BEETHOVEN'S 9TH SYMPHONY: HUMAN VICTORY OVER ADVERSITY

See Mark Davis Pickup's latest blog post "Beethoven's 9th Symphony: Human Victory Over Adversity". Go to http://markpickup.org

STUNNING ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

The following video was brought to my attention  by

Brain Computer Interface

Julie Grimstad of the North American Pro-Life Healthcare Alliance. As she so astutely observed, "Think of what this might mean for people with physical disabilities or who are locked-in." The amazing technology is called "Brain Computer Interface" and is controlled by human thought. This breakthrough has been developed under the brilliant leadership of Dr. Bin He, professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Perhaps stunning assistive technologies like the brain computer interface may inadvertently throw a welcome wrench into the gears to slow the growing cultural euthanasia mindset and unethical organ pharming of those crassly termed persistent vegetative states.

Click on the link:

MDP

 

WHY DID SO MUCH OF AMERICA LOSE ITS MORAL WAY? (Remember your foundational vision.)

Dead baby from late-term abortion

Perhaps the greatest moral blight on America since slavery is abortion.* The whole-scale slaughter of more than 55-million innocents throughout all stages of pregnancy on the altar of sexual freedom for their parents. This gross violation of the foundational right to life can not be overlooked by civilized people or legitimately justified.

It is past time for a national examination of conscience and repentance. America elected a President who supports abortion including late-term abortion and this was well known dating back when he was an Illinois state senator. Barack Obama has been elected twice (see video below). How could this happen?

I love America and what it stood for: For so long it has been a beacon of hope to the world for human rights and liberty for all. I am left to wonder: How could this happen twice? Why did so much of America lose its moral way? 

And then I consider that millions of Americans do not support the cruel status quo of abortion on demand. A majority of Americans reject abortion. Look what recently happened in Texas! Perhaps there is time to still turn away from the systematic killing of America's unborn children and restore the belief in liberty for all. It's critical that America and its institutions return to the towering Declaration of its Founders. I have faith in America. The good people of America will remember that Declaration's vision and virtue and turn away from the liberal left's inferior and twisted deviation that denies the first inalienable right of the Declaration of Independence. -- MDP

 

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* Canada is bad too. All abortions are taxpayer funded and have been for decades.

BARRIER FREE MEDICAL SERVICES

Me

This blog has had well over 200,000 visits from all over  the world
so I want to give a bit of a preface to this post. Remember that I live in the Canadian province of Alberta. There is an organization that call themselves the Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD). They produced very good video about barrier free health and medical services (see link below).

At a personal level I have been very fortunate in this regard. In fact, when my GP was building her new offices, she consulted me for recommendations to make the new building as barrier-free as possible. She went to great lengths to accommodate her patients' with disabilities.

But that is one doctor and one facility. Unfortunately, that is not the case for all people with disabilities. Because of this, the ACCD produced the following video that is universal in its application. Well done! See it at the following link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iBosJzHZdM

Mark Davis Pickup

WANTING TO BE DISABLED?

The world is going crazy!

Chloe Jennings-White

I came across the case of Chloe Jennings-White, a Cambridge educated researcher who wants to be disabled. (What is she researching?)

The strange story came to my attention through a friend and actual paraplegic, Chelsea Zimmerman. I highly recommend you visit Chelsea's Blog: Reflections of a Paralytic at http://reflectionsofaparalytic.com

Paraplegic wannabe Chloe Jennings-White found some unethical doctor somewhere who is willing to surgically sever her spinal cord if she could only raise the necessary $25,000 required to render this able-bodied woman disabled. Perhaps she could start a fund raising event: "Help Chloe become paraplegic." Sheesh!

For someone like me who is actually disabled with multiple sclerosis, and in a wheelchair, I can only dream of walking again.
Does Jennings-White fantacize about attention she would get being in a wheelchair? Sorry Chloe, people tend to avoid those in wheelchairs. Does she have a right to be disabled? Don't laugh, people are now saying they have a right to choose the time and place of their assisted suicide, and places like Oregon and the state
 of Washington actually grant it. Like I say, the world is going crazy.

Jennings-White suffers from a psychiatric condition known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). She believes her body is telling her that her legs should not work. Her view of reality is skewed. She is sick, I get that, but are we supposed to buy into this nonsense like we are supposed to buy into sex change surgery at taxpayer expense (my Canadian province of Alberta does that) or assisted suicide as some sort of right?

I hope nobody helps Chloe Jennings-White to harm herself. - MDP

 

WALKING THE PARCHED GROUND OF THE ABORTION "CHOICE"

I have previously revealed how my wife, LaRee, and I aborted our first child in 1971. Our baby was just shy of 12 weeks gestation. We grieved that "choice" for decades.

For more than 40 years women (and men) have been ignorantly led down the garden path to abortion only to be left in a dark place once they realized what they had done.

It's so easy to champion the choice of abortion when you don't have walk the path of that choice. How many millions of women grieve their abortions? Abortions are now being done throughout pregnancy. -- Mark Davis Pickup. See -

 

G.K. CHESTERTON: LIFE AND DEATH

G.K. Chesterton

My last blog post referred readers to my person blog where I wrote about G.K. Chesterton. He is a favourite author of mine (and millions of other people). Chesterton's mind was so muscular, his logic as sharp as a razor, his orthodox Catholic faith as solid and substantial as stone.

This blog offering is from a television series aired on EWTN entitled G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense. This episode is called Life and Death and is 26 minutes long.  I present it for your viewing with special thanks to the American Chesterton Society. -- Mark