To All Who Speak Before They Think

Ok, so I came across this article from the Tulsa World newspaper http://tinyurl.com/2dynca, and it's interesting enough, talking about the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act and how Tom Coburn, a Republican senator from Oklahoma is preventing it from coming to a vote. Don't know why; he wouldn't comment. Typical political nonsense. All I know about the Act is what I read in the article. I'm tempted to be in favor of it, because I'm in a wheelchair and we need all the help we can get.

But that's not what has me so pissed off. No, it's the vitriolic hate being spewed down in the Comment section below the article. I normally don't read those and now I remember why. I hate listening to the uninformed opinions of people who have no concept of what being paralyzed means and no interest in finding out. But they're free to email comments so asinine they defy belief.

"I wonder why she thought she needed to try to climb into a fountain." You've never done anything stupid? This comment is just your latest example.

"Good for Coburn. This bill is nothing but false hope and a ton of money. Typical liberal ploy. Play on peoples emotions to fool them into thinking you care about them." Dr. Phil, clean-up on aisle five.

And my personal favorite, from Tobey: "Go Dr.Coburn!!! Screw the whinners. Coburn's doing a GREAT JOB! The idiots who push their limits by doing STUPID stunts must be solely responsible for their actions.Expecting all the rest of US citizens to pay for their DUMBNESS shows their greed and absolute selfessness. " Ah, Tobey. where to begin? First, how do you know it was a stunt? Maybe she went into the fountain to save a drowning baby. You don't know and neither do I. Second, she's greedy and selfish? Because she's doing her part to find a cure for paralysis, which affects hundreds of thousands of "US citizens", as you put it so eloquently, including thousands of military victims? Sounds pretty patriotic to me. Tobey, it's better to be thought stupid than to open your mouth and prove it.