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I've heard the clamor as to why Terri Schiavo must die. No one, it is said, would want to live like her. Her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, are religious fanatics. Many of her so-called supporters are "pro-life" zealots. Evil GOP geniuses passed a special law to help her live. And so, she must die. I've followed this poignant case for two years. And my husband served at one time as an unpaid informal adviser to the Schindlers. I've heard the arguments, and they often start with: No one would want to live like that.

It is evident that attending nurses have affidavits affirming that Terri Schiavo was able only a few short years ago to ingest food and water orally. This is also evidenced by the "guardian's" insistence on police overlooking her room to prevent her parents from doing just that....a secret drink, an ice chip, etc. The judge's order is that the tube not be reinserted. There is no moral order able to be given that she not have the CHANCE to eat and drink in a manner normal for babies and others who might find themselves in a dependent status. Everyone in...

According to a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll of 909 adults taken over the weekend, nearly six in 10 people said they think the feeding tube should be removed and felt they would want to remove it for a child or spouse in the same condition.

Rep. Tom Delay’s efforts Saturday to have the House and Senate enact special legislation to stop the forced starving of Terri Schiavo and the President’s willingness to return to D.C. over the weekend to sign the emergency law represents a proud moment for all who still maintain that the Judeo-Christian ethic undergirds who we are and what we deem worth fighting for. Long ago Jewish law made a distinction between withholding medication and special treatments from a patient as opposed to withholding food and water. Whereas there comes a time when we are no longer required to proactively employ “heroic”...

I need some help, here. I'm in a discussion at another site, and EVERY BLASTED IDIOT THERE thinks she should die. They all think the poor woman's brain dead and should just be killed. I'd like to post the videos and audios that've been taken, but I can't find them. So I REALLY need the links. Thank you for any and all help, folks.

America suffers from the rule of judges supplanting the rule of law and the will of the people. Men in black robes, rather than legislators, are making and repealing laws...

Michael Schiavo is quoted as asking “When is that bitch gonna die?” by Terri's nurse, Carla Iyer in a deposition in September of 2003.

Supreme Court rejects Schiavo appeal Feeding tube to be removed from brain-damaged woman Friday Thursday, March 17, 2005 Posted: 9:45 PM EST (0245 GMT) Terri Schiavo gets a kiss from her mother, Mary Schindler, in this August 11, 2001, image taken from videotape. (CNN) -- Less than 18 hours before Terri Schiavo was scheduled to have her life-sustaining feeding tube removed, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal by her parents to stop the procedure. The court rejected the appeal by Bob and Mary Schindler on Thursday, clearing the way for Schiavo's husband, Michael, to have the feeding tube...

A judge on Friday extended for three weeks a court order keeping Terri Schiavo's feeding tube in place, the latest in a series of legal developments in the bitter right-to-die case. Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer made his decision after pleadings from the woman's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, that they need more time to pursue additional medical tests which might prove their brain-damaged daughter has more mental capabilities than previously thought. The woman's husband, Michael Schiavo, says he is seeking to carry out his wife's wishes not to be kept alive artificially.

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from the vacuums-don't-suck dept.williamw83 writes "Today, November 16, 2004 has been declared as the centennial of the birth of modern electronics by the American Vacuum Society. As the AIP Physics News Update reports, this marks 'British scientist John Ambrose Fleming's 1904 invention of the first practical electronic device. Known as the thermionic diode, this first simple vacuum tube, containing only two electrodes, could be used to convert an alternating current (AC) to a direct current (DC).' Today's celebration takes place as part of the AVS's 51st Annual Symposium & Exhibitionin Anaheim, CA. Being a guitar player myself, I've come to...

Explain this to me. In Florida...Excerpted from The Miami Herald: "Comatose Woman's Life Tube Removed":ST. PETERSBURG -- A five-year battle to keep Terri Schiavo alive ended Wednesday, when medical workers at a hospice center removed the tube that has fed the brain-damaged woman for 13 years, a move expected to lead to her death within two weeks. ''She'll be OK for the next couple of days,'' Schiavo's father, Robert Schindler, told supporters outside the Hospice Villas Woodside after the tube was removed. After that, it gets tougher, he said: "We're going to try to work some magic and hopefully there...

Swimmer Soaks In EIB-Informed C-Span Calls June 20, 2003 C-SPAN's Washington Journal was a veritable gold mine on Friday morning, with EIB-Informed callers putting better questions to Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) than any journalist you can name. Callers challenged Teddy on why average-income people should have to pay for Bill Gates' prescription drugs, why Democrats misquote Newt Gingrich's comments on reforming the Health Care Financing Administration to look as if he was talking about Medicare - and finally - the highlight of my broadcast career - Teddy's introduction of Bill Clinton at a 1994 campaign rally. What Were You Saying...

TUBE TRAIN DERAILED A London tube train has derailed and crashed at Chancery Lane station. At least 29 people have been injured. There are no reports of fatalities and Scotland Yard said terrorism was not the suspected cause of the crash. London Underground said the last three carriages of the Central Line service left the track and hit the platform. All 800 passengers have now been taken off the train and none of the injuries were thought to be serious, said London Underground. A Fire Brigade spokeswoman said crews were still searching the train and track for further casualties. 'Shaking'...

As London comes to terms with the threat of a terror attack, the Prime Minister has counselled that we should be vigilant on the Tube, and the emergency services and hospitals have given reassurances that the aftermath of an attack could be handled. We know we are living with a new level of threat: the difficulty lies in calculating a response that is not hysterical, but would meet any terror onslaught that uses chemical and biological weapons. There is no hard evidence that any attack on the Tube is likely, let alone imminent - but with the UK now identified...

Terrorist Tube gas plot foiled By Jo Dillon, Andrew Clennell, and Raymond Whitaker 17 November 2002 Three men have been charged over an alleged plot to carry out a terrorist attack on the London Underground as fears over a direct threat to Britain's security mounted. Though Scotland Yard confirmed that three men had appeared before Bow Street magistrates, they were not charged with plotting a specific outrage. But reports today claimed that the men had been planning to bring the ingredients for a gas bomb into Britain, most probably to release cyanide into the Tube network. No chemical or bomb-making...

Three men have been charged over an alleged plot to release cyanide gas on the London Underground tube network. The men are north African muslims said to belong to a group linked to al Qaeda. The alleged plot was foiled after the group was infiltrated by MI5 agents in a six month operation. The men are thought to be of either Tunisian or Moroccan background and belong to a group called the North African Front, said to have loose connections with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. One of the men is aged 21, the second 33. The third is...