Anyone who starts/posts in another Schiavo thread...

[WilliamPitt]

will be hunted down, dragged into town square and subjected to exactly as many strikes on the bastinado as there are Schiavo threads in GD right now. That's a lot of strikes. You want no part of that. Don't do it.

And yes, I understand the irony of starting a Schiavo thread to bash the Schiavo threads. After I post this, I'll nip off and beat the shit out of myself. I promise.

MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't make me release the bees.

[Pithlet]

1. Little red x

It is your friend. I will continue to discuss whatever I feel like discussing.

[mcscajun]

2. More bees, less Schiavo.

Agreed. :)

[Toucano]

34. The bees would be most welcome at this point. n/t

[Walt Starr]

3. Skinner added a cool feature to DU, Will, just click the lil X next to

the Shiavo threads and they disappear.

BTW, do you realize you've just started yet another Shiavo thread?

[Kadie]

4. Ack! Not the bees!

[chlamor]

16. World record bee beard

jed schoener holds the record (or did) and i met him in Virginia while on a road trip. showed me his Guiness book of record certificate. Wasn't a very interesting guy like I thought he would be. Family had a big honey operation.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

59. You thought a bee-beard record holder would be interesting?

Interesting.

[ohio_liberal]

5. Cool

The text in your post makes the screen look crooked. Nifty. :)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Thank you. It's all a huge distraction

and we shouldn't get sucked into it -- though I, too, have sinned. But are you going to chastise and flog me now for responding to your post?

[Jackson4Gore]

10. Thank you for saying this!

What is sad that I now know how to spell Schaivo after seeing it a million times.

[dweller]

19. ya sure about that?

:D

dp

[cynatnite]

7. I've got my raid close by

Thinking of a new Terri Schiavo topic as I type this.

[shelley806]

8. LOL! Not the bees!

A Wise post. Only feeds the frenzied (bees?)

[leveymg]

9. I just cancelled my order.

Bring me the honey, instead. Please.

[kiraboo]

11. In my brief time here I haven't known you to be so frivolous, WP.

How delightful!

[cynatnite]

12. Yo, Will! Someobody didn't listen to you...they started another thread n/

[IndianaGreen]

13. Ten lashes with a wet noodle for you!

:spank:

[supernova]

14. So let it be written

So let it be done.

[MissB]

15. Drink more

and it will stop.

[ismnotwasm]

17. Schiavo who?

Ouch! goddam bees

[Robbien]

18. All the threads are spam. I thought there was a rule against spamming

But it appears DU doesn't care all other discussion is being smothered.

[Jim Sagle]

20. ain't nuthin' but shit.

:-)

[Wonk]

21. I just posted one in the lounge, but it's different. Really, it is.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2873951

[dweller]

22. SHE Iii VOooo...whoa whoa whoa whoa.....

She I Vo...whoa whoa whoa...

earworm..


covering bastinados :scared:
dp

[killbotfactory]

23. Sure, let them trample civil rights

Let them make it illegal to refuse treatment if they think it will save your life. Let them exploit a families pain for political purposes. Hell, let them define abortion as murder while they are at it, who gives a shit?

[WilliamPitt]

25. Way to take the bait

and miss the boat:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3294757

[killbotfactory]

27. You're right.

I can't concentrate on two issues at once. Thank you for saving me from being concerned issues you don't put much importance on.

[WilliamPitt]

31. Any time.

:P

[Az]

24. Lets see here

Its something that means a lot to many people. They want to discuss it with rational (arguable) people that they respect. They want to work out issues they have with the issue. And we want them to shut the hell up?

[WilliamPitt]

26. Yeah, that's it. Evil censoring me.

If an infinite number of monkeys post an infinite number of Schiavo threads, then...well...I guess the earth will collapse on itself from the density of wisdom emanating from the DU servers.

Or maybe a few threads will do the trick. Like less than 17 on the main page at any one time?

[cynatnite]

37. Geez, Will, ignore the damn things

For even a guy as smart as you I would think that ignoring would be an option.

What offends me and surprises me coming from you is that we all have choices. If we don't like what we see change the channel, hide the thread, ignore it...whatever.

The Gannon threads drove me nuts. I thought they got way out of hand, but I didn't start a fucking thread demanding that people stop. I hid them and ignored them.

If a middle-class housewife like me can do that, why in the hell can't a smart guy like you and others do it????

[regnaD kciN]

28. I thought your thread was so important...

...that I started another thread pointing people here...

...but it got locked. :-(

So, you think I should start a new thread pointing to that thread, so that people will read this thread?

[ninkasi]

29. Dear William...

Even if I don't start, or post, on another Schiavo thread, is it possible to send me a few of the more well mannered bees? My passion is gardening, and I have an understand with the bees. I provide them with flowers and water, and they avoid stinging me.

I would be most appreciative.

Best wishes,

Ninkasi, Goddess of Beer Brewing

[yvr girl]

30. Not fair

You get the understanding people posting in your thread. I get irate people in mine in the lounge.

[katinmn]

32. Maybe we'll get a special group for the Schiavo-Deadheads

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=120x31965

[mcscajun]

39. Don't be lumping the Deadheads in with this!

We're having far too much fun grooving to the Grateful Dead Hour anyway.

"Sugar Magnolia, blossoms bloomin'..."

[merh]

33. I generally respect what you write Mr. Pitt,

but I do not respect your position on this. How dare you tell us what to post or think! If you don't like the threads then IGNORE THEM!

Don't you dare try to tell me what to think or post! You are not the ruler of DU.

I will now go and post another thread just because you don't want me to!

[Cleita]

35. Well, I've been hiding them, but they keep popping up as fast

as I hide. Now I will go hide this thread.

[Kazak]

36. I haven't posted in a single one of them...

until now. D'oh!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

38. I whole heartedly agree!

I only wish they would put her name in the subject line so I know to ignore it BEFORE I view it. I've only ignored a couple of threads before in my limited time here. Well, now things have changed.

[donco6]

40. God, no kidding. eom

[matcom]

41. i'm selling her brain scan on eBay

i clearly see the Virgin Mary & baby Jesus in there

[katinmn]

43. LOL! It's coming. How about an auction of bedsheets and feeding tubes

Could help pay off some of the medical bills.

[underpants]

42. Will- I won't start a thread but I have a legitimate Schiavo question

Was this "issue" / "case" a topic of discussion ANYWHERE in the Lib/Dem internet world?

I don't remember seeing a single thing about it leading up to Friday nowhere but you know more about other Lib/Dem sites than I do.

All the while the RW machine was talking about "The Liberals say this and that" when I can't find any discussion of it by a single op/ed writer, on DU, or anywhere else for that matter.

This has to be the single best example of the RW machine pushing a topic into MSM that I can remember.

BTW- this is the definitive sourse as far as I am concerned.

http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html

Also see this DU thread that I (sorry) started on Friday. Hannity got an earful from the human scum that is Randall Terry as well as an other caller that the fundies want action on this. No excuses No rhetoric No "we tried" she lives or they take their numbers, volunteers, and money and go somewhere else (third party?). Whoops looks like they might just have created their own little sh*tstorm.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3295309

[Mr_Spock]

44. Ah, lighten up - it's something mindless to do this weekend

I find it kinda like that guilty pleasure of reality TV - which I do hate BTW. Knowing this is a two-bit attempt by the Repukes to score "righty points" is kinda funny and pathetic in a way. Why they don't respect our system of laws is beyond me?

[underpants]

45. WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS NOT MEN!!!!!!!!!

Remember that one from 6 years ago?

Amazing

[Mr_Spock]

46. Change that to "WE ARE A NATION HALF-FILLED WITH HYPOCRITES, NOT MEN"

There's no end to the mindless hypocrisy of these bastards. I'm not even against their viewpoint that the parents may have some say in this - I just don't understand why they are stopping the planet to persue an issue that happens every single day here? Don't they respect the laws of this great nation? It's clearly mindless grandstanding and they should be reminded of this incident constantly as we go forward.

Do they have a problem with our system of laws? - I WANT AN ANSWER DAMN IT!

[underpants]

47. "How could they let this person starve to death"

I heard that this morning on Fox news-Family Research council pinhead actually said that.....guess what buddy it happens everyday and there are people you phony Christian a** couldn't care less about it is slowly happens to them every freakin' day.

Okay sorry off topic but that really burns me.

[Mr_Spock]

48. My GF hated his life after a stroke he starved himself to death

Nobody in our very large Catholic family lifted a single hand to stop him - it was mutual concent. This is the level that this debate should be at - this personal crap being dusgussed by everyone in America is becomeing morose - oh, well - it is kinda fun playing God for a day - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! :D Oh, well.

[cyberpj]

54. But they let THIS happen -

U.N.: Congo militias grilled victims alive

EDDY ISANGO
Associated Press
Posted on Thu, Mar. 17, 2005

Members of the group were suspected of killing nine U.N. peacekeepers in a Feb. 25 ambush. On March 1, gunmen fired on Pakistani peacekeepers and the peacekeepers fought back, killing up to 60 fighters, U.N. officials said at the time.

Congo became a battleground for six nations during a 1998-2002 war that killed some 50,000 people directly and another 3 million through strife-induced hunger and disease. But sporadic fighting continues between militiamen, rebels and government troops in the lawless northeast.

Jan Egeland, head of U.N Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said Wednesday that the fighting in Congo had overtaken Sudan's embattled Darfur region as the world's most serious humanitarian crisis.

"Measured in human lives lost, I think that Congo is the number one problem in the world today," Egeland told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland.

About 3 million Congolese are now in acute need of assistance and as many as 30,000 people are dying every month from conflict-related causes, Egeland said.

The United Nations says Sudan's Darfur region remains a major crisis, estimating that about 180,000 people have died there since October 2003 and a further 1.8 million have been displaced.

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/11154568.htm

[gulliver]

49. Let's just stifle all major discussions because you can't ...

... hit the little X next to the thread title.

It's an important issue. Who made you editor?

[aeolian]

50. It's a non-issue and a distraction

And most everyone here is falling for it.

[gulliver]

56. It's not a non-issue fer Chrissakes!

It's where the fighting is. It's right-to-life spiralling into insanity and the Republicans are the vector for the disease. This is the Republicans throwing a haymaker into the air. They need to be decked on this. It's stem cell research redux.

[WilliamPitt]

51. I did

:P

[aeolian]

53. Hmmm...they seem to still be posting...

if you need help in the "rounding-up-and-beating" phase, gimme a call.

I've got a whole slew of manly catch-phrases we could use, like "you can run, but you can't hide" and "smoke-em-out!" Who could escape such wicked cowboy rhetoric? No one, that's who.

end of subtle sarcasm.

[gulliver]

58. Will just asked us to kiss his bum.

I think he meant the bad kind of bum kissing though.

[cyberpj]

55. Don't look at THIS!

You wrote:"They are yelling, "Hey, look over here! Look here! Get outraged here! Get mobilized here! Nyah nyah nyah! Here!" for a reason."

Here's another one

U.N.: Congo militias grilled victims alive - Congo #1 world problem

EDDY ISANGO
Associated Press
Posted on Thu, Mar. 17, 2005

Members of the group were suspected of killing nine U.N. peacekeepers in a Feb. 25 ambush. On March 1, gunmen fired on Pakistani peacekeepers and the peacekeepers fought back, killing up to 60 fighters, U.N. officials said at the time.

Congo became a battleground for six nations during a 1998-2002 war that killed some 50,000 people directly and another 3 million through strife-induced hunger and disease. But sporadic fighting continues between militiamen, rebels and government troops in the lawless northeast.

Jan Egeland, head of U.N Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said Wednesday that the fighting in Congo had overtaken Sudan's embattled Darfur region as the world's most serious humanitarian crisis.

"Measured in human lives lost, I think that Congo is the number one problem in the world today," Egeland told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland.

About 3 million Congolese are now in acute need of assistance and as many as 30,000 people are dying every month from conflict-related causes, Egeland said.

The United Nations says Sudan's Darfur region remains a major crisis, estimating that about 180,000 people have died there since October 2003 and a further 1.8 million have been displaced.

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/11154568.htm

[gulliver]

57. Yuh.

You are definitely a very hard working writer. :P

[bobthedrummer]

52. I'm a disabled worker bee.

I've stayed out of those threads-our nation is in the hands of fascists and traitors that will do anything to deflect focus on them and their agendas--they simply don't want their names bandied about.

This is primal stuff that they are playing with trying to shape "opinions" politically is shameful when so many people are dead or maimed as a direct result of the actions of the George W. Bush aka The War President administration.

Imo this is akin to the life unworthy of life campaign of the Third Reich, this is our very own American T-4 program now with the political involvement of Congress.

Make what stop, Will?

[ultraist]

60. well said!

Congress can find time to MEET ON THE WEEKEND to shove fundie religious beliefs into OUR LAWS yet, they cannot find time on the weekend to meet to devise an EXIT STRATEGY out of Iraq! What complete and utter BS!

This profoundly disabled woman, is having medical treatments forced upon her, even though it was shown in the courts she would NOT have wanted life supports. That is simply wrong.

The fundies and the Repukes in Congress have no right disregarding this woman's wishes and imposing their political agenda and religious beliefs on her.

ANYONE who respects the rights of profoundly disabled people, would be calling their Congress people and telling them to ADVOCATE FOR TERRI and her wishes and to be sure that the THE STATE DOES NOT TAKE CONTROL OVER OUR BODIES or the bodies of those in our custody.

The fundies and the Repukes are taking advantage of this woman, who has no cerebral cortex and cannot speak for herself, whoring her out for their sick, twisted, unconstitutional agenda.