BEYOND ABSURDITY

Imagine you are hunting and camping in the woods where state law prohibits the killing of wolves.  Along comes a pack of wolves and begins attacking your 12-year-old son.  Do you: (a) consult your hunting guidebook to see if it covers the situation; (b) drive down the trail to the nearest place where you can get a cell phone signal and call for instructions, (c) start shooting wolves? 

The House of representatives passed a bill in July preventing the Veterans Affairs from using dogs for painful or stressful procedures in medical research, even when the animals are sedated.  The VA argues that such research is necessary to advance care for our wounded warriors and proponents of the legislation insist such experiments are cruel. 

Now, I have almost always had a dog for a pet.  I have one now; he's a Schnauzer and the love of my life.   It would be an upsetting decision for me to make, but if it came right down to it and such a procedure on my dog might lead to the cure of a life-threatening medical problem for humans, I'd certainly go for it.  There are certain priorities in life, but human life is the second-highest; number one is God and the Divine Order of things.   

As we learn more about our own existence, we certainly have to suspect that there may a higher order of life in the universe from whence we came, and that we have been visited by aliens over the centuries and that... yes, they've taken us aboard space ships and done experiments on us.  If we couldn't dissect frogs or examine butterflies, how could we ever learn what makes life tick?  How could we search for cancer cures? 

In the same breath that these idiots tell us such experiments are cruel, most of them would not hesitate to abort human fetuses so they could sell the embryonic tissues for stem-cell research and the like.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.