The Ark and The Dove

The Slope Pretty Much Always Gets Slippery

Via Foxnews...

Britain claims to have a far superior socialized health care system than us dumb capitalist Americans. Unfortunately, they also have EMTs who are stupid enough not only to debate whether or not a disabled man having a heart attack is worth saving, but to have such a debate in front of an open phone line where everything is recorded.

I will certainly grant that this kind of terrifying idiocy among EMTs could (and perhaps even does) happen here in the States without a socialized health care system. It is not as if a hospital ordered these EMTs to refuse this man assistance, so we can only assume it was their own homicidal tendency and misanthropic disregard for the disabled.

But it doesn't take a huge leap of the imagination to see how Britain's approach to health care and a general tendency towards euthanasia and abortion in Western culture could have an eroding effect on the value of human life. These two morons decided this man's life was not worth saving -- despite the fact that the man himself wanted to live, as evidenced by his emergency phone call.

Sure, legalizing abortion and euthanasia wouldn't necessarily have to lead to this kind of nightmare situation...but tell that to the guy who was refused health care because other people thought his quality life didn't meet their standards

Pewsitter is being Silly...

Pewsitter.com, a Drudge-style Catholic news hub, has recently posted a very silly article which they have hyperlinked as "Science proves Moses crossed Red Sea..."

The link takes you to an article in the Philipine Star (a world leader in peer-reviewed archaeology, indeed!). It describes alleged findings in the Red Sea by one Ron Wyatt, who also claimed to have discovered Noah's Ark and the Ark of the Covenant, the stone on which the Golden calf was destroyed, and a puddle of still liquified blood belonging to Jesus Christ. Quite an epic career.

He would have made a great pilgrim for Chaucer.

Now, maybe Pewsitter is just playing a holiday joke with us...but they put this highly spurious article in a bold faced hyperlink with nary a question mark nor a winking emoticon...which makes me think that either somebody at Pewsitter has gotten hoodwinked or I have totally lost my sense of humor.