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Sunday, March 28, 2010
CNN Uses 3 Desenting Catholics to Judge the Catholic Church
Case in point, this interview between CNN Host Kyra Phillips and her Catholic Guests, Dan Bartley is president of the Voice of the Faithful, Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry and Reverend Serene Jones, who isn't even Catholic, is president of the Union Theological Seminary.
Read the post from CMR and News Busters to find out there NON-Catholic views.
CNN's Kyra Phillips brought on three heterodox Christians on Friday's Newsroom, all of whom endorse leftist "reforms" inside the Catholic Church, such as women priests and acceptance of homosexual behavior. Phillips didn't bring on any guests who defended the Church's positions, and actually egged on her guests: "I think all three of you need to head to the Vatican and institute some change."
B16: Keeping the record straight...
Creative Minority Report has the post.
I wanted to post a clip of the article but CMR should get the credit for bring this to my attention.
Let's all offer up this Sunday's mass for our Pope Benedict and the Catholic Church.
We are under attack
WCC
Friday, March 26, 2010
The Great FALSE Pope B16 Coverup!
The vile false rhetoric from Christopher Hitchens is one that need to be addressed.
InsideScoop has a great post that showcases the rebuttal from Sean Murphy who sets the record straight by stating the "cold facts" backed up by sources and footnotes.
...something that Hitchens is oblivious to using.
Christopher is taken to the Cleaners
Sean Murphy Article
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Obamacare Roundup - March 25
Obama Care Will Harm Catholic Colleges - They control the money
Dingell: Obamacare Will "Control the People"
Downsizing America's Economy
The Progessives' Perfect Trojan Horse
Pulling the Plug on the "Living Constitution"
I'm With "Stupak--->
Bp. Morlino: "Speaker Pelosi in not called by Jesus Christ to lead the Catholic faithful..."
Can Catholics Abstain From ObamaCare?
...pant, pant...one more
Video Expose: Catholic Sister presents dissent petition to Dem. Congressman
wheeew!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Archbishop Chaput: Reaction to Health Care Law
He is unafraid to teach the truths of the Catholic Church.
As current federal health-care legislation moves forward toward law, we need to draw several lessons from events of the last weeks and months:
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Sunday: A Vote for Life Today
Today is the day that The Democratic Party will be officially 'The Party of Death" if this bill is passed. There will be no denying it.
No matter what the President's promise is of an 'executive order' it won't be written into the bill. The executive order promise to Stupak of writing abortion language in place of including the language into the bill to appease pro-lifers.
This is not the end of the fight. Passage of this bill goes against the wishes of the people. Keep up the calls and letter writing and most of all let's keep up the prayers.
Especially for those Catholic politicians in Congress who have put their faith aside. And I might include may of my fellow Catholics.
Below are some articles and web posts and video for the events of the day.
EXCLUSIVE: Plouffe and Rove Battle It Out Over Health Care Reform (video)
It's over Stupak CavesAction: Tell members in Congress that Executive Order is not enough!
Stupak Deal with Obama - The end of Pro-life DemocratI think we need a little Lenten Reflection to see that we need to rely on Our Father in Heaven to give us the graces we need
The Soil of Our Souls - A Lenten Reflection
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Morning Article Roundup - Mar 17, 2010
Why the Senate bill is anti-life, in 150 words.
The Demise of Representative Government
US Catholic population rises by nearly 1 million; Mormons 4th-largest religious body
Bill Maher to God: Stand Aside for ObamaCare
Blame Isreal First
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Archbishop Chaput : Quote of the Day
The long, unpleasant and too often dishonest national health-care debate is now in its last days. Its most painful feature has been those “Catholic” groups that by their eagerness for some kind of deal undercut the witness of the Catholic community and help advance a bad bill into a bad law. Their flawed judgment could now have damaging consequences for all of us.
InsideScoop has the analysis on Archbishop Chaputs words...
Monday, March 15, 2010
Archbishop Chaput: Another Great Health Care Column
Archbishop Chaput: Health care bill doesn’t meet minimum moral standards
“The Senate version of health-care reform currently being forced ahead by congressional leaders and the White House is a bad bill that will result in bad law,” says the archbishop in his column titled, “Catholics, health care and the Senate’s bad bill,”
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Benedict XVI Under Attack
The headlines reading 'The Pope Knew......bah, bah, blah!"
All ridicules, however the continued attempts.
the effort to implicate the Pope
the trail that doesn't lead to the VaticanVatican officials defend pope on abuse
Friday, March 12, 2010
'We need Abortion in the Bill to Lower Health Care Cost' - Oh my Gosh!
Every Catholic needs to show this to our brothers and sisters in the faith who still insist that the Obama adminsitration is still the best way to lower abortions.
It doesn't get any clearer than this...
AmP has the post and video
Don’t believe the lies some Catholics are telling us (that this bill doesn’t siphon money to abortions) – what I quoted above is what the Democrat leadership actually wants (and believes they are getting): abortion in the health care plan as a cost-saving provision.
This mentality, this perverted goal is what Bart Stupak is trying to fight.
The question remains: which side are you on? On the side of Stupak, or the side of the Democrats quoted above?
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Colorado's Fr. Breslin sides on the side of Truth!
Creative Minority Report as some great resources to help explain the situation. I especially like Fr. Z's take on the story.
Child of Lesbian Couple Denied Entrance to Catholic Schoool
I totally agree with and support the priest of the parish who made the decision, Fr. Breslin. A brave man who is taking a lot of heat, I would even say persecuted for the Truth of our Faith. What makes this even worse is that much of the attack is coming from his own flock, at least those who are taken by the secularist, relativistic arguments.
I listened to Bill O'Reilly on the way home from work today and for an individual who likes to claim his stake in the Catholic faith I recognize that he is COMPLETELY WRONG in chastising the decision of the parish school pastor, who by the way has the backing of the Archbishop of the Diocese, Archbishop Chaput.
The arguments are so well explained that I would like just to point you in the direction where you can find them. I dare not mislead or take away from those who can explain the points better than I can.
I don't believe the media and those with an agenda will let this go, so please inform your conscience with the truths of the Catholic Church the church Jesus established. You can't go wrong if you follow His teachings.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Satan in the Vatican?

Tuesday, March 09, 2010
So. Cal: Jesse Romero at St Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, Chino Hills,TONIGHT!

TONIGHT! MARCH 9TH
Monday, March 08, 2010
Avatar - It's just a movie for goodness sakes!
or
"Why can't you just turn off your mind and just see the movie?"
If you've read (I say read because though I tuned in to the Oscar's for about 45 minutes, I didn't see much more) some of the responses of the celeb's on the Avitar movie, including James Cameron himself, the denial that the movie doesn't have a message that the director wants you to come away with goes down the tubes......
InsideScoop has the post on this "cat-out-of-the-bag" moments of the Oscar Awards night.
James Cameron congratulates himself for rooting against humanity
Anyhow, Cameron was joined by Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington, and they made deep, heavy observations about Avatar and related topics. So deep. So heavy. Like a book of poetry by Britney Spears:
James: I guess I'm most proud of the fact that we made a big commercial movie and it played by the rules of a big commercial movie—we reached a big global audience—but we did it with a message. And I would even argue that some of the success of the film is based on the fact that people are feeling this other level to it. It's connecting them to nature, it's connecting them to a sense of an important cause.
Sigourney: I think that's what so wonderful is that people come up and the first thing they say is, "I've never seen anything like it, and it's so moving."
Zoe: Yeah, I think about a month ago I took my niece and she's only six—and we did talk about this, about how it might not be appropriate for kids under a certain age—but a 6 year old, they get up every 20 minutes to go to the bathroom . For 2 hours 40 minutes, she never got up, never uttered a word. It touched her in such a way that I'm driving her home and I'm like, "So do you want to talk about it?" and she's like, "I think I might need a moment." There was this peace. She got it, it made her feel.
Sam: Well, you listen to a song, okay? The first time you listen to a song you get off on the beat or the way it's put together or the way the band plays it. The first time you see this you get blown apart by the emotion of it, the world that you've created, all the special visual effects. But you only keep going back to the song over and over again if the words actually hit your heart, and people aren't just coming back to this movie twice or three times. We're talking to people who've seen it five or ten times.
James: The film asks us to look at ourselves as human beings from the outside, really if you think about it, from nature's point of view. If we could go and take the perspective of nature and look back at ourselves, that's what the film is doing and by the end of the movie you're rooting for nature.
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I don't care so much of a message the movie wants you do see. Most if not all movies do. I just hate when individuals don't want to admit it.
"Just turn off your mind and enjoy the movie" just doen't cut it for me. Especially this movie which has a message of 'humanity vs. nature'.
The message: Nature should win.
Health Care Bill - Abortion, who is right?
Who is right on the Abortion funding? (video)
The commentary I posted yesterday has prompted more than a few folks to ask me to back up my claim that the Senate health care legislation is indeed pro-abortion. Rep. Stupak is also in the targets now for his identical claims. Look at ABC World News try to claim he’s a liar:
Health Care Bill - Hidden Goodies...NOT!
....there's a prize in every package. (Malt-o-meal slogan)
Hidden Dangers:
It's all supposed to be voluntary, those "home visits" that are tucked into the mammoth Obamacare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That's Section 2951 of H.R. 3590, the Senate bill that Harry Reid brought down the chimney on Christmas Eve.
All voluntary, they say, but once you "volunteer" to have the oh-so-helpful folks from Social Services come in to help with your newborns, or with a number of other specified issues, will you ever be able to get rid of them? MORE
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Pelosi, The U.S. Catholic Bishops: Abortion Funding in H.C. Bill
No matter how many times she is shown the errors of her argument it produces only more denials.
Again with the explanation against her arguments as stated in the last posts link:
“We do not know how anyone who has spoken to the bishops could conclude that the Senate health care bill does not fund abortions. As the bishops have said in their letters to Congress, abortion problems in the Senate bill are so serious that, despite our strong support for expanding access to health care, we will have to oppose the bill unless they are resolved," he said.
“While the Senate bill includes some language limiting the direct use of tax credits to subsidize abortion coverage, it still violates longstanding federal precedent on abortion funding in two ways," Doerflinger explained.
“First, the Senate’s abortion language limits only use of tax credits for abortion in qualified health plans, not other funding in the bill. For example, the bill authorizes and appropriates $7 billion for services at community health centers (increased to $11 billion in the President’s new proposal). The Hyde amendment does not prevent direct use of these billions of dollars for elective abortions (because the funds are not provided through the appropriations bill governed by Hyde); nor does any provision in the Senate bill," the pro-life Catholic leader said.
“Second, the Senate’s language on tax credits still allows subsidies for overall health plans that cover elective abortions, against the policy of the Hyde amendment and other longstanding federal laws. The bill requires each American purchasing such a plan to make a separate payment to the insurer every month, solely to pay for other people’s abortions. This is an enormous imposition on the consciences of the millions of Americans who oppose abortion," Doerflinger concluded in his statement.
Maybe Ms. Pelosi's views as a Catholic Politician need to be corrected again as well...
This article by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput as posted at Catholic Culture Blog is a great way to do this as well as self education on the impact of President Kennedy's speech on Religion in the Political area, which he made some 50 years ago, and it's fruits we see today.
I can only hope the Ms. Pelosi would read it as well.
Christianity in American Political Life
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Fifty years ago this fall, in September 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic candidate for president, spoke to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. He had one purpose. He needed to convince 300 uneasy Protestant ministers, and the country at large, that a Catholic like himself could serve loyally as our nation’s chief executive. Kennedy convinced the country, if not the ministers, and went on to be elected. And his speech left a lasting mark on American politics. It was sincere, compelling, articulate – and wrong. Not wrong about the patriotism of Catholics, but wrong about American history and very wrong about the role of religious faith in our nation’s life. And he wasn’t merely “wrong.” His Houston remarks profoundly undermined the place not just of Catholics, but of all religious believers, in America’s public life and political conversation. Today, half a century later, we’re paying for the damage.
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Health Care Bill: It goes on and on and on...
How many time do we have to ask 'How Do We Pay For it!
The Big Problem with Health Care Is Cost, Not Access
Obamacare: Still a Threat to Your Life
Obama says will use reconciliation to pass health care
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Pelosi Again Denies Abortion Funding in Health Care Bill: I Talked With the Bishops
Most Expensive Non-House Sale...Ever!

Monday, March 01, 2010
Culinary News: Eating Lottery Ticket
Lottery Winner Eats $15,000 Winning Lottery Ticket
Cabin crew on a Thursday flight from Krakow, Poland, to the U.K.'s East Midlands airport congratulated the winner and advised him to claim his prize directly from the company which runs the lottery, according to TheAustralian.com.
But he apparently became so upset that he was not able to collect the prize mid-flight that he decided to digest his winning scratch card ... invalidating his claim.
Vatican II Lessons
Dr. Jeff Mirus has put together a short lesson plan on this and its well worth following.
Vatican II on the Church: Introduction
The third document issued by the Second Vatican Council, on November 21, 1964, is undoubtedly the crown jewel—the impressive Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium). It is one of the Council's two major documents on the Church, the other being the Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. The former document is clearly devoted to describing the nature of the Church in her deepest identity, while the latter is pastorally oriented toward her specific situation in the modern age, and her mode of action in contemporary circumstances.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
The Science of Global Warming

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Feb 24 -Article Roundup
The Party of NO! - CMR
The 20th Anniversary of First Things - CatholicCulture
Breaking Faith - American Spectator
Whispers - Michael Yon
Al Gore Is Lying Low -- for Good Reason -American Thinker
..no java and I went to the meeting first...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Frozen Fetus at Doctor's Office

This is sick....and horrifying
For as long as this is reported to be going on, I don't understand how this wasn't exposed earlier. Receptionist, patients, anyone?
History of an Abortionist
Dr. Kermit Baron Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist, whose clinic was shut down last night after an investigation discovered "deplorable" conditions including blood on the floor and over a dozen fetuses in jars may have a long history of risky and illegal practices when it comes to abortion.
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Also...
Frozen Fetuses Found During Doctor's Office Raid (video)
Link: Catholicwiki
Monday, February 22, 2010
A Challenge to Life: Quarrel in Rome
Now that seems weird to have this particular argument with the Rome leaders. Catholic Culture brings this argument into focus.
An Important Quarrel in Rome
You probably remember the case of the abortions performed on the Brazilian girl who was impregnated with twins by her step-father last year. Archbishop José Cardoso Sobrinho publicly stated that the doctors who performed the abortions would incur excommunication. But the President of the Pontifical Academy for life then wrote an essay in L’Osservatore Romano in which he sharply criticized Archbishop Sobrinho for an alleged lack of sensitivity to the difficulties of the situation, especially for the girl. Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella argued that the Church would have been better served by a strong display of mercy and tenderness rather than a pronouncement of justice.
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Interrogation Memo's: What's the Truth?

Friday, February 19, 2010
Tiger Woods...

...I thought this was going to be a 2 minute apology....it's going on and on and on and on...
His Mom (I think it's his Mom won't even look at him.
His wife's family is there. The camera shot is making sure that it appears he is talking directly to them and that they support them.
Well, I pray it's a real change in his life not just a speech.
....Oh wait
A hug from his Mother...
I can't believe the continued speech analysis.
Please go on to other more important news !
Dalai Lama out the back door....
Lent: Free Lenten Spiritual Reading Books
LINK: Lenten Jackpot!
Lenten Fasting...
"When you fast...": An Ash Wednesday Post
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the traditional period of "Lent". "Lent" is an old English word for "Spring", but of course for Christians it is more than a recognition of the changing of seasons, it is a call for a change of heart.
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Elton John: "Jesus was a Gay Man"

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Joe Biden: What's that on his head?
Seems that there are still those in this world that are still oblivious to the Lenten season and Ash Wednesday. But is this an excuss if you're Catholic?
This shameful example of news reporters on British TV news not knowing that those are ashes on Joe Biden's forehead.
...ya know I get this same reaction from self proclaimed Catholic's at work when I come back from lunch time Ash Wednesday mass.
"What's that on your forehead...Oh, aaaa, Ash Wednesday...Oh, I, I, I knew that."
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Stimulus Day: The Numbers Don't Lie

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Christianity Lite: The beginning of the end
I'm referring to the resent decision by B16 to allow those of the Anglican faith to move into the Catholic church.
First Things has a great article on this.
Christianity Lite
Once in a while comes an historical event so momentous, so packed with unexpected force, that it acts like a large wave under still water, propelling us momentarily up from the surface of our times onto a crest, where the wider movements of history may be glimpsed better than before.
Such an event was Benedict XVI’s landmark announcement in October 2009 offering members of the Anglican Communion a fast track into the Catholic Church. Although commentators quickly dubbed this unexpected overture a “gambit,” what it truly exhibits are the characteristics of a move known in chess as a “brilliancy,” an unforeseen bold stroke that stunningly transforms the game. In the short run, knowledgeable people agree, this brilliancy of Benedict’s may not seem to amount to much. Some 1000 Church of England priests may convert and some 300 parishes turn over to Rome—figures that, while significant when measured against the dwindling numbers of practicing Anglicans there, are nonetheless mere drops in the Vatican’s bucket.
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Understanding the Iraq Surge
Understanding the Surge from ISW on Vimeo.
Link: www.understandingthesurge.org
Monday, February 15, 2010
Valentines Day Movie: The Moral Relativism of Anne Hathaway
...and It was all I expected. Love stories with a twist staring various leading actors and actresses.
Ms. Anne Hathaway playing the character of a struggling resent college graduate with student loans up the gazzoo. She manages to hold down a part time office job while juggling a 'phone-for-sex' hotline. A bit of entrepreneurship and moral relativism she learned in college, perhaps?
Well, it seems Ms. Hathaway is closer to that moral relativist character in real life than we think.
She has stated that because the Catholic Church has teachings that are contrary to her real brother's chosen life style...
"The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out," she tells the magazine. "Why should I support an organization that has a limited view of my beloved brother?"
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...she must leave the church. Limited view of her brother? I don't think the Catholic church has anything personal against her brother. Now the homosexual life style is another thing.
InsightScoop has the post.
Global Warming:Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
World may not be warming, say scientists
Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
THE GREAT CLIMATE CHANGE RETREAT
Friday, February 12, 2010
Oprah and the Dominican Sisters of Ann Arbor
A truly amazing look into life at the convent these wonderful sisters live in. They are so refreshingly honest in explaining their decision to answer the call to the religious life.
The Dominican Sisters On The Oprah Winfrey Show
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Miss me yet?
LENT is almost here...
For Lent, I found this link in an email I received this morning. It's a video reminding us of Lent, Catholic Weird Al style.
Catholic Weird Al Readies for Lent.
More Rain... More Snow... Less Global Warming
The Great IPCC Meltdown Continues
It’s not just the threat of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035.
Now another headline grabbing IPCC scare story is melting away. A report in Sunday’s London Times highlights new humiliations for the IPCC.
“The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.”
There is however one teensy-weensy little problem. As Professor Chris Field, the lead author of the IPCC’s climate impact team has now told reporters that he can find “no evidence” to support the claim in the IPCC’s 2007 report.
There’s more.
The great global warming collapse
As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement...
In 2007, the most comprehensive report to date on global warming, issued by the respected United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made a shocking claim: The Himalayan glaciers could melt away as soon as 2035.
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I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones
THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.
MORE (Phil, buddy it was a mistake, life is precious, move on...)
For the record.
I do believe in global warming. The worlds weather is in constant change. I just don't follow those that believe 'man-made CO2' is the main cause.
Monday, February 08, 2010
Peter Kreeft - 'Critical Thinking for Christians'
One of my favorite authors, Philosophy Professor Peter Kreeft has put this together. Everyone should read it.
Critical Thinking for Christians
I have been asked to write about the importance of critical thinking, and I’m sure Envoy’s editor meant me to talk about critical thinking not just as an academic exercise or professional game but as a divinely designed tool for ordering our thoughts, our actions, our world, and our task of being working organs in Christ’s Body, His hands and feet for building His Kingdom, His empire – in other words for our jihad, our holy spiritual war.
I think we need to know seven things about ‘critical thinking’:
First, what is it?
Second, where does it ultimately come from? How is it God’s gift?
Third, how should it order our thoughts?
Fourth, how should it order our actions?
Fifth, how should it order our world?
Sixth, how should it order our spiritual warfare?
And finally, how will it order our Heavenly victory and peace after this warfare is accomplished?
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White House: Climate Change 'aka' Global Warming Agency

Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting.
'Creation' - Charles Darwin, the Movie
Though the movie has not found a distributor here in the States, I found the comments at the end of the article most interesting. The movie is deemed very controversial and no doubt can be seen in the post at the end of the article.
The exchange of ideas of those supporting the movie's views and opposing them is very educational.
Have a read...
'Creation' Movie review by James Bowman
It will come as no news to readers of The American Spectator that science is now no longer just science but has become a religion-substitute for a large number of Americans. This faith, perhaps, claims even a majority of those in some other liberal democracies of the West. And if science, and its political arm, environmentalism, is the new religion, Charles Darwin is its Christ figure, despised and rejected of (theist) men and persecuted for the Truth he sought to bring to set men free of their inherited chains. These are not the bonds of sin and death but of the superstition and ignorance which supposes the world to have had any Creator at all or any Redeemer other than Darwin himself. That is what we mean by myth: a story that explains the world, whether or not the story happens to be true, and the Darwinist myth now comes closer to an explanation that people are prepared to accept than any other since the Redemptive history in the Christian interpretation of the Bible.
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Saturday, February 06, 2010
Our Jewish Roots - Catholicism
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
"The Lost Decade" -.... found it!
We can't afford another so-called economic "expansion" like the one from the last decade -- what some call the ‘lost decade' -- where jobs grew more slowly than during any prior expansion; where the income of the average American household declined while the cost of health care and tuition reached record highs; where prosperity was built on a housing bubble and financial speculation.
Yup, the blame game again. It's getting old and not all true either. So lets dig a little deeper to verify that claim of the 'lost decade'.
The Lost Decade
President Obama called the "oughts" (2000-2009) the "lost decade." That was his way, yet again, of blaming Bush. More precisely, it was Obama heeding the advice of Homer Simpson.
The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
It was like that when Obama got there. The whole decade was lost when he got there.
Or perhaps President Obama was not channeling Homer Simpson, but was channeling James Carville channeling Homer Simpson.
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The truth is always there just not so plain as it can be. That's what this administration is hoping...that you don't dig deeper.
Monday, February 01, 2010
There are Football Pro-Choicers and Football... Anti-choicers?
Pro-choicers are upset about the Pro-life commercial of Superbowl fame.
I guess the argument is 'you can CHOOSE to have an Abortion but you CAN NOT CHOOSE to NOT have an Abortion.
... that would be Anti-Choice?
It's a case study in the conundrum of liberal ideology: radical feminist groups declaring that a woman's choice to not have an abortion is, somehow, anti-choice.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
First Things: Ralph McInerny Dies
God Bless him and his family.
InsideScoop has some good posts on the man.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Bishop Hubbard: 'What are you thinking?'
Give them clean needles?!
You've got to be kidding...
Bishop Hubbard approves free distribution of needles to drug abusers
Roundup: Obama's Speech
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....
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
iPad Debuts! - Expensive

And now, introducing the......... iPad
It's not cheap!
Monday, January 25, 2010
Non Nobis Network
Oakland A's Prospect Goes To Seminary

Smarter than a 6th Grader...

Thursday, January 21, 2010
Change It Back!

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.”
McCain/Feingold - NOT
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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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Jesus of Nazareth Part 2 - B16
Pope Finished With Vol. 2 of Jesus of Nazareth
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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
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
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Morning Article Roundup - Jan 12, 2010
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
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Java and 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!
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Why did Jesus have 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?
How Pocahantas became Avatar


Pelosi - 'Free-Will Justifys Abortion'
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.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
2010 - Articles for Tues. Jan 5th
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