Posted on 02/02/2007 3:49:53 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Peterson at least claimed innocence. Schiavo killed his wife as the entire world watched and then gloated about it.
Yes, and that's one factor the jury strongly held against him in choosing the death penalty. He knew Laci's fate but let her family suffer for four months before the bodies were found.
Start writing! :-) :-)
I wonder if he will do like OJ and try to write an "if I did it" book. Then all of the NYT bestseller list devotees will applaud while leftists like Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal decry capital punishment.
The media is sympathetic to Anna Nicole? Bah!
She let them use and abuse her while she was alive. I had the misfortune of watching Geraldo Rivera's take on her life on FNC, last weekend. My bf and I agreed that he should the one who should be buried, LOL!
I really don't see a link between Terri and Anna Nicole. Anna's son died soon after she gave birth, from a cocktail of drugs, then Anna dies, perhaps from the same cause?
One thing I know, no one likes that lawyer who glommed onto her.
Nope, we shouldn't compare what happened to Terri, with how Anna Nicole died. Terri lived a rather normal life. Thankfully, she had no children to witness her end days.
>> What they [scientists engaged in eugenics] dont understand is that those who need our loving care and compassion are not merely burdens. They are here, as part of Gods great design, to force us to focus on something more than ourselves, to make us better human beings than we would be without them. They are here to help us get to heaven.
Imagine a world where disease had been conquered by science, where babies were born without birth defects, where there were no severely handicapped or brain-damaged people, where everyone was productive, and only the very young and the very old needed care. Wouldnt that be wonderful?
Or would it? Im inclined to think that wouldnt be such a wonderful world. For one thing it wouldnt have included my brother Brian.
Brian was born brain-damaged in 1946, a beautiful little boy who appeared to be no different than any other infant. The first evidence that there might be something wrong with Brian was his failure to communicate with us through speech. He could show you what he wanted, cry, yell, but not verbalize.
When he was five years old he began having terrible seizures. For the next 15 years or more, in search of a cure for their little boy, my parents took him to specialists up and down the east coast. From the specialists they received a variety of diagnoses autism, cerebral palsy, idiocy but no help. Most recommended committing him to an institution, which in those days usually meant a short and unhappy life for the institutionalized. To their eternal credit, my parents refused to do that.
Brian died peacefully seven years ago, at the age of 53, at home in the loving care of his younger sister. His job was done. Brians entire life had been spent in the care of his family, which is probably why he lived as long as he did. (We were told that most people in his condition dont live that long.) Brians job, his purpose in life, was to make everyone who cared for him better than they would have been without him.
What the Disabled Do for the Rest of Us
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While the nation may not be on the leftist trajectory some have credited with swaying those elections, it is clearly fed up with right-wing ideologues. Most of the country rejects the rights absolutist positions on abortion, sexual-abstinence education, stem-cell research, and gun control much as they rejected the Republican Congresss attempt to hijack Terri Schiavos death for ideology, and President Bushs reckless perpetuation and escalation of the disastrous Iraq War.
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Thanks for the heartwarming story!
In the mid nineties when the O. J. Simpson trial was in full swing, people tuned in to watch what was then labelled as the trial of the century. A few years ago when Terry Schiavo passed away and her parents and husband, Mr. Schiavo, debated over her burial, again people tuned in to watch it unfold.
And a few days ago when the Anna Nicole Smith hearing began, again, people tuned in to watch that unfold. All three cases have one striking similarity. Family. Its that reason we are all here, and the reason emotions tend to run high when a loved one passes away or is taken away via death.
Why People Are Tuning In To The Anna Nicole Smith Hearing. One Word: Family.
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Where do they come up with this crap?! How does trying to keep somebody from being murdered translate into "hijacking" their death? The only reason that any significant portion of the public supported Terri's murder was because they had been LIED TO BY A MURDERING HUSBAND, HIS BLOODTHIRSTY LAWYER AND A COMPLICIT MEDIA.
Thread from wagglebee
NEW YORK, February 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - America's largest abortion provider Planned Parenthood is launching a wireless phone business. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), according to its 2004-2005 annual report, showed a record income of $882 million dollars and a profit of $63 million.
The new service, Planned Parenthood Wireless, will provide 10% of revenues generated directly to PPFA. The wireless company facilitating this venture is called Working Assets. It also worked with Planned Parenthood for the defeat of the South Dakota abortion ban.
Support Abortion with Every Phone Call you Make - 'Planned Parenthood Wireless'
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And therin lies their power, their work as a team, not to forget the judicial and happily cooperating officials and an LE bunch that happened to be looking the other way. The team is still out there.
When I think of my if-onlys I wish we could see more stories of the parents who see their children as the treasures they are regardless of the wrapper. Some, perhaps many more than we realize, would open their eyes in surprise at events like Brian's life, they just hadn't noticed.
If only...
They are so hooked on kissing the pharaoh's toes, it never occurs to them that doing the right thing is more important than winning elections. Neither does it cross their mind that Pharaoh is that little guy behind the curtain manning the smoke machine and loudspeakers.
Let conservatives never forget that politics rarely solves anything, and then only by undoing some obnoxious socialist intrusion. We owe nothing to commissars, bureaucrats and politicians. It is free people in a free market who get things done.
Thread by wagglebee
DENVER, February 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, Colorado commenced the Lenten season today, Ash Wednesday, by issuing a message to his diocese reminding the faithful As we offer our prayers to God this Lent, lets ask Him to restore us as a culture of life a culture committed to the sanctity of every life, from the unborn child to the mentally disabled, the infirm and the elderly, and yes, even the condemned criminal.
Denver Archbishops Lenten Message: Restore us as a culture of Life
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I just read from a blogger that "she striped for a living" once. Does that mean she whipped people or that she wore a zebra suit?
Hi, stranger! Seems a while since you've graced the Terri pages. Welcome back :-)
Kent Shocknek puts this on his blog, mentioning Ito, but just imagine cutting and pasting Greer into that courtroom.
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How about that Florida judge deciding where Anna Nicole Smith should be buried? As Ol' Bob Hope woulda said: "Isn't he somethin'?"
Larry Seidlin says things like "This body belongs to me" (when he's not referring to Smith's body as 'that baby'). He's bald and tan like Doctor Phil, and has a last name, like Judge Judy. Court-watchers ask if he's auditioning for his own show.
The longer he stalls the proceedings, the better we can "get to know him." Because, --and here's a good quote-- "If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering." Now who said that? Oh, yea, Judge Lance Ito, of O-J Simpson murder-trial fame.
Maybe Ito could coach Seidlin. Trouble is, he wouldn't. Ever since Simpson, Ito has refuesed to comment. The one guy from that trial, who found his way back to dignity. And all it took was silence.
There's a lesson there, but in the current Anna Nicole circus, probably not a lesson that'd appeal to the ringmaster. --Or Top Clown.
Anna Nicole, and Judge Lance Ito
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