Archive for March, 2005

It’s starting. The American Taliban have increasingly been advocating and threatening violence over Terri Schiavo’s imminent demise. This came out today. A man was arrested after trying to steal a weapon from a gun shop so he could “take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo,” authorities said. Michael W. Mitchell, of Rockford, Ill., entered Randall’s [...]

So, someone keeps calling the Florida Department of Children and Families “Abuse Hotline” to report that Terri Schiavo is being mistreated. It seems awfully convenient that this keeps happening every time that Jeb! wants an excuse to intervene again, but that’s beside the point. I’m wondering why no one has called 1-800-96ABUSE and reported that [...]

Via Lambert at corrente, a Washington Post article with some revealing details on the use of strong-arm tactics that I speculated about on Wednesday. Law enforcement officers and an attorney for Morton Plant Hospital, where Schiavo’s tube was to be reinserted, told Felos and his legal team that the governor’s office had notified them that [...]

Continuing to prey on Terri Schiavo, Jeb! got together with a doctor and just made some shit up about her yesterday. Remember: the important parts of her brain are gone, replaced by spinal fluid, and, unlike lizard tails, brains don�t just grow back. The SP Times has the text of Jeb�s speechifying. “This afternoon, the [...]

Let’s not forget that Jeb! has a history of cynically using powerless women who are caught up in the grip of personal tragedy in order to advance his extremist agenda. Jeb does his part to strip women of rights MJ Melone Gets it Jeb!: Loving father, doting husband, family values.

UPDATE:

Get the kids their guns and beer. It’s soon gonna be open season in Florida. Florida could wind up back in the Wild West, with people shooting first and asking questions later under a proposal that could pass the Senate today, critics of the bill warned. Backed by the National Rifle Association, the proposed bill [...]

Update: I mispoke when I said “activist judges” – what I meant was ”Judicial Tyranny.” It’s okay – I’ve fixed it. (end of update)