Welcome to this bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast by Dr. Jim Denison.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum narrating this bonus podcast.

If you're planning to climb Mount Blanc in France, know that you may have to pay a deposit

of $15,370 to cover rescue and funeral costs. Jean-Marc Pellex is mayor of San Jervais, a village at the foot of Western Europe's highest mountain.

He says the average cost of a rescue on the mountain is 10,000 euros.

Funeral costs are 5,000 euros.

It is unacceptable for the French taxpayer to cover those costs, he stated in a press release.

He also told the BBC, I wanted to make people react to understand that today it is very dangerous,

almost suicidal to go up. He has not yet issued a legal ruling on the proposed deposit, but he claims

to have the power to impose it.

Here's another story that caught my eye. The longest tenured post office employee in America

recently celebrated 70 years on the job. When Johnny Bell started work with the Oklahoma City

Postal Service at the age of 23, the pay was $1.81 an hour. He has been there his entire career.

When he was celebrated for his service recently, he said,

Thanks so much for this recognition. This is just something I do because I enjoy doing it.

A colleague said of him, he is truly a public servant.

From the sound of music, our culture encourages us,

climb every mountain, forward every stream, follow every rainbow till you find your dream. Our postmodern

worldview says your truth is as valid as our truth. You can climb any mountain you choose. But there are consequences to your

decision that the rest of us must pay. If you die on Mount Blanc, someone must pay for your funeral.

Abortion costs the life of innocent unborn children. The so-called sexual revolution

is costing society in sex trafficking, child pornography,

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