Monthly Archives: May 2009

Kicking & Screaming!

There are some things you just can’t make up. This is in from LA News with my emphases and comments: Kicking & Screaming: Journo Dragged From Near Air Force One By  CHRISTINA HOAG Updated 9:08 PM PDT, Thu, May 28, … Read More

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Successful attacks by the enemy

A reader has sent me a photo taken clandestinely. This may explain how the enemy maintains that sustained attack on the bird feeders. This may even explain why I had no coffee beans this morning! CLICK

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The feeder

Some quick shots from the feeder. There have been a lot of woodpeckers in the last few days and many few finches. This Red-Bellied Woodpecker triumphantly comes up with a peanut. Brown Thrasher.  What a very different eye they have … Read More

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Fr. Cutie

ALL: I know about Fr. Cutie.  You can stop forwarding e-mail. 

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John Allen on Pres. Obama and Miguel Diaz

From the National Catholic Reporter, the ultra-left wing dissenting weekly, the nearly ubiquitous John L. Allen has some obervations about Pres. Obama and future Ambassador Miguel Diaz. My emphases and comments. With Diaz nomination, Obama passes major Catholic test  [Passes … Read More

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Thanks to readers

Some thanks are do to readers.First, JP of CA sent a USB hub which has allowed me more easily to connect several webcams for the sake of the Z-Cam.  This hub actually works.  With the other hub, for one reason … Read More

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Ugly as sin

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", it is said. Rubbish. Beauty beauty cannot be separated from truth. Some things are simply ugly, both by design and by intention.  They are ugly because they are deeply false. Some "artists" … Read More

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A notice posted on the doors of a church

From a priest reader: Making a visit at a church near my residence, my attention was drawn to a notice posted on the main inner doors, which I reproduce below. Since the greater the number of people involved in distributing … Read More

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The enemy…

This is about right… Visit Loose Parts

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Pres. Obama chooses Vatican Ambassador

After Ambassador Glendon comes … this AP story from a Minneapolis TV channel: My emphases and comments. Hispanic theologian from MN college chosen for Vatican ambassador A Hispanic Roman Catholic theologian who was an adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign … Read More

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Oath of The Supremes

The Constitution does not give any details about the Oath of Office to be taken by Justices of the Supreme Court.   Article 6 covers oath: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and … Read More

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Kmiec: Sotomayor’s experience trumps all

If you think that Judge Sotomayor’s nomination wasn’t planned to be another wedge between Catholics with a clear identity and those who are rather on the Catholic Lite side, here is Doug Kmiec’s take in the, where else, National Catholic … Read More

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Margaret Thatcher met Pope Benedict XVI

Sancte Pater informs us that … Margaret Thatcher met Pope Benedict XVI at the end of his weekly general audience today. The 83-year-old former British prime minister, who led the country from 1979 to 1990, had earlier in the day … Read More

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My emphases and comments

I see more and more people are using the [Z-Method] in fisking texts! My emphases and comments, of course.

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Fun! “iConfess”

With a biretta tip   o{]:¬)    to my friend John Sonnen of Orbis Catholicus…

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“Curiosity”

This is fun! NEWS RELEASE: 2009-089                                                                                May 27, 2009 NASA Selects Student’s Entry as New Mars Rover Name PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student … Read More

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Michael Novak rightly vents about L’Osservatore Romano

In National Review Online Michael Novak vents about the recent "Westpolitik" blunderings of L’Osservatore Romano. My emphases and comments. May 26, 2009, 4:00 a.m. All the Confusion Fit to PrintThe paper disappoints. By Michael Novak For several weeks now, L’Osservatore … Read More

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Request of prayers for a new bishop: Most Rev. Lee Piché

In your charity, will you please pray for a friend of mine? Pope Benedict XVI has appointed the Most Reverend Lee Piché as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. 

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Do Catholics need a dispensation to marry “non-Catholic” SSPXers?

Interesting.  This is from a reader: Some French Bishops, according to this, are considering marriages between a SSPX faithful and another Catholic as a mixed marriage. Les mariages se multipliant en ces temps de printemps, il est désormais possible de … Read More

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Wedges

It seems suddenly okay that a nominee to the Supreme Court be … *GASP*  …. Catholic! On the website of The Boston Globe comes this on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to SCOTUS. My emphases and comments. Sotomayor would … Read More

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