We’re going over the cliff folks, courtesy of the United States House of Representatives. And please, don’t give me the partisan arguments about who is naughty and nice in this deal. It’s not the Republican’s fault. It’s not the Democrat’s fault. It’s our fault. We elected these bozos. A lot of otherwise intelligent people are out there spinning up excuses for “their” political team like hamsters in a road race. Their story — and I’m sure they’re going to... Read more
What is your number one resolution for the New Year? Besides losing weight. Everybody resolves to lose weight — except for those who are planning to try to gain weight. What, other than getting prettier, do you plan to do for the New Year? Me? I’m going to write a book. What’s on your resolutions list? Read more
The president has announced that there may be a compromise on the “fiscal cliff.” Everyone is quick to point out that nothing is official yet, but the hopeful statement alone was enough to jump-start the stock market. The white horse riders who saved the day? It appears that Senator Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden are able to stomach one another enough to actually sit down and do the business of the people. If we dodge this bullet, we... Read more
Experts Forecast the Cost of Failure to Compromise By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ | New York Times Even if President Obama and Republicans in Congress can reach a last-minute compromise that averts some tax increases before Monday’s midnight deadline, experts still foresee a significant drag on the economy in the first half of 2013 from the fiscal impasse in Washington. While negotiators in the capital focus on keeping Bush-era tax rates in place for all but the wealthiest Americans, other tax increases are... Read more
Our bishops are calling us to incorporate their call for penance, prayer and sacrifice for life, marriage and religious liberty into our activities for the Year of Faith. I have already been praying about these things. I’ve prayed every day for a long time about abortion. I plan to add one of the bishop’s ideas. My focus for this will be religious liberty. I don’t think most Catholics realize the gravity of the threat to our liberties that the HHS... Read more
I’ve refrained from answering comments about my post on liturgical abuse because I wanted to see what people would say. It’s been a sad sort of education. Evidently, all that’s necessary for a person to be labelled self-righteous, heretical and told to leave the Church is to say that the Real Presence and healing graces of the mass are more important than liturgical irregularities. Before I go further with this post, I want to make something clear. Those who say... Read more
I don’t know for sure, but I think I’ve gained weight since I smashed my foot. It’s not that I’ve eaten such a lot. It’s more that I’ve been so confined. The most athletic thing I’ve done this past month is the gyrations I go through hoisting myself into and out of my wheelchair. At least, that was true until Gimpy got her new boot. Now, I can actually walk-clomp around the house and even out to the car with... Read more
Support Hobby Lobby in The Fight for Religious Liberty. The Green family isn’t only fighting for its right to religious liberty, but ours, too. Send a thank you note to the Greens letting them know you’re standing by their side. Government forced Hobby Lobby to choose: Violate your conscience and stay in business or remain faithful to your conscience and be penalized up to 1.3 million dollars per day. Hobby Lobby chose to sue the government for their right – and ours... Read more
I attended mass on Christmas Eve. There may have been liturgical abuses, were, in fact, according to several articles I’ve read this week by prominent Catholics. These people evidently bring a spreadsheet to mass so they can tally all the disrupting liturgical abuses they find there. I don’t know how they have time to worship during all the liturgical-abuse minding they must do. I would imagine that a priest, on seeing one of these folks enter his church, must feel the... Read more
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