FOXNews.com - Politics - GOP Goes on Judicial Offensive

FOXNews.com - Politics - GOP Goes on Judicial Offensive
The above linked story - Makes me mad at the party I voted for. It makes me mad that the entire world is so studiously involved in the choices that a MAN and A WIFE made before she became deceased.

I am going to post my comments within the body of the story. They did not allow liquer at the office today - neither the firearms that I would require to actually punctuate this story. Luckily I have the Bible at my right hand via the internet and a full-strength Vanilla Coke (diet is for quitters) at my left. Shall we start?


Republicans, many of whom led the charge to focus federal attention on Terri Schiavo (search), are vowing to hold the judiciary system responsible for rulings in the case that some believe were tantamount to murder.

As anyone should, there is accountablitiy built into the system. Be angry, but the Phrase WE THE PEOPLE carries a whole lot of weight in my book. In fact it trumps all of flying feces of life and gives me hope. It is too bad that I do not have a searchable copy of the Constitution of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA handy.....

"This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (search) said Thursday after receiving news of Schiavo's death.

No the LOSS was not a LOSS - these people do not understand death, let alone LIFE! How is that going to change Mr. DeLay? Going to amend the Constitution to allow for really stupid decisions? I think not. The San Francisco Courts shovel enough bile for all of us. I need not your bitterness.

"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another."

So what you are saying is that you are on a witch hunt? First go get the doctors, then the lawyers, then the teachers, then the preachers, then the neighbors, then everyone else who has a hand in raising Americans to what they are. Lets round us all up, burn us to the ground and blame the cinders.

Schiavo died Thursday after going almost 14 days without food, water or nutrients following the removal of her feeding tube on March 18. Her husband, Michael Schiavo (search), had argued for years that his wife would not want to continue in the persistent vegetative state that court-appointed doctors said she was in. But Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler (search), had maintained their daughter would want to live and that she could get better with therapy.

She died not because of her feeding tube but because of poor planning, articulation, and appeasment of peoples fears. 10 years ago you needed to pull the plug and nobody has the guts to say "sure let me do it."

While Democrats on Thursday lamented Congress' intervention in the ordeal, some Republicans vowed to cure what they considered to be a moral injustice.

MORAL INJUSTICE? The Democrats ARE RIGHT - the Congress of the United States was slammed, raped, and jammed to the wall in a righteous manner becuase they were stupid. They tried to tip the ballance in favor of EMOTION and not the correct decision. The courts were right. The Schindlers were too bitter to let go and let their daughter go.

"This is almost a declaration of war from conservatives against the judiciary," said Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon.

You are right Bill. War is at your door step. Get ready punk because the conservatives will pound and scream.

Sen. Rick Santorum (search), R-Pa., said Schiavo not only was a daughter and a sister but "most importantly, an innocent person was penalized by a court system that grants convicted murderers fair treatment under the law, but not a woman whose only crime was not filing a living will."

STATES RIGHTS VS. FEDERAL. Pure simple. Rick you are wrong too. You focus to specifically on one person when there is so much more that can be done to this nation to fix the ills of the world. The law is there to grant fair rights - fair to you Rick - must be a shade or too different than justice.


He added: "The actions on the part of the Florida court and the U.S. Supreme Court are unconscionable. In California, Scott Peterson, a convicted murderer, was sentenced to death, yet his constitutional rights were upheld to ensure that he received due process and fair consideration in court. Terri Schiavo was given a death sentence, and passed away without the right to due process."

Two very different cases. One beheaded his wife and killed his unborn son. Shiavo just wanted to let his wife quit suffereing and the people of this nation did not want to let him act as the SPOUSE. I cannot wait for the government to tell me what my rights are as SPOUSE. Oh and by the way Rick, Terri got due process - 15 years of it.

In a later conference call with reporters, Santorum said the courts had practiced nothing less than "judicial tyranny" in this case and took aim at those who say Congress overstepped its bounds.

"[This is] routinely done by the courts — deciding they are now a super-legislature," Santorum said. "I'm not sure if the press realizes how serious this conflict is between the branches of government and how gravely concerned members of Congress are with [the] kinds of judicial tyranny we've seen. ...


CONFLICT? Did FDR try to pack the courts? Yes. CONFLICT? Let me interpret for those that forgot to get their Citizenship in the Nation Merit Badge - BALANCE OF POWER. Tyranny? No Rick that is what I would think the legislature does when it taxes me for corporate mistakes.

"To suggest Congress has exceeded power shows you there are judges who simply ignore written law and substitute their own judgments."

Yes the Congress did - they wanted to have the emotions of the matter take over - not THE LAW!

Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy didn't let comments like that slide, however.

"I believed that the courts are the fairest forum to do what is right in this case. I intend to do all I can to see that any action Congress takes is constructive and free from partisan politics, and does not make a tragic situation worse by exploiting this terrible tragedy," said the senior senator from Massachusetts.

Either he is quite liquered up or has been reading the Constitution.

"Mr. DeLay's comments today were irresponsible and reprehensible. I'm not sure what Mr. DeLay meant when he said 'the time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior.' But at a time when emotions are running high, Mr. DeLay needs to make clear that he is not advocating violence against anyone ... it is time for mourning and healing not for more inflammatory rhetoric, and responsible national leaders should understand that and stop this exploitation."

DAMN. I hate it when a Kennedy is right. I hate it when the only group looking at this as a breach of edicate and a breach of duty is the Democrats. Double Damn because they see it and the republicans have become a rabid mass of lunatics who cannot see the way the system worked. It was not working against them it was working for America - not for one person who lay vegetating on a bed in Florida - but the whole mass of us. Should we legislate for one person?

Democrats generally have argued that the federal government should not intervene in such a personal issue and agreed that the decision whether to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube rested rightfully with the Florida state courts. But a few, including Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin (search), joined Republicans in pushing through Congress a bill on the weekend the feeding tube was removed that called for a federal review of the case.

As court after court — at both the state and federal level — denied Schiavo's parents' requests to have the tube reinserted, GOP calls for judicial reform grew louder, even in the face of polls showing the American people wanted Congress to stay out of their personal lives.

CAUSE IT WAS WORKING. THE FEDERAL, STATE, and BOB's Sheriff's office was all working in concert. CANNOT ANYONE SEE IT WAS WORKING THE WAY IT WAS SUPPOSED TO?

Democrats conceded that although the judges' decisions to essentially let Schiavo die didn't sit well with many Americans, those decisions were made in accordance with the law and not with emotion.

"This also really tested our system of government," said former Democratic Rep. Martin Frost of Texas. "We are a nation of laws. The most conservative court in history … the 11th Circuit ... said that this matter was handled appropriately according to the laws of the United States … you don't make special exceptions just for one person. This was a family matter and it needed to be decided in accordance with the laws of the state in which she lives."

Well yes, and now another Democrat that I have to agree with. It is getting worse and worse.

Lawmakers and congressional observers said there's no doubt the role of the judiciary and how judges approach such touchy subjects as death and dying will likely be reviewed by Congress when lawmakers return from their Easter recess.

"Congress must right this wrong by ensuring that incapacitated Americans may not be deprived of their inalienable right to life without the assurance of the due process of law that our federal courts were established to protect," said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. "This will be Terri Schiavo's legacy."

Former Solicitor General Kenneth Starr said the court system doesn't necessarily have to be reformed based on decisions made in the Schiavo case.

But "we want to make sure the laws the judiciary is there to interpret and apply are good and humane laws," Starr said.

Ken Starr might be right. Oops he is. Shiznit he is a slimy looking man but he sure is more cogent in his thoughts than Delay.

Speaking with reporters later in Houston, DeLay said lawmakers "will look at an arrogant and out of control judiciary that thumbs its nose at Congress and the president."

He added: "I never thought I'd see the day when a U.S. judge stopped feeding a living American so that they took 14 days to die."

But that is the Law - and guess what - the law is what we live by. Do you by chance have a buddy who needs to get let off of a charge Mr. DeLay? And if he gets off - is it a miscarriage of justice - or just working in your favor?

White House press secretary Scott McClellan declined to join in the judicial criticism. "We would have preferred a different decision from the courts ... but ultimately we have to follow our laws and abide by the courts," he said.

Yes Mr McClellan - you are correct because apparently you understand the ballance of power.

Some Republicans have said at the very least, judges should have allowed guardianship of Schiavo to be transferred from her husband to her parents.

"Because of this, I think you're going to see much more acrimonious consideration of federal judges," said former Ohio Rep. John Kasich, a Republican who also hosts FOX News' "Heartland."

"I can't for the life of me figure out why they didn't let the mother and father be in a position to take care of their daughter."

Let me think? Marriage, uhhh.... God...., the law....

Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst for FOX News, said one move states could make to alleviate similar situations in the future is "if legislatures write laws that give courts guidance on how to address these situations, that will help make it clearer and fairer for people who unfortunately get trapped" in such physical states.

Only trapped by their decisions. Freedom is free choices - each of us gets the same chance.

Richard Lessner, executive director of the American Conservative Union, said states and Congress should try to make the courts more beholden to the people and the elected representatives chosen by the people.

"I think it has once again cast a light on the need to address the role of courts and judges in our society. The people's representatives ought to have some say in this and the idea that we're sort of beholden to the role of judges" is ridiculous, Lessner said. "I think that's problematic to most conservatives and I think this case has done the most to highlight that."

President Bush has in the past blasted what he calls "activist judges" who he says have acted more in accordance with their own personal reinterpretation of the law rather than abiding strictly by the Constitution. The gay-marriage issue, when several state judges ruled that prohibiting gay and lesbian couples to marry was unconstitutional, was one issue where these judges were targeted by Republicans.

The Senate continues to be deadlocked on some judicial nominees sent to the chamber by President Bush. The Schiavo case is just the latest in a string of cases that may be in the back of lawmakers' minds when these judges come to the floor for a vote.

"As you look at the judges who are activists in the manner I've suggested, those judges are not conservative, but liberal and not [following] the law," said Santorum, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. "To suggest this was unimportant is a judicial creation ... not how the law is intended to be interpreted. President Bush is putting forward judges who don't do that."

Later on Thursday, Kennedy said Schiavo's case underscored the need for an independent federal judiciary. He said the decision by the GOP-controlled Congress to intervene in her case was part of a pattern that includes talk of changing Senate rules to override Democratic opposition to Bush's judicial appointments.

Republican Sen. John McCain rejected DeLay's characterization of federal judges on Friday. "I don't agree with it," he said on CBS' "The Early Show."

THANK GOD - This man would be the only one I agree with on this page!

"But I do believe this issue of judges is a hot issue," said the Arizona lawmaker. "I don't think the Democrats should be blocking the president's appointments."

You are right Senator - the process has to work. It all has to do the right thing. Right to someone like the Schinderler is something that would be different than the view of right that I have. Right is right is right. Shiavo died not because of her husband, not because of the feeding tube, she died because her brain was a waste of mush and had nothing left to contribute. She could follow a balloon across the room but that is not cogent thought. That is not quality of life, that is what nobody would want. Never have I seen such grief from the parents. BUT SHE WAS THE WIFE OF MICHAEL Let me pull out the bible. Dangerous. But I will try to find the reference. Ahh - Mark 10:7 "For this cause shall a Man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife." This points that the daughter and the son form a union. The husband now trumps the father as the decision maker. I hate to say this to: Michael Shiavo made the choice for his wife - his wife made it clear to him - and now everyone out there is just torqued becuase they could not force thier will on someone they did not even know.

Grit

There are events in this life that build men up or tear men down. Events that happen every day might be an accomplishment to those that you are around - or might seem to you to be mundane.
There is grit in Americans. There is toughness. Sometimes I think that we get soft, complacent, and lazy in our freedom. Then I read of those that have the utmost courage. My heart beats stronger. The emotion rises to the surface. And in that moment. I am proud to be an American. I am proud of those that march through sand on foriegn soils. Those that God brings home to Him, after having spilt their living red blood in sacrifice for others.
That moment, when I know that I am still an American, when I know that there is something else in life to live for. That is pride. That is peace. That is what God has given to me.
I am proud be who I am. I am but only a small part of a greater nation.
I am thankful that those who carry the weapons of peace, and administer the justice of war can make those decisions and that we as a nation have the strength to show others the way.
Dave

If they know what is good for them...

From the title of the post you might not know what I am going to say or you might have an inkling.

I write today about us. Mere mortals on the orbiting sphere called Earth.

We are a weird breed. Unpredictable. Vengeful. Spiteful. Greedy. Manipulative.

But, we are all Sons and Daughters of God. That is what makes it all worth it.

You see - the people that died in a tidal wave recently, more like the day after Christmas were numbered by our Maker.

The Maker - also named God - knows each and every one of us. Has us in the palm of His hand every day of our lives.

We get the opportunity, the blessing, and the challenge of taking a breath and living. Each and every day of our lives.

Our lives are not numbered less, or more than originally planned out by the Maker.

Our book of life has pages - each one for a day - and each one has writing that is placed upon it by the One who watches us play out our lives.

I take peace and consolation that there is a Being that is watching me. Sometimes I am scared to see the outcome of what I am doing.

Each person is not a pawn in the hands of the Almighty, but a free individual who makes his or her way through life one step at a time. We do not get second chances at the test called life. We get the opportunity to prove ourselves worthy of the companionship of God in the life hereafter. We write the pages, we form the text each hour by each minute, by each breath.

When we step into this life, we have nothing. Each of us coming into the world naked and screaming because we just left a better place in favor of landing on this orbiting rock, and finding ourselves in the middle of a test. Right and wrong answers, multiple choice, and indeed some that do not have clear answers at all.

When the times get tough, the waves run high, and mobs may rage - I take peace and solace in knowing My God watches over me. Protects me. Shields me from harm. Guides me through the troubles and strife that will be served up batch and bale to me.

I know that God lives, that Jesus is the Christ. That the Holy Ghost gives me the guidance and direction to get through what will come upon me.

Those poor souls that were swept out to see, crushed, or never found, are numbered, counted, and set aside till Judgement come. The good thing that we have is that we have a God who is personalized to each of us. The toddler who has not yet learned to walk is judged differently than the man who walks far. Each is known unto God, and each will return to the God who gave him life and the opportunity to live and breath. Freedom.

Dave

To touch.

I was recently on the East Coast for the Thanksgiving weekend. I just wanted to share with the world as an individual the impact several different but related incidences had on me.
My wife and I landed in New York - and we got to witness the extravaganza that is the Macy's Day Parade. We toodled around New York City and visited the different stores and such that congregate around Central Park and the Times Square area. Lots of people. Lots of activity. Lots of people selling knock off purses out of trash bags and trying to evade the cops. Got on a bus and headed south to the Washington D.C. area and slept for the first time in 24 hours. That was Thursday, Thanksgiving Day.

Friday dawned and it was baking and running around to get things that you need. Namely Egg Nogg and ice for Strawberry Daiquiris. Family, watching White Christmas. Things that matter and fill up the days.

Saturday. We went off to Washington D.C. and toured around some of the museums, and met some very irritating people who closed the Smithsonian early so we could not see Old Glory. Too bad. We would come back the next day. From here we went to tour the different monuments that could not be closed because they just could not keep us away. World War II, Korea, Lincoln, Washington (though fenced), Vietnam. All of them you could walk up to and see, touch, feel. We headed back to Virginia where my brother had us sequestered in his basement.

Sunday. Church in the morning. Smithsonian in the afternoon. Leftovers for dinner. No big monuments to visit. Jefferson did not really seem that interesting to me. Maybe next time.

Monday. Board bus. Go to Pentagon. Laugh at demonstrators, if they can yell at me I can laugh back. Get on Subway. Go to bus. Ride back to New York City. Arrive New York City, debark from the bus. Shoulder my backpack and wife and I are on the move. What a BIG CITY.
So we go around on the subway - go to the Empire State Building. What a nightmare. Get there and have to go through 3 metal detectors. I told my wife I should have brought some coconuts with me. But alas no trees to get them from. As I recall most of the trees were dead. Up to the top of the building. Look around. BIG CITY, as verified by the teeming masses looking like rats in a maze.

Lunch at Katz's which is located on the Lower East Side. Reuben Sandwich cost me $13.50. Damn good sandwich.

Ground Zero. Debarked the subway and walked around the pit which once was two rectangular buildings. Now a grave of nearly 3000 people. Very quiet, for New York that is. There is the steel beams that form a cross - now erected on the East side of the pit.

Why my rambling monologue?

I will tell you why.

I touched pieces of a history. Pieces that assemble the framework of what makes America. Good or bad it makes up us as Americans. I cannot remember swearing an oath to any President. But I remember reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. To the Flag. Of the United States of America. To the Republic for Which it stands. ONE nation. Under God. Indivisible. With Liberty. And Justice. For All. Why so many periods (.)? I believe that I put them there because they are punctuation. Correct or incorrect they are placed there for emphasis. Emphasis on what my country is. What MY founding fathers wanted me to know. Something like the 1812 Overture - cannon blasts to accentuate a point.

Each one of the actions that this nation has taken. Admiral Farrugut - "Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead" John Paul Jones "We have not yet begun to fight" are woven together into what makes this nation.

Vietnam, Korea, World War I/II, Ground Zero. I reached out and touched these parts of my nation. Parts of Me. I felt the indentations of the names carved in the Vietnam memorial. I felt the granite of the World War II memorial. I felt the fence that separated me from Ground Zero. I walked the same ground as the larger than life troops of the Korean memorial. I touched them. Felt them. I bound myself to them as they are bound to me. Those memorials are a link for me. A passage into a place that tells a story. A story of America. Of men, women, and children. The struggles, woes, stife that have formed a nation. These pieces are part of a greater whole. The story is written with the tears and the blood of those that the memorials represent. There is no growth without sacrifice. Bonds do not get broken with out cumulative effort.

America is not easy. America is not a place on a map. America is not defined by who you vote for.

America is an intense patchwork quilt of fibers bound together by agony, sweat, anguish, and resolve. America is what others have toiled to build. America is all of the feelings and the heart beats that drive us to strive for something better. America is each one of us.

When I touched those monuments. I felt as though I was t0uching the rest of the America. I touched the good, bad, and ugly. I felt that I had connected to the rest of the nation. I felt that the nation was part of me. I felt that America is where I belong, who I am, and what I will become. Those things make me part of the quilt, bound to my friends, my enemies and my neighbors.

I feel blessed because I was able to make the journey. To touch parts of a nation. In parting - those monuments taught me something. They taught me to never take for granted the things that I have. Freedom. To never take for granted the blessing I have to be an American. Monuments are things. Object to remind us of those that will not be coming home for Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, or any other Holliday. Those who have parts of themselves represented in those monuments made sacrifice far greater and far more poignant than most of us Americans will ever do. They will not be coming home, because they decided to do something that would guarantee us the opportunity to come home.

That is America to me.
Dave

Prayer.

General Patton's Prayer at Bastogne
I have been mulling this over for some days. I was reading an article at ESPN about the girls from the USA Softball Team and what they have gone through for their medal. People lost. People found. People who are close to them. I did not know that the team had a chaplain. I do not know if the other teams that go to the Olympics have a chaplain. the team lost their prayer leader, Julie Reitan, to diabetes. She went to sleep and never awoke. She rests in the arms of God now. But, this is the first time since my tenure in Missouri as a football player that someone, namely an athlete has so publicly and privately acknowledged a Higher Power than themselves. Sometimes you see it when the touchdown is made on national television. Nothing showy. just a finger pointed to heaven. Man is never to be alone on this earth. God designed a plan for us so that we would always have His guidance and direction. As the Softball team crushed their opponents - almost in a biblical fashion - their minds and hearts were turned to those that they had lost. Those that have gone on before them.
They always had prayer. They always had a leader who led them onto the field of competition with a prayer. God watches over those that consistently - or inconsistently - seek Him in Prayer.
I believe - that there is a quality that we miss sometimes. That is humility. Humility is linked to prayer in that we acknowledge that we cannot do everything ourselves. That we are mere mortal men, and women. That God is our guide. When we get to the humble point of life - then all that we do - issues we are involved in, things that we want to accomplish, take on a greater more meaningful perspective. Our drive to accomplish is not so much directed at things that we would like to do - but what would matter the most to those that we are around.
I believe that communicating with God gives us the proper perspective. Gen George Patton issued a prayer for the troops when he was in the muck and blood of war. War seems to be a different environment - no athiests in any foxhole. If you read the above linked story you can see the focus and the drive of that prayer. Giving man what they do not have, after all that they have done to get to the goal is the business of God. We, the mere mortals, cannot accomplish greatness without first giving up our pride - that we accomplish everthing, and giving the glory to God - the Father of Heaven and Earth. For we walk upon His footstool, and need to know he cares about us and guides and directs us.


*****ATHENS, Greece -- The blonde girl in the red, white, and blue ponytail cried. And the team chaplain cried. And somewhere, the New England Patriots linebacker's wife cried. They cried for the same reasons, and for different reasons. And this must be why the Olympic rings are all linked, but do not come together in a circle.

Jennie Finch

The softball team has helped carry coach Mike Candrea forward since his wife's sudden death.

Jennie Finch bounded off the field in her ponytail and face glitter. She truly was a golden girl now. She gabbed deliriously about a teammate's home run and yet another home run and even about watching the biggest game of her life from the dugout.

Then someone mentioned her coach's late wife. Not her whole name. Just the first: Sue. And the golden girl got a glitter in her eye to match the sparkle on her face. "Every pitch," she sniffed, "she was right there." Moments later, the girl with the ribbon stood on the top tier of a podium, and the tears washed over her face.

Sue Candrea, Coach Mike's wife, died from a brain aneurysm only days before these Games began. The players -- gold-medalists now -- all have a pocket-sized picture of Sue. It shows Sue locked in her husband's arm, smiling. It's an everything'll-be-OK smile. Next to the picture is a passage from the Bible. "Do not be anxious about anything," the scripture says.

Sue had that soothing way. So did one of her husband's former players, Julie Reitan. Julie was a left fielder who often led the team in prayer during their climb to the top of the softball world in the '90s. Julie kept everyone grounded, kept everyone calm.

Julie played for Mike Candrea on the NCAA champion Arizona team of 1997. A month after winning the title, she went to the wedding rehearsal dinner of friend and teammate Heidi Bomberger, who was getting ready to marry future Super Bowl winner Tedy Bruschi. Julie, who had juvenile onset diabetes, came home from that dinner and went to sleep. She could not have known her blood sugar had dropped severely. Julie never woke up.

Arizona retired Julie's number 10, and hung it out in left field where she played. Her father, Mark, is now Team USA's chaplain. Here for the team. Here for Julie. And now, here for Coach Mike.

Mark Reitan got through his daughter's death with the help of Heidi's dad, Bob Bomberger. See, Heidi also lost her brother, Rex, to suicide a few years before Julie died. Rex's death was sudden like Julie's. Sudden like Sue's. One day here, one day gone. Back then, Pastor Mark could not imagine losing a child. "So after Julie died," says Mark. "I knew I could make it when I saw Bob."

And Pastor Mark begins to cry, feeling what only a parent of a lost child can feel.

Before coming to Athens, Pastor Mark compiled a collection of devotional readings for Team USA. Mark came up with a different reading for each day. He saved a special passage from Corinthians for Monday -- the day of the gold medal game.

"Keep alert," it says. "Stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be in love."

This was Julie's favorite saying. It is written on her gravestone. The players have recited it over and over again. Monday, they all read it once more. For themselves. For Julie. And for Sue.

On TV, these athletes look so sure. On the field, they know everything, do everything. But they also are young women who don't always know where to turn when the game ends. And now, when the cameras turn away, there will be days when their coach does not know either.

Coach Mike drives an hour from home to work. His wife always told him to get all his emotions out on that drive, so he can be strong for his players. So he could be strong for Heidi. So he could be strong for Pastor Mark. Now Heidi and Pastor Mark must be strong for the coach.

"It's going to be a long, hard hour in that car," says Mark's wife, Elaine. "He has to come home to an empty house."

The coach is here for Sue, and the pastor is here for Julie. But really, everyone is here for everyone now that Sue and Julie are gone. That's the happy ending, and the sad ending. The team is perfect, but so much is imperfect. Coach Mike is grateful for Sue's life, and Pastor Mark is grateful for Julie's life, and Heidi is grateful for her brother's life. But the golden glitter is mixed with salty tears. There cannot be one without the other. This team won so much in part because it lost so much.

The rings can all come together, but they cannot come together in a circle.

"I don't think it can come full circle," Pastor Mark says, "because full circle will be seeing them in heaven."

Eric Adelson is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine. E-mail him at eric.adelson@espn3.com. Seth Wickersham contributed to this story.

Musicians who suck

I am totally amazed that there is a growing grass roots effort to unseat the president of the united states led by who else "entertainers." I do not think that as an individual I can stomach much more of the stupid and the lame thinking that I need to listen to their agenda and needlessly fill my mind with left leaning tripe. There seems to be an unenviable task of sorting through all the crap that is fed by the right and the left and then to form an opinion that is good enough to say is your own.
I think that these musicians have been poisoned by the F911 crew - and now they use their GOD GIVEN talents to get out a poisoned message.
Suck Suck to them
Dave

Rag Head with no clue

Is there any wonder that these back stabbing, double crossing, whackos will ever have loyalty to anything else other than their camel? How many faces do they have - and do they realize what bridges they burn? Who wants Iran to have nukes and who wants th destabilize a governemt.
The word of the Day is: Bastard.
The new picture next to this word in the dictionary is Chalabi.
Dave