Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture

Renew America ^ | May 29, 2006 | Kevin Fobbs

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It seems to me that the same "distract, distract, distract" can be said about the Liberal Media. Reporters are brothers and sisters in spirit with trolls. They speak the same language, refer to the same ideological templates and probably even cross-breed.

For me, the worst is the NPR voice. They all have that horrid condescending Uncle Screwtape nasal tone at a PH level that would etch glass. It is their shibboleth. It is their tribal identifier and mating call. You can hear it through a brick wall. Whatever they say in that voice is not merely lies but evil, evil, evil.

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>> For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat

How dare God talk this way? I'm going to have to report Him to PETA.

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The most powerful realization to come upon me on arriving at the Pinellas Park crime scene was the great force of epic battle between good and evil, one or the other, absolutes, no middle ground.

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That NPR sound, that Satanic dead air, has weighed on me ever since first noticing it decades ago. It is a strange dead air in the background of all the voices which somehow sound the same, like Bob Edwards as if he just got out of bed and hadn't had his coffee yet, and the background non-echo. It is not the ominous condescension of the voices, but the background as well, identifying it as disturbingly evil.

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Funny stuff on this topix.net. There's a grandma who's reading Michael's book and is just having a wonderful time shaving his and Jodi's tails. I don't know if I could muster the stomach to read that book, so I'm especially tickled that somebody's doing it for us. She's kind of reading aloud and visiting grandmotherly scolding on sinful children. She knows she had a gold mine and is paying no attention to surly trolls.

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>> That NPR sound, that Satanic dead air, has weighed on me ever since first noticing it decades ago.

Me, too.

You say, "...dead air." That brings to mind a most vivid image of a demonic, dead voice -- the talking head of decapitated criminal Alcazar in "That Hideous Strength" by C. S. Lewis (final volume of his space trilogy and a fictional version of The Abolition of Man). I didn't like the book the first time I read it (because I didn't understand it very well). But I perservered and have read it perhaps half a dozen times since -- without ever exhausting its treasure. The other two volumes are "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra." Easily available in PB and warmly recommended, all three.

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Hey there! Trying to stay on top of the ME situation, but wanted to catch up on the posts here.

Regarding that adolescent weight problem that Terri(and millions of other girls have), my second oldest was short and pretty darn round. One day in her late teens, she shot up 3 inches, and dropped 50 lbs. Okay, it wasn't one day, but it seemed like it happened within a week.

Was an advanced thyroid test performed on her at any time? I think it's a T-4 or a T-6, and naturally your HMO won't cover it.

This is a little esoteric, but if she wasn't healthy, people would have noticed. Did she call in sick frequently? She was well enough to care about her appearance, as well. When you're sick, the last thing you think of is going to the beauty parlor.

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In court papers state investigators said Pou told a nurse executive three days after the hurricane hit that the patients remaining at the hospital would probably not survive and that a "decision had been made to administer lethal doses" to them.

Well, if they were going to die anyway, why did they have to be killed? We saw it on the news last night. My bf was shocked. You'd think he would know better by now.

I'm playing catch up. We have bf's son for a couple of weeks, so we have given up the computer to him. Too hot and nasty outside, and that's at 4500 ft!? That, and I'm keeping up with the Israel/ME situation.

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Great link to more anti-smoking baloney. I know Terri Schiavo is contentious among many, but I think y'all might be interested in reading this article from the begining to end. Thanks for your consideration.

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** God bless Mrs. Vo and family. Our prayers will be for them and her today.""

Thank you so much for the update on Mrs. Vo.

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>> anti-smoking baloney.

Hey, what's wrong with smoked baloney?

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>> Regarding that adolescent weight problem that Terri(and millions of other girls have), my second oldest was short and pretty darn round. One day in her late teens, she shot up 3 inches, and dropped 50 lbs. Okay, it wasn't one day, but it seemed like it happened within a week.

Um, I, er, halfway recall going through some changes at about that age :-)

When you said you wanted to stay on top of the ME situation, I immediately thought of Dr. Thogmartin, the Medical Examiner, instead of the Middle East. I guess you can tell where I've been hanging out too much :-)

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Dead for 17 hours, Bicol boy lives again (Philippines)

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When you both talk of ME, it means something different to me, Maine!

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Dominating news in recent hours is the Embryonic Stem Cell veto and the Legacy of Terri keeps being brought up. On the side of those who are not satisfied with stem cell research but insist we have to kill embryos to do it is candidate Crist for Governor of Florida. Maybe it isn't the right to research, but the right to kill embryos that they really demand...

Crist:

"I do. I think there are new innovations that come along that say you don't have to use the embryonic stem cell in order to get the advantage of the research. Had I been in the U.S. Senate, I probably would have tried to modify the bill to include that kind of new technology, but I probably would have voted for it," Crist said after filing the papers ensuring him a spot on the Sept. 5 ballot.

Opponant Gallagher:

After the veto, Gallagher's campaign issued a press release praising Bush's action. "Embryonic stem-cell research is an unnecessary practice which results in the destruction of human embryos - it is wrong to use taxpayer dollars to fund scientific research which destroys human life," it said.

Gallagher has courted conservatives such as Rep. Dennis Baxley, who said he is unhappy Crist failed to back issues such as the end-of-life fight over removing brain-damaged Terri Schiavo's feeding and hydration tubes.

Crist says he was for stem cell bill

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 17.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

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The other big news is the Katrina killings. Ping to a thread by catholicfreeper. Thanks Coleus.

Doctor, nurses arrested for Katrina patient deaths

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Trust your probate judge??? If so, read on...

Terri Schiavo was the 41-year-old woman whose life-and-death battle was been in the news. The attention the case has received resulted in many recent phone calls from clients wanting to avoid this situation. Here is my advice:

If you were to get sick, who would make your medical decisions? Would it be your spouse, or family, or your local probate court judge? Marriage does not entitle a spouse to make medical decisions for the other spouse. Family, unless named in a health-care proxy, are also not allowed to make these decisions. This leaves you with your local probate court judge. This isn’t necessarily bad, because the judge will do the best he or she can to try and determine what you would have wanted. So why not make a health-care proxy and skip all the fuss? This way you, or someone you know, who understands what your medical wishes are will be there to make any decision that is necessary.

Surabian: Lessons learned from Shiavo story

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Sleepy in Seattle, RINO sighting...

Reichert wisely bucked GOP leadership on one of the top-10 idiotic things Republicans did in 2005. Remember when the Republican-led Congress attempted, hideously, to intervene in the painful plight of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged Florida woman? Reichert kept cool and voted not to intervene, the only correct move.

Reichert represents his district admirably on a few environmental issues by opposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in certain votes.

Joni Balter, columnist

Can Burner bushwhack Reichert?

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Ellen Goodman, neither good nor man...

BOSTON—So once more we reach into the right-wing toolbox, a political chest so spare that it holds almost nothing but a wide assortment of wedges. Who would have believed that the wedges used so successfully to divide America would end up dividing conservatives? That they would finally expose the differences between the right and the, um, loony right?

The latest of these wedge issues is stem cell research. But it’s not the only one. Gradually, over the past year, we’ve begun to see daylight emerge between common sense and nonsense.

Ellen Goodman: Putting A Wedge Between the Right and Loony Right

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Mikey campaigns hard for rights of innocents to be killed. In other news, Cindy Sheehan campaigns somewhere else for the same team...

But Michael Schiavo doesn't want the voters to forget. He wants them to remember how Congress not only intruded on his family's private life and ignored the clear rulings of the courts, but it also played politics with every citizen's right to self-determination at the end of life

The Schiavo Case: Terri's husband goes after those who politicized her struggle.

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