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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It hurts only when I laugh. Big difference is he doesn't wear a mask...

Great news, conservatives! Fresh from piloting Air America into a full-throttle collision into the ratings cellar floor, Al Franken is ready to become Minnesota’s next U.S. senator.

Finally! A liberal who doesn’t wear the mask the rest of the Washington Democrats hide behind. Franken epitomizes the hard-working wing of his base inspired by the likes of Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan and most recently, anti-Catholic hyperblogger Amanda Marcotte.

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HUMAN EVENTS is thrilled to be among the first to endorse him for the Democrat nomination to become the next U.S. senator from Minnesota. We do so with malice aforethought out of the sheer pleasure we’d get out of watching Hillary Clinton squirm out of campaign appearances with him. And we will be the first to celebrate his loss. We cannot imagine the good people of Minnesota inflicting this classless bully on the rest of us.

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Such buffoonery doesn’t always come easy to Mr. Franken, though. “Making jokes about Terri Schiavo is one of the hardest thing I have to do as a humorist,” he lamented on page 159.

His Midwest Values are funded by down rollicking home gals and good ol’ boys like Barbara Streisand, Phil Donahue and Aaron Sorkin.

I Endorse Al Franken

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This article by Wesley J. Smith is in a thread by Coleus...

The Swiss Supreme Court recently ruled that people with mental illnesses can be legally assisted in suicide. The case came about when a member of Dignitas, an organization, which, for a fee, provides a safe house for—and assistance with—suicide, brought a lawsuit seeking the right to die. The man does not have cancer, AIDS or other physical illness, as that term is popularly understood. Rather, he is depressed from bipolar disease. But this did not prevent the court from giving its imprimatur to his assisted suicide.

According to the International Herald Tribune, the Swiss high court ruled, "It must be recognized that an incurable, permanent, serious mental disorder can cause similar suffering as a physical (disorder), making life appear unbearable to the patient in the long term." No one should be surprised by the Swiss ruling. The two weight-bearing ideological pillars of euthanasia/assisted suicide advocacy—a radical individualistic notion of "self ownership" and the deemed propriety of killing as an acceptable answer to the problem of human suffering—virtually compel this result. After all, many people suffer more intensely and for far longer than people who are dying. And, if "choice" is the be all and end all of personal freedom, then who can gainsay a suffering person's decision to die? Hence, rather than being a radical extension of assisted suicide ideology, the Swiss court decision is simply its logical outcome.

Indeed, the Swiss court is not the first to issue such a ruling. More than ten years ago, the Dutch Supreme Court reached a strikingly similar conclusion in a decision interpreting the parameters of the Netherlands' euthanasia program. The case involved the 1991 assisted suicide of a depressed woman named Hilly Bosscher. After Bosscher's two sons died, she became obsessed about being buried between them. She approached the Dutch psychiatrist Boutdewijn Chabot, an assisted suicide advocate, seeking his help in killing herself. Chabot met with her on four occasions, but did not attempt treatment. Instead, believing that she would never improve, he assisted Bosscher's suicide. The Dutch Supreme Court subsequently approved, finding, like the Swiss court after it, that the law cannot distinguish between suffering caused by physical illness and that caused by mental anguish.

Switzerland Wrongly Pushes Assisted Suicide for Mentally Ill Patients

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Suspicions confirmed...

The Global Warming cults just had to have a sinister core. Here it is.

Thread by Coleus.

Global warming is "unequivocal," according to the just-released report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The most likely culprits are people - all of us. Yet, apart from insightful comments by former Vice President Al Gore, there has never been much public discussion about the role of human population growth in global warming. Professor Tim Dyson of the London School of Economics indicates that a 40 percent cut by 2050 in per capita carbon emissions in the developed world could be completely cancelled by global population growth. It's time to open a "second front" in the battle against global warming by stressing the need for population stabilization - sooner rather than later.

Scientists warn that temperatures will continue to rise unless we stabilize greenhouse gas levels. Global warming will be accompanied by increased sea levels resulting in massive flooding of homes and destruction of fragile wetland habitats. To slow down this process, experts estimate that global CO2 emissions must be slashed. Yet the United Nations projects that world population will rise 40 percent-- reaching 9.1 billion--by 2050. And even if we change our ways, the environmental footprint of each human being will never reach zero. As population increases, the challenge of slowing climate change becomes ever more difficult.

Population control is critical in warming fight

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Our greatest danger may be that we underestimate the swelling tide of the culture of death, discount it as anomaly.

Thread by wagglebee...

TURIN, Italy, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Italian judge ordered a 13 year-old girl to undergo an abortion, despite the girl's pleas to let her keep her child reports the Italian news agency, La Stampa.

The girl, Valentina, had become pregnant by her 15 year-old boyfriend, however rather than let her choose to keep her child, her parents demanded she have an abortion on the grounds that she was ruining her life by becoming a mother.

"You cannot hold this child ... you must abort, and father will never have to know,” Valentina's mother told her, saying that she did not have the money to support the child.

Girl Suffers Forced Abortion in Italy

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Thread from wagglebee...

Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A psychology professor at UCLA says the impact abortion has on men is too frequently ignored. Dr. Miriam Grossman, who is a psychiatrist at the university's student health service, says that men involved in abortion decisions have become "invisible" to researchers and members of her profession.

While research on the medical and mental health problems women face following an abortion has only barely scratched the surface, fewer scholars have examined the impact on men.

Grossman says a sociologist named Dr. Arthur Shostak is about the only researcher to examine how abortion affects men.

Abortion's Impact on Men Frequently Ignored, UCLA Psychologist Says

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Considering that embryonic stem cell research produces so little of use, it is telling that the process does so much harm, as if the pursuit of the researchers were death itself, and not the pretense of seeking life saving discoveries.

Thread from wagglebee

LONDON, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Powerful drugs given to women egg-donors to harvest their eggs can cause paralysis, limb amputation and death warns a new study by Italian experts. The warning comes from researchers at the University of Padua just days before the United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is expected to endorse a controversial new policy allowing doctors to pay healthy women for harvesting their eggs for research purposes.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the scientists at the University of Padua discovered in their study that 34 women suffered severe reactions to the hormone-stimulating drugs, which increase the number of eggs for extraction. Most of these women had previously enjoyed good health prior to the fertility treatment. An analysis of doctors' reports since the early 1990s revealed to the researchers that 60 per cent of the accidents involved blood clots in the head and neck.

The study, published in the journal Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, concludes that the occurrence of the number of side effects would rise as the number of assisted reproduction techniques increased. Among all women undergoing infertility treatment, one in 10 will suffer milder forms of an adverse reaction called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), while 1 percent will be at risk for life-threatening blood disorders.

Study: Women Who Donate Eggs For Fertility Research Face Loss of Life and Limb

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Sometimes the ugly truth emerges from behind the nice storefronts of abortion chopshops...

Thread by Coleus.

When a sidewalk counselor at James Pendergraft's Orlando, Fla., Women's Center abortion clinic encountered a man who told her he was delivering his baby's body to the clinic, she called police but they declined to investigate, and there is reason to believe that decision violated at least two laws that should have been controlling in the situation, according to an expert on the issue.

Officials with the Orlando police department declined to return multiple messages left by WND, and declined to respond to a written question officials told WND to submit about the situation.

It developed on Feb. 9, when counselor Patte Smith was in the area near the rear entrance to the building, as she has been for more than a decade, trying to convince those headed to the abortion business to change their minds about destroying unborn life.

In this particular case, she told WND, the man was approaching and he "looked very shaken, looked like he was in a daze." She approached him as close as she could, since sidewalk counselors are not permitted on abortion business property, and the man already was approaching the door.

Dad returns baby's body to abortion clinic

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Sorry, the above thread was by NYer.

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Minnesota's best humorist was Max Shulman, who liked to poke fun at his alma mater. His lead for one of his books (approximate quote) was, "The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul stretch down the sides of the Mississippi River like the legs on a pair of trousers. Where they meet is the University of Minnesota."

No doubt that is the same crotch where Al Franken got his student deferment from Vietnam.

Max, alas, has passed on, and Dr. Demento, the other humorist from Minnesota, left the state as soon as he could afford a ticket. That leaves only Garrison Keillor, who is reduced to telling lutefisk jokes for National Public Radio, and Al Franken.

Minnesota is a dreary place, a permafrost fever swamp except for the two days of summer when they grow mosquitoes the size of crows. It needs a laugh! That's why I'd like to add my endorsement of Al Franken. He would bring the kind of intellect that Minnesota hasn't seen since it elected a star performer from the World Wrestling Federation as governor.

Al simply hasn't realized that the wrestling ring is the perfect milieu -- let's face it, the only milieu -- for his brand of "humor." This photo shows what potential he has!

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>> ...a radical individualistic notion of "self ownership"...

A view shared by Gaetan Dugas, the famous "Patient Zero" who is said to have been the first AIDS carrier in North America and who spread the disease at the rate of 250 gay partners per year. I don't have the quotes* handy, but Dugas spread the virus (then thought to be "gay cancer") despite knowing that it would kill his partners. He simply said that he owned his own body and could do anything he pleased with it. And that is exactly what owning your own body comes down to.

(*The story was related in Randy Shilts's grim book about the onset of the AIDS epidemic, And the Band Played on.)

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I used to read Max Shulman, but, gee, I was born in Northwestern Hospital, right there! My uncle was the football coach for the U. of M. Back in the forties I already knew the fight song, "Minnesota, hats of to theee.... Rha for the U. of M." But I remember Minnesota/Minneapolis for much more, bullheads in the lakes, and lots of weeds and the Dale and Phelan street car line.

Meanwhile we lived on a little mink farm along Nine Mile Crick in a tiny town called Bloomington. Nowadays, the crick is a drinking fountain in the Mall of the Americas, I think.

Ah memories...

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(*The story was related in Randy Shilts's grim book about the onset of the AIDS epidemic, And the Band Played on.)

What pathos that book portrayed... we still have a copy somewhere. We had a book from another of that time, a female surgeon from San Francisco. Can't remember her name or the title right now, but it will come to me. She cried out in the dark about the nature of AIDS and how it spread but alas, she was not Politically Correct and ignored that AIDS was our first virus with recognized "rights".

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The usual idiots are at it again.

I'll tell you, I'm chilled all the time and so sick of this cold weather, I'm ready to do a Global Warming Dance.

In fact I have always been in favor of Global Warming. The world was a much lusher place in warmer eras. Global Warming might even make Minnesota habitable by normal people.

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>> Meanwhile we lived on a little mink farm along Nine Mile Crick

Things have gone straight downhill since we stopped using mink for their fur. Nowadays we have a mink as Speaker of the House and several in the U.S. Senate.

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>> Can't remember her name or the title right now, but it will come to me.

Let me know.

I came away from reading Shilts's book realizing that it had no comfort for any point of view. He was 'way over the line in slamming the Reagan administration for not doing enough, so that's the part the liberals fixate on. (The truth is that AIDS got far more research money, faster, than any other disease in history.) But even if you cut that whole overlong discussion out, it is a bleak, disturbing book.

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I remembered. It is Dr. Lorraine Day and the book, "AIDS, What The Government isn't Telling You."

It may be hard to find these days. Back then she was a garden variety doctor spurned by all the libs by exposing the facts she saw for herself. For example she pointed out, in the eighties, the ridiculous notion that a condom could stop AIDS. She had proof back then that the surgical latex gloves she wore gave no protection at all when she worked on AIDS patients. Yet, today, commercials still tout the use of condoms to protect against AIDS. I think she described a virus passing through a pore in latex as being like a tennis ball passing through a basketball hoop. However, big molecules like water would be stopped.

She shocked the world with her un/PC findings like that, like the ease of the virus becoming aerosol and being super durable, not fragile as portrayed. And she was on the front lines in San Francisco as a surgeon, so saw it up close. Naturally she was shouted down.

Nowadays, she is into alternative medicine. Had no idea. Har. So are we, by practical experience, not some vague belief.

Lorraine Day

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I poked around also and came across the lady's own website. Wherein, she breathes fire and brimstone upon her critics who dared doubt that she cured her own breast cancer with diet and natural medicines. I think if I were one of her critics, I'd take care to walk on the other side of the street :-)

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Her book written circa 1988 was reasoned and from the perspective of an objective professional just seeking explanation of the anomalies.

Now I am curious about the cancer treatment. I have not seen anything at all recent from her. However I will not yet write off whatever she has found. We have very personal experience with using certain alternative treatments to successfully throw cancer into remission or out the window, and would be berated for what we did as well.

One instance is unfolding now, with a close friend, a contemporary of Uncle Johnny, R.I.P., who is enjoying what the doctors describe as an unexplainable disappearance of tumors which were diagnosed months ago as terminal. He just left for a vacation in Florida to enjoy his new reprieve.

I hold Dr. Day in high respect for her professional approach based entirely on her work in the late eighties, before she was branded an un/PC nutcase and I will soothe curiosity by visiting her site.

Guess she is fiery in her own defense, huh?

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You can't make this stuff up. The depressed are assisted in suicide. Do they give alchoholics drinks, too?

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Just for the record, this was the web site I looked at.