Meet Davey Wavey — Need another reason for full implementation of Ex Corde Ecclesiae?

§ 5. The education of students is to combine academic and professional development with formation in moral and religious principles and the social teachings of the Church; the programme of studies for each of the various professions is to include an appropriate ethical formation in that profession. Courses in Catholic doctrine are to be made available to all students(51).

Ex Corde Ecclesiae

“Well…, we got the professional development part down anyway.”

Meet Davey Wavey: Keep in mind that according to this articulate young entrepreneur he was raised Catholic, attended Catholic School and Catholic University…

His “Theology of the Body”, partially transcribed, follows his pitch:

  • Remember that where there is love there is God, and it doesn’t matter with whom that consensual love is shared.
  • Call in sick the day they talk about the “sin” of masturbation.
  • Sublimate your “Catholic guilt” with regular exercise.
  • Remember that all the rules, all the laws, and all the regulations were written by people, and that people have a pretty good track record for lapses of judgment.
  • Internalize only those teachings that ring true in your heart. You don’t need to believe something just because a man in a robe tells you it’s true. Think for yourself.
  • Read the David and Jonathan story in the Bible (1 Samuel: 18). And if ever you’re doubting yourself, read it again because those two were so doing it.
  • As you get older, if this is an option, (and if you want to stay Catholic), try to find a more progressive Catholic church in your area.
  • Go to SoulForce.org, their wonderful folks, really courageous, and read the publication, ‘What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say About Homosexuality’.
  • Trust God enough to accept yourself as you were created to be. And, yes, this takes guts and you’ll have to go out on a limb, but God will be out on that limb with you.
  • Know that our good friend Jesus never said one word about same-sex relationships. all the words came from other people.
  • Realize that loving yourself isn’t a sin. It’s respecting the creation that God made, which is you.
  • When you hear people say that you’re going to go to hell because your gay, and you’re going to hear it, have the courage and trust in God’s love, and not doubt that.

END OF POST/BEGINNING OF PRAYERS

O’ mice an’ men – Catholic home schooling (week 1)

Be sober, and watch: because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist ye, strong in faith; knowing that the same affliction befalleth your brethren who are in the world.

1 Peter 5:8-9

Princess Hannah

Public and Catholic School Education in today’s world–The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men

Last Wednesday we officially began Catholic home schooling our 3 children–Andrew (10), Gabriel (8), and Hannah (6). Today is Monday, (Day 4), and I have a few observations:

1. I’m kicking myself for not having home schooled all of our 5 children from the beginning. We’re using the Seton Home School Program and from the very first day it was apparent to me that this Catholic education program not only delivers academically, but also, (and more importantly), delivers sound spiritual doctrine incorporated within the material… My only regret is my inability to afford purchasing this same program for every child at our parish–St. Patrick of the Forest Catholic Church, in Cave Junction, Oregon.

2. I’ve found out that I’m not as smart as I thought I was. Either that, or, I’m suffering from premature senior moments–constantly.

3. I’m learning that love is patient. With God this is an eternal attribute and virtue as pure Spirit–Not so with fleshly man…

Final Note: If there were any doubts left within me if home educating our children was/is the right course for their lives, it was put to rest on the eve of our first day. A friend e-mailed the following homily from the Patrick Madrid blog, his post read:

This is an amazing sermon delivered two days ago by an unidentified Catholic priest. He discourses clearly and forcefully on a range of issues, especially the serious obligation we who are parents have before God to safeguard our children from moral dangers. Along the way, he makes a few startling comments about how the evil one tries to subvert children and, in particular, he advises parents to be on guard against letting a certain “strange man” speak directly to their children. It will be 18 minutes and 44 seconds of your life well spent. [My emphasis]

GIVE THIS A LISTEN

Patrick Madrid PostWhat Will You Say When God Asks: “Where Are Those Whom I Have Entrusted to You?”

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The Village Liar — Deliverance From Evil (Part 1)

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Deliverance From Evil

by Vic Biorseth

Thinking-Catholic-Strategic-Center.com

213316660YCDPFI_fsDeliverance From Evil is not the first title chosen for this article; it is the third. When it started, the title was Deliverance From Obama; but then as I got into it, there came the realization that the problem did not begin and end with Obama.

So it was changed to be Deliverance From Marxism; but then there came the realization that the problem did not begin and end with Marxism.

So then it was changed to be Deliverance From Evil, because what is ultimately at stake here is our American national soul and the very nature of our nation. And with it, the immortal souls of millions who are being mislead, in opposing God, His Law, truth, science, nature, any fixed moral standard, and all that is good and decent in man, as created by the Father, redeemed by the Son and animated by the Spirit.

We are talking about direct opposition to Truth.

barack-obama-swearing-inWhat is being contested here is more than the very American Constitution Obama swore, falsely, to defend, and which Obama has repeatedly dismissed, ignored and violated. In the Constitutional America page we argued for the impeachment of Obama and gave our reasons. Since then, the situation has rapidly grown worse. In the arguments and following dialogues at “The Marxism of Obama”, against National Health Care and elsewhere we have shown the unprecedented trampling of the American Constitution by an American President.

We are mesmerized into thinking this is merely another political debate; a contention between Left and Right, between the conservative and the liberal political positions; even merely a contention between the two major American political Parties. All of that is true enough, of course, but it represents to our limited vision only the tip of a hidden gigantic iceberg. The problem is not merely Marxist opposition to free enterprise and liberty; the American political arena is loaded down with Marxists; Marxists predominate in the American classroom, the American newsroom and in American show business. There is more to this than mere Marxism.

The Clintons, the Carters, the Kennedys, the Kerrys, the Pelosis, the Reids and many, many others in high office are just as Marxist as the Obamas and the Gores; the only difference is that none of them have the guts and ruthlessness to push for tyranny in America as fast and as hard as an Obama or a Gore. The difference between, say, a Clinton and an Obama is that a Clinton would push gently and incrementally to eventually wind up in the same place. There is nothing gradual or incremental about what Obama is doing; he intends to get to absolute tyranny just as soon as possible. He will make it happen.

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213316660YCDPFI_fsLook back at the fearsome threesome that confronted human liberty and free commerce before and during World War II: Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini. All were Marxists; all “developed” different forms of Socialism, all of which were in fact sham organizations of gangsters, common criminals and ideologue-dupes supporting absolute dictatorships, and all of which sought empire, and empire expansion through military conquest. All were, in truth, imperialists. The only question in any of their minds during that era was which one of them would ultimately wind up on top; utter ruthlessness mandated that only one of them would rule, and the others would die. Nothing has changed. Obama sees all political opponents as mortal enemies who must be dealt with sooner or later. The goal has not changed since World War II, and the goal is world conquest. I see little difference between Obama’s union thugs and his ACORN and other Communist organizers and Hitler’s brown shirts, SA and SS.

We are looking at parallel historical events.

SWITZERLAND-WEF-DAVOS-ECONOMY-BUSINESS-SOROSMany of America’s kinder and gentler Marxists are mere ideologues, what Stalin referred to as his useful idiots, who are convinced of the “truth” of the never proven and historically falsified theories of Karl Marx. They really, actually believe that Capitalism is a mere stepping-stone, or an evolutionary way-point in the inevitable and supposedly “natural” social evolutionary path to World Wide Communist Utopia. Since they believe it, and they believe that it is naturally inevitable, they see no problem with proactively helping it along a little.

That is a very serious and dangerous problem.

They firmly hold and believe an utter falsehood, which they see as good, and as the inevitable future, to which they want to contribute, and they actually feel patriotic about it. They want to do their part. Therefore, they will not only take advantage of any crisis to promote Marxism and attack Capitalism, but they will go so far as to encourage, create or induce social crisis for that purpose. Economic calamity is good. Health care elimination is good. Industrial collapse is good. All of these things help the cause of Marxism. Rampant unemployment is good. Social unrest is good. More unemployed and therefore more uninsured is good for the greater cause, for you cannot make an omelet without breaking some eggs, and the noble ends justify the regrettable but necessary means. They have completely bought into the Great Communist Lie.

They fancy themselves as forward-looking historians, who love history. But they only look forward, never back, which is the wrong way to look at history. Real history repeatedly disproves Marxist theory, and proves that Marxism lowers societies into degenerate barbarity. But today’s American Marxist only looks forward; past history is seen by them only through lenses clouded by the purposeful disinformation of legions of teachers and professors and newsmen and authors and publishers and filmmakers who are all, or predominantly, Marxist. I ask you, therefore, to take a hard, cold look at the barbarism of Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Mao, from the viewpoint of the ordinary citizens who suffered under them. A true Marxist makes a very poor historian.

SolzhenitsynGulagMugshot1953I have said before that Communism = Fascism = Nazism = Marxism, and I said it with good cause. Any differences are noted only by the most pedantic useful-idiot “historians” who are convinced of the truth of Marxist theory; they can go into great detail when describing the differences between the terms. But the resulting tyrants of yesterday, and the would-be tyrants of today, don’t particularly give a damn what you call the movement that gets them to the top of the heap. They’ll pay lip service to whatever variant predominates to keep their useful idiots in the fold while they are still useful, but the real goal is dictatorship, pure and simple.

It’s all Marxism, which is to say, it’s all dictatorship. It is the purest form of authoritarianism, a tern which is demonized by all convinced Marxist useful idiots. Nevertheless, pure authoritarianism is the true unspoken goal of Marxism.

As stated above and elsewhere, there is not one iota of difference between Communism, Fascism and Nazism (German National Socialist Worker’s Party), as the terms are understood in contemporary English today. Later, I will include the terms Leftist, Liberal and Moderate in this list, for reasons I will then explain. My reason for the first statement is that all of these terms pretend to be unique variants or interpretations of Marxist organization, while all of them are, in actuality, pure dictatorships. Dictatorship is the first goal. Solidification of total power will follow, after which may come expansion, and empire. I still say it is all the same thing.

The German writer Peter Drucker once described Communism and Fascism as not being essentially the same thing, but that “Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Stalinist Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.” [The End of Economic Man (1939), Page 230.] The difference is of importance only to the dim-bulb ideologues, or Communism’s Useful Idiots, who often become horribly disillusioned upon the discovery of the impossibility of the Communist Utopian dream, which most usually dawns upon them after it is too late to turn back. But, to the would-be Tyrant, such as Obama, there is no real surprise here. The goal for the would-be Tyrant is very simple: centralize all political power so that it may be seized, and then seize it. His whole, sole goal is to become dictator of a country. Expansion, opponents and Empire will be worried about later.

As noted elsewhere, the most typical philosophical Communist does not even know what he is. Many are they who have been educated (indoctrinated) by formal education and slanted news, history and even entertainment into believing that some part, any part, of Marxism is of some worth or value to man. And yet, Marxism is only successful as a tool of use to tyrants to enable them to more easily get on top of populations. Marxism’s success is as much due to popularity as a fad among elitist pseudo-sophisticates as it is to history’s great Marxist rulers. Marxism, on its own, is shear, unmitigated, indefensible stupidity. It is truly amazing that it has had such a long and successful run among supposedly advanced peoples.

213316660YCDPFI_fsAnd yet, as indicated at the beginning, Marxism itself is nurtured, nursed and fed by an underlying, foundational monster, which I shall call untruth, or, if you wish, evil. The two names are interchangeable. Marxism could not be accepted by any moral man, for Marxism is, obviously, immoral. The very notion that the ends justify the means is immoral. Before a man may accept Marxism, he must first accept basic, fundamental immorality. The immoral ground has been being prepared to that end for many, many decades now.

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Prayers Please: A positive test for Down’s Syndrome and eugenic abortion

Eugenics by abortion: “…frightening how many of those beautiful children have been snuffed out because God’s gift didn’t seem good enough for man’s world.”

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Mother of Divine Mercy, Pray for us.

We received this e-mail from a dear friend and sister within the Sacred Body of Christ:

From Amy–

okay, prayers are needed. got back the first trimester genetic screening and the baby tested positive for down’s syndrome. it’s only 2 percent, but it’s still within the levels, given my age/ultrasound/blood tests that is considered positive for a significant risk of down’s. next step is a second trimester round of blood/ultrasound and then another risk assessment. after that the only sure way to know is an amnio or just wait until the baby is born. sooo, initially when i got the phone call (at school on a 7 minute break b/t classes…my job stinks sometimes) i was sad and cried. it’s just not a set of challenges i expected and another baby is already going to be a challenge without more to it. : ) of course, it doesn’t change anything, but i was all stressed. soooo, i went online [HERE] to read about down’s syndrome and found a statistic that of the parents who are given a positive assessment like mine, a steady 92% decided to terminate the pregnancy. oh my gosh! i knew some people did, but i never dreamed it was that high. so, i figure, the Lord sends us challenges we don’t expect and in this case maybe he is sending us a baby with Down’s but it’s because He knows our Baby would NEVER be in that 92%. it makes me tear up just to imagine it. george will (conservative columnist who i believe has a child with down’s) called it “eugenics by abortion” frightening how many of those beautiful children have been snuffed out b/c God’s gift didn’t seem good enough for man’s world. anyway, prayers please for that. i test again in late sept./early oct. will let you know.

Please join our family in prayers of the holy Rosary for Amy and every child threatened by eugenic abortion in these sad times…

james mary evans

Animal House: About that $300 bed we bought you son for college…

What tha!!!?

The bed

Now we have a clearer understanding about why he wanted that firmer mattress…

Hmmm, what to do?

My wife, bless her heart, has for many years now had the uncanny ability to catch our kids in many , if not all, transgressions.

Tonight was no different.

If I’m not mistaken, the fellow above flashing the “Hang Loose” sign before his great leap would be one “Mad Max” from Hawaii. A fellow room mate and teammate of our son Parrish on the Pacific University Golf Team. The photographer we’re guessing is probably “Murphy”. (Oh yea, by the way Murph, thanks for posting these on FaceBook!!!). Geez…

ParrishParrish is nowhere in sight…

But, nonetheless, here’s a pic each of you scholars up around Forest Grove way should study REAL closely. The husband of a friend of the family whose promised to check in from time to time… He tells me, he knows a little bit about collateral damage. Or, was that collecting for damages? Ah…, He’ll let you know fellas when you see him… Until then, Hang loose gentlemen. Hang loose.

Vishnu's Husband

END OF POST/END OF MONKEES JUMPIN’ ON THE BED…

Full Text: CMA Open Letter to Catholics and Catholic Organizations on health-care reform

‘We must ensure that well-intentioned efforts to bring about “change” are not exploited to create a federally controlled system that promises health care for all, but creates an oppressive bureaucracy hostile to human life and to the integrity of the patient physician relationship…’

Catholic Medical Association

Open Letter to Catholics and Catholic Organizations

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September 21, 2009

Members of the Catholic Medical Association have been carefully monitoring the process and content of the health-care reform debate from our unique perspective as Catholic physicians. We are familiar with contributions made to the national debate by other Catholic organizations.

As efforts to enact health-care reform legislation intensify, we would like to share our perspective on some prudential aspects of health-care reform and work collaboratively with others to shape legislation in harmony with the Catholic faith. These thoughts reflect years of experience serving patients and families in medical practice while endeavoring to apply the full spectrum of Catholic medical-moral and social teaching.

We believe we are facing a crisis, not only in health-care financing and delivery, but in the health-care reform process itself. As is often noted, the word “crisis” can mean either danger or opportunity. The United States has the opportunity (and obligation) to craft effective, ethical responses to the crisis in health-care financing and delivery. But there also exists a real danger that misguided legislation could make our current problems even worse. This is a critical time for Catholics to work together to formulate solutions based upon authentic moral, social, and economic principles,

The failings of the U.S. health-care financing and delivery system are well-known. Many people lack consistent access to affordable health insurance and are unable to obtain appropriate healthcare services in a timely manner. Health-care services are expensive and fragmented. These problems result largely from misguided incentives in tax, employment, and government policy.

One unfortunate result of this has been increasing third-party payer intrusion into the patient physician relationship, with significantly deleterious consequences. All Catholics should agree on the fundamental ethical and social principles proposed by the Church. The question we are faced with, after decades of misguided policies, is how should we apply these teachings so as to provide universal access to quality health-care insurance and services in a cost-effective, ethical manner?

Bills passed out of committees in the House and Senate this summer rely heavily on the federal government to dictate solutions. They empower a small group of unelected government bureaucrats and committees to determine the composition and cost of health insurance policies, the reimbursement of providers, the approval of treatments, etc. We think this government controlled approach is flawed in principle and ineffective, if not dangerous, in practice. This approach clearly violates the principle of subsidiarity first articulated by Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo anno, n. 79, and recently reaffirmed by Pope John Paul II in Centesimus annus, n. 48 and Pope Benedict XVI in Caritas in veritate, n. 47.

• This approach has been and will be ineffective. The federal government has a very poor track record of managing large programs in a cost-effective manner. Medicare will be insolvent by 2017 and faces a $37 trillion unfunded liability. Medicaid’s problems are well-known. Costs have run out of control in most states, and 40 percent of physicians no longer accept Medicaid because low reimbursement rates do not even cover the overhead expense of providing care. Adding millions of people to this flawed government system (as proposed by the Senate H.E.L.P. Committee bill) is not meaningful health insurance reform.

• This approach, moreover, is dangerous given the current Administration’s repeated failures to accord proper respect for the dignity of human life. Reversing the Mexico City Policy and providing federal funding for human embryonic stem-cell research are only the best known of a whole series of proposals denying respect for human life. In addition, the Administration seems intent upon institutionalizing such policies making it difficult, if not impossible, to overturn them in the future. While there have been some misunderstandings about provisions relating to end-of-life consultations; serious concerns remain regarding funding for care of the seriously ill and dying. All are aware that a significant percentage of health-care spending occurs in the last months of a person’s life, and we are facing a demographic tsunami of aging baby boomers. Giving the federal government the power, and primary responsibility, to contain medical expenditures could threaten the provision of medical care to the most vulnerable, the elderly and chronically ill. We believe there are better approaches to achieving meaningful health-care reform and meeting our common goal of making health-care coverage truly universal and genuinely affordable.

• We should advocate for legislation making it possible for individuals and families to purchase health insurance that meets their needs and also respects their values. This could be achieved by re-assigning the tax deduction for health insurance from employers to individuals. And bringing appropriate incentives from the market economy to health insurance companies will increase competition and correct the problem of regional insurance monopolies, thereby reducing costs of insurance and medical care. Such reforms would address the needs of the great majority of people. Congress can also tailor programs to assist those most in need, the working poor, the unemployed, and those currently uninsurable due to preexisting conditions.

• We should encourage greater individual accountability in health-care spending. Since 70 percent of health-care spending is for conditions directly influenced by personal behavior, there is considerable potential for improved health and reduced spending by encouraging healthier lifestyles with appropriate financial incentives. In general, reforms encouraging individual ownership of health insurance and personal responsibility for spending on medical care are more likely to reduce costs in an ethically acceptable manner than are those increasing the power and control of third parties.

• Before supporting the creation of another large government program, we should work to reform those already in existence and demonstrating serious difficulty in controlling costs. Medicaid needs an extensive overhaul to ensure quality care for the poor and just compensation for providers.

In conclusion, we call upon all Catholics and Catholic organizations to reaffirm their support for the foundational ethical and social teachings of the Church which provide a framework for authentic health care reform, and to unite as one in an uncompromising commitment to defend the sanctity of life and the conscience rights of all providers as essential parts of health-care reform. And we also respectfully urge all Catholics and Catholic organizations to place a greater emphasis on respecting the principle of subsidiarity across the spectrum of issues in health-care financing and delivery during the coming legislative debates. Experience indicates that medical decisions are best made within the personal context of the individual patient-physician relationship rather than within some remote, impersonal, and bureaucratic agency, whether governmental or corporate. We are convinced that if this important principle of Catholic social teaching is not correctly upheld, then short-term measures to defend the right to life and respect for conscience will ultimately fail and the patient-physician relationship will be irreparably compromised.

We noted above that we face not only a crisis in health-care financing and delivery, but a crisis in the current legislative process. We must ensure that well-intentioned efforts to bring about “change” are not exploited to create a federally controlled system that promises health care for all, but creates an oppressive bureaucracy hostile to human life and to the integrity of the patient physician relationship. It would be better to forgo long-needed changes in health-care financing and delivery in the short-term if these would lead to a long-term, systemic policy regime that is inimical to respect for life, religious freedom, and the goods served by the principle of subsidiarity. Rather than accept such an outcome, we should take the time required to implement reform measures that are sound in both principled and practical terms.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Louis C. Breschi, M.D.

President

O’s Unemployment Stats: A rebuttal

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

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ED NOTE: This post is an Orate Fratres reply to e-mail concerning this previous post. The e-mail reads:

I find it hard to believe that even though this turd of an economy obviously was souring long before Obama took office, you and those like you (aka those who ignore imperical [sic] fact in favor of whatever they’re current beliefs may be) want to lay blame for they’re problems at the feet of a man who’s been running the country for 9+ months, while singing praises to the man who spent 8 years tearing down our economy. God gave us all brains. It would be sacrilege to let others do our thinking for us.

Please prove me wrong.

On the–politically subjective–reality that “God gave us all brains, and thus, it would be sacrilege to let others do our thinking for us”, I offer this for the sake of clarity before I begin:

Empirical numbers, or simply put,  6.1 is not > 9.7

Obama Unemployment Stats 2009: Jan- 7.6 Feb- 8.1 Mar- 8.5 Apr- 8.9 May- 9.4 Jun- 9.5 Jul- 9.4 Aug- 9.7

Bush Unemployment Stats 2008: Jan- 4.9 Feb- 4.8 Mar- 5.1 Apr- 5.0 May- 5.5 Jun- 5.5 Jul- 5.7 Aug- 6.1 Sep- 6.1 Oct- 6.5 Nov- 6.7 Dec- 7.2

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: JANUARY 2009

Nonfarm payroll employment fell sharply in January (-598,000) and the unemployment rate rose from 7.2 to 7.6 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Payroll employment has declined by 3.6 million since the start of the recession in December 2007; about one-half of this decline occurred in the past 3 months. In January, job losses were large and widespread across nearly all major industry sectors.

On “the economy obviously souring long before Obama took office due to the man (Bush) who spent 8 years tearing down our economy”:

Length of time the economy was souring beforehand is relative to your own personal interpretation. If you consider 3-4 months “long before” Obama came into office than I guess so. But, your premise that Bush spent 8 years tearing down the economy doesn’t hold water. I invite you to look at the entire 8 year Bush unemployment record [Bureau of Labor Statistics], which tells a different story than that which your portraying as destructive.

Note: I’m not an economist so I can’t give an expert explanation of all the varying factors affecting the economy. If these numbers are wrong, or, change due to circumstances, reexamination or the such, I’m open for correction.

The point of my original post was that “that change”we’ve heard so much about has yet to materialize despite all the promises. Yes, even after only 9 months–

It would seem that with all the excitement surrounding “the Coming” of Obama American business and enterprise would flourish. The reality, I fear, is that the free enterprise system (capital) abhors the stench of socialism’s long history of previous failures and death-dealing ways. And thus, we may be in for a very long bout with that one political slogan Obama did follow through with– Hope.

I hope not.

As for my current beliefs and singing praise to George Bush

I’m a single issue (Pro-Life) voter (12 years) and have no over-riding predilection for either George Bush or Barack Obama. Political parties for that matter. My vote goes to the party or person with the best chance to help end the curse of abortion in this country. Period.

Abortion policy in America is like this: I once worked at a psychiatric ward and one of my patients was having a particularly bad day. The man was struggling and irritated by spirits good and evil according to his pleas for help to me. I and others were treating his irritation, but policy in that asylum required us to restrain and sedate him lest he irritate other patients on the same floor. Real or deluded, sedated or not, the man still suffered under spirits both good and evil…

Abortion and abortion policy in America is the civil rights issue of our time, and supercedes in importance all social policies and programs simply because of its heinous nature.

Do I need health care? Yes.

Do I need a part-time job? Yes.

Can I support this President? No.

Why?

Because this deluded Christian president has no problem with allowing a baby born alive to be left alone to die without recourse to health care after having as its first world experience a failed attempt on its innocent life at the hands of an abortionist–the double jeopardy, if you will, of barbarism…

There are divine laws that supercede human law–killing children is one. 

Any Christian with a concrete experience and knowledge of the same Spirit of Love responsible for authoring the Gospel of Life, and thus his own conversion and salvation, understands that he’s experienced his or her own Creator and grows in knowledge and practices the Way of Life through the same love.

The practice and results of procured abortion are not only contrary to authentic human love of self and neighbor, but, contrary to the Creator and His Love for man on earth as well, and so finds itself in a position of extreme enmity with both. I align myself with two-thousand years of sound Christian teaching and practice by the one and same church on this shameful subject and dire reality…

And the overriding reality reveals that both men and women, including many of those publicly elected who call themselves Christians, are blind to, or simply just choose to ignore for the sake of human approval and gain, the truth of child holocaust in their time.

This is my unchanging belief my friend–It is better to be poor on earth, yet, rich in the things of Heaven… One is passing away, the other is not.

Grace. Blessings. Peace. To you and yours,

jme

END OF POST

Counting that ‘Change’: Your state unemployment rate change from August 08 to August 09

“Hopes?” “Oh no no no, I’m sorry Faz.., did you think I said Hope? No, what I clearly said was dope!” “This is Oregon, right?”

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ED.NOTE: Funny how this sort of bad news (Obama Unemployment numbers) always seems to be released on Friday so that the news cycle will have passed over it by Monday… I snatched this from here, and then found August 08 (pre-Obama unemployment numbers) to compare. First the story and chart, followed by comparision:

From Arthur Delaney [HuffPost]:

Unemployment: The Worst-Hit States In August (MAP)

The state-by-state unemployment situation didn’t change much from July to August, the government announced Friday morning. That means it’s still very bad in places like Michigan, where the rate returned to 15.2 percent after dropping two-tenths of a percentage point in July. The next-worst states are Nevada (13.2 percent) [Oregon?] and Rhode Island (12.8 percent).

Employment fell [Which, means unemployment rose...] in 42 states, led by Texas, where employers cut 62,200 jobs. Michigan employers cut payrolls by 42,900, and those in Georgia shed 35,000. The most hiring happened in North Carolina (7,000), Montana (5,100), and West Virginia (2,800).

Here’s a map from the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics showing the full extent of the damage:

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/18/unemployment-the-worst-hi_n_291262.html

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 Here’s the comparison numbers:

 

Table B.  States with statistically significant unemployment rate changes
from August 2008 to August 2009, seasonally adjusted
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                                |          Rate         |
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             State              |   August  |  August   | rate change(p)
                                |    2008   |  2009(p)  |
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Alabama ........................|     5.2   |    10.4   |       5.2
Alaska .........................|     6.7   |     8.3   |       1.6
Arizona ........................|     5.9   |     9.1   |       3.2
Arkansas .......................|     5.1   |     7.1   |       2.0
California .....................|     7.6   |    12.2   |       4.6
Colorado .......................|     4.9   |     7.3   |       2.4
Connecticut ....................|     6.1   |     8.1   |       2.0
Delaware .......................|     5.1   |     8.1   |       3.0
District of Columbia ...........|     7.2   |    11.1   |       3.9
Florida ........................|     6.5   |    10.7   |       4.2
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Georgia ........................|     6.4   |    10.2   |       3.8
Hawaii .........................|     4.2   |     7.2   |       3.0
Idaho ..........................|     5.2   |     8.9   |       3.7
Illinois .......................|     6.7   |    10.0   |       3.3
Indiana ........................|     6.0   |     9.9   |       3.9
Iowa ...........................|     4.2   |     6.8   |       2.6
Kansas .........................|     4.4   |     7.1   |       2.7
Kentucky .......................|     6.7   |    11.1   |       4.4
Louisiana ......................|     4.8   |     7.8   |       3.0
Maine ..........................|     5.4   |     8.6   |       3.2
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Maryland .......................|     4.5   |     7.2   |       2.7
Massachusetts ..................|     5.4   |     9.1   |       3.7
Michigan .......................|     8.6   |    15.2   |       6.6
Minnesota ......................|     5.4   |     8.0   |       2.6
Mississippi ....................|     7.3   |     9.5   |       2.2
Missouri .......................|     6.2   |     9.5   |       3.3
Montana ........................|     4.6   |     6.6   |       2.0
Nebraska .......................|     3.3   |     5.0   |       1.7
Nevada .........................|     7.0   |    13.2   |       6.2
New Hampshire ..................|     3.9   |     6.9   |       3.0
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New Jersey .....................|     5.7   |     9.7   |       4.0
New Mexico .....................|     4.3   |     7.5   |       3.2
New York .......................|     5.7   |     9.0   |       3.3
North Carolina .................|     6.6   |    10.8   |       4.2
North Dakota ...................|     3.3   |     4.3   |       1.0
Ohio ...........................|     6.7   |    10.8   |       4.1
Oklahoma .......................|     3.9   |     6.8   |       2.9
Oregon .........................|     6.5   |    12.2   |       5.7
Pennsylvania ...................|     5.5   |     8.6   |       3.1
Rhode Island ...................|     8.3   |    12.8   |       4.5
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South Carolina .................|     7.3   |    11.5   |       4.2
South Dakota ...................|     3.1   |     4.9   |       1.8
Tennessee ......................|     6.6   |    10.8   |       4.2
Texas ..........................|     5.0   |     8.0   |       3.0
Utah ...........................|     3.4   |     6.0   |       2.6
Vermont ........................|     4.7   |     6.8   |       2.1
Virginia .......................|     4.1   |     6.5   |       2.4
Washington .....................|     5.4   |     9.2   |       3.8
West Virginia ..................|     4.2   |     9.0   |       4.8
Wisconsin ......................|     4.7   |     8.8   |       4.1
Wyoming ........................|     3.4   |     6.6   |       3.2
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Full Text: Cardinal Newman Society Statement on Pro-Life Initiatives at Notre Dame

CNS to Fr. Jenkins: “Drop criminal charges against those who, through peaceful and civil disobedience, protested last May’s commencement ceremony…”

Father at ND

The Cardinal Newman Society president Patrick J. Reilly issued the following statement today in response to an announcement of new pro-life initiatives at the University of Notre Dame:

Yesterday the president of the University of Notre Dame, Father John Jenkins, C.S.C., announced a new Task Force on Supporting the Choice for Life to “consider and recommend to me ways in which the University, informed by Catholic teaching, can support the sanctity of life.” Father Jenkins also pledged to attend the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., on January 22.

These are welcome steps in the right direction—the sort of activities that Catholics should expect from any Catholic college or university—but there are serious steps that Notre Dame should take immediately to atone for its shocking betrayal of the U.S. bishops and the Catholic Church last spring:

- Acknowledge the scandal of publicly honoring a staunchly pro-abortion public official as commencement speaker and recipient of an honorary degree, and apologize to the U.S. bishops, the 2009 Notre Dame graduates, and all faithful Catholics.

- Drop criminal charges against those who, through peaceful and civil disobedience, protested last May’s commencement ceremony.

- Develop firm policies to prevent such scandal in the future, by ensuring that honorees are not public opponents of Catholic teaching on key moral issues, and favoring campus speakers who uphold Catholic teaching with regard to the topic of their address and also in their public life.

- Support the Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life, already established by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture and excluded from mention in Father Jenkins’ announcement of new pro-life efforts.

There is much more that should be done to renew and strengthen Notre Dame’s Catholic identity—ensuring fidelity to Catholic teaching in the classroom, increasing Catholic faculty, and restoring authentic academic freedom—but the above actions would help indicate the seriousness of Father Jenkins and the Notre Dame trustees in upholding the mission of “Our Lady’s University.”

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Full Text: A Note from Fr. John Jenkins, President of Notre Dame on new pro life initiatives

‘Our Commencement last Spring generated passionate discussion and also caused some divisions in the Notre Dame community. Regardless of what you think about that event, I hope that we can overcome divisions to foster constructive dialogue and work together for a cause that is at the heart of Notre Dame’s mission…’

Father John Jenkins

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Dear Members of the Notre Dame Family,

Coming out of the vigorous discussions surrounding President Obama’s visit last Spring, I said we would look for ways to engage the Notre Dame community with the issues raised in a prayerful and meaningful way. As our nation continues to struggle with the morality and legality of abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and related issues, we must seek steps to witness to the sanctity of life. I write to you today about some initiatives that we are undertaking.

Each year on January 22, the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, the March for Life is held in Washington D.C. to call on the nation to defend the right to life. I plan to participate in that march. I invite other members of the Notre Dame Family to join me and I hope we can gather for a Mass for Life at that event. We will announce details as that date approaches.

On campus, I have recently formed the Task Force on Supporting the Choice for Life. It will be co-chaired by Professor Margaret Brinig, the Fritz Duda Family Chair in Law and Associate Dean for the Law School, and by Professor John Cavadini, the Chair of the Department of Theology and the McGrath-Cavadini Director of the Institute for Church Life. My charge to the Task Force is to consider and recommend to me ways in which the University, informed by Catholic teaching, can support the sanctity of life. Possibilities the Task Force has begun to discuss include fostering serious and specific discussion about a reasonable conscience clause; the most effective ways to support pregnant women, especially the most vulnerable; and the best policies for facilitating adoptions. Such initiatives are in addition to the dedication, hard work and leadership shown by so many in the Notre Dame Family, both on the campus and beyond, and the Task Force may also be able to recommend ways we can support some of this work.

I also call to your attention the heroic and effective work of centers that provide care and support for women with unintended pregnancies. The Women’s Care Center, the nation’s largest Catholic-based pregnancy resource center, on whose Foundation Board I serve, is run by a Notre Dame graduate, Ann Murphy Manion (’77). The center has proven successful in offering professional, non-judgmental concern to women with unintended pregnancies, helping those women through their pregnancy and supporting them after the birth of their child. The Women’s Care Center and similar centers in other cities deserve the support of Notre Dame clubs and individuals.

Our Commencement last Spring generated passionate discussion and also caused some divisions in the Notre Dame community. Regardless of what you think about that event, I hope that we can overcome divisions to foster constructive dialogue and work together for a cause that is at the heart of Notre Dame’s mission. We will keep you informed of our work, and we ask for your support, assistance and prayers. May Our Lady, Notre Dame, watch over our efforts.

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