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On your item 3, perhaps as many readers as possible should contact this outfit to ask when the Jeff Gannon figure will be available. Just think what range of "action outfits" can be made available for it--and what it's action options could be. We already know what his weapon of choice is....

On the Schiavo case, it's been used by this administration to establish some truly scary precedents. The unanimous voice vote by three Senators is one part. More important is that the Federal government can get involved in what should be a personal decision. It does bear directly on the abortion issue, and points up one of my objections to efforts to ban abortion--that once the precedent of governmental control is set, what can be banned can also be made compulsory. It ties directly to the mindset that engaged in compulsory sterilization of the mentally handicapped, lobotomization of deranged or troublesome people (name that Kennedy!), and winds up with means testing to decide whether to pull the plug on patients who are not beyond hope of recovery. All done for their own good, of course.

What would these same zealots say if asked why they didn't force a ventilator and heart-lung machine to be used to maintain a beating heart in the great modern Republican saint, Ronald Reagan? He had more brain activity than does Terry. Hell--they'd better hook Cheney up right now. With his cardiac history he could go at any time, and we already know that his circle will always choose life. Unless it's life that has no money, or doesn't march to their specific drum.

For the reactionary element that may consider telling Brad to put a sock in it, let me just point out that...those socks were made to be worn by no human foot.

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