The Bosom of Abraham

Farewell, Terri. By now you have got your spirit restored, you are standing at the feet of Jesus. Will you sing? Will you dance?

Being a follower of Jesus, it is not up to me to curse Michael Schiavo or Judge Greer or the nameless (to me) others who stood in the way of helping a mother and father. But, there is a lovely Zen saying that I can use with impunity. To the above mentioned: May you have interesting times.

To Michael's new "wife" - every night when you go to sleep, remember that your "husband" is a cruel man and a murderer. I believe that the happiness Michael promised you once Terri was out of the way will be shallow.

Hen

It's all been said and then some

I'd like to correct a few points that are being bandied about:

• Florida does not recognize common-law marriages nor is bigamy legal. That makes Michael Shiavo's relationship an adulterous one.
  
• The Masons have nothing to do with this. By the way, the Catholics have their own secret society called the Knights of Columbus.

Will Congress honor it's own supoena that ordered Terri to their chambers today?

Hen

The most wonderful weather day of the year so far

Spring is here even though there are still 2 feet of snow on the ground, more in the places it drifted all winter. The most familiar harbinger of spring - friends and neighbors asking if you want to buy syrup - is heard with increasing frequency. All along the ridges of the mountains, smoke and steam are rising from the chimneys of sugar houses. Someday I'm going to venture into a sugar house while they are boiling sap and boil up an egg. In the old days it was common to hard cook an egg and some hot dogs in the boiling sap for dinner when sap was running. People who don't have sugar bush to tap, have spouts and buckets on the big old maple trees that line the roads and driveways. That's the thing about Vermont, an efficient simplicity.

I noticed that the old apple tree up by my horse's run-in has the beginnings of buds, something new this week. Tomorrow I am going to prune off the suckers and put them in a vase for forcing. In a couple of weeks they'll bloom.

Even with all of this beauty and sunshine today I still couldn't stop thinking about Terry Shiavo (and I hardly watched the news all day). The subject was on the lips of just about everyone I spoke with, too. There has only been one person I talked to that got really mad when I brought it up. Zero to sixty in 1 second kind of mad. She's a good friend of mine, so I took it in stride, but it struck me as odd because she's all involved in the "Peace Movement", is really anti-war, yes, and a Democrat, but I wouldn't have thought that she would have gone off the way she did about the politics of the Shiavo case. Every time some one gets killed in Iraq she counts it as almost a personal loss. Go figure.

It's way past politics now, though I should think that heads are going to roll after it is all over. However it ends. I know I'll be voting differently next time around.

You've got to give it all to Jeb Bush. He's a stand up kind of guy. Maybe he should run for President.

Hen

BlogsforTerri.com

Go here: BlogsforTerri.com

No matter how you think about it, it is still cruel and unusual the way it's being done.

If Terri is in your heart and on your mind

You can call Gov. Bush's office and tell someone. Be prepared to be on hold a bit, but it's worth the wait.

Bush, Jeb E GOV 850-488-2272

Dear Michael Shiavo,

I'm sure you are weary of the public attention of what you would have preferred remain private. You must have your reasons for wanting Terri's feeding tube removed. The media has said that you said Terri said she wouldn't want to be kept alive by artificial means. But you have no proof. If you've accomplished anything it is that people are rushing to figure out living wills.

I just have one question for you (sure wish I could ask you in person so I could see your eyes when you answer): have you no compassion, man? Terri's passing will cause so much pain and anguish for her parents.

I guess I have another question as well. Why not divorce Terri? You already have an adulterous relationship that has brought two children into the world. Wouldn't it be better for them to have a married mother and father?

Another question, but this time for your girlfriend. How can you go to sleep at night knowing that the man you spoon with is cruel. Do you not think that he can be cruel to you and your children as well? He certainly has the capacity.

Aside from Jesus dying on the cross, this has to be one of the saddest events in human history. It is illegal in every state, and probably in every civilized society, to starve an animal to death.

God be with you,
Hen

Terry's Case

Even though I voiced my strong opinion about this on newssnipet, I feel the need to speak up again. The way it has unfolded is dreadful. There but for the grace of God go we, any of us.

Since yesterday new information about the case has come to my attention (read I was driving to a client and had a long trip to and fro so I listened to talk radio). The husband, if you can call him that for his adulterous ways, is an RN. He has been called by Terry's brother and parents the cause of her physical condition. Apparently the husband has stood in the way of any attempts at bettering her situation. At one point she was having speech therapy, but he put a stop to it. He's afraid for her to talk. Why? And why doesn't he want to just get a divorce? He's got two kids with the woman he lives with.

Seems to me rather than tie up Congress, some arm of the law ought to get involved and do an investigation.

The judge is typical of the new liberal judges who thinks he is above and beyond the law and the government. He ought to be called to account, as all judges should be.

None of this should be happening. There are many cases of PVS patients lying in hospitals all around this country. This case has the potential of opening the door for each one of them to tie up Congress. Another Pandora's box.

In closing, I will say that my heart and prayers are with Terry's parents in this very difficult time. How can any of us judge, really?

Hen

To My Loyal Readers

There are two of you and I thank you both. I'll be back with Clucking Points very soon.

Hen

Now

Bush's Message to Syria

Gotta love it!

Hen

An Quick Internet Tour

• Activist Cash , a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom, provides the public and media with in-depth profiles of anti-consumer activist groups, along with information about the sources of their exorbitant funding.
• NeoProhibition.com - The slow, silent march to alcohol prohibition continues apace. In March, Mothers Against Drunk Driving called for a "mandatory provision in every separation agreement and divorce decree that prohibits either parent from drinking and driving … with children under the age of 16 in the vehicle." Any drinking before driving, MADD insisted, should result in penalties that "should include, but are not limited to"– "incarceration," "change of primary custody," or "termination of parental rights." What?
• Ban Trans Fats Things you might not know.
  

Hen

Raw Milk

The news story out today that claims milk is not a good source of calcium is actually true, even the the source of the "research", Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, has a link to PETA. PCRM president Neal Barnard also runs The PETA Foundation. Neat, huh? It's all about agenda and nothing to do with you, Mr or Mrs Consumer or your children.

Milk, in its current form isn't any good for us. Pasteurization and homogenization kill the milk. Homogenization causes heart disease. Pasteurization kills the friendly bacteria that our guts need to digest food. The growth hormones rBGH or rBST cause young girls and boys to sexually mature early. Check out the Campaign for Real Milk.

Note to PETA: If you really want to be of help, educate the people about the dangers of drinking soy milk.

Hen

The magic 8-ball knows all

Oh Magic 8-ball, who is behind the anti-Iraq War resolution that appeared on more than 50 Town Meeting Day warnings across Vermont?

Magic 8-Ball says: My answer - The ACLU

Read the full Times Argus article.

"The resolution is not without its detractors. John McClaughry, president of the Ethan Allen Institute, calls the resolution an attempt by anti-war activists to "hijack" Vermont's town meetings.

"I'm tired of fighting the election of 2004 all over again with the left wing screaming 'Bush lied' and finding ever new venues to raise that position," McClaughry said Monday. "We counted the votes. It's over. Let's move on. If they want to have a rally on the Statehouse lawn, fine. But I have a problem with the hijacking of town meeting to serve ulterior motives and that's what I see this as doing."
I'll say.

Anyway, as one thing leads to another, clicking my way around I've discovered that the Executive Director of the Vermont Network on Iraq Resolutions is also the Executive Director of American Friends Service Committee. In part their mission statement says:

The American Friends Service Committee is concerned with the world as it is and as it ought to be. Fundamental beliefs in the individual—seeing the Divine in each person—and in the need for peace and justice guide our activities. AFSC is dedicated to nonviolence: opposing both the overt violence of war and the covert violence that erodes the human spirit through deprivation and indifference. (emphasis is mine)

Wouldn't the liberals be more happy if they just dealt with the present world as it is not live in a world as they THINK it ought to be.

As I researched these traitors more, I finally found the ACLU connection to the AFSC. Ben Scotch. As a lawyer, he has been involved in Native American affairs and welfare issues. He worked on the legal staff of a Senate subcommittee, thanks to an appointment by Sen. Patrick Leahy. And for 15 years he served as chief staff attorney for the Vermont Supreme Court. For several years Scotch was executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.

Bingo. The Magic 8-Ball is always right.