Posted in Conservatism, Conservative, Economy, Libertarian, Libertarianism, Politics, tagged attacked, law, legislation, Michigan, right to work, Steven Crowder, thugs, union, workers on December 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I found this information via Catholic Bandita.
Things are heating up in Michigan. Democrats threatened violence in response to Right-to-Work legislation, viaHotAir, and violence is indeed what we’re seeing. Watch as conservative activist Steven Crowder asks union thugs not to tear down the Americans for Prosperity Tent. The response to Crowder is violent, including a brutal sucker punch as he enters the AFP tent, near the end of the video.
H/T Catholic Bandita
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Christianity, Conservatism, Conservative, Constitution, faith, God, Morality, Religion, United States, tagged America, beliefs, Christian, citizens, classical christian revival, conservatism, conservative, Constitution, God, principles, The Who, traditional christianity, We Don't Get Fooled Again on November 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In Deacon Keith Fournier’s article We Do Not Need Conservatism We Need A Classical Christian Revival he makes the case that citizens in America need to return to Godly principles, makes the case for a classical christian revival. But Deacon Keith also claims that we don’t need conservatism. I agree that we need a classical christian revival but I disagree with him when he states we don’t need conservatism. I believe that many conservative principles go hand-in-hand with traditional christian principles so I don’t think that we should outright dismiss principles of conservatism. Conservatives believe in the constitution – adhering to the constitution – and the constitution recognizes that as individuals we are granted certain rights by our Creator so this goes along with classical Christian beliefs. Let’s promote both classical christian and conservative principles.
Here is the article by Deacon Keith Fournier:
I am afraid we will be fooled again if, after this election, we buy the idea that conservatism is the solution to what is needed in this Nation – and in the West. The collapse of Western civilization will not be remedied by conservatism. Political movements alone are inadequate for the task.
WASHINGTON,DC (Catholic Online) – In the aftermath of the US Presidential election the Monday morning quarterbacks are out in full force. I write to address a deeper concern. We must be wary of any attempt to equate a political label with being a Christian – including the label conservative.
Make no mistake, I am not a political liberal. Nor am I what is masquerading as a political progressive these days. I have long contended that there is nothing progressive about contemporary political progressives.
The judicial manufacture of a right to reach into wombs and kill our youngest neighbors is not progressive. Judicial and legislative efforts to give practicing homosexual paramours equal legal status to marriage is not progressive.
Denying the Right to the Free Exercise of Religion, the “First Freedom” in the American tradition, is not progressive. It is a threat to the very foundation of all of our freedoms.
Catholic Christians know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ demands a response which goes beyond the walls of our Church buildings. We are our brother and sister’s keeper. We do not reach out to people in need because they are Catholic, we reach out to people in need because we are Catholic.
No HHS regulation will compel us to violate our deeply held religious beliefs. Neither can a Presidential administration compel us to stop caring for the poor, the sick and the needy. Clearly, the next few months are leading to an historic Church/State showdown in the United States of America.
At a level much deeper than political labels, we are experiencing a clash of worldviews and competing definitions of human freedom, human flourishing, human progress and what constitutes a truly just and human social order. The positions espoused – and lifestyles affirmed – as progressive by some using the term as a political label turn the clock back on progress.
I will soon be 58 years old. In some ways I am still just an aging “former hippie” whose rejection of the misguided values of a consumerist, secularist, narcissistic, hedonist, instrumentalist and nihilist culture led me to re-embrace the Catholic Christian faith as the true alternative culture when I was a much younger man.
Recently, while in line at Starbucks for coffee, I heard a young couple comment on a CD offered for sale on the counter rack. It featured the best hits of the rock group “The Who”, taken from their long musical career. The cover was a photo of the Who I remembered from when I first began listening to them.
The young man said to his girlfriend, “can you believe that is the Who. I can’t believe they looked like that.” I smiled and chimed in, “That’s them, I remember it well”. We all smiled. However, as I left with my coffee I recalled the words from one of their songs which haunts me these days, “We don´t get Fooled Again.”
Posted in Conservatism, Conservative, tagged EFT, election, FasterEFT, Obama, Robert G Smith, Romney on November 7, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I really thought I was at peace with whatever the outcome of the election was going to be. I thought that whatever happened I would be unaffected by it. I would be mildly satisfied with a Romney win, and shake an Obama win off with a shrug. Today I feel like the degenerate gambler who, after losing a hand with a lot of chips riding on it, says to himself, oh, gee, now I’m going to have to play for a lot longer to win back all my…hey…where are all my chips? I was all in and I didn’t even realize that I had done it! Last night I was very despondent. Romney’s defeat hit me hard. Last night I wept bitterly for my country.
My wife posted a major downer on Teresamerica. I am reblogging it here, but that isn’t the end of it. I also want to offer a way past the emotional pain and the disappointment, so keep reading past Teresa’s article.
Reblogged from Teresamerica:
I posted this on Facebook and thought I would share.
Americans voted for the death of America last night. They voted for malaise. America is screwed. Americans are so gullible to believe Obama’s lies. It is obvious that a majority of Americans are clueless about America’s founding, her history and want this country to topple like Rome did, and be overcome with debt like Greece. The Left’s Communist infiltration of America has worked. The Left’s gradual indoctrination of America has put voters in a trance oblivious to reality stuck in their bubbles in their own alternative realities, believing what they want to believe based on emotions, wanting false rights, believing the state has a right to coerce people to abandon their faith and conscience rights. The media has been complicit in this with having committed journalistic malpractice constantly covering up for Obama & Co in order to get their guy re-elected.
To give you an idea how depressed I was this morning, – I helped compose that final line of Teresa’s post. If anyone feels the way I did, I have something for you that might help you feel better and give you the strength to cope with four mote years of BHO. I have been researching an practicing energy medicine and energy psychology techniques for the last couple of years. They are weird and flakey seeming, but I am fascinated by them because, as bizarre as they are, they work!
I am a practitioner of EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT is a technique that involves speaking affirmative statements while tapping your fingertips on acupressure points and focusing on a problem or area that you want to change, whether it be an emotional distress, a trauma, a phobia, or a physical pain. EFT brings rapid and lasting relief for many problems and issues that you would never in a million years think that tapping on yourself would help. I have mentioned EFT on this blog before, and I will be discussing this stuff more in the near future. For now, I want to share a youtube video put out by Robert G. Smith, an EFT practitioner whose innovative streamlining of the acupressure tapping protocol he has dubbed “Faster EFT”. In this video, Robert helps a guy who was very upset about Obama. I think he was as emotionally invested in McCain’s bid for the presidency as I was (without realizing it) in Romney’s. When I first saw this video, I laughed. I found it amusing. Not because tapping wouldn’t work. I know for a fact it does. I have helped many people with many problems, some of them quite serious, with EFT. I’ll go over that in more detail in a future post (or series of them). Let it suffice to say for now that I have used EFT to help friends, family, and colleagues at work with knee pain, back pain, laryngitis, mild fears, major phobic reactions, and I helped a man with Parkinson’s dramatically improve his posture from a very pronounced stoop to much less of one. So it wasn’t the tapping that made me laugh, strange as it admittedly looks. I know that it works, so that isn’t what I found to be silly at the time. What made me laugh was that anyone could be so emotionally affected by the outcome of an election. I am not laughing today. Instead, today, I am posting the video. Tap along if you need it. Be surprised when it helps, and leave a comment.
Posted in Bible, Catechetics, Catholic, Christian, Conservative, faith, God, Jesus, Politics, scripture, tagged bible, bloggers, blogging, God, Jesus, politics, scripture, The Food For Thought Award, thought provoking on November 1, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Thank you very much Citizen Tom for bestowing me with The Food For Thought Award. Citizen Tom created The Food For Thought Award and explains what it entails: “What’s The Food for Thought Award? How can we combine The Super Sweet Blogger Award with The Thought Provoking Blog Award? Well, when a Christian blog offers visitors wisdom from the Word of God, isn’t that blog providing its visitors food for thought? Ah ha! Thus was born a new award.”
Here are the rules:
Here are my seven favorite Bible passages:
Psalm 113: 7-9
He raises up the lowly from the dust;
from the dunghill he lifts up the poor
To seat them with princes,
with the princes of his own people.
He establishes in her home the barren wife
as the joyful mother of children.
This passage is very special to me. After I returned home from having my hysterectomy it hit me like a ton of bricks that I know longer had my reproductive organs. I struggled quite a bit due to the fact that Kevin and I don’t have any kids and because having the hysterectomy meant a huge loss, that there was no way I could have kids anymore. After I prayed to God and asked for His help to guide me to a scripture passage He led me to this one.
2 Chronicles 19:7 (RSV)
Now then, let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed what you do, for there is no perversion of justice with the LORD our God, or partiality, or taking bribes.”
This passage reminded of how people pervert justice and/or social justice today.
Luke 1:26-38 (RSV)
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.” And Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I have no husband?” And the angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible.” And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
Mary said the ultimate Yes to God following His will. She is the perfect example for how we are to follow God’s will. This is the beginning of Mary’s role as the Mother of God Incarnate.
Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
I love the whole creation story but I picked this part of it because this is when God created man in his own image. He created man and woman. God is the author of all of creation.
Deuteronomy 32:4 (RSV)
“The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
God is indeed right and just.
Isaiah 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed.
This is a prefigurement of Jesus dying for our sins. He made the ultimate sacrifice for us.
Psalm 30:2
O LORD my God, I cried to thee for help, and thou hast healed me.
Our Lord is the great healer. This passage really spoke to me because God has healed me.
Here are seven bloggers I am bestowing with The Food For Thought Award:
SR at Water My Flowers Lord
Terry at 8 Kids And A Business
A Blog For Dallas Area Catholics
God Bless everyone!
Posted in Communism, Conservatism, Conservative, Constitution, Politics, tagged Communism, David Brock, Leftism, Leftist playbook, liberalism, Marxism, Media Matters, President Obama, Socialism, watching progressives on August 19, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Over at Breitbart, Mandy Nagy reports on the latest attempts by the Left to seek-and-destroy anyone who aids and supports the Right.
Her introduction:
The non-profit American Bridge 21st Century foundation, created by Media Matters founder David Brock, is launching a new watchdog group to delve deep into conservative groups and those who fund them. The Bridge Project will operate alongside the Democratic super PAC American Bridge, according to Yahoo News.
Posted in Conservatism, Conservative, Constitution, Culture War, Election, Founding Fathers, Health Care, Libertarian, Libertarianism, Politics, tagged Affordable Care Act, America, anti-immigration law, Arizona, big government, capitalism, decisions, fading, free-market, Freedom, health care, liberty, Mitt Romney, Obamacare, Ronald Reagan, SB1070, shining city upon a hill, Socialism, Supreme Court, tyranny, United States, vote on June 28, 2012 | 3 Comments »
First came the horrid Supreme Court decision on the Arizona law at the beginning of this week and now heaven help us with the latest horrendous Supreme Court decision on Obamacare. Most of Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law was struck down and Obamacare in its totality was upheld by the Supreme Court. Both decisions are catastrophic for the cause of liberty.
The ruling on the Arizona law SB1070 was a devastating blow to states’ rights. Plus, the one part of the law which was upheld the Obama administration made it abundantly clear that they are unwilling to follow the rule of law and work with Arizona. Basically the Obama administration and the Supreme Court let Arizona know that the state is on its own. They are saying to Arizona: “You are not allowed to deal with the issue of illegal immigration even though there is a law on the books against coming to the USA the improper way and we are unwilling to enforce those laws since the more immigrants who cross the border the better it is for the Democrat Party. To heck with the laws of the land. We only will enforce the one’s we agree with.”
I haven’t read Justice Antonin Scalia’s entire dissenting opinion on the Arizona decision but the paragraphs that I have read are spot on.
From Yahoo:
The president said at a news conference that the new program is ‘the right thing to do’ in light of Congress’s failure to pass the administration’s proposed revision of the Immigration Act,” Scalia, a Reagan appointee, wrote in his dissent. “Perhaps it is, though Arizona may not think so. But to say, as the Court does, that Arizona contradicts federal law by enforcing applications of the Immigration Act that the President declines to enforce boggles the mind.
Arizona bears the brunt of the country’s illegal immigration problem. Its citizens feel themselves under siege by large numbers of illegal immigrants who invade their property, strain their social services, and even place their lives in jeopardy. Federal officials have been unable to remedy the problem,and indeed have recently shown that they are unwilling to do so. Thousands of Arizona’s estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants—including not just children but men and women under 30—are now assured immunity from enforcement, and will be able to compete openly with Arizona citizens for employment.
“Must Arizona’s ability to protect its borders yield to the reality that Congress has provided inadequate funding for federal enforcement—or, even worse, to the executive’s unwise targeting of that funding?” Scalia asked. Later, he added: “What I do fear—and what Arizona and the States that support it fear—is that ‘federal policies’ of nonenforcement will leave the States helpless before those evil effects of illegal immigration.”
The federal government “does not want to enforce the immigration laws as written, and leaves the States’ borders unprotected against immigrants whom those laws would exclude.”
When I heard the news that the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare let’s just say I was in shock and couldn’t believe it at first. Especially since they didn’t strike down the insurance mandate. Then when I was told that the justices who voted to uphold Obamacare inserted their own arguments in order so the law would be considered constitutional I became furious. They rejected Obama’s lawyer’s arguments and inserted their own so that the law would be considered constitutional. Obama argued that the penalty wasn’t a tax. But the Supreme Court justices who upheld Obamacare made the case for the Obama govt. that the fine is a really a tax. Geesh. That doesn’t make sense. Is definitely absurd.
Is this another nail in liberty’s coffin? With Justices Alito, Scalia, and Thomas’s dissent in voting to strike down Obamacare they stood for liberty and followed the Constitution as our Founding Father’s instituted it in our nation. The justices who upheld Obamacare did not follow the Constitution as it was envisioned by our Founding Fathers. They are okay with interpreting the Constitution in their own way and remaking America into a different America which is less free with federal expansion and overreach into our lives. Unfortunately the transformation of America into some socialists wet dream is taking place. Sadly, that “shining city upon a hill whose beacon of light which guides freedom-loving people everywhere” as Ronald Reagan described the United States in his farewell address to the nation is dimming…. fading…. and quickly. We have very little time to stop this nation from going further down the dark abyss of tyranny. Both decisions, but especially the Obamacare decision, makes it an apparent necessity for citizens to vote out the big government freedom-hating Obama. Libertarians, conservatives, independents, republicans, and democrats who love liberty must vote for Mitt Romney to stem the bleeding and start the recovery process to regain lost liberties.
Posted in Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic Church Doctrine, Christian, Conservatism, Conservative, God, Libertarianism, Links Bits Pieces, Politics, tagged Agent Brian Terry, Bill Whittle, cover up, Eric Holder, executive privilege, Fast and Furious, feminism, GOP establishment, ideology, Mitt Romney, nation of laws, Nuns on the Bus, poem, President Obama, Richard Nixon, rule of law on June 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Smitty @ The Other McCain – Bill Whittle sure is heated over Fast and Furious. In a very passionate display he tells us to follow the ideology.
At the PowerLine Blog John Hinderaker asserts that Obama has entered the realm of Richard Nixon. Obama’s claim that Fast & Furious documents that were subpoenaed falls under executive privilege is a bunch of hooey. Hinderaker explains how that claim can only be part of a cover-up.
Barb @ Blogsense-by-barb has posted We Will Remember, Agent Terry! RIP!
Lame Housewife has an excellent post called Reconstructing Feminism: Do Women Know when they are Being Used or Abused? Did the sexual revolution hurt or help feminism?
What Would The Founders Think? has a great post called The Rule Of Law Obama sure does know how to circumvent the law when it beneficial to him politically.
Fuzzi over @ Fuzzy Logic has written an outstanding Open Letter to Mitt Romney and (Other) Establishment GOP
1CatholicSalmon has posted a beautiful poem called Your Will Be Done
Catholic Glasses has written a great post called Nuns on the Bus – Hate the Poor! Preach it sister!
From James Mary Evans @ Orates Frates – The driving force behind “nuns on the bus”:
Spot on!
Posted in Conservatism, Conservative, Culture War, God, homosexuality, Morality, Philosopher, Philosophy, Prolife, tagged "open-minded", abortion, contraception, euthanasia, G.K. Chesterton, God, homosexuality, immorality, liberal logic, moral relativism, morality, privacy, progressive, Traditional marriage on June 12, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Posted in Bible, Capitalism, Catholic, Christian, Conservative, Constitution, Economy, faith, God, homosexuality, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Prolife, tagged Cardinal Dolan, coal, EPA, Freedom, history, interfaith gathering, liberty, Measure 2, mop, North Dakota, Obama's war on coal, religious freedom, Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky, seven daily habits, under attack on June 3, 2012 | 3 Comments »
In the past I have written links posts called Links… Blog and Article Highlights and Midweek Links and Thoughts… but in thinking over the last couple months I have decided to change the name and fiddle with the format a bit, with the possibility of doing more postings but having less links within my new Links, Bits, and Pieces posts. I’m even debating on rotating between logos. My hubby suggested that I stick with one logo but I am a person that likes some variation from time-to-time so this new posting will be a work in progress. Any and all suggestions are welcome.
Is Obama’s war on coal going to hit your pocketbooks and/or wallets?
From Phil Kerpen:
Obama’s War on Coal has already taken a remarkable toll on coal-fired power plants in America.
Last week the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a shocking drop in power sector coal consumption in the first quarter of 2012. Coal-fired power plants are now generating just 36 percent of U.S. electricity, versus 44.6 percent just one year ago.
It’s the result of an unprecedented regulatory assault on coal that will leave us all much poorer.
Last week PJM Interconnection, the company that operates the electric grid for 13 states (Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia) held its 2015 capacity auction. These are the first real, market prices that take Obama’s most recent anti-coal regulations into account, and they prove that he is keeping his 2008 campaign promise to make electricity prices “necessarily skyrocket.”
The market-clearing price for new 2015 capacity – almost all natural gas – was $136 per megawatt. That’s eight times higher than the price for 2012, which was just $16 per megawatt. In the mid-Atlantic area covering New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and DC the new price is $167 per megawatt. For the northern Ohio territory served by FirstEnergy, the price is a shocking $357 per megawatt.
Why the massive price increases? Andy Ott from PJM stated the obvious: “Capacity prices were higher than last year’s because of retirements of existing coal-fired generation resulting largely from environmental regulations which go into effect in 2015.” Northern Ohio is suffering from more forced coal-plant retirements than the rest of the region, hence the even higher price. More here
It looks like the coal numbers aren’t really the coal numbers, but may in fact a mirage coerced by the Obama administration upon the coal industry. Nothing like fake numbers to prop up what is a failing economy to make it look good. As many as 200, ooo blue-collar jobs may be threatened by the Obama EPA’s newest rule which strangles the economy.
In obscure, blue-collar towns across Appalachia — places that most Americans have never seen — generations of coal miners have toiled away at back-breaking labor to power American homes and industry. Now, as many as 200,000 of them who dig, process, transport and burn America’s most abundant fuel are threatened by EPA’s latest coal rule.It imposes a standard for emissions that is all but impossible for many plants to meet. It requires coal-fired plants to release no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour. More here
