The Daily Mail reports on a man who was “thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time”.
The Althouse Vortex adds:
How terribly sad. The condition is unimaginable. All that time. What would you do with your mind as all those years passed? Wouldn’t you drift into hallucinations and dreams? Could you reach enlightenment? Or would you dwell on your plight endlessly and ache for the times when people would be around you talking, hoping someone would talk to you, read to you, do something.
As you will see, like all good Twilight Zone episodes, you must be careful what you wish for….:




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[...] or would you run for public office, start a “movement” or perhaps get your own show on Fox? In this day and age, the possibilities for the walking dumb are boundless — after all, we live in a time where willfully clueless is the new smart. Hate does not require bodily functions — or, as they say at PJ Media: I blog therefore I am.
Thank Goodness he did not get Obamacare where he would already have been euthanized to “save costs”…Obamacare is an anathema to ANYONE wanting or needing decent health care NOT paid for by Government bureaucrats…I will take those EEEVIL insurance companies who have to answer to shareholders any day in the week over a government bureaucrat who have to go by government edicts…
Didn’t that happen at the end of “Men In Black”? Or is Ann just remembering her most recent bout of box wine induced catalepsy?
Abe SImpsonstubbornestgeezer, have you contacted your Representative and Senators to demand that they get rid of Medicare? It is one of those evil government programs, after all.Thank Goodness he fart faaaart faaaaaaaaart okay, sure, that’s nice, dear. The adults are talking.
Naturally her commenters bring up Terri Schiavo, as if she’d have stood up and started tapdancing some day. Some things worth noting, though; one is that the article is from the Daily Fail, well-known UK purveyor of right-wing jibber-jabber; the other is that, even though the Fail seemed to have based its article on a report from Sky News, I can’t seem to find any video, or even pictures, of this guy responding to questions. If his “tap[ping] out messages on a computer screen” turns out to be one of those things where it’s actually an “assistant” doing the tapping, well, then, it can be placed alongside that heavily-edited Schiavo video where she seems to be responding to stimuli, but was actually edited down from hours and hours of random twitches.
One shaky story from the National Enquirer of England about a failed diagnoses by doctors translates into hysteria from the right on socialized medicine.
Many stories of innocent people going to the electric chair? That just goes down as the price of doing capital punishment business.
And stubborngeezer, you keep trusting those insurance companies. I’m sure they and their shareholders are always looking to pay for 25+ years of life support out of their profits. Hopefully they’ll kick out your plug while you’re still gumming your tapioca. But of course, since you a “geezer”, I’m sure you are gratefully receiving medicare, comrade.
The comments on Annes site in response to this are precious. And “Tbog” I see that you are not only “somewhat popular” but also a dweeb.
BTW, trapped helplessly in a country that could not hear me was the way I felt during the Bush years.
One of the best click throughs ever, TBogg
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: stubbornestgeezer you are butt crack stupid. Now go punch yourself in the nutsack….
Awesome! Or as those leaving comments at Althouse would write: ausum (because it rhymes with “pausum”).
Also….
His name wasn’t Clarence Thomas, was it?
tbogg, Harlan Ellison thanks you.
However, I am sending you my psychotherapy bills for the next decade after viewing that horrorshow picture.
Dalton Trumbo alredy did this scene in Johnny Got his Gun. Of course this could never happen in the Greatest Country in the World!!1! with the Greatest Health Care System Evah!!1!!
And yet he still managed to become President. Truly, it is a land of opportunity.
tbogg, those over at Althouse think you are scared of girls. In one box of wine or less please defend your scarediness of girls. Also…
She’s scary, and a shame to a great school in a great city.
(BTW, I used the same title a few months back for a post on torture – some interrogators kept torturing a mute man to make him speak.)
Yep. Sounds like the Bamster conducting a National Security Meeting … ummmm..maybe…somehow…ummhhhh…Michelle can you get the teleprompter? It’ll know what I’m supposed to say…
best stubbornestgeezer ever (so far): ummmm..maybe…somehow…ummhhhh…
so oldstupidgeezer(toddpalinlover*) are you also posting as thuthofangels to pump up (you) your fan club?
also, go punch yourself in the nutsack, just because. normally i ask you to punch yourself in the nutsack because you make shit up but this time, whatever, just go give your little jimmy the standard wackin……
*he’s so dreamy!
That is one scary picture…. And to think that this may be Carrie Prejean’s future in another 6 mos. (Or after the wingnut contingent repossesses the fake boobs.)
Caption contest winner for the L@lthouse
Aaah, been a while since we’ve last heard of the death panels, how smart of you to remember! Oh, and ‘answering to shareholders’ actually means: reap in the money, don’t pay out anything, or our profits will fall…..