2005.3.31=4[#90]:4703.2.22[#51/60]: [photo] BoA gets Rich's, Lung's friend&mom. 1)Schiavo. 2)Religions US&Islamland. 3)GMO. 4)US Media.

[Photo Sharing] "Webshots is the world's largest photo sharing site, offering superior tools and content"... http://www.webshots.com/corporate/index.cgi Mild fair: [[ Changing to present tense ]] Mei up early with tv, up 5:30! bed tv 6-7, then Schiavo death news, so up, Mei goes and back clearing house paint shielding papers etc., angry about no help so tel. sis., respond to emails on Schiavo issues [C]>[G], till for topic also below. Near 5:00pm, tel. mom going then drive to Bk of Am, Rebecca of "independent" AE Mortgage not in also today, so give Rich's schedule 15p. and just received mail of Disclosure Statement/Good Faith Estimate, Additional Required California Disclosures, Truth-in-Lending Disclosure Statement, Credit Score Info. Disclosure, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Fair Lending Notice, Privacy Policy Disclosure 2p., Right to Receive Copy of Appraisal Report, Servicing Disclosure Statement 2p. to Amy then she faxes to Rebecca. I'm not sure whether this is appropriate. Then change my mind and goes home. Leo's wife tel. that he is working at house. Lung home saying Mei will go out for dinner at 7:30, but she is home late going to house also? Lung drives all 4 of us to ABC reaching 8:30, his girl friend and her visiting mother waiting. We have very good dinner ordered by Lung, mothers talking to each other, children talking among them, and I joining occasionally. Home, emails, Jyun requests computer at 11:45 when 11:25 taking bath. Now 11:54 Mei has screamed. Get to Title now to finish, 11:05 bed. 1)Schiavo Issues: (1) [G] Email: "Legal Tradition & Public Roles #101: on Life & Death [ Breaking News.]" "" [Tsai 05.3.31=4 #2] The husband's lawyer is still answering questions after his statement. In his statement he talked about the dying circumstance for about 2 days till around 9am Florida time (6am, but when I watched tv 7:10am, stating died 10 minutes ago). Very reasonable and in very meticulous details. Political happenings here are terrible, especially on this matter of life and death. 11:49am has started Q&A: "artificially kept alive" and "any possibility of alive again" and "how precisely sciences could determine life and death" issues? Difficult breathing happened (not my father, he had just breathed less and less then stopped unnoticeably as I noticed.) in last minutes(?) then hospices personnel came and very kindly and skillfully helped to ease it. Well, perhaps how our pets are helped to die quickly without and out of pain, could be judged as more humane? The taboo issues of death in the west is now publicly discussed in earnest at least in the USA here and even globally at least through CNN should be heartily welcomed, I think. "" (2) "Terri Schiavo Is Dead ... And What Remains", by David Corn, DavidCorn.com. Posted March 31, 2005, AlterNet: "I don't think we should forget how certain scoundrels crassly exploited this family conflict.": http://www.alternet.org/story/21644/ http://davidcorn.com/ Posted by David Corn at 12:15 PM | Comments (45). "" There are hundreds, if not thousands, of instances when a feeding tube is removed from a person deemed beyond hope. Do the supporters of the Schindlers, like Jesse Jackson, believe a feeding tube should never be pulled? The Schindler side has described the subsequent death as terribly gruesome. Jackson called it "crude" and "cruel." Does this mean that even someone who signed a living will should not be allowed to meet such a fate? Or, perhaps more to the point, in a case when there is no living will but a guardian makes the decision to withdraw a feeding tube (and there is no conflict among family members), should this option not be permitted? Is Jackson now going to advocate federal and state laws that prohibit the removal of feeding tubes? Does this extend to breathing tubes and other forms of care? There are many ways to keep a person alive. When I heard Jackson discuss the Schiavo case, he focused on the intrinsic value of life. So what then are the guidelines for providing care to people who are comatose, brain-damaged or otherwise severely impaired? Perhaps with Terri Schiavo finally dead, there can be a debate--free of political exploitation and self-serving exaggerations--about these difficult end-of-life issues. But I wouldn't bet on it. David Corn is the Washington editor of The Nation and author of "The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception." He writes a blog at davidcorn.com. "" 2) Christianity in the USA & Islam in the Muslim world: (1) Christianity in the USA: "The End of Reason", by David Morris, AlterNet. Posted March 31, 2005. http://www.alternet.org/story/21641/ "" Organized religion elevates superstition to an entirely new level, so let's call its institutions by their proper name: superstition-based institutions. For Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, until 2003 the deputy head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's most powerful office, seeing The DaVinci Code in a Vatican bookstore was the last straw. In early March he lashed out at Catholic bookstores for carrying the book, and directed Catholics not to read it. Why? "There is a very real risk that many people who read it will believe that the fables it contains are true." Fables? Dan Brown's phenomenal bestseller suggests that Jesus was an immensely popular and prophetic leader who married one of his closest associates and had a family. "" "" In early February 2005, the Virginia House of Delegates easily approved (69-27) an amendment to the state's constitution that would allow the practice of religion in public schools and other public buildings. A few weeks later the amendment was killed in a Senate committee (10-5). It was a lonely victory for reason in this increasingly unreasonable time. The battle between rationality and superstition continues. David Morris is co-founder and vice president of the Institute for Local Self Reliance in Minneapolis, Minn. and director of its New Rules project. "" (2) Islam in the Muslim world: "Muslim thinker fights death penalty", by Roger Hardy, BBC Middle East analyst; Last Updated: Wednesday, 30 March, 2005, 16:29 GMT 17:29 UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4394863.stm "" Dr Ramadan says such punishments should be put in context A prominent Muslim intellectual in Europe, Tariq Ramadan, has called for a moratorium on corporal punishment, stoning and the death penalty in the Muslim world. Under what are known as the "hudud" laws, adulterers can be stoned to death and thieves can have their right hands amputated. Dr Ramadan has now launched a campaign which he hopes will resonate across the Muslim world, as well as in the West. To Western liberals, it is indefensible that such punishments are still carried out in parts of the Muslim world - such as Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia - and they argue the practices should be outlawed. But Dr Ramadan counters that - since these punishments have a basis in classical Islamic law - it is the wrong approach. The real issue, he says, is the context in which the hudud penalties are applicable. He argues that the political and legal systems in the Muslim world do not allow for just and equal treatment of the individual and that "you can't go on killing poor people and women" who, he says, are the main victims of the current situation. Sensitive issue His call for a moratorium ""