Posted on 04/02/2005 11:39:29 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Edited on 04/02/2005 5:10:27 PM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
Your close.....you didn't mention HE bought a house the whole family could live in?
A different take
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377742/posts
....turn the bones to ashes, DNA, and God knows what other future tracabilities may be brought to bear.
Cremation......the first refuge of scoundrels........did someone say this before..........?.
Let's be fast and neat, quick and sweet, say I...........
......Telos is a killer, it's White Horse I say to thee
I was merely noting how enormous the sentiment is here that Mr. Schiavo is indeed a filthy murderer -- or at best, a wife-abuser and conscienceless fiend. And all of it is based on lack of facts and heresay. It's just conspiracy theories to fit a side of a deeply politicised issue.
And us conservatives are supposed to be the "law and order people", to have the most respect for the fundamental tenets of our system.
"He let his wife brutally dehydrate and starve to death for 13 1/2 days without even so much as a wet sponge to her bleeding flaking lips.
No matter what you say...that is fact."
And you come by this "fact" where? How do you know what those nurses did or didn't do?
Thanks for the clarification, but I wasn't aiming at you per se. I was making more a general observation of the bulk of the posts related to the whole matter.
I agree with your view. I simply have been very disappointed in the way many conservatives have behaved and reacted in the whole unfortunate situation. So much played straight into the misconception of what our views are and how we handle things. It played right into the liberals' steroetyping of us, and it made great hay for their media to show their view off. To my mind, it was two steps back for us in terms of message. We as a group could have done so much better, if not for some of the media whores and desperate-for-martyrdom types in our midst.
I believe Mr. Schiavo made many monumentally bad decisions, but being in a marriage where there have been some catastrophes similar to those of the Schiavos, only without the seeming permanence of Terri's infirmity, I can certainly understand how he might go astray. That's not to excuse it, but it makes it more difficult for me to come down so hard on him as so many others have.
And just to clarify, *I* am the one in my marriage who was comatose for several months, ill for many more and am still disabled from the ordeals. I am the husband of a wife who went through several years of having to do and be *everything* major in our family, and the chips were down for a long, long time. And she made some really *bad* moves in that time, and it cost us dearly, strained relationships and wrecked our lives and families for a time.
She left me -- and our three children -- in 2003. As opposed to playing the victim or being judgmental, as many in my family did, I approached our situation with understanding of what *she* was going through as well as things going on with me and the children. She will be coming back home next month.
It's really hard to imagine what Michael Schiavo was going through without having done so yourself. That doesn't mean you can't have an opinion, of course, but it should temper judgment.
And you're right, God will sort all this out when the time comes, and God sorted things out with my wife. I was fortunate. I think, in a way, terri was fortunate. She *is* in a better place now. *We* will never know what happened, and it isn't necessarily important that we do. We just need to repair our laws to the point where such a tragedy won't happen again.
Thanks for the time. I know I took up a lot of space here.
Thanks for your post, that was very touching. I was going to say "I'm very sorry" regarding your whole situation, but I realized you seem like a very strong person who doesn't feel sorry for himself, and I commend you for your strength and perseverence. I am only 19 years old, so I have not had such tragedies happen to me, but if they do, I hope I handle them the way you have.
And I hope everything goes well when your wife returns. Godspeed.
I don't care much for the Empire Journal - shades of make-big-noise-then-do-nothing Larry Klayman and Judicial Watch. We'll see.
Much thanks.
"I don't care much for the Empire Journal - shades of make-big-noise-then-do-nothing Larry Klayman and Judicial Watch."
LOL...excellent observation.
I'm asking this question because my wife is bugging me: what did Michael Schiavo melt his wife's wedding ring to? I mentioned this to her as a way of capturing Michael's less than stellar character, and she pointed out that "perhaps he had it melted down into a locket".
Anyone know the scoop on this?
. . .it most surely IS for you to decide. . .and fo you to judge. final determination for Mr. Shiavo.
In the meantime. . .no good reason why this case should now be viewed through neutral-colored glasses. . .so to speak.
'. . .it most surely IS for you to decide. . .and for you to judge. That said. . .it is up to God, only. . .of course. . .to make the final determination for Mr. Shiavo.
In the meantime. . .no good reason why this case should now be viewed through neutral-colored glasses. . .so to speak.'
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