T'wit, FReeper extraordinaire, has died.

self | August 5, 2007 | 8mmMauser

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A great FReeper and close friend passed. T’wit, also known as Timothy Wheeler passed on. In tribute, I would like to make this the August thread of Terri Dailies, the topic foremost in T’wit thoughts.

Tim was a man of great faith, a faith that grew stronger especially in recent months. As I type this, I still am not yet coherent, as I try to awaken and sip a good coffee brought to me recently by Tim. In his usual fashion, he probably figured I would appreciate a little care package and would appreciate the better quality than the usual fare we would fix.

But I do not want this thread to be maudlin, nor a reminiscing on anecdotes, rather a stab at what Tim would want.

T’wit was passionate about the beauty of nature, of good books, good music, and intellectual challenge, but mostly he was passionate about his love for our America, for Jim Robinson’s FreeRepublic, and for our fight for those in the plight of Terri Schiavo. For the latter, he sought justice and fervently hoped and prayed we on Terri’s List would carry on this battle against the evils of those who would control who lived and died.

In our many talks, he would sound like a poster boy for all the stated position of Jim Robinson.

His wife told me last evening the final thoughts he had. As can be expected, it was for us to continue our fight as we have done already. She hoped that rather than flowers or donations sent, that donations be directed at causes like that supporting Terri’s Legacy, the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation. In this way, we remember him and further his wishes. T’wit and I talked a lot about faith and I can reassure all, his faith in Our Lord was strong and growing stronger, a comfort to me that he carried it to the end.

My words come out with difficulty this morning, but should flow better later, although without the word play and banter we would sometimes engage, at least for now. T’wit would be upset if I quit the puns for long, though.

We will continue our prayers for T'wit and his wife and family.

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She was forbidden by the Greer

Yes, I remember all too well. We/Michael/The Death Squad want you dead. You will have no water or food and we will surround you with armed guards in the event someone tries to mess up our plans for you.

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I didn’t know that about T’wit. He had truth burning in his belly before he came here. When one is so grounded in Truth, deception becomes your personal enemy.

He did his job, he fought evil. By now, he has already heard the words, ‘Well done. good and faithful servant’.

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T’wit...

TW

to wit,

Tim Wheeler is it.

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Helen Valois speaks out on RenewAmerica, on the topic of the assault on our values and on Terri. I excerped this pithy article because of length and encourage reading it in full.

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"Hello, Dr. Laura?* This is the Republican base. Thank you for taking our call. We're in dire straits these days, and we were hoping you could help us out. Here's a little background on our situation."

"We've been with the GOP leadership for, oh, maybe, a couple of decades now. It all started with Ronald Reagan. He was a truly wonderful president! We had such high hopes for a real resurgence of conservative values and policies in this nation! The only problem is, it's almost 2008 already, and it still hasn't happened. In fact, politically speaking, things are looking worse than ever."

"You see, lately, the leadership has been keeping company with politicians we just don't approve of. And we can't understand it! We keep trying to tell them, but they don't seem to listen to us. It isn't as if we haven't been trying to do our part."

"Election after election, we have filed faithfully into the voting booths, handing them as many victories as we could manage, and some of those victories were really significant ones, too. As recently as March of 2005, the Republicans held both houses of Congress, as well as the White House and the governorship of the state of Florida. March of 2005 was when Terri Schindler-Schiavo was mercilessly starved and dehydrated to death, as we're sure you recall. The Bush brothers assured us they were doing all they could for her. Our friend Rush keeps telling us that we have to focus on getting Republicans into office first, before we can expect any real results. We've been meaning to ask him what other offices the GOP could possibly have needed to hold, in order for her life to have been saved."

"Now, we're not stupid. It isn't as though we couldn't see all of this coming — we mean, the march from abortion to euthanasia, the erosion of respect for traditional marriage, and the host of other lapses from common decency and traditional American understanding that your call screener warned us we didn't have time to go into here. After all, what was all that 'Big Tent' talk about, anyway? No, unfortunately, we didn't see much harm in it at the time."......................................................................

Dr. Laura, can you take our call?

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If I were Dr. Laura, I would advise pro-life, conservative folks to vote in the primaries for pro-life, conservative folks.

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JACKRUSSELL has a thread on body parts Made in China and elsewhere and the used parts lots and body shops. Thanks, wagglebee, for the ping.

(HONG KONG)--Paul Lee got his liver from an executed Chinese prisoner; Karam in Egypt bought a kidney for his sister for $5,300; in Istanbul Hakan is holding out for $30,700 for one of his kidneys.

They are not so unusual: a dire shortage of donated organs in rich countries is sending foreigners with end-stage illnesses to poorer places like China, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Colombia and the Philippines to buy a new lease of life.

FEATURE - Keen Demand Fuels Global Trade in Body Parts

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Maybe she will...

Helen Valois posted this at the end:

n.b. This article is submitted with all due respect — great respect — to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and for the purposes of political commentary only, without ascribing to her any viewpoint or opinion she has not herself expressed.

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“JACKRUSSELL has a thread on body parts Made in China and elsewhere and the used parts lots and body shops. Thanks, wagglebee, for the ping.

(HONG KONG)—Paul Lee got his liver from an executed Chinese prisoner; Karam in Egypt bought a kidney for his sister for $5,300; in Istanbul Hakan is holding out for $30,700 for one of his kidneys.

They are not so unusual: a dire shortage of donated organs in rich countries is sending foreigners with end-stage illnesses to poorer places like China, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Colombia and the Philippines to buy a new lease of life.

FEATURE - Keen Demand Fuels Global Trade in Body Parts

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Check out posts #23, #24, #25 from the link - prisoners sent to other countries so their body parts will be fresh. I can’t imagine the fear these poor people are going through.

Prayers needed for all.

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If I am not mistaken, Rudy is starting to understand that a huge block of people find life to be sacred, not that he understands it himself, but at least grasps that potential voters are shying away from the smell. Thread by wagglebee.

Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- Rudy Giuliani is having a hard time capturing the support of a large segment of Republican voters in Iowa because he strongly supports legalized abortion. To offset his strident view, Giuliani pledges to promote adoption and moderate his stance so he can gain enough support to do well in the first presidential battleground.

Giuliani said on Monday in an Iowa campaign swing that he wanted to promote common ground on the issue of abortion and that he can do so with pro-life advocates by touting adoption.

Rudy Giuliani Talks Adoption Over Abortion, Pro-Life Group Doubts Pledge

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Rudy is a Catholic? I think of a terrorist in Baghdad donning an American soldier's uniform to pass for an American. Does that make him an American soldier?

The other day I opened a box of eggs I found way in the back of the fridge. When I cracked one into the frying pan, it splayed all over, black, as I gagged and held my breath. Anyone who has done this will understand. Why did I think of this? Thanks, wagglebee, for the thread.

Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- As the only pro-abortion candidate in the GOP race for president, Rudy Giuliani can't get away from the issue of abortion. But walking away from a question about it was just what he did on Tuesday when he refused to answer a question from an Iowa resident about how his Catholic faith relates to his abortion position.

The former New York City mayor has been dogged by questions about abortion and pro-life Catholics have said he is out of step with the Church because he thinks abortions ought to be legal.

Rudy Giuliani Refuses to Discuss How His Catholic Faith Relates to Abortion

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The other day I opened a box of eggs I found way in the back of the fridge. When I cracked one into the frying pan, it splayed all over, black, as I gagged and held my breath. Anyone who has done this will understand. Why did I think of this?

The better question is why did you feel the need to share your disgusting experience with the rest of us?!

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Uhhhhh Rudy???? You brought up the subject!!!

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Wagglebee, on a more serious note, here is another of your threads.

In their book Men and Abortion: Lessons, Losses, and Love, Shostak and McLouth report that 44% of single men offered to marry the woman, 18% of the couples had discussed adoption, and half the men accompanied the woman to the abortion clinic – hardly the image of wholesale male abandonment.

When these men show up at the clinic, they are met with a chilly reception. Two-thirds of the fathers want to accompany their partner throughout the experience, and nine out of 10 hope to hold the hand of their partner in the recovery room. But in most cases abortion clinics prohibit men from such expressions of support.

Fathers Join Women, Unborn as Third Victim Of the Abortion Industry

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Point taken. I notices a particularly noxious odor in my garage this morning, if you would like to come down to Virginia and figure out the cause of it you’re welcome to.

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Here is a semi-related thread I posted over the weekend about a proposed law in Ohio that would give fathers a say in abortion.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876408/posts

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>>Point taken. I notices a particularly noxious odor in my garage this morning, if you would like to come down to Virginia and figure out the cause of it you’re welcome to.

Virginia, I spent many a year in Northern Virginia, one time found a foul smell in the garage and found a box of rudy wannabees spoiling in the corner.

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Hillary has discovered the difference between rare and well done. Thread by Diago.

At a recent presidential forum, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York decried the failure of activists on both sides to work together to bring down the number of abortions. She repeated a mantra her husband made famous more than a decade ago: Abortion, she said, should be "safe, legal and rare." Then Clinton paused and added deliberately: "And by rare, I mean rare."

So while keeping abortion legal, what steps can Hillary immediately take to help make abortion rare, "and by rare, I mean rare."

Hillary's October Surprise: Pro-life PSA'a

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Hillary figures that if Rudy is the GOP nominee, she can take less pro-abortion position and still keep NARAL happy.

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Oh! That’s it! How cleaver. Gee, ‘ya think I coulda used his help? :)

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Heh heh. He loved word play, recalling that he wrote some of the toughest crosswords around, on National Review years ago.

Mine isn’t quite that tricky. LOL.

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