Month: July 2021

‘Harvesting Organs’–Think Again

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Harvesting Organs & Cherishing Life: What Christians Need to Know About Organ Donation and Procurement : Klessig H, Bogosh C: Amazon.in: बुक्स

This will not be a full review, but I do want to call attention to this book co-authored by Christopher Bogosh and our own esteemed colleague, Dr. Heidi Klessig–Harvesting Organs & Cherishing Life.

Organ harvesting is a big, fabulously lucrative business in our fallen world. Most people think of it as a way of saving a patient’s life by transplanting into that patient an organ from another patient who has just died.

Except it isn’t. I am reminded of a line from Jurassic Park: “The point is, you’re still alive when they start to eat you.”

A major point in this book is that “brain death” is not exactly real, irreversible death–like when your heart stops beating and can’t be made to start again. But “brain death” lets them start cutting you up while you’re still a little bit alive.

This is a shocking book, and it should certainly move us to reconsider the whole business of organ harvesting.

Note the subtitle: What Christians Need to Know About Organ Donation and Procurement. I agree: we need to know these things.

I don’t think I’ll sign up as an organ donor anytime soon.

[Note: If you were here earlier, you may have noticed a headline that had nothing to do with this post. My bad! Management regrets the stupid error.]

The Great Measles Scare of 2019

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Hey! Does anyone remember the Great Measles Scare of… 2019! That’s right–just a single year before the total COVID freak-out.

In California, UCLA and Cal State LA both required quarantine for students who couldn’t prove they’d been vaccinated for measles. One UCLA student came down with measles. One. But the state of California panicked (https://leeduigon.com/2019/04/26/the-measles-panic/)

Over in New York City, judges imposed a “mandatory” measles vaccine. Several communities refused to obey. Mayor “DeBlasio” (real name: Warren Wilhelm) threatened to close down synagogues–permanently!–unless he got his way. But nothing came of that.

Nationwide, in a population of over 300 million, there were 555 (!) cases of measles.

Because measles has long been a common childhood disease that few people had any reason to take seriously, governments largely failed to whip up a measles panic. They had to wait for King COVID to come along: then they could seize the power that they wanted. It worked because COVID is new and people were deathly afraid of it.

And that was the last we heard of the measles epidemic.

Meanwhile, we have never been told why we have to treat COVID as the most fearsome disease ever encountered, fully justifying the shut-down of whole national economies and all sorts of draconian restrictions laid upon us to fight it.

We are still waiting for that explanation. But then we aren’t quite sure where COVID came from and how it got loose, are we?

Australia ‘Health’ Honcho: ‘No Talking!’

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Dr Kerry Chant 'strongly' recommends mask wearing in this critical phase - 2GB

You there–quiet! No talking in line! No talking at home! Shut up!

(Thanks to Phoebe for the nooze tip)

We have every right to be sick and tired of lockdowns in America; but by comparison to what they’re doing in Australia, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Australia is pursuing the goal of “zero COVID,” which may well be impossible. They lift their lockdowns and then slam them back down if anyone gets sick.

And now they want people to… stop talking! (https://www.theblaze.com/news/australian-health-officer-do-not-talk-to-each-other) ‘Cause talking, of course, might spread COVID germs.

Sez Kerry Chant, chief health officer for New South Wales, “Now is the time for minimizing your interactions with others.” No talking! You there–did I catch you talking? Did I catch you interacting with whatsisname in the red baseball cap? DAMN YOU, I SAID “SILENCE!!!”

They’re going to destroy our lives in order to save them. Does anybody really want to live this way? Like, you can go on living as long as you stop doing all those things that constitute living.

You can be sure Ms. Chant is having the time of her life, though. Count on it. Crushin’ the plebs–it doesn’t get any better than that.

‘Happy Dependence Day!’ (2018)

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I admit that with this satire, I sailed pretty close to the wind. I didn’t really mean to, at the time. Just three years ago–it seemed so far out, then. But not to everybody.

Happy Dependence Day!

Leftids are wiping out our civilization, inch by inch, day by day. But that’s okay–their plans to replace it with Utopia can’t possibly fail. Just as soon as they finish shooting people…

‘Revive Us Again’ (J & J)

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Look at this: now I have to enter my own hymn contest.

Just kidding. But I do hope some of you will enter soon with hymn requests.

We all love Joshua and Jeremy, and I always post their videos when I see them. We haven’t heard Revive Us Again lately, so it’s a nice surprise to hear it from our friends and colleagues, J&J.

Puppy Forgets to… Duck?

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It took me ages to find a critter video this evening. With this one, we can do without the narration, really–but how often do you get to see a puppy pursued by a gang of cute little yellow ducklings?

Yes, I know the world’s a mess today. But it’ll still be in a helluva mess tomorrow. Let’s take pups and ducklings while we can get them.

By Request, ‘Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus’

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I need an antidote to covering the nooze, and Erlene has provided one (plus another entry in our hymn contest)–Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, sung by Alan Jackson.

Most of you still haven’t entered the contest. Don’t be shy! Step right up. It’s open till August 8.

Back to the Playpen

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Peter Wehner and Paul Ryan: Beware of the Big-Government Tipping Point - WSJ

Humanists have always promised us Utopia, to be brought about by “using technology wisely” (like we ever did that!)–a world free of war, poverty, disease, etc., etc., all brought to you by Science and Government, their two great gods.

They have already proposed, and in some places actually enacted, various schemes designed to trap us in a perfect world.

The round-the-clock spying that constitutes China’s “social credit system.”

More and more lockdowns, to protect us from germs. We can have our freedom back as soon as there are no more germs.

The UK proposes to track everybody’s grocery purchases and “reward” those who make “healthier” choices. The announced objective is to “change behavior.”

Once upon a time in Canada, someone with the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission suggested that the government should decide whom your friends are–’cause if they leave it up to you, your circle of friends won’t be “diverse” enough.

And lots and lots and lots of new taxes. Michael Bloomberg says taxes are a great way to change people’s behavior.

Wow. It’s like being three years old again. You aren’t responsible for anything! Who but Science and Government should make all your decisions? ‘Cause they always get it right, don’t they?

And this time they promise there won’t be any of that nasty stuff like gulags, firing squads, and concentration camps unless you really need them, like the Uighurs in China apparently do.

Did I mention forced vaccines?

They have no king but Caesar–which is to say, themselves.

We have no king but Jesus Christ.

And it’s war. No shooting yet, but it’s war. Winner take all.

Abolishing Adulthood

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Wasn’t the National Health supposed to make everybody… healthy?

Well, obviously letting people be responsible for their own well-being just isn’t working–not in Britain, at least: certainly not in Britain.

The “Conservative” (?) prime minister, Boris Johnson, wants his government to start up a kind of “social credit” system, a la Red China, in which the government would track your grocery purchases and “reward” you for “healthier” choices by handing out discounts and… oh, God… “loyalty points” (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/26/nanny-state-boris-johnson-to-introduce-junk-food-credit-score-app/).

‘Cause if they don’t, they’ve got this obesity epidemic that somehow the National Health system has proved powerless to stop. So of course the answer has to be more government. More, more, more!

If this is what a Conservative government does, what would a left-wing British government do? Force everyone to eat Soylent Green?

Inspired by the humanist lust to play God (I initially typed that as “inspidered”: maybe should’ve left it that way), the UK government seems hell-bent on abolishing adulthood and turning Britain into a nation of perpetual toddlers.

If I close my eyes and count to three real loud, and click my heels together… will I wake up?

Did He Really Say… This?

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(Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip.)

So now we have video of a man whom our nooze media call the president saying, and we quote, “My butt’s been wiped.”

What?

Of course, now the Dems are saying that he never said this, the sound got distorted somehow, he isn’t really ga-ga.

If he did say it, it has nothing to do with anything that was happening around him at the moment. He’d just come back to the White House after a weekend at home in Delaware.

So who wiped his butt, and when did he wipe it? To paraphrase Richard Nixon, “Your president is not a kook.” Except he is.

Do you honestly believe that this dotard who spent the whole campaign lurking in his cellar really and truly had 80 million people vote for him?

Let’s see the rallies, Joe.

And that’s all I’m going to say about this–hardly in the best of taste.