BOOM GOES THE BOOBIE

Remember the good old days, when the biggest concern you had about crawling into bed with a stranger ( outside of the whole burning in Hell for all eternity thing) was the clap? My how things have changed. And it doesn't matter which team you're playing on, either!

"Female homicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies have reportedly discovered.

...MI5 has also discovered that extremists are inserting the explosives into the buttocks of some male bombers."
Fox News

GOD'S ARMY STANDS READY, WAITING FOR DIRECTION

Michael Voris says in this video that there is an organization, approved by the Pope and started by a saint that will allow faithful Catholic laity a place to immerse themselves in the faith apart from the corruption now so evident in the Church. He claims that Real Catholic TV will tell us where that is today. I await his suggestion.

It has become manifestly clear, to me anyway, that God is moving through the people to reestablish His Church. He has protected the teachings through the Bible and Tradition, just as He promised in Matthew 16:18. Knowing these were inviolable Satan flanked them and attacked those that have been tasked with passing them on. Over the last 50 years or so the Church has become an increasingly rudderless ship, drifting aimlessly through the seas of history and because of this it has lost it's purpose and authority.

All through history the the people of God have been led by individuals. God has chosen to work through the people to bring salvation to the world. He doesn't send down proclamations from on high like some human King. No, He whispers in the ear of the individual and through the individual His people are led to salvation. Noah, Abraham, Moses and Mary were all individuals upon whom the entire weight of salvation history pivoted. It was their individual yes in answer to God's calling that brought Christ to us.

Today there are thousand, perhaps millions of individuals hearing that same whisper. We are being called to God's army, to stand and fight against Satan and his lies and corruption. We see the errors in the Church leadership and we absolutely know we need to do something.

Unlike Luther, Zwingli and the rest of the reformers we understand the necessity of staying loyal to the Pope and Magesterium. And therein lies the problem. How to fight the corruption without tearing the Church apart. And more, how do we know that what we believe falls under those protections guaranteed to the Church and only the Church? We are not Protestants. We are loyal to Holy Mother Church. We don't want her destroyed, just returned to what she is intended to be.

We are not reformers; we are restorers!

So hopefully Michael Voris and the staff at real Catholic TV have found some sort of answer. We'll find out today.

SCHOOL PROVIDES ABORTION FOR 15 YEAR OLD

I don't know what to say anymore.

"SEATTLE -- The mother of a Ballard High School student is fuming after the health center on campus helped facilitate her daughter's abortion during school hours.

The mother, whom KOMO News has chosen to identify only as "Jill," says the clinic kept the information "confidential."

When she signed a consent form, Jill figured it meant her 15 year old could go to the Ballard Teen Health Center located inside the high school for an earache, a sports physical, even birth control, but not for help terminating a pregnancy.

"She took a pregnancy test at school at the teen health center," she said. "Nowhere in this paperwork does it mention abortion or facilitating abortion."

Jill says her daughter, a pro-life advocate, was given a pass, put in a taxi and sent off to have an abortion during school hours all without her family knowing.

"We had no idea this was being facilitated on campus," said Jill. "They just told her that if she concealed it from her family, that it would be free of charge and no financial responsibility."

The Seattle School District says it doesn't run the health clinics at high schools. Swedish Medical Center runs the clinic at Ballard High and protects the students' privacy.

T.J. Cosgrove of the King County Health Department, which administers the school-based programs for the health department, says it's always best if parents are involved in their children's health care, but don't always have a say.

"At any age in the state of Washington, an individual can consent to a termination of pregnancy," he said.

But Jill says she not only didn't have a say in her daughter's abortion, but also didn't know about it.

"Makes me feel like my rights were completely stripped away."
KOMO News

RECOVERY? WHAT RECOVERY

In February 2010, total U.S. industrial production rose +1.7% year over year according to the Federal Reserve.
While there was continued expansion, production growth fell from Q4 2009's +6.6% rate and Q3 2009's +6.4% growth. Still, overall industrial production kept growing in February.
But... diving into a breakdown of different products by market shows that some U.S. industries have already experienced sharp reversals of fortune.
As shown below, U.S. industrial production contracted sharply in February (orange bars) for Home Electronics, Appliances & Furniture, Paper Products, and Industrial Business Equipment. This came after strong growth in Q4 (blue bars). Thus for some the recovery already feels like it's over.

Business Insider

This tells me that even after billions of dollars of debt have been created and injected into this economy the best we could do is rebuild inventories. The items that are selling are those which we have to have just to get by. The items that would indicate some sort of future surge in hiring such as business supplies and business equipment are falling. Further, it looks as though the big ticket items such as appliances and home electronics are falling, too. My guess is that this is because there is no longer much in the way of credit available to the consumer to buy these things and they wouldn't buy even if there was. Too many are unemployed and most that still have jobs are not that certain of their future.

So how can an economy that's GDP was 70% consumer driven be recovering with these sorts of realities?

D.C. TO MAKE POT LEGAL TO GROW AT HOME

"Medical marijuana users in the District may not have to go to a clinic or a doctor’s office to get their dose; they may be able to go into their backyard.

D.C. Council is thinking of adding a provision to the new medical marijuana bill that would allow some users to grow plants for their own use. They’d likely be limited to two plants per home."
NBC Washington

As all of us children of the '70's know, the one effect of smoking dope that dwarfs all others is the sense of contentment (followed closely by incredible paranoia, but that's another story). I find it interesting that as our economy and civilization continue on their downward trajectory that it seems our government is doing everything it can to keep us high. Everybody is legalizing pot.

So let's see; drugs, porn and gambling. All of these were considered immoral at one time and now they are promoted by government and society in general, along with violent sports and mindless entertainment on TV.

Bread and circuses, my friend, bread and circuses.

THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER FILES SUIT

Funny isn't it, that the bishops in America just can't see this. Sure, they're against abortion, and it does have the first place in any discussion of the health care bill, but what about the rest of these issues? Do they think it's right that the government can steal our property? Do they think it's right that the government can mandate that we must buy a product from a private corporation as a condition of our citizenship? Do they believe the government has the power to override our Constitution, a document created by the people through a free will act, a document that created the very government that now seeks to claim it's preeminence over it? Isn't an all powerful state bent on the redistribution of wealth a Marxist state? Do the teachings of the Popes and the Magisterium have no bearing at all on this subject?

The bishops aren't answering these questions because if they do they will be bound to stand up to this corrupt government and it's leaders. They will be forced to confront Marxism head on which will bring into the open their cooperation, through support of the Democrat party and all of the various "social justice" groups, in bringing this evil to power.

They've been bought and paid for. It will take an act of extreme courage for most to speak the truth because it will cause them great loss.

Pray for the bishops that they will die to themselves and put the Church and the people ahead of ambition and avarice.

"Parallel to the actions of 13 states’ attorneys general, the Thomas More Law Center has filed a lawsuit challenging the health care reform bill. The suit argues that it is unconstitutional to force someone to purchase health care coverage and to force those who object to pay for abortions.

...According to the complaint, filed in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, because of their “deeply held religious beliefs” the plaintiffs object to “being forced by the federal government to contribute in any way to the funding of abortion.” Abortion funding is contrary to their First Amendment rights of conscience and free exercise of religion, the complaint continues.

The lawsuit also charges that the health care reform law imposes unconstitutional government mandates on citizens. It challenges Congress’ authority under the Commerce Clause to pass the law, and claims violations of the Tenth Amendment which reserves power for the states and the people.

“Let’s face it, if Congress has the power to force individuals to purchase health insurance coverage or pay a federal penalty merely because they live in America, then it has the unconstrained power to mandate that every American family buy a General Motors vehicle to help the economy or pay a federal penalty,” Thompson argued.

He commented that Americans agree on the need for reform of health care, but said they do not want reform “by trampling on our Constitution.”

Attorneys general from 13 U.S. states have also filed a lawsuit charging that the Constitution “nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty, that all citizens and legal residents have qualifying health care coverage."
EWTN News

ITALIAN BISHOPS SIGN A DOCUMENT-WHATEVER

All this signing and talk sounds good. Now, I have a question; what will the Italian bishops do when a politician votes for a pro abortion piece of legislation? If America is any indication they will immediately turn their backs and change the subject. There won't be any punishment and no one will say a word. They'll just ring their hands and slink up to this politician, get down on their knees beg for more public funds to support the Church in it's many various enterprises.

But that's just the way it goes in America. Maybe in Italy the Church has a bit more backbone and honor, not to mention fear of the Lord.

I've got to do something about this cynicism.

"After appearing in public on Monday to speak about the necessity of keeping pro-life ideals in mind while voting, the President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, signed a document with seven other bishops which detailed several essential values for Italian voters to keep in mind during the upcoming elections.

The most imperative in the upcoming regional elections, the bishops said, is “the right to human life, from the point of conception until natural death.” At the same time, the bishops, headed by Cardinal Bagnasco, also reiterated the importance of upholding policies in favor of "protecting and supporting the family, based on marriage between a man and a woman.”
EWTN News

A TALE OF TWO TRINKETS

Anyone that has read Dante's classic, "The Inferno", has a picture in their mind of the clever torments inflicted upon sinners in all the various levels of Hell. The torments are always directly related to the sin and incredibly clever in their application. I wonder what use he would have found for these pens?

On a shelf in my parents house sits a beer mug. It was removed from a dead German soldier during WWII. The artwork on it is a depiction of people working in the death camps with the slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" shown above the gates. Like the pen given to Sister Kehaan this mug memorialized this soldiers participation in a Holocaust. Like the Sister he was part of the political machine that had as it's goal and made possible the deaths of millions because they were inconvenient, sick, poor or a thousand other reasons.

I pray for Sister Kehaan and that dead German soldier. Honestly though, I wouldn't want to die with either the pen or the stein and what they both signify attached to my immortal soul.

"Sister Carol Kehaan, President of the Catholic Health Association, has been awarded with one of the 20 pens used by President Barak Obama on Tuesday to sign the health care bill.

...Sister Kehaan, who strongly supported the controversial health care bill despite the opposition of the US Bishops, was joined in receiving presidential pens by some of the most strongly pro-abortion members of the Congress and the Senate: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Senator Dick Durbin, majority whip; Max Baucus, chairman of the Finance Committee; Senators Tom Harkin and Christopher Dodd; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer; James Clyburn, majority whip; George Miller, chairman of the Education committee; Henry Waxman, chairman of Energy and Commerce; Sander Levin, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee; John Dingell; and Charles Rangel, former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee."
Catholic News Agency