“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.
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.
A blogger decides to post a picture of an American Flag and the lyrics to God Bless America on a somewhat left-leaning blog to see what would happen in the comments.
The results, I am afraid to say, are both sad and predictable.
UPDATE:
I should have noted this experiment was carried-out on a blog presenting Catholic perspectives on culture, society and politics. Something that brings an interesting angle to the whole deal I believe, my being Catholic and all.
1. Welcome to the preview of a Democratic president and congress and say hello to higher taxes. But the money will be for the children, right?
2. Welcome to the world of the Pastor of Barack Hussein and Michelle Obama, a man who is Obama’s acknowledged “spiritual mentor” for 20 years, married the couple, baptized their kids and who’s sermon titled “Audacity of Hope” was the inspiration for Obama’s book of the same name:
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” he told his congregation.
Nope, he’s not Obama, but you know darn well that people don’t belong to churches for decades unless they believe what the pastor and the rest of the congregation believes. If they don’t, they leave for other churches. It’s science (not to get into a whole faith/science debate here). And by the way. He raised his kids in this church listening to this crap. What kind of people do that? How good is his raved-about judgement if he does that? And to make things worse - he simply will not dump the guy. He downplays it and says he doesn’t agree but then makes excuses for this racist while at the same time playing the race card on anyone who criticises him about anything. This isn’t the way a man who is supposed to be a “race healer, not a race warrior” should act.
4. Anti-war reporting is helping Iraqi insurgents. Well, duhhh. This war has without a doubt been more difficult, costly, and lasted longer due to the main stream media’s concentration on bad news and anti-war rhetoric rather than good news (of which there has been plenty), pro-American stories, and tales of our many heroes over there. There are so many people here in America who should be ashamed for supporting out enemies this way. Despite this bombardment of bad news, it appears that only 18 percent of Americans think we should withdraw immediately from Iraq. Wow. Americans really do prefer winning over losing.
5. The Tennessee flying saucer house. I’ve seen it in person. It’s pretty cool.
7. More Obama news. Seems he got $1,000,000 in earmarks for the Chicago hospital where his wife is Vice President of Community Affairs. At a sweet salary of $316,962 which is an increase from $121,910 just before her husband was elected to the Senate. Coincidence, I am sure. I’m also sure they are she is worth every penny.
8. And what about that Al Quaeda - Saddam connection? You know the one that Democrats say never existed and Republicans say did, but have been hard-pressed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt? Well, it looks like there was one after all.
Captured Iraqi documents have uncovered evidence that links the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism, including a variety of revolutionary, liberation, nationalist and Islamic terrorist organizations. While these documents do not reveal direct coordination and assistance between the Saddam regime and the al Qaeda network, they do indicate that Saddam was willing to use, albeit cautiously, operatives affiliated with al Qaeda as long as Saddam could have these terrorist-operatives monitored closely. Because Saddam’s security organizations and Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network operated with similar aims (at least in the short term), considerable overlap was inevitable when monitoring, contacting, financing, and training the same outside groups. This created both the appearance of and, in some way, a “de facto” link between the organizations. At times, these organizations would work together in pursuit of shared goals but still maintain their autonomy and independence because of innate caution and mutual distrust. Though the execution of Iraqi terror plots was not always successful, evidence shows that Saddam’s use of terrorist tactics and his support for terrorist groups remained strong up until the collapse of the regime.
There’s no “smoking gun” in this report, but as a criminal and counterintelligence investigator with 24 years experience I can tell you that most cases are made with circumstantial evidence not smoking guns. This is good stuff. There was a connection. Not that any Democrat is ever going to believe it, but there was a connection.
9. It keeps coming back to Obama. This time he voted against his own tax and spending bill. You know, the one he keeps campaigning on. Makes your head spin, I tell ya.
10. I don’t care who she is, no way I would pay this unless I get to play with those hooters. She would also have to promise not to talk all evening.
“Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy,” he said in the statement. “I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.”
Took him long enough. And I suppose I should take him at his word, but to be truthful I don’t believe him at all. He had to do this after all the race-cards he had been throwing at Hillary or he wouldn’t be able to throw anymore. Still, politically it lets the MSM off the hook as they can now call the incident over and move on to other things. They hated covering it, the little they did, and this means they concentrate on Hillary and McCain again.
Plus, his statement isn’t all it seems to be. Okay, maybe they are over-analyzing it, but hey, it’s not like he’s the only candidate that has been subject to analyzing. Then again, his distancing himself from Wright was predicted by the parties involved.
