Meet the new Schiavo

[Jara sang]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/19/lifesupport.struggle.ap/index.html

Comatose beaten girl breathing on her own

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (AP) -- A severely beaten and comatose 11-year-old girl is now breathing on her own, officials said Thursday, two days after Massachusetts' highest court ruled the state had the authority to remove her from life support.

This will be the only news item next week. Bushco is looking for mass distraction stories. This will be the one.

[Sequoia]

1. Don't count on it.

They don't care about children one bit. If a man gets only 60 days in jail for raping a little girl while the chili finger people get 9 years. If this bastard step father isn't even in jail for this crime....it goes on and on and never ends.

[Nutmegger]

4. But she and her crew cost Wendy's $2.5 million!!!

What has that little girl done? Has she brought in money, create jobs etc...

This country's lust after money is so sickening.

[Sequoia]

8. I was going to go there soon before the trial

but now I'd rather not.

[cali]

2. Aren't you being just a tiny bit

paranoid? They've trotted out OBL. I don't know that the fundies will seize on this. I'm sure bushco won't. Schiavo was a disaster for repubs.

[Taverner]

3. In fact, Shiavo was what turned the tide against the Repubs

It was that one single act, that sent the Repubs on a downward spiral they haven't recovered from since.

[stevedeshazer]

6. That doesn't mean they won't do it again

I'm rooting for it! :)

[Coastie for Truth]

11. I think the Superdome and Convention Center events

(contrasted with that big orange Coast Guard Helicopter CG-6011 from Otis CGAS) was the event. We all live in a Hurricane Zone, Tornado Alley, Flood Plain, Blizzard Belt, or Earthquake Fault Line - and in some way rely on FEMA and the National Guard.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. I was thrilled to read that today. VERY good news for her. Such a sad

story. I hope she continues to make improvement.

[WI_DEM]

7. yes, let's hope she continues to get better

[LittleClarkie]

9. Oh, I'm sure. But it sounds like the father is a sick bastard

just the same. He wanted her to stay on life support so that she wouldn't die. As long as she didn't die, he couldn't be charged with murder.

[Ian David]

10. That gives us plenty of chances to bring THIS up...

Fifteen minutes of choking to death sounds like a lynching
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2379001&mesg_id=2379001