It's Thursday at the Finest... This has been a tough, sad, angry time around FR and the country because of the Terri case. There has been lots of spin all over...stop in and read Johns2Cents. The guy always seems to get it right!!!!
Posted on 03/23/2005 9:19:17 PM PST by dutchess
It's Thursday at the Finest... This has been a tough, sad, angry time around FR and the country because of the Terri case. There has been lots of spin all over...stop in and read Johns2Cents. The guy always seems to get it right!!!!
Bravo.. As always, he is dead on.
I read every word. Great post. It made me feel worse than I did already but such is the state of America Today. Its like we are back in the Coliseum in Rome and the thumb is down.
John is right on, as expected. I have been so down lately about the state of our country lately, the gallows humor almost made me lose the lid of my laptop. Unfortunately, while some of it was very funny, all of it was very true.
Perhaps I am a bit sensitive to all this as a "disabled vet", but I sure have no intentions of Herr Greer determining my "Quality of Life" doesn't meet his expectations and have my food and water cut off.
Good morning. Excellent work as usual HJ2. My only question is why have the US and FL congresses waited until the 11th hour to take up Terri's fight?
Because we often read Luke's gospel at Christmas, we may forget that 9 months of trust and waiting separated Mary's response to Gabriel from the birth of Jesus. When we read her words of surrender in light of this timespan, they take on added meaning: "Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word" (Luke 1:38). Mary must have received great encouragement when her cousin Elizabeth told her, "Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord" (v.45). We can celebrate beginnings by giving a hug or handshake to a new believer who professes faith in Christ. We can write a note of encouragement to a friend who has chosen to obey God's Word. Let's grasp every opportunity to celebrate the beginnings of God's work in the lives of others. -David McCasland
And minimal energy spent To pass an encouraging word To one who'll be glad it was sent. -Hess The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word.
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"Government should mind its own business, like telling us whether to smoke, when to smoke, where to smoke, what to eat, how much, what to drive, regulating toilet size, managing Baseball, running family farms, handing out condoms, taking down the Ten Commandments."
LOL! Literally.
I've never really checked this thread out before but I love the photo album!
How nice to put a face to a name.
I have been awed by the devotion that so many here have in saving Terri's life and support them in their noble cause. It brings back memories of a time down in Montgomery that a group of people had the same kind of passion in protecting their First Amendment Right of free exercise of religion and the judges were wrong then too.
Love how you zero right in to dissect a topic with biting perception and zinging - er, singing vociferously all the way!
Where, oh where, are all those stalwart Champions of Justice for the Lowly and Oppressed??
Curiously silent, they are, and two are supposedly ministers.
(Anyone ever see their credentials for the title? Perhaps correspondence courses through Head Start?)
Firstly, why have we not been subjected this winter to a 3-day filibuster by the knightly Senator Robert Byrd??
No minister, other than what he has professed in the past as his variety of "justice," wearing his "ministerial" robes of snow white with a cross.
Here he is in action:
As for those conspicuously quiet ministers, I refer to these two:
The somewhat dignified Reverend Al Sharpton, who championed Tawana Brawley, doncha know, who did lie - -
and Reverend Jesse Jackson -- 
Nuff said ---
Oh, yes, John - the Democrats are so confused and pathetic in their trying to sort this out to play effectively with their poor, brain dead followers.
Why, I even heard a rumor that one move being considered by Nancy Pelosi and Hary Reid was to stand on the steps of The Supreme Court and demand in a petition that a real expert physician be brought in!
My thought leapt to the obvious kindly one, Joycelyn Elders -- 
Wrong, as she probably was too busy passing out condoms to kindergarteners somewhere in America...
No, they thought to propose their most qualified authority -- 
Sad day in America, and we appreciate your keeping the finger on our pulse, JH.
Love n hugs,
~ LadyX
You're right John, it's horrible what they're doing to Terri. Praying for a miracle to save her.
Once again John is spot on!
I worry about this nation and how human life and rights are reduced to an inconvieniance.
Testimony by Terri's friend Diane Meyer was disregarded by Greer:
"At the 2000 trial, Greer, although initially finding Meyer's testimony 'believable,' concluded that the conversation could not have occurred in 1982, because he believed Quinlan died in 1976. At that time, Terri would have been only 11 or 12 years old and, therefore, would not have made her end-of-life wishes as an adult."
"The new motion contends it was Greer who was mistaken and not Meyer, because Quinlan did not die until 1985, about 9 years after her court case ended and her respirator was removed."
Following is an affadavit by Dr. William Cheshire 3/23/05 for those of you who have not seen it:
Great rant, Lady! I feel this but have run out of words! *sigh*. Goes so well with John's essay which, as usual, is very powerful!
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