Regarding the Schiavo Situation…
The only group of people that I care less about hearing from than the politicians and Christians are celebrities. But apparently they are so important, what they have to say is so VITAL to this poor woman, her family and the very soul of America, that their thoughts and opinions need to be shared and aired.
Seriously. This has gotten out of hand. What’s happening in Florida is not our business and I resent the entire country making it my business. What is wrong with people? This should NOT be a political issue and the whole thing makes me sick. Writing and talking about politics isn’t my strong suit, despite my fierce opinions. Luckily Marianne knows her shit and pointed us to someone who can. So thanks Marianne, for showing me Digby.
Has anyone seen the reenactments that the E! channel is doing of the Michael Jackson trial? It’s so absurd, I keep thinking it’s an SNL skit.
I’d like to see people getting this worked up over the environment, like the ANWR drilling resolutions that Repbulicans dropped into the new budget plan. Or trying to save the Hubble telescope. Or maybe even protecting kids from being shot at school.
sigh. This country depresses me. This world depresses me. I wish I could be a stupid ignorant twit, skip skip skipping my way through life. I don’t want to worry or care about this stuff anymore.
Thank god for candy, my beacon of light. Oh candy, I love you so.
Being ignorant kicks ass! The less I know, the better. People say, “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” I’d like to think that I’m not what’s wrong with society. I also like to think I’m a cute little bunny.
The Republicans screwed this one up.
It’s perfectly okay for the husband and the family to duke this situation out in court, that’s what the courts are there for. And it’s understandable that the media has become interested in the story. Fine. But the Republicans had the opportunity to let this remain a social issue and not a political one, and they choice to politicize it, and for THAT, they will pay a political price, and rightfully so.
ANWR, Schiavo, and the marriage constitutional amendment are the three greatest mistakes of the modern conservative party.
What this country needs is plenty of cheap energy and oil, either through a military victory in an oil rich country or by using the natural resources endowed to this country by the Lord.
That way we can have an employment rich economic recovery so single mothers can find living wage employment at the drop of a hat (or pregnancy testing strip on the bathroom floor), and for the millions of other eager want to be hardworking americans out there. So help me God. Yes call me a fool Demcocrat but thats what I believe. Dont liberate the Iraqis, liberate their delicious gooey oil! Think of it as machine candy!!
I tend to side with the Dems on this one… what we need to do is kick corporate America in the ass until they start spending resources on renewable technologies.
I see my personal policy preferences as a trade off. I’m pro-business, pro-corporations in most ways so that when something important comes up that DOES require some ass-kicking of the corporations, they can handle it. The environment being one of those situations.
I can’t figure out the Republicans love affair with oil anyway.
Oh young Brasten…. Oil=money=power!!
I suppose it is that simple, isn’t it…
Nothing is simple when it comes to money and power. Right, Christa?
Why dont they send the Schiavo to a hospice or to her pasrents house. If she can survive there let her.
Does she HAVE to be in a hospital per se?
George is doing well!!
Schiavo Case: Today at 1:45 CST or 11:45 est time my brother in law, Prof Mark Mostert of Regent University in NC. Will be doing a segment on Cable TV’s 700 Club. He will be speaking on their NewsWatch segment on the Schiavo case. Mark is a professor of Psychiatry from South Africa doing research on the US’s slip from idealism into institutionalized cruelty. He even has a web site that points at certain trends in the US that are similar to trends that started in Germany in the 1890’s, where exsacerbated (sic) by WWI and ended up in the death camps of WWII.
DG – my understanding is that she IS at a hospice, but they are required to not provide her sustaining care (food/water) at the request of her husband who, the courts say, has proven she’d already told people she’d never want to live this way.
From what I’ve heard, she’s only expected to survive another few days.
I wonder if there’s any way to watch the NewsWatch segment on the internet? I’m at work. :(
I am at work to in my dining room office, but I dont have cable. I refuse to spend 60$ a month for
something that I either would not watch that much or would become engrossed into and never get anything done.