T'wit, FReeper extraordinaire, has died.

self | August 5, 2007 | 8mmMauser

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A great FReeper and close friend passed. T’wit, also known as Timothy Wheeler passed on. In tribute, I would like to make this the August thread of Terri Dailies, the topic foremost in T’wit thoughts.

Tim was a man of great faith, a faith that grew stronger especially in recent months. As I type this, I still am not yet coherent, as I try to awaken and sip a good coffee brought to me recently by Tim. In his usual fashion, he probably figured I would appreciate a little care package and would appreciate the better quality than the usual fare we would fix.

But I do not want this thread to be maudlin, nor a reminiscing on anecdotes, rather a stab at what Tim would want.

T’wit was passionate about the beauty of nature, of good books, good music, and intellectual challenge, but mostly he was passionate about his love for our America, for Jim Robinson’s FreeRepublic, and for our fight for those in the plight of Terri Schiavo. For the latter, he sought justice and fervently hoped and prayed we on Terri’s List would carry on this battle against the evils of those who would control who lived and died.

In our many talks, he would sound like a poster boy for all the stated position of Jim Robinson.

His wife told me last evening the final thoughts he had. As can be expected, it was for us to continue our fight as we have done already. She hoped that rather than flowers or donations sent, that donations be directed at causes like that supporting Terri’s Legacy, the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation. In this way, we remember him and further his wishes. T’wit and I talked a lot about faith and I can reassure all, his faith in Our Lord was strong and growing stronger, a comfort to me that he carried it to the end.

My words come out with difficulty this morning, but should flow better later, although without the word play and banter we would sometimes engage, at least for now. T’wit would be upset if I quit the puns for long, though.

We will continue our prayers for T'wit and his wife and family.

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Thanks to TheSarce for the ping.

In this thread by Mr. Silverback, we see China bemoaning the lack of wives. They have brain drain and not enough wives for all. (Also they have a heart and kidney drain, too, a subject for elsewhere.) Such are the unintended consequences of managed population.

According to its Academy of Social Sciences, China “suffers from the world’s most severe brain drain.” Approximately two-thirds of the Chinese who have studied abroad in the past two decades did not return home.

The BBC offered many possible explanations for this drain: the lack of opportunities at home; a lack of freedom, especially after Tiananmen Square, and a preference for the Western “lifestyle.”

One factor that was not mentioned but should have been was a concern about spending the rest of your life alone.

Busting on One: The Dark Side of Population Control

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Thanks to narses for this ping to a (uhhhhh) lively thread by Coleus on stem-cells and LDS.

For most religious people, the use of stem cells hinges on a philosophical question: When does a cell become human?

The answer often is - at the moment of conception, when egg and sperm meet.

Mormons, however, have a slightly different understanding of the connection between bodies and souls that could open the door for stem-cell research without compromising their ethics, said Rick Jepson on Thursday at the annual Sunstone Symposium, an independent forum for Mormon thought that continues today at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City.

Nurse: LDS beliefs open door to stem-cell research

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Shopping at the Judge Mall... Thread by wagglebee on getting just the right judge for tiller the killer.

WICHITA, Kansas, August 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- Attorneys for abortionist George R. Tiller have filed a motion with the District Court to replace Judge Anthony Powell, who was assigned to the case last Friday.

Powell served in the Legislature and helped write the law under which Tiller is charged. Attorney General Paul Morrison filed 19 counts against Tiller for having committed late-term abortions without the signature of a physician who is financially unaffiliated with him. Tiller is asking the court to dismiss the charges because of his belief that the law is unconstitutional.

Tiller's Attorneys Go Judge Shopping

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Pro-Aborts wearing Catholic clothes... Thread by wagglebee.

UNITED STATES, August 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Princeton professor has warned that the scandal of pro-abortion Catholics and its cover-up by bishops threatens more damage to the Catholic Church than the abhorrent scandal of pedophile priests hiding behind their Roman collars to perpetrate crimes against children.

Robert George, a McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, writes in an article published in the ecumenical magazine First Things that, unlike the clergy sexual abuse scandal, the tolerated scandal of prominent anti-life Catholics continues to engender far more insidious effects upon society.

Princeton Prof: Pro-abortion Catholics More Horrific than Clergy Sex Abuse

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$1350 would have bought Terri a working tv, repaired her wheelchair, and surrounded her with a few flowers and balloons to brighten her room.

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Just horrible! Those monsters should never have been allowed into this country.

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Thanks for the good news.

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Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.

Anima eius, et animæ omnium fidelium defunctorum, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace. Amen.

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Amen.

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As the do-gooders wring their hands in despair at how any could do such a thing, and search for answers as to why oh why, others simply see it as plain unadorned evil. Can anyone imagine if the doctors would have been stopped by mom from pulling the plug on their little organ supplier?

August 15, 2007 -- The monster mom accused of standing by and letting her beaten baby die scoffed when told she was being charged with manslaughter, authorities said yesterday.

"Manslaughter? That's not too bad - I'll be out in three to five," Marlene Medina, 24, of Staten Island, allegedly told cops when informed she'd be facing that charge after the death of her 21-month-old daughter, Hailey Gonzalez.

According to a source, Medina's shocking indifference was in line with what she had previously told cops when she was arrested last week: "Am I going to jail? I'm going to lose my apartment. All my stuff is in my apartment."

Medina was arraigned yesterday along with her boyfriend, Edwin Garcia, 30, whose charges were upgraded to murder when Hailey was taken off life support and died Sunday.

'SLAY' MA'S SICK WORDS

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Same topic as above, with some commentary below article...

Ms. Cintron's husband, Gilberto Reyes, said he had to resist the urge to rush the suspects as they stood before the judge.

"I saw my hands around their necks," he said, adding, though, that he realized he couldn't meet one wrong with another. "Let the system handle them."

But second-degree murder -- and, for Ms. Medina, the lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter -- isn't severe enough for Ms. Cintron and her family.

"Life -- let her sit there, just rot," Ms. Cintron said.

Staten Island mom calls manslaughter charges, 'not too bad'

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Terri's Legacy will continue to help other eyes to open, although they keep saying she is PVS as if it were the truth.

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- British researchers say that scans of the brain activity of a disabled woman there show normal levels despite a diagnosis from doctors that she is supposedly in a persistent vegetative state. This is the second time the researchers have found normal brain activity in a PVS patient.

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He told the news service that observers shouldn't make too much of the study -- whether it would have shown if Terri Schiavo or other disabled patients exhibited brain activity or could have recovered.

"We don't want to raise false hopes or make people think all minimally conscious patients are aware," he said.

Still he said that people who are more likely to recover, according to their research, are patients like Terri who suffered from a lack of oxygen to the brain.

This is the second time the researchers showed significant brain activity in a PVS patient.

British Researchers See Normal Brain Activity in Another "PVS" Patient

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Completion of the grim task must have carried an urgency for certain people.

CLEVELAND — Had Terri Schiavo lived another 28 months, the latest medical breakthrough may have bolstered the hopes of those who defended her life.

A group of surgeons have restored the consciousness of a man who was in a coma-like “minimally conscious state” for six years, unable to feed himself or communicate. An article in the scientific journal Nature describes the work of a research team — led by Dr. Ali Rezai, director of the Center for Neurological Restoration at the Cleveland Clinic.

Coma Patient Wakes Up

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A book I may not read from a lawyer I may not hire...

As he prepared for today's oral argument, Eisenberg also called the Al-Haramain case the most difficult of his 27-year legal career, which has included numerous arguments before the California Supreme Court. Eisenberg is the author of "The Right vs. the Right to Die," a nonfiction account of the Terri Schiavo case, in which he helped represent her husband, Michael Schiavo.

How lawyer navigates sea of secrecy in bizarre case

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The long knives are out in force to slice and dice Rove as he falls, and they heap onto him blame for anything we can think of and of course, Terri's Legacy keeps making them wince, so that is thrown in, too, even if they got it wrong.

Although nauseated at the thought of peeking inside the mind of Carville, I am trying to piece together in my own mind if Rove did anything at all to really save Terri.

Terri still Terri-fies the bad guys no matter what they claim to represent.

Mr Rove’s famous electoral strategy – focusing on the Republican base first – is also largely responsible for a shift in international public opinion against the US. It would not be fair to blame Mr Rove for the Iraq war. But it is clearly fair to blame his strategy for the Terry Schiavo fiasco and the Republicans’ adherence to the policies and doctrines of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and James Dobson. The world and now most of the US are contemptuous of the theocratic underpinnings of the policy Mr Rove ushered into government.

How Karl Rove lost a generation of Republicans

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“Mormons, however, have a slightly different understanding of the connection between bodies and souls that could open the door for stem-cell research without compromising their ethics, said Rick Jepson on Thursday at the annual Sunstone Symposium, an independent forum for Mormon thought that continues today at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City.”

I’ve also read that Mormons have “exceptions” when it comes to abortion. Mormons need more enlightment when it comes to the life issue.

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Wagglebee is always right on top of these things, so had already started a thread on the same article as I posted upthread today.

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London, England (LifeNews.com) -- British researchers say that scans of the brain activity of a disabled woman there show normal levels despite a diagnosis from doctors that she is supposedly in a persistent vegetative state. This is the second time the research have found normal brain activity in a PVS patient.

British Researchers See Normal Brain Activity in Another "PVS" Patient

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Salvation, thank you so much for this reminder of Saint Maximilain Kolbe and his relevance to Terri Schiavo. This is from a thread of a couple years ago by BykrBayb and now revisited.

See Salavation's post #30.

St. Maximilian Kolbe VOLUNTEERED To Be Starved To Death; Terri Schiavo Did NOT

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To those who wish to promote the use of embryonic stem cells even in the face of their marginal utility, the aim is not the good of mankind, but the destruction of human life. Thread by wagglebee on embryos as spare parts.

San Francisco, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A California company is generating controversy for a new plan to work with fertility clinics that has it killing a couple's "leftover" human embryos for "personalized" stem cell cures. The plan is drawing criticism from an unlikely source -- embryonic stem cell research backers who say it is misleading clients.

Company Kills Couple's "Leftover" Embryos for Personalized Stem Cell Cures

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More about embryonic stem cells...

Thread by wagglebee.

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Scientists in England have developed a vaccine that, in early testing, appears to help patients with multiple sclerosis without relying on controversial embryonic stem cells. Pro-life advocates oppose the use of the cells because days-old unborn children must be destroyed to get them.

Scientists Help Multiple Sclerosis Patients Without Embryonic Stem Cells

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