[Stealth]

Originally posted by Deepblue
She did have visual tracking!!! Or was that just another "reflex."

dude, my dog's 2 week old puppy has "visual tracking"... if you snap your finger above his head and move it in a circle, he'll follow it.  she's a vegetable... her cerebral cortex is mush.  we discussed this today in anatomy, and there is no. way. that she is conscious of her surroundings.  if she WAS, that would mean the last few hundred years of medicine, experimenting, and technology was for nothing

think sense.  the most sophisticated part of her brain, responsible for higher mental functions (i.e. processing, etc.) is DESTROYED... it doesn't EXIST, and there's been no case of it completely rebuilding itself.  rePAIRING itself, yes, but there's nothing to repair.  

in fact, i'll bet she doesn't even have any brain waves, if they hooked her up to an electroencephalograph, it would showa straight line i'm betting...

[Knight Templar]

Yarr, ye be high rollin' there pinky!

[Rictor]

Oh great. Now the fundies have made this their rallyiong cry against the "arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president.", which by the way is exactly what they're supposed to do. The judiciary is the only place where the Republican party doesn't dominate completely, which means they're an evil, subversive force, as opposed to, oh I don't know, a legitimate counter-balance to executive and legislative power.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Rictor
Oh great. Now th'fundies have made this their rallyiong cry against th'"arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress an' th'president.", which by th'way be exactly what they're supposed t'do. The judiciary be th'only place where th'Republican party doesn't dominate completely, which means they're an evil, subversive force, as opposed to, oh I don't know, a legitimate counter-balance t'executive an' legislative power.

I thought the whole point of an idependent judiciary was that it would be unaccountable to the government, myself.... this whole single case is being used to dictate policy, now; and it's not even majority policy (apparently, a Fox - ! - news poll said 54% of Americans viewed the removal of the tube as an act of mercy and 29% thought it was murder; so it's not even a majority view).

There seems to be an astonishing amount of hyberbole being spouted over a single individual case, to the extent that the independence of judiciary is being criticised and threatened - if you examine the particular quoted critcism, it's essentially aimed at removing the supreme courts (or any court) right to reject a law as unconstitional.

[Flipside]

All aboard th'wagon, it's th'hype-express rollin' outta town.

Considerin' this came t'a head on account o' th'Government broke it's own laws t'give th'parents chances t'appeal, this utterly stinks o' a self-generated moral situation. As terrible as I feel for th'family an' all involved, doesn't it seem strange that this case gets highlighted, an' this case alone, a particuarly bitter case. It's strange how it appears th'husband has been villified from th'start, I heard talk o' him allegedly sayin' 'Is she dead yet?' etc, which seem t'have been false.

And then all o' a sudden, bam! up pop th' governemnt savin' us all from th'evil judiciary system, th'same Pro-life minded people who, apparently, drew this out into th'foreground in th'first place. It all seems far too...convenient, it's like playin' on a Bash-A-Mole, ye have t'make th'Mole stick it's head up before ye can hit it.....

If anything, it's highlighted to me the kind of suffering Euthenasia can relieve, rather than made me any more 'Pro-Life'

[an0n]

They're all a bunch o' ****ers.

When I seize power, thar won't be any more o' this moral ambiguity bilge.  Euthanise th'lot o' them as soon as they're disabled.  Not after they've sat around for 15 years burnin' a hole in me treasury.

EDIT: damn word filter.

EDIT2: What th'hell?  Hang on a second...

[StratComm]

Hey, when did they let you back?  I must admit though, that's a hell of a first post.

[vyper]

Yarr. Aren't you dead?

[an0n]

Not anymore.

Trust the admins to **** up the April Fools joke enough to reset the forum permissions.  You think they would have learned from last time.

[StratComm]

Enough that you can edit posts again?  Or are you still in the FUBAR'd group?

[an0n]

No, I can edit posts.  But I seem to have acquired "other" abilities as well.  I'm still checking things out.

[StratComm]

Not good.  Not good at all.  You do look like an admin on the who's online bar.