Pave the Way Foundation gathers the documents, and interviews the living witnesses in the saving efforts against Hitler that saved hundreds of thousands of Jews during Hitler’s reign of terror and extermination. Until 1963 Pope Pius XII was held in high esteems by the world, honored by Jew for his contributions to saving Jewish families and communities. With the play by Rolf Hochhuth, The Deputy, the lie was told and grew along with the defamation of Pope Pius XII, who in actuality labored behind the scenes on behalf of the Jewish People.
Archive for the People Category
Truth of Pope Pius XII’s Saving Actions
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Culture, People with tags Catholic, Christian, Culture, holocaust, Jews, Peace Place, People, Pope Pius XII on February 13, 2010 by JoannKrauthammer’s Faith in We, the People
Posted in Charles Krauthammer, Opinions, People, Political with tags agenda, Axelrod, Charles Krauthammer, democrats, liberals, Massachusetts, Obama, Opinions, People, Political, State of the Union on February 5, 2010 by Joann“No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail. ” Charles Krauthammer
Tired of being talked down to? So are the voters. We the People are ready to take on the President. Charles Krauthammer says it well in The Electorate vs. Obama’s Agenda:
A year later, after stunning Democratic setbacks in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, Obama gave a stay-the-course State of the Union address (a) pledging not to walk away from health care reform, (b) seeking to turn college education increasingly into a federal entitlement, and (c) asking again for cap-and-trade energy legislation. Plus, of course, another stimulus package, this time renamed a “jobs bill.”
This being a democracy, don’t the Democrats see that clinging to this agenda will march them over a cliff? Don’t they understand Massachusetts?
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For liberals, the observation that “the peasants are revolting” is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.
The ankle-dwelling populace pushes back. It re-centers. It renormalizes. Even in Massachusetts.
All Eyes On Massachusetts – In Hopes of Liberty from Tyranny
Posted in American, Constitution, Government, In a nutshell, People, United States, Video with tags American, Constitution, election, Government, In a nutshell, Kennedy seat, liberty, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts, Must See, People, Senate, tyranny, United States, Video, Vote on January 16, 2010 by JoannH/T Michelle Malkin and YouTube’s mnmajoritydotorg
Freedom-loving Americans from across our nation are rising-up to support Republican candidate Scott Brown. In the days leading up to the election, Brown has advanced such that some polls now actually show him within the margin of error.
Brown would provide the critical 41st vote in the Senate to break the Democrat’s filibuster-proof majority and stop the unprecedented assault on our personal liberties that is now taking place in Congress. (mnmajoritydotorg )
The Man and The Eagle
Posted in People, Photography with tags Eagle, healing, hope, life, Peace Place, People, Photography on December 9, 2009 by Joann
Finally Truth in Advertising
Posted in American, Culture, People with tags American, beijing, China, Culture, Mao, Obama, People, T-shirt, tee on November 14, 2009 by JoannFrom Beijing, China by NBC News’ Bo Gu
Until last weekend, Liu had been interviewed by both Chinese and foreign media about what he was selling: T-shirts that superimposed Obama’s face over that of China’s late Chairman Mao Zedong on the front, and the words “Oba Mao” on the back.
But Lui’s brisk business was suddenly terminated by local government officials, just days before Obama’s arrival in China, without any explanation. He says he was simply told, “No, you cannot sell Obama T-shirts anymore.”
Howard B Thyname, Penobscot, ME writes:
Finally truth in advertising – and it comes from China. (like we didn’t know it already)
Mother Angelica & Deacon Bill Steltemier Receive Papal Honor
Posted in People, Spiritual Things with tags Bill Steltemier, Catholic, Christian, Church, EWTN, mother angelica, People, Pope Benedict XVI, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross, Religion, Spiritual, Spiritual Things on October 8, 2009 by JoannThe best validation EWTN could hope for this side of Heaven!
Arguably the most significant force in shaping today’s American Catholic landscape, the celebrated, controversial foundress of Catholic media’s most prominent outlet was honored by Rome over the weekend as Bishop Robert Baker of Birmingham conferred the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross on Mother Angelica and her longtime top aide in overseeing the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), Deacon Bill Steltemier . Awarded by Pope Benedict, the gong comes at the close of a decade, by turns tumultuous and triumphant, that began with 1999′s dedication of a majestic new monastery for Mother’s growing fold of cloistered Poor Clares and an apostolic visitation of the Alabama-based enterprise which led the feisty, fearless Franciscan to place her garage-born apostolate under lay oversight. Along the way, the network’s third decade saw its impact on the US church’s life and practice became ever more sizable, touching everything from priestly and religious vocations and parish liturgies to the influence of its roster of “stars” on the nation’s Catholic orbit — a clout which rivals, if not bests, all but a handful of the Stateside hierarchy — and, to top it all, the success of her authoritative 2005 biography, written by EWTN news director Raymond Arroyo, which cracked the New York Times best-seller list and was quickly followed-up by a sequel of Angelica’s words of wisdom. Now 86 and mostly confined to bed following a 2001 stroke, the unlikeliest of media moguls couldn’t attend the St Francis’ Day Vespers at which the award for her faithful and distinguished service “to the church and the pontiff” was presented. Instituted in 1889 by Pope Leo XIII, the Pro Ecclesia is the Vatican’s highest honor for religious men and women and permanent deacons. Though layfolk who’ve rendered exemplary devotion to church and community may also receive the bronze Cross suspended from a gold and white ribbon, the higher accolade of papal knighthood is reserved to the laity alone.
Open Letter to Senator Tom Udall
Posted in American, Anti-abortion, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Catholic, Constitution, Culture, Culture of Death, Defending Life, Government, In a nutshell, People, Political, Politics, Pro-life, Religion, Spiritual with tags American, Anti-abortion, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Catholic, Chaput, Constitution, Culture, Culture of Death, Defending Life, Government, In a nutshell, letter, life, People, Political, Politics, Pro-life, Religion, Spiritual, Udall on July 23, 2009 by JoannMy dear Senator Udall,
You say, “I firmly believe that reproductive health care is a personal matter that should be left to individuals, their families, their doctors, and their religious counselors.” That sounds good, but in actuality it ignores the fact that a new life in already in this world, growing as we all do from day to day in this life. Reproductive health care must begin with that new life in the womb, to nurture and provide a wholesome,supportive environment. Your position, ignores each individual’s right to their own life. Your position abandons your responsibility while giving to a doctor or a religious counselor a sacrosanct role. Mother, father, counselor, minister; none of these, has the authority to take a human life because tragic, untimely or inconvenient circumstances surround the new life coming into this world, and present in the womb. It is not a question of choice. We are not given the choice of taking another’s life. When we choose to take a life, we kill what God has begun. You do not have that authority, nor does a mother, father, doctor, priest or counselor. Words do not change truth. Truth is staring you in the face and your look the other way, when you support legislation that treats life as some material commodity rather than the holy gift of God that it is.
In closing, I refer you to Archbishop Chaput’s words:
“America is not a secular state. As historian Paul Johnson once said, America was ”born Protestant.” It has uniquely and deeply religious roots. Obviously it has no established Church, and it has non-sectarian public institutions. It also has plenty of room for both believers and non-believers. But the United States was never intended to be a ‘’secular” country in the radical modern sense. Nearly all the Founders were either Christian or at least religion-friendly. And all of our public institutions and all of our ideas about the human person are based in a religiously shaped vocabulary. So if we cut God out of our public life, we cut the foundation out from under our national ideals.”“As Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George said recently, too many Americans have ”no recognition of the fact that children continue to be killed [by abortion], and we live therefore, in a country drenched in blood. This can’t be something you start playing off pragmatically against other issues.”
As Israel Goes, So Goes…….?
Posted in American, Charles Krauthammer, Culture, Defending Life, Government, In a nutshell, Opinions, People with tags American, Charles Krauthammer, Culture, Defending Life, Government, In a nutshell, Obama, Opinions, People, Politics, president, world news on June 17, 2009 by Joann“I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” (Genesis 12:2-3)
Growth in Israel is part and parcel of life. Curtailing growth casts the shadow of death over any nation. As Israel goes so goes those who are blessed by her:
Charles Krauthammer sees this with clarity and writes:
Obama the Humble declares there will be no more “dictating” to other countries. We should “forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions,” he told the G-20 summit. In Middle East negotiations, he told al-Arabiya, America will henceforth “start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating.”
An admirable sentiment. It applies to everyone — Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syria, even Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secretary of State Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: “a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions.”
What’s the issue? No “natural growth” means strangling to death the thriving towns close to the 1949 armistice line, many of them suburbs of Jerusalem, that every negotiation over the past decade has envisioned Israel retaining. It means no increase in population. Which means no babies. Or if you have babies, no housing for them — not even within the existing town boundaries. Which means for every child born, someone has to move out. No community can survive like that. The obvious objective is to undermine and destroy these towns — even before negotiations.
To what end? Over the last decade, the U.S. government has understood that any final peace treaty would involve Israel retaining some of the close-in settlements — and compensating the Palestinians accordingly with land from within Israel itself.
That was envisioned in the Clinton plan in the Camp David negotiations in 2000, and again at Taba in 2001. After all, why turn towns to rubble when, instead, Arabs and Jews can stay in their homes if the 1949 armistice line is shifted slightly into the Palestinian side to capture the major close-in Jewish settlements, and then shifted into Israeli territory to capture Israeli land to give to the Palestinians?
This idea is not only logical, not only accepted by both Democratic and Republican administrations for the last decade, but was agreed to in writing in the letters of understanding exchanged between Israel and the United States in 2004 — and subsequently overwhelmingly endorsed by a concurrent resolution of Congress.
Yet the Obama State Department has repeatedly refused to endorse these agreements or even say it will honor them. This from a president who piously insists that all parties to the conflict honor previous obligations.
The entire “natural growth” issue is a concoction. It’s farcical to suggest that the peace process is moribund because a teacher in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem is making an addition to her house to accommodate new grandchildren — when Gaza is run by Hamas terrorists dedicated to permanent war with Israel and when Mahmoud Abbas, having turned down every one of Ehud Olmert’s peace offers, brazenly declares that he is in a waiting mode — waiting for Hamas to become moderate and for Israel to cave — before he’ll do anything to advance peace.
Israel brought growth and fruitfulness to a land long neglected. The money that poured into the hands of Hamas and Fatah after the Oslo accords was used to wage war and build a terror machine that continues to impoverish the people of the region under Palestinian control. What would the situation be now, if instead of terror, these funds actuality funded schools, roads, courthouses, hospitals, and charitable institutions that truly relieve the suffering of their people. No nation, no one, can help the Palestinians until they set aside hatred to love their own people.
Krauthammer writes:
Blaming Israel and picking a fight over “natural growth” may curry favor with the Muslim “street.” But it will only induce the Arab states to do like Abbas: sit and wait for America to deliver Israel on a platter. Which makes the Obama strategy not just dishonorable but self-defeating.
Krauthammer – Walks on Water Metaphorically
Posted in American, Charles Krauthammer, News, Opinions, People with tags American, Charles Krauthammer, News, Opinions, People on May 21, 2009 by JoannCharles Krauthammer is my hero in these days of twitter and inanity. He actually refutes, and argues with more than emotion. He thinks, reasons, remembers and researches before he writes. So it is disturbing to see him belittled in any way especially be a A Small Man as John Podhoretz counters Joe Klein’s assessment.
AllahPundit writes dismissing in disbelief at the apparent diss by Joe Klein:
“He became Ground Zero among the neo-cons, but he’s vastly smarter than most of them,” said Time’s Joe Klein, an admirer and critic who praised Krauthammer’s “writing skills and polemical skills” as “so far above almost anybody writing columns today.”
“There’s something tragic about him too,” Klein said, referring to Krauthammer’s confinement to a wheelchair, the result of a diving accident during his first year of medical school. “His work would have a lot more nuance if he were able to see the situations he’s writing about.”
“My writing speaks for itself,” Krauthammer responded in a curt email.
From John Podhoretz counter: A Small Man
He won’t like me saying it, but Charles Krauthammer, who is more than a friendly acquaintance, is far from a tragic figure. He is a miraculous figure. He has, through a combination of raw will and a sagacious mind and a rigorous temperament that, were it possible, he should leave to science so that it can be studied and bottled and sold, lived a life both triumphantly important and triumphantly ordinary. (Although his wife, Robbie, is far from ordinary. For one thing, she is from Tasmania. For another, she is an artist of great skill. For a third, she has the dirtiest and liveliest mouth in either her forsaken hemisphere or her present one.) If you are his friend, in a fashion that I can’t quite explain, you come to have no sense whatever that he is in that chair. He may be right about what he argues (obviously, I think so, most of the time). He may be wrong. But whatever he is or is not, to argue that Charles’s views are restricted by the restrictions on his physical form is do violence to the most basic notions of civil discussion. “Klein” means small in German. Trollope could not have come up with a more apt name for a character.
Podhoretz contends:
Is it conceivable that Joe Klein is saying a man in a wheelchair is incapable of understanding the nuances of Iraq and the war on terror because he can’t get on a plane and go there like Joe Klein can? Is it possible, in this day and age, for someone seriously to argue such a thing? We cannot go back in time and visit the battlefields of the Civil War, or Agincourt, or the Peloponnese—are we therefore incapable of seeing their nuances? FDR was in a wheelchair and did not visit the battlefields of World War II-—were its nuances beyond him as well?
Pope Patient Facing Misunderstanding,Prejudice
Posted in Catholic, People, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, Spiritual with tags Catholic, Christian, Church, Peace Place, People, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, speech, Spiritual, Video on May 13, 2009 by JoannPope Benedict XVI is a man of patience and hope. God gave the Catholic Church one more giant in the face of mediocrity and meanness from those who look for reasons to find fault where there is none. Rather than build for a future that supports true peace between men called to live as children of the One God of Abraham, some chose nitpicking.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, responded to criticism in the Israeli press that in part misrepresented the Pope’s obligatory enrollment in the Hitler Youth during the war (clarified by the Pope in his book “Salt of the Earth”and also for using the word “killed” in his address at Yad Vashem instead of “murdered” and the word “millions” (of Jews) instead of “six million.” The Pope had already referred to “six million Jews” in an earlier address on his arrival that day.
Zenit reports that Fr. Lombardi pointed out that the speech was not a treatise on the Holocaust and noted other discourses where the Pope has mentioned Germany and his past, and Nazism.
“Moreover in the morning, he had already said that six million Jews died and that we can’t forget, and that there is still anti-Semitism,” the spokesman said, referring to the Holy Father’s first address in Israel at the Tel Aviv airport, delivered just hours before his visit to the Yad Vashem.
Father Lombardi commented that Benedict XVI does not get offended when the press alters or takes issue with his words.
“He does not react superficially or immediately,” the spokesman said. “He is very patient and is ready to listen to the others — everyone can voice their ideas. It’s true, he feels that he has not been understood, and I feel the same, but we know how the world is and how attitudes are. There is not always a willingness to understand well; sometimes there are prejudices and not everyone is open to an attitude of readiness to listen.
Volition – the Act of Choice
Posted in American, People, Politics, Pro-life, Spiritual, Video with tags abortion, American, Catholic, Christian, Defending Life, innocents, Peace Place, People, policy, Politics, Pro-life, Reflections, Religion, Spiritual, Video on May 7, 2009 by JoannHope grows as we are willing to let in the Light.
I haven’t be able to embed this short film by the Doorpost Film Project but it well worth the click it takes to get to it.
Volition (n)- The act of making a choice. Sometimes the choice of inaction has consequences stronger than we could ever imagine. Throughout history, men have been faced with difficult choices in a world that makes it easy for them to conform. This film explores the hope that lies behind every decision made in the face of adversity; the hope that is buried in the heart of those that look beyond themselves and see something bigger worth fighting for.
This is the movie trailer:
Musing on Spengler Unmasked and Interesting
Posted in Culture, My Journal, People with tags autobiography, conversion, coward, cult, Culture, Faith, journey, mask, Must Read, My Journal, People, spengler, teshuva on May 6, 2009 by JoannSpengler unmasks and allows a peek at the inner workings that he wrapped in the pseudonym. It’s all very interesting and I’m just beginning to digest it. At first read, I respond to the klunk on my musing surface to a piece of Spengler’s journey to open identity.
Spengler writes of his time in a cult, “The question, of course, is what were a group of young Jews doing in the company of a cult leader with a paranoid view of the world and a thinly disguised anti-Semitic streak.” In part, he answers, “There existed a science of mind, LaRouche claimed, that would enable the adept to reach the right conclusion.” and more, Larouche claimed to trace a tradition of secret knowledge across the ages, from Plato and Plotinus, through the Renaissance, and down to the German scientists and philosophers of the nineteenth century. Of course, that raises a question: If there exists this kind of knowledge, then why isn’t it universally shared? The reverse side of the gnostic page is paranoia: There must be a cabal of evil people who prevent the dissemination of the truth.”
It reads like gripping fiction, reminding me, with my fully accepted Judeo-Christian underpinnings of Gen 3: 4-5, “You certainly will not die! No God knows well that the moment you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad.”
I would tend to run afraid for my soul. The scenario would rouse a voice that speaks to me, that I know would say, “At first blush, you will blush and then you will no longer blush, as headlong you pursue a dream or call it temptation. With heady glee, forbidden pleasure will be recast for the ‘good’ it promises. Soon you will become like gods in your private reveries or privy little worlds; not only knowing what is good and what is bad, but you will have known good and bad in that intimate way of knowing that spoils the good like food gone bad. Throwing your whole self into pursuit of what might be tasty and alluring, knowledge itself will be your cavorting and you ravenous. You will run after experience so as to judge by your own proclivities what delights, what titillates and what requires more of your self than you can give or share. What a god, indeed!
Have I gone too far? I tend to jump to conclusions and without input, I get stuck there. I’m still listening and will dive in again. “Confessions of a Coward” by Davis P. Goldman is a must read.
It touches me because for three years I trained at Mt. Sinai Hospital School of Nursing and it was formation ground for me. My friends during those years were all Jewish. Their Jewishness was different from my Catholicism. An encounter with Thomas Merton’s “the Seven Storey Mountain,” began me on the life long practice of daily Mass and prayer. That set me in a direction in which I continue still today.
The Jewishness of my friends was expressed with more subtlety. There identity as Jews was perceptible, solid and unwavering. It raised a sense of admiration in me. I, however, can’t recall a single religious conversation.
Even today, in my prayers for them, I don’t know how to pray. Their faith is precious to me. I want to see it lived to the full. I guess I know they are a peculiar people whom God, not only cherishes, but for whom He plans providentially a future full of hope and abundant blessing. There seems to be in me a sense that God planted this seed, continues to water it and will bring it to marvelous fruition in His time. I pray for them wordlessly.
As for Spengler, my favorite part is:
Around 1985, the ugly awareness that I had spent almost a decade in a gnostic cult coincided with a dark time in my personal life. Deeply depressed, I sat at the piano one night, playing through the score of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and came to the chorale that reads: “Commend your ways and what ails your heart to the faithful care of Him who directs the heavens, who gives course and aim to the clouds, air and wind. He will also find a path that your foot can tread.” For the first time in my life, I prayed, and in that moment, I knew that my prayer was heard. That was a first step of teshuva—of return.
The truth is that I did not think my way into praying. I prayed my way into thinking.
The Silent Spring: Feminism – Planned Parenthood – The Pill
Posted in American, In a nutshell, Just Thinking Out Loud, People, Pro-life, Reflecting on the news, Religion, Spiritual with tags American, birth control, birth-rate, Catholic, Christian, Defending Life, Humanae Vitae, In a nutshell, Just Thinking Out Loud, morality, People, pill, planned parenthood, policy, Pro-life, Reflecting on the news, Religion, Spiritual, Thoughts from the Quiet, world news, You Would Think on May 1, 2009 by JoannHumanae Vitae could be called, “Truth and Consequences.” With prophetic clarity, Pope Paul VI, in his Encyclical Letter on the Regulation of Birth, delineated the changes that would overtake society with the artificial control of birth.
In 2008 the German Federal Statistics Office’s vice-president,Walter Rademacher, was quoted by Agence France-Presse saying: “The fall in the population (of Germany) can no longer be stopped.” Life Site News reported “The population losses faced by Germany reflect a trend occurring across Europe–The European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat has predicted an overall drop in Europe’s population of 7 million people by 2050.
The Population Reference Bureau’s 2008 World Population data sheet and its summary report offer detailed information about country, regional, and global population patterns.”Nearly all of world population growth is now concentrated in the world’s poorer countries,” said Bill Butz, PRB’s president. “Even the small amount of overall growth in the wealthier nations will largely result from immigration.”
Some points of interest: NoSpeedBumps writes :
… Germany has one of the largest populations of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe, with a Muslim community of over 3 million. That trend is expected to continue, leading some demographic trend-watchers to warn that the country is well on the way to becoming a Muslim state by 2050, Deutsche Welle reported.
The Brussels Journal reported last month that one third of all European children will be born to Muslim families by 2025. There are an estimated 50 million Muslims living in Europe today–that number is expected to double over the next twenty years.
With the fanaticism of religious zealots, Feminism and Planned Parenthood, continue to preach their doctrines that would set mankind free to just “be” without the hindrance of Faith, God, or social pressure. Am I paranoid wondering how free or tolerated, non-muslims will be in a world with the new demographics of 2050. Even One World enthusiasts might wonder, can the nations hold their own, their own identity or posterity and even faith?
The next generation faces many decisions and morality matters. Truth and consequences oblige even those who are disinterested, too busy to care, or otherwise engaged in life pursuits.
Unarguably Founded On Christian Principles
Posted in American, Conservative, Constitution, Culture, Culture of Death, Government, In a nutshell, Just Thinking Out Loud, My Journal, Opinions, People, Political, Politics, Reflecting on the news, United States with tags American, animal farm, Conservative, Constitution, Culture, Culture of Death, dream, equality, Founding Fathers, Government, hope, idealism, idyllic, In a nutshell, In the Tank, Just Thinking Out Loud, machine, My Journal, nation, Obama, Opinions, oppression, Orwell, People, pigs, Political, Politics, president, Reflecting on the news, Religion, speech, United States, voice, warfare on April 27, 2009 by JoannI needed solid footing and balance after the bombardment of an aberrant President and press. Stephen Prothero writing for USA Today says:
Now comes President Obama, who in January in his inaugural address spoke of this country as “a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers.” On April 6 in Turkey, Obama added that the United States “does not consider itself a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation” but “a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
It was just such that drove me in search of visual confirmation in Washington D.C. Now home from our Nation’s capital, I feel again on the cutting edge of a clandestine warfare coming of age and to light. Washington D.C. did indeed confirm that the United States of America was unarguably founded as a Nation established on Christian principals as document after document, monument of monument, Statesmen and heroes alike, testify to, in stone, and marble,valor and blood, recorded there for posterity, dramatically and historically. Homecoming, however, is returning to the fray. It is waking up each day to being unceremoniously attacked by the daily news of the madness that is Obama.
However, it not just Obama, that drives me to distraction, it’s the incessant kowtowing menagerie of his Orwellian Animal Farm. George Orwell, to his chagrin, aside from being proved right, can now see his book lived out in the American experiment. Eric Blair’s (George Orwell’s) satire is on parade for all to see and most of the animals are oblivious to the part they are playing in the threatening demise of our Nation as a Republic” of the People, by the People and for the People.
Americans are not perfect people. We are like all people, flawed; and, as foreseen by the Founding Fathers, we need our checks and balances to curtail our greed and self- centeredness, to keep an eye open and watch our backs as a People. Our checks and balances are gone. Our press is the servant of the President, our Congress is the servant of our President and our people seem content to worship at his feet. So much for balance.
Our weaknesses as individual’s who are capable of resenting one group or another within the American system are being used against us. We are being set against imagined “masters” despite the fact that our nation is the free-est on earth. All the “animals” set free by Obama’s Hope Machine, with childish idealistic and idyllic dreams can now High Five one another in the name of justice and progress, oblivious to the new chains being forged for their piggy hands and feet. Yes, power-hungry pigs, like Orwell’s, Napoleon, are on the prowl ready to become their new totalitarian dictators. The little happy piggies will some learn on their Animal Farm that “All Animals Are Equal But Some Are More Equal Than Others.” Oppression, call it what you will, even “the Audacity of Hope” is no less oppression. Martin Luther Jr.’s “I have a dream.” is being replaced by Obama’s dream which it best described as, “I have a nightmare.”
Susan Boyle Demo
Posted in Culture, Just Thinking Out Loud, Media, News, People with tags clips, Culture, Just Thinking Out Loud, Killing Me Softly, Media, Net, News, People, Prayer, Susan Boyle, tape, twinkle, Video, voice, world news on April 23, 2009 by JoannMy hope is that everyone who hears Susan Boyle sing says a silent prayer for her. The real blessing to hope for amidst all the media attention and popularity is the survival of her smile and the twinkle in her eyes.
Susan Boyle recording of Killing Me Softly and Cry Me A River unearthed by Telegraph.co.uk
The 48-year-old recorded two songs ten years ago and distributed them to only a handful of her closest friends in the village of Blackburn, West Lothian, where she lives alone with her cat.
The recording, which was unearthed by Telegraph.co.uk, features two songs – an early version of the blues ballad Cry Me a River and Killing Me Softly with His Song, the track immortalized by Roberta Flack in 1973.
more about “susan demo“, posted with vodpod
Pro-Choice Isn’t Pretty
Posted in American, Christian, Conservative, Culture, Culture of Death, Defending Life, Gospel, Government, In a nutshell, My Journal, News, Opinions, People, Politics, Pro-life, Religion, United States with tags abortion, America, American, capitol, Catholic, Christian, congress, Conservative, Culture, Culture of Death, Defending Life, Gospel, Government, In a nutshell, life, Murder, My Journal, News, Opinions, People, Politics, Pro-life, Reflections, Religion, Spiritual, truth, United States, USA, voice, wake-up. on April 21, 2009 by JoannIt was a good day for Life at the Capitol today. It wasn’t that Congress did anything to protect the human life growing in a mother’s womb. Congress it seems is insensitive to Truth these days. However, ordinary Americans continue to demonstrate for Life. Young and old found their voice and pleaded with those who listened to hear the cries of the unborn. Children distributed life calling-cards proclaiming the truth of abortion and pro-choice. Someone dies and it isn’t pretty. The consequence of pro-choice is blood and tears. A banner photograph of the aborted infant offended some who is seems aren’t offended by the act of abortion. Strange sensitivities that allow the actual infant to die but want to spare their consciences, I must think.
Must See To Believe Contemptuousness
Posted in American, Culture, Government, News, Opinions, People, United States, Video with tags American, anti-tea party, CNN, contemptuous, Culture, Government, News, Opinions, People, Politics, tea party, United States, Video on April 15, 2009 by Joann
Contemptuous CNN
Allahpundit thankyou for showing us CNN with their teeth bared and as we’ve come to know them.
Tea Party Catch Up
Posted in American, Conservative, Constitution, Culture, Just Thinking Out Loud, Media, Obama, People, Political, Politics, Pork, President Obama, United States with tags American, Chuck Schumer, Conservative, Constitution, Culture, Just Thinking Out Loud, Mainstream Media, Media, Michell Malkin, Obama, People, plan, policy, Political, Politics, Pork, president, President Obama, Stimulus Bill, truth, United States, world news on April 15, 2009 by JoannMichelle Malkin is making it easy to catch up on tea party history and doings for MSM who may have missed its grassroots beginnings.
Feb. 15: Keli Carender, who blogs as “Liberty Belle” spread the word about a grass-roots protest she was organizing in Seattle to raise her voice against the passage of the trillion-dollar stimulus/porkulus/Generational Theft Act of 2009. It’s the first time she had ever jumped into political organizing of any kind. She is not affiliated with any “corporate lobbyist” or think tank or national taxpayers’ organization. She’s a young conservative mom who blogs. Amazingly, she turned around the event in a few days all on her own by reaching out on the Internet, to her local talk station, and to anyone who would listen.
Feb. 16: An energetic crowd of about 100 people came downtown to lambaste the Chicken Little process and the lard-up of the stimulus bill:
Word of the Seattle protest spread across the blogosphere. Readers suggested there should be a Denver protest on Feb. 17 to greet President Obama for the porkulus signing. Separately, the local chapter of Americans for Prosperity was already working to put something together on the fly. I met the head of the state AFP for the first time on the steps of the Capitol. No conspiracy here, tinfoil hatters. It was a union of like minds in an impromptu show of outrage against the legislation-without-deliberation process in Washington. Also there: Jon Caldara of the libertarian Independence Institute on one end of the spectrum and Tom Tancredo on the strict immigration enforcement end (hundreds of the protesters were mad about the absence of E-Verify standards for the stimulus funding):
More big-money conspiracy! I promised to bring a roasted pig. Paid for out of pocket. No corporate lobbyist pitched in. Tasted great and worth every penny:
Speaking of pigs, you can’t leave out the tax-and-spend revolt campaign against Chuck Schumer in response to his arrogant statement that only the “chattering classes” cared about the “teeny, tiny” pork amendments in the Generational Theft Act. Local radio host Leland Conway in Kentucky called on listeners to send Schumer pork rinds. A mountain of 1,500 bags poured into the station on Feb. 16 and was shipped to Schumer:
The history unfolds here
and we can’t forget Santelli’s rant which tapped the American pulse:
Happy Easter Rescue – Happy Outcome
Posted in American, In a nutshell, News, People with tags American, captain, In a nutshell, News, People, Phillips, rescue, somali, U.S. intelligence, world on April 12, 2009 by JoannBreaking News of great joy on this Easter Day. Foxnews is reporting the rescue of Martine captain:
American sea Captain Richard Phillips was safely rescued Sunday from four Somali pirates, who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, a U.S. intelligence official said.
Three of the pirates were killed and one was in custody after what appeared to be a swift firefight off the Somali coast, the official said.
Initial reports indicate Phillips jumped overboard for a second time and the military was able to take advantage of the situation.
Ed Morrisey writes:
Looks like we brought three of them to justice. The fourth will get more protection than he deserves, but at least we’ve freed the captain and delivered something of a message. We’re not going to let pirates run free, and if “elders” think we will, they found out differently today.
Update: Second time’s the charm. Phillips jumped overboard again, and this time, the Navy was ready to take out the pirates. Great work, Navy!
Glenn Reynolds writes:
PIRATE UPDATE: Official: US sea captain freed in swift firefight. About time. But though this may take the current story off the news, it doesn’t really solve the underlying problem.
UPDATE: Related: “Great news, and — yes, I’ll say it — tip o’ the hat to President Obama for signing off on the mission. Now I have two questions. What will we do with the prisoner? Do we believe that this action is sufficient to restore deterrence against piracy?” Indeed.
Divine Mercy Novena – Day 3
Posted in Catholic, Christ, Christian, Culture, People, Religion, Spiritual, Tradition with tags Catholic, chaplet, Christ, Christian, Culture, divine, Easter, Economy of Grace, Faustina, grace, mercy, novena, Peace Place, People, Prayer, Religion, Spiritual, Timeless Treasures, Tradition on April 12, 2009 by JoannDivine Mercy Novena
Day 3
“Today bring to Me all Devout and Faithful Souls, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. These souls brought me consolation on the Way of the Cross. They were a drop of consolation in the midst of an ocean of bitterness.” Most Merciful Jesus, from the treasury of Your mercy, You impart Your graces in great abundance to each and all. Receive us into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart and never let us escape from It. We beg this grace of You by that most wondrous love for the heavenly Father with which Your Heart burns so fiercely. Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon faithful souls, as upon the inheritance of Your Son. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, grant them Your blessing and surround them with Your constant protection. Thus may they never fail in love or lose the treasure of the holy faith, but rather, with all the hosts of Angels and Saints, may they glorify Your boundless mercy for endless ages. Amen.
