Or anyone else with balls. You have to listen to the end!
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Posted on 03/14/2006 11:28:51 AM PST by KevinNuPac
Terri's Day challenges the nation to unify
Kevin Fobbs
March 13, 2006
Terri's Day — A Celebration of the Culture of Life honoring Terri Schiavo with a day of remembrance challenges each and every one of us to stop for a moment and ask ourselves a question, do we respect ourselves, our families, our lives?
And if we are faced with the question of the possible certainty of death, does anyone truly know, or even have the faintest clue about, our wishes? That is the greatest good, the greatest legacy that Terri Schiavo's death and an annual "Terri's Day" can bring to our lives and to the celebration of the Culture of Life.
On March 18th, we as a nation will begin to grieve again, to reach into our hearts and feel with our collective national spirit what the Schindler family felt last year at this time as each moment since Terri was disconnected from the feeding lifeline, the moments crept by like hours and hours like days.
All of us have felt in some way that pain — even if it were only in the privacy of our loved one's home, hospital room, hospice or perhaps talking with an attorney and doctor attempting to make sense out of some fleeting comments made in a conversation perhaps voiced ten, twelve or even two decades earlier — not necessarily an expression of her true feeling about an end-of-life decision but merely an incidental musing in a long-forgotten side conversation.
For at least one million Americans, and quite possibly a whole lot more, this is an opportunity to voice an opinion through a pledge supporting a resolution in each state called "Terri's Day — A Celebration of the Culture of Life." Each and every person who cares that your family, your spouse, your mother, your father, your sister or brother understands with clarity what you wish the end of life for you to be, with dignity and certainty should sign the online pledge at www.kevinfobbs.com and take the additional step to sign a Living Will — or as they call it at www.terrisfight.org, the Will to Live.
Some have asked why Americans should care about an annual Terri's Day. It is quite simple, we tend to keep turning the page on the Culture of Life because we feel it does not affect us. We tend to believe that seemingly universal belief that those who are handicapped, those who are not quite living a "perfect" life or by contemporary notion "ideal" then those lives are possibly disposable, marginal, not relevant, and part of the Culture of Death which embraces a "disposable society."
But life and our values for the Culture of Life are not disposable. Think about the young people today who would rather hurt themselves or even take their own lives rather than feel "imperfect" or the elderly person whose family is told by an insensitive health care professional while the stricken person struggles to cling to life, "she would be better off in another place," — just let her die, disconnect her from life, because her quality of life is not up to "contemporary standards. "
Why does celebrating the Culture of Life in Michigan become so essential for all of us in America? It is important for several reasons. Dr. Jack Kervorkian, also known as "Doctor Death" helped launch first in Michigan and then the nation the notion of the death culture. Secondly, and equally as important, at the May 12 event — just two days before Mother's Day — there will also be a "Mary's Moms" celebration of those women and mothers who have met challenges in standing up for some aspect of the Culture of Life.
This past weekend I sat at my cousin's funeral — or going home celebration, which more accurately describes it — thinking about the dearly departed and how she packed so much caring for others into her life even as she struggled with illness and advancing age. She was a wonderful woman who had lived through many, many challenges in her life, but in her 73 years she had met these challenges with dignity and had conveyed to her family when would be the right time to allow her to pass away.
Her daughter, who is a minister, spoke to the packed church about the times when, with all of her pain and then a stroke, the doctors had informed them that perhaps it was better to let her go. Yet that was three years ago that that occurred, and if the family had listened to the doctors and refused to see how she fought back and not only recovered but went back to volunteering at the church to feed and clothe the homeless. The medical professionals didn't care about an elderly lady who was on dialysis, but the family did and they knew better. Patricia lived three more years — years her extensive extended family considered "a gift from God."
So isn't part of the lesson of Terri's legacy and Terri's Day for families and loved ones to have a meaningful conversation with their family and to have the written document on hand as well that conveys the wishes clearly and concisely? You betcha.
As I sat in the church I thought of all of the families across the nation and the world who were sitting at their loved one's bedsides — or even standing outside of a hospital emergency room — overwhelmed with emotion, torn by what may be days of conflicting anguished decisions. I thought again of how out of death we may have the certainty of life. Terri's death reminded the nation that yes a state can and will starve you to death, and your family may be rendered helpless as you watch your loved one's precious life forces drain slowly away.
By signing the online pledge at www.kevinfobbs.com or going to www.terrisfight.org, you can learn about how to encourage your state legislature to establish March 31st as an official Terri's Day. Hold a Culture of Life Home Party or meet-and-greet to sign pledges, share ideas and support The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation as well as Culture of Life activities and events in your community or around the nation. Between now and March 31st you can make a dramatic difference for yourself, your family and for the nation. Stand up for the Culture of Life because one person, one life, one family can and does make a difference in America. Make the difference and be the difference today. America...The countdown for the Culture of Life has begun.
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Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac), a non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is a regular contributing columnist for the Detroit News. He is also the daily host of The Kevin Fobbs Show on News Talk WDTK - 1400 AM in Detroit. Listen to The Kevin Fobbs Show online at www.wdtkam.com daily 2-3 p.m., and call in toll-free nationwide to make your opinion count at 800-923-WDTK(9385) © Copyright 2006 by Kevin Fobbs http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fobbs/060313
Do really think they did, voluntarily that is?
Do YOU....
The poor guy who called me found out that Terri was not brain dead. He said to me that he "only knew what he was in the papers." He also told me that a lot of people are stating that Terri should have been rescued. He also said he understood "I felt that way." I told the guy: "I don't feel that way. It's a fact that Terri was murdered. Visit World Net Daily and do some research. He was too shaken up or I would have said www.northcountrygazette.org instead of WND. The next time they call, I'll make the caller write down NCG. June's doing an amazing job covering what happened to Terri.
"" "Taking the covers off" is a more recent addition to his re-write of the script of that night. ""
If the St Pete Times is to believed, your above quote is not a new or more recent addition of the events. From the way I read the link on post #1269, michael's words - "Taking the covers off", was in fact from 1990.
Here's the link and the first few paragraphs from the article:
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/24/Floridian/15_years_ago__Terri_S.shtml
Word for Word
15 years ago, Terri Schiavo's 'last hope'
By HEDDY MURPHEY
Published March 24, 2005
This is TERRI'S APRIL DAILIES THREAD, a daily digest for freepers, lurkers and media. FV
So Terri was murdered.
Of course, they probably know the back story of how MS was hired by former Sheriff Everett Rice and then Rice went to Tallahassee as a House member who voted to kill Terri.
MS's job is some kind of payoff or hush money, imo.
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The decade of 1860-70, a liberal period of German thought, was followed by a swing to conservatism that evolved as Bismarck and his government gained political power in the new unified Germany. An uneasy alliance with the liberals was eventually shattered by the conservatives. Rapid industrialization and concomitant urbanization led to serious problems. In addition to a falling birth rate, there was a precipitous rise in infant mortality among the poor directly related to the crowding and squalid conditions in German cities. (Weindling, 1989) Bismark instituted “Krankenkassen”, or social welfare health plans, to help workers gain access to health care. (Holborn, 1969; Proctor, 1988) Significant state funds were spent to control tuberculosis, infant mortality, venereal diseases, and alcoholism. During the period 1876-82, epoch-making discoveries of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis by Koch indicated the scientific tour de force of German medicine. Physicians became more organized because of the creation of the Krankenkassen, and began to see the importance of political action to protect their interests. (Holborn, 1969; Proctor, 1988; Weindling, 1969)
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You're right Pepper, this is nothing new. We are now posting links to CHARTS as to Michael's lies on just one night! It confusing. I don't think I have read more that 10 lines of his testimony where he doesn't sound suspicious.
Dumb question, but does he still work there?
Or anyone else with balls. You have to listen to the end!
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Of course not. What if they had asked him questions?
How wide would our monitors have to be if they did?
Pretty wide, if we wanted them to show Mikey, at the distance he'd be away from the interview.
Pianka said they have to be sterilized, which doesn't sound as if he finds them worthy of life. He also said they are the moral equivalent of bacteria. I wonder what his wife says when he tells her, "My dear, you are the same as bacteria!"
Purr-fect! Thanks!
Well then, which group is he in? The group that should be exterminated, or the group that should be mutilated?
The number one threat to young women and children is boy friends.
Keep takin' it to 'em, FV! One at a time, we will change some hearts and minds about what happened to Terri.
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