BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Nun Excommunicated For Abortion Decision To Save Mother's Life


"We always must remember that when a difficult medical situation involves a pregnant woman, there are two patients in need of treatment and care, not merely one," he continued. "The unborn child's life is just as sacred as the mother's life, and neither life can be preferred over the other."

"H"umility
In a letter to the The Arizona Republic on May 18, Dr. John Garvie, chief of gastroenterology at St. Joseph's, called Sister Margaret "the moral conscience of the hospital" and said "there is no finer defender of life at our hospital."
"What she did was something very few are asked to do, namely, to make a life-and-death decision with the full recognition that in order to save one life, another life must be sacrificed," Garvie said. "People not involved in these situations should reflect and not criticize."

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 "Natural" Pesticide
Is it possible, just possible, God  IS trying to kill us ?


The chief ethics official of the Phoenix diocese, Father John Ehrich, agreed that it was a difficult decision. But in a two-page statement on the diocesan website, he argued that "the child is not that which threatens the life of the mother, rather it is the pathology or illness (cancer, premature rupture of membranes, hypertension, preeclampsia, etc.) which threatens the mother's life."


"When we try to control every possible situation in life, we end up playing the role of God."
What an understatement!
At least he's on the right track,
but still,
quite a ways to go!


Reminded me of a poster I once saw in college,

"Everytime someone masturbates,
GOD 
KILLS A KITTEN!"

That's a lot of kittens!
as well as
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT!

Wish I didn't feel this way,
but as a veterinarian,
honestly can say it's possibly the best proof I've seen,
for the existence of a
GOD.
Even more so with the recession; 
shelters filling up with pets people can no longer afford or even a home themselves.
i.e.
Critical Thinking!

i.e.
“The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all his perfection, creating an imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.”

oh!
No kitten! 

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