Terry Schiavo

[academic punk]

Fine, you want to get this thread back on track?

How did this - the routine everyday procedure at hospitals around the country for people with destroyed cerebral cortexes - become a bigger story than, say, The Minnesota school shootings?

Is Terri's life not important? Of course it is. But how do you compare hers to the lives of multiple young people who simply went to school one morning? How many lives are forever scarred b/c they were in the school, or are family?

How does that situation not become the forefront topic on the entire nations minds?

The legacy of Terri is simple: get a lving will together.

But how do we deal with the Jeff Weise's and his victims and the repercussions???

[Cathedral]

It wasn't politically advantageous to cover the school shootings, AP.
In fact, i find exception in knowing that we can have special congressional sessions to pass bills for one PVS patient while sexual predators are raping and killing children, and troubled teens are going postal on their classmates without becoming a blip on the political radar screen.

It's all about ratings and votes. nobody, especially the government, cares about anything that won't advance their own selfish greed for money and power.

The end of America is on the horizon, and the citizens will pay the price for the iniquities of its/our leaders.

[FORD]

Hell, sexual predators are hanging out with Randall Terrorist in front of the hospice! (see previous posts in this thread)

[academic punk]

But do we blame our leaders or ourselves? They only reflect "the will of the people". And with the costs of campaigning (and therefore the need for big business contributions) becoming ever more ludicrous (and the platforms they campaign on becoming ever less about issues, and more and more about smearing the opponent), can you blame them?

In the wake of the Minnesota tragedy, what does one of the highest ranked officials at the NRA suggest? ""Let's provide guns to our teachers!" Brilliant! That's not going to back-fire to completely! But does any official up high say, "Jesus, I have go tto distance myself from these people"? No!!!! WTF???

Nice smokescreens, people! I mean it!!! It's worked!!!!

[FORD]

Originally posted by academic punk
But do we blame our leaders or ourselves? They only reflect "the will of the people". And with the costs of campaigning (and therefore the need for big business contributions) becoming ever more ludicrous (and the platforms they campaign on becoming ever less about issues, and more and more about smearing the opponent), can you blame them?

In the wake of the Minnesota tragedy, what does one of the highest ranked officials at the NRA suggest? ""Let's provide guns to our teachers!" Brilliant! That's not going to back-fire to completely! But does any official up high say, "Jesus, I have go tto distance myself from these people"? No!!!! WTF???

Nice smokescreens, people! I mean it!!! It's worked!!!!

The fact is that in rural Minnesota, guns are probably going to be a reality in the majority of homes, Ojibwe reservations included. The teachers probably have them, though I doubt they bring them to school.

In this particular case, the boy's grandfather was a tribal policeman, so even in a hypothetical "gun control" situation, the gun would have been there anyway. Though it certainly could be argued that grandpa could have secured the weapon better. As a cop he should have known that much. Apparently he trusted his grandson a little too much.

I haven't been following the story that closely (due to the whore media focusing on uh.. "other things") but I have wondered if the motive was related to the Schiavo case, and the endless debate over the issue. Apparently this boy's own mother was in the hospital in a comatose state. Maybe his grandparents were arguing over the situation and something snapped?

We'll probably never know

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by academic punk
But do we blame our leaders or ourselves? They only reflect "the will of the people".

THAT sentence scares me above all others.

[Cathedral]

I agree, the will of the people is a dead end street because we don't need policy dictated by emotion.
I am understanding why we have an electorate as a matter of fact.
In most cases, the Will of the People can be destructive because it follows no pattern that isn't fueled by extreme emotion.

We need laws and Judges that follow those laws by the letter, but sadly, we don't have many of those kinds of Judges.

There are only so many twists a rubber band can take before it snaps and whips violently out of control.

[diamondD]

Originally posted by Fabulous Shadow
Here's my 2 cents...
She put herself in this position. She had an eating dosorder and SHE caused herself to lose oxygen flow to the brain. She obviously did not cherish HER OWN life so why should everyone be fighting to keep her alive at this point. If she didn't want to live FAT what makes anyone think she'd want to live brain dead? I know I sure the hell wouldn't.

Haven't you claimed to have an eating disorder yourself? Or was that more of your delusional psycho-babble to draw attention to yourself?

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by diamondD
Haven't you claimed to have an eating disorder yourself? Or was that more of your delusional psycho-babble to draw attention to yourself?

It's tough to keep her lies/facts straight.

[Jesterstar]

Can we try and stay on topic??? NicK I am not going to ask you again. Keep it up and you'll be banned.

[steve]

Originally posted by DLR'sCock
Boy, everyone gives a rats ass about a brain dead vegetable, but it's kool to shoot, bomb, and murder over 100,000 Iraqi Children, women, grandmothers, grandfathers, uncles, nieces, aunts, cousins, men, husbands, wives, etc etc...this happens and you right-wing whackos don't bat an eyelash...yet you buy into this media mind-fuck fest........man I hate when we waste time and money on these BS stories...the woman has no brain, her cerebral cortex is liquid, I side with Science on this...

Science is science....the right wing is using Terry Schiavo as a political agenda on Roe vs Wade.....the Media is making loot becasue these BS stories make ratings....I love that "Culture of Death" Bullshit cathc phrase, holy fucking shit!!!!! LMFAO!!!

and the real world carries on.....


If I was veg and I am not coming back, then kill me, I love my friends and family that much that I would not want to be a burden and hardship to them....



You think things are fucked up now, give it a couple of more years...


So many miss the point...

AMEN, BROTHA!!

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Jesterstar
Can we try and stay on topic??? NicK I am not going to ask you again. Keep it up and you'll be banned.

From HITCHWORLD? Go ahead, make my day!


But I do actually agree with your sentiments. I'm getting tired of attention whore thread hijackers (like myself)!

[Jesterstar]

Honestly I love a good thread Hijacking as much as the next guy. But I've been on a roll with thought provoking posts exspsing my sexy brilliant underbelly that is making the people go wild.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Jesterstar
Can we try and stay on topic??? NicK I am not going to ask you again. Keep it up and you'll be banned.

YOU can't ban anybody. numbnuts

You carry as much weight around here as joey and katydid:D

[Jesterstar]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
YOU can't ban anybody. numbnuts

You carry as much weight around here as joey and katydid:D

You say that I can't??? One call to hitch your fucking gone. End of Story fat fucking shit eater. Try and stay relevent and stop trying to suck my cock every thread I post in. Threads about about the topics. Not everything is about me even though your whole gay life is about me and my SEXY fucking ass.