Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog)

Hollywood actress Jane Fonda, speaking to a TV interviewer on a show to be aired Sunday evening:

“The image of Jane Fonda, `Barbarella,’ Henry Fonda’s daughter … sitting on an enemy aircraft gun [Vietnam, July, 1972] was a betrayal … the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine,” Fonda told Leslie Stahl in a “60 Minutes” interview that will air Sunday night.

It seems no wonder that Ted Turner divorced her; she’s lost some of her anti-American “spunk.”

Here’s John Edwards from a Tuesday interview with FNC’s Alan Colmes:

[W]e have the best legal system in the world, but it’s not perfect. We could make it better. But the solution to this is not [for Congress] to take away the rights of those who’ve been hurt the worst. Terri Schiavo is an example of somebody who was hurt horribly.

She’s starving, John. We do not know what she would have wished in this case.

From the Reverend Jesse Jackson:

‘’Without food or water for 12 days, there are vital signs she is being starved to death. She is being dehydrated to death and that is inhumane. It is immoral and unnecessary. There is no rational reason for this to happen.'’

Here, here.

And then there’s pro-Terri politician Ralph Nader.

But let’s face facts. The woman is dying, like a hiker stranded in a cave on the mountain. Sure, she’s in a hospice, a place where the patients are to be protected, but this is what the judge ordered.

From Brother Paul O’Donnell, Franciscan Brothers for Peace, spiritual advisor to Bob and Mary Schindler:

‘’Everyone is willing to write this woman’s obituary except one person and that’s Terri Schiavo.”

On Easter evening, Terri evidently lifted her hands and made noises of recognition when an old friend, identified as “Sherri,” visited and recalled their days of “dancing and partying together.”

From Eleanor Smith, a self-described liberal lesbian in a wheelchair and crusader for the rights of the disabled, quoted in a Reuters piece.

“At this point I would rather have a right-wing Christian decide my fate than an ACLU member,” Smith said.

The disabled, it seems, are dispensable.

(via Brian Grayson, at Tomfoolery of the Highest Order)

This is from a Terri Schiavo post by Bene Diction from October 21, 2003. It deals with Mike Schiavo.

There is a sick irony in this being a starvation case. I think of greed as something that chokes off, cuts off, takes away from, shrivels a soul, or in this case, many souls. I see greed as really skinny. Collective wisdom doesn’t perceive greed as green for nothing.

Continued:

How horrible to have the law tie your hands behind you and make you stand by and watch her starve to death.

As I write this, the governor [Bush] hasn’t signed the bill and Terri Shaivo is still starving to death.

That was almost exactly 17-months ago. Governor Bush signed the bill — enter Federalism, folks — but it was rejected by a flawed court.

Representative Dave Weldon, M.D., F.A.C.P. (R-Florida) on Terri Schindler-Schiavo at a Press Conference this afternoon, after being asked if the latest delay concerned him.

She could pass on before we do anything.

Feed the poor woman, for God’s sake.

The House is voting early this AM, and one assumes the voting will last until enough have voted to save a life. The Senate vote at some point after the House passes the measure.

I just stumbled upon one from Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams, uttered to the Council on Foreign Relations last Monday:

“No one wants the IRA to go back to war, and in my view, people want to see the IRA leaving the stage - and I think the best way for the IRA to leave the stage is in a dignified manner that prevents any recurrence of another IRA growing up alongside.”

Is that a promise or a threat, punk?

He’s warning us that if we abruptly dismantle the I.R.A., we’ll have a sort of terror vacuum.

The I.R.A. deserves no dignity. Starve ‘em to death.

This is from the blog of a doctoral candidate in the Dept. of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Iraqi-born Abbas Kadhim. It’s part ofhis comment on Paul Wolfowitz’s nomination to head the World Bank:

“The World Bank is, after all, an organization founded to blackmail poor countries.”

The comments to his post devolved into a discussion of him.