Just wondering how everyone eats their corned beef and cabbage.
I throw the brisket of corn beef, some new potatoes, and a head of green cabbage in a pot and boil it, adding water and salt and pepper.
Delicious.
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Just wondering how everyone eats their corned beef and cabbage.
I throw the brisket of corn beef, some new potatoes, and a head of green cabbage in a pot and boil it, adding water and salt and pepper.
Delicious.
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I re-read what I have written and so far, and I want to add that I am sorry about the tone of the previous two posts. I understand that while this issue has been co-opted by the anti-abortion zealots, there are many people out there who simply just want her to live because of a profound respect for human life.
That is admirable, and I respecgt that, but this really is none of your business. I don’t respect those who are willing to lie about Terri’s possibilities to recover, and I don’t respect the people who have chosen to use Sciavo as a weapon. I understand her parents passing out all sorts of misinformation. I understand her parents clinging to false hopes and letting what they wish get in the way of reality. They love their daughter, and they have fooled themselves into thinking the shell of a human being lying there is still their daughter.
Terri Schiavo is brain dead, through no fault of her husband. Her husband, acting as her legal guardian, has made his choice. The court has enforced that decision. It is time for everyone else to get out of the way.
And one more thing- the courts weigh evidence and have concluded she is brain dead and in a persistent vegetative state. Not once, not twice, but repeatedly.
*** Update ***
Never mind. I am not sorry about the tone. I am watching the Schindler lawyer, David Gibbs, on Hardball, and this jackass just stated that “Terri tries to say ‘I love you’ to her mother.”
Assholes. Lying, unethical, assholes.
Now this sick son-of-a-bitch is suggesting Michael Schiavo caused the injury through abuse and that he wants his wife dead to spend the maplractice settlement money on himself, which is a flat-out lie.
This type of human filth should not be allowed to practice law.
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I hear I was mentioned on the Daou Report on MSNBC’s Connected Coast to Coast.
Thanks to Ian at the Political Teen, video is here.
I conclude my mentio is further evidence of declining media standards.
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The past few months have been very illuminating for me, and now that some in my party are viciously attacking Michael Schiavo, it is pretty clear what is meant by ‘the sanctity of marriage.’
The sanctity of marriage is bullshit rhetoric to keep fags from marrying- other than that, it means nothing to these Big Government Republicans, who have thrown reason and concepts of privacy and human dignity out the window and replaced them with the bible and a faux sense of morality.
Look how they have set it up- if you think Terry Schiavo is brain dead, you are either stupid, ignoring the ‘evidence,’ or you don’t value human life.
Pompous bastards.
*** Update ***
Thank goodness. Someone on my side of the aislehas their head screwed on right:
I think that I am about the only radio talk show host in the nation that thinks that nature should be allowed to take its course and Terri Schiavo should be allowed to die. Expect an absolute media frenzy today as the time approaches for Schiavo’s feeding tube to be removed. The demonstrators are already gathering outside of the nursing facility. Republicans in the congress are getting in on the act. Republican Mike Enzi of Wyoming, the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee, says that he is going to issue a subpoena today to Terri Schiavo … a subpoena to testify before the committee. This illustrates the absurdity of this situation as nothing else can. Congress will subpoena a woman in a persistent vegetative state to testify. All we need now is for some sort of special arrangement to allow West Virginia’s Robert Byrd to question her.
At the center of the Terri Schiavo tragedy is America’s anti-abortion movement. Notice, please, the presence of Randall Terry. The fact is that the anti-abortion movement has seized Terri Schiavo … figuratively kidnapped her .. and they intend to use this woman to further their anti-abortion agenda. They will entomb the soul of Terri Schiavo in her now-useless body as long as it suits their agenda.
The language of those who would continue the imprisonment of Terri Schiavo is odd, if not amusing. She’s referred to as disabled, in a coma or just brain damaged. She is not “disabled” in the normal context of the word. Her body is, for all practical purposes, dead … being kept alive solely through extraordinary artificial means. She’s not in a coma. People recover from comas. Her condition is diagnosed as a “persistent vegetative state.” There is no medical record of someone recovering from a persistent vegetative state. This is not a state of brain damage. It is, for all practical purposes, brain death.
The absurdities of this case would be funny if they weren’t so pathetic. Terri’s family said last year that they wanted to take her to the mall, and for other field trips. Of course, those trips never happened; just as Terri will never testify before a congressional committee. We also have the blatant attempts to turn the attention away from Terri’s condition and to her husband. His crime? He says, and the courts have agreed, that he is merely carrying out wishes expressed to him by his wife. Listen to the Schiavo family and you will hear that her husband her condition was caused by a beating at the hands of her husband. It wasn’t. You’ll hear that her husband stands to rack up huge piles of money as soon as Terri dies. He won’t.
Thanks, Neal.
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Terry Schiavo is in a Persistent Vegetative State.
She is beyond brain-dead, as parts of her brain no longer exist and have been replaced with cerebral fluid.
Terri Schiavo, bless her soul, is not going to recover. Ever. Period.
She was not abused, she was not strangled, she was not hit on the head- not that any of that really matters- it doesn’t change her condition.
Much to my shock and disbelief, certain elements within my party have decided that this is a case that they need to demagogue:
Shortly before a feeding tube was to be removed from a brain-damaged Florida woman, U.S. lawmakers on Friday called on Terri Schiavo to appear before congressional committees in an attempt to keep her alive.
House of Representatives leaders issued subpoenas for Schiavo while the Senate called her as a witness to congressional hearings to stave off the removal of her feeding tube, scheduled for 1 p.m.
Both the House and Senate also summoned her husband, Michael, who contends she would not have wanted to be kept alive in what court-appointed doctors describe as a persistent vegetative state.
“The Senate and the House remain dedicated to saving Terri Schiavo’s life. While discussions over possible legislative remedies continue, the Senate and the House are taking action to keep her alive in the interim,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican.
Absolutely disgusting, and Bill Frist knows better, which mands for makes this even more disgusting. I don’t even know what my party stands for anymore.
The court has ordered that Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube be removed. Say it again so it sinks in.
FEEDING TUBE.
The woman is not a human being anymore- that was all destroyed. Her wit, her charm, her personality, her memory- in essence, Terri Schiavo- is long gone.
If the Republican leadership really respected life, they would immediately ask why Mrs. Schiavo must slowly starve to death rather than dying with dignity.
The answer, of course, is that the Big Government Republicans don’t trust you to make your own decisions, even with something as fundamental as your life.
*** Update ***
The most disgusting aspect of this is the villification of Michael Schiavo. If I read one more false accusation of abuse, I am going to blow my top. Terris Schiavo is probably in the state she is in because she had a potassium imbalance most likely brought on by bulemia which triggered a cardiac arrest.
She was not strangled.
She was not hit on the head.
There was no bleeding- you do think attending physicians would notice that, right?
I understand that some of you feel strongly about this- but making up vile stories about her husband, who is as much a victim as Terri, is simply inexcusable.
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I just tried to watch the news, and, lo and behold, there ie none to be found because they are broadcasting the stupid damned steroid hearings. Against my better judgement, I watched for 5 minutes, and to my knowledge, the only thing happening is that Curt Schilling is making the entire Congress look like idiots.
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Via Oliver, I see that James Lilek stated the following:
Do you often come across the word