Tom, Jesus, Barack, and Elton

Tom, Jesus, Barack, and Elton

Updates on recent articles, two of which are sickening, two of which are pathetic, all of which are indicative of a world in dire need of a reality check-up:

BABY TOM IS DEAD. He didn’t have to die. Well, yes he did. You see, Baby Tom Godwin missed the cut. He was born 12 days too soon according to the British National Health Service’s minimum requisite of 24 weeks gestation and so NHS doctors at Southend Hospital, Southend, Essex, England, left him unattended, untreated, and uncared-for.

Baby Tom lived for 46 minutes.

His mum, Tracy Godwin, age 31, had just given birth to her first child and was bewildered. “We couldn’t understand why no one was helping him,” she said. Her confusion was somewhat remarkable considering that she–and Tom, briefly– lived in England where the NHS–the model for Obamacare–provided “universal health care,” except for people like Tom and any others it deems unworthy of care or treatment.

Poor little Tom didn’t even get the benefit of a death panel, those decision-making bodies of experts which, we’re told, will not be a feature of Obamacare. Or, maybe, unknowingly, he did. Either way, the verdict was death.

Read Tracy’s account of her and Tom’s ordeal here: http://tiny.cc/7isni

JESUS IS UNCOMFORTABLE. At least to a Minnesota lawmaker He is. “State Sen. Terri Bonoff, who is Jewish, said she feels uncomfortable when ministers mention Jesus and Christianity during prayers.” Eighty-one percent of Minnesotans are Christians but Sen. Bonoff ”said she feels uncomfortable when ministers mention Jesus and Christianity during prayers.”

When the senate Baptist chaplain, Dennis Campbell, offered a prayer mentioning Jesus Christ not once, not twice, but three times and uttered the words, “And we pray, Lord, that you help us to show reverence to the Lord Jesus Christ and the word of God today,” Bonoff was beside herself.

In high dudgeon following those offensive–if not seditious–words, Bonoff objected, demanding Campbell not be invited back and that, in the future, chaplains be required to deliver “non-denominational prayers:” http://bit.ly/ePs9tr

Something along the lines of, “Oh, Great Someone, have mercy on us” or, “Dear Mother Earth, please oversee our endeavors” might placate the good senator, and might not.

BARACK IS TRANSPARENT. In what could be, but isn’t, a satirical item from TheOnion.com . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3897)