Schaivo and the Pope: The Similarity is Scary!

[QuickSilver]

Bullocks they are, you bubble headed talking shit from brains automaton!

They fucking well are not similar. Just cuz you can use the words "feeding tube" in context with each name, doesn't mean that any significant similarities exist. Certainly none that you should be using as a segue point into either story.

Report the fucking news and quit trying to be creative with the moronic tie ins that aren't. I'm embarassed for you, you fuckwit!

[OtakuLoki]

Er.. who made this comment, if I may ask? (National news, local news, or something else?)

[High Cheese]

Maybe the "tie-in" is that they are using the same feeding tube. They take Schiavo's tube from her and suddenly The Pope is getting a feeding tube!?

[Queen Bruin]

I am with Jon Stewart on this one, it's the media's feeding tube.

[Chimpy]

[Nitpick]
The term is "bollocks" as in "Bollocks they are!" or "Bollocks you paid for the last round!", not "bullocks".
[/Nitpick]

[DoctorJ]

Some mental heavyweight commented on a letter to my local paper making this comparison:

Terri Schiavo is no more incapacitated than the Pope, who is also on a feeding tube. Both are awake, alive, responsive, and breathing on their own. Good thing he isn't married, or I guess he'd be starved to death as well.

I thought about commenting back, but I've spent most of the last two weeks trying to fight ignorance on this subject, and while I've seen a surprising lot of people changing their minds about it when they know the facts, I'm just tired.

Earlier in the week, someone else wrote a letter saying that we should see the cautionary tale in Terri's bullemia, and a couple of hosers had to come by to say that, no, her husband beat her. You can't prove he didn't!

Sigh.

[rjung]

But they're both carbon-based life forms...

[ouryL]

SPOILER:

and both were brain dead!!

[jk1245]

Neither has ever been in my kitchen.


Now I see a news flash that the Pope's condition is "worsening". Imagine the circus if the Pope actuallly dies in the next 24 hours or so.

[Annie-Xmas]

Let's not ignore the odd-vious--They are both Catholic

[Annie]

Originally Posted by jk1245

Neither has ever been in my kitchen.


Now I see a news flash that the Pope's condition is "worsening". Imagine the circus if the Pope actuallly dies in the next 24 hours or so.

So help me Buddha, and with no malice to the old coot, I sure hope so. His gathering to God is the only thing that will yank the jackals off Terri's corpse, and make CNN safe for viewing again.

[Frank]

Originally Posted by jk1245

Now I see a news flash that the Pope's condition is "worsening". Imagine the circus if the Pope actuallly dies in the next 24 hours or so.

That's certainly possible. He has been given last rites, which by itself doesn't necessarily mean anything, but there has also been a statement that he is not going back to hospital. Sounds to me as if he is beyond the point of medical help, and they are going to let nature take its course.

[lee]

People tend to die near major, to them at least events. Women just after, and men just before. Lots have been written about this observered and confirmed by statictical analysis observation. The pope made it through Easter, which I assume for him was a major event. That to me speaks of strong will.

I hope that the Pope's death is not as drawn out as Mrs. Shiavo's was, even though that would be a very interesting situation. In fifteen years, how many Cardinals would still be eligible to vote for the next pope?

[jk1245]

Originally Posted by Annie

So help me Buddha, and with no malice to the old coot, I sure hope so. His gathering to God is the only thing that will yank the jackals off Terri's corpse, and make CNN safe for viewing again.

Actually, my thought was that the nutters who are latched on to the Schaivo case would see some divine message in the Pope dying the same day and *really* go off the deep end.

[asterion]

Originally Posted by jk1245

Actually, my thought was that the nutters who are latched on to the Schaivo case would see some divine message in the Pope dying the same day and *really* go off the deep end.

And I would start wondering how good Schiavo, the Pope, Cochran, and Falwell are/were at PSP.

[Merijeek]

Originally Posted by This Year's Model

That's certainly possible. He has been given last rites, which by itself doesn't necessarily mean anything, but there has also been a statement that he is not going back to hospital. Sounds to me as if he is beyond the point of medical help, and they are going to let nature take its course.

Sounds like suicide to me. Looks like ol' JP2 will be going straight to hell.

You know, suicide being a sin and all...

-Joe, sinful

[rjung]

Originally Posted by asterion

And I would start wondering how good Schiavo, the Pope, Cochran, and Falwell are/were at PSP.

Has any of them even had a chance to try the new PlayStation Portable?

[Shagnasty]

I heard they are going to take some of Schaivo's cells and inject them into the Pope to help cure him. That was one of the major reasons they took her off the feeding tube to begin with.

[asterion]

Originally Posted by rjung

Has any of them even had a chance to try the new PlayStation Portable?

Did you see last night's South Park?

[Jenaroph]

You people aren't conspiracy-minded enough.

The Pope worsens several hours after Terri Schiavo dies. Nobody has seen Michael on the news networks since last night. Coincidence?

Clearly, that evil scumbag Michael Schiavo left the hospice after his wife kicked the bucket, immediately hopped a plane to Rome and has now beaten the Pope into a persistent vegetative state. The liberal media is refusing to report the real cause of the pontiff's condition, and will certainly not air the video footage of several cardinals trying to hold the madman off.

[rjung]

Originally Posted by asterion

Did you see last night's South Park?

Nope.

Do you want to donate to my "Help rjung get cable" fund?

[asterion]

Originally Posted by rjung

Nope.

Do you want to donate to my "Help rjung get cable" fund?

Nope.

Here's the plot:

SPOILER:

Kenny gets a PSP, along with a game called Heaven vs. Hell. He makes it level 60, then is ran over by a bus. He goes to Heaven, which has a problem. Due to the policy of only Mormons going to Heaven, the forces are too low to repel the impending assault from Hell. The PSP was a test, to find someone who could win the battle. He is brought back from the dead in a PVS, then there's a whole bunch of stuff based on the Schaivo thing. They eventually pull the tube, Kenny dies again, and proceeds to defend Heaven by playing the game. As a result, his reward is a golden statue of Keanu Reeves.

[mswas]

Yeah, there are major differences. I didn't care if Teri Schiavo died, and I hope that the Pope dies soon.

Feeding tubes are so fucking trendy.

Erek
*sorry, I just have a hate on for old men in power these days. It's nothing personal against catholics. I was happy when George Kennan and Johnny Cochran died as well.

[Mehitabel]

67 is old for you?

And, coming from the other end of the spectrum entirely, as a faithful Catholic I hope the Pope's life ends soon too. I lost two grandparents to Parkinson's and it's a nasty way to go.

CNN has a scary headline right now: "Vatican: Pope suffers 'cardiocirculatory collapse'". I don't even know what that means, but I expect to wake up tomorrow morning to the tolling of church bells all over the city.

[Silver Fire]

Originally Posted by Mehitabel

I don't even know what that means, but I expect to wake up tomorrow morning to the tolling of church bells all over the city.

The collapse of the heart and circulatory system? That's what the name suggests, IANAD. Septic shock, his recent bout of influenza, etc. And the Vatican is calling his condition "very grave" which, apparently, they haven't done before. It certainly seems as though death is imminent.

There seem to be an awful lot of newsworthy deaths and critically sick people this week. I haven't heard much about Falwell's condition. How's he holding up?

[wolf_meister]

Neither Pope John Paul II nor Terri Schiavo knew Lee Harvey Oswald !!!

Pope John Paul II didn't have a secretary named Kennedy .....................

Wow this is getting scary !!!!!!!!!

[Lord Ashtar]

And now they're both dead.

The similarities keep piling up!

[FinnAgain]

CNN is still listing his as alive. Do you have a cite?

[Sternvogel]

This just in:

Schaivo's parents sent their doctors to Rome. Unlike the reports from the other physicians, these doctors say that Pope is in great health, and was believed to be dancing and jumping around.

[Lord Ashtar]

Originally Posted by FinnAgain

CNN is still listing his as alive. Do you have a cite?

Matt Drudge had a big graphic up that just said, "Pope Dead" with no link. Now he seems to have retracted it.

[dropzone]

With the Pope hovering between this world and the next I'd like to ask the question on the lips of millions of Americans:

"Terri who? I mean, the name rings a bell but I'm not placing it. Wasn't she a semi-finalist on American Idol last year? I know! She's on the Beach Volleyball team!"

[Yllaria]

You people aren't conspiracy-minded enough.

OK, how's this? Terri Schiavo was a zombie version of a picture of Dorian Grey. That's the real reason why her parents wanted her to continue breathing. They knew that she was keeping the Pope alive. In fact, they had cast the spell that . . .

I'd probably better stop about there.

If anyone writes this up and sells it, though, I get 10%.

[Avenger]

Originally Posted by Lord Ashtar

Matt Drudge had a big graphic up that just said, "Pope Dead" with no link. Now he seems to have retracted it.

Pope's condition upgraded: now listed as 'not dead'.

[calm kiwi]

Bullocks...a team that can carry a load through a field of manure.

Bollocks...Balls (testicles), eg: balls to that crap idea.

[mswas]

Originally Posted by Mehitabel

67 is old for you?

And, coming from the other end of the spectrum entirely, as a faithful Catholic I hope the Pope's life ends soon too. I lost two grandparents to Parkinson's and it's a nasty way to go.

67 Isn't really "old" for me, Johnny Cochran is just a flagbearer for slimey lawyer that can get you off for the right amount of money, and as such that archetype has lost one of it's patrons.

As for the Pope, I don't really have a problem with him personally, he seems like a rather cool guy, and I always got a nice warm vibe from him when I saw him on TV. I more want him to die because I'd like to see some new life breathed into the Catholic church. The last few times I've been to a Catholic church it was so lacking in power, and hopefully new leadership can inject some vibrance into it, bring it into touch with the modern era, and also, the more cold war leaders that are dead, the more the cold war is dead.

Erek