Posted on 10/25/2007 7:52:37 AM PDT by wagglebee
Since that all happened in parallel to Easter and Holy Week, I get confused as to the characters. Which one was it on that scene who was supposedly sympathetic and at the last moment washed his hands and let the killers have their way. It was either Pontius Pilate or Jeb. I get them confused.
They just don't MoveOn.
This modest excerpt is from the LA Times. No, it isn't just about Romney and the Obama Nation. (Osama Nation wouldn't sound right.)
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You may recall, candidate Fred Thompson was asked a few weeks ago about the highly controversial Terri Schiavo right-to-die case from two years ago in which the husband of a Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state wanted to remove her feeding tube. Her parents went to court and Gov. Jeb Bush, Congress and other politicians got into the struggle.
Thompson said he didn't really recall much about the case, and some people clucked and said, How could he not? Well, Thompson was talking with some reporters last week and, it turns out, he remembers it too well. He just didn't want to talk about it: Like a growing number of Americans, he had gone through a similar end-of-life decision -- regarding his daughter five years ago................................
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Are my eyes deceiving me? This extract is from a site named freep.com. Are they all FReepers? I think not, they are from Detroit Free Press. How novel.
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Obviously I knew about the (Terri) Schiavo case. I had to face a situation like that in my own personal life with my own daughter. ... And I will assure you one thing: No matter which decision you make, you will never know whether or not you made exactly the right decision.
Fred Thompson, Republican presidential candidate, in the New York Times
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jack Kevorkian, the advocate of doctor-assisted suicide who spent eight years in prison for second-degree murder, is cooperating with HBO Films for a movie about his controversial practices.
Kevorkian, now 79, assisted in at least 130 suicides and beat the state court system in Michigan numerous times, but he was convicted in 1999 after he willingly sent a videotape of himself euthanizing a terminally ill man to CBS' "60 Minutes."
He received a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder -- serving his sentence in a maximum-security prison in Michigan -- but was paroled in June.
Kevorkian helps bring HBO movie to life
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A reader e-mailed us today urging that the Margaret Sanger Adolph Hitler Morph be entered into the Margaret Sanger at the Ku Klux Klan Rally Art Contest.
Not Gonna Do It! Margaret Sanger & Hilter Morph Banned from Art Contest
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For example, the left is furious with George Bush for (among other things) reinstating the "Mexico City Policy," first instituted by Ronald Reagan, that makes the receipt of federal funds by non-governmental organizations conditional upon their agreeing that they will "neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations." It is bizarre how the left can howl about how inhumane it is to use the interrogation technique of "waterboarding" (which does no lasting physical harm) to extract information from terrorists, but they are just fine and dandy with death by dismemberment of unborn babies in the womb.
Did Progress Begin with Roe v. Wade?
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VANCOUVER, Canada, October 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) An article appearing in this months edition of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine concludes that nearly 32 per cent of very-preterm U.S. births, that is, before 32 weeks gestation, are due to the mother having had a prior abortion. This information, combined with previous research in the relation between low birth weight children and cerebral palsy (CP), results in an estimated 1,096 children suffering from CP because of their mothers prior abortion.
Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth and Cerebral Palsy
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“But I’m not dead yet...I’m getting better!”(Monty Python’s “Holy Grail”)
Fred's daughter was bi-polar, Terri wasn't. Fred's daughter overdosed. Terri did not.
Fred's daughter wasn't starved and dehydrated to death by Judge George Greer and the other men in black robes who are thick as thieves with the blind sheik Greer, his cronies who include the Pinellas GOP, Pinellas State Attorney Bernie McCabe, the right to die bloodthirsty lawyers, the aclu, the atheists of Florida, by our current Governor Charlie Crist and those famous brothers! The list is longer than that but I'm trying to keep this short.
www.judgegeorgegreer.com and www.michaelschiavo.org
I saw this on tv. I was ill the day before Terri died and watched the news instead of going to Hostage Woodside. I saw this pictured event "live". Jeb's mission accomplished. Terri was almost dead and then, so was Pope John Paul II who begged Jeb to rescue Terri. Lucky for Jeb that Pope John Paul died.
President Bush appointed Jeb Bush to represent all Americans at Pope Benedict's investiture. He certainly wasn't representing me!
Maybe Benedict forgave Jebediah for his sins. Then Jeb breakfasted with the Semblers in Rome and the Semblers who run all RINO campaigns including the RNC, the Bushes, Greer and Crist won one for the right to die movement.
For the love of money!
(Alan Keyes was snubbed and he had documentation proving Jeb had the authority to save Terri. He was snubbed but Jesse Jackson was used as Jeb's mouthpiece on that particular Wednesday. Jeb, we hardly knew ye.)
It's at cnn. It's what happened the day before Terri died. How tough, whatta big man abandoning an innocent woman! Then making Jesse do the talking. Jeb = UNELECTABLE. Jeb = coward.
Hopefully, Anderson Cooper will bring up Terri. He has lots of insider information and if he’s really a pioneer at CNN, he’ll spill some beans on the St. Petersburg, FL stage.
Again and again, they appear. Poor Fred in his last sentence hopes this will go away, as that phrase is repeated again and again. It is stuck on him just as wetoldjaso. He may not ever understand just how important it was to defend the life of this innocent, but the media will assure it is in his face anyway.
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You may recall, candidate Fred Thompson was asked a few weeks ago about the highly controversial Terri Schiavo right-to-die case from two years ago in which the husband of a Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state wanted to remove her feeding tube. Her parents went to court and Gov. Jeb Bush, Congress and other politicians got into the struggle.
Thompson said he didn't really recall much about the case, and some people clucked and said, How could he not? Well, Thompson was talking with some reporters last week and, it turns out, he remembers it too well. He just didn't want to talk about it: Like a growing number of Americans, he had gone through a similar end-of-life decision -- regarding his daughter five years ago.
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Then he added, "I will assure you one thing: No matter which decision you make, you will never know whether or not you made exactly the right decision. So making this into a political football is something that I don't welcome. And this will probably be the last time I ever address it."
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Don't make murder a crime!
Wow!
Consider this X00 guy. And no, it didn't come from the Margaret Sanger Gazette, or the Auschwitz Express, but from a mainstream publication.
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FORMER Beckley minister George Exoo — who consoled an Irish woman while she quietly took her life with sleep-inducing pills and helium — cannot be extradited to Ireland to face a possible 14 years in prison, a U.S. magistrate ruled Friday. The offbeat Unitarian preacher was freed from jail, where he had been held since June.
Hurrah. This development may be one more small step toward securing the legal right of desperate people to end their lives, when their pain and torment become too severe.
Of course, it’s impossible to stop determined folks from committing suicide by themselves, when they willfully desire it. But conservative lawmakers and fundamentalist groups endlessly try to punish anyone who aids their right to die.
Jack Kevorkian, an eccentric known as “Dr. Death,” spent eight years in a Michigan prison for murder because he helped a Lou Gehrig’s disease victim end his hopeless life. When the physician was released four months ago, the Catholic Diocese of Detroit branded him a “pathological serial killer.”
Oregon passed a 1997 “Death With Dignity” law that lets doctors prescribe lethal doses of sleeping pills for terminal, miserable patients. About 300 dying Oregonians have used it, so far. The Bush administration, backed by white evangelicals, fought the law to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld Oregon last year. Only far-right justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and John Roberts voted to criminalize physician help.
The grotesque Terri Schiavo case, in which Republican congressmen rushed into emergency session to continue life-support machines sustaining a brain-dead woman, spotlighted the thorny topic.
The right to die isn’t a simple issue. But it’s one that must be faced, as more Americans live to advanced age and many suffer terminal agonies of cancer, etc. Solving this dilemma won’t be helped by throwing doctors and ministers into prison cells.
We hope last week’s liberation of the Rev. Exoo adds a bit more legal support for the principle that desperate, dying people have a right to take control of their final days, and to enter the unknown without pain.
Right to die... # Don't criminalize it
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According to a Rider alumnus, a different student commonly made even stronger racial comments, as well as anti-semetic remarks. Matthew Volker, who graduated in May, 2007, repeatedly made statements about Blacks, calling them the "N" word, among others, such as "porch monkey," "shinebox," "reggins," and, "mau maus." He also made comments against Jews, calling them "Kikes." He stated that "Hitler was a great man," "The Jews were taking everyone's money and ruining the economy," and, "The collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11 was because of the Jews." He also stated, "The Holocaust was a good thing, and that we need a final solution." Volker is a self proclaimed Nazi, and an admirer of Adolph Hitler.
Students who heard these remarks did not report his behavior, and in fact, some were quite upset when one student did make a report to Campus Security. The university president, who is a descendent of the Holocaust, was so upset, that he forwarded the report to the Lawrence Township Police Department. Ethan Lefkowitz, class of 2006, reported the incidents, and also said that Volker's remarks became increasingly hostile and were also aimed at him on the computer and the phone, as well as in person. In addition to making remarks about Blacks and Jews, he proceeded to make derogatory personal comments as well. Ethan is a member of the Jewish Community and a resident of Mercer County, New Jersey. He fears that these types of statements may damage his personal and professional credibility among students and alumni........................
Racism, anti-semitism is alive at Rider University
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OOPS! Audrey, not Audry. Sorry, Audrey.
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Bella, an independent film staring Mexican superstar Eduardo Verástegui, is scheduled for limited release in theatres on October 26. The movie, an inspirational drama set in modern-day New York, has what America's been asking for but what Hollywood refuses to give.
Having won the People's Choice Award at last year's Toronto Film Festival, you'd think major Hollywood distribution companies would be crawling over one another for a crack at the film. But such is not the case. Bella's central theme puts a premium on the value of human life - including life in the womb - and that is a value Hollywood just won't tolerate.
Just as the Hollywood left scoffed at The Passion of the Christ, it has largely ignored the award winning Bella. The movie's life-affirming message just doesn't comport with Tinseltown's narrow leftist agenda.
Bella the Movie: Next Passion of the Christ?
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Thanks, wagglebee, for the ping.
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Sorry, RINOS, but the right to Life is our first unalienable right. This is not just a conservative political "principle" that stubborn right wing fringe nuts refuse to give up. It's an UNALIENABLE right granted to all men by GOD and no man or government can deprive us of same! Not without one hell of a fight!! Compromisers be damned!!
The Right to Life is an UNALIENABLE right granted to us by God
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Terri makes the New York Times. Of course the fail to mention that's she's deceased. They also mistakenly said she was on life support. Feeding tubes are NOT life support.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/magazine/28Evangelicals-t.html?pagewanted=3&ei=5065&en=4c6dbb47b517e1c6&ex=1194235200&partner=MYWAY
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