tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67725428189592285102024-02-19T02:15:13.996-05:00I could just scream!No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. -- Samuel AdamsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-62468856914973991182009-10-25T21:08:00.001-04:002009-10-25T21:08:53.891-04:00Calling a Spade, a SpadeBishop Thomas Tobin had a Dan Aykroyd moment in responding to Congressman Patrick Kennedy on Friday. I can hear Dan saying, "Jane, you ignorant s--t."<br />
<blockquote>Congressman Patrick Kennedy's statement about the Catholic Church's position on health care reform is irresponsible and ignorant of the facts. But the Congressman is correct in stating that "he can't understand." He got that part right.<br />
</blockquote>You can read the rest of Jill Stanek's article <a href="http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2009/10/smackdown_bisho.html">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-40230164430211499802009-10-20T22:17:00.000-04:002009-10-20T22:17:05.781-04:00He has chosen what is betterI love stories like <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6808514.ece">this one</a>. It shows that people in the media can choose to listen to Christ.<br />
<blockquote><i>Once a Calvin Klein model who smouldered bare-chested opposite J-Lo in a music video, and starred in Hollywood movies, Verastegui's brooding looks and aquamarine eyes attracted thousands of (invariably screaming) female fans.<br />
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Today, the 35-year-old actor is a daily Mass-goer, committed to abstaining from sex before marriage, who flies to Darfur to help the starving, provides financial help for women considering abortions and organises house-building missions in Mexico.<br />
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“I wasn’t born to be famous, or to be a movie star, but to love and serve Jesus Christ,” the former model and singer once listed as among the top 50 “hottest” Hispanics by People magazine will tell a gathering of young Catholics on his first visit to England this weekend. </i><br />
</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-68514844543225234562009-10-20T21:39:00.000-04:002009-10-20T21:39:20.338-04:00Defense Secretary Robert Gates Stands UpWell it appears the Defense Secretary Gate <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/20/obama-praises-karzai-decision-accept-runoff-election/?test=latestnews">does have a spine</a>. <blockquote>Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the Obama administration cannot wait for the Afghan election to be resolved before making a decision on troop levels, appearing to be at odds with White House officials who have tied a decision on U.S. strategy to the resolution of the election and political stability.</blockquote>Get the troops moving and improvements in the political situation will follow. Men and women are dying while politics is played by the administration.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-9887246731837590042009-10-20T20:55:00.000-04:002009-10-20T20:55:13.792-04:00Oversight HumorWell it looks as if the Dems are less than thrilled at being shown as cowards -- they <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/63941-democrats-lock-republicans-out-of-committee-room">locked the Republicans out of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room</a>. You see, last week the Republicans were set to force a vote on subpoenas in the investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s sweetheart loans to certain politicians. Well the Dems were a no show and a staffer filmed their empty seats in the committee room and also filmed them leaving meeting in private chambers after the mark-up was supposed to have started. These have been spliced together, music added and it is now posted on the <a href="http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=305:facing-countrywide-vip-vote-committee-democrats-abandon-mark-up&catid=27:latest-news">Republican Oversight Committee webpage</a>.<br />
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First we have a video of Lord Christopher Monckton, who gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN on the subject of global warming and delivered a warning to Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty that is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen this December.<br />
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Next in case you missed the premiere of Not Evil Just Wrong Sunday night, you can read a couple of summaries - one from the Heritage Foundation:<br />
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<a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/19/when-environmental-activism-does-more-harm-than-good/">http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/19/when-environmental-activism-does-more-harm-than-good/</a><br />
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and one from BigHollywood.com:<br />
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<a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dmiller/2009/10/19/inconvenient-truths-surface-in-not-evil-just-wrong/">http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dmiller/2009/10/19/inconvenient-truths-surface-in-not-evil-just-wrong/</a><br />
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And finally for the crazy side of Global Warming, aka Climate Change...<br />
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PM Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse". He predicts "the UK faces a "catastrophe" of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change. Read the entire article here:<br />
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With fish darting amongst them in a blue lagoon, the Maldivian president and his top team have staged an elaborate stunt to publicize climate change. Billed as the world's first underwater cabinet meeting, President Mohamed Nasheed and 11 ministers, decked in scuba gear, held a meeting 4m (13ft) underwater. Read the article in its entirety here:<br />
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8312320.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8312320.stm</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-63585443767549301172009-10-19T21:30:00.000-04:002009-10-19T21:30:54.160-04:00Yes we can... Win the war in AfghanistanMichael Yon has <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjI1NjRiNDc1OGRmZjBjYTMwMGY1ZDU0NTVhNGU3NzU=">a great post up at the Corner</a> about the war in Afghanistan and Dexter Filkins' New York Times Magazine story “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/magazine/18Afghanistan-t.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss">Stanley McChrystal’s Long War</a>.” I urge you to read both articles.<br />
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We can succeed in Afghanistan, but General McChrystal needs the troops that he has asked for and our stay will not be a short one. If President Obama meant it when he called the Afghan war, a war of necessity, then get off the dime and give the General his troops now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-11224248830801875852009-10-18T19:40:00.002-04:002009-10-20T21:40:47.042-04:00Watch Not Evil Just Wrong Tonight at 8:00PM EDTI just learned that <a href="http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/">Not Evil Just Wrong</a> will be streamed live tonight at 8:00PM EDT. This film is the antithesis of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.<br />
Here are the live feeds:<br />
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<a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/not-evil-just-wrong">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/not-evil-just-wrong</a><br />
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<a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com">http://bighollywood.breitbart.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://action.afa.net">http://action.afa.net</a><br />
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Hopefully they can handle the traffic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-34762946838067837002009-10-18T09:07:00.000-04:002009-10-18T09:07:08.225-04:00Kerry Opposes More Troops in Afghanistan<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=apjp6v2Idbp0">In an interview with CNN</a>, John Kerry proves that we dodged a bullet when he was defeated in his run for President. <br />
<blockquote><i>“It would be entirely irresponsible for the president of the United States to commit more troops to this country, when we don’t even have an election finished and know who the president is and what kind of government we’re working in, with,” Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”</i> <br />
</blockquote>We should just leave them hanging while we wring our hands over the political situation. WRONG! If we are there, we are in 100%. Half measures will just get our soldiers killed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-58595067128330060022009-10-12T21:04:00.000-04:002009-10-12T21:04:41.573-04:00Pro-Life Democrats Seek to Block Health Bill...<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55292"><b><span id="ctl00_ContentArea_lblTitle">...if Pelosi Won’t Allow Vote on Amendment Barring Abortion Funding</span></b></a><br />
<blockquote>Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.), co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus, told CNSNews.com that Democrats who oppose government funding of abortion will try to block the health care reform bill from coming to a vote on the House floor unless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) allows a floor vote on an amendment to explicitly prohibit abortion funding in the bill.<br />
</blockquote>It is good to see some Democrats standing up for life, but will they really stand up and block the health care reform bill if their amendment fails? Let's see them put their political money where their mouth is. Call me skeptical, but I don't expect them to put it all on the line and stand up for life when it requires them to stand against their party.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-29211697459244808342009-10-11T09:10:00.005-04:002009-10-11T18:36:18.618-04:00Al Gore Will Not Answer Critics of Climate ChangeFormer Vice President Al Gore put forth his side of the debate over "climate change" at a conference with about 500 environmental journalists Friday in Madison, Wisconsin. During the question and answer period one journalist, Phelim McAleer, an Irish filmmaker asked Gore to address nine errors in his film identified by a British court in 2007, he stumbled and side stepped the question. When he attempted to push for an actual answer he was cut off and not allowed to finish.<br />
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McAleer's film <a href="http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/">"Not Evil, Just Wrong, The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria"</a> will be released on October 18th. Here is a synopsis from the press release for the film: <br />
<blockquote>Global warming alarmists want Americans to believe that humans are killing theplanet. But Not Evil Just Wrong, a new documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, proves that the only threats to America (and the rest of the world) are the flawed science and sky-is-falling rhetoric of Al Gore and his allies in environmental extremism.<br />
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The film warns Americans that their jobs, middle-class lifestyles and dreams for their children will be destroyed if the government rushes to judgment and imposes job-killing regulations on an economy already mired in recession.<br />
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Not Evil Just Wrong exposes the deceptions about global warming that scientists, politicians, educators and the media have been force-feeding the public for years, including fear-mongering about floods and dying polar bears. The documentary shows how environmentalists are pushing the same kind of anti-human propaganda that triggered a ban DDT and condemned millions of children to death by malaria, a story recounted in the documentary. Not Evil Just Wrong asks: Is carbon dioxide the new DDT and are we taking the same risks with our future?<br />
</blockquote>I wonder if Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney will win a Nobel Prize for their efforts. Everyone else seems to be winning one.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-23639154982718815222009-10-10T23:30:00.000-04:002009-10-10T23:30:55.871-04:00Bullets in Slow MotionThis is too cool not to post. Extreme slow motion video of bullets impacting different materials. The hollow points in the ballistic gel and the bullets disintegrating when they impact steel are just amazing.<br />
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I could watch over and over again. It's probably a guy thing, but maybe its just me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-16365856146205680142009-10-06T21:13:00.001-04:002009-10-11T09:25:59.104-04:00Did Bill Ayers write Obama's "Dreams From My Father"?This <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2009/09/23/an-old-claim-arises-once-more-did-barack-obama-write-dreams-of-my-father/">theory </a>has been <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/breakthrough_on_the_authorship_1.html">floating </a>around for quite <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html">some time</a>, but blogger <a href="http://backyardconservative.blogspot.com/2009/10/bill-ayers-no-dream.html">Anne Leary of BackyardConservative</a> ran into Ayers at Regan International on Monday and received a spontaneous confession.<br />
<blockquote><i>Then, unprompted he said--I wrote Dreams From My Father. I said, oh, so you admit it. He said--Michelle asked me to. I looked at him. He seemed eager. He's about my height, short. He went on to say--and if you can prove it, we can split the royalties. So I said, stop pulling my leg. Horrible thought. But he came again--I really wrote it, the wording was similar. I said I believe you probably heavily edited it. He said--I wrote it.</i><br />
</blockquote><ul><li>Was this the truth? There is quite a bit of evidence pointing that direction.</li>
<li>Was he saying this just to see if it would go viral on the internet?</li>
<li>Was this a lie? </li>
<li>Why would he admit this to a stranger in an airport, who had just confessed to being a conservative blogger? <br />
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</ul>Who knows, but it is interesting to think about.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-46084915630007377792009-10-05T22:20:00.001-04:002009-10-11T09:27:00.378-04:00Teen Gives African Village New HopeI saw this article and was very impressed with <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/kamwamba-windmill/">this young man </a>- innovation, resourcefulness, self-reliance and a dream. I pray he goes far. <br />
<blockquote><i>Some people see lemons and make lemonade. William Kamkwamba saw wind and made a windmill.</i><br />
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<i>This might not seem like a mighty feat. But Kamkwamba, who grew up in Masitala, a tiny rural farming village off the grid in Malawi, was 14 years old in 2001 when he spotted a photo of a windmill in a U.S. textbook one day. He decided to make one, hacking together a contraption from strips of PVC pipe, rusty car and bicycle parts and blue gum trees.</i><br />
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<i>Though he ultimately had big designs for his creation, all he really wanted to do initially was power a small bulb in his bedroom so he could stay up and read past sunset.</i><br />
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<i>But one windmill has turned into three, which now generate enough electricity to light several bulbs in his family’s house, power radios and a TV, charge his neighbors’ cellphones and pump water for the village’s fields and household use.</i><br />
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<i>Now 22, Kamkwamba wants to build windmills across Malawi and perhaps beyond. Next summer he also plans to construct a drilling machine to bore 40-meter holes for water and pumps. His aim is to help Africans become self-sufficient and resolve their problems without reliance on foreign aid</i>. <br />
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<b>Location: St. Jude Catholic Church Parking Lot – 2130 Pemberton Dr. (look for the donation truck) </b><blockquote>All donated items will be distributed amongst the over 6,000 refugees that are now here. <br />
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Needed items: They are truly in dire need of any used or new clothing, shoes, socks, coats, household items, kitchen utensils, towels, pillows, blankets, sheets, toys (preferably that do not require batteries, since they cannot afford them), sports equipment (especially balls), used bicycles, furniture, etc. <br />
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New donations: shampoo, toilet paper, paper towels, tissues, soap, toothbrushes, deodorant, underwear (especially kids sizes), etc. (We also welcome donations of all your unused “Complimentary hotel toiletry samples”!) </blockquote>These folks are here <b>legally </b>and need our help. Please do whatever you can to aid them in getting started.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-40480161176418849122009-10-04T10:18:00.000-04:002009-10-04T10:18:30.592-04:00Hollywood -- Intolerant, out-of-step, dictitorial, clueless...A round up of the week's nonsense from the Hollywood crowd from <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sullivan/2009/10/03/garofalo-trashes-tea-baggers-as-white-power-movement-led-by-limbaugh-beck/">BigHollywood.com</a>.<br />
<blockquote><i>Between this video-treasure of idiocy and the whole Polanski affair it’s as though someone wished for the dark pathetic heart of Leftist Hollywood to expose itself and the Good Lord was listening.</i><br />
</blockquote>Why do we continue to put up with them?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-75878213090633393852009-10-04T09:01:00.001-04:002009-10-04T10:19:37.674-04:00Liar!I do not relish using the word "Liar" as the title of this post, but I do not see a better way of stating my point. From President Obama's <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Weekly-Address-President-Obama-Explains-How-Health-Insurance-Reform-Will-Strengthen-Americas-Small-Businesses/">weekly address</a>:<br />
<blockquote>As we move forward in the coming weeks, I understand that members of Congress from both parties will want to engage in a vigorous debate and contribute their own ideas. And I welcome those contributions. I welcome any sincere attempts to improve legislation before it reaches my desk. But what I will not accept are attempts to stall, or drag our feet. I will not accept partisan efforts to block reform at any cost.<br />
</blockquote>He and the Democrats do not welcome any contributions that are not aligned with the plan that they are pushing. Where are solid clear cut amendments that eliminate funding for abortion? Where are the conscience clauses? Where is tort reform? Where is the amendment enabling insurance sales across state lines? (This actually falls within their constitutional powers of regulating interstate commerce.) Where are the myriad of other amendments that have been proposed? Neither the President nor the Democrats are interested in debate or contributions from the Republicans. Liar is the only response that really fits his words. <br />
<blockquote>Instead, I expect us to move forward with a spirit of civility, a seriousness of purpose, and a willingness to compromise that characterizes our democratic process at its very best. <br />
</blockquote>Civility? Joe Wilson was excoriated for shouting "You Lie" during the President's address to Congress and he was wrong for doing so. But when <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/30/democratic-lawmaker-republicans-want-americans-die-quickly/">Alan Grayson</a> says that Republicans want sick Americans to "die quickly" and likens the current health care system to the Holocaust, does Nancy Pelosi or any of the Democratic leadership denounce him? No!<br />
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Actions speak louder than words -- all we hear from the White House and the Democrats is the sound of silence.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-31472454762176022382009-10-03T22:31:00.000-04:002009-10-03T22:31:20.953-04:00Kevin Jennings, another screwy czarHave you heard of <a href="http://www.regularfolksunited.com/index.php?tab=article_view&article_id=2547">Kevin Jennings, the Safe School Czar</a>? Jennings is a well rounded individual according to to the government press release.<blockquote>Kevin Jennings is the founder and former executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an organization that works to make schools safe for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Prior to his tenure at GLSEN, Jennings served as History Department chair and a history teacher at Concord Academy in Massachusetts and before that as a history teacher at Moses Brown School in Rhode Island. Jennings has also authored six books including Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir which was named a 2007 Book of Honor by the American Library Association and Telling Tales Out of School which was the winner of the 1998 Lambda Literary Award. Jennings received an A.B. in history from Harvard, an M.A. from the Columbia University Teachers College and an M.B.A. from NYU's Stern School of Business.</blockquote>Its funny that they didn't mention some of his other experiences.<blockquote>…a person who founded and ran an organization (GLSEN)where instructors had explicitly described to middle school youngsters how to perform homosexual sexual acts?<br />
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…a teacher who had been told by a boy of 15 that he had been sexually abused by an older man, but did not tell authorities or his parents or do anything to protect the youngster from the abuser?<br />
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…a man who publicly stated that he was inspired by a man who was the number one proponent and promoter of pedophilia in the country?<br />
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…a person who wrote the forward to a book called Queering Elementary Education? <br />
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…a person who has publicly, in writing and in speeches, ridiculed and demeaned people of faith?</blockquote>Maybe they can find a place for <a href="http://couldscream.blogspot.com/2009/09/release-roman-polanski.html">Polanski </a>in the executive branch.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-54441001525423235972009-10-03T22:08:00.001-04:002009-10-03T22:12:54.628-04:00Yet another politician that needs to be culled from the herd...<blockquote><i>I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life. We, we write in this committee and legislate with plain English and I think most of us can understand most of that. When you get into the legislative language, Senator Conrad actually read some of it, several pages of it, the other day and I don’t think anybody had a clue--including people who have served on this committee for decades--what he was talking about. So, legislative language is so arcane, so confusing, refers to other parts of the code—‘and after the first syllable insert the word X’--and it’s just, it really doesn’t make much sense. </i><br />
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If you can't understand it, why in in the world would you vote for it?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-40258033043630957642009-10-03T20:44:00.001-04:002009-10-03T22:13:31.343-04:00Big Government Health Care PSAAnother great PSA poking fun of Will Ferrell and his Hollywood homies.<br />
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This one has a tagline at the end. It is from <a href="http://www.catholicvoteaction.org/index1.php">CatholicVoteAction.org.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-68458959499757535582009-10-01T22:08:00.001-04:002009-10-03T22:13:56.338-04:00Dr. Charles E. Rice to speak at IPFW<div class="entry">The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254449281_1" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">ArchAngel</span> Institute (<em>an Indiana non-profit corporation and a member of the Hoosier Patriots Coalition</em>) is excited to host Dr. Charles E. Rice at 7:00 pm on Friday, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254449281_2" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">October 16</span>, 2009, in Auer <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254449281_3" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Auditorium</span> on the campus of Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Dr. Rice’s lecture is entitled “The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254449281_4" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">Constitution</span> in the Age of Obama” and will be of interest to all who are concerned about the present trajectory of the federal government.<br />
Dr. Rice is Professor Emeritus at the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254449281_5" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">University of Notre Dame law School</span>. His areas of specialization are constitutional law and jurisprudence. His lecture will be followed by a round table discussion by a panel of distinguished guests. Questions will be taken from the audience. This unique event will take place in the comfortable Auer Performance Hall of the beautiful Rinehart Music Center on the North IPFW Campus.<br />
The doors will open for general admission seating at 6:45 pm. A free will offering will be taken to offset costs for this event.<br />
A VIP reception with Dr. Rice and the panel of experts will take place in the hour before the lecture. VIP admission passes will allow access to seating at 6:15 pm. All on the ArchAngel Institute’s mailing list will receive an invitation to the VIP reception. To get on that mailing list send an email to <a href="http://us.mc1115.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=archangelinstitute@gmail.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:archangelinstitute@gmail.org"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254449281_6">archangelinstitute@gmail.org</span></a> or fcm to The ArchAngel Institute, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254449281_7" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">827 Webster Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana</span>.<br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-41264857557852023682009-10-01T21:51:00.000-04:002009-10-01T21:51:58.660-04:00I miss Red Skelton<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TZBTyTWOZCM&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TZBTyTWOZCM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-57867184001792317962009-09-30T22:02:00.000-04:002009-09-30T22:02:23.108-04:00Shut up and Obey! We know what's best for you.We know what's best. First, we have Michigan.<br />
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<b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_re_us/us_baby_sitter_backlash_mich">State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids</a></b><br />
<blockquote><i>Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.</i><br />
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<i>Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers</i>.<br />
</blockquote>We can't have neighbors helping each other; that's the government's job. I knew Detroit was messed up, but I had hope for the rest of the state. I was wrong.<br />
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Second, we have New York.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=847190">School district could backpedal on policy</a></b><br />
<blockquote><i>Seventh-grader Adam Marino is getting a firsthand lesson in civil disobedience.</i><br />
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<i>The 12-year-old and his mother, Janette Kaddo Marino, are defying Saratoga Springs school policy by biking to Maple Avenue Middle School on Route 9. The Jackson Street residents pedal more than four miles together each way to the middle school on nice days despite being told not to by school officials and police.</i><br />
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I applaud this Mother for standing up against an out of control system and teaching her son to do the same. The country could use more of this sort of parenting. <br />
<blockquote><i>The biking debate started last spring, when school district officials told Kaddo Marino that Adam was violating school rules by biking to class. Walking to the school also is not permitted. </i><br />
</blockquote>Kids getting exercise and fresh air. What is the world coming to? Before you know it they will be eating vegetables. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de_P2aUZJyA">We have to nip it in the bud!</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-80641658428587999392009-09-30T21:16:00.001-04:002009-10-03T22:14:20.000-04:00Listen to overpaid celebritiesIf you haven't seen the health care ad sponsored by MoveOn.org with Will Ferrell and other celebrities, don't bother. Watch this one instead. Its actually funny.<br />
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I don't know who put this together, but they did an excellent job.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-15988924169088209962009-09-29T22:37:00.000-04:002009-09-29T22:37:11.106-04:00Porn surfing rampant at U.S. science foundationThis is <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-at-federal-agency/?feat=home_top5_shared&">another story</a> that for which this blog was titled. We, the American taxpayer, are paying the salaries of folks at the National Science Foundation who spend their days surfing porn sites on the web. It's not just a few isolated incidents, but there are so many perverts there that... <br />
<blockquote><i>they swamped the agency's inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars. </i><br />
</blockquote>This is the National Science Foundation we are talking about. Hasn't anyone there heard of blocks or filters. There cannot be any business reason to visit these sites, but according to one individual there are humanitarian reasons. <br />
<blockquote><i>For instance, one senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected, the records show.</i><br />
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<i>When finally caught, the NSF official retired. He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women. Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official's porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.</i><br />
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<i>"He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents and this site helps them do that," investigators wrote in a memo</i>. <br />
</blockquote><b>331 DAYS!?!?</b> At least it appears he took some vacation time. Humanitarian work can be so stressful.<br />
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If Congress and President Obama want to fix something, let them start with crap like this. If it were me and I was caught looking at porn while at work, I would be walked to the door without a word. And I should be. Zero tolerance.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772542818959228510.post-83593791722906769202009-09-29T22:12:00.001-04:002009-10-03T22:15:06.014-04:00Release Roman Polanski.....into a room filled with fathers of teenage girls. And just to make it interesting, we'll give the fathers baseball bats.<br />
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I wasn't going to post on the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,556141,00.html">Polanski arrest</a> because it brings out a side of me that asks for vengeance not necessarily justice, hence the opening to this post. Vengeance arises from emotion and justice proceeds from reason. The Polanski arrest pushes those emotional buttons. That being said, the bastard needs to be brought before a court in the United States and face the charges he ran from.<br />
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The statements coming from the some of Hollywood crowd are abhorrent for example, Whoopi Goldberg: <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/whoopi-goldberg-on-polanski-crime-it-wasnt-rape-rape/">"It wasn't rape-rape..."</a> From this description, <a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/28/polanski_arrest/">IT WAS RAPE</a>. (<b><span style="color: red;">Caution, very graphic.</span></b>) The women of the View should be ashamed of themselves.<br />
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<a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/2009/09/father_polanski_would_go_to_jail.html">Father Thomas J. Reese, S.J.</a> has an interesting Op Ed asking what would be said if it was Father Polanski the priest instead of Roman Polanski the artist.<br />
<blockquote><i>The outcry would be universal. Victim groups would demand the award be withdrawn and that the organization apologize. Religion reporters would be on the case with the encouragement of their editors. Editorial writers and columnist would denounce the knights as another example of the insensitivity of the Catholic Church to sexual abuse.</i></blockquote>This is just more of the double standards that we see today. When a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ">crucifix in a jar of urine</a> is considered art, why would we expect Hollywood to stand against a rapist. I think Father Reese sums it up best.<blockquote><i>Entertainment is the new religion with sex, violence and money the new Trinity. The directors and stars are worshiped and quickly forgiven for any infraction...</i><br />
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