Month: March 2005

This is shameful, and we certainly don’t endorse it:

Now that Terri Schiavo’s heart has stopped beating, her case enters a new phase. Her body will ascend physically into heaven after three days, where she will plot with the Almighty to bring about stem cell research on Earth, universal health care, family planning, public awareness on eating disorders, and private accounts for Social Security. As the universal spokesmodel for the Culture of Life, she can do nothing less. Kenny McCormack will work closely with her on this initiative, you bastards.

But on a serious note, the poor woman died of bulimia fifteen years ago, and anybody who tells you otherwise is bullshitting. The feeding pump that was disconnected some thirteen days ago simply maintained her heartbeat by artificial means, and we all know that.

The conservative Eleventh Circuit finds Congress’ Palm Sunday Overreach violated the separation of powers and is therefore “a legal nullity.” Told ya.

Clarification: This is a minority opinion. The majority turned down the latest tuber motion without addressing the constitutionality of The Overreach. But if they had, this opinion is what they would have said.

This post by Cathy Young runs down some of the odious lies that have been circulated about the Schiavo case by various grandstanding parties. It’s pretty damning of the tubers, even though it’s barely scratching the surface. I have to say that the hate-mongering I’ve seen the last few days by people like Joe Scarborough, Sean Hannity, National Review Online, Michele Malkin, and pornographer Gerard Vanderleun tops anything I’ve seen since Sept. 11.

You have to wonder about a country where Scarborough and Hannity can walk freely among decent people, let alone have a megaphone for their hate and slander. And don’t even get me started on Randall Terry and Jesse Jackson.

Here are a couple of good articles on the Schiavo case. It’s The Law, Not the Judge explains a few basics of the decision-making on the competing claims in the case, and The Rhetoric in the Schiavo Case brings it down to earth.

What’s happening right now is a fight over Terri Schiavo’s remains among three interest groups: Right-to-Lifers, Disablility Rights activists, and Neo-Feminists, with politicians doing a straddle. We’ll have more to say about these groups and their objectives later.

I watched three cable news shows today to soak in the circus atmosphere in Florida and wasn’t disappointed. Sean Hannity is broadcasting live from the Schiavo hospice, Joe Scarborough is a megaphone for the American Taliban, and only Hardball has any perspective.

Pat Buchanan has flip-flopped so hard that he’s even criticizing Hitler for euthanizing retards. This is the guy who said the US had the wrong allies in WW II, doncha know. An extremely angry Christopher Hitchens tore the American Taliban a new asshole in a great display of perspective.

Fox and MSNBC really have sunk to new lows. You’d think their programming people would at least look at the polls before submitting to this orgy of hate and stupidity.

Barry Richards, W’s lawyer in the 2000 election imbroglio was great, pointing that the people who usually slam the courts for being too activist are now slamming them for being too restrained. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

There’s something about Florida at Easter that seems to bring the loonies out of the woodwork.

This is blackmail. This isn’t.