• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Everybody saw this coming.

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

I was promised a recession.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

This really is a full service blog.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Books are my comfort food!

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Mobile Menu

  • Four Directions Montana
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2024 Elections
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / More Schiavo

More Schiavo

by John Cole|  July 17, 20059:28 am| 31 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

FacebookTweetEmail

This ‘review’ of Mark Furhman’s book on the Schiavo affair is just #@$&*! HACKTACULAR. Contained within the ‘reivew:’

However, I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that Michael Schiavo is a platinum card-carrying malignant narcissist. It

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Cooper on MTP
Next Post: QB Sneak »

Reader Interactions

31Comments

  1. 1.

    DougJ

    July 17, 2005 at 9:32 am

    When will you lefties and RINOS accept the fact that Terri Schiavo was MURDERED by the left-wing media. There’s no other way to put it.

  2. 2.

    Stormy70

    July 17, 2005 at 9:33 am

    Who cares anymore? This is all to make money. I thought you were taking the cheese?

  3. 3.

    Don Surber

    July 17, 2005 at 10:12 am

    Me, I’d let my inlaws take my wife, please. But who knows? RIP

  4. 4.

    Geoff

    July 17, 2005 at 10:12 am

    The wingnuts have lost their damned minds on this issue.

    Yup, and it appears you’ve flushed one out:

    When will you lefties and RINOS accept the fact that Terri Schiavo was MURDERED by the left-wing media. There’s no other way to put it.

    Assuming of course that DougJ isn’t just funnin’ us all.

  5. 5.

    Marcos

    July 17, 2005 at 10:24 am

    Doug, please contact Jeb Bush and demand that he re-open the criminal investigation of Michael Schiavo. Gov. Bush recently closed the investigation after the State DA concluded that there was no evidence to support the criminal charges againsts Mr. Schiavo.

    It seems you have crucial information regarding this case that the judges, prosecutors, and physicians involved over the years have overlooked. The simplest explanation is that there is a vast left-wing conspiracy to bury the truth with false facts. You should take the medical assesment of senate majority leader Bill Frist, MD over the autopsy report that was recently released. Contrary to the autopsy report which claimed that Terri Shiavo was blind and brain-dead, Dr. Frist reported that Mrs. Shiavo responded to visual stimuli.

    Look inside your heart and you will find the truth. Stay strong and keep pushing this issue as long as it takes. Particularly, please keep this issue alive going into the 2006 elections.

  6. 6.

    Bob

    July 17, 2005 at 10:30 am

    Think of all the talking heads around the OJ case. It’s as if it was a Paul Weyrich training school for a new genre, cable tv bullshitting, the absolute core of Fox.

    Who is that lesbian/”liberal”/gun-totting harpy who’s always bashing Demos? She was head of LA’s NOW when she said she was tired of arguing with black women. Remember her?

    Jon Gibson fed at the trough. Granted, Fuhrman’s position was a little closer to the stage, but he got a book out of that one too.

  7. 7.

    Aaron

    July 17, 2005 at 11:42 am

    Let it go John…please?

  8. 8.

    Rick

    July 17, 2005 at 11:45 am

    And what if Fuhrman is entirely or mostly correct? Euthanasia (and I believe will be followed by another manifestation of eugenics) is creeping into this country, and not on little cat feet. Long live death, to borrow a slogan from other fascists.

    Cordially…

  9. 9.

    Sojourner

    July 17, 2005 at 11:51 am

    And what if Fuhrman is entirely or mostly correct? Euthanasia (and I believe will be followed by another manifestation of eugenics) is creeping into this country, and not on little cat feet. Long live death, to borrow a slogan from other fascists.

    What does eugenics have to do with euthanasia? You righties see a plot in everything.

  10. 10.

    JonBuck

    July 17, 2005 at 11:55 am

    Rick:

    If I put a clause in my living will that under specific medical conditions I do not wish to be revived or kept alive… how is that eugenics?

  11. 11.

    Rick

    July 17, 2005 at 12:10 pm

    Just watch what’s happening in Holland, folks. Jon, living wills have nothing to do with it. Regrettably, it had nothing to do with Terri Schiavo’s death, either.

    Cordially…

    P.S. Righties see plots! LOL! Well, there were the Mena/Vince Foster moonbats. But coming from Halliburton/TANG/Diebold/Rove paranoiacs, too funny!

  12. 12.

    snitrocket

    July 17, 2005 at 12:11 pm

    Rick is my new favorite. Somehow, Shiavo’s death is pre-emptively choosing birth patterns. Neat.

    A poster-boy for the new, completely divorced from reality right wing.

    Rock on, Rick.

  13. 13.

    Bernard Yomtov

    July 17, 2005 at 12:12 pm

    The wingnuts have lost their damned minds on this issue.

    Jeb Bush and Bill Frist are clearly among those who lost their minds. Whether you classify them as wingnuts or not, the mind loss penetrated pretty widely in the Republican Party.

  14. 14.

    JonBuck

    July 17, 2005 at 12:22 pm

    Rick:

    And you completely failed to answer my question.

  15. 15.

    DougJ

    July 17, 2005 at 12:26 pm

    I’m glad that liberals here think that discussing a possible murder is “funning”.

    I can hardly think of a better example of their moral bankruptcy.

  16. 16.

    Tim F

    July 17, 2005 at 12:26 pm

    In a year Rick will be spreading nasty rumors about Rove’s sentencing judge. As trolls go the guy is a pro.

  17. 17.

    Kyle

    July 17, 2005 at 12:41 pm

    Back to the review, I think Loretta Dillon (the author) is functioning here not so much as a typical wingnut but as a wingnut who has had some remarkable experiences with boyfriends.

  18. 18.

    Doug

    July 17, 2005 at 1:13 pm

    Not so much losing their minds as pulling down their mask. A formerly human husk that happens to have a heartbeat is deserving of more of society’s resources than a living child who no longer happens to be in its mother’s uterus. From birth to brain death, it’s sink or swim, survival of the fittest. But before birth and after brain death, call your Senator, get the federal government involved because it’s “culture of life” time.

  19. 19.

    Jon H

    July 17, 2005 at 1:38 pm

    It’s amazing that people put so much emphasis on defining ‘life’ as a heartbeat and breathing, when those are two functions that can be provided by machines and/or transplants, while the only organ that defies transplantation or emulation, the brain, is considered irrelevant.

  20. 20.

    Stormy70

    July 17, 2005 at 1:39 pm

    As trolls go the guy is a pro.

    Tim F – I wonder why you find the need to call Rick a troll, considering he’s been reading this site for quite some time before all you lefties showed up. You called me a troll, without knowing that I posted comments here before you showed up. Plus, I’ve read this blog for years, and occassionally commented on movie threads. Quit throwing troll words around.

    Rick’s point about the Dane’s is a good one. A hospital just implemented the Groningen Protocol to euthanize children under age 12, if severely disabled. What a nice Nazi-like ring to the name.

  21. 21.

    Cliff

    July 17, 2005 at 1:51 pm

    Groningen is a city in the Netherlands (not Denmark). Protocol is a word you can look up in a dictionary.

    What you mistake for a Nazi-like ring is probably due to having overdosed on Robert Ludlum novels (The Balloon Juice Memorandum), which you’ve apparently mistaken for reality.

  22. 22.

    Stormy70

    July 17, 2005 at 2:04 pm

    Your right, it is the Netherland’s, and here is one link. Still sounds pretty horrific to me, since these protocols are put in place for people with no free will. Nice. The Nazi’s started with the handicapped, for their own good, you know.

    Please remember, people, that I took no side in the Schiavo matter, so lumping me in with “fundies” will be met with derision.

  23. 23.

    Rick

    July 17, 2005 at 2:07 pm

    And you completely failed to answer my question.

    JonBuck,

    No, I didn’t, but you *completely failed* to read my comment before getting your feathers in a fuss.

    “Euthanasia (and I believe will be followed by another manifestation of eugenics) is creeping into this country…”

    See? One, followed by the other. One is not synonymous with the other, though there is some connection.

    I have a living will, and don’t know a soul, or a “formerly human husk,” who has any problem with them. Maybe some do, but there’s no question who’s “making the call” in a living will, so objectors have no standing.

    And snitrocket–It isn’t birth patterns that concerns me, it’s the quality of life judgments passed by 3d party “experts” that is the worry. Soylent Green is People.

    A poster-boy for the new, completely divorced from reality right wing.

    Balloon Juice dissent is patriotic!

    Cordially…

  24. 24.

    Stormy70

    July 17, 2005 at 2:13 pm

    Yes! By questioning the Balloon Juice narritive of pre-emptive leftism in the comments, we are fulfilling our duty as patriotic reality right wing peeps. I am strong in the dissent, hear me ROAR!

  25. 25.

    Tim F

    July 17, 2005 at 2:16 pm

    Stormy,

    I called you a troll because in reply to some guy’s post you remarked that you pissed him off, without actually responding to anything that he said. That looked and smelled like troll behavior. Since then I haven’t seen anything else to support the idea that you are a troll so I changed my mind. Maybe that other guy really was a jerk and deserved the brush-off you gave him.

    About Rick, do you honestly think that he supports the Schiavo nuts? To me he seems a bit urbane to be a fundie. Our friend is the spitting twin of a guy who went by “Ricky,” “Bob Cat” and “Jennifer” at the Atlantic and “Bob Katz” among many others at the NYT boards. Among trolls a true professional. In the end I don’t really care whether our “Rick” is the same guy or not, troll behavior speaks for itself.

  26. 26.

    Stormy70

    July 17, 2005 at 2:19 pm

    Hey, you guys need what we right wing troll types call a sense of humor. Stat!

  27. 27.

    scs

    July 17, 2005 at 3:34 pm

    That book review was awesome! It reminds me that I have to go out and buy that book. By the way, how many of you Schiavo defenders have ever seen any of his interviews on TV? The ones I saw on Larry King were enough for me. I’ve seen too many Dark Heart Iron Hand on latenite MSNBC to not know the face and the speech.

  28. 28.

    Scott Chaffin

    July 17, 2005 at 4:10 pm

    Who’s lost their damned minds? More likely the guy who’s written 180 “Last Word on Schiavo” posts.

  29. 29.

    scs

    July 17, 2005 at 4:24 pm

    Hey at least Terri Schiavo can live on forever in our blogs, if not in life.

  30. 30.

    snitrocket

    July 17, 2005 at 6:56 pm

    it’s the quality of life judgments passed by 3d party “experts” that is the worry.

    You are, of course, referring to Frist here, right?

  31. 31.

    alex

    July 18, 2005 at 9:11 am

    Why do the Fetus People love Terri so much?

    Because brain-dead people are just like a fetus in that tehy don’t have any inconvenient opinions–you can dress them up in whatever litte outfit your heart desires.

    Control freaks always begin with those least able to resist them.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • schrodingers_cat on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 4:42pm)
  • lowtechcyclist on Henry Would Like His Lunch Right Now, Please (Open Thread) (Apr 15, 2024 @ 4:42pm)
  • Nelle on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 4:38pm)
  • Geminid on Take the Fucking Win (Apr 15, 2024 @ 4:37pm)
  • cain on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 4:29pm)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Talk of Meetups – Meetup Planning
Proposed BJ meetups list from frosty

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8
Virginia House Races
Four Directions – Montana
Worker Power AZ
Four Directions – Arizona
Four Directions – Nevada

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
Positive Climate News
War in Ukraine
Cole’s “Stories from the Road”
Classified Documents Primer

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Political Action 2024

Postcard Writing Information

Balloon Juice for Four Directions AZ

Donate

Balloon Juice for Four Directions NV

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2024 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!