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THINK OF THE CHILDREN

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‘Coppers bust pre-teen hydraters’ or ‘Pre-teens exploited by crazed parents’.

NOT THAT PRETZELS AREN’T TASTY…

“Liberals” are being accused of twisted logic in the Terri Schiavo case. But the facts tell a different story:

Let me break it down for you:

10. Liberals are against the death penalty for Scott Peterson. Liberals are for the death penalty for Terri Schiavo.

The death penalty is being imposed on Scott Peterson as punishment for his crimes, the United States is among only a handful of nations in the world that utilitize the barbaric practice of killing its own citizens for this purpose. There is no rehabilitative or deterrent purpose for the death penalty. It’s blood letting for sake of and in my humble unimportant opinion, should be unconstitutional as cruelty.
Terri Schiavo, on the other hand, asked that her husband refused treatment for her, if it meant living in her current state. Forcing someone to take treatment that they don’t want, is also an unconstitutional cruelty.

9. For liberals, there’s no such thing as states’ rights on abortion, juvenile executions, prayer in school, prohibiting contraceptives, and the drinking age. When it comes to starving disabled people to death, though, liberals sound like Jefferson Davis on states’ rights.

States totally have rights on abortion, they don’t have the right to unconstitutionally infringe on a federal right to privacy. Ditto on contraceptives. As for juvenile executions, it was the movement of the majority of states away from this disgraceful practice that helped develop the national consensus that this is cruel and unusual. The states were at the heart of the Supreme Court’s decision on that. Prayer in school? We prayed in Catholic school all the live long day when I was a kid…am I missing something? Drinking age — as far as I know states are perfectly free to pick whatever drinking age they want. The federal government just said if you want federal funding for your highways, it should be 21. Seems fair enough to this liberal. You want your youngsters boozing it up, use your own dime to pay for the roads you’ll be scraping their bodies off of.

8. Liberals sued the state of Florida in federal court in 1999, arguing that the electric chair is “cruel and unusual punishment.” Liberals now want the state of Florida to starve a woman to death, and decry efforts to sue in federal court to stop this.

No liberal wants “the state of Florida to starve a woman to death.” See, that would be like, say, wanting a state to electrocute a person to death, or shoot them to death, or poison them to death. No good. But if a woman says I don’t want that treatment. Well, that’s her choice.

7. Liberals hoped to better the lives of Christopher Reeve and other disabled people by killing human emrbyos with taxdollars. Liberals want to better the life of Terri Schiavo by killing her and saving taxdollars.

“Killing” human embryos? Not hardly. These embryos are abandoned and frozen. Without a womb they’re no more killable than the sperms and eggs used to make them. As for Terri, again, this liberal doesn’t want to better or worsen her, she doesn’t want the feeding tube treatment. What are you gonna do make her? How about cancer patients who want to go the holistic route rather than the hardcore chemo? Do we strap them down and zap em anyway?

6. When a twentysomething woman bludgeons two people with a pick-ax and then mutilates their corpses with the same murder instrument, liberals call George W. Bush a murderer for not sparing her from the gas chamber. When a twentysomething woman becomes disabled, liberals castigate George W. Bush for trying to spare her from death.

I don’t call George Bush a murderer for not signing a stay of execution for Karla Faye Tucker. I call him a douchebag for making fun of her application by mocking her voice saying “don’t kill me, don’t kill me” TO A REPORTER. Pompous….
I castigate George Bush for acting like he knows what Terri wants better than she did.

5. In 1990, it took Florida 19 minutes to kill convicted murderer Jesse Joseph Tafero. In 2005, it will take Florida days, if not weeks, to kill Terri Schiavo. Want to guess which case bothers liberals and which doesn’t?

First off, Jesse Tafero was probably innocent of that murder. So, yeah, bothers me a natch that the state might have set him on fire for a crime he didn’t commit. But again, see all my answers on the death penalty. Not a fan. But court after court has found that Terri would not want this treatment, so the state isn’t killing her. This is her choice. Much like people who die because they choose faith healers instead of pennicillin.

4. Starve a cat in Florida, and the law authorizes incarceration. Feed a woman in the Woodside Hospice, and Florida liberals will send you to jail.

Well, if this is true, that’s just retarded. “Starve a cat, Get a hat.” Now, that’s my motto. Force treatment on a patient that has declined it? Well, that’s probably assault or battery (like say harvesting organs from a patient whose family hasn’t authorized such a procedure).

3. In 1999, a Florida court decided to honor Elian Gonzalez’s mother’s wishes that her son stay with relatives in Florida. Liberals disagreed with the Florida court, and sent armed federal agents to send the boy back to Cuba. Now that a Florida court has issued a ruling in a family dispute more to their liking, liberals are saying that a new federal law–granting federal courts the right to overturn (or not overturn) the Schiavo decision–will “undermine over 200 years of jurisprudence.”

Elian was an illegal immigrant. It is unlawful to illegally come here. Lord knows, if the federal government has any job at all, it is to keep the borders secure. Right. Kids are sent back to their home countries after breaking our immigration laws, all the time.

2. Legislative attempts to encourage the able-bodied to work rather than collect food stamps are likened to starving poor people by liberals. Actually starving someone to death, on the other hand, is okay with them.

Legislative attempts to subsidize corporations like McDonald’s and Walmart by threatening to withhold welfare money unless people take these kinds of jobs, is ridiculous and I don’t understand why anyone would want tax payer money used to pay employees of these companies, rather than having company pay salaries and health benefits for their own workers. Where’s that wacky ownsership society, I’m always hearing so much about? Terri declining treatment, her decision.

1. For liberals, the 14th Amendment bans religious displays in public places and mandates that state governments provide services to illegal aliens. Heaven forbid that some Republican interpret it to mean that a state can’t “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

The constitution isn’t for liberals or Republicans to interpret, that’s the job of our judges. And so far, all but one have found that Terri’s wishes should be respected.

Via Dawn Eden

and Karol kinda

BECAUSE WHO CAN RESIST A CUTE FACE?

Today we kick off the annual Clareified March of Dimes drive. Today in the U.S., 1 in every 8 babies will be born prematurely. Some of them won’t survive, and others will have health problems that could last a lifetime.

My friend’s daughter (See above) was born 7.2 weeks early. She is thriving but not all babies are that lucky, so she is going to participate in WalkAmerica. (My friend, not her baby. Although the baby is pretty smart and probably could walk if she wanted. She waved at me and said my name when I went to visit her a couple of weeks ago. Not that anybody else believes me, but trust me, it happened.)

The funds raised in WalkAmerica support research that saves babies’ lives.

So Please give generously.

WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO…NON-STOP

KATE MONSTER:
I wish I could go back to college.
Life was so simple back then.

PRINCETON:
I wanna go back to my room and find a message in dry-erase pen on the door!
Ohhh…
I wish I could just drop a class…

Where’s the Love?

The news that the “lovely C” was throwing a blogger party this weekend began my latest quest for truth and justice. Of course, my extreme laziness requires that all quests be run from either my bed or my recliner.
So, I took my place in the arms of my oversized green chair and started my journey.
Alarmingnews.com. Check.
Oooh, search box. Excellent.
“Lovely” Enter.
Go on. Try it.
The search locates 22 hits for the word lovely.
But I was interested only in one particular usage:
The “lovely Jessica” for example, which nets four hits, by far the most lovely of any of the other lovely nouns.
But you’ve also got the lovely Jen of All Things, the lovely Funnya, the lovely Ari, obviously the lovely C who started it all and even “lovely Dawn Eden.” Yes, that Dawn Eden.
Wives of bloggers from Colorado’s Marvin to Georgia’s Gib are lovely one and all.The adjective even crossed gender lines, so that we have the day the world was introduced to the serial phone pick upper being described as “the lovely Peter’s birthday.”
However, in the midst of all this loveliness, what is glaringly missing?
That’s right. Yours truly.
Sure, an argument could be made that I am included in the “lovely people at the blogger party at Fashion” but that’s just not good enough.
I deserve, correction, demand more.

Signed,

The Lovely Dawn Summers.

NOTHING TO ADD

Weary after an emotional visit with his wife, Schiavo said he is astonished that politicians want to interfere in such a private matter.

“Terri died 15 years ago,” Schiavo said, referring to the collapse and cardiac arrest that doctors say virtually destroyed her brain. “It’s time for her to be with the Lord like she wanted to be.”

So sad.

Judge Declines To Reinsert Feeding Tube

The judge assigned to the case, James Whittemore, expressed skepticism about the Schindlers’ lawsuit. “I think you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that you have a substantial likelihood” of success, he said, declining to give an immediate order to restore the feeding tube.

The attorneys for the Schindlers need to weave their way around some difficult Supreme Court precedents. The 1990 Cruzan case made it clear that a person in a persistent vegetative state has a constitutional right to be removed from a feeding tube. In a 1997 ruling, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist affirmed that the Cruzan case assumed that “the due process clause protects the traditional right to refuse unwanted lifesaving medical treatment.” And in the 1995 Plaut ruling, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, the court struck down an effort by Congress to direct courts to reopen final judicial judgments.

24

Well, the whole gang’s back together now - minus all the hyper blond Season 3 people.

Maybe George Mason will come to Jack in a dream.

I hate the set-up episodes like this one…all recap and build up..little substance. Of course, CTU does maintain its perfect record of having every suspect taken into custody die. Sometimes even mentally ill little kids bite it.
Oh, and 24 finally provides the best explanation for the military’s strict ‘no adultery’ policy.

On a completely random walk through Dawn’s brain, I wonder what the students at Green University will do once they hear that Professor Fayed died in an explosion on Napier Bridge. I bet there will be a memorial or something.

Will TerrorKid now be known as TerrorOrphan? How come we don’t get any storylines about this President? I bet he’s got some crazy skeletons in his martial law declaring closet.

Oh, and I maintain that Heller is the WORST. Worst Actor, Worst Character. Worst Father. Worst Secretary of Defense. WORST WORST WORST. ARRRGGGHHH.

That is all.

TOUGH LOVE FOR TERRI (by guest blogger pearatty)

I’m confused by conservative pundits like Mark Levin who equate taking away Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube to murder.
Seems to me removing the tube is the ultimate in the Republican ideal of individual responsibility.
Terri is entitled, like the rest of us living under this administration, to all the food and drink she is able to acquire for herself through hard work and perseverance. If that girl doesn’t want to dehydrate to death, she should pull herself up by the bootstraps and fetch herself a beverage.

LIFE IMITATES ART

Prosecutors are investigating the death of a man who was subdued by several fellow airline passengers after he became disruptive on a New York-bound flight, a spokesman said Sunday.

William Lee was pronounced dead late Friday after he was removed from the American Airlines flight at Kennedy International Airport. The cause of death had not yet been determined and was under investigation.

The exact scene happened on a CSI episode a few years ago.

Grissom called it murder, but Brass let the passengers walk.