Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
I've resisted the urge to blog about Terri Schiavo for the simple reason that I don't know which way to feel about her situation.
On one hand, I completely understand the notion to honor her wishes (as related by her husband) to not be maintained on life support. I've told my wife in the past that I too do not wish to be maintained on a machine (or other means) if I was 'gone' mentally. Now I have to get it in writing soon so as not to burdern her with this type of grief.
On the other hand, the full weight of the law concerning this is all based on what the husband is reported to have heard from Terri and it would seem that to 'convict' someone of a crime simply based on hearsay is putting the entire will-to-live versus right-to-die argument on very shaky grounds.
All I can really say about Terri and her situation is this: my hopes and prays are with her and her family that this will end soon and that all will find some sort of peace in their hearts.
One additional hope: please - for the love of God - do NOT make this a plank in some political argument, left OR right. It serves no purpose to use this woman's life as ammunition. Doing so only makes this entire situation seem cheap and tawdry and it makes the one using it appear to be the type of person that would hide behind anyone.
Not a damned thing seems to have ever been improved by Congress meddling with it. The whole fias
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scroff said:
Well, Mikey, you have to admit those aren't liberal moonbats down in Florida trying to get Jeb Bu
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Mad Mikey said:
Don't go pointing fingers at the GOP for that *cough* memo - no one knows who started it...and th
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2late said:
Damn straight it is too late. The GOP turned this into a politcal issue with their memo of how it
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scroff said:
too late....
Here's a link for anyone interested in more info...
http://abstracta
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too late....
Here's a link for anyone interested in more info...
http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html
|| Posted by scroff, March 25, 2005 07:36 PM ||Damn straight it is too late. The GOP turned this into a politcal issue with their memo of how it was a "great political issue"
Bottom line? They should have kept their WASP noses out of this from the get go.
|| Posted by 2late, March 26, 2005 08:57 AM ||Don't go pointing fingers at the GOP for that *cough* memo - no one knows who started it...and this is EXACTLY what I was talking about:
Bottom line? They should have kept their WASP noses out of this from the get go.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, March 26, 2005 11:35 AM ||Well, Mikey, you have to admit those aren't liberal moonbats down in Florida trying to get Jeb Bush to take custody of her, and it wasn't a tinfoil totin wacko who offered a quarter of a million dollars for someone to kill her husband, and Bush didn't scamper back to the White House to sign a bill for a bunch of NAACP folks... This is definitely, IMNSHO, a black eye for the right... and the handful of Democrats who went along with the Schiavo Bill.
I watched my mother die, at home. I gave her her morphine every four hours. I stayed in the bed alongside her for most of the time she was dying, my father fed her while she could eat... if some christian wack job had come in and told us she had to be taken out of hospice care and put on life support he would have met a 12 gauge at the door.
|| Posted by scroff, March 26, 2005 11:57 AM ||Not a damned thing seems to have ever been improved by Congress meddling with it. The whole fiasco of their involvement was self-serving political posturing of the lowest form.
|| Posted by Cait, March 27, 2005 08:04 AM ||