Red, White, and Blue in the Face!

It is Holy Week in the Christian calendar and it has become the custom among the mainstream media (at least in the USA) to trot out stories about fundamental beliefs of Christianity. Often these stories are thinly disquised attempts to cast doubt on the beliefs, others are much more blatant.

Today is Monday in Holy Week – we’re just getting started. In my car I sometimes tune to the local NPR radio station and did so today to hear that some brilliant scientists at a U.S. university have discovered that magnetic pulses can be used to make a test subject change their minds about a moral judgement. Evidently this goes to prove that moral judgements are simply brain exercises that can be broken down, fiddled with, and even changed if we like. The NPR host wisely intoned at stories end “ . . . it could be that we don’t have, or don’t need, a soul”. Pardon my quote – it may not be exact but you get the picture. Good luck with that one oh great and wise scientists. [Read/listen]

Just a couple hours later a network news program highlighted a National Geographic channel program airing tonight – “Touched by Jesus?”. This ought to be good – are Mary Magdalen & Jesus still a couple? Is the Shroud of Turin the real deal or just a fabric of our imagination? Aren’t all those fools claiming to have stigmata just faking or are they actually “replicating” Jesus’ wounds [note the word used – ‘replicate’ as though they could just call it up whenever they wished. In my experience reading the stories of those who bore the stigmata, most would have been happy had they never had them even once!].

Ah well, what will be truly interesting is seeing who they trot out as authoritative scholars and witnesses.

update: I won’t be watching – I don’t pay my cable provider enough money – it’s on the digital package and I’m not there. Too bad.

On second thought don’t tell her — let some stranger tell her. It’ll be even better if you let Planned Parenthood do it right?

Every parent should be outraged. Planned Parenthood, operating behind the mask of women’s health care, is boldly and unashamedly pushing sex at our children before they’ve had the chance to be children and they’re getting worse by the day. Oh yeah and you’re helping to pay for it with your tax dollars.

The Girl Scout Sex Guide

From the moment the Church was born in the resurrection of Jesus Christ she has endured unceasing attacks from those who hate her, hate her message, and hate what she stands for in this world. Time after time waves of brutal persecution of the Church have swept over what would otherwise have been civilized nations. It hasn’t stopped and it won’t end. I have no doubt that at some point in the not too distant future more persecutions will erupt. Not “if” but “when”.

But I digress. The news headlines are shouting about new revelations of priest abuse — the latest are in Germany. The really good news for the Church haters though is that this is an opportunity to slander Pope Benedict who was Archbishop in the Diocese where a priest has been dismissed due to the accusations against him. It’s simply too much for the Catholic baiters – out of hand the Pope is immediately accused of complicity in covering up this priests abuse. Admittedly the jury’s out on this one, but I’m pretty certain that what will happen is that everyone with a bone to pick against the Church will make sure Pope Benedict’s name is front and center. If it is proven that he was not culpable you won’t hear any apologies from these folks you can put money on that.

The King of the Wild Frontier that is. I don’t know about you but for me Fess Parker’s Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone characters played on Walt Disney’s Saturday evening shows were simply the best. There was nothing on television that I looked forward to more than these shows unless it was Mighty Mouse on Saturday mornings.

Our kids today could use a good dose of Davey Crockett. Heck, come to think of it, so could I.

Thanks to Fess Parker and Walt Disney, I’ve never forgotten Davey and Daniel and probably never will.

Passing the Health Care Reform bill is apparently a make or break proposition for the Dems. Nancy Pelosi, for whom I have lost whatever shred of respect I may have previously had, maintains consistently that she “will do whatever is necessary” to ensure the bill is passed into law. Obviously that includes continuing to lie to the American people about the status of health care reform legislation within her own party.

Chuck Schumer meanwhile, is outdoing himself in efforts to find more ways to get around the Constitution and his duty as a representative of the people of the State of New York. He has been recorded as saying that the Dems are looking into a way to pass the health care reform legislation by simply changing the rules to suit themselves despite the limitations the Constitution may appear to put on the Senate’s ability to make their own rules.

I am beyond words at this point (well, ok, maybe not). Do these people have no shame whatsoever? They will do what they want and to hell with  the American people and damn the Constitution.

The plain, simple fact is that the Dems, despite their self-righteous proclamations of openness and transparency, have yet to evidence either of those things not to mention failing miserably at honesty while their cup of hyposcrisy overfloweth.

Oh and by the way, I still haven’t changed my voter registration. I’ve been a registered Democrat all my voting life. Can’t remember the last time I had the desire to vote for a Democrat though.

I am convinced that the Speaker of the House of Representatives has finally and publically pronounced to all the world that she has completely lost her mind. Or is it possible I’ve misunderstood or misheard her?

Speaking to the press (they really should get someone to speak for her if you ask me) she remarked about the health care legislation that “ . . . we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

Please tell me she didn’t really mean what I heard her say.