2005.4.1=5[#91]:4703.2.23[#52/60]: Late Tax/Rich Materials. 0)Schiavo.

Cool then still warm fair: up 8:00am, Mei back then off complains about house window blind not put back etc. and tired/painful. Lung home, emails soon getting into Schiavo media topic. Rich tel. for me to get materials weekend. Lung off. Noon mails, 2pm finish emails, for lunch, 5:50 finish emails again, start look for tax and Rich's materials, Jung tel Big Taipei dinner with mom at 7:30, bath then 7:45! All have gone. Now 8:04pm, for title to finish. Meet coming Lung in car and Benny, new tenant at garage, and drive to house to check house problems of sprinkler's much worse leak, not covered-back electric outlets 4, and not put-back window blinds, then drive to Big Taipei restraunt and take food for me leaving Xiang/Jung to o.h. for my dinner, bed 12:35. TOPIC: Schiavo Issues: (1) "Right emboldened by Schiavo case", by Kevin Anderson, BBC News, Washington; Last Updated: Thursday, 31 March, 2005, 21:53 GMT 22:53 UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4399011.stm "" The death of Terri Schiavo is unlikely to be the end of the debate over end-of-life issues in the United States. Terri Schiavo's case has brought together right-to-life advocates in the US State legislatures across the country are debating new laws to govern end of life decisions, with some responding directly to the issues raised in the Schiavo case. The fight over her final days has also brought together conservative Catholics and Evangelical Christians with disability-rights advocates into an energised coalition that is fighting to change state laws and elect conservative judges. "" (2) "Bold Prescriptions", Russ Baker; TomPaine.com, April 01, 2005: "Most of us have an ethical and/or religious framework which influences our beliefs about morally complex issues like the right to die or abortion. But progressives as a rule don't shout these beliefs from the rooftops. Traditionally these decisions have been seen as intensely personal. But religious extremists have changed all that, and journalist Russ Baker says it's time for progressives to act publicly—and not leave it to religious extremists to set the agenda." "Russ Baker —a founding fellow of the new Fourth Estate Society—is a regular contributor to TomPaine.com.": http://www.tompaine.com/articles/bold_prescriptions.php?dateid=20050401 "" Have you ever seen tables turn so fast? The same people who for so many years have decried a decline in personal freedom are rapidly becoming domestic interventionists of the first order. The religious far right and its allies are interfering with the delivery of products and services and the most intimate compacts between spouses. You know about Terri Schiavo. But are you aware of a growing trend in which service professionals put their religious beliefs ahead of their most basic obligations to the public? You don’t have to be a fanatic about civil liberties to feel discomfited about this latest assault on simple human decencies. Monday’s Washington Post reported on the increasing numbers of pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that doing so would violate personal tenets. ""