of excessive blinking:

Dry eyes
Eye foreign body
Lens infection
Eyelid spasms (see Eyelid twitch)
Some causes of eyelid spasms:
Nervous system disorder
Parkinson's disease
Stroke
Anxiety"

#7 V the K,

You said "Or, maybe she was just gasping for breath like that alien Will Smith chased down at the start of MIB I."

That was my former brother-in-law, Keith. He's a great guy and my sister was a fool to leave him. I know it's off-topic, but I felt like sharing.

Eyelid spasms (see Eyelid twitch)

Wow! I just realised mine cleared up recently. Guess I was getting used to it, which shocks me since it was totally frikking distracting.

Charles,
You used a metronome to clock her, didn't you? LOL Awesome.

Take a close look at her expression when Bush introduces the heroic sergeant from the Iraq front. Her intense disgust is obvious. Pelosi really really hates the military.

Obama kept his eyes on the floor most of the time. Was he 1)sleeping like some others 2)hiding his facial expressions from the cameras or 3)concentrating ( to give him the benefit of the doubt )

I've noticed Pelosi's eyelash flutter intensifies whenever she's
agitated. Specifically, after she lost the Murtha appointment and when she was questioned over the Somoa embarrassment.

Her lashes were batting so hard it looked like she was a Mae West
impersonator.

Could have been worse for Nancy.....holding back some monstrous farts.

She probably has a nervous disorder. Unfortunately, it is visible for all to see - others can see her emotions. Doctors may argue the last point. But, I think it’s clear.

As another poster pointed out, the disorder could be chemically induced. It’s not uncommon for an alcoholic or sedative addict to have involuntary motions (excessive licking of the lips, excessive movements of the tong and other movements).

Her medical condition is probably confidential information. But, it’s a real drawback to have a medical condition that is visible. There is no law against it – just a drawback.

Hopefully she is not bipolar. Nancy “Blinking” Pelosi’s physical condition will just have to be tolerated for the time being.

Has any one checked the tape to see if it's Morse code? I know she's not smart enough to pull anything like that off on her own but we should be looking at the possibility of a computer chip implanted in her head by the CIA. That stuff was very popular in the San Fran area a few decades ago. You know the drill - go into the government clinic for your methadone, come out with a splitting headache and half a Speak-and-Spell crammed into your skull. Not to mention we're talking pre-alkaline batteries - those thing start leaking after a couple of years. It may have been taken over by some rogue agent trying to contact Osama - or maybe just order some take-out from a retired agent's sandwich shop. You never know - it could happen.

Has anyone ever considered the possibility that she was trying to blink W out of the building, like Barbara Eden would do to Larry Hagman on I Dream of Jeannie?

In all seriousness, doesn't Pelosi Galore remind you of Paula Prentiss in The Stepford Wives....after she was turned into an automaton?