To Die For One's Own Ignorance is No Glory
Recently in Iraq Islamist fundamentalists proclaimed a "Fatwa" indicating it is right and good to kill all Christians, deemed pagans. They are willing to die for this misguided belief- in fact they view it as supreme martyrdom sacrifice in the service of their distorted perverted twisted understanding of who God is to die for this belief in their 'truth.'
Thus while Christians comprise something like only five percent (5%) of the Iraqi population, they are migrating out of the country en masse and comprise over forty percent (40%) of all refugees. Much bemoaning of the fact that they fared better under the Secularist Saddam Hussein is now being discussed in terms of what democracy actually looks like when the majority rule is fundamentalist Islamicist. Does this really help us?
Then I read in the DC Catholic Standard that Donald Wuerl is taking to insulting a woman theologan (what's new) whom he calls "feminist" like it is a dirty word, and proclaims that the
church "revelation" concerning all things is something worth dying for. I haven't read this woman theologian but I can imagine.
This evoked in my imagination a definition of 'revelation comprised of Images of the Pope with two hands covering over his ears yelling "la la la la la la la I can't hear you!" like a five year old.
For he who has ears to hear.
God has been trying to speak to the Church "Fathers" about their intentional blindness to women's dignity issues for centuries. The church "fathers"-all men refuse to listen to the women. They
create a man made theology contrary to Biblical truth, call it 'truth' and fabricate a theology around it. Then demean and insult anyone who begs to disagree. This hideous Catholic standard article dares to insult this Sister theologian by referentially calling her less than intelligent and lacking in intellectual rigor in formation. Gag me with a Maggot.
And Donald Wuerl is willing to die for this?
There is nothing noble, glorious or even accurate about the church's demeaning of women. There is nothing 'truthful' about any alleged so call 'revelation' concerning the persecution of women in the church, particularly ones who point out how off the wall it is, and there is absolutely nothing "Holy" about the church's De Facto "FATWA" against women who insist that priests conduct themselves honorably with regard to women- which means if they fall in love, the women should be married to them so as to not suffer the emotional manipulation of emotionally adulterous situations with serial emotional filandering priests such as Donald Wuerl has in his Archdiocese (you know who you are.)
Revelation My Arse.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The Ways That Seem Right To A Man
Are Sometimes Garbage
If you lived in the States that comprised the Southern most states in the US for the first 100 years of the country's not so perfect union, you would likely have the firm conviction that owning another human being for labor and profit was not only perfectly all right morally, but biblically permitted, and essential to sound economic institutional functionality. Unless of course you were 'owned.'
They knew no other way, of course it should be done like that, how else could it possibly work.
Immorality had no discussion when economy justified it. Lack of creativity justified cruelty.
I see little difference in the church's understanding of women's roles with regard to it's division of labor- wherein for a billion people they deny that God speaks as forcefully through a woman, in a manner that allows a woman to serve as either priest or wife of one. Church women work for free for the most part and are the oil that keeps the machine well running in most parishes. They do everything a priest does not want to. They are not equals, they are unpaid help.
The women religious are treated abysmally by comparison. Warehoused, denied pensions, not able to earn enough to save for pensions while priest build for themselves sometimes little kingdoms on earth with minions of harems of free labor.
This situation was tolerable to Christ's followers barely for about five hundred years until it caused a massive schism, splitting the catholic world in two after the great Byzantine East-West schism, after the "Reformation." You would have thought that the other half would catch on.
Instead they created more perverse theology to justify the unjustifiable and five hundred years later are still driving priests from their ranks who insist that it's off the wall wrong.
What is off the wall wrong is the notion that failure to creatively address issues of division of labor is not a theology. It's a perversion.
My ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts, says the Lord.
If you lived in the States that comprised the Southern most states in the US for the first 100 years of the country's not so perfect union, you would likely have the firm conviction that owning another human being for labor and profit was not only perfectly all right morally, but biblically permitted, and essential to sound economic institutional functionality. Unless of course you were 'owned.'
They knew no other way, of course it should be done like that, how else could it possibly work.
Immorality had no discussion when economy justified it. Lack of creativity justified cruelty.
I see little difference in the church's understanding of women's roles with regard to it's division of labor- wherein for a billion people they deny that God speaks as forcefully through a woman, in a manner that allows a woman to serve as either priest or wife of one. Church women work for free for the most part and are the oil that keeps the machine well running in most parishes. They do everything a priest does not want to. They are not equals, they are unpaid help.
The women religious are treated abysmally by comparison. Warehoused, denied pensions, not able to earn enough to save for pensions while priest build for themselves sometimes little kingdoms on earth with minions of harems of free labor.
This situation was tolerable to Christ's followers barely for about five hundred years until it caused a massive schism, splitting the catholic world in two after the great Byzantine East-West schism, after the "Reformation." You would have thought that the other half would catch on.
Instead they created more perverse theology to justify the unjustifiable and five hundred years later are still driving priests from their ranks who insist that it's off the wall wrong.
What is off the wall wrong is the notion that failure to creatively address issues of division of labor is not a theology. It's a perversion.
My ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts, says the Lord.
Shocking
Zero Tolerance For Isms.
There is a self-proclaimed "unwise" individual working for the GOP in California who sent an email with a racially slurious slanderous photo of the President. It's too appaulling to republish it here so I wont but you can google it. It's one of those "I can't believe anyone is so racist" kind of pictures. I will give you a hint- Jane Godall would adopt him.
It is clear that if this person doesn't resign she should be fired. Because most people recognize that we have to have a zero tolerance policy toward that kind of base racism- it's too incendiary, it's provacative and it is profoundly unkind. What of the first amendment you say? What of Title VII I say. It's harassing to everyone around per se to have to read that sort of an email in an office.
So while it is clearly off the wall inappropriate why don't we have the same reaction where there is clearly sexist stuff pervading. I am talking about institutional sexism. Rampant in your face institutional sexism.
I went to a "chrism Mass" yesterday and I could not help but note that not one female was attired in the priestly or Bishopric attire of an entire altar of men. Not one female is allowed to be a catholic priest. They are opening a seminary ---for all men of course. To be all male priests. This is an 'article of faith' this instrinsic sexism. Like Jesus needs hu-manly sperm to come earth in a consecration when he didn't need it to man-ifest his hu-manity in the first place.
To compound shock with absurdity, the official papal position is that (if you read canon law punishment) it's worse to be a woman cleric than a child rapist pedofile.
This should invoke the same sort of reaction that the aforementioned photo of the President invoked- disgusting. Outrageous. Should never happen. Fire the jerk. But it doesn't.
The church gets to perpetuate the same myth of male supremacy by bold defeminizing all women 'religious'-putting them all in the same drab color-challenged grays , blacks and on a good day dark royal blue habits, --segregating them (yes, just like 'separate but not even pretending to be equal' segregation) into lesser financed religious schools and houses, and
refusing them the status of even being good enough to marry priests as though conjugality somehow dirties them or precludes service -something expressly flatly stated by JPII is NOT integral existentially to the priesthood. He would be shocked to learn a Totus Tuo notion of giving all oneself to God definitionally precluded honoring a woman with marriage. That is a sacramental holy way one does in fact give oneself to God- these are not mutually excludable-only in the tiniest meanest minds are they incompatible. God is Love. Church serves Love or it is not Christ's church.
It's time in this upcoming Month of May, the Month of Mary and Motherhood, that the Church figured hierarchy figured out that Mary is more than a myth, more than a statue, but to honor her means to honor the flesh and blood women in your midst. She is a flesh and blood mother who nursed Jesus with the food from her own breasts, who held him up when he fell down, who taught him how to speak. You do not honor Mary by demeaning women, or considering them lesser than they are, intellectually, virtuously, or emotionally or try to keep them socially in your box.
There is a self-proclaimed "unwise" individual working for the GOP in California who sent an email with a racially slurious slanderous photo of the President. It's too appaulling to republish it here so I wont but you can google it. It's one of those "I can't believe anyone is so racist" kind of pictures. I will give you a hint- Jane Godall would adopt him.
It is clear that if this person doesn't resign she should be fired. Because most people recognize that we have to have a zero tolerance policy toward that kind of base racism- it's too incendiary, it's provacative and it is profoundly unkind. What of the first amendment you say? What of Title VII I say. It's harassing to everyone around per se to have to read that sort of an email in an office.
So while it is clearly off the wall inappropriate why don't we have the same reaction where there is clearly sexist stuff pervading. I am talking about institutional sexism. Rampant in your face institutional sexism.
I went to a "chrism Mass" yesterday and I could not help but note that not one female was attired in the priestly or Bishopric attire of an entire altar of men. Not one female is allowed to be a catholic priest. They are opening a seminary ---for all men of course. To be all male priests. This is an 'article of faith' this instrinsic sexism. Like Jesus needs hu-manly sperm to come earth in a consecration when he didn't need it to man-ifest his hu-manity in the first place.
To compound shock with absurdity, the official papal position is that (if you read canon law punishment) it's worse to be a woman cleric than a child rapist pedofile.
This should invoke the same sort of reaction that the aforementioned photo of the President invoked- disgusting. Outrageous. Should never happen. Fire the jerk. But it doesn't.
The church gets to perpetuate the same myth of male supremacy by bold defeminizing all women 'religious'-putting them all in the same drab color-challenged grays , blacks and on a good day dark royal blue habits, --segregating them (yes, just like 'separate but not even pretending to be equal' segregation) into lesser financed religious schools and houses, and
refusing them the status of even being good enough to marry priests as though conjugality somehow dirties them or precludes service -something expressly flatly stated by JPII is NOT integral existentially to the priesthood. He would be shocked to learn a Totus Tuo notion of giving all oneself to God definitionally precluded honoring a woman with marriage. That is a sacramental holy way one does in fact give oneself to God- these are not mutually excludable-only in the tiniest meanest minds are they incompatible. God is Love. Church serves Love or it is not Christ's church.
It's time in this upcoming Month of May, the Month of Mary and Motherhood, that the Church figured hierarchy figured out that Mary is more than a myth, more than a statue, but to honor her means to honor the flesh and blood women in your midst. She is a flesh and blood mother who nursed Jesus with the food from her own breasts, who held him up when he fell down, who taught him how to speak. You do not honor Mary by demeaning women, or considering them lesser than they are, intellectually, virtuously, or emotionally or try to keep them socially in your box.
Linguistics
And the Nature of God
Anyone reading this blog can get the sense I really love the French- most all things French and some people in particular. Blame it on my georgeous mother whose ancestry is part French and her maiden name all French.
I particularly love the language (and beg forgiveness for not getting it always right. I am a work in progress)
By way of one example of how great it is- let's look at how they say "God Almighty". It is such a common English phrase, as in "I believe in God Almighty maker of heaven and earth." So common it takes on a banality when said by memory. Yeah, that guy- the God Almighty. In French, it has more meaning. The word in French is Dieu Tout Puissant.
Directly translated it means "God All Powerful." The Puissant comes from the verb Pouvoir which is where we get the word Power from. The conjugation of Pouvoir (je peux, tu peux, il peut) directly translated means "I can, you can, he can, etc...." God Can. As in "Can he do it- yes, he can!"
Because he is ALL POWERFUL.
God The All Powerful. He can do it.
The notion that "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD" oomes directly from his name. His name means "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE" -He is ALL POWERFUL.
So what do you think of as impossible right now for you? What do you hope aspire and dream can happen to you? If you team up with ONE who is ALL POWERFUL all things are truly possible, because imagine the Power that it took to create Heaven and Earth? Your drama he can accomplish with a breath. Team up this Holy Week with the ONE who is ALL POWERFUL and watch your life change in bigger ways than you ever imagined.
Love is bigger than a breadbox, it is bigger than all your problems, all your heart-ache, all your destruction and all your disapointment and all your problems. Love Rescues from the pit, it Raised from the Dead.
That's what Easter is all about.
Anyone reading this blog can get the sense I really love the French- most all things French and some people in particular. Blame it on my georgeous mother whose ancestry is part French and her maiden name all French.
I particularly love the language (and beg forgiveness for not getting it always right. I am a work in progress)
By way of one example of how great it is- let's look at how they say "God Almighty". It is such a common English phrase, as in "I believe in God Almighty maker of heaven and earth." So common it takes on a banality when said by memory. Yeah, that guy- the God Almighty. In French, it has more meaning. The word in French is Dieu Tout Puissant.
Directly translated it means "God All Powerful." The Puissant comes from the verb Pouvoir which is where we get the word Power from. The conjugation of Pouvoir (je peux, tu peux, il peut) directly translated means "I can, you can, he can, etc...." God Can. As in "Can he do it- yes, he can!"
Because he is ALL POWERFUL.
God The All Powerful. He can do it.
The notion that "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD" oomes directly from his name. His name means "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE" -He is ALL POWERFUL.
So what do you think of as impossible right now for you? What do you hope aspire and dream can happen to you? If you team up with ONE who is ALL POWERFUL all things are truly possible, because imagine the Power that it took to create Heaven and Earth? Your drama he can accomplish with a breath. Team up this Holy Week with the ONE who is ALL POWERFUL and watch your life change in bigger ways than you ever imagined.
Love is bigger than a breadbox, it is bigger than all your problems, all your heart-ache, all your destruction and all your disapointment and all your problems. Love Rescues from the pit, it Raised from the Dead.
That's what Easter is all about.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Je suis tres desole
si te plait me pardonnez
La verite, c'est que j'etais
peur d'avoir ma coeur
battu au fond un autre fois
C'est tout que j'ai eu
et il a tue mon coeur en rigolant
j'etais devaste
est c'est pour quoi j'ai tomber
de grace et perdu mon place
tres pres de toi mon amour toujours
Je t'enprie de laisser la porte
ouverte. J'ai assez d'espoir
et courage maintenant et
j'ai tout confiance en toi
enfin je te crois. Il n'y a rien
a declarer sauf que je suis la
tienne jusq'au eternite.
si te plait me pardonnez
La verite, c'est que j'etais
peur d'avoir ma coeur
battu au fond un autre fois
C'est tout que j'ai eu
et il a tue mon coeur en rigolant
j'etais devaste
est c'est pour quoi j'ai tomber
de grace et perdu mon place
tres pres de toi mon amour toujours
Je t'enprie de laisser la porte
ouverte. J'ai assez d'espoir
et courage maintenant et
j'ai tout confiance en toi
enfin je te crois. Il n'y a rien
a declarer sauf que je suis la
tienne jusq'au eternite.
Real or Memorex?
T-Mobile spoofs the Royal Wedding hilariously on viral video--- expect a wee bit more decorum for the real thing -(but darn good doubles here).
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Hear the Bells Ringing
Easter Music from the national Basillica- the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. www.NationalShrine.com 
Bernadette
First they laugh at you Then they fight you Then they try to lock you up Then they build a Basillica where you walked. BERNADETTE PRAY FOR US
Happy Feast Day
SAINT BERNADETTE!!! Political activists should all take Bernadette Soubirous as their Patron Saint- she is one of my favorite. Openness to new ideas or ways of thinking often come with resistance and this was certainly the case for Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes, France. Imagine you know you see something that is actually in the form of a beautiful woman who is talking to you. Imagine she tells you to go dig in the dirt and wash your face with it and there is nothing there but dirt. So while a whole crowd of people are looking at you, you go dig frantically in the dirt and dig a little deeper into some mysterious moisture and rub your face with mud. Everyone watching thought she was crazy. Until a gushing spring of living waters flowed out of the little hole she dug and a mountain spring was discovered that has cured incurable diseases was revealed. OMG! Yeah, really. OMG. That's what happened to a destitute asthmatic young teenager in a mountain village in France in the middle of the 19th Century. Not only did they think she was crazy- they sent the police after her to harass her into silence, locked up and around the location where she was seeing this vision of supreme loveliness and demanded she shut up or be locked up. She should be the Patron Saint of Code Pink. I Love Her. Her family was so destitute they lived-the entire family in a one room hovel that doubled as a prison cell when they weren't in it-their father barely got odd job work after a work injury in a mill left him near blind. The water -mud mixture, like the biblical story also cured his blindness-but, shhhh, don't tell anyone or the whole world will want to go visit the town. Which is exactly what happened. Here is an official account of her life: Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who was born in Lourdes, France on January 7, 1844, almost lived in a padded cell and did live in a jail cell…That’s right! Due to hard times for the Subirous family, Bernadette spent her youth in a single-room basement-level home that formerly housed prisoners, known as “the dungeon”. And the padded cell? Well, that was nearly the result of her fascinating story. From February 11 to July 16, 1858, 14 year-old Bernadette experienced 18 visions of “a beautiful Lady” in a local grotto and by the time of her final apparition, as many as 20,000 people had traveled to witness the events. During one vision, the Lady asked Bernadette to drink from a spring in the ground, only there was no spring. So, a confused Bernadette used her bare hands to dig up the ground before finally splashing some damp mud to her mouth. This prompted many locals, who could not see the Lady, to claim Bernadette had gone insane, but within days, a powerful spring began to flow from the muddy hole and reports of miraculous healings soon followed. Further vindicating the visions, the Lady revealed her name to Bernadette as “The Immaculate Conception”: an 1854 dogma defined by Pope Pius IX, and a phrase that Bernadette had never even heard before. To escape her new found and undesired fame, 22-year old Bernadette left Lourdes to join the Sisters of Charity convent in Nevers, but upon her arrival, even the mistress of novices complained: “If the Blessed Virgin wanted to appear on Earth, why would she choose a coarse and uneducated peasant, rather than a learned and virtuous religious?” Bernadette spent the rest of her life there, working primarily as an infirmary assistant. But after years of difficult health issues, including asthma, Bernadette died from tuberculosis in 1879 at only 35 years old. Amazingly, Bernadette then joined a small group of saints, known as The Incorruptibles, whose bodies have refused to decompose after death. St. Bernadette’s visions in Lourdes have inspired dozens of books, and four major motion pictures…including 1943′s Oscar-winning film, Song of Bernadette. Today, in France, only Paris has more hotels than Lourdes, and more than 5 million pilgrims seeking healing and renewed faith visit the small town every year…To-date, 67 people have experienced cures that the Lourdes Medical Bureau has classified as inexplicable. But, St. Bernadette herself said that only faith and prayer can cure, which is probably why she was named the patron saint of the sick. Bernadette was beatified in 1925, then canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1933…and while the Vatican declared the apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes “worthy of belief”, Bernadette’s canonization was not founded on the visions, but rather on the holiness she exhibited in her life. …and that’s how a shy, young French girl became the saint we know today.
Britain's Inane Royal Succession Laws
and Ancient Anti-Catholic Bigotry. In England, because the head of the Church of England is also the reigning Monarch (even if they have like, uh, zero theological training) the monarch cannot be married to a Catholic. That prohibition dates back to the 1600s and the bloody religious wars after the reformation and King Henry offed the heads of a few tossed wives. No Papery in the Royal House of Head-Offing. So if the reigning Monarch is a Man, the King, he can still be King or King-to-be if he is a batchelor, if he marries a Scientologist, a practical Athiest worshipper of snideness a la Hitchens, a Satanist, a New Agey crystal wearing voodooist or a Muslim. He just can't marry a Catholic. ARE YOU KIDDING! HUGE numbers of Catholics live under your House. More than Half of all of Ireland is Catholic. Tony Blair's wife can be catholic and Tony can turn Catholic, but Prince Charles cannot ever give Camilla a title "Queen" because she is Catholic- and divorced (another story.) She also is a bit on the trampey side if you ask me for carrying on adulterously under Diana's nose (sorry Prince Chuck.) http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/04/15/succession.laws/index.html?hpt=C1 And lets not talk, shall we about the eldest daughter slight. If there are ANY male heirs, even the youngest child who is a dolt and completely uninterested in anything but cricket, polo and football, he gets to be King over the smart saavy oldest sister who speaks five languages and writes poetry in three of them. I for one sincerely hope that they do change the mess. It seems too gracious to call it 'discriminatory.' I think it downright nutty. Schtupit. - and it's not because I think dashing Prince Charles is eventually going to leave Camilla and marry me:-) He does paint lovely watercolors doesn't he. http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35892/amateur-artworks-by-britains-royal-family-are-celebrated-in-england/
Friday, April 15, 2011
Both Right
Both Wrong
That's a possibility maybe.
The thing most obnoxious about the birthers is that they impute some nepharious fraudulent motive of the President. What if he was actually born in Kenya but was never told about it and everything was done to ensure that he always believed he was born in Hawaii and a US Citizen because his family are great patriots? Perhaps his mother did travel to meet the rest of the family (if you love the father of your child, chances are you really will want to visit his homeland and travel wherever you need to in order to meet the family especially if you know you are pregnant.)
But suppose that she decided she didn't much care for living in Kenya after a few weeks so as soon as he was born, she flew back to Hawaii. And he never knew he was born in Kenya. Then it isn't some nepharious plot. It isn't some master con. It's just a mother protecting her son who believed her. So we are going to undo a President because of innocenet mistake of birth verification? We are going to undo two years of legislation over that? That's a rather sui generis case, don't you think- and not worth bothering over. I repeat, Trump is a Chump. Get over it already.
That's a possibility maybe.
The thing most obnoxious about the birthers is that they impute some nepharious fraudulent motive of the President. What if he was actually born in Kenya but was never told about it and everything was done to ensure that he always believed he was born in Hawaii and a US Citizen because his family are great patriots? Perhaps his mother did travel to meet the rest of the family (if you love the father of your child, chances are you really will want to visit his homeland and travel wherever you need to in order to meet the family especially if you know you are pregnant.)
But suppose that she decided she didn't much care for living in Kenya after a few weeks so as soon as he was born, she flew back to Hawaii. And he never knew he was born in Kenya. Then it isn't some nepharious plot. It isn't some master con. It's just a mother protecting her son who believed her. So we are going to undo a President because of innocenet mistake of birth verification? We are going to undo two years of legislation over that? That's a rather sui generis case, don't you think- and not worth bothering over. I repeat, Trump is a Chump. Get over it already.
Don't Say I Didn't Warn You
OBAMA is a One Termer.
There is little doubt in my mind. Maybe a five percent doubt on a good day.
The alternatives are still frightening. Nothing pallatable has emerged.
I don't just base it on what has happened over the last two years or resistence to Obamacare or the kind of 'change' that looks like happened or is coming- but on the fact that all the Red States are now (Arizona just passed it) forcing in laws that require Proof of Citizenship before someone is allowed to be on the ballot in their state for President to comport with the Constitutional requirement. What "Proof" actually is required will be tied up in courts-my guess for years.
The birther bonkers is stirring up an angle --anything to hang their hat on- flimsy or credible or not- and with Trumps money dump it is taking hold in previously unheard of corners. He is shedding light for example on statements of people in Kenya indicating that folks in Kenya say that they know with certainty he was born there and there are under the radar markers and celebrations- (making it look like the biggest con this country ever saw which ticks folks off whether true or not.) Will the "Certificate of Live Birth" suffice to "Prove" citizenship according to the Arizona Law and others like it? Don't know. But the Don't know part makes the return on investment look a thousand times riskier.
That is why I have always said the Dems need to put someone up in the Primary next to the Fearless Leader. Just saying- or else lose everything. Kind of a big gamble for people who think the policy agenda is at risk (and not saying I am on board with all the policy objectives either- just sayin.)
POSTSCRIPT
AZ Law vetoed by the Governor.
Wow.
OK- so much for trying that trick.
Will it catch on? How many states are totally red with red in all chambers??
There is little doubt in my mind. Maybe a five percent doubt on a good day.
The alternatives are still frightening. Nothing pallatable has emerged.
I don't just base it on what has happened over the last two years or resistence to Obamacare or the kind of 'change' that looks like happened or is coming- but on the fact that all the Red States are now (Arizona just passed it) forcing in laws that require Proof of Citizenship before someone is allowed to be on the ballot in their state for President to comport with the Constitutional requirement. What "Proof" actually is required will be tied up in courts-my guess for years.
The birther bonkers is stirring up an angle --anything to hang their hat on- flimsy or credible or not- and with Trumps money dump it is taking hold in previously unheard of corners. He is shedding light for example on statements of people in Kenya indicating that folks in Kenya say that they know with certainty he was born there and there are under the radar markers and celebrations- (making it look like the biggest con this country ever saw which ticks folks off whether true or not.) Will the "Certificate of Live Birth" suffice to "Prove" citizenship according to the Arizona Law and others like it? Don't know. But the Don't know part makes the return on investment look a thousand times riskier.
That is why I have always said the Dems need to put someone up in the Primary next to the Fearless Leader. Just saying- or else lose everything. Kind of a big gamble for people who think the policy agenda is at risk (and not saying I am on board with all the policy objectives either- just sayin.)
POSTSCRIPT
AZ Law vetoed by the Governor.
Wow.
OK- so much for trying that trick.
Will it catch on? How many states are totally red with red in all chambers??
Thursday, April 14, 2011
PRINCE VINCENT!
THIS IS JUST GEORGEOUS! TWINS! Look at the Christening Gowns! Lets all have twins! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/prince-vincent-princess-josephine_n_849271.html#s264569
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Employment Law
The Crib Notes I have to give this talk to prospective clients repeatedly so I thought I would just put it here for you. Please read this before you try to retain me and waste my time. This is not legal advice because I don't know you. It's just my particular perspective on life as an attorney who has litigated for longer than I want to. It is not illegal or against the law to be an arrogant jerk. If it were we would have to construct courthouses in every 7-11 and Starbucks for all the claims. That goes for bosses and for you. If your coworkers hate you it is not legally permissible to disguise the fact that you are an arrogant jerk by calling them racists, homophobes, or religious bigots. If you do, they are required to investigate it or they will be charged with "Retaliation" which can be a worse bite than the first accusation. So when they "investigate" it is not grounds for a Retaliation charge. That's their job. Lastly, juries have mixed feelings about giving arrogant jerks the lottery winning of a punitive award. Some of those huge multimillion dollar awards you have read about involve more than one person and involve lots of serious facts and I have to evaluate fairly whether you have anything close. So don't get mad if I tell you that the comment you thought was discriminatory wasn't. Finally, because you cry at the sound of your own heartbeat doesn't mean everything is emotionally distressing under legal standards. That is a high threshold to meet. If it were not so we would have to have courthouses in every 7-11 and Starbucks. So if you are an arrogant jerk who cries at the sound of your own heartbeat my advise is try to get along with your coworkers unless you want a long unpaid vacation or prefer what the Brits call 'the Dole.' Because there is actually such a thing as "work competency" and "fitness for duty."
Stunning Moral Eclipse
Cultural Collapse. Remember in law school when they joked, look to your left, look to your right, one of you won't be here at graduation? Because they wanted to scare you that statistically a third of the class dropped out? (in Georgetown I don't think it was that bad but that was the scary joke.) Here is no joke: Sit in any collection of women under the age of 40, look to the left, look to the right, one of you had an abortion and possibly more than one. One third of all American women under the age of 40 has had at least one abortion. (present company excluded-I never had one but for the Grace of God alone I was saved the cultural slaughter). So Democrats are playing a numbers game- a third of the country isn't going to outlaw what they did to turn themselves into something unrespectable for doing so. This perpetuates the cultural intentional blindness. The more it goes on, the more people seek to self-justify themselves. That's exactly the psychology of how it worked during the Third Reicht. For those who knew what was going on, it was so commonplace and so many people involved in knowing about it (entire towns watched and did nothing while their Jewish neighbors were being rounded up and carted off) that they seek to self-justify to placate their consciences. Because thinking the reality of the alternative- that a mass killing spree totally unjustified is going on unabated-and you participated in it- is too much to bear. For every abortion there is a man behind a torched pregnancy who did what? Left? Abused emotionally someone? Pressured her to get rid of it? All guilty as sin. Look to your left, look to your right, and now count the Democratic registrations among them.
Washington
Welcomes Springtime. 
"The beautiful spring flowers are made possible by the brutalizing cold and snow of winter."-Korean Poet.
"The beautiful spring flowers are made possible by the brutalizing cold and snow of winter."-Korean Poet. Jesus
In the darkest places. What does this look like to you? It is a scrap heap of schrapnel and armaments from the Bosnian/Balkan war. In Bosnia now there is a town called Medjugorje where war orphans have been looked after in a place called "Mother's Village" now under the care of Franciscan Father SVET. If you turn this pile of schrapnel and armanents on it's side axis to the left you see a hanging crucifix. That is how it is standing in the chapel in the heart of this orphanage. Palm Sunday we see Jesus riding triumphantly on a humble donkey into town hailed by all as a miracle working hero. A week later he is strung up to die in humiliating fashion after an occupying power tortured him to near death by merciless flogging. This cross stands in reminder that Jesus turns War into Resurrection. Not even death can hold him down. Not even War, Not even Torture. What could be a better basis for Hope. 
Note to Alan Simpson
I am a Woman and You Don't Speak For Me.
Abortion encourages demeaning of women and sexploitation of women. It is a man's solution to their unbridled promiscuity. Just "take care of it" if you find yourself with child after I get to have my way with you as many times as I want and we don't need a mere "paper" of marriage. The social covenant was lost. The Abortion exponential explosion came hand in hand with the "sexual revolution" where the mass deception ethic of unlimited sexual gratification and pleasure with no natural repercussion was propagated that demeaned and demoralized women and turned them into objects for male sexual gratification without emotional connection or any sense of social responsibility. This is harmful, not helpful to women.
Additionally, it is beyond contention that health risks of abortion to women have been wildly understated, in the service of the same above ethic. Abortion mutilates women in large numbers. It renders them forever infertile in large numbers. It psychologically destroys them in large numbers, because killing off your child, if you realize what you have done is about the biggest betrayal of womanhood that exists. It is a denial of self in a profound existential way.
So it is totally astounding that Planned Parenthood is allowed to perpetuate their myth of being a women's movement issue, and it is disturbing that so many women have bought into the myth.
I don't care whether the legislators are male or female who look at this seriously- but seriously they must- because we have not done a good enough job instructing people on the evils of abortion and it does not help to lie to the country about what Planned Parenthood is all about and pretend we aren't federally funding the mess.
Those issues all have to be looked at, and that is even before you even get to the part about abortion being the tortured delimbing dismemberment of a live tiny human- worse torture than Guantanamo ever saw. Torture into shredded death. It's appalling. Stunningly outrageously appalling. So evil.
Abortion encourages demeaning of women and sexploitation of women. It is a man's solution to their unbridled promiscuity. Just "take care of it" if you find yourself with child after I get to have my way with you as many times as I want and we don't need a mere "paper" of marriage. The social covenant was lost. The Abortion exponential explosion came hand in hand with the "sexual revolution" where the mass deception ethic of unlimited sexual gratification and pleasure with no natural repercussion was propagated that demeaned and demoralized women and turned them into objects for male sexual gratification without emotional connection or any sense of social responsibility. This is harmful, not helpful to women.
Additionally, it is beyond contention that health risks of abortion to women have been wildly understated, in the service of the same above ethic. Abortion mutilates women in large numbers. It renders them forever infertile in large numbers. It psychologically destroys them in large numbers, because killing off your child, if you realize what you have done is about the biggest betrayal of womanhood that exists. It is a denial of self in a profound existential way.
So it is totally astounding that Planned Parenthood is allowed to perpetuate their myth of being a women's movement issue, and it is disturbing that so many women have bought into the myth.
I don't care whether the legislators are male or female who look at this seriously- but seriously they must- because we have not done a good enough job instructing people on the evils of abortion and it does not help to lie to the country about what Planned Parenthood is all about and pretend we aren't federally funding the mess.
Those issues all have to be looked at, and that is even before you even get to the part about abortion being the tortured delimbing dismemberment of a live tiny human- worse torture than Guantanamo ever saw. Torture into shredded death. It's appalling. Stunningly outrageously appalling. So evil.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Birther Bonkers
Is that any way to run a Campaign? Astonishingly, the population is enthralled with a self made mogul who fires people glibly on TV and who ran a few casinos into the ground (bankruptcy stiffing creditors how many times?) The ego on Trump surpasses his towers. And he launches his campaign sending 'investigators' on this birther bonkers madness? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/what-donald-trumps-birther-investigators-will-find-in-hawaii/237198/ There are legit policy issues to disagree respectfully on concerning how the bailouts worked out-there is the abortion planned non parenthood issue-there is the auto industry boondoggle-there is the take the whole wife's entourage and a few hundred of her closest friends to a resort in the Costa Del Sol in Spain with the kiddies thing talking the Spaniards out of prosecution of Bushie torturers thing. The not quite shutting down Guantanamo thing. etc. But the Birther Bit? Come on. Imagine what kinds of resources he will allocate to other dead end investigations. Perhaps he will send Justice Department mob prosecutors on all expense paid vacations to Sicilly for a few months on taxpayer nickels. Sign me up. I now like the "Awe Shucks Huck" straw chewing guy better- The birther bit just has such a subliminal racist overtone to it- like they think that the Dunhams would be so scandalized by their daughter marrying a black guy they sent the two of them back to Africa to have the kid so no one would notice in polite cucumber tea-sandwhich company. Come on. She didn't give birth in Kenya in 1961. Do you know what Kenya looked like in 1961? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/what-donald-trumps-birther-investigators-will-find-in-hawaii/237198/
too Kind
and they still don't get it. Michele Bachman calls Planned Parenthood the 'Lenscrafters of Big Abortion.' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/11/michele-bachmann-planned-parenthood_n_847828.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%7C55500 This is too kind. And a slander on Lenscrafters. Nothing wrong with a company that mass produces glasses cheaply and affordably so everyone can see. Planned Parenthood is the Auschwitz of Big Abortion. It's the slaughterhouse of Abortion. It's the Burger King of the cattle ranch. There is nothing healthy about Abortion- to the mother or the child. It's not a health service at all.
Monday, April 11, 2011
There Goes the Trumpsters Theory
In the Dumpster. Voila, the kindergarten photo of Obama in Hawaii. If only people remembered him? His teachers sure did- and their remembrances are all over the internet. Donald is looking like a Duck. Of all the things to ride riot on- given the economy and all. Maybe Obama was, can you imagine, a bit shy? Maybe he didn't make friends all that easily- because he was a mixed race kid with an absent father, and looked a little different than the Hawaiian kids? Maybe because he had international background, with a father from out of the country he felt a little different and had a hard time relating to kids? Then he moved to Indonesia and had an international experience that not a lot of people could relate to? I was born in Pittsburgh and you won't find anyone there who knew me when I was little because we moved when I was four to New Jersey, then again to two places in Boston, then to a suburb of Chicago, then back to Philadelphia - all before the eighth grade when we moved out of the country to London England. Next to none of the people in any of those towns will remember me- I would be shocked if they did. We lived in 11 different houses in 13 years (my Dad was a business guy who kept getting promoted to bigger and bigger territories until they gave him all of Europe and moved us to London.) Anyone who had a transient experience growing up would be hard pressed to have good childhood friends that remember them from elementary school. Doesn't mean for five seconds he wasn't born in the country. I was born in the McGee Hospital for Women. If you were pregnant, your father was sketchy on the reliable side but you had good solid midwestern parents who loved their grandkid, are you going to travel half way around the world to deliver in an African village with no running water and who would be your OBGYN? Not likely- I suppose it could happen, but not likely- and Hawaii says he was born there- so is Trump calling all Hawaii liars? Trumpster's theory hits the Dumpster. Focus on the economy and outsourcing jobs to China-you looked less like a muppet with a toupee. 
TSA- Too Sick to Address
What's a little friendly Groping by your large Uniformed Government Employee? http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/04/tsa-gives-invasive-pat-down-to-6-year-old-girl/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=caef0eeeaf-4_11_114_11_2011&utm_medium=email I have had it with the airport security- not just in this country but around the world. Frankfurt airport I rate the worst. During a recent connection I was pulled aside for not just the hand wanding but the full body pat down- and it involved a macho large German woman ordering me to take my belt off whereafter she grabbed my underwear from the inside and lunged a finger around the waisteband- checking no doubt for the 'underwear bomber.' Remind me never to wear that full length black Jones of New York raincoat overseas again. This was horrifying to my friends watching as they saw my face turn a bright speckled pink (I think my freckles turned color). I couldn't believe it. When it happens to an adult- shocking- when it happens to a six year old-disgusting and inexcusable. The Government should not be touching children or groping between their legs. A ticket to ride an airplane is not the government's ticket to molest children. Stop It. Really.
Presidential Priorities
And Budgetary Backlash How are you going to fund Planned Non Parenthood and take money away from Seniors and poor folks by defunding portions of medicaire and medicaid? Planned non Parenthood is an abortion mill- at least nearly fifty percent of all revenue comes from killing the unborn off according to their accounting- they are playing worse numbers games than Enron if they say it's only 3 percent of their business. It is against the law to fund abortions- and we are. Plain and simple- we are when we give money to Planned Parenthood-so all the sanctimonious clap trap about how you ignoramuses out there think that this money is going to abortion- is obnoxious and as deceptive as their whole operation. This is an outfit deeply rooted in deception- it is in fact demonic. From their falsifying information to get permits to build where people don't want them in communities, to falsifying information regarding risks of abortion to women, to coerse uninformed consent, to falsifying statistics in harms, infections, butcher jobs done, to falsifying that they are not in the killing business when they are. And this is what Obama is protecting while throwing grandma under the bus. Get it together people- it's indefensible- morally, politically and rationally. Just indefensible.
Fashion Police
And They Are Not Kidding The French have outlawed the public wearing of the Burkha and hijab-women's muslim veils. The ban took effect today, several women defied it and sported it, of all places, in front of Notre Dame Cathedral -literally an 'in your face' sort of showing of defiance. So they were arrested. Carted off in a police van- news cameras everywhere. Would this be a politically inspired law just on paper or would they actually enforce it? Question answered: they mean business. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42528909/ns/world_news-europe/ \ Some of the women threaten to take it to the European Court of Human Rights in Strausberg- which is an org. that hears cases having to do with a wide expression of rights- a brief survey of their current case load includes cases involving a Roma in Turkey who finds discriminatory official published language calling Romas all kinds of names, a lesbian couple from Belgium trying to adopt a child, and other issues of things people in Europe consider "rights." Sarkozy's defense is that this is a 'secular' country- so no overt religious expression at all is permitted in a public context. Very large crucifixes in fact are not permitted in public schools-only small discrete ones. What of a nun's uniform habit? Could a secular government say- we really don't want any public manifestations of religion-and we prefer seeing women's legs-so no skirts in basic black longer than your knee? Could a 'secular' government say- no yarmulkas may be worn on the street? Where is the separation of church-state or mosque -state logic when one religion is allowed to be favored over another? Or is that just the way Europeans want it?
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Congressional Investigation
Into Sacred Cows. If I went to Congress and all over the media and said, please give me 350 Million dollars because what I and my organization are doing is national building, building infrastructure and bridges and hospitals, and it turned out that really what i was doing was nothing of the kind. I was really a secret Blackwater sort of assassin outfit killing off large segments of the poorer population in countries where we operated- would that warrant a Congressional investigation into FRAUD? That is basically what Planned Parenthood is doing in so many words. They are not in the cancer prevention business, they are not treating breast cancer (it has been argued to the contrary that multiple abortions so disrupt hormone cycles mid pregnancy that it can create favorable conditions for breast cancer to develop), they do not perform mammograms. What do they do? They extract from live human tissue growing fetuses in women's wombs and they kill them off and toss them in the dumpster. They kill off growing life inside a womb. And for that they want 350 Mil. of taxpayer money- and are getting rich off their deals with the devil. So why isn't Congress investigating this massive Fraud? Because Congress appears too bought and sold by the industry that funnels through symathizers (like Nazi sympathizers) contributions back through various pro-choice orgs into campaigns. Mostly All Democratic ones. They are not nation building, they are population mass destroyers. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9766870 They recently settled a Medicaid fraud case, they have been sued in California for massive billing bilking fraud. http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=8f6ee605-b0ce-43ff-9939-65759c594d14 There is clearly enough for a congressional investigation in light of bold misrepresentations made by their President (who clearly should know that they do not offer mammograms and went all over the press touting their 'family planning/mamogram' non-existent program. It's fraud people. And you are paying for it. http://www.patriotnewsnetwork.org/2011/04/planned-parenthood-did-we-say-we-do.html
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Miracles Live In France
Too much of that great Bordeaux Wine or did 14 people see something amazing? http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Bordeaux.pdf The Eyes of Faith see Miracles. And some of my favorite ones live in France. More French Easter Miracles http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/blanot.html
The Holocaust
Was Legal Too
People forget- there was a 'leader' in the country. He was the President. The "Furer" meaning leader. He had, by an instrumentality of the state under direction of the state a 'program' in which a segment of the population was blamed for the economic ills of the country. They were too taxing to the country's budget.
So he, by use of the country's rules, laws, powers and agencies, expended resources budgetarily alloted to set up camps and exterminate six million people.
It was at the time ALL LEGAL.
Legal clearly does not mean Moral.
So the abortion arguments that the Supreme Court has rendered all this Legal, therefore the government can allot hundreds of millions of dollars to setting up 'surgical' clinics to effect abortions-targetting a group of people for the economic ills, personally taxing economically people- the entire class of the unborn-does not answer the question is it MORAL? Is it MORAL to nuke off 45-50 Million people you think get in the way of a personal economic agenda? How is that not a state fostered Holocaust when the government heavily subsidizes it?
People forget- there was a 'leader' in the country. He was the President. The "Furer" meaning leader. He had, by an instrumentality of the state under direction of the state a 'program' in which a segment of the population was blamed for the economic ills of the country. They were too taxing to the country's budget.
So he, by use of the country's rules, laws, powers and agencies, expended resources budgetarily alloted to set up camps and exterminate six million people.
It was at the time ALL LEGAL.
Legal clearly does not mean Moral.
So the abortion arguments that the Supreme Court has rendered all this Legal, therefore the government can allot hundreds of millions of dollars to setting up 'surgical' clinics to effect abortions-targetting a group of people for the economic ills, personally taxing economically people- the entire class of the unborn-does not answer the question is it MORAL? Is it MORAL to nuke off 45-50 Million people you think get in the way of a personal economic agenda? How is that not a state fostered Holocaust when the government heavily subsidizes it?
EVERYTHING
IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE LOVE OF CHRIST Even Resurrection from the living Dead. EVERYTHING. http://smallbusiness.aol.com/2011/03/14/my-first-million-bob-williamson-horizon-software-international/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl7%7Csec1_lnk3%7C55085
Mandatory Reading Before the Senate Vote
Because I know you don't read the Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/28/quietly-racking-up-the-abortion-toll/?page=1
Hillary's DisConnect
Stuns African American Anti-Abortionists. Saying "I admire Margaret Sanger enormously" for all the great stuff she did for the women's movement is like telling Jews "I admire Hitler greatly" because he was such a popular mass mobilizing charismatic figure that raised Germany from the humiliation of the Versailles Treaty. Margaret Sanger popularized and institutionalized a force of genocide that forced changes in the legal landscape that has allowed us to witness 45 Million dead pre-born infants since 1973-at a rate of three to one, African Americans over non-blacks. It is a holocaust. Mostly of poor people of color. Time the country got real. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
Victories
Shallow or Real The government won't shut down. Some compromises were reached- DC won't get any federal money for abortions. DC will get federal money for school vouchers. Those look great on paper. The issue with the Planned Parenthood business is that when money is given to them, under the pretext that they only do a small percentage of abortions (doubtful and numbers vary depending on their defenders) is that the clear laws against federal funding of abortions are cleverly circumvented by allocations to the corporation which has no accountability regarding which funds are or are not used for the prohibited purpose. The primary purpose of planned parenthood is not general overall health care for women. They are not staffed by gynological specialists. They are staffed by abortion doctors. Go look for yourself. They don't even have state pharmaceutical licenses and yet act like dispensaries for abortion pills. If you give 300 Mil. to a corporation, a private corporation, with national tentacles, and have no contraints or regulations or oversight regarding where the money goes, it is going to circumvent the ban on no federal funding for abortions. Suppose the abortion doctors are on monthly retainers and they also do pelvic exams and pap smears once a month, but 100 times a month they are performing abortions. The retainer is circumventing federal funding for abortions-and calling it a pap smear. The logic of the people who just want to throw 300 Mil to Planned Parenthood is just obviously transparently fraudulent. And people see through it. There will be serious consequences to pay if in any future vote planned parenthood is not defunded but given a budgetary pass- millions and millions of dollars for what? The Senate looks like it's padding its own pocket and campaign coffers at the expense of women and the law. This isn't as clear as everyone thinks. And no, I don't believe for five seconds that Planned Parenthood only has three percent of its budget "invested" in abortion. Not for a New York minute.
Perception is everything
When You Are Blinded By Your Own Piety
There was once a professional who thought he was being religiously persecuted as an evangelical Christian at his high level job. His co-workers on the other hand claim that he had been just objectively offensive, insulting and rude repeatedly. It was personality and had nothing to do with evangelizing. Every time some incident occurred the client thought it was the religious persecution (and he was owed money under a statute precluding it) and the coworkers insisted on their belief that he was just being a jerk and most unChristian. It was impossible for the protagonist to see beyond his paradigm construction and try to see things from the other side's perspective. The more heated it got, the more money he demanded.
I look at that scenario and look at what happened over the Planned Parenthood abortion riders in the budget impasse. The Planned Parenthood people kept insising that they -the bad republicans- were just trying to 'throw women under the bus' and deny and deprive them of free "health care", which included abortion. The other side insisted that abortion is not "health care" for anyone, it is murder of a pre-born yet quite human life, and all the other so called 'benefits' offered by Planned Parenthood for women like mammograms, cancer screenings, etc. were smokescreens, overstated statistically and further, any money supposedly going to that 'free health care' would funnel into abortions one way or another as the clinics expanded exponentially as money is fungible.
The "they are throwing women under the bus" side could not see that abortion is damaging and dangerous to women, and done in unregulated places like Planned Parenthood is outrageously risk-ridden in terms of infection, incidents of covered up abortion hackery, even unreported deaths of women which are later blamed on the emergency care they get at regular hospitals after an abortion went wrong, emotional devastation of losing a child, exponential rates of suicide increase, and the like. The side trying to stop abortion think that they are protecting women's health also. The "they are throwing women under the bus" people are stuck, like the evangelical Christian above, in the paradigm. It's free, it's about a woman's body, it must all be good. It isn't.
Before there is a Senate vote each Senator should go inside a Planned Parenthood clinic. Like a Raid. Each one should go and look at the state of sterilization of equipment and get the medical credentials of each 'doctor' who conducts abortions. Further they should send teams of people in to see what percentage of clinics actually even have any equipment to conduct mammogram testing or pre cancer screening and what they charge for it compared to the going rate at the local hospital or university clinic.
Then they should decide if the money is better spent on putting free cancer screening health clinics attached to major hospitals that have health controls, or university clinics, and segregate this from the influences of the abortion industry- the -we will keep you on the bus so we can carve the life out of you for profit- people.
There was once a professional who thought he was being religiously persecuted as an evangelical Christian at his high level job. His co-workers on the other hand claim that he had been just objectively offensive, insulting and rude repeatedly. It was personality and had nothing to do with evangelizing. Every time some incident occurred the client thought it was the religious persecution (and he was owed money under a statute precluding it) and the coworkers insisted on their belief that he was just being a jerk and most unChristian. It was impossible for the protagonist to see beyond his paradigm construction and try to see things from the other side's perspective. The more heated it got, the more money he demanded.
I look at that scenario and look at what happened over the Planned Parenthood abortion riders in the budget impasse. The Planned Parenthood people kept insising that they -the bad republicans- were just trying to 'throw women under the bus' and deny and deprive them of free "health care", which included abortion. The other side insisted that abortion is not "health care" for anyone, it is murder of a pre-born yet quite human life, and all the other so called 'benefits' offered by Planned Parenthood for women like mammograms, cancer screenings, etc. were smokescreens, overstated statistically and further, any money supposedly going to that 'free health care' would funnel into abortions one way or another as the clinics expanded exponentially as money is fungible.
The "they are throwing women under the bus" side could not see that abortion is damaging and dangerous to women, and done in unregulated places like Planned Parenthood is outrageously risk-ridden in terms of infection, incidents of covered up abortion hackery, even unreported deaths of women which are later blamed on the emergency care they get at regular hospitals after an abortion went wrong, emotional devastation of losing a child, exponential rates of suicide increase, and the like. The side trying to stop abortion think that they are protecting women's health also. The "they are throwing women under the bus" people are stuck, like the evangelical Christian above, in the paradigm. It's free, it's about a woman's body, it must all be good. It isn't.
Before there is a Senate vote each Senator should go inside a Planned Parenthood clinic. Like a Raid. Each one should go and look at the state of sterilization of equipment and get the medical credentials of each 'doctor' who conducts abortions. Further they should send teams of people in to see what percentage of clinics actually even have any equipment to conduct mammogram testing or pre cancer screening and what they charge for it compared to the going rate at the local hospital or university clinic.
Then they should decide if the money is better spent on putting free cancer screening health clinics attached to major hospitals that have health controls, or university clinics, and segregate this from the influences of the abortion industry- the -we will keep you on the bus so we can carve the life out of you for profit- people.
Friday, April 08, 2011
How Long?
How Long Did you all think that the country was going to tolerate an entire party held hostage by a powerful lobby of sleazy abortion providers who couldn't get real jobs in real hospitals if their lives depended on it? How long did you all think the country would be dupped into thinking that the planned parenthood advertising half represented what they really do? How long do you think people were going to buy Harry Reid saying it's all their fault for not wanting abortions covered under Federal Funding when he knows full well that there are no Chinese Walls regulating allocations of budgeting oversight in any Planned Parenthood office. You are all incredibly strategically blind. This isn't flying further than Orville Wright in a blizzard. The DEMs are going to pay for this big time- no one blames the Republicans for insisting that the Planned Parenthood Fraud game is up. No one blames them.
Planned Non Parenthood's
Political Slush Fund Strategy Looks like it is easy: just wildly overbill (an educated guess)- 300 Mil FOR WHAT HARRY!. http://www.citizenlink.com/2010/07/07/9th-circuit-keeps-alive-case-against-planned-parenthood/
What Harry Doesn't GET
and the DEMS refuse to Listen To. THEY DON'T DO CANCER SCREENINGS AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD. If you want to give women free pap smears give 300 MIL to Georgetown Hospital and fund a free medical clinic at the Lombardi Cancer Center for free cancer screenings/paps/mamograms. PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOES NOT DO FREE CANCER SCREENINGS. Total Disinformation. Total Lies. Total House of Crap.
Free Speech, Religious Toleration and Provacateur Fundamental Christians
What if they burned a Bible? The Catholic Conference of Bishops in Pakistan is outraged that the Protestant Pastor in Florida actually did participate in a Koran burning and wants him punished. At least detained. Something. Because it is all over You Tube and foreseeably will incite a riot-or worse-Christians get killed in those parts. I t has already taken on negative repurcussions elsewhere. http://www.cathstan.org/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubsectionID=26&ArticleID=4491 Or should we say-hey we have free speech here-we can do what we want ? Even when it incites murder elsewhere in the world? Who knows what the constitutional First Amendment says about that? Sounds like fodder for a few law review articles. Assault and battery on books isn't a crime- but what about when it is foreseeable to incite murder?
CRIMINAL
Charges Against Planned Parenthood And the gov't is supposed to give them 300 Mil- ??? For what? BAIL? http://www.operationrescue.org/archives/107-criminal-charges-against-planned-parenthood-finally-move-forward/ READ THE COMPLAINT http://operationrescue.org/pdfs/PPcomplaint.pdf READ THE COMPLAINT. This is what you want the feds subsidizing? This is what the DEMS are holding the government hostage to? Beyond RIDICULOUS- really immoral.
Cecile Richards
You are Full of Crap Hate to name you by name but you remind of the slick women that corporations hire to fight against sexual harassment allegations- You are full of crap. Women go to their doctors, university clinics for their medical care when they want a child. They don't go to Planned Parenthood- you know you are full of it- that is not why people go to planned parenthood. If the government wanted to fund FREE health care for women they should pour 300 mil. into regulated, recognized medical schools, universities, and hospitals, not Planned Non Parenthood. Not a private monopolistic corporation that is insulated from med. mal suits. Who goes to Planned Parenthood to have a healthy child. NO ONE. People go there for abortions. They don't go there for condoms- they go to the drug store for that. They don't go there for pregnancy testing- they get a test at the CVS for $7.00 and if it is positive and they want the child they go to a regular physician, not planned parenthood. Sickening. Go Away.
Not A Penny To
Planned Non Parenthood It is a cesspool of coverups of statutory rape of underaged girls too shamed to report it. It is a cesspool of medical malpractice and negligence of women butchered and too shamed to report it. It is an unregulated mess. It is a scandal. The Feds have no business funding what some people consider arguably a RICO enterprise that will loop in some dem campaign contributions. It is disgusing that the Dems are holding up a budget for this and easily traceable to Emily's List and other circuitously funnelled campaign contributions. Someone is predictably going to sue Emily's List for RICO violations. http://www.abortionprolife.com/Pro-life_Abortion_Contorversy ABSOLUTELY NO FEDERAL MONEY FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD. What other corporations, monopolies get 300 Mil by name without any regulation and threaten to hold up an entire govt budget? DISGUSTING. It's not about women's health. At All. http://www.lifenews.com/2009/01/01/state-3269/ http://demoncraticnation.com/2011/02/03/planned-parenthood-in-violation-of-federal-rico-laws-but-not-being-prosecuted/
Are They Kidding?
Planned Non Parenthood
Is an unregulated slaughterhouse franchise. There are more regulations governing how a meat packing plant has to butcher beef and sanitation requirements regarding food handling than Planned Parenthood has. It is not a women's health center, it is a women's mutilation lab. They do not offer mamograms for breast cancer screening.
It is lie. Go send any incognito person into a Planned parenthood looking for a free mamogram and they will tell you they do not do it there. They don't have the equipment.
Since when do the Feds give hundreds of millions of dollars to a totally unregulated enterprise without any oversight whatsoever? Don't tell me the funds can't go to abortion by law so three hundred million dollars are not going to support abortions or the equipment or infrastructure.
The Republican Rider is sane. The Democrats, yes, you Schumer, are being ridiculous. It's really enough to make me want to change parties for good.
Is an unregulated slaughterhouse franchise. There are more regulations governing how a meat packing plant has to butcher beef and sanitation requirements regarding food handling than Planned Parenthood has. It is not a women's health center, it is a women's mutilation lab. They do not offer mamograms for breast cancer screening.
It is lie. Go send any incognito person into a Planned parenthood looking for a free mamogram and they will tell you they do not do it there. They don't have the equipment.
Since when do the Feds give hundreds of millions of dollars to a totally unregulated enterprise without any oversight whatsoever? Don't tell me the funds can't go to abortion by law so three hundred million dollars are not going to support abortions or the equipment or infrastructure.
The Republican Rider is sane. The Democrats, yes, you Schumer, are being ridiculous. It's really enough to make me want to change parties for good.
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Keeping the Baby
And not Throwing it Out With the Budget MOM decides not to abort while they discovered breast cancer during her pregnancy. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42483187#42483187 VERY SPECIAL DELIVERY http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42483187#42459437 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42483187#42459437
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Do Not Cave
On Federal Funding For Abortion There is absolutely NO constitutional right to federal funding in abortion. There is a law called the Hyde Amendment against it and there was an executive order when OBAMA had his back against the wall in the negotiations on obamacare regarding it. The DNC is now headed by Debbie Wasserman Schultz- a Emily's List A rater- a spit in the face of any pro-life Democrat, and the party is going to see how well that plays in 2012. There is absolutely NO Constitutional Right to Federal Funding in Abortion- it is absolutely sickening that the Democrats insist Planned Parenthood be anywhere in the budget. Inexcusable. The majority of the country will let you all know how they feel in 2012 and don't say I didn't warn you. So dumb i can't believe they pay anyone over there political consultant fees (including the DNC Veep, Ms What 2004 voting fraud herself)
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Happy Birthday RYAN
Soon to be ONE.
Mother single, father African American, Ryan (my great-niece)- not obviously aborted.
NO FEDERAL FUNDING FOR PLANNED NON PARENTHOOD or DC Abortions.
Ideology
or 'Path to Poverty'???
If we are funding one dollar of Planned Parenthood we are crazy. Beyond the Pale. This isn't "muscle" (per Schumer) this is Placental hemmhorage. Don't fund Planned Parenthood. It's insane that should even be on the table.
If we are funding one dollar of Planned Parenthood we are crazy. Beyond the Pale. This isn't "muscle" (per Schumer) this is Placental hemmhorage. Don't fund Planned Parenthood. It's insane that should even be on the table.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
A Republic
If You Can Keep It. America teeters back and forth between empire and republic. A constitutional republic has to follow the constitution. What that means keeps lawyers in business. What that does not mean, however, is that one guy called a President gets to take the whole country to war because he says so. Today the strangest bedfellows of disaffected alienated peace activists, catoesque libertarians, conservative republicans and a congressman (I am guessing an "R" ) on the Hill today, courtesy of Cato, met to discuss the constitutionality or lack thereof regarding the Libya air strikes and invasion. One panelist noted that Truman refused to call the Korean War a war, calling it instead an international police effort, and similarly offended the constitution. The congressman was more than a bit peaved that Obama thought he could take the US to war through international NATO treaty and UN fiat without congressional approval. This is not how it works in this Republic. The founders, he argued really did not want to create a country where a King could by fiat take the entire country at his whim or will to war. The War Powers Act, contrary to popular opinion does not give a President a window of 60 or 90 days to get Congressional approval- that time frame is not even invokable unless one of three conditions are first met to go to war -none of which have even purported to be the case in the libya scenario. One of the prongs is an imminent danger of attack on the US or its military forces. That was what all the pretext and made up nonsense about WMDs and yellow cake in Niger was about before Iraq. They were trying to create a pretext to go to War. Obama figured the country is too smart to be lied to again and his base wouldn't tolerate it so used the UN mandated humanitarian justification instead. On policy grounds some people are still with him because of how they percieve Khadaffi and his actions. Even some Republicans are still with him for attacking Libya. This Congressperson however is determined to give the President a wrist slapping for ignoring Congress before launching air strikes. Actions of a variety of punishments will be debated and efforts will be made to tie in cutting off funding with the new budget proposals that threaten to shut down the government by Friday. Empires go about the world starting aggressively military actions, bombing countries and taking out regimes. Republics have checks and balances- and are predicated on consent of the people. Obama did go to the Senate but not the House and Congress is bicameral. The House is Republican controlled so no wonder. Is it better to ask forgiveness than permission? And if it all works out in the end the way he wanted is the President going to care his wrist was slapped? Doubt it. There are BILLIONS of dollars of oil leases and frozen bank accounts now at stake, and the President might like some for his re-election campaign.
Monday, April 04, 2011
Are you a Mirror Kisser
or a People Hugger? Narcisism appears to be the prevalent cultural norm in higher political life. Overexposure to press and media seems to be the preferred sport of some politicians. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-barry-kaufman/do-narcissists-know-they-_b_840894.html I shall name no names but you know who you are and probably kiss the proverbial mirror weekly. Washington Dc is full of status seekers. And the 'common man' (if ever man could be but common) is sick of it. The model rock star of all time without trying was Jesus. He didn't run a PR campaign -and in fact a lot of time after performing an astounding miracle he told people to hush up and not tell anyone and hid and prayed in the mountains by himself. Shhhhhh. I don't want to be mobbed. Jesus walked around the country doing unbelievable miracles on the sly. All the time. Could hardly get out of bed without doing something unbelievable. Which is why lots of people didn't believe him. Let's just take one example. He loved Mary and her sister Martha. We aren't sure what kind of love- any seriously matrimonial love that may have existed has in sexist fashion been written out of scripture, but he loved hanging out at their house and eating their food, sharing meals with them. They had a brother, Lazarus. After whom the train station in Paris is named - Saint Lazare. Lazarus it turns out died. His sisters naturally were besides themselves with grief. It appears that he was the only man of the house- we don't know where their father was, but we know this family unit- Mary, Martha and their brother Lazarus and Jesus liked coming over for dinner. Lazarus was dead it turns out for quite some time, he had already been embalmed with burial spices, wrapped in a burial cloth and stuck in a tomb, when Jesus heard about it. It is the one place in scripture where we learn that "Jesus Wept." Was he weeping because his brother in law died or because he knew Mary was grief stricken? Was Lazarus the keeper of the secrets between Mary and Jesus and how did he die? Did he die of some disease or did someone try to poison him. Did Jesus think he might have been killed because he was the keeper of the secrets between Jesus and Mary? Not to get too DAVINCI CODE on you, but people died all the time in ancient Israel under the Romans. Why do we know Jesus wept here? Jesus (you know the story) approaches where the tomb of Lazarus is and he loudly orders him to come out of it. "Lazarus come out"- With his WORDS he raised back to life a dead man. With his WORDS, he proclaimed it and it came to be. With his WORDS he recreated lost life. And after he did this he didn't issue a press release. Because when you save, when you raise the dead, when you recreate life, you won't be able to suppress the word getting out- everyone will know and be amazed. It's the opposite of Narcissism demanding vainly everyone look at you. It's giving an amazing gift of life giving words that then everyone can't stop talking about. Words create Life. Just like in the beginning when God Said let there be...and there was...over and over again.
Just Say No
To Bank of America One judge saved a family from the obvious privacy rape of a traumatic eviction by faulting the securitization of the loan that was pooled into a mortgage backed security. That family saved from the street by judicial ingenuity probably didn't know what saved them. http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/real-estate/court-busted-securitization-prevents-foreclosure/19900530/
Legally Ambushed
or Just Scamming? Some of these eviction lawyers should be tied upside down by their toenails for the stuff they pull on people. May the Karma attach to all their children.
On the African
Horns of a Dilemna Today at the Center for American Progress there was one Libyan defector who previously was an Ambassador to Khadaffi's regime and now wants regime change and is on the side of and part of the new provisional opposition counsel. He came peddling his cause for more arms. He doesn't want any foreign troops on the land. He says thanks to Quatar and the UAE and great thanks and applause to Obama without whom they would be doomed and have lost their shirts. He also wants all the frozen assets Khadaffi's family has in the US and in Britain and France believed to be combined over fifty billion dollars (dollar/euro equivalent). Looking like the biggest heist the world has seen where the US freezes assets, and turns it over to the side we like- with obvious apparent potential for dealing and wheeling over who gets what- 50 Billion of who gets what. Clearly, someone is going to get filthy rich off nuking Khadaffi's family and I can imagine who on this side of the pond is lining up for their share of democratic spoils. As for the arms dealers? Who besides Boeing is going to strike gold? Buy stock in Boeing now people. Oh-and the entire Army of CHAD has been hired as mercenaries for the Khadaffi side. Oh, and an Israeli company brokered the deal. We send in troops we are fighting the entire army of CHAD and a few other african countries--and we think we can come out with any limbs left? Maybe the US should take off the top the costs of the No Fly zone from the frozen assets. No response to the question asked by a reporter "Has anyone said that's legal?" Looks like a raid after a bomb throwing festival of a sitting sovereign ruler. The UN Resolution didn't demand regime change or challenge the sovereignty of Libya. This defector gave no room for mediation or compromise rebuffing all Khadaffi's family and sons. He said the Libyans are not tolerating any longer the "we rule you or we kill you" ethic of the Khadaffi family. This is what Obama means when he says Khadaffi has "lost all legitimacy." The problem is while the defector has a loud Microphone and sounds like he talks for "all the libyan people" the jury is still out on that one. All but the ones fighting for Khadaffi- and beating back the rebels city by city in some cases. All but the ones paid for by him.
Campus
Clean-Up Colleges across the country are getting Joe Biden's attention in the wake of the Title IX suit Yale is dealing with endangering some half a billion federal funding that it gets. Female students at yale have experienced what is believed to be a classic sexually hostile work environment in which they have to walk through mobs of men shouting "no means yes and yes means anal" and "We Love Yale Sluts" and the like. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372356/Yale-University-investigation-failing-stop-sexual-misconduct-harassment-campus.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Don't get me started on how shameful and disgusting this all is. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/education/04violence.html?_r=1&nl=us&emc=politicsemailema4
Sunday, April 03, 2011
I Found You Harmon
See this Movie. I know the Producer. He's Genuis. KASLOW http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/ Opening Tax Day in a Theatre Near You. Is this the movie that liberals are running scared of? Is it money that is the root of all evil or the disordered love of it? -----or is it the failure to take care of the poor under your eyes on your walk to work ---- Who are 'The Poor'- and why is it 'blessed to be "poor in spirit"? What does that have to do with humility. Why is it easier for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of Heaven than for a Camel to go through the 'eye of the needle'-(a narrow sliver of an entranceway in Jerusalem in Jesus' day)-the movie doesn't ask that- I'm just askin.
http://www.biblicalhebrew.com/nt/camelneedle.htm
http://www.biblicalhebrew.com/nt/camelneedle.htm
Saturday, April 02, 2011
JESUS
Not Just A Prophet, Not Just A Rebbi
Jesus of Nazareth, is the key. When you figure out who he is, you get that he is the Key. Call him whatever you want- He's the key that is the light tunnell to heaven, he is your soul's redemptive salvation, he is the Lord, the giver of all Life.
If I told you that I met a man who saw a lake that his friends were fishing on and proceeded to step out into the water and did not sink, but kept walking on the water would you want to know who that was? How about a guy who picked up some dirt from the ground, spat in it, and rubbed in the eyes of a man congenitally blind from birth, who then washed it off, and could see everything. Would you want to know who that guy was who could do that? What if I told you he didn't have any medical degree, he wasn't a licensed doctor. If i told you a guy held a rally, a sort of peace rally in the hills where four or five thousand people showed up and wanted to make sure no one went hungry while listening to him (they could fall asleep) so he took just a piece of fish and a few loaves of bread, and distributed it, and it mysteriously multiplied so that everyone had their fill and there were baskets left over. TWELVE baskets left over. Would you want to know who that guy was? What if I told you that a guy who had so many demons possessing him that he frothed and foamed at the mouth, never held a job and was basically considered the outcast lunatic that people ran from- and this guy commanded all the demons to get out of him and they fled such that the man was then normal and sane-while the demons ran into possessing an entire herd of pigs that flung themselves off a cliff. Would you want to know who that guy was? What if i told you that there was a woman who had an improperly diagnosed hemhorage for about twelve years such that she was so unclean no man could touch her (she likely suffered emotional torment, likely was unmarried and likely a scorned social outcast) and by merely grabbing the hem of the garment of this guy she was instantaneously cured- would you want to know who that guy was? What if I told you that this was all the same guy! Wouldn't you really want to meet this guy!
There's more. Lots more. So much more books couldn't contain it all.
Jesus, that Jew from Nazareth. He can get you to heaven. Trust Him.
Find a local priest. If the first one offends you or turns you off find another one.
They know something you don't. You want to know.
Jesus of Nazareth, is the key. When you figure out who he is, you get that he is the Key. Call him whatever you want- He's the key that is the light tunnell to heaven, he is your soul's redemptive salvation, he is the Lord, the giver of all Life.
If I told you that I met a man who saw a lake that his friends were fishing on and proceeded to step out into the water and did not sink, but kept walking on the water would you want to know who that was? How about a guy who picked up some dirt from the ground, spat in it, and rubbed in the eyes of a man congenitally blind from birth, who then washed it off, and could see everything. Would you want to know who that guy was who could do that? What if I told you he didn't have any medical degree, he wasn't a licensed doctor. If i told you a guy held a rally, a sort of peace rally in the hills where four or five thousand people showed up and wanted to make sure no one went hungry while listening to him (they could fall asleep) so he took just a piece of fish and a few loaves of bread, and distributed it, and it mysteriously multiplied so that everyone had their fill and there were baskets left over. TWELVE baskets left over. Would you want to know who that guy was? What if I told you that a guy who had so many demons possessing him that he frothed and foamed at the mouth, never held a job and was basically considered the outcast lunatic that people ran from- and this guy commanded all the demons to get out of him and they fled such that the man was then normal and sane-while the demons ran into possessing an entire herd of pigs that flung themselves off a cliff. Would you want to know who that guy was? What if i told you that there was a woman who had an improperly diagnosed hemhorage for about twelve years such that she was so unclean no man could touch her (she likely suffered emotional torment, likely was unmarried and likely a scorned social outcast) and by merely grabbing the hem of the garment of this guy she was instantaneously cured- would you want to know who that guy was? What if I told you that this was all the same guy! Wouldn't you really want to meet this guy!
There's more. Lots more. So much more books couldn't contain it all.
Jesus, that Jew from Nazareth. He can get you to heaven. Trust Him.
Find a local priest. If the first one offends you or turns you off find another one.
They know something you don't. You want to know.
What Institutional Pervasive, Severe, Ongoing
Sexist Discrimination Looks Like
and companies always try to find the best looking brightest gal to defend the allegations and trash all the other women.
and companies always try to find the best looking brightest gal to defend the allegations and trash all the other women.
War Is
Big Business Ever notice all those Boeing commercials right before the msnbc telecasts on the invasion? If we didn't war we wouldn't need companies making tons of bombers would we? So why are the Feds Bailing out a bank majority owned by the Libyan government, e..g. the big Khadaffi himself evading sanctions by shelling the assets in a subsidiary? What are we-12? Are you smarter than a fifth grader foreign policy. http://www.thenation.com/blog/159621/why-federal-reserve-propping-bank-libya
Religious Liberty For All
Cardinal McCarrick Addresses the US Senate on the need to protect religious liberty of also Muslims in the US. http://www.hcef.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=790792939:us-cardinal-defends-rights-of-muslims&catid=1:news&Itemid=229 In the early evening of April 5, Conflict Solutions International is hosting at Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC (across from the State Department) a panel discussion on Islam and the West (see, http://www.csiorg.org/) featuring the prominent ecumenical Presbyterian Pastor John Wimberly who is also the President of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Dr. Perlman, a noted conflict resolution professional and PHD psychologist who has held peacebuilding workshops with Yohan Galtung (considered the founder of Peace Studies internationally) and in GAZA, and other notable Muslim scholars. Reception to follow. Check http://www.csiorg.org/ for more details/logistics. I look forward to seeing you there.
Friday, April 01, 2011
One To Tawk
About Being Fodder For Ridicule. Anthony Weiner's dinner stand-up act at the last press dinner was hilarious in that adorable New York Jewish witty way that only New York Jewish comedians can do- but just one note fell flat. When he made the comment about Michele Bachman in Iowa to run for President "and that's all I have for that joke" I got nervous. ---because this is exactly NOT how to gain points for the democrats- you don't mock women attorneys whatever their differences of policy or opinion. The cultural juxtaposition between the haughty snide joke crackin wise acres from New York and a mother of four from the heartland who is also a lawyer and a two term representative (e.g. her people love her) doesn't play in Peoria. This kind of stuff, with the rolling your eyes at newscasters "are you done?" -newscasters who in one case is in addition to being a highly rated media professional is also a female attorney (as if cute nets out intelligence), backfires. It just shows lack of respect for anyone not of your cultural ilk. I hope this kind of wise-acre stuff doesn't progress too far into the 2012 season or the Dems will be in for a rude surprise, because middle America finds that just rude. And disrespectful to women. Whatever striped women. Even women who think other women are out to lunch policywise don't like it when wise acre men derride and mock them. There is really nothing a "joke" about a two term House Representative, a tax attorney reformer and mother of four running for President. What-you prefer a teeny weeney Wiener?
What Outsourcing?
JOBS jobs JOBS To China railes The Donald. (this is actually an april fools prank with pink peanuts in a cubicle for shipping but it makes a more profound point) What exactly are we doing to save American industries and create more? That is going to be the signature question in 2012.
CRACK ME UP
Sin Venial or Mortal? There's an App For That. and its $1.99.
Properly done confession can serve as spiritual healing. Priests can be profound spiritual healers. "It's free therapy" my mother used to say. You can get a load off by telling it like it is-and the Priests for the most part are not there to judge you but to bring clarity to move forward-
'Avance En Large.'
So these apps crack me up- this one lists 400 sins and classifies them into venial and mortal. If you have to go to an app to know you are in mortal sin I have to wonder about you.
But, this is an 'evil and adulterous generation' and spiritual blindness comes with the territory. Perhaps people only believe their depravity when it is staring them in the face from their i-phones. But seriously folks, there is no replacing a real flesh and blood priest. I had one even lay hands on my head in the confessional to try to cure me of the hurts that inspired a lack of forgiveness. Laying hands on the spiritually sick is totally scriptural and works. Try getting your i-phone to do that.
The Character Assaults on Christians
Everywhere- not just in the US This is being addressed in Europe particularly as the secularist extremists try to mock out serious Catholics/Christians from higher office. http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-32191 The US has different forms of Christianity and as many groups as reflect the different forms. This European Group seeks to assist in particular Christians in public life- which may or may not be right-left characterizable.
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