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THE QUOTE
“I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.” — Duke Kahanamoku
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GOD SAYS NO
So, a gaggle of Indiana hospital workers is getting axed for refusing to take their flu shots.
And — wouldn’t you know it? — a lot of them are refusing to be pricked due to their religious beliefs.
Satan’s Prick
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What is it about religion that makes people want to hurt themselves and others?
The irony is so many hospitals in the early part of the previous century were run — gasp! — by religious outfits.
Yup. Organizations like the Catholic Church actually practiced succoring the afflicted back in those hazy days, running many big city hospitals. Had you been laid up with lumbago, say, in the 1940s, a nun was as likely to bring you your ginger ale or Jell-o as an LPN.
Nursing School Graduation, 1964
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Now, of course, the Catholic Church is more concerned with burning issues like whether you’re getting naked with someone of your own gender.
Anyway, one fired oncology nurse told Fox news she eschewed the needle because it would have violated her nondenominational Christian beliefs.
Wow. Presumably this is a woman who has studied at a university and has specialized in one of the most advanced areas of modern medicine. It’s not as though she’s some backwoods Luddite. Yet, she believes that her god isn’t at all interested in stemming the spread of the seasonal flu virus which, by the way, kills some 3000 to 49,000 Americans a year, depending on the severity of that year’s outbreak.
As Bad As The Flu
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In some years, more people die from the flu than from automobile accidents.
Yet there are highly trained medical professionals who won’t take a simple step to protect themselves and others from this scourge.
Religion, I tell you, is maddening. And mad.
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PERSON OF THE YEAR
How fascinating that the petit field marshalls at World Net Daily have named none other than Michele Bachmann their person of the year.
Bachmann
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I mean, I assume I’d disagree with any choice that gang of basket-weavers would make. They and I look at the world through radically different lenses.
They could have tabbed Paul Ryan, who hitched his wagon to the runaway mule that was the Mitt Romney campaign. I don’t care at all for Ryan’s politics, philosophy, or theology. But had WND designated him POY, I’d have been cool with it.
They aren’t, after all, going to dub Rachel Maddow their top 2012-er.
They could have named Speaker of the House John Boehner person of the year. He did stand tall against a certain Mau Mau, Muslim, commie, abortionist who wants to take away all our precious, sexy guns.
Again, cool. It’s their team; they get to choose the captain.
But Michele Bachmann?
Yes, Michele Bachmann!
Here’s what WND has to say about the Congressperson from Minnesota.
“Bachmann is a gutsy, pro-life fiscal conservative who dared to vote against raising the debt ceiling. She’s a God-fearing, gun-loving advocate of tax cuts and domestic oil drilling — and has proven to be one of Obamacare’s worst nightmares.”
Couple of interesting lines in there. I like the “God-fearing, gun-loving” thing. Shoot, if only sweet Jesus had a good Bushmaster AR-15 in his hands when the Roman soldiers came calling with the intent to nail him to the cross. He would have let his daddy-o sort ’em all out.
Jesus Is Love (Of Guns)
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The other thing that caught my eye was that Bachmann is “one of Obamacare’s worst nightmares.” So, a more equitable system of health delivery has taken on anthropomorphic form in the fever dreams of the fringe right, so much so that this piece of legislation even has nightmares.
Man, these folks are whacked.
Wait a minute. Maybe Michele Bachmann is the perfect WND person of the year.
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CRAZY, HE CALLS ME
Uh, yeah. Dedicated to those delightful folks at World Net Daily. And their darling, Michele Bachmann
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