What in the hell is wrong with kids these days?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/02/teen.burned.recovery/index.html

Miami, Florida (CNN) -- He lies in a bed on a balloon-type mattress, to reduce pressure on his burned body. He is covered with bandages; a ventilator breathes for Michael Brewer because he can't do it for himself.

He's hooked up to the marvels of modern medicine that are trying to give the 15-year-old burn victim a chance to be a kid once again.

Sixty-five percent of his body is covered with second- and third-degree burns.

"People are writing horror stories ... but people just can't imagine the kind of sickness we're talking about," said Dr. Nicholas Namias, medical director of the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Burn Center in Miami.

"I've been to movies like everyone else, and Hollywood hasn't even thought of something like this," Namias said.

Brewer is heavily sedated, and the ventilator does not allow him to speak. His open wounds are covered by bandages, which are changed daily. It's a four-hour process.

He has not been able to speak with police since his desperate fight for life began October 12, when police say five teenage friends, including a 13-year-old, doused Brewer with rubbing alcohol and set him on fire.
The attack occurred after Brewer reported to police that one of the youths had stolen his father's bicycle. Police say the bicycle was stolen because Brewer did not pay one of the boys $40 for a video game.

According to police, witnesses said the teens called Brewer "a snitch" as they used a lighter to set him ablaze.
Namias explained how Brewer's organs are not functioning the way they should be, but that is expected at this early stage of recovery.
"He's still on the ventilator and advanced modes of mechanical ventilation. We are breathing for him. His contribution to the breathing is trivial," Namias said.
Namias also explained that in burn cases, words must be chosen carefully when talking about patients and their condition because so much is at risk and so much can change quickly.
"When you say he's doing OK, in this situation it means he's alive and responding to treatments," Namias said. "We're still dealing with the respiratory failure. We're dealing with infection now and the need to supply the massive amount of nutrition that this person needs to survive."
On Monday, the five teens who are accused of taking part in the attack appeared separately before judges in Broward County, Florida.
State prosecutors were granted additional time to build their case. Formal charges are expected later this month. For now, all five teens are being held in custody.
Four of the boys, all 15 years old, could be charged as adults. The 13-year-old also could be charged as an adult but under Florida law only if Brewer dies.
Michael Brewer's parents, Valerie and Michael Brewer Sr., issued a written statement through the hospital last week. They are not granting interviews.
"The recovery process will be baby steps, but eventually he will be whole again," they wrote.
But their son's injuries enter the realm of medicine and science that has no guarantee.
"There's no evolutionary mechanism to survive a 65 percent burn," Namias said.
"Surviving is a miracle of modern medicine and about the technology and the things we do. This is not like a gunshot and you come out of the [operating room], and say everything's going to be OK," he added.
"We never give up, and we never predict it. ... Our expectation is survival."
Across the hospital floor in the burn unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital, six other people's lives also are at stake: all victims of various accidents, all with burns similar to Michael Brewer's. They, too, are trying to regain at least a part of what they used to have.
"It's understandable that people can be burned in accidents," Namias said.
"But this was no accident. This didn't have to happen at all."

this is just nutz. I do hope charges are pressed.

I hope the boy will be okay.
I was just wondering about his nutrition they mentioned.
When I had my bowel obstruction, and could not eat for around three months,
My surgeon put me on something called Total Parental Nutrition.
It has everything you need in it to stay alive. Including a little bag of fat they give you every three days.
I was told they could keep a person on this indefinitely.
I wonder if they are using that for him.

As for the boys that did this crime, I hope they are caught, and prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows.

DarkMaidenn wrote:

I hope the boy will be okay.
I was just wondering about his nutrition they mentioned.
When I had my bowel obstruction, and could not eat for around three months,
My surgeon put me on something called Total Parental Nutrition.
It has everything you need in it to stay alive. Including a little bag of fat they give you every three days.
I was told they could keep a person on this indefinitely.
I wonder if they are using that for him.

As for the boys that did this crime, I hope they are caught, and prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows.

yes, I agree on that one. they should be, including the 13 year old!
they were in custody, and were supposed friends of his....

yeah such great friends. Reminds me of some others we know. This just makes me ill. What could possibly posses someone to do this to another & over $40. This child will be scared for life & all over something that could easily be replaced. Personally I think the 5 "children" should be found the toughest & yes down right shittiest jobs there are & made to work off the debt for all the medical treatments this poor kid not only has already gone through but will go through for the rest of his life. The parents should be penalized as well.
Totally horrified & mortally disgusted
Cori

this is a great story.
Redd

> Six Boys And Thirteen Hands...
>
>
>
> "Each year I am hired to go to
> Washington, DC, with the eighth grade class from
> Clinton, WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy
> visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some special
> memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable.
>
>
>
> On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the
> Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze
> statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in
> history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at
> the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW
> II.
>
>
>
> Over one hundred students and chaperones piled
> off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary
> figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where
> are you guys from?' I told him that we were from
> Wisconsin. 'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come
> gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a
> story.'
>
>
>
> (James Bradley just happened to be in Washington,
> DC, to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that
> night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just
> about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he
> spoke to us, and received his permission to share what he said from my
> videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled
> with history in Washington, DC, but it is quite another to get the
> kind of insight we received that night.) When all had gathered
> around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that
> night.)
>
>
>
> 'My name is James Bradley and I'm from
> Antigo, Wisconsin. My dad is on that statue, and I just wrote a book
> called 'Flags of Our Fathers' which is #5 on the New York Times Best
> Seller list right now. It is the story of the six boys you see behind
> me.
>
>
>
> "Six boys raised the flag. The first guy
> putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was
> an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine
> Corps with all the senior members of his football team. They were off
> to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it didn't turn
> out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines
> in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that
> because there are people who stand in front of this statue
> and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that
> most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old -
> and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never
> even would talk to their families about
> it.
>
>
>
> (He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next
> guy? That's Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet
> off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of
> that helmet, you would find a photograph...a photograph of his
> girlfriend. Rene put that in there for protection because he was
> scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of
> Iwo Jima. Boys--Not old men.
>
>
>
> 'The next guy here, the third guy in this
> tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of
> all these guys. They called him the 'old man' because he was so old.
> He was already 24. When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp,
> he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's
> die for our country.' He knew he was talking to little
> boys. Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and
> I'll get you home to your
> mothers.'
>
>
>
> Arizona. Ira Hayes was one who walked off
> Iwo Jima. He went into the White House with my dad.
> President Truman told him, 'You're a hero' He
> told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of
> my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?'
>
>
> So you take your class at school, 250 of you
> spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then
> all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off
> alive. That was Ira Hayes He had images of horror in his mind. Ira
> Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk,
> face down at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was
> taken).
>
>
>
>
> 'The next guy, going around the statue, is
> Franklin Sousley from Hilltop, Kentucky . A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy.
> His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two
> cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire
> across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them
> Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin'
> hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the
> telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the
> Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his
> mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all
> night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter
> of a mile away.
>
>
>
>
> 'The next guy, as we continue to go around
> the statue, is my dad, John Bradley, from Antigo,
> Wisconsin , where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994,
> but he would never give interviews. When Walter
> Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call,
> we were trained as little kids to say 'No, I'm
> sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing.. No, there is
> no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back.' My dad
> never fished or even went to Canada . Usually, he was sitting there
> right at the table eating his Campbell Soup.
>
>
>
>
> 'You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't
> see himself as a hero. Everyone thinks these guys are
> heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My
> dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from
> Wisconsin was a caregiver. In Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys
> as they died. And when boys died in Iwo Jima , they writhed and
> screamed, without any medication or help with the pain.
>
>
>
> 'When I was a little boy, my third grade
> teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my
> dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember
> that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did
> NOT come back.'
>
>
>
> 'So that's the story about six nice young
> boys. Three died on Iwo Jima, and three came back as national heroes.
> Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the
> history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end
> here. Thank you for your time.'
>
>
>
> Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old
> piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life
> before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have
> a father who was a hero. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people
> would believe, but a hero nonetheless.
>
>
>
> We need to remember that God created this vast
> and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great
> sacrifice.
>
>
>
> Let us never forget from the Revolutionary War to
> the current War on Terrorism and all the wars in-between
> that sacrifice was made for our freedom.
>
>
>
>
> Remember to pray praises for this great country
> of ours and also pray for those still in murderous unrest around the
> world.
>
>
>
> STOP and thank God for being alive and being free
> at someone else's sacrifice.
>
>
>
> God Bless You and God Bless America ....
>
>
>
> REMINDER: Everyday that you can wake up free,
> it's going to be a great day.
>
>
>
> One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th
> grade students in DC that is not mentioned here is that if you look at
> the statue very closely and count the number of 'hands' raising the
> flag, there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why
> there were 13, he simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God.
>
>
>
> Great story - worth your time - worth every
> American's time

Great post Bro.
I had tears in my eyes by time I finished.
I never knew the story behind the photo, or the statue.
Very sad.
Thank you for posting this.
(((HUGS)))

Beloved,
Agreed. As a military brat it's always nice to see people remember our armed forces. Thanks for the great share.

36 forevers & just beginning
Cori

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pershing.asp

what a great idea!

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/feedback/24-11-2009/110699-wake_up_america-0

http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/10-12-2009/111031-nostradamus-0

http://english.pravda.ru/society/sex/05-11-2009/110312-masturbation-0

For a bikini? too much money
Looks great though.

http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/bikini-2398

I am checking out this game link
feel free to look yourselves

http://s7.bite-fight.us/c.php?uid=107483
Please choose the Wwerewolf side if you decide to play

THIS IS SO COOL!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/12/14/spidermans-bats/

THIS IS NOT SO COOL!

http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/45146-mammals-may-be-halfway-to-mass-extinction

AND NEITHER IS THIS

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2010/0107/1224261812886.html

INTERESTING

http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100107/LIFE/1070307

and this is also NOT cool!

http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=51258

Just Two Dragons… Nothing More
January 8, 2010 by Vurdlak | Share

Ok, a fine medieval-looking gal appeared in your widget and you decided to follow the link, thinking there is more to it then just her pretty young looking face. Well, to disappoint you, in a moment or so you’ll realize our pretty guest has seamlessly disappeared, and left us alone with nothing but lonely memory of her.

So I romanticized this article a little, but I’m sure you won’t mind. Either way, concentrate on this Fantasy scene a little deeper, and soon you’ll realize there is “nothing more” then two scary dragons threatening each other (or kissing, as far it concerns me). It really amazed me how well did the artist manage to implement the girl’s face, and then bring it to the the center of attention. We have had some similar attempts before, but most of the time they involved mistakes and were not-so-well integrated.

Those of you who are into tattoos, here’s a nice idea for you. Remember our old friend Greg Grease Lehman? Print this, and head straight to Greg’s tattoo shop! I believe he won’t have anything against illusions like this one! Hehe…

Have you noticed how some of the illusions have evolved? When I saw this picture, somehow it reminded me of a Young Lady or an Old Hag illusion. Wouldn’t it be awesome if this illusion contained another hidden effect, where you could see the lady’s face both as young and as old one? Comment!

http://www.moillusions.com/2006/03/dragon-illusion.html

Very awesome pic bro!

this pc is less than 6 months old from store.
I have an issue covered by warranty that I need to fix.

I may be without pc for a little while, unknown at this time.

In any case, thought i would let you know.

Peace and Love to all of pack,
Redd

PC update,

I am now on the Dinosaur that used to be Cori's PC.

I dont know how she lived through it.

anyway, looks like it will be about a week or so before i get it back.

Peace and Love,
Redd

Hurry back...or use Cori's...when she's not around of course! lmao Miss you guys