Cinderella Says

Take your kiddies to the Children in Literature and Art exhibit http://www.childrensartandliterature.com/

on the grounds of the RATNER MUSEUM (see, below). (Cinderella and Prince Charming above featured)

And here is what you do with your left-over Thanksgiving smashed potato;- make potato pancakes --by mincing onion, green and orange pepper, mushroom, grated Gruyere cheese and garlic all together with the smash potatoes, salt, pepper and here's the kicker for heat-sprinkled chili pepper- spooning into the oiled frying pan, flip when golden brown. Yeeeaaah!

A Treasure In Our Midst-The Ratner Museum

A Discovery To Be Thankful For: The Ratner Museum, in suburban DC -http://www.ratnermuseum.com/

A friend took me to see this Museum. Find it. If you are anywhere near DC over Thanksgiving or Christmas you don't want to miss this one tucked in the suburbs. The same sculptor who sculpted some of the statues at the Ellis Island Museum in New York are featured here in the permanent collection.

They have an amazing collection of First (Old ) Testament bible scenes. I would say this is a mandatory outing for any Catholic school or bible class. Make an afternoon of it- they have classes in the carriage house. It's just spectacular art.

Please Pray (HARD)

For One Of My Favorite Senators- Bob Casey



Who if he does the right thing should get the Saint Thomas Moore Award of the Century.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/health/policy/27abortion.html?_r=1&nl=us&emc=politicsemailema3

A Twist on Mother Theresa's 'do it anyway' theology

Times that Try Men's (and Women's) Souls.

Stuffing cooked inside the Turkey? Did you learn to cook in a barn? Cranberry out of a can? Are you mad woman? Pumpkin pie with cream cheese not condensed milk? Are you trying to poison us or just get us fat? Holiday can be a bit testy with personalities and peculiarities of family that get all together just a few special times a year. In case you didn't ask-yes, it's your turn to do all the dishes.

That reminds me of Mother Theresa's 'do it anyway' litany.

People will impute the greatest acts of love you gave with the most nefarious motives- do it anyway. They will feel like total jerks later. Then you can tell them how many karats you want.


http://www.prayerfoundation.org/mother_teresa_do_it_anyway.htm

[3; 4 is a bit gauche and makes my finger look fat.]

Holiday Mirthery: muppets do scaramouche

I'M THANKSFUL FOR

A Democratic White House

If they don't just stay the same abominable course.

I'm Thankful For....all the Republicans who will have to eat their hats.

I'm Thankful For....TRUTH.

Happy Thanksgiving to my Fellow TRUTH Addicts and junkies.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. We trust you all have something for which to be thankful. (Happy Turkey Day back at you to the folks at the Posse List.)

The 935 Bold Faced Lies That Schnookered Half the World

The Iraq Trap-Don't You Feel Dumb Now


http://projects.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/?gclid=CKm4iMT4pp4CFR9M5Qod0jTOUQ

Now You Are Really In Trouble-The Brits Are On To You

You Can Only Run A Master-Scam Like A War For So Long

What Weapons of Mass Destruction? Inquiring minds in Britain want to know what the real deal was, and why they were so bloody dumb as to just take Bush's word for anything.
http://www.sphere.com/2009/11/25/british-launch-inquiry-into-iraq-war/

And they don't own Chevron stock so don't care who they expose.
ITS ABOUT DEAD KIDS

Love This Guy Holder

Could it possibly be (just askin') that Gulliani (or however you spell his name) doesn't want

trials in NYC of terror suspects because someone might ask (a) so why did Mr. Mayor G. put a gag order on the firefighters to prevent any talk about the internal demolition explosions at the World Trade Towers? (b) so why did Mr. Mayor G. know to leave the building at the World Trade Towers where he had some central command office. Not that this might impact the evidence in any respect concerning whether these characters actually were the masterminds of those events-where three buildings melted in internal demolitions and only two were hit- to name a few anomalies that the Patriots Question 911 Truthers posit (google it- I am tired of defending them.) THINK FOR YOURSELF ya mindless automatron eater of whatever garbage they want to stuff down your throat. Seriously, Are you that hungry fool?

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20091120133657843

More Bloody War Gore

THE LOVERS CHOICES

Love Hits You For Real
Once in a great while.
You either believe in the deal
or change that dial.
You either trust that its true
or trust in your doubt
You either have faith
or flail wildly about
in sarcasm and shouting
mockery.
You either believe in love
or doubt you are worthy.
You either grab the ring
and rise to sing
or swim in disbelief and grief.
The saddest Crucifixion is the one
done to yourself by you
Because you believed in the lie
more than the truth.

One to think over at Thanksgiving

And Count Your Blessings

http://www.aolhealth.com/health/rom-houben-coma?icid=mainmaindl3link4http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolhealth.com%2Fhealth%2From-houben-coma

Republican "Purity"

War for the sake of War-and the Billions of Defense Contractor bucks-lots of which are now in Dubai.

According to one of my favorite talking heads Keith Olberman (MSNBC), the RNC has now tried to push a loyalty test, called a "purity test" (like the corrupt bunch of war profiteer terrorist fabricators collectively have the first clue about spiritual "purity"-gag me with a maggott)- and in it is a ten point litmus test they call the "Reagan test" that Reagan himself would fail. One of the litmus tests for Republican purity is that one must "support all troop surges"- In other words- regardless of whether military solutions are feasible, intelligible, calculably winnable, or productive for any other reason than lining the pockets of the defense contractors, war profiteers, and everyone feeding off them in their Bethesda and Potomac estates feeling "pure", we must all support the million dollar a soldier troop increases- because it is the basis of our War economy. This is because we are too moronic to figure out how to make that kind of money on any other sector-and haven't invested in the infrastructure development or greening technologies and other innovations that would create another basis for the economy than perpetual mindless fabricated pretextual wars to serve industry.

Unocal and it's Board, (Condi and Rumsfeld included) apparently all agreed that a pipeline in a place like Pennsylvania isn't as cost-effective as in a country with an ineffective if not non-existent federal government throughout the country and an under-developed highly corrupt legal system. In Pennsylvania we sue people for environmental disasters and contamination and have advanced labor laws and codes not to mention powerful Unions, that makes doing business there and opening pipelines there potentially expensive. We have advanced labor laws/codes, not to mention powerful Unions. something here called "class action lawsuits" which makes opening pipelines and factories in places with under-developed legal systems -or those in our pocket- more appealing. Hence, if we can get the US military to pay for security in these regions, with the blood of Americans that have nothing whatsoever to do with reaping any direct profit off it- and convince AIPAC and others in the Jewish lobby that it is in the security interest of Israel for us to go to war in these places- we can get everyone who had any sensitivity to the Hollocaust, like Richard Pearl and other Neocons, to believe that our Agenda also serves their interests. (Richard Pearl by the way it is reported backtracked on his support of the Iraq war.) -Yes, Iran may be an actual existential threat- but that doesn't justify our war efforts in Afghanistan or Iraq, which some argue exacerbated the situation and just gave the jihadist fundamentalists a better recruiting tool- because we are over there slaughtering civilians by the hundreds of thousands and that is inciting the insurgencies.


Unocal has since merged with CHEVRON- and on its board sits Sam Nunn as well as an officer/director of Northrup Grumman now.

So to be a good and 'pure' Republican- one must "support all troop surges" it appears-In other words, one must be a person of War- mindless War, War for the sake of War. Because
it's too expensive to do business properly in America.

I believe it's time for a new Party Agenda, new Party leadership, new Party innovation, and new Party direction- or the Republican Brand will be viewed as full of crap as CHARMIN.

Seriously, Are They Kidding?

They Want Us All To Pay For This?

Not As Crazy As You Think They Are

If it's too much to Swallow you will Choke on it and Suffocate.





Imagine a Halloween co-op where everykid on the block got candy no matter how rich or poor their parents that year, and every house gave out candy no matter how rich or poor because the richer houses the night before halloween came to each poor house and gave the parents a big bag of candy. How cool would that be- everyone gets candy. Everyone goes to City Hall and signs up for the Free Candy program- and mysteriously if they make below a certain annual income the candyman delivers a bag of select mixed Hersheys right to their door.

What mean miserly person would possibly object to such a "mom, flag, apple pie" program.

Now imagine that the program will only be allowed to work because it is partially underwritten by "Gillette" so there are razor blades hidden in the chocolates of one in ten bags that get delivered.

WHAT! Who in their right mind would pay for that? Who would sign up for it? Why would the rich guys want to subsidize the razor chocolates? It's morally repugnant- we don't slice the mouths up of little children!! Are you CRAZY? How off the wall?!! Who invited Gillette in the program in the first place?

We don't slice the mouths of children with razors, we just delimb them in utero, puncture their skulls with sharp instruments while they flail and kick in utero, and "extract" them delimbed and decapitated from wombs.

Now, Who Wants To Sign Up For Abortion In HealthCare?

http://www.prolifetraining.com/WMV/Abortion-Pictures-high.htm

http://www.klanparenthood.com/History_of_Abortion_Statistics/

Keeping it Real

CHARITY
IN
TRUTH

I'm Taking A Poll

"Do You Think Abortion Should Be Covered By Government Health Care?"

I asked an African American professional democratic woman who owns her own real estate brokerage business over 40. Smartly dressed in a gray designer suit, hair coiffed expensively and stylish boots that set her back a few hundred on sale as Ferrigamos.
She defines herself as "pro-choice."
"But only in early stages of a pregnancy-not for birth control for stupid women "
I asked "Do you think abortion should be covered by Goverment health care?

She replied
"Hell No- Who in their right mind would think everyone had to pay for someone else's abortions?" "I paid for my own abortions."

Who indeed? Harry Reid maybe?

Even the Homeless Guys are Upset Now

Talk About a PR Fiasco.


Today's monday morning homeless breakfast and scripture reading in a basement conference room at Saint Matthews Cathedral took a disturbing turn until one of the homeless ministry leaders reigned the conversation back on track and quieted a potential uproar over hot cocoa and day old muffins. The homeless men were actually talking about the controversy over Catholic Charities allegedly not providing certain services as a response to the same-sex marriage legislation. "The church runs the shelter! are they going to shut it because they don't like gay people? " one upset homeless man said, sitting in the scripture discussion circle. No one really wanted to talk controversy. "It's complicated."


On another note-a senior ministry leader in a Jesuit parish said "I was raised in a Non-Traditional Marriage because my parents divorced when I was 2. I lived with my Mom, my aunt and my grandmother-all women. I think I turned out fine." She was raised in a strict polish catholic home. She turned out spectacularly in fact.



I, and many head scratching people like me are incredulous if we are told that Catholic Charities or other catholic social service agencies will not, once the City has called someone gay "married" give them any essential services that Catholic Charities normally provides to everyone- like HIV counseling, medicines, Health clinic care or other services. Certainly health care should not be dependent on one's state of sin or grace- or we wouldn't treat diabetics if they ate too many Twinkies, we wouldn't treat lung cancer if the patient snuck a cigarette, we wouldn't treat heart conditions if people didn't get their regular exercise and stop eating so many burgers, and we wouldn't treat obesity if people kept eating too much and drinking sodas.

Health Care should be provided regardless of any one's state of sin or grace. Because Jesus did that. He didn't ask anyone seeking healing what got them in that predicament. So I hope that isn't what they mean.

The adoption question poses another interesting ethical situation. Should kids be languishing in parent less situations in orphanages, or in foster care with too many kids to get necessary attention, because we don't want to allow two people who are of the same gender to adopt a child because we don't like what they do with each other in the bedroom and consider it sin? Should kids suffer because we morally disapprove of people's lifestyles? Does anyone seriously think gayness transmits to kids?
Have you not heard of kids raised already by gay people who are not gay?

When Catholic Charities takes a moral position like this (or the Wuerl-Wind dictates it)- it means everyone who is Catholic has to step up to the plate to fill in the funding void that loss of city funding means-and we are as broke as the next guy. So now we see double collections more and places that used to have Masses during the week free of the collection basket circuit now are asked to pony up. So while Catholic charities used to service catholics and non-catholics alike, because they operated under city contracts, now only Catholics will be paying for services for catholics and non-catholics alike- because this is what it means to be catholic. But this imposes an increased burden on the flock- to take a moral position about not wanting gay people to have adopted children. Just so we can feel superior to people who sin in a different way than other people sin-according to our theology.

If I am missing something here- please correct me because the record on this has me more confused than Anglican priests who can be married unless they haven't started Seminary yet.

The social justice committee advocacy chair at one catholic church in the District raised the question of possible objection or even civil disobedience to the church hierarchy which appears at times painfully nonsensical in its positions, at which point the old excommunication bugaboo reared its ugly head and people reminded the group that the church hierarchy isn't exactly a democracy. Deal with it.

The best thing that can be said about this recent upheaval about toting this moral line is that it has caused people to be truly exercised and upset- on both sides of the catholic divide. And a few homeless guys are choking on their day old muffins.