Monday, September 05, 2005

What Did Bush Know and When Did He Know It?

"When we get the big hurricane and there are 10,000 people dead, the city government's been relocated to the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain, refugee camps have been set up and there $10 billion plus in losses, what then?'" - Shea Penland, geologist and professor at the University of New Orleans - Risk & Insurance Article December, 2000

PBS: Now, with Bill Moyers -- City in A Bowl, September, 2002

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Reuters AlertNet - Brain dead American woman gives birth to girl

Reuters AlertNet - Brain dead American woman gives birth to girl
Stranger then Fiction Concept idea: this could be the basis of a sci-fi horror tail of a group that discovers a market to artificially inseminate brain-dead women to give live births...

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Why Terri Schiavo Matters

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide

At 25, Terri became incacpacitated after less than 5 years of marriage. The 15 years since has brought her husband another woman and children, and he should not have rights to make life or death decisions on her behalf. We will be judged as a civilsation by how we treat severely disabled and aged. There are thousands of like this poor woman. A system that says mercy killing is illegal but allows state sponsored death by starvation is a monstrous horror.