Chief Justice John Roberts has suffered a seizure

[NeoConsSuck]

Source: CNN.COM

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[Onlooker]

1. Pray! Pray! Pray! n/t

[aquart]

3. Eh. Just a little foaming at the mouth.

They all do that.

[baldguy]

17. .

[wellst0nev0ter]

22. Let Me Add Another

[daa]

23. me 3 nt

[saigon68]

60. Scary Roberts fainted in delight at overturning a few more rights

[Purveyor]

2. AP: Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure

(07-30) 15:55 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a seizure at his summer home in Maine on Monday, causing a fall that resulted in minor scrapes, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.

He will remain in a hospital in Maine overnight.

Roberts, 52, was taken by ambulance to the Penobscot Bay Medical Center, where he underwent a "thorough neurological evaluation, which revealed no cause for concern," Arberg said in a statement.

Roberts had a similar episode in 1993, she said.

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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/07/30...

[Judi Lynn]

4. Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure

Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure

Chief Justice John Roberts has suffered a seizure and is hospitalized in Maine. Roberts was taken to a hospital after falling on a dock near his summer home in Maine.

The 52-year-old jurist fell and suffered minor scrapes. Roberts will remain in the hospital overnight.

A local fire chief says Roberts was taken by private boat to the mainland and then transferred to an ambulance. He says the chief justice was conscious and alert when they put him in the rescue vehicle.

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=49932

[shaniqua6392]

5. I am going to say a prayer.

Can you guess what I will be praying for? Just kidding.

[rfranklin]

24. Please, don't kid around like that!

If you know what I mean...

[blayne]

6. Chief Justice John Roberts has suffered a seizure and is hospitalized in Maine.

Source: cnn.com

Breaking news from CNN. "Chief Justice John Roberts has suffered a seizure and is hospitalized in Maine, the Supreme Court says."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/07/30/roberts.fall/index...

[RC]

7. Roberts Taken to Maine Hospital After Fall

Roberts Taken to Maine Hospital After Fall
Chief Justice John Roberts has been taken by ambulance to a hospital in Maine after a fall at his summer home on an island.

A spokeswoman at the Supreme Court says the accident occurred this afternoon at the home located on Hupper Island, but she didn't know what injuries he might have suffered.

Roberts was brought to the mainland aboard a private boat and then transferred to an ambulance. The fire chief in the town of St. George says Roberts was awake and alert when he arrived on land.

© 2007 The Associated Press.

http://www.fox28.com/News/index.php?ID=22498

[Mika]

9. Pretzel? --- n/t

[madamesilverspurs]

31. Warning shot

from Pat Robertson. . .

[Wetzelbill]

8. that's scary stuff

something made a popping sound in my head a week ago, and about knocked me completely cold. The pain was awful, like a compounded by a million times kind of ice cream headache. I had to spend the night at the hospital getting tests etc. Anything like that is frightening, and I wish it on nobody. I hope he's alright and everything. Good vibes for a speedy recovery.

[BlueInPhilly]

CNN said he suffered a seizure

Best wishes to him and his family.

[I Have A Dream]

16. I hope that you're totally OK also, Weltzelbill. n/t

[Wetzelbill]

70. I feel better

thank you!

[pop goes the weasel]

33. sounds serious, Wetzelbill

I hope you were given a thorough workup, and that you will be seeing a neurologist for followup for a while.

As for Roberts, meh. If he starts having them on a daily basis, that would be news. A one off? Obviously, it hasn't had enough impact on him in the past that he has ever stopped for one moment to consider the difference between good luck and merit.

[Wetzelbill]

69. yeah, they took blood, did a cat scan, did a lumbar puncture

It checked out ok. But I am going to get a second opinion. It's been a week, and I feel better, but something is still a bit off. I'm going to ask to get referred to a neurologist.

[pop goes the weasel]

73. Good

Your instinct is that something quite wrong has happened, and you should follow your instinct. Calling you "fine" is not a diagnosis. You should at least be told what your symptoms could possibly represent, and what has been definitely ruled out.

[janx]

43. Were you dehydrated and hiking in the sun? n/t

[Wetzelbill]

68. no, I was on the internet

and I stretched out, tightening up all my muscles, and I held my breath for an instant and felt something pop. It was immediate, almost felt like something exploded in my head. But I had no aneurysm or anything, and I'm slowly feeling better. Not sure exactly what it was.

[barb162]

64. Well, what did they tell you after the tests?

I hope you're alright?

[Wetzelbill]

67. they said I was fine

It's been a week, and I still feel a little funny. My family wants me to get a second opinion, so I think I will makes some calls tomorrow.

[barb162]

71. It sounds like a good idea to get a second opinion.

I hate it when you get all these tests and they can't find what happened. It's happened to me once too often (not what happened to you, but other things). I hope everything works out fine for you.

[truthisfreedom]

12. Just think, he could have been driving. Near a big cliff.

Lucky him.

[BornagainDUer]

18. You know I was going to say how I feel, but

I decided not to. I'm just glad the fascisti can't read minds.

[cboy4]

10. Why wouldn't God give him a seizure as a wake-up call

after all of the lying he did during his confirmation?

I hope it's not life-threatening. Seriously, I don't wish that on anyone.

But I do hope it's "not being able to serve on the court threatening."

Sometimes bad things happen to bad people.

And he's a bad person.

[MirrorAshes]

15. exactly

i wish no harm on the man, but i won't deny that the country needs that seat very badly

[rucognizant]

29. Yes but............

Dim-son might replace him with someone worse!
My Uncle had siezures of that nature for at least 8 or 10 years, before he died at the advanced age of 95!

[MirrorAshes]

37. at least we'd be in a better position to fight the nomination

schumer has taken responsibility for not being tough enough on roberts and alito, i have to believe he'd lead the fight against another repuke

[spotbird]

57. There isn't worse

His illness, whatever it is, will not be impacted by discussion here.

[Miss Chybil]

62. No more seizures!

At least, until after January 2009. Perhaps, he can rest until then.

[rpannier]

11. I wish him the best

As much as I don't like him and his decisions...I hope he pulls through.

Then retires to spend more time with his family.

[dbackjon]

13. Best wishes to him and his family

[petersjo02]

14. Could it be????

There is a God?

[percussivemadness]

27. yes

and it isn`t the one * keeps referring to, and he is pretty pissed off right now, or so it appears....

peace

[xchrom]

19. was he having a seizure during his confirmation?

[crim son]

20. I'd like to see him retire but not because of a medical disaster.

He has a family who loves him.

[cboy4]

28. Actually, I couldn't care less if he was forced to retire

"because of a medical disaster."

Why?

Simple.

Because he's turned out to be a person he said he wasn't going to be during his confirmation.

He lied to get the job.

And when you buy something that's advertised as "A" and it turns out to be "B," you have a right to return it.

Roberts turned out to be "B" and he's despicable.

[crim son]

35. I'd like to see him gone.

I don't like to see anybody so ill that they can no longer perform their job. I get your point, however.

[demigoddess]

32. they can love him in retirement just as well.

don't you think?

[crim son]

38. I'm thinking of retirement due to medical catastrophe.

Sure, if he has no physical or mental impairment and functions as the husband and father his family knows, then yippee. In that case however I doubt he'd retire.

You know, there are some people I might be persuaded to wish ill or maimed. He's not one of them, he's just another fucking jackass.

[Tab]

21. It's not anything you really want to wish on most anyone

Everyone piled on Pat Robertson, but he did a lifetime of damage.

I just had a family member undergo something akin to a stroke - so I'm acutely aware of the impact it has on a life. John Roberts really hasn't done anything to deserve some of the things that seem to be wished for in this thread. And it may be a temporary seizure, or it could be worse than is reported, but let's try to be just a little more human than our Republican counterparts would be.

[madamesilverspurs]

36. I certainly don't wish him ill,

nor am I in any position to grant him absolution for our present situation. John Roberts is very much complicit. He drove the bus, so to speak, that was the recount debacle in Florida in 2000; he organized the group of outraged "Florida voters" (who were actually bussed in from a couple thousand miles up the coast) who pounded on the doors to protest the recount. And his was the hand that guided the brief presented to the Supremes on behalf of Bush. John Robert's current employment is his salary for those activities. So there is more than sufficient cause for people to be unhappy that John Roberts will be able to discolor the high court for decades. But I agree that wishing him ill (or worse) is stooping to the kind of behavior that should also be beneath Republicans but isn't.

[wakfs]

39. And this....

.... is why Republicans win. We're too nice.

"Oooh lets wish him well. Let's hope for a speedy recovery." BULLSHIT.

I hope the guy has a serious illness that doesn't kill him, but lays him just low enough to linger until we have a Democratic president take office in 09, THEN he can take his well-deserved dirt nap. These people are evil, corrupt, ruthless tools of corporate america and they will stop at nothing to grant their masters all manner of legal goodies via the Supreme Court at the expense of average working americans like me. I hope they get everything coming to them, and moreso.

You wanna win? You gotta be heartless and ruthless. Roberts is a joke as a supreme court justice, let alone chief justice. Frankly, I'd rather see that fat prick Scalia bite the big one, but we're not that lucky. Hey, maybe a bunch of those self-important cretins will die prematurely when the Democratic president takes office in 09.

Just saying what everyone's thinking, or SHOULD be thinking. Remember who the enemy is.

[Tab]

45. I'd be happy if he was out of office

but I won't subscribe to your level of hatefulness in this case.

[wakfs]

47. Yes

I do hate them. With every fiber of my existence. No punishment is too great for these creeps.

[angryxyouth]

50. I am with you!!

This bastard is helping to build the new Fascist America that we all are currently living in. Wake up people.

[Odin2005]

85. I'd rather not fall to the level of the Pukes. If we do we are no better then them.

Your post is despicable.

[Warren Stupidity]

59. I didn't wish it on him: shit happens, but I just ain't too sad about it either.

I don't recall the DU Wish a Seizure On Roberts Group being formed, I could be mistaken. But his vile court's first two terms and our Party's complicity in the appointments of Alito and Roberts were not exactly high points in recent history. I would not be unhappy at all if there were no more terms to the Roberts Court.

[Xipe Totec]

25. Maybe it was a stupifany?

Oh God! I've been such a TOOL!

[Jensen]

26. I wish him well ! A medical insurance that will cover all his problems....

unlike so many Americans who do not and have lost their health, homes,their future!!!

[demigoddess]

30. I knew his brain wasn't wired correctly. Nobody could be that off base and

not be a republican and brain damaged in some way. Seizures just a side effect.

[jordi_fanclub]

34. So, besides a lunatic* at WH...

... now a possible epileptic as Chief Justice!!!

"By definition, someone who has had more than one seizure without any other cause is determined to have epilepsy, said Dr. Marc Schlosberg, a neurologist at Washington Hospital Center, who is not involved in the Roberts' case."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_on_go_su_co/scot...

"Epilepsy: any of various disorders marked by abnormal electrical discharges in the brain and typically manifested by sudden brief episodes of altered or diminished consciousness, involuntary movements, or convulsions"
http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epilepsy


*Correction: MORE THAN one...

[SaveAmerica]

40. I think we should wait until we hear what Frist has to say about his

diagnosis. It's not really epilepsy until Frist says it's epilepsy. Hopefully someone will get some footage of Roberts up on YouTube so he can tell us what's up with him.

[Beerboy]

63. Here's hoping Oscar the wonder kitty

snuggles up with some fascists. Oscar loves everyone.

[Beerboy]

66. Post worthless w/o pic:

Oscar, Doom Kitty...

[SaveAmerica]

74. That's a movie of the week waiting to happen! (I hope no old timer

ever decides to take matters into their own hands and shoots kitty if they see him heading down the hall toward them!)

[jaysunb]

41. Maybe we won't be stuck with him afte rall

I mean, you gotta think of your health.Right. Maybe he'll retire, sooooon.

[dailykoff]

42. I suspect this is about Guantanemo.

Roberts had been giving the torturer-in-chief a hard time over those military tribunals. No more, I'd guess.

Incidentally the late chief justice Rhenquist also experienced a very weird medical episode shortly before becoming the complete NeoCon tool. Of course he didn't have far to go.

[Luke_R]

44. I read it was guilt induced

[SunDrop23]

46. Fortunately he has health insurance.

[kurth]

48. IN OTHER NEWS: 3,651 AMERICANS KILLED IN IRAQ BECAUSE OF GEORGE W. BUSH

[skids]

49. He must have eaten the candy left in Rhenquist's office...

...by Bushco.

[Thickasabrick]

51. Perhaps while unconscious, God spoke to him and told him what

a total fuck up he had been. One can only hope.

[dansolo]

52. Hey Pat Robertson, is this what you meant?

I wouldn't normally make light of a situation like this, but isn't it ironic that Pat Robertson was praying for God to strike down liberal justices, but since then you've had Rehnquist die and Roberts having a potentially serious seizure/accident.

[David Zephyr]

61. Wow! dansolo, I had forgotten about Robertson's "prayer"

Did Pat Robertson's prayer to strike a Justice miss its mark?

[yellowcanine]

82. Maybe Robertson is really Voldemort and his curses on Harry Potter always backfire.

[lonestarnot]

53. Well hope no harm comes of it, but maybe he should consider stepping down. That Chief Justice job

is very demanding.

[goclark]

54. Bet he never steps down

[lonestarnot]

55. That is one bet I would not wager a nickle against.

[DogandPony]

56. Best wishes to his family and him.

[GrantDem]

58. I wish and pray for the best for the Roberts family.

However, I wonder if he is worried about the medical bills that will follow?

[Rainscents]

65. Universal Law Of One... Karma.

Karma MUST be paid and they are being paid in faster past as we aproch 2012. Karma is something we all pay... good or bad.

[aquart]

75. Honey, we invaded a non-belligerent nation.

Our karma is so bad it doesn't much matter what we say about a treasonous judge.

[defendandprotect]

72. It could have been STEVENS . . . and something could happen with him any time now!!!

[Amimnoch]

76. Stem Cells....

Wouldn't it just be the greatest case of natural poetic "justice" if the cause of these seizures was one of the many things that the republican blocked stem cell research might have a cure for now?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

84. It would indeed.

[piesRsquare]

77. Two seizures: Give him what the rest of us get!

Roberts has now had TWO seizures...the one he had in 1993 left him with a suspended driver's license for several months (hopefully this one will too!)

Give him the full deal: Put a diagnosis on record, prescribe anti-seizure drugs, and kick him off the bench as unfit to serve. Let him suffer what the rest of us with epilepsy suffer from: Medication side-effects that make you feel like shit, discrimination, a medical condition that no insurance company will want to cover, and immediate disqualification from a shitload of jobs and careers.

Let him get a taste of the stripped-down Americans with Disabilities Act, since his court ruled that people with epilepsy "aren't disabled enough", and therefore are not entitled to reasonable accomodations on the job! Let Roberts get the discrimination but no accomodations! Just like the rest of us with epilepsy/seizure disorders!

Fuck Justice John Roberts!

Now if everyone will please excuse me, I have to take my next dose of 600 fucking milligrams of fucking Trileptal to control MY fucking seizures because my goddamned insurance company said the surgical procedure that could get me off medication is "experimental" and that they won't pay for it! AND they're 23 days LATE in responding to my appeal! I pay $432.50 per month for coverage when I'm 35 and otherwise healthy but because I have a SEIZURE DISORDER just like JUSTICE ROBERTS, this is the only insurance coverage I can get!

I'm so angry and enraged right now I'm getting a headache! I'm so sick of the "special treatment" these fucking assholes get while people like me have to fight for everything! Assholes!



Please forgive my foul-mouthed rant...I'm just so frustrated!!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

79. we are with you in spirit.

I agree with every damned thing you said. Good luck with Mr. Insurance Company.

[Maribelle]

80. the one he had in 1993 left him with a suspended driver's license for several months???

Was this fact hidden during his confirmation hearings?

[Hugin]

83. What confirmation hearings?

I don't recall any real questions being asked.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

81. Nothing to forgive...

Your rant would look great on the op-ed pages...though you might need to replace a few expletives.

Seriously, your post revealed to me things that I was not aware of. I think a lot of people would be interested in your perspective.
Here's hoping your insurance company will come around...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

78. a case of his conscience biting back?

I wonder.
But frothing at the mouth - that can't be good. Anyone check to see if he had his rabies shots this year?

[The Stranger]

86. The Gods of the Law must be pissed. This was just a warning shot.

[Fire Walk With Me]

87. "Do you love me, now that I can dance."

Sorry, a little black humor escapes me on occasion.

Of course I wish the man well. I wish him well, well away from any sort of power over the United States.