FlaSoxxJim

2-run HR Cabrarra!! Fish up 2-0 Bot1

No, they are important when a human being is experiencing the concious human condition. Terri Shiavo clearly is not. And as stated, yes starvation is a less than perfect way to allow this persons body to die with dignity. But conservative legislators have also ensured tthat it remains illegal to assist someone with zero quality of life in dying with dignity. Regardless of political or ideological leanings, put yourself for a moment into the woman's shoes - not her parents'. Could you ever consider that this is what you would want for yourself in the same situation??

I have two small children. I hope to be around for them for a LONG TIME, but just in case something bad happens and Ol' Dad ends up veggiefied I'll have to give them plug-pulling lessons when they get a little older. And, in this case there is no recovering. There is no forebrain functioning. The case that was brought up earlier in the thread about the guy who came out of a comma after like 20 years... i assume that is the case they made the movie Awakenings about. I don't fully recall the details, but in that case it was a chemical imbalance that indced the coma, and once that was corrected the people could be brought around. In the currrent case, it is merely coincidental that it was a chemical imbalance that stopped Terri Shiavo's heart. The problem was that her conciouss brain functioning died while her heart was stopped.

OK, I'm having a brain cramp rafa...who is that?? Nobody knows this song??? I will wait for someone to say who is this band Cap. Iron Man, Black Sabbath. I must have heard that song 5,000 times on the jukebox in the crappy little juvenile delinquent corner sweet shop while I was growinng up. I just remember the older kids giving each other funny cigarretes and their clothes smelling not quite right.

STP - Interstate Love Song. So ok, who does my "love song" posted above?

Appearances are deceiving. A "persistent vegetative state" is a condition in which individuals have lost cognitive neurological function and awareness of the environment but retain non-cognitive function and a perceived sleep-wake cycle. But, the patient has lost the higher cerebral powers of the brain and only the primitive functions of the brainstem (breathing, circulation, etc) remain relatively intact. Spontaneous movements may occur and the eyes may open in response to external stimuli, but the patient does not speak or obey commands. Patients in a vegetative state may appear somewhat normal. They may occasionally grimace, cry, or laugh, but it is all completely reflexive and not meditated. Some quality of life...

Jurassic Carl

It was a banner day for the Bush Brothers yesterday. Dubya gets the partial-birth abortion ban through the Senate and to his desk WITHOUT having to add the “health of the mother” clauses that have led to the defeat of similar bills in the past. Then Jeb does an end-run on the courts and possibly the constitution to make a political ping-pong ball out of the body formerly known as Terri Shievo (sp?). Despite the best intentions of parents who desperately hope the daughter can recover (after 14 years!), court-appointed doctors have determined that any perceived responses to stimuli are just reflexive and she’s NOT coming back. The family may be well-intentioned but is being selfish. The husband has been bashed for having a girlfriend and a child with said girlfriend while never formally divorcing his persistent-vegetative wife. But, the point is if he divorced her he could no longer fight to see that HER WISHES are carried out because control would revert to the parents. Jeb Bush and the conservative Florida legislature that is sucking up to the religious right have no real interest in the well-being of Terri Shievo. In fact, they have been informed that there may now be organ damage after cessation of feeding for 4 days, but they went ahead and put the tube back in anyway. The whole question of “how can you put a loved one through a painful starvation death?” only comes up now because we have a barbaric American society that won’t allow an assisted suicide because death with dignity is not allowed as a basic right of this country’s citizens.

his work was in other movies like "Keeping the Faith" as well. check him out. he's great. His song "Needle in Hay" was also used in the wrist-slitting scene in "The Royal Tannenbaums." Yeah, his stuff always was on the depressed side but I liked it. He was also in a West Coast band called the Heatmisers that did some decent stuff.

Flock of Seagulls. I partied with their drummer once - aren't I special?

Call me sappy, but I still dig them old love songs… Keep it greasy so it’ll go down easy Keep it greasy so it’ll go down easy Keep it greasy so it’ll go down easy Roll it over and grease it down, it’ll drive you through the heart of town. A girl don’t need no fancy grease To get herself some rump relief Any old kind of lube will do Maybe even from another part of you Lube from the north… Lube from the south… Maybe a little slobber from the side of your mouth? Roll it over Grease it down Here come that crazy screamin’ sound Aaaahhh! Aaahh, aahh, aahh, aaahhh! Keep it greasy so it’ll go down easy Keep it greasy so it’ll go down easy Keep it greasy so it’ll go down easy Roll it over and grease it down, down, down down Grease it down.

I hate to hear that about any player, or anyone for that matter. One line drive, and your career may be over almost before it started.

1-0 Fish!! Sweet Miguel!

way to start it off, Juan!

2 K's in the first inning for Beckett. How about another shutout, Josh?

Yeah, we got a lot of NY transplants down here so there won't be much of a home park advantage. I don't have a beef with ex-New Yorkers cheeringt on the Yanks (I stuck with my home team, natch) -- it's all the other Yankee fans nationwide that bug me. It's too goddamned easy to be a bandwagon Yankees fan, and those are the "fans" that bug me.

Let's do it Marlins! 8:32 is really an odd start time, ain't it?

You mean the aliens haven't come back to retrieve the Mothership yet?

Well if that's all it boils down to, why can't they just raise ticket prices?

I think Danny can be a great asset out of the pen next year. I really think that could be where he really shines. At any rate, he won't be able to give up that big first inning in a relief role So is Josh Stewart completely off the radar? Has he been recovering from whatever freaky neural/circulatory problem that shot to the chest left hm with? And does anyone think Shoenweiss can win the 5th spot with a great Spring showing?

My old girlfriend was an Allen Hall-er, part of the first group of femal Ground South occupants, ca 1987-88. It was a lot easier sneaking me into there than sneaking her into my doem at Newman Hall, I can tell you

I just think that a 'loosely moderated' SoxTalk forum is a case of site owners with the best of intentions getting screwed because some participants on the board were incapable of acting an a civil manner toward other human beings. You would hope people know how to behave with each other without being policed and without being hand-held, and I think that is all the site owners expected of the posters, and I certainly don't think it is too much to ask. I make the same error regularly, giving poeple in general the benfit of the doubt and assuming a minimum level of human decency. I get burned somethims taking that route, of course. But, I know I wll have lost an important personal battle if I let pessimism about human baseness get the best of me in terms of my expectations of people. I don't fault the owners and moderators for having a more ideal expectation of poster conduct. When it was determined that it wasn't working, maybe things should have been tightened up a bit. Still, you hope people are going to work things out themselves without the board owners having to step in and repeal liberties that are a hallmark of this site versus the present state of the other Sox boards. End rant.

Hey, I'll sell you my black CBS Tele, circa '82. Catch is I'll need a couple-grand for it since I got it signed by Stevie Ray back in '87 and I've been keeping a grip on it ever since I was in a similar amp dilemma several years back, when I wanted to go with tubes but had to settle for solid state. I ended up getting a Fender Princeton Chorus when those first came out and it sounds fairly close to an old twin reverb. My problem with that amp is that it is really susceptible to dust accumulation on the pots (for some reason Florida is major dustbunny country), and if the amp sits for a few months the duct really screws it up. I'll get a dust cover one of these days.

You sure got that right.

Winodj, don't leave on me. I still love ya man, gay or straight, who gives a flying f***. After all This is a message board! Unfortunately, too many people give a flying f*** about things that are none of their their business. The haters that make me most upset are the pious ones that have some cracked religious mandate to spew venom because of sexual orientation (among other things). I assume their God is also a biggoted and small-minded homophobe or these mothers would have hell to pay in the next world.