An issue that gets a lot of thread does so for a reason.

The fact is the Schaivo case had EVERY element in it that creates passion in peoples beliefs. It had life, death, religion, states rights, debates about what determines a vegetative state, politics, ethics, belief, science, rumor, lyes, husband and wife issues, family issues, values, debates on the house floor at midnight and on and on and on! Fuck, any issue that includes the leadership of Jeb Bush and Tom DeLay is bound to get Democrats out of their chairs.

Emerson said that all life is an experiment and the more experiments you make the better. Their are no rules on what issue is important to people and why issues should or should not get a lot of posts or spark passion in people. The founding Fathers wanted issues and even Religions to live and even thrive or die based on their own merits. When an issue sparks intense debate and passion it does so for a reason and to try to question why that occurs is really pointless. To those who are not passionate about a particular issue it may seem irritating just as many of the issues you find interesting may seem pointless to many others. In a free country issues will rise and fall based on the passions they create in people and to try to stop a tidal wave of passion from hitting the shore will do little to stop it's momentum. All you can do is try to ride the wave or simply hit the ignore key. Eventually the storm will pass and hopefully our country will be better because we learned from it. If not then their is always the option to move to Canada.

You've started 11 of them.

But I'm the 'Vanity poster.'

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Their is nothing better than logging on to DU and emerging yourself in to a soap opera to kill time drinking Thera Flu and eating chicken soup.

Well, so much for all the folks who think I am trying to stifle the MOST IMPORTANT STORY EVER.

It's just a soap opera.

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All the important facts in this case were lost in emotion, rumor and religious insanity. That does not mean the abuse of power by the Republicans was not extremely important. This whole thing is symbolic of of the toilet our country is being flushed into by the Republican power grab.