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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Concepts may be simple when one deals with absolutes, right and wrong, good and evil, but become complex when one must parse and find what is in between. This comes from the ProgressiveU blog.

....................Also, I mentioned something about mutual agreement between spouse and family members; maybe not a mutual agreement, but there has to be an understanding among everyone about what the person in question wanted. If a living will does not exist, then I suppose the decision is up to the spouse (even though I didn’t like the decision of Terry Schiavo’s husband, who, to me, wasn’t a very good spouse). The euthanasia that I personally am against is administering, for example, a lethal injection into someone with a terminal illness. Dr. Kevorkian, anyone? And yes, a “patient” of his may have pushed the button, but he told them it was the “right” decision. If a person is of sound mind and decides, “I want to die,” are they really of sound mind? Who actually wants to die if they still have time left on Earth? (Yes, obviously people who kill themselves, but why? There is no situation that a person can't escape - they only think they can't.) “Now, if someone with ALS (or a similar disease) said, ‘Kill me, please, I want to die,’ should they be killed? No. It's assisted suicide, end of story.” ^This is from my first euthanasia post.

Killing a person by any means is still murder, even if they ask you to. If someone asked you to steal them some medicine, it’s still stealing.

Euthanasia, Part II

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More good news coming out of Colorado. Must be some powerful talent on the CRLC! Thread by wagglebee...

DENVER, August 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Restrictions on pro-life groups using their funds for pro-life advocacy purposes during elections are unconstitutional says a ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Denver court upheld a lower court ruling Tuesday that said Colorado Right to Life Committee (CRLC) was exempt from a state constitutional amendment, because it's not a business corporation. The three-judge panel ruled unanimously that CRLC’s purpose is to promote respect for human life, not to elect or defeat political candidates and therefore the amendment’s provisions did not apply.

Restrictions on Pro-Life Advocacy During Elections Unconstitutional says Denver Court

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A Cardinal speaks out on bioethickers... Thread by wagglebee.

ARLINGTON, Virginia, August 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, Chairman of the bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities, identified the worship of a “a modern-day false idol,” as the greatest modern threat to the unborn. Rigali spoke at the annual conference of directors of diocesan pro-life offices in Arlington, Virginia, on August 2.

Reflecting the work of pro-life writers warning against the infiltration of utilitarian “Bioethics” in the medical field, Rigali identified an “idolatrous gospel of total autonomy, sheer utility and false mercy,” as the philosophy pushing new attacks on human life.

Researchers’ “Blind faith” in Embryonic Stem-cell Research an “Idolatrous Gospel” says Cardinal

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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

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This thread by wagglebee shows deathbots in action, pursuing the craft they love.

PHOENIX, August 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two professional death "assistants" are under murder investigation for helping a mentally ill woman commit suicide without the knowledge of her close and loving family members, the Phoenix New Times reports.

Jana Van Voorhis, a 58-year-old Phoenix woman, was found by her sister Vicki Thomas and her husband Jared lying dead in bed in a townhouse. Because of Jana's mentally unstable condition, her sister expected to see pills lying about as the cause of her death. The couple was surprised, however, to find a neat and orderly scene that they said looked "staged."

Afterwards, evidence emerged that Jana had contacted a radical suicide group called Final Exit Nextwork (FEN). The Times reports that FEN is an offshoot of the Hemlock Society, which was founded in 1980 by author Derek Humphrey.

Potential "clients" must contact the society and pay a $50 fee to become a member. The organization had sent in two "guides" to help her die of asphyxiation by breathing helium gas from under a face-mask. Helium is one of the preferred drugs used by suicide groups because traces of it are difficult to detect afterwards in the blood stream.

Suicide Group Secretly Aids Death of Woman Without Informing Loving Family

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Christopher Hitchens offers up all the ways he hates Bush, but one emerging near the top is his piling on of the mantras used against the Legacy of Terri.

How do I dislike President George Bush? Let me count the ways. Most of them have to do with his contented assumption that 'faith' is, in and of itself, a virtue. This self-satisfied mentality helps explain almost everything, from the smug expression on his face to the way in which, as governor of Texas, he signed all those death warrants without losing a second's composure.

It explains the way in which he embraced ex-KGB goon Vladimir Putin, citing as the basis of a beautiful relationship the fact that Putin was wearing a crucifix. (Has Putin been seen wearing that crucifix before or since? Did his advisers tell him that the President of the United States was that easy a pushover?)

It also explains the unforgivable intervention that Bush made into the private life of the Schiavo family: leaving his Texas ranch to try and keep 'alive' a woman whose autopsy showed that her brain had melted to below flatline a long time before. Here is a man who believes the 'jury' is still 'out' on whether we evolved as a species, who regards stem cell research as something profane, who affects the odd belief that Islam is 'a religion of peace'.

To invoke Vietnam was a blunder too far for Bush

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Sorry Charlie....

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It seems like only yesterday that the conservatives ruled the state.

They were like the dinosaurs in the Pleistocene era, with Jeb Bush as their T-Rex.

They bellowed against the class-size amendment, slashed taxes for the rich, funded a petition drive to ban gay marriage and tried their darndest to feed Terri Schiavo.

~Snip~

At least over in California, the real Republicans tried standing up to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Conservatives in that state's senate held up his bloated budget for 51 days before finally caving in to his poll numbers.

They're almost as good as Charlie's numbers. And don't think other Republicans aren't taking notes.

Orange Mayor Rich Crotty apparently went out and rented An Inconvenient Truth. He plans to have a summit on climate change next month. This is the same tax-and-spend Republican who raised the resort tax, led the charge for a failed sales-tax referendum and spent the entire property-tax windfall.

It is brilliant politics. Why waste all that time and energy bashing Democrats when it's so much easier to simply make them a moot point.

Crist needs new supporting cast in GOP theater

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On this wagglebee thread, eugenics is the dirty little secret revealed.

It also gives new meaning to "Know your oats..." as a surprising cereal killer is revealed.

Everyone has a couple of buried skeletons hiding behind their secret closet door. America is no exception. During the mid 20th century, state institutions for individuals with developmental disabilities began popping up all over the country, due in part to the Eugenics movement. These institutions were primarily human warehouses for the “feebleminded.” Eugenics actually began in America and was adapted by Nazi Germany and continued long after Hitler's genocide of 6 million European Jews.

It was believed, at that time, that those with “mental defectives” were inferior and polluting the gene pool. Under the movement, Eugenics attempted to keep these individuals from reproducing by sterilizing and locking them up in state institutions. During the 1920s, early “science” developed I.Q. tests that were used to place individuals into the state's hands, believing that intelligence was inherited.

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In 1994, Senate hearings established that the Fernald State School for the Feebleminded in Massachusetts institutionalized many children during the Eugenics era, using them as guinea pigs for an experiment conducted by MIT scientists. As part of a “science club,” a selection of children were fed radioactive oatmeal as a nutritional study by Quaker Oats. The children were never informed nore did they give consent to be part of the experiment, even though laws had been established just 10 years before stating the need for consent. Since the experiments became public knowledge, members of the science group have since sued MIT, Quaker Oats and the government, receiving $60,000.

Secrets behind state institutions (Eugenics)

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Terri's Memory being exploited yet again....

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Thanks, FV, for the link. This is a website devoted to showing the real Mikey. The eyes have it!

Welcome to Michael Schiavo.org

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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

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And thanks to you in the first place, rich8, for bringing it to our attention.

[floriduh voter]

I heard there are also graphics on the site that should be viewed. This site will stay up, unlike www.sorrycharlie.com which came down because our emperor ordered that site down when he was running for governor.

Emperor Crist has no clothes - just a baseball cap. He's an empty headed ribbon cutter. Floridians still have no insurance relief or tax relief. I didn't vote for him. He'll be a one termer. He's ticking off the right and the left and he doesn't own real property. Why bother? He's got Jebbie's mansion and the high rise condo in St. Pete.

Emperor Crist is a good name for him, ya think? P.S. He let Terri die too.

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AUGUST 8,2003:

HERE IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN AT FREE REPUBLIC TO SAVE TERRI'S LIFE AT FREE REPUBLIC. Thank you for this thread, ragtime cowgirl. We had no idea Terri's Fight would take us on a journey that would change many of our lives forever.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971896/posts

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Typo: AUGUST 28, 2003, not the 8th.oops

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That’s a very informative site. I look forward to watching it grow. There’s so much material available for exposing Schiavo as the monster he is.

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It is worth taking a good look at this site, hopefully a burgeoning work and source for this topic. I keep watching the montage and asking myself as I alluded earlier upthread, "Eyes, what eyes? All pics are absent human eyes." But, maybe it is just me. Here is the site once again.

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Michael Schiavo.org is a compilation of documents, interviews, books, and images from many sources to present viewers with the personality of Michael Schiavo. All the statements and quotes are taken directly from interviews, court documents, articles, and his book, "Terri: The Truth." Some comments are bolded for emphasis. This site is continually being updated with addtional information.

Background Information:

Michael Schiavo led a 15 year court battle to end his estranged wife's [Terri Schiavo] life by a dehydration/starvation with the removal of her feeding tube. In January 2006, ten months after Terri died, Schiavo married the woman, Jodi Centonze, with whom he led a 13 year affair and fathered two children.

Michael Schiavo has been called one of the most notorious and infamous man in America. He's been dubbed, "America's most admired widower this side of O.J. Simpson." He's been compared to Scott Peterson & O.J. Simpson. His ex-girlfriends describe Schiavo as being a bully, menacing, threatening, and dangerous.

Welcome to Michael Schiavo.org

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The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation carries the story with links of the grim murder by helium of one of the victim/members by the offshoot of the old Hemlock Society, Final Exit. This murder incorporated group so beloved by deathbots is operating so far with some impunity.

But the couple noted that there wasn't a pill bottle in sight, which seemed odd to them. Also, Jana's body had been neatly tucked under the covers, her hands by her side atop the sheets, dark hair carefully fanned out on a pillow.

"It looked staged," Viki Thomas says.

A few months later, after the circumstances of what actually had been Jana Van Voorhis' assisted suicide emerged, the image of the balloons at the service struck Jared Thomas (whom everyone calls Tom).

Death Wish

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He's been dubbed, "America's most admired widower this side of O.J. Simpson." He's been compared to Scott Peterson & O.J. Simpson.

Very fitting.

I had forgotten that these ghoulish bastards sat in Terri's room eating pizza the night before she died.

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Amnesty International deceives in this thread by wagglebee, a thread adorned with a few lighter images.

Amnesty International, which formally announced two weeks ago a new worldwide policy backing women's right to abortion in some cases, is being charged with having "duped" pro-life pop stars who contributed their time and talents to a CD released to raise money by the anti-torture group for victims of violence in Darfur.

Pro-life rock stars 'duped' by Amnesty

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Rooty Toot thread by wagglebee...

In short: He's toast.

But former GOP Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to lead many polls of Republican primary voters across the country and is holding his own when matched up against top-tier Democrats like U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

How long is Rudy's shelf-life

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Thread by wagglebee on the Katrina hospital deaths is already heating up! Tempting for those who wish to join the discussions.

CNN) -- A New Orleans grand jury that declined to indict a doctor on charges that she murdered patients in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina never heard testimony from five medical experts brought in by the state to analyze the deaths.

All five concluded that as many as nine patients were victims of homicide.

In detailed, written statements, the five specialists -- whose expertise includes forensic medicine, medical ethics and palliative care -- determined that patients at Memorial Medical Center had been deliberately killed with overdoses of drugs after Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005.

Medical experts never testified in Katrina hospital deaths

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