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Sen. Mel Martinez, nearly a year after leading the charge for federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, now says he may have been off-base. "Perhaps this was not in the realm of federal concern. It may have been better left to state courts to deal with it," Martinez said in a taped interview for Political Connections that airs today on Bay News 9. In a wide-ranging interview in which the Orlando Republican for the first time also publicly embraced the Senate candidacy of Katherine Harris, he alluded to the Schiavo controversy as providing a lesson "with a whack across...

TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush asked a prosecutor Friday to investigate why Terri Schiavo collapsed 15 years ago, calling into question a gap in time from when her husband found the woman and called 911. In a letter he faxed to Pinellas-Pasco County State Attorney Bernie McCabe, Bush said Michael Schiavo testified in a 1992 medical malpractice trial that he found his wife collapsed at 5 a.m. and he said in a 2003 television interview that he found her at about 4:30 a.m. He called 911 at about 5:40 a.m. "Between 40 and 70 minutes elapsed before the call was...

COLLIER COUNTY— Over a hundred cows were nearly starved to death in an Immokalee pasture in one of the largest cases of animal abuse in Southwest Florida. After a year-long investigation, Collier County Sheriff's Office has finally charged the person they say is responsible. Immokalee farmer Wallace Johns can't believe anyone would let a whole herd of cattle waste away. "I thought it was a bad situation. A person ought to take care of their animals if they got them," said Wallace Johns. Authorities say 120 head of cattle were being starved and at least a dozen of them died....

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday that his party would wield the Terri Schiavo case against Republicans in the 2006 and 2008 elections, but for now needed to stay focused battling President Bush on Social Security. "We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on," Dean said of the brain-damaged Floridian who died last month after her feeding tube was removed amid a swarm of political

Help. Some days/weeks before Terri died, there were posts re the conditon of the Schaivo house the night Terri collapsed. The ems folks were concerned enough to call police. There was also a post about a police officer who began an investigation & was told to shut it down. I've spent the better part of an hour looking for these threads, but can't find them. Can anyone help?

Our daughter, Claire, has had a feeding tube for 10 years, and my mother is closing in on one year with hers. I am generationally sandwiched between feeding-tube patients. As Terri Schiavo was, no one is really sure how much breaks through my daughter's or mother's neurological remnants. Also, as Mrs. Schiavo was, neither needs a respirator. To the clinical, they are in a "vegetative state." The inexperienced callously refer to them as clumps of flesh that hover in a puzzling state for inexplicable reasons. But those of us who live with and care for these magnificent souls question the...

It all comes back to how one agent of government decided the facts, the evidence and the law. Terri Schiavo has lost her valiant struggle against the forces of law that set the forces of nature at work against her body. May the work of Jesus that conquered the force of death bring her family and friends comfort. One of the most puzzling aspects of this distressing ordeal has been the repeated mantra, “People just don’t want government involved in ‘end-of-life’ decisions. It should be left to the family.” A poll conducted by CBS last week indicated that “82 percent...

In a perfect storm of exposure, several pieces of evidence are hitting the kitchen table at the same time. One is the report of an unimpeachable panel assigned to the task, that the Bush Administration and it's advisors did not, in spite of the unrelenting and hysterical chants of the liberals, conspire to pressure intelligence officials to lie about, or inflate, the "evidence" of weapons of mass destruction. Unfortunately this conspiracy had become the last remaining hope of the liberals to emerge unscathed from their lockstep obstruction of U.S. response to attack on our home soil. Those liberals will never...

Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers, a report drawn from a three-year study of hospice access and values issues conducted by The Hastings Center and the National Hospice Work Group, a voluntary association of progressive hospices, was published as a Special Supplement accompanying the March/April 2003 issue of the bioethics journal, the Hastings Center Report... The report also offers a new vision of hospice, one that holds firm to many of the traditions and values of the past but finds new and more flexible ways to deliver care. The model of traditional hospice care as an independent and...

On March 31, 1631, English priest and poet John Donne entered into life everlasting. He is Commemorated this day on the calendars of the Episcopal and Lutheran churches. His most well known essay is "for whom the bell tolls". Nuc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris. Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. ...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well...

CBS BLUNDERS AGAIN! Read the obituary notice....even before Terri is dead!! It was titled: "The short, sad life of Terri Schaivo" It was scheduled for publication on Monday, March 28th, 2005! It has been corrected and pulled, but can you imagine a two-page obituary in all this detail? INCREDIBLE. CBS was counting on Terri's death, pulling for her to die! YOU HAVE TO READ IT TO BELIEVE IT! http://www.glennbeck.com/news/03-29-05/printable683.pdf

As Terri Schiavo's parents grew more resigned to their daughter's fate, a federal appeals court said it would consider a new hearing on whether to reinsert the feeding tube that kept the severely brain-damaged woman alive for 15 years. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (search) did not indicate when a decision could be expected. The court order late Tuesday night allowed Bob and Mary Schindler (search) to file the emergency appeal, even though the court had set a March 26 deadline for doing so.

"George Felos, Michael Schiavo's lawyer, said after visiting Schiavo yesterday afternoon that he believed her death was near. He and hospice officials said she has received two 5 milligram doses of morphine since her feeding and hydration tube was removed on March 18, but that those very small doses were administered by hospice nurses who noticed 'slight moaning, facial grimacing and tensing of [her] arms.'" From article by Maeve Reston, Post-Gazette National Bureau So look me in the eyes and tell me that Terri can't feel anything. Or that Terri hasn't felt herself slowly starve and dehydrate over the last...

Sunday, March 20, 2005 Beware of So-called Living Wills! From Flip Benham with comments by Steve Mashburn "You shall not murder." Exodus 20:13 Sunday afternoon Flip and I discussed the current crisis in Clearwater, Florida with Terri Schiavo and the issue of so-called “living wills.” It is our firm conviction at Operation Rescue/Operation Save America that “living wills” are extremely dangerous and should be viewed by Christians with extreme caution. We are opposed to “living wills” because God Himself is opposed to them.” He is sovereign. He is the One who determines who lives and who dies – not us!...

March 28, 2005 Jesse Jackson to Visit Hospice and Meet with Schindlers On Tuesday morning, March 29, The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the RainbowPUSH Coalition, plans to visit the Woodside Hospice, where Terri lives, located at 6774 102nd Avenue N. (near 66th Street N and 102nd Avenue N) in Pinellas Park, Florida. Rev. Jackson is responding to an invitation from the Schindler family to come and pray with the family, and if possible visit Terri Schiavo in the hospice. After meeting and praying with the Schindler family, Rev. Jackson will make a statement to the...

§ 241. Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured— They shall be fined under this...

CNot Dead at All Why Congress was right to stick up for Terri Schiavo. By Harriet McBryde Johnson Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005, at 4:50 AM PT 1. Ms. Schiavo is not terminally ill. She has lived in her current condition for 15 years. This is not about end-of-life decision-making. The question is whether she should be killed by starvation and dehydration. 2. Ms. Schiavo is not dependent on life support. Her lungs, kidneys, heart, and digestive systems work fine. Just as she uses a wheelchair for mobility, she uses a tube for eating and drinking. Feeding Ms. Schiavo is...

The parents of Terri Schiavo/Schindler just made an impassioned appeal to Florida Governor Jeb Bush to save their dying daughter. Mrs. Schiavo was obviously tired and spoke in a restrained manner, but her husband, Robert, although looking terribly fatigued, used very strong language and placed much of the blame for his daughter's seven days of "torture" directly on Jeb Bush, blaming him for the inaction that is letting Terri be murdered by a "tyrannical" judiciary. Mr.Schindler says that the Governor has the power to end their ordeal with a "stroke of the pen" and if he had courage he would...

HOUSTON - The family of Spiro Nikolouzos won another legal round in court Tuesday in its fight with a Houston hospital to keep him alive, Local 2 reported. Late Tuesday afternoon, the 14th Court of Appeals issued an injunction for St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital to not touch the 68-year-old's life support. The decision came after an appeals court earlier in the day dissolved an emergency injunction issued Saturday because the appeals court has a specific way it assigns cases to one of two courts. "This was literally a matter of life or death," Local 2 legal analyst Brian Wice said....

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + CENTER FOR RECLAIMING AMERICA 3/24/05 Dear (redacted), For you and I the answer is easy, but this Easter Season, many thousands may not know where to find the answer... That is why we are writing you today. We need your help in spreading the word about a very special Easter broadcast of the Coral Ridge Hour. In light of Mel Gibson's amazing movie, The Passion of the Christ, and subsequent network and cable specials focusing...

The Humane Thing to Do Is Let Africa Starve An Editorial by Frank J. Posted by Frank J. at 11:36 AM | TrackBack (7) Africa has been a troubled region for some time. Unstable politics, genocide, aids outbreaks, mass starvation - we do what we can to help, we send money to Sally Struthers, but do we really think Africa is going to get better and be a fully functional continent again? Sure, we can keep things patched together, but each day Africa exists is just another day of suffering. It's time we face up to reality and give Africa...

"(a) Except in cases of treason and in cases where impeachment results in conviction, the governor may, by executive order filed with the custodian of state records, suspend collection of fines and forfeitures, grant reprieves not exceeding sixty days and, with the approval of two members of the cabinet, grant full or conditional pardons, restore civil rights, commute punishment, and remit fines and forfeitures for offenses." Alternate Link

Democrats have called out armed federal agents in order to: 1) prevent black children from attending a public school in Little Rock, Ark. (National Guard), 2) investigate an alleged violation of federal gun laws in Waco, Texas (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), and 3) deport a small boy to Cuba (Immigration and Naturalization Service). So how about a Republican governor sending in the National Guard to stop an innocent American woman from being starved to death in Florida? Republicans like the military. Democrats get excited about the use of military force only when it's against Americans. In two of...

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I drove by the Hospice on lunch, they are blocking the road, and there are cops everywhere. I fear something is happening.

The Schaivo case shows most vividly a profound error in the development of our government. We have allowed a branch of the government to evolve without the restraint of checks and balances. The judiciary as a class of government professionals views itself as superior to and not answerable to either the other two branches or to the people

LITANY FOR THE DYING LORD have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Holy Mary, [pray for her.] [This response repeated after each petition.] All ye holy angels and archangels, Holy Abel, All ye choirs of the just, Holy Abraham, St. John the Baptist, St. Joseph, All ye patriarchs and prophets, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Andrew, St. John, All ye holy apostles and evangelists, All ye holy disciples of the Lord, All ye holy innocents, St. Stephen, St. Lawrence, All ye holy martyrs, St. Sylvester, St. Gregory, St. Augustine, All ye holy bishops...

The current heat surrounding the case of Terri Schindler-Schaivo underscores the need for moderation. Rather than continue to hold the national will captive to the extremists on either side, the majority in the middle need to step up to the plate and assert themselves. What we are saying is that there aren't only two choices in this matter. It is reactionary to assume that a husband must either decide to kill the wife, or not decide to kill the wife. All that many people are asking for is that each husband be allowed to decide on his own whether or...

You thought the modern DNC leadership just disrespected life in the womb… Now you have a chance to see these gutless wonders in real action as an innocent defenseless woman’s life hangs in the balance… Too bad Terri Schiavo isn’t a California seal, or a blue sperm whale… If she was, every tree hugging bleeding heart liberal in the country would be lining up as a human shield to protect her right to life including Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer and good old Uncle Teddy. As it is, they are silent because Terri is just a useless human being who has...

Freep this poll for Terri Schaivo. Her husband is winning in the current results. Eeeekkk!!

America is unsettled over the case of Terri Schiavo. Fifteen years ago, she suffered brain damage that left her totally dependent on others for basic care, including nourishment. Pursuant to a court order, this nourishment is scheduled to end March 18, when Michael Schiavo, her estranged husband and guardian, will have her feeding tube removed.1 Bob and Mary Schindler, Terri’s parents, have been battling in the courts to prevent their daughter’s death by starvation. Terri Schiavo’s Condition Food and water are all Terri needs to stay alive. Reliable health care specialists testify that she is not comatose and can improve...

A spokesman for the family of Terri Schindler Schiavo said Thursday the Florida judge presiding over her case "ignores the state's laws and orders the premeditated killing of a disabled Florida woman by her husband." Pamela Hennessy, media director for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, in a press release Thursday called on disability and eldercare advocates to press for Circuit Judge George Greer's "immediate impeachment." "If there is a single person following this who doesn't believe Judge Greer has legislated from the bench, trampled Florida's laws and deprived Terri Schiavo of her retained rights, they are simply not paying attention," Hennessy...

What a wonderfully civilized society we have become--or have we? Maybe we have simply become weak, confused, ignorant, and self-loathing--at the expense of right and wrong! A while ago, a brutal savage from Georgia named Nichols raped and sodomized a young lady who once had trust in him. An overly civilized jury was unable to decide his guilt or innocence, after a smooth talking high-minded defense attorney, undoubtedly provided by the public defenders office at tax payer expense, managed to convince half of the jurors that he might have been innocent, the trial ending in a hung jury. So Nichols...

Let Us Remember Let us remember how outraged we were when we heard how the Nazis euthanized their brain-damaged, their mentally different. And then let us remember Terri's smile when she saw her mother, a smile they said had nothing to do with what she was seeing, and consider what the difference really is. Let us remember the outcry some have about the death by lethal injection, of the quick and painless way we treat those we choose to execute. Then let us consider the death that Terri will suffer, buried in woolen blankets with nothing to drink with the...

CLEARWATER - Terri Schiavo returned to her assisted living home Tuesday after a hurried round of hospital tests were conducted to determine the cause of five puncture marks found on her arms. A toxicology test came back negative, meaning there's no evidence that Schiavo, 40, was secretly injected with a foreign substance. Clearwater police "have found no evidence of a crime and no evidence of an attempted crime," said spokesman Wayne Shelor. And Schiavo's personal doctor, summoned to her bed in the assisted living facility Monday night, said Tuesday that he's not "100 percent sure" the marks were even made...

This links to the previous Terri's threads. In case some have had difficulty finding the Terri's Threads for current news. This will be the updated home for new news and commentary for Terri Schiavo. On March 26, 2004 a contempt of court hearing is slated for Michael Schiavo. The previous hearing was postponed until now for at the request of Michael's attorneys.

Driven by the meddlesome right wing of the Republican Party, the Florida Legislature has almost talked its way out of a job. Since Gov. Jeb Bush arrived in town six years ago promoting empty-building government and giving away fundamental government responsibilities to private companies, lawmakers devote themselves to variations of proselytizing. This is offensive to those of us who devoutly believe that higher life forms don't need to be nagged, reminded or browbeaten. But it also diminishes their jobs as as government's board of directors, policy-makers and problem solvers. As a class, lawmakers in recent years seem to have lost...

ABC radio's reporter just said that Terri Schaivo's feeding tube was removed and she should die of "natural causes" within a week to ten days. Congratulations to him, as he has won the award for understatement of the yaer.