After 84 years of life Pope John Paul II passes on

At 2:37 p.m Eastern (9:37 p.m. in Vatican City) the Pope left us.

Rest In Peace

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/pope

This was truly Death Week in the news.

The Week of Death

Man oh man.

It has been said that things come in three, and this week the reaper came for three people that have been in the limelight.

Johnnie Cochran: Like him on lump him regarding his defence of OJ Simpson he is no longer with us. Cocharn died on March 30, 2005.

Terri Schavio: After a long battle between the Schindlers and Terri's husband Michael. Michael was able to allow Terri to pass on or be killed by the courts depending on were you side on this issue. She died on March 31, 2005

This now takes to so to be death number three that would Pope John II.

You have it admit this Pope was one tough man, but his time is about to end, but as of this posting he is not gone yet.

I am looking forward to see who will be the next Pope

Terri Schiavo Enters Eternal Sleep, and now my thoughts

Yesterday Terri Schiavo finally passed away after two weeks of no food and water. The wishes of Michael Schiavo were finally met, and it seems that it was Terri's wish to pass on rather than live the way she did.

The social conservatives are now raising kane about the recent events. Here are a few quotes from a few well known activists.

James Dobson: "Every Florida and federal judge who failed to act to spare this precious woman from the torment she was forced to endure is guilty not only of judicial malfeasance – but of the cold-blooded, cold-hearted extermination of an innocent human life. Terri Schiavo has been executed, under the guise of law and 'mercy,' for being guilty of nothing more than the inability to speak for herself. "
http://www.family.org/welcome/press/a0036025.cfm

D. James Kennedy: "What we have witnessed in the last two weeks is judicial homicide. Terri Schiavo, on flimsy evidence, was killed by court order under color of the “rule of law. The inaction of the Florida Senate is an egregious example of moral indifference. They are culpable for their inaction."
http://www.reclaimamerica.org/PAGES/pressreleasepage.asp?story=2553

Phyllis Schafly: " Terri Schiavo was ordered to die by one man who served as judge, jury and executioner. This is judicial arrogance at its ugliest. The public should reject the myth that supremacist judges can override the governor, the legislature, Congress, the president, common sense, and even the right to life, and use armed police to protect judicial supremacy.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/31/161807.shtml

Mel Gibson: "I just sit here watching this whole scenario play out in front of me with my mouth wide open that our country has come to this...It’s nothing more than state-sanctioned murder."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/30/220702.shtml

Lars Larson: Some in America now endorse execution via torture for the cognitively disabled. They have no access to the federal courts without an act of congress. Terri would have enjoyed more rights as a terrorist or a convicted serial killer. (Via his mass E-Mail) You can visit his website larslarson.com

Rush Limbaugh the Godfather of modern talk radio says that the death of Terri was a way for the left to stick to the "Christian Right." The list goes on and on.

Our president George W. Bush says we should "built a culture of life," in hopes to win points with the pro-life/anti-abortion activists.

In fact the Schindlers in an attempt to save their beloved daughter, made an alliance with the anti-abortion activist Randall Terry, who is best known as the founder of "Operation Rescue." In recent years Operation Rescue has distanced themselves from Terry, and let it be known that Terry's family is one of those disfunctional families. Terry is divorced and remarried, and the children from his first marriage are enstranged. His son Jamiel is gay and his father disowned him. The daughter is a convert of the Muslim faith...Yikes!!! This man has no love for the children that have went astray from his "Christian beliefs." This event has allowed Terry to return to the spotlight and redeem himself.

A lot of people understood the underlining agenda of the "right to lifers." No only do prolong life for those who want to die, even if they don't want to live the way Terri did for many years, but they also want restrict a woman's right to choose and prevent women from getting pregnant via the many means of Birth Control. If a woman gets raped, too bad. Granted the Roman Catholic Church would be the ones to advocate the above, but their are a few Evangelicals and Protestants that would severally restrict a woman's right to choose as well. All in the name of their "faith" in God.

Don't get me wrong, I am not a Democrat and I will not vote Democrat for a long time to come. I am a person that believes in the individual, limited government and overall, freedom and liberty. I also support the free market and oppose unreasonable regulations on free enterprise. I also believe that the government should not be involved in education (Public Schools), and in the broadcast media (PBS, NPR). I also support Social Securty reform and the elemnation (but not overnight) of FDR's "New Deal" which has been the cornerstone of the modern Democratic Party. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but you get the ideal.

As a libertarian I also believe that certain groups should attempt to use the hand of government to tell people what to do, and this includes the religionists. For once the Democrats were on the right side when it came to states rights. Our congress and President are wrong for getting involved in passing a law just to save Terri. That law handed the power to our federal courts to see if they would take this up and once again they said no. Their were a few Republican apointed judges on the federal level that saw that Terri's case was a state rights issue. Also Michael Schiavo was the "legal guardian" of Terri, and not Bob and Mary Schindler. That is the way it is went someone enters a marriage covnent. Yes Michael did sleep with another woman and this woman bared his children, but just keep in mind that if he wanted too, Michael could have legally divorced Terri. He could have done that even in the brain damaged state she was in. If he did divorce Terri the control would have gone back to the Schindlers. Also lets not forget that the Schindlers encoraged Michael to date again.

What lessons have we learned???

1. Make out a living will and let your wishes known before your unable too. If your married your spouce will have the final say unless otherwise stated.

2. We need to pass with resonable safeguards "Right To Die" laws. Holland is a great model for this and a fill-in for Michael Savage last week did bring these safeguards to our attention.

3. We just can't take the "let God take life" stance anymore. As humans we can prolong life, even life that may not recover, meanning that the person is unable to function. The body lives but the mind is not their. They are in transition between life and death.

I would like to close with some Recommended Readings regarding Terri from those who side with me on this issue and are limited government advocates.

Neal Boortz (His piece from last week)

Larry Elder (written before Terri died)

Mike Rosen (Written after Terri's death)

Comments about my comments??? E-Mail me at donmccullen@prodigy.net

Tonight's Recommended Readings from The Blog According to Don

Glad to know someone on the right agrees with me, Mike Rosen, and Neal Boortz regarding Terri. His name is Larry Elder. Rest In Peace Terri
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/le20050331.shtml

AARP vs. Reform. Ak'Bar Shabazz talks about it.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Shabazz20050330.shtml

Liberal Bias and the Class Room. Cal Thomas has something to say about it.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050330.shtml

Thomas also talks about the passing of Terri or St. Theresa Schiavo
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050331.shtml

Another Thomas last name Sowell sets the record straight when it comes to "trickle down" economics
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050331.shtml

George Will lets us know about someone in the congress who has a bill to usher in the Fair Tax and rid of the IRS...Don't forget to repeal the 14th Amendement.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20050331.shtml

The battle is on for our courts and we know that the Dems want to keep their people in control. William Rusher talks about it.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43556

Are the Courts the new God??? Ann Coulter thinks so and I still I am not on her side regarding Terri.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43569

Rev. Jackson's stand for Terri does not impress me nor does it impress Rev. Peterson
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43568

Hal Lindsey meanwhile is not impressed with Kofi Annan and sadly this SOB is likely going to get Vindicated.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43572

Bridget Johnson talks about Hollywood and their love of the Commies, especilay Che Guevara. Guevara was the right hand man for Fidel Castro.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006484

CAIR is making me mad again. They have gone after National Review. I have NO PROBLEMS WITH LEVEL HEADED MUSLIMS that live and let live. I am worried that CAIR will "Live and Let DIE!!!"
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17523

Token Lefty is Jim Spencer in this is all about blut leftys that get kicked out of town hall meetings of President W. Bush. The Denver 3 and the Fargo 42 (also that is where number one lefty talker Ed Schultz does his talk show). Just wait when the Dems get the White House and they will kick out blut rightys, but that will be OK.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,10023,36~27772~,00.html

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I will talk about Terri's passing soon

Tonight's Recommended Readings from The Blog According to Don

Left, Right, Left, Right. Mike Rosen shows us the differences between the Left and Right
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_3648458,00.html

Cathy Young talks about the appalling rhetoric in the Terri Schiavo case
http://www.reason.com/cy/cy032905.shtml

Jonah Goldberg says that Terri does not spell the end of the righty cause
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20050330.shtml

Getting Real about Social Securty and Medcare. Star Parker uses the Hip-Hop to make her point.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/sp20050329.shtml

The Law or Good Ideals??? Walter Williams ponders this
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050330.shtml

Faux foreign exchange signals by Jack Kemp
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jackkemp/jk20050329.shtml

Life, Death, Fillbusters. Paul Greenberg talks about it
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20050329.shtml

We are still letting the illegal Mexicans in to our country and we could lose the war on terror because of it. Gunny Bob Newman goes into details.
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/newman/2005/newman032905.htm

Cliff Kincaid says that in day with many media outlets, PBS is just running out of gas, and cut the funding off once and for all.
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/k/kincaid/2005/kincaid032905.htm

Townhall.com is raising funds now that they are on their own, and some are giving their begging pitch. I link many piece from that site. If you got money to burn please give to Townhall.com

Star Parker
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/sp20050330.shtml

Ben Shapiro
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/bs20050329.shtml

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Gays attacking their own kind

Now Why would they do that??? Answer they are not part of the lefty coup that is so hell bent on taking us into the "enlightenment." One lefty is out their and wants to "out" these Gay Patriots, and we lost a fellow blog who is on the right and Gay

3/28/2005: Gay Patriot Silenced
The blogger known as Gay Patriot has been intimidated into silence by a reactionary left-wing “activist” who specializes in harassing gay conservatives.

GayPatriot, the anonymous gay Republican blogger, has officially signed off. In a statement, no explanation was given. With GayPatriot’s permission, I am now able to recount the real story.
On Friday, GayPatriot posted “WANTED: GAY TERRORISTS” in which he identified gay activists and bloggers John Aravosis (Americablog) and Michael Rogers (BlogActive) as terrorists.

Wanted for crimes against the gay community. Wanted for repeatedly conducting outing witch hunts against gays who do not believe in radical liberal anti-American ideals. For repeated violations of privacy of gay Americans. For conducting systematic civil liberties attacks on gay Americans.

WANTED! Let’s do something about these gay terrorists who have infected our community with their hatred and self-loathing bigotry of gay Americans who wish to live their lives in peace.

[WANTED: GAY TERRORISTS - GayPatriot - 03-25-05]
As many of you know, Rogers is the host and agent of a widely publicized “outing campaign” at BlogActive.com targeting closeted gay Republicans. One of the most notable results of this campaign was the dramatic retirement of a Republican Virginia Congressman, Ed Schrock. The most recent outing was that of Ken Mehlman, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee. Whatever you believe about the practice, it is difficult to ignore the political impact the campaign has had over the past year.

According to GayPatriot, who is also a client of mine, Michael Rogers called GayPatriot’s place of employment on Friday immediately following the post above and spoke to GayPatriot’s secretary and boss. GayPatriot had no idea Rogers would go to such measures and shared with me that both he and his secretary were very upset by the calls but that his boss was understanding.

Later on that day, Rogers personally called me and recounted much of the same account, adding that he had also called the police and is working with the authorities on the matter. Rogers expressed feeling threatened by the post and compared it to posts by anti-abortionists who posted the names of doctors performing them.

Rogers also said he asked GayPatriot to remove the post and replace it with a post about non-violence or he would launch a national boycott of GayPatriot’s corporate employer and pursue any and all avenues necessary to protect himself. By the time Rogers had called, GayPatriot had already made the decision to remove the post and also remove GayPatriot from the blogosphere.

GayPatriot was silenced.

This was featured at thes websites

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

http://www.outletradio.com/

It seems that if you are Gay then you must be part of the collective revolution to change America into a socialist utopia. Tolerance??? Only if your part of the enlightned left.

Tonight's Recommended Readings from The Blog According to Don

Everyone is still talking about Terri, so I shall began with Christian libertarian Vox Day. Day gives the answer on why the Bushies will not pull a Janet Reno (Remember that one kids) to save Terri. Hint: Government meddling in Health Care. Interesting Read
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43512

Want to live when you are not "productive." PUT IT IN YOUR WILL!!! Mark Steyn has this piece.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn271.html

James Miller has a MUST READ regarding McCain-Feingold and how that could try to distory us bloggers.
http://techcentralstation.com/032505B.html

Doug Powers seconds that
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43517

Oh and PJ O'Rouke shows how John Kerry loves the MSM and the MSM loves him. MSM = MainStream Media.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/350fnrnt.asp

I link a lot of pieces from Townhall.com. As of now they severing their ties with the Hertiage Foundcation, and that is good thing. However things cost money, and Jonathan Garthwaite will tell you how to support Townhall.com and why they are going solo (sort of speak). I give if I could but first I get a job and second I try to make money here.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Garthwaite20050328.shtml

Mexicans love Obl??? So it seems. Read this from FOX Sports
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/3495034

Ellen Goodman is the token lefty tonight, but I agree with her on this one. No matter with Limbaugh, Hannity, Gunny Bob, Glenn Beck, Lars Larson, etc etc say. Let Terri go.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/03/24/death_and_politics/

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Tonight's Recommended Readings from The Blog According to Don

Did you know that the Tom DeLay's family decided on allowing the patriarch to die back the late 1980's??? Here is a story from the LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-delay27mar27,1,7510472.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage&ctrack=3&cset=true

What is your beef with FOX News man??? Someone has invented a device that blocks that cable channel...OK smarty pants now about similer device that blocks CNN and CNN Headline News??? Better yet how about one for MSNBC??? Sorry Scarborough.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002220590_foxblocker26.html?syndication=rss

Poor baby, the law is picking on Jacko. Whines to the phoney Reverend Jackson today on his talk show. Hey as the song says "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050327/D893IAI00.html

I ♥ Social Security, We Survived 8 Years of Reagan, We’ll Survive This, Wake me up in 4 years. All in a days work for "Rock the Vote." Lisa De Pasquale talks about Rocking the Victim mentality.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/De%20Pasquale20050326.shtml

I said I would not talk about Terri until she passes on...However Thomas Sowell still wants to talk about it here and now.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050325.shtml

A life long GOP'er says that Terri is in a PVS. Someone that looks at SCIENCE and is GOP??? Very Rare.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/032405I.html

One more time, Neal Boortz tells us why Terri should go on to the next life
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/nealboortz/nb20050324.shtml