I feel for this poor schmuck who, after posting a long screed at Daily Kos on why the Democrats lost in 2004, had to post an update:

Update [2005-2-25 17:33:16 by Armando]: HProf points out my brain lock – the most important difference between 1996 and 2004 was the reemergence of national security as the single most important Presidential issue.

“Ooops! I knew I forgot something…” Like 9/11.

I feel for him because first, Democracy Guy got a hold of this and let the moonbat have it right between the eyes. And if that’s not bad enough, Blogdaddy weighs in just to make sure the entire planet knows what a numbskull this guy really is.

What this boils down to is simple: When is someone going to hit the Democratic party with a two-by-four upside the head to wake them out of their stupor?

Maybe in their heart of hearts, the liberals agree with Ward Churchill. Maybe they really believe that America had it coming and that any effort on our part to defend ourselves is somehow immoral. Perhaps this is why liberals do not believe that 9/11 changed anything and that anybody who mentions that tragic day or tries to formulate policy on the basis that it should never happen again is “playing politics.”

Honest, decent people can disagree on what to do to make us safer. But to start from the premise that we are at bottom, an evil nation that deserves to have our citizens slaughtered like cattle just so that some ephemeral satisfaction can be gleaned from seeing the United States brought down on the world stage is, well…sick.

The left has deconstructed its way into political oblivion. It remains to be seen if there’s enough sense left in the Democratic party to keep it from following lemming-like over the cliff into the abyss.

NORTH KOREA TO REJOIN 6-WAY TALKS

What do Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have in common? The ability to make their political opponents look like idiots:

TOKYO (Reuters) – North Korea has told officials in South Korea it is willing to take part in six-party talks on its nuclear arms program in June, a Japanese newspaper reported.

Pyongyang also said in its message, which was conveyed to South Korea by unofficial routes and then to Japan by Seoul, that it was willing to sign a treaty with the United States by October, the conservative Sankei Shimbun said on Monday.

If John Kerry had been elected, it’s an absolute certainty that this would not have taken place. Kerry believed that initiating bi-lateral talks with North Korea was the way to get them back to the six-party negotiations.

He, like opponents of Ronald Reagan’s “Zero Option” strategy for eliminating medium range nukes in Europe during the 1980’s, didn’t have the patience to negotiate with tyrants. Back then, Walter Mondale and liberals in the press were screaming at Reagan to go back to the Russians and grovel, beg the Soviets to come back to the negotiating table. Instead, Reagan patiently built up the military, pulled off a diplomatic coup by getting our medium range missiles deployed, and then watched the Russians slink back to the bargaining table. The result was the elimination of an entire class of nuclear weapons.

Makes Dubbya look like a prophet.

PUTIN IS ONE KLUELESS EX-KGB KOMMIE

I don’t know whether to laugh or be scared to death about this:

George Bush knew Vladimir Putin would be defensive when Bush brought up the pace of democratic reform in Russia in their private meeting at the end of Bush’s four-day, three-city tour of Europe. But when Bush talked about the Kremlin’s crackdown on the media and explained that democracies require a free press, the Russian leader gave a rebuttal that left the President nonplussed. If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs? Bush was openmouthed. “Putin thought we’d fired Dan Rather,” says a senior Administration official. “It was like something out of 1984.”

That’s not all. During the joint press conference, Putin called on a reporter who asked Bush the very same question (an obvious plant).

While this would normally be the stuff of a Cox and Forkhum cartoon, it’s also enormously worrisome. I don’t know where Putin is getting his information about how things work in the United States, but whoever is giving it to him is pretty much of a loon. It makes Russia look more and more like some exotic third world country rather than a nation with 10,000 nuclear weapons.

Kind of scary that.

SYRIA “CAPTURES” SADDAM’S HALF BROTHER

Hey kids! Look who we found!

CAIRO, Egypt – Iraqi officials said Sunday that Syrian authorities had captured Saddam Hussein (news – web sites)’s half-brother and 29 other officials of the deposed dictator’s Baath Party in Syria and handed them over to Iraq (news – web sites) in an apparent goodwill gesture.

Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, a former Saddam adviser suspected of financing insurgents after U.S. troops ousted Saddam, was captured in Hasakah in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, two senior Iraqi officials told The Associated Press by telephone on condition of anonymity. Hasakah is about 30 miles from the Iraqi border.

So let me get this straight. Thirty or so Iraqi nationals are planning and carrying out terrorist activities for more than a year and a half in a country where if a flea sneezes without giving obiesance to Baby Assad it’s promptly arrested and thrown in jail. And we’re supposed to believe the Syrians just now discovered this network of terrorists on its soil?

It’s clear that Assad is running scared now, backtracking furiously in hopes of placating America long enough to salvage something out of his rapidly deteriorating position in Lebanon. If he can make his withdrawal from Lebanon seem like some kind of triumph, he has a chance of surviving. Anything less and its curtains for him, as the military as well as opposition in his own Baathist party would likely band together to oust him.

WELCOME BACK RICHARD NIXON

After taking a hiatus to serve our country, Richard Nixon is back! If you haven’t checked out his excellent blog Dead Republican Presidents, please do so.

Welcome back Dick…and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!.

SPONGEBOB’S T-MOBILE HACKED: WASHINGTON TENSE

Cross-eyed Bear has the details of why the nattily pantalooned Porifera could very well be the next scalp hanging on the lodgepole of the blogosphere.

Since rumors of the impending release of Sponge Bob’s T-mobile address book began on Saturday night, the Washington scene has been buzzing, particuarly in the wake of the blogger induced “outing” of Jeff Gannon by left wing bloggers and the anticipated right-wing blogger response. At Large has learned that response may be at hand.

MOONBAT UPDATE

Van Helsing has the telling story of a moonbat standing in the way of progress by hanging on to his decreipt condo while trying to extort more money from the developer. Funny how moonbat’s get all rabid about “private property rights” when it’s their private property that someone wants to fool with.

Unemployed “peace studies” major Dan Goldstein is the only resident of a converted warehouse in a crappy part of Brooklyn. Everyone else unfortunate enough to have lived in the building has taken advantage of an extremely generous offer by Forest City Ratner, the development company that is trying to convert this particular slum into a new home for the New Jersey Nets, in addition to office and apartment towers — a project that will draw significant revenue into a community in sore need of it. It’s believed that residents were given double what they paid for their condos. But Goldstein apparently doesn’t need the money, having socked away more than his share back when he worked for a living, for AOL during what calls “the go-go 90s.”

THE CASE FOR LIFE

Sunnye from “The Sunnye Side of Life” relates a story with a strong message for why choosing life can be a glorious choice:

In 1996, I became pregnant during a rape. Due to complications, I was
advised to terminate my pregnancy. I refused all the way through. He
was born dead after being trapped in the birth canal and strangled by
the umbilical cord, but they resuscitated him. The social workers
told me that he needed to be institutionalized, that he may have
cerebral palsy after being deprived of oxygen. He needed a
craniectomy at 2 months to stop his seizures. They tried everything
to make me give up my son. I kept him, prayed for him every day, and
believed that my God could work a miracle.

Read the rest of this remarkable story.

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.

Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.

My own post from last week received 2/3 of a vote…better than I’ve done in a while. I didn’t get any votes at all the week before…deservedly so because I sent the wrong post! I mixed up the post I sent to Carnival of the Vanities with the one I was sending to the Watcher’s Vote!

I’m a dummypuppen.

Actually, if you’re not entering as many of these “Carnivals” as possible, you should be doing so. It’s a great way to get good exposure for your writing.

Another linkfest I’ve recently found is “The Best of Me Symphony.” Run by Gary at the Owners Manual, the Symphony accepts posts that are at least 60 days old. So, if you have a post that’s a couple of months old that yopu feel didn’t get the exposure it deserved, you can submit it to Gary’s excellent linkfest.

The Watcher has a post every week with a link to the current linkfests.

The above picture is not an artists rendering. It’s an actual stereoscopic photograph of the north pole of Mars. What it shows is some of the most compelling evidence to date that Mars is a much different place than we thought just a short year ago.

The picture shows part of the Martian ice cap. There’s also strong evidence (the darker shaded areas) of relatively recent volcanic activity and what scientists call “fluvial” flows, which could be glacier activity.

What has scientists excited is the fact that the evidence points to volcanic activity on Mars within the last 20 million (and perhaps as recently as 2.5 million) years. That’s a relative blink of the eye in cosmic terms. Previously, it was thought that volcanic activity had ceased on Mars as long as several hundred million years ago.

The volcanic activity triggered a melting that caused water to once again run on Mars, maybe for the last time. The $64,ooo question being asked today is whether or not it’s possible Mars is still geologically active. Such a finding would call into question most assumptions we have about Mars being a “dead” planet.

The image above is Kasei Valles, one of the largest outflow channels on Mars, and contains a lot of evidence for glacial and fluvial activity over much of the planet’s history.

The scour marks in the valley, shown in the image on the left, are most likely due to glacial erosion than by water erosion. This is contrary to what was previously thought.

The glacier that caused this valley was fed by water from the Echus Chasma region, which was driven out from underneath the surface by volcanic activity. Water was released by heating from volcanic activity in the channel floor as relatively recently as 20 million years ago.

What all this adds up to is that Mars is a much more interesting place than scientists could have imagined. Thanks to the two NASA rovers Spirit and Oppotunity as well as the ESA probe Mars Express, our knowledge of the red planet has taken a dramatic leap in the last year and only whets our appetite for further discoveries.

Pictures courtesy of the European Space Agency

Tonight at the Oscars, in addition to the usual speeches thanking mothers, fathers, friends, co-workers, hairdressers, and dog groomers. we’re probably going to hear the occasional anti-American, anti-Bush rant about Iraq.

This is fine. It is, after all, Hollywood. And Hollywood as we all know is a place of dreams; not to mention a place of self-absorbed, self-obsessed, drug-addled nincompoops with a collective I.Q. not much larger than the number of steps in an alchoholic rehabilitation program. Couple this with a child-like faith in their own intellectual and moral superiority and what will be on display tonight will be American liberalism at its finest. Or, in Hollywood jargon, kind of like Mary Poppins meets The Hunchback of Notre Dame with our Hollywood heroes flying in to do battle with the ogrish George W.

So, while the children on stage complain, sniff, grumble, and rant, the grownups have been busy really changing the world.

CAIRO, Feb. 26 – President Hosni Mubarak asked Egypt’s Parliament on Saturday to amend the Constitution to allow for direct, multiparty presidential elections this year for the first time in the nation’s history.

On the face of it, the unexpected proposal from Mr. Mubarak, a former Air Force general who has ruled Egypt unchallenged since 1981, represents a sea change in a country with a 50-year history of one-party governments.

Who woulda thunk it?

Mubarak took this action one day after American Secretary of State (and new international sex kitten, if you believe the Washington Post) Condi Rice cancelled a planned trip to Egypt in protest against the arrest of a democracy activist:

Ayman Nour, head of Al Ghad, a newly approved political party, was imprisoned on Jan. 29 on allegations of forging some 2,000 signatures to gain a license for his party last year. He denies the accusation, and government critics note that his continued detention seems to undermine the president’s commitment to greater democracy.

Everybody on the planet can see the obvious connection. Mubarak, an inveterate survivor, sees the handwriting on the wall as country after country in the region breaks for democracy.

And Cairo isn’t the only Capital where the siren song of participatory government is being sung. Lebanon, a nation that’s seen more than a quarter century of sectarian strife is now uniting behind the idea of evicting their long-time oppressors and occupiers, the Syrian army:

JERUSALEM —The U.S. led war against terrorism and its advances in Iraq and Afghanistan have enhanced the climate in the Middle East and will enable the international community to force Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon likely by May, former Lebanese Prime Minister Michel Aoun told WorldNetDaily today in an exclusive interview.

“The U.S. and EU are backing us in our movement to free Lebanon,” said Aoun, speaking to WND from France. “They are interfering through diplomacy and threats of sanctions, and the situation is such today that Syria must comply. If the U.S. and Europe follow through, Syria will be obliged to withdraw before Lebanese elections in May.”

Columnist Thomas Friedman, sometime supporter of Bush’s mid-east policy, is encouraged:

After the Hariri murder, Lebanese just snapped. Lebanon became the story of a broad majority of Lebanese Christians, Muslims and Druse no longer willing to remain silent, but instead telling the Syrians, and their Lebanese puppet president, to “go home.” Lebanon went from a country where few dared whisper “When will Syria leave?” to a country where nearly everyone was shouting it, and Syria was having to answer.

What liberals from Hollywood to Harvard Yard are going to have to start dealing with is the possibility that, once again, they’re wrong. They’ve been wrong so often over the past 2 years (hell, over the past quarter century) that, if they were studio executives, their record would have required them to be fired for gross incompetence.; kind of like Oliver Stone’s “Alexander” meets Michale Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate.”

From “Afghanistan can never have democracy” to “elections will never be held in Iraq,” liberals haven’t only been wrong, they’ve been clueless. The world wept as Afghani women, who until recently were beaten to death if they went uncovered in public, emerged from polling places having exercised their right to vote. And can anyone forget the tears of joy shed by Iraqi citizens as they raised their purple-stained fingers to the sky in triumph following their election last month?

Elections in Palestine, democracy roiling in Lebanon, Egypt now in lock-step, rumblings in Syria, the radioactive mullahs getting more and more nervous…all of this is a direct result of the policies initiated by George Bush and the United States government (Hat Tip: U.S. Military).

Looks like the makings of a real blockbuster.

I read this letter reproduced in part below courtesy of And Rightly So and realized how old fashioned I truly am. You see, I have something of an outdated sentimentality about patriotism, love of country, and an admiration for the United States military.

It’s hard being patriotic in public. Write something nice about the United States on your blog and you’re likely to get a Ward Churchill wannabe telling you what an evil dupe you are…or worse. This is fine. We call this free speech. Even if that speech is hurtful and deliberately designed to inflict pain (giving the lie to the term “compassionate liberal”) the kids referenced in the letter below are fighting and dying for their detractor’s right to spout their bilious hatred to their heart’s content and not have to worry about being lined up against a wall and shot or sent to a gulag-like prision for “re-education.”

This only makes me admire them more.

There are times when all of us have had second thoughts about this war. Mine have had to do with the young men and women we’re asking to fight. On more than one occasion I’ve taken George Bush to task for trying too hard to carry on “business as usual” as our people are fighting and dying over there. I can understand the political necessity of the strategy. After all, when you enemies are so bitterly hateful and are looking for any opening at all to tear you apart like a piece of raw meat in a shark tank, you tend to downplay your political vulnerabilities. That was John Kerry’s problem in the last election. Bush made Kerry’s position(s) on Iraq the issue, not the war itself or Bush’s handling of it.

Good strategy…but done partially at the expense of our warriors over there.

By not calling on us to sacrifice much, I believe in a way, the President demeans the sacrifices of our men and women in Iraq. But what kinds of sacrifices could be relevant? Many liberals want to raise taxes to pay for the cost of the war. If the present pace of spending on Iraq keeps up and if the threat from Iran and North Korea doesn’t lessen in the next 18 months, the moonbats are going to have company. I can guarantee that fiscal conservatives will be up in arms if we keep spending $18-20 billion a month on the war effort as we are now without an equal cut in expenditures on the domestic side. And those cuts will cause pain and involve real sacrifice.

Which brings me back to these kids and the sacrifices they are making:

I have never seen anything like this. Trucks and Humvees that looked like they had just come through a shredder. Their equipment was full of shrapnel blast holes, and missing entire major pieces that you could tell had been blasted by IEDs. These kids looked bad too! I mean, sunken eyes, thin as rails, and that 1000-yd. stare they talk about after direct combat. Made me pretty damn embarrassed to be a “rear area warrior”.

All people could do was stop in their tracks and stare… and feel like me…like I wanted to bow my head in reverence. A Marine Captain stationed with me, was standing next to me, also headed to the gym. He said, “Part of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 8th Marines, sir. Took the heaviest losses of any single unit up north as part of Task Force Danger, sir.”

As the convoy rolled up, all of us watching just slowly crept toward these kids as they dismounted the Hummers and 5-tons. Of course, we were all shiny and clean compared to these warriors. This kids looked like they had just crawled from Iraq. I had my security badge and ID around my neck, and started to help them unload some of their duffle bags.

A crusty Gunny came up to me and said “sir, you don’t have to do that…” I said, “Gunny…yes I do…” They all looked like they were in high school, or younger!! All held themselves sharply and confident, despite the extreme fatigue you could tell they had endured. “You guys out of the triangle?” I asked. “Yes, sir.” 14 months, and twice into the grinder, sir” (both fights for Fallujah).

Read the whole thing here.

We here at The House take seriously our responsibilities to inform, educate, and propagandize the public-to the extent that anything I say or do has any relevance to anyone other than Significant Otherhawk and my large, extended family.

That being said, I feel it necessary, as a public service, to post this excellent test from Spacemonkey over at Frank J.’s.

Top 10 Indicators You May Be Left of Liberal

10. You never could throw your full support behind John Kerry once you found out his first name is found in the Bible, of all places.

9. One of the few reasons you couldn’t bring yourself to assasinate the president is you’d have to actually buy a gun.

8. Your opinions and values carry more weight than those that oppose you, because you care.

7. To save money you bought an effigy of Bush made of asbestos. You later returned it when you realized ‘the bush burned with fire, but the bush was not consumed.’ is ALSO found in the Bible.

6. You believe the death penalty should be abolished…after it’s applied to those that support it.

5. You believe that any news service that doesn’t keep ‘Bush is EV1L Incarnate’ as its lead story is undeniably linked to a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

4. Four years later and you are STILL protesting outside the Broward County Courthouse for Gore-Lieberman 2000.

3. You have made a sign which you carry to every protest that just says ‘NO!’. It’s written in your own blood from when you carved ‘I’m Sorry, World’ on your forehead.

2. You acknowlege the ‘Vast Right Wing Conspiracy’ exists and is inherently evil but often lose sleep at night worrying there are smaller ‘Widespread Right Wing Conspiracies’ that need to be stamped out too and aren’t getting the attention they deserve.

And the number one Indicator You May Be Left of Liberal….

1. You strongly believe cannibalism is wrong. Not because it takes a human life but because it’s…meat.

Marvin is in the House!

WHO SLEPT WITH GANNON? (By Marvin Moonbat)

One of my major responsibilities as a member of the Reality Based Community (RBC) is to speculate on repugnut wrongdoing and then announce my findings before any evidence is found.

While this may sound a little odd, I would direct your attention to the debate over global warming. Or the obvious White House involvement in the 9/11 conspiracy. We in the RBC never let subjective things like “facts” get in the way of our search for truth. First of all, if we did that we wouldn’t have much of a case, would we? But more to the point, it’s important how you feel about an issue. This is what separates us from you unfeeling, uncaring wingnuts. Emotions play a vitally necessary role in uncovering the truth.

For instance, I can feel the truth surrounding the Jimmy Jeff scandal. I don’t have any evidence about some of these things yet, but know them to be true because I believe them to be. Sort of like “wishful thinking” except its better because being a member of the RBC, I’m endowed with an insight and intelligence far beyond what any wingnut would consider to be “average.” It sort of places me in a special, self-selected “aristocracy of the mind.”

Pretty cool, huh?

So I’m looking at this Jimmy Jeff scandal and saying to myself “Marvin, something isn’t quite right here.” Here you’ve got this gay escort with no journalism credentials working for a partisan rag who uses an assumed name and gets a White House press pass to lob softball questions at the President’s Press Secretary Scott McClellan. That just simply isn’t fair. Why there must be dozens of White House reporters who’d love to ask McClellan questions…you know, important, non-partisan ones like “Is the President upset with the fact that he’s murdered a million Iraqi’s and has the blood of 1500 American soldiers on his hands?

Just once I’d like to hear a reporter ask as good non-partisan question like that!

Anyway, it’s got to be obvious to anyone with half a brain-like those of us in the RBC-that Jimmy Jeff had to be sleeping around to get this kind of treatment. The only question is who? Here’s my list of probables:

Karl (The Blade) Rove

I know that by mentioning his name, I’m probably going to have my mail opened and my hard drive searched, but can anyone doubt that Karl Rove is intimately (chuckle) involved in this scandal? Nothing that goes on in the White House (or the world for that matter) is beyond Rove’s Machievellian reach. It stands to reason that since no woman would ever sleep with him (he’s pretty ugly after all) Rove has to get his jollies from somebody, somewhere. Who better than a fake newsman? In typical Rove fashion, he kills two birds with one stone. He gets a partisan hack into the press room while playing a little slap and tickle on the side.

I heard he met Jimmy Jeff in a gay Republican chat room on the internet. His handle was either “The Blade” or “The Prince.” I’m still investigating.

Dick (“Big D”) Cheney

Dick Cheney has been called “A Man’s Man” for more reasons than one! It’s obvious he swings both ways. He is, after all from Wyoming. What else is there to do in frickin’ Wyoming for God’s sake!

Piece of evidence #2; Did you ever notice that Cheney is never in the White House Press Room? He’s just too clever by half! He knows that if he ever showed up in the Press Room and the reporters saw he and Jimmy Jeff looking at each other they’d know right away that the two of them were havinga little tete a tete, so to speak. (Hee Hee!) We in the RBC are particularly good at discovering links when there’s no evidence to support them.

I think that Jimmy Jeff met Cheney at a White House Christmas party last year after Rove had tired of his little “boy toy” and passed him on to his old buddy Dick. It makes sense. Again, it’s Rovethink. He gets Cheney involved in a homo relationship and then gets to hold it over his head if Cheney tries to step out of line.

Brilliant!

The Smirking Bonobo

Well…why not? In case you didn’t know, Bonobos are closely related to chimapanzees but have a different social structure. They use sex to solve problems in the group. Sort of like Chloe and me. Whenever we have a problem, we screw like rabbits for three days. By the time were exhausted, we’ve forgotten what we were fighting about…or at least I’ve forgotten about it. I’m not so sure about Chloe…

Sex and power…that’s what its all about. Doesn’t matter if its with a woman or a man, everyone knows that Presidents have sex with everything and everyone. It’s the way they maintain dominance. You’ve heard the rumors about Condi and Georgie? Well, why not Georgie and Jimmy Jeff? Besides, there are other rumors I’ve heard. How about Georgie and Rummy? How else can you explain our Chimp in Chief keeping Donnie as Secretary of Defense? Or Georgie and Alberto. I mean, why else would the President name a Hispanic as Attorney General? Everyone knows wingnuts hate Hispanics. It’s got to be something else.

There are other rumors about our chickenhawk President that I’m checking out right now. If any of them pan out into full blown unwarranted speculation, I’ll let you know.

Raven at And Rightly So is a medical professional who cares for the aged and chronically ill. Although I didn’t ask her, from her commentary on the following “Exit Protocol” (Ravens comments follow the ~ sign) she appears to have some experience in being present when feeding tubes are either removed or “clamped off.” With permission, I’ve reprinted her post on what it’s like to starve to death.

NOTE: If you’re at all squeamish, I suggest you NOT read the following.

This “Exit Protocol” is a recipe for how to kill someone by starvation and dehydration, and then manage their symptoms while they slowly die.

For instance, the nurses will put lip balm on Terri because her lips will crack, peel, and bleed from the dehydration.
~And her mouth will not open after a day or two…the aides will pry it open to do oral care. They’ll do a good job with it though.

They’ll use body lotion because Terri’s skin will begin to break down and show signs of flaking, drying, cracking, or being parched.
~Hopefully they’ll use a nice scented lotion so Terri can have stimulation. The aides will never forget the smell.

They’ll put a “scopolamine patch” behind her ear to enhance the drying up of saliva and other secretions.
~Can you imagine how your mouth would feel?

“Chux pads” will need to be used-and changed quite often because of incontinence of Terri’s bowels and bladder.
~Only for a few days. Then there will be nothing left to void. Ever had a UTI? That’s what it will feel like.

When Terri begins to writhe in pain (multifocal myoclonus) and she becomes agitated from metabolic changes and electrolyte imbalances due to no fluids or nutrition, the attending staff will have to give her 5 to 10 mg of Valium (diazepam)-rectally-every 4 hours.
~Ha. This will only “cure” the movements, not the pain. She will still have tears.

If Terri experiences a Grand Mal seizure, they’ll give her 15 mg of Valium immediately, and then as needed thereafter.
~Ever have a seizure? It’s not fun. And they can kill you.

When her body shows signs of an inability to breathe by gasping for air (dyspnea), they will immediately give Terri 2 to 4 mg of morphine every 4 hours.
~And the morphine will cause her respirations to decline even further, thus aiding in the process of her death.

And all of this will go on for 7 to 10 days…
~Maybe longer.

For those who think that the Terri Schiavo matter is a “Right to Die” issue, you simply must read the following from the “Voice for Terri” blog:

If you’ve heard about Terri only through the news media, you’ve probably been led to believe that Terri is in a coma… that shes brain dead…that she’s a vegetable… that she’s on extraordinary life support… or that she wants to die but her parents stubbornly won’t let it happen.

Terri can breathe for herself. She is not on a ventilator. Her vital organs are working fine, which means she is not hooked up to a machine. Furthermore, she is not dying or being “kept alive” by artificial means. She does not have a terminal disease, and she will be able to feel pain if she is starved to death.

In fact, if you want a short history of Terri’s condition and the court case to determine whether she lives or dies, keep scrolling for a very good wrap up.