The politics of reality...

Arianna Huffington writes about the reality of current politics in this blog post. 'Reality' being the key word here. Not left-leaning, democrat, or liberal propaganda; just reality. I would not consider myself democrat or republican, in fact, I'm registered to vote with no party affiliation. I can sympathize with elements of both sides of the spectrum, although I will admit that over the last 8 years some might feel that I have been increasingly left-leaning. I like to think of it as leaning towards reality or rational thinking; something that I believe is in very short supply in the US today.

Unfortunately, many hospitals in PA (and presumably around the country, and the rest of the world) are affiliated with or run by religious organizations. In this day and age, it seems to me that this is an oxymoron and bad for the public at large and here is one reason why. Increasingly, scientific and medical research is conflicting with established religious beliefs. While the rational solution may be for the medical facility to overlook this conflict and administer the best medical care available, in fact the opposite is happening. Patients are being denied certain medical procedures and prescription drugs due to the facilities' religious beliefs. In many cases, these people have no other choice of medical facility, and the denial of a procedure or medicine based on religious beliefs of a medical facility and not scientific fact should be a CRIME.
This plays in the same way to the religious beliefs of pharmacists. Honestly, who cares what their pharmacist believes? They are not there to preach, but to dispense medicine that has been prescribed by a doctor. If I want a sermon, I'll go to church. If you want to preach and not dispense medicine there is a school for that, it's called seminary.

Jim David serves up a steaming pile of irony. Thanks Jim.

Someone tell Oklahoma Rep. Rex Duncan (R. (of course)) to give back his bible as well. What's really scary is that he is a highly decorated military officer. On the other hand, I am grateful that he is at least serving his country instead of being an armchair general... *cough-cheney*cough-bush

Erik, you'll enjoy this-After this statement, he should swing a huge bastard sword around his shoulders, over his head and drop the point on a defeated republican.