Is Doctor-Assisted Suicide Coming to Quebec?

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One wonders if scarce medical services resulting from the sub-optimal socialist healthcare system in Canada helped doctors north of the border to rationalize the notion that euthanasia is a viable treatment for patients near the end of their lives.

"But they're going to die anyway," one contemporary adage would have it.

"We're all going to die anyway," is the obvious response, which counters the consideration that euthanasia can be performed when death is inevitable. Death comes for us all.

That one's death is also immanent doesn't change matters a jot or a tittle. Why should normal rules of conduct be suspended because death is at the door knocking? Do we steal from a person who is at the verge of death? Calumniate his good name? Burn his house down? What specious reasoning.

This vile and insane argument is a necessary consequence of living in a materialist world: when God is banished from the public consciousness and people live and act as if there is nothing after our trip through this life, we'll set ourselves up as gods and dictate what constitutes good and evil according to our convenience. And, predictably, the most helpless in society are those who pay the price for this act of self-adoring worship.

The physicians in Canada are indulging their God complex and engaging in self-indulgent sophistry.

Real vs. Imaginary Problems

The deep-freeze winter storms of the past several days led me to wonder where global warming was when you needed it.

At the bogus Copenhagen summit a few months back, Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus said, "I'm convinced that after years of studying the phenomenon, global warming is not a matter of temperature. Global warming is a new religion, a religion of climate change...This religion tells us that people are responsible for very small increases in temperatures, and they should be punished...The role of man is very small, almost negligible. Politicians, their fellow travelers, and the media understood that this is a good topic to take on, because talking about the world in the years 2050, 2080, and 2200 is an excellent way to escape from current reality."

Then there's Phyllis Schlafly, who wrote, "Man's natural ingenuity can create new technologies that will lessen any impact that mankind has on the planet's environment."

There's plenty of pollution and environmental nastiness to be cleaned up. Pity that the frauds who cooked the research books to create the worldwide panic about global warming, melting glaciers, and the extinction of cute polar bears have now made it more difficult to get real environmental problems addressed. Way to go, Team Green.

Cause of the Economic Crisis

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Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, president of the Institute for the Works of Religion (aka the Vatican Bank), said that the cause of the current world economic crisis is not bankers.

"The true cause of the crisis is the decline in the birth rate,” he said in an interview on Vatican Television's "Octava Dies."

Ettore Gotti Tedeschi

With a population growth rate of two children per couple -- or 0% -- Western society has shorted itself of workers. With fewer young people in the work force, there are not enough funds available to care for retirees and pensioners, savings are diminished, and material and technological development is compromised.

For a time the lack of economic growth was compensated for by the use of financial instruments such as an expansion of available credit. This technique of applying stop-gap solutions eventually resulted in the economic crisis we are facing today.

Now, Gotti Tedeschi said, "the only way to rebuild economic-financial balance is austerity."

Indeed: the solution is to eliminate debt and have children.

Go Tebow!

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Bulldog alumnus though I am, I'll risk stirring things up with my fellow alumni by giving a bump to the Tebow family. They're the folks in the spotlight for participating in an ad that will run during today's Superbowl matchup.

The event is newsworthy because Pam Tebow disregarded doctor's advice during a troubled pregnancy a few decades back and carried her baby to term. In 1987, Pam fell into a coma from amoebic dysentery and was administered several strong medications to treat her potentially life-threatening illness. Later, doctors -- worried about consequent severe damage to the baby she was carrying -- strongly urged Pam to abort her fifth child. Out of religious conviction she declined their medical advice and gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby boy. Her son grew up to be University of Florida's 2007 Heisman tropy winning quarterback Tim Tebow.

"I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn't make it into this world. I remember so many times when I almost lost him. It was so hard. Well he's all grown up now, and I still worry about his health. Everybody treats him like he's different, but to me, he's just my baby. He's my Timmy, and I love him."
- Pam Tebow

See the spot at http://video.yahoo.com/watch/6934303/18023446

A retaliation/protest ad sponsored by Planed Parenthood sprang up as a reaction; the spot features Gold Medalist Al Joyner and former NFL player Sean James.

That's right: PP is having two men carry its message.

You just can't make this stuff up.

Abp. Lefebvre: A Bishop for the Church

Archbishop Lefebvre: A Bishop for the Church (English Trailer)

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5osz-w0CuM

The modern Athanasius.

Today's Lunch

Lunch today was an unusual combination: a sandwich of pulled pork and cole slaw on challah bread. Yeah, I know.

Growth of Catholicism in Atlanta

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A key take-away from the AJC article above is not about the need for Catholic schools, but the growing number of Catholics in the region.

From the article: "A decade ago there were about 311,000 Catholics in the metro Atlanta area, according to the Archdiocese of Atlanta, now there are about 850,000."

Georgia is still Southern Baptist country, but Catholics now outnumber all the other Protestant denominations besides Baptist: Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, etc.