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The title comes from the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie and alludes to how many times Tea Party members will have to take abuse from counter protesters before the media notices the difference in tone.
When an anti-tea party protester can reportedly can call a Jewish relative of Holocaust victims a Nazi and nobody bats an eyelash there is something seriously wrong.
…that gives me a great excuse to put up the final three videos that I missed the last time, these came from the end of the conference.
I missed all of them before. My bad
In addition to the people there quite a few exhibitors attended the men’s conference.
Adopt a Student helps people pay for Catholic education.
I should make it plain you don’t have to be Catholic to get that aid
Lighthouse Catholic Media Offers CD’s from great Catholic speakers to help evangelize the faith.
I have a few of these CD’s myself, they are first rate and will tell you a lot more about the actual Catholic Faith as opposed to what people say it is.
If your interest is more political then you might want to check out Catholic Citizenship
Would that Bart Stupak did.
Thomas Moore liberal Arts College in Southern NH had a booth:
Magdalen College also attended but didn’t go on Camera with us. Strangely enough The College of the Holy Cross, Assumption College and Anna Maria college, all in Worcester had no presence at all. You would think colleges in Worcester that proclaim themselves Catholic would bother to show up. Feel free to contact them and ask why.
A Vatican representative from Rome attended promoting pilgrimages to holy places. Journey of the Spirit is the web site.
This is exactly the type of woman (a faithful Italian) that my mother urged each one of her sons to marry. Alas for mom none of us did.
As a member of the Knights of Columbus I would be derelict in my duty to not give my group a plug:
There were actually three Knights booth there. I actually joined the Knights at the Men’s conference last year.
Finally you likely have heard of ETWN but you might not have heard of Catholic TV. If you haven’t Bonnie Rogers solves that problem.
And beyond that there was a dizzying array of devotional books available from many different vendors.
But there I was at WPI with Stacy and my youngest listening to Two congressmen, the Lt Gov, Martha Coakley (a handsome woman) and President Bill Clinton.
Copyright Daniel Ingemi 2010
After listening to the ex President’s rather long presentation I have to say I can understand why he is popular. If you don’t know history and if you are unfamiliar with the Clinton years (as I suspect most of the college students in that hall are) you might just fall for the BS. It’s another one of those Ribos operation open honest face moments to wit:
DOCTOR: I wonder if ol’ Taffy knows the real value of it. “Scringe stone” found in a dead man’s pocket? A lost mine? A phoney ma… are people still falling for that old guff? I mean are they?
ROMANA: You mean you didn’t believe his story?
DOCTOR: No.
ROMANA: But he had such an honest face.
DOCTOR: Romana!! You can’t be a successful crook with a DIShonest face, can you?
ROMANA: Oh.
As he has gotten older he seems to me more like Garron than Unstoffe I mean really, compare this (via a member of the World’s greatest family)
With this:
The only difference between the con men are the hairline and the video quality and the crowd was eating it up. Once the president was done the crowd started thining. This was a problem for Martha but I’d pity any person who has to follow him on stage.
I have to say I had been saying I was feeling like the Sox had just won game five. After comparing the Coakley and the Brown Rallies and attending both, I’m feeling like game 6 is in the can and all we have do is win game 7 at Yankee Stadium and we are home!
Update: Stacy has heard this siren song before so before the president was done he went outside to meet with the Brown people, there were an awful lot of them.
Update 2: The Washington Examiner was there too and Susan Ferrechio (met her, nice lady) included this quote from the prez:
“This is making sausage, it all looks ugly,”
My letter to Glenn Reynolds from 2003 applies here:
I stood there and watched him making sausages and realized that the old saying about Sausages no matter how true it might be for a plant or maybe another butcher shop it wasn’t true at Romano’s. (I can’t speak for other local butchers but I would bet good money that this is true for other family butcher shops too.)
I think Mike and the other local butchers deserve a caveat.
7 years later Mike is still making Great Sasuage and if the democrats and the president were interested in stopping the fatcats then they would keep President Obama’s promise concerning C-Span instead of playing backroom games.
Update 3: Spelling mistakes fixed, why am I doing this at 2:30 a.m.?
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