Every so often President Obama does something I agree with. His support of raising the minimum wage is one of those things. I remember reading that Henry Ford paid his workers higher wages than the standard for that time. When asked why, he said that he wanted them to be able to buy his automobiles. That remark demonstrated a core understanding of what grows markets that seems to elude today’s corporatists. The theory that we should cut taxes and give... Read more
Oriella Cazzanello. Source: Daily News. I’ve been wondering how much it costs to have someone euthanized. I’ve also been wondering what kind of people perform this “service” of legally murdering others. I’m still in the dark about the second question, but it appears the answer to the first is $14,000. That’s what an Italian woman, who, according to reports was in good health, paid a Swiss death facility to put her down in much the same way the Copenhagen Zoo... Read more
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer won’t say if she’ll sign the bill which would allow businesses to refuse service based on religious beliefs. Her only comment was that the bill was “very controversial” and that she “needs to get my hands around it.” Meanwhile the Arizona Commerce Authority is chiming in against the bill. The bill puts the Republican governor in a pretty political pickle. It forces her to chose between the Republican Party’s vote-getting base of conservative religious, and its... Read more
You may have already seen this. My fellow Catholic Patheosi have posted it here, here and here that I know of. I’m posting here to make sure you have a chance to see it. This video gives us the complete Pentecostal service in which they played the Holy Father’s message. If you have time, watch it all the way through and be blessed. This is wonderful. The Holy Spirit can do so much when He gets His hands on someone... Read more
So who pays other people to murder them? A new study gives us a profile of the typical victim of euthanasia. According to the Swiss study, 16% of the people euthanized did not have an underlying medical problem, or at least not one that was recorded on the death certificate. In 84% of the cases, the death certificate did list at least one underlying cause for euthanizing the victim. A previous study showed that 25% of those who were euthanized... Read more
Arizona’s state legislature has passed a bill aimed at curbing lawsuits against business owners who refuse services based on their religious beliefs. According to a news story by azcentral.com, the bill is a response to the court decision in New Mexico forcing a baker to provide a cake for a gay wedding. I haven’t read the bill, and don’t have an opinion about its specific language. I do, however support the concept of conscience rights. I think we’re going to... Read more
Wardrobe malfunctions afflicted our pope today as he prayed for strife-torn Ukraine. Read more
St Patrick went to Ireland. St Paul went to most of the Roman world. The apostles traversed the known world bringing the message of eternal salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ everywhere they went. With the exception of St John, they paid for their fealty with their lives. Not today’s Catholics. Somewhere along the line, the missionary paradigm shifted to the build-it-and-wait-for-them-to-come-to-us paradigm. Today’s discussions of evangelizing the world revolve around how to shape our catechesis of the people... Read more
Ravi Zacharias describes an interview where Richard Dawkins overstepped a bit in his never-ending battle against Christianity. He ended up looking almost as foolish as he says Christians are. Stay with the video to the end. Ravi runs the audio of the interview he’s describing. Enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ4DAXmW8I8&feature=player_embedded Read more
This is bad news for us desk jockeys. It turns out that just sitting on your duff for long periods of time increases your likelihood of becoming disabled. That’s true, even if you exercise every day. I’m not surprised by this. I had my first symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis when I was 16. But it was never a problem for me until my first few terms in the Oklahoma House. At that point, the ra became increasingly painful — and... Read more
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