One of the advantages of having a cult like following like this is that the people following you simply accept what you say as the new reality. And God help you if you don’t.
Archive for March, 2009
Lord help me resist earmarks…
Posted: March 11, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: economy, irony, obama, reality
Know Nothings in Connecticut
Posted: March 11, 2009 by datechguy in catholicTags: religion, war on God
I didn’t cover the goings on in Connecticut concerning the Church. Just about every other Catholic blogger did.
Was the bill outrageous, of course it was? Was it Anti-Catholic? Without a question. Was it an attempt to undermine the church? Why Soitenly.
Well then Mr. Loud mouth Catholic why didn’t you bother to deal with it?
Because this is part of the job description of the Church. Of course it is going to be attacked. Of course people are going to try to marginalize it of course people want a weak, faithless church.
The Church is the longest and strongest bastion standing between us and the gates of hell. As long as that is the case it will always be a target. The day it stops being a target is the day that I will start worrying if it is being true to itself.
If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me also hates my Father. If I had not done works among them that no one else ever did, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have seen and hated both me and my Father. John 15:18-24
We already know the end of this story overall, we just have to make sure our personal story doesn’t end on the wrong note.
I give the guy full marks for honesty.
OÖN: Why did you become a priest and not a professional magician?
Smetanig: Because I would like to change the church.
It will take a better magician than him to make the faith disappear. How many of our liberal catholic friends would give this answer to they why am I a Catholic instead of the correct one?
Hey while there is life and confession there is hope.
Late Morning Joe I’m up I’m up
Posted: March 11, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: morning joe, obama
Ok I’m awake no scheduled post this time
7:58 a.m. Pence notices that Washington is tone deaf concerning living in means.
8:00 a.m. Was Pat on today? Would have been interesting to hear what he had to say on the Freeman stuff.
8:01 a.m. Under Mika’s argument we should legalize coke because our president did it in school so we can’t forbid or even speak against its use.
8:07 a.m. Mika mentions it on the headlines but doesn’t go into detail about the Saudi connection.
8:08 a.m. Sen McCaskill laments the warming blanket gap.
8:17 a.m. McCaskill ducks if the president should veto the spending bill.
8:31 a.m. Wouldn’t the best way to resolve Gitmo to actually show that Gitmo wasn’t a place of torture and oppression rather than feed into the myth of the Gitmo torture chamber?
8:33 a.m. Oh the man who thinks Gitmo violently shakes America’s image won’t close it because he is a u uniter not a divider. What a joke.
8:38 a.m. “Let me tell you about the economy that really stinks” Gotta love it.
8:39 a.m. It’s going up because its finished going down, he says 6500 is the floor. Mark Hayes calls it. Jon Stewart is watching.
8:52 a.m. Fallon is funny but not funny enough to stay up to watch him.
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