Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Quote of the Moment ______________________________
"A truck hit him, crushed his back legs. He dragged himself under the house. Once in awhile he'd make a noise like a cat fight and thrash around a little, but mostly he just lay quietly and waited. 'He ought to be destroyed,' they kept telling me. After a few hours he dragged himself from under the house. Crying for help. 'He ought to be destroyed,' they said. I wouldn't let them do it. They said it was cruel to let him live. So finally I said I'd do it myself, if it had to be done. I got a gun and a shovel and took him out to the edge of the woods. I stretched him out on the ground while I dug a hole. Then I shot him through the head. It was a small-bore rifle. Zeke thrashed a couple of times, then got up and started dragging himself toward some bushes. I shot him again. It knocked him flat, so I thought he was dead, and put him in the hole. After a couple of shovels of dirt, Zeke got up and pulled himself out of the hole and started for the bushes again. I was crying louder than the cat. I had to kill him with the shovel. I had to put him back in the hole and use the blade of the shovel like a cleaver, and while I was chopping with it, Zeke was still thrashing around. They told me later it was just spinal reflex, but I didn't believe it. I knew that cat. He wanted to get to those bushes and just lie there and wait. I wished to God that I had only let him get to those bushes, and die the way a cat would if you just let it alone - withdignity ."
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"Therefore you're are asking me to let her die slowly and -"
"No! I'm not asking you. As a priest of Christ I amcommanding you by the authority of Almighty God not to lay hands on your child, not to offer her life in sacrifice to a false god of expedient mercy. I do not advise you, I adjure and command you in the name of Christ the King. Is that clear?"
... For an instant he had feared that the girl would laugh in his face."
- A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr.
III? Answer me these questions three:
What does the President think of the legislation Jeb signed? How much of a joke is the Communist News Network willing to make of itself? When will we see comprehensive coverage of the Terri Schiavo situation?
"A truck hit him, crushed his back legs. He dragged himself under the house. Once in awhile he'd make a noise like a cat fight and thrash around a little, but mostly he just lay quietly and waited. 'He ought to be destroyed,' they kept telling me. After a few hours he dragged himself from under the house. Crying for help. 'He ought to be destroyed,' they said. I wouldn't let them do it. They said it was cruel to let him live. So finally I said I'd do it myself, if it had to be done. I got a gun and a shovel and took him out to the edge of the woods. I stretched him out on the ground while I dug a hole. Then I shot him through the head. It was a small-bore rifle. Zeke thrashed a couple of times, then got up and started dragging himself toward some bushes. I shot him again. It knocked him flat, so I thought he was dead, and put him in the hole. After a couple of shovels of dirt, Zeke got up and pulled himself out of the hole and started for the bushes again. I was crying louder than the cat. I had to kill him with the shovel. I had to put him back in the hole and use the blade of the shovel like a cleaver, and while I was chopping with it, Zeke was still thrashing around. They told me later it was just spinal reflex, but I didn't believe it. I knew that cat. He wanted to get to those bushes and just lie there and wait. I wished to God that I had only let him get to those bushes, and die the way a cat would if you just let it alone - with
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"Therefore you're are asking me to let her die slowly and -"
"No! I'm not asking you. As a priest of Christ I am
... For an instant he had feared that the girl would laugh in his face."
- A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr.
III? Answer me these questions three:
What does the President think of the legislation Jeb signed? How much of a joke is the Communist News Network willing to make of itself? When will we see comprehensive coverage of the Terri Schiavo situation?
