Etc.

Having been around and worked with people who have had severe disabilities, including those who may appear to be "vegetative," what gives people the right to make decisions on who lives and who dies?

This smacks of eugenics, and it is unacceptable in our society.
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If you are long-term unemployed, you are totally fucked.

I am going on SIX YEARS of not having any real work, while the asshole who fired me is still employed by WCSD. She is on her fourth job there in five calendar years.
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Gee, If There

aren't enough PVS patients or others considered good enough for organ donation, let's go after the organs of death row inmates.

The depravity of those who call themselves utilitarians knows no bounds.

As the World Turns.

Infidelity has hit the bin Laden family.

Adult filmmaker Jim Mitchell, 63, who helped make the sordid business of porno somewhat more respectable with flicks such as Behind the Green Door, but made himself less respectable by killing his younger brother Artie, has died. No cause of death has been made public.

Lady Bird Johnson was laid to rest.

Women who can't bear to spend their lives without going through the birth process are attempting to use donor eggs.

As the World Turns.

Jesse Ramirez can thank his lucky stars Judge George Greer wasn't presiding over his case.
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As the World Turns.

Mike Wallace's defense of serial killer Jack Kevorkian is as embarrassing as those interviews theocrat James Dobson did with Ted Bundy before the latter was executed in January of 1989.

Awful.
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Naturally abortion used for sex selection has led to a shortage of females.

Hardly a great achievement for women's rights.
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A washed-up rocker tries marriage once again.
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Thanks to his handling of the Duke Lacrosse fiasco, Mike Nifong's legal career is kaput.
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Prince Harry can't seem to stay out of the tabloids.
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This

post has the usual right-to-die nonsense, but the comments are very interesting, including those of Stephen Drake of Not Dead Yet.

Given How

public attitudes and the courts have changed into accepting the bogus "right-to-die" arguments, it's no wonder disability rights activists are more than a little concerned about the return of eugenics.

As the World Turns.

A top Kentucky Derby contender is a subject of a lawsuit.
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Valerie Moore, the woman responsible for the horrific Mizpah Hotel fire of last Halloween which killed 12 people and injured many others, received 12 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.
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It's no surprise that minorities get inferior end-of-life care.
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Oregon's Gordon Smith usually toes the Republican line, but in the rare instances he voices opposition, watch out.
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You ain't a-kiddin' middle school can be a challenge.

It's a time of transition for the kids. The way I see it, middle school kids are little kids in adult bodies.
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As the World Turns.

Three mountain climbers stranded on Mount Hood are alive. They also have a dog with them.

Edit: All were rescued this afternoon, including the dog.
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China has some competition in the female infanticide/abortion contest as India is apparently engaging in mass eugenics.

But it's "freedom of choice" regardless of the sexism and demographic catastrophe sex-selection entails.
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Heather Mills is no longer considered a cash cow, so PETA has severed its ties to her.
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Secretariat's jockey Ron Turcotte, 65, will be honored at the 16th annual Sports Legends Awards which benefits spinal chord research.

Since he was paralyzed in a racing accident in 1978, he has lived in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Ron Franklin, whose sensational rise and fall as jockey of Spectacular Bid has been chronicled on this blog, seeks to have his license reinstated by the Maryland Racing Commission.

I don't know why he bothers at this point. He is 46, way past his prime.
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