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In 2009 when Obama spoke to both Houses of congresses Joe Wilson shouted, "you lie". Now when Obama gave the State of the Union address in January of this year Samuel Alito replaced him, although he used somewhat different language and instead of saying "you lie" he mouthed the words "not true". When Obama talked about the Supreme Court decision replacing democracy with corporacy (or removing funding limits on corporations on elections and recognizing corporations as a person and hence have the same freedom of speech) Alito got upset and mouthed the words of "not true" with big frown on his face.

Was the judiciary not supposed to be impartial and apolitical? Alto's reaction violates that impartiality. Should he not resign as Supreme Court judge?

Sarah Palin spoke at the teabaggers' party in Nashville. She does not like a President who is a lawyer and who gives lectures. She will reinstate the US standing in the world after the damage done by the Obama administration. She was asked how she would do that and what would be her foreign policy. Her response was that terrorists lose and she wins and that will be crux of her foreign policy.

It was one heck of a boring speech and full of platitudes and simple mindedness. If fluff is substance then she had a lot of substance in her speech.

Actually both Huxley and Orwell apply today….even at the same time.

The West is losing its freedoms to totalitarian influences in part because it is simultaneously masturbating itself away.

We’re too busy having fun to notice that our pleasure is enslaving us and giving control to the State.

The State doesn’t have to resort to thug tactics, for the most part and certainly not on the majority of the population .  In fact, most of our freedoms are being bought and paid for with sugar.  We give up our freedoms and the State gives us the sugar i.e. socialism.

In some ways, Huxley and Orwell represent two sides of the same coin, and they parallel capitalism and communism which also represent the opposite sides of the same coin.  While they are different in form, they share the same substance.

Folks, as we look around today, we see the pro-abortion forces having the upper hand in so many ways.  But just like the calm before the storm, this is largely an illusory phenomenon. The real thing to look for is the momentum and the trajectory.  I liken this situation to a game where you see one team winning by a fairly comfortable margin, but then you notice that the losing team has started to put the pressure on and you get the feeling that it’s just a matter of time before they pop a few goals in and start to overtake their opponent.

It’s the same thing here. For 40 years, the pro-aborts have had the run of the place. But now, we’re starting to shake things up and our opponents don’t like it much. They like the status quo. They don’t want us disturbing their sacred cows.    Well, the cows are now starting to get ...

Mr. Voris:

We have the same problem up here in Canada with Development and Peace, the official international development agency of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB). Last year LifeSiteNews, Priests for Life Canada and pro-life blogger John Pacheco found numerous instances of D&P funding NGO groups in Latin America and elsewhere whose websites indicated that they likely supported contraception and abortion. In one case there was even photographic evidence (taken by a young Canadian Catholic of my acquaintance on a field trip to Nicaragua to experience something of their poverty). When the news first began to break the CCCB hurriedly sent a delegation down to investigate the first few NGOs to be outed (in Mexico). Their ignoring of reports that began pouring out about other NGOs funded by D&P only made one suspicious that the whole “investigation” was simply a PR stunt (Lent was near, D&P main fund-raising p...

Many faithful Catholics in Canada are frustrated and upset over the ongoing support of the Canadian Bishops of pro-abort groups in the Global South through their official development and aid agency, Development and Peace.  No doubt the cash transfers every month are really starting to pay off in terms of advancing the pro-abortion and anti-Catholic agenda. I’m sure they are proud of themselves.  In fact, self-congratulations among the bureaucrats of Development & Peace and the bishops is much more of a common occurrence than a little bit of self critique of what the. hell. they. are. doing. 

To date, there has been no admission of the facts about their pro-abortion sponsorship.  It’s been all about recyclin...

A British government source has told the Daily Telegraph that following Pope Benedict’s recent comments to the bishops of England and Wales, the government will withdraw the controversial provisions of the “Equality Bill” that threaten to undermine religious freedom.

“We are clear that these parts of the Equality Bill should not go forward,” said the source. “The Pope’s intervention has been noted.”

Pope Benedict had told the bishops on February 1:

Your country is well known for its firm commitment to equality of opportunity for all members of society. Yet as you have rightly pointed out, the effect of some of the legislation designed to achieve this goal has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs. In some respects it actu...

It’s splendid reading.

Russ writes…

I am so disappointed that you have decided to slime Caritas Haiti in your continnuing (sic) attacks on D&P. I understand why you do it…you hate any person or organization which you judge to be liberal and then assume that any person or organization connected to the afore-mentioned is also evil.

First of all, I don’t hate anyone.  I hate abortion. I hate militant feminism. I hate the fact that Catholics are being lied to and manipulated when they are asked to give to “social justice”.  I may even hate how an organization is operating.  But I do not hate people. I am critical of people’s actions, and sometimes I go a little overboard, but my motivation is to see truth and justice prevail.  In the case of Development & Peace, for instance, my severe critiques would stop as soon as they stop enabling the pro-abortion and anti-fa...

The mainstrea media are such liars.  Just ignore them. 

Nobody cares what they say anymore, anyway.  And that’s what the ratings show too.  

When I organized the March for Marriage back in 2005, it was the same story.  Just like ...

It’s the smell of sweet victory coming….

…a powerful advertisement from “Priests for Life” that will run on TV in British Columbia.

Daniel Pipes:  Why I stand with Gerrt Wilders

Pipes is good and has done a lot to reveal the danger of militant Islam and the West’s refusal to face it.  But he is in part wrong: “(he sees Islam itself as the problem, not just a virulent version of it called Islamism - I respect the religion but fight Islamists with all I have)”  Islam has been a violent and cruel religion from its inception.  Mohammad made a virtue of raiding, conquering and enslaving other people and dominating them with arrogance and cruelty (making them pay a crippling tax just to survive and humiliating the subject people when they paid it).  What other religion gives permission to murder, rape and steal from others?  I do not mean which other religious group have done these things, I mean Islam actually teaches these things a...

Washington, DC, February 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A national group that promotes abortion and homosexual rights has deep ties with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, according to a report released Monday.

Top USCCB executive John Carr held simultaneous leadership roles, creating a conflict of interest, with the USCCB and the radical Center for Community Change.

“The closer we look at the Bishops Conference [staff and programs], the more we find a systemic pattern of cooperation with evil,” said Michael Hichborn, American Life League’s lead researcher into the USCCB scandal. “The CCC has lodged itself into the highest places of power in the USCCB while working to promote abortion and homosexuality.”

John Carr is the USCCB executive director of the Departm...

Phoenix, Ariz., Jan 13, 2010 / 12:11 am (CNA).- Using the example of St. Thomas More, Archbishop Raymond Burke exhorted legal professionals present at Tuesday’s Red Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral to keep God before their eyes as they strive to administer justice amidst a “society which is abandoning its Judeo-Christian foundations.”

Archbishop Burke flew in from the Vatican to celebrate the Mass at the invitation of his long-time friend, Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix. The Red Mass is the only event on the archbishop’s short itinerary….read the rest ...

Fr. Jenkins,

Right now 88 pro-life activists (known as the ND88) are facing charges for “trespassing” onto the University of Notre Dame in May of 2009.

It is a source of the gravest scandal that this situation persists with the active cooperation of Notre Dame.

The ND88 were arrested for peacefully protesting the university’s decision to honor the most pro-abortion U.S. president in history at this year’s commencement. In many cases, their “protest” took the form of walking on your campus, praying the rosary, and holding pro-life signs. For this “crime” they were specifically targeted by Notre Dame’s security police, handcuffed, and dragged away and put in jail like common criminals.

Now these 88 peaceful pro-life heroes, many of whom are elderly, are facing up to a year in prison and a $5,000 fine, in addition to the many hardships and uncertainties involved in the trial process.

And yet, there is an easy...

Q.  What is Ontario’s Economic Stimulus payment?

A.  It is money that the provincial government will send to taxpayers.



Q.  Where will the government get this money?

A.  From taxpayers.

Q.  So the government is giving me back my own money?

A.  Only a smidgen.

Q.  What is the purpose of this payment?

A.  The plan is for you to use the money to purchase consumer goods, for example a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the Ontario economy.

Q.  But isn’t that stimulating economies in Asia?

A.�...

Check out Real Women’s new website….

This is a snippet of their little blog section on their home page…

I noticed the Wal-Mart ‘seasonal’ aisles are filled with diet and exercise stuff, vitamins, boxes of Special K, and lycra clothing this week.  Is that the type of New Year’s resolution you envisioned for 2010?

Maybe, but why not start the year off with something a little less narcissistic?  My goal for 2010 is to make the world a better place to live.  Because I am a stay-at-home mom, I don’t often get much beyond the white picket fence.  I am firmly convinced, however, that I can still have an impact on the world.

The first step in making the world a better place is to become more aware of the problems faced by Canadians.  Read newspapers, follow municipal/provincial/federal issues, and...

Bishop!

It looks like Tricky Ricky is getting a rough ride down in Texas.

Read about it here and here.

I predict that, since he came to Canada, his life as a professional theologian will be filled with critiques and attacks of his dissenting opinions.

All you have to do is google “Gaillardetz” and you’ll notice that the third entry is Socon or Bust’s smackdown exposé on his opinions.

In the day of the Internet, you can run but you can’t hide.

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I see that CNN was on the ball yet again…which explains why their ratings along with the other liberal stations can’t touch Fox News.

Turns out that this fool had no idea that there were close to 250,000-300,000 people at the National March for Life while the pro-aborts were lucky to get a few hundred out to their rally (and that’s being very very generous).

1000:1

What a bunch of clowns. I suppose they think they are being clever by ignoring what their eyes see — as if by tapping their shoes and closing their eyes is going to make the reality of abortion’s future demise simply float away.

It’s a joke, but it’s actually a good thing for us.  Why? Because when your opponent does not acknowledge the reality of living in the real world, he can’t fight effectively in it or have any real prospects of success...

Yep.

…as if we didn’t already know.

Folks, we are living in age of virtual apostasy from the Faith which has flooded all levels of the Church.

Do not drink the Koolaid offered by the mainstream press, “Catholic” or otherwise, or the various mouthpieces for the bishops or their national conferences.

Stick with the Pope, those priests and bishops truly loyal to him (in word and in deed), and the credible independent news services and bloggers.

Nobody else should have your confidence.

The days of assuming good intentions are over.

Catholic, you say? 

Prove it.

Suit’m up boys, we’re coming with a full blitz.