So why don't these Healers heal her? Don't they care? Isn't their belief in their powers strong enough to fulfill the task? Why, why, why?

On a different course of thought, why the uproar over Terri and not someone with Lou Gehrigs Disease? Terri Schiavo is supposedly brain dead but with a responsive body. A person with Lou Gehrigs Disease faces the opposite problem - their body goes but the brain remains intact. You become jailed within your own body until your body stops breathing. Would that not be worse that what Terri is going through?

Another thought: If Terri were black or hispanic, would the Media care about any of this?

I Know You Are But What Am I?
I've noticed a trend lately in newsgroups, blogs, and on the 'Net that the salvos being launch against Liberals and Conservatives are pretty much the same. Only the labels have been changed. For example, one blog whined that the Liberals misuse the Media for their own advantage, yet this same complaint applies equally to the Conservatives. Boths sides are guilty of using the Media, using the Government, using power and money for their own causes. Both sides are equally guilty of distorting or manipulating truths and outright lying. Both sides are guilty of self-righteous arrogance.

Perhaps these gripes apply only to the extreme elements on both sides but shit flows downhill. The Mainstream is being sullied, getting reduced to using the same tactics to effect changes.

I blame most of this on the dumbing down of America, on solving problems not by intellect but by shows of force, snappy sound bites, and short-term rewards. We no longer debate issues but seek to provide the wicked putdown, the verbal bitchslap, the huff of unbelief that there even should be a debate when *MY* viewpoint is so obviously correct.

When I started blogging two years in response to the impending invasion of Iraq, I mentioned that the invasion was a demonstration of the principles of "Might is Right" and "The Ends justify the Means". Today, with the Bush Administration firmly in power, we see these principles demonstrated almost daily. In Iraq, we have had the daily death toll, Abu Ghraib, dubious dollar transactions, and so on...but Iraq had elections so it's all acceptable. All the lying and distortions from our Government should immediately be discounted because - by God! - Iraq is almost a Democracy.

I fear our world is quickly devolving back in to a Dark Age of superstition. Instead of fighting demons with swords, we'll use nuclear bombs. It will be battle between their God and our God with God left out, watching from the sidelines with either a look of disgust or amusement. You never can tell.