Sunday, February 27, 2011

Obamanomics Redistributing the Wealth of Unions Who Elected Him

More trouble for union workers in Ohio and Indiana.


A vote on an Ohio bill that would end collective bargaining rights for public employees could come as early as Wednesday, a state senator said on Sunday.

Meanwhile, in Indiana, Democratic state representatives could stay in Illinois all week to avoid votes on bills they say would harm workers' rights, officials said.

While the massive protests in Wisconsin over proposed collective bargaining limits have been in the national spotlight, debates over curbs on unions also have roiled other Midwestern states.


Aren't these the people who elected Obama to redistribute wealth to people who don't work?

Drink the poison yourself.

I would love to take an inventory of how the crackerjacks who drivel on about taking things away from people who work for them feel about it where the rubber meets the road.

You know what else is fascinating?

Remember all the hoopla about Obama bringing peace and harmony throughout the world?

Has there ever been so much turmoil and hatred in the world under any other president?

Obama's legacy is everyone hates everyone else.

Obama Tells Gadhafi It's Time to Go

Leave Power Immediately

President Barack Obama has called on Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to leave power immediately, saying he has lost the legitimacy to rule with his violent crackdown on his own people.



And a lot of people feel the same way about you pal.

It's true that the people under these dictators and governments were suffering. But what Obama is helping to put into power all over the world is a thousand times worse.

In Egypt, Obama's 'democrats' engaged in the second day of attacks on a monestary using ammunition and crying Victory, Victory.


Cairo: February 24, 2011. (By Mary Abdelmassih AINA) For the second time in as many days, Egyptian armed force stormed the 5th century old St. Bishoy monastery in Wadi el-Natroun, 110 kilometers from Cairo. Live ammunition was fired, wounding two monks and six Coptic monastery workers. Several sources confirmed the army's use of RPG ammunition. Four people have been arrested including three monks and a Coptic lawyer who was at the monastery investigating yesterday's army attack.

Monk Aksios Ava Bishoy told activist Nader Shoukry of Freecopts the armed forces stormed the main entrance gate to the monastery in the morning using five tanks, armored vehicles and a bulldozer to demolish the fence built by the monastery last month to protect themselves and the monastery from the lawlessness which prevailed in Egypt during the January 25 Uprising.

"When we tried to address them, the army fired live bullets, wounding Father Feltaows in the leg and Father Barnabas in the abdomen," said Monk Ava Bishoy. "Six Coptic workers in the monastery were also injured, some with serious injuries to the chest."

The injured were rushed to the nearby Sadat Hospital, the ones in serious condition were transferred to the Anglo-Egyptian Hospital in Cairo.

Father Hemanot Ava Bishoy said the army fired live ammunition and RPGs continuously for 30 minutes, which hit part of the ancient fence inside the monastery. "The army was shocked to see the monks standing there praying 'Lord have mercy' without running away. This is what really upset them," he said. "As the soldiers were demolishing the gate and the fence they were chanting 'Allahu Akbar' and 'Victory, Victory'".

He also added that the army prevented the monastery's car from taking the injured to hospital.

The army also attacked the Monastery of St. Makarios of Alexandria in Wady el-Rayan, Fayoum, 100 km from Cairo. It stormed the monastery and fired live ammunition on the monks. Father Mina said that one monk was shot and more than ten have injuries caused by being beaten with batons.


I'm going to say it again - You're no good, you're no good, you're no good, baby you're no good.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Good Christian Bitches on ABC

CMR has the scoop on a new ABC pilot "Good Christian Bitches".

The dramedy, from Sex and the City executive producer Darren Star and based on Kim Gatlin’s book, follows a woman who moves back to her Dallas neighborhood after a divorce only to become the center of salacious gossip from the community’s church-going wives.


'Salacious gossip' about the hundreds of sluts on television and the vulgar actors (one with a suitcase full of cocaine beside him) who take advantage of them must be getting ABC down.


I keep asking myself why I'm paying over a hundred dollars to Comcast every month. I watch so little of it but they hook packages on ewtn and old movie channels together with the profane. At times like these, I wonder whether it's worth it.

What's really fascinating is after all of Charlie Sheen's vulgar treatment of women and all that is sanctified and law-abiding, he didn't get canned until he called a Holywood Jewish decided it was antisemetic to call him by his real name because it is unmistakably Jewish.

Here's something you'll never see coming out of Hollywood: Good Jewish Bitches.

I've got to carve out time to make that phone call to Comcast.

Friday, February 25, 2011

The Thuggery of Unions



As a parent with over a ten year spread between my children, I spent a lot of time in schools and experiencing the fruit of the teachers union.

Most teachers are dedicated to their mission and zealously carry out a vocation of collaborating in the development of the minds and souls of our children.

There are a number of teachers however, who are bitter, burned out, putting little to no effort into preparing lessons, creatively working with the different learning styles of children, encouraging, supporting - and quite frankly doing the job they are getting paid to do. And, they are guaranteed jobs!

Tenure has destroyed public schools.

The absurdity of this situation is compounded here in Massachusetts where they implemented testing benchmarks (MCAS) for graduation. This changed education into limited and grueling lessons on how to pass the test.

Why not test the teachers, you ask?

Because they can't fire them, that's why.

The onus to learn in this lousy environment is put on the children. In towns and cities where our country's poor live, the education of children is compromised almost to the point of being worthless. If you are black or hispanic, you are given the opportunity to be bused out of the system, which is wonderful - but our lilly-white skinned poor are suffering and I am not edified by this fix. The moral compass of our teachers unions points all students in the public school system into promiscuity. Low-self esteem develops, leading to depression, drug and alcohol abuse and crime.

Teachers unions are packed with people who have agendas that poison this well. They are in bed with the politicians. We are all forced into paying for these sweetheart deals being made in exchange for a promise to use their influence to get the pols elected in the future.

Let us face it. It's a failed experiment.

Unions are now scrambling all over the country to preserve their fiefdoms.

All eyes are on Wisconsin to see if the tyranny will finally go down.


I believe good policeman, firefighters, teachers are being demoralized by the slugs unions protect. An employer who gives everyone the same money no matter how terrible or spectacular a worker they are, breeds a lousy environment.

Earlier this week, I overheard a local politician whining about the proposal to end collective bargaining rights. It's frightening, he said, to think of a country where workers will have to take whatever employers want to give them.

Really?

Because that's what the rest of us do in the private sector.

There are job offers out there and the best qualified get them. We work at our credentials and qualifications. We study in school, we bust our tails, we build our reputation, we advance our way through based upon ethics and the quality of our work product. Employers give raises to people based upon merit. The employer's clients are served by employees who put effort into that servitude.

This kind of a system grooms quality.

Of course, employees who have a bottle stashed in their desks and drinking on the job get fired. Workers who do not return the phone calls of customers, who are rude, lazy, abusive to colleagues or put little to no effort into the job also get fired.

There is no collective entitlement where poor performers are riding on the tails of the ethical and hard-working employees.

Unions have been taxing us for years without representation. State workers pay little to nothing for their health insurance and all kinds of outlandish benefits Americans are, quite frankly, sick and tired of paying for given the lousy quality collective bargaining gives us in return.

You had a good run but it's time to earn a salary, benefits and job security like the rest of us.

***UPDATE

As I'm sure you all know by now, Republicans finally took advantage of the laziness of the democrats and moved the bill forward around 1pm. Not everyone who wants to bust a tyranny goes into the public square with billy clubs. Some of us are still using the old democracy built upon a legal system where the politicians vote the way the majority of people tell them to vote.

Having to send state troopers out looking for the democrats to bring them to work to do their job is the monument to the regime they are defending with their thuggery.

In 2010, many tyrants were ushered out of office. It doesn't take a soothsayer to figure out that many more are ushered out in 2012.

If you haven't seen the brutality of the thuggery, check out the youtube:









What a spectacle. Whatever will these people do if they have to earn their reputation and advance individually on the merits of their performance like the rest of us?

Zmirak Unravels the Lilapalooza



Sanity in a world that is increasingly losing it's grip on reality.

Furthermore, I don't believe this discussion should even be taking place; there was no prudent reason for Catholics to publicly question Live Action's tactics, and doing so was at best an act of sinful detraction worse than any "lies" Live Action told. Objections to the use of investigative journalism tactics should have been raised with the members of Live Action privately, and then with their local bishop. Then, and only then, if Live Action had continued in such tactics despite the warnings of appropriate Church authorities, it would have been worth raising the question of their tactics -- but in a charitable manner, without publicly calling these pro-life heroes "liars."

I See Grass!!!!!

Not on my lawn but I'm starting to see it out there!

:O)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Got Accused of Inciting a Peaceful Riot When All He Wanted Was a Cup of Tea


It's really something how Obama is stepping up his campaign to incite anarchy all over the world.

I thought for sure once Lara Logan was raped by the 'peaceful demonstrators' the mainstream media would finally report that the 'democrats' overthrowing the government were nothing but no good bloodthirsty anarchists.

He has the whole Middle East in an Uproar and as the governments react, he is appalled, simply appalled, the anarchists are not permitted to overthrow the country peacefully and without resistance.

Perhaps next year we ought to circle the white house on the walk for life and peacefully let him know we want his ouster. Seems to me he would order police and armed forces to cooperate with us. This is democracy to him.

At the crack of dawn today, I turned on the television to see him condemning Libya's 'crackdown'.


Mary Ann Kreitzer has an update on Egypt: Christian's asked to bow to Allah. Surprise, surprise.

Isn't this right out of the Book of Revelation? Right around the seventh trumpet. (13: 11-18 to be exact)

At the rate Obama's going, corruption at the hands of his administration could outpace the folks at 66 Brooks Drive.

Check out Janet Baker's post Obama's interference in Wisconsin and tune in later this evening for my thoughts on that situation.

Have a great day!


Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Legislating from the White House - Catholic Bishops Respond

Barack Hussein's order to the Justice Department to stop defending law is an escalation of structural chaos he was elected to accomplish.

I'm with Patrick's comments HERE.

Can somebody verify if either one of the Oaths Obama took included the language "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States for only those Laws I like. "??

Separation of powers is not his strong suit.


The Catholic Bishops are stunned.

Stunned I tell you.

They've dressed themselves in sackcloth and they are rolling in the asses, wondering how in the world could this have happened:

The U.S. bishops' Office of General Counsel said the Obama administration's decision to no longer support the Defense of Marriage Act in legal challenges ahead "represents an abdication" of its "constitutional obligation to ensure that laws of the United States are faithfully executed."

"Marriage has been understood for millennia and across cultures as the union of one man and one woman," the office said in a statement issued Feb. 23 after President Barack Obama instructed the Justice Department to stop defending the federal law passed by Congress and signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton.



Then, they all got into their suburus with Obama 08 bumper stickers and went home.


I got an email from a friend of mine who works at the USCCB who told me there was a rumor flying around Bishop Dolan got an emergency call from Ireland. The suggestion was made to have a fooggie washing ceremony.

Any volunteers?

They're looking for the sheet music to the hokie pokie for the DOMA lamentation ceremony if anyone has it hanging around.

You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you shake it all about. You do the hokie pokie and you turn yourself about. That's what it's all about.


Marriage has been understood for a millennia to be the union of a man and a woman. Across all cultures.

Are they serious?

I have to restrain myself from listing the names of priests and parishes who have been teaching homosexuals to shack up for the last decade with the full support of the Archbishop of Boston. Some of them are shacking up with their lovers themselves.

Really, after the USCCB has been for 40 years working to elect politicians who have taken the morals of this country to the gutter, the last thing I want to see coming out of them is another publicity stunt. It's like reading a press release admonishing hookers and drug dealers from Charlie Sheen.


Remember the hoopla here a few weeks back in Boston about the need to redistrict what constitutes a parish because all the money and people disappeared? The Cardinal pulled together the usual suspects (called it a pastoral planning commission) to figure out the needs of Catholics and map out a 'pastoral plan'? (Info on this team of wizards can be found HERE)


Back at 66 Brooks Drive, the geniuses gathered. Archdiocescan Pastoral Council and the Archbishop think one of the problems is, Catholic teaching is unfriendly to women and gays and something must be done about it.

In the meeting minutes posted HERE, it was pronounced that planning for the Archdiocese needs to be "bold, prophetic, proactive and based upon the person of Jesus Christ".

I never thought of Christ as 'a person' before. They come up with the craziest things up there. One time, a group of diocesan dames decided catechesis was going to be based on 'two men with beards and a bird'.

I know you're thinking 'there she goes again, exaggerating'. But it is the God's honest truth. The catechetical theme one year in this archdiocese was two men with beards and a bird.

You've got to read the minutes in their entirety.

Here's your first clue they won't be finished until well before the archdiocese goes bankrupt:

After a year of intense research and consultation, the current
downward trajectory of our parishes appears unhealthy and unsustainable.


Think about it. That conclusion took a year of intense research and consultation! There won't be any nominations for the sharpest tools in the shed award from this team.

Here's their tack:


Several serious issues need to be addressed to make the Church more welcoming: the roles of women and GLTB persons in the Church, clericalism, the disproportionate wealth of the Vatican, and the antagonism that exists between some pastors and the Archdiocesan administration.


Are seminarians being trained to plan and work collaboratively with laity? Will they be able to work well with women? Fr. David replied that the seminary is implementing coursework in finance, management and human resources administration

Who will make the planning decisions in the parish—the pastor or the parishioners? Fr. David replied that competent administration of a parish requires collaboration of the pastor, the Parish Pastoral Council and the Parish Finance Council.


We're going down babies. Going down.

Got a long way to go before the beast and the false prophet are cast into the lake.

In the meantime, the committees are wracking their brains trying to figure out why there are plenty of seats in kingdom of the zombies.





Here's a laugh though - just when you think the wimps on the Archdiocesan pastoral council couldn't get any more useless, comes this:


Role of the APC: Responding to Email Comments
In October, APC members received email messages from two separate individuals asking the APC to support these individuals’ particular viewpoints by making certain demands of Archdiocesan officials.
After some discussion, a consensus was reached about how to best respond to such messages. Council members should refrain from responding individually to these emails. A designated representative will send an acknowledgement to the person advising him/her that their message will be forwarded to the Cardinal and Fr. Erikson. It is Fr. Erikson’s policy to respond to persons who identify themselves, but not to anonymous writers.


As the Archdiocese finishes the demolition of Catholic identity with their 'consensus', the APC was told they can't respond to the concerns of lay people.

Can anyone say...TYRANNY?

Please help us.

If you're interested in having anything left of the Catholic religion in Boston, stop what you are doing right now, and get over to our latest FED UP campaign and send off your fax to the Holy See asking the Holy Father to intervene in Boston.

CATHOLICS ASK VATICAN FOR INTERVENTION.

It takes less than 30 seconds.


Thanks in advance for your help.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Crocodile Tears in Dublin


Catholic Bloggers often hear about the experiences of lay Catholics the rest of the world isn't privy to. All kinds of vctims who have been bullied and disabused, ignored, slandered. Some of them given their sit down and shut up money pass stories on that are demoralizing. After all of the lamentations and talk about reform and sorrow, how Catholics respond to abuse in this hour is manifested in the allegations of Fr. Euteneur.

The priest disappears. The diocese doesn't even have to contribute to the charade, the people in the pews find a way to make a martyr out of him. When victims step forward, the pewsitters do the dirty work for the Bishops and attack like rabid dogs. Meanwhile, the Bishop has built his empire with the morally loose. The next generation is tossed into the systemic rot.

Ten years ago, a lot of us were hopeful that the revelations of abuse would usher in reform. The reforms needed were simple. These tyrannies are built on the level of an Archdiocese. There needed to be a layer above the level of the Archdiocese that reports directly to the Pope so that the people on the level of the Archdiocese knows that they will be removed and held accountable for any corruption.

Instead of meaningful reform, the fix has been telling stories to innocent children about their parents and relatives putting their hands down their pants to rape them at any moment (without a single story of a priest or bishop putting their hands down children's pants!) and a series of Masses and ceremonies all over planet earth where we are treated to crocodile tears lamentations.

Watching these stunts rubs salt in our wounds.

Here's the most honest thing ever said since Cardinal O'Malley's installation here in Boston:

“We want to be part of a church that puts survivors, the victims of abuse, first — ahead of self-interest, reputation, and institutional needs,’’ O’Malley said.
The institution of our soul's salvation has been dismantled and replaced with this ridiculous dog and pony show.

So long as the people of Dublin are not expecting a system where the Holy See acts on corruption, these bells and whistles will bring some measure of comfort, I suppose.

Here's some commentary from Eponymous Flower that I couldn't agree with more:

Editor: They're not reading from a Catholic script here, they're participating in something akin to a reality television show, likeBishop Bode's phony attempt. Cardinal Sean and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin are playing ball for the wrong team, as usual. His Lordship, the Primate of Ireland, has been vocal about his role as the good guy, but he's consistently silent on Catholic teaching.

It's going to be difficult to be convincing about whatever it is you're apologizing for if you're not going to admit what the problem really is, it's integrity, as pointed out above and repeatedly on this blog. Neither the Primate of Ireland, nor the Archbishop of Boston are consistently Catholic. So, the problem isn't with the media manufactured sex-abuse crisis, it's a problem with the integrity of Catholic Bishops.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Parents of Fr. Euteneur's Victim Release Statement




Some clarifications about the allegation are made.

Among them are that Fr. Euteneuer has never apologized to the woman, the Diocese has evidence that directly contradicts Fr. E's released statement, the statements from HLI and the diocese do not adequately explain the extent of the abuse, the parents claim to know of two other victims in addition to their daughter, their lawyer claims to know of one additional victim but two settlements by the diocese and the sexual activity was grave and initiated when the woman was "in an altered cognitive and physiological state and at the most vulnerable, both spiritually and emotionally".

The parents also expressed how the insensitivity and gross minimization of Fr. Euteneuer's 'adherents' have made their healing journey a difficult one.
Our daughter's severe difficulties in healing are currently being exacerbated by both the vicious and demeaning statements on the blogs and columns of Euteneuer's adherents and the falsehoods and gross minimization contained in Euteneuer's own (and, to date, only) public mea culpa statement.
The statement from the family appears to be an opportunity to share their pain, at least to my reading of it. I pray it brings them peace.

I am an advocate for priests who are accused because I know so many who are accused falsely. In fact, I know of one priest who fell in love with a woman and another very young priest who visited a prostitute. Both of them wanted to get some help, return to their vocation fully committed to their vows of celibacy - and I support them.

Father Euteneuer's situation is quite different. He admitted his sexual involvement. The architect of his departure was to let us all believe he was being persecuted for his orthodoxy. When victims finally came forward and put an end to the charade, he went on the attack - and he had unmitigated gall to call it an apology. What went down is devastating.

Prayers for all who got tangled up in this web.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Guilt by Remote Association is Wrong



Several readers have sent me the a post on Journey to Therese called "Fr. John Corapi and Fr. Thomas Euteneuer".

In short, the post notes that Fr. Corapi did the foreword in Fr. Euteneuer's book which is used as a springboard for other observations that wind up painting Fr. Corapi as beelzebub.

A couple of things are going on here.

First, the author is a faithful woman whose family had some not to edifying experiences with Fr. Euteneuer's spiritual ministry. While these experiences were not sexual, it's fair to say what she describes could fall into the category of abusive conduct.

As far as I am concerned Father Euteneuer's 'apology' is all the evidence one needs to see to acknowledge he uses power and anger to manipulate. Whatever her experiences, they have left her trust shaken. I have admired her stamina throughout the debacle.

I feel that a couple of things are important about the post to help give it some context.

It's true that Fr. Euteneuer, Fr. Corapi and Fr. Pavone are all high-profile priests. The case is made that Fr. Euteneuer's abuse of a woman during a religious rite translates into painting all priests doing national ministries into something nefarious.

Nobody would deny that Bishops across the US have been silencing priests who evangelize the teachings of the Church locally because people react by threatening to withdraw their money. Some priests are not built to accept the Bishop's bribes because the price of denying salvation to the people is the antithesis of a priest's vocation. Those of us starving for truth and zeal are grateful for the opportunity of priests who travel to feed us the Word.

There's nothing suspicious about this kind of ministry. The idea that there's oversight or accountability to Bishops of priests who work in a parish is not based on reality. If it was, when laity reported corruption, it would be acted upon. When we contacted the Papal Nuncio corruption would be taken seriously. The Holy See would intervene. The fact is, there is just too much corruption within resulting in a system protects the corrupt. It takes a lot of stamina for a priest who went into the vocation to teach the truth to survive.

It is an injustice to take photographs of Fr. Corapi before and after his illness and post them in the context of Dorian Gray with a story about Fr. Euteneuer going on a retreat given by Fr. Corapi and saying you once heard somebody say that they knew somebody who said Fr. Corapi was Fr. Euteneuer's spiritual advisor to somehow implicate him in Fr. Euteneuer's mess.

In the case of Fr. Euteneuer, he has admitted to exploitation. He used his fame to target vulnerable women. It is an outrage.

But it is an injustice to frame two innocent priests who evangelize as suspicious.

I understand why there would be an issue with trust but great care must be given not to blame somebody sharing talent and treasure for what Fr. Euteneuer did.

Evangelism isn't the same as sexual exploitation.






Jackie Speier's Moment of Shame



Joyce at The Little Way has a great post up about Jackie Speier's shameless misuse of a spontaneous and unstoppable death of a child in utero to manipulate emotions on abortion.

Speier delivered a baby at 17 weeks because her cervix was unable to hold the weight of her child.

She twisted what happened to fit the definition of abortion so she could defend the willful killing of healthy, living children.

Can you imagine the guilt she may have heaped upon women who will (or already have) suffer the death of a child this way?

I lost a child at 15 weeks. The baby died somewhere between office visits to the doctor. I went home to await labor. Two weeks later, it didn't happen. You can't leave a dead child for more than two weeks because the situation can become toxic and life-threatening. I was admitted to the hospital where they forced delivery.

I repeatedly told the doctors and nurses I wanted my child baptized. The OB doctor, the anesthesiologist and the OR nurse all came to me afterwards and told me I scared the daylights out of them in the operating room when, sound asleep, I shouted it out again as soon as my baby was delivered. Each one of them was quietly shaken by the witness to life and redemption.


I've seen a lot of despicable, but to this mother, watching another mother use this tragedy to deceive and manipulate other women for the purpose of Congressional funding for abortion really takes the first prize blue ribbon.

She was rebutting a heroic defender of women and children, Chris Smith on the Pence Amendment. Mike's comments are HERE. (Pence, btw, announced he'll forge ahead with his political career by running for governor in 2012. I understand the decision but I can't help being disappointed.)

Speier's insidious act of injustice against women and children is posted HERE.

God help us.





Do We Need a Santa Claus Lies Encyclical?



More fine op-eds on the dust ups over the definition of 'lying':

One by Peter Kreeft HERE

And another by Francis Beckworth HERE.

Francis has some great scriptural references that demonstrates how God, in fact, blessed those who diverted killers by deceiving them.

In spite of this, Mark Shea has a story and he sticks with it HERE!

I was contemplating how to recalibrate our consciences in light of this new definition of the commandment not to bear false witness against our neighbor. It suddenly occurred to me that if Mark is right, generations of Catholics gave gone to hell in a handbasket over their lies about Santa Claus.

Wrap your head around it.


Has the Holy See been watching us all these years without a Santa Claus lies encyclical or kicking Santa's backside out of Church basements?

Are we all going down?

Should we alert the Confessors?

Ratched up a world-wide day of Penance?

Come on kiddies.

I'm shocked that smart Catholics are getting so caught up in the flawed definition of sinful lies.

Zmirak tries again to lay a theological foundation:



Lying is never okay. Murder is never okay. Lying, as the Church teaches, is an unjust deception. This entire argument has been over the definition of lying, and whether denying someone with manifestly no right to the truth, if need be by tossing them something else to distract them, amounts to sinful lying. The whole canard of "mental reservation" amounts to an attempt to deceive while fulfilling the LETTER of the putative law that we may never say things that are untrue, even to those who don't deserve the truth.

I will AGAIN use a simple metaphor. Truthful information is a good; let's use as a concrete example the formula for a medicine an inventor has developed. He wishes to sell this formula to drug companies who will use it for a medicine. But a drug dealer breaks into his lab and tries to get it from him at gunpoint. Instead of giving them the real formula, he gives them a fake one. That is the equivalent of telling untruths to the Nazis at your door, or to the abortionists you're investigating as a journalist. For this to be sinful, the thief would have to have the right to the formula. If the only way to keep him from getting what he has NO right to (the real formula) is to give him a decoy (a fake formula), I argue that it is just, and no more amounts to lying than it does to stealing.

Now, take this metaphor, abstract the principles in it, and apply it concrete situations. It will take the virtue of prudence, which I hope you have developed.




The lies people working at these death camps tell are exposed.

The lies our politicians have been telling to fund abortion are exposed.

Women have the opportunity to see what goes on under the surface.

Sinners are freed from committing these sins in the future, should they choose to take the opportunity with their free will.

When Christ said that every lie would be exposed, it is incomprehensible to me how Catholic teaching contorted into believing He meant exposing Lila Rose and Live Action.

The bearer of Light in this situation is Lila Rose.

Addendum:


From Kreeft:

You promised the Jews to hide them from their murderers. To keep that promise, you have to deceive the Nazis. Physical hiding and verbal hiding are two sides of the same coin, whether you call it lying, or deception, or whatever you call it. What it is, is much more obvious than what it is to be called. It’s a good thing to do. If you don’t know that, you’re morally stupid, and moral stupidity comes in two opposite forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

Friday, February 18, 2011

You Can't Lie But You Can Kill?



The punditry over Lila's apostolate is fascinating, isn't it?

The theology that you can't lie to save a life is truly tortured.

When killers are breathing down your neck and your life is in danger, it is permissible to preserve your life by killing them before they kill you. It is also permissible to preserve the life of others when they are in a similar situation and you are in a position to help them. This is the premise of the theology of just war.

Sometimes common sense can fly right out the window.

I've been thinking about how to break this out all week but John Zmirak has done such a masterful job HERE, he's saved me the trouble!

As usual with Zmirak, it is spectacular.

Enjoy.




Thursday, February 17, 2011

Ga Ga Mutilating Her Mind, Body and Spirit



Thankfully, I don't even get why she looks like a condom. Grace (and class) has way of leaving a lady ignorant of the things familiar to tramps.

I have a tough time watching a female celebrity lead young impressionable teenage girls into reducing the precious gift of sexuality to a semen receptacle for detached and irresponsible men. To reach for the gutter instead of reaching for the stars. You can poison their wells for the rest of their lives.

For everyone to whom much is given, much shall be required.

This is worse than burying your treasure.

Get yourself together girlfriend.





Boston Catholics Again Petition Holy See for Intervention in Boston

Is the Pope Forcing a Resignation of Florida Bishop?


According to Eric Guinta, he is.

Recent events in Florida demonstrate not only the present Pope's active commitment to Catholic reform, but the willingness of the Holy See to act on the careful instigation of the lay faithful who petition her for redress of their grievances.


This is the reason why keeping our hand to the plow here in Boston is so critical.

The identity of Catholic schools is not the final frontier for Bryan Hehir's dismantling of the Roman Catholic Church in Boston. Coming soon are revelations of the agenda of the new pastoral planning committee that echo the matrix of the policy that mandates hostile environments for teaching Catholic sexual ethics and reforming our lives to purity of heart and soul.

It is not good news.

It literally takes less than 30 seconds to send the fax to Rome.

Please, Go to THIS LINK, take the 30 seconds and send the fax.

Send the link to five Catholics and ask them to do the same.

Boston is ground zero. It will not stop here.

We have two choices. We can take the actions necessary to stop them in their tracks here in Boston so that this will not spread, or we can let them put the finishing touches on the farce they are erecting in place of the Catholic Church and it will infest other dioceses.

A lot of work has gone into simplifying it for you. Please help us get the message to Rome. Sadly, when you are reporting corruption, numbers matter.

We would really appreciate the help.

Thanks.

Monday, February 14, 2011

The Luck of the Irish


According to Fr. Tony Flannery of the dissident 'catholic priests association', Cardinal O'Malley met with the 'reform group' and had a 'serious discussion' about the need to turn the Church over to lay people before it collapses.

THE Pope will be officially told the Irish Catholic Church is "on the edge" of national collapse and has only five to 10 years to make a radical recovery by giving laymen and women a greater say in decision-making.

This warning will be submitted in the coming months in a confidential report to Pope Benedict XVI by an international investigator examining the state of the Irish church in the wake of the Murphy and Ryan reports into clerical child abuse.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, gave this commitment at a private meeting with members of the recently formed Catholic Priests' Association, Redemptorist priest Fr Tony Flannery revealed at the weekend.

Addressing the annual meeting of The People of God, a lay reform group, Fr Flannery, who met Cardinal O'Malley, revealed that the US prelate engaged in "serious discussion" with the association.

Fr Flannery said Cardinal O'Malley told the association that the Irish church had a decade, at most, to avoid falling over the edge and "becoming like other European countries" where religion is marginal to society.


An American cardinal will tell Pope Benedict XVI that the Church in Ireland is facing a danger of “national collapse,” according to reports in the Irish press.

Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, who is conducting an apostolic visitation in the Dublin archdiocese, reportedly promised a group of Irish priests that he would report to the Pontiff that the Irish Church is in urgent need of reform.

Previously sceptical about the Apostolic Visitation to Ireland ordered by Pope Benedict, Fr Flannery said that in the light of Cardinal O'Malley's undertaking, "there may be some gleam of hope".


Our friends at Catholic Culture are skeptical.

Editor’s note: These media reports should be read with some caution for two reasons: First, the reports came not from Cardinal O’Malley but from representatives of the Association of Catholic Priests, a dissident group with its own agenda. Second, Cardinal O’Malley, whose Boston archdiocese has suffered unprecedented losses during his tenure, is unlikely to overstate the problems facing another local Church.


But, what is there not to believe? Meeting with dissidents and turning teaching, sanctifying and governance over to them is precisely what the Cardinal has done here in Boston. It is not an exaggeration to say that in Boston the role of a Bishop is no longer in the picture. Three hundred years of building an infrastructure here in Boston was demolished in five years.


In 2005, there were 3,731,000 Catholics in the Archdiocese of Boston. Last year in Boston attendance at Mass was down to 286,000.

What's that about 7.5%?

Here it is, right out of the mouth of babes:

“Each time we go to Mass. . . . the pews seem emptier and emptier,’’ said Janet Benestad, secretary for faith formation and evangelization at the archdiocese.



By all means, don't let that stop you from rushing the blueprint over to Ireland.

What's the reason for the decline?

It really isn't complicated.

The credentials of teachers, administrators, lay men and women the Cardinal (and his luminaries) recruit to have a 'greater say in decision making' are not Catholic. Some of them are literally not Catholic and never have been Catholic. Others are baptized Catholics who are either not practicing because they reject the teachings of the Catholic Church or they have formally left for another religion. Some, like Fr. Flannery, have been working the vineyard internally to 'reform' the teachings of the Church by teaching the faithful the Catechism is antiquated.

As he is recommending in Ireland, this is the pool of candidates the Cardinal recruited to make decisions in Boston.

The decline in attendance is causally related to the empire of leaders who then teach the people in the pews to reject the faith. The numbers decrease because parents who are bringing their children to be taught the faith are actually taught to reject it. Consequently, they stop coming and the numbers keep plummeting.

This genius plan is heading to our beautiful Emerald Isle.

It makes me want to cry.

I read recently that a bishop in another diocese was doing his "reforming" by mandating teachers and professionals hired take an oath of fidelity to the teachings of the Church. The books, programs, resources and materials all zealously teach the wisdom and beauty of Catholic teaching.

It seems so odd that men smart enough to get elevated to a Bishop don't know how to choose between the fruit of recruiting people for decision making that will pass on their distaste and rejection to Catholics in the pews and the fruit of teachers and leaders who are on fire for truth and will ignite that fire in the pews.

What is there to say but the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.


A reader passed this Irish ballad about John 19:25 along to me a few weeks ago.

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

Ballad of the three keening Marys




An é sin an maicín a d’iompair mé trí ráithe? (Ochón agus ochón ó!) Nó ‘n é sin an maicín a rugadh ins an stábla? (Ochón agus ochón ó!) Nó an é sin an maicín a hoileadh in ucht Mháire? A mhaicín mhuirneach, tá do rós-bhéilín gearrtha. Chrochadar suas í ar ghuaillí arda ‘Gus chuireadar anuas í faoi leacrachaí na sráide Buailigí mé féin ach ná bainidh le mo mháithrín Maróidh muid thú féin agus buailfidh muid do mháithrín. Cuireadh culaith róin air le spídiúlacht a namhaid ‘Gus cuireadh an tsleá thrína bhrollach álainn. Cuireadh go Calvary é ag méadú ar a pháise Bhí sé ag iompar na croise ‘gus Síomón lena shála Éist, a Mháthair ‘gus ná bí cráite Tá mná mo chaointe le breith fós, a mháithrín.

Here’s the English version. . . seo leagan Béarla de:

Is that the dear son I carried for three seasons? Or is that the dear son who was born in the stable? Or is that the dear son who was reared in Mary’s bosom? My little darling son, your rosy mouth is bleeding. They lifted her up on high shoulders And they cast her down on the stones of the street. Beat me, but do not touch my mother. “You we will kill, and we will beat your mother. ” A hair shirt was put on him through malice of his enemies And the spear was thrust through his lovely bosom. He was sent to Calvary, increasing his suffering He was carrying the cross, while Simon followed after. “Listen, O Mother, and do not be tormented, The women who will keen me are yet unborn, dear mother. ”


My family came from Waterford and Dublin. I'm praying for the women of Ireland. Praying Mothers will see it for what it is and call on St. Patrick to once again drive out the snakes. Pray with me.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Ode to Blogging

Check it out HERE.

How fun is that?

Great Quote about Life

Life isn't about seeking shelter from the storms. It's about dancing and singing in the rain.

Perfecting Fallacious Argumentation

From the 'doom' thread at Vox Nova which has been taken down (though you can still get it in cached).


Henry Karlson says:

February 8, 2011 at 1:57 pm

Though your simple, and false, presentation of history could get more of a comment from me, I think the most important point to made is: abortion is not one of the eight deadly sins.



The seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.

If you don't know your faith and didn't scratch the surface, Henry's statement could be taken at face value. But Henry seems to have fallen into the trap of fallacious argumentation.

There is nothing deadlier than the sin of abortion. Abortion breaks the covenant from God in the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not kill.

Not only does a child die, abortion is lethal to the souls of everyone involved in the procedure.

Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth and pride are all wrapped into the sin of abortion.

The question for me is, why would he go out of his way to say something so theologically misleading?

It reminds me of the poor women who have been duped into dressing up like Stevie Nicks and dancing at Golgotha because they can't find anything in the GIRM that forbids it. I always respond that they won't find any prohibitions against Father dressing in his mother's wedding dress, high heels and lipstick either. The Holy See couldn't possibly anticipate every wacky Liturgical innovation. However, the rubrics that are to be obeyed in the Liturgy are painstakingly spelled out.

One ought not to be out there teaching theology if one does not know the basics of how to put the puzzle together.

I did a little search around the internet to see if I could come up with something sound on why the deadly sins are deadly and came across this very well-written article.

To be strictly accurate, the preferred term isn't seven deadly sins but seven capital vices, which better conveys the thought that the seven aren't sins in themselves, merely habits or predilections disposing one thereto. This point was made by Saint Gregory the Great in the sixth century AD and later restated by Aquinas. But the term seven deadly sins survives for obvious reasons--it sounds a lot snappier.

In current thinking the seven really bad things do not loom very large. I notice in the official Catechism of the Catholic Church, consisting of 2,865 numbered sections published in 1994 by order of Pope John Paul II, the capital sins warrant exactly one paragraph. The principal codification of moral transgression for Christians continues to be the Ten Commandments, upon which the catechism confidently excogitates, much as the Supreme Court finds guidance for cable TV regulation in a document written in 1789.


Do read it, it's a gem.

Vox Nova, America Magazine, The National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal and the Catholic bloggers at First Things should not be linked to our blogrolls. Their presence in our blogrolls gives what is written there credibility, and could lead to incorrectly forming the conscience of unsuspecting Catholics who have been poorly catechized.

Once a Bishop asked me to be on some committee that was stacked in favor of recommending something scandalous. I told him I just couldn't do it because my presence and name would lend credibility to the product I knew was going to be rolled out to unsuspecting parents and children. Lots of luck with it but you know what Christ said about the millstone and all.

Here's my Valentine's Day advice for navigating through and linking to the genre of Catholic blogosphere:

You've got to know when to hold em. Know when to fold em. Know when to walk away and know when to run.

Jim Towey's Appointment at Ave Maria


Really, really good news for Ave Maria. Jim's catechesis is solid. He's bright, loving, energetic and has just the right pastoral approach.



I'm delighted!

Friday, February 11, 2011

Mubarak Calls Obama's Bluff


I fell asleep on the couch a few nights ago with the television going and my computer on my lap. The next thing you know I saw Joe Biden and he was saying he was appointed by Obama to head up the Egyptian transition team.

"I hope I am dreaming this." I said to myself.


The media coverage on this is being manipulated. Yesterday, as Mubarak called Obama's bluff by putting to rest the reports he's arranged his exile and is packing his bags and the government will continue the peaceful path to the already scheduled transition in September.

As soon as he does, Obama is out in the public square saying it isn't good enough to meet protester demands. Mubarak, he said, has not chosen a genuine path to democracy.

Here we were thinking the path of transitioning Presidents out of office was elections in a democracy.

We've been going about this all wrong.

If we get enough people to gather on Pennsylvania Avenue and raise a stink that he get out of our White House, he will meet our demands. This is the genuine path to democracy.

What a crock.

Israel, like the rest of us, is expressing their shock at Obama's sudden tack in Egypt.

It will be interesting to see Obama's reaction now that the Saudi King has told him to sit down and shut up.

According to media reports, the protesters have been wound up to peaceful riots and violence so it should be an interesting day. Keep it in your prayers because whatever Obama's end game is, he's up to no good and it is not going to pan out well for the Judeo-Christian world.


UPDATE

Hamas Congratulates Muslim Brotherhood for the victory of Mubarak's resignation.

"We congratulate the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt for this victory," said a Hamas leader, who led a Hamas rally on the streets of Gaza City....

The less influential pro-Iran Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement said in a press statement that it congratulates Egypt and its people "for this great achievement and this big step,


How long do you think the Muslim Brotherhood will wait before they publicly get into the driver's seat?

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Fracus in the 'Hood




Catholic blogosphere has been a cavern for those of us robbed of our faith so the archdiocese can keep people who reject it coming every week to drop money in the basket.

Whatever style of writing you're attracted to, Church militant, snark, sarcasm, humor, gentility, intellectual - talented Catholics are growing like wheat on the internet.


Every once in a while, something dramatic happens. We're always up to our necks in manure here in Boston so I usually miss it. (I just found out the cafeteria at The Cafeteria is Closed opened and some kind of donnybrook took place that shut the blog down.) But yesterday over at Terry's digs, I found out Vox Nova has the pins for Mark Shea. Mark has posted a hilarious summary HERE.

I don't know where we are losing the folks at Vox Nova. No matter how many times you attempt to enlighten them, it seems like they have their story and they stick to it... no matter how silly it gets.

Likening Vox Nova to a Debate Club at Aushwitz is pointing out the immorality of debating butchering babies alive as a choice for pregnant women in our country. Their boo-hooing about being called antisemites is buffoonery.


They want to continue to insist their writers are not prochoice but they freely admit they are against activists who work towards the repeal of laws that license people to kill children.

There are only two positions about choices when a woman is pregnant and it isn't rocket science.

You have to have two things to choose from to make it a choice.

When it comes to the definition of the word 'choice' as it relates to abortion, if you are lobbying for a society that offers women two options when they are pregnant and one of those options is killing their child, you are pro-choice.

Once you take away that option the word choice is not applicable.

They also claim repealing the law would put the baby butchers out of a job. I scoured their archives to find talking points on keeping prison wardens gainfully employed by keeping a steady stream of people on death row strapped down for lethal injections and into the electric chair. Shockingly, I stand here empty-handed.


When you read the thread, you'll see these 'pro-life' Catholics (who can't seem to figure out baby butchers would be needed in obstetrics) have the audacity to claim activists working towards the repeal of the law should have complaints filed with their employers (or potential employers).


And no, before you go "are you saying he is doing the same thing as these." The point is, if people are misbehaving, causing problems, and after constantly confronted and told why they are in error, if they keep trying to act like bullies on the internet, they should not be surprised if people who would hire them would be contacted and told to take note. Livelihood is important, but on the other hand, Mark IS working against the livelihood of others with his constant false witness about VN and the people on it. It affects us, too. Why should we not encourage him to behave betters, so he can be a good witness for the faith instead of a witness of a heckler?


Yeah. Because what kind of a good witness is it to expose Catholics who are misleading their readers.

Painful.


Karlson later makes a vulgar and sophomoric reference to body part that resides in a gentleman's trousers by calling a fellow commenter in the thread named Richard ,"Dick". Must be the latest fruit of the loom from all his studying of Buddha.

Catholics who sell their prochoice convictions by saying rather than working to repeal laws that make it legal for people to kill other people, we should all focus on financially, emotionally and spiritually supporting pregnant women in crisis are playing games. Under the Obama administration, abortion has increased. They don't even have the decency to be honest about it. So you can throw that theory right out the window.

These things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, it's symbiotic to stop the killing and support women so there is no legitimate reason to filibuster on Roe v. Wade.

Pro-lifers are always on the front lines assisting women. You know who you never see there?

Pro-choice Catholics.

Here's some savvy advice for practicing Catholics: For Lent, give up wasting precious brain cells reading their intellectual dishonesty.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Update on Boston


There's an awful lot of people trying to get out of Dodge and a few changes are coming to 66 Brooks Drive in the next few months that will be of interest to Boston Catholics. As soon as the ink is dry, Boston Catholic blog readers will be the first to know.

Meanwhile, there's a few fires on the pan.

There are a few upcoming surprises relative to the 'non-discrimination' policy. Be sure to stay tuned to Bryan Hehir Exposed. By the way, a local Catholic who is helping with fact finding has contacted the administration at St. John's Seminary to find out whether the Seminary is admitting applicants with two mommies or daddies.

There is not a single seminarian who has two daddies or two mommies.

How can this be when the Holy Father said that "no child should be denied his or her right to education in faith, which in turn nurtures the soul of the nation"?

Isn't it of prime importance to children and grandchildren of immigrants who earlier came to our shores to produce countless numbers of well-educated moral leaders in our ecclesial communities?

Doesn't St. John's have in a special way the duty and right of educating for its divine mission of helping all to arrive at the fullness of Christian life?

Musn't the young people in the third millennium be a source of energy and leadership in our Church and nation? Therefore, musn't St. John's provide academically rigorous and doctrinally sound programs of education and faith formation?

If so, then don't the wizards need a non-discrimination policy that mandates the enrollment of seminarians with two daddies?


(pssssssst. If anyone knows of a diocescan Catholic school that is doctrinally sound, would you mind spilling the world's best kept secret in the com boxes?)

The fed-up campaign should be ready this week so please keep your digits hovering over the keyboard when the action item goes up.

If you haven't caught up with Boston Catholic Insider's response to the puff piece in the Boston Globe about the Caritas Christi's King of the Cannibals, do read the post HERE and HERE.

I'll keep repeating myself until I'm blue in the face: Either de la Torre did not have the skills to pull the hospitals out of debt by delivering quality health care on the cheap and we had to sell them, or, he's so talented at doing it, he is the model for the nation. Can't have it both ways.




Christine Aguilera's Embarrassing Moment


Every once in a while, if we're lucky, God gives us a spoonful of humility. I only saw the replay, but I loved the look on the face of fellow behind her on the left when Aguilera sang "what so proudly we watched at the twighlight's last gleaming".

Have you ever been in the middle of a Rosary with a group and when it's your turn for the decade, flubbed up on the Hail Mary? I have! (And, I've seen it happen a lot to others).

I get how it could happen with the Star Spangled Banner with all those people looking at you.

But... the woman has got to do something with the bright yellow disheveled mop on her head. The body is a temple and every woman should honor the beauty God endows us with. Not in a flaunting or teasing way or sexual way - but your look should say you respect the tabernacle of your animus.

That is all.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Is Obama Pulling the Strings in Egypt?





I didn't even know the United States was opposed to the government headed by Mubarak, did you?

The United States and Egypt have been allies for decades.

Protests pop up out of nowhere, Obama starts tooting up 'transition of power' chatter telling Egypt's President it's time for him to be moseying on down the road, Obama's regime holds secret meetings with terrorists of a group that is an offshoot of of al quieda and hamas and the next thing you know they are sitting at the power takeover table.

It's all too abracadabra for me.


The latest information is not the first charge by the Egyptian government that the Obama administration has been working with or encouraging the opposition to Mubarak.

Last week,a senior Egyptian diplomat stated the Egyptian government suspects elements of the current uprising there, particularly political aspects, are being coordinated with the U.S. State Department and Obama administration.

The senior Egyptian diplomat told WND the Mubarak regime suspects the U.S. has been aiding protest planning by Mohamed ElBaradei, who is seen as one of the main opposition leaders in Cairo.

The President's supportive chatter in the public square in handing people of Egypt to islam extremists is peculiar given his response when a similar situation arose in Iran.

In the summer of 2009, when the world witnessed brave Iranians taking to the streets in an effort to overthrow the Islamofascistregimethat was terrorizing them, the president of the United States merely shrugged his shoulders and shuffled his feet. Encouraging words somehow failed him. But today, as the world watches the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 occur right before its eyes, Obama suddenly sees it fit to stretch out a hand of solidarity to the Muslim Brotherhood

A story on the Canadian Free Press is griping about how the American press is turning a blind eye to Obama's ties with the muslim brotherhood of radical extremists.


Free Gaza sponsored the flotilla that engaged in deadly clashes with Israeli special forces troops and among its members were Weather Underground founders William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn—who perpetrated a series of terrorist attacks—as well as Jodie Evans, the leader of the radical activist organization Code Pink. Besides the U.S. radicals, Islamic groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood contributed to the flotilla.

William Ayers...the black panther guy was involved in Free Gaza flotilla? The way this violent anarchist has been lurking about Obama's regime is disturbing.

You know what else is disturbing?

That the hamas and al queida spin off is sold as a non-violent solution. What I see on television doesn't look like it's peaceful at all. I'll bet if we gathered in front of the White House and pulled stunts like that for ten days, the Obama administration would be putting a different spin on it.

It looks more to me like extortion. A threat of impending doom of radical revolution by the radical islamic brotherhood.

Terrorism and demands go hand-in-hand, and on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011 news media began reporting that the stalemate between Egypt's VP Omar Suleiman and the Muslim Brotherhood, known politically as the "leading opposition group" (more sinisterly as the Islamic extremists driving force in the protest movement and the ouster of President Mubarak), would be sitting down together after all.

The Muslim Brotherhood is making demands: 'It's our way or we go back to the protest movement highway' is their essential demand. But this sounds anything but peaceful or diplomatic, right?...The group, hailed by some as nothing more than criminals, insists all they want is their country and its freedom from tyranny and economic instability. But economic stability is being made much much worse due to the unrest and its continued run when President Mubarak has already agreed not to run for the presidency again this year in September.

Egyptian allys question U.S. President response

The International allys of Egypt and President Mubarak, most ardently Israel, have called into question U.S. President Barak Obama's support for the chaos confusion and protest effort by those in the streets of Egypt and perpetuated by the Muslim Brotherhood.

"Who is advising them?' a columnist, Aviad Pohoryles, asked about the U.S. leadership and their erroneous take on the Middle East situation in Egypt.

"To fuel the mob raging in the streets of Egypt and to demand the head of the person who five minutes ago was the bold ally of the president...



Even the Vice President's post-meeting with muslim terrorists statement is mysterious.

The lack of security for the populace; disturbances to daily life; the paralysis of by public services; the suspension of education at universities and schools; the logistical delays in the delivery of essential goods to the population; the damages to and losses of the Egyptian economy; the attempts at foreign intervention into purely Egyptian affairs and breaches of security by foreign elements working to undermine stability in implementation of their plots, while recognizing that the 25 January movement is a honorable and patriotic movement.

Sounds like somebody who has been thrown in front of a camera with a gun to his head trying to send a coded message. He reads a laundry list of the chaos of this 'honorable and patriotic movement' and says foreign countries are undermining the stability of his country and intervening to implement their plots.

Mubarak had already agreed not to run in this September's elections so what is to be gained?

George Soros has the answers, of course. It's about victory over the religious right.

You heard me correctly. Getting criminal anti-US muslim extremists to lord it over the people of Egypt is a victory over the veritable vendetta of the religious right. He says he sure hopes Obama plays his cards right and his foundations will contribute what they can.

He says Barack Hussein Obama has to stand firm in the values that got him elected.

What were they, does anybody remember?

These armies are strong enough to maintain law and order as long as they stay out of politics; thus the revolutions can remain peaceful. That is what the United States should insist on while encouraging corrupt and repressive rulers who are no longer tolerated by their people to step aside and allow new leaders to be elected in free and fair elections.

Smacks of irony doesn't it? We're all looking forward to that in the US.

The main stumbling block is Israel. In reality, Israel has as much to gain from the spread of democracy in the Middle East as the United States has. But Israel is unlikely to recognize its own best interests because the change is too sudden and carries too many risks. And some U.S. supporters of Israel are more rigid and ideological than Israelis themselves. Fortunately, Obama is not beholden to the religious right, which has carried on a veritable vendetta against him.

Wait a minute. I remember now. Wasn't Obama elected because he was going to Washington to roll out the red carpet to everyone in America? He was going to be everyone's president, from Democrats to Republicans, rich to destitute, religious right to atheists.

Why wouldn't Obama be as 'beholden' to the religious right as he would to wealthy antisemetic religious bigots? What will his jargon be for 2012? Hype Of Hope Heave Ho?

Anyway, for someone who pays a lot of money to keep up with the political sentiments of the religious right, Soros doesn't seem to be getting his moneys worth.

The Christian right (which makes up a hefty pocket of the religious right) has increasingly grown cold to Israel because of their merciless persecution of Palestinian Christians. We believe in the two-state solution there of course. Go figure the barbaric oppression of Christian would throw a wet blanket on their enthusiasm for your causes but there you are.

I don't know what Obama is up to but I think I know what he isn't up to. He isn't stabilizing Egypt or the Middle East any more than he has stabilized the United States.


Saturday, February 5, 2011

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?




"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

It's hard to believe that February 6th of this year will mark the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth. I get emotional when I think about it.

He left an indelible mark on the soul of our country. Passionate love. Passionate and genuine love for God, family, people, wisdom, the United States and the beauty and joy in living every day.

Ronald Reagan won hearts because he was genuine. He defended our values and our country without compromising sovereignty or righteousness. He cared about victims of injustice whether they were his own countrymen or the people of other nations. Humanity was a whole. Where he saw wrong, he tried to right it. He guarded and preserved the honor of the role of President of the United States by serving it with class and dignity.

He led us with fiery optimism. He had such a way with words. He disarmed his detractors using humor. The taste of bitterness was never on his lips in a rebuke.

"The last bunch of pickets were carrying signs that said 'Make love, not war. The only trouble was they didn't look capable of doing either."

Our desperate attempts to hold onto all of it as he faded into history have been unprofitable.

He is sorely missed.


"Some day when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, ask them to go in there and win just one for the Gipper."


Some day is upon us.

Boys, game on. Win it for the Gipper.