Dan Gross

"Mad Mike" Martz has to be proud of the incompetent boob he fired. Congrats Bobby!

Be a real man and assign the US Congress!

How many times have I told you, I didn't play Riff-Raff, I played Frankenfurter!

BIG NEWS! He will be featured on the NFL Network's Total Access program tomorrow night at 7pm!!! Set your TIVO's!

"I guess you are ticklish there."

Maybe they can trade straight up for a couple of days, then trade back in order to make the final deal. Give the players a chance to acclimate to their possible pending team, and appease those looking for something/anything to happen.

Well, looks like they're well on their way with wearable solar cells that make you a walking cell phone charger: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000263038315/

Well it is about an "alien" society but they are seeking out a legendary 13th colony from their "society" called Earth, so, in essence, they are our brethren.

Linda won't be in studio? That's too bad.

That's okay. Remember in Canada they use the metric system, so nothing adds up the same...

My prayers go out to you and your friend's families.

Their....unblinking devotion is certainly worthy of at least an honorable mention.

Yeah, and I remember when I was denied entrance to Nick Tahou's when a certain somebody made a campaign stop there last year.... Nothing like "Town Hall" meetings where the toughest question is: "In your opinion, is your plan to overhaul Social Security the greatest idea ever? Because I think it is."

Spoken in the true spirit of someone who looks forward to JP Losman's upcoming HOF career...

She is not brain dead, but incapable of performing any voluntary function, including awareness or even the most basic of voluntary motor movements. Her cerebral cortex, which controls such function, is gone. The involuntary, which controls breathing, heart beats, digestion (but not swallowing other than reflexive) and the reflexive system, are all functional.

Though the press reports someone (I believe it was MS' lawyer ) as saying that was the purpose for the morphine, that is really not true. Morphine is given as a standard of course in end-of-life scenarios in order to ease breathing. GG's site cites many end-of-life related sites if you put in 'morphine "ease beathing"' Two 5mg doses were given, as opposed to the 50mg-200mg doses. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&tab...eathing%22&sa=N This thread was already hijacked, so I thought I would put it here...

I would hope my loved ones would err on the side of my wishes, and that would be to not be maintained if I were in a like state. I would maintain that, even though my wishes are outlined in a living will, my wife, who I have been living with for several years, would know my wishes better than my mother, who being the person that raised me, would much more likely live in denial, not wanting to lose her other son, even though in that state I'd already be "lost," for all intents and purposes.

Yeah, but is medical intervention in this case God's decision or man's? Or, as the crap-throwing monkey put it, is she really a live person being killed or a dead person being preserved by a feeding tube?

What, are you trying to crash the WOF board too?

Tell them that by continuing the phone call they agree to pay $100 per minute at a minimum charge of $500 and every phone call from the sponsoring company thereafter carries the same minimum charge. Then ask them for a name and billing address.

If you actually read what I said, the answer is right there. They fall under my Pope/Grandmother example. If you pinch them, they feel it. If you feed them, they swallow it. If you deny them food, they hunger, and will let you know. BIG difference. They are sentient. Even if they seem "not there," they are conscious and aware of their environment and react to it. The brain is existent (the cerebral cortex has not atrophied and been replaced with spinal fluid, as in Terri's case), it's the nerve cells that are malfunctioning.

I don't trust the media here, which is why I sought out official records. I read the 3rd GAL's report, did you? I've read a legal breakdown on a blog by an attorney in Florida, which also linkks to a ton of official documents, did you? Have you even read about how the nervous system works? You obviously do not understand the difference between the autonomic and somatic nervous systems. Different nerve cells, different purposes. Do you have to think to breathe? No. Do you have to think to get your heart to go? No. Do you have to think to digest? No. These are all parts of the autonomic nervous system. Her damage is to the cerebral cortex, which now is nothing more than spinal fluid. To over-simplify, the cerebral cortex is responsible for the somatic (voluntary) nervous system. Pain, hunger, etc are a part of that system. She can not feel pain. She can not feel hunger. Yeah, the following link is the "press" but it is the most succinct explanation I could find: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...28_schiavo.html The doctors who say she is okay and can be rehabilitated are greedy quacks who stand to gain much more financially than Michael Schiavo could ever dream if they got their way. All they are doing is preying on the hopes of the parents. In 15 years, under several therapies, not one doctor has been able to prove that she is able to perform any voluntary function, even after several carefully performed swallowing tests (swallowing is one of the basic voluntary functions, but it can be affected in several ways). For someone who is warning against being caught up in "media polls," you seem to be awfully susceptible to "un-founded rhetoric." I'm really disappointed in what little fact you are basing your arguments on. It seems so unlike you. My grandmother developed esophegeal cancer, had part of it removed, to the point where she could no longer eat. Could she chew? Yes. Could she swallow? Yes. But the food would not get to her stomach because her remaining esophogus was too small. So she had a *gasp* feeding tube. Did we ever petition to have it removed? No. Did she ask to have it removed? No. Was it frustrating for everyone? Yes. But she was a sentient human being. She was able to interact, play cards, tell stories, etc. Years later, when she was in the hospital with pneumonia, and her heart stopped, they let her die rather than hooking her up to machines, because that was her wish. Everything that makes a human considered "human," not just moving, not just swallowing, but thinking, awareness and feeling, are all not operating in Terri Schiavo. She is a physical shell that is being maintained by a very efficient autonomic system. If you believe in the human spirit that exists beyond the physical body, then this spirit is trapped in a useless shell. That is worlds different than treating an ailing Pope, an ailing grandmother, or, in the reverse, denying a sentient person food.

Sounds like you suffer from ADT: http://news.com.com/Why+cant+you+pay+atten..._3-5637632.html

Actually, my wife is regaling me of stories about the Kindergarten orientation that both parents (her, on our behalf) and up-coming students are attending. While the students meet the teachers, the parents get lectured on "reading to your kids is good," etc. Meanwhile, for "homework" from the last orientation (3 parent/student classes + 1 solo trip on bus to school for lunch), my wife was given a strip of oversized writing paper (ya know, with the dashed middle line) and instructed to write our daughter's name on it, then to assist our daughter in tracing her name first with her finger, then with a pencil, so she can learn to write her own name. In the meantime, our daughter has to sign in (write her name herself) every morning at pre-K. So I guess I can believe you...

There are the conspiracy sites that quote Dr. so-and-so and expert such-and-such, but again, if she did not have a heart attack due to dietary imbalance, they would never have won the malpractice suit. The burden was on them to prove negligence, and all the defendents had to do was create reasonable doubt. If he were abusive, why would the Schindler's stick with him and let him live with them through the period of the malpractice settlement? Why did they not bring up any evidence of it through their attempts to get him removed as guardian? Why did nothing surface until 2002?