October 16, 2006
Democratthink...
I couldn't resist this bit of DailyKos comment that Dean Barnett found...
Whenever you blow up stuff deep underground, you run the risk of forcing the tectonic plates to shift.
Recall how there were no nukes in North Korea under Clinton, when the adults were in charge of foreign policy. I hope that Hawaii residents can put two and two together and vote Democratic because the GOP's idiotic mishandling of North Korea is a clear and pleasant danger. Heh, the smoking gun just fired, Dee-dee-dees!
GWB's hard-on for more war and instability in the Middle East (the successful results of his conscious actions and inaction) have led to a world that is less safe in myriad ways...
Damn slippery, them tecto plates. One hard nudge, and they go sliding around like marbles on a saucer...
And this Pearls Before Swine cartoon (thanks to my daughter) may be apposite...(click on "continue reading.")
Did you catch the "Dee-dee-dees" reference? I believe it's a term coined by the comedian Carlos Mencia (who can actually be pretty damn funny) to refer to mentally retarded folks. It's not a direct slam on the developmentally disabled - it's a way of referring to stupid folks by calling them retarded...
Always delightful to see such wonderful sensitivity from enlightened progressives...
Posted by: Ethan Hahn at October 16, 2006 01:01 PMThanks--I'm, as usual, clueless about these things...My kids often fill me in.
Posted by: John Weidner at October 16, 2006 01:52 PM"Danny finds more uses for sticks"
I don't think I want to know.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at October 16, 2006 05:51 PM"[C]lear and pleasant danger"?
Pleasant danger? Dr. Freud, call your office.
Posted by: Lance Jonn Romanoff at October 16, 2006 06:53 PMMISLEADING GUIDELINES GIVEN TO U.S. BISHOPS
Catholic bishops have been mislead regarding Vatican guidelines on the reception of Holy Communion by Catholic politicians in the USA. Consider the following:
"It is sometimes claimed that dissent from the magisterium is totally compatible with being a 'good Catholic' and poses no obstacle to the reception of the sacraments. This is a grave error" - Pope John Paul II (Los Angeles speech to U.S. bishops, Sept. 16, 1987).
In June, 2004 Cardinal Ratzinger, (now Pope Benedict XVI) sent a memorandum to Cardinal McCarrick that offered guidelines to bishops for discussing the Communion/abortion issue at their meeting near Denver. However, Cardinal McCarrick did not reveal critical contents of the cover letter to the bishops, but instead suggested each bishop decide for himself the action to be taken.
Some of the key points in that cover letter:
1. In the case of abortion or euthanasia, a Catholic politician manifests "formal cooperation" in grave sins by "consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws."
2. The politician's pastor should "meet with him, instructing him about the Church's teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist."
3. “When these precautionary measures have not had their effect or in which they were not possible, and the person in question, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the holy Eucharist, the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it."
4. "Nor is the minister of Holy Communion passing judgment on the person's subjective guilt, but rather is reacting to the person's public unworthiness to receive Holy Communion due to an objective situation of sin."
Unfortunately, a number of two-faced “Catholic” politicians (especially spiritually warped, permissive liberals in the Democratic Party) are taking advantage of this confusion.
Vincent Bemowski - Writer (U.S. Politics & World Affairs & Veteran, U.S. Army)
Website: Catholic Messages USA http://www.catholicmessagesusa.com/
Posted by: Vincent Bemowski at October 18, 2006 09:50 AM
Spammers for Christ...lovely.
