The Pope right on the money

Posted: July 4, 2009 by datechguy in catholic
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I gave a snipit of this in my last Sarah Palin post but this is a perfect message to liberal Catholics who think themselves special:

Benedict XVI continued: “Speaking against the Magisterium of the Church is presented as courageous. In reality, however, it does not take courage for this, since you can always be sure of audience applause.”

“Rather it takes courage to adhere to the faith of the Church, even if it contradicts the ‘scheme’ of the contemporary world,” said the Pope. “It is this non-conformism of the faith that Paul calls an ‘adult faith.'”

The Holy Father gave two examples of an ‘adult faith’. First, “to commit to the inviolability of human life from the very beginning, thus radically opposing the principle of violence, in defense of the most defenseless humans.” And second, “to recognize marriage between a man and a woman for life as a law of the Creator, restored again by Christ.”

For Paul, said Benedict XVI, “following the prevailing winds and currents of the day is childish.”

You want to be a real rebel? Follow Christ. (via American Papist)

Sarah Palin has Krytened the media…

Posted: July 4, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news
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…and it’s fun watching their heads explode, from the Huff post having to pull an article to the daily beast et/al.

Kausfiles is great, but as the oldest of the bloggers he would be woudn’t he?

The most fun part will be the networks forcing major media people who take this weekend off to come to work and have to cover the person they most love to hate. The Anchoress put it well yesterday:

Watching CNN & MSNBC: One gets the impression they really are dying of curiosity and desperately want to shout out, “WTF is going on here? WHO ARE WE GOING TO HATE NOW? How dare she take herself out of our sites?” 4:33PM

It also means a lot of husbands and wives of bloggers are going to be upset that their mates will be on the PC instead of on the grill, then again we bloggers might have been doing that anyway.

It will be speculation, speculation and more speculation.

I think this is going to force the media to cover every moves she makes for years, She is playing Eddie Kagle to the media’s Smiley Williams from Angel on my shoulder.

The democratic party will be going nuts too, what is her plan, what is her angle? What is the plot? It’s going to drive them all crazy and it will do the same for Mitt “Elect me because I have good posture” Romney too.

Those who say she is this and that can take a lesson from this line spoken on another subject by the Pope yesterday. I’d say it was written for Sarah Palin:

For Paul, said Benedict XVI, “following the prevailing winds and currents of the day is childish.”

Not following the prevailing winds of the day; that’s Palin all over.

Update: “Krytened” explained here.

Update 2: Via Hotair and the Radio Equalizer Rush agrees with the “it’s all speculation” business:

My own speculation is here.

Palin Resigns My jaw is on the floor.

Posted: July 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Wow!

Lots of speculation and shock. She’s resigning to run for president, She’s resigning because of scandal, she is resigning because she can’t take it, etc etc etc etc.

I gotta tell you, I have absolutely No idea what the actual story is…

…and no matter what anyone else says neither does anyone else.

If I had to guess I’d take her at her word, and there is almost no other candidate that I would say that about.

Hounds, You’re using HOUNDS?!

Posted: July 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I had put this as a secondary bit in my last post but the more I think about it the more the idiocy sinks in.

Does the GOP really think that an ad that features HOUNDS chasing after the first black president’s policies is a smart ad? Hounds! Doesn’t anyone read or remember history around here? Do you have any idea what the MSM is going to do with this ad?

Of course these are the same guys who wanted to dump Toomy who are backing up Reichert and other who backed Cap and Trade?

Yeah, and people are worried about Sarah Palin being the image of the party?

Can’t anyone play this game?

Update: Maybe I’m paranoid but I see this going Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond at the begining of next week. It’s a gift to the democratic party, they don’t have to answer the substance of the ad, they can point to Republicans and hounds and symbolism and it will be all over the MSM.

IDIOTS!

Update 2: A friend just pointed out that Michael Steele is going to be asked about this ad. Do you want to be Steele answering that question?

Update 3: The Palin Resignation effectively makes this a non-story

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