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Cease and Desist Order to be served in Andrea Clark case

Pro-Life Blogs has news that Jerri Lynn Ward, the lawyer for Andrea Clark and family, will be serving a cease and desist order to St. Luke’s Hospital tomorrow (Monday).

Read the full text of the order and more at ProLifeBlogs. Excerpt:

On behalf of the family, I am putting you on notice that the family intends to file pleadings with the appropriate court in order to restrain you from withdrawing life-sustaining treatments. There are numerous questions of fact that should not be solely determined by you with regard to Andrea’s treatment. There are fact issues with regard to whether or not the physicians and the hospital have acted with reasonable care in deciding that life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn. Should you act to withdraw life-sustaining treatment prior to review by an appropriate Court, the family intends file complaints with the appropriate regulatory and licensure entities and to take any available legal action permitted under the law and in equity.

It is the family’s opinion that the attending physician and ethics committee have overreached in this case. It should not be your decision as to whether or not Andrea’s life is worth living. The family demands that life-sustaining treatments be continued in light of the fact that the family intends to take this matter up with the Court.

PLEASE CALL St. Luke’s at 1-832-355-1000 and demand that they not cut off treatment!

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Tags: Andrea Clark, Andrea Clarke, right to life, euthanasia, Texas, Houston, futile care, medical futility, advance directives, futile care law

The White House Dinner (the one where Colbert roasts Bush)

~~See it all by clicking the link.~~ See what happened to this video here

This gentleman is certainly something

Xxxxxxx began to place himself on the level with crowned heads of nations and in 628 had a seal made with the inscription on it: “Xxxxxxx the messenger of God.”

As the governor of Medina he became tyrannical and cruel. At one point he sacrificed one hundred camels to emphasize a preachment he made from the back of a camel. In one disagreement with Jews he had six hundred men of one tribe put to death and all of the women sold as slaves. He used private assassination.

He added many wives to his family and concubines. He married women whom he had never even seen and some who were already married. To effectuate this he obtained from God a special law entitling him to exceed the usual number of wives. He finally coveted Zaynab, the wife of his adopted son Zaid. Zaid obligingly divorced her but when the young woman demanded a revelation to sanction the union, this was producted by Xxxxxxx and the obliging Gabriel.

Can you guess who he is?

Happy Blogiversary Vinnie!

Vinnie’s been pissing off moonbats, pedophiles, and Islamotards for two years!

Vince Aut Morire 2 years old

Happy blogiversary to my brother! (Brat!)

Keith Richards is out of his tree

This is a target-rich environment for the late-night comedians:

Keith Richards fans gathered outside a hospital Sunday where the Rolling Stones guitarist was believed to be undergoing treatment for a mild concussion reportedly suffered when he fell out of a palm tree on vacation in Fiji.

One newspaper also reported that Richards, 62, got on a Jet Ski after the fall and had another accident. Several Australian and New Zealand media outlets reported the fall from the tree.

So we don’t know what really happened. I’m guessing he was just all farked-up, and fell over.

Fans gathered outside the hospital Sunday, and New Zealand’s TV3 reported that Richards’ wife arrived carrying clothes while a security guard carried in three guitar cases.

The cases presumably contained a day’s supply of speedballs.

Tags: Keith Richards, Palm Tree, Fiji, Heroin, Cocaine, Alcohol

Breathtaking courage

I wiped away a tear as I finished the piece, barely able to contain my admiration for this brave and heroic lady.

Film actress Susan Sarandon has revealed how she felt isolated and frightened by death threats and verbal attacks after she criticised US policy in Iraq.

Though no actual examples of death threats are cited, it seems pretty clear that ChimpyMcBushi’itelerburton and his thugs roughed this woman up something cruel.

“And I don’t think that I thought that I’d really never work again. But when there is nobody else, when you look out on the field and everybody is quiet and they’re all looking away and nobody’s saying anything, it’s a really scary place to be.”

Too true sweetheart — as Robert Redford, George Clooney, Barbara Streisand and all the others urged Chimpy to nuke Iraq, you stood bravely. Alone. Defiant.

For that you are a heroine, and we salute you.

Tags: Susan Sarandon, Anti-war, Iraq, Hollywood Liberals, Delusional Thespian Bitch

J.K. Galbraith RIP. You were wrong about everything.

Lefty economist John Kenneth Galbraith has died aged 97, without ever getting a single thing right.

British Finance Minister Gordon Brown said Galbraith’s would not be forgotten. “John Kenneth Galbraith was a brilliant economist and writer and a great friend of the United Kingdom and his books will be widely read in generations to come,” Brown told Reuters.

Widely-read by those scouring the ‘How Not To’ section in Barnes and Noble. I won’t even start on Gordon Brown. Wanker, is all I’m saying.

A life-long Democrat, Galbraith was heavily influenced by British economist John Maynard Keynes, who advocated government spending to reduce unemployment.

Yes, that plan has always worked farking wonders.

The public sector as engine-of-growth. I’m not seeing it.

Galbraith, who often described himself as an “evangelical Keynesian,” supported a much shorter work week, the women’s liberation movement and an international council to help the victims of man-made disasters.

I think we can safely summarize Mr. Galbraith’s worldview as ‘Orthodox Ultra-Left’. And dead wrong. And now just dead.

Read the entire three page article/hagiography (I think it was written by his agent).

Tags: Galbraith, Reuters, Keynes, Idiotarian Left

Babyshambles. You know, the famous band.

D-list nobody Pete Doherty is at it again.

BRITISH rock singer Pete Doherty was arrested on Saturday after a police investigation into a tabloid photo which the paper said showed him injecting drugs into a female fan’s arm as she lay unconscious.

Isn’t he lovely? The Babyshambles front man. Who the fark are they?, we hear you ask.

This third-rate clown is the boyfriend of Kate Moss, the coke-snorting anorexic dimwit that got herself filmed doing a few lines last year. Seems like the memo about doing drugs around cameras didn’t make it to Pete’s inbox. He lives in Hackney, East London, which says to me that, thus far, he hasn’t sold too many records. He’s one of those totally annoying motherfarkers who is famous for being famous.

Actual career accomplishments: Nil.

Doherty has made a string of court appearances in recent months on drugs charges.

As you can see the British justice system acts swiftly and without mercy.

Tags: Pete Doherty, Kate Moss, Cocaine, Heroin, British Justice System, Babyshambles, Shambles

Remember me?

Hi. Being a world-famous blogger sure takes a-holt of your time, and lately it’s been all I could to to keep up with what laughably I call a “career” and the 17,000 blogs what I write at. Trust me, Martin was a godsend.

Anyways, as part of certain life changes, I figured it was time to start being incomprehensibly silly. Before I was just comprehensibly silly. Now, incomprehensibly. You get the picture.

As such, my inside joke at The Blorg is that I never wanted to be a blogger. Always thought they were silly. Occasionally, rarely, bloggers are a driving force in change. Rathergate was the most famous, and Andrea Clarke is the most recent. The blogosphere sure thinks awful highly of itself, sometimes, when it “took down” the Dubai ports deal, and Borked Harriet Miers. Like anything in life, there’s good times and bad times.

You’ll see that I’m calling myself John now. That’s ’cause it’s my name. MacStansbury would be my non de plume for the Mac/Apple/tech-related stuff I’ve done for decades, long before people even considered weblogs, or they even existed. Retiring that here, there, and pretty much everywhere but the URL. It’s a new day, especially for the Maximum Blorg Commander (with yet another conspiracy-theorist-friendly acronym of Mbc - Mac/Mbc/Mcc - it’s all a plot, man).

I’ll leave you with the Official Song of The Blorg, Moscow.

Oh, and race to get your questions to Beth over at basil’s blog!

Andrea Clark stuff

Just to make things easier to follow, here are links to some others who are working on/writing about this story. If you are too, let me know so we’re all on the same page!

Pro-Life Blogs

Right Wing News (latest)

Lone Star Times

Democratic Underground (latest update)–otherwise look here or search here.

Secondhand Smoke (Wesley J. Smith)

Hyscience

Texas Sparkle

Houston Chronicle (do a search on “Andrea Clark”

My Andrea Clark posts

ADDED:
Jerri Lynn Ward, the lawyer for Andrea and her family

Make the phone calls! St. Luke’s: 1-832-355-1000
More contacts here.

Tags: Andrea Clark, Andrea Clarke, euthanasia, right to life, medical futility, futile care, Texas, Houston

I am so PISSED.

I’ve been trying to help with the Andrea Clark situation for the last week, going between here, RWN, Pro-Life Blogs, and mostly the Democratic Underground since Andrea’s sister posts there. I have to say I haven’t been flamed even ONCE–everyone has been appreciative of the help from our side of the fence, and everyone’s been working together in the pertinent threads there. Some have even said they hoped I would stay around after this is over.

So I go there today to check for updates (HERE’S THE LATEST) and to see if I can find some contact info for one of the members (knitter4democracy) because the Lone Star Times and (I think) Pro-Life Blogs are trying to organize a protest. Lone Star Times asked if I would start a thread there and I can’t–I’m too new there, so I was going to ask her to do it, or at least post a comment about it.

Guess what? I’M BANNED.

Why? The farking thought police.

We ban conservative disruptors who are opposed to the broad goals of this website. If you think overall that George W. Bush is doing a swell job, or if you wish to see Republicans win, or if you are generally supportive of conservative ideals, please do not register to post, as you will likely be banned.

I’ve been up-front about being a conservative from the beginning, and had that in my profile. I also noted that I was only there to help and that I had no intention of getting into flame wars (I’ve got my own damn site for that anyway). I’ve been anything BUT “disruptive,” and I haven’t broken a single rule of theirs EXCEPT for being a conservative–and all I’ve done there is try to help.

And I get banned. Apparently it’s more important to keep wingnuts out than have non-partisan teamwork trying to save a woman’s life–a woman whose sister is a prolific poster at the DU, no less.

I am so farking pissed.

Tags: Andrea Clark, Andrea Clarke, Democratic Underground, DU, thought police

Happy Blogiversary, Mac

MacStansbury celebrates his first birthday!

MacStansbury - 1 year old

Geek. Maybe he’ll play geek-a-boo and make an appearance over here. I mean it’s the geekend, after all. :mrgreen:

Speaking of geeks, are you one? And don’t take the damn thing twice just to see if you can score better, you geeks. Yeah dude, that’s your blogiversary present. A nerd test! :razz:

Go check out the new look he’s sporting. Damn commie.

We Support You

Via Annika, what she calls the “Coolest Thing On The Internets ~~Of The Day~~ … Period”:

We are with them

Andrea Clark still needs your help - MORE CONTACT INFO

I’ve compiled a list of contacts - PLEASE make some calls/send some emails; you may save a life.

It’s the weekend, so some of these may be iffy. And I know people are pissed, but the standard reminder to be polite still applies…

Senator John Cornyn
http://cornyn.senate.gov/index.asp?f=contact&lid=1 (scroll down, there’s a form)

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison:
http://hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm (scroll down)

They got involved with the Terri Schiavo case, after all. ;-)

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee:
EMAIL
Washington Office
(202) 225-3816
(202) 225-3317 Fax

Houston Office
1919 Smith Street
Suite 1180
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 655-0050
(713) 655-1612 Fax

Heights Office
420 West 19th Street
Houston, Texas 77008
(713) 861-4070

Acres Home Office
6719 West Montgomery
Suite 204
Houston, Texas 77091
(713) 691-4882

State/local people–these are important:

Rep. Martha Wong (R - Houston), 512-463-0389

Senator Mario Gallegos, District 6 (Harris County/Houston)
EMAIL
(713) 678-8600
(713) 678-7080 (fax)

Senator Jon Lindsay, District 7 (Harris County/Houston)
EMAIL
(281) 583-1011
(281) 444-0189 (fax)

Houston Mayor Bill White:
EMAIL
PHONE: 713.247.2200

Mayor’s Office for People With Disabilities
http://www.houstontx.gov/disabilities/index.html

Governor Perry:
http://www.governor.state.tx.us/contact/#contactinfo

Contact the Governor by Mail or Telephone
Telephone

* Citizen’s Assistance Hotline: (800) 843-5789
(for Texas callers)
* Citizen’s Opinion Hotline: (800) 252-9600
(for Texas callers)
* Citizen’s Assistance and Opinion Hotline: (512) 463-1782
(for Austin, Texas and out-of-state callers)
* Office of the Governor Main Switchboard: (512) 463-2000
(office hours are 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CST)
* Citizen’s Assistance Telecommunications Device
If you are using a telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD), call 711 to reach Relay Texas

Fax

* Office of the Governor Fax: (512) 463-1849

And for shi’ites ‘n’ grins, Kinky Friedman might be able to draw a crowd…who knows?
http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/misc/contact.html

Also, a commenter left this over at Right Wing News:

[...] However, the neighboring diocese is quite different and filled with pro-lifers who would be very distressed to see that an Episcopal hospital is so eager to murder its patients. Perhaps we need to involve them as well, it would be good to get more Texan advocates if possible:

Diocese of Fort Worth:
http://www.fwepiscopal.org/bishop/staff.html

by anglicanista on 2006-04-28 19:28:00

And of course, St. Luke’s Episopal Hospital: 832-355-1000
General email (but calling is better!)

PLEASE help. This matters–it could be any one of us. Wesley J. Smith:

Cases like Andrea Clarke’s could not be more important. If the principle is ever established that doctors, hospitals, and faceless ethics committees can dictate who can live and who must die, the already weakening faith of the American people in their health-care system will be seriously undermined and the door will be thrown wide-open to medical decision-making based on discriminatory hierarchies of human worth.

Tags: Andrea Clark, Andrea Clarke, euthanasia, right to life, futile care, medical futility, Texas Futile Care Act, end of life issues, bioethics, disability, Congress, Texas, Episcopal

Houston Chronicle picks up Andrea Clark story

Via RWN, The Houston Chronicle:

[...] Hospital officials would not say how they will proceed with the case, which has ignited passions on Internet message boards and drawn harsh criticism of the law and St. Luke’s position.

“I’m so exhausted, I don’t know what to think now,” said Lanore Dixon, Clark’s sister, who has led a campaign to stop the hospital. “It shows how dangerous it is to make decisions under the gun like we did Thursday.”

The family and St. Luke’s agreed Thursday to transfer Clark to Glenshire Nursing & Rehab Centre, a long-term, acute-care facility in the Chicago suburb of Richton Park. St. Luke’s told the family it would pay the entire cost of moving Clark, estimated at about $15,000, but only if the family decided by Thursday.

The deal was canceled Friday after Glenshire doctors realized Clark’s condition was too complicated for the level of care they provide.

Thursday’s announcement had appeared to defuse the controversy, which has raged in online forums for a week.

St. Luke’s was flooded with angry calls about the plan to pull the plug on Clark, whose condition worsened after open-heart surgery in January and bleeding in the brain this month. She is on a respirator and is receiving dialysis.

The conflict dates to April 19, when Dr. Robert Carpenter Jr.*, chairman of St. Luke’s ethics committee, wrote Dixon to say the panel had unanimously agreed with Clark’s attending physician that the life-sustaining treatment being provided to her should be discontinued. He wrote that Clark was experiencing “substantial pain and suffering.”

Melanie Childers said a couple days ago that this doctor left to go on vacation after he gave the orders to discontinue treatment! Vacation!