Murderers and rapists demand silence. They will use any means to coerce agreement that they did not do what they, in fact, did. This is part of getting away with it. It is an extension of the original crime. Every Turk who participated in the Armenian genocide is dead and gone. But by refusing to tell the truth of the thing, and by using the power of government to try to hide it and cover it up with lies, today’s... Read more
Boko Haram kidnapped 200 Nigerian school girls a year ago. They’ve also kidnapped 100s of other Nigerians in the year since. Kidnapping, slavery, murder and theft seem to be the hallmarks of both Hoko Haram and ISIS. Read more
If you want to know who’s running for President, just get a phone book. Or, you can limit your list to candidates who are running under the banner of one of the two main political parties and who have a PAC. That’s still a long list. The ones below are the icing on the presidential candidate cake. Republicans Former UN Ambassador, John Bolton PAC Site: Bolton PACFacebook: www.facebook.com/AmbBoltonTwitter: www.twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush PAC Site: Right to Rise PACFacebook: www.facebook.com/JebBush Twitter: www.twitter.com/JebBush NJ Governor Chris Christie PAC... Read more
In his morning homily today, Pope Francis described the courage to proclaim the Gospel as grace born of the Holy Spirit. He exercised a bit of that grace in the mass described in the video below in which he called the massacre of Armenians early in the 20th century what it was: Genocide. Turkey responded by recalling its ambassador to the Holy See. There’s no surprise in this. No one likes to face the realization that there is a monster in... Read more
I didn’t know that the money I spent on my computer would fund an attack on my religious freedom. If I had known, I would have bought elsewhere. I’m a mac. Big time. I own a Macbook Pro, a Macbook Air 11″, iPad, iPhone, and a Mac Pro. I’ve also got a couple of old iPods lying around that I don’t use much anymore. I’ve passed along my old hardware to family members. The Apple logo dots my family landscape... Read more
You say you are rich and need nothing. You don’t realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. You are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold. I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Jesus Christ I doubt if there are any lukewarm Christians in Iraq. Ditto for Iran, Yemen, Saudia Arabia, North Korea, China and much of India. Lukewarmness is the luxury of the privileged. In fact, it seems that the more privileged the person, the more... Read more
I wrote a post a couple of days ago in which I asked the question Are Gay Marriage Activists Too Needy to Take Yes for an Answer? The combox response was immediate and vociferous. Before I could say “wedding cake,” the discussion had abandoned the matter of political exigencies, as well as the weighty Constitutional questions involved, to become a discussion about whether or not gay people are people (yes) and what causes homosexuality (as of today, unknown, but I’m personally... Read more
Apple no longer ships hard copies of its OS. If you want the OS, you’ve gotta download it from the App store. If it flops over for some reason, you can, theoretically, reinstall and even reformat from this same App store. Most of the time, that works. I just reformatted two laptops entirely with the App store. But sometimes, such as those times when you are feeling really lousy and taking high-powered cough meds, you may, as I did, wipe... Read more
Rand Paul gave a great answer to the inevitable question on abortion. He also addressed the religious freedom laws, such as the one in Indiana. The video below contains a lot more than just his opinion on these two issues. You can find his answers to the questions on religious freedom and abortion at the times I give you. If you want to listen to the entire video, it is interesting. I’m putting this here because I think it reflects the bias... Read more
I pray a Rosary every Sunday for people in Purgatory. It takes quite a while, since I name every single person I know who has died, and I mean died, ever. I include great-great-grandparents I never met and friends of friends. It’s the least I can do for them. I only hope that when I die, someone will take the time to pray for me. I don’t know a great deal about Purgatory. But I do have a few surmises.... Read more
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