O Boże, któryś św. Macieja do godności apostolstwa wyniósł, użycz nam za jego wstawieniem tej łaski, abyśmy ujarzmiali ciało nasze, i na drodze cnoty wytrwale kroczyli. Amen.
WorldNetDaily reports: Student under fire for yelling: ‘Remember Chappaquiddick!’ Self-described liberal hollers phrase as Kennedy begins on-campus speech
A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting “Remember Chappaquiddick!” during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy yesterday.
Paul Trost, 20, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., says he was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., in which the congressman noted how the long-time senator overcame hardship in life on his way to success.
“Lynch said Kennedy had overcome such adversity to get to the place he was, and that’s a bunch of bull,” Trost said of the introduction, which occurred in the school’s student center yesterday morning.
Just as Kennedy began speaking, Trost was walking out of the room when he shouted, “Remember Chappaquiddick!”
“Most of the crowd gasped,” Trost said. “Then I walked out of the student center.”
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“One of my teachers called me ignorant and told me this was an embarrassment to the school,” Trost told WND. “She said to me, ‘Can’t you forgive him after all these years?’ And I said, ‘No, he killed somebody.’
“If it had been me or any other person, we’d be in jail,” Trost says he told his instructor.
I guess being rich beyond all belief, having a pampered existence your entire life, getting away with murder, and having the blood of millions of murdered babies on your hands without any consequence belies a difficult life and hardships that must be overcome.
Will somebody please not re-elect this disgusting cow.
And thank you to the young Mr. Trost. It’s good to know that you believe in and stress accountability, even in the face of the passing of time.
Per the NY Times nonetheless: Ban on Most Abortions Advances in South Dakota.
Let’s all pray for the success of South Dakota in this initiative.
In computer science, porting is the adaptation of a piece of software so that it will function in a different computing environment to that for which it was originally written.
I recently ported an MS Access database to MySQL. It is lots of fun if you like to dabble in things.
Unfortunately the U.S. Government is dabbling in ways it shouldn’t. It is playing with our ports as well as our safety and security.
Porting the means of access to this country from what should be in U.S. hands to any Muslim owned company is stupid beyond belief. We are moving from an environment which we control to one where the control, or at least influence, is vested in foreign hands.
In the interest of protecting our sovereignty shouldn’t some things just be off limits? Is everything for sale?
Among the recent revelations, company records will be stored outside the United States and Dubai Ports will:
…operate American seaports with existing U.S. managers “to the extent possible.” The company promised to take “all reasonable steps” to assist the Homeland Security Department. (ABC News)
Reasonable is a pretty big concept.
Now I am no protectionist and I believe in free markets. However, I do not believe in having any relationship whatsoever with a people and a culture that is founded upon Muslim beliefs or an Islamic system. They have not proven themselves. They have only proven the negative.
These countries and their people need to earn our respect and trust. They need to change their mode of operation from a nodding acquiescence to terrorism and subjugation to one of freedom and democracy.
It starts with their ability to be honest. Let’s hear the Emir say: “We are responsible for terrorism, not the United States and not Israel. It is not the Jews and it is not Western culture. It is us. We are the enemy and we must change.”
If they should wish to change it cannot be an overnight change either. It is one that must be tested again and again over time.
President Bush has sold out on the legacy of Ronald Reagan. Remember trust but verify. The Soviets had to earn our trust while under constant surveillance.
President Bush has said several amazing things including: “people don’t need to worry about security.”
(Pause for a moment of stupefied silence.)
The administration also calls Dubai a good friend who grants access to our ships and planes. I’m thinking, who cares? If they do not, just use their ports and airspace anyway. If their one tugboat navy and one prop plane get in our way, oh well…
The Australians seem to be getting it right. The land of the laid back and the vegemite is standing up for its values. I’ve quoted a story regarding a speech given by their Treasury Secretary below. When will our Treasury Secretary tell those who do not adhere to our ways to leave?
Per the Salt Lake Tribune:
In September, the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said the Treasury Department, as head of the interagency committee that reviews such deals, had used an overly narrow definition of national security threats because it wanted to encourage foreign investment.
Yep, that’s our Treasury Department.
In the end, those who run the ports can use their influence (isn’t that what it’s all about) to slip in the one or two people needed to accomplish a terrorist objective. It doesn’t take many people to do such an evil deed.
Here are some excerpts from The Daily Telegraph on Australia’s stance.
Ultimatum to Muslims
PETER Costello last night condemned “mushy multiculturalism” and told Muslims who could not tolerate others to leave Australia.
The Treasurer said the citizenship pledge of loyalty and respect for law should be a “big flashing warning sign” for those Muslims.
Mr Costello departed from economic matters to address Muslim protests following the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.
He said those offended “must recognise this does not justify violence against newspapers, or countries that allow newspapers to publish them”.
His comment reinforced the stand of Prime Minister John Howard, who this week criticised Muslims who were “utterly antagonistic to our society”.
Mr Costello said Australia was a secular nation and law was set by Parliament under the Constitution.
“There are countries that apply religious or sharia law —“ Saudi Arabia and Iran come to mind,” Mr Costello told the Sydney Institute.
“If a person wants to live under sharia law these are countries where they might feel at ease. But not Australia.”
Calling for enforcement of the values pledged in the citizenship oath, Mr Costello recalled a ceremony he had attended this year at which people from 36 countries became Australians.
He said a state MP told the audience citizenship did not mean having to give up culture or language or religion or opinions, or love of their native country.
“The longer he went on about how important it was not to give up anything to become an Australian the more it seemed to me that, in his view, becoming an Australian didn’t seem to mean much at all —“ other than getting a new passport,” he said.
He called that view “confused, mushy, misguided multiculturalism” which underestimated those taking out citizenship.
“They are conscious that this is not a trivial event. It is a big decision. Becoming a citizen of another country changes their identity,” he said.
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“Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don’t come to Australia.”
Mr Costello said hardline Muslims born here represented “citizens who are apparently so alienated that they do not support what their own country stands for”.
Amen PM Howard and Mr. Costello. Mr. Costello knows who’s on first.
Św. Piotrze Damianie, któryś nigdy swojej chwały nie szukał, ale zawsze boskiej, uproś nam u Boga tę łaskę, abyśmy unikali honorów i zaszczytów, a w cichości i pokorze pracowali nad zbawieniem swej duszy. Amen.
O Boże, który grzechem bywasz obrażony a pokutą przebłagać się dopuszasz, racz wejrzyć litościwie na prośbę ludu Twego, a za wstawieniem się św. Wilchelma, racz odwrócić od nas karę zapalczywości Twojej, na którąśmy dla grzechów naszych zasłużyli. Amen.
If I hear ‘Great Firewall of China’ one more time…
China wants to suppress freedom in religion, ideas, words, actions, and so much more. The Chinese government is run by dictators who label themselves communist. They could give themselves any label. It really doesn’t matter. They are in power and that’s the way it will remain. Ideas and freedom threaten their precarious hold on over 1 billion people.
Why does their need for control and American industry’s acquiescence surprise anyone?
Why are we sorrowed at our industrial and technological giants who are looking at the potential of a vast market (yeah, 1 billion people living at subsistence level are going to on-line purchase through Google —“ hahahahahaha)?
Do you think that ideals and freedom are what these companies are all about? The only thing a company stands for is its bottom line. Actually they stand and bow to it.
Saud is in our gas tanks and ports, China is in our technology, all because someone got rich. We wouldn’t let China have a petroleum company. Why? I guess that hit to close to home for America’s ruling elite.
If there were a motivation to support the good and just, or even to do what is right for this country, we would have to get on board with annihilating these dictators and converting their followers (think natural implications here).
As it is, the teacup firewall is only as strong as our willingness to reinforce it by trading strength for weakness.
I highly recommend that you read Turkey and the Ecumenical Patriarch posted at Pontifications. I also urge you to write your elected representatives in the House and Senate.
Turkey’s outright persecution of the Ecumenical Patriarch and of Orthodoxy in general is repulsive. This persecution extends to the Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church, Roman Catholics, and evangelical Christians.
Please express to them the need to hold Turkey’s allegedly democratic feet to the fire and to hold them accountable for their outright persecution of Christians.
Based on the events of the last several months alone, the EU should be running from Turkey as fast as it can.
Let’s hope Greece, Poland, Denmark and other EU countries that have dealt with Islamofascists for a thousand plus years would work to veto any inclusion of Turkey.
The ideas of Mustafa Kemal Atatí¼rk have been destroyed in less than 100 years. Atatí¼rk said: “The major challenge facing us is to elevate our national life to the highest level of civilization and prosperity.”
While Atatí¼rk was a nationalist and while his ideas led to the participation in the wholesale slaughter of Armenians in the genocide and the expulsion of Greeks and Christians in general is reprehensible, the parts of Atatí¼rk’s philosophies that took a generally progressive and socialist attitude toward modernizing Turkish life had some value. The Ottoman state, against which he fought, was as outmoded as the rest of Arabia. Atatí¼rk resolved to lead his country out of the crumbling Islamic past into the future.
Ostensibly his program of modernization, secular government and education were positives. He, at least on paper, made religious faith a matter of individual conscience. His secular system could have allowed all in Turkey the freedom to practice their faith.
I always found the elimination of the fez to be interestingly symbolic. Since Atatí¼rk’s democratic ideals and western tendencies are generally summarized by his elimination of the fez, I hereby decree that all Turks are to begin wearing the fez once again.
If you’re going to throw off ‘democracy’ why not look the part.
Part II of my decree will include the elimination of the fez in favor of the bomb hat.
Check out online retailer Hats in the Belfry for all your fez needs. The fez is also available from VillageHatShop.com
Wszechmogący Boże, panie nieba i ziemi, udziel wszystkim małżonkom tej łaski, aby obowiązki swego stanu według przepisów twej świętej religji wypełniali, przykrości cierpliwie znosili, dziatki zaś swoje pobożnie wychowywali. Amen.
From LifeSiteNews: Supreme Court’s Ginsburg Offended by “Outrageously Anti-Abortion” Homily at Mass
WASHINGTON, February 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The February edition of the Jewish bimonthly magazine, Moment, carries an excerpt from a book by Abigail Pogrebin, Stars of David; the book details conversations Pogrebin had with 62 famous Jews. The excerpt features Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of Pogrebin’s subjects. What Ginsburg had to say about Christianity was noted by Catholic League president Bill Donohue:
“In the January 30 edition of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Abigail Pogrebin was asked which Jewish persons have left a ‘profound impression’ on her. She answered, ‘I will never forget Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg saying, ‘Don’t put a [Christmas] wreath on this door.’ Indeed, Ginsburg admits to putting a gold mezuzah on her office door’s frame as a way of saying, ‘This is my space, and please don’t put a wreath on this door.’ To observant Jews, the mezuzah reminds them of their connection to God. To Ginsburg, who is not observant, it is a symbol of protest.
So Ms. Ginsburg has equated herself to God? I guess being on the Supreme Court makes you the source of all justice —“ equal to God.
For those who do not know, the mezuzah is a sort of metal tube containing scripture that is placed on the doorpost of Jewish homes in accordance with scripture. It is a mitzvah (blessing) to place mezuzot on the doorposts of Jewish homes in accordance with Deut. 6:4-9, a passage commonly known as the Shema (Hear, from the first word of the passage). In that passage, G-d commands the Jewish people to keep His words constantly in their minds and hearts.
The words of the Shema are written on a tiny scroll of parchment, along with the words of a companion passage, Deut. 11:13-21. On the back of the scroll, a name of G-d is written. The scroll is then rolled up placed in the case, so that the first letter of the Name (the letter Shin) is visible (or, more commonly, the letter Shin is written on the outside of the case).
By this action the Jewish person recalls God before all and dedicates his home to God.
So Ginsburg placed the mezuzah on her door to state —This is my space—. How nice, she recalls her own name and her dedication to herself.
“Ginsburg used to attend the annual Red Mass, a Catholic Mass that honors lawyers, but then she had a bad experience: ‘I went one year and I will never go again, because this sermon was outrageously anti-abortion.’ So much for respect for diversity. Just imagine how it would go down in the Jewish community if a Catholic Supreme Court Justice were to say that he would never again attend a particular Jewish event because he had to endure a talk that was ‘outrageously pro-abortion.’
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And you expected? Just because Ms. Ginsburg has washed God out of her life does she expect the rest of us to do the same? The answer to that is an unequivocal yes.
She must have been looking for some good symbolism for her door. Unfortunately she could not use the ever popoular Hebrew symbol Chai on her door. That would be impossible because Chai stands for life.
Judaism as a religion is very focused on life, and the word chai has great significance. The typical Jewish toast is l’chayim (to life). Gifts to charity are routinely given in multiples of 18 (the numeric value of the word Chai).
By the way, רשע transliterated is rasha —“ meaning the guilty as in an evil or wicked (wo)man. In Jewish thought this is the most extreme type of sinner.
Ms. Ginsburg, every sin against man is a sin against God. Go, see a Rabbi and pray:
“O may it be Thy will, O Lord my God, and God of my fathers, that I may sin no more; and as to the sins I have committed, purge them away in Thine abounding mercy.”
Special thanks to Judaism 101 for info on the mezuzah and the Chai symbol.