Terri Schiavo : March 31, 2005

In Memorium. Please post prayers and kind words only….

Terri Schiavo - God Bless

ScrappleFace: Michael Schiavo Looks ‘Peaceful, Euphoric’

In a retrospective reversal of sorts, Scott Ott describes the last hours of Michael Schiavo as he nears his long awaited nirvana after seven traumatic years of ordeal being deprived of the death of his wife…

(2005-03-29) — Attorney George Felos today said that his client, Michael Schiavo, entered the 11th day of depriving his wife of food and water looking peaceful and ‘as beautiful as I’ve seen him in years.’

‘Death by dehydration is not the awful specter that so-called ‘pro-lifers’ have portrayed it to be,’ said Mr. Felos as he stood outside of Terri Schiavo’s Florida hospice. ‘I was actually in the room with the Schiavos. Michael looked very peaceful. He looked calm. I saw no evidence of any bodily discomfort whatsoever, even though he’s not receiving morphine.’

‘As Terri gets closer to death,’ Mr. Felos added, ‘her husband’s face has actually taken on an almost euphoric appearance.’” - Scott Ott / ScrappleFace

All eyes (and cameras) will be on the family reunion after Terri passes. The autopsy and cremation services planned should make it to prime time. It’s rumored that FOX Network and Trump Industries are picking up the rights to the new reality TV show. The Schiavo - Schindler Family Feud. Where for one year the “loving” families are forced to live next door to each other in a typical suburban setting while being filmed by inconspicuous TV camera crews. Join the weekly excitement and share in the intrigue as they lob verbal pleasantries at each other and exchange small arms fire during a typical Memorial day BBQ. Each episode ends with a boardroom meeting at the “hospice” where an “activist” judge sentences a family member to either a forced feeding with a Corpak Low-Profile Gastrostomy Device (LPGD) or a 3 hr. morphine drip of their choosing. — ZZB

Tsunami Redux

Another tsunami in the making! This major quake occured at 16:00GMT today. Hopefully the word got out this time along the coast of the last Sri Lankan devistation. So far as of the time of this post there has not been any word of any major casualites.

Story unfolding…

I can just visualize all the mainstream media anchors falling over themselved packing up their bags in Pinellas county Fla and heading for the nearest airport bound for the Indian Ocean. — zzb

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A massive 8.7 magnitude earthquake hit a small island off Indonesia’s Sumatra late on Monday, killing dozens of people, but fears across Asia of another huge tsunami soon receded, residents and officials said.

The epicenter was very close to that of the Dec. 26 quake which triggered a tsunami that left nearly 300,000 people dead or missing across Asia. More…

National Self Flagellation

So… Have we experianced enough national pain, guilt and suffering yet?? — zzb

Gov. Bush Washes Hands of Schiavo Matter ala P. Pilot

Satire - Has anyone noticed the parallel between the good governor of Florida and the not so good governor of Palestine circa 1 BC? ScrappleFace: “In a symbolic move, designed to show Terri Schiavo’s supporters that he has done all he can do to spare her life, Gov. Jeb Bush today publicly used a disposable moist towlette to ‘wash his hands of the matter.’

‘I find nothing deserving death in this woman, but I’m only the supreme executive of Florida,’ the governor told a crowded news conference. ‘Perhaps if our constitution called for a balance of powers to protect our citizens against judicial abuse, I could do something. But as it stands, she is in the hands of the judges. It’s their job to determine what is truth. If she dies, it’s not my fault.’

In related news, Gov. Bush continued his Easter tradition of pardoning a Florida citizen chosen by a statewide poll of judges. This year’s candidates for pardon were Mrs. Schiavo and burglar who had killed a homeowner during a break-in.

The burglar won in a landslide.” - Scott Ott / ScrappleFace

I hope everone in America undestands that Terri Schiavo did not start dying until her feeding tube was removed. Think about it. Do you think SHE asked it to be removed? On a most basic level she was not in pain until after the tube was removed. Now, only NOW, are they giving her a morphine drip!! Let your heart be your guide and not some justice on a bench with an agenda to fullfil. We’re sure that this won’t end with the death of Mrs. Schiavo, nor should it. This could be the beginning of the end for future yet to be appointed “activist” judges. Don’t be surprised if republican senators restrict filibustering in the next wave of judicial appointments as a reaction to the publicity and politics in this case! — ZZB

Clinical Rounds

BlogXchange Scheduled to Start When?

The folks over at the new traffic exchange site, BlogXchange, informed me that they have revamped their user name porting process so that each user from their old domain can select their own user name going out of the gate. We beta tested it for them and it looks like it works fine. His plan is to have it up and running this evening ahead of his 3/29 start date!

ScrappleFace Satire: Bush Tests New Words for Social Security Reform

Let’s give credit where credit is due. In the following article Scott Ott out does himself illustrating the linguistic precision of GWB and his recent use of town meetings to recast his vision for Social Security. Scott makes several subtle comments on our confused society.

(2005-03-22) — President George Bush, frustrated by polls which show Americans don’t understand his Social Security reform proposals and by Democrats who pronounce the term ‘privatize‘ as if it meant ‘poison,’ has begun seasoning his standard stump speech with new terminology in an effort to find words more palatable to progressive voters.

‘We need to hybridize Social Security,’ Mr. Bush told an audience in Seattle this week, hoping the association with the ubiquitous gasoline-electric cars would help his case. ‘My hybridization plan is the perfect blend of market forces and USSR-style centralized government planning. None of your money will actually be in your hands. But we’ll dictate a few investment choices for you, so you can have feeling of control without the full risk or benefit.’

At the next tour stop, Mr. Bush told a town hall meeting, ‘We need to euthanize Social Security. It’s about 70 years old now, and it’s getting in the way of the hopes and dreams of the next generation. It’s an inconvenience. We won’t kill it. We’re just going to stop feeding it so it can peacefully fade away.’

At an all-female college, the president said, ‘I’m pro-choice on Social Security. I support a woman’s right to choose her retirement investments. In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court discovered your Constitutional right to privacy. If what you do with your fetus is private, why should the federal government dictate what you do with your nest egg?’

At a gathering in San Francisco, Mr. Bush called his plan a ‘happy marriage’ between personal and government-controlled accounts.

‘If you love your money,’ he said. ‘Then don’t let the government limit your freedom to express that love in anyway that seems right to you.” - Scott Ott / ScrappleFace

If you have not checked out ScrappleFace, you should add it to your RSS reader. Scott is a satirical master! Read some of the hysterical comments at his site. — zzb

Like An Elephant in a China Shop

From Ryan Sager at Tech Central Station: What Steroids and Schiavo Have in Common. (Via InstaPundit) :

In coming years, political historians might look back and try to pinpoint the day or week or month that the Republican Party shed the last vestiges of its small-government philosophy. If and when they do, the week just past should make the short list. For it was in this last week that the Republican-controlled Congress made it clear that it sees no area of American life — none too trivial and none too intimate — that the federal government should not permeate with its power. ..

Small government? This entire ordeal is not too political is it? So much for individual privacy and dignity.