Thoughts on Terry Schiavo's case?
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If someone was willing to care for her in that state then why kill her? \nProve to me that her death was "merciful". NO one has come back from the type of death they put her through (starvation) and to maintain it did not hurt is nuts. We allow child rapers to live and kill a woman who did nothing. In CA, they couldn't get an anesthesiologist to put a criminal out because they thought it hurt but little Terry Schiavo was a different story. \nGovernment is there to maintain what the average joe wants and  is not only there for those who believe in killing anyone who isn't up to their snobby level of perfection.
800060
I am so torn on the death penalty issue... I don't have a stance yet.\n\nFrom a strictly economical side, I'm against the death penalty, because I've heard in multiple places that it costs 2-3 times more than life in prison w/o parole.\n\nFrom a moral standpoint, it's hard to say.  Killing someone removes them once and for all as a threat.  Granted, while in jail they are only a threat to other inmates and the prison guards, but still, you cannot make a blanket judgment on whether those people (in the case of the other prisoners) deserve the threat, or (in the case of the guards) willingly accept the threat by being in that job.  Also, there's always the chance of escape.  You don't have that chance with death.\n\nIn addition, there's the obvious fact that if you accept the death penalty, almost regardless of standards for conviction, you're going to eventually get an innocent person in there.  Making the standards for conviction extremely high just leads to multiple expensive appeals, which brings us back to the economic reason to be against it.  It also makes the death penalty so rare that any appeal to it being a deterrent is just silly at that point, because even if you are convicted you'd have to be one of the unlucky ones to get the chair.\n\nIn fact, I have not seen any evidence that it actually serves as a deterrent, regardless of the extensiveness of its use.\n\nI do believe that the highest value must be placed on human life, but when you have one human life that continues to threaten others, isn't it respecting that value to end their life?\n\nI don't know.  I'm an atheist struggling to have a position on this.
172597
I haven't heard of him raping a little girl. I heard an allegation against him for giving a woman benadryl and supposedly sexually assaulting her. I would hope that neither of these things are true. He seems like a really geniunely nice person but many people quilty of horrid things seemed like nice people to their victims prior to their attack. It would saddened me greatly if it were true. Mankind itself is beginning to terribly disappoint me. Soceity is in a terrible moral dillema.
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I believe that her husband was responsible for the brain damage, who is said to be suspect.  that poor woman, i am 20 and i dont know a lot of people my age that cry over things like this that dosent effect them, but i was VERY VERY DISGUSTED ...I WANT TO CRY RIGHT NOW JUST THINKING ABOUT IT.....They let her STARVE TO DEATH!!!! STARVE!!!!!!!! THIS WAS THE CRULEST AND SICKEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! SHE WAS ALIVE AND CONCIECE, SOME PEOPLE VALUE THEIR OWN LIVES AND THE PEACE THEREIN MORE SO THEN THE MOST HELPLESS AMOUNG US, THAT IS HOW YOU KNOW THAT SATAN HAS OVER TAKEN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLD OVER.  THIS IS SICK. THEY SHOULD HAVE THO0UGHT ABOUT LIFE SUPPORT FIFTEEN YEARS BACK.  HOW WOULD THEY LIKE IT IF I GAVE THEM MY KIDNEY AND THEY WERE ALIVE BECAUSE OF IT, AND KNEW IT, AND THEN DECIDED I WAS BEING INCONVENCED, SO I WANT MY KIDNEY BACK!?!?  SOMEONE WILL BE JUDGED FOR THIS. THEY COULD HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT HUMAINE WAYS TO LET HER GO IF THEY HAAAAAAD TO.  LETTING HER WASTE AWAY WAS SICK.  HAVE YOU EVER FASTED FOR A WEEK?  IT STARTS TO HURT, IMAGINE, EVERY WAKING MOMENT FOR THE LAST 12 OR SO DAYS (OVER A WEEK) OF HER LIFE WERE FILLED WITH HUNGER PANGS, AND SHE HAS NOTHING BUT HER BRAIN IN WHICH TO EXPRESS HER PAIN AND MADDNESS!!! IT MAKES ME SICK!!!!!!!1
868080
...is it really such a "horrible death".... considering the alternative... \n\nMany a "sperm" has died by the "hand of man"... (pun intended)..\n\nat least, these little "soon to be dead" guys... "were aimed towards heaven"...
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A few months ago a friend and I were talking about Benny Hinn, questioning his ministry.  I had never actually seen Benny Hinn before; I had only heard about what goes on at his crusade meetings.  We had nothing positive to say.  \n\nNow, at the time, I had a throat infection that was getting stronger and stronger by the day.  A few days after I had been talking with my friend, I turned on Christian TV and saw Benny Hinn.  I thought I had better actually watch, since I'd been saying some pretty bad things about him, with no evidence to back up my scepticism.\n\nI was critical during the whole show.  At the end, Benny was sitting on a couch, talking to the camera, praying for sick people watching.  He was calling out various physical problems that God was healing.  Just when I thought, "This is ridiculous" and was about to turn off the TV, Benny said something like, "Someone has just been healed of a throat infection."  I heard it, and, started to wonder if it could actually be possible.  I swallowed and the pain was totally gone.  I could breath normally for the first time in about a week.  I was radically healed.  The next day I woke up, almost expecting the infection to be back, but it was gone, for good.\n\nWhat I learned from this:  DO NOT JUDGE!!!  As far as I know there is absolutely nothing unbiblical that goes on at Benny Hinn's meetings.  The Bible is clear that Jesus "stripes" (or wounds) were for our healing (as His death was for our eternal life).  Whether miraculously or over time, I believe it is always God's will for us to be healed, as sickness and death are a part of the curse He came to remove.  We just need to hear it preached from the Bible in context (faith comes by hearing), and believe, as we believed when we were born again.
818079
No one (OK only a very few people) can take an apologist stand for this man, he was a street thug who rose to power and, like so many before him, abused that power to retain it.  There are no mitigating factors here and, although I view everything I hear from Iraq with a huge amount of cynicism, I do not doubt his guilt.\n\nThere are two things that bother me however the first is my general opposition to the death penalty, I see the need for retribution in some cases but I fail to see how this is achieved by multiplying the number of coffins involved.  The second thing is that we, and by that I describe both the USA and the UK, promoted and supported this man for years, we nearly wet ourselves with joy when he began to make war on Iran where he did incalculable damage and wrought havoc while we capered gleefully at his behaviour.\n\nWe encouraged him in what he became and are, to a degree, culpable in his maintenance of power and I just find it distasteful that we should all be so pleased at the prospect of another death.
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I watched the video, so now i have heard two sides of the story. I am open minded so i was able to watch the video unlike some people who have answered to this question. I believe in the video, for now, but i will do more study up on the effects of AZT and about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. I will not let the basic media fill my head full of lies when the truth is out there somewhere. People need to see videos like this to make them go "Hmm I wonder if thats true, i wonder if I have been lied to." and research both sides of the story, then, and only then, you should be able to state your opinion in a just manor.
950360
Oh yea...Bellick is going to jail for getting caught in his lies. I agree with number 3, but for some reason, I don't think Mahone is going to die. Plus I think Sucre will make it out of the plane alive (but I'm being very optomistic). I wish T-Bag would die already...he's so creepy and evil. Regardless, it's an amazing show. :)
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I'm surprised he even remembered them.  Wasn't the current GOP-controlled Congress to have appropriated aid down there by now, but still haven't?  So much for priorities....maybe if the ghost of Terri Schiavo was spotted in New Orleans they'd stop what they were doing and actually take action..........?\n\nBTW, I love how conservatives are still blaming the victims, as if they just sat there and let the waves wash over them.  Like Michael Brown of FEMA was REALLY competent, and the feds were REALLY on the ball as to the extent of the damage.  Don't get me started on those damned levees, or the evacuation of patients from the more upscale hospital.  The Bush Administration dropped the ball BIG TIME, and the best the ultra-cons can do is tell the survivor's "it's your fault, you didn't do enough".  Typical.  Same kind of folks who make rape victims carry the child to term because it's Murder.  Like any one of them would actually carry a kid to term......but that's another tangent.
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My buddy, "Ken" got into a motorcycle wreck and became a quadriplegic. He would lay around in bed all day until he concentrated enough to levitate himself and float around the room. Soon he was taking a trip down the street, going into markets and passing right through strangers he used to bump into.\n\nWell, his girlfriend still had to take care of him, feed and wash and change his bedding. I felt so sorry for her and she was at the age when a woman has needs. At night I would visit her in the parlor and I am sure Ken could hear her giggling. In the morning we wheeled Ken into the breakfast nook for juice and toast. He told us about the levitation he had learned and also he was very distraught with the events concerning his girlfriend and I. He went on to tell us of his plan to levitate himself upon the next time of our engagements and that he would satisfy his jealousy one way or another.\n\nWe only played along and tried not to aggravate him any more than he was but, that evening me and the girl went into her bedroom to consume ourselves with passion. Ken, as he promised, levitated himself and went into the den to retrieved a heavy instrument intending to bludgeon me with it. What happened next has caused me perpetual legal jeopardy, for on the way back from the den, Ken mistakenly went into his own room and beat the living hell out of who he thought was me!
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I think this one is very good.. We had a huge debate on this one in 1 of my college classes,\n\nSpotsylvania county VA prostitution and dirty cop tactics.. \n\n\nSPOTSYLVANIA, Va. - The sheriff said Friday he will no longer allow detectives to receive sexual services while investigating suspected prostitution after they spent $1,200 at massage parlors last month and sparked a public outcry. \n\nSpotsylvania County Sheriff Howard Smith defended the practice as necessary to obtain a conviction but told his department he was suspending it.\n\n"As sheriff, I understand the feelings and concerns the citizens of this county have expressed," Smith said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Friday. "And I empathize with those feelings. Because of the public's express response, I have suspended this practice."\n\nCourt documents show that four times last month, county detectives allowed women at Moon Spa to perform sex acts on them — once leaving a $350 tip. A total of $1,200 was spent during the visits, Smith said. He said multiple visits were necessary so detectives could build trust with the operators.\n\nDetectives shut down Moon Spa last month. The two suspected operators and three women accused of working there face several charges, including prostitution and sodomy, Smith said.\n\nSmith maintained the sexual contact was necessary to obtain a conviction. But law enforcement officials say undercover officers only need to get an offer of sex for money to move the case forward.\n\nThe practice has been used in Spotsylvania since at least 2003.\n\nEarlier this week, Smith told The Washington Post that sexual contact is needed during the investigations because most professionals know not to say anything incriminating. And conversation is difficult, he said, because masseuses at the Asian-run parlors in the northern Virginia county speak little English.\n\nBut several members of Spotsylvania's Board of Supervisors have spoken out against the methods used in the investigation.\n\n"All of us ... have been worried about this episode tarnishing the county and making us a laughingstock of the nation," board chairman Henry "Hap" Connors told the AP Friday. "That's why I came out early on and asked the sheriff to cease using these tactics."\n\nSpotsylvania Commonwealth's Attorney William Neely said he respects Smith's decision to end the practice, but refused to apologize for the officers'
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He's supposed to be a big part - they wouldn't have Kelsey Grammar sportin' blue fur if they didn't!  Speculation abound about the Beast trying to find a cure for the mutant gene, thus turning mutants into humans.  But it doesn't quite work as well as they thought.... Legacy Virus, anyone?\n\nToo bad about Gambit though, I really wanted HIM in it!  Although I am looking forward to seeing Psylocke, Shadowcat, Juggernaut and (Arch)Angel in it....
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Shakin!  Snappin' her fingers! Wooah!  She was moving 'round and 'round...she was shakin'\n\nYes he is still alive.  Gosh, I sure hope that folks applaud the rolling stones next time they try to do a concert (hope they have wheelchair ramps in place tho) LOL!\n\nOld isn't bad, right?
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just wanna see what everyone's thoughts are on this interesting and recently very hot topic...
916642
Kenneth lay death is a great conicidence. The guy died to get pardoned for all its crimes. Great Scheme it looks just out of the mind of a lawyer.  A lot of people dont think that Lay is really dead. I find hard to belive it my self. They will have to exumate his cadaver and perform some DNA test. There is a lot of people that was afected BY ENRON misdeeds. I think his family owes that to them. Wether that really will happen I think is far from reality. But the more people is aware of this supposed death maybe makes it easier to spot him. I doubt he is in America. He probably moved to a nice retirement area. The world is big enough for that.
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lol...dude, that's hilarious. That movie formed all my opinoins about california!!\n\nNicolas Cage is too busy with little superman to care, I think. How about this...can the creators of Simpsons sue for stealing the name "fall out boy" (radioactive man's little sidekick).