Thursday, December 31, 2009

My New Years Prayer for 2010

Top Ten Prolife Stories of 2009

Jill Stanek's list.

Cardinal O'Malley, Cardinal McCormack's abortion businesses don't make the list because they were able to manipulate and control the Catholic press into keeping their murdering business secretive.

Nonetheless, I believe what these two Cardinals have done is the most egregious assault against life and liberty to practice medicine as Catholics in the history of our existence. The impact of what they've done to the country is still subterfuge.

What is almost worse was finding the cult of secrecy they still demand from Catholic press when they're committing crimes against humanity. It's disheartening and confirms that some Catholics will still cover up assaults against children on the say-so of a Cardinal.

The magnitude of the corruption has yet to be revealed. But, you can take this to the bank: IT WILL BE!

Blaming the Bishops for the life-threatening healthcare legislation

While they're finally voicing their concerns about life-threatening flaws in the healthcare bill, for at least a decade, the Bishops Conference has been lobbying for socialized medicine.

A lot is being said and written about why national health care legislation is becoming a reality. The simple fact, available for all to see, is that the U.S. Catholic Bishops ensured passage of the bill in the House, enabling the Senate to move forward with its version.

Like "progressive" strategist Robert B. Creamer, the Bishops believe that health care is a right to be guaranteed by government. This position has driven the debate and has rarely been challenged by Republicans. The debate over abortion has been mostly a diversion. Perhaps it has been planned that way

As we were the first to disclose, Creamer, an ex-con and husband of Rep. Jan Schakowsky, emphasized using "the faith community" to mobilize support for universal health care by highlighting the morality of providing medical care to people in need. His book, Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win, emphasized that "We must create a national consensus that health care is a right, not a commodity; and that government must guarantee that right."

Now compare this to what the Bishops have said.

"Our approach to health care is shaped by a simple but fundamental principle: 'Every person has a right to adequate health care,'" they say. They go on, "For three quarters of a century, the Catholic bishops of the United States have called for national action to assure decent health care for all Americans. We seek to bring a moral perspective in an intensely political debate; we offer an ethical framework in an arena dominated by powerful economic interests."

Reform, the Bishops said, would "require concerted action by federal and other levels of government and by the diverse providers and consumers of health care. We believe government, an instrument of our common purpose called to pursue the common good, has an essential role to play in assuring that the rights of all people to adequate health care are respected."

Also this: "For three quarters of a century, the Catholic bishops of the United States have called for national action to assure decent health care for all Americans."

What makes this particularly interesting in Boston, is Cardinal O'Malley's treatment of his own priests. Several months back, he circulated O'Malley's new policies. If an active or retired priest gets too sick to work full time - his income will be reduced to $300 a month and he will be kicked off the diocescan insurance.

Claiming the Cardinal is all for decent treatment and insurance for everyone, when his own policies are cruel and indecent to the sick and elderly in his own employ, is intellectually dishonest.

But, there you have it.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie

...that's amore?

The protest was reportedly carried out by Martin Stot, 48, of Lawrence Street, York, who said he filled the bucket with 30 cans of spaghetti and ravioli.

He told The Press newspaper in York: "I was just offended by what he said. I just got this thing in my head where I thought I would make my own little protest."

Mr Stot said he hid the bucket in a phone box while he waited for Fr Jones to emerge from the church, the paper reported.

In the controversial sermon, Father Jones said: "My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift.

"I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither. I would ask that they do not steal from small, family businesses, but from large national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices."


30 cans of Chef Boyardee couldn't happen to a better fella.

I live in Massachusetts. Stranger sermons I've heard a plenty.

Excerpt of Funeral Sermon

The Change People Believed In

Hard to imagine, but here we are:

The Fundamental Transformation of America

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank,
(Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist, people said it didn't matter.

When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialist, sent
Obama's mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to
young Obama, people said it didn't matter.

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and
his father and step father were both Muslims, people said it didn't
matter.

When he wrote in another book he authored "I will stand with them
(Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." people
said it didn't matter.

When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and
professors in college, people said it didn't matter.

When he traveled to Pakistan, after college on an unknown national
passport, people said it didn't matter.

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for
the Illinois Senate, people said it doesn't matter.

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a
preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology,
people said it didn't matter.

When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting
records, gave him the distinctive title as the "most liberal senator",
people said it didn't matter.

When the Palestinians in Gaza, set up a fund raising telethon to raise
money for his election campaign, people said it didn't matter.

When his voting record supported gun control, people said it didn't matter.

When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as
other candidates had done, people said it didn't matter.

When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar
Kadaffi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely
no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it
didn't matter.

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine
Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn't matter.

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came
into question, people said it didn't matter.

When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public
outcry, people said it didn't matter.

When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were
taught to sing his praises, people said it didn't matter.

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the
National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn't matter.

When he surrounded himself in the White House with advisors who were pro
gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail
freedom of speech to silence the opposition people said it didn't matter.

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other
issues, people said it didn't matter.

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual
indoctrination, people said it didn't matter.

When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be
found about him, people said it didn't matter.

When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to
produce a birth certificate, people said it didn't matter.

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco, a man of
questionable character, who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a
sweet deal on the purchase of his home, people said it didn't matter.

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent
a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn't matter.

When he started appointing "czars" (a communist term) that were radicals,
revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communists, people said it didn't
matter.

When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to
"fundamentally transform this nation" into something else, people said it
didn't matter.

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and
served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats
and socialists, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced
abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers,
people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar who believes in
"Explicit Consent", harvesting human organs with out family consent, and
to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting,
people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group
called gay, lesbian, straight, Education network, as safe school czar and
it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people
said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in
curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread
the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama's senior White House advisor
and she is an avowed Socialist, people said it didn't matter.

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was
her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for
inspiration,
people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well
known socialist working on Cap and trade as the nations largest tax,
people said it doesn't matter.

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green
energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said
it didn't matter.

When Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health and human services secretary
could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn't
matter.

When as president of the United States, he bowed to the King of Saudi
Arabia, people said it didn't matter.

When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once
talking of her greatness, people said it didn't matter.

When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the
Palestinians over Israel, our long time friend, people said it doesn't
matter.

When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians
from Gaza to the United States, people said it doesn't matter.

When he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system
against the Russians, people said it doesn't matter.

When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field
Commanders said we had to have to win, people said it didn't matter.

When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay
it off, people said it didn't matter.

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it
to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected,
people said it didn't matter.

When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc. people
said it didn't matter.

When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the
government, people said it didn't matter.

When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it
under government control, people said it didn't matter.

When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in
the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn't matter.

When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist
State, people finally woke up......... but it was too late.

Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter.
But.... when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that
points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into
a Marxist/Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs
have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you
disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet
cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as
above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ? Personally,
I like happy endings.

If you are an Obama Supporter, please do not be angry with me because I
think the President of your choice is a socialist, but there are too many
facts supporting this. If you seek the truth you will be richer for it.
Don't just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. I did.
Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and
what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull together or
watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish. If you are a
religious person, pray for our nation.

Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with
problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy.
Don't rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for
the truth. Search the internet. Yes, there is a lot of bad information,
lies and distortions there too but you are smart enough to spot the
fallacies. Newspapers are a dying breed. They are currently seeking a
bailout from the government. Do you really think they are about to print
the truth? Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox who
he has waged war against. There must be a reason. He does not call them
down on any specifics, just a general battle against them. If they lie,
he should call them out on it but he doesn't. Please, find the truth, it
will set you free.

Our biggest enemy is not China, Russia, Iran; no, our biggest enemy is a
contingent of politicians in Washington DC .

Obama is plotting air strikes upon innocent people?

The US is planning retaliatory strikes in Yemen.

"The people we want are the ones who put Abdulmutallab on the plane. Until we can get them there are other high-value targets that will make the point that attacking America does not go unpunished," said the official.
Is it me or does that say finding the people associated with Abdulmutallab will be difficult but in the meantime, they'll bomb whomever they please without a trial or any evidence whatsoever they're terrorists?

"Yemen now becomes one of the centres of that fight. We have a growing presence there – and we have to – of special operations, Green Berets, intelligence," he said.Yesterday, Yemeni forces targeted Nasser Ahmed al-Ahdal, a former prisoner released after renouncing violence but believed to have renewed links to al-Qaida.
Come again?

Did Obama have a terrorist imprisoned but released him when he "renounced violence" and now we find he assisted in Abdulmutallab's crack at downing an aircraft?

I suspect the tip of the iceberg of the consequences of making the prisoners in Guantanamo innocent victims of our courageous men and women in the military.

Several al-Qaida members killed in raids by Yemeni forces in the past fortnight had been released or had escaped from prison. Others who have left jail to rejoin the fight include Nasser al-Wahayshi, the Yemeni leader of al-Qaida, who escaped along with 22 others from prison in Yemen in 2006. His deputy, Saeed al-Shihri, joined al-Qaida in Yemen last year after being released to Saudi Arabia from Guantánamo.

National Security is in utter chaos:

The CIA is under pressure after it was revealed that it apparently had two important pieces of the puzzle that might have prevented the attack and did not put them together.

The New York Times said the agency picked up intelligence from Yemen that a Nigerian was at the forefront of a looming attack on American interests. At about the same time, the CIA was part of a briefing at the US embassy in Nigeria after Abdulmutallab's father warned American diplomats that his son was becoming radicalised, and was in Yemen. The CIA drew up a file, but then sat on it for five weeks.



Whooh boy, did Dick Cheney ever have fun today with Barry Soroto's come uppance.

"He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won't be at war," Cheney said in the statement. "He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won't be at war. He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won't be at war."

Cheney also said Obama outwardly "pretends we aren't [at war]," and the former vice president repeated his months-long criticism that the new president has made America "less safe."

"Why doesn't he want to admit we're at war?" Cheney asked. "It doesn't fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn't fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency: social transformation, the restructuring of American society."


Amen brother.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Carol Keehan and the Catholic Health Association Funding Abortion Pols

Sister Carol and CHA Abortion Money Trail

The long list is just the tip of the iceberg.

Nancy Pelosi: Free Will to Kill

The rift between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Catholic Church will likely grow thanks to new comments the abortion advocate made. Pelosi said in a new interview that the "free will" of women wanting abortions outweighs pro-life Catholic teachings.

"I have some concerns about the church's position respecting a woman's right to choose," Pelosi responds. "I am a practicing Catholic, although they're probably not too happy about that. But it is my faith."

"I practically mourn this difference of opinion because I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent with what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions," she continues. "And that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will."

Hey - Maybe Nancy Pelosi's Free Will to Kill could help out Charlie Sheen? He exercised his free will to beat his wife and told her if she every told anyone about the abuse, he'd hire somebody to kill her. He held a knife to her throat as she was calling the police.

Anyone bother to ask her how she feels about giving Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the opportunity to endow explosives into his underpants and board a plane?

Killing people is so egregious that righteous people prevent other people from the opportunity to exercise it in a society. That's why we stopped the Klu Klux Klan and Hitler.





One Nation Under God

Monday, December 28, 2009

Sr. Carol Keehan & The Massacre of the Holy Innocents

At this point, I'm groping to come up with reasons to entertain the possibility that Sr. Carol Keehan isn't a pathological liar.

Right on cue, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Keehan is trying to scrub the blood off her hands by saying there's not a shred of disagreement between her and the Bishops. In fact, we've got it all wrong. She and the Bishops were and are working together.

"We believe there is a great possibility and probability that in conference committee we can work toward a solution that will prevent federal funding of abortion."

She said the CHA, which represents more than 600 Catholic hospitals in the U.S., "brings a lot of expertise with funding structures in the marketplace" to the debate and hopes to "bring that to bear" during the conference committee's work.




Yes, she knows just how to structure the funding of the abortions and she'll bring it all to bear.

Whoah. Wait a minute...the funding? Is that what the conflict is about?

Begging her pardon. I thought it was about the carnage perpetrated upon the people -- the freedom to practice medicine without abusing, killing and violating our religion.

Further, it does not go unnoticed, at least not by this woman, that just like the shenanigans of Cardinal O'Malley, every aspect of what is public information on how they'll carry these plans out has proven to be immoral, unethical and exploitative of the poor, sick and elderly, but they have ideas nobody has heard about. Secret ideas about..... money, which will not be offered up in the public square to be ethically and theologically scrutinized.


Sister Carol said Times reporter David D. Kirkpatrick based his Dec. 26 story on a Dec. 17 CHA statement which noted that CHA had not reviewed the language of various amendments on the table at the time but was "encouraged by recent deliberations and the outline" Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., was developing.

At that point, "I felt they were making progress and were getting where we needed to be," she said.

"I understand that it doesn't make a good story to say (CHA and the USCCB) are working together," Sister Carol added. "But it would have been an honest story."


Really?

That's funny.

That's not the story the Bishops are telling either privately or publicly. They're saying they're not picking up on anything to hang hope upon, even from people who will sit down at the table with us, and that we need to vigorously oppose this malicious bill.


Here's the USCCB statement and it's inconsistent with her spin. Not only did the Bishops emerge from "working with" Sr. Carol with diametrically opposed public statements, nobody I know has mentioned these positive pow-wows with Sister Carol. Has any journalist circled back to her to ask her the names of the Bishops she's working with who believe in these great possibilities and probabilities?

By any chance was it the same meeting Max Baucus was at?

A real cleverhole she is.


I had personal conversations with Sr. Carol when she rushed to the side of Cardinal O'Malley as he was setting up his abortion contracts for an infusion of cash. When she found out I was educated and didn't fear correcting her errors, it was clear to me she thought people who were focusing on the shuffling of infants to be executed by way of Cardinal O'Malley's hands, or her own hands, were not focusing on the positive aspects of their work.


Kinda, sorta like how killing people at Auschwitz was unavoidable because it was legal and part of the culture, but the kindnesses and service of some of Hitler's Army - like giving pudding to the people before they send them to the train with a hug and best wishes - WWII stories are vacant about the heroic humanitarian prolife efforts of people like herself.

Look, let's face it: She knows exactly what she is doing. Sr. Carol Keehan often writes for the National Catholic Reporter and they are her cheering squad. Anybody in their right mind, would look around and say "Gee, all the articles around mine are fraught with theological errors and steering readers away from truth and Sacramental Grace ~I wonder why these folks think my ideas are good ones. What do people doctrinally faithful think of my ideas?"

You know, like if you find your ideas about racial ethics being courted by the Klu Klux Klan, you'd know the outcome of your ideas may be abusive and life-threatening to your fellow human beings.


I'll repeat what I said yesterday: The absurdity there is some kind of commission hunting for religious women that threaten the salvation of souls, the spirituality and lives of Christ's flock while this woman carries out her treacherous agenda right in the public square - without a PEEP from this commission is the most ludicrous thing this side of coddling sexual abusers.

To me and to many others, it's worse.

Few say it better than Diogenes

I love it when he gets mad:


So what will US security officials do to restore confidence in air travel? Will they begin revoking visas from men with known terrorist connections? Will they pay attention when a foreign diplomat warns that his son has been radicalized? Will they become suspicious when someone pays for an overseas flight in cash and checks no luggage? Will they stop people from flying if they are on the “no fly” list? In short, will they enforce the policies that are already in place?

Or instead will they force all of us to shut off our laptops, close our books, and sit at attention for the final hour of every flight, like schoolboys in detention?

It’s an absurd reaction. It would be comical if it weren’t so infuriating. It’s almost as if the US bishops, having allowed known molesters to work with children for years, decided that the most appropriate remedy was to force parents to undergo background checks before serving as playground monitors.

Can you imagine that happening? Funny, I can.

Is the left catching up to Barry Soroto's lies?

Here's an interesting glimpse of Barack's subterfuge in his own party written by David Michael Green, an ultra-liberal professor at Hofstra University.

You know, I've really been trying not to write an article every other week about all the things I don't like about Barack Obama....

Like any good progressive, I've gone from admiration to hope to disappointment to anger when it comes to this president. Now I'm fast getting to rage.

I've often wondered if the tanking numbers of the no-good bum elected a year ago included people who held the "change we can believe in" signs for him.

About 1/3 of my liberal friends who voted for him have become disenchanted. I will say (and I don't mean to be snotty when I say it) that the 1/3 are the people who do more than read headlines on the Metro. They're people who take the time to dissect the substance, add up the numbers, read the history of ideas of the people Obama has appointed,etc., and gradually came to realize things didn't add up.

Did this clown really say on national television that "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street"?!?!

Really, Barack? So, like, my question is: Then why the hell did you help out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street?!?! Why the hell did you surround yourself with nothing but Robert Rubin proteges in all the key economic positions in your government? Why did you allow them to open a Washington branch of Goldman Sachs in the West Wing? Why have your policies been tailored to helping Wall Street bankers, rather than the other 300 million of us, who just happen to be suffering badly right now?...

Are you going to tell us that "I did not run for office to be shovel-feeding the military-industrial complex"? But what they're just so darned pushy?

"...I did not run for office to continue George Bush's valiant effort at shredding the Bill of Rights. It's just that those government-limiting rules are so darned pesky."

"...I did not run for office to dump a ton of taxpayer money into the coffers of health insurance companies. It's just that they asked so nicely."

"...I did not run for office to block equality for gay Americans. I just never got around to doing anything about it."

"...I did not run for office to turn Afghanistan into Vietnam. I just didn't want to say no to all the nice generals asking for more troops."....

id you see him tell Oprah that he gave himself "a good solid B+" for his first year in office? And that it will be an A, if he gets his healthcare legislation passed?

Somebody please pick me up and set me back on my chair, wouldya?


I am seriously beginning to worry that this cat is delusional. ...

"For Democrats, the red flags are flying at full mast," said Democratic pollster Peter Hart in a recent AP article. "What we don't know for certain is: Have we reached a bottoming-out point?"

Au contraire, Peter. Au contraire. I think anyone more sentient than a newborn amoeba can answer that question. The first thing to note is that the economy is not coming back anytime soon, if it comes back at all. Unless, of course, you're a fat cat Wall Street banker. Then you're just fine, because the Bush-Obama administration took care of you quite nicely, thanks very much. The rest of us poor slobs out here in real-world land, on the other hand, got a "jobs summit".

I can't even begin to describe how insulting Obama conducting a "jobs summit" is to me, or what an unbelievably ham-fisted piece of public relations that was for the White House, which is increasingly showing itself not just to be sickeningly regressive, but also fully inept.


Hey David, want another dose of reality?

Grab an examination of conscience, take advantage of the Sacrament of Confession, make a promise to acquiesce to God and amend your life, go to Mass and place the Blessed Sacrament in your soul. On your way home in the car, ask the Holy Spirit to show you the truth in every aspect of your life. Then, turn on the television and watch the President and all his henchmen and women for 48 hours.

If you have any stomach left, pick up the Boston Globe and the Metro.

And, don't forget "The View".

The "cat" isn't the only one delusional.

You know, elite Republicans may be sociopaths, and they may be lower on the moral totem pole than your basic cannibal, but they're not stupid. I bet they're salivating at the idea that this thing passes. I bet they'd even have Olympia Snowe vote for it if necessary, just to put it over the top. They must be laughing their asses off at this gift. All they have to do is oppose it right down the line, then say "Told ya so!" at the next election, squashing the pathetic Demognats, one after the next. Hey, even if worse comes to worse and the thing eventually becomes popular, they can always wait a decade or two and become champions of the new publically beloved healthcare system just like they did for Medicare, Social Security, civil rights, etc....

This is President Nothingburger's great gift to America, along with doing nothing about jobs, doing nothing about the Middle East, nothing about civil liberties, nothing about civil rights, and now doing nothing at Copenhagen. Regarding the latter, the world is literally on fire, and he jets in, gives a speech haranguing the delegates that "Now is not the time for talk, now is the time for action", then splits even before the vote in order to beat the snowstorm headed to the east coast that might delay him getting home to his comfy bed.



Not to worry.

While 10 dollar an hour employees are scrutizing Nana O'Flaherty's orthopedic shoes, Muslim extremists are boarding planes with explosives in their pockets, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea are building their nuclear weapons and firing them into the sky and laughing at the goddamned fools who elected this idiot.

John Gosselin Apartment ransacking a publicity stunt?

Creepy, creepy dude.

He was being evicted for non-payment of rent.

Can anyone say.... "insurance fraud".

Baucus Gives a Shrewd Explanation of the Democratic Party

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Why did Jesus fold his Burial Cloth?


I'm not sure who the author of the following is because was an email forward from a friend.



It's sweet.

Enjoy.

*****************************

The Gospel of John (20:7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over
the face of Jesus, was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes.

The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was
neatly folded, and was placed at the head of that stony coffin.

Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the
tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.

She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus
loved.. She said, 'They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb, and I
don't know where they have put him!'

Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see. The other disciple
out ran Peter and got there first. He stopped and looked in and saw the
linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in.

Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen
wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was
folded up and lying to the side.

Was that important? Absolutely!
Is it
really significant? Yes!

In order to understand the significance of the folded napkin, you have to
understand a little bit about Hebrew tradition of that day.
The folded napkin had to do with the Master and Servant, and every
Jewish boy knew this tradition.

When the servant set the dinner table for the master, he made sure that it
was exactly the way the master wanted it.

The table was furnished perfectly, and then the servant would wait, just
out of sight, until the master had finished eating, and the servant would
not dare touch that table, until the master was finished.

Now if the master were done eating, he would rise from the table, wipe his
fingers, his mouth, and clean his beard, and would wad up that napkin and
toss it onto the table.

The servant would then know to clear the table. For in those days, the
wadded napkin meant, "I'm finished."

But if the master got up from the table, and folded his napkin, and laid
it beside his plate, the
servant would not dare touch the table, because..........

The folded napkin meant,
"I'm coming back."

Peggy Noonan Embraces the Silent Killer in the White House

I can't tell if Peggy Noonon is shamelessly stumping for a job from anybody, regardless of whether the agenda is lethal to the victims of the tyrant she's baiting with her drivel, or whether age has simply been unkind to her higher cerebral function.

"He just does what he thinks is right"

Cannon to the left of him, cannon to the right of him, cannon in front of him volley and thunder. That's our president's position on the political battlefield now, taking it from all sides. And the odd thing, the unique thing in terms of modern political history, is that no one really defends him, no one holds high his flag. When was the last time you put on the radio or TV and heard someone say "Open line Friday—we're talking about what it is we like best about Barack Obama!" When did you last see a cable talking head say, "The greatness of this man is as obvious as it is unnoticed"?

Is the left out there on the Internet and the airwaves talking about him? Oh, yes. They're calling him a disappointment, a sellout, a DINO—Democratic in name only. He sold out on single-payer health insurance, and then the public option. He'll sell you out on your issue too.

The pundits and columnists, dreadful people that they are, call him cold, weak, aloof, arrogant, entitled.

So let's denounce him again.

Wait—it's Christmas. Let's not. There are people who deeply admire the president, who work with him and believe he's doing right. This week, this column is their forum. They speak not for attribution to avoid the charge of suckupism.


She goes on to offer a few cunning stories about the Obamas crafted to incite ill will against the people who are defending the unborn, the elderly, the poor and the freedoms Obama is threatening in our Country.

What's next? A column on the Feast of the Epiphany about bringing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab gold, frankincense and myrrh?

Talk about misplaced empathy.

Useful idiot.

New Flying Rules


No more leaving our seats, having anything on our laps or accessing our carry-on bags in the final hour of a flight.

Do you suppose they're too dumb to figure out they now have to execute their strategies at the beginning of a flight?

While they were shaking Mommies and Nannas down making sure we didn't have any more than 2 oz of Channel and Lancome, another radical named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab slipped right by them with a firecracker, chemicals and a syringe.

Far be it from Obamas wizards to profile people getting on planes and search them more closely. This one was even on the terror watch list.

The 278 passengers on the eight-hour Delta Airways flight from Amsterdam were first alerted that something was wrong when they heard what was described as "a firecracker in a pillowcase".

One passenger, Jasper Schuringa, who was the first on the plane to tackle and subdue the suspect, told CNN: "I basically reacted directly. when you hear a pop on the plane, you are awake. I just jumped. I didn't think, I just went over there and tried to save the plane – and we did."

Mr Schuringa, who had burns to one of his hands, added: "A fire started under his seat. I was calling for water, water. But then the fire was getting a little worse. So I grabbed the suspect out of the seat, because, if there was any more explosives on him, that would have been very dangerous. And then the flight attendants came. We took him to first class and stripped him to make sure he had no more weapons on him. "It was very quick. Everyone was panicking," he said of the scene on the descending aircraft.

Mr Schuringa, who was due to connect in Detroit to a Miami flight for a Christmas holiday, said of the suspect: "He was shaking. He didn't resist anything. It's just hard to believe that he was trying to blow up this plane. He was in a trance. He was very afraid."

Mr Schuringa also said that when he first grabbed the suspect he saw a burning liquid dripping on to the floor.

The high explosive Abdulmutallab used was identified by the FBI as Pentaerythritol, better known as PETN – a major component of Semtex. He injected a detonating liquid into the PETN with a syringe, but the bomb failed to explode.

The revelation of Abdulmutallab's background has confounded terror experts. Dr Magnus Ranstorp of the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College said that the attempted bombing "didn't square".

"On the one hand, it seems he's been on the terror watch list but not on the no-fly list," he said. "That doesn't square because the American Department for Homeland Security has pretty stringent data-mining capability. I don't understand how he had a valid visa if he was known on the terror watch list.

"Why didn't he go to the toilets to detonate the bomb? Why would he try to set it off 20 minutes before he's going to land? It could probably have been successful had the person not been amateurish. I think this is a sign that it's much more difficult now for al-Qa'ida to pull off something serious." Chaim Koppel, a security consultant, added: "I think the explosive was supposed to go bang rather than just start a fire. The terrorists probably didn't mix it well enough. Maybe they didn't do enough practice runs, but the more the guy is trained, the more exposed he is to MI5, MI6, the FBI and other security agencies, so he probably didn't receive enough training."

Nigerian newspapers reported that Abdulmutallab's father, who lives in Katsina, Nigeria, had informed the US embassy of his son's activities because he had become so concerned about his religious views.

A source said Dr Mutallab was "devastated" at the news but also "surprised" his son had been allowed to travel after he had reported him to the authorities. Abdulmutallab had allegedly become noted for his extreme religious views when he was at the British International School in Togo, where he is said to have preached Islam to his friends.


God be with this Dad, I can't imagine the heartbreak of having to turn in your own son.

Perhaps it's time to admit that Homeland Security needs a few less 10 dollar an hour employees checking our socks and redirect their resources to an undercover presence at every University Campus around the world, situated directly at the Muslim Center. Terrorists eventually talk the talk, especially if you throw a little party around Ramadan and supply a few cocktails.

Ramp it up a bit intellectually.

UPDATE: US Officials say security measures are under review.

Yes, not to worry. Obama has ordered a review of flight screenings from the golf course in Hawaii.

Before you breathe a sigh of relief tho, today, the crew on the same Amsterdam to Detroit flight let a second disruptive Nigerian passenger hole himself up in the bathroom for over an hour.

The Associated Press reported that the passenger in question was a man from Nigeria, the same country of suspect in Friday’s terrorism attempt. The second Nigerian man was taken into custody after locking himself in the airliner’s lavatory, The A.P. reported. CNN reported that the man had locked himself in the lavatory for such a long time that the crew requested help on the ground.


Color me a skeptic, but the day after a serious threat, when they should be on their toes...um....well, let's just say a system that can't figure out a threat until the suspicious character is holed up in the bathroom lighting the fuses is a little substandard. Otherwise, if we happen to get hit with a good case of food poisoning, we all may be taking an embarrassing detour.

Somehow, I'm getting the feeling the luminaries are going to put cameras in the powder rooms, instead of setting up surveillance where they're making the plans and catching them before they get on the plane.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

The tree at Camp McKinley 2009


This is what happens when you let one of your teenagers borrow the car.



Snow accumulation outside of the front door after the 2009 storm

Sister Carol Keehan: Every Christmas Story Has a King Herod



As the USCCB was lobbying to stop the passage
of the life-threatening socialized medicine Bill on Christmas Eve, saying it “violates the longstanding federal policy against the use of federal funds for elective abortions and health plans that include such abortions—a policy upheld in all health programs covered by the Hyde Amendment as well as in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program—and now in the House-passed ‘Affordable Health Care for America Act,’” -- Sister Carol Keehan and the initiative she set up to to whore for the abortion industry in healthcare, (under the auspices it is Catholic) were executing the orders for slaughtering of the innocents.

Catholic scholars say their statement reflects a different application of church teachings against “cooperation with evil,” a calculus that the legislation offers a way to extend health insurance to millions of Americans. For the Catholic hospitals, that it is both a moral and financial imperative, since like other hospitals they stand to gain from reducing the number of uninsured patients....

“We have known for quite some time that the Catholic hospitals and also the nuns are really breaking from these hard-line bishops and saying, ‘This really is our goal: to get more people into health care coverage,’ ” said Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado.


National healthcare that will withhold treatment to seriously sick and old and our country's poorest of the poor. Yes, we must watch out for those nuns. If you're ever terminally ill or spending your last days on earth getting palliative care in a full hospital and you see them coming with a needle to open up your bed for tomorrows tonsillectomy, know they have the goals of getting more people into healthcare coverage - bless their hearts.

The most offensive part of these developments is only known to prolifers on the frontlines of the trenches in the defense of life: The formula for "cooperation with evil" is the brainchild of Cardinal O'Malley, Cardinal McCormick, and others, who were possibly given their lethal licenses from the National Catholic Bioethics Center. Though, Cardinal O'Malley and his corrupt henchmen at the Boston Chancery refused to release the NCBC report, O'Malley's publicity stunt in the public square made it appear as if the NCBC gave him the green light to create an entity to hire abortionists and drive women to them and enter into the lucrative contracts at just the right arms length.



And in practical political terms, some Democrats — including some opponents of abortion rights — say that the Catholic hospitals’ relative openness to a compromise could play a pivotal role by providing political cover for Democrats who oppose abortion to support the health bill. Democrats and liberal groups quickly disseminated the association’s endorsement along with others from the nuns’ group, other Catholics and evangelicals.




In February, the Vatican launched an Apostolic Visitation to find the religious impostors among US Catholic Religious.

There's a game played at the Vatican that reminds me of the scene from Casablanca when Rick Blaine shoots and kills Major Strausser so Victor Laszlo and Ilsa can board the get-away plane. Captain Renault, knowing full well "who done it" sends his troops out on a wild goose chase to "round up the usual suspects".

With millions of lives at risk for being cruelly terminated prematurely, they had two years of watching Sister Carol Keehan lobbying in the public square to create a perfect race for Obama, the socialists and abortion industry right on television, the newspapers and the internet and several of us sent the papertrails to Rome.

To permit Sr. Carol Keehnan to erect this concentration camp in the public square under the name Catholic while the Vatican is pretending they're looking under beds for religious impostors who threaten Catholicism and life itself, is a monument to their lack of sincerity.

The third and fourth Bishops in Ireland have resigned this week - and the fifth is trying to hold onto his See and his reputation in the wake of the horrific coverups. Aiding and abetting rapists and murderers is a compromise that's unacceptable.

Indignation when people get caught with the long papertrails of coverups, dog and pony shows about how they've turned a new leaf, they're proactively looking for the usual suspects -- it is getting old and tired.

Sr. Carol Keehan is a menace to the lives of children, the sick and the poor. She's actively participating in turning the country over to the death panels. She's as treacherous to the lives of children as Mengale in the Second World War.

What price will we all pay for the Vatican's coddling of treacherous people wearing their costumes of habits and collars?

In the meantime, the children of people who trust the Bishops of Massachusetts and New Hampshire are as safe as the taxicabs leaving Caritas Hospitals heading for the abortionists O'Malley hired - and the National Catholic Bioethics Center "blessed".

God help us all.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Have Yourself a Very Liberal Christmas

Barry from D.C., a shlep in the White House

The dignity and class of the Office of President of the United States continues to be on reprieve.

He's taking heat from all sides, but Barack Obama still found time to play a joke on the Governor of Virginia during a live radio show yesterday -- calling in as "Barry from DC."


Acting like hillbillies without manners and dignity really adds insult to injury doesn't it?

Further, with the controversy about registering as a citizen of Indonesia as Barry Soroto, which actually would make him ineligible to the President of the United States, he sure doesn't mind waving the the illegal election right in everyone's face.

A nudge and a wink with his alias name. Isn't that special.

Take a peek at the Communist dictator and transvestite ornaments adorning the Christmas tree of Barack or Barry, whatever his real name is.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Pope John Paul II, Venerable

Good news for those of us who are spiritually connected to JP2. Pope Pius XII also made Venerable.

It's hard to believe on this spectacular day, with everyone on the East coast battoning down the hatches for a blizzard, the devils minions are advancing their war against life and freedom in our country as we know it.

Nelson, the last to cave, played a round of rope-a-dope with Harry Reid and claimed the compromise prohibits public funding of abortions.

What?

You don't believe the bill doesn't include funding abortions?

But...Barbara Boxer believes it.

"...the compromise Nelson agreed to with Reid makes it so states could disallow abortion coverage in the new health insurance exchanges. States that don't opt out of the abortion coverage would still force their residents to pay for abortions under the government-run health care system.

Two pro-abortion senators -- Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, and Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat -- hailed the compromise."


With a small majority of the country wanting to dismantle the best healthcare system in the world to add 50 million more people into a system that is at the brink, and no money to pay for it - and an even smaller majority wanting to their tax dollars spent on abortions, they must be counting on stupidity, laziness and short memories in 2010.

The Republicans got right on it.

Fixed it is not. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) latest health care “manager’s amendment” would STILL levy a new “abortion premium” fee on Americans under the Democrats’ health care plan.

Under Reid’s “manager’s amendment,” there is no prohibition on abortion coverage in federally subsidized plans participating in the Exchange. Instead the amendment includes layers of accounting gimmicks that demand that plans participating in the Exchange or the new government-run plan that will be managed by the Office of Personnel Management must establish “allocation accounts” when elective abortion is a covered benefit (p. 41). Everyone enrolled in these plans must pay a monthly abortion premium (p. 41, lines 5-8), and these funds will be used to pay for the elective abortion services. The Reid amendment directs insurance companies to assess the cost of elective abortion coverage (p. 43), and charge a minimum of $1 per enrollee per month (p. 43, lines 20-22).

Under Reid’s “manager’s amendment,” there is no prohibition on abortion coverage in federally subsidized plans participating in the Exchange. Instead the amendment includes layers of accounting gimmicks that demand that plans participating in the Exchange or the new government-run plan that will be managed by the Office of Personnel Management must establish “allocation accounts” when elective abortion is a covered benefit (p. 41). Everyone enrolled in these plans must pay a monthly abortion premium (p. 41, lines 5-8), and these funds will be used to pay for the elective abortion services. The Reid amendment directs insurance companies to assess the cost of elective abortion coverage (p. 43), and charge a minimum of $1 per enrollee per month (p. 43, lines 20-22).

In short, the Reid bill continues to defy the will of the American people and contradict longstanding federal policy by providing federal subsidies to private health plans that cover elective abortions. The new language does include a “state opt-out” provision if a state passes a law to prohibit insurance coverage of abortion, but it’s a sham because it does nothing to prevent one state’s tax dollars from paying for elective abortions in other states.

A majority of Americans believe that health care plans should not be mandated to provide elective abortion coverage, and a majority of Americans do not believe government health care plans should include abortion coverage.Under Reid’s “manager’s amendment,” there is no prohibition on abortion coverage in federally subsidized plans participating in the Exchange. Instead the amendment includes layers of accounting gimmicks that demand that plans participating in the Exchange or the new government-run plan that will be managed by the Office of Personnel Management must establish “allocation accounts” when elective abortion is a covered benefit (p. 41). Everyone enrolled in these plans must pay a monthly abortion premium (p. 41, lines 5-8), and these funds will be used to pay for the elective abortion services. The Reid amendment directs insurance companies to assess the cost of elective abortion coverage (p. 43), and charge a minimum of $1 per enrollee per month (p. 43, lines 20-22).

In short, the Reid bill continues to defy the will of the American people and contradict longstanding federal policy by providing federal subsidies to private health plans that cover elective abortions. The new language does include a “state opt-out” provision if a state passes a law to prohibit insurance coverage of abortion, but it’s a sham because it does nothing to prevent one state’s tax dollars from paying for elective abortions in other states.

A majority of Americans believe that health care plans should not be mandated to provide elective abortion coverage, and a majority of Americans do not believe government health care plans should include abortion coverage.


The Republicans are being handed the 2010 election on a silver platter.

The country may already be destroyed by then but we may just have enough escape hatches built into the communism to slowly unravel it.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Father, Please Let This Cup Pass!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid struggled to win over the last Democratic vote on health-overhaul legislation as uncertainty grew about whether the measure can be brought to a vote before Christmas.

After more than two weeks of debate, Mr. Reid (D., Nev.) remained a vote short of the 60 votes needed to ensure passage of the White House-backed initiative.

The focus Wednesday was on Sen. Ben Nelson, the conservative Nebraskan who stands as the only undecided member of the party's 60-member caucus, which includes two independents. Democratic leaders were confident Wednesday that Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, would support the bill after a move to drop plans to expand Medicare.

How are things on Big Love?

With the horse's ass in the bunker, the Associated Press names him "athlete of the decade"?


Really.

I mean...um...even if you put aside his emotional abuse of tens (possibly hundreds?) of women, the destruction of his own wife and children, do you mean to tell me that the men at the associated press actually believe he could perform six or seven times a night with multiple women and then hop out of bed and be the best golfer in the world without cheating by using steroiddrugs?

People aren't really that naive, are they?

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Computer Challenged

Sorry to be a stranger to blogging. My charger went for my laptop and so I have to steal away one of the children's computers when they're not using it. Doesn't leave a lot of time to post. I've ordered the part and things will be back to normal when it arrives.

Meanwhile, the varmint in the White House is bringing our precious country this close to this.

And, please pray for this poor Christian family under siege:

A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus on the cross.

The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross.


“As far as I’m concerned, they’re violating his religion,” the incredulous father said.



And, fun was had by all.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Sponsors finally ditching Tiger Woods

Gillette, Accenture, Tag Heuer back off from disgraced golfer

Disappointingly, in spite of Tiger's outrageous degrading and disrespectful treatment of women, Nike is going to continue to use him as a role model for their products:



But there was support for Woods yesterday from Nike, who have built a golf equipment empire around his endorsement. “Tiger has been part of Nike for more than a decade,” the company said in a statement. “He is the best golfer in the world and one of the greatest athletes of his era. We look forward to his return to golf.”

I'm not their biggest merchant, but Nike makes a superior sneaker for women who pronate when they walk or run. I've always bought Nikes for myself and the children but I'm done if they don't kick this sexually and emotionally abusive man to the curb.

It must be men making these decisions because they're just not seeing the abuse of intimacy.

With all the women buying products for themselves and their children, backing off of Woods isn't rocket science.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Me thinks Tiny Muskens has been hitting the tiny bubbles

The Bishop of Breda, Tiny Muskens, wants people to start calling God Allah

It's fascinating how some people can let a grain of truth blossom into a field of deception.

The fix is in, Tiger is giving up....golf?

What to do, what to do.

When your intimacy is so twisted, you're sexting and sleeping with hundreds of women a year, sometimes all in the same night, what does one give up?


Think, brain think.

I know, I'll take a break from golf!

That's like Jack the Ripper taking a break from ice skating.


Give us a break. The PR consultants and attorneys have told him to get his backside to a bunker and not to resurface until the details and photographs have exhausted themselves in the press.

But the details reveal a soulless somatic narcissist.


Somatic (and intellectual) narcissists lurk in sports, entertainment and politics.





The somatic narcissist uses sex to "conquer" and "secure" new sources of narcissistic supply. Consequently, the somatic rarely gets emotionally-involved with his "targets". His is a mechanical act, devoid of intimacy and commitment. The cerebral narcissist feels that sex is demeaning and degrading. Acting on one's sex drive is a primitive, basic, and common impulse. The cerebral narcissist convinces himself that he is above all that, endowed as he is with superior intelligence and superhuman self-control.

Still, sex for both types of narcissists is an instrument designed to increase the number of Sources of Narcissistic Supply. If it happens to be the most efficient weapon in the narcissist's arsenal, he makes profligate use of it. In other words: if the narcissist cannot obtain adoration, admiration, approval, applause, or any other kind of attention by other means (e.g., intellectually) – he resorts to sex.

He then become a satyr (or a nymphomaniac): indiscriminately engages in sex with multiple partners. His sex partners are considered by him to be objects - sources of Narcissistic Supply. It is through the processes of successful seduction and sexual conquest that the narcissist derives his badly needed narcissistic "fix".



Inevitably, the ups and downs of obtaining supply in sports, sex, politics, work, etc., leads to points of crises in the lives of the narcissists and there are nanoseconds of retreat. Then, they frantically search and find another source of supply to pursue.

Doesn't have to be the same pool of supply.

Women.
Golf.
Tooling muscles in their bodies.
Politics.
Writing.
Art.
Performing.

The list is endless.


There is no fix. It is an energy that never ceases. It only changes direction.

I suppose she could chain him to the couch and buy him a Wii. After he consumes all the attention people lavish on him to get him through his depression after this downfall, he'll glue himself to the Wii and master every level of every game. His body will be present and they can all kid themselves that there's going to be a redemption and happily ever after, but his mind and emotions will be as absent to them as they were in his visits to the brothels all over the globe.

When you dial his number and tell him your daughter is in the hospital, he's too busy to pick up the phone and call you back. When your mother collapses on the floor, the kids are screaming and she's scared, he's nowhere to be found. And, he never will be.

Not for her, anyway. If Perez Hilton's mother collapses, he'll hire a private jet and fly to his side because that will earn him good will or press. (They thrive on spending energy trying to turn people who can't stand them into "friends") When he comes back from comforting Perez (or anyone else who has used this opportunity to throw him under the bus)and she mentions that he never called her back for their own daughter, or mother or whatever have you, he'll turn into a ravenous monster and attack her. It will all be her fault, you see.

Creating chaos is the narcissists most effective tool for silencing people who want to tell him how his behavior is hurting and affecting the people he claims to love.

Finally, to get him to talk or listen to your needs, you have to throw a phone at him, chip his tooth and chase him down the driveway with a nine iron.

Oh, how sorry he is now.

The problem is, being sorry unto thyself is the only thing a narcissist knows.

They're fabulous actors and spend their lives faking charity, emotions and sorrow. They're usually affable/likable people, so long as you're not in a primary relationship with them. They sure know how to put on a good show and in fact putting on a show is critical to obtaining supply, so they're masters at it.

When he's mastered everything in the Wii, she can buy him a karaoke. He'll practice and practice with the goal of performing on American Idol.

When he's sick of that, she can give him dancing lessons. He'll practice and practice with the goal of being on Dancing with the Stars. Then she can buy him an instrument.

Their medicine cabinets will all be stocked with plenty of drugs to get them through the fighting and emotional pain. When the emotional abuse wreaks havoc on her children and they're saddled with depression, drug and alcohol addiction and they have suicidal tendencies, their intimacy and ability to maintain healthy relationships has been destroyed, she'll see the fruit of her unwillingness to face the truth in this critical hour.

I think for me, the most vulgar part about the whole debacle is saying this is all about the children. The price her children will pay for refusing to admit the glittering gold blinded her, and she married a mentally and emotionally sick individual, is really hard to swallow.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Bishops Deeply Disappointed in Senate Vote

Deeply Disappointed?

Suffering Saints.

Deeply disappointed is something you say to Uncle Vinny when he gets drunk at the Christmas party knocks over your tree.

You're deeply disappointed when you find out nobody is selling tinsel for your tree.

Cardinal George concluded: “While we deplore the Senate’s refusal to adopt the Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment, we remain hopeful that the protections overwhelmingly passed by the House will be incorporated into needed reform legislation. Failure to exclude abortion funding will turn allies into adversaries and require us and others to oppose this bill because it abandons both principle and precedent.”



Opposing the bill after it's passed - well, let's just say that and five dollars will get you cup of chai at Starbucks.

It's the eleventh hour. The time has come to draw the line in the sand.

Send out a press release stating if the Senate passes a bill that will lead to withholding medical treatment from the elderly and sick and abortions on demand, the following Catholic Hospitals will shutter it's doors upon it's effect - and then list them.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception Senate Defeats AntiAbortion Amendment

54-45


Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

4000 Years Later

STIMULUS SERMON

Genesis 47:13-27


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Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see
the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into
God's Word. Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will to the 47th
chapter of Genesis, we'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go
through verse 27..
Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us?
....(reading)...
Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray.... So we see that
economic hard times fell upon Egypt , and the people turned to
the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh
nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses
that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a
great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And
this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.
So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their
livestock -their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey -
to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through
the end of that year..
But the famine wasn't over, was it? So the next year, the people
came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except
their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight
of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before
your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food,
and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they
surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to
Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery
to him, in return for grain. What can we learn from this, brothers
and sisters?
That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider
in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes.. That the only reason
government wants to be our provider is to also become our master?
Yes.
But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters! Thus Israel
settled in the land of Egypt , in the land of Goshen .. And they gained
possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly." God
provided for His people, just as He always has! They didn't end up
giving all their possessions to government, no, it says they gained
possessions! But I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous
one. We see the same thing happening today - the government today
wants to "share the wealth "once again, to take it from us and redistribute
it back to us. It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken
control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government
rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and
what kind. And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will
wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did four thousand years
ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders.
What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what
Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same. And a lot of
people like to call Mr. Obama a "Messiah," don't they? Is he a Messiah?
A savior? Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves,
"You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to
Pharaoh"?
Well, I tell you this -
I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine;
and Mr... Obama is no Messiah! No, brothers and sisters,
if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh.
Bow with me in prayer, if you will.
Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone.
We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly
will be.
We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people
of what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out
because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but
the LORD will not answer you in that day." And Lord, we acknowledge
that day has come. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have
chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray
for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters.
Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people
from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government.

In God We Trust

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Obama Heading to the Hill to Push Healthcare Bill

The blaggard is scheduled to arrive at 2PM


Yesterday, the Republicans refused to cut 41 billion rom visiting nurse homehealth care visits to the elderly and sick.

That's Patrick Kennedy's idea of compassion, leaving sick people stranded for nursing care who aren't eligible for admission to the hospital.

God help us, we're all in the hands of tyrants.

see the day of glory, see the day when men of good will live in peace again




Peace on Earth!

The Dirty Dozen?

A few more out of the Wood-work last evening. Last check - we were up to six.

I've had several lively discussions about the reasons why I think it's important to elevate this story.

The good old boys are out there spinning polls saying Wood's still has a positive image in the court of public opinion.

Hugh Hefner has stepped forward to say what is under the subterfuge of the positive image of Tiger Woods and his lifestyle - monogamy is overrated.


This is very much an escalation of the culture war. To ignore it, would mean being complacent in the degeneration of the culture we hand off to our children.

If people still have a high opinion of a man who would do what he did to his family, his children and the long line of emotionally and socially imbalanced women, there are ways to impact that opinion. The crowd will turn if we give his role model position leprosy. When a crowd turns, sometimes their ideas change. This is how how the culture swings back the other way.

Christmas Decorating - wither the tinsel?

Christmas decorating is an act of love, isn't it?

Finding creative ways to decorate with things passed down through our families, displaying them differently and adding a few new things here and there--really creates warmth.

I finally ran out of a large supply of tinsel for the tree and after several stores in a 10 mile radius, I'm beginning to wonder if they've stopped making it. I have a few precious strands left that I made do with but I'm still on the hunt for more.


Fun things always happen in the midst of decorating/shopping/getting up the tree, etc. This year, my youngest daughter (17) supplied some laughter when I pulled out the couch to connect extension cords.

We were decorating the tree and she had decided to make us lunch and left me alone in the living room. She's always had this habit of stuffing her empty candy wrappers, potato chip bags -etc., under the couch. When I pulled out the couch and saw the mess of empty bags and water bottles, I yelled her name in frustration.


"Did you find my secret passageway to Narnia?", with a grin on her face.

I'll try to get some pictures of the tree up later on. I hope your decorating is enjoyable and filled with the peace and joy of the season.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Mary Did You Know

Video is subpar, but the music in this version of this beautiful song is phenomenal.

This tune has become one of my favorite Christmas songs.



This young man apparently has a new Christmas album which I intend to add to my collection!

Our Lady, Undoer of Knots

Archbishop Dolan, with a great sense of humor, promoting devotion, prayer and the protections of the Blessed Mother.

"Listen to how one booklet describes her:

"'With the infinite love of a mother and moved by her extraordinary power of intercession with her Son Jesus, Mary, the one who unfastens the knots of our life, comes to you today and she comes beautiful, triumphant, splendid, and gracious to meet you, bringing with her the heavenly court to unfasten the knots in your life.

"How great is her love and the love of her Son for you. He wants you to discover this love because it will dry the tears from your eyes and move the gracious hands of Mary to undo all the knots which afflict you so.'"

"Ah, the knots in our life!" continues the archbishop. "How they suffocate our soul, beat us down, betray our heart's joy, and even bind our will to continue living. Knots separate us from God, chaining our very being and strangling our faith, keeping us from flinging like children into the arms of God, our loving Father.

"The Virgin Mary does not want these knots to continue anymore in your life. She comes to you today asking you to give her these snarls to undo them one by one.

"Today, recognize the greatness of your mother, undoer of knots, and let her lead you to know the wonders that will be done for you. Come close to her now. See her beauty. Entrust your afflictions to her, knowing that she will unravel all the knots in your life."

It's time for women to stand up and be counted on a Tiger Woods boycott

Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.
I wouldn't touch you with a 39 1/2 inch pole.

The Tiger Woods story gets worse every day. A fourth woman is about to come out of the Woodwork and details are emerging that paint a picture of a sexual con man and a drug abuser who is throwing money around to shut everyone up.

His sponsors and companies that use Woods to endorse their products have said his conduct does not pose any threat to his contracts.

He's gathered "PR experts" around him, and they're all men, who tell him to get back to golfing and keep his mouth shut.

The good old boys want to protect the culture they're building.

Women will play house with them without marrying them, they'll abort their own children to free the man from paying child support and once they do get married, they can continue to sleep around. They've got the culture where they want it and they don't want anything to upset their momentum.

Ladies, listen up.

The reason why this story is important is because there is a culture war out there and this conduct is trying to dig it's claws into it as socially acceptable.

If we do not speak up, and speak out loudly the days of this man being a role model are over, that omission impacts respect for women, the family and the moral compass of impressionable teenagers.

That is what is going on here. It is very important for women to stand up and be counted.

Additionally, now that it's been reported that he uses Ambien as a sexual tool, and the 911 tapes of his accident reveal the police knew he was sound asleep and snoring while sprawled out on the lawn moments after his accident, he was given a get out of jail free card on a DUI.

He's been buying off people for years. He was even caught in 2007 by the National Enquirer who agreed to bury the story when Wood's promised he'd do a cover story for their sister publication.

He trolls barrooms looking for booze and drug addicted and/or vulnerable women, feeds them the line that his wife is a cold fish that doesn't put out for him sexually. He makes them believe he's fallen in love with them,he's going to dump his wife and they'll live happily ever after.

One of these women is a train wreck from her fiance being killed in 911.

Woods is a narcissist and a women-abusing con man who picks his victims carefully. He is beneath contempt. His sponsors have got to be pushed to dump him. We, as women, wives, mothers, don't want to see him on the cover of magazines, on billboards and advertisements and there should be a women's movement started to boycott.

The three words for you are, stink, stank, stunk!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Yeah, he's a jerk - how disenchanting.

Simultaneous with the release of Tiger's voicemail asking kitten #2 to remove her name from her phone, came the revelation that Woods had actually paid for kitten #1 Australia trip making the last several days of denial something less than credible.. Possibility of kitten #3 is here.

What I find utterly fascinating is the spin that his behavior thus far has not affected his endorsements and contracts and his behavior was "human".

Really?

I find that a little hard to swallow.

He uses his celebrity status to bait all these cocktail waitresses into sleeping with him and he isn't going to be impacted?

You think a priest could get away with this kind of sexual behavior with these many women by saying sorry you've seen his human side?

Because either the behavior is socially unacceptable with consequences - or it isn't.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

L'Affaire Woods

More trouble for Woods.

With police deciding to fine Woods a few hundred dollars for the car accident and close the case, at least two more women are set to come forward claiming they've had affairs with Woods. One woman says she had a 31 month affair and has back-up of voicemail and texts, one being released tomorrow that is allegedly Woods from November 24th saying his wife suspects he's having an affair.

Ugh. I hope this guy doesn't turn out to be a jerk.

Obama the Warmonger

You've got to love irony.

Personally, I support giving our troops in Afghanistan more back up. I'm simply enjoying watching Obama eat crow.

I listened to some of his speech and he appears to now believe that on September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers drove their planes into buildings and killed thousands of Americans. Yes indeed, under the Commander in Chief's leadership in America, George Bush, our military forces scattered and destabilized the Taliban. Obama also admits that the Taliban flew the coop out of Iraq, crossed the borders and created a safe haven in Afghanistan.

It was all more serious than they all anticipated,he said. The Security of the world is at risk.

Dick Cheney was right after all.

Obama is now for the surge.

But he was against the surge before he was for it, remember? Last year, he voted against the surge and then took the position that the surge in Iraq was not a success.

Somewhere, George Bush has his feet up and is enjoying a nice glass of Maker's Mark.

I'm looking forward to seeing the reaction of the liberals.

It's funny, I took a phone call from a friend during the speech and I could hear my 17-year-old in the kitchen talking back to the television. Even with all the support I have around me, the brainwashing done by teachers in public education really had her on the fence a year ago. I continued to point out Obama's inconsistencies and I knew she was beginning to see through Obama's charade,but hearing the strength of her convictions this evening was edifying. Even the teenagers know he's full of it.

You know, you really can't fool all of the people, all of the time - even when you have complete control over media resources and academia.

Patrick Kennedy Trying to Put the Communion Dust Up "to Rest"

Is that right.

Well then, he ought to lay off the inaccurate statements.

“These are personal issues of faith for me,’’ he said after a forum about health care at Brown University.


Actually, no. The beauty of telling things to journalists is that they'll make private things public. Patrick used the journalists to represent himself as the arbiter of official positions in the Catholic Faith. Further, he gave the private letter from the Bishop about those "personal issues", to the journalist.

“I’m not going to indulge in this debate anymore. It’s really for me about what my constituents are most interested in now, and that is getting a health care bill passed that helps improve their lives.’’


But, it's clear the overwhelming majority of Patrick's constituents oppose handing the welfare of our health over to the government. It's also untruthful to say, it's going to improve any of our lives because the quality of medicine everyone is going to get will impair and threaten our lives - not to mention bankrupting hospitals and perhaps even financially imploding the American empire.

In fact, today, six Massachusetts hospitals have announced that they're suing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts because "healthcare reform" is threatening their solvency.

And, the poorest of the poor are the people being robbed of medical care.

Six Massachusetts hospitals are suing the state, saying they were shortchanged by the 2006 health care law.

The hospitals claim the state violated a law requiring health care providers be adequately reimbursed for caring for Medicaid and Medicare patients.

The six are known as "disproportionate share hospitals" because at least 63 percent of their patients are covered by public insurance.


Intellectual dishonesty has a way of metastasizing until it eventually robs you of everything. Patrick has consumed himself.

When a consumed soul starts to beckon the multitudes down into the hole with you,it becomes the responsibility of loving and caring people to make sure the errors are corrected in the public square.

It's too late to keep the issues "private". The horse is out of the barn.