PUBLIC FORUM.What would I do? Whatever your position on the Terri Schiavo Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo (December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), from St. Petersburg, Florida, United States was a woman who suffered brain damage and became dependent on a feeding tube. tragedy, it should act as a catalyst for discussion of this topic. Considering the time of year, I shall add a fifth question to the four traditional questions at my Passover Seder The Passover Seder (Hebrew: סֵדֶר, seðɛɾ, "order", "arrangement") is a Jewish ritual feast held on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover (the 15th day of Hebrew month of Nisan). table this year: What would I want my family to do if I were in Terri's dilemma? - Venida Korda Sylmar Get out Re ``Bush signs Schiavo bill'' (March 21): Get out of where you do not belong. This is what I say to Congress. This Florida case has been through the courts, and you have no right to redirect the laws in the middle of some case that your special interests want you to get into. You have no idea what has gone on in this case. It is ridiculous that you and the president are grandstanding on this issue because your ``right-to-life'' backers force you to do it. Leave me and my living will alone! - William Cunningham For other persons named William Cunningham, see William Cunningham (disambiguation). William Cunningham (December 29, 1849 - 1919), English economist, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. Altadena Shame on America We jail people who starve their animals to death. Animals can't speak nor care for themselves, yet we fight for their rights. We punish those who are cruel to animals. Terri Schiavo's husband, Michael, has a fiancee and children that he has fathered by her. He will not grant a divorce to Terri. He will not grant her parents custody of her. She has not been allowed to leave her room in years. She is not on life support. Shame on America. We wouldn't do this to a dog. - Jacalyn Williams Northridge Sad day Saturday was a sad day for all Americans. If Congress can involve itself in the Terri Schiavo situation, it can insert itself into every part of our personal lives. That was not the intention of our forefathers forefathers npl → antepasados mpl forefathers npl → ancêtres mpl forefathers npl → Vorfahren or the Constitution, which clearly defines congressional powers. Just to make it certain, the Tenth Amendment The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: restated that fact. Whether we are conservatives or liberals, we all need to be on guard against those who would take our right to manage our private lives. - Don Evans Canoga Park Read carefully Re ``Arnold to kill death benefits for widows?'' (March 15): The official title and summary of the public pension ballot initiative Gov. Schwarzenegger and Assemblyman Richman support reads: ``Eliminates death, disability benefits for such (public) employees.'' So how can they deny that their initiative would eliminate death and disability protection for police and firefighters, among others? The lesson to be learned: Read all ballot initiative petitions closely before you sign. And don't sign the pension initiative. - Steve Mehlman Communications director California State Employees Association The California State Employees Association (CSEA), founded in 1931 in Sacramento, California, is the largest state employee organization in California. It worked to create the first retirement system for California state workers, successfully fought for collective bargaining for Sacramento Fun overkill overkill Vox populi An excess of anything Re ``A shot in the dark'' (March 18): The Daily News describes Phil Perrier as a ``humor writer.'' I want to suggest a ``hilarious humor writer.'' I belly-laughed throughout his last piece. However, I think he implied Robert Blake's guilt with a bit too much fun overkill. I buy the jurors' acquittal verdict. - Peter Kirby Peter Kirby (born December 17, 1931 in Montreal, Quebec) was a Canadian bobsledder who competed in the mid-1960s. He won a gold medal in the four-man event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. Granada Hills City of Angels cuts Re ``City of Angels school program faces district cuts'' (March 15): So here we are again facing yet more budget cuts in the education of our kids. Once again programs established to help students are facing serious cutbacks and complete elimination (City of Angels). And I sit here wondering where is the outrage? Where are the questions to our local and state officials to get it together and stop picking away at the education of our kids? As a parent with an elementary-school child enrolled at City of Angels I will seek alternative home-schooled programs outside of the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) . My child's excellent test scores won't be available to boost any more of your schools. LAUSD, you have failed me one too many times. - Elizabeth Carreon San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Pope still leads Re ``Pope's ability'' (Your Opinions, March 17): No doubt our society prefers not to see the Holy Father now that he has lost his athletic physique. This society prefers to put the old and infirm INFIRM. Weak, feeble. 2. When a witness is infirm to an extent likely to destroy his life, or to prevent his attendance at the trial, his testimony de bene esge may be taken at any age. 1 P. Will. 117; see Aged witness.; Going witness. into rest homes so that we don't have to witness their physical suffering. It makes us uncomfortable. However, in doing so, we cheat ourselves from their wisdom and experience. The Holy Father still leads us all in wisdom, prayer and spirituality. Moreover, he is a living example of the value of human life from conception until natural death. He is proof that there is dignity and worth even in illness and pain - proponents of euthanasia do not want us to see this proof. - Valerie P. Giggie Lancaster Life in L.A. Life is Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. is exactly what you find in your apartment building - if you're one of the unlucky ones that have to live in one. What at one time was a nice place to live has slowly turned into a Third World nation. Nobody seems to be employed and in turn are up at all hours of the night. There is never any parking because each apartment has well over the amount of people that should be living there. It is dirty. People are rude and have no respect for anyone. Why venture anywhere to see what the city is like when you can see what it's like right in your back yard. - Robert Henri Robert Henri (June 25, 1865 - July 12, 1929) was an American painter notable for his teaching and leadership of the Ashcan School movement in art. Early life He was born Robert Henry Cozad Tarzana Assisted-suicide bill The Democrats/liberals have been accused of not proposing alternatives to the failing Social Security system. Now they have come up with a plan: kill the frail and ailing. Convince them to end their lives as swiftly as possible through suicide. Thus Social Security can remain solvent under its present system and greedy heirs can cash in on their inheritance. ``Swift'' is the operative word since the social satirist Jonathan Swift proposed a somewhat related modest proposal many years ago. - Harry Nieves Sylmar DeLay's ethics Tom DeLay, in his determined effort to become the quintessential McCarthy clone among myriad right-wing sleaze sleaze n. A sleazy condition, quality, or appearance: "His record of public service is untouched by any stain of shadiness or sleaze" James J. Kilpatrick. merchants, has emerged as the leader of the horde. The entire Right Wing Party is complicitous in DeLay's total lack of ethics. Their recent changing of the rules of the Ethics Committee ethics committee A multidisciplinary hospital body composed of a broad spectrum of personnel–eg, physicians, nurses, social workers, priests, and others, which addresses the moral and ethical issues within the hospital. See DNR, Institutional review board. to protect miscreants like DeLay is evidence, if any more is needed, that duplicity DUPLICITY, pleading. Duplicity of pleading consists in multiplicity of distinct matter to one and the same thing, whereunto several answers are required. Duplicity may occur in one and the same pleading. is the lifeblood, the mother's milk Noun 1. mother's milk - milk secreted by a woman who has recently given birth milk - produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young , the raison d'etre rai·son d'ê·tre n. pl. rai·sons d'être Reason or justification for existing. [French : raison, reason + de, of, for + être, to be. of their party. Tom DeLay, the erstwhile pest exterminator, is one pest who needs to be extirpated. - Zachary Charles Burbank History will note Years from now, I believe George W. Bush is going to go down in history as the man who brought America, the leading country in the world, down to a third-class nation. He inherited a nation where the previous president left him with a strong economy and was paying off the national debt. Bush changed all that. Now the rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer and our national debt is getting out of control. Because of his policies, the dollar is worth less and prices are skyrocketing. Let's stop blaming this on 9-11. Put the blame where it belongs, right on George W. Bush. - Stan Niedwicki Woodland Hills Perot's lesson The budget deficit is out of control. Have we already forgotten the math lesson Ross Perot H. Ross Perot (born June 27, 1930) is an American businessman from Texas, who is best known for seeking the office of President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962 and later sold the company to General Motors and founded Perot gave the nation? We need to be focused on solutions that are good for all Americans, not just those who can afford to buy whatever they need, from health care to good educations for their children. Republicans are pushing through this budget before critics and media have had the chance to engage in public debate. Please stop this train before it leaves the station, and most Americans behind. - Donna Ross-Jones Studio City |
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