What’s news in your world
Right now at CNN.com the top story is – duh – terrischiavo: ‘This was for Terri,’ husband’s lawyer says
In the rest of the news box on the first screen, in order:
- President: Millions feel Schiavo’s passing
- Schiavo video released just before her death
- CNN/Money: Wolfowitz elected World Bank President
- Report: Iraq intelligence ‘simply wrong’
- Prince Albert takes over Monaco from ailing dad
- Report: Half of cancer deaths preventable
- CNN/Money: Ted Koppel leaving ABC
- SI.com: 3 MLB players tossed from NBA game
Wow. Three Terri Schiavo stories before we get to Wolfbeard boarding the USS World Bank, and hell, I guess we should feel lucky that the story on Iraq intel is being covered at all. I mean, didn’t Michael Jackson do something interesting like wave to a crowd today?
Other news in the sections further down the page:
- Bush makes new retirement pitch
- U.S. soldier convicted in Iraqi killing
- U.S.-Afghan torture jail terms cut
- Girl, 5, calls 911 after parents shot dead
- Joan Kennedy remains hospitalized
- Employee dies in plant blast
- Korean bloggers making a difference
- Jury: DA used race to discriminate
- Hopes rise on arthritis discovery
- Catholic schools’ enrollment drops again
- State moves to limit junk food in schools
Hey, wait a damned second – what’s that first item there?
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — President Bush suggested Wednesday that lawmakers who oppose his proposal for a Social Security overhaul could face political problems as a result.
Well, what timing – Terri kicks and all of a sudden Social Security is back on the charts. What do you make of that?
I can also imagine circumstances where this one would be huge news:
WIESBADEN, Germany (AP) — A military court on Thursday found a U.S. Army tank company commander guilty of charges related to the shooting death of a wounded Iraqi last year.
And this:
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan appeals court reduced the sentences of three Americans jailed for torturing Afghans during a freelance hunt for terrorists but refused to overturn their convictions, an official said.
Our nation’s misleadership would like to thank Terri Schiavo for her courageous service in distracting America for a couple weeks…
Say it with me – eye on the ball, people…
lullaby pit 
This isn’t over quite yet. The media can still milk Schiavo’s corpse for a few more bucks while politicans make sure no one looks for the man behind the curtain…
HOLD THE PHONE!!!
Let’s look at the issue AFTER the Social Security resurfacing!
After reading the CNN report (once I got over the initial confusion of the headline–a soldier being convicted of murder in a combat zone?), It seems that the “murder” was a mercy killing. Sounds vaguly like the Schaivo thing to me. The man was a captain on a tank. His job is to secure military assets. All American military member have an obligation to try to render first aid to those injured, on either side. The rules of war don’t say anything about actions to be taken if that person cannot be saved.
The ideology of “err on the side of life” seems to have fallen into the realm of WAR now, too! What an oxymoron!