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301 [lbo-talk] Re: terri schiavo -- rank: 1000

>Yesterday, there was a guy on the radio confirming what my mother >has told me, as has a woman who had her mother and MIL in hospice >care. People don't really feel a whole lot of pain or hunger when >they're dying. They often ask, "Shouldn't I feel hungry?" This is >also the case in starvation studies. The body simply shuts down and >doesn't feel hungry. > Terri's condition is not terminal. She is not dying as an old person would die at the end of life. She is ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 22 16:03:23 PST 2005

302 [lbo-talk] Re: terri schiavo -- rank: 1000

> >I know it's usually dumb to start asking the lawyers here to articulate >the legal angle to these kinds of stories, but I can't stand it anymore. >Is this case just full of shit or what? > >/jordan I cannot resist this one but it will be the last. This is from a lawyer cousin of a friend of mine: I don't understand this one bit. If the judge said, it was okay to kill this poor angel (which it is not), then take a gun and plug her a few times and that would be (wrongly) that ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 22 14:20:50 PST 2005

303 [lbo-talk] Re: terri schiavo -- rank: 1000

> > >Schiavo could do the same to them and he hasn't, in spite of all the >abuse heaped on him. My money's on the likelihood that the parents >were greedy at one time and, since if the husband divorces, they >stand to gain $100k, book and movie deals, talk show circuits and a >reality based TV show -- Why put up with this abuse if you could >have gotten what you wante--$1 million--by dropping the case? > > I am certainly not claiming to know the personal details of ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 22 14:07:29 PST 2005

304 [lbo-talk] Re: terri schiavo -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle Who speaks for Terri Schiavo? - Mary Johnson Tuesday, March 22, 2005 "We didn't know what Terri wanted," Michael Schiavo told TV's Larry King on Friday. "But this is what we want." The tragic case of the woman who cannot speak for herself has politicians intoning about the "sanctity of life" and right-to-die advocates insisting it should be a private family matter. For the organized U.S. disability-rights movement, the issue is one of civil a ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 22 13:36:35 PST 2005

305 [lbo-talk] Re: terri schiavo -- rank: 1000

>a lousy $100,000. What? sorry it was one million. I left off some zeros in my haste to get to my chiropratic appt. > >>Here's the part I haven't seen discussed on this list: >>She was bulemic. The heart attack was caused by a potassium imbalance, >>which was caused by her bulemia. I saw a neurologist on MSNBC who had been one of Terri's doctors. He stated very clearly that she was not in a persistant vegetative state and that she had not had a heart attack which some p ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 22 13:15:18 PST 2005

306 [lbo-talk] Schiavo: big majority against the Reps -- rank: 1000

>Chuck wrote: >I really don't give a shit about the Schiavo case, but I think that >the American Left is going to tune this out and end up getting >screwed by the aftermath. All of the polls show that most Americans >think the government should stay out of this difficult situation. >But the issue here isn't ethics. The right wing is playing this as >another opportunity to mobilize their grassroots. Just look at the >presence of Terry Randall in this controversy. > The ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 22 09:32:33 PST 2005

307 [lbo-talk] privatization in Chile -- rank: 1000

Can anyone direct me to papers or articles that evaluate the Chilean privatized social security system? Marta --

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Date:	Thu Mar 17 10:24:08 PST 2005

308 [lbo-talk] Cuts Low Income Programs/Further Tax Cuts for the Wealthy -- rank: 1000

The brazen war criminals are hard at work at home. Marta >From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP); Revised March 11, 2005 HOUSE BUDGET RESOLUTION CUTS KEY LOW-INCOME PROGRAMS Yet Budget Finds Room for Further Tax Cuts for the Wealthy By Sharon Parrott and Isaac Shapiro Press Release: HTM | PDF The budget resolution passed by the House Budget Committee on March 9 includes substantial reductions in key programs for low-income families, seniors, and people with disabilities while ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 13 16:50:22 PST 2005

309 [lbo-talk] Urgent: Calls Needed Now on Medicaid! -- rank: 1000

FYI Dear Advocate, The Medicaid budget battle has reached a critical stage--and we really need your help! There are Medicaid cuts of at least $15 billion in both the House and Senate budget resolutions. Our only hope of minimizing Medicaid cuts in the federal budget this year now rests with an amendment that Senators Smith and Bingaman will offer to strike Medicaid cuts from the Senate budget resolution. The vote on that amendment--the Medicaid vote of our times--could happen as early as next Tu ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 12 10:33:24 PST 2005

310 [lbo-talk] Urgent Medicaid Battle -- rank: 1000

"More Information on Urgent Medicaid Battle" Here's the bottom line on the congressional Medicaid debate: House and Senate committees have proposed $15-$20 BILLION in Medicaid cuts, twice the Bush administration's proposed $7.6 BILLION in Medicaid cuts. Obviously, these cuts would have a devastating impact on the Medicaid program and people with disabilities. Senator Gordon Smith has proposed an amendment that would strike the Senate Medicaid cut and create a bipartisan commission to s ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 12 10:09:34 PST 2005

311 [lbo-talk] Long-term unemployment is at record rates -- rank: 1000

LA Times Long-Term Jobless Find a Degree Just Isn't Working By Nicholas Riccardi Times Staff Writer March 11, 2005 Dan Gillespie never thought he'd have to look so hard for work. When the Seattle-area resident left the Air Force in 1980, he earned a computer science degree and enjoyed 20 years of steady work. He saved enough money to buy his wife's childhood home last year. Three months later, he was laid off. Gillespie, 53, hasn't found a job since. Even the corner store won't hire him. He and ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 11 13:54:16 PST 2005

312 [lbo-talk] Marketing the Chronicles of Narnia -- rank: 1000

>A better book I encountered in second grade had tales of Babi Yaga, >a Russian witch who lived in a house on chicken legs that rotated >when she was away from home. They were terrific stories, and I find >it strange that I have never seen any reference to Babi Yaga as >children's reading since. > >Carl > Hey I remember Babi Yaga too from my childhood - she would steal children. of course the feminist in me would object today (the female portrayed stereotypically as dem ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 10 17:35:04 PST 2005

313 [lbo-talk] Jesus Christ creeps overriding civil rights -- rank: 1000

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-religion7mar07,1,730466.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage Justice Unit Puts Its Focus on Faith A little-known civil rights office has been busily defending religious groups. By Richard B. Schmitt Times Staff Writer March 7, 2005 WASHINGTON - One of the main jobs at the Justice Department is enforcing the nation's civil rights laws. So when a nonprofit group was accused of employment discrimination last year in New York, the department moved sw ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 7 13:15:24 PST 2005

314 [lbo-talk] U.S. Reports Accelerating Job Growth -- rank: 1000

http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-jobs5mar05,1,3051789.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business U.S. Reports Accelerating Job Growth Payrolls grow by 262,000 positions in February. But the unemployment rate increases to 5.4%. By Joel Havemann Times Staff Writer March 5, 2005 WASHINGTON - The economy generated a net 262,000 new jobs in February, one of its best showings of the Bush administration but not enough to make room for all the new job seekers, the Labor Department said Friday ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 5 15:05:09 PST 2005

315 [lbo-talk] Weasel Behind the Curtain at the Fed -- rank: 1000

March 3, 2005 The Weasel Behind the Curtain at the Fed Why Do the Democrats Pamper Greenspan? By DAVE LINDORFF http://counterpunch.org/lindorff03032005.html Any Democrat who still offers praise for Alan Greenspan after his latest propaganda supporting the Bush attack on Social Security should be dumped by the party and voters alike. Greenspan has always been a Republican agent at the Federal Reserve, even in the Clinton years, but his support for private Social Security funds, and his latest war ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 5 09:30:43 PST 2005