Posted on 04/03/2005 5:19:05 PM PDT by floriduh voter
Halls wrote: Oh, trust me I agree with you. I have read what TEJ had wrote and about Whecht not being allowed to witness the autopsy. I think it is rediclous and if the ME is corrupt as all the rest we will find out as well. I'm just saying I think the ME probably did a bone scan, whether or not we get the true results of it is another.""
Unfortunately, I don't have any trust in anyone in power in that county. I sincerely hope I'm wrong. I read on yesterdays posts that you are scheduled to have surgery. Is it serious? I wish you the best with your upcoming surgery and also hope your depression lifts and you will not need the anti-depressants anymore.
Yes, I am having surgery in May. I am not really depressed. The antidepressants help me cope with the chronic pain I have. I have chronic sinusitis and it hasn't gone away little over a year now. This will be my third surgery in one year on my sinuses, the different is this is major surgery. It is a permanent fix to my problems. I am having what is called a frontal sinus obliteration, basically the removal of the frontal sinus. To get them out is quite an ordeal! You can look it up on google if you want more info. After surgery and recovery I will quit the antidepressants as I don't really want to take them.
As far as trusting anyone, i have lost faith in our leaders and justice system as well. And I believe it will only get worse.
Heavenly Father loves you very much.
If the Zogby poll had come out BEFORE Terri's feeding tube was pulled, she'd be alive today. The politicians would have scrambled to save her! Scrambled!!
Exactly! And if they're too stupid to figure this out . . . whatever. They all have blood on their hands.
Thanks for your post. I want to repeat it again below:
"Tell CBS not to show the Terri movie, which depicts Michael as a loving husband (when he murdered her) or their advertisers will be notified and boycotted."
cbs phone # is 212-975-3247; e-mail is audsvcs@cbs.com
Glad to hear that Glenn is helping us out.
I just go back after being gone all day.
Anything new since I left? I'll read as many posts as I can, but don't want to miss anything profound.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1380148/posts?page=1
Why Judges Must Promote a Christian America
Great article by David Gibbs Jr. (dad of Schindlers attorney)
Diocese of St. Petersburg
Bishop Robert N. Lynch
Pastoral Center
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St. Petersburg, FL 33743
By Email:
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All during the Pope's magnificent final rites, I was so tearful .. in the homily, Cardinal Ratzinger gave the No. 1 precept of Christ, and that the Pope humbly obeyed throughout his entire lifelong journey: IF YOU LOVE ME, FEED MY SHEEP. What could be clearer??
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops-Office of Media Relations
In Newsday Op-Ed, Bishops' Official Says Terri Schiavo Deserves Nourishment and Care
WASHINGTON (March 24, 2005)—In an op-ed today in Newsday, Cathy Cleaver Ruse, Esq., Director of Planning and Information for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, argued that, as long as food and water provide nourishment and comfort, we should see them as part of what we owe to all people who are helpless and in our care.
The Newsday op-ed follows.
Terri Schiavo is at the heart of a human tragedy being played out in our nation, and watched by the world. Her husband wants to remove her feeding tube, saying this is her wish, while her parents and siblings vigorously disagree that she would have wanted to die. Since last Friday, Schiavo has faced each new day without food or water, by order of a Florida State judge.
"Complex" seems to be the latest watchword in her case. But some things are simple and clear. Terri Schiavo is a woman living with severe disabilities. She is not comatose or "brain dead." She is not terminally ill or dying: Her heart beats on its own and her lungs work without assistance. The thing with Schiavo is that she cannot feed herself without assistance - but then again, neither could Christopher Reeve.
A terribly misleading ABC News Poll, repeated in news reports ad nauseam, says that 63 percent of Americans want Schiavo's feeding tube removed. The poll says she's "on life support," which is not true, and that she has "no consciousness," which her family and dozens of doctors dispute in sworn affidavits. The poll also says the family disagreement is whether she would have wanted to "be kept alive." But Schiavo is not dying - or wasn't, while she was being fed. So the question isn't whether she should be "kept alive" or "allowed to die," but whether to stop feeding her, in which case she will die. By most accounts, death by starvation and dehydration is a painful, even gruesome death. That's why we don't starve convicted criminals to death, or animals either.
Michael Schiavo says she would have wanted to die this way, but what is the proof? Only his claim that Terri told him once that she would not want to live on anything artificial, a claim his family members support. Years before, in the medical malpractice suit he filed after she became disabled, he claimed that she would have a long life and would need expensive rehabilitative care, and that he would provide this care as long as he lived.
Many are asking why it took six years for him to remember that dying was actually his wife's wish. Others ask whether a disaffected husband with dubious motives should be granted absolute control over his wife's fate. It's a good question, one that was not explored in the original trial, but could be explored in a new trial - if Schiavo does not die first.
And that is why Congress acted.
Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed a bill giving Schiavo's parents the right to be heard in federal court on the question of whether their daughter's legal rights have been violated. The Constitution guarantees all persons the right to equal protection and due process of law, Congress argued; without access to a federal appeal, which death-row inmates have every day, Terri Schiavo was being denied both.
All this effort may be tragically moot. On Tuesday a federal district judge denied the petition to reinsert Terri's feeding tube while a new trial could proceed, and yesterday the federal appeals court agreed. The final recourse for Schiavo's parents will be to the Supreme Court.
Schiavo cannot speak on her own behalf. She is totally defenseless and dependent on others, but she retains every ounce of her human dignity and deserves respect and care. Her plight dramatizes one of the most critical questions we face: To be a truly human society, how should we care for those who cannot care for themselves? Ultimately what happens to Terri Schiavo will say more about us than it does about her.
A year ago Pope John Paul II answered this question by reaffirming that "the administration of food and water, even when provided by artificial means, always represents a natural means of preserving life, not a medical act." He said such feeding should be considered "morally obligatory" as long as it provides nourishment and alleviation of suffering.
In other words, as long as food and water provide nourishment and comfort, we should see them as part of what we owe to all people who are helpless and in our care.
Terri Schiavo's parents see it this way, and are begging for the chance to take care of their daughter. Congress and the president were right to do what they could to give them that chance.
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Thank you!!
That is some article.
This quote proves that our Founding Fathers were not secular fanatics:
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship. —Patrick Henry"
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There is a formula, and I THINK it goes like this:
If you e-mail, it counts it as 10 voters.
If you call, it counts it as 50 voters.
If you write a letter, it counts it as 100 voters.
If you go in person, it counts it as 500 voters.
Do I have the formula correct?
Bishop Lynch refused to pray the Rosary for Terri. He said "I don't do that sort of thing."
That's a direct quote from my friend whose name shall remain anonymous to protect her.
I went in person and Rep. Dave Simmons fed us a line of bull. He is not impeaching Greer and Terri is gone. All he did was defend Jeb who's political career is O-V-E-R. So, if I counted for 500 votes, Dave Simmons of the House Judiciary Committee wasn't aware of the formula.
I went in person and Rep. Dave Simmons fed us a line of bull. He is not impeaching Greer and Terri is gone. All he did was defend Jeb who's political career is O-V-E-R. So, if I counted for 500 votes, Dave Simmons of the House Judiciary Committee wasn't aware of the formula.
Terri through her years of neglect, suffering and cruel death is unintentionally going to change the political landscape of our nation.
Unintended consequences are going to bite the dems and the pubbies in their base where it smarts.
We need a new spray can for judges called JUDGE NO MORE. for the judicial despots GREER AND WHITTEMORE should both be on the spray can. (that's non-threatening as opposed to judge be gone.)
I do HOPE AND PRAY that the Republican Party will give us a presidential candidate with GUTS this time.
No more Bushes, please.
IMPORTANT BLOG TO KEEP BUMPING TO THE TOP. There's updates here re: Mae and also Justice for Terri
http://www.blogsforterri.com/
If you state you are for a proposition you must act to assure its success.
If you talk the talk, you must walk the walk.
Jeb cowered when Greer growled, proving himself unfit for the higher office of president--or, of vice president.
Our president made a statement of fine sentiment, and made the symbolic early return to the capitol to sign the bill which the judiciary then spat upon.
The president's reaction? Send Laura to Afghanistan.
His lowered poll numbers reflect the base which elected him and which supported Terri now disapproves of his having failed to follow through.
If they're not there in the a.m. do a search under Terri Schiavo. FV
"Maybe Rick Santorum but he couldn't stop Terri from being starved to death either although he came to the Vigil.
IMPORTANT BLOG TO KEEP BUMPING TO THE TOP. There's updates here re: Mae and also Justice for Terri
http://www.blogsforterri.com/"
I think that Santorum did all that he had the power to do, but the Bush brothers had the power, but did not use it.
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