http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/28/politics/28delay.html
Tom Delay, the Republican leader of the House didn't object to cut life support from his father 16 years ago. And Delay has been the big mouth for the Religious right (wrong) with all this Schiavo crap.
Ok, Delays father was in a coma, unlike Schiavo. BUT it was said by doctors that "if" Delays father were to come out of the coma, his father would be in a permanent vegetative state.
Terri has NO cerebral cortex! It's LIQUIFIED! When the brain cells are liquified, they cannot be reconstituted! Her higher functions are GONE! She can only exhibit the baser, more instinctive functions that any lower life form without a cerebral cortex would exhibit. There's nothing left but reflexes. She is awake, but not aware. Nobody is fucking home!
After catscans, all the tests clearly show Terri has NO CEREBRAL CORTEX!
To bad these idiotic evil rightwing Republicans decided to skip biology class for bible studies.
If you are a worshiper of God, don't you think that the almighty wants his child to come home? For 15 years God has been calling for Terri to come home. Ok, enough with the nonsense. The purpose of this post is not to talk about mythological superheroes.
Just like the sanctity of marriage, this was yet another attempt by the Republicans to play on the religious and moral beliefs of the religious right for political support. Since this was about the sanctity of life, what the hell is so sacred about forcing a woman to remain alive whose brain resembles melting jello? The zombies in the movie Dawn of the Dead had more going on upstairs than Terri.
To be blunt, Bu$h and Delay simply pimped Terri for political purposes. Thats it!
Why is Terri more important than the millions of people that live in 3rd world countries where diseases and death run rampant?
Why is Terri more important than all the starving people of the world?
Why is Terri more important than the 45 million Americans without health insurance?
Why is Terri more important than the 18,000 adult Americans that die every year for lack of health insurance?
Why is Terri more important than the 1 in 4 Americans living in poverty?
Why is Terri more important than the 5 million Americans that are homeless?
Why is Terri more important than the 100,000 Iraqis killed in the last two years?
Sanctity of life my ass.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/local/politics/11240776.htm
Speaking of health insurance, Terri gets medicaid that is now being cut by $500 million starting in 2006. The Republicans tried to keep Terri alive while at the same time cutting the money that would pay for her care in the Hospice.
So the Republicans want to keep a bed ridden near brain dead female alive, yet the same people are making it harder for her to be cared for. Hypocrisy?
What about this law Bush signed while governor of Texas?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=602214
The federal law President Bush signed to prolong Terri Schiavo's life in Florida appears to conflict with a Texas law he signed as governor, attorneys familiar with the legislation said Monday.
...
The 1999 Advance Directives Act in Texas allows for a patient's surrogate to make end-of-life decisions and spells out how to proceed if a hospital or other health provider disagrees with a decision to maintain or halt life-sustaining treatment.
And finally I will end my rant with links regarding the cerebral cortex.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/functional.html
Cortical Area ---------------------> Function
Prefrontal Cortex ------------------> Problem Solving, Emotion, Complex Thought
Motor Association Cortex ---------> Coordination of complex movement
Primary Motor Cortex -------------> Initiation of voluntary movement
Primary Somatosensory Cortex --> Receives tactile information from the body
Sensory Association Area ---------> Processing of multisensory information
Visual Association Area -----------> Complex processing of visual information
Visual Cortex -----------------------> Detection of simple visual stimuli
Wernicke's Area --------------------> Language comprehension
Auditory Association Area ---------> Complex processing of auditory information
Auditory Cortex ---------------------> Detection of sound quality (loudness, tone)
Speech Center ----------------------> Speech production and articulation
http://www.medpagetoday.com/tbindex.cfm?tbid=753& thePhoto=Neurol&CatName=Neurology
Patients in a persistent vegetative state do not feel pain, nor do they "suffer," says Michael De Georgia, MD, head of the neurology-neurosurgery intensive care unit at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation here.
...
Pain, as well as suffering, requires consciousness, which is lacking in a person in a persistent vegetative state, says Dr. De Georgia.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0503230250mar23,1,1265819.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=3&cset=true
"Because Schiavo's brain stem has remained largely intact, however, certain automatic body functions--sleeping and waking, breathing, metabolizing nutrients and others--are proceeding. Blinking, startling in response to a stimulus, changing facial expressions and making occasional sounds also are among the body functions controlled by the brain stem.
...
"The part of the brain responsible for these responses--smiling, crying, chewing, moaning--is still working. But the part of the brain responsible for thinking is not," said Dr. Ghada Ahmed, attending physician at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago."
...
"Facial contortions do occur that could be looked at as smiling if taken out of context," said Nathan Zasler, medical director and chief executive at Concussion Care Centre of Virginia."
Tom Delay, the Republican leader of the House didn't object to cut life support from his father 16 years ago. And Delay has been the big mouth for the Religious right (wrong) with all this Schiavo crap.
Ok, Delays father was in a coma, unlike Schiavo. BUT it was said by doctors that "if" Delays father were to come out of the coma, his father would be in a permanent vegetative state.
Terri has NO cerebral cortex! It's LIQUIFIED! When the brain cells are liquified, they cannot be reconstituted! Her higher functions are GONE! She can only exhibit the baser, more instinctive functions that any lower life form without a cerebral cortex would exhibit. There's nothing left but reflexes. She is awake, but not aware. Nobody is fucking home!
After catscans, all the tests clearly show Terri has NO CEREBRAL CORTEX!
To bad these idiotic evil rightwing Republicans decided to skip biology class for bible studies.
If you are a worshiper of God, don't you think that the almighty wants his child to come home? For 15 years God has been calling for Terri to come home. Ok, enough with the nonsense. The purpose of this post is not to talk about mythological superheroes.
Just like the sanctity of marriage, this was yet another attempt by the Republicans to play on the religious and moral beliefs of the religious right for political support. Since this was about the sanctity of life, what the hell is so sacred about forcing a woman to remain alive whose brain resembles melting jello? The zombies in the movie Dawn of the Dead had more going on upstairs than Terri.
To be blunt, Bu$h and Delay simply pimped Terri for political purposes. Thats it!
Why is Terri more important than the millions of people that live in 3rd world countries where diseases and death run rampant?
Why is Terri more important than all the starving people of the world?
Why is Terri more important than the 45 million Americans without health insurance?
Why is Terri more important than the 18,000 adult Americans that die every year for lack of health insurance?
Why is Terri more important than the 1 in 4 Americans living in poverty?
Why is Terri more important than the 5 million Americans that are homeless?
Why is Terri more important than the 100,000 Iraqis killed in the last two years?
Sanctity of life my ass.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/local/politics/11240776.htm
Speaking of health insurance, Terri gets medicaid that is now being cut by $500 million starting in 2006. The Republicans tried to keep Terri alive while at the same time cutting the money that would pay for her care in the Hospice.
So the Republicans want to keep a bed ridden near brain dead female alive, yet the same people are making it harder for her to be cared for. Hypocrisy?
What about this law Bush signed while governor of Texas?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=602214
The federal law President Bush signed to prolong Terri Schiavo's life in Florida appears to conflict with a Texas law he signed as governor, attorneys familiar with the legislation said Monday.
...
The 1999 Advance Directives Act in Texas allows for a patient's surrogate to make end-of-life decisions and spells out how to proceed if a hospital or other health provider disagrees with a decision to maintain or halt life-sustaining treatment.
And finally I will end my rant with links regarding the cerebral cortex.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/functional.html
Cortical Area ---------------------> Function
Prefrontal Cortex ------------------> Problem Solving, Emotion, Complex Thought
Motor Association Cortex ---------> Coordination of complex movement
Primary Motor Cortex -------------> Initiation of voluntary movement
Primary Somatosensory Cortex --> Receives tactile information from the body
Sensory Association Area ---------> Processing of multisensory information
Visual Association Area -----------> Complex processing of visual information
Visual Cortex -----------------------> Detection of simple visual stimuli
Wernicke's Area --------------------> Language comprehension
Auditory Association Area ---------> Complex processing of auditory information
Auditory Cortex ---------------------> Detection of sound quality (loudness, tone)
Speech Center ----------------------> Speech production and articulation
http://www.medpagetoday.com/tbindex.cfm?tbid=753& thePhoto=Neurol&CatName=Neurology
Patients in a persistent vegetative state do not feel pain, nor do they "suffer," says Michael De Georgia, MD, head of the neurology-neurosurgery intensive care unit at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation here.
...
Pain, as well as suffering, requires consciousness, which is lacking in a person in a persistent vegetative state, says Dr. De Georgia.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0503230250mar23,1,1265819.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=3&cset=true
"Because Schiavo's brain stem has remained largely intact, however, certain automatic body functions--sleeping and waking, breathing, metabolizing nutrients and others--are proceeding. Blinking, startling in response to a stimulus, changing facial expressions and making occasional sounds also are among the body functions controlled by the brain stem.
...
"The part of the brain responsible for these responses--smiling, crying, chewing, moaning--is still working. But the part of the brain responsible for thinking is not," said Dr. Ghada Ahmed, attending physician at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago."
...
"Facial contortions do occur that could be looked at as smiling if taken out of context," said Nathan Zasler, medical director and chief executive at Concussion Care Centre of Virginia."
did you or do you play sports at all?