Iconical Irony
Mari Margil
The AP reports today that the Pope (who also is on a breathing tube) may have to go on a feeding tube. I'm not kidding. See: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/front/3106365
I've been (suprisingly) pleased to sit with the majority of the American public - Democrats and Republicans both - opposed to congressional intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.
Will these numbers change with the Pope's new circumstances? Discuss.
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Mar 29, '05
Does the pope have a blog too?
Er, does the pope shit in the woods?
So the pope, Terry Schiavo, and George W. Bush go into a bar. Terry gets a feeding tube, the pope says "I'll have what she's having" and George W. Bush says "I'll have three of those. One for me, one for my dad, and one for my brother Jeb."
Same thing happens next day. And the next.
Fourth day, Bush realize that Terry and the Pope are both dead. He says....
4:12 p.m.
Mar 29, '05
Look, there's nothing wrong with a feeding tube. If the Pope wants one, he can have one.
The point is the absurdity of people wanting to go all extra-legal on this issue. There's a process for how this works, there's a law in place, and the courts have ruled. That's that.
Mar 29, '05
Here's some more ironic news. I read this weekend on Doug Ireland's blog that years ago Robert Schindler (Terri's dear old dad) removed his ill mother's feeding tube and (surprise, surprise) she died.
So now we have Tom DeLay doing what he rails against and Robert Schindler doing what he rails against plus now the Pope getting hooked up to a feeding tube.
Could this get any more bizarre?
Mar 29, '05
I heard Lars earlier wondering how the "Deathocrats" would explain not wanting to "kill" the Pope but wanting to "kill" Terry Shiavo.
It's really not even a situation to discuss. I'm sure the Pope has his wishes spelled out, and I'm sure that those caring for him will make a religious based decision in the case of any extraordinary circumstances, just as he clearly would want.
The only similarity in the two cases is that law should govern both.
Mar 29, '05
Sure. The Pope has HGH injected in his tube and becomes an evolutionist. Delay opposes all tubes because they Delay the inevitable. Terri Schiavo gets up in the middle of the night to get a drink of water. Ted Kulongoski discovers he is connected to a tube. Lars Larson discovers he's hooked up to the other end.
Cher records a new song, "I've got tube, babe"
Mar 29, '05
The pope being incapacitated (but technically alive) without resigning places the Catholic Church in quite a quandry. From what I heard on the news recently (probably NPR), the church has no contengencies within canon law to replace the pope if he does not resign. Couple that with the Catholic Church's firm stance against removing a feeding tube and the Catholic Church ends up effectively, interminably leaderless.
Mar 30, '05
Kari wrote:
"The point is the absurdity of people wanting to go all extra-legal on this issue. There's a process for how this works, there's a law in place, and the courts have ruled. That's that."
A dissenting view on the left:
http://villagevoice.com/news/0513,hentoff,62489,6.html
Apr 14, '05
Mari!
Good to find/read your posts.
Your cousin Jay here.
Shoot me and email.
JR