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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    Off the top of my head, he's turned down millions of dollars to see her wish was carried out, he's given her parents every opportunity to express their desires for their daughter's care in court, he sued the doctors whose misdiagnosis caused the heart attack that killed her, and as to the...
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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    Because she said she didn't want her body to be kept alive like that? Seems to me he's only carrying out the last thing he feels he owes her. Put yourself in his shoes. You know your wife is dead, you know she didn't want to have her body kept alive after the brain had died, the CT scans and MRI...
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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    At a guess, for the same reason it'd bother you if your spouse died and was then stuffed by her parents and kept on the couch in their living room.
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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    My eyesight, supported by every doctor who's examined her, and the judges who've seen her CT scans and the unedited video footage of her body's behaviour under stimulus. As to opposed, the 17 "experts" who oppose the findings have never examined her, several aren't even in the same state, one's...
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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    No, I choose to open my eyes and look at the CT scan that shows that she has no higher brain centers left. No, they didn't. They lived functional lives with some cortex remaining. She has none. They are wholly different situations. No, he hasn't. He is still her husband by law, and...
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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    Wrong. Those who actually have their heads screwed on right are saying let her body die because she died over a decade ago and it's a sick macabre travesty to keep the body alive like some sort of pet, against her previously expressed wishes. The sources they choose? Are you kidding? A CT...
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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    In all 600 cases that Lorber studied, there was some cortex still intact. There isn't any in this case - look at the scan above. Plus, those cases were of hydrocephalus, a condition present from prior to birth. In other words, they developed from childhood with the condition and their brains...
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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    Why do you bother to put flowers on a grave or keep it neat and tidy, when it's just a patch of ground with a rotting corpse buried under it? She was his wife. She is now dead - at least in any meaningful sense. They were a family and then she died. And in the space of 15 years, he started a...
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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2005/03/debunking_lies_.html There are supporting links in the original article.
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    Family of activist killed by IDF bulldozer in Gaza sues its maker

    Her family went to the IDF and demanded an explanation - the IDF tried to tell them she was aiding terrorists, that she couldn't be seen in the high-vis jacket, and so on. Then at the memorial service, the same bulldozer is sent to drive around the area. Frankly, after behaving like that, I...
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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    You say "brain damaged" like she only had a concussion or something. It's far more serious than that. Her entire cortex - the part of the brain where "you" are, all your hopes, your dreams, the love you feel for family and friends, the appreciation you have for art or music or literature, the...
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    Confused about Terry Schiavo

    Sciavo's swallowing reflex is partly damaged - attempting to feed her any solids or liquids without the feeding tube risks aspiration of those solids and subsequent asphyxiation, a far more distressing death for anyone watching. Terri herself wouldn't mind - she's been dead for several years now...
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    Do you believe there are/were WMDs in Iraq?

    Actually, the argument was over giving Blix sufficent time to complete his inspections and submit his report. Funnily enough, though there was no time at all prior to the invasion, the amount of time available for the search seems to have become infinite after the invasion... Why not? You just...
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    These morons just don't get it.

    Sure, if the system works. Thing is, systems don't always work: Date Place Dead Legal status 26 Apr 2002 Erfurt, Germany 16 + 1 Legal guns, pistol club member 27 Sep 2001 Zug, Switzerland 14 + 1 Legal guns, licensed pistol owner 29 Jul 1999 Atlanta, GA, USA 12 + 1 Legal guns, no licence...
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    Do you believe there are/were WMDs in Iraq?

    I read those links. And I read this one. I also know a little about statistics because of my PhD work. So frankly, I'll take the lancet numbers - they, at least, have an estimate of their accuracy. And since the US decided not to count the Iraqi death toll, there's no more authoritative source...
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    Do you believe there are/were WMDs in Iraq?

    That would be Blix's report. And the results from the Iraq Survey Group. And the reports from the UN inspectors for the ten years prior to the invasion. Only by those for whom morality is little more than an obscure entry in a dictionary. That'd be the Lancet survey. And "whine"? Are you...
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    Do you believe there are/were WMDs in Iraq?

    That'd be the part where you quoted what I said and then responded to it. You're presupposing that they existed as was claimed. That's not yet been proven. And the other six billion people who might one day under concievable circumstances hurt you? When are you getting about to squashing...
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    Do you believe there are/were WMDs in Iraq?

    First off, the radioactive substances were known about and sealed by the IAEA. No chemical weapons (at least, none that weren't over two decades old) were found. No biological weapons were found. If you know different, please post the links.
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    Do you believe there are/were WMDs in Iraq?

    Nope, it's not. It's a photo of a truck that was loaded at a weapons site. It's not proof of what was loaded though. I am neither saying nor implying that they lied. I'm saying that because the possibility exists that they lied, that you have to have solid proof before risking peoples lives...
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    Do you believe there are/were WMDs in Iraq?

    Excuse me, but where did I say there was a lie? I said there is no proof, no accusation of lying nor one against a specific party was made. Don't forget, from outside the US, you guys are all americans, not redstaters and bluestaters. And frankly, I'd judge the lives lost more important than...
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