He really wouldn’t want to live like this! : Lone Star Times

He really wouldn’t want to live like this!

by Matt Bramanti · 03/31/2005 11:25 am

Folks, here’s an example of someone in a persistent vegetative state, with a demonstrated lack of higher cognitive function and a minimal level of consciousness. This person has been lingering in an institution for decades. While the patient may appear to communicate, we really just see primal reflexes, not evidence of brain activity. It’s just the same rudimentary moaning over and over.

I’m talking, of course, about Chronicle editorial cartoonist Clyde Peterson, aka "CP Houston."

I beg the Chronicle’s editors: please, let this poor soul go. Pull the paycheck tube.

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6 Responses to “He really wouldn’t want to live like this!”

Jim Barker on March 31st, 2005 at 11:51 am

As a retired Texas educator, I have real difficulty thinking the administration in Friendswood ISD did not violate the Educators code of Ethics and Standard Practices, which is enforced by SBEC, the State Board for Educator Certification. Standards 1.1-1.8 deal with ethical conduct, practices and performance, which the folks in Friendswood ISD have violated or pushed to extreme limit(s). If they deny this, it is akin to Bill Clinton and his comment about the meaning of the word “is.” These ethics can be viewed by going to SBEC’s website at http://www.sbec.state.tx.us and hitting the link on the left side of the page.

Just as teachers and building level administrators can have their certificates held or revoked when cheating on TAKS can be discovered, so too should the administrators in FISD have their certifications held and/or revoked. Cheating is cheating and their actions with GCAD is nothing more than cheating the taxpayers and patrons of their school district.

What an embarrassment to the profession in which I spent 36 years of my life they are!
RB Cox on March 31st, 2005 at 1:18 pm

We hold these truths……certain unalienable Rights….among theses are Life, Liberty and the pusuit of Happiness…….That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends…..it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government…..

We need to start instituting

RB Cox
Carol Taft on March 31st, 2005 at 3:44 pm

I couldn’t agree with you more, RB. While the following quote from Jerry Doyle is not directly relevant to what you’ve said, but I thought it worth passing along:
“This is a sad day for all of US. While Terri’s life has ended, an angel is born. We are all better for coming to know her and worse for letting her go.”
Carol Taft on March 31st, 2005 at 10:50 pm

R.B.: I’ve heard someone say they went and re-registered to vote, changing their party affiliation to Independent in protest. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans represent me. Since there is no viable third party, I think that’s a good idea. I plan to do that on Monday. Maybe Washington will get the message if enough people do it. My letters, e-mails, and phone calls have been ignored. Registering as an Independent is my way of saying “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more!”
Jaime on April 1st, 2005 at 7:51 am

Join the Constitution Party.
Edward on April 1st, 2005 at 9:03 am

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Ann gets $25,000 per speech. They’re all nationaly syndicated. Hannity could write a check from his spare change account and fund townhall.com for a year! Talk about innapropriate.