Mary Kenny Is a Christian: A Dumb One

Mary Kenny writes in the Irish edition of the Independent that atheists are miserable.

"I've never yet met an atheist with a sense of joie-de-vivre (unless, in the case of one well-known public atheist, a certain drunken cordiality) most of them seem to be miserable blighters."

And you Christian types have it all sewn up, don't you, you smug bastards...

Kenny is dumb. Her argument is fallacy and filled with weasel words and she has the temerity to include the story of Baby 'P' almost as if faith could've fixed it.

Fuck you Mary.

Atheists aren't miserable, we're pissed off at people like you looking down your enormous hooters at us. You think you carry the moral high ground yet you allow no one else to tred that same path if their views differ.

Wrong.

Belief does not lead to morals and more than lack of it does otherwise. That's called CHOICE and it's something you idiots would rather we didn't have.

Suspended Baby P Doctor "Sorry"

Not a development, so much as a follow up. The fucking idiot "doctor" and locum paediatrician who failed to spot a child had a broken back, has been suspended following review.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7752231.stm

Dr Sabah al-Zayyat has been suspended by the GMC with immediate affect (but has been previously working under supervision).

WHY?

This doctor who "qualified" in Asia was considered to be sufficiently capable to work with children but then later missed a the simple fact that a child, with visible injuries, was in serious danger. She decided not to examine the child because he was "miserable and cranky."

He died less than 48 hours later.

What are they teaching these people and who is hiring them? The child had suffered, among other things, a broken back (he would be in intolerable agony) and so far this is this the closest I've seen to anything close to an apology:

"Like everyone involved in this case, I have been deeply affected by the shocking and tragic circumstances of this young child's death. My professional career has been devoted to the care of children. I will co-operate with any investigation to identify whether lessons can be learnt from this case."

What bothers me is not that this is a doctor from an Asian country, but that a so-called qualified practitioner could make such an egregious error! Is anyone checking these qualifications are actually being handed out to people who are actually UP TO THE JOB?

Here's a lesson for you, Doc. Quit!

UPDATE 1 December 2008:
BBC Reports -

"Haringey Council leader, George Meehan, and cabinet member for children and young people, Liz Santry, have resigned over the Baby P case, sources said."

What took them so long?

Now Ed Balls is reported to have confirmed that Sharon Shoesmith, head of children's services at Haringey Council, has been removed from her post.