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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I would throw my hat in the ring, but a horse would step on it or worse. That is all I would need, a hatfull of horse biscuits, just like a liberal.

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>> Mitt Romney's Comments on Terri Schiavo Could Sink His Candidacy

Lots of folks in that other thread signed off on Mitt because of his view of Terri. I'm one of them. Not that I had any particular enthusiasm for the man, he just seemed a little less contaminated than Giuliani or McCain. But he's just as bad. I guess I'll stick with Cal Coolidge.

A reminder for the locals -- Haleigh Poutre's nearly fatal encounter with Massachusetts bureaucrats was on Mitt's watch.

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On Mitt's watch, DSSpool thrived.

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>> DSSpool thrived.

{groan}

Kindly cess and DSSist.

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I forget who asked me about the amounts awarded to Terri in the malpractice suits. But I have the figures here. In the first suit, the doctor (or rather, his attorneys) settled for $250,000. (The doctor was furious about it and got exonerated later by a state board.) The award was to Terri, but nobody (except Michael) knows where the money went.

In the other two suits (failure to diagnose the bulimia that did not exist), Michael was awarded $686,700 for loss of consortium (but wasted no time not losing any consortium!). Terri was awarded $1.56 million. I believe these sums were later rounded to a total of $2 million, $600,000 for Michael, $1.4 million for Terri.

Michael rejoiced in Terri's assurance of care and therapy for life by buying himself a new sports car and refusing to provide Terri any therapy. You can pick up a lot of consortium with a new sports car. "I'm going to be rich!" he exclaimed out loud to Terri's nurses. He'd ask, "When is she going to die?" "Has she died yet?" "When is that bitch going to die?" (Translation: "the bitch" is worth a lot of money to me dead.)

With a month or so -- Valentine's Day -- Michael flew into a rage at the Schindlers when they asked when he would begin Terri's therapy. After that, they never spoke again. Michael's hatred was such that he admitted in court he was using Terri to hurt the Schindlers.

Within a few months more, he tried to kill Terri by ordering the facility to withhold antibiotics when she developed a urinary tract infection. Ladies, take notice. Don't we just love our husbands when they try to let us die in agony from a UTI? (Terri most certainly could feel pain, too.)

One other little detail. Michael never contributed his own money to the noble cause of carrying out Terri's purported wish to die. Oh, it was his sacred promise, but not so sacred that he'd spend any of his own money on it. No, sir, he nobly used her money to pay the attorneys and all other costs of killing her, including some of his own expenses. What was his was his. What was hers was his too, if only the bitch would hurry up and kick off.

Michael claimed that Terri's money was exhausted at the end. But only hours after she died, before her body was cold, he and attorney Deborah Bushnell raced to court to file a claim for Terri's estate. Couldn't wait even one day. I guess he was too busy with his banking to grieve.

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(Terri most certainly could feel pain, too.)

Here is another Doctor that agrees with Hammesfahr and Cranford that she can see, too.

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Interesting reading -- thanks. This is only four months after suffering from HINOstasis bastardis. Alert, awake, makes eye contact, some tracking, recognizes name, feels pain.

I think you have begun a very useful list of physicians whose hands-on clinical examinations disprove Thogmartin. There will be others, I'm sure. More or less in chronological order:

Baras
Hammesfahr
Maxfield
Cranford

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Job jar: a list of "feels pain" doctors, much like "able to see" docs.

Also needed, text of closing arguments by Michael's lawyers in the bulimia trials... where they portrayed Terri as worth $20 million, precious, having limited capacities but not vegetative, and needing rehab.

[bjs1779]

I think you have begun a very useful list of physicians whose hands-on clinical examinations disprove Thogmartin.

I don't mean to be a distraction from the official reports : )

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Also needed, text of closing arguments by Michael's lawyers in the bulimia trials...

I think most of the litigation stuff got destroyed, t'wit. Standard procedure for some reason.

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>> I think most of the litigation stuff got destroyed, t'wit. Standard procedure for some reason.

This little piece of it must be out there somewhere 'cuz I read it once. Not a big deal, but it does show how lawyers and ideologues twist words and distort the truth.

When Michael was out to win malpractice money from Terri's injury, naturally his lawyers portrayed her as precious, alert and capable of rehab. But then, after Terri was awarded the money and he stood to inherit it from her -- if she would kindly go push up daisies -- his lawyers said she was a houseplant and wanted to die.

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>> I don't mean to be a distraction from the official reports : )

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly :-)

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Praising with faint damns, the Harvard Crimson waxes dire over our faith.

Yet the rise of secularism isn’t remarked upon in the mainstream media, which prefers mega-church scaremongering (evangelicals are coming to get you!), or condescending articles on virginity balls and the like. So why does the growing secular minority feel besieged by the shrinking religious majority?

This mixture of fear, disdain, and incomprehension might be a legacy of recent (until 2006) electoral defeats, but—in defiance of popular myths —Americans aren’t eager to impose religion via the ballot box. Most voters say that religion seldom or never influences their voting decisions, and voters are far more concerned about officials who pay too much attention to religion than those who pay too little (51 vs. 35 percent in a 2004 CBS/New York Times poll), as the Schiavo backlash reflects.

Even within the most religious groups of voters, such as born-again Christians, religious beliefs only have a limited relationship to political beliefs. For example, according to Barna Group research, one-third of born-again Christians believe that abortion is morally acceptable behavior. Nor does the religious right vote as a monolithic bloc. In 2000, 10 million white evangelicals, and almost half of all voters that self-identify as “religious right” but go to church less than once a week, voted for Gore over Bush.

A Post-Christian America... The supposed religious revival is mirage: Americans are becoming godless

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A hint as to perspective on this one: We are called "anti-choice". Where is our passion for this dying woman nobody will let have a toke? We are being yelled at by Silja Talvi, WIMN's Voices

I notice at the end she won't be holding her breath so I guess she doesn't puff the stuff either.

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McKnight went down so that the anti-choice movement could gain ground on meshing multi-pronged attacks on women’s rights, reproductive rights, and civil liberties.

As was the case with McKnight, this ruling ultimately communicates the reality that female bodies still to other entities: to the government and the men who write most of these laws criminalizing our choices. (Not to take anything away from the impact of the bible-thumping, crazed hordes of anti-choice women. )

As women, we must keep asking the question of how far have we come in our right to control our own bodies, in the context of the cultures and societies in which we live.

~Snip~

I, for one, want to see how interested the media would be in pursuing the kind of intensive coverage we saw devoted to a woman who had already lost all of her ability to function and live without life support. Both women’s stories revolve(d) around the government’s intervention in a person’s right to live or die. In this case, Raich’s loyal husband and lawyer is fighting for her right to live just as strongly as Schiavo’s loyal husband fought for her right to die. For that, he was made the subject of spectacle, and the Schiavo story drew national headlines. The sad, almost surreal media frenzy surrounding her death was also chronicled, sometimes minute by minute, on pro-life blogs everywhere.

To all the anti-choice folks out there talkin’ all that smack about wanting to make sure human life is sacrosanct … So, show me what you’ve got.

Members of the 4th Estate, I want to see you throw the same kind of effort into covering Raich’s case as Schiavo’s.

I won’t be holding my breath, but I’m still giving it a shot. Show me what you’ve got.

Schiavo vs. Raich coverage: Where's the outrage?

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Tenuous analogies indeed...

Shhhhh, Mikey lost his last name in some circles too and more, while Terri regained her own. It may even become a verb or infinitive "to schiavo someone".

That goes for newscasters, headline writers, well-wishers, gawkers and everyone else. If we're not calling her husband "Steve," isn't it demeaning to call her "Tara"? And hasn't she been demeaned enough?

Unfortunate circumstance has already made a public figure of a private person, much as it did two years ago with Terri Schiavo, who also lost her last name in the process.

There's an air of cheap celebrity to one-name appellations -- Britney, Whitney, Rosie, K-Fed. The memory of Tara Grant, or Ms. Grant, or Grant, or whatever you care to call her besides Tara, deserves better.

What happened to respect in the Tara Grant case?

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All may recall the article we pinged to awhile back, the one about the sympathy cards for those who commit abortion. Here is a followup on reactions on a thread by wagglebee.

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Post-abortion e-cards are in the news.

Thanks to Exhale — which "believes abortion can be a normal part of the reproductive lives of women and girls" — you can now send a woman (or girl) who procured an abortion a nice, supportive e-card.

Ain't that sweet?

Post-abortive women can also call Exhale's "After-Abortion Talkline," which "is available to women and girls who have had abortions and to their partners, friends, allies and family members. All calls are completely confidential and counselors are non-judgmental."

Yes, and did you know that Exhale provides links to other "non-judgmental" organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation?

Imagine that.

Woman Who Regrets Abortion Upset by New Post-Abortion Email Cards

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Anyone who entertains lingering doubts as to whether "to rudy" should be a verb or infinitive" may gain understanding from this very lucid thread by Spiff. Thanks, narses.

(A tiny Excerpt...)

Now why would any true blue conservative who honestly respects the right to life of every human being join the Giuliani camp?

Giuliani and the pro-life vote

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The events unfolded two years ago this month.

Two years ago today on National Review Online, an article by Senator Mel Martinez:

This Friday, after a long and protracted legal struggle, a Florida woman named Terri Schiavo will be starved to death by court order.

Legal Refuge... Congress aims to protect Terri Schiavo.

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[T'wit]

All the talk about is polls, polls, polls. The Oracle at Delphi has surrendered her throne to George Gallup.

We might have to paraphrase a famous Chesterton observation: Those who will not believe in God will have to believe in public opinion polls. Worse, they'll have to get their principles from polls. We see it right here often enough -- visitors arguing that it's all right to kill disabled patients because polls say most people think it is.

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>> This is not a right-to-life or right-to-die issue — it is about proper legal representation for individuals with no voice for themselves.

Now there is a fact that Michael Schiavo and the DNC don't want anyone to har.