Terri's Fight - (Daily Thread/Updates) November 8 -10

Various | November 7, 2003 | sweetliberty

[nicmarlo]

Even if he is supposedly a Republican.

A liberal's a liberal's a liberal, don't matter what party they claim to belong....look at the liberal Justices on the Supreme Court; several were appointed because they were thought to be conservative......their true colors came out after they got their prize.

[nicmarlo]

This is purely circumstantial...MS probably had a very good reason to kill Terri's pets....it was probably even an act of mercy to have them killed, you know. He is the "Model Husband," after all!

[nicmarlo]

I'll be back in a bit....I have to play taxi cab driver to my daughter right now....

[msmagoo]

"Felos told reporters yesterday the sum in Terri's trust fund had been whittled down to $55,000. While he and Michael Schiavo's other attorney, Deborah Bushnell, say they haven't been paid in over a year, Felos was previously paid $358,434 out of the fund. Bushnell told the St. Petersburg Times she had been paid approximately $80,000 from the fund.

In a move that horrified Terri's family last year, Bushnell also filed a petition with probate Judge George Greer seeking authorization of pre-payment for Terri's cremation and burial expenses out of the fund."

October 24, 2003
World Net Daily - Constitutional showdown brewing over Terri's Law

[TheSarce]

Right now on CBS Sunday Morning, their "Cover Story" is on Terri. They just ran a teaser, not sure when exactly the story itself will run, but it's coming up. It's titled "Last Rights."

(Maybe I should put heavy objects out of reach so I don't break the TV. Deep breaths, deep breaths.....)

[TheSarce]

Okay, looks like it's up next after the commercial break... This is on CBS broadcast network, folks, may be on an hour delay in some markets.

[Saundra Duffy]

Here's a scary thought: Michael Schiavo is a father! He probably has life insurance policies on his children.

[msmagoo]

Nice work, nicmarlo!

So Michael was seeing a young, 26-year-old (in 1997) female therapist, who said he was dangerous and to call the police if he attacked Suzanne again.

Wonder if this was before or after Terri's 'collapse'?

[oceanperch]

For some reason everytime I see your name I think of the Nabisco Triscuit/wheat thins ad girl from years ago. She had a glass eye. What was her name Sandy something?

[Saundra Duffy]

Checking in from California. Thanks for the heads up about CBS.

[Saundra Duffy]

I'm going to check the TV guide to see what time it comes on in CA. Thanks!

[nicmarlo]

Wonder if this was before or after Terri's 'collapse'?

I haven't seen anything, as of yet, that pinpoints the time.....(and, right now, this particular woman therapist is has not been confirmed....but it's the only logical Caplan I can find, for now. I haven't seen her first name in anything yet.)

[oceanperch]

Duncan

[Saundra Duffy]

Oh, you're thinking of Sandy Duncan. Wonder what ever happened to her. She married her doctor I think.

[pickyourpoison]

The money wasn't disappearing from the trust right away.
I'm thinking MS had another lawyer before Felos.
MS may have been looking for another attorney, one that would tap into that trust faster and snatch out the money.
So enters Felos, someone who could know how to legally deplete the trust and knows how to remove Terri from the picture at the same time.
A lucrative deal for lawyer and MS.

[Future Useless Eater]

Folks, if you live on the WEST coast, be sure to see the
first 15 minutes of the CBS News Sunday Morning show.
Their LEADOFF article is a fairly BALANCED piece on Terri!

It even showed a bit of video I've never seen before...
Terri RAISING HER EYEBROWS ON COMMAND from a doctor.
(how can Felos say she has no brain activity - all just reflexes? NOT)

Check your LOCAL listings. I do have it on hard-drive and will
probably transcribe it later, but you will appreciate seeing
it first hand if you havent already missed it.

[bvw]

The South should thank Tecumseh Sherman, every dang Southerner, every day. He may be the greatest general that ever lived. He fought tenaciously and victoriously in ways that minimized the loss of life. That, alone, is a Golden Crown on his head!

Sherman opened up the West. Not the railroad -- for the Indians would have beat that back eventually ... if not for Sherman's brilliant plan. He made buffalo hunting a marvelous sport, and decimated the grand herds that were the sustanence of the Indians, like oil is the sustance of Arab terror, the great bison herds, also flowing like a black liquid across the plains, were the fuel of terror.

If not for Sherman, manhood in the South would have been eradicated, ground down, the post-war "reconstruction" woud have been one giant Andersonville. The South would be a poor, despirited region today.

We all would be the worse -- the North would be more spiteful than the South ever was, and poorer for that.

Sherman was the saviour of the South! Hurah, hooray!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Lets see if we can find that same spreadsheet anywhere else and verify it, I am not good at leagal searches, so I haven't a clue where to look for it. Has anyone else seen this spreadsheet, or able to find another link to the same information?

[TheSarce]

You're very welcome, the feature started at about 12 minutes into the first hour of the program. Martha Teischner (sp) reporting.

I didn't break my TV, LOL, it was not great but she made some effort to show both sides. Problem is she doesn't really get the REAL issues involved, she covered it as a right-to-die, everyone-needs-a-living-will story. Oh well, it was less inflammatory than I expected (keep in mind my expectations were not high from CBS News to begin with, LOL!).

She showed more of the video footage of Terri than I have previously seen on network TV. Footage of vigilers camped out, referred to as activists from "right-to-life orgs, disability activists, and supporters of conservative causes." Interviews with brother Bobby, and Felos doing his cerebral-cortex-worship schtick. Big news is they took the infamous "brain scan" Felos was waving on CNN to some doctor in New York, and although the reporter sort of glossed over it, I found his evaluation to be encouraging news: he said this was a scan of someone who "COULD" be in a PVS. I don't have time right now to transcribe the whole feature, but here's the part from the "impartial" doctor. May not be word-for-word perfect, it's a rush job...

Doctor: Looking at this scan, without the actual patient, this is consistent with someone who could be in a persistent vegetative state, yes. You would expect this person to be exceedingly low-functioning. Not necessarily in a coma or unconscious, but certainly very low-functioning.

Reporter: Dr Keith Siller (sp) is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at New York University Medical School.

Doctor: This is a horrible scan.

Reporter: We showed him Terri's brain scan because he has no vested interest in the Schiavo case.

Doctor: Now this is what a normal scan should look like. In Terri Schiavo's scan over here, this person has lost the exterior brain, which is the cortex, and that's where all the functions originate from. So if you've lost cortex through atrophy, brain doesn't grow back. It's not going to recover. The problem is you have a gray zone here. That's a person who is not technically brain-dead, but in a functional sense, that person is not really brain-alive, ither.

They then showed clips of Dr. Hammesfahr (sp) talking about hope for rehab. While the NY doctor's prognosis was not good, I was pleasantly surpised, I expected them to go to someone who would echo Felos' she's-already-virtually-dead stance. CBS's independent doctor says Terri is in a gray area. Perhaps the uninformed will consider that as a sign to proceed with caution.

Hope others see the feature, it wasn't too bad!

[pickyourpoison]

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