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BoogyMan
07-31-2007, 12:47 AM
Source Link: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QN6TKG1&show_article=1
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.
The incident occurred around 2 p.m. EDT on a dock near the home in Port Clyde on Maine's Hupper Island. Port Clyde, which is part of the town of St. George, is about 90 miles by car northeast of Portland, midway up the coast of Maine.
Roberts was taken by private boat to the mainland and then transferred to an ambulance, St. George Fire Chief Tim Polky said.
"He was conscious and alert when they put him in the rescue (vehicle)," Polky said. The hospital, in Rockport, did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
Named to the court by President Bush in 2005, Roberts is the youngest justice on a court in which the senior member, John Paul Stevens, is 87. Bush was informed of the hospitalization by his chief of staff, Josh Bolten, the White House said.
Roberts is the father of two young children.
Doctors called Monday's incident "a benign idiopathic seizure," Arberg said. The White House described the January 1993 episode as an "isolated, idiosyncratic seizure."
Larry Robbins, a Washington attorney who worked with Roberts at the Justice Department in 1993, said he drove Roberts to work for several months after the incident. Robbins said Roberts never mentioned what the problem was and he never heard of it happening again.
In 2001, Roberts described his health as "excellent," according to Senate Judiciary Committee records.
Roberts became chief justice after the death of William Rehnquist in September 2005, although Bush had first chosen him to take Sandra Day O'Connor's seat when she announced her retirement earlier that year.
He had served as an appellate judge in Washington and spent more than a decade before that as a lawyer at the Hogan and Hartson law firm, where he specialized in arguing cases before the Supreme Court.
Roberts also served in the Reagan and Bush administrations in the and '90s. He was a clerk for Rehnquist after graduating from Harvard Law School.
Roberts spent a couple of weeks in Europe in July, teaching a course in Vienna and attending a conference in Paris. He was at the court in Washington late last week.
Stoner
07-31-2007, 05:02 AM
They're dropping like flies.
FARK (http://www.fark.com/):
"Chief Justice John Roberts now classified as epileptic....
Your honors, for my final argument -- lightswitch strobe light"
BoogyMan
07-31-2007, 10:38 PM
FARK (http://www.fark.com/):
"Chief Justice John Roberts now classified as epileptic....
Your honors, for my final argument -- lightswitch strobe light"
Epilepsy is comical? Wow.
You are right.... we really should talk about impeaching him for lying about his health to get the job.
BoogyMan
08-01-2007, 12:46 AM
You are right.... we really should talk about impeaching him for lying about his health to get the job.
Egads man, isn't there a UFO you could be chasing or something?
Let me get this straight:
A) I should be more serious.
B) I should lighten up
Have I got that right?
BoogyMan
08-01-2007, 01:06 AM
Let me get this straight:
A) I should be more serious.
B) I should lighten up
Have I got that right?
No, you don't have it right. Can you approach a single topic without some kind of conspiracy theory?
Talk about conspiracy theories........Sorry boogy......but that was funny.
BoogyMan
08-01-2007, 02:30 AM
Talk about conspiracy theories........Sorry boogy......but that was funny.
Egads, we need to get you a snare drum sound effect.
Seriously, we now have someone saying the man needs to be impeached for hiding some kind of serious health problem. That is just desperation, and conspiracy theory rolled up into a nice little neurosis.
Alonzo
08-01-2007, 02:39 AM
I think the blowjob impeachment forever ruined the concept of impeachment as reserved only for the most damaging of crimes.
Stoner
08-01-2007, 02:48 AM
I think the blowjob impeachment
Wow, your recollection of history sucks. And you all say I need to smoke less.
Bubba was impeached for lying to a federal grand jury.
I understand it sounds less heinous when you say, "He was impeached for a hummer" but it's simply a lie.
Hey, wait...libs don't care about lies anyways. Awwww hell, keep on goin!
Talk about conspiracy theories........Sorry boogy......but that was funny.
Egads, we need to get you a snare drum sound effect.
Seriously, we now have someone saying the man needs to be impeached for hiding some kind of serious health problem. That is just desperation, and conspiracy theory rolled up into a nice little neurosis.
Both were jokes. Take your own advice and lighten up. :D[hr]
I think the blowjob impeachment
Wow, your recollection of history sucks. And you all say I need to smoke less.
Bubba was impeached for lying to a federal grand jury.
I understand it sounds less heinous when you say, "He was impeached for a hummer" but it's simply a lie.
Hey, wait...libs don't care about lies anyways. Awwww hell, keep on goin!
.........and the impeachment call is because Gonzo lied to the senate.....see the consistancy?
BoogyMan
08-01-2007, 03:04 AM
Talk about conspiracy theories........Sorry boogy......but that was funny.
Egads, we need to get you a snare drum sound effect.
Seriously, we now have someone saying the man needs to be impeached for hiding some kind of serious health problem. That is just desperation, and conspiracy theory rolled up into a nice little neurosis.
Both were jokes. Take your own advice and lighten up. :D
Umm, my advice? Lighten up? LOL Never said it.
My commentary was that epilepsy was not funny and that conspiracy theories are silly.
I hope you are right and that his commentary (in both instances) was meant as a joke.
I never claimed Roberts conspired to decieve the senate.
He may have acted alone. I merely suggested we discuss the more serious issues at hand... rather than joke about it. Will his drivers license be revoked? Should we have a CHIEF justice who cant drive himself to work? Who may have another episode of flopping about and foaming all over the Supreme Courts carpets?
The reports are out now. He had a miracle "benign ideopathic seizure".... which has never before happened in an adult.
The conspiracy and spin has begun. As it always does, without fail, to everything these asshats touch.
The truth would be refreshing for a change.
Truth_and_Power
08-01-2007, 05:43 PM
Supposedly having 2 BIS's gives you a 80% chance of a 3rd. At that point they usually classify you as epileptic.
Supposedly having 2 BIS's gives you a 80% chance of a 3rd. At that point they usually classify you as epileptic.
Do you think this would have been reported if it had happened at home? There was an eye witness this time. Thank God, the eyewitness didnt fall out of a helicopter before he talked to the press.
We only KNOW about the ones that happened in public......
BTW, I could be wrong about: ...."benign ideopathic seizure".... which has never before happened in an adult.I am not a doctor and I dont know if the web-dude; whom I quoted, was either.
That doesnt mean there wont be any spin to keep this crony planted right where he is. This is the guy who will save bushs ass from his crimes against the country.
He is dishonest, he would not tell you if there were other episodes.
His credibility should have been exposed before the initiation. When he lied about being a member of the Federalist Society.
Marley
08-01-2007, 08:02 PM
Meanwhile this guiy is clueless to Bill Clinton's medical history because Bill Clinton hid it his entire presidency.
But I bet this same guy sees Clinton as a lord and savior he'd vote for again tomorrow and see no hypocracy.
Of course I suspect Clinton's medical records were rife with STDs and cocaine.
Truth_and_Power
08-01-2007, 08:23 PM
I don't see what these guys' medical histories have to do with anything. Are we kicking epileptics off the court for some reason? Is it a holdover from anti-Quaker blue laws or what?
Jaaaman
08-01-2007, 08:33 PM
Of course I suspect Clinton's medical records were rife with STDs and cocaine.
That's an interesting take on Bill Clinton there... do you have any links or studies to back up your statements here?
Marley
08-01-2007, 08:36 PM
No, CLinton has covered it all up.
Clinton;s brother Roger though is on recrod saying Bill Clinton sucked up coke like a vacuum cleaner.
And let's be honest here, if you're going to do this shuck and jive trying to hide the crimes of his actual impeachement with "a blow job" then be honest enough to admit a "dawg" like that has a medical hsitory like a Times Square hooker.
Sally Perdue, a former Miss Arkansas and
Little Rock talk show host who said she
had an affair with then-Gov. Clinton in
1983, told the London Sunday Telegraph
that he once came over to her house with
a bag full of cocaine. ''He had all the
equipment laid out, like a real pro.''
Gennifer Flowers says she saw Clinton
smoke marijuana and carry joints with him
when he first began visiting her in 1977.
Clinton was Arkansas' attorney general
from 1977 through 1979. His first term as
governor ran from 1979 through 1981. He
was governor again from 1983 through
1992.
Two Arkansas state troopers have sworn
under oath that they have seen Clinton
''under the influence'' of drugs when he
was governor.
Sharlene Wilson is a bartender who is
serving time on drug crimes and has
cooperated with drug investigators. She
told a federal grand jury she saw Clinton
and his younger brother ''snort'' cocaine
together in 1979.
Jack McCoy, a Democratic state
representative and Clinton supporter,
told the Sunday Telegraph that he could
''remember going into the governor's
conference room once and it reeked of
marijuana.''
Historian Roger Morris, in his book
''Partners in Power,'' quotes several
law enforcement officials who say they
had seen and knew of Clinton's
drug use.
On a videotape made in 1983-84 by local
narcotics officers, Roger Clinton said
during a cocaine buy: ''Got to get some for
my brother. He's got a nose like a vacuum
cleaner.''
One-time apartment manager Jane Parks
claims that in 1984 she could listen
through the wall as Bill and Roger Clinton,
in a room adjoining hers, discussed the
quality of the drugs they were taking.
Jaaaman
08-01-2007, 08:46 PM
Look... I am not overly in love with the man either... But Bill did not suffer seizures or other medical emergencies while in political office. The question in this thread is did John Roberts purposefully hide a dangerous ongoing medical condition? As far as I know, Bill was not diagnosed with any dangerous life threatening medical conditions.
bobbylien
08-01-2007, 08:59 PM
Think of it this way.. if he drops dead in 2 years, who will get to appoint the next Chief Justice?
Marley
08-01-2007, 09:15 PM
But Bill did not suffer seizures or other medical emergencies while in political office.
That's the funniest post I've seen yet!
HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?
The man was bopping fat chicks in the office during business hours and it took YEARS to drag that fact out of that secretive administration.
A staff member was found DEAD in a public park and that administration broke every principle of post-mortum investigation -- a former law firm partner and former state attorney general and governor.
God only knows what went on in that criminal secretive administration!!! You simply cannot, in good faith, logically, make that assertion!
But Bill did not suffer seizures or other medical emergencies while in political office.
That's the funniest post I've seen yet!
HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?
The man was bopping fat chicks in the office during business hours and it took YEARS to drag that fact out of that secretive administration.
A staff member was found DEAD in a public park and that administration broke every principle of post-mortum investigation -- a former law firm partner and former state attorney general and governor.
God only knows what went on in that criminal secretive administration!!! You simply cannot, in good faith, logically, make that assertion!
Fascinating speculation.........don't know what it has to do with Roberts having a seizure though.
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