Excuse Me a Moment

I normally refrain from posting anything remotely political here, because this is supposed to be funtime, not badgering on any kind of national issues or waving of flags or such. However, I can't pass this one up. So please, if you think you're likely to be even remotely put off or offended or just plain bored by any kind of political statement from any side of the spectrum, just skip this and our normal broadcast will return soon. I'm not looking for a fight here, just want this off my chest.

"There was massive neuronal loss," said Thogmartin, chief medical examiner for Pasco and Pinellas counties. "The damage was irreversible."

Thogmartin added that "no amount of treatment" could have repaired the damage. Because of the brain damage, he said, she was blind."

-- Schiavo autopsy finds "massive" brain damage, no abuse [philly.com - June 15th 2005]

"I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office," he said in a lengthy speech in which he quoted medical texts and standards. "She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli."

- Bill Frist [washingtonpost.com - March 19, 2005]

That guy is such a jackass. HIV can be passed by tears? Diagnosis via video tape? It should be noted that for that speech, Frist declared he was speaking "more as a physician than a Senator." Anyone who abuses their former profession to cowtow to voting demographic or is so incompetent that he get something so blatantly wrong - should be fired from both jobs.