CMR's 8 Signs Of The Apocalypse Vol. XVII

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Chocolate Covered Bacon!

Ok, this may not be a sign of THE apocalypse, but is surely a good indication of an individual's impending personal apocalypse. As the Bible says "That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be bacon and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be bacon and the other left." Or something....

Hey, we're Catholic. The Bible isn't our strong suit.

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Single White Vampires

My Roommate's a Vampire and Sometimes I Don't Like It

With the revival of this horror genre seems to come some unexpected problems with some nutty young folks.
Two self-described practitioners of paganism and vampirism have been arrested in Arizona after they stabbed their roommate in an attempt to drink his blood.

Robert Maley, 25, told police that he had previously allowed his friends, 21-year-old Amanda Williamson and 24-year-old Aaron Homer, to drink his blood but when he refused to last Monday, the two stabbed him in their apartment.

AZFamily.com reports that firefighters were at the scene for an unrelated call when they saw Maley, covered in blood, run out of the apartment. The police were immediately alerted. HT Weird News

We should all take a lesson from this. Even if you have let your roomates drink your blood in the past, no still means no. I think we need a public awareness campaign. Maybe with Crispin Glover and that werewolf kid with no shirt on. I am just spitballin'

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Drug Kingpin Has Bieber Fever

Nuthin' says badass like the Biebs!

Time Magazine reports:

Eleven tons of marijuana, a stockpile of semi-automatic weapons—and a mural of Justin Bieber? Welcome to the dangerous world of Rio's drug trade.
On Sunday, more than 2,000 heavily armed forces raided Complexo do Alemao, Rio de Janeiro's most notorious shantytown, hoping to drive out the drug cartels that control the area's 70,000 impoverished residents. The Guardian newspaper reports that amid the skirmishes—which left at least 50 people dead—drug lords disguised themselves as evangelical preachers and fled the neighborhood through sewers.

Police began combing through the drug mob's abandoned houses almost immediately and uncovered lavish accommodations replete with swimming pools, saunas and flat-screen televisions. In the home of "Pezao"—one of the country's most-feared traffickers—they found several tons of drugs, one missile and a hand-painted mosaic of the Biebs. An adjacent wall also featured several posters of the Canadian pop star.

Write this down. " Tons of drugs. A missile. And the Biebs!" First our culture was feminized. Now our drug culture has even been feminized. Apocalypse people. Apocalypse.

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Memory Erasure!

Time Mag reports:

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University believe that proteins can be removed from the brain's fear center to permanently erase memories. Richard L. Huganir, professor and chair of neuroscience in the Hopkins School of Medicine, said this "raises the possibility of manipulating those mechanisms with drugs to enhance behavioral therapy for such conditions as post-traumatic stress disorder."

While this technology is certainly open to abuse by mad scientists and bad sci-fi writers, I do see some potential upside. I could permanently erase from my brain that Rosie O'Donnell Variety Hour and all that time I committed to Battlestar Galactica thinking the robots had a plan. They didn't.

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Horse Who Counts Better Than The Gummint

Gimundo reports:

Lukas, a thoroughbred gelding from Chino Hills, Calif., knows how to do much more than walk, trot, and jump. Among his many talents, he knows how to distinguish between different shapes, spell his name, and identify numbers. And finally, he’s received an honor worthy of his skills: a Guinness World Record.

The Guinness Book doesn’t have a “smartest horse category,” so Lukas had to settle for “Most Numbers Correctly Identified by a Horse in One Minute,” identifying 19 numbers in the space of 60 seconds.

That is one smart horse. You know what you call a horse that smart? Glue. That's what. Maybe if he identified 20 numbers in 60 seconds we could have done something. But only 19? Glue.

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This Guy!

When you are a rapist, it is hard to be even a bigger jerk. This guy found a way.

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Pre-school For Serial Killers

'Nuff said.

HT Weird Universe

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Bob Saget Has A New Show

A&E presents "Strange Days with Bob Saget", a new real-life series that busts down barriers to investigate some of America's most fascinating subcultures and corners of society. Documenting his journey around America, Saget immerses himself in different unusual cultures from the world of Bigfoot hunters to the trials of the pro-wrestling circuit.

Word has it that Saget doesn't find Bigfoot. But can you really blame Bigfoot for staying away from Saget? The fact that Saget didn't find Sasquatch only proves to me that he may be more intelligent than we believed. (Bigfoot, not Saget.) If Saget truly wanted to investigate subcultures misunderstood by America, maybe he should find the people who actually might tune into his show.

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This is why the People have Thrown You Out

This unbelievable video is the Congressional equivalent of "la la la la I can't hear you la la la la...."

Rep. Buyer finally loses his mind and yells "This is why the people have thrown you out" Yup. And a bunch a other reasons as well.

Watch and marvel (or cringe).

Philly Renames "Christmas Village"

The war on Christmas continues.

This is just so ridiculous. In the picture above the workmen in Philadelphia are tearing down the word "Christmas" and putting up "Holiday" instead.

Weasel Zippers reports:

It’s that season again, which means that for the third year in a row, the German Christmas Village has set up a cozy collection of wooden booths and tree vendors in Dilworth Plaza on the west side of City Hall.

But a few shoppers noticed something amiss yesterday on the tall metal archways signaling the entrances to the shops. The archways had just one word on top – “Village.”

Sounds festive, eh?

It turns out that the letters spelling “Christmas” were removed yesterday afternoon from the archways on the north and west sides of the plaza, at the request of Managing Director Richard Negrin. They will be replaced with the word “Holiday.”

Read the rest at Weasel Zippers>>>

America has lost its mind and the city of brotherly love no longer loves the baby Jesus.

Update: Mayor Nutter announced that the word "Christmas" will go back up. A win for the good guys.

Where's Molly?

This is an amazing story about a man reunited with his sister after about 50 years. She was sent away due to some "minor disabilities" when she was three and struck from family memory.

Kudos to CBS News for an excellent story.



Exit note: If that seems cruel to you, just think that nowadays we kill 90% of babies with "minor disabilities" in the womb.

HT New Advent

Life in The Palm of Your Hand

Handheld ultrasound machines smaller than a newborn and viewable on your phone will have a spectacular impact on the abortion debate.

Technology Review reports:

Two years ago, computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis created a prototype that took ultrasound imaging to a new level of mobility and connectivity—they connected an ultrasound probe to a smart phone. Now a startup awaiting clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration hopes to begin selling the device next year.

Continue reading at the National Catholic Register>>>

Planned Parenthood Signs - Truth In Advertising

Governments have begun a campaign to force life centers to "post signage in their waiting and client service rooms, and in all their advertising, that they do not offer nor refer for abortions nor do they have licensed medical staff on the premises."

This is all to reduce the capability of life centers to reach pregnant women in need all in the name of truth in advertising.

So we here at CMR thought: What if Planned Parenthood was forced to have truth in all their signage as well.

What might that look like?

A Big CMR Thank You!

Matthew and I just wanted to pause and thank all of our readers, both new and old, for coming here each day. Thank you. Thank you very much.

As a result, we have had our best month ever here on CMR.

I meant to write a post a few weeks ago when we passed the 4 million unique visitor mark on CMR. I didn't get around to it then and we are now just over 4.4 million unique visitors with just about 7 million page loads lifetime.

This all has made 2010 a remarkable year for the website passing the 2, 3, and 4 million unique visits marks just this year!

Matthew and I would never have guessed at this when we first started CMR.

Thank you everyone for your readership, your loyalty, and for making this the funnest place on the Catholic interwebs!!

May God bless all of you.

Fla. School Bans Red and Green

Weasel Zippers reports that a Florida school district has banned the colors red and green during Christmas season. No word on whether they'll actually remove the colors from the Crayola boxes so as to ensure that nobody might be offended. And is it all shades of green -will teal be removed?

It’s come to this…

Teachers at Heathrow Elementary School have been ordered to banish images of Santa Claus from classrooms — along with traditional Christmas colors like red and green.

“You can’t use red and green,” one outraged parent told WESH. “It’s ridiculous.”

Read the rest at Weasel Zippers.

WaPo Hits Church With Un-padded Pipe

The fallout from the media's purposeful misinterpretation of the Pope's comments on condoms continues.

The media continues to use the Pope's comments to promote the narrative that the Pope changed teaching on contraception despite all evidence and statements to the contrary.

Although it was utterly predictable, the media now has their lie and they will continue to run with it. There is no better example of this than an article in yesterday's Washington Post.

The article is laughingly titled "At St. Matthew's, faithful have mixed views as they ponder pope's comments on condom use." Mixed views? That is a very funny title because ...

Continue Reading @ National Catholic Register

TSA Secret Recruiting Posters

With all the negative feedback the TSA has been getting lately over their more "aggressive" procedures, recruiting has been negatively impacted. So now the TSA has begin a new recruitment campaign that takes "truth in advertising" to a whole new level.

This new campaign has been kept under wraps, but thanks to flash drives and lackadaisical security procedures at Homeland Security, these documents have made their way to Wiki-leaks.

After grueling minutes deep diving through the documents, CMR has discovered these....








I am not sure they will get the best people with this campaign.

Sheriff Joe and the Christmas Carols

Ho Ho Ho. Nobody gets between Sheriff Joe and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer." Nobody. He's got your Christmas spirit whether you like it or not.

And it would seem that at least some of them don't. Six times prison inmates have sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio for playing Christmas carols come holiday season. So far, Sheriff Joe has 6 Wins and Zero losses. That kind of record gets you into the Hall of Fame.

Sheriff Joe will just keep playing those Carols. He's like Quasimodo ringing the bells but not as good looking. And Quasi wasn't as strict about illegal immigration. (In fact, he kinda' liked the gypsy folk that snuck into town all illegal like.) But other than that they're very similar.

The Washington Times reports:

The self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" in America, Phoenix's Joe Arpaio, who has survived six separate inmate lawsuits trying to stop him from playing Christmas music, will begin playing the tunes again this year - starting Monday with "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,""Frosty the Snowman" and "Feliz Navidad."

The 8,000 inmates also will hear, among others, "A Christmas Kwanzaa Solstice," "Over the Skies of Israel," "Ramadan," "Llego a La Ciudad," "Let it Snow" and "Rodolpho El Reno de la Nariz Rojita."

"Maybe the holiday music can help lift the spirits of the men and women who are away from friends and family during the holidays, not just the inmates, but the dedicated men and women who work in the Maricopa County Jails," the sheriff said in an announcement Sunday.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, to which Sheriff Arpaio was first elected in 1992 after a 25-year career at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has played the holiday songs all day, every day, during previous seasons. The latest inmate lawsuit was dismissed in federal court in December 2009.

Sheriff Arpaio has long expressed his fondness for Christmas music, especially "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and anything by Alvin and the Chipmunks, so it was with some glee last year that he announced in a red-and-green press release that the lawsuit had been dismissed and the music would begin.

"We keep winning these lawsuits. Inmates should stop acting like the Grinch who stole Christmas and give up wasting the court's time with such frivolous assertions," the press release read.

Inmates have sued six times claiming that being forced to listen to the Christmas songs 12 hours a day was in violation of their civil and religious rights and a cruel and unusual punishment, but U.S. District Judge Roz Silver disagreed, dismissing the case and denying claims for $250,000 in damages.

The court issued a summary judgment saying it found no evidence of fact, so Sheriff Arpaio was entitled to the judgment as a matter of law.

In upholding the decision, the court said the sheriff was free to "inject the holiday spirit into the lives of those incarcerated over the holiday season in the third-largest jail system in the U.S."

How awesome is that?

I'm not sure that Alvin and the Chipmunks pushing a little holiday cheer amounts to "cruel and unusual" punishment. And I know what I'm talking about. My kids begged me to see the Squeakquel of Alvin and the Chipmunks in the movies last year. I think a piece of me died that day. And not a little piece. I that sometime during the Chipette's version of "All the Single Ladies" something broke inside me. Something that medicine can't fix. Something that I think I needed. But hey, I still didn't sue for them to stop showing the movie, did I?

Toughen up inmates. It ain't this:

Who The Hell Do You Think You Are?

Nigel Farage, MEP, beats the European Parliament over the head with common sense. Again.



ht Culture War Notes

I'm Thankful I Wasn't There

I do not have a shortage of things to be thankful for in my life but I think foremost in my mind is that I'm thankful I wasn't at the Turkey Testicle Festival today. That's right, thousands of Americans showed up ON PURPOSE to eat turkey testicles.

UPI reports:

Organizers of the 28th annual Turkey Testicle Festival in Illinois said more than 1,000 pounds of fowl genitals were served to a crowd of about 4,000 people.

The Parkside Pub in Huntley said Wednesday's event featured regulars and first-timers sampling turkey testicles that had been breaded, deep fried and served in cups, The (Crystal Lake) Northwest Herald reported Friday.

Jeff Lovell, owner of Parkside Pub, said many are drawn to the event by the unique taste of the dish. "The smaller ones are more flavorful," he said. "Most people compare it to chicken or mushrooms. And really, anything breaded and deep fried can't be too bad."

I've got to admit that I do love that last quote but not enough to make me go there. Not even close to enough.

Islamist Tries to Bomb Christmas Tree Lighting

I've heard of the war on Christmas but this is ridiculous.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested 18 minutes before a Christmas tree lighting was to occur, a ceremony attended by thousands of Oregonians.

It seems the FBI was onto this guy for a while and thwarted the bomb plot at the tree lighting at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday night.



Gateway Pundit has the details.

NY Times Questions Rubio's Faith

I find this a bit wild. The New York Times ran a story today on Senator elect Marco Rubio's faith. You see, he calls himself a Catholic but he attends an evangelical church. And the Times is going to get the the bottom of this.

Marco Rubio, the charismatic senator-elect from Florida, is in many ways similar to other Cuban-American politicians from his home state: conservative, Republican and a “practicing and devout Roman Catholic,” in the words of his spokesman, one who “regularly attends Catholic Mass” and “was baptized, confirmed and married in the Roman Catholic Church,”

But while Mr. Rubio, 39, presented himself on his Florida Statehouse Web site and in interviews as a Roman Catholic, bloggers and journalists have noted since Mr. Rubio’s election that he regularly worships at an evangelical megachurch whose theology is plainly at odds with Catholic teaching.

I understand bloggers and religious websites wondering where Rubio stands as far as his faith goes but the New York Times? Really?

And if the Times thinks the faith of legislators is fair game, how many other legislators have had stories done on their faith? With all those legislators in Congress, is the New York Times sending reporters to see whether they head to Church on Sunday? I think not.

I believe this was done because it was an opportunity to hurt Marco Rubio. That's it. Liberals fear Rubio so his base of support must be splintered in order to derail him.

Ironically, the Times can't seem to admit that faith is important to people so the denouement of the piece concludes that it doesn't really matter.

It may never be clear whether Mr. Rubio is more Catholic or Protestant. The question itself reduces a complex experience, human religiosity, to simple terms. What may be clear from this story — call it The Case of the First Catholic Protestant Senator — is that in America, religious distinctions matter less all the time.

Soooooo, let me get this right, religious distinctions matter less all the time so the Times writes a story about one particular Senator's faith.

Uhm, does that make sense to anyone else?

I don't know or understand Rubio's faith but I'm not sure it's appropriately questioned in the pages of the New York Times. If the Times wants to set itself up as lead Inquisitor, I'd like to see it handled a little more evenhandedly.

Palin's Thanksgiving's Message to 57 States

This is absolutely hilarious. You all probably know that Sarah Palin had a slip of the tongue and said "North" instead of "South" Korea before correcting it a moment later. Well the media treated this as the top story of the day. But Sarah came back at them hardcore. You've got to check out Weasel Zippers for Sarah's comeback.

My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come.

With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system.

You've got to check out the rest. It's priceless.

Animal Rights Nuts Send HIV Infected Razors

Daily Mail reports:

A neuroscientist who conducts experiments on animals was targeted by activists who sent him razor blades allegedly contaminated with the HIV virus, it has been revealed.

University of California at Los Angeles scientist David Jentsch received the razors and a threatening note in a package sent to his home.

The Animal Liberation Front of North America said in a statement the package was sent by the 'UCLA Justice Department'.

The exact nature of Mr Jentsch's work is unknown but is thought to involve primate vivisection and the study of drug addiction.

'The Justice Department at UCLA sent bloody AIDS tainted razor blades to David Jentsch at [his home address]; instead he should be living in hell which is where he will eventually end up desirably sooner rather than later,' said the statement.

Nice, huh?

I wonder if that's a different hell than the one filled with monsters that send razors to people with deadly diseases on them. The group has stated that they're quite willing to use violence to attain their goals.

As of now, I've just seen nine news reports about this story. Just imagine for a moment the media firestorm that would be taking place if this were sent by pro-lifers to an abortionist.

We'd have news reports, news specials, a news conference from the President, commentators blaming Sarah Palin, Briston Palin, and Willow too just because, and possibly new laws outlawing pro-lifers from buying razor blades. But as long as its threats and violence in the name of cute animals (rather than little humans) it elicits slightly more than a shrug and a yawn.

I'm Tired of the War on Christmas

I'm tired of the so called "war on Christmas." Honestly. I don't even like hearing about it. It's Thanksgiving and I'm already tired of hearing about it. The whole thing at times just seems so silly to me. But here's the thing -the part that seems silly to me is that all these retailers want Christmas shoppers business but they don't want to say "Christmas" or mention the birth of Jesus at all. And when I think about that I get my dander up. Just a little.

I can't imagine there's too many people out there who get offended by the word "Christmas" in stores so what's the problem? But some stores have taken to calling everything "holiday" or some other generic and supposedly unoffensive word. But you know what -when I see "holiday" I notice it.

And I notice when the American Family Association comes out with its list of retailers who recognize Christmas because I'd like to shop at stores that aren't sooooo politically correct that they are afraid to mention Christmas.

Continue reading at the National Catholic Register>>>

The Cutest "Story of Jonah" Ever

You've got to see this:

The story of Jonah from Corinth Baptist Church on Vimeo.

Abusive Priest Order Hit On His Victims

Worst. Priest. Evah.

A Catholic priest already facing criminal sexual-assault charges in a Texas has been re-arrested and jailed in lieu of $700,000 bail in Dallas County after allegedly seeking a contract hit on the claimed victim, who is also a witness in a related civil case.

Father John Fiala, 52, has now been charged with solicitation to commit capital murder in addition to aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to CNN and the San Antonio Express-News.

An Associated Press article provides additional details.

The articles say Fiala is accused of approaching a neighbor with an offer to kill the unidentified teen. However, the neighbor reportedly blew the whistle and the priest then allegedly offered $5,000 to an undercover agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety for the contract hit on the youth, who is now 18.

I thought the worst priest story I would ever see was the one where the Priest with the potato in his bottom claimed he fell on it while hanging curtains in the nude. But I think this guy even tops him.

Dueling Jesuits over Condom Controversy

Fr. James Martin either doesn't understand the intricacies of the Pope's comments about condoms (a highly dubious prospect) or he's being disingenuous.

The problem is that disingenuousness will foster confusion among Catholics and ultimately lead to sin.

The National Post reports on what Fr. James Martin of America Magazine said about the controversy:

“It’s a step forward, because it is at the highest level the recognition that a pastoral approach in certain some particular cases is necessary where as before the use of a condom was always seen as intrinsically wrong,” he said.

“We should praise him for this. It shows that the Pope is a nuanced thinker. It also shows his awesome intellect.”...

“It’s the first admission from a pope that a condom can be used for a good intention,” said Father James Martin from New York. “Just a few years ago, the Vatican would have rejected these ideas outright, even though they had great currency among theologians. Clearly, something has changed.”

Good intention? Hmmm....where does that road lead that's paved with good intentions?

Now I am fairly sure that Fr. Martin, a smart guy, knows that nothing has really changed. The question is, why does Fr. Martin want people to THINK something has changed?

Compare and contrast...

Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J. is doing the job other Jesuits won't do. Check out how he dismantles the controversy over the Pope's comments about condoms with an absurd metaphor:

Here’s an example of this distinction that parallels what the Pope said. Muggers are using steel pipes to attack people and the injuries are severe. Some muggers use padded pipes to reduce the injuries, while still disabling the victim enough for the mugging. The Pope says that the intention of reducing injury (in the act of mugging) could be a first step toward greater moral responsibility. This would not justify the following headlines: “Pope Approves Padded Pipes for Mugging” “Pope Says Use of Padded Pipes Justified in Some Circumstances”, Pope Permits Use of Padded Pipes in Some Cases”.

Of course, one may morally use padded pipes in some circumstances, e.g., as insulated pipes so that hot water flowing through them doesn’t cool as fast. And one may use condoms morally in some cases, e.g. as water balloons. But that also would not justify the headline “Pope Approves Condom Use”, though in this case it could be true. But it would be intentionally misleading.

Fr. Fessio clearly prefers clarity over...nuance.

HT Glib and Superficial

Save the Tofurkey!!!

Vegetarians around the planet were horrified to learn today that the popular Thanksgiving dish for vegetarians called Tofurkey doesn't actually derive from the vegetarian bean curd known as Tofu but from a very small and extraordinarily cute endangered species called the Tofurkey.

This is the first photo of a Tofurkey taken at a farm in Rhode Island just moments before it was skinned, torn limb from limb, had its eyes removed while still alive, and was finally dipped in boiling oil.


A tofurkey farm is not a typical farm. The tofurkey is extraordinarily cute and very inexpensive to keep because they're fed exclusively by hugs and smiles. "That's all they need," said one tofurkey farmer. "And they've got these huge expressive eyes that melt your heart." It's those expressive eyes that make "slaughter season" very hard for tofurkey owners.

Most tofurkeys spend their days playing with balloons, blowing bubbles, and singing in high pitched angelic voices. "They don't speak English or nothing but sometimes just listenin' to 'em makes me think about puppies and angels," said one tofurkey owner.

The misunderstanding for vegetarians originated because of the similarities between the names Tofurkey and Tofu. One Tofurkey farmer said he never lied about where Tofurkey came from but he's glad to profit from the misunderstanding. "I think those wacky vegetarians just wanted to believe they were eating Tofu and I wasn't about to tell 'em no different."

He said that back when his "product" began doing brisk business he wondered why. "I know those little cute tofurkeys don't really taste so good so I wondered why so many people was eating 'em. But hey, who am I to complain?"

Vegans and vegetarians have been shocked and horrified at the discovery of this Tofurkey farm. "Every time I ate Tofurkey on Thanksgiving I felt so principled and better than everyone else," said one vegetarian. "I'm going to miss that feeling."

(Originally posted on a previous Thanksgiving but I found it funny so I put it back up.)

Springsteen Hypocritically Worried about "Tone"

Bruce Springsteen is worried about the tone people are using against the Obama administration. And all I can wonder is if this is his little attempt at a joke. But sadly, it's not. He hasn't seemed very jokey for about a decade or so.

The Telegraph reports:

The American political climate for achieving change is “very, very ugly,” according to Bruce Springsteen, as he launched a staunch defence of Barack Obama.

The 61 year-old rock legend, a high-profile supporter of the US President, railed against critics for their use of the “most extreme language” to describe “the most modest reforms” being introduced by Mr Obama.

Modest reforms, huh?

But this is the height of hypocrisy from Springsteen who levelled some of the fiercest language against Obama's predecessor George W. Bush.

The Telegraph reported in 2009:

The Born to Run singer said that the US was now "suffering the consequences" of eight years of rule by a "very radical group of people" who had attempted to undermine the country's democratic values.

Describing President Bush's period in power as a "nightmare" for most Americans, the songwriter said: "We had a historically blind administration who didn't take consideration of the past; thousands of thousands of people died, lives were ruined and terrible, terrible things occurred because there was no sense of real history, no sense that the past is living and real."

In 2008 Springsteen said in Philadelphia that the Iraq War and the handling of Hurricane Katrina were just two examples of Bush's “disaster” presidency and destroyed people's faith in the country.

"I've spent 35 years writing about America and its people and the meaning of the American promise — a promise handed down right here in this city," Springsteen said.

"Our everyday citizens ... have justifiably lost faith in its meaning."

During the Iraq War he wrote an album with lyrics like these:

The kids asleep in the backseat
We're just countin' the miles you and me
We don't measure the blood we've drawn anymore
We just stack the bodies outside the door.

Who'll be the last to die for our mistake
The last to die for our mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who'll be the last to die for our mistake?

But we're the ones completely out of bounds, right? We're the ones who unjustifiably jumped ugly on Obama, right? For a self described poet he doesn't seem to have lots of introspection.

A "Maternal" and "Happy" Abortion?

Horrifying. Vomit inducing.

The Star has the story of a gay abortionist who had second thoughts about performing abortions when he and his partner considered adopting a baby. He had no problem with abortions until he decided he might want a cute cuddly baby so he reconsidered for a moment. But don't worry he's still going to abort babies for a living. But some of the quotes in this article are just shocking and awful including calling abortion a "happy" and "maternal" decision.

Dr. Evan James never wavered in his determination to become an abortion provider.

His belief that women had the right to do what they wanted with their bodies was steadfast during his medical training in London, Ont.

It solidified further after he spent a month learning how to perform abortions at the Morgentaler Clinic in Toronto. He found that he enjoyed the work and was not put off by a woman's tears or the tissue he extracted from her womb.

Just think about that one for a second, replay the words in your mind, vomit, cry, and consider in your kind the kind of evil we're up against.

When you're ready, check this out because it gets worse:

In Canada, the vast majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester; only 9 per cent take place between 12 and 20 weeks of pregnancy. Physicians examining the tissue from an early pregnancy likely see a pinkish oblong sac with no recognizable anatomical features.

James remembers feeling a gentle shock each of those first few times. But even after viewing a second-term abortion, he was not haunted by what he saw.

“During the direct examination, you might see an arm or an umbilical cord or, even, the body. It doesn't all come out in one piece. With your imagination, you can see that it resembles a human.

“I could understand how some people would be turned off by that or very moved by that.”

Oh how nice, he can understand how SOME people might be moved by the sight of little arms or a body.

What kind of people do this?

“Almost anyone can be an obstetrician — and I don't mean this to sound trite — because you are providing a happy experience,” says Dr. Suzanne Newman, a family doctor who now exclusively provides abortions at three separate clinics in Winnipeg. “But very few can do abortions.”

Abortions are a happy experience? And it turns out that it's not only happy, it's the motherly thing to do.

During the summer training, James watched almost 100 abortions. He also came to understand the feel of the clinic, how it had both a sombre and hopeful atmosphere, and to appreciate the range of women who choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. He left feeling sure about his path, his resolve strengthened after seeing women make their difficult choice from a place of compassion.

“I didn't understand that until I saw it,” he says. “I very strongly believe that women make a maternal decision when they decide to end a pregnancy. Because they are deciding for that child it is the best option, that (by having an abortion) they are preventing suffering and preventing a life that they wouldn't wish upon anyone else, let alone their child. That was very powerful for me.”

Uhm, quick note -life is suffering. That's what we do here on Earth. As the Dread Pirate Roberts said, "Life is Pain. Anyone who says different is selling something." Well, I'm not buying it.

This is the ugliest thing I've read in a while. It honestly gives me the chills.

7 Christmas Songs That Have Absolutely Nothing to do With Christmas

A radio station near me started playing ONLY Christmas music recently. It must bring ratings because I feel like it gets earlier every year. But I think this kind of extended Christmas season has had a downside. The classification of "Christmas music" has been a bit liberally assigned.

So CMR has hired fourteen high school dropouts, three winos, and two former game show hosts to listen to Christmas music all day and classify those songs which actually have nothing at all to do with Christmas. And I don't mean having nothing to do with the birth of Christ because we're all used to Christmas songs having nothing to do with Jesus' birthday. I mean these songs have absolutely nothing to do with anything even close to Christmas. I mean, no mention of Santa, Christmas trees, gift giving, nothing.

Here's what they came up with:

1) Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg - OK. Here we have a song about a rock star who's out roaming around a grocery store at some odd hour (probably looking for booze) and he happens upon an old girlfriend. She doesn't recognize him at first glance which probably ticks him off because he's a big time famous rock star and she's the high school girl he dumped. When she recognizes him, she drops her purse causing them to laugh until they cried which probably means they're both drunk as heck already. So what do they decide to do? They hop in their cars, drive around and can't find an open bar and decide just to sit in the car and drink themselves happy and maybe forget how miserable they both are.

They toast to their innocence which is kind of ironic as they're sitting in a car drinking and likely contemplating adultery and they soon realize that they're so drunk they can't figure out what to say to each other so she starts kvetching about her marriage and he says how much he hates touring because you know the life of a rock star is just sooooooooo unbearable.

And you just know that all the great Christmas songs are really about rock stars complaining in the frozen foods aisle.

Anyway, after all the beers are gone he allows this past flame who just drank her face off and is so completely emotionally unstable that she was laughing and crying over spilling her purse to hop into her car and drive away probably to run someone over.

Now that's Christmas.


2) Jingle Bells - Jingle Bells is one of the most famous Christmas songs in the world but unfortunately it actually has nothing to do with Christmas. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in 1857 about Thanksgiving. Yup. Thanksgiving. But nobody wants to hear a Thanksgiving song so it's now a Christmas song.

The dude has "Lord" in his name but that's about as close as the song gets anywhere near God.

Everyone knows the first verse but not many know the second verse which seems to be about...well you be the judge what it's about.

A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon, Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side,
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
He got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot.

So he got Miss Fanny Bright to get in the sleigh with him, he went a little fast (if you know what I mean) and crashed into a ditch. That's the 1850's version of "I ran out of gas" I guess.

And then the fourth verse consists of some dude sleighing by and laughing at the idiot who crashed his sleigh and then driving off. Nice.

Doesn't sound much like a Christmas song at all does it?


3)Jingle Bell Rock -Adding the word "rock" to nonsensical words doesn't really make it more Christmasy does it?


4) Sleigh Ride - It's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you. It's about eating chestnuts, eating pumpkin pie and drinking coffee and that's it. No Christmas.


5) Winter Wonderland - It's a song written by a guy with tuberculosis sitting in a sanitarium writing about a snowy day. That's it. A snowy day.


6) Baby It's Cold Outside - I have zero clue how this song worked its way into Christmas airplay. Just to give you some idea, it's a duet about a girl who keeps insisting she must go home while the guy uses every excuse to keep her there saying that it's cold outside so she should really stay. The female voice in the song is called "The Mouse" and the male "The Wolf." I mean, this song is about one step short of the guy slipping something into her drink and her waking up three days later shackled up with a ball gag.


7) Let it Snow - Oh the weather outside if frightful but the fire's so delightful. Yup. Pretty much the same thing is going on here as in "Baby it's Cold Outside" but at least here it seems mutual and the police won't need to get involved. But while a lack of necessary jail time is a plus there's nothing real Christmasy going on here.

Save The Sex Offenders

Sex offenders don't have much in the way of friends. Many communities restrict where sex offenders can live. Many communities put common sense restrictions on these offenders. Can't live or come too close to schools. Uh huh. Can't live or come too close to parks. Check. Libraries. I guess so.

These measures seem fine, reasonable even. They are sex offenders after all. Who wants them?

God. That's Who.

But now a Wisconsin town is considering adding to the list of places that are no-go for sex offenders. Churches.

>>>Continue Reading @ National Catholic Register>>>

Pope Stuns Again! TSA Should Wear Condoms

VATICAN CITY - In what might amount to a complete reversal on longstanding Church teaching, the Pope has indicated that under certain circumstances it might be licit for TSA workers to employ the use of full body condoms.

The pontiff makes the comments in a book-length interview with a journalist from "Trains, Planes, and Volkswagens" magazine, "Don't Touch the Junk: Dirty, Sexy, Airport" The Vatican newspaper ran excerpts of the book Saturday.

Church teaching has long opposed condoms since they're a form of artificial contraception. The Vatican has been harshly criticized for its position given the AIDS crisis.

Benedict said that for TSA agents and their victims -- for whom contraception isn't a central issue -- condoms are not a moral solution. But he said they could be justified "in the intention of reducing the risk of infection."

The Pope went on to say that while the level of intimate contact performed by TSA agents is never morally permissible outside of marriage (and even then its kinda iffy), that he could understand why the victims would prefer that the agents wore full body condoms.

While opposition to condoms is a long-standing church position, the Vatican felt constrained to step in and say Benedict wanted to stress that a reliance on full body condoms distracted from the need for proper training of TSA agents.

The Catholic group Voice of the Faithful hailed this statement as an important first step toward the legitimization of condom use and the ultimate goal of sex anytime, anyplace, with anyone.

Voice of the Faithful spokesperson, Frieda Hump said "Normally, we ignore what the Pope says but we think this latest statement should be binding on all the faithful. It should be considered ex catheter or something. You know, 'cause we like this one. But you can still ignore the other stuff if you want."

The TSA responded by complaining that Vatican is speaking about them as if they are Norwegian sex workers. They wish to emphasize that only a small percentage of TSA agents are actually Norwegian.

Finally, the Pope was asked whether, being celibate, he could understand the complex issues surrounding TSA screenings. The Pope responded in the affirmative but also acknowledged that he can no longer fly commercially to the U.S. and maintain his vows.

The Good Shepherd Saves Burning Sheep

Jesus saves.

You can't make this up. Well, you could, but no one would believe you.

A man dressed up as a sheep was set ablaze. Screaming and running into the road, he was saved by Jesus. Well, by a man dressed up as Jesus.

A reveller dressed as Larry the Lamb suffered these horrific burns after a prankster set fire to his outfit - and he turned into a human fireball.

Peter Buck, 35, spent four hours painstakingly gluing four bags of cotton wool to his torso to look like the famous cartoon character.

He went on a boozy night out with a group of mates - also in fancy dress - before ducking out of a pub for a cigarette.

With Peter's permission, a tipsy friend set fire to a loose strand of his costume 'to see what would happen'.

But the joke went horribly wrong and Peter's lamb costume burst into flames.

He ran screaming in agony into a busy main road before a driver swerved, narrowly avoiding mowing him down.

Then his friend Paul Bisson - an off-duty firefighter dressed as Jesus - bear-hugged him in a bid to douse the flames.

Peter is now recovering and has been told it will take between three months and a year for the skin to regain full strength and normal feeling to return.

Ht Jonah

The Pope's Rhetorical Suicide Through Nuance

Hang with me for a moment.

I went hunting this past weekend. In order to be safe from being mistaken for an animal, the prey, hunters are encouraged or even required to wear a bright orange color. This wise safety measure, of course, assumes that all the other hunters in the woods are not color blind.

Now if you know in advance that all the other hunters are color blind, you have no one else to blame but your self when you end up shot.

Translation? You don't speak French to a bunch of neanderthals and expect NOT to be clubbed.

This is what happened to the Vatican press machine this past weekend with the "Pope approves condoms" story. Actually, this is what always happens to the Vatican press machine.

Let's face it. The press getting this story wrong is the expected outcome but yet again the Vatican press office was caught flat footed. Yes, they issued a statement that, while correct, is written in the same language of nuance that got them in trouble in the first place.

I must admit that the whole thing has me scratching my head. The question I keep coming back to is "why?" Why did the Pope try to make this VERY nuanced point when it is obvious to even the most casual observer that the media would get this wrong? Did this nuanced point about male prostitutes really have to be made? I mean, have male prostitutes sworn off condoms because the Pope says they are wrong? Why? Why this point?

I cannot help but wonder if the Pope's inner egg-head got the better of him here. In a way, I feel like the Pope wandered into the woods on the first day of hunting season while trying to make a point detailing the different kinds of rods and cones involved in color-blindness. It is just not the time or place to be making this point.

And then the Holy See press office. Somebody over there coulda shoulda known what was contained in this interview and anticipated the blowup. The whole reason you have a press office is so that you can be ahead of these kind of stories rather than being reactive. Extending my lame hunting analogy, it seems that the press office tells all of the color blind hunters "Hey, I think I saw something move over there!" And then claims "How was I supposed to know?"

Doesn't anybody over at the Vatican, from the Pope on down, know how this works?

Listen up!!! The press doesn't do nuance!

When will they get this through their pointy hats?

NJ Senate Silences Abortion Critic

The New Jersey State Senate silenced a woman, Darlene Dunn of Burlington, who wished to testify against Planned Parenthood. They called her testimony irrelevant because the bill only had to do with giving millions to...Planned Parenthood.

Here the outrageous audio at the National Catholic Register>>>

Everything That Is Wrong With Republican Party

Outgoing (please, please, please) Chairman of the Republican Party has something to say.

“The RNC welcomed the energy and limited government principles of Tea Party voters and grassroots conservatives, and worked hard to ensure that their views found expression within the Republican party, and not in a potentially ruinous third-party movement,” Steele said in a five-page memo sent to committee members Thursday.

He worked hard to ensure that limited government principles found expression in the Republican party?

What?

I mean, what?!?

Frakkin what????

If the "Republican party" has to "work hard" to "make sure" that "limited government" views are "expressed" then the "Republican party" is "doomed" I say, "doomed!!"

Doomed.

Pope Endorses Condoms? Don't Believe It

The Associated Press is reporting that the Pope has endorsed the use of condoms in some cases?

The headline blares "Pope: Condom Use Can be Justified in Some Cases"

Really? The Pope says contraception is ok in some cases? Nope.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that the use of condoms can be justified in some cases, such as for male prostitutes seeking to prevent the spread of HIV.

The pontiff makes the comments in a book-length interview with a German journalist, "Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times." The Vatican newspaper ran excerpts of the book Saturday.

Church teaching has long opposed condoms since they're a form of artificial contraception. The Vatican has been harshly criticized for its position given the AIDS crisis.

Benedict said that for male prostitutes -- for whom contraception isn't a central issue -- condoms are not a moral solution. But he said they could be justified "in the intention of reducing the risk of infection."

As always, the condom as contraception is always wrong. Condoms used by male prostitutes for whom contraception is not an issue, might be able to use condoms for reducing the spread of infection.

Even Time Magazine calls out these articles as disingenuous.

The headline around the world was that the Pope was finally allowing the use of condoms in certain circumstances. The news came after an Italian newspaper broke an embargo on a book-length interview with Benedict XVI by the German journalist Peter Seewald, perhaps the only popular interlocutor whom the Pontiff, in his previous role as a Cardinal, has cooperated with on such a scale.

Benedict's so-called condom concession was not a huge one. He still proscribes the use of condoms as contraception (as he does the birth control pill). His specific example, that of a male prostitute choosing to use a condom in a conscious choice to prevent HIV infection, is couched as "a first step in the direction of moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants."

Move along. Nothing to see here.

7 Yr. Old Raps About Sister With Down Syndrome

This is pretty great - even if you're not into rap.



Thanks to the great Live Action blog for finding this video.

Archbishop Of Canterbury Abducted By Aliens

The Archbishop of Canterbury has been 'abducted by aliens.' At least according to the gay Gene.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of being 'abducted by aliens' over the issue of homosexual clergy.

Controversial American Anglican bishop Gene Robinson condemned Dr Rowan Williams for failing to stop internal rows over the ordination of women and gay priests.

The Bishop of New Hampshire said: 'I pray for him every day.

Opposing camps: Openly-gay American Bishop Gene Robinson and Dr Williams

'I have clergy friends who literally studied at Archbishop Williams' feet and who have said to me it is almost as if aliens have come and taken Rowan away from us.

'They have left something that looks like him but we don't recognise him any more.'

Bishop Robinson who is openly gay and whose sexuality caused controversy when he was elected in 2003, told the Times that Dr Williams is a wonderful human being and a faithful Christian.

But he added:' I'm not at all sure that his attempts to hold us together as a communion at all costs is the kind of leadership that this time calls for.'

The gay Gene actually has a point, that Dr. Williams "attempts to hold us together as a communion at all costs" are responsible for the breakup of the Communion. Of course, the gay Gene sees it differently. He thinks Dr. Williams should have thrown all the gay bigots and misogynists out a long time ago and let the gay Gene and the kaleidoscopic Jefforts-Schori be the model for the new Church they were building.

As for all the departing Anglicans, the gay Gene probably thinks they are being abducted by aliens as well. Not so. They are being abducted by Jesus.

Pelosi Not Just Mean, Delusional Too

Nancy Pelosi isn't just mean she's delusional too. After pointing out that John Boehner is "known to cry" Pelosi said she's a little angry because she didn't get a lot of publicity.

What?!

Weasel Zippers reports that Pelosi said:

“You know what? He is known to cry. He cries sometimes when we’re having a debate on bills. If I cry, it’s about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics — no, I don’t cry. I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that’s always a possibility, and if you’re professional, then you deal with it professionally,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) told the New York Times magazine.

She noted: “I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they’re about to face.”

So she essentially has taken on the tactics of a threatened kindergartener on the playground by calling her rival a crybaby. That's just weirdly mean, isn't it?

And maybe Nancy can't cry because of all the Botox. If she retains the ability to cry it would only be crocodile tears of bochelism toxin.

So after being mean, Pelosi then pretended to be a victim by playing the gender card. She said:

“I was the first woman speaker. It didn’t get that much play. And I’m not a publicity seeker, so it was OK with me. Boehner, before the election, they had him on the cover of Newsweek. Now he’s on the cover of Time, and women are coming to me and saying, ‘Is the job less important when a woman holds it?’

“My point is that when a man holds the job, the press seems to view it as more worthy of that kind of attention. But when a woman — even though it was historic — holds the job, they view it as less important. We have to dispel the notion that it’s not as big a job when a woman has it,”

Did that crazy person just say it didn't get a lot of play.

Maybe she forgot the USA Today story: Pelosi soon to make history as first female Speaker of the House. And maybe she forgot the Time Mag story in 2006 "Don't Mess with Nancy Pelosi."

Or maybe she forgot this book:



It's not our fault the book is currently #2,268,166 on Amazon's best seller list.

But big fat crybaby John Boehner's getting all the publicity while everyone ignored poor widdle Nancy. You know, I'm starting to think Nancy Pelosi might not be balanced.

Child Goes to Heaven, Meets Miscarried Sibling?

A four year old child dies, meets great grandfather and miscarried sibling who he didn't even know about. Pretty cool. I'm always a little hesitant to believe such things while knowing they're quite possibly true. But I thought I'd pass it along because it's a pretty amazing story that's getting around the interwebs.

Hot Air has more on the story.

Sneak Preview of Fr. Barron's "Catholicism" Project

Like Fr. Barron's YouTube videos? Well, he's in the final stages of producing a ten-part, ten-hour documentary called Catholicism, and he released a sneak preview today. Really excellent.

Awesome. Ferrigno and Seagal at the Border

Big Hollywood has the story that Lou freakin' Ferrigno and Steven Seagal have joined Sheriff Joe Arpaio in cracking down on illegal immigration. No matter what you think about enforcing immigration laws you've got to admit that this may be the most awesome story ever.

You want to see people running for the Mexican border, paint ol' Lou Ferrigno green and have him running around and snarling around the border. They'll be crossing the border and washing their dirtied shorts in the Rio Grande.

Or you know what might actually work better is just have Steven Seagal announce he's going to start making movies again. That might send people heading for the border a lot quicker. I might be with them.

Sen. Boxer: U.S. Just Like Iran and N. Korea

Can you believe California just reelected this woman?



CNS reports:

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) today likened the United States of America to Iran, North Korea and Pakistan because those nations also do not allow homosexuals in their militaries.

Boxer likened the U.S.A. to the Communist regime in North Korea, the Islamic regime in Iran and the Pakistani government at a press conference in which she called for repealing the ban on homosexuals in the military during the lameduck session of Congress, which is taking place now before the new members elected on Nov. 2 can arrive in Washington, D.C. and replace the members who are retiring or who were defeated.

This is so offensive for a United States Senator to compare this country to those awfully oppressive regimes.

The funniest part is that this is so clearly simply political because Democrats had the Senate, the House and the White House for the past two years. If they really wanted to change this policy they would've done so. But legislators aren't going to stick their necks out on this, they're simply going to wait for judges to forcibly overturn it and then they'll be able to simply throw their hands up in the air claiming powerlessness. And Senator Boxer knows she's safe in her seat for the next seven years so she can go back to badmouthing the country without worrying about joining the unemployment line.

Man Faces Fetal Murder Charge

The Sun Herald reports:

A man accused of beating his ex-girlfriend to death with a stick Nov. 8 will be charged with the rare crime of murdering an unborn child, Harrison County prosecuting attorney Herman Cox said.

Taneka Johnson, 28, was five months’ pregnant when Kevin Crockett struck her 31 times with a stick wrapped with duct tape at her duplex on 50th Avenue, Cox said Wednesday after a preliminary hearing on the murder charge in Johnson’s death.

“I searched the law and found a change that makes it possible to charge him with the murder of a fetus,” Cox said. “The paperwork will be done first thing Thursday.”

A change in state law in 2004 broadened the definition of a fetus to “every stage of gestation from conception until live birth.” The penalty for killing an unborn child is up to 20 years.

Crockett is 42. He faces life in prison if found guilty of Johnson’s murder.

Assistant District Attorney Charlie Wood said the revised fetal-homicide charge has been used only a time or two on the Coast.

While I hope this man is put away for the remainder of his life, the thing that strikes me most about this is the inconsistency of the law and how blatantly unscientific our laws are.

If the baby's mother decided to kill the baby it would be fine. If the mother decides to keep the baby they are human but if not, the baby is downgraded to a "choice." Inconsistencies exist from state to state as well.

I'm thankful that the law in this case at least recognized that there were two victims of this man's murderous rage. Shamefully, laws like this have been fought in other states because pro-aborts know that the unborn must not be afforded any humanty lest people start following the logic to its conclusion that the unborn are human and worthy of respect.

Horror: Couple Hold Online Vote on Aborting or Giving Birth

This is nothing short of sickening. A couple is pregnant with their first child and are now leaving it up to a vote whether to abort their child or not. They've established a website called BirthorNot.

While they say the final tally is not binding they will take it into consideration. The two post images of their baby's ultrasound but still are threatening to abort.

I thought about putting the link in but I really don't want to send traffic their way because that's really what they're after. If we give publicity to these kinds of things I think we'll only get more of them.

Weasel Zippers has the story:

Pete and Alisha Arnold have created a website called Birthornot.com, where they’ve been posting updates on Alisha’s pregnancy since September. But this site is unlike any other expectant parent’s blog: this site has a poll that asks viewers, “Should we give birth or have an abortion?”

In an interview with Gawker.com, the Arnolds said they were unsure if they wanted to be parents. After two miscarriages, they said they launched the site to put the choice in voter’s hands.

“Voting is such an important part of who we are as a people,” Pete Arnold told the website. “Here’s a chance where people can be heard about whether they are pro-choice or whether they are pro-life, and it makes a difference in the real world.”

The Arnolds said in the interview that they are taking the poll seriously and that it was not a prank, but the final vote isn’t binding. The poll closes on December 7, two days before the end of the 20th week of pregnancy and their last chance to get an abortion.

So you know how pro-aborts are always saying that women don't take abortion lightly, well this kind of puts the lie to that.

The ironic part is that the expectant mother running the site is complaining that another website is trying to skew the poll. Can you imagine? A website trying to skew a poll? Is nothing sacred?

Jill Stanek vs. Dems for Life

Pro-life champion Jill Stanek really says it all here concerning Dems for Life. To give you a hint how in your face it is she called it "Democrats for Life Betrays the Pro-Life Movement."

Normally, I'd put this up on the Reader but this says exactly what I think about Dems for Life. I would love to see the Democratic Party be increasingly open to pro-lifers but it hasn't happened yet as evidenced by the now infamous Obamacare vote. And yet the Dems for Life increasingly cry foul whenever they're called for prizing politics over life.

Jill Stanek writes:

Friends sometimes find themselves on opposite sides during political campaigns, when emotions can ride high.

Fortunately, just as opponents usually shake hands afterward, so do those friends.

But the rift that developed during the 2010 election cycle between Democrats for Life and basically the rest of the pro-life movement is irreparable, at least as long as Kristen Day remains its executive director.

Day became incensed when pro-life groups fulfilled their promise to target House pro-life Democrats for electoral defeat who voted for Obamacare sans the Stupak Amendment….

Day began publicly bashing other pro-life groups, convinced their motive was not as stated but rather to function as covert operatives for the Republican Party

Continue reading at Jill Stanek's site. It's definitely worth a read.

Rutgers Prof: Having Lots of Kids is Like Littering

Stop. Stop right now. Don't try to convince yourself that these people are some sort of outlier. This view of life and of motherhood is increasingly prevalent. How else do you explain the slow-motion demographic suicide occurring in the West?

What am I talking about? Rutgers University Professor Helen Fisher, of the Center for Human Evolution Studies has written for Oprah Magazine and today was on the Joy Behar show talking about women making the choice to be childless. She described having lots of children as littering. But truly that barely rises to the surface as the most offensive thing in this panel discussion from hell.

Continue Reading @ NC Register>>>>

Bill Nye Collapses, Students Tweet

Bill Nye "The Science Guy" was giving a presentation at USC in front of hundreds of students yesterday when he collapsed. And then something very odd happened - nothing.

Yahoo News reports:

It appears that the students in attendance, rather than getting up from their seats to rush to Nye's aid, instead pulled out their mobile devices to post information about Nye's loss of consciousness.

Alastair Fairbanks, a USC senior in attendance for Nye's presentation, told the Los Angeles Times that "nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed — that just perplexed me beyond reason." The student added, "Instead, I saw students texting and updating their Twitter statuses. It was just all a very bizarre evening."

Indeed, a cursory search on Twitter revealed a virtual play-by-play account of the incident. One student wrote, "Bill Nye tripped on his computer cord while speaking at USC, was out for abt 5 secs, got back up, spoke w/ slurred speech and fainted.

That's pretty disturbing isn't it?

Are we raising a nation of objective observers more comfortable with commenting on people in need than actually helping them?

I don't have any answers but I can say that there have been a number of incidents played out for the world to see where people in need have been ignored. In fact, YouTube can give one a rather dismal view of humanity.

There's a point where apathy becomes evil, isn't there? There's times when doing nothing is the worst thing. It seems this was one of those times.

Funny Baby Video

If you don't think this is cute, you're probably dead inside or you need an exorcist. I found it very cute so I'm obviously ok. I'm not so sure about you.



Thanks to Viral Footage which scours the internet looking for videos so I can pop in for a few minutes and steal them.

Feel Good Flash Mob at Heathrow

If only this could happen in real life...well it kinda' did but you know what I mean.



HT Deacon's Bench

Worst PSA Ever: Bristol Palin and The Situation

This is painful. They should be required to run an anti-suicide PSA every time they show this. I'm all for Bristol getting the word out on abstinence but there's got to be a better way than this:



HT Liberty Juice

Tony Danza: Shut Up About God Already!!

Who's the Boss Tony? Here's a hint.... Its Not You!

It could have been a funeral-home scene out of a "Sopranos" episode. At the wake for crime author Philip Carlo, Tony Danza angrily interrupted the priest, claiming he was talking too much about God and not enough about the best-selling biographer of mass murderers, including Richard Kuklinski and Richard Ramirez, during his eulogy.

A source at Thursday's wake at Peter C. La Bella Funeral Home in Bensonhurst said the priest -- "who said he was a substitute priest from a federal prison, which made some people smirk -- started to ramble on and on about religion, quoting the Bible and making mourners uncomfortable.

"Tony, who was one of Carlo's closest friends, walked right up to the priest and said angrily, 'Excuse me, but this is not about you. It's supposed to be about my friend, and if you can't do that, maybe you should let someone else speak!'

"People were stunned, while the priest was visibly shaken. He tried talking about Carlo before quickly wrapping things up. Danza took over and eulogized Carlo with memories from their younger days.

"When someone then heckled Tony, he said, 'Will you give me a break? Will you stop and let me talk?' "

All that talk about God at a wake made mourners uncomfortable? Good!

According to Wiki, Danza is "a Roman Catholic and parishioner at St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, Danza is also an Ordained Minister with the Universal Life Church. He performed a marriage on his talk show."

The Universal Life Church is an online church that advertises that anyone can become a minister.

But on the upside, more people watched Tony at the wake then watched his ill fated talk show.