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Ben Carson says the Terri Schiavo case was ‘much ado about nothing’
Washington Post ^ | 11/13/15 | Ed O'Keefe

Posted on 11/13/2015 5:19:57 PM PST by markomalley

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To: Aliska
Carson was pushed into throwing his hat into the ring by some shadowy group and I want to know ALL of their names!

His "HOLIER THAN THOU", "BUTTER WOULDN'T MELT IN HIS MOUTH" act fools the naive and they need to wake up and smell the coffee! He's unstable, uneducated on everything but his own type of surgery, and needs to just shut up and go away!

Tonight's massacre really should be a wake-up call for EVERY non-Muslim throughout the world!

161 posted on 11/13/2015 7:36:55 PM PST by nopardons
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To: markomalley

Unfortunately, he’s correct, docs do face this every day and they cannot go on forever keeping people alive artificially. Nonetheless, it will kill him politically with his biggest constituent group.


162 posted on 11/13/2015 7:39:04 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Grampa Dave

Thanks for a much needed laugh tonite!!!!


163 posted on 11/13/2015 7:40:06 PM PST by gibsosa
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To: TADSLOS

I saw what you did there... and I am lmao!!!!


164 posted on 11/13/2015 7:45:00 PM PST by gibsosa
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To: markomalley

A human life is not important?

Anyone voting for this man is nuts.


165 posted on 11/13/2015 7:45:58 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: nopardons
He won't go away of his own accord. He will have to be forced out, same as Jeb. They are hanging on until the bitter end, and it is making it harder for the few who might make it. I wish Cruz could become a really viable candidate.

I'm gonna go and see if I can find what Trump ranted about in Ft. Dodge.

166 posted on 11/13/2015 7:53:05 PM PST by Aliska
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To: TBP

DITTO!!!!


167 posted on 11/13/2015 7:54:36 PM PST by pollywog ( " O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: blackdog

Terry Schiavo was injured under very suspicious circumstances at a very young age. Husband should have been a suspect rather than be allowed to determine her care. Sorry, I disagree...Terri’s case is up for “discussion” anytime, anywhere. She was murdered by State decree, if you cannot see that, then we have nothing further to share.


168 posted on 11/13/2015 8:00:25 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: antceecee

Yes! Thank you!


169 posted on 11/13/2015 8:01:50 PM PST by gibsosa
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To: jwalsh07

I doubt if Trump posts here.

But you can count every major candidate, regardless of party, has some lackey monitoring this place just to find out what the true conservative opinions are.

For example, if the dems and GOPe see we are unhappy with them, then they know they are doing something right.


170 posted on 11/13/2015 8:04:48 PM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: Aliska
Trump didn't "rant" and he was SPOT ON !

I want this horde winnowed; it's filled with idiots, losers, and people with no chance at all to beat Hillary. Trump, Cruz, and maybe 1 other can debate, but the rest should disappear!

171 posted on 11/13/2015 8:10:12 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Longbow1969

“Sadly, in hospice and cancer centers every day people go off medication and are just given pain killers to comfort them as they pass.”

-—Well, speaking as a Hospice Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, and owner of a Hospice agency, yes, some people do elect to withhold medications because at the end of life routine Meds aren’t going to result in anything but more side effects. BUT, that decision is VERBALIZED by that patient, or via family member executing a Living Will. They are not ever, in ANY circumstance, not given adequate care and support if not verbalized by patient, or Living Will is in place. Don’t you dare try to equate Hospice Care with mercy killing, or what was done to Terri Schiavo


172 posted on 11/13/2015 8:14:42 PM PST by MichelleWSC3
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To: Ouderkirk
Terry wanted to live. She was not in a “vegetative state.” Her family wanted her to have swallowing tests, but Judge Greer (the man who condemned Terry to death) forbade it.

All these facts were thoroughly discussed on the daily Terry threads at the time.

173 posted on 11/13/2015 8:18:05 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (Descended from heterosexuals.)
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To: MichelleWSC3

Thank you! Recently went through situation with Palliative care nurse practitioner telling me my step mom only had one year to live and I should put her in hospice, despite FACT no medical doctor caring for her had stated any such thing! I posted complaint on hospital blog and her supervisor was in my SM room the next day apologizing for this young woman’s actions. Also assured me that this so called young nurse had no place in denigrating the actions of my SM Doctor. The young woman told me that doctors are not as aware as she, they do not treat the whole person, but concentrate only on their specialty. Head of palliative care at the hospital assured me this nurse was removed from duty and mandated to attend further training.
It was really quite surreal listening to this nurse as she told me I needed to let my SM just suffer death from pneumonia or whatever and give her pain killers...I did ask her if she was the death squad for Obama....upset her...in between the two personal phone calls she took while telling me to kill off my step mom.


174 posted on 11/13/2015 8:32:06 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: Lauren BaRecall

No one has the right to do what was done to this young woman!


175 posted on 11/13/2015 8:33:16 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: Ouderkirk

Something I just remembered:

Terry had the tubes removed once prior, but a court ordered a reprieve and they were reinserted. Whenever the possibility of their being removed again came up, she showed deep fear. She understood what was spoken and remembered her suffering during that occasion.

That poor little lamb.


176 posted on 11/13/2015 8:37:01 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (Descended from heterosexuals.)
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To: antceecee
Yes, and Jeb didn't fight for her.

I think of the scene from the old movie “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” in which Charles Laughton swings down on a rope to scoop up Maureen O'Hara thus saving her from the noose. He stands high up on the church holding the fainted Maureen over his head and yells, “Sanctuary! Sanctuary!”

Jeb owed it to God and to Terry to perform a morally equivalent feat, and he ended up being a Pontius Pilat.

177 posted on 11/13/2015 8:55:20 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (Descended from heterosexuals.)
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To: Lauren BaRecall

Perfectly stated.


178 posted on 11/13/2015 9:06:58 PM PST by proust (Texan for Trump!)
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To: markomalley

Terri Schiavo was the line in the sand that this culture crossed in 2005.

It has never recovered.

And Jeb Bush was the squish that let it happen.

And Jeb’s brother and the whole GOP fell over themselves doing nothing as well.

As for Ben Carson, gifted hands?

My rear end.

Get the hook and get this poser off the stage.


179 posted on 11/13/2015 9:21:10 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: nopardons
The video is on yt, was watching it but will later because there's too much going on. Had to check out the Eagles of Death Metal. Decadent stuff, probably worse out there. I think they were the prime target. And now it's not clear if they all got out.

I hope Trump stays on this and eases up on Carson. The libs think Carson is a joke. They are afraid of Trump.

I have the awful feeling we're going to get sucked into another war whether we want it or not. And the first Syrian refugees are here. They are scattering them around, a few here, a few there, all over the country.

If they put too many in one place and the people know they are coming, they might put up a fight. But it is too late, I fear. And our sellout churches are sponsoring it all. Must be something in it for them. They will never convert. They are doing the Devil's work here by resettling Muslims.

180 posted on 11/13/2015 9:24:28 PM PST by Aliska
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