Town Without Pity Monday: Sarah Palin and Wasilla, Alaska — ‘Why don’t they help us, try to help us before this clay and granite planet falls apart?’

I don’t know what tastes worse, the character assassination of Sarah Palin or greasy White Bear Burgers…

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Everyone knows that, “It takes a village to raise a child”, but what they fail to tell you is that the same village people often use scare tactics in order to indoctrinate the unsuspecting young into the same pathos of the global village elite. Such was the case within Al Gore’s disappearing world as his 2007 propaganda flick “An Inconvenient Truth” petrified students within classrooms into believing  that all those cuddly cutesy Coke guzzling polar bears were at that very moment stranded at sea on tiny bergs, drowning to death due to global warming…[GET THE REAL STORY HERE].

As a single issue voter who casts his ballot for any party that will sincerely work toward ending the abortion holocaust in America, I don’t get too overly excited about politics. In this past election my vote went to the Republican ticket, as the Democrats have for some time, (and still remain), the party that promotes, defends, and funds the murder of children in the womb within this country and throughout the world. A party position any Catholic with a underlying understanding of his or her own spiritual life cannot authentically support without committing, at least, the sin of omission–failing to act.

Many did.

One thing, however, during this last election which did peeve me was the personal attacks that Sarah Palin and her family endured–and continue to endure. Among the many assaults: her intellect has been demeaned, her lifestyle, children, and even her parents have been attacked. And according to this whiny fellow Mrs. Palin is a serial mass murderer on the loose. Perhaps, I submit, Sarah Palin represents for these a sure threat of winning the presidency if she decides to run in 2012. And thus, the ongoing attacks…

What a town without pity can do

I woke up this morning to the article below and it inspired me to start a weekly post (that is, if I remember) called: Town Without Pity Monday’s

I invision the post injecting false fear promoted within any subject by anyone with the needed antidote: humor–This installment is dedicated to all climate change alarmists who may decry publicly the raping of mother earth, while, failing to recognize or support the human dignity of the unborn child within its mother womb…

This first installment is entitled Town Without Pity Monday: Sarah Palin and Wasilla, Alaska — Why don’t they help us, try to help us
Before this clay and granite planet falls apart?

Note the two young people (at the beginning of the song) running desperately through the props on stage depicting a destroyed city… Classic– Sing it pit man!!!

Polar Bears Refute Al Gore’s Warnings

The polar bears that climate change alarmists claim are endangered by global warming are doing just fine, thank you.

Al Gore and other alarmists have warned that higher global temperatures due to greenhouse gases could lead to the melting of the polar ice caps. That would threaten the polar bears’ efforts to find food and survive.

But due to colder than usual subarctic weather this year, healthier polar bears are being spotted along the Hudson Bay coast in Canada, according to a release from PR Newswire.

“The late break-up of ice this year on Hudson Bay means the polar bears, which rely on sea ice to live, have been given more time during spring and summer to hunt and eat seals, and this has allowed them to gain important weight to live off of until freeze-up,” said Robert Buchanan, president of Polar Bears International.

Daryll Hedman, a regional wildlife manager for Manitoba Conservation in Canada, said polar bears remain on the Hudson Bay ice for as long as possible so they can feed, and this year the ice was so thick that they stayed there for an extra two weeks, resulting in fatter, healthier bears this summer.

On a related front: With many Democrats still clamoring for cap-and-trade legislation to curb carbon emissions in response to global warming fears, the outgoing leader of the environmental group Greenpeace has retracted an assertion about Arctic ice.

In a July 15 release entitled “Urgent Action Needed as Arctic Ice Melts,” Greenpeace said there will be an ice-free Arctic by the year 2030 due to global warming.

Under questioning by BBC reporter Stephen Sackur, Gerd Leipold, the retiring Greenpeace leader, stated, “I don’t think it will be melting by 2030 . . . That may have been a mistake.”

STORY SOURCE/NEWSMAX

Town Without Pity Lyrics

When you’re young and so and love as we
And bewildered by the world we see
Why do people hurt us so
Only those in love would know
What a town without pity can do

If we stop to gaze upon a star
People talk about how bad we are
Ours is not an easy age
We’re like tigers in a cage
What a town without pity can do

The young have problems Many problems
We need an understanding heart
Why don’t they help us, try to help us
Before this clay and granite planet falls apart

Take these eager lips and hold me fast
I’m afraid this kind of joy can’t last
How can we keep love alive
How can anything survive
When these little minds tear you in two
What a town without pity can do

How can we keep love alive
How can anything survive
When these little minds tear you in two
What a town without pity can do

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Full Text — Pope Benedict XVI response to Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Letter

Pope Benedict XVI responded to Sen. Ted Kennedy’s letter.

The letter reads:

The Holy Father has read the letter in which you entrusted to President Obama, who kindly presented it to him during his recent meeting.

He was saddened to know of your illness and asked me to assure you of his concern and his spiritual closeness. He is particular grateful of your prayers for him and for the needs of our universal church. His Holiness prays that in the days ahead you may be sustained in faith and hope and granted the precious grace of joyful surrender to the will of God, our merciful Father.

Read Senator Kennedy’s original letter.

He invokes upon you the consolation and peace of our risen savior, to all who share in his sufferings and trust in his promise of eternal life, commending you and the members of your family to the loving intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Holy Father cordially imparts his apostolic blessing as a pledge of wisdom, comfort and strength in the Lord.

SOURCE/ FOX NEWS

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Full Text — Edward M. Kennedy letter to Pope Benedict XVI

Senator Ted Kennedy wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI. President Obama delivered the letter.

The letter reads:

“Most Holy Father,

I asked President Obama to personally hand deliver this letter to you. As a man of deep faith himself, he understands how important my Roman Catholic faith is to me and I am so deeply grateful to him.

I hope this letter finds you in good health. I pray that you have all of God’s blessings as you lead our church and inspire our world during challenging times.

I am writing with deep humility to ask that you pray for me as my own health declines. I was diagnosed with brain cancer over a year ago and although I am undergoing treatment, the disease is taking its toll on me.

Read the Pope’s response.

I am 77-years-old and preparing for the next passage of life.

I’ve been blessed to be part of a wonderful family and both my parents, specifically my mother, kept our Catholic faith at the center of our lives.

That gift of faith has sustained and nurtured and provided solace to me in the darkest hours. I know that i have been an imperfect human being, but with the help of my faith I have tried to right my past.

I want you to know, your Holiness, that in my 50 years of elected office I have done my best to champion the rights of the poor and open doors of economic opportunity. I’ve worked to welcome the immigrant, to fight discrimination and expand access to health care and education. I’ve opposed the death penalty and fought to end war. Those are the issues that have motivated me and have been the focus of my work as a U.S. Senator.

I also want you to know that even though I am ill, I am committed to do everything I can to achieve access to health care for everyone in my country. This has been the political cause of my life.

I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health field and I’ll continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national health policy that guarantees health care for everyone.

I’ve always tried to be a faithful Catholic, Your Holiness. And though I have fallen short through human failings I’ve never failed to believe and respect the fundamental teachings of my faith.

I continue to pray for God’s blessings on you and on our church and would be most thankful for your prayers for me.”

SOURCE/FOX NEWS

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Catholic Funeral Mass for Kennedy?

Catholic blogger says no…

Family members carry Eunice Kennedy Shriver from Saint Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church after her funeral in the Hyannis section of Barnstable, Massachussets on Friday. Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy and Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, died Tuesday morning at Cape Cod Hospital at age 88. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)

Family members carry Eunice Kennedy Shriver from Saint Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church after her funeral in the Hyannis section of Barnstable, Massachussets.

The scandalous abortion record of Catholic Senator Edward M. Kennedy confirms it:

“Senator Kennedy was one of the most vocal enablers and supporters of abortion since the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. Approximately 3,700 abortions are performed daily in the United States, which makes him complicit in millions of deaths–deaths of innocent children who never had a chance to take their first breath.

Senator Kennedy made the protection of abortion his business.”

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Catholic blogger Robert Kumpel is urging readers to encourage the Archbishop of Boston, Sean Cardinal O’Malley, to “stick with the convictions of his faith and do the right thing: Deny a funeral Mass to Edward M. Kennedy…”

HERE’S THE LINK

KENNEDY AND THE ‘NOTRE DAME SYNDROME’

Father at NDSickening, isn’t it. Once again, the nasty business of abortion in America is forcing Catholics to choose between two cities: Camelot or Heaven — This passing world or Life. That is, unless your foolish enough to believe you can have it your own way and live in both without regard to God.

Many do.

The truth is, when all is said and done you and I are not creatures of our own making, and as Catholics, we are especially not our own as we are hidden in Christ through faith and baptism. And so, there comes a time when all men must rely on God alone…And we will face Him alone at Judgement.

Yet, in many ways we’ve forgotten, or ignore, that despite all the pronoucements of Camelot passing, this God of Heaven and earth, and under the earth, has eternal rules to live by, and has instituted a Church with the grave responsibility of helping men to live by them–especially its adherents…

Too many don’t.

According to our saving faith: the death of innocent children due to abortion is murder, pure and simple, and each Catholic must by faith assent on this most basic of Judeo-Christian moral truths–Thou shall not kill.

Period.

I think, this is Mr. Kumpel’s point of objection to a Catholic Funeral Mass offered for Edward Kennedy–Scandal causes confusion and disbelief in God’s Truth, His Laws, His Church, and ultimately man’s purpose in this life and the next.

THE ARCHBISHOP WILL DECIDE

No one can say for sure, (except his confessor and God), if the Pro-abortionist Senator Edward M. Kennedy experienced a sudden and true remorse leading to a death bed conversion. That by grace, Edward M. Kennedy the Catholic repented, finding Mercy and Peace through sacramental confession. But, what is certain is this:

–the passing of Edward M. Kennedy will further spread about what I now call the The Notre Dame Syndrome. That is, the spirit of undeciveness present within the Catholic Church which causes us to fail as one body in acting boldly against abortion in American society today.

Is it not time for each of us–every Catholic, top to bottom, lay, cleric, and even politico, to decide for instead of against the integrity of our faith. I, along with many others, am convinced that only the Catholic Church can end the curse of abortion. But, it requires authentic faith and obedience to the divine directive of the Author of faith to: “Let our yes, be yes, and our no, be no…” Because, as we all know, “anything else comes from the evil one…”

And that anything else, as evil underlying abortion, continues to kill millions of children in America and worldwide through sins of omission…

The issue is holocaust, and the Catholic Church must stop it.

R.I.P. Mr. Kennedy, (and truly), may God have mercy on your soul and bring you to everlasting life.

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Oregon Pro-Life Call — Medford Town Hall Meeting: Senator Ron Wyden at Lincoln Elementary School, Thursday, 08.27.09, 12:30 p.m.

Let’s convince this father that ALL children have a right to life and say NO to taxpayer funded abortion: HR-3200..

USA-POLITICS/GET THE FACTS ON TAXPAYER FUNDED ABORTIONS HERE

Hello, Pro-Lifers,

The issue of health care reform will be front and center in Medford on Thursday, as Senator Ron Wyden holds a Town Hall Meeting at Lincoln Elementary School.

When: Thursday, 8/27/09, 12:30 p.m.

Where: Lincoln Elementary School

3101 McLaughlin Dr., Medford (off Delta Waters Rd.)

HR-3200, the health care reform bill that is currently making its way through the House of Representatives, if passed, will usher in abortion on demand at taxpayer cost. There is good reason to suspect that the bill will also be a threat to senior citizens through “end-of-life planning,” as well as rationing.

President Obama, when asked directly if abortion would be covered, evaded the question. He knows that it will. This is because prior court decisions have said that abortion is covered unless specifically excluded. The proposed Hyde Amendment, which would have specifically prohibited tax dollars from being used for abortion, was struck down in committee on a party line basis. There is NO EXCLUSIONARY LANGUAGE in the current text of the bill. This means that abortion would be fully included in the proposed health care reform bill.

It’s reasonable to assume the Veteran’s Administration end-of-life planning book “Your Life Your Choices” is the blueprint for end-of-life planning in HR-3200. This book manipulates our sick veteran’s into questioning the value of their lives, based on a utilitarian model. “End-of-life planning” poses a threat to our elderly family members.

We ask pro-lifers to show up in force to defend the right to life of the unborn and the elderly. Jackson County Right to Life is a non-partisan organization, and we invite participation from those of all political persuasions in the defense of life.

Jackson County Right to Life

Heavy Metal Mass: St. Mary’s, Eugene

Is the LIFETEEN Mass necessary?

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REFORMS OF THE NEW MASS COMING?: Its been reported here that in March, Cardinals and Bishops members of the Congregation for Divine Worship voted almost unanimously in favor of:

…a greater sacrality of the rite, of the recovery of the sense of eucharistic worship, of the recovery of the Latin language in the celebration, and of the remaking of the introductory parts of the Missal in order to put a stop to abuses, wild experimentations, and inappropriate creativity.

No talk of reforming the reform, however, helped deliver our family from the LIFETEEN Mass held on Sunday, August 23rd, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Eugene, Oregon. A Mass that will forever be ingrained within my memory and filed under, “The Heavy Metal Mass of 2009″.

FEEDBACK — Hendrix turning over in his grave

Guitar feedback has been described as a cat chasing its tail — amplified sound reaches a microphone and is amplified again causing screech. The old saying, “Come to a screeching halt” can be applied here. As that is exactly what happened within the Mass at St. Mary’s Sunday–it came to a loud screeching halt, and that, on at least four different occasions.

The re-presentation of the mysteries of this divine and saving faith discovered within the Holy Mass took a back seat to the overamplification of sound, ala, Jimi Hendrix. Here’s what was happening within me spiritually:

Christ has died: SCREEEECH‘Hold on a second, Jesus’.

Christ is risen:  SCREEEEEEECH‘Wow! Did that happen again?’

Christ will come again: SCREEEEEEEE-CHEEE-SCREECH‘Oh, Come on, the volume is too loud, and microphones to close!’

Receiving Holy Communion: SCREEEE–EEEE–EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH‘Okay, that’s it, tell the kids, honey, that after reception we’ll meet outside in the garden by Our Lady to pray in silence…”

REDEMPTION…

Thanks be to God for the Priest…

His homily was on the modern-day Catholic understanding of, well, being authentically Catholic in the Church and world today. That includes accepting with holy faith Church teachings on the moral life, and this priest of God pounded home the message with a constant reprise of Jesus saying, “Will you leave me also?” following each moral issue: Fornication outside of marriage… Contraception… Abortion… In the spirit of ‘this’ Mass my wife and I pounded knuckles.

On our way out of Mass following reception my Ten-year-old son, Andrew, stated the problematic reality of the LIFETEEN Mass clearly:

Andrew: “Dad, promise me you won’t take us to another LIFETEEN Mass.”

Me: “I’m curious, Andrew, why do you say that?”

Andrew: “Because, it’s inappropriate for the Mass.”

The young man with the white sword will be leading future uprisings against the use of LIFETEEN within the Holy Mass.

ASK ANDREW: The young man with the white sword will be leading future uprisings against the use of LIFETEEN within the Holy Mass. (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

LEAVING THE MASS FOLLOWING RECEPTION

I’ve taught all my 5 children to remain in Church until the priest exits following Mass. This is the teaching norm of the Church and is the norm for our family. It was with no little hesitation, then, that I brought my family out of Mass on Sunday to pray following reception… But, if the priest were to ask me as we exited, “Will you too leave me?” I think, I would have responded in this way:

“No, Jesus, I’m only going out into the garden to hear your Word…”

EDITORS NOTE: I’ve intentionally avoided here all the many reasons that LIFETEEN is inappropriate for the Mass because I wanted to focus on this experience of the St. Mary’s Mass alone. Click here for further information/comments on the subject from other concerned Catholics dedicated to reform of the reform to learn more about LIFETEEN.

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Oh, Baby…

One baby berry, two baby berries…

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So, the secrets out…

And now the whole world knows, because, well, I’m all about babies (See: 5) and this site is visited by thousands… He-haw…

Congratulations Sharai and Alex. One baby berry is good. Two baby berries is great!!!

I wanted to send flowers this morning before leaving town, but, someone I know is a scheduling Nazi…

This sunflower is for you both– Love, Grandpa-Mama.

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Minneapolis tornado: ‘You know it’s bad when even Gaia says you’re not Christian anymore.’

Someone needs a hippie hug…

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Cletus D. Yokel I owe you.

Cletus penned the funniest remark, thus far, on the freak twister that ripped through downtown Minneapolis yesterday, interrupting Lutherans as they met to officially declare themselves gay friendly.

Someone needs a hippie hug…

Apparently, I owe Terry Nelson over at Abbey–Roads as well some kudos for breaking the story first…

FROM TERRY’S UPDATE:

So another blog Orate Fratres picks up this story and it gets put on Spirit Daily this morning. Shouldn’t I have gotten credit? I posted late yesterday afternoon. Oh! Oh! But what if other people understood the significance of the event in the same way I did? I still feel snubbed. Maybe it’s because I make fun of Spirit Daily that they never pick up my stories? Maybe I should change my name to Terry Mary Nelson? [Well..., it does rhyme.] Maybe I should start promoting Medj? Nah!

OUCH!!!

I’m innocent. (Well, in this case.)

For the record: James Mary is my baptismal name, which, I proudly (and most thankfully) display here on my blog and elsewhere. I can safely state that I would not be Catholic today had the Mother of God not given me shelter in the depths of Her Immaculate Heart. A Heart united indissolubly with the Heart of the Son of God and Son of Man eternally…

The other option was certain hell.

Join me in giving Terry a real motherly hug, by reading his fine stories and blog here–of which, I’m a fan.

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Minneapolis tornado rips Lutheran conference on gays in the church (Pics)

Here’s the church… Where’s the steeple?

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The inverted Cross atop Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis dangled from the steeple on Wednesday following a rare downtown twister as the ELCA Churchwide Assembly was in legislative session across the street at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

Things that make you go, hmmm…

Countless spiritual souls over the ages have commented on seeing God in all things. So, how about manifestations of physical evils found within nature, or, as the American justice system calls them: Acts of God… Perhaps a lesson from the fig tree — re-reading Mark 13: 5-6, 28-29 — occured Wednesday on 3rd street in downtown Minneapolis, Mn.

First, this from the Catholic News Agency yesterday:

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THE NORTH PLAZA HAD BEEN SET AS "THE CARILLON CAFE" WITH SEATING FOR 200 AND SERVING STATIONS UNDER TWO LARGE TENTS.

Minneapolis, Minn., Aug 18, 2009 / 11:38 pm (CNA).- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is considering a proposal that would allow members in homosexual relationships to serve as clergy. It has denied a motion to require a higher proportion of votes for the proposal to pass.

On Monday delegates gathered at the Minneapolis Convention Center rejected a proposal to require approval from a two-thirds supermajority instead of a simple majority when the measure comes to a final vote, expected on Friday.

ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson cautioned earlier in the day that the outcome of the majority versus supermajority vote shouldn’t be seen as strongly indicating how the debate will be decided.

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EQUIPMENT AND PARTS OF THE MASSIVE TENT THAT WAS "PUB CENTRAL" WAS BLOWN INTO THIRD AVENUE.

Supporters of the high threshold for passage said it was necessary to signal wide support for a major change in the church’s approach to homosexuality. About 43 percent of the 1,045 voting delegates supported the higher standard, the Associated Press says.

Other topics of consideration include a broader statement on sexuality, a 34-page document that reportedly would establish a theological framework for differing views of homosexuality. Critics say it would liberalize the ELCA.

The ELCA claims about 4.7 million members and 10,000 congregations in the United States.

Coincidence, or, co-incidents?

Consideration of the proposed Social Statement on Human Sexuality document was scheduled to begin on Wednesday, August 19, at 2:oo p.m.

According to the website of the Central Lutheran Church located across the street from the conference center, where the assembly was in session, the tornado passed through downtown Minneapolis near CLC at, you guessed it, approximately 2:00 p.m…

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PHOTO CREDIT: Joe Bjordal

Breaking Pic: Obama spotted carrying M-16 in Willits, Ca. — two weeks ago…

President:“Oh yea, bro’, I got your AR-15 hangin’ right here…”

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EDITORS NOTE: Post filed under “The hypocrisy of politics.”

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Yea, yea, The Arizona Republic as reported on the Huffington Post said:

A man, who decided not to give his name, was [Legally] walking around the pro-health care reform rally at 3rd and Washington streets, with a pistol on his hip, and an AR-15 (a semi-automatic assault rifle) on a strap over his shoulder.

“Because I can do it,” he said when asked why he was armed. “In Arizona, I still have some freedoms.”

Two police officers were staying very close to the man.

So tell me, why didn’t I see police officers staying very close to the President at this gun shop in Willits, California two weeks ago while I was on vacation with the family?

I’ll tell you why: The AWARD hanging from the barrel of THE M-16 SEMI-AUTOMATIC ASSAULT RIFLE reads:

‘GUN SALESMEN OF THE YEAR’

It seems, according to the owner, that Mr. Obama’s sales have never been better…

Politics. Geez, go figure…

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