The Indispensable Babylon Bee
Once again, the Babylon Bee publishes all of the fake-but-accurate news that’s fit to print.
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Tag: Euthanasia
Academia: the incubator for total abortion and all other bad ideas
Academia — that is, the world of colleges and universities — is the incubator for all of the worst ideas in America, with abortion as the latest example. I’ll start with a three-part time-line, and then get to my point: 1. 1993, Practical Ethics, 2nd edition, a college text-book by
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The Dutch medical establishment confronts the ugly side of euthanasia
Socialists touted euthanasia as a humane end for people under socialized medicine’s protective umbrella, but a story from Holland hints that this was a lie. Back in 2002, I heard a very smug Dutchman on an NPR show (All Things Considered? Terry Gross? I can’t remember) shortly after Holland passed
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Progressive v. Conservative ideologies, not the candidates, are the real drivers in this election *UPDATED*
A Progressive friend is relentlessly pushing “Trump is awful” stories on me. I, a conservative, invariably counter by pointing out that Hillary’s list of sins and failures is infinitely worse. I realized yesterday that my arguments are irrelevant. My friend will never vote for someone who is not 100% pro-abortion,
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The Bookworm Beat 10/7/16 — the culture wars edition and open thread
The press is winning the culture wars. Even as more information emerges about Hillary’s criminality, her illness, her sharia-friendly aides, and her appalling record as Secretary of State, she’s still pulling ahead. Trump hasn’t done anything awful in the last few weeks because neither he nor Hillary shone in the debate. One
Continue readingSocialized medicine and passive-aggressive genocide
Long ago in China, a boy coming home from school met up with his father, who was carrying on his back a basket holding the boy’s grandfather. “Oh, father,” asked the boy, “where are you taking Honorable Grandfather?” The father signaled that the boy should come closer, and then whispered
Continue readingObamaCare death panels (guest post by Funny Catholic Girl)
Funny Catholic girl emailed me, asking if I’d be interested in posting her riff on ObamaCare death panels. I liked what I read, so here it is: Funny Catholic Girl Complains About ObamaCare “Death Panels” March 23rd was the third anniversary of the ObamaCare law. Regardless of what you think
Continue readingWhen it comes to end of life decisions, the state does not love you
Many years ago, when Holland first enacted its euthanasia law, NPR ran an interview with a Dutchman who explained why euthanasia was a good idea in Holland, while it would be a terrible idea in America. The secret to Holland’s euthanasia, he said, was socialized medicine. The man explained that,
Continue readingBelgium’s culture of death makes one try to imagine a world without Helen Keller
I think most of us found extremely disturbing the story out of Belgium telling about twin brothers in their 40s who were born deaf and were starting to go blind, and who found a doctor willing to legally euthanize them. They weren’t sick and they weren’t suffering physically. They just
Continue readingDeath by government
First, a joke, one I’ve told before: In long ago Japan or China (or amongst the Eskimos, or something else), a young boy came across his father carry a large basket on his back. In the basket was the boy’s grandfather. He asked, “Father, where are you taking grandfather?” “Shh,”
Continue reading“Make me well” *UPDATED*
My Dad always said that, when his time came, he’d just lie down and die. He was fatalistic and, after WWII and the Israeli War of Independence, not afraid of death. It all sounded very reasonable. But reason and experience aren’t the same. When my Dad was diagnosed with cancer,
Continue readingHerding seniors to the abattoire *UPDATED*
Don Parker nails both the costs and hypocrisy behind the mandate in the new health care bill that seniors be gently steered towards a cheap death. UPDATE: Thanks to Old Flyer for reminding me of this, which fits in so perfectly with the new plan: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE[/youtube] UPDATE II: A story
Continue readingWhen God closes a door, he sometimes opens a window
In the wake of Sarah Palin’s appearance on the national political scene, some Obama supporters made some pretty deranged statements about the Palin family decision to go ahead with a pregnancy when they knew that the baby would have Down Syndrome. There was a lot of eugenics-type talk about the
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