“When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin … Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you’re not supposed to be there because … of the color of your skin.” ~ Clarence Thomas
“That’s what Barack Obama wants you to think. The ludicrousness of his now oft-repeated theory that people only turn to religion when the government fails them completely floors me; the second that ridiculous comment got to the media, he should have told America, “I was smoking crack when I said it, so I’m sorry. I’ll try to keep the crack smoking to a minimum on the campaign trail in the future.” That would have gone over a lot better than letting on that he’s too snobby to understand why people of faith would be offended by his remarks. I know I shouldn’t be surprised since his church’s official slogan is something like “Kill Whitey,” but I still am. He probably does believe that religion is only for the bitter. We know his pastor is bitter and delusional, so I draw the conclusion that Obama is too.
This statement that God is a backup plan after the government fails tells me all I need to know about Obama: Government is his god; God is just there as a fall-back. This is why it’s so important to him and people like him that we have a huge government. He doesn’t believe God will take care of his needs and thinks that the U.S. government is more powerful than God — pretty sad for someone who claims to be a Christian. Why does he even profess faith in God and Christ if he has none? Oh yeah, I forgot. Sweet, sweet Chicago votes.”
2. The good Reverend Wright, Obama’s spiritual advisor for 20 years, was originally a Muslim?
After many lectures like this, Obama decided to take a second look at Wright’s church. Older pastors warned him that Trinity was for “Buppies”–black urban professionals–and didn’t have enough street cred. But Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago, and Trinity’s guiding principles–what the church calls the “Black Value System”–included a “Disavowal of the Pursuit of ‘Middleclassness.’”
3. I found this site called Mom Logic which describes itself as a site for “thinking moms who don’t have time to think.” Nothing special that I haven’t seen on a dozen other mommy blogs out there, but I did find this “guess which celebrity mom is wearing that shoe” game a little weird. Who knew moms harbored “foot in show” fetishes?
4. Katie Couric is leaving CBS News early? I never watched her. Along with a lot of other people I hear.
I’m not a very good Catholic. It’s not something I am proud of, but at the same time it’s not something that bothers me very much. I guess that even after all these years I am still trying to figure things out in this regard. I can’t explain it any better than that, so for the moment you are just going to have to be satisfied with that explanation. If you care at all, which you probably don’t.
Anyway, while I am not a very good Catholic, I do appreciate and respect those who are. There are some good “Catholic” blogs out there that I read now and again and when I do I always leave them better educated, more enlightened, and very entertained.
The Anchoress is one of those good Catholic blogs written by someone who is a very good Catholic. She’s also a very good writer. Extraordinarily good, really.
I haven’t been reading her long so I missed this wonderful essay about the funeral of John Paul II when she first posted it, but she is so enlightening as to the Catholic faith and so entertaining in the way she tells it, that I thought I would link to it so you could enjoy it too.
Check it out.
UPDATE:
See, this is the kind of bad Catholic I am. This cracks me up.
1. The racist, anti-semitic, anti-Italian, anti-American Reverend Wright, long-time mentor of Barack Hussein Obama, makes an appearance at a Chicago Catholic church and is welcomed with open arms. Video here.
Is the Catholic Church TRYING to make me leave in disgust? Granted I am not the best Catholic in the world, but I am sure there are plenty who are better than me who are also disgusted by this. Is this some Chicago thing? Because I just don’t get it.
2. Medals matter. More than ever when compared to Obama and Hillary.
4. Speaking of movies, the newest anti-Iraq war, anti-military, anti-American film, Stop-Loss, is bombing at the box office just like all the others before it. Of course, Hollywood thinks it is because the American people aren’t ready to watch a war movie while the war is going on - I guess all those successful WWII movies made during WWII were just accidents - but the fact is that the American people just don’t want to see movies where Americans are the bad guys and the military is incompetent and/or evil. They are smarter than Hollywood - they know lies when they see them. Vietnam is over, guys, deal with it.
4. Considering most guys think of a lower-back tattoo on a woman as a target, this seems like a bad idea.
A short film of some controversy and, as such, blogworthy. Watch it and judge for yourself if it is true or false or somewhere in between.
YouTube has a habit of removing videos that offend Muslims (one they don’t seem to suffer from when videos that may offend Christians are posted), so here is a linkto LiveLeak if this one goes missing.
One caution. The film shows disturbing and violent scenes. But then, jihad is by its very nature disturbing and violent.
UPDATE:
According to this report, the film was pulled by LiveLeak due to death threats. I still see the one I posted above, but it’s not the full version. To see the whole film go here.
Death threats? Intimidation? I guess the film was right after all.
This is the threat we face. This is the fight we must fight. Freedom or religious tyranny. And I don’t mean that so-called Christian tyranny of TV preachers and Catholic League boycotts, or Bush pushing through the Patriot Act that the left likes to whine about. I mean real tyranny. The kind that involves mass murder of innocent people, the violent subjugation of women and gays, and the destruction of everything that is free in our culture. That is what radical Islam brings. And if we don’t fight it now, we will be living under it in a not too distant future.
1. Oregon man says he is pregnant. I thought this was some big scientific breakthrough (or more probably a National Enquirer story) until I found out it was just a woman who had chest reconstruction and grew a beard.
2. Nancy Reagan is endorsing McCain. Good news for McCain which can only help his image with the Republican base. What with Obama and Hillary making fools of themselves, McCain is looking better and better.
3. Yeah, that’s what he says in public, but in private you just know da Pope and the Cardinals were exchanging high-fives and doing the baby-circle dance. Take that Mohammad.
5. If you do nothing else today, check out this video and have a good cry. Or at least tear-up like me.
6. And this woman differs from every woman on Earth in exactly what way?
7. Long story short - the Vets for Freedom were giving a presentation to some high school kids in Minnesota. The anti-American, anti-military members morons of the Democratic Underground and some equally suspect parents scared the wimpy principal into cancelling the presentation, so the local community showed up in force to welcome the Vets along with some good kids who skipped school to see them. Good on the community and the kids who skipped school. Shame on the DU, the complaining parents and the school officials who cowed down to this pressure.
1) The group is called “Catholic Schoolgirls Against The War” and from what I see there were indeed six schoolgirls involved in the disruption - that includes the three wussy guys, of course.
2) Where are the short plaid skirts and white knee-socks? They are Catholic schoolgirls after all.
3) Like I said, the Catholic Church is against the war, so why interrupt a Catholic Mass? Morons.
4) Kudos to the Cardinal for asking if they were okay when that girl screamed like a whiny little bitch. At least I think it was a girl. It might have been one of the guys.
5) If they had sprayed anything on me I would have physically defended myself and my family (i.e. punched them in their respective faces). I would have claimed self-defense since I would have thought they were spraying me with something dangerous. That’s my story and I am sticking to it.
UPDATE:
These six morons have had some serious bail set - from $25,000 to $30,000 - and have been charged with felonies. Good. I just hope the Cardinal doesn’t feel sorry for them and not press charges. And even if he does I hope some hard-assed parishioners who got splattered presses charges in his stead.
Also, check out the picture of one of the protesters, Ryane Ziemba, at the link. He either got his butt kicked recently or has one hell of a nasty skin rash he got from who knows where. Eww.
UPDATE:
The video was taken down. Leftist nuts don’t like looking like, well, leftist nuts.
The pastors at this church in Raleigh, North Carolina, were perplexed when they saw the Holy Week Sunday school lessons for preschoolers from “First Look,” the publisher of the one to five year-old Sunday school class materials. There wasn’t a mention of the resurrection of Jesus. Naturally, the pastors inquired about the oversight. It turns out it was no oversight. The letter sent from the publishing company is up on the Two Institutions blog website. I had to read it three times to make sure I wasn’t falling for a Lark News parody. It turns out this publisher has decided that the Gospel is too scary for preschoolers.“Easter is a special time in churches,” the letter from the publisher says. “It’s a time of celebration and thankfulness. But because of the graphic nature of the Easter story and the crucifixion specifically, we need to be careful as we choose what we tell preschoolers about Easter.”
So they offer up an alternative G-Rated ending to keep those wussy preschoolers from being traumatized by that whole nasty 39 lashes and Crucifixion deal. Evidently these kids are supposed to think Jesus eats a nice meal of Mac-n-Cheese with his friends and then settles in to watch a movie.
“Well, isn’t that special,” as the Church Lady would say.
I was taught the life and death of Jesus from a very early age. Virtually all Christian children are taught this from a very early age. I wasn’t traumatized from learning about it. I doubt any kids have ever been nor ever will be traumatized by it. It is the basis of our faith.
Leaving it out, even from preschoolers, especially from preschoolers, makes no sense at all.
If I were shopping for Sunday school curriculum I would be looking elsewhere.
I debated posting this considering it was Easter weekend, but the more I thought about it the more sense it made. There is the Messiah whose ascent to Heaven we celebrate tomorrow, and then there’s one who plays a messiah on TV.
I feel it is important to point out the distinction to those who don’t seem to grasp it.
A not-so-pro Obama minister working the pulpit. He’s not very good at judging hooter size though. At best she is a 36D and I’m not even sure about that - more like a C with a good push-up bra.
Eh, at least there’s no danger of falling asleep during this guy’s sermons or the Reverend Wright’s..
Hair styling company GHD has been ordered to pull TV ads that use Christian imagery combined with ‘eroticized’ images of women.The ads show women praying that they will get a man because of their beautiful hair.According to Brand Republic, the first ad showed a woman wearing lingerie, sitting on the edge of a bed with beads clasped in her hands. The woman looked upwards and her thoughts could be heard in Italian. On-screen the text read: “May my new curls make her feel choked with jealousy”.Another spot showed a woman lying on a bed with bright light shining through a skylight. She looked upwards towards the skylight and her thoughts could be heard in Swedish. Text read: “May my flirty flicks puncture the heart of every man I see”.In all three executions the text “GHD IV thy Will Be Done” was present at the end of the ads, with the letter “t” appearing as a cross.
The Archdeacon of Liverpool and 22 members of the public objected that the ads were offensive to the Christian faith, particularly the use of the phrase “thy will be done” from the Lord’s Prayer and the depiction of the letter ‘t’ as a cross in ‘thy’
Compared to thesetwo things, these ads are nothing. Heck, they are nothing when compared to nothing. Who doesn’t pray for all sorts of silly things? We have bigger things to worry about.
