Comments on: Chief Justice John Roberts

By: crocchoda

crocchoda — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:00:31 +0000

1st: did someone actually say they hope the seizure was the result of an “inoperable brain tumor”? really? you know what happens when you’re judged by the character of your worst specimen…

2nd: his previous seizure was in fact disclosed in this application.

3rd: are those that question roberts’ intellectual rigor for real? i guess asking them to take the blinders off would be too much.

By: Matthew C. Shelley

Matthew C. Shelley — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:54:35 +0000

Imagine you did the hardest workout of your life using every single muscle in your body. At the age of twenty or thirty it wouldnâ€™t be that big of a deal and the day after tomorrow you would feel fine, at the age of fifty I feel sorry for the judge because I know that he is in for a week of really severe muscle pain and even scratching his nose will be a painful proposition. You donâ€™t realize how many muscles it takes to stand up out of a chair until every single one of them hurts at the same time. And he probably has a whopping headache today. Other than that he will feel quite good mentally as there is an effect of clearing out the cobwebs in the brain from a seizure. As far as it affecting his thinking it is highly unlikely unless there is some underlying brain damage. He might have a temporary loss of some part of his memory for a couple of days but it will be inconsequential. For example I lose all of the phone numbers I have memorized for about three days after a seizure. Kind of an irritation for someone who works on the telephone, but I know where my phone list is so it is a more minor annoyance. As far as during the seizure itself he wouldnâ€™t have felt a thing because itâ€™s like having your lightswitch turned off abruptly.

The biggest problem with seizures is finding out that you frightened co-workers or friends or family who arenâ€™t familiar with them.

To those who made disparaging comments, if you donâ€™t like the manâ€™s politics make comments on that, otherwise, until you have walked a mile in another manâ€™s moccasinsâ€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦

Oh, and I forgot my last point. We are pretty sure that mine were being caused by eating things with the spice nutmeg in them. So as long as I avoid bratwurst, curries, and the like, in theory I have had the last one I will ever have.

By: loretta

loretta — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:03:07 +0000

or his body is revolting at the revolting actions he’s taken over the last few years.

By: loretta

loretta — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:02:17 +0000

mmmmm…….karma….

By: m12

m12 — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:31:16 +0000

God obviously works in mysterious ways. maybe God loves the USA more than 1 individual. I know I do. And Roberts is pro-death penalty, as I recall. ironic.

Hey, Robert Byrd thought he was the hand of God too, as he hung black men from trees!

By: m12

m12 — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:29:26 +0000

Spencer, two wordsâ€¦Federalist Society.

Comment by JPark â€” July 30, 2007 @ 9:15 pm

3 words: Ginsberg, ACLU, counsel.

By: Arthur Coltrain

Arthur Coltrain — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:06:01 +0000

“We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’ creme brulee,” Coulter said. “That’s just a joke, for you in the media.”

Talk about haters. Check out this ‘intelligent constitutional lawyers’ looney rant. Anne, ironically, also claims to be an adult AND a woman.

By: Brain From Planet Arous

Brain From Planet Arous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:38:42 +0000

No One Deserves To Die.

Itâ€™s not funny.

We should be wishing him well.

Arenâ€™t we the party of Compassion?

Comment by trueblue â€” July 30, 2007 @ 8:09 pm

There are a few people I could name that are better off dead. However, as far as Roberts, please quit and let’s put in a swing vote instead of this Right Wing Corporate Slant that is in there now.

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:08:18 +0000

I will not wish him ill will. But I donâ€™t particularly feel like wishing him good will. I find it very hard to waste my good will on a man who does not have good intentions in life and who has no soul

I couldn’t have said it better…

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:04:15 +0000

I just don’t care…

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:03:29 +0000

If Roberts had to have a seizure, at least he had the good sense to do it on the coast of Maine. The coast of Maine is lovely in the summer.

By: dim wit

dim wit — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:13:06 +0000

“grand-mal” seizures (aka tonic clonic) are the stereoptypical epilitic seizure. As opposed to petite mal, atonic, and partial.
As for Roberts, fu(k him. The sooner he’s gone the better (though I guess he needs to wait util the new president is sworn in)

By: crimedog

crimedog — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:42:18 +0000

I am glad they let inbred mouthbreathers like jpark post here.

By: Toliver

Toliver — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:26:42 +0000

Whether or not it’s OK to wish death upon a fellow American that whose politics some may disagree with should not even be a serious topic for discussion. Some of you cats need to take a step back and look in the mirror.

Many of you have family that don’t see eye to eye with you politically; do you wish death and illness upon them as well?

The level of hatred on these blogs is disgusting.

By: Wilco

Wilco — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:25:10 +0000

Brian Williams said it was “grand mal” seizure. Doesn’t that mean “big bad”?

By: jiggsh

jiggsh — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:43:40 +0000

Okay folks “benign ideopathic seizures” are just that seizures that are “ideopathic”. “Ideopathic” is something a doctor or doctors can’t find the root cause of at a given time. Contrary to what the media was given no seizure is “benign”, since damage is done to the brain each time a seizure occurs. Yes, adults can have “ideopathic seizures”. I suffered from them for over twenty years, until a neurologist found a scar on my brain tissue that was causing my seizures.
My seizures did not start until I was 31 and have continued, even with medication about once per year until the present.
Since CJ Roberts has had a second seizure the Commonwealth of Virginia will now require that he be medicated or forfeit his driving privileges. Let’s see how he likes the cost of Dilantin, Keppra, or Zonegran without an Insurance plan. The monthly cost of each of those drugs is over $600.00 each per prescription. I take two per month. Most neurologists will not allow a patient to take “generic” drugs, since they have not been proven. So you are stuck paying the full price for the drugs. I’ve never fallen, my seizures are more of a “zoning out”. For more information on epilepsy visit epilepsy.org

By: doro

doro — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:01:54 +0000

At University my husband had a friend who suffered from epilepsy. He is the most brilliant and warmhearted person. (BTW he is an American) The moment of absolute loss of control during a seizure must be horrible to experience. If I imagine the horror and fear and afterwards the feeling of shame (because it happened in public and everybody stares) for something so very beyond your control…

If I think of it, Justice Roberts has my full sympathy. Let’s talk of his shortcomings in another context. For now, I wish him well.

trueblue, our friend had a PhD in chemistry at a very young age and then went back to the US to research epilepsy and study medicine. He was really brilliant. I am sure your daughter is a wonderful girl and while the sickness is a real burden the sickness doesn’t make her any less special. Blessings.

By: upright left

upright left — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:46:17 +0000

Comment by had enough â€” July 31, 2007 @ 12:43 am

Doesn’t matter anyway, since it is still as available as ever. ;)

By: had enough

had enough — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:43:05 +0000

The right did a good job exploiting partial birth abortion as if that is really performed routinely. Partial birth abortion was/is a procedure used in rare cases… never before belonged with ‘abortion’ until the frenzied Christian right terrorized the masses with it. Come on folks… wouldn’t it be obvious when this was done… 8 months pregnant today – gone tomarrow…How many know of someone that had a partial birth abortion? 0?

By: The Republic of Stupidity

The Republic of Stupidity — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:26:37 +0000

Isnâ€™t that how it works?

Comment by had enough â€” July 31, 2007 @ 12:20 am

Clearly, he hasn’t seen the Pat Tillman posts by the trolls.