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Found this on dragondelhielo's LJ. Looked like fun.

My own boyfriend gave me a block of wood. I'm not sure if that's mean-spirited or hentai. ^_- The overall haul seems kinda heavy on the gummy and bubblegum products. No chocolate? Horrors! ^_^I'm kinda curious how this script works, and how it determines who gives you what. Oh, well. Probably way above my head.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
SethraK goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Molly (Nightmare Before Christmas).
davner tricks you! You get a block of wood.
dragondelhielo gives you 17 red-orange lime-flavoured wafers.
drakstern gives you 10 light green apple-flavoured gummy bats.
frail_obscurity gives you 4 white watermelon-flavoured gummy fruits.
incantrix tricks you! You get a block of wood.
isisamour gives you 16 mauve cinnamon-flavoured gummy bats.
jeff_morris gives you 11 yellow grapefruit-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
taloon gives you 12 dark green grape-flavoured gumdrops.
will_z gives you 18 brown vanilla-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
SethraK ends up with 88 pieces of candy, a block of wood, and a block of wood.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

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Well, here are some interesting details behind Mr. Schiavo's decision to remove food and water from his wife, which weren't included in O'Reilly Factor's coverage ot the other news shows I've watched lately.

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-smith090503.asp

I got the link off of the Kaus Files section of slate.com. I think the above article shows a pretty darn good synopsis of what's been happening to Terri Schiavo. It's a trifle too heavily slanted towards the pro-life support side for completely fair journalism, but it does have the virtue of extra details.

I'm not entirely sure how I feelabout this case. On the one hand, I wouldn't want to be trapped like that. I wouldn't want my parents countermanding my husband's directions on what care I would have wanted if I were able to speak for myself. I find it legally appalling that the FL legislature wrote a law purely for this case enabling Gov. Bush to over-rule the courts' decision that her husband, not her parents, should be in charge. (I'm also appalled that this news source was part of the effort to badger Gov. Bush into passing that law. What about all those people around the world who aren't in vegetative states but will die of starvation and dehydration just the same because there's not enough food and clean water in their countries? Wouldn't that effort be better spent helping them? )

On the other hand, her husband's motives for wanting to hasten her death seem rather suspect. Her medical condition doesn't seem as dire as the television news have been painting it - if you rely on that article's information. Her parents are willing and able to pay for her future care. And if her husband simply wants to move on, I can't think of any reason why he can't divorce her and wed that girlfriend of his.

One thing I'm certain of is that I need to file a living will in the near future. None of this legal furor would be going on if Terri had done that. Talking to Dav about my wishes is all well and good, but doesn't have the binding power of a document firmly stating what I want and don't want.