6:00 pm news: "Terry is vocalizing 'I - want - to - live"

[Bluebear]

Proceeds of the 5:35pm emergency hearing in Clearwater. Schindler attorneys insist Terry is talking today, saying "I want to live."

:crazy:

[mmonk]

1. Then who's CAT scans were those?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Oh bullshit

This country is insane. it really is.

[ChiciB1]

26. Will Someone PUULLLEEEZZEE Turn On The

Lights for these people??? Or maybe TURN THEM OFF!!

You're CORRECT... America has reached the epitome of ChristiInsanity!

[Swamp Rat]

33. I just nominated Hal Turner for the Top 10 Conservative Idiots.

Go here if you want to do the same:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/nominate.html

Let's send this guy to a prison asylum:

"I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death.
I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue." -- Hal Turner

See also Rose Siding's thread in GD:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3351133&mesg_id=3351133&page=

[spanone]

69. I agree. My dog says hello.

I don't mean any disrespect for Ms Schiavo but this is so ludicrous that it doesn't dignify a response. Desperate people lie.

[FreedomAngel82]

85. I feel like

I'm in a really weird Twilight Zone episode just waiting to see Rod Serling narrating.

[glaeken777]

3. while i do believe in medical miracles...

... that one is a stretch, to be polite.

And... since this was uttered when the tube was removed... why wasn't this amazing claim brought up then, rather than at the last-ditch hearing?

I feel for the parents... they are so desperate. But it can't be true.

[blondeatlast]

20. Since she's able to talk, let's give her some pudding or Jell-O.

Problem solved whichever way it goes...

[Donailin]

4. Man.

This is really a shame, just a damn shame. (no I don't believe it for a minute)

[derby378]

5. At the risk of sounding insensitive...

...she doesn't even have enough brain left to say "Ggggghhhhh!"

Let me guess - someone's trying Facilitated Communication on her, riiiiiiight???

[Spinzonner]

11. Mind Meld

[gratuitous]

6. Making false statements to the court?

A good way to get your bar ticket pulled. I hope the Florida State Bar is taking note of the shenanigans being employed by Schindlers' attorneys.

That being said, they're probably all from out of state, admitted pro hac vice just for this case.

[kedrys]

7. Oh fer f*#$'s sakes. n/t

[Deja Q]

8. Who - pays - the - price? Remember y'all,

it was MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAWSUIT AWARD THAT HAS BEEN PAYING FOR HER TO LIVE. (* wants to cap medical malpractice settlements because it hurts doctors who want to practice their love of women... um, if Shiavo didn't get a big settlement, would the M$M be putting ANY weight on this at all?)

[bamademo]

9. Yes and I Just Started to Speak Fluent Chinese

It's a miracle, I tell you. :eyes:

[queeg]

39. mandarin or cantonese

Obviously Jesus was oriental--this will shake up the fundie-cult

[bamademo]

70. Both

...Now I've just started to speak Russian. It's a hell of a Good Friday.

[Swamp Rat]

10. What did the carrot say to the cucumber?

TerriSchiavoTerriSchiavoTerriSchiavo!!!

[humanriteswritlarge]

29. There are no limits to how low these wingnuts will sink n/t

[deadparrot]

12. Let's smuggle in a video camera and see then, shall we?

I know that its for privacy issues, and I respect that decision but a simple curent videotape of Terri's condition would halt the circulation of a lot of these rumors, IMO. People can make up whatever they want, and it gets reported as fact.

[TOhioLiberal]

109. They shouldn't have a problem, then...

after all, have we not seen that video tape ad nauseum on the 'news'? Obviously the Schindlers are not THAT concerned about privacy!

[blondeatlast]

13. I'd like to think you were making this shit up, BB, but I know better.

I've cared for people in a better PVS than Mrs. Schiavo, and it just ain't so.

They've gone batshit. Period.

[Bluebear]

28. Cheers blondeatlast

Brightest blessings for your caregiving.

Yup, that's how the reporter who witnessed the proceeding said it happened, each word was halting but clear to the testifier. :crazy:

[tubbacheez]

14. Amazing how she allegedly gets healthier and healthier...

... with every legal decision against her parents.


At this rate, she'll be scaling El Capitan in Yosemite by April.

[Bluebear]

34. Truly, it appears that way

The faithful outside will insist their intercessions have given health back to Teri.

[tubbacheez]

46. Yeah, there's no use arguing with them.

If prayers "work", it's proof they were right about their god.


If prayers don't work, it's proof they need to pray harder. Or that we should've joined them. Or that God was so pissed at us that he didn't listen to their prayers.

Etc.

[FreedomAngel82]

87. Yep

They'll find some spin to put it on us. Just watch and see.

[XemaSab]

95. El Capitan's

a big frozen ice hunk right now. Got a LOT of snow a few days ago.

Why does this image suddenly bring to mind the frozen veggie aisle of the supermarket?

Terri and the Jolly Green Giant can scale El Capitan together!

[tubbacheez]

112. Ice? Schmice! The fundies will swear Terri can ice climb...

... at least 4 pitches per day,



... carrying her own liquid food and slurping down 1500 calories while belaying her partner,





... and suddenly becoming mentally alert enough to write her own documentary about the experience.




And maybe film it too.

[htuttle]

15. "I thought I heard a noise coming from inside the coffin"

It just doesn't get any crueler than this.

However, everytime I've thought it couldn't get worse lately, I've been proven wrong.

[mondo joe]

102. ROFL - I shouldn't laugh but it's too funny

[mike_c]

16. when will the court invoke Rule 11 (6.1 in FL) on these idiots...?

This is an utter-- and transparent-- waste of the court's time.

[Ruffhowse]

17. This is the new testimony from one witness who said she heard

this from Terri Schiavo as they were pulling out her feeding tube. It is total bullshit. She doesn't have the brain function to speak. The part of the brain that controls that ability is GONE, per her CT scans. Fundies want to believe in magic and fairies and angels and all kinds of superstitious crap and need to grow up.

[tubbacheez]

24. And yet they rail against witches. n/t

[blondeatlast]

32. Good point. nt

[Media_Lies_Daily]

18. Watch me vocalize, "The Schindlers are totally delusional".

[burythehatchet]

93. I think a family

bitch slap is WAY overdue

[fooj]

19. You can't reason with fanatics!

Peace!

[Anakin Skywalker]

21. Maybe They Had a Ventriloquist

project the voice on her. :)

[kskiska]

22. How do they know she wasn't trying to say

I want to DIE?

[despairing optimist]

23. Did the Schindler attorneys ask Jeff Gannon where to get their MDs?

What the hell do they know about neurology? They should be disbarred.

Where are Terri's doctors in all this, and what do they say?

[stopbush]

25. Right. She's probably saying "I want to live...

with Michael," if she's saying anything.

There are truly no depths that the RW will leave unplumbed to further their agenda.

[joanski01]

27. Maybe she's really trying to

say "I want to die". These fucks are totally crazy. No damn common sense.

[Liberal Veteran]

30. Terri visited me in a dream last night.....

I dreamed I made a grilled cheese sandwich and the image of Terri was on it and she said: "I pray that God will heal the brain of the nutjob in the White House so his will be at least to the level of my body's."

[blondeatlast]

31. Then by all means, let's get her some Jell-O!

Problem solved.

I gotta admit, I am watching this like a freak show/train wreck/etc. It makes me a rotten person, but no more rotten than those who are exploiting that unfortunate woman.

[Mojambo]

38. I'm kind of with you there

It's a shame they made this a circus, but since I'm forced to sit in the front row...

[shrub chipper]

65. me, too

I can't tear myself away.

[FreedomAngel82]

88. I know what y'all mean

Everytime I come here there's something else outrages going on with the Schavio case. Oy. What's next I wonder? I can't tear myself away.

[XemaSab]

96. The sad part is

that it's distracting us from what REALLY matters.

The Michael Jackson trial!

[Vickers]

35. Maybe it was "I - want - to - leave"

:shrug:

I know my fundy sister can't hear worth a shit, so it might be an honest mistake. :eyes:

[alittlelark]

103. I think you hit the nail on the head !!

They are just confusing her words (of course, there is no 'her' left, but...)

[Left Is Write]

36. Talk about putting words in someone's mouth.

[globalvillage]

37. It's a MIRACLE!!!

After 15 years. Wow. I guess she really didn't have much to say till now.
We are living in bizarro world. To hell with EVERYTHING else going on in the world. Forget all the pain and suffering, just SAVE TERRI.
Oh, and don't water Bush's bushes, while you're at it. Give the water to TERRI. Nothing else matters.
Hell, I need a drink.

[Blue_In_AK]

40. Did they record it? n/t

[Bluebear]

41. She said "no tape recorders, please"

Sorry.

[bigwillq]

49. LOL!

That's some funny stuff!:)

[Blue_In_AK]

54. Oh, well, that explains it.

[Liberal Veteran]

42. It's true...and then......

...she jumped up and put her makeup on and went out clubbing!

[Mojambo]

43. I've always maintained that people who go clubbing are brain dead. n/t

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[Liberal Veteran]

45. Why not? About 50 percent of the US actually bought the notion..

...that Saddam Hussein was some big threat to America and had massive stockpiles of WMD that he planned to use against us.

They also believe that cutting social services and giving the rich a big tax break would reduce poverty and create jobs.

[guinivere]

48. *gasp* Ya mean none of that's true!

What a world!

[guinivere]

47. I would have asked for a martini n/t

[spanone]

50. I truly can't believe that CBS News would repeat such horseshit.

And I fucking don't like the presumption that there is 'politics on both sides'. Fuck that shit. This is a REPUBLICAN FIASCO.

[blondeatlast]

52. Precisely--if anything, the Left wants politics OUT of the situation. nt

[spanone]

63. I heard Lou Dobbs say the same damn thing. Politics on both sides.

This is the rethugs doing goddamit.

[FreedomAngel82]

89. They're already trying

to take the blame off themselves by saying both parties are involved. Ha. No freakin way. The democrats are right to butt out like this should've been in the first place. Who knew such chaos would come from one person. :crazy:

[Technowitch]

51. The mendacity of these people knows no limit

(eom)

[Desertrose]

53. If I could talk, I wouldn't wait 15 years til they pull my tube out.....

This is just so unbelievably sad .and INSANE.

All of it.

[HEyHEY]

55. Do they not have voice recorders in Florida?

Let's hear these words.

[dave29]

56. She very cleary said "to blave"

which as everyone knows means "to bluff" so you guys were probably in a card game and she got caught bluffing and --

sorry, couldn't help it.

[timber84]

57. Why did it take them a week to say this?

[bluedog]

59. they were busy?

and this is bullshit.............total grasping at straws..........the lawyer should have his ass thrown in jail......

[MissMarple]

58. Those "trial lawyers" should be disbarred. That's an outright lie.

[SoCalDem]

60. She just wants some tunes..to drown out the fanatics' screaming

[bamademo]

71. God I miss those groovy threads.

I seriously love 60's clothes.

[Greylyn58]

61. Well as Mike Malloy has said many

times on his show...

I wish they would just rapture on out of here!! Now...Please!! Go!!

I'm so tired of all of them and their craziness.

[FreedomAngel82]

90. Me too

I'm getting sick of it. I wish they would go and let us get our country back on track and let me have my religion back.

[jmowreader]

62. "But I don't want to go on the cart!"

I feel happy!...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

68. BAD!! Sounds like a Monty Python movie. LOL!!! :-))

[w4rma]

64. Perjury. (nt)

[stepnw1f]

66. They Just Can't Stand Being Wrong

Get over it!

[zann725]

110. They can't stand not being in control of everything. Especially death.

This woman's dying on her 'own time'...depsite their attempted court interventions and lies. And all they can do is wait, and pander.

[stepnw1f]

111. Well Put

Death is scarey, but life itself is about living and not fearing the inevitable. If they wish to free their souls, they will need to free their minds first. The disconnect from rationale is extreme. The Republican Party should be ashamed for using these people the way they do. I believe they may have created a new wave of terrorism in this country. What goes round, comes 'round. Karma is a bitch!

[shrub chipper]

67. Maybe she wanted

to see that Susan Hayward movie about Capital Punishment

[H2O Man]

72. Sad but not unexpected.

As the pressure grows, we will witness some of the people who are fighting to have the feeding tubes put back, become more out of touch with reality. This example of them saying, and actually believing, that Terri said a sentence indicates the delusional aspects coming into play. Keep in mind that as their gripe on reality becomes looser, and the court decisions continue to deny their wishes, the situation becomes far more potentially explosive.

[Straight Shooter]

77. I know you didn't mean to say "their gripe on reality"

But there's actually more truth in it with the typo :D

[blondeatlast]

79. True that! Too funny! nt

[H2O Man]

82. Ha!

I am too tired to be typing, I suppose. But you are right: "gripe" is more accurate!

[justgamma]

73. Who told her she was going to die?

She'd have to have a pretty good size brain left to figure out that the feeding tube was keeping her alive.

[snippy]

74. What she actually said was:

"I want to live IN ANOTHER WORLD WITHOUT ALL OF THESE LYING THEOCON REPUBLICAN TALIBAN ASSHOLES TRYING TO CONTROL EVERYONES PRIVATE LIVES."

[DisneyVixen]

75. Then why can't she say I am hungry too?

Give me video tape of it and I will be the first one down there telling them to put it back in.

[Straight Shooter]

78. Welcome to DU!

That's what we need, a videotape 24/7.

:hi:

[alcuno]

80. Welcome to DU, DisneyVixen.

Someone needs to stop the madness.

[blondeatlast]

81. As I say, if she can talk, it's time for Jell-O. That';; put an end to it

one way or another.

Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[DisneyVixen]

83. Thanks all. What I meant to say show me a tape of her saying she wants to

live. Or put her live on TV but stop the lies. I thought Christians don't lie.

[FreedomAngel82]

91. Good point

See the thing with this is the fundies believe their leaders. Their leaders don't care if they lie. Anything for profit. Rhandi was saying earlier on today's show not to trust the groups who are taking money for the Schindlers (except the Schindlers) because they'll just keep it for themselves probably. And they keep playing that one video clip and showing that one photo. If they really believed this nonsense why don't they get permission to show a new video of her interacting with Tom DeLay and Bill Frist?

[Blue Gardener]

76. AHHHH WAAAAA Means I Want to Live

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/25/schiavo/index.html

PINELLAS PARK, Florida (CNN) -- A Florida state judge will rule by noon Saturday on a motion filed by Terri Schiavo's parents, who contend that their brain-damaged daughter has expressed the wish to live.

"She managed to articulate the first two vowel sounds, first articulating AHHHHHHH and then virtually screaming WAAAAAAAA," the motion said.

These people are fucking delusional.

[FredScuttle]

84. If that's the standard...

then I think my dog just told me to go fuck myself.

[LiberallyInclined]

94. maybe she's saying "AHHH WAAAA DIIIIE!"

all they hear is the "ahhh waaaa..." which they contend means "I want to..." and they make the assumption that it's her way of saying "i want to live"...but couldn't she just as easily be saying "I want to Die"...?

[matt819]

86. Oh come now

Man, after 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, the first miraculous words out of my mouth would be, I sure could use a cup of coffee, or maybe Ben and Jerry's. Or even a glass of water. But I...want...to...live. We have surely gone beyond The Twilight Zone and are now at the Outer Limits.

[FreedomAngel82]

92. I agree

I'd say "i'm thirsty" and I'd want to get up and walk around cause my butt would be tired.

[jazzjunkysue]

97. Live at 11: B* says, "I want to take care of the poor. Make the rich pay."

Followed by, "I made up the MWD stuff, cause the Saudi Royal family said they'd take away my allowance unless I invaded Iraq."

and

"Yeah. It was a listening device to Karl could tell me what to say."

and

"I knew my Daddy would get mad at me if I flunked that Alabama National Guard drug test."

and

"We rigged Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. Those darkies were gonna spoil everything."

and

"We can't afford to have my religous base find out about the boys visiting the white house. Look what happened to Michael Jackson. Damn."

[jayfish]

98. Let'em Say It...

I think Americans know exactly what's going on down there. Crazy talk like that strips away any remaining vernier of credibility that the Right, tenuously, had with them.

Jay

[dflprincess]

99. And, we are to believe, she said this when the tube was removed

and the medical personal present didn't report it? Do the right to lifers really think if there was any sign of awareness that the tube would have been pulled? And, for that matter, that there wouldn't have been some sign of cognitive thought long before this?

I'd write more, but I need to go down to Florida and tell Randall Terry that God wants me to sell him a bridge in Brooklyn.

[jokerman93]

100. Looks like

Looks like they'll bring on the dog act by Sunday...

[Endangered Specie]

101. wow. just wow.

:wow:

[Liberal In Texas]

104. Right! And on Easter Sunday, she's going to get up

and walk out of he hospital (rising from the dead) and hug Randall Terry. (Maybe he'll divorce his latest wife who is 22 years old and marry Terry!)

Also pigs will fly.

The Titanic will dock in New York.

President Al Gore will announce a new global environmental initiate.

Gas will be a buck and a quarter.

Atlantis will rise from the bottom of the ocean.

And the Beatles will re-unite.

-All of them...as long as we're talking about the dead rising.

[Biased Liberal Media]

106. You forgot...

And Bush will be tried as a criminal and Kerry will take his rightful place as POTUS.

Hee!

[Liberal In Texas]

107. We can only dream about that, Biased Liberal Media

I'm afraid.

Maybe in an alternate universe.

[Biased Liberal Media]

108. I hear ya

:hug:

[mondo joe]

105. Terri Schiavo signed up as new T Mobil Spokesperson

"Some wireless plans just give you static..."