An
incapacitated Florida
woman is scheduled to
be deprived of food and water on October 15, despite being conscious
and
responsive, but unable to speak. Theresa Marie (Terri) Schindler
Schiavo
was 26 when she collapsed in 1990 from a possible potassium imbalance
that
cut off oxygen to her brain. The extent of her brain damage is the
focus
of considerable dispute.
Testifying
earlier this year
before the House Agriculture Committee, Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)
explained that GM foods are banned in Europe "under the cloak of food
safety"
while protectionism is the true object. If higher yielding, less
expensive
and more nutritious foods enter their markets, domestic European
agriculture
is threatened. If Third World farmers are more able to feed their
domestic
populations with such crops, competing European imports would also be
threatened
- so much for Green Benevolence vs. Corporate Greed.
It is
time once again to shed
crocodile tears as senior French officials complain of being treated
unfairly
by the U.S. media. Former diplomat Ken Adelman notes that a general
antipathy
toward France is being attributed to a Bush administration-orchestrated
disinformation campaign rather than “Paris’s deeds,” such as:
Any
natural attributes that
distinguish men from women [like childbearing] are portrayed as
artificial
contstrictions imposed by a patriarchal society. [This is especially
true
amongst a certain cadre of corpulent hirsute females who wear sensible
shoes.] National security and military readiness take a back seat to
social
engineering.
What
will they do with themselves
when the war is over? Get a job? Take a bath? Cut their hair? Get a
life?
Go back to whatever hole that they crawled from and stay out of my
town?
Take the silverware out of their faces? If only...
There has
been an intriguing
drop in media coverage of the Westerners who went to Iraq as voluntary
human shields. This fact alone merits investigation.
USF
Professor Arrested on Charges of Terrorism
(published offsite)
The
professor, Dr. Sami Al-Arian,
was charged with raising funds and managing finances for an
international
terrorist organization that orchestrates violence primarily in Israel.
The
Washington Post deigned
to send a reporter
to cover the Conservative Political Action Conference of Jan. 30-Feb. 1
2003. They delivered the expected level of information and analysis to
their readers. Searching diligently for the Conference’s essential
meaning,
the reporter apparently eschewed the more than forty speeches, debates
and discussions available in favor of looking at bumper stickers.
The
reaction to Missouri
Senator Lott's [Dec 5
2002 remarks at Thurmond's 100th birthday] say more about the
commentators
than of the Senator himself.
