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It is time now to boycott the Republican Party from the Republican dog catcher to the Republican President until they use the constitutional option and change the Senate rules and Bush's judges get a up or down Vote. We give them no help what so ever! No money, no grass-foot efforts, no man power. Until the Republican Senators prove they can be the majority party.

<p>Tonight it is, March 23, 2005, over five days since Theresa Marie Schiavo commenced her ordeal of purposeful and legally sanctioned dehydration and starvation. We await a decision from the three judge panel from Eleventh Judicial Circuit as to her fate, as her family struggles with seeing Terri's physical health deteriorate.</p>

VATICAN CITY, MARCH 22, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The legal complexities of Terri Schiavo's case may obscure the fact that a person is being condemned to die of hunger and thirst, warns the Vatican's semiofficial newspaper. In today's Italian edition, L'Osservatore Romano points out that since last Friday, the brain-damaged woman in Florida whose feeding tube has been removed "is not being denied medicines, special treatments or palliatives, but that which for basic reasons of humanity would not be taken away from the most vile and miserable being." Meanwhile, Schiavo's parents begged a federal appeals court to order the woman's feeding tube...

It's time for anyone considering retirement in Florida to SERIOUSLY re-think their plans. There are many other states (and countries, for that matter) where they will be safer from murder under the color of authority when they get a little infirm and inconvienent. If you are retired in Florida, and you are still able, you might consider getting out while you still can... Let Florida know killing the inconvenient has economic consequences.

If the tragic case of Terri Schiavo shows nothing else, it shows how easily "the right to die" can become the right to kill. It is hard to believe that anyone, regardless of their position on euthanasia, would have chosen the agony of starvation and dehydration as the way to end someone's life. A New York Times headline on March 20th tried to assure us: "Experts Say Ending Feeding Can Lead to a Gentle Death" but you can find experts to say anything. In a December 2, 2002 story in the same New York Times, people starving in India were...

Lawyer: Schiavo Ruling Expected Soon By JILL BARTON Tuesday, March 22, 2005 TAMPA, Fla. - Warning that Terri Schiavo was "fading quickly" and might die at any moment, her parents begged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted. The appeals court didn't indicate when it might rule, but George Felos, the attorney for Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, told the Associated Press that he expected a decision before daybreak Wednesday. An attorney for parents Bob and Mary Schindler said in a court filing that the 41-year-old woman might die before they could get a...

it is worth remembering that the excruciating slowness of the execution here, the incremental-ness of death, is designed by its champions to inure us to it. After the first hour, the second passes with far less fanfare, and the third less still. I've been following this closely, and I needed to remind myself today how many hours Terri Schiavo has actually been without sustenance by counting the days since Friday afternoon and multiplying by 24. How much more easily the time passes, and the world around us changes, for those following only fleetingly, or not at all. Why should we...

TAMPA, Fla. - Warning that Terri Schiavo is "fading quickly," her parents begged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted while they pursue claims that her rights are being violated. advertisement David Gibbs III, attorney for parents Bob and Mary Schindler, told the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta that their 41-year-old daughter might die before they get a chance to fully argue their case. The appeal came after a federal judge in Tampa rejected the parents' emergency request earlier Tuesday. "Where, as here, death is imminent, it is hard to...

St. Francis Catholic worker Lana Jacobs (R) is arrested by Pinellas Park, Florida police officers and is handcuffed by Pinellas Park Sheriff deputies for trespassing. Jacobs tried to take a bottle of water into the Woodside Hospice for Terri Schiavo in Pinellas Park, Florida on March 22, 2005. Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who resides at the Hospice had her feeding tube removed last Friday, March 18, 2005 by a court order. REUTERS/Rick Fowler

Continuation of Terri Schiavo daily March threads. Due to overwhelming participation we reached over 5000 posts in three days time!

How would you describe Terry Schiavo's husband Michael? American Bastard Loving Husband trying to do the right thing Some comination of the above 2

A lie taken for the truth always assumes a most dangerous appearance. – F. Dostoevsky, "One of the Contemporaneous Falsehoods" (1873) Death process, death with dignity, quality of life, and futile care: fine-sounding words conjured by those who take a lie and twist the meaning of words in order to fit their world vision. A vision where our individual rights and dignity come from the group, from certain decision-makers, the state, anyone but God. In that secular worldview there is no room for God. Long-held Western and American beliefs that life and the rights of the individual are NOT granted...

Amazing...she says Michael made the nursing staff put make-up on Terri every day, yet not give her physical therapy....more.... I've emailed John to ask him if he can re-run the whole interview at 5 p.m. ET. The interview is still continuing.

Shameful! There's really no other word to describe what is now both the Terri Schiavo ``case'' and the Terri Schiavo ``law.'' Before there was a ``case'' or a ``law,'' Terri Schiavo was just a 26-year-old woman, wife to Michael Schiavo, daughter of Bob and Mary Schindler. Then in 1990 a heart attack, likely resulting from an eating disorder, cut the oxygen to her brain, putting her in what doctors describe as ``a persistent vegetative state.'' Since then Michael Schiavo and the Schindlers have played dysfunctional family - neither willing to relent on who should have the last word on Terri...

How much longer are we going to keep "hoping" a judge does the right thing in a timely manner? Are we waiting through the night? Or we waiting through tomorrow? Are we waiting, waiting, waiting while Terri dehydrates to death? The time has come to call, email and fax encouragement to President Bush to write an executive order protecting Terri immediately and getting her into a hospital. In a hospice they cannot adequately take care of her. The judge can take his time making decisions without it being on Terri's watch. BEGIN the CALLS!! Jam the switchboards!! Pass this to...

Terri Brother ..................Terri early on in a hospice .................. Michael has let his wife deteriate!Compare the early Hospice Photo At this time Terri was able to chew and swallow and was learning to use the pararall bars to walk again...as soon as the malpactice law suit was won Michael Schiavo remember his wife wanted to die...so he would move her from one location to another every time they thought she was ready to start rehab again! Lets try to have the same page to fight the MISLEADING OUT THERE!

Dear Terry Schiavo, I am saying a Hail Mary for you now and I know that there are many others who are praying for you.May God hold you in His Hand,The Blessed Mother, Mary come to your assistance and may the Son of God ,Jesus Christ,come through your door to heal you completely !! You cannot speak yet hundreds of hearts around the globe, understand you. You call to them and with the voice of a silent angel. I know that those who read this ,too,will send you a message afterwards,you are not alone,your holy angel stands next to you...

"MICHAEL SCHIAVO, Terri Schiavo's husband, finally went on national television last night to tell the world his side of the story. Appearing on "Larry King Live," he strived mightily to play the loving husband. Until more than half way through the interview, when King got around to tentatively asking Schiavo whether or not it is true that he has a girlfriend. (King, who must have known the answer, somehow failed to mention that Schiavo has already sired two children with this woman, who he calls his fiancé.)"...

Appeals are under way after a judge refused early Tuesday to reinstall a feeding tube, in a case with broad legal implications.WASHINGTON – Boiled down to its essence, the ongoing legal dispute over a severely brain-damaged Florida woman might well have been filed in court under the label Theresa Marie Schiavo v. Theresa Marie Schiavo. Both sides in the life-or-death drama unfolding in a Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice and federal courtrooms are claiming to be acting in what they believe to be Terri Schiavo's best interests. Yet only one of those parties can be right. The other, while acting with...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A Port St. Lucie woman who has a daughter on life support said Sunday she sympathizes with Terri Schiavo's parents. Mary Jane Gott's daughter Lisa had a heart attack at 38 and has been in a vegetative state ever since. Lisa Gott is fitted with a feeding tube and respirator and is being cared for in a Staten Island, N.Y., nursing home. Her mother said she could never take her daughter off life support. "When God is ready to put his arms around her and take her, she'll go, and not until then," she said....