Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Women Entrepreneurs
Simply Rock
I feature two amazing ones here:
NANINE HARTZENBUSH, celebrated award winning Photographer (and photojournalist)
http://www.naninephoto.com/
(I clipped the orchid shot above from her Facebook for this shameless promotion-)She does the most beautiful family shots capturing children's precious faces and looks. (she's my freshman college roomate)
and
ELIZABETH GRUSHKIN (aka "Missy")
She started FUZZYMAMA VINTAGE (sold primarily through ETSY and found on facebook http://www.etsy.com/people/fuzzymama
where the cutest retro vintage kiddies outfits at great prices are found. (she's my cousin)- she comes from a strong retail family as her father was an Exec. at Sears and mother founded/owned and ran a successful mail order lingere business for years.
These women entrepreneurs ROCK. Support them. STRONG WOMEN MEANS STRONG FAMILIES. (am I quoting Obama or is he quoting me?)
Monday, May 30, 2011
Who Is
Medea Benjamin?
She is the woman dancing/kissing her boyfriend who was arrested for it in the below video. She rose to fame as an outspoken opponent of the Iraq War as co-founder of Code Pink, . Lots of people were outspoken opponents of the immoral Iraq war, including Pope John Paul II and the late Cardinal Laghi, but she took to the streets and was very effective at organizing. She is marked and persecuted like this.
It's disgusting. It's America. It's going to get worse.
http://www.codepink4peace.org/section.php?id=14
"One third of all Democrats believe Bush had some foreknowledge of 9-11, which is impossible because it has the words Bush and knowledge in the same sentence."- Steven Colbert.
She is the woman dancing/kissing her boyfriend who was arrested for it in the below video. She rose to fame as an outspoken opponent of the Iraq War as co-founder of Code Pink, . Lots of people were outspoken opponents of the immoral Iraq war, including Pope John Paul II and the late Cardinal Laghi, but she took to the streets and was very effective at organizing. She is marked and persecuted like this.
It's disgusting. It's America. It's going to get worse.
http://www.codepink4peace.org/section.php?id=14
"One third of all Democrats believe Bush had some foreknowledge of 9-11, which is impossible because it has the words Bush and knowledge in the same sentence."- Steven Colbert.
Put Your Dancing Shoes On
IT's My Country And I'll Dance If I Want To
Code Pink has organized in response to the police brutality below- and yes, its over the top police brutality- a DANCE IN- at the Lincoln Memorial. Next Saturday, June 4 at Noon.
I fully support the Right of any American to get their groove on at the Lincoln Memorial or anywhere else the spirit so moves them.
Come out June 4 if you are in Washington, DC or get to Washington, DC for a massive DANCE IN.
If anyone is arrested I will represent you.
WHAT's THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS WITHOUT DANCING??
Happy Feet Rule. (It would be a joke were it not so sad!!)
Note to Park Police- you forgot your SS badges. You are poster boys for how to radicalize normally sedentary American couch potatos into political human rights activists.
Code Pink has organized in response to the police brutality below- and yes, its over the top police brutality- a DANCE IN- at the Lincoln Memorial. Next Saturday, June 4 at Noon.
I fully support the Right of any American to get their groove on at the Lincoln Memorial or anywhere else the spirit so moves them.
Come out June 4 if you are in Washington, DC or get to Washington, DC for a massive DANCE IN.
If anyone is arrested I will represent you.
WHAT's THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS WITHOUT DANCING??
Happy Feet Rule. (It would be a joke were it not so sad!!)
Note to Park Police- you forgot your SS badges. You are poster boys for how to radicalize normally sedentary American couch potatos into political human rights activists.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
In Paris they let you kiss on a Bridge
In Washington you get arrested for hugging in a monument.Medea Benjamin of Code Pink is a marked woman. So any time she hugs now, she gets arrested??
Dancing is illegal now in public??
Let them go immediately or you are looking at a major lawsuit. Trust me. I promise.
Classical Ballet at its Finest and Most Refined
In Washington.
This is truly a special place. The KIROV ACADEMY OF BALLET located behind Catholic University on Taylor Street (with a 4301 Harewood Rd. address peculiarly) is classical ballet at
its finest for children up to college age. What a beautiful sight.
Last night a spectacular Swan Lake and Midsummer's Night dream was performed by a
truly professional world class quality ballet. So beautiful. Swans moved with grace and flutter in beautiful white tutus and toe shoes gliding, pirouetting, jumping and swishing around the stage. Such a delightful evening. It is a full school where the kids get their academics from junior high through high school and are trained in classical ballet. They put on a performance for the public at the end of the school year that deserves to be at the Kennedy Center.
The Kirov used to be funded by the Moonies, but now no longer. It has retred itself hiring a bright Development Director and Executive Director from New York (Friedman) and vamped up classes to include offerings for kids aged 2-11 this summer as well as adult classes.
They also hired a world class Russian Ballerina fresh off the stage to direct and teach ballet classes. This is the real deal and you won't find better anywhere in the world. People in fact do come from all over the world sending their kids here now.
For more information: http://www.kirovacademydc.org/
doubrava@kirovacademydc.org
202-636-0637
Robert E. Lucas is the Development Director recently hired. They would be most apprecitive for any private or grant funding. I encourage people to learn more about this inspirational academy in Washington. lucas@kirovadacemmydc.org
This is truly a special place. The KIROV ACADEMY OF BALLET located behind Catholic University on Taylor Street (with a 4301 Harewood Rd. address peculiarly) is classical ballet at
its finest for children up to college age. What a beautiful sight.
Last night a spectacular Swan Lake and Midsummer's Night dream was performed by a
truly professional world class quality ballet. So beautiful. Swans moved with grace and flutter in beautiful white tutus and toe shoes gliding, pirouetting, jumping and swishing around the stage. Such a delightful evening. It is a full school where the kids get their academics from junior high through high school and are trained in classical ballet. They put on a performance for the public at the end of the school year that deserves to be at the Kennedy Center.
The Kirov used to be funded by the Moonies, but now no longer. It has retred itself hiring a bright Development Director and Executive Director from New York (Friedman) and vamped up classes to include offerings for kids aged 2-11 this summer as well as adult classes.
They also hired a world class Russian Ballerina fresh off the stage to direct and teach ballet classes. This is the real deal and you won't find better anywhere in the world. People in fact do come from all over the world sending their kids here now.
For more information: http://www.kirovacademydc.org/
doubrava@kirovacademydc.org
202-636-0637
Robert E. Lucas is the Development Director recently hired. They would be most apprecitive for any private or grant funding. I encourage people to learn more about this inspirational academy in Washington. lucas@kirovadacemmydc.org
Saturday, May 28, 2011
It's Here
The French Facebook for all things French in DC
Find it on
Find it on
The Francophone community in DC now has its own blog- its the quoi de neuf spot for finding movies, restaurants, lots of events at La Maison at the French Embassy- and a platform to post your own blog entries, photos and connect with friends. I suspect Roland the genius is behind it.
A bientot.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Women
Are Half The Population
A Church that demeans, demoralizes and dishonors them isn't serving HALF of HUMANITY.
A Church that demeans, demoralizes and dishonors them isn't serving HALF of HUMANITY.
Culture of Death and Blind Obediences
The people who survive will be the people who cultivate a culture of questioning, said Stanley Kober of the Cato Institute (paraphrased) at a Georgetown Berkeley event recently.
This was said in a context of a discussion of the potential harm that an Egyptian-Iranian alliance could do in the context of Palestinian declared State hood. The extremists who strap bombs to themselves to make themselves weapons of mass destruction don't critically question anything- their blind obedience lead to death, of themselves and others who get in their way. Any extreme ideology breeds death and destruction because it insists on death. The Planned Parenthood lobby are just as guilty of this extremism.
"Critical legal studies" was in vogue when I went to Law School and this was a movement in which we were taught to think aggressively critically and question even basic premises. This culturally took hold I suppose after all the conventions of the 50s crashed in the disillusionment of the wild 60s.
But further back it is obvious that when a ruler like Hitler took power, he did so mandating that all alliegance be blind and total. It was unthinkable, "insupportable" to defy the regime. Autocrats function like this. Power mongers and tyrants function like that. This is the mentality that allowed the torturers in this country to Torture. They didn't critically question how wrong and evil their supervisors were.
Not so the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit never compelled a blind alliegance to anything because he put the power of Love in each of us and the power of conscience in each of us to determine for ourselves and discern for ourselves where LIFE is found. Those who find it in the Lord should be living lives of much more profound Love on a much deeper level than people engaged to and in blind obedience.
That's why the autocratic tyranical model of the Catholic church caused a split into many factions of Protestants who just don't buy it. They don't buy it because for many example after example the tyrant was wrong. Plainly corruptly wrong.
When he is wrong, it requires reform, or he is no less an instrument of death than any blind dictator.
Which takes me back to my common refrain- and no, I refuse to be silenced on it. The misinterpretation of Christ's death as imposing a death on the humanity of the priesthood to deny any of them marriage insisting that only celibates can consecrate the eucharist is so profoundly biblically wrong it is an evil. The Evil breeds untold deviancies, perversions, insulting unholy attractions that demean and dishonor women and create a spiritual death to other women for no other purpose or reason than to serve an institutional hierarcy that lives in a culture of oppression.
If it is not critically studied seriously, with better rationale offered than -its because it has always been done that way- I can't see the Church in its current form existing past two more generations. And its no small wonder churches are vacant in huge numbers through Europe and turned into stone museums.
It is as the French say "insupportable' as it is rooted in dishonor, discrimination, and demeaning of women in the name of an idolotrous view of Mary. She would be spinning in heaven. And don't get me started on how ridiculously vain some Cardinals look draped in red. So vain I could throw up.Like Jesus ran around posing for portraits with enormous jewelry on.
This was said in a context of a discussion of the potential harm that an Egyptian-Iranian alliance could do in the context of Palestinian declared State hood. The extremists who strap bombs to themselves to make themselves weapons of mass destruction don't critically question anything- their blind obedience lead to death, of themselves and others who get in their way. Any extreme ideology breeds death and destruction because it insists on death. The Planned Parenthood lobby are just as guilty of this extremism.
"Critical legal studies" was in vogue when I went to Law School and this was a movement in which we were taught to think aggressively critically and question even basic premises. This culturally took hold I suppose after all the conventions of the 50s crashed in the disillusionment of the wild 60s.
But further back it is obvious that when a ruler like Hitler took power, he did so mandating that all alliegance be blind and total. It was unthinkable, "insupportable" to defy the regime. Autocrats function like this. Power mongers and tyrants function like that. This is the mentality that allowed the torturers in this country to Torture. They didn't critically question how wrong and evil their supervisors were.
Not so the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit never compelled a blind alliegance to anything because he put the power of Love in each of us and the power of conscience in each of us to determine for ourselves and discern for ourselves where LIFE is found. Those who find it in the Lord should be living lives of much more profound Love on a much deeper level than people engaged to and in blind obedience.
That's why the autocratic tyranical model of the Catholic church caused a split into many factions of Protestants who just don't buy it. They don't buy it because for many example after example the tyrant was wrong. Plainly corruptly wrong.
When he is wrong, it requires reform, or he is no less an instrument of death than any blind dictator.
Which takes me back to my common refrain- and no, I refuse to be silenced on it. The misinterpretation of Christ's death as imposing a death on the humanity of the priesthood to deny any of them marriage insisting that only celibates can consecrate the eucharist is so profoundly biblically wrong it is an evil. The Evil breeds untold deviancies, perversions, insulting unholy attractions that demean and dishonor women and create a spiritual death to other women for no other purpose or reason than to serve an institutional hierarcy that lives in a culture of oppression.
If it is not critically studied seriously, with better rationale offered than -its because it has always been done that way- I can't see the Church in its current form existing past two more generations. And its no small wonder churches are vacant in huge numbers through Europe and turned into stone museums.
It is as the French say "insupportable' as it is rooted in dishonor, discrimination, and demeaning of women in the name of an idolotrous view of Mary. She would be spinning in heaven. And don't get me started on how ridiculously vain some Cardinals look draped in red. So vain I could throw up.Like Jesus ran around posing for portraits with enormous jewelry on.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Pretty in Pink
Regal in Purple
First Lady is Elegant and Stunning- admit it. This is really inspirational and a wonderful example to every single little girl who thought that were born with any disadvantage or defect to demonstrate what faith, hard work, intelligence and poise can do. Not to mention marrying well.
If I was born on the questionable side of the tracks in the South Side of Chicago surrounded by
drugs and delinquency, I don't know if I would have had the faith and vision to see a life for myself that Michele O is living. It is almost a fairy tale- but its real. If I grew up as a black young adult at a prestigious Ivy League school I would feel the brunt of prejudice and being looked down upon by the monied daughters and sons of Alumns. I would want to be twice as good, work twice as hard, be twice as smart and pray twice as hard. Michele O apparently did.
She is smart, creative, poised, and now we know she has great legs too.
I hope her trip to Europe gives her the added confidence to feel deep in her gut that she is also deeply loved by people she might not suspect care at all. If I grew up where she did I know I would be surrounded by hatred and suspicion, some quite deserved, and it would be challenging not to transpose that onto a wider group of similar people. It was popular to demonize all white people in some circles and some white people deserved it well enough.
But there are other white people- the kind with big ears in Ireland who look distantly like your husband's cousins. Or other white mothers, like my niece who have black children. Or others who devoted their lives professionally or personally to fighting against discrimination and for civil liberties. And we love you, Michele Obama.
First Lady is Elegant and Stunning- admit it. This is really inspirational and a wonderful example to every single little girl who thought that were born with any disadvantage or defect to demonstrate what faith, hard work, intelligence and poise can do. Not to mention marrying well.
If I was born on the questionable side of the tracks in the South Side of Chicago surrounded by
drugs and delinquency, I don't know if I would have had the faith and vision to see a life for myself that Michele O is living. It is almost a fairy tale- but its real. If I grew up as a black young adult at a prestigious Ivy League school I would feel the brunt of prejudice and being looked down upon by the monied daughters and sons of Alumns. I would want to be twice as good, work twice as hard, be twice as smart and pray twice as hard. Michele O apparently did.
She is smart, creative, poised, and now we know she has great legs too.
I hope her trip to Europe gives her the added confidence to feel deep in her gut that she is also deeply loved by people she might not suspect care at all. If I grew up where she did I know I would be surrounded by hatred and suspicion, some quite deserved, and it would be challenging not to transpose that onto a wider group of similar people. It was popular to demonize all white people in some circles and some white people deserved it well enough.
But there are other white people- the kind with big ears in Ireland who look distantly like your husband's cousins. Or other white mothers, like my niece who have black children. Or others who devoted their lives professionally or personally to fighting against discrimination and for civil liberties. And we love you, Michele Obama.
It's my party
I can buy half a million dollars worth of tiffanies trinkets if I want to.
Newt comes out swinging in New Hampshire- defending his 'right' to buy what he wants-- on credit. And this is the champion of the middle american recovery? My father, incredibly hard working, incredibly frugal, army veteran, Pennsylvanian born just like Newt who is not a southerner by the way, instructed me never to by anything on credit except my first car with a car note (after I crashed the one he gave me free) to learn the value of the buck. He itemized for me- never buy clothing, jewelry or furniture on credit. You will pay in interest much more than its worth.
Not Newt. Half a Million on credit.
Here is why his defense of his right to spend what he wants whether he has the money then or not looks moronic for a Presidential candidate. We have a TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT PEOPLE. And he is running around the country trying to raise votes by saying he will cut taxes everywhere to make Obama look spendthrift. He follows the "If I want it I get it Now cost accounting method." Screw you poor people.
He's a joke. I know he's Catholic and to some, twinkle eyed charming and he likes JPII- but seriously. Not Presidential. By a longshot. And really, if my niece ever gets a job on the Hill I will ground her for a decade if she sleeps with the boss. We can't reward that kind of crap. What kind of example does it send?
Newt comes out swinging in New Hampshire- defending his 'right' to buy what he wants-- on credit. And this is the champion of the middle american recovery? My father, incredibly hard working, incredibly frugal, army veteran, Pennsylvanian born just like Newt who is not a southerner by the way, instructed me never to by anything on credit except my first car with a car note (after I crashed the one he gave me free) to learn the value of the buck. He itemized for me- never buy clothing, jewelry or furniture on credit. You will pay in interest much more than its worth.
Not Newt. Half a Million on credit.
Here is why his defense of his right to spend what he wants whether he has the money then or not looks moronic for a Presidential candidate. We have a TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT PEOPLE. And he is running around the country trying to raise votes by saying he will cut taxes everywhere to make Obama look spendthrift. He follows the "If I want it I get it Now cost accounting method." Screw you poor people.
He's a joke. I know he's Catholic and to some, twinkle eyed charming and he likes JPII- but seriously. Not Presidential. By a longshot. And really, if my niece ever gets a job on the Hill I will ground her for a decade if she sleeps with the boss. We can't reward that kind of crap. What kind of example does it send?
You Got Nothin-The Republican Brain Drain
Still Waiting for Something Pallatable to Emerge.
Palin's only asset is her womanhood, and it insults womenhood when you run someone just because they are a woman regardless of their skill, intelligence or wisdom. She is dumber than mud.
Barack could beat her bippy with one arm shooting a basketball. Her "fire in the belly" might be indigestion-it's giving me indigestion and I may throw up.
Then there's Newt "What's wrong with half a million dollars in Tiffany jewelry- on credit!"
The fact that he can't see anything wrong with that is frightening. If you have half a million dollars to blow on Jewelry you should have given it to about a thousand ministries that are despirate for it.
There are starving children in this country. Just looks too ridiculous for words. Social climbing midwestern adulterous mistress turned wifey in McLean dripping in half a million dollars of Tiffanies. I think I will be sick.
Wh0 else? Romney with that Mormon problem?
Or Pawlenty. He actually sounds solid now.
McDonald is a light weight marine. Nice fellow but not an intellectual heavy weight.
You got nuthin.
My money is on O'Bama (if I had any)
Palin's only asset is her womanhood, and it insults womenhood when you run someone just because they are a woman regardless of their skill, intelligence or wisdom. She is dumber than mud.
Barack could beat her bippy with one arm shooting a basketball. Her "fire in the belly" might be indigestion-it's giving me indigestion and I may throw up.
Then there's Newt "What's wrong with half a million dollars in Tiffany jewelry- on credit!"
The fact that he can't see anything wrong with that is frightening. If you have half a million dollars to blow on Jewelry you should have given it to about a thousand ministries that are despirate for it.
There are starving children in this country. Just looks too ridiculous for words. Social climbing midwestern adulterous mistress turned wifey in McLean dripping in half a million dollars of Tiffanies. I think I will be sick.
Wh0 else? Romney with that Mormon problem?
Or Pawlenty. He actually sounds solid now.
McDonald is a light weight marine. Nice fellow but not an intellectual heavy weight.
You got nuthin.
My money is on O'Bama (if I had any)
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
A Problematic Peace
In a troubled world.
Let me ask you-- how can the "Palestinians" ask for recognition as a State when the coalition of their combined Hamas-Fattah leadership is committed to denying Israel's right to exist- in other words sees it's existence as a zero sum in conjunction with the elimination of the State of Israel?
How can any country "recognize" a "state" prior to the existence of a cohesive governmental structure that "controls all the guns" or has a cogent internal independent rule of law or judiciary or other democratic institutions or ability to keep its own peace? None of the usual hallmarks of state recognition currently exist vis-a-vis "Palestine." So its more or less a joke for them unilaterally go to the UN to get "recognition." Recognition for what? Bloody Murderous Chaos?
We can recognize a generic right to self-determination without recognizing that the Palestinians are there yet, because they aren't. Self-determination entails responsibility to self-determine in a manner consistent with international norms and protocols. You cannot blindly support self-determination to be derranged whacko self destructive suicide bombing or intifada blowing up buses. If the Self in Self -determination is corrupt to its core we cannot just adopt for the sake of utopian self-determination.
What can happen is a commitment to establish those hallmarks of statehood, which include a firm vowed recognition of Israel's right to exist in Peace without threat from neighbors and complying with international norms and protocols. Like you don't get to fight legitimate security measures by suicide bombing- and by the way, you don't get to heaven by destroying any part of God's creation, most especially human life.
Until that happens why should Israel give anything to Palestine? You have neighbors that want to kill you off. You are going to say "I recognize your right to do that?" "Knock yourself out" Try to kill us all off while we pray for peace.
There should be negotiations and dialogue and frameworks for discussion established first and they must not be derailed. There needs to be discussion of groundrules.
Two states is not an automatic solution for Peace when one state is determined to annihilate the other. It's a ridiculous proposition.
Let me ask you-- how can the "Palestinians" ask for recognition as a State when the coalition of their combined Hamas-Fattah leadership is committed to denying Israel's right to exist- in other words sees it's existence as a zero sum in conjunction with the elimination of the State of Israel?
How can any country "recognize" a "state" prior to the existence of a cohesive governmental structure that "controls all the guns" or has a cogent internal independent rule of law or judiciary or other democratic institutions or ability to keep its own peace? None of the usual hallmarks of state recognition currently exist vis-a-vis "Palestine." So its more or less a joke for them unilaterally go to the UN to get "recognition." Recognition for what? Bloody Murderous Chaos?
We can recognize a generic right to self-determination without recognizing that the Palestinians are there yet, because they aren't. Self-determination entails responsibility to self-determine in a manner consistent with international norms and protocols. You cannot blindly support self-determination to be derranged whacko self destructive suicide bombing or intifada blowing up buses. If the Self in Self -determination is corrupt to its core we cannot just adopt for the sake of utopian self-determination.
What can happen is a commitment to establish those hallmarks of statehood, which include a firm vowed recognition of Israel's right to exist in Peace without threat from neighbors and complying with international norms and protocols. Like you don't get to fight legitimate security measures by suicide bombing- and by the way, you don't get to heaven by destroying any part of God's creation, most especially human life.
Until that happens why should Israel give anything to Palestine? You have neighbors that want to kill you off. You are going to say "I recognize your right to do that?" "Knock yourself out" Try to kill us all off while we pray for peace.
There should be negotiations and dialogue and frameworks for discussion established first and they must not be derailed. There needs to be discussion of groundrules.
Two states is not an automatic solution for Peace when one state is determined to annihilate the other. It's a ridiculous proposition.
Two States is only a viable solution if something fundamental changes in the mindset of the Palestinian and the Arab world that backs it- notably, that economic synergies make any destruction counterproductive to one's own self interest. You don't nuke what you rely on to feed you. This entails more generous economic counter incentivization of Israel in mutualy synergistic liason with Palestinians and Palestinian Christian businessmen and women are ideal middle men AND WOMEN to make this happen.
Then the money spent on Arms could be directed toward projects that feed all, nourish all, and sustain all in common community. Walls don't help here. They just breed more contempt than the proximity does.
And He Breathed
ON THEM
THE HOLY SPIRIT.
It doesn't say he just breathed on Peter did it? When Jesus is in the Upper Room after his Resurrection (we are still before Pentacost in the Easter Season), Jesus breathed on "THEM" (Plural) the Holy Spirit- and this was the power of holiness that enabled them to travel to the far corners of the then known globe to bring the good news.
The temptation in any one church is to say that they have a monopoly on God. God is not confined to any one institution any more than a river is confined to a square foot of land or a volcano can be confined to its mountain. God cannot be confined by a set of man made rules any more than the wind is confined to a set of trees. God is All Powerful. He isn't afraid of a few cannon laws.
One doctrine maintains that the "bride of Christ" is their one exclusive Church.
"Church" as the bride of Christ means those with the Holy Spirit calling on the name of the Lord. That is the foundation of true ecumenicism.
God hates the proud. Really hates them. Some of them are pretenders in his Church. Some of them think they are running for Commander in Grief, or President Pope. Humility is totally lacking in some. Arrogance and brute ignorance go together.
Every church at some point has been wrong. Obviously that includes the Catholic Church. It's depressing to detail in litany how. But Jesus Christ should not be judged by the human failing of his followers.
The whackadoodle nutjob who falsely profesied the end of the world and made about 75 Mil off the scam should be investigated by the Justice Department and the FTC.
That doesn't mean the Bible is untrue. It means some arrogant ignorant idiot misinterpreted to his advantage to suit his ideology.
The same thing happens in some catholic doctrines and circles.
Because of the continuity of scholarship excellence they tend not to go off the nutty rails as badly as that and you won't find one catholic believing in such nonsense. But they are just as wrong on other things- and it does not serve humanity to stick ones fingers in ones ears and shout "La La La La La, I can't hear you!!!" when the rest of the world thinks that there is institutionally something profoundly off its rocker.
Take the jack-A who tries to police harass women he finds too tempting. "La la la la la la, I can't hear you."
Take the shuffle board game of pedofiles. "La la la la la la, I can't hear you."
Take the fact that gay sex is considered forgiveable whereas heterosexual sex is expulsion material. "La la la la ,I can't hear you!!"
Take the fact that priests have no families is elevated to a 'virtue' when it is
really a disability and dysfunctionality, "La la la la la, I can't hear you!!"- Like other professions are not as time consuming and don't know how to manage their time better.
There are some off their rocker "protestant" doctrines and beliefs- like the end times prophesy nonsense. And some protestant doctrines and beliefs that are much more biblically correct than Catholic practices. Which is why the Humility that Jesus
demands requires a vigorous eceumenical dialogue to see where the Holy Spirit, breathed on all, is speaking more clearly.
THE HOLY SPIRIT.
It doesn't say he just breathed on Peter did it? When Jesus is in the Upper Room after his Resurrection (we are still before Pentacost in the Easter Season), Jesus breathed on "THEM" (Plural) the Holy Spirit- and this was the power of holiness that enabled them to travel to the far corners of the then known globe to bring the good news.
The temptation in any one church is to say that they have a monopoly on God. God is not confined to any one institution any more than a river is confined to a square foot of land or a volcano can be confined to its mountain. God cannot be confined by a set of man made rules any more than the wind is confined to a set of trees. God is All Powerful. He isn't afraid of a few cannon laws.
One doctrine maintains that the "bride of Christ" is their one exclusive Church.
"Church" as the bride of Christ means those with the Holy Spirit calling on the name of the Lord. That is the foundation of true ecumenicism.
God hates the proud. Really hates them. Some of them are pretenders in his Church. Some of them think they are running for Commander in Grief, or President Pope. Humility is totally lacking in some. Arrogance and brute ignorance go together.
Every church at some point has been wrong. Obviously that includes the Catholic Church. It's depressing to detail in litany how. But Jesus Christ should not be judged by the human failing of his followers.
The whackadoodle nutjob who falsely profesied the end of the world and made about 75 Mil off the scam should be investigated by the Justice Department and the FTC.
That doesn't mean the Bible is untrue. It means some arrogant ignorant idiot misinterpreted to his advantage to suit his ideology.
The same thing happens in some catholic doctrines and circles.
Because of the continuity of scholarship excellence they tend not to go off the nutty rails as badly as that and you won't find one catholic believing in such nonsense. But they are just as wrong on other things- and it does not serve humanity to stick ones fingers in ones ears and shout "La La La La La, I can't hear you!!!" when the rest of the world thinks that there is institutionally something profoundly off its rocker.
Take the jack-A who tries to police harass women he finds too tempting. "La la la la la la, I can't hear you."
Take the shuffle board game of pedofiles. "La la la la la la, I can't hear you."
Take the fact that gay sex is considered forgiveable whereas heterosexual sex is expulsion material. "La la la la ,I can't hear you!!"
Take the fact that priests have no families is elevated to a 'virtue' when it is
really a disability and dysfunctionality, "La la la la la, I can't hear you!!"- Like other professions are not as time consuming and don't know how to manage their time better.
There are some off their rocker "protestant" doctrines and beliefs- like the end times prophesy nonsense. And some protestant doctrines and beliefs that are much more biblically correct than Catholic practices. Which is why the Humility that Jesus
demands requires a vigorous eceumenical dialogue to see where the Holy Spirit, breathed on all, is speaking more clearly.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Project Eve
Creating a New Vision of Womanhood for the 21st Century.
I made up that title- sounded good. Eve being the mother of all human life (my catholic name being Eva).
Yesterday at the USIP-US Institute For Peace, an imposing building on the National Mall, a panel of all women (for a change) discussed the role entrepreneurial women have in building peace in conflict regions. Fascinating.
"Women cannot be about fifty percent of the population and a special interest group at the same time" noted one panelist (sort of sarcastically). Yes, we are fifty percent of the population and called a "special interest group."
When the Republicans challenge abortion on demand it is called "republican war on women" and when the Feminists for Life disagree, they are called -what-? Dumb?? Religious nuts?? Seriously.
What we need is a better discourse that leads to more proactive better economic empowerment that embraces motherhood in strong ways. Economically empowered and mothers. The perfect ideal person to Chair the new Project (with Michele O on the Board obviously) is Maria Shriver.
She needs something to do now, and understands that the ideal model of relying emotionally on a man isn't always available to all women. African American women deal in hugely disproportionate numbers with a male unavailable emotionally and financially because they are incarcerated in this country disproportionately by the millions. This affects millions of households. Males die younger than women and there are huge numbers of young widows.
In conflict regions the males leave, join forces or are killed in huge numbers. And the women still have to take care of their families. There are ridiculous numbers of Military widows in this country, more war just means more death.
I propose Project Eve- a look at women's entrepreneurship with a White House Task Force and Maria Shriver as Czar.
O'Bama you can steal my idea and run with it.
I made up that title- sounded good. Eve being the mother of all human life (my catholic name being Eva).
Yesterday at the USIP-US Institute For Peace, an imposing building on the National Mall, a panel of all women (for a change) discussed the role entrepreneurial women have in building peace in conflict regions. Fascinating.
"Women cannot be about fifty percent of the population and a special interest group at the same time" noted one panelist (sort of sarcastically). Yes, we are fifty percent of the population and called a "special interest group."
When the Republicans challenge abortion on demand it is called "republican war on women" and when the Feminists for Life disagree, they are called -what-? Dumb?? Religious nuts?? Seriously.
What we need is a better discourse that leads to more proactive better economic empowerment that embraces motherhood in strong ways. Economically empowered and mothers. The perfect ideal person to Chair the new Project (with Michele O on the Board obviously) is Maria Shriver.
She needs something to do now, and understands that the ideal model of relying emotionally on a man isn't always available to all women. African American women deal in hugely disproportionate numbers with a male unavailable emotionally and financially because they are incarcerated in this country disproportionately by the millions. This affects millions of households. Males die younger than women and there are huge numbers of young widows.
In conflict regions the males leave, join forces or are killed in huge numbers. And the women still have to take care of their families. There are ridiculous numbers of Military widows in this country, more war just means more death.
I propose Project Eve- a look at women's entrepreneurship with a White House Task Force and Maria Shriver as Czar.
O'Bama you can steal my idea and run with it.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Great-More Work for
Uncle Bob
The recent Supreme Court ruling requiring release of prisoners due to overcrowding
is great news for people who think that it is inhumane treatment to warehouse in this manner, the sentencing was probably too much in the first place and likely unjust and some of them actually are innocent.
It is also good news for my uncle Bob the DNA expert criminal defense attorney in California because some of them will commit crimes again (statistically speaking)
The criminal defense attorney DNA specialist in California. http://www.blasier.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/23/supreme-court-orders-cali_n_865503.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk1%7C64772
The recent Supreme Court ruling requiring release of prisoners due to overcrowding
is great news for people who think that it is inhumane treatment to warehouse in this manner, the sentencing was probably too much in the first place and likely unjust and some of them actually are innocent.
It is also good news for my uncle Bob the DNA expert criminal defense attorney in California because some of them will commit crimes again (statistically speaking)
The criminal defense attorney DNA specialist in California. http://www.blasier.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/23/supreme-court-orders-cali_n_865503.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk1%7C64772
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