Did anyone else read the article headline (not submitter headline) as Fuehrer forces pupils to move?

Farktastique

Not everything is about religion, politics, power and/or race.

Correct. In fact, everything is about boobies.

Farktastique:

Roman Emperor

Perhaps in your household Easter is all about religion. My family has such broad religious beliefs that Easter and Christmas are much akin to Thanksgiving... not so much about the secular calendar (which half of the family doesn't believe it) but absolutely about being with your family for an afternoon to celebrate life and love and horking down an obscene amount of homemade foodstuffs.

Sure, I gave my child an Easter basket. Partly because he sees everyone else celebrating the holiday, and partly because I think children don't get enough special days as it is. I'd like him to look forward to getting something for nothing several times a year. Yes, I am breeding a capitalist pig, but I like to see the smile on his face. Life is hard enough, I want my boy to play water commando with his cousins and eat jelly beans until his face turns green.

Not everything is about religion, politics, power and/or race.

exactly. those holidays have become fun, traditional american celebrations in my house. we don't go to church or put up crosses or anything. but we exchange presents on christmas and get together with extended family for dinner and on easter we eat candy and hide eggs. it's not a religious thing, it's a bonding thing.

schiav0wned!

jconnolly

A statement like yours indicates that, even after all the ink that has been spilled on Terri Schiavo, you still have no clue what "the issue" really is.

It was neither Michael Schiavo nor the Schindlers' choice whether Terri Schiavo was taken off the tube. The point of all those state court proceedings was to determine what Terri Schiavo's choice would have been, were she capable of communicating it. Michael Schiavo, as Terri's guardian, was in the legal position to present his opinion of what her wishes would be. He supported his opinion with medical and anecdotal evidence. The courts have all agreed with him. There is no truthful evidence which indicates they were wrong to do so.

In other words, even if the Schindlers had unlimited money and could support their daughter at their own expense forever, turning her over to them would contradict her own wishes for how she should be treated. It would be wrong.

FarkinHostile,

That was great. Thank you, thank you for the laugh. I have found a new wallpaper for my laptop.

For the most part, all we're hearing about is the "rush to save Terri", which is a "conservative" cause.

Explain to me again how this makes the media "liberal".

So at what age do you sit the kid down and explain to him what thanksgiving is really about?

Cause his school isn't going to tell him how many millions of Native Americans were killed for that turkey.

....mmmmmmmm turkey........

louiedog

it's not a religious thing, it's a bonding thing.

Actually, that's how the word "religion" is etymologically derived. Religare is latin for "to bind together".

altinos:

It's a ruse to make you think the media is conservative, there-by insuring you get brainwashed into liberalism.

Mwuahahahahaha.

Where the heck is hillarious Photoshops!!!??? I haven't seen anything that equals that mortal kombat one or the ebay one lately! Come on, I need a good laugh. =( Plus, whoever did that OJ killing Blake and saying "there can be only one!". I loved that one as well. =) Please keep them coming.

If the media was so liberal, Dianne Sawyer would have had an hour long special about the inside of a hospice. Or better yet, during a newscast, show a constantly updated counter indicating how many people have died from the removal of their feeding tubs.

I woner how many schools the protesters shut down while protesting the death of Sun Hudson?
Probably none. He was, after all, a poor black child.

InmanRoshi:

Jesus only cares about white people. White people in the South, in particular.

Evidence? Jesus had a mullet.



Holy Mullet!

sonnyboy11,

Actually there was a significant difference, despite being in a coma DeLay's father had an identifiable reaction (increased heart rate) to one of his son's entering the hospital room.

Also let's remember to ignore the fact that DeLay's family sued the maker of the parts for the tram that was involved in the accident. Of course one of the leaders in the Tort reform battle would never financially benefit from a lawsuit, so Tom DeLay signed over his portion of the undisclosed settlement to his mother.

a_cure_for_gravity,

Navin R. Johnson is dead?!?!?!

Ten days is it now without any liquids except a single drop of communion wine yesterday morning?

I smell a rat. Never knew you could last ten days without any water intake of any sort.

Someone is slipping her liquids or something, unless she was bloated with water already.

2005-03-28 12:42:23 PM FarkinHostile

You, my friend, are going straight to hell.

Rude Pundit:

Terry Schiavo was a vain woman, driven to bulimia by a sad desire to be thinner and thinner, afflicted, as so many women are and so many women aren't, by pop culture standards of thinness. Chances are it was the bulimia that led to the heart attack that led to the brain damage that led to the gooey being that is Schiavo being prayed over by the President and his brother. Now ask yourself: if Terry Schivao saw herself right now, knowing what we know about who she was and how she felt about looks, would she want to stay alive?

Dogfather Jr
I'm tired of playing God. Let's play Hungry Hungry Hippo!!!!

Someone photoshop a hungry hungry hippo board with Terri's head in their place being played by her parents.....

When she does pass on, will there be a little "bing" sound like when your veggies are cooked in a steamer?

/doesn't really want to go to hell...retracts comment.

Since she can't swallow can't we just mist her like they do the vegetables at the supermarket?

/Smoking please

Roman Emperor

What kind of chum are you using? My dad, he keeps all the nasty fish scales and guts from each trip out to the reef; throws that mess into a cuisinart, then freezes the whole shebang into a handy little block. Works well, more more economical then the chum you buy at the bait shop...

Before you start asking me how I will explain Thanksgiving (and what the white man has done to the Native Americans) to my son, well, perhaps you'd be interested in knowing how my First Nations side of the family deals with the Irish Catholic side, and how we all come together for both the American AND the Canadian Thanksgivings.

Asshat.

SpongeJamie - NoPants:
When she does pass on, will there be a little "bing" sound like when your veggies are cooked in a steamer?

It depends... will the administrator be there?

I'm beginging to think the Crusades were a way of weeding off the stupid foke, send them off to battle.

dogfather_jr

Only if they plan to use the most expensive machine in the hospital...

/nice pick up on the reference...thought I'd hid it pretty well!

...and please excuse my use of 'then' when I meant 'than'.

a big props to whoever it was that posted the alyson hannigan pic

You need the heart of a lizard to read about this poor girl day in and day out; and it's only getting weirder. I hope to heck one of my friends would have the good sense to pull my plug should I be in a similar circumstance. Time to write a living will, eh?

Please keep your religion out of our politics:


Tom DeLay:
Terri Schiavo has survived her Passion weekend, and she has not been forsaken.

Jeff Miller
Mr. Speaker, 2,000 years ago Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, marking the beginning of a week that throughout history and the world over has signified the sanctity of human life.

Tom DeLay on the Sactity of Marriage:
"The sanctity of life overshadows the sanctity of marriage. I dont know what transpired between Terri and her husband. All I know is Terri is alive . . . Unless she has specifically written instructions in her hand, with her signature, I dont care what her husband says."

Maybe, Michael Schiavo should try to make some of these protesters put their money where their mouths are. Get an attonery to draft a Power of Guardianship, go visit a group of protesters with this document, a pen and a Notary and see if any of these asshats will become Terri's guardian. See if they want to be responsible for her care - finanically, emotionally, physically, whatever it takes.

Anyone here want to volunteer to do that? I'm sure her parents would be happy to help you out.

/where are we in the pool, do I still have a pick for tomorrow afternoon?

pwhp_67

Terry Schiavo was a vain woman, driven to bulimia by a sad desire to be thinner and thinner, afflicted, as so many women are and so many women aren't, by pop culture standards of thinness.

*sigh* If our mainstream media was doing its job, this case could have been used to highlight the dangers and tragedy of bulimia. It's unfair to call Schiavo "vain". I dated a girl once who suffered from that condition and she was not a vain person. She was, however, horribly insecure. Despite the fact that she was quite hot.

NathanAllen

Right you are. I stand corrected. Schiavo's case is a far more clear cut instance where allowing her life to end is the only sane thing left to do compared to what Delay went through with his father. Man, the hypocrisy is so thick on this one, you could cut it with a knife.

I was going for a turkey joke to go with my mashed potatoes joke yesterday. I'm going for a celebratory humour trifecta. But be offended from an internet conversation, whatever.

And you're excused.

All I know is Terri is alive . . . Unless she has specifically written instructions in her hand, with her signature, I dont care what her husband says.

Nice to know Speaker DeLay can be so cavalier when his own family went through a similar decision making process with his father, who also lacked a Living Will.

Yeah, I just heard Rush Limbaugh going apoplectic over the "disgusting" and "shameful" article from the LA Times reporting that Tom DeLay took his own father off of life support.

See, if it's the Republicans using a suffering family as a political pawn, with 80% of America seeing it as such, it's perfectly fine, but how DARE a newspaper scutinize a politician's past and uncover hypocrisy! You see, our glorious Republican politicians should be held above scrutiny, implies Limbaugh. God, the disgusting, toadying, taint-faced, triple-damned, propaganda-spewing, hypocritical gas-bag. Why do people take this pathetic excuse for a man seriously anymore?

These people not only have no shame, but no decency and such a desire to distort the truth that I really believe that sometimes they can't even see it any more.

Case in point: Peggy Noonan was caught denigrating those (you know, 80% of Americans) who side with Michael Schiavo, insisting that most Americans thought the way she did and pugring forth this little gem: "...this is a struggle between many serious people who really mean it and one, just one, strange-o. And the few bearded and depressed-looking academics he's drawn to his side." Boy, did she change her tune after the polls came out, just like Fox News did in SUCH an obvious and clumsy hurry. And now it looks like the President may be following suit, with an aide of his now claiming that he "didn't really want" to sign the Schiavo bill, even though it's the first time he's EVER cut one of his sacrosanct vacations to his ranch short.

No shame, no shame whatsoever. And fools will continue to support these jackasses, because all they know how to do these days is hate "liberals"; take the Noonan quote above as an example, they no longer hold conservative ideals, or ANY ideals, sacred. They vote and opine out of spite, not patriotism or understanding of the issues. They exist to "stick it to the left", and they're only happy if that's what they're doing, regardless of how their actions affect this country as a whole.

It's a sad state we're in, politically. Let's hope we can quickly climb out of the muck.

Tho I did enjoy your trolling paragraph.

....mmmmmmm chum.......

NathanAllen

Nice to know Speaker DeLay can be so cavalier when his own family went through a similar decision making process with his father, who also lacked a Living Will.

Shouldn't the fundies be calling DeLay a murderer?

Florida and Texas should break away from the Union and form JESUSTAN!

In Jesustan, public education is outlawed, and churches do schooling instead!

In Jesustan, there will be three branches of Government: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

In Jesustan, it is okay to kill foreigners, convicts and poor people, but the braindead, zygotes and fetouses are to be kept alive at ALL COSTS!


So, Christian Right, democracy no longer works for you. Theocracy is what God would have wanted, you wacky farks.

MenGigNeer:
I hope to heck one of my friends would have the good sense to pull my plug should I be in a similar circumstance. Time to write a living will, eh?

I plan to use FARK as my living will. It's easy, and way cheaper than using a real lawyer.

Attention Farkers: I hereby proclaim my desire to be euthanized should I ever be deemed to be in a persistent vegetative state. My preferred method of euthanization is to be smothered by any Hot Farkette's shaved and well-oiled Genitals.

Definitions:
Hot Farkette shall mean any Farkette of the female persuasion whose appearance is such that posting their picture on Fark would elicit no more that 6 'sharp knees' comments.
Genitals shall mean female genitalia, usually comprised of labia majora, labia minora, and a clitoris. In no instance shall other genetalia be permitted, specifically as pertains to she-males, transsexuals, and/or hermaprodites.

Is anybody here a Notary Public?

dogfather_jr: To get Farkers to comply with your wishes, I think beer has to be involved somehow. You left that bit out. :)

But be offended from an internet conversation, whatever.

I was offended yesterday when my cousin told me my dress made my hips look 'widespread'; this is nothing.