Sea Surface Temperatures. The ONLY area of the ocean 'cool' enough to spawn algae is getting smaller.
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Coastal and Marine Ecosystems & Global Climate Change
Since life began on earth, changes in the global climate have affected the distribution of organisms as well as their interactions. However, human-induced increases in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are expected to cause much more rapid changes in the earth’s climate than have been experienced for millennia. If this happens, such high rates of change will probably result in local if not total extinction of some species, the alteration of species distributions in ways that may lead to major changes in their interactions with other species, and modifications in the flow of energy and cycling of materials within ecosystems.
THIS study is interesting but still doesn't address the FACT algae provide 60% of the breathable oxygen on Earth. If they die. We die.
In addition to all this bad news is the fact many of what is mentioned about sea level rise in regard to choking off coral reefs is in regard to PRESERVING out 'Carbon Sinks.'
The carbon sinks include algae, diatoms, coral reefs and terrestrially the primary producers of trees, grasslands and rainforests, both tropical as the Amazon and temperate as The Tongas.
THIS study is interesting but still doesn't address the FACT algae provide 60% of the breathable oxygen on Earth. If they die. We die.
In addition to all this bad news is the fact many of what is mentioned about sea level rise in regard to choking off coral reefs is in regard to PRESERVING out 'Carbon Sinks.'
The carbon sinks include algae, diatoms, coral reefs and terrestrially the primary producers of trees, grasslands and rainforests, both tropical as the Amazon and temperate as The Tongas.
Iraq war: The smoking gun? - THE COVER UP. Bush's Smoking Gun was right in front of us all the time.
Iraq war: The smoking gun?
Foreign Office official's resignation letter reveals that Attorney General did change his mind on legality of Iraq war
By Colin Brown24 March 2005
Documentary evidence has emerged showing that the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, changed his mind about the legality of the Iraq war just before the conflict began. The damning revelation is contained in the resignation letter of Elizabeth Wilmshurst, a legal adviser at the Foreign Office, in which she said the war would be a "crime of aggression". She quit the day after Lord Goldsmith's ruling was made public, three days before the war began in March 2003.
The critical paragraph of her letter, published yesterday under the Freedom of Information Act, was blanked out by the Government on the grounds that it was in the public interest to protect the privacy of the advice given by the Attorney General. But last night the contents of the paragraph were leaked, and Tony Blair was facing fresh allegations of a cover-up. There has long been speculation that Lord Goldsmith was leant on to switch his view, and to sanction the war - and confirmation of that would be devastating for the Prime Minister. The Wilmhurst letter stops short of explaining what caused Lord Goldsmith to change his mind.
The revelations come two weeks after it emerged that there had never been a detailed dossier from the Attorney General setting out the case for military action before troops were committed, and that Britain went to war on the basis of nine paragraphs on a single sheet of A4 paper.
Last night's revelations - broadcast on Channel 4 News - showed that Ms Wilmshurst said the Attorney General had initially agreed with the Foreign Office legal team that a war on Iraq would be illegal without a second UN resolution.
In the blanked-out paragraph from her letter of resignation on 18 March 2003, she wrote: "My views accord with the advice that has been given consistently in this office before and after the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1441 and with what the Attorney General gave us to understand was his view prior to his letter of 7 March. (The view expressed in that letter has of course changed again into what is now the official line)."
The revelations were seized upon by critics of the Iraq conflict. Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said: "The Government blacked out that section not in the public interest but in the government interest. The Government is severely embarrassed by the fact that there is continuing controversy about the legal advice given by the Attorney General and the way in which he arrived at his final opinion."
Clare Short, who resigned from the Cabinet after the invasion, said last night: "I think the Government had to try and cover it up because it's so devastating. The bit that was blocked out shows that the Attorney General changed his mind twice in a matter of days before he gave his advice to the Cabinet when he just said, unequivocally, 'My view is the legal authority for war' and kept from the Cabinet any suggestion that he had had doubts about it." She added: "I didn't think there was anything left that would shock me but to have that in black and white and to know that is what he did is really shocking. He said he wasn't leant on, but he certainly turned head over heels a couple of times."
As efforts to get a second UN resolution were stalling in the approach to the 2003 conflict, Lord Goldsmith produced a lengthy legal opinion arguing that a case could be made for war without a second UN resolution, but it could be open to legal challenge.
On 13 March, he told ministers that war without a UN second resolution was legal. But there have been claims that six days earlier, on 7 March, he presented Tony Blair with a legal opinion in which he warned that military action could be challenged in the courts.
The emergence of Ms Wilms-hurst's allegation is likely to prove to be embarrassing for ministers in the run-up to an expected general election in May.
The Commons is due to rise today for the Easter recess and Mr Blair is due to go to Buckingham Palace to ask for the dissolution of Parliament as soon as MPs finish their holiday, around 4 or 5 April, clearing the way for a general election on 5 May. However, the fresh evidence is certain to lead to calls for Mr Blair and the Attorney General to answer the claims that they have sought to cover up the most damaging claim - that they took Britain to war knowing it to be illegal.
The controversy wrecked an attempt yesterday by Mr Blair to limit the damage from the war in the general election campaign. The Government announced changes to Mr Blair's "sofa style" of government which was heavily criticised in the Butler inquiry into the intelligence failures on the Iraq war and the weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Blair unveiled a series of new intelligence safeguards which are being put in place following the intelligence failures that led Britain to go to war on a false prospectus. But many of the changes were attacked as "too little, too late" by the Government's critics. Intelligence officers were sceptical that Mr Blair would be able to change his style of "government by sofa", based on informal meetings without records being kept.
Labour strategists are hoping that the damage to trust in Mr Blair can be repaired in time to stop the memory of the Iraq war driving Labour voters into the arms of the Liberal Democrats in Labour marginal seats in the general election.
Accepting the recommendations of the Butler report, Mr Blair promised there would be no more ad-hoc meetings with ministers and officials. They will be replaced by proper meetings with notes taken and records kept in the future. Ministers are also to be given a guide on how to assess intelligence, including information on the limitations of reports.If ministers had known the "45-minute" claim had come from an uncorroborated single source, it may not have got into the dossier published in September 2002.
The Prime Minister has also accepted the recommendation that a senior intelligence officer should chair the Joint Intelligence Committee, overseeing reports to ministers, at the end of his or her career. It amounts to a rebuke for Mr Blair, who promoted John Scarlett, the former head of the JIC who approved the "dodgy dossier", to be the head of MI6.
THE WHISTLEBLOWER: AN 'EXCELLENT AND ABLE' LAWYER
For nearly three decades, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, worked diligently and competently in the legal department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
She became a civil servant in the department in her mid-twenties and colleagues described her as an "excellent and able" lawyer, with a notably steady character.
Her efforts and expertise in international law were rewarded in 1997 when she was promoted to the position of deputy head of legal affairs for the FCO. The promotion cemented her position as one of Britain's leading experts on international criminal and diplomatic law. The next year, she received further recognition - she was made a Companion of St Michael and St George, one of the highest honours for diplomats.
During her tenure, Ms Wilmshurst led the UK delegation to set up the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, served as legal counsellor to the UK's mission to the UN, and gave evidence for the Foreign Office to the House of Commons International Development Committee on the legality of sanctions.
However, as her resignation letter has revealed, she was as impassioned a defender of her beliefs as she was knowledgeable and successful in her arena.
She resigned in March 2003 after defying her political superiors in the Foreign Office by stating her belief that joining the US invasion of Iraq would constitute a violation of international law.
It was a move that would have considerable political reverberations as well as an impact on her professional position.
She was thought to have been prepared to appear as a witness for Katharine Gun, the former GCHQ translator, who was to stand trial for leaking an e-mail concerning a UK-US spying operation. However, the case collapsed last year without her participation.
Ms Wilmshurst, 56, is now using her expertise as head of the international law programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the London think-tank at Chatham House. She is also a visiting professor at University College, London.
Her areas of international law expertise include the use of force, international criminal law and courts, the law of the United Nations and State and sovereign immunity.
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
'Culture of Life' Rings Hollow
In Texas, Critics Question Bush's 'Life' Culture
By Jeff Franks / Reuters
President Bush's intervention for Terri Schiavo has opened old wounds in Texas where death penalty opponents say his words of support for a "culture of life" ring hollow after so many executions during his time as governor of the state.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1922
'Not a Conservative Viewpoint'
Bush Role in Schiavo Case Bothers 'Right'
By Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Not all conservatives are happy with the decision by Congress and President Bush to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case. Some leaders said Tuesday the new law allowing a federal court review of the case is an example of the big government they have always opposed.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1921
"The mother down in Texas must be reading the Schiavo case and scratching her head."
Law Bush signed as Texas governor prompts cries of hypocrisy
By William Douglas / Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - The federal law that President Bush signed early Monday in an effort to prolong Terri Schiavo's life appears to contradict a right-to-die law that he signed as Texas governor, prompting cries of hypocrisy from congressional Democrats and some bioethicists.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1920
"Next question."
Scott McClellan just doesn't like some questions w/video
From The Press Briefing February 1, 2005
Q Scott, last night, in an amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justice Department came down in favor of displaying the Ten Commandments in courthouses and statehouses around the country. The question is, does the President believe in commandment number six, "Thou shalt not kill," as it applies to the U.S. invasion in Iraq?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/02/02.html#a1476
Foreign Office official's resignation letter reveals that Attorney General did change his mind on legality of Iraq war
By Colin Brown24 March 2005
Documentary evidence has emerged showing that the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, changed his mind about the legality of the Iraq war just before the conflict began. The damning revelation is contained in the resignation letter of Elizabeth Wilmshurst, a legal adviser at the Foreign Office, in which she said the war would be a "crime of aggression". She quit the day after Lord Goldsmith's ruling was made public, three days before the war began in March 2003.
The critical paragraph of her letter, published yesterday under the Freedom of Information Act, was blanked out by the Government on the grounds that it was in the public interest to protect the privacy of the advice given by the Attorney General. But last night the contents of the paragraph were leaked, and Tony Blair was facing fresh allegations of a cover-up. There has long been speculation that Lord Goldsmith was leant on to switch his view, and to sanction the war - and confirmation of that would be devastating for the Prime Minister. The Wilmhurst letter stops short of explaining what caused Lord Goldsmith to change his mind.
The revelations come two weeks after it emerged that there had never been a detailed dossier from the Attorney General setting out the case for military action before troops were committed, and that Britain went to war on the basis of nine paragraphs on a single sheet of A4 paper.
Last night's revelations - broadcast on Channel 4 News - showed that Ms Wilmshurst said the Attorney General had initially agreed with the Foreign Office legal team that a war on Iraq would be illegal without a second UN resolution.
In the blanked-out paragraph from her letter of resignation on 18 March 2003, she wrote: "My views accord with the advice that has been given consistently in this office before and after the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1441 and with what the Attorney General gave us to understand was his view prior to his letter of 7 March. (The view expressed in that letter has of course changed again into what is now the official line)."
The revelations were seized upon by critics of the Iraq conflict. Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said: "The Government blacked out that section not in the public interest but in the government interest. The Government is severely embarrassed by the fact that there is continuing controversy about the legal advice given by the Attorney General and the way in which he arrived at his final opinion."
Clare Short, who resigned from the Cabinet after the invasion, said last night: "I think the Government had to try and cover it up because it's so devastating. The bit that was blocked out shows that the Attorney General changed his mind twice in a matter of days before he gave his advice to the Cabinet when he just said, unequivocally, 'My view is the legal authority for war' and kept from the Cabinet any suggestion that he had had doubts about it." She added: "I didn't think there was anything left that would shock me but to have that in black and white and to know that is what he did is really shocking. He said he wasn't leant on, but he certainly turned head over heels a couple of times."
As efforts to get a second UN resolution were stalling in the approach to the 2003 conflict, Lord Goldsmith produced a lengthy legal opinion arguing that a case could be made for war without a second UN resolution, but it could be open to legal challenge.
On 13 March, he told ministers that war without a UN second resolution was legal. But there have been claims that six days earlier, on 7 March, he presented Tony Blair with a legal opinion in which he warned that military action could be challenged in the courts.
The emergence of Ms Wilms-hurst's allegation is likely to prove to be embarrassing for ministers in the run-up to an expected general election in May.
The Commons is due to rise today for the Easter recess and Mr Blair is due to go to Buckingham Palace to ask for the dissolution of Parliament as soon as MPs finish their holiday, around 4 or 5 April, clearing the way for a general election on 5 May. However, the fresh evidence is certain to lead to calls for Mr Blair and the Attorney General to answer the claims that they have sought to cover up the most damaging claim - that they took Britain to war knowing it to be illegal.
The controversy wrecked an attempt yesterday by Mr Blair to limit the damage from the war in the general election campaign. The Government announced changes to Mr Blair's "sofa style" of government which was heavily criticised in the Butler inquiry into the intelligence failures on the Iraq war and the weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Blair unveiled a series of new intelligence safeguards which are being put in place following the intelligence failures that led Britain to go to war on a false prospectus. But many of the changes were attacked as "too little, too late" by the Government's critics. Intelligence officers were sceptical that Mr Blair would be able to change his style of "government by sofa", based on informal meetings without records being kept.
Labour strategists are hoping that the damage to trust in Mr Blair can be repaired in time to stop the memory of the Iraq war driving Labour voters into the arms of the Liberal Democrats in Labour marginal seats in the general election.
Accepting the recommendations of the Butler report, Mr Blair promised there would be no more ad-hoc meetings with ministers and officials. They will be replaced by proper meetings with notes taken and records kept in the future. Ministers are also to be given a guide on how to assess intelligence, including information on the limitations of reports.If ministers had known the "45-minute" claim had come from an uncorroborated single source, it may not have got into the dossier published in September 2002.
The Prime Minister has also accepted the recommendation that a senior intelligence officer should chair the Joint Intelligence Committee, overseeing reports to ministers, at the end of his or her career. It amounts to a rebuke for Mr Blair, who promoted John Scarlett, the former head of the JIC who approved the "dodgy dossier", to be the head of MI6.
THE WHISTLEBLOWER: AN 'EXCELLENT AND ABLE' LAWYER
For nearly three decades, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, worked diligently and competently in the legal department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
She became a civil servant in the department in her mid-twenties and colleagues described her as an "excellent and able" lawyer, with a notably steady character.
Her efforts and expertise in international law were rewarded in 1997 when she was promoted to the position of deputy head of legal affairs for the FCO. The promotion cemented her position as one of Britain's leading experts on international criminal and diplomatic law. The next year, she received further recognition - she was made a Companion of St Michael and St George, one of the highest honours for diplomats.
During her tenure, Ms Wilmshurst led the UK delegation to set up the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, served as legal counsellor to the UK's mission to the UN, and gave evidence for the Foreign Office to the House of Commons International Development Committee on the legality of sanctions.
However, as her resignation letter has revealed, she was as impassioned a defender of her beliefs as she was knowledgeable and successful in her arena.
She resigned in March 2003 after defying her political superiors in the Foreign Office by stating her belief that joining the US invasion of Iraq would constitute a violation of international law.
It was a move that would have considerable political reverberations as well as an impact on her professional position.
She was thought to have been prepared to appear as a witness for Katharine Gun, the former GCHQ translator, who was to stand trial for leaking an e-mail concerning a UK-US spying operation. However, the case collapsed last year without her participation.
Ms Wilmshurst, 56, is now using her expertise as head of the international law programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the London think-tank at Chatham House. She is also a visiting professor at University College, London.
Her areas of international law expertise include the use of force, international criminal law and courts, the law of the United Nations and State and sovereign immunity.
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
'Culture of Life' Rings Hollow
In Texas, Critics Question Bush's 'Life' Culture
By Jeff Franks / Reuters
President Bush's intervention for Terri Schiavo has opened old wounds in Texas where death penalty opponents say his words of support for a "culture of life" ring hollow after so many executions during his time as governor of the state.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1922
'Not a Conservative Viewpoint'
Bush Role in Schiavo Case Bothers 'Right'
By Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Not all conservatives are happy with the decision by Congress and President Bush to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case. Some leaders said Tuesday the new law allowing a federal court review of the case is an example of the big government they have always opposed.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1921
"The mother down in Texas must be reading the Schiavo case and scratching her head."
Law Bush signed as Texas governor prompts cries of hypocrisy
By William Douglas / Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - The federal law that President Bush signed early Monday in an effort to prolong Terri Schiavo's life appears to contradict a right-to-die law that he signed as Texas governor, prompting cries of hypocrisy from congressional Democrats and some bioethicists.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1920
"Next question."
Scott McClellan just doesn't like some questions w/video
From The Press Briefing February 1, 2005
Q Scott, last night, in an amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justice Department came down in favor of displaying the Ten Commandments in courthouses and statehouses around the country. The question is, does the President believe in commandment number six, "Thou shalt not kill," as it applies to the U.S. invasion in Iraq?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/02/02.html#a1476
Twister, hail, strong winds batter state
I told you so.
Twister, hail, strong winds batter state
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON - A tornado touched down in DeSoto County on Tuesday, officials said.
Two businesses and 11 houses were reported damaged in Olive Branch, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Lea Stokes said.
A car was blown off a road during a storm, but the driver and passengers reported only minor injuries and refused medical treatment at the scene.
(Sure, who can afford a ride by ambulance to the hospital these days.)
Hail, heavy rains, and strong winds raked areas of central and south Mississippi as a line of powerful thunderstorms forced its way eastward.
The system triggered numerous tornado watches and warnings. Emergency officials said there were scattered reports of roof damage due to the wind and hail.
Tornado watches continued until the morning for areas of southeast Mississippi. Most of the storm activity in the state was expected to end during the afternoon.
"It's on us as we speak," said Sandra Martin, a dispatcher with the Smith County Sheriff's Department, about 8 a.m. "It's completely dark and the winds are really blowing. The clouds are rolling over us but they are rolling east."
In Franklin County, emergency management director Mark Thornton said he was busy checking on reports of hail and downed tree limbs.
"We had strong winds, probably 60 mph or more," Thornton said. "We had reports of six inches of hail in several places - some marble size and some quarter size. People said it looked like snow on the ground."
Hail and winds gusting to 70 mph were reported in a number of south Mississippi counties including Marion, Jefferson Davis, Walthall and Pike.
Twister, hail, strong winds batter state
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON - A tornado touched down in DeSoto County on Tuesday, officials said.
Two businesses and 11 houses were reported damaged in Olive Branch, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Lea Stokes said.
A car was blown off a road during a storm, but the driver and passengers reported only minor injuries and refused medical treatment at the scene.
(Sure, who can afford a ride by ambulance to the hospital these days.)
Hail, heavy rains, and strong winds raked areas of central and south Mississippi as a line of powerful thunderstorms forced its way eastward.
The system triggered numerous tornado watches and warnings. Emergency officials said there were scattered reports of roof damage due to the wind and hail.
Tornado watches continued until the morning for areas of southeast Mississippi. Most of the storm activity in the state was expected to end during the afternoon.
"It's on us as we speak," said Sandra Martin, a dispatcher with the Smith County Sheriff's Department, about 8 a.m. "It's completely dark and the winds are really blowing. The clouds are rolling over us but they are rolling east."
In Franklin County, emergency management director Mark Thornton said he was busy checking on reports of hail and downed tree limbs.
"We had strong winds, probably 60 mph or more," Thornton said. "We had reports of six inches of hail in several places - some marble size and some quarter size. People said it looked like snow on the ground."
Hail and winds gusting to 70 mph were reported in a number of south Mississippi counties including Marion, Jefferson Davis, Walthall and Pike.
Wild weather prompts 900 calls for help
Wild weather lashed Sydney and surrounding areas today, with strong winds bringing down trees and power lines and heavy rain causing flooding.
State Emergency Service (SES) spokesman Phil Campbell said 924 calls for help had been received, mostly for water in houses caused by blocked gutters and spot flooding.
"There have been over 200 emergency workers on the road responding to leaks, fallen trees, trees blocking driveways and spot flooding," he said.
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State Emergency Service (SES) spokesman Phil Campbell said 924 calls for help had been received, mostly for water in houses caused by blocked gutters and spot flooding.
"There have been over 200 emergency workers on the road responding to leaks, fallen trees, trees blocking driveways and spot flooding," he said.
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Strong Wind Warning - New South Wales
Strong Wind Warning Coastal Waters South of Port HackingAustralian Government Bureau of MeteorologyNew South WalesIssued at 2153 on Thursday the 24th of March 2005
Please Be Aware:Wind gusts may be a further 40 per cent stronger than the averages given here,and maximum waves may be up to twice the height.Synoptic SituationA cold front moving northeast through Bass Strait expected to strengthen thesoutherly airstream along the NSW coast on Friday.
WarningS/SW wind increasing to 20/30 knots during Friday.Sea rising 2 to 3 metres.
Swell about 2 metres.
The warning between Seal Rocks and Port Hacking is cancelled.
Please Be Aware:Wind gusts may be a further 40 per cent stronger than the averages given here,and maximum waves may be up to twice the height.Synoptic SituationA cold front moving northeast through Bass Strait expected to strengthen thesoutherly airstream along the NSW coast on Friday.
WarningS/SW wind increasing to 20/30 knots during Friday.Sea rising 2 to 3 metres.
Swell about 2 metres.
The warning between Seal Rocks and Port Hacking is cancelled.
DeLay, Deny and Demagogue
conti2005 - 6:15 AM ET March 24, 2005 (#24242 of 24266)Killed in Battle in January in Iraq per NewsNight, Age 26 Fuller , age26 Gilbert , age 23 Gibson
Every battle the ultimate battle.
I told you so.
Now, Jeb Bush is trying to make Michael Schiavo into a criminal after fifteen years of patiently providing care for her while the system works it's political 'stars' to the top of the Religious Right 'Hit List.'
The issue is the people at the center of this are too indignant to call Americans anymore.
Here:
Mr. Schindler last night.
"It's not a good day for Terri and I think there's indication today the neurologist that said Terri is not in PVS joins 33 other doctors who have stated that that have been totally ignored by this judge, Judge Greer, who's on a crusade to kill our daughter Terri."
Do you think Judge Greer is out to kill a woman inappropriately feed to continue a life prisoned in a body that provides to quality?
NO.
Again:
"I don't think that the courts are going to be helpful at all. Actually they've banded together to uphold this one particular judge and we've had very little success in the courts. They're not hearing any of the evidence that we presented them.
And our only hope at this point, as we see it, is through the governor and the Department of Children and Families or very possibly the governor exercises his executive authority."
Do you think the courts have banded together (Circled the wagons.) to protect Judge Greer?
NO.
Do you think there is a very 'slick' politician who is at the center of this MILKING it for all it's worth?
YEAH. Several of them. I'll venture a guess at least Tom DeLay, Jeb and George Bush and half the Repuglican Party. I am surprised Cheney has 'crowed' in but then again mass killing is his specialty and he is polishing the nukes.
Again in the same conversation:
"... Terri has been I say really railroaded into a death sentence by this particular judge, the Circuit Court judge that has a background in real estate and he has a crusade to kill this girl."
Do you believe Judge Greer is only capable of reading Titles to Real Estate?
NO.
Maureen. Ready. Here comes the conspiracy that Jeb Bush and Mr. Schindler are desperately trying to fight together.
"The Department of Children and Families they came in and they see where she's being abused by her guardian, which is her husband, and they're trying to intercede and this Judge Greer again has blocked that and derailed that whole program. So, in essence you can see now who's running this country."
"...So, in essence you can see now who's running this country."
"...So, in essence you can see now who's running this country."
"...So, in essence you can see now who's running this country."
Helloooo....
And again...same conversation...
"By that I mean that the judges are running this country. It's not the people any longer. You have a judge like that, a Circuit Court judge, who can exercise so much influence and these other judges are backing him up and opposing the Congress. They're opposing the governor. I think the handwriting is on the wall."
THEN 'The Violation of Trust'
The Question of all Questions
"...This is a difficult question to ask. Is there anything at this point that any doctor could say to you that would make you believe that the best outcome here, as sad an outcome as it is, would be to let your daughter pass?"
THE QUESTION seems straight forward to me. No? What does Schindler do? He turns on the inquiry and attempts to redirect the focus. Slick.
The conversation ends shortly after this. "I don't understand exactly what you mean by that, that we should let her go?"
Redirect, same context:
"No, sir. I'm asking you -- no, sir. I'm asking you if there's anything any doctor could say to you that would convince you of her medical condition is such that the best outcome would be to let her pass?"
THE SCHINDLER REDIRECT:
"What we've been told by many, many doctors that if she was given proper therapy she could recover to a point where she could rejoin society.
...many, many doctors that if she was given proper therapy she could recover to a point where she could rejoin society.
...many, many doctors that if she was given proper therapy she could recover to a point where she could rejoin society."
GIVE ME A BREAK HERE.
"She'd never be 100 percent but she could improve. She talks. She's not in PVS. She responds. She's aware. But she's not been treated in ten, 12 years. She's been left literally on a shelf in a room and the prognosis for Terri, the prognosis for her is that if she was given any kind of treatment, therapy, she could improve and that's what we've been told by dozens of doctors."
WITH THAT THE conversation ends because it is becoming to bizarre to believe.
"Mr. Schindler, none of us who sit around and think about this or talk about this can imagine what it's like to walk in your shoes for all these years and we appreciate your time tonight. Thank you, sir, Bob Schindler."
I DO KNOW WHAT it is like to face a person who has no possible chance at life in a way that matters. I DON'T KNOW what it is like to face a person with no possible chance at life THAT IS USED AS A POLITICAL VOLLEY. Welcome to the insanity of The Bush Theocracy.
I thought this was interesting from Tony Blair yesterday:
"...Mr Blair, battered by Conservative tabloid pressures on abortion, insisted on Tuesday:
"I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us all going out there beating our chest about our faith."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Blair-vows-to-ke [...]
NOW, you'll excuse me, Maureen but I do actually have a life worth living and subjects more pressing than the CHRONIC AND CONTINUOUS indulgence of the Election of The Religious Right 'Nut Case Criminal' Party.
Have a better day everyone.
The Bushs are WACKOS !
Every battle the ultimate battle.
I told you so.
Now, Jeb Bush is trying to make Michael Schiavo into a criminal after fifteen years of patiently providing care for her while the system works it's political 'stars' to the top of the Religious Right 'Hit List.'
The issue is the people at the center of this are too indignant to call Americans anymore.
Here:
Mr. Schindler last night.
"It's not a good day for Terri and I think there's indication today the neurologist that said Terri is not in PVS joins 33 other doctors who have stated that that have been totally ignored by this judge, Judge Greer, who's on a crusade to kill our daughter Terri."
Do you think Judge Greer is out to kill a woman inappropriately feed to continue a life prisoned in a body that provides to quality?
NO.
Again:
"I don't think that the courts are going to be helpful at all. Actually they've banded together to uphold this one particular judge and we've had very little success in the courts. They're not hearing any of the evidence that we presented them.
And our only hope at this point, as we see it, is through the governor and the Department of Children and Families or very possibly the governor exercises his executive authority."
Do you think the courts have banded together (Circled the wagons.) to protect Judge Greer?
NO.
Do you think there is a very 'slick' politician who is at the center of this MILKING it for all it's worth?
YEAH. Several of them. I'll venture a guess at least Tom DeLay, Jeb and George Bush and half the Repuglican Party. I am surprised Cheney has 'crowed' in but then again mass killing is his specialty and he is polishing the nukes.
Again in the same conversation:
"... Terri has been I say really railroaded into a death sentence by this particular judge, the Circuit Court judge that has a background in real estate and he has a crusade to kill this girl."
Do you believe Judge Greer is only capable of reading Titles to Real Estate?
NO.
Maureen. Ready. Here comes the conspiracy that Jeb Bush and Mr. Schindler are desperately trying to fight together.
"The Department of Children and Families they came in and they see where she's being abused by her guardian, which is her husband, and they're trying to intercede and this Judge Greer again has blocked that and derailed that whole program. So, in essence you can see now who's running this country."
"...So, in essence you can see now who's running this country."
"...So, in essence you can see now who's running this country."
"...So, in essence you can see now who's running this country."
Helloooo....
And again...same conversation...
"By that I mean that the judges are running this country. It's not the people any longer. You have a judge like that, a Circuit Court judge, who can exercise so much influence and these other judges are backing him up and opposing the Congress. They're opposing the governor. I think the handwriting is on the wall."
THEN 'The Violation of Trust'
The Question of all Questions
"...This is a difficult question to ask. Is there anything at this point that any doctor could say to you that would make you believe that the best outcome here, as sad an outcome as it is, would be to let your daughter pass?"
THE QUESTION seems straight forward to me. No? What does Schindler do? He turns on the inquiry and attempts to redirect the focus. Slick.
The conversation ends shortly after this. "I don't understand exactly what you mean by that, that we should let her go?"
Redirect, same context:
"No, sir. I'm asking you -- no, sir. I'm asking you if there's anything any doctor could say to you that would convince you of her medical condition is such that the best outcome would be to let her pass?"
THE SCHINDLER REDIRECT:
"What we've been told by many, many doctors that if she was given proper therapy she could recover to a point where she could rejoin society.
...many, many doctors that if she was given proper therapy she could recover to a point where she could rejoin society.
...many, many doctors that if she was given proper therapy she could recover to a point where she could rejoin society."
GIVE ME A BREAK HERE.
"She'd never be 100 percent but she could improve. She talks. She's not in PVS. She responds. She's aware. But she's not been treated in ten, 12 years. She's been left literally on a shelf in a room and the prognosis for Terri, the prognosis for her is that if she was given any kind of treatment, therapy, she could improve and that's what we've been told by dozens of doctors."
WITH THAT THE conversation ends because it is becoming to bizarre to believe.
"Mr. Schindler, none of us who sit around and think about this or talk about this can imagine what it's like to walk in your shoes for all these years and we appreciate your time tonight. Thank you, sir, Bob Schindler."
I DO KNOW WHAT it is like to face a person who has no possible chance at life in a way that matters. I DON'T KNOW what it is like to face a person with no possible chance at life THAT IS USED AS A POLITICAL VOLLEY. Welcome to the insanity of The Bush Theocracy.
I thought this was interesting from Tony Blair yesterday:
"...Mr Blair, battered by Conservative tabloid pressures on abortion, insisted on Tuesday:
"I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us all going out there beating our chest about our faith."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Blair-vows-to-ke [...]
NOW, you'll excuse me, Maureen but I do actually have a life worth living and subjects more pressing than the CHRONIC AND CONTINUOUS indulgence of the Election of The Religious Right 'Nut Case Criminal' Party.
Have a better day everyone.
The Bushs are WACKOS !
Maureen Dowd - A Renaissance Woman
March 24, 2005OP-ED COLUMNIST
DeLay, Deny and Demagogue
By MAUREEN DOWD
h my God, we really are in a theocracy.
Are the Republicans so obsessed with maintaining control over all branches of government, and are the Democrats so emasculated about not having any power, that they are willing to turn the nation into a wholly owned subsidiary of the church?
The more dogma-driven activists, self-perpetuating pols and ratings-crazed broadcast media prattle about "faith," the less we honor the credo that a person's relationship with God should remain a private matter.
As the Bush White House desperately maneuvers in Iraq to prevent the new government from being run according to the dictates of religious fundamentalists, it desperately maneuvers here to pander to religious fundamentalists who want to dictate how the government should be run.
Maybe President Bush should spend less time preaching about spreading democracy around the world and more time worrying about our deteriorating democracy.
Even some Republicans seemed appalled at this latest illustration of Nietzsche's observation that "morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
As Christopher Shays, one of five House Republicans who voted against the bill to allow the Terri Schiavo case to be snatched from Florida state jurisdiction and moved to federal court, put it: "This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy. There are going to be repercussions from this vote."
A CBS News poll yesterday found that 82 percent of the public was opposed to Congress and the president intervening in this case; 74 percent thought it was all about politics.
The president, who couldn't be dragged outdoors to talk about the more than a hundred thousand people who died in the horrific tsunami, was willing to be dragged out of bed to sign a bill about one woman his base had fixated on. But with the new polls, the White House seemed to shrink back a bit.
The scene on Capitol Hill this past week has been almost as absurdly macabre as the movie "Weekend at Bernie's," with Tom DeLay and Bill Frist propping up between them this poor woman in a vegetative state to indulge their own political agendas. Mr. DeLay, the poster child for ethical abuse, wanted to show that he is still a favorite of conservatives. Dr. Frist thinks he can ace out Jeb Bush to be 44, even though he has become a laughingstock by trying to rediagnose Ms. Schiavo's condition by video.
As one disgusted Times reader suggested in an e-mail: "Americans ought to send Bill Frist their requests: 'Dear Dr. Frist: Please watch the enclosed video and tell us if that mole on my mother's cheek is cancer. Does she need surgery?'"
Jeb, keeping up with the '08 competition, vainly tried to get Florida to declare Ms. Schiavo a ward of the state.
Republicans easily abandon their cherished principles of individual privacy and states rights when their personal ambitions come into play. The first time they snatched a case out of a Florida state court to give to a federal court, it was Bush v. Gore. This time, it's Bush v. Constitution.
While Senate Democrats like Hillary Clinton, who are trying to curry favor with red staters, meekly allowed the shameful legislation to be enacted, at least some Floridian House members decided to put up a fight, though they knew they couldn't win.
The president and his ideological partners don't believe in separation of powers. They just believe in their own power. First they tried to circumvent the Florida courts; now they're trying to pack the federal bench with conservatives and even blow up the filibuster rule. But they may yet learn a lesson on checks and balances, as the federal courts rebuffed them in the Schiavo case.
Mr. DeLay moved yesterday to file a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court asking that Ms. Schiavo's feeding tube be restored while the federal court is deciding what to do. But as he exploits this one sad case, Mr. DeLay has voted to slash Medicaid by $15 billion, denying money to care for poor people in nursing homes, some on feeding tubes.
Mr. DeLay made his personal stake clear at a conference last Friday organized by the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. He said that God had brought Terri Schiavo's struggle to the forefront "to help elevate the visibility of what's going on in America." He defined that as "attacks against the conservative movement, against me and against many others."
So it's not about her crisis at all. It's about his crisis.
E-mail: liberties@nytimes.com
DeLay, Deny and Demagogue
By MAUREEN DOWD
h my God, we really are in a theocracy.
Are the Republicans so obsessed with maintaining control over all branches of government, and are the Democrats so emasculated about not having any power, that they are willing to turn the nation into a wholly owned subsidiary of the church?
The more dogma-driven activists, self-perpetuating pols and ratings-crazed broadcast media prattle about "faith," the less we honor the credo that a person's relationship with God should remain a private matter.
As the Bush White House desperately maneuvers in Iraq to prevent the new government from being run according to the dictates of religious fundamentalists, it desperately maneuvers here to pander to religious fundamentalists who want to dictate how the government should be run.
Maybe President Bush should spend less time preaching about spreading democracy around the world and more time worrying about our deteriorating democracy.
Even some Republicans seemed appalled at this latest illustration of Nietzsche's observation that "morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
As Christopher Shays, one of five House Republicans who voted against the bill to allow the Terri Schiavo case to be snatched from Florida state jurisdiction and moved to federal court, put it: "This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy. There are going to be repercussions from this vote."
A CBS News poll yesterday found that 82 percent of the public was opposed to Congress and the president intervening in this case; 74 percent thought it was all about politics.
The president, who couldn't be dragged outdoors to talk about the more than a hundred thousand people who died in the horrific tsunami, was willing to be dragged out of bed to sign a bill about one woman his base had fixated on. But with the new polls, the White House seemed to shrink back a bit.
The scene on Capitol Hill this past week has been almost as absurdly macabre as the movie "Weekend at Bernie's," with Tom DeLay and Bill Frist propping up between them this poor woman in a vegetative state to indulge their own political agendas. Mr. DeLay, the poster child for ethical abuse, wanted to show that he is still a favorite of conservatives. Dr. Frist thinks he can ace out Jeb Bush to be 44, even though he has become a laughingstock by trying to rediagnose Ms. Schiavo's condition by video.
As one disgusted Times reader suggested in an e-mail: "Americans ought to send Bill Frist their requests: 'Dear Dr. Frist: Please watch the enclosed video and tell us if that mole on my mother's cheek is cancer. Does she need surgery?'"
Jeb, keeping up with the '08 competition, vainly tried to get Florida to declare Ms. Schiavo a ward of the state.
Republicans easily abandon their cherished principles of individual privacy and states rights when their personal ambitions come into play. The first time they snatched a case out of a Florida state court to give to a federal court, it was Bush v. Gore. This time, it's Bush v. Constitution.
While Senate Democrats like Hillary Clinton, who are trying to curry favor with red staters, meekly allowed the shameful legislation to be enacted, at least some Floridian House members decided to put up a fight, though they knew they couldn't win.
The president and his ideological partners don't believe in separation of powers. They just believe in their own power. First they tried to circumvent the Florida courts; now they're trying to pack the federal bench with conservatives and even blow up the filibuster rule. But they may yet learn a lesson on checks and balances, as the federal courts rebuffed them in the Schiavo case.
Mr. DeLay moved yesterday to file a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court asking that Ms. Schiavo's feeding tube be restored while the federal court is deciding what to do. But as he exploits this one sad case, Mr. DeLay has voted to slash Medicaid by $15 billion, denying money to care for poor people in nursing homes, some on feeding tubes.
Mr. DeLay made his personal stake clear at a conference last Friday organized by the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. He said that God had brought Terri Schiavo's struggle to the forefront "to help elevate the visibility of what's going on in America." He defined that as "attacks against the conservative movement, against me and against many others."
So it's not about her crisis at all. It's about his crisis.
E-mail: liberties@nytimes.com
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