This link explains it a Hell of a lot better than I ever could:

http://www.ehow.com/about_5076724_symptoms-gangre...

All I know is it SUCKS. The weird thing was, in the few weeks prior I had had some intermittent abdominal pain that would last a few minutes and then clear up completely. The night before I had the attack I went to bed feeling just fine but woke up three hours later feeling like I had a sword sticking out of my midsection and was puking what looked like antifreeze. Not fun.

The King of Earmarks is DEAD, long live the King!

Five years ago I had emergency surgery to remove my Gallbladder that had become gangrenous, which then gave me a hideous case of acute Pancreatitis. I thought the gangrenous Gallbladder (and the Sepsis that went with it) was the worst pain ever, until I got the Pancreatitis. Just unreal pain, I seriously wanted to die. Two weeks of ICU & hospitalization later I was able to go home. I really haven't been the same since physically. I was in my early 30's then and in pretty good shape so I can see how this could kill a 77 year old.

A moment of silence for the great President Reagan, the greatest American of the second of half of the 20th Century. He showed us all that IT CAN BE DONE, no matter how bad the situation you're faced, something I think many have now lost sight of.

And the irony is the environmentally unfriendly nickel mining takes place in Canada (which has an abundance of Nickel) but the Nickel then has to be shipped all the way to Japan where it is made into the battery packs which are then installed in the Prius which is then shipped back to North America where it it is sold to gullible consumers.

So bottom line is, the amount of energy and pollution expended to mine, ship, manufacture and sell the batteries is exponentially greater than the energy the battery powered (partially anyway) car supposedly saves.

Yeah that these two going at it isn't exactly Buckley versus Vidal.

The time when the Robots were asking Father Jonathan Morris some very serious theological questions regarding Catholicism was hilarious. The way Fr. Morris caught himself realizing he was answering a Robot animation was priceless!

Bob Beckel is worse than Ellis Henican who is in turn worse than Marc Lamont Hill.

Funny thing is Beckel's brother Graham is very good character actor and is a Conservative. He played Bud White's (Russell Crowe) partner in "LA Confidential".

Every CEO worth his blue suit makes sure to donate to both parties and to get cozy with as many major political players as they can. And that goes double for a media CEO.

ps. The current GE/NBC brain-trust are NOT worth their blue suits.

No doubt. Kirk would go in there, sleep with ALL of the best looking blue chicks, then while they were all distracted he'd have Scotty beam all of the "Unobtanium" up to the cargo hold and everybody would be happy.