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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2039
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 12:15 am: | 
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In the light of recent headlines, I'm just wondering - if a prostitute who happened to be black and who happened to have overdosed on drugs 15 years ago and went into an irreversible coma that rendered her a "vegetable", and if her family had somehow managed to stave off attempts to remove her feeding tube but - the pimp who she'd lived with continues to intervene because he knew what his ho's feeling were on the subject,would George Bush and his "compassionate" Republican cohorts rush back to Washington to hold emergency sessions for the purpose of enacting and signing a special "Shenequa" bill that would override a judicial ruling in order to keep poor ol Shenequa breathing, or - if a gay man suffering from AIDS had lapsed into a coma from which doctors say he will not revive, and although his family wants his plug pulled, his male lover wants poor Bruce to keep on wheezing so they can maybe get married one day, would Georgie and his posse be there to delay the routine procedure that is recommended every day for hundreds of comatose patients all over America? I think not. The Shenequa and Bruce scenarios don't enhance the ulterior motives of the conservative right-to-lifers who wield so much power in the Republican party. So, although Bush & company are willing to sacrifice the lives of thousands of healthy young Americans fighting for some trumped-up reason over there in Iraq, our opportunistic chief executive cannot pass up a chance to keep a suitable white, middle-class, straight woman alive for the expedient purpose of fulfilling a political agenda. And let's not overlook how this tactic has set a dangerous precedent that could be used in the future to justify the government dictating all matter of things that law-abiding citizens can or cannot do. Shades of Big Brother! But - Cynique, you say, what if it was you or a loved one who was in a comatose state, would you still want the plug to be pulled? My answer is "yes." I am about the quality of life, not the quantity of it. I am not about existing, but about living, about being released from the prison of a body that is holding the soul captive. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 62
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 09:11 am: |
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Hear, hear! |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 63
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 09:12 am: |
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P.S.: "Shenequa bill"--LOL! |
Libralind2
Newbie Poster
Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 11
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 25, 2005 - 07:46 pm: |
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Im wif ya when ya rite..!!
Linda From Ohio |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1052
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 10:58 am: |
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Cynique:
In the Shanequa scenario some fourteen years fifty one weeks and six days ago they would have pulled the plug on her even if they had to do an "oops"!
But then again, I am a Cynic |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2041
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 01:50 pm: |
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True dat. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 2158
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 07:42 am: |
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This WHOLE THING has been almost as big a waste of media/governmental/public time, attention and money as the whole Elian Gonzalez fiasco (during Clinton's presidency).
Every year 3 - 4 million Americans die via many 'exotic' causes/reasons. And the VAST majority of them die without most of us giving a crap what happened to them.
So, at the risk of appearing callous, I really don't give a f!@# what happens. |
Linda
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Linda
Post Number: 114
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 10:13 am: |
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Hi ABM
Welcome home! |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2048
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 01:05 pm: |
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ABM says:
"So, at the risk of appearing callous, I really don't give a f!@# what happens."
Cyniqe responds:
"Couldn't have said it better myself." |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 2160
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 07:22 pm: |
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Thanks Linda. I've missed yawl too!
Yes you could, Cynique. But I appreciate the sentiment all the same. |
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