The Schiavo Delay Connection

With the risk of offending some of my readers I am tackling a rather difficult topic. Tom Delay recently defended his own "Medical Terrorism" (16 years ago he pulled the plug on his own father. His father suffered a severe brain injury) By explain htat his father would not have been able to breathe on his own and thus was dying. All Terri schiavo can not do is eat. Okay now there are two issues here. I think many people don't realize that the feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive was not some tube inserted into her throat that allowed her to enjoy food. No this tube is directly inserted into the wall of her stomach. Terri Schiavo can not eat period. She can swallow she can not chew. I think that if more people realized this they would not be so quick to condemn her husband. But getting back to Tom Delay. There are two essential things humans need. Air and Food/water in that order. Yes lack of oxygen will kill you faster than lack of food. But it is still the same concept. So for spokesman of the Family Research Council to say

However, Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, said that Mr. DeLay did not act inconsistently, and that the congressman's father could not be compared to Ms. Schiavo, who was receiving no medical treatment other than nutrition and hydration through a feeding tube.

"Two different situations," Mr. Perkins said. "With Terri Schiavo, there was no plug pulled, there was no respirator taken away from her. She was simply by court order deprived of food and water.
Is utter medical foolishness. Okay I have said my peace. Yell at me if you must.

This Day in History.

So today is what I would consider a rather good day in History.On this Date in 1979. Begin and Sadat signed a historic peace treaty formalizing the Camp David Accords of the previous year.
There are some who have argued that by simply making a bilateral treaty instead of a multilateral treaty Egypt and Israel doomed future peace efforts in the middle east. I disagree Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin took a huge step forward in making Peace. They showed that is was possible for two hated enemies(who had fought four wars in the past 30 years) to normalize relations. It is unfortunate that Sadat lost his life in his cause for Peace.

I hope those Scandanavians are laughing right now....

So Joe Klien of Time Magazine has a rather interesting theory. If Peace in the Middle East actually happens and Democracy spreads like a Forest Fire(no pun intended considering the region) than President Bush and his Bush Doctrine should be worthy of the Noble Peace Prize. Yeah thats right the Noble Peace Prize. As one of my friens said it's like 1984 Peace=War. Needless to say I almost threw up when I read the title of his article. I hope you feel the same way as well. If not you are no longer welcome to read this Blog......

Beware the Ides of March

Well I think the title says it all about this day in history but lets talk about it anyway.
44 B.C.E. Julius Caesar Dictator of the Roman Republic(yes he was not the first Emperor, Augustus was) is assassinated by Brutus and his fellow Senators thus giving the great phrase
Et Tu Brute......