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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Bias shows in the very first line here written by Jan and Jan...

Public interest in "right to die" issues was heightened in 1990 after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Nancy Cruzan case affirmed the right of an individual to make end-of-life decisions in advance of the event through "advance directives." But rather than setting a national standard, the court gave flexibility to the states to establish the parameters within which appointed agents are able to make these decisions on behalf of a patient who is unable to express his or her wishes. Then, prior to her death in 2005, Terri Schiavo captured our attention.

Next Steps: End-of-life decisions require detailed plans

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Remember Ashley, the little girl mutilated "for her own good"? Remember Peter Singer???

Thread from wagglebee...

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A couple of weeks ago, Peter Singer, a bioethicist at Princeton University, wrote an article for the New York Times that essentially denies the Declaration's core principles.  While discussing the sad case of Ashley, a severely disabled girl whose parents had her uterus removed and put her on hormones to stunt her growth, Singer said:

We are always ready to find dignity in human beings, including those whose mental age will never exceed that of an infant, but we don't attribute dignity to dogs or cats, though they clearly operate at a more advanced mental level than human infants. Just making that comparison provokes outrage in some quarters. But why should dignity always go together with species membership, no matter what the characteristics of the individual may be?....[Ashley] is precious not so much for what she is, but because her parents and siblings love her and care about her.

In Singer's mind, Ashley is not precious for what she is, and she does not have dignity simply because she is human.  He even strongly implies that dogs and cats have more dignity than this handicapped little girl.  Yet the Founders believed that all people are created equal, even those whose mental age does not advance very far. 

A Tale of Two Cities: Resisting the Atheist Attack

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Get to stare down Jane Fonda, Cindy Sheehan, Ed Asner, and maybe their Father, the Father of Lies, all on March 17. All who can make it, here is a chance to stand tall.

I recall that was a good day to get green beer at the Hawk and Dove afterwards, too.

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Leftist activists who are planning a march to the Pentagon next month will discover that their path won’t be as clear as expected.

The Anti-war/anti-American group, led by Cindy Sheehan, Jane Fonda and Ed Asner, plan to gather March 17 at the Vietnam Memorial Wall to begin a march to protest America’s involvement in the Iraq war.

Many Freepers and participating organizations will be making our presence known in Washington, D.C. on March 17 as well in a 'Gathering Of Eagles'.

'Gathering of Eagles' Flyer PRINT IT! GET IT OUT THERE! Defend The Wall March 17th!

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>> The problems DSS confronts are societal and systemic -- daunting for any one commissioner

Yeah. People are just too stupid to understand why we should saw up children and sell their organs and make money for the DSS to do even more good stuff.

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>> I recall that was a good day to get green beer at the Hawk and Dove

Ah, yes. Long walk to the Pentagon, though :-)

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And just when you think public schools can't get any worse:

>> Spence's vision is the right one. He wants his social workers placed in schools across the state...

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>> ...Spence is passionate about the need for leaders in child protection systems who inspire social workers instead of scapegoating them when an inevitable tragedy befalls the deeply damaged families that DSS serves.

This is extremely nuts. Bureaucrats one and all live by the Rulebook. They have no flexibility or discretionary powers. Common sense, good judgment, moral responsibility and leadership do not and must not guide their actions. They would be against the Rulebook and against the law.

As we have seen in the cases of Haleigh and Rebecca, no family is so "deeply damaged" that bureaucrats can't make it worse.

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Especially after the green beer, but it can be done with strategic stops.

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Second thought, who on earth would walk to the Pentagon then?

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Sure to strike terror: "I'm from the government and I am here to help."

It would be nice but altogether inconsistent if they would quit helping Haleigh for awhile, release her from captivity to the care of those who love her, especially with her birthday coming up, as I recall.

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I peeked in on this thread. The article must have been threatening to differently-abled philosophizers. They sounded like Matteawan under a full moon.

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bttt

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>> after the green beer, but it can be done with strategic stops.

I don't remember THAT many trees.

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What it is, is the liberal propensity to mythologize everything from a few surface impressions and avoid all principle. They sermonize about a tiny good (the right to privacy found in the emanations of the penumbra of a supreme court justice's mind in 1965), and ignore somewhat tougher questions such as murder, judicial corruption and a direct assault on the Bill of Rights. Witness:

"...the Terri Schiavo case repudiated what he calls 'the Republican moral agenda' and became a seminal event in the dawning of a 'liberal moment.'"

That is one "liberal moment" we can delightedly leave to the liberals. They've aligned themselves body and soul with a particularly cold-blooded murder, and did it for the worst of reasons: for politics. It was a house-of-cards murder too, that will collapse if even one of the people close to the case should spill the beans. There are quite a few people who know the truth from inside and know they were involved with evil.

The first one who breaks gets to say he acted in conscience. The rest get caught with their pants down. I think it is just a matter of time.

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>> I was sure they were addressing a question to Hillary.

Snorf.

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>> ...appointed agents are able to make these decisions on behalf of a patient who is unable to express his or her wishes.

Ladies, it seems to rational minds that if "agents" make the decision for the patient, it isn't the patient making the decision. Fair enough? And that's not a right-to-die issue, it's a right-for-somebody-else-to-put-you-to-death issue, now, isn't it? Nancy Cruzan neither expressed a wish nor gave consent to die. (Who would? Dehydration/starvation is a horrific death, you know.) Likewise, Terri Schiavo made no decision to die. On the contrary, she was clearly aware of the plan to kill her, wept when she was told, and fought it as best she could. Hers was not an end-of-life case either. She wasn't dying. She wasn't even ill. Her heart was strong.

Liberals who talk about "right to die" in cases like these are willing accomplices to murder.

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Charlie Crist turns out to be, well, Charlie Crist to no surprise for us. Sounds like the media and our adversaries are not so saddened by his positions...

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ISSUE: Same-sex ban no priority for Crist.

Gov. Charlie Crist has received well-deserved kudos for addressing important issues with a common sense approach since taking office in January.

He appointed a Democrat, Bob Butterworth, to head the troubled Department of Children & Families. He has addressed the property insurance crisis. He's talked about state funding of stem cell research.

Just as important, Crist is showing that he is not going to cater to the extreme right wing in his own party, which is a welcome change from predecessor Jeb Bush. Crist has previously indicated that Tallahassee shouldn't have gotten involved in the Terri Schiavo case, as opposed to Bush, who zealously went head-first into the right-to-die case.

Now, Crist has come out and said he doesn't want the Republican Party of Florida spending more money to get a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage on the 2008 ballot.

Crist has said that issues like property insurance reform, property tax reform, and others are what the administration should be concerned with. When asked whether the Republican Party should contribute more to a group gathering signatures for the same-sex marriage ban, he said, "Probably not." Under Bush, the Florida Republican Party spent $300,000 pushing the amendment.

It's hard to believe the citizens of Florida are ripe for a volatile, divisive debate on a hot-button issue like same-sex marriage. With so many problems facing Florida, lawmakers should not be spending any time, or money, on something that will do nothing but cause more rifts in a state that has enough of them.

Charlie Crist has shown he gets it. It's time others do as well.

BOTTOM LINE: Governor wisely

not pushing divisive issue.

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Charlie Crist -- the trolls' choice.

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The New Crist Minstrals

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Nothing like the oily praise of liberal editorialists to show what Charlie Crist is really like. But we already knew. Folks, you read it here first, from floriduh voter. Crist is the fellow who not only ducked his constitutional duty, as Florida AG, to help Terri Schiavo, he refused to allow any investigation of her still-unexplained injuries that left her invalided for life. He even campaigned on his view that he would not have interceded while her HINO killed her.

Next week marks the 17th "anniversary" and yet her murderer(s) walk free. Terri's blood is on a lot of hands and Crist's hands are among them.