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'Mr. Pot, Please Meet Mr. Kettle'

The best of today's comments from Patch account-holders in your town and neighboring communities.

DARIEN: "Mr. Pot, please meet Mr. Kettle." This is one reader's response to , who called Wednesday's Wikipedia blackout an "abuse of power."

GREENWICH: "Mr. Lucarelli's district looked shocked when he was nominated and proceeded to waste the RTM's time for no purpose whatsoever. Afterward, I asked someone from his district if he told any of them what he was planning to do, and the answer was NO. So much for transparency in government. So much for Mr. Lucarelli's future in town politics. We now see him and his gang for what they are." This is one reader's response John Lucarelli as a leader of Greenwich's Representative Town Meeting.

RIDGEFIELD: "If it's a free service, how can it be abuse of power? If anyone has abused their power Mr FORMER Senator it is you!!!!!" This is another comment about about the Wikipedia blackout.

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SHELTON: "My daughter had a double lung transplant, so please don't tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about. This doctor did not refuse to give her a transplant. The doctors must decide who, among many needy patients, will get a particular body part. In other words, 'Where will the part do the most potential good.' This is a terrifically difficult decision that no person should have to make but someone must do so and so the doctors step up. The mother offered to find a donor, but the doctor still decided he would not do the operation. For the same reason. That body part will do more good in a different body. This same decision is made daily all over the country. Yes, it's tough on the 'loser,' but somewhere there is another 'winner.' A person who has a better chance of being successful with the new organ. Until there are more organs than people who need them, this will go on. Fair? No, but it's the best system we have (even when it fails a particular patient). Want a solution? Get more people to sign organ donor cards." This is one reader's response to an opinion piece by Heather Borden Hervé about Amelia Rivera, a by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHoP) because she has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome.


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