Posted on 10/01/2005 6:32:54 AM PDT by topher
The only issue that David Gibbs can ever remember Jesse Jackson and Rush Limbaugh agreeing on was the fact that Terri Schiavo should remain alive.
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Gibbs called removing Schiavo's feeding tube "barbaric and uncivilized." Florida law does not allow the starvation of animals and the constitution does not allow the starvation of convicted murderers, he said.
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Felos said faith-based organizations, religious leaders, priests and rabbis distorted the facts in the Schiavo case.
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(Excerpt) Read more at palmbeachdailynews.com ...
http://www.earnedmedia.org/rt1014.htm
Frank Farkas really blew it when he switched sides and joined the RINOS. I can't vote for Farkas now. I'll leave that box in the ballot blank.
Maybe Senator Jim King is becoming a liability to the Florida Republican Party, not just to us.
Jeb is still in hiding. He only comes out for hurricanes. Seriesly. He only comes out for hurricanes. Poor Jebbie that there's corruption in Florida's GOP. Is he going to hide until Tom Gallagher is given the oath of office?
TOM GALLAGHER FOR FLA GOV:
http://www.tg2006.com
Floriduh voter, he probably spent half of it at Dunkin Donuts and the other half at Krispy Kreme!
Jim King inhaled his illegal contributions you say? He better watch out. The Fla Republican Party might try to give him the boot. He's already broken the law. How do they unring that bell? But who would prosecute him in a state where corruption is the norm? Certainly, not Charlie Crist, head of florida law enforcement.
King has probably always been a liability for them but I bet they overlooked it cause he brings in the bucks. They may have even been aware of this before it hit the news, remember the 2 color mailings that were paid for by the Republican Party and sent to voters in his district. They sent those out for a reason and it was to improve image and make him look like the conservative's friend. At the time I thought it was because of Randall running against him but now with this out in the open, it makes me wonder if it wasn't so they could try to deflect attention from this issue.
Now to check the local media for the story on a pc that works. 8^}
Why did former Senate President Tom Lee step into this mess? He wants to launch an inquiry. Is he running for something in 2006? If so. I wasn't aware.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1502606/posts
Maybe it's payback for King screwing up the Republicans on Terri's vote.
King's reputation here isn't what he thinks it is. People who wheel~n~deal may think he's a great guy because he gets them what they want:most recent example, this trip because it could bring a billion dollar co. to FL.
Folks who have had personal dealings with him don't talk so kindly.
Sooner or later the back door will slap hit you in the butt on the way out!
There was a crooked man
Who walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence
Against a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat
Which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together
In a crooked little house.
From Cheryl Ford today..
Brother of Schiavo still upset over death
He says the courts and her husband mishandled case.
By Jennifer Toomer-Cook
http://deseretnews.com/dn/staff/card/1,1228,151,00.html
Deseret Morning News
Bobby Schindler says his memory is seared with images of his sister,
Terri Schiavo, after courts approved removal of her feeding tube in a
high-profile right-to-die/right-to-life battle he says wasn't always fairly
portrayed in the media.
Bobby Schindler
"Fresh in my mind now is how they tortured her to death, how terrified
she looked prior to her death. . . . That will be an image that stays with
me and my family the rest of our lives," Schindler said in an interview. "She
was beautiful, she was alive, she was a human being and had a family willing
to . . . show her compassion as every human being deserves. But the courts
decided she would be better off dead."
About six months have passed since Schiavo died. And Schindler is on an
international speaking tour of sorts, criticizing the right-to-die movement and,
through the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, pushing for changes in
federal and state laws to protect the lives of the elderly and people with
disabilities.
He addressed about 150 people at Westminster College Wednesday night and
spoke with the Deseret Morning News beforehand. Student leaders had invited him
after learning he had spoken to another university, free of charge. His Salt
Lake speech also included no honorarium, he said. "I think society . . .
has been confused over what compassion is. We're here to love and take care of
these people and not kill them," Schindler said in an interview.
"Everything's been flip-flopped here. What's right is wrong, what's wrong is right. And
anything I can do to shed light on what's happening, God willing, I'm going
to try and do. "She would be doing the same thing for me today."
Terri Schiavo collapsed in the wee morning hours on Feb. 26, 1990. Oxygen
deprivation before paramedics resuscitated the 26-year-old resulted in severe
brain damage. A couple years later, Michael Schiavo prevailed in a medical
malpractice lawsuit, resulting in a more than $1 million judgment. But a feud
ensued between him and Terri Schiavo's family in 1993, Schindler said, after
the family questioned when the money would be spent on Terri Schiavo's
promised rehabilitation and therapy. It deepened when Michael Schiavo had children
with a live-in girlfriend in the mid-1990s, Schindler said.
In 1998, Michael Schiavo petitioned a Florida state court to remove life
support, which in this case was a feeding tube. The judge sided with doctors'
testimony that Terri Schiavo was in a "persistent vegetative state" incapable
of thought or emotion and Michael Schiavo's testimony that his wife had said
on several occasions she would not have wanted life-prolonging measures.
The Schindler family disagreed, saying Terri Schiavo was a practicing
Catholic who loved animals and revered life. They disagreed with the doctors'
prognosis and attempted to take guardianship rights away from Michael Schiavo.
The dispute ignited a national debate over the right to die — and live. It
involved public actions on both sides of the issue, acts of the Florida
Legislature and governor and Congress in allowing federal courts to ensure Terri
Schiavo's due process rights had been protected, and, upon her death, a
statement from the Vatican and discussion over living wills. "Mr. Schiavo's
overriding concern here was to provide for Terri a peaceful death with dignity,"
Michael Schiavo's lawyer, George Felos, said in a news conference after the
woman's death. "This death was not for the siblings, and not for the spouse and
not for the parents. This was for Terri." But Schindler believes the
public was not fully informed about his sister's case due to what one critic
called "journalistic malpractice."
The media "constantly referred to my sister as vegetative . . . as brain
dead" when he says an autopsy did not confirm such, and that a doctor had said
Terri Schiavo could have been in a minimally conscious state. "The press I
think went out of the way . . . to justify the killing of my sister by her
autopsy report." The autopsy report also said Terri Schiavo showed no signs of
suffering from bulimia, or of a heart attack, Schindler said. It concluded
the reason for her collapse was unknown. "Yet that was rarely, if ever,
reported," he said. Schindler believes that media reports shape public discussion.
Public discussion has shifted from one about sanctity of life to quality of
life, Schindler said. He questions the need for the diagnosis "persistent
vegetative state," which he says is a subjectively assigned "death sentence"
that has no purpose "except devaluing a person's life . . . and making it
easier to kill." He likens such prognoses and actions thereafter to years leading
up to the Holocaust. He's worried about the rush to create living wills
without careful thought to temporary life support, that prognoses might be
wrong. Schindler said he did not think Terri Schiavo would have fully
recovered. But the family at least wanted to try rehabilitation. "We loved her.
She was beautiful. She was sacred to us and sacred in the eyes of God. All we
wanted to do is bring her home and care for her."
Too funny that I won't be helping him either. Weren't we in that mva in 94? No, that was your dad.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46822
While most states have a health care system, Florida has a death care system, a new tag that is catching on.
Charlie Crist is smooth but there's nothing substantive there. His hands off approach in the worst civil rights violations of the century of Terri Schiavo shows that he wants the glory of being Governor but doesn't get a rat's behind about the people of Florida. It's all about him.
Don't let anyone tell you that he's a conservative. He's a lefty masquerading as a republican.
His hands off approach in the worst civil rights violations of the century of Terri Schiavo shows that he wants the glory of being Governor but doesn't GIVE a rat's behind about the people of Florida. It's all about him.
" he probably spent half of it at Dunkin Donuts"
LOL..he does appear to eat well and often, doesn't he.
For shame those who let her die on March 31, 2005.
But, let's celebrate that Terri brought millions of strangers together. How did she do that? The meek shall inherit the earth.
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