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With the madness finally over (may she not be used as a tool of idiots in her next life), I urge everyone to go to a number of online news outlets and check out what you missed. With nothing but Schiavo-Schiavo in the news for the past few weeks, there’s bound to be a number of important things that have been glossed over.

Some examples:

• American Spy agencies confirmed dead wrong on Iraq WMD
  (DUH!)
• House Majority Leader Tom DeLay *still* has ethics violations to contend with…
  (They won’t go away no matter how hard you try, Tommy…)
• Social Security Said to Go Broke in 2041
• Supreme Court deciding the fate of the P2P networks
• High Oil Prices screwing more than just Joe Public…
• World Bank approved Iraq War architect Wolfowitz as next president
  (Later that day, all the children cried…)
• Another Earthquake kills hundreds in tsunami land…
  (What, you didn’t know?)

And the big one:

• 10 dead in Minnesota School shooting deemed not as important as Schiavo…

Nah…I’m not bitter… ;)
(Altering headlines for your own purpose is fun! ^o^)

Yesterday, we had another Columbine. 7 people dead and 13 injured at a Minnesota High School. One would think that would be the most important news of day. Normal thinking doesn’t seem to work these days. As of 7:40am EST:

Top News Story: Terri Schiavo

• MSNBC.Com
• ABCNews.Com
• CBSNews.Com
• FoxNews.Com
• Washington Post
• New York Times
• Los Angeles Times
• Drudge Report

Top News Story: Minnesota School Shootings

• CNN.Com
• Yahoo! News

Wonder if Terri Schiavo had been on an Indian reservation like these children, would the ‘national concern’ be the same….

There’s one solid truth that’s come out of the Terri Schiavo national story:

Everyone needs to get a Living Will…NOW!
(Don’t leave your life decisions to anyone other than yourself)

I had the chance to do my own Living Will recently and all it costs is some of your time. Fill out some forms (got mine from my hospital)…make edits or additions if you’d like…have two friends sign it (or a notary)…and Bamm! You’re all set. Easy to do…costs nothing (unless you use a notary)…easily changable at any time…and quite, quite binding.

Give copies to your hospital, as well as an family, friends, lawyers, etc you deem necessary. You can even place it online so any hospital in the country can be informed of your true will.

You also won’t have to worry about your family members fighting over you or Congressional interests using you for their own political gain.

Please…get a Living Will…ASAP!

It does my heart good to see our own US congress taking such an interest in a sole individual. Introducing legislation (and at record speed!) in an attempt to save Terri Schiavo life is a very humane and unexpectedly non political thing to do.

Oh wait…

Courtesy of ABC News…the Republican talking points regarding this legislations:

ABC News obtained talking points circulated among Senate Republicans explaining why they should vote to intervene in the Schiavo case. Among them, that it is an important moral issue and the “pro-life base will be excited,” and that it is a “great political issue — this is a tough issue for Democrats.”

What happened to Ms. Schiavo is truly tragic, but all of this has already been decided in numerous courts of law over the past ten years. Even the Supreme Court turned down a related appeal. The tale has run its course.

Congressmen…stop wasting the government’s time and our money by using this tragic situation to further your political agenda. This ‘pulling the plug’ situation happens more than it should in this country. Please stop acting like you really give a shit.

[Thanks to OliWil for the heads up]

I was able to avoid it for a long while. Anytime it happened, I was always one step ahead. There was always some place (or some time) that would give me the chance to slide between the pumps. Still, in the end, I knew I’d have no choice. The corporate demon would eventually suck me in and attach a vice grip to my balls…not to make me cave in…but just because it could.

So late last night it happen: I paid more than $2 for a gallon of gas.

For those rolling your eyes from Cali, New York, etc:
It hit you first and you did nothing. Go roll your eyes at your ever depleting bank account.

For those rolling your eyes from Europe, etc:
OPEC doesn’t change the per barrel price based on the language you speak, kids. Tired of paying numerous Euros per liter? Go talk to your over taxing government.

Dismay has truly set in. Years and years of price fixing goes unchallenged. Barrel prices fly into the stratosphere and production gets limited. Making a real push towards alternative fuel sources is only given lip service in corridors of power. And the current administration really doesn’t seem to be too concerned about any of it (and considering how deep the Bushes are with oil, they are probably profiting from it).

And don’t believe for a second that drilling in Alaska will reduce prices in the long run. What they say and what they charge live in two completely different universes. There’s also the third universe where we are actually benefitting from Iraqi oil. Wish we lived there.