Send Up Prayers For Our Aussie Friends --- President Obama, Are You Available For Prayer?

The destruction, of land, of property, of human health and human lives, in Victoria from wildfire is enormous, and still growing.

Whole towns have been "wiped off the map." The fire is apparently outrunning cars. Authorities will be searching the affected areas for days looking for casualties. Twenty-two are in Melbourne's Alfred Hospital with burns. 108 130 are known dead.

And, heaven help us, it seems to be arson.

Hey! The Great And Powerful Zero! Have you offered our Aussie comrades any assistance?

New Terms I Learned Today, Part 2

Family Annihilator --- a person (usually male) who kills his whole family in a fit of rage.

Specifically, I was watching an episode of a TV documentary series called "What Should You Do?"  One of the narrators, Candace DeLong, a former FBI agent and profiler, discussed family annihilators while showcasing the heroic actions of Alana Franklin, a true heroine.

Alana, at the age of eleven, was calm enough, practical enough, and smart enough to save her nephew from his crazy daddy.  For her heroic actions, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded her a medal.  To this date, she's the youngest recipient of the Carnegie Heroes Medal.

New Terms I Learned Today, Part 1

FGM - Female Genital Mutilation.

According to the commercial I saw, 6,000 girls a day across the world suffer FGM every day.

The commercial claimed we could end domestic violence, rape, sex trafficking, and FGM.  I see no end to the first three, but FGM can certainly be cured --- just as soon as all the people who think FGM is proper are dead.

It's wonderful to think that all humanity's ills can be cured by righteous thought ... but it's not true.  All we can do is fight against evil with every weapon we can get our hands on.

Evil: Dr. André Lalonde Worries That Down's Syndrome Infants Aren't Being Aborted Enough

Dr. André Lalonde, Executive Vice President and spokesperson of the Canadian Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (SOGC), says he is "concerned" that Canadian women, who are too damn dumb rock stupid socially unsophisticated to know better, might not understand that they should abort their Down's syndrome babies. Why, these Canadian women might see that Sarah Palin kept her baby, despite what their OB/GYNs are saying!  They might think it's acceptable to keep a "special needs" infant!

I mean, the abortion rate for Canadian children with Down's is between 80% and 90%. Apparently, Dr. Lalonde doesn't think 90% is high enough.

The SOGC is trying to alibi for their executive VP, but their effort is lame. If they really cared about the high murder rate of the "special needs" unborn, they would have addressed it a long time ago.

For the rest of the story, check out the Canadian Down Syndrome Society, or LifeSiteNews. Read the stories of families who had to deal with one of these "helpful" doctors who seemingly couldn't wait to murder a baby, or "institutionalize" a child whose only offense is being born different.

From the Globe & Mail (article available in PDF format on the Canadian Down Syndrome Society website), I quote:

"But others fear Ms. Palin's emergence as a parental role model sends a different message. As a vocal opponent of abortion, Mrs. Palin's widely discussed decision to keep her baby, knowing he would be born with the condition, may inadvertently influence other women who lack the necessary emotional and financial support to do the same, according to André Lalonde, executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

"Dr. Lalonde said that, above all else, women must be free to choose, and that popular messages to the contrary could have detrimental effects on women and their families.

"'The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in Canada,' he said.

Who gets to decide if a woman has the "necessary emotional and financial support" to keep a perfectly "normal" baby? Dr. Lalonde? The vaunted Canadian Health System? Or the woman in question? Why would it be any different when the baby has special needs?

"Free to choose," in Dr. Lalonde's worldview, is apparently semantically equivalent to "free to murder."

"Popular messages to the contrary" --- i.e., Sarah Palin --- "could have detrimental effects on women and their families." "Detrimental?" How so?  In what way? 

This doctor's statement is prima facie evidence that high-impact evil can wear the face of a kindy OB/GYN.

The first step in fighting evil is identifying it.  Don't be afraid to point it out and announce its true nature, no matter the disguse it wears!

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