T'wit, FReeper extraordinaire, has died.

self | August 5, 2007 | 8mmMauser

[8mmMauser]

Bedside manor thread from neverdem. Thanks to TheSarce.

NO surprises” is a basic rule in hospitals. Junior doctors are supposed to notify their superiors promptly about worrisome developments in a patient, and information is supposed to move smoothly up the chain of command. One of the gravest errors a doctor in training can make is to inform the attending physician well after the fact about a patient’s turn for the worse.

Unfortunately, this rule does not extend to seriously ill patients themselves. They and their families are frequently surprised by the sudden imminence — and the raging authority — of death.

The Bad News First

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[Dante3]

And sadistic how they treated Terri’s family. Even here on FR we get posters who just hate Terri - something I find beyond comprehension. Terri never harmed anyone.

[wagglebee]

Even here on FR we get posters who just hate Terri - something I find beyond comprehension.

And I've got a handy list of names!

[rich8]

Thank you for posting the link to the new Michael Schiavo site! The website will continue to grow, and more information will be added. The emphasis will be on his character and actions, plus info on his political career with TerriPac.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Just finished going through the site. Holy crap! Slayer should write a song about this creep! Oh wait, they already did. “Angel of Death”.

His eyes look like two pissholes in the snow, pardon the language....

[TheSpottedOwl]

Uh oh...

Ever inhale helium so you can run around talking like Daffy Duck? I didn’t know that stuff could kill you :(

[8mmMauser]

And we will be watching! Thanks for the link!

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[8mmMauser]

Congrats! You win first prize for the best analogy. That is the opening salvo in our “find the eyes” contest.

;-)

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[8mmMauser]

All about Terri, in The American Chronicle...

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As presidential campaign rhetoric spews across America’s airwaves, liberals of all stripes and special interests fault Republican’s for their zealous efforts to defend Terri Schiavo’s right to life. Even the prestigious financial publication, The Economist, got in on the act recently. The liberal spiel is that the federal government had no legal right to interfere with a state judicial matter. More important to Michael Schiavo and supporters is the view that family not government should decide such medical matters.

What is missing in liberal rhetoric is the interest of Terri Schiavo. In her Slate article Not Dead at All, Harriet McBryde Johnson, a disability-rights lawyer, argued that Congress did have a right to defend Terri. Because she was neither terminally ill nor was the Florida court deciding on an end-of-life decision making issue, congressional legislation giving the federal court the last word was proper procedural law. Johnson wrote that Terri had “a federal constitutional right not to be deprived of her life without due process of law.” She also had “a statutory right under the Americans with Disabilities Act not to be treated differently because of her disability.” Because “killing is not ordinarily considered a private family concern or a matter of choice,” it was appropriate for Congress to give federal courts jurisdiction to make sure state courts respected her federally protected rights.

Congress also acknowledged the right of the Terri’s parents, the Schindlers, to challenge the decisions of the state court to end her life. Her parents did not stop being such after she got married. They demonstrated to the world the deep and abiding love of normal parents. What liberals fail to mention is that Congressional Republicans acted on an appeal from her parents. The appeal was based on evidence from qualified medical experts that contradicted assessments made by pro-euthanasia physicians about her condition. As stated above, Congress created a procedure giving the federal court review authority to guarantee Terri’s Constitution rights were not being violated. This read the neurological exams as well as court hearing transcripts. It was apparent that a great travesty of justice resulted when the Supreme Court refused to review the case and when a federal court upheld the state court’s decision to deny Terri food by any means. Judge Greer ordering Terri’s death was an unpardonable injustice perpetrated both by his disregard of evidence proving she was not in a vegetative state of any kind and his refusal to order proposed medial treatment that would have enabled Terri to communicate her own will about whether to she actually wanted to live or die. As her tombstone makes clear, her husband Michael considered her disabled state the same as death. The date of death chosen by her husband was 1990 when her disability occurred and not when she was starved to death in 2005.

The charged of judicial murder made by Nat Hentoff and many others was not inappropriate but true.

Terri Schiavo and False Campaign Rhetoric

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[8mmMauser]

More from the michaelschiavo.org site...

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These are but a few comments about Schiavo's character that the mainstream media failed to report:

• Carole Lieberman, M.D. noted that Schiavo fits the profile of a wife abuser - the same profile that fit O.J. Simpson and Scott Peterson. She wrote that Schiavo has a "pathologically controlling behavior." Michael Schiavo fits the profile as the Prince of Darkness. Lieberman wrote, "O.J. Simpson was cited as a classic example of this type, and there are indeed similarities between the two men. Stalking is characteristic of this type of man, as well. And a girlfriend of Michael’s, Cindy, accused him of stalking her in 2001." Carole Lieberman is the author of "Bad Boys."  Terri Schiavo's Husband Fits Profile of Wife Abuser

• Cindy Shook, Schiavo's former girlfriend, described Michael's behavior as "stalking, dangerous, and potentionally life-threatening. He could be the most incredibly mean person." Michael told her that Terri was "ruining my life." Schiavo stalked Cindy when their relationship broke off.

  -- Listen to Cindy Shook describe Schiavo's behavior in this interview (Real Media).

• "Michael Schiavo entered the premises of Sabal Palms Health Care Center in a belligerent manner and caused fear of bodily injury to the staff members and/or residents of Sabal Palm...he 'did not know what he would do.' It is Petitioner's assertion that as a representative of Sabal Palms Health Care Center, her staff is indeed in fear of great bodily harm based upon the actions of Michael Schiavo."   Read the 1994 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (PDF document)

• “Terri Schiavo died, not of any illness, but at the hands of her husband and his lawyers." C. Ben Mitchell , associate professor of bioethics

• "When I heard Michael had become a nurse, I'd go to that hospital like I'd go fishing with Scott Peterson." - Terri Welch, "Silent Witness-The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death"

• "He's an evil, evil, evil man. There is no other word for him. Everything that is around Michael turns bad. Once you get to know the real Michael, you wanted to run, but he would chase you. He is so controlling that he needs to know where you are and who you are talking to all the time." - Trudy Capone, former girlfriend of Michael Schiavo, in "Silent Witness: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death"

• "When is that bitch going to die!" -Michael Schiavo to Nurse Carla Sauer Iyer (affidavit)

Welcome to Michael Schiavo.org

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[8mmMauser]

A little update comes in from The Republican on Haleigh Poutre, actually her stepfather.

SPRINGFIELD - Alan J. Black will represent Jason D. Strickland in the case in which Strickland is charged with seriously injuring his stepdaughter Haleigh Poutre, 13, of Westfield, in 2005.

Last week Judge James G. Collins, who is hearing the case as a Superior Court judge, allowed Greg T. Schubert, who was been the defense lawyer to date, to withdraw from the case. Collins set a hearing for tomorrow to discuss scheduling of the case with the new lawyer and the prosecutor.

Black filed an appearance in the case yesterday.

New lawyer in Haleigh Poutre case

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[8mmMauser]

The ironies in this situation stun. Thread by NYer, thanks to TheSarce...

Italian police have been asked to investigate a case in which doctors treating a 40-year-old woman who was pregnant with twins aborted a healthy foetus while leaving a second, malformed one untouched.

The San Paolo hospital in Milan yesterday confirmed a report of the blunder in the daily Corriere della Sera. A statement from the hospital said the twins had changed places inside the womb between the first ultrasound scan and a second one carried out shortly before the operation, which took place in the 18th week of the pregnancy. It said it had handed the case notes to the "competent authorities".

The "misfortune", as the hospital termed it, is the latest of several high-profile errors that have prompted fierce debate over both the standards of professionalism in Italy's hospitals and the application of its abortion law. In March, a foetus aborted in the 22nd week of pregnancy at a hospital in Florence, because of suspected deformities, was found to be physically sound. It was rescuscitated and survived for a brief period.

Italian police to investigate abortion of wrong twin (botched abortion shocks Italy)

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[8mmMauser]

Bones are less dense. Hmmmmm...

NEW YORK, August 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A study of female military cadets has shown that the use of oral contraceptives is linked with loss of bone density in women. The study examined the effects of lifestyle, diet, and exercise on bone health in 107 white female cadets at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and found that irregular menstruation and oral contraceptives had a negative impact on bone density.

Oral Contraceptives Decrease Bone Density

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[8mmMauser]

Stark agenda of the dark side is bared in this thread by wagglebee...

VANCOUVER, August 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A British Columbia human rights tribunal will hear the case of a college pro-life group denied official club status on campus. The group, called the Capilano College Heartbeat Club, filed an official complaint with the BC Human Rights Commission saying that the decision of the student union amounted to discrimination on the basis of religious belief.

The Capilano Student Union (CSU), however, contends that the reason the group was rejected was not opposition to religious belief, but to the group's attempt to "advance an anti-abortion political agenda."

British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal to Hear College Pro-Life Discrimination Case

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[8mmMauser]

Wesley J. Smith hits on bioethics in this thread by wagglebee...

If being human is not what conveys moral worth, then what does? The answer to this question varies. But, as we shall see, the increased embrace of human unexceptionalism cuts across a wide array of ideologies.

Let's first look at secular bioethics, the philosophy of health care and public policy taught in our most elite universities.

The predominating view in bioethics is that being human is not what gives one value, but rather, possessing sufficient capacities to be considered a "person." Known as "personhood theory," believers argue that a being—whether human, animal, machine, or extraterrestrial—all must be measured by the same criteria, and each must earn the highest value by possessing minimal cognitive capacities, such as being "self aware over time." This means that there is such a thing in bioethics as the so-called "human non person," human beings who have not yet attained personhood—such as embryos, fetuses, and newborn infants—and those who lose it due to injury or illness that significantly impairs cognitive capacity.

Wesley J. Smith: Human Beings Desrve the Right to Life Because They Are Human Beings

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[8mmMauser]

Save the baby seals from brutal clubbing. Kill the baby humans by clubbing.

It looks as though our lovable environuts really want rather than the good of wild critters the extinction of mankind. Does this fit? Yes, if you believe the devil exists and wants this destruction too, and that he is their father of lies.

Front Royal, Virginia, August 27, 2007 (pop.org) - If asked what function the San Francisco-based Sierra Club performs, most of its 1.3 million members would probably reply "protecting the environment," or "raising awareness of endangered species," or words to that effect. Yet, in their 2007 legislative report for Minnesota, the Sierra Club spent nearly 3 pages describing legislative initiatives that have virtually nothing to do with the environment. Rather, this section deals almost exclusively with population issues or, to put it more accurately, with population control issues.

"Over 250,000 women need publicly supported contraceptive services in Minnesota," the section's first sentence urges. It goes on to complain that "the President's budget slashes funding for international family planning by $111 million, nearly one fourth of the FY 2007 funding level," and criticizes Bush’s support for abstinence education.

Environemental Organizations Generate Green Guilt to Push More Population Control

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[Lesforlife]

Lord, may this site educate the public about
how wicked and evil Michael Schiavo truly is.

We continue to pray for justice to be served to
Michael, Judge Greer and George Felos in our
life times!!

Father God, we pray that the prayers of the faithful, who
believed in Terri’s infinite value, will be answered and that
our efforts will be multiplied until our nation repents for
ingnoring your enduring commands.

In your precious son Jesus name, AMEN!

[Sun]

Wesley Smith always nails it.

[amdgmary]

"Father God, we pray that the prayers of the faithful, who believed in Terri’s infinite value, will be answered and that our efforts will be multiplied until our nation repents for ingnoring your enduring commands."

Powerful prayer!

[8mmMauser]

Are we surprised at this snuggle of bedfellows?

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In San Francisco's liberal Ninth Circuit Court today, a three- judge panel heard arguments in the strange case of Al-Haramain v. Bush. And the members of the media gathered in San Francisco showed their ideological colors afterwards.

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The superb photo-journalist Zombie covered the day's action in exquisite detail, so I shall not recap here. Suffice to say that after the testimony was finished, many of the media gathered outside the courtroom in San Francisco gave one of the most damning demonstrations of bias that I have ever had the displeasure to see. The Muslim organization is being defended by an attorney whose name one might recognize- Jon Eisenberg, who represented Michael Schiavo in Schiavo's quest to have his wife Teri killed. As one might guess, he is an outspoken opponent of conservatism in general and the Republican Party and the Bush Administration in particular. His opponent representing the United States government was an attorney named Thomas Bondy. They received very different treatment from the gathered media once they had emerged from the courtroom. To quote Zombie:

Then Jon Eisenberg, the main attorney for Al-Haramain who had just argued the case, emerged from the building and let out a greeting of camaraderie and relief when he spotted his buddies in the media. Needless to say, they surrounded him and eagerly let him tell his side of the story. Jon Eisenberg pontificated for quite a long time. ... Finally, Thomas Bondy -- the attorney for President Bush who was arguing the government's case against Eisenberg -- came out the courtroom door. He and his team of lawyers walked right past the reporters who had just interviewed John Eisenberg (including one who was still interviewing him, on the left of this picture). But not a single reporter showed the slightest interest in questioning him or interviewing him. When Bondy got to the bottom of the stairs, he heard something behind him and turned around, perhaps thinking it was a reporter asking him a question -- but no, it was just one of his colleagues. They stood there all by themselves, with at least 15 media members nearby, and no one approached them. So, they decided they might as well just leave. I don't know if they even wanted to give interviews -- perhaps they were glad they didn't have to repeat "no comment" over and over. But either way, no one in the media even tried. Why was Eisenberg treated like a superstar, while Bondy was totally ignored by the media?

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin

Biased in SF: Media Only Report One Side of Terror Case

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