Video: country bumpkin ad epitomizes political sentiment

This country bumpkin ad for a local office in Alabama, epitomizes the sweeping sentitment that will overhaul the American political landscape this year.  It's going viral because, it is suggestive of the preference to what is traditionally American - God and country, the flag, mom and apple pie.  Without mentioning  Eurotrash Socialism, Muslim Radicalism and pro-abortion legalism, it implies opposition to all that.  "We're better than that", he says.

At the risk of sounding simplistic and idealistic, I believe that this election will be a battle of integrity vs. corruption, self-sufficiency vs. dependence, faith vs. atheism, pro-life vs. abortion, marriage and family vs. "alternative life-styles" and self-determination vs. government control.  (And guns are good too.  It keeps the vermin away from the livestock and makes hunting deer easier.)  And this guy personifies all those good old-fashioned values shunned by the Democrats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU7fhIO7DG0&feature=player_embedded

Video: Institutionalized Child Abuse in Islamic Country

St. John Bosco warned candidates to his religious order that boys are like women,  "Puer sicut mulier."  That is why he was quite intransigent with excluding candidates that are unsure of being chaste and pure around boys because, "They will be in grave danger."  Recently, there were articles  linking homosexuality and child sexual abuse; however, I doubt whether that is always the case.  It is also possible that heterosexuals would have this preference as shown by this age old traditional practice in this Islamic country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI1W1nB-OD8

Video: Maher's Liberal Atheism applies to anything really. Needs dictionary.

An old proverb teaches:

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.

He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.

He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.

He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.

I think the first case applies to Bill Maher but in a morbid case because he is convinced that he knows and really pushes his ignorance to new lows in complete oblivion and haughtiness
See  http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-round-table-discusses-the-dangers-of-religion/

The center question of the conversation, with Maher defining it, was whether non-atheists were delusional– a topic that came up after Cupp admitted that she suspected President Barack Obamawas an atheist, too. Maher argued that religion was the cause of “all wars,” in which he included communism, “a state religion.” Avlon offered that the term “religion” for what Maher was attacking was wrong– it was “absolutism, ideology, and extremism” that were behind the forces Maher was citing. Booker took it a step further, telling Maher “in your atheism, you are just as dogmatic and intolerant as any preacher.”

After an extensive back-and-forth in which Maher declared himself the only person on TV attacking religion and Cupp gave him several examples of liberal figures opposing religious practices, Maher kept it topical by asking everyone, “let’s move on to Stephen Baldwin.”

Nun Excommunicated for Abortion Decision in AZ

Source:  http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/05/15/nun-automatically-excommunicated-for-approving-abortion/
Bishop Thomas Olmstead of the Diocese of Phoenix has confirmed that Sister Margaret McBride of Phoenix’ Saint Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center had incurred an automatic excommunication or latae sententiae excommunication.  What this means is as soon as the offense is committed Sister McBride was automatically excommunicated by her own actions[1].
Sister Margaret McBride made the decision to kill a critically ill mother’s innocent unborn child because there was a high risk of the mother not surviving the innocent child’s birth.  In essence Sister McBride allowed for an abortion.

Video: Alarming. Obama's Islamic Ties Explains A Lot.

I understand now why there is hesitation to identify the terrorists as Muslims.  Their supporter goes all the way to the top.

Israel is in a bad place until 2012.  I just hope her enemies won't take advantage of the situation.

Also, I hope he does not push to build that mosque "trophy" at Ground Zero.

Everything changes because of this - even the Constitution that was influenced by Christianity.  Not the change that many wanted, I'm sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY&feature=player_embedded#!

US is Pro-life! (GOP must stay put. DNC should reconsider.)

Yesterday, I heard that the GOP was taling to the pro-choice crowd and that distressed me because, one cannot compromise on the right to life.  I didn't know what made Michael Steele think that he needs to accommodate that crowd because, acc. to the Gallup poll, the majority of the US population is pro-life.

The conservative shift in Americans’ views on abortion that Gallup first recorded a year ago has carried over into 2010. Slightly more Americans call themselves “pro-life” than “pro-choice,” 47% vs. 45%, according to a May 3-6 Gallup poll. This is nearly identical to the 47% to 46% division found last July following a more strongly pro-life advantage of 51% to 42% last May.


While the two-percentage-point gap in current abortion views is not significant, it represents the third consecutive time Gallup has found more Americans taking the pro-life than pro-choice position on this measure since May 2009, suggesting a real change in public opinion. By contrast, in nearly all readings on this question since 1995, and each survey from 2003 to 2008, more Americans called themselves pro-choice than pro-life. 

(Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/128036/New-Normal-Abortion-Americans-Pro-Life.aspx)

Perhaps the Democrats can use this to their advantage and kick out their pro-choice base in exchange for pro-lifers.  It's something to think about considering the general values and attitudes of pro-lifers are akin to many of the Democrats alleged positions except for that one issue - abortion support.

Either Card. Chaput or O'Malley is Dead Wrong. (And Card. Mahoney ...)

On the issue of admitting a child from a same sex couple to Catholic school, one cardinal is definitely wrong.  I can say that with certainty because Card. O'Malley and Chaput took mutually exclusive positions so, one of them must be right and the other wrong - by definition with everything else being the same. 

Card. O'Malley allowed the child to enroll in a Catholic school in his archdiocese;  Card. Chaput supported the decision to exclude a child under the same circumstance from his. 

Acc. to Card. Chaput:  "Many of our schools also accept students of other faiths and no faith, and from single parent and divorced parent families. These students are always welcome so long as their parents support the Catholic mission of the school and do not offer a serious counter-witness to that mission in their actions."

I really don't know what Card. O'Malley was thinking.  I am with Card. Chaput on this one.

Read more at:  http://www.spiritual-politics.org/2010/05/omalley_v_chaput.html

The implications of this is that cardinals and bishops are not always right.  There is only one bishop with the charism of infallibility and that is when teaching matters of faith and morals under strictly specified conditions.  So, Card. Roger Mahoney in his opposition to the Arizona legislation may well be wrong too.