Happy Easter!  He is risen!  He is risen, indeed!



Hallelujah! 

Terri S. is fading fast, from what I'm reading.  Sunken eyes.  Peeling, flaking skin.  Bleeding from her nose.

Yup, sounds like a "peaceful" death to me. 

A most valid point that's been made recently regarding her supposed comment regarding not being kept alive via machines:

A feeding tube is not a machine.  Not only is it not a machine,
but this particular mode of feeding and hydrating someone wasn't
available then, so she most definitely wasn't referring to it when she made an off-hand remark about life support.

It's a scary thought, that a throw-away comment during casual
conversation can be dredged up years later and given the burden of law.

Folks, we'd all better be very, very careful
about what we say.  If we become helpless and in the control of
"loved ones" who want to see us dead, what we said years before can and
will be used against us.

You know what feature I want in an automobile?

A decent horn.

A horn that gets noticed.  A horn that makes a statement.  A
horn that let's the world - or at least the yahoo that darted out right
in front of me - know Anne Is Here And She Ain't Happy.

Instead, what does Chevrolet provide?

Beep. 

BEEP?  Beep? 

I don't wanna say "beep", I wanna say HONK!!! 

Fame has its downside as well as its upside, apparently.  Nothing like being spotlighted by Slate to attract the wack-o liberal crowd.

No, no . . . not me . . . John R.! 

Is there no noun we won't force into a verb?

What's really frustrating is the newest faux-verb comes from Fort
Worth's school board president, whom you'd think would know
better. 

The district has not made a list of schools to be closed, but school
board President William H. Koehler said that several elementary schools
have a small enrollment, and the district would save money if some of
them were closed.

"The fact is we've got to look at the district as a whole," he said. "My
issue is can you afford to advantage 100 to 200 elementary kids and
disadvantage 80,000 others.

ARGH!!! 

Just talked to Alex!

He's being excelled out of the music school, probably next month. 
That's only a month or five weeks early, but still . . . turns out they
may leave Virginia a week or two after we show up for our visit, to
come to Texas for leave before heading off to wherever it is he's
posted.

Which he still thinks is going to be Italy.  That was the only opening, it's no longer posted, and he's being excelled out.

Alex says he should get his orders in a week or so.

Oh my.  An agenda?  You think?

This shapes up like one of the "cast of characters" in an Agatha Christie murder mystery:

George Felos is the attorney
for Michael Schiavo, and a founding member of the National Legal
Advisors Committee on Choice in Dying, not to mention having served as
chairman of the board of The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast. 
BTW, that is the same board which oversees Woodside Hospice, the one
acting as Terri Schiavo's death chamber.  Also on the board of the
Hospice of the Florida Suncoast is Barbara Sheen Todd,  a county
commissioner who has worked closely with another county commissioner . . .

George Greer, the Pinellas
county judge who is unalterably, implacably determined to see Terri
Schiavo dead.  Another Pinellas county judge is John Lenderman,
whose sister, Martha Lenderman, sits on the board of Hospice of the
Florida Suncoast, which oversees Woodside Hospice, the director of
which is . . .

Mary Labyak, who has been the secretary/treasurer and board member of Partnership of Caring, a pro-euthanasia organization. 

Anyone notice a pattern here?

Of course, the question intrudes, what the deuce is Terri Schiavo doing in a hospice anyway? 
She wasn't dying when she was admitted to it, yet hospices are, by
definition, places where terminally ill people go to die.

Heck of a place, Woodside Hospice; wonder what its slogan is. 
Perhaps:  "If you aren't dying when you arrive, we can take of that for you"?

Oho!  Le plot thickens.

The neurologist who assured The Death Judge, Greer, that Terri S. is in a permanent vegetative state?  

Ronald Cranford, hired by Michael Schiavo, who was doubtless impressed
by the doctor's credentials as a 'right-to-die' activist, and who was
the featured speaker at the 1992 Hemlock Society national conference.

"He
blamed "right-to-lifers" and "disability groups" for discouraging
families from making the choice for euthanasia. He applauded European
values that embrace euthanasia."

And by jingo, don't we all want to take Greenwich time from that
flagship continent for godly living, Europe, in matters of morality?

I don't agree with every word what comes out of Doug Wilson's mouth,
but by jingo, he's written a boffo piece on the Schindler/Schiavo
mess:  Schindlers' List

Read it and be edified. 

Whatever happened to stores being closed on Easter?

Okay, restaurants serving Easter lunch I can see, as well as movie
theatres.  Those have traditionally been open for business on
Easter.

But Dairy Queen?

Sad, but true.  And because of it, Charles shan't be at the family
Easter dinner, because I didn't think to tell him it is at 5:00 p.m.,
since what difference does it make?  Only thing I'd been concerned
about was making sure it didn't conflict with church.

Turns out this was Mega Bad Planning on my part, as he has to be at work at 5:00 Easter Sunday afternoon. 

I remember when grocery stores would be closed on Easter Sunday, and
now they're open, too.  Doubtless Walgreens and CVS, along with
Target and Wal-Mart, will have their respective doors thrown open on
Resurrection Day.

Pitiful.  Just pitiful.