Licorice: "Another DUH headline or two from the Widow Heinz's TV."
Posted on 03/30/2005 12:25:05 PM PST by jpsb
Edited on 03/30/2005 12:44:39 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
With time running out for Terri Schiavo, a federal appeals court Wednesday rejected her parents' latest attempt to get the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reconnected.
The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to consider an emergency bid by Bob and Mary Schindler for a new hearing in their case, raising a flicker of hope for the parents after a series of setbacks in the case. But the court rejected the request 15 hours later.
Three times last week, the court also ruled against the Schindlers.
"Any further action by our court or the district court would be improper," Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. wrote. "While the members of her family and the members of Congress have acted in a way that is both fervent and sincere, the time has come for dispassionate discharge of duty."
To be granted, the parents' request would have needed the support of seven of the court's 12 judges. The court did not disclose the vote breakdown.
The Schindlers visited their daughter Wednesday morning at her hospice and urged their supporters to keep trying. "I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw," Bob Schindler said. "So she's still fighting, and we'll keep fighting."
"We know that some of her organs are still functioning. ... It's not too late," he said.
In requesting a new hearing, the Schindlers argued that a federal judge in Tampa should have considered the entire state court record and not whether previous Florida court rulings met legal standards under state law. The Schindlers' motion also said the federal appellate court in Atlanta didn't consider whether there was enough "clear and convincing" evidence that Terri Schiavo would have chosen to die in her current condition.
Don't know what that is supposed to mean. But it makes as much sense as many of the posts here.
The malpractice money certainly did wake him up.
Thank you for your suggestion but I will decline.
I think you're right. I doubt the masses have the first clue what any of it means to them, either.
But they will.
"Am I allowed to pray in church with hundreds of other people?"
Don't ask me. I didn't write the rules.
Of course you can do that. If you'll note, Jesus' admonition is against loud praying in the street...in public places. It says nothing about praying in church.
But...I didn't write that stuff. It's not my book. It's the book that Christians claim they follow, and the words of the namesake of their religion.
Licorice: "Another DUH headline or two from the Widow Heinz's TV."
This is the video that should be shown on the news everynight - it is even more powerful than the balloon video.
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/ccb/videos/Terri_Big_Eyes.rm
You need Real Player to watch this, available free on the internet.
This is not reflex action - she heard the doctor, she opened her eyes as wide as she could to impress him.
Even Fox news has ignored this clip.
As for your questions, I have no idea. I can't post anymore. I can't talk about this anymore. This. The Pope. You would think people would really understand that God is trying to tell us something.
You clearly have not been at the hospice, where the pro-death crowd takes every opportunity to shout obscenities at people who are quietly praying. Usually the police keep them back, but when they have a chance, they seize it, just as they do at anti-abortion events.
This case means a lot to the pro-death, pro-judicial tyranny folks. They're on the winning side, though, and they know it, so they don't have to get really worked up about it.
Baloney. She has been gone for a decade or more. The refusal of the parents to face facts doesn't change that.
That refusal has subjected Terri to a fate worse than death.
Show us the law that says Terri must be starved to death.
That's some good gibberish there.
I made a number of pro-Terri phone calls to officials the other day. The person who answered the phone in his office seemed the most open to listening to me.
"You wrote that and ended it with "I can find no real fault with it"? Amazing"
Perhaps you misunderstood. What I meant was that I can find no real fault with our laws' legal definition of murder. If you can, I'd like to hear it.
Anything at the expense of the judiciary is capital well
spent.
Nobody said they should be trying to harm anyone.
What about just being there and try to get into the room peacefully and forcing them to arrest you. Do you think it would make everyone reconsider their positions if thousands of people are being arrested daily?
Or what about a hunger strike. I haven't seen anyone willing to do that either.
Is Jeb Bush doing everything he can? No. But who is? Few of us are the kind of Saint that would lay down their life/career etc for a friend, much less a stranger. It doesn't make him a bad person, at least, he's no worse than any of us.
Noticed they deleted your ignorantly worded post. Perhaps, just perhaps you really should get the hint and take that part of your handle to heart.
/rolling eyes/
Those Texas-crats sometimes go AWOL in other states,,,remember that?
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