Pansy: March 2009 Archives

Wee Believer's My Mass Kit.

But $90? Are you kidding me? Do they not get the whole "big Catholic family" thing? Or "frugal Catholic family"? Or "frugal, big, Catholic family in a recession?" Sigh

People much smarter than me have word it better than I ever could.

In is letter regarding Barak Obama at Notre Dame (posted on American Papist), Charles F. Lennon Jr. Executive Director, Notre Dame Alumni Association writes:

Rather, the University has invited the President to campus for what he’s done for racial equality, and for his stands on poverty, health care, immigration, education, infectious disease, and seeking peace. These are causes dear to the heart of Notre Dame, and he has elevated these causes and made them his own.

Sigh. As stated on Jill Stanek:

African-Americans comprise 12% of the US population but disproportionately 32% of all abortions, according to Guttmacher. PP's founder, Margaret Sanger, was an anti-black eugenicist. Most abortion mills are located where the majority of blacks live, in metropolitan areas (87.5% - see Cenus Figure 2). According to Guttmacher, 95% of all mills are located in metropolitan areas.

Oddly, pro-life black Catholics don't seem to agree with Mr. Lennon. On Twitter, Alan Keyes tweets:

Obama's moral stature comes from exploiting race, yet his pro-abortion stance repudiates the black American heritage.

Yesterday, Matt C. Abbott of RenewAmerica has a letter from Fr. John J. Raphael, SSJ:

'I have spent eighteen years working with blacks and whites, Protestants and Catholics, to bring more African Americans into the pro-life movement. During the last two months the Obama administration has already begun to aggressively roll back the gains made in defense of life over the course of the last fifteen years.

'I have written two articles which attempt to show how the historical significance of the first African American president is emptied of its meaning if this same president refuses to embrace the rights of the unborn. I share them with you if you are interested in considering the devastating impact of these pro-abortion policies on the African American community in light of this historic election:

http://www.nbccongress.org/features/bridge-01.asp

http://clarionherald.org/pdfs/2009/02_07_09/page15.pdf.

'As an African American and a priest, as a principal of a Catholic high school and a member of the Admissions Advisory Board of the university, I cannot adequately express in words how deeply this action offends those who are committed to carrying out the task of Catholic education and witnessing to the Gospel of Life in the context of a Catholic school. Even if the university chooses to cooperate with certain policies of the president that are not contrary to the teaching of the faith, the conferral of this type of public honor is wholly gratuitous and incongruous with the mission of any Catholic institution...

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If we really want to address the race issue, let's address it in it's fullness. If not, then you are just using the fact that Obama's blackness as an excuse to pat yourself on the back for appearing so hip-which is pretty racist.

HT:Jill Stanek

Apparently Posco is near sighted. Who knew? This is why when people would pitch baseballs at him, he couldn't catch them.

I told him he looks like that kid. "What kid?" he asked. You know, the one from Sesame Street. You know how in Sesame Street, there is always some normalesque,intelligent-looking, ethnic, teenage friend. Elmo will be in front of Hooper's Store looking all forlorn and Posco will enter stage right and ask "What's wrong Elmo?" And Elmo will explain how he can't pick the right color construction paper to make a card for Maria (is she still there?) for, I don't know, Recycling Day. And Posco picks a green piece of paper because recycling is green while he sings an educational jingle about the importance of recycling in English and in Spanish and Elmo says "Thank you Posco! Elmo happy now. And from now on, Elmo is going to recycle all his plastic apple juice bottles!" and then eats a crayon or something.

After I told this to my son, he just looked at me and blinked. He has no imagination.

Abortions, Vasectomies Increase as Economic Woes Continue

Doctors and clinics are reporting that many women are choosing abortions and men are having vasectomies because they cannot afford a child.

Planned Parenthood of Illinois clinics performed an all-time high number of abortions in January, many of them motivated by the women's economic worries, said CEO Steve Trombley, who declined to give exact numbers.

Planned Parenthood apparently is feeling no pain.

While I certainly think finances ought to be weighed when making choices for your family, it's never reason to eliminate a child-a person-who is already here. I can understand of course, how those who believe in abortion feel panicked. Being pro-life doesn't immunize a person from the worries of daily responsibilites. But I think as a society, we have come so far away from what are necessities, and what are desires, many Americans do not understand the difference. Contraception and abortion has allowed for us to put children in the category of new cell phones.

Related:

Abortion No Stimulus for Economy

He's obviously never met Kolan McConiughey, a mentally disabled man considered one of the nation's top Special Olympics bowlers, with five perfect games to his credit. He'd like to go to the White House and show the president a thing or two about how to roll strikes.

"He bowled a 129. I bowl a 300. I could beat that score easily," McConiughey said Friday.

His challenge to Obama followed the president's offhand remark on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" Thursday comparing his famously inept bowling to "the Special Olympics or something." Recognizing his blunder, Obama apologized to the chairman of the Special Olympics before the show aired.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Friday said the president believes that the Special Olympics are "a triumph of the human spirit." Gibbs added that Obama understands that the athletes "deserve a lot better than the thoughtless joke that he made last night."
During an interview with The Associated Press, the 35-year-old McConiughey quickly rolled several strikes with his left-handed hook in a short demonstration of his prowess at Colonial Lanes in Ann Arbor.

In addition to five perfect games since 2005, McConiughey has also had an 800 series and carries a 212 average. He laughed as he joked about the popular president's apparently poor game.

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Update:Jill Stanek has some commentary:

You wouldn't believe how well some of these truly special people can bowl, including my own! Obama is an ass, truly.

to last night's knee slapper, Sarah Palin's thoughts about the Special Olympics.

From the NY Times:

Mr. Ponzi, 65, is a retired businessman living in Watervliet, N.Y., near Albany. He has the same name as, but is not related to, the con man, who died in 1949. When he was younger, Mr. Ponzi said by phone, people often asked if he was connected to the swindler. “Then it went into a lull,” he said. “Until this idiot.”

That would be Bernard Madoff.

Poor guy

1. Got through Monday evening. Cisco had an eye doctor's appointment at 5:30 PM, Josh had a doctor's appointment at 6 PM, and at 7 PM I had a pro-life meeting at Church. Not only did we get through it, it went smoothly with a healthy dinner served in the midst of it all. Days like this are becoming more frequent and when I get through them, I amaze myself.

2.Turns out Cisco needs reading glasses, so hopefully this will help some with his reading. We have had a decent week at school so far.

3. Despite it being really hard (tired from little sleep, no big people home until 5:30 PM, screaming baby), I have made real food for supper every night this week, and did not order pizza once.

25 DVDs for Gordon Brown

I have to stop reading the news because there is little I read that makes me happy or makes me feel hopeful. Of course, there is always hope, but my initial reaction when I read what our new president and congress are doing is usually "what the f**k?" So let's take yesterday's health summit. Pro-life groups were shut out. Via Jill Stanek:

I stumbled this from Greg Popcak today:

My feeling? I'm sick to death of these bleeding heart social conservatives who want a good education for poor kids. Why should we pay for the education of children who really just should have been aborted in the first place? Let's be real here. The Left is only pro-choice until the child is born, and then f*** 'em. I mean, get with the times people! Educating impoverished children is just sooooo '08. Its time to get with teh new social ethic. Crime, poverty, education, health care, inadequate housing and a host of other problem can all be solved if we just abort 'em all and let God (if she exists) sort them out. Right?

But let’s skip all that and talk about tonight. So Jason proposed to Melissa and she said Yes, leaving Molly to wonder “why not me! why not me!” But tonight (or whenever this was taped), Jason decides on national television, that he needs to end things with Melissa so he can try to get it on with Molly, whom he dumped all those months ago. You’re engaged (ha) and you couldn’t do this in privacy? You had to humiliate the girl on national TV?

And if that wasn’t enough (and clearly it wasn’t), this asshat then goes and tells Molly that it’s been her all along. He actually goes as far as to ask her out for coffee or a drink. And get this - she says YES. They get all googly eyes and smoochy with each other. Did he not just dump his “fiance” 15 minutes before? As someone on Twitter commented tonight, this sends a great message to psycho ex-girlfriends everywhere - just keep on loving him because maybe one day he’ll dump her and come back to you. Ha ha!! Seriously?! Seriously?! [emphasis added]

GMMR "What Happened on The Bachelor Season Finale

And the typical message-commitments mean little.

Let's just say that if you can imagine a day - the same day - in which you experience a breath of grace through the voice of a child, the cool hand of an elderly priest, gently laid on yours as you pour out regrets and questions, and then the plaintive voice of Lucinda Williams singing in a darkened theater those same regrets and questions that your heart has been crying for a month now...

...welcome.

My father who has been holding his own in his battle against Multiple Myeloma is no longer in remission. The doctors will start him on a new drug regimen today.

TIA