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rocktivity

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63. Terri Schiavo was not persistently vegetative: she was as dead as a dinosaur.
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 12:19 PM
Dec 2014

Last edited Fri Aug 5, 2022, 07:10 PM - Edit history (22)



...The blue areas are remaining brain tissue but most of the scan shows black areas which are essentially fluid (cerebrospinal fluid). The normal body reaction to irreversibly damaged tissue is to replace it with fluid and this is clearly what has happened after Mrs. Schiavo suffered severe anoxic damage to her cerebral cortex. Most of what remains of her brain is essentially a fluid filled sac surrounded by a thin shell of brain tissue rather then the solid structure we normally associate with a brain...


At the time, Terri Schiavo was neither persisting, vegetating nor pining for her native Florida Everglades; she had passed on. She was no more; she had ceased to be. She had expired and gone to meet her maker: Terri was late. She was a stiff, bereft of life and resting in peace. If she hadn't been impaled by feeding tubes, she'd be pushing up the daisies. Her metabolic processes were history; she was off the twig. She had kicked the bucket, shuffled off her mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible -- " target="_blank">SHE WAS AN EX-TERRI!


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kick samsingh Dec 2014 #1
K & R. Bush's modus operandi: "The propriety of using your office to hunt and harass people" FSogol Dec 2014 #2
unless those peeps are family friends like the bin ladens elehhhhna Dec 2014 #27
he's a bush. it goes back to 1889, the weak genetics and sadism in that family roguevalley Dec 2014 #37
That first quote applies perfectly to Pam Bondi and her marriage license crusade. lpbk2713 Dec 2014 #3
Jeb, George, and 150+ members of congress Dawson Leery Dec 2014 #4
R#12 & K n/t UTUSN Dec 2014 #5
The SCIAVO case is why I don't despise WASSERMAN-SHULTZ because she and her UTUSN Dec 2014 #46
k&r.... spanone Dec 2014 #6
Yes, I remember it well rocktivity Dec 2014 #7
So glad Michael Schiavo is speaking out mcar Dec 2014 #8
du rec. xchrom Dec 2014 #9
Exactly! BrotherIvan Dec 2014 #16
Jeb is persona non-grata with all the libertarians I know at work. AtheistCrusader Dec 2014 #61
Let's hope BrotherIvan Dec 2014 #69
he's a bush so he has no judgement or character belzabubba333 Dec 2014 #10
Truth to Power... Blue Idaho Dec 2014 #11
Dubya shoved his stupid monkey face into the middle of things, too Rob H. Dec 2014 #12
And every member who voted "aye", including Dawson Leery Dec 2014 #49
K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2014 #13
'Christ' Christy? Stainless Dec 2014 #14
I can't believe we even have to discuss putting another Bush in charge of the country world wide wally Dec 2014 #15
NEVER underestimate the general stupidity and willful ignorance Bigmack Dec 2014 #17
Now watch Jeb claim he has never been a stooge for the Republican Party or Conservatives. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2014 #18
KnR Hekate Dec 2014 #19
K&R nt Duval Dec 2014 #20
k&r nt DesertRat Dec 2014 #21
k & r & thanks & screw the bushes! n/t wildbilln864 Dec 2014 #22
My guess is he did not give a damn about that woman Kingofalldems Dec 2014 #23
+1 You nailed it. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #25
Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! "It was an act of buffoonery." Enthusiast Dec 2014 #24
i didn't even remember Jeb's role Enrique Dec 2014 #26
umm. I did not know Jeb had Michael Schiavo investigated. Sounds vindictive riversedge Dec 2014 #28
FWIW - Jeb was probably just being puppeteered by the religious wrong. MH1 Dec 2014 #32
I love the word "buffoonery" used in this context. It's perfectly aligned with the Bush family. nt longship Dec 2014 #29
I love the word "buffoonery" used in this context. AlbertCat Dec 2014 #30
I have nothing nice to say to that jerk PatrynXX Dec 2014 #31
Terri Schiavo was never claimed to be "brain dead" KinMd Dec 2014 #34
Ironically I figured PatrynXX Dec 2014 #68
She was in 'a persistent vegetative state' Ineeda Dec 2014 #36
+1 (nt) a2liberal Dec 2014 #39
do you know the difference between "knew" and "new"? hate to tell you this, but, under niyad Dec 2014 #41
There are also strong rumors that he put her in that condition Reter Dec 2014 #43
Strong rumors? Seriously? evirus Dec 2014 #54
He DID step in. Ineeda Dec 2014 #59
Well OK then! "Strong Rumors!" Let's just have a cop pull him over and shoot him, right? hatrack Dec 2014 #60
Way to swallow the reich-wing pro-life line of bullshit hook, line and sinker. AtheistCrusader Dec 2014 #65
Terri Schiavo was not persistently vegetative: she was as dead as a dinosaur. rocktivity Dec 2014 #63
You know basically nothing at all about the medical aspects of this case. AtheistCrusader Dec 2014 #64
It was shameful the way Michael Schiavo was villified KinMd Dec 2014 #33
K trof Dec 2014 #35
That whole episode was an embarrassing exhibition of Republican hysteria, Chemisse Dec 2014 #38
k and r-I hope michael is in front of him every time he opens his mouth. niyad Dec 2014 #40
does someone have a list of the congressional members who signed that bill? I have been niyad Dec 2014 #42
K & R Liberal_Dog Dec 2014 #44
Side note: Remember Christ on a trailer hitch? pinboy3niner Dec 2014 #45
Yes---that was the only bright, shining light in that whole mess. And I'm trying to find the pic msanthrope Dec 2014 #57
I called it "The Freeper Jesus Freak Show!" rocktivity Dec 2014 #58
And both gag me. lonestarnot Dec 2014 #47
That poor man (Schiavo, of course). What that asshole Bush and the other GOP assholes put him thru. valerief Dec 2014 #48
I admire him for not going postal. sarge43 Dec 2014 #56
Sorry you went through that, but thank goodness you didn't have to deal with bullshit politics. nt valerief Dec 2014 #62
thanking Mr. Schiavo Skittles Dec 2014 #50
Barack Obama, Lame Duck, just pulled the rug out from under Jeb's candidacy with this Cuba deal. nt MADem Dec 2014 #51
K&R ReRe Dec 2014 #52
GOP "small gov't" & "personal freedoms" at its finest Myrina Dec 2014 #53
Kickin' Faux pas Dec 2014 #55
Wouln't that be "widower"? KamaAina Dec 2014 #66
Ol' Jeb has LOTS of skeletons in his closet and negative press, maybe more.... George II Dec 2014 #67
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