Some Have Hats

Who's Your Daddy?

What will those wacky secular humanists think of next, you ask? 

How about over the counter paternity tests?

If anyone has the forms needed for resignation from the human race, please send them to me in a PDF file.  Better yet, let me know if it can be done onlne.

George Bush and the Iraqui Archbishop

I just heard the horrible news of the kidnapped Chaldean Archbishop.

My husband and I were taking a lunch break and watching the news.  He said, "If they kill him, this is going to be big."  I said, "Good."

The archbishop would be a martyr, which would work out quite well for him.  And it might get the attention of the Kumbaya Brigade, as to who the enemy is.  You know, those people who keep killing innocent bystanders on behalf of their "peaceful religion" and thereby stirring irrational fear in the evil hearts of us simple-minded hatemongers.

Of course, it might be impossible to get their attention even if the archbishop is martyred.  They might be too busy explaining that the archbishop would never have been kidnapped if George Bush hadn't infuriated the Iraqis by going into their country, completely unprovoked, with hordes of marauding troops who couldn't wait to slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians willy nilly, declare "oh well, collateral damage" and go off to their Friday night "Waterboard the Goat Farmer" game.

There could be some truth in that, I have to admit.  Certainly the power brokers in Iraq are peeved about us killing their innocent civilians.

After all, they were doing it first.

I'm praying for the archbishop, the families of all involved, and an outburst of clear thinking inspired by this event.

"Unrealistic" View of the Vocation Crisis

Over at Pewsitter.com there is an article called "Doing Something About the Vocation Crisis."  Naturally it caught my eye. 

Apparently I have been suffering delusions of grandeur lately. Must be, since I asked to be put on the agenda to speak at the next meeting of the parish council- at a beautiful parish in the far western suburbs of Chicago. Before putting me on the agenda they wanted to know, what was my proposal exactly? Resolved: That the parish council adopt as goal that we always have a full complement of priests to minister to the parish, a full rectory.

With an amused smile,  I was told this would not be allowed -- on the grounds that it was unrealistic.

Nevertheless, indulging my fantasy life a little further I actually drafted my remarks, which I would be happy to make to any pastoral council that would hear me out:

Members of the Pastoral Council: We have been reading about the “vocations crisis” for years, and now it has arrived. Soon we may be a priest-less parish, or a parish with one very overworked, frazzled, and unhealthy priest.

Now then, what are we going to do about it?

Here you may well ask, “What can we do about it?”

Actually, there is plenty we can do.

But we need, first, to adopt a realistic attitude toward the entire situation, an attitude of Biblical realism. It seems to me there are two kinds of realism. The one is based on facts, figures, statistics, studies, and trends: the old realism.

The other is based on the power and the love of God: the new realism. “Can God do all things?” asked the Baltimore Catechism. And in every Catholic grade school class where Sister asked that question in the fifties, back came dozens of children’s voices in sing-song, “Yes, God can do all things, for nothing is hard or impossible for Him.” It is still true.

Unless you'd rather be "realistic," read the rest here.

Christians Need Not Apply

You might want to read this, as it is coming soon to a country very near you.

Christian couple told: 'You can't foster if you think it's wrong to be gay'

They are devoted foster parents with an unblemished record of caring for almost 20 vulnerable children.  But Eunice and Owen Johns have been forced to abandon their good work because they refuse to tell children as young as ten that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle.

To do so, they say, would go against their Christian beliefs.

The devastated couple withdrew an application to their council to continue as foster carers after being told they must condone homosexuality to adhere to gay rights laws.

The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation), which came into force last April, makes it illegal for any business or organisation providing a public service to discriminate against anyone because of their sexuality.

The council says its fostering panel felt it would not be following the regulations if it placed a child with a couple who could not comply with the Act.

The couple's case comes at a time when there is a chronic shortage of foster parents, who work on a voluntary basis. Around 8,000 more are needed nationally.

Read the rest here.

Just. Plain. Evil.

(h/t Pewsitter.com)

The War and the Poor and the War and the Poor and the War and the Poor...

I have two questions.

(1)  Are the people who never shut up about the war spending as much time praying about it as they are griping about it?  (Maybe they are.  Like I said, it's a question.  And before the Jesuits start yelling, let me be quick to point out that I assume that the priests are.  It's a layfolk question.)

(2)  What, exactly, is keeping liberals from feeding the poor, such that they need the government to do it for them?  Do they need instructions?  If I provide instructions, might I continue to make my own choices about which of poor I'd like my money to feed?  That feeling I have when I research and find a good charity and "meet" the people over the phone and send the check and later get the photo of the kids with their new fill-in-the-blanks and a pile of their hand-written thank you notes... why does that experience not appeal to liberals? 

I know, it's that we need to hand all the money over to the government for more programs for teenaged mothers with five kids by four and a half guys who have long since run off to impregnate other teenaged mothers, in between gang activities, which they have taken up because their fathers abandoned them in the same cycle that we will never stop repeating until we give them a reason for why they should give up the Escalade and get a job at McDonalds -- and the absolute only thing we could tell them that might put a dent in the bling is that (a) there is a God and (b) He is going to hold them accountable for their actions and there might be some pretty severe consequences if they don't straighten up.  But we can't tell them that, because it might OFFEND SOMEONE!!!!

So yeah, I guess I see the point now.  It really is a lot easier to just let the government take the money, consider your conscience clear and go back to making the world a safe place for doctors who stab infants in the head with scissors and suck their brains out.  Of course, if Obamamessiah is elected, we can skip that hideously barbaric step, and just throw the live babies in the dumpster and let nature take its course.

Sorry.  I didn't mean to go on such a tirade.  I was just sitting here, thinking about the humanitarians.

Bishops Be Damned!

Believe it or not, that was not my title.  It came from here.

Amy Welborn has a good post on this at Charlotte Was Both.  Here.

(Yet another h/t to Pewsitter.com)

Silencing the Christians

This looks very good, and it's extremely important.   It's coming March 1st, to several networks you've never heard of.  But thanks to the website, you can watch it (and order it) online. 

AFA will webcast and The Inspiration Networks will broadcast Speechless...Silencing the Christians. Sign up to be reminded to watch each episode and take action. Americans are at greater risk of losing their basic freedoms today than ever before in the history of this nation. Political correctness and the voice of the liberal minority are undermining the morals and values of mainstream America.

Renowned author and commentator Janet Parshall takes you on a journey across the country to meet citizens who have been arrested for speaking out at a public rally, students who are being forced to attend classes that require them to recite verses from the Koran and to stage their own jihad and activists pushing social tolerance to such an extreme that the Bible itself is being labeled “hate speech.”

Follow these cases and learn how you can take action to stop the erosion of your personal freedoms on this episode of Speechless ... Silencing the Christians.

The 13-week series will air on INSP each Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. Eastern.  It will be posted on AFA.net at the same time.  Each week’s program will be available for viewing 24-hours a day on AFA.net. Be sure to tell your friends about Speechless…Silencing the Christians. Click on the network logo for schedule:

                               

Viewing Speechless…Silencing the Christians is free, but you must sign up.  You need to sign up only once to be able to watch all the episodes.

(h/t Pewsitter.com)

The Government in (Almost) Everything

A thought just struck me:

Liberals want the government to be in control of everything... except for whether or not it's okay to kill people.

(Yes, I know, it's not a "people," it's a fetus.)

Hand up in the back: The baby Bobby Cutts, Jr. was just convicted of murdering?  Was that a baby (as opposed to a "fetus") because it was wanted?  Have we finally arrived at a defintion of when human life begins? 

It's when the parents declare it a good idea? 

Or not until the parents give it a name?

It's getting clearer, but still a little confusing. 

FREEDOM!!!!!!!

The food police are at it again.

The nanny state, in its neverending and currently thriving effort infantalize all of us, has decided that the Girl Scouts are Evil and are out to get them, and their little cookies, too!

I may have mentioned, in passing, that I'm a southerner and a Scot.  The outcome of the 2008 election is probably going to back to the hills.  Of North Carolina, if not Scotland.

Or maybe I'll just stay where I am, paint my face blue, grab a claymore and stand in my front yard and scream like a raving lunatic.

What will I scream?  What do you think? 

FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!

(Oh yeah, and I'll be munching on Thin Mints whenever I take a break.)

Meanwhile, here is a site where you can type in your zip code and find Samoas near you.  And I'm going to add a "find cookies now" button on my sidebar (when I have time to do the sidebar spruce-up) so you can get to that sight easily, absolutely any time you want to. 

And if you want bonus points for pissing them off, you can take advantage of Operation Thin Mint to send some cookies to the troops.

Before this is over, I'm going to end up a white separatist living in a compound.  No, wait!  I forgot!  That would be hate-mongering. Black separatism, however, is something altogether different.  Don't ask me to explain. 

Pass the Tagalongs.

Obama on Israel

"Security of Israel is Sacrosanct."

Obama is a Strong Friend of Israel.

Obama will lower the bar on support of Israel.

The Brzezinski Problem.  (Not to be confused with the Farrakhan problem, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright problem, or the Rashid Khalidi problem.)

I have not begun to make anything coherent out of this.  I'm providing these links for anyone else who is engaged in the mighty effort.