tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post8857426259937398039..comments2023-12-23T00:19:35.005-08:00Comments on ADAM'S ALE: TO BE OR NOT TO BE - DOES IT MATTER?Fr. Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13201561855047420853noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post-5096152710538944432008-11-06T08:24:00.000-08:002008-11-06T08:24:00.000-08:00Blaise Pascal, anyone?Blaise Pascal, anyone?uncle jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01879341171634900790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post-76456829744284327022008-11-06T07:27:00.000-08:002008-11-06T07:27:00.000-08:00Pat, I appreciate your defense of the man, and you...Pat, I appreciate your defense of the man, and your offense against the media, but I am not swayed by popular American media, and have worked in pro-life for decades and have friends in legislature as well as lining the tiny patch of sidewalk they're allowed to pray on before abortion clinics, and family/friends in the armed forces and know, thus, what Bush could've done for pro-life. He gets fewer pro-life kudos from me; if he wasn't operating under delusions of Messiah-grandeur from his clemency-chuckling Texas execution chambers onward, at least 20,000 Americans wouldn't be crippled/blinded for life, now, and only God knows how many Mideasterners, too, along with the dead and land-poisoned to come (General: "We don't do body counts" Hey, we don't do sanctions counts, either, apparently--already, we're talking numbers in the hundreds of thousands); 300+ American soldiers wouldn't have killed themselves; our kids playing soccer this year wouldn't be promised to war in a few years, etc. It is very easy to sign a piece of paper that thousands worked exhaustingly for years to bring forth; the honor is theirs, not Bush's. <BR/><BR/>I still maintain that Bush is why we have Obama. Even tho' O has said to our faces that he plans to war, TOO, the majority of Americans were so against GW's same ol same ol, my dear, for the sake of "change" we'd have voted in Daffy Duck --and cried and hugged in Times Square over him. We're numb.<BR/><BR/>There's a great Russian prophetic writer, Soloviev. His tale of the <A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20060112121614/http://www.praiseofglory.com/taleantichrist.htm" REL="nofollow">coming of the Antichrist</A> is timeless and now, I'm afraid, timely. I'd say <A HREF="http://wordincarnate.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/obamanation/" REL="nofollow">Abbot Joseph and Michael O'Brien</A> agree that this isn't a political moment. It's far worse.<BR/><BR/>I must be done with this topic textually. I just hope God isn't done with His clemency and help for America; our Christian/Catholic battles have just increased even more than fifty-millionfold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post-76128367607540531532008-11-05T13:21:00.000-08:002008-11-05T13:21:00.000-08:00Dear Carol, If you are inclined to blame Bush for ...Dear Carol, If you are inclined to blame Bush for making people hate Republicans and their policies, please remember that Bush has been a target of the media ever since he publicly declared his faith in Jesus Christ as his personal saviour (and also spoke of Jesus in response to an interview question asked of then-candiddate Bush about who was his favorite “philosopher”). Since then, the media have attempted to convince people that Bush is a stupid buffoon. Most people have been taken in by this media bias, and it all started because of his testimony of faith. I do not plan to defend his presidential record because I am not in a position to know all that he knew in order to make the decisions he made. However, thanks to Bush, we have, at the federal level, some meaningful protection of the unborn that was never possible under Clinton, “Bush I”, Reagan or “Born Again” Carter. From my memory, I can list the federal law banning partial birth abortion (which was finally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2007); “Laci and Connor’s Law”—a pregnant woman’s murder will be prosecuted at two wrongful deaths. The “Born Alive Infants Protection Act”—a baby born alive as the result of a botched abortion will receive medical care, even if the child will not ultimately survive. Also, he has reinstated/upheld and not vetoed the Hyde Amendment, which restricts federal funding for abortions, and the "Mexico City Policy," which has barred the use of federal taxpayers' money to pay for abortions in other countries. In addition, he limited federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (maybe he should not have allowed any funding--some pro-lifers have differing opinions about this decision). I don't mean to be contentious in presenting these comments, but I do not believe that Bush lost this election for us. The media "gave" it to Obama.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post-45752022255971751022008-11-05T11:02:00.000-08:002008-11-05T11:02:00.000-08:00What can I say but that January, too, is GW's faul...What can <I>I</I> say but that January, too, is GW's fault via the extreme anti-Republicanism he provoked, and/or that pro-life's work has just quintupled perhaps for decades to come...because a great number of Catholics did not listen to their clergy and thus, did not vote Catholic-ly? Well, I already got in Catholic-venue trouble for referring to him as Barabbas Obama, even without saying that we have complicitly elected a homogamy-protecting, womb-rifling, youth-worker-movement-type American citizen whose greatest claim to fame seems to be his unique colour. <BR/><BR/>So, in keeping with Fr. V.'s pre-election musing theme, it suffices to say that <I>today</I> it seems to me that whomever first coined the phrase, "missing link," overestimated the case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post-12031822035731401102008-11-05T06:59:00.000-08:002008-11-05T06:59:00.000-08:00Interesting, and time better spent than watching t...Interesting, and time better spent than watching the tube ever, but especially last night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post-20230257638032101102008-11-05T06:30:00.000-08:002008-11-05T06:30:00.000-08:00Ooooooooo......questioning random selection! I’m ...Ooooooooo......questioning random selection! I’m impressed! Even I am wary of bringing up this hot-button issue! <BR/><BR/>There are lots of resources that do the math to prove that a million monkeys given a million years will not type even one sentence, any sentence, of 100 characters. The probability is always "one in a huge number" - and by huge I mean bigger that the number of atoms presumed to be in the universe.<BR/><BR/>Of course, even if it were true, you started with monkeys and typewriters, and where did THEIR order come from? <BR/><BR/>CKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com