This site is two years old now!! I thought I would post this while Raven is off gallivanting in Northern Maine. She won’t be impressed with this but she should be!

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Somehow society has made the latest Holloywood golden couple a voice of importance.

Maybe it’s too easy to take shots at the celebrities who, almost daily, are guilty of saying and doing stupid things. But in this case the sin is so grave that a response is necessary.

I speak of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s latest project, a movie based on the memoir A Mighty Heart by Marianne Pearl, the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Angelina is going to play Marianne, while Brad is making insulting proclamations about how important the film is going to be. To wit, last week Pitt characterized the goal of the film thusly: “We hope the film can increase understanding between people of all faiths and portray the story and the people involved as honestly as possible without anger or judgment.”

Pearl’s widow is no better than the golden couple. For all her begging and tears we witnessed around the time her husband had been kidnapped, she was seeing CNN head honcho Eason Jordan. They eventually got married.
Oh pullllleeeezzzeee Brad. You can talk. You’re the one who had to be hospitlized when you threw up once. I hear you cry when you get a hangnail. Don’t talk about Danny Pearl and without anger and judgement? Go to hell you festering, phoney, cheating ass, full-of -himself egomaniac. Go back to Africa and stay there.

Just to clarify: Daniel Pearl was a young investigative journalist writing for the Wall Street Journal from Pakistan, who in 2002 was lured to an interview, kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists, bound, beaten, terrorized and finally beheaded — all with cameras rolling. In the last moments before Daniel Pearl was brutally decapitated, his killers demanded that he identify himself. Not as an American, not as an infidel, not as a journalist. He was forced to define himself one way and one way only — as a Jew — and then his head was removed from his body. There are tapes of this gruesome scene — and they’re going cheap.

Brad couldn’t handle this video if his life depended upon it. He’s a wuss and a wimp.

Nevertheless, along comes the great do-gooder-duo known as Brangelina to really give us an education. We are now supposed to spend $10 at the local Cineplex so we can see through filtered lens how to “understand” the killers. We are supposed to watch the people who ended Daniel Pearl’s life “without anger or judgment.”

Newsflash for Pitt: We know what happened to Daniel Pearl. A group of murderous, hate-filled barbarians targeted Daniel Pearl and killed him because he was a Jew. You’re probably a bad candidate for an expert in the Pearl killing if you don’t get that already.

Pitt and Joily are in the limelight and they are making a political statment with this. Just another movie to boycott. I’ve never watched anything that these two extremely poor actors have been in and don’t plan to start now.

No one needs a movie to understand evil. Besides, the film about Daniel Pearl was already shot — by the terrorists.

Hollywood wants to change factual history. It’s up to us to allow them to do so. Don’t see the movie that will surely line the pockets of the dynamic duo. Give them no clout.

I guess being a town selectman gives one special priviledge to “test the system”.

A Plymouth selectman accused of arranging a sex romp with two minor girls he met on the Internet - who were really undercover cops - claims he’s a cyber vigilante who wanted to see a police sting in action, a prosecutor charged.

Uh huh.

Sean Dodgson, a father of four and West Point graduate, was among 11 busted in Operation Trenchcoat for allegedly trying to solicit sex from minors online.

Dodgson, married for 22 years, started up a conversation in an online chatroom last month with someone posing as a 13-year-old girl. Dodgson e-mailed the “teen” a photo of what he said was his penis, but later denied it was his, the prosecutor said.

Uh huh.

The 45-year-old computer consultant asked the “13-year-old” about her sexual experiences - and for a photograph. Undercover Plymouth County Deputy Sheriff Melissa Marino sent him a photo of herself at age 13.

Dodgson engaged in raunchy sexual chatter with the “teen,” telling her he wanted a double session with her and her best friend, another undercover investigator Dodgson chatted with online.

Dodgson arranged to meet the underage duo at Burger King in Kingston. When Dodgson drove up, he saw the undercover cops and left, authorities said.

Uh huh.

Dodgson later sent Marino’s undercover Internet account a message saying he was “glad to see the young girls of Kingston are being protected by potential harm.”

During an online conversation with Marino, Dodgson said he was “just testing the system” and that one “Can’t get in trouble for talking, just acting on it.”

Uh HUH. Likely story that’s been used a thousand times before. I’ll save passing judgement until more details are shared. I’m pretty sure there is A LOT more here than we know right now.

Let the excuses begin.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Three days after Hurricane Katrina, the nursing director at Memorial Medical Center huddled with other officials outside the emergency room, surrounded by 10 feet of putrid floodwater.

Hundreds of people were stranded inside, the power was out and the toilets were backing up. With little security, anyone willing to carry a gun was deputized to watch the entrances. The nursing director reported that some patients were very sick and probably could not be evacuated with the rest of the hospital. What were they going to do?

You do everything you can to keep your patients comfortable and safe. You give the scrubs off your back when you need to.

On Tuesday, Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti alleged that a doctor and two nurses decided to administer lethal doses of morphine and a sedative to at least four trapped and desperately ill patients.

Dr. Anna Pou and nurses Lori Budo and Cheri Landry were booked on charges of being “principals to second-degree murder,” which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

Court papers and interviews with people who were at Memorial after the storm paint a desperate picture filled with fear and potentially agonizing choices.

“It was stifling. We were hoisting patients floor to floor on the backs of strong young men. It was as bad as you can imagine,” said Dr. Gregory Vorhoff, who stayed throughout the storm and eventually hitched a ride on a boat to seek help.

Memorial Medical, he said, “had ceased to be a hospital.”

Ceased to be a hospital and turned into a euthanasia clinic? Or a morgue.

According to an arrest affidavit, Pou told a nursing executive on Sept. 1 that the sickest patients were probably not going to survive and that “a decision had been made to administer lethal doses.”

“Lethal does of what?” the executive asked.

Prosecutors say the injections contained morphine and a sedative called Versed. Pou had more than 25 vials. She asked for syringes and saline flushes, the affidavit said.

“You don’t have to participate. We’ll take care of it,” Foti quoted Pou as telling others.

Pou and the nurses allegedly then went to the bedsides of the four patients. Their bodies, along with 40 others, were retrieved by search teams 10 days later.

Those sick patients were going to die anyway, sadly. They should have allowed that to happen naturally. Instead of playing God.

The patients were severely ill - suffering from terminal cancer or on life support in many cases. They were surrounded by muddy water with no communication to the outside world for days. The patients even watched people break into a building across the street, Vorhoff said.

“People don’t understand the total breakdown of civilization,” he said.

It’s not an excuse for these well trained, educated medical people. No excuses are really going to change how I feel about this.

Others think like I do as well:

CHICAGO (AP) - Despite horrific medical conditions including triple-digit temperatures, no electricity and useless lifesaving equipment, ethicists and even some doctors caught in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath say there’s no way to justify killing a sick or dying patient.

“You’ve got at best mercy and panic, but that doesn’t add up to an excusable homicide,” said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan.

No one knows if that happened in New Orleans, but a doctor and two nurses were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder charges. They are accused of giving fatal doses of morphine and a sedative to four patients stranded at a New Orleans hospital after the catastrophic storm last August.

The worst-case scenario would be if the doctors “tried to save themselves and didn’t want to feel guilty leaving the patients behind and killed them,” he said.

The best-case scenario, he said, would be if the accused “believed all possibility of maintaining people on technology has come to an end, you’re out of power and your battery power is running out and you say, ‘I can’t let these people suffer.’”

“Under American law, neither scenario would be excusable,” Caplan said.
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Dr. Max Brito, a Chicago physician who was in New Orleans for a meeting when Katrina hit, had firsthand experience with desperate medical conditions there but said he can’t imagine resorting to mercy killings even in the direst of circumstances.

“I would never do that,” said Brito, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

He helped set up a makeshift clinic in the hotel where he was stranded. Patients included a boy trapped on a rooftop who was brought in with pneumonia. Nurses in the hotel crafted a stethoscope out of a paper cup to listen to his lungs.

“It was a tough situation,” Brito said. But even patients stranded in flooded hospitals eventually “would have gotten out of there.”

The situation wasn’t so dire “that someone would have to go to that extreme,” he said of the alleged killings.

Dr. Janis Tupesis of the University of Chicago went to Baton Rouge, La., shortly after the storm hit to work in a clinic set up in a convention center, treating patients “who literally escaped with the clothes on their backs.”

He said he learned later about the unbearable hospital conditions in New Orleans.

“It’s difficult to say what’s right and what’s wrong in that situation,” Tupesis said. “I can’t even imagine what kind of stress they were working under.”

Still, he said, “it would be difficult to see any circumstances where I think that would be OK.”

The doctors’ oath is to do no harm, and American Medical Association ethics say mercy killings or euthanasia are “incompatible with the physician’s role as a healer.”

Because the accused physician, Dr. Anna Pou, was an AMA member when the alleged crimes took place, the group’s ethics council will be monitoring the case and may carry out its own investigation to see if disciplinary action is warranted, an AMA spokesman said.

The AMA can do what it wants but the American justice system will take care of this.

We haven’t heard anything lately about this. Previous Posts about this here and here.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) – Three arrests were made late Monday in connection with the alleged deliberate deaths of some patients at New Orleans Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina hit, a source close to the investigation told CNN.

Arrests usually mean enough evidence has been collected to deem a crime has been committed. The rumors were rampant among medical people- that doctors and nurses killed patients during the aftermath of Katrina.

The source told CNN the charges are “serious.” Details of the arrests and investigation are expected to be disclosed by Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. at a news conference Tuesday.

Foti has been investigating for months whether hospital and medical staff euthanized some patients. He is expected to outline what he thinks happened to some of the 45 Memorial Hospital patients who were found dead after the August hurricane evacuations.

I’ll be watching.

***UPDATE*** 10:25am
The three arrested included a doctor and two nurses; the charges: Second degree murder. My first reaction was: IS THAT ALL??
But then I began to consider what the circumstances must have been and, all the facts are not known at this time. This is the first case in the US where medical people are formally accused of…euthanasia- even though they don’t want it to be known as such.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A doctor and two nurses were arrested overnight in connection with the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana attorney general’s office said Tuesday.

“We’re not calling this euthanasia. We’re not calling this mercy killings. This is second-degree murder,” said Kris Wartelle, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Charles C. Foti.

The three were booked on four counts each after their arrests late Monday but not yet formally charged, officials said. Wartelle declined to elaborate on the allegations.

Foti last fall subpoenaed more than 70 people in an investigation into rumors that medical personnel at Memorial Medical Center had euthanized patients who were in pain as they waited in miserable conditions in the days after the hurricane to be rescued.

***UPDATE 3:30pm***

NEW ORLEANS — A doctor and two nurses who worked through the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina were arrested overnight, accused of giving four patients stranded at their hospital lethal doses of morphine and a sedative, authorities said Tuesday.

The three were arrested on charges of being “principals to second-degree murder.”

“We’re not calling this euthanasia. We’re not calling this mercy killings. This is second-degree murder,” said Kris Wartelle, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Charles C. Foti.

The arrest warrants say Dr. Anna Pou and the two nurses intentionally killed four patients at Memorial Medical Center “by administering or causing to be administered lethal doses of morphine sulphate (morphine) and midazolam (Versed).”

Timmah and other leftists say Hamas isn’t all that bad; the Palestinian’s elected Hamas leaders to represent them after all. Hamas
is a political party who must be respected and honored in engaged if we want to see PEACE. The leftists and media pick and chose what truths to report and the Timmah’s of the world blindly believe what they read and see on TV. The true hallmarks of the left- ignorance for the people who are being lied to by those who are in the know (Clinton, Kofi Annan, leaders of Europe)

A familiar quality of unreality pervades much of the news and commentary about the ascendance of Hamas in recent Palestinian elections.

Note is endlessly made of the fact that Hamas, with its clinics and other welfare operations, is less “corrupt” than the old-guard Fatah chieftains, providing needed services the Palestinian Authority neglected. And many news stories duly report that the radical Islamic organization specializes in suicide bombing and rejects Israel’s existence.

So to leftists, the lesser of the two evils is better. They break down evil into categories and ignore the basics.

But as to why Palestinians en masse are comfortable choosing a leadership engaged in the defamation and murder of innocent Jews — including children, teenagers and the elderly — very little is said.

Harold Evans, writing in London’s Times several years ago, observed: “Everyone talking about Palestine or terrorism is talking in a vacuum, for nothing can be understood without proper appreciation of the way minds have been poisoned.”

The younger generation of Palestinians have been brainwashed into hating Jews.

The Islamist group has long made clear the importance of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel indoctrination, which occurs intensively throughout its network of charities, schools, mosques, clinics and summer camps. The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center cites a typical leaflet found in the office of a Hamas “charity committee” in Tulkarm entitled “Jewish hatred of the human race.” In it, Jews are described as enemies of Islam and its values and murderers of the prophets. The Hamas Charter itself is anti-Semitic, citing, for instance, the “Nazism” of Jews and blaming them for the world wars as well as the French and communist revolutions.

The Religion of Peace, through the words, writings and actions of groups like Hamas, represent true evil and until people like Timmah see this, there will be no peace in the middle east. Peace may mean destroying the radical elements of Islam –including the Syrian leadership and puppet governments of other ME nations.

…He describes an Islamic school in which “11-year-old Palestinian student Ahmed states, ‘I will make my body a bomb that will blast the flesh of Zionists, the sons of pigs and monkeys …I will tear their bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain than they will ever know.’” His classmates shout in response, “God is great” and his teacher adds “May the virgins give you pleasure.”

Hatred in the Middle East has little to do with Israel’s latest attempts to defend itself. It is much deeper than this and it’s legacy is being carried on by educating the youth to HATE and KILL. Not just Jews. All infidels.

Timmah should read and understand the Hamas Covenant:

The Hamas Covenant is a declaration of intent, a mission statement as it were. It states, “Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah’s victory is realized.”