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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Christa Lilly's story continues...

“This is miraculous, because we don’t expect this to happen," he said. "A miracle would be a fantastical thing that’s good and unexpected, and that would fulfill my definition of that.”

Some say the event is reminiscent of the battle to save Terri Schiavo just two years ago. Carrie Gordon Earll, senior analyst for bioethics at Focus on the Family Action, said while Schiavo may have never recovered from her vegetative state, her life was still worth preserving.

“This is an area where we do not have all the answers and we need to be very careful before we start making decisions like we do," she said. "We need to give life the benefit of the doubt.”

Colorado Woman Awakes Briefly From Long Coma

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Could it be the medical world is starting to stir with all the awareness generated by Terri's Legacy? Could it be the mantra crafters have slipped in effectiveness? Here is another look...

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - NEW YORK (March 9, 2007) -- Headline-grabbing news stories involving severely brain-damaged patients such as Terri Schiavo and Terry Wallis aren't doing much to clear up the public's confusion surrounding brain injury and the likelihood that specific patients will recover, say experts at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

But more and better research on the issue -- especially a nationwide, epidemiological study on just how and where severely brain-injured patients are being cared for -- could help, according to a commentary written by NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell physician-scientists and published recently in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The paper reports on an Institutes of Medicine (IOM) exploratory meeting on disorders of consciousness.

Experts Urge More Research, Awareness of "Minimally Conscious State"... Too Little National Data on This Form of Brain Injury

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Mikey should make a pilgrimage to India. There, he could find solace with many of like mind. Maybe he can go to Tibet and find wisdom on a high mountain and be a columnist for Guru News.

We wept in approval when Hillary Swank asked her instructor to pull the plug in the Oscar-winning film, Million Dollar Baby. She played a boxer who was so badly injured in a match that she would never be able to pursue the dream that had defined her entire life. In perhaps the world’s most famous euthanasia case, most of us supported Terri Schiavo’s husband when he wanted to take her off life support.

She had been in deep coma for 15 years, and when doctors finally conceded that there was no chance of her recovering, her husband, Michael, said his wife had never wanted to live like a robot programmed by a machine. But to enable his wife’s right to die with dignity, he had to first fight his in-laws and a slew of Republican conservatives who charged him with murder. And back home in India, when the Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissed the euthanasia plea of 25-year-old Venkatesh — a man who was dying from muscular dystrophy and wanted to donate his organs while his body still worked — we wondered whether the decision had been thought through.

But the opponents of euthanasia — and there are many — would accuse us of mealy-mouthed sentimentalism. Mercy killing, they say, is pitched as the ultimate act of love, when it is, in fact, the ultimate act of selfishness.

Live and let die? by Barkha Dutt | Third Eye

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Carrie K. Hutchens for Dakota Voice once again...

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The mainstream media has been a little lax when it comes to verifying information prior to publishing. Certainly isn't like back in the Watergate days and the requirements like that of the Washington Post to have verification from more than one reliable source prior to publication. No, certainly not like that in the reporting of the Terri Schiavo case for sure.

According to some allegedly mainstream media sources...

Terri Schiavo was brain dead. (Wrong! Even George Felos and Michael Schiavo admitted on national television that she was not.)

Terri Schiavo was on life support. (Wrong! Even George Felos and Michael Schiavo admitted that she was merely utilizing a feeding tube, which was not considered life support when she went on it or during her early use of same.)

Terri Schiavo was receiving ongoing aggressive therapy? Oh really? Let's have some documentation on that. Documentation like some medical reports, billings and proof of payment for same.

Terri Schiavo's trust fund was allegedly spent on medical expenses and therapy? Oh please... let's have some proof on that and explanation how she was approved for Medicaid, while Michael Schiavo was earning such a salary and investing in such an expensive house and lifestyle.

Maybe it is time that we hold the mainstream media accountable for what they state to the public as fact by the very assumption of what they are and what they do. After all, the majority of the public believes that the media cannot, and will not, say what is not "proven" to be so. As a result, the public was mislead about the Terri Schiavo case. How many other cases has the mainstream media misled us on? Do we any longer have a clue what is supposedly strictly news vs. commentary?

I can't intentionally tell a lie about anyone or any situation--why can the mainstream media? I mean...I call it "intentionally" when the public repeatedly tries to share the truth with the reporters, and the information just gets blown off as nothingness, rather than something seriously followed up on.

So when inaccurate information is presented to the public--and the public, relying upon it as the truth because of the belief that the media can only report the truth, reacts upon that information--who is responsible for the results?

What if Terri Schiavo really was responsive and had a chance to recover even somewhat, but kept from doing so for a cause that wasn't in her best interest?

What if the reporting of her case was defective?

Terri Schiavo is gone. We can't bring her back. But we can fight to stop more of the same. Will we?!?!?! I pray we shall!!!!!!!!!!!

The Defective Media

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[T'wit]

>> When DSS questioned these prescriptions, Dr. Kifuji assured DSS that the prescriptions were appropriate.

Rebecca died slowly. She was in a sort of stupor or state of lassitude that just got worse. She had no energy and was less and less responsive. A doctor who could not see that, who kept a dying child on stupefying drugs, ought to be drummed out of medicine and sued for malpractice. The bureaucrats who let it happen ought to be flipping burgers (if they are capable of doing something productive).

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>> Do journalists have competitions to see who can fit the most lies into a given space?

Why, yes! Haven't you heard of the Media Special Olympics? The games held under the last full moon of summer and offer excellent competitions of dishonesty, rapacity, stupidity, bias, sloth, lust, envy, pride, drunkenness, psychotropic drugs, psychotropic politics, and inability to distinguish between their reporting and Shinola.

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>> But there is a pattern here,

A related pattern is to treat all ills with drugs instead of prayer and love. A doctor who does not believe in God, who thinks that medicine should be free of moral values, and who relies totally on drugs, will all but automatically deprive his patients of the emotional support and therapy they need.

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>> The Defective Media

I wonder if she meant "defecative" :-)

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>> I call it "intentionally" when the public repeatedly tries to share the truth with the reporters, and the information just gets blown off as nothingness

Of course it was, and is, intentional! See BykrBayb's drollery in #655. It has been many decades since the misnamed "media" actually reported news. They are script writers and rhetoricians who manufacture stories and left-wing editorials for TV and papers. They delight in lying and twisting words. If a truth slips in now and then, it is because they are lazy, stupid and careless.

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Another pattern perhaps related is the propensity for doctors to treat symptoms rather than seek cures. Treatment of symptoms ensures a cash flow, cure promises a cutoff. That is why we personally seek cures from sources other than conventional practitioners and see love and prayer as one of those cure factors.

Perhaps it is a myopia trained and ingrained throughout much of our world, one that causes even in politics for us to see and treat symptoms rather than see the root cause. Love and prayer may well treat the root cause but remain outside the field of vision of those types.

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>> Barkha Dutt is managing editor, ndtv 24x7

More proof.

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>> Treatment of symptoms ensures a cash flow, cure promises a cutoff.

Greed, yes, but it runs deeper than that. These people are going to be highly paid in any case. I think they are lost in the naturalist-logical positivist-darwinist-scientistic family of philosophies and blind to the teachings of a religious or moral view of life. They are prisoners of the modern mindset.

Chesterton was wiser. For those who will not believe in God, he observed, the danger is not that they will believe in nothing but that they will believe in anything. And so one sees every day. The secular minds are adrift in a meaningless dance of atoms instead of finding anchorage and purpose in a universe whose reality is ordered.

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NOW they admit it, eh?

>> The doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center said the public is confused by news stories involving patients such as Terri Schiavo, and there's not enough known about whether specific patients will recover.

The same medical profession did much to confuse the public about Terri's condition. Even now they are basing future care on the recovery of the patient rather than moral law and human decency. Medicine ought to cure its own ignorance and its own moral responsibility before it mouths off on why to kill the next Terri Schiavo.

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e physicians said a nationwide epidemiological study on how and where severely brain-injured patients are cared for should help.

Great. Maybe they should consider looking at some post mortems, too.

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Those who have not taken a position on what happened to Terri Schiavo can find some sense of direction in the positions Michael has taken in the political world.

I for one have never forgotten and, never will I ever forget.
Thanks for the post!!

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Yes, his actions wipe away any doubts.

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Well, well, well, seems Charlie is a (gulp) RINO. Who would have guessed? Surely, not the New Crist Minstrals. Charlie garners praise for his stance in this thread from NautiNurse.

Crist moves GOP to center, finds friends on left

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What was the most likely scenario for that fateful night? I am trying to recall the scene of that night, but do not have all the details at hand this moment.

From some of what I have read (including some of the medical reports posted to the internet), the injuries to her neck, and the position in which she was found (clutching her neck), were consistent with attempted strangulation.

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T'wit has responded on posts # 42 and 55. Both he and bjs1779 have done extensive and careful looks into the events of that night, conclusions which are similar to your assessment. They had developed those conclusion in posts past based on evidence available, such as that provided by Cheryl Ford in her book, "Our Fight 4 Terri." As the case is still carried in the Homicide division at the St. Petersburg Police Department as Cold Case, perhaps it is not over yet. However, Judge Greer has made reopening of the case tenuous by his personal intervention. He has ordered that this and other cases related to Michael Schiavo not be reopened, as they claim.

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Perhaps some good is to come of the tragedy of Rebecca Riley's death, made more open by the horrors visited upon Haleigh Poutre and sprung into the limelight. Perhaps the pendulum has swung far enough and now may be arrested as the topic exceeds the bounds of this case and reaches far and wide.

(CBS) Rebecca Riley's death shocked the Boston community. Did her parents deliberately give her overdoses of psychiatric drugs as prosecutors suggest? Or are her doctors to blame — as defense lawyers argue — for prescribing powerful medications when she was just 2 years old?

This case has reignited an emotional debate about mental illness in children. How young can children be diagnosed? And how aggressively should they be treated with anti-psychotic drugs?

“My worry is the same worry that any parents of kids like mine have — When is it too soon to medicate a child? Who knows?” says Susan Montanile.

Are Kids Given Antipsychotics Too Often?... Child's Death Reignites Debate Over How Aggressively Kids Should Be Treated With Psychiatric Drugs

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