NOW: "A Fetus is not a Life"

yikes!

First Things: Ralph McInerny Dies

I'm going to miss the writings of Ralph McInemy.
God Bless him and his family.

InsideScoop has some good posts on the man.

(photo:AFP)

New Russian fighter jet looks eerily like our F22.... Hmmmm?

Bishop Hubbard: 'What are you thinking?'

Bishop Hubbard has his own ideas about how to solve the problem of drug abuse and aids.



Give them clean needles?!



You've got to be kidding...



Bishop Hubbard approves free distribution of needles to drug abusers

Roundup: Obama's Speech

While I made it a point to listen to the speech on the drive home.... I wasn't impressed.

Certain polls taken say many thought it was very inspirational, another great performance by the President.

I think many forgot to put on their thinking caps. How about trying something new. How about listening to what the man says and seeing what he does.

Do his actions match his words. Is the President, and we should do this with anyone, telling the facts as he see it or stating the facts as they really are.

President Obama lost me on several point and I fought hard not to change the radio channel.
1. He deals with no Lobbyist ... you lost me on that one Mr. President.
2. Foreign countries can now contribute to moneys to our Elections?
3. Bipartisanship... Oh My Gosh. Let's get real.
4. Job creation. Are there enough 'Solar panel jobs to go around.' Are these going to be outsource to China too. It's cheaper.
5. Are we all destined to carry shovels with us off to work to build roads and bridges. Is he proposing bridges and roads to nowhere?

I can list several others but you (hopefully) get my point.

We all want our country to get back on track, economically, with it's leadership in the world, our education and our health care and security against those that would do us harm.

Let's not swallow the hook-line-sinker ... again.

Does Obama know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?

The words Obama failed to utter in his SOTU

AP’s ten whoppers from the SOTU speech

Alito & Others: Fact-Checking Obama

Cato Institute Analyzes - Video (Thanks AmP)

Many more articles out there....

iPad Debuts! - Expensive

Okay, so I've delayed my purchase of an e-Reader until after the Christmas season. I wanted to see what Apple would come up with.

And now, introducing the......... iPad

It's not cheap!

I'll have to think about it a little bit longer....

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Oakland A's Prospect Goes To Seminary

(Photo: NCR)

Wow, this is a story.

It's so hard nowadays for those called to a vocation as a priest, nun, religious with the mountain of secular distractions around us.

Let's keep Grant Desme in our prayers.

From Baseball to Seminary

Oakland A’s outfield prospect Grant Desme is turning in his baseball uniform for a collar. The 23-year-old minor league baseball player announced on Friday that he was leaving baseball to pursue the Catholic priesthood.

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Smarter than a 6th Grader...

(Photo-AP)

What's that show on T.V. ... 'I'm smarter than a 5th grader?

Well, the President doesn't want to screw-up in front of his 6th grade audience.

I've never seen this before. I would think it would be easy talking in front of an elementary school class. It would be at least more sincere if you could speak from the heart instead of a teleprompter.

"Mr. President, What's a teleprompter?"

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, speaks to the media after a discussion with 6th grade students at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010.

Change It Back!

I cracked up when I saw this picture...

How the tide has turned. People are figuring it out...

Throw them out! It's the loving thing to do

Yesterday marked Obama’s one year anniversary of Hope and Change. It also marked our one year anniversary of enduring it.
It turns out that change isn’t always good. And sometimes “Change” actually means more-of-the-same.
It also turns out there are different kinds of hope. I’m beginning to think that Obama’s kind of hope is that of Friedrich Nietzsche: “Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.”

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McCain/Feingold - NOT

Wonder how this is going to affect the November elections?

Supreme Court Drop-Kicks McCain/Feingold...
Naturally, President Obama immediately issued a statement opposing the decision. As the Washington Post reports::
With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans. … We are going to talk with bipartisan congressional leaders to develop a forceful response to this decision.

So there it is: the President and members of the Mandarin Class are preparing a “forceful response” to the First Amendment.

Had enough yet?
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Jesus of Nazareth Part 2 - B16

I can hardly wait. I have the first volume on CD, now on my iPod.

Pope Finished With Vol. 2 of Jesus of Nazareth
...
Neusner was almost at a loss for words to express the joy of that visit: “We spoke of our books, and he told me that he’s finished writing the second volume of his work on Jesus.”
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Java and the News - Jan 20 '10

Trying to work my way back into some scense of stability. New job position, new year, new computer..... new heart (well repaired heart).

So here we go.

Decaf please!

Democrats seek back footing after epic Mass. loss - Now it's asked if he will run for President

Are Some Americans More Equal Than Others? - 1984 rising

Anti-Catholicism... Yawn - ...I missed this

Morning Article Roundup - Jan 12, 2010

Looking at what's up in the world...

Vatican says 'Avatar' is no masterpiece - I don't plan to see it in theaters....maybe $1.00 library rental

French Fried Catholicism - Pass the Ketchup please

NYT & David Brooks: Intellectuals Я Us - Uhhhhh...

The Liturgical Year - The Catholic Thing..

The First Principle of Catholic Social Concern - Dr. Mirus

Java and Today's Headlines

Wishing I bought a 'Big Gulp' of coffee this morning as I peruse today's headlines.

Married Couples Pay More Than Unmarried Under Health Bill - Not exactly promoting Marriage

Getting Control of Congress, Permanently - Does Congress really care about the people they represent?

The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Democrats - I've actually seen this dishonesty in both Parties.

Cardinal: "The Fall of Europe is Looming!" - I'm actually ready a book on the 1529-1530 attempt of the Ottoman Empire to to invade Europe at the Battle of Vienna between King Charles V and Suleyman the Magnificent. If the Islamic leader had won the battle then, Europe would have been Muslim. Looks like that battle is being wages again today.

Obama Christmas Story - The Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ... Not a Symbol!

Why did Jesus have to be Baptised?

Next Sunday is the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ. This ends the Christmas Season offically.

Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio has a great post on 'Why Jesus needed to be Baptised'

The Baptism of the Lord and the Scrament of Confirmation

At first glance, the scene makes little sense. John’s strident call to repentance provokes an overwhelming response. People of all shapes and sizes flock to him in the wilderness. They are baptized in the Jordan as a sign of repentance and cleansing.

Suddenly, out of the crowd steps John’s cousin Jesus. Wait a minute. What’s Jesus, the sinless one, doing in a crowd of repenting sinners? What’s he doing coming forward to be baptized by John, who is by his own admission, is inferior to his cousin?

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How Pocahantas became Avatar

Wow, I didn't realize writing a billion dollar script for a movie could be so easy!

How Disney's Pocahantas became Avatar

Post via Creative Minority Report

Pelosi - 'Free-Will Justifys Abortion'

Amp has a post on his new website HERE reporting Madame Pelosi's latest Catholic theology pronouncement.... according to the church of Pelosi of course.

In an interview with Newsweek, the second most powerful Catholic in this country said:
‘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.’
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Amp also points out the absolute laughable errors in her thinking via Elizabeth Lev.

Pelosi's Catholic-lite construct here suggests that free will means the ability to judge what is right and wrong, with each person's conscience being the final arbiter. Coherency in her concept of Catholic teaching would mean legalizing rape and murder and allowing each person to choose and then take responsibility for his or her own actions. More than the far left liberal that many claim her to be, Pelosi seems to favor anarchy.
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Nothing like starting out the year with another 'I am catholic according to my own definition' moment.

2010 - Articles for Tues. Jan 5th

Starting out the new year rather slow... It's hard to get back into the swing of things after the Christmas Holiday.

Java time:
I'm Overwhelmed By God's Mercy - I can related to this story having just undergone Heart Surgery.

Did Obama Politicize the Terror Database? - American Thinker

Obama's Year of Living Blamelessly - Commentary

Did You Know About the Relics of the Three Wise Men? - Taylor Marshall

Catholic Social Teaching: Buried in the Bunker? - Catholic Culture