T'wit, FReeper extraordinaire, has died.

self | August 5, 2007 | 8mmMauser

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A great FReeper and close friend passed. T’wit, also known as Timothy Wheeler passed on. In tribute, I would like to make this the August thread of Terri Dailies, the topic foremost in T’wit thoughts.

Tim was a man of great faith, a faith that grew stronger especially in recent months. As I type this, I still am not yet coherent, as I try to awaken and sip a good coffee brought to me recently by Tim. In his usual fashion, he probably figured I would appreciate a little care package and would appreciate the better quality than the usual fare we would fix.

But I do not want this thread to be maudlin, nor a reminiscing on anecdotes, rather a stab at what Tim would want.

T’wit was passionate about the beauty of nature, of good books, good music, and intellectual challenge, but mostly he was passionate about his love for our America, for Jim Robinson’s FreeRepublic, and for our fight for those in the plight of Terri Schiavo. For the latter, he sought justice and fervently hoped and prayed we on Terri’s List would carry on this battle against the evils of those who would control who lived and died.

In our many talks, he would sound like a poster boy for all the stated position of Jim Robinson.

His wife told me last evening the final thoughts he had. As can be expected, it was for us to continue our fight as we have done already. She hoped that rather than flowers or donations sent, that donations be directed at causes like that supporting Terri’s Legacy, the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation. In this way, we remember him and further his wishes. T’wit and I talked a lot about faith and I can reassure all, his faith in Our Lord was strong and growing stronger, a comfort to me that he carried it to the end.

My words come out with difficulty this morning, but should flow better later, although without the word play and banter we would sometimes engage, at least for now. T’wit would be upset if I quit the puns for long, though.

We will continue our prayers for T'wit and his wife and family.

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She does not face the peril suffered by Terri but Carrie needs our prayers. Please check post #2,808 for this update by DollyCali.

Recall, this thread was started by GretchenM,R.I.P.

Caroline continues to show signs of healing. I know there are different stages within a comatose state, and although she’s not conscious (yet), she is certainly at a higher level of awareness than ever before. The EEG confirmed Caroline’s brain only has activity in the frontal lobe. Perhaps the rest is not lost, but it just recovering and rewiring itself. We want to pray that her brain has not experienced nerve shearing – we pray the nerves that feed the brain cells have not been cut off and that these cells have LIFE.

Urgent Prayer Request for My Young Cousin, Severe Head Injury - Update at #2808

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Something worked!

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LaCrosse, WI (LifeNews.com) -- In a surprise move, attorneys representing a La Crosse family asked a judge for a dismissal of their motion to remove a feeding tube from a woman who is not terminally ill and not dying. Their original request invited legal action from pro-life groups interest in helping the woman not be subject to euthanasia.

The attorneys for the woman, named Marilyn, filed their new request in a La Crosse circuit court late Friday afternoon.

The lawyers admitted they would not likely win their case, but they reserved the ability to file the motion again at a later date.

Barbara Lyons, the director of Wisconsin Right to Life, told LifeNews.com the unexpected withdrawal of the motion "is excellent news for patients all over the state who are in similar situations."

Lyons' group filed a legal motion last week to attempt to intervene on the behalf of the disabled woman.

"The La Crosse case was being set up as a test case to change state law via the courts to allow the removal of food and water from many vulnerable patients," Lyons explained. "We empathize with the family of the woman in question as they struggle through this difficult time. Our prayers are with them."

Had the attorneys for the guardian prevailed in the case, Marilyn could have been subjected to the same painful starvation and dehydration death that took Terri Schiavo's life in March 2005.

Wisconsin Attorneys Quit Bid to Subject Disabled Patient to Euthanasia

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A short note on an important subject...

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How can we keep people from taking their own lives? How can we teach them that is not the answer?

There is a soul, there is an after life and this act will be punished. We must never embrace Kevorkianism. And Terri Schiavo's parents believed existence had a purpose. It is against the law to attempt suicide and you can't ask God for forgiveness after self murder. It is a permanent solution to temporary problems. Straight from the frying pan to the fire.

Is life so cheap that people will throw it away for nothing? The key is to look for any reason to stay alive. The worst kind of life is better than the best kind of death. There is a reason you were born. This act is selfish and would scar your family forever. Other people go through the same problems and they stick it out by reaching out for help. Medicine can help receptors receive serotonin in the synapses, but so does unconditional love and acceptance. It doesn't seem to matter what a person does wrong -- psychology will find a reasonable explanation, give the behavior a label and remove it from the sin category to the disease category.

Thousands die every year in the U.S. due to taking their own lives. It all starts with a thought. A man named legion had 2,000 suicide demons and they could do no more to him than make him cut on himself. Because he resisted. And held on till the deliverer came.

Brad Crowder, Richmond

Taking one's life a permanent fix for temporary trouble

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Audry Ignatoff writes for RenewAmerica...

Michael Moore stressed the need for low cost or free medications by sick people. Often, the lack of proper medications may lead to a patient becoming worse, leading to more expensive hospital and/or nursing home care. However, the recent release of Sicko didn't touch on the issue of euthanasia either in the United States or any other country. Pamela Hennessey states his oversight in lauding the health care systems in other countries in a review of the movie, "Consider the NHS of the United Kingdom — currently looking for ways to justify killing elderly patients and premature babies. Consider the Netherlands — the all-inclusive vacation spot for suicidal patients... whether or not they have a chronic or terminal illness."

Health care costs are rising in the U.S. and other nations around the world. The answer is often euthanasia of the elderly and disabled because they cost the most to care for. Medications are often the tools used to accomplish this. Often, when a patient comes into contact with the health care system for a minor illness or ailment, they are sometimes given a very strong drug, which can leave them at risk for overdose and even coma. Then, they are admitted to hospice, and given large doses of morphine to hasten their death. Often, health care professionals use the phrase, "We would like to make you more comfortable." Or "We would like to make your relative more comfortable." Ron Panzer of Hospice Patient's Alliance and Cheryl Eckstein of Compassionate Care Network have well documented this phenomenon.

What Sicko missed: medication as a tool for euthanasia

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What libs want...

This is from OpEdNews. I am not sure who Ed is but this is the opposite of Ed and others of reason.

NOTHING like this was happening before the year 2000 stolen Presidential Election. In those days, wacko religious cults were just that: wacko religious cults. They didn't, shall we say, have the President's ear (and soul). In those days, the Church & State division, legally mandated by our Constitution, was still reasonably intact.

That was before people like Senate Majority Leader, ("Dr."?) Frist, diagnosed Terry Schiavo from a video tape. The Senator, presumably, was "in the spirit" while he did this. Indeed, this episode was a small tipping point for the Bush/Republican juggernaut, since it proved the fundamental irrationality changing Church & State into Church & Church. The angry polls of that time made it overwhelmingly clear that most Americans preferred medicine to stay grounded in science, not some kind of born again voodoo.

The fascists have opened (what for them!) is Pandora's Box

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This is a wonderful thread kind sir........thank you for spreading the word on Carrie to your ping list & we solicit prayers for her healing & continued protection for outside/evil sources

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Thank you. Our prayers for today are devoted to Carrie.

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Thread from wagglebee on the word on abortion from Rome...

VATICAN CITY, August 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an exclusive interview with Vatican Radio on Sunday evening, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican official who is second only to Pope Benedict XVI, spoke of his regret over Amnesty International's newly adopted advocacy of abortion in cases of rape or when the mother's life is in danger.

Referring to the organization's official confirmation of this "selective abortion" stance, given at its International Council Meeting last week, Cardinal Bertone stated, "Men and women of the Church throughout the world have already made their stark opposition to this decision clear."

"Violence cannot be answered by further violence, murder with murder," said Cardinal Bertone, "for even if the child is unborn it is still a human person."

Vatican: Abortion in Rape Cases is "Violence Answered with Further Violence, Murder with Murder"

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This thread by wagglebee reminds me of how we were called in France. (No, being American was not one of them...) We were considered as traditional Catholics to be "Integriste". That handy label may sound innocuous enough but it associated also with the fanatical terrorists of Islam.

Hence we were lumped together. In effect, it gave antagonists the license to thump us over the heads with impunity at any uprising. Rush Limbaugh has said words mean something. To libs, words are tools to get their vile job done.

CNN's upcoming miniseries "God's Warriors," hosted by left-wing bias exemplar Christiane Amanpour, looks like it will play the old liberal game of moral equivalence. Amanpour reportedly compares Christian chastity advocates to the Taliban in the miniseries.

Even the promos for the miniseries which have been running on CNN for the past few weeks demonstrate the probable "game plan" that Amanpour and CNN have in mind, grouping together pro-life Christian college students protesting in front of the Supreme Court, Jewish settlers on the West Bank, and Islamic radicals. To paraphrase an old children's jingle, "two of these things are not like the other."

CNN's Upcoming Miniseries "God's Warriors" Implies Pro-Lifers are Terrorists

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Sometimes odd dilemmas arise with those who would be gods. Thread by linux07ster. Thanks to TheSarce.

In may 2002, Clois Guthrie, an 85-year-old retired osteopathic surgeon, got the phone call he was waiting for: A suitable kidney had just become available for him. A renal transplant would mean liberation from the dialysis machine to which he had been tethered for two miserable years. Elated, Guthrie and his wife raced to the Porter Adventist Medical Center from their home in North Denver one hundred miles away. 1 1 Yet mere hours before the operation was to take place, the center’s transplant surgeons were engaged in anguished deliberation over whether Guthrie was actually the right person to get that kidney. He was, after all, 85 years old. How much longer would he live with a new kidney? Shouldn’t the organ, taken from a healthy 30-year-old motorcyclist who had died from head trauma, be given to a younger person who would get many more years of life from it?

The doctors decided to proceed, but in the end, there was a technical glitch and the operation did not take place. Guthrie went back on dialysis. Two-and-a-half years later he was dead of a heart attack at age 88. The ethical dilemma sparked by his case, however, did not die with him. Indeed, the question of “how old is too old for a transplant?” is being asked with increasing urgency by transplant professionals as the chasm between supply and demand widens inexorably.

Supply, Demand, and Kidney Transplants

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What sad news, I’m crying because even though I never met him, he was my comrade in arms. The battle for Terri was fierce and took a terrible toll on us all. He stood for Terri with the rest of us and will not be forgotten. His joy is complete now with the Lord of Hosts. Comfort to his wife in Jesus’ Name.

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Greer as Groucho! Now, that is an image I can keep in my mind for awhile. But Groucho was funny. I wish I could photoshop a "Peek-a-boo, here I am..." of that guy. Amdgmary has updated the thread with the latest commentary at post #166.

Decisions Upend Judges' Lives (Judge George Greer at AMA Annual Meeting)

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God be with you.

[Dante3]

Prayers for Carrie.

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Mauser, you are the best. He is with me and you and His wonderful presence. He has set before us the blessed hope of eternal life. Praise to Him forever.

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No need to fear, Crist's down here, driving his Jag, sunning on his condo roof, commandeering his boat Freedom. Voters, you bought this boy a fancy vacation. He cuts ribbons and goes to box seats for the Bucs and other sports teams.

Fools put Charlie Crist in office.

Meanwhile, our Governor Crist is so lazy that journalists are taking note. I said week ago that Crist spent more time in Tampa Bay than in Tallahassee.

What did he say about his time off? I’M NEVER NOT THE GOVERNOR. That’s a double negative. He doesn’t even know grammar!

And, he’s putting developers in charge of protecting environmental lands. Kill tourism next by destroying the wetlands I guess is the plan. He killed Terri for his big donors too.

He won’t get re-elected. We need a real governor, not a ribbon cutter. They can have beauty pageant winners open supermarkets.

www.sptimes.com keyword: Crist

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Of another 9/11...

In Massachusetts again The Republican gets the news over Haleigh Poutre ahead of, or instead of the rest of the media. Still, we await some sort of news on how little Haleigh is doing, whether this coveted property of DSS is doing, whether she may be released to visit family members, and other rights often granted to ordinary prisoners. For, as we recall, once DSS failed in their quest to have little Haleigh killed for spare organ parts, they have kept her quite away from the world, including family members who love her. Maybe the lockbox will one day open, thanks to spotlights by news folks like The Republican.

Meanwhile we will keep our batteries fresh in our little flashlight here and keep it shining in the direction of DSS.

Here is the latest:

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SPRINGFIELD - The lawyer for Jason D. Strickland, accused of assaulting his stepdaughter Haleigh Poutre, has been given until the end of today to file both a motion to withdraw as defense counsel from the case and a motion for the judge newly assigned the case to step down.

A hearing on those motions, which Greg T. Schubert told Juvenile Court Judge James G. Collins yesterday that he was planning to file, is set for tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Hampden Superior Court. Collins set today's deadline for Schubert to file the motions.

Haleigh Poutre was hospitalized with a brain injury on Sept. 11, 2005.

Haleigh, now 13, is in a Boston rehabilitation hospital. Her case gained national media attention and has triggered a continuing debate in Massachusetts about how the state handles child welfare responsibilities.

Robert A. Mulligan, chief justice for administration and management for the state Trial Court, authorized and assigned Collins to preside over the Strickland trial as a Superior Court Justice. Collins has been the judge handling matters related to Haleigh Poutre and related matters in Juvenile Court. Those matters are not public because they are in Juvenile Court.

Strickland, 33, and his wife, Haleigh's adopted mother Holli A. Strickland, both of Westfield, were arrested and charged with assault after the girl was hospitalized. Holli Strickland died later that month in what West Springfield police said appeared to be a murder-suicide at the hands of her grandmother........................

Deadline set in Strickland case motions

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Dogs and people and critters on the left...

Having an amazing grasp of the obvious, I noted with first break of the Vick's rub, how this reaction would go down along lines of left and right. So, here it appears...

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But does anyone besides me see the hypocrisy of some on the left who go nuts about Michael Vick and the whole dog fighting thing and yet are the same people who don't care about the loss of human life caused by illegal aliens or are the same people who fight for the right to kill unborn babies?


I hear the battle cry of: "It is my body, it is my property, I can do with it what I want"

from the pro aborts, but the opposite cry from the same person against a person who's property is a dog. Do they respect the life of a dog more then they respect the life of a human?

My friend Lee Frank made a comment to me after the radio show "Lets talk Frank" I was on this afternoon. He said.....

"If Terry Schiavo was a dolphin or a dog (or a whale)she would still be alive today"

Love dogs, Hate people.

Anyone? Mind if I juxtapose?

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"Does anyone besides me see the hypocrisy of some on the left who go nuts about Michael Vick and the whole dog fighting thing and yet are the same people who don't care about the loss of human life caused by illegal aliens or are the same people who fight for the right to kill unborn babies?" asks Campfield. He quotes a friend who notes that, "If Terry [sic] Schiavo was a dolphin or a dog (or a wale) [sic] she would still be alive today." Then it gets better!

Dog fighting is cruel and inhumane. But if Vick could have figured out a way to pit two unborn babies against each other in a fight to the death, maybe we'd outlaw killing children as quickly as we rushed to enhance penalties for crimes involving our pets.

Yeah, maybe. Or maybe we'd have stumbled on the greatest entertainment ever. Fetus deathmatches? Extract and dilate the cash from our wallets for season tickets, please. And put our money on the second-trimester gladiators; everyone knows they fight the dirtiest.

abortions of logic... Michael Vick Should Have Killed Him Some Babies

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