Still Waiting

Dakota Voice ^ | 1/29/2007 | Carrie K. Hutchens

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I don't know about anyone else, but I am still waiting for Michael Schiavo to make a correction on his blog about what "actually" took place in Colorado when he went there (to the debate) to supposedly ask Congresswoman Musgrave one question and she and her staff supposedly tried to have him removed. He called it, "My unreal night in Colorado - with radio link" (Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 08:05:14 PM PST). I'll say (from what I read) that it was his "unreal night".

As I said before in "Standing up and Admitting a Mistake: Not Schiavo's Style?",  if four uniformed officers were around my seat, I would have some idea of what was going on. I certainly wouldn't be sitting in "duh mode" to only be told later of what took place right there around me, as Michael suggests he was. If Michael's account is realistic -- his response and reaction is not. Nor is his response appropriate now that he has "learned" what he was "allegedly told" is not what took place. One would think if he can't get the words out that he was mistaken, he could at least have removed the inaccurate entry from his blog.

He has done neither.

I'm also still waiting to read about, "Also, maybe tomorrow I'll post about my election-eve rally with Bill Clinton in Florida." (A real election impact by Michael Schiavo, Thu Nov 09, 2006 at 10:40:34 AM PST).  Indeed, I would love to read that story by Michael, since I read it was not possible. Not if he was implying it was the Bill Clinton that is the former President of the United States. Will be interesting to see what he says about that if he ever does.

If Michael couldn't get it straight what happened at the Musgrave debate or even if he spent election-eve with former President Bill Clinton -- do you suppose he might have gotten Terri Schiavo's wishes mixed-up as well? (He does claim to have a bad memory from what I read.) Makes one wonder. At least makes me wonder. Whatever...

I'm still waiting for the corrections if not the explanations!

 

Carrie Hutchens is a former law enforcement officer and a freelance writer who is active in fighting against the death culture movement and the injustices within the judicial and law enforcement systems.

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Son of a Bishop!

Looks like the bishop there has done more than take the "other " side. He has sought to counsel Emilio's mother who has so far shunned the offer. May she be very wary...

The bishop noted that some have compared Emilio's situation to that of Terri Schindler Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who became the center of a highly publicized debate on end-of-life issues and who died in March 2005 after a court ordered her feeding tube be removed.

But he said the two cases "are very different; in the Schiavo case ordinary means – food and water – were withdrawn, which caused her death."

Bishop Aymond said he has offered to meet with Catarina Gonzales, a 23-year-old Catholic from Lockhart, "to offer my support and to explain the teachings of the Catholic Church regarding end-of-life issues." As of late April 16, Gonzales had not responded to the offer, said Helen Osman, diocesan spokeswoman.

Bishop weighs in on debate over care of dying Texas boy

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>> The child is dead and being maintained in a life-like state by machines

The writer is dead and being maintained in a life-like state by food and water that should be saved for someone with a heart and soul.

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A personal story of a noted author and novelist is told here, one with which my wife and I can relate closely...

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As a mother whose child has been on life support since she was 18-months-old, (she's now 20,) I'm appalled that the Austin, Texas hospital's ethics committees are violating a families rights -- planning to take 17-month-old Emilio Gonzales off life support despite his family's decision to keep him alive.

My daughter, who is still on life support, leads a very happy and healthy life. The Texas hospital we were in - in the eighties, would have gladly ended Laura's life if they'd had the power to do so, when Laura was originally hurt in a violent car crash. We, her family said "No!" to their efforts to pull her plug.

Thank God the ethics committee had no power. Laura has grown up to be a happy, young adult; though disabled.

But times have changed -- prejudice against the disabled is growing. Today, my family is afraid Laura will be denied emergency care at some of our local hospitals. In fact, we've already had to come against ER doctors who've tried to do just that, deny care, simply because they didn't understand the value of my daughter's life. I stood up to them and my daughter received the help she needed. The doctor who had tried to deny antibiotics, later apologized when he saw her amazing joy and personality -- as she was recovering from a simple but severe bladder infection. With tears in his eyes, this same doctor said, "I'm sorry, I didn't know."

But my question is, where will this lack of respect for the lives of the disabled stop?

We know where it stopped in Nazi Germany -- in specially designed vans -- used to euthanize disabled children. That is, until a local pastor stood up to the killers and said, "No more!"

Public pressure turned the tide and the killing of disabled children stopped.

It's not too late to take a stand. It's not too late to participate in a public outcry that says, "No more!"

If Emilio were an endangered species like an owl, a fish or even a worm, the public outcry would be heard all the way to Washington. But he's a Hispanic baby boy.

This is prejudice of the worst kind. If we don't cry out, how many other children, elderly, and disabled people will die at the hands of hospital ethics committees, committees who have taken both God and the value of human life out of their death-decision calculations? Their formulas will become more blood-thirsty, to the point that any American with a sudden disability, stroke or aging issue will be at risk for execution.

Linda Evans Shepherd is a best selling novelist (The Potluck Club Series), and a nationally recognized speaker and radio and television personality in the Denver area.

Speaking out on Texas life support controversy

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>> "In my own family, I have been part of making end-of-life decisions for both of my parents and for my 24-year-old nephew, who was involved in a traumatic vehicle accident a few months ago," the bishop said.

Michael Schiavo's score is his mother, father, wife, and her two cats. The bishop has almost caught up! All he needs to do to overtake Michael is to drown a few kittens.

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Over two years later, the left-biased media still strives to repeat and portray a lie about Terri. Why are they so concerned these many months later? Do they fear their message hasn't stuck, that their lie didn't take? This comes from Kingsley Guy...

Terri Schiavo provides a stark example of image illusion. The Florida woman spent years in a persistent vegetative state, and if it weren't for television and the Internet, the courts with little fuss would have ordered her feeding tube removed.

But someone captured an image of Schiavo moving her head, indicating she was capable of recognizing people. The best experts said she couldn't, but seeing is believing. Right?

Before long, Schiavo was the focus of nationwide media and political attention. National TV stoked the controversy over whether she should be allowed to die by pitting relatives, politicians and "experts" against each other in shouting matches masquerading as debates. Because of the images on TV and the Internet, true believers still contended Schiavo had cognitive ability even after an autopsy proved otherwise.

Opinions aren't equal

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Michael Schiavo's score is his mother, father, wife, and her two cats. The bishop has almost caught up! All he needs to do to overtake Michael is to drown a few kittens.

Maybe it is just because nobody asked...

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>> But he said the two cases "are very different; in the Schiavo case ordinary means – food and water – were withdrawn, which caused her death."

I'm surprised he got this much right! But one wishes he had also observed that Terri wasn't an "end-of-life issue" -- as the death peddlers like to call their killings. Terri was not dying. She was not at the end of life. She was not comatose. Terri was not "allowed to die." She was murdered. Fr. Pavone said so repeatedly and refuses to back down.

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Wagglebee thread on happenings in New Brunswick. I have spent a lot of time in New Brunswick in recent years with friends who live there, all fervant supporters of life, but the liberal element in Fredericton and throughtout the province is entrenched...

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, April 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Abortion activists in the province of New Brunswick--led by the National Abortion Federation based in Washington, D.C.--continue their assault on pro-life advocates, this time by seeking an injunction that would prevent pro-life demonstrators from coming within a certain limit of the Morgentaler abortion clinic in Fredericton.

The National Abortion Federation (NAF), New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women (ACSW) and the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) have demanded that Attorney General Thomas J. Burke, Minister of Justice and Consumer Affairs, introduce legislation to establish a "safe zone" around abortion facilities, and the offices and residences of abortion providers in the province.

While in reality pro-life counselors outside abortion facilities kindly offer women entering alternatives to abortion, and information on abortion, abortion advocates claim they are violent.

US-Led Abortion Activists Demand "Safe Zone" around Canadian Abortion Facilities

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You're right, they still struggle mightily to justify the media murder. Why isn't the script working? Why aren't we pathetic, credulous true believers coming around?

They come back here to Terri threads again and again seeking to lord it up by calling us names and citing Law Almighty. But it is they who can't answer the simplest question about the case: what caused Terri's so-called collapse?

We all live under God's law whether we believe in it or not. We are all driven to justify our actions according to that code. We must appeal to all other people by that code because it is the universal law that all humans have in our souls and hearts.

God's code says plainly that it was evil to take away Terri's water and food. It carries a penalty worse than death -- banishment to Hell. And so they return, desperate to make an excuse, like a dog returning to its vomit.

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>> That certainly was the case after Gutenberg revolutionized communication in 1450 with his printing press. Within decades, the Renaissance was in full flower and the Reformation was destroying the old religious order.

Absolute bleeping drivel.

One is even tempted to wonder what harm the Gutenberg Bible did to religion. It just meant a few more people had access to God's word. They could read Matthew 23:31-46. And guess what? You can do the same ten times faster today thanks to the Internet "revolution." You have your choice of every translation along with every concordance and aid to Bible students. Here, Mr. Liberal Columnist, as you chortle about taking water and food away from a helpless woman, scroll down to verse 31.

Matthew 25:31-46

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Little snippets keep emerging on Cho, the wonder killer. The first I heard were, he's mean, a bully, and a stalker. Girls were scared of him. Naturally, I thought of Michael Schiavo.

Cho was a leftist. He said he wanted to murder the rich. He was sexually weird. He took pictures of girls' legs under their desks with his cell phone. He was mentally weird and appears to have been a follower of Ishmael / Daniel Quinn. (Somewhere between a liberal and an alien from the Planet Tinfoilhattus.) He was a loner and a psychopath -- YOU made me do this. He was evil. A doctor said every fatality was shot at least three times.

I wonder how long it will be before he is hailed as a Leftist Martyr and Hero?

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I thought his careful planning down to the release of the video and his message that was just too vague, seemingly non-specific as to why he would be driven to kill set off alarms in me. Luckily we have a drawer full of Kaiser Wrap and a stainless steel colander.

He had a history of being virtually invisible, nondescript, someone to ignore until his time came for the role to play. Then it all unfolded with robotic coolness as if he were a real life Manchurian Candidate or a creature directed by a higher (lower) force.

Where the planning belied simple looney toons and the message lacked the directed rage, it did sound very similar to that of the videos of the homicide bombers of the Middle East. His messages sounded stereotyped, standard leftist or Islamist terrorist verbage. He even looked like one of them, not in features necessarily, but in behavior. His act was successful in exposing vulnerabilities and prototyping future attacks. Maybe there is no earthly connection, just the same father, the father of lies.

Yes, a loner and a psychopath, but with a direction coming from some force bigger than he.

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More time bought for Emilio Gonzales...

An Austin court hearing on a Texas family's request to keep their critically ill baby toddler alive -- has been postponed until May eighth.

Lawyers for the family of 17-month-old Emilio Gonzales and for the hospital where he's on life support were to present evidence tomorrow to Probate Judge Guy Herman. But the judge granted a request to postpone the hearing so an attorney assigned to look out for the baby's interests can complete work on the case.

An official with Seton Family of Hospitals says the judge is then expected to take until May 15th to issue a ruling. Children's Hospital of Austin, run by Seton, has been caring for Emilio since December -- but it contends its medical efforts are futile and the child is suffering. It invoked a state law that allows hospitals to end life-sustaining treatment in such cases with ten days notice to the family.

Emilio's mother, Catarina Gonzales, challenged the hospital's decision.

The judge last week agreed to temporarily block the hospital's move to end life support.

Hearing postponed in Emilio Gonzales life support case

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This comes from the New York Times...

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Until now, even some elected officials who supported abortion rights were uncomfortable dealing with the procedure singled out in the 2003 law. . Abortion opponents considered the legislation a valuable teaching tool to highlight what they asserted was the extraordinary reach of the Roe decision. On final passage in the Senate in 2003, 17 Democrats joined with 47 Republicans to support the ban.

But some Democrats said this new court decision could change the political landscape, just as the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case did, by striking moderates as an unwarranted government intrusion into medical decisions............................

Court Ruling Catapults Abortion Back Into ’08 Race

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From PowerLine...

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In the post below, John Hinderaker eviscerates the heart of Eric Boehlert's Media Matters post "Can conservative bloggers tell the truth?" Boehlert sets up his one big lie -- the one deconstructed at length by John below -- with a barrage of little lies. To take just one example, Boehlert writes that "Power Line played a starring role in advancing the Terri Schiavo talking points memo hoax during the spring of 2005."

We did indeed refuse to take at face value the erroneous reporting by the Washington Post and other media outlets that the "Schiavo memo" was, as reported, a GOP talking points memo distributed to Republican senators on March 17, and we were right. John Hinderaker wrote a retrospective on the story and our role in exposing the fundamental falsity of the Schiavo memo story -- explaining what we got right and what we got wrong -- in "It wasn't fake." Boehlert's description of our role in the story is itself a hoax.

Boehlert is to media criticism what Lillian Hellman was to literature. To paraphrase Mary McCarthy, every word he writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Media lies: Can Eric Boehlert tell the truth?

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Some may have wondered why we tie abortion issues in with Terri's Legacy. Here is why:

For all their pooh-poohing of Terri and her Legacy, they sure can't help highlighting her relevance...

This comes from the womyn of NARAL. (Actually it is product of a Ted Miller who must be an honorary womyn)...

Washington, DC – Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, issued the following statement in response to today's Supreme Court decision in the Federal Abortion Ban cases.

"Today's decision shows Bush's appointees have moved the Court in a direction that could further undermine Roe v. Wade and protections for women's health. The door is now open for politicians like George W. Bush to interfere even more in our personal, private medical decisions. The Court has given anti-choice state lawmakers the green light to open the flood gates and launch additional attacks on safe, legal abortion, without any regard for women's health.

"The bottom line is clear: elections matter. An anti-choice Congress and an anti-choice president pushed this ban all the way to the Supreme Court. In fact, the same politicians behind this abortion ban also block stem-cell research and interfered in the Terri Schiavo case. We need to elect more pro-choice members of Congress and a president who will stand up for—not attack—our fundamental values of freedom and privacy.

Court's ruling opens door for more political interference in personal, private medical decisions

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Michael Schiavo's score is his mother, father, wife, and her two cats.

That we know of. What happened to Jodi's mother? She died mysteriously in Michael's home, immediately after being diagnosed with cancer. I know that in rare cases, death follows soon after diagnosis; but with his history, and the secrecy surrounding her death, I don't think we can assume the unlikely over the probable.

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Further to my PowerLine post above, here is the word of Eric Boehlert...

The challenge for Hinderaker is straightforward: Read the assembled facts below and explain how I'm wrong about the countless ways in which the Swift Boat ads were disputed and the accusers were discredited, or apologize for your fact-free claim and post a correction at Power Line.

I realize that highlighting the factual deficiencies of Power Line bloggers is hardly a novel pursuit. After all, Power Line played a starring role in advancing the Terri Schiavo talking points memo hoax during the spring of 2005. Power Line played a starring role in the rush to declare guilty an Associated Press photographer who was accused of working with insurgents in Iraq. Power Line played a starring role in advancing the phony accusation that the AP had invented an Iraqi police captain and used him as a source. And just this month, Power Line played a starring role in advancing the phony story that CNN reporter Michael Ware had heckled Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) during a recent Baghdad press conference.

Meaning, Power Line rarely lets the facts get in the way of its pro-GOP spin. But there was something so audacious and egregious about Hinderaker's claim that little about the Swift Boat attacks had been "disputed, let alone discredited" that I think an old-fashioned challenge is on order. Let's see if Hinderaker has the nerve to act on it.

Can conservative bloggers tell the truth?

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That we know of. What happened to Jodi's mother? She died mysteriously in Michael's home, immediately after being diagnosed with cancer. I know that in rare cases, death follows soon after diagnosis; but with his history, and the secrecy surrounding her death, I don't think we can assume the unlikely over the probable.

That we know of...

Has anone taken a look at his patients/clients in his workplace?