{"id":76,"date":"2005-03-25T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/enough-already\/"},"modified":"2005-03-25T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2005-03-25T09:12:12","slug":"enough-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/enough-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, it appears that the judicial branch is not, in fact, the executive and legislative branch&#8217;s bitch. With any luck, Terry Schaivo will die in peace and the bloated sack that is Tom DeLay can go back to worrying about his inevitable demise.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to post about this Tuesday night, but I was interrupted by a call from The Wife informing me that the entire downstairs of our house had become a lake. I&#8217;ll go into details some other time, but I&#8217;m going to be in insurance\/remodeling hell for the next month or so, assuming we can afford this little setback.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it makes me sick to see politicians, the media and someone&#8217;s own family make a spectacle out of someone who&#8217;s too sick or too young to care for themselves. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/thedailyshowwithjonstewart\/\" target=\"dbloat\">The Daily Show<\/a> nailed Monday night. I can only hope that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlisareinsradar.com\" target=\"dbloat\">Lisa Rein<\/a> posts the video if you missed it. I won&#8217;t rehash the whole thing, but I&#8217;ll dump a flurry of links that I think are good. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2005_03_20_digbysblog_archive.html#111134934659869241\" target=\"dbloat\">http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2005_03_20_digbysblog_archive.html#111134934659869241<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markarkleiman.com\/archives\/_\/2005\/03\/schiavo_hudson_and_nikolouzos.php\" target=\"dbloat\">http:\/\/www.markarkleiman.com\/archives\/_\/2005\/03\/schiavo_hudson_and_nikolouzos.php<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A54002-2005Mar21.html\" target=\"dbloat\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A54002-2005Mar21.html<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/metropolitan\/3087387\" target=\"dbloat\">http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/metropolitan\/3087387<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/state\/11176634.htm\" target=\"dbloat\">http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/state\/11176634.htm<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanbonner.com\/blog\/archives\/001583.php\" target=\"dbloat\">http:\/\/www.seanbonner.com\/blog\/archives\/001583.php<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things to take away from all this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bill Frist, a heart surgeon who&#8217;s never met Terry Schiavo, can out-diagnose neurologists who have had time to examine her<\/li>\n<li>Tom DeLay is an opportunistic, bloated pigfucker trying to use Terry Schiavo to push some sort of universal twisted pro-life agenda and at the same time take the attention away from the multiple investigations into his campaign shenanigans.<\/li>\n<li>George Bush is a hypocritical pigfucker who presided over more executions than anyone cares to count and yet claims to want to protect life at any cost. He&#8217;s also the one who signed a bill in Texas allowing the courts to pull the plug on someone despite the families wishes, even if it&#8217;s just because they can&#8217;t pay for the medical expense of keeping the family member alive. Can somebody please up date the definition of hypocrite and add his picture? Please?<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, it appears that the judicial branch is not, in fact, the executive and legislative branch&#8217;s bitch. With any luck, Terry Schaivo will die in peace and the bloated sack that is Tom DeLay can go back to worrying about his inevitable demise. I was going to post about this Tuesday night, but I was <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/enough-already\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-1e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}