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Violence Flares Over Healthcare Passage

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This is distinctly disturbing.

Across the country, rocks or bricks are being thrown through the windows of Democratic Party offices. Congressmen are receiving threats to themselves and their children. Even Sarah Palin herself makes some unsavory implications.

It seems the “break the windows” idea is coming from this guy. As mentioned in my first link, the parallels to Kristallnacht are pretty obvious, but luckily the scale is much smaller.

What’s going on here?

http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/dont-get-demoralized-get-organized-take-back-the-20/373854973434

A humanist case for health care reform

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I haven’t meant for this to be a forum for political discussion, so I’ve resisted the urge to post about health care reform. But not today.

The fact is that I can’t divorce my politics from my secular humanism. The latter indelibly informs the former. As a humanist, I’m outraged that we live in a country where millions are without access to affordable health care.

And such outrage is fundamental to any kind of humanism—religious or secular. If you care about human welfare and you’re not outraged about the state of the world (not just health care), you’re not paying attention.

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Is Religion in the way of Reform?

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While surfing around the web for the latest and greatest in the seemingly endless Health Care debate, I came across an interesting video from one of my favorite shows, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. During one of their quick snippet video jokes they highlighted part of a speech from a member of the House of Representatives. His name is (R) Todd Akin and he represents Missouri’s 2nd District. In the video he stated how he believes that we’re standing on the abyss and that people who have issues with the current Health Care bill should turn to God in prayer to ask for his help “supernaturally”. All in an attempt to make sure we don’t take “this fatal step into socialized medicine.”

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