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[retsuookami]

This is a collection of the editorials and rants I've written recently. Enjoy.

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[flavia_sneech]

Here's the thing about Terri Schiavo: It's not a simply case

[flavia_sneech]

The husband actually doesnt get alot of money at all. The bills for keeping her alive have already eaten up all the insurance money, more or less.

[retsuookami]

Actually, I think anon here is right, though that could be the news spinning spinning spinning again, so don't take my word on it

[retsuookami]

Also, that anon is Kristi.

[mermaid_riot]

Hmm... I've been trying to avoid talking about Terri Schiavo, just because it is so obvious to me that it is a smokescreen put up by the administration to once again distract the American public from more important issues. But, since we're all distracted anyway...

Basically, he's her husband, which makes him her next-of-kin. Regardless of whether it's true that she told him she would not want to live in a vegetative state, by not giving her parents power of attorney over her, she obviously trusted HER HUSBAND to make the right decision for her. Case closed, man.

For anyone who doubts that this is more wool and rhetoric pulled over our eyes, how's this? Last week, a little boy in Texas got his feeding tube removed because his parents couldn't afford the medical bills. Funny how no one's complaining that poor vegetables should be kept alive.

[retsuookami]

I agree on all counts, Enye--people kept in vegitative states have the decision made for them to die all the time. This is just one more case where the parents are ballsy enough to go to the feds, and too pussy to lose their dead daughter.

But yeah, the next-of-kin rights are all that matters in this case, and the administration simply refuses to understand that the law is the law, period, end of sentence.

Bush is starting to remind me of the Smiler.