We hear…
Former Steelers football star Lynn Swann has filed papers to form a campaign committee for Governor of Pennsylvania. The PA. Gubernatorial race is slated for 2006.
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Terry Schiavo Scheduled to Die 3/18/05
I’ve listened to the many debates about Terry Schiavo. Who was just a young woman when she collapsed in her bathroom due to constant binging and purging that finally stopped her heart.
Which was stopped so long that Terry ended up very brain damaged.
So brain damaged that for these past several years she’s been fed via a tube in her stomach as her damaged brain has forgotten how to eat.
There’s so much to the story of Terry Schiavo and the Internet is filled with her story. Most significant noted here on this Blog for the moment is the fact that this coming week, on 3/18/05, the feeding tube is once again scheduled for removal.
This would leave Terry Schiavo to die of dehydration, slowly and painfully. Her tube had been removed once before and she lived for six days.
The Wise I must ask what kind of crazy society do we live in that allows us to kill healthy unborn babies, no questions asked, yet can with smiles and self-importance allow the husband of this woman, re-married and moved on to a life without Terry, to decide to remove her sustenance because it conveniences him?Yes, she is severely brain damaged. But American is full of brain damaged people. Since when do we start killing them on command from long ago husbands? Terry’s parents are willing to take Terry home with them. They have a bevy of volunteers to help take care of her. Indeed it is asserted that Terry is not so brain damaged that she can’t, through therapy, be taught to feed herself. Therapy denied her by her “guardian” husband that he may have more money for himself.
Governor Bush of Florida rammed through legislation to save Terry, called “Terry’s Law” but it was struck down by the judiciary.
This ongoing saga will spike again soon as the judge who ordered Terry’s feeding tube removed has given her parents until March 18th to file their court motions to prevent this.
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UN Oil For Food Scandal Inches Closer to the Carters
Jimmy Carter never met a thug or thief he didn’t love. So why am I surprised that on some level, he or his organization has received skim from Saddam’s Oil-For-Palaces oil program.
From the NY Post
Two major American figures in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal worked together to ship humanitarian supplies to Iraq through a charity connected to celebrities, The Post has learned.
According to documents recently obtained by the House International Relations Committee, Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt and Saddam Hussein's American oil spy, Samir Vincent, worked together to finance shipments of medicines and baby formula for Iraq in 1997 and 1998 through such charities as the Friendship Force Foundation, a group closely connected to former President Jimmy Carter, his wife, Rosalynn, and other luminaries.
But the donations — each worth several hundred thousand dollars — are being looked at by law-enforcement agencies and at least one congressional panel to determine whether they were part of a broader effort by Wyatt and Vincent to curry favor with Saddam's regime as well as influential opinion makers in this country who opposed U.S. sanctions on Iraq.
Iraqi Oil Ministry documents released last fall indicate that Wyatt was the largest U.S. recipient of Iraqi vouchers that enabled him to buy Iraqi oil at below-market prices.
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Hillary’s International Gaffe
It’s entirely possible that Hillary is right about the issues she cited over Iraq’s leading candidate-Dr. Ibrahim Jafari. Yet even Joe Biden had enough sense to keep it hushed.
Hey, Hillary, the United States of America is trying to stabilize that region via free elections. What right do you have to get on your presidential campaign stump and downgrade their candidates? And what will be your reaction when Dr. Jafari gets on his stump and puts you down when you are running for America’s highest office?
From Newsmax.com:
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has caused an international incident after she criticized Iraq's leading candidate to become prime minister as a result of last month's historic election, prompting a sharp rebuke.
"Hillary Clinton, as far as I know, does not represent any political decision or the American administration, and I don't know why she said this," Dr. Ibrahim Jafari, who is expected to become prime minister, told the Times of London on Thursday.
"She knows nothing about the Iraqi situation," he added.
During an interview last Sunday, Clinton complained about Jafari's nomination by the duly elected Shia coalition.
"I think that there are grounds both for concern and for, you know, vigilance about this," she told NBC's "Meet the Press." "It is a historical fact that he, along with the Dawa Party, have had connections with Iran . . . There are also family ties and religious ties."
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Unelected Men in Black Strike Again
Citing “international law” no less, the Supreme Court has struck down execution of minors for all crimes, even the most heinous. Such lovely juveniles affected would be Dylan Klebold, a Columbine murderer, had he lived, and John Malvo, the sweet DC sniper kid who shot innocent Americans in cold blood.
Below is a letter from former congress critter Gary Bauer. The narrative speaks for itself.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2005
To: Friends
From: Gary Bauer
Tyranny of the Courts
The Supreme Court has just ruled, by a 5-to-4 vote, that the Constitution forbids the execution of convicted killers who were under the age of eighteen when they committed their crime. The high court said such executions are unconstitutionally cruel. As a result of this decision the laws of 19 states have been struck down.
Thus the Supreme Court, the same court that says our Constitution requires us to permit innocent unborn children to be destroyed at any time, even up to the moment of birth, has concluded that the Constitution would prohibit us from executing Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine murderers, because he was 17-years old at the time of his murder spree.
But it gets even worse. Justice Kennedy, who was part of the majority once again, cited other nations as a partial basis for his decision. Here is the quote:
"Our determination that the death penalty is disproportionate punishment for offenders under 18 finds confirmation in the stark reality that the United States is the only country in the world that continues to give official sanction to the juvenile death penalty."
Kennedy went on to signal clearly that this is just the beginning. He points out that the Court is building a tradition of referring "to the laws of other countries and to international authorities as instructive for its interpretation" of the Constitution.
Justice Scalia wrote a blistering response mocking the court's majority decision, saying in part, "Because I do not believe that the meaning of our Eighth Amendment, any more than the meaning of other provisions of our Constitution should be determined by the subjective views of five Members of this Court and like-minded foreigners, I dissent."
My friends, don't miss what is happening here. Even if some agree that juveniles should not be eligible for the death penalty, that decision should be made by the people of the United States expressing our will through our elected officials. As free men and women we have the right to fully debate the issue and then act accordingly in our states. Nineteen states have decided juveniles may be executed for heinous crimes. The rest of our states have decided that is not the approach they want. Under no circumstances should laws passed by the British Parliament, the French National Assembly, the German Bundestag or the European Union be a factor in deciding what is a permissible decision by the American people in our own self-governance.
While we are nobly trying to expand liberty in the Middle East, inattention to these judicial outrages is in danger of undermining liberty here.
Our only solution is a major change in who sits on the courts - a change unlikely to take place unless the White House and Congress move boldly to dismantle the Senate filibuster "road block" that threatens to stymie President Bush's efforts to restore balance. Eliminating the filibuster of judicial nominees has been called, incorrectly, a "nuclear option," meaning it is a radical solution. But the real radicalism is coming down on us from the courts, disguised in the cloak of judicial legitimacy.
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Lookalikes
Here's a web site that's a bit of fun.
It's chock full of side by side comparisons of various famous folks when, similarly attired or with hair and face arranged in a like fashion, resemble each other.
Below is an example I got from the site, comparing Jack Nicholson to the BTK killer. There's plenty more like this at the site.
Celebrity Lookalikes
Sussex County Rocks!
Republicans Going to Take Over State Senate?
This tidbit crosses my ebox from the Republican party and I will smile. And maybe snort a little. For the pubbies think they can take over the state senate and The Wise I would agree. Two problems.
First, the Republicans in this state are really RINO’s (Republicans in Name Only). Second, the Republicans will have to get as many dead votes as the Democrats and man every voting booth in Wilmington watching for duplicate voters.
From the Delaware Grapevine
Both parties are banking on recent voting trends in their desires to flip control.
The Republicans have watched downstate voters in Kent County and Sussex County increasingly go their way and figure it is only a matter of time before they take over Senate districts, the way they already have swamped the House districts there. Of the eight downstate senators, five are Democrats.
The Democrats accordingly are looking upstate to New Castle County, the most populous of the state's three counties, to bring up their numbers in the House. The steepening Democratic tilt of the voters upstate is the prime reason why the Democrats hold six of nine statewide offices, including the governor and both U.S. senators, and why the Democrats believe the House could be within reach..
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Banning Car Use of Cell Phones
Based on nothing but a “study” from somewhere on another, another Delaware RINO is introducing a bill to ban automobile cell phone use for drivers with provisional permits.
Which is all well and good in that, sheesh we CANNOT legislate common sense, a learning permitted driver should have hands on nothing but the steering wheel. With total concentration on the road, of course. It’s small step to banning auto cell phone usage in toto. An action many would consider prudent but ponder, next also not allowed while driving: no cell phone usage, no smoking, no drinking coffee or other beverages, no eating Big Mac’s. Give them inch, they’ll take a mile.
One of my goals is to make the driver at an early stage gain experience in concentrating on the road," said Rep. Joseph E. Miro, R-Newark, the bill's lead sponsor. "In the last month or so, there have been a number of accidents involving young drivers."
In Seaford Delaware this past week, a young driver was killed when he tried to pass a bus AND a tractor-trailer in a non-passing section of the road. The driver wore no seat belt.
While I’m sure they’ll be roadside memorials for this idiot, hey, what law you gonna pass to stop this sort of driving stupidity?
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Delaware Veterans Mad at Minner
Seems Nanny Minner thinks the Delaware Dept. of Health and Social Services should administer the new veterans home instead of the Delaware Veterans Affairs Commission. While I know nothing about either, judging by the low standing of education, prisons and other government run entities in Delaware, I’d go along with the veterans.
I’d tell the veterans to check who contributes the most to the Democratic campaigns. THERE will be the correct answer as to who gets the job. Either that or Nanny will appoint a task force, snort. Which is the explanation for the bolded quote from Nanny’s office, which is as wishy-washy as it gets.
A proposal to have the state Department of Health and Social Services administer the long-awaited veterans home is a slap in the face to all veterans, said American Legion spokesman Donald E. White Jr. White is the Legion's second vice commander for the state of Delaware.
"We believe that veterans should oversee this special home," White said in a statement to the Dover Post. "After all, who knows better as to what a veteran's needs are than the veteran. "Because of that belief, we strongly feel the Delaware Veterans Affairs Commission should be given that role," White wrote.
Minner spokesman Gregg Patterson said that for now, the governor is satisfied with the status quo.
"The governor has not stated what department will be in charge of the home after it's open," Patterson said. "The suggestion has been made that the steering committee be in charge of the facility up to and through its opening, and the governor is all for that.
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