Archive for the American Category
Ron Paul – Not Really Fighting for Life
Posted in American, Anti-abortion, Christian, Culture, Culture of Death, Defending Life on November 19, 2011 by JoannaBeing Begins at Conception
Posted in American, Anti-abortion, Catholic, Christian, Culture of Death, Defending Life, Government, healthcare, People with tags abortion, baby, fetus, in utero, life, Video on October 30, 2011 by Joanna
Freedom’s Holy Light by John Keisling
Posted in American, Art, audio, United States, Video with tags 9/11, America, defence, firemen, freedom, heroes, Islamic fundamentalism, John Keisling, NYPD, Prayer, September 11, song, terrorism, U.S.A., Video on October 7, 2011 by JoannaThis song was written by my friend, John Keisling and sung by his sister, Anna Keisling Robillard:
Heroes All Around Us
Posted in American, Art with tags firemen, heroes, mural, patriots, soldiers, song, USA, veterans, Video on May 13, 2011 by JoannaI’m sooooooooo proud of my friends today:
This song was written by Adolfo Maes:
Here’s to more heroes: Mixed media artists Alfred Darmanin and Michelle Stecco finished installing a Veterans Memorial mixed media mural.The 50 foot mural designed by the artists consists of glass, stained glass, mahogany wood, and digitized paintings on canvas.
Al Darmin (artist) sent this picture of the commemorative mural in Royal Oaks Park Community Center, Miami Lakes, Florida
“I Had My Moment”: Bush Views Politics As A Chapter In Life
Posted in American, Catholic, United States, Video with tags Oprah, Presidency, President George W. Bush, Video on November 10, 2010 by JoannaObamaCare: The Facts on Abortion
Posted in American, Anti-abortion, Culture of Death, Defending Life, Government, healthcare with tags abortion, funding abortion, obamacare, planned parenthood, Video on October 27, 2010 by JoannaWe Are the Catholic Vote
Posted in American, Catholic, Politics, Pro-life with tags Brian Burch, Catholic Vote, election, Video, Vote on October 27, 2010 by JoannaBrian Burch and CatholicVote.org put together this video to show you what the Catholic vote looks like.
Controversial Ad – Plausible? Prophetic?
Posted in American, Conservative, Culture, Economy, Political with tags 2030, CAGW, Chine, Citizens Against Government Waste, controversial ad, United States, Video on October 21, 2010 by JoannaCitizens Against Government Waste’s President Tom Schatz said of the purpose of this ad: “We can change the future. We have to!“
Click here to watch this video – Plausible outcome of government spending $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ we DON”T HAVE.
H/T Citizens Against Government Waste for making it and Fox News for airing it.
The Great Unwashed – “Just Downright Mean”
Posted in American, Michelle Obama, My Journal, Obama, Political with tags American, bias, bigotry, great unwashed, Krauthammer, liberal, Michelle Obama, My Journal, Obama, Political on August 29, 2010 by JoannaCharles Krauthammer reacts to Liberal reaction to national dissatisfaction with heavy handed big government and poor governance. He writes:
Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the “bitter” people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging “to guns or religion or” — this part is less remembered — “antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.”
That’s a polite way of saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.
– Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness and debt, as represented by the Tea Party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.
– Disgust and alarm with the federal government’s unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.
– Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California? Homophobia.
– Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia.
Now we know why the country has become “ungovernable,”
Krauthammer sums up:
It is a measure of the corruption of liberal thought and the collapse of its self-confidence that, finding itself so widely repudiated, it resorts reflexively to the cheapest race-baiting (in a colorful variety of forms). Indeed, how can one reason with a nation of pitchfork-wielding mobs brimming with “antipathy toward people who aren’t like them” — blacks, Hispanics, gays and Muslims — a nation that is, as Michelle Obama once put it succinctly, “just downright mean”
The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama over-read his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them.
Obama’s “Tragic” Response to Flotilla Incident
Posted in American, Politics, President Obama with tags American, blockade, enemy, flotilla, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Obama . Liz Cheney, Politics, President Obama on June 4, 2010 by JoannaKeep America Safe’s Liz Cheney released the following statement on President Obama’s response to the flotilla incident:
Yesterday, President Obama said the Israeli action to stop the flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip was “tragic.” What is truly tragic is that President Obama is perpetuating Israel’s enemies’ version of events. The Israeli government has imposed a blockade around Gaza because Hamas remains committed to Israel’s destruction, refusing to recognize Israel’s right to exist and using territory under their control to launch attacks against Israeli civilians.
The Israeli blockade of Gaza, in order to prevent the re-arming of Hamas, is in full compliance with international law. Had the Turkish flotilla truly been interested in providing humanitarian aid to Gaza, they would have accepted the Israeli offer to off-load their supplies peacefully at the Israeli port of Haifa for transport into Gaza. President Obama is contributing to the isolation of Israel, and sending a clear signal to the Turkish-Syrian-Iranian axis that their methods for ostracizing Israel will succeed, and will be met by no resistance from America.
Denigrate, Cast-out, and De-legitimize – A Way With Words
Posted in American, Charles Krauthammer, Obama with tags American, Charles Krauthammer, de-legitimize, denigrate, Obama on April 24, 2010 by JoannaCharles Krauthammer on Obama’s tactics:
The way, and he has done this before — he tries to denigrate, cast- out, and de-legitimize any argument against his. And here he is talking about that it’s not legitimate even to suggest that the bill he is supporting might encourage a bailout. It’s certainly possible there had been strong, very good economists and others who have argue because of the provisions in the ball, and one in particular, where a treasury has the right to designate any entity, private entity a systemic risk and then to immediately, even without Congress approving and appropriating money to guarantee all the bad loans, that is an invitation to a bailout.
Now the president could argue otherwise, but to say that to raise the issue is illegitimate is simply appalling. What he is doing here is he is making a lot of provisions that will be changing a very complex financial system. At least have the intellectual honesty to admit you can’t predict all the outcomes. The president has a tick in which he presents himself as having this sort of academic, reasonable discourse, but it really has inside of it a sharp edge of partisanship. He won the presidency. That gives him a big house, a lot of power, and a fabulous airplane but does it not make him the arbiter of American political discourse.
Nuclear Dreaming
Posted in American, Charles Krauthammer, News with tags American, Charles Krauthammer, Iran, News, nuclear, Obama, Pakistan, Syria, warning on April 17, 2010 by JoannaCharles Krauthammer summarizes the dangers lost on a naive President Obama in “Obama’s Nuclear Posturing, Part Deux”.
Danger:
- Iran “is frantically enriching uranium to make a bomb, and which our own State Department identifies as the greatest exporter of terrorism in the world.”
- ” Syria has just been discovered transferring lethal Scud missiles to Hezbollah, the Middle East’s most powerful non-state terrorist force. This is the same Syria that was secretly building a North Korean-designed nuclear reactor until the Israeli air force destroyed the facility three years ago.”
- Pakistan “is adding to the world’s stockpile of fissile material every day.”
- Pakistan’s “own secret service, the ISI, is of dubious loyalty, some of its elements being sympathetic to the Taliban and thus, by extension, to al-Qaeda.”
- A “softening of the U.S. nuclear deterrent posture (sparing non-proliferation compliant states from U.S. nuclear retaliation if they launch a biochemical attack against us)
- “Iran is about a year away from acquiring the fissile material to make a nuclear bomb. Then, only a very few years until weaponization.”
Tea Party – Albuquerque New Mexico
Posted in American, Government, In a nutshell, Photography, Political, United States with tags American, citizens, demonstration, Government, In a nutshell, patriotic, Photography, Political, protest, rally, taxes, tea party, United States on April 15, 2010 by JoannaThis slideshow requires JavaScript.
Nuclear Posturing, Obama-Style
Posted in American with tags American, anthrax, biological, chemicals, deterrence, nuclear, Politics, threats, war, weapons on April 10, 2010 by JoannaCharles Krauthammer : Nuclear Posturing, Obama-Style – Townhall.com.
Under President Obama’s new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is “in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),” explained Gates, then “the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.”
Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker is up-to-date with its latest IAEA inspections, well, it gets immunity from nuclear retaliation. (Our response is then restricted to bullets, bombs and other conventional munitions.)
However, if the lawyers tell the president that the attacking state is NPT noncompliant, we are free to blow the bastards to nuclear kingdom come.
This is quite insane. It’s like saying that if a terrorist deliberately uses his car to mow down a hundred people waiting at a bus stop, the decision as to whether he gets (a) hanged or (b) 100 hours of community service hinges entirely on whether his car had passed emissions inspections.
Apart from being morally bizarre, the Obama policy is strategically loopy. Does anyone believe that North Korea or Iran will be more persuaded to abjure nuclear weapons because they could then carry out a biological or chemical attack on the U.S. without fear of nuclear retaliation?
The naivete is stunning. Similarly the Obama pledge to forswear development of any new nuclear warheads, indeed, to permit no replacement of aging nuclear components without the authorization of the president himself. This under the theory that our moral example will move other countries to eschew nukes.
Read all here.
Patriotic Blessing
Posted in American, People, Photography with tags American, blessing, flag, patriot, People, Photography on April 8, 2010 by Joanna
The little boy in this photo carried this American flag with him up to communion at this morning’s Mass. What a blessing!
The Obama Touch – Disrespecting Foreign Allies
Posted in American, Charles Krauthammer, Obama, Politics with tags allies, American, british, Charles Krauthammer, disrespect, foreign, Israel, Obama, policy, Politics on April 2, 2010 by JoannaCharles Krauthammer telling it like it is:
RealClearPolitics – Disrespecting Foreign Allies.
What is it like to be a foreign ally of Barack Obama’s America?
If you’re a Brit, your head is spinning. It’s not just the personal slights to Prime Minister Gordon Brown — the ridiculous 25-DVD gift, the five refusals before Brown was granted a one-on-one with The One.
Nor is it just the symbolism of Obama returning the Churchill bust that was in the Oval Office. Query: If it absolutely had to be out of Obama’s sight, could it not have been housed somewhere else on U.S. soil rather than ostentatiously repatriated?
Perhaps it was the State Department official who last year denied there even was a special relationship between the U.S. and Britain, a relationship cultivated by every U.S. president since Franklin Roosevelt. Read more »
NY Times’ Ratzinger Story Wrong by Its Own Documentation
Posted in American, Catholic, Christian, Church, Pope Benedict XVI with tags abuse. Fr.Raymone J, American, Catholic, Christian, Church, de Souza, NY.Times, Pope Benedict XVI, Ratzinger on March 29, 2010 by JoannaA Response to the New York Times – Fr. Raymond J. de Souza – The Corner on National Review Online.
Excerpts from the response by Fr. Raymond J. de Souza :
The New York Times on March 25 accused Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, of intervening to prevent a priest, Fr. Lawrence Murphy, from facing penalties for cases of sexual abuse of minors.
The story is false. It is unsupported by its own documentation. Indeed, it gives every indication of being part of a coordinated campaign against Pope Benedict, rather than responsible journalism.
The documents show that the canonical trial or penal process against Father Murphy was never stopped by anyone. In fact, it was only abandoned days before Father Murphy died. Cardinal Ratzinger never took a decision in the case, according to the documents. His deputy, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, suggested, given that Father Murphy was in failing health and a canonical trial is a complicated matter, that more expeditious means be used to remove him from all ministry.
To repeat: The charge that Cardinal Ratzinger did anything wrong is unsupported by the documentation on which the story was based. He does not appear in the record as taking any decision. His office, in the person of his deputy, Archbishop Bertone, agreed that there should be full canonical trial. When it became apparent that Father Murphy was in failing health, Archbishop Bertone suggested more expeditious means of removing him from any ministry.
Furthermore, under canon law at the time, the principal responsibility for sexual-abuse cases lay with the local bishop. Archbishop Weakland had from 1977 onwards the responsibility of administering penalties to Father Murphy. He did nothing until 1996. It was at that point that Cardinal Ratzinger’s office became involved, and it subsequently did nothing to impede the local process.
The New York Times flatly got the story wrong, according to its own evidence. Readers may want to speculate on why.
Read here- the documentation
Read more from Archbishop Dolan here
and more from the Anchoress here
Taking the Church Down – A Story of Disception
Posted in American, Church, Culture with tags abuse, American, bias, Catholic Church, Church, Culture, deception, Mainstream Media, sexual on March 29, 2010 by JoannaThe secular agenda has at its core a hatred for the Catholic Church. The Church speaks with the authority of its God-given mandate and the Enemy uses his peons in the world to strike at its heel in anticipation of the moment that its Founder will crush his head. Until then, no holds are barred in this open aggression. A world under the influence of sin and license falls easy prey to the secular media, a favorite arm for deception and bias.
George Weigel writing for First Things: Scoundrel Time(s)
The sexual and physical abuse of children and young people is a global plague; its manifestations run the gamut from fondling by teachers to rape by uncles to kidnapping-and-sex-trafficking. In the United States alone, there are reportedly some 39 million victims of childhood sexual abuse. Forty to sixty percent were abused by family members, including stepfathers and live-in boyfriends of a child’s mother—thus suggesting that abused children are the principal victims of the sexual revolution, the breakdown of marriage, and the hook-up culture. Hofstra University professor Charol Shakeshaft reports that 6-10 percent of public school students have been molested in recent years—some 290,000 between 1991 and 2000. According to other recent studies, 2 percent of sex abuse offenders were Catholic priests—a phenomenon that spiked between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s but seems to have virtually disappeared (six credible cases of clerical sexual abuse in 2009 were reported in the U.S. bishops’ annual audit, in a Church of some 65,000,000 members).
Yet in a pattern exemplifying the dog’s behavior in Proverbs 26:11, the sexual abuse story in the global media is almost entirely a Catholic story, in which the Catholic Church is portrayed as the epicenter of the sexual abuse of the young, with hints of an ecclesiastical criminal conspiracy involving sexual predators whose predations continue today. That the vast majority of the abuse cases in the United States took place decades ago is of no consequence to this story line. For the narrative that has been constructed is often less about the protection of the young (for whom the Catholic Church is, by empirical measure, the safest environment for young people in America today) than it is about taking the Church down—and, eventually, out, both financially and as a credible voice in the public debate over public policy. For if the Church is a global criminal conspiracy of sexual abusers and their protectors, then the Catholic Church has no claim to a place at the table of public moral argument.
Read the rest here.
Obama’s Adolescent Fantasy
Posted in American, Government, Politics with tags al queda, American, attorney General, book, Government, Justice Department, Michael Muckasey, Politics, war, War on Terror on March 28, 2010 by JoannaH/T Breitbart.tv: Former Attorney General, Michael B. Mukasey, author of How Obama Has Mishandled the War on Terror
In his book the former AG points out the danger of Obama’s castles in the air, his letting down America’s guard to accommodate his adolesent fantasy of utopian higher ideals vs. defender of the Nation and national security.
