Update On The USCCB Scandal, Part VII
Hold your nose as you read this

It's bad enough to find out that the USCCB is a dues paying member of an organization that is directly opposed to Church Teaching, but now we find out that the very same USCCB engaged in fundraising efforts for the very same folks that are diametrically opposed to some of the very basics of Catholicism.

It's glaringly obvious... the USCCB needs to be dissolved.

What Hath The Zero Wrought?
Helmet tip to PreVat2

Details Of Obama Openly Gay Military Released

WASHINGTON (SR) - President Barack Obama has directed the Pentagon to replace the "don't ask, don't tell" policy with one that will allow openly gay men and women to serve in the military. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, will present details of the plan to U.S. lawmakers next Tuesday.

Western Civilization On Trial
Just how gutless is Europe?

I've posted about Geert Wilders before. And yes, I still think he uses a wheelbarrow for a jockstrap.

Here's just some of a stunner from The National Review. Believe me, it's well worth the time to read this;
Western Civilization on Trial
Why we should be watching Geert Wilders.

BAT YE’OR
Geert Wilders is a hero for those countless Europeans who cherish a free and democratic Europe — a Europe proud of its Judeo-Christian and humanistic values, its civilization, and its achievements in the field of human rights. But this is not today’s Europe. In today’s Europe, synagogues, Jewish schools, clubs, and cemeteries need to be guarded — as if going to a Jewish school or praying in a synagogue were a crime punishable by death as in Nazi-occupied Europe. Intellectuals, scholars, and those who protest the creeping Eurabization of culture and society are threatened, boycotted by their colleagues, thrown out of their jobs, forced to leave their families and go into hiding, or obliged to live with bodyguards. Wilders has devoted his life to freeing Europe from Eurabia’s clutches. To this titanic struggle he has sacrificed the security of his life and the joys of family. Threatened by a desert whirlwind blowing hatred upon Europe from the south, spending days and nights shielded by bodyguards, persecuted and tormented by his feckless Eurabian opponents, Geert Wilders incarnates the free soul of an unbending Europe.

— Bat Ye’or is author, most recently, of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis.

PAUL MARSHALL
The American media’s silence about the Geert Wilders trial is puzzling — the trial is explosive, much more so than most of America’s perennial “trials of the century.” Wilders, leader of the Freedom party, is arguably the Netherlands’s most popular politician, but for years he has had to live in safe houses, including on military bases. He now faces the possibility of imprisonment on charges of “group insult” and “incitement to hatred,” as defined by articles 137 (c) and (d) of the Dutch penal code, for his public speeches and op-eds criticizing Islam.

Apart from its direct and immediate threat to free speech, the trial exposes the growth of political violence and repression in the Netherlands, long lauded as the most tolerant country in Europe, if not the world. Thirty years ago, I interviewed then–prime minister Dries van Agt simply by strolling into his unguarded parliamentary office and asking his secretary if he could spare me a couple of minutes. Now it is a country where politicians and artists are targeted by vigilantes and the state.

In 2002, popular Dutch politician and gay activist Pim Fortuyn was murdered by an environmentalist who took offense at Fortuyn’s criticism of Islam. In 2004, one of the country’s leading documentarians, Theo Van Gogh, was murdered, and almost beheaded, on the streets of Amsterdam in retaliation for a film he made about Islam (Submission). In 2006, a gathering of scholars and commentators critical of Islam and Islamism led the Dutch security service to invoke an alert level just short of “national emergency.” In 2008, the prospective release of Wilders’s film Fitna led to special sessions of the Dutch cabinet. The country’s best-known member of parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, for many years had to live in hiding, and even briefly fled the country. This is the situation in the heart of liberal Europe.

The media’s silence is also disturbing since it indicates their reluctance, even fear, when it comes to grappling with the West’s increasing censorship of anything that might be deemed offensive to some Muslims. So far, the effects in the U.S. are small — such as the Yale University Press’s removing the famous Danish cartoons from a book about those same cartoons — but they betray a mindset common to much of Europe: preemptive self-censorship. Media outlets that defended and lauded Salman Rushdie two decades ago, when the Ayatollah Khomeini called for him to be killed over The Satanic Verses, now cringe and shy away from those facing similar threats.

Within much of the Muslim world, political and religious debate, especially amongst Muslims, is shut down in the name of preventing anything that could “insult Islam.” Unless we strenuously defend Wilders’s right — and our own right — to speak, especially to criticize and offend, we will stumble down the same path.

— Paul Marshall is senior fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom.

Update On The USCCB Scandal, Part VI
This is where the collection money goes to

Did you know that the USCCB is a Partner/Member in an anti-Catholic coalition? Millions of our collection plate dollars go to those who fly in the face of Catholic moral teaching. And not ONE member of the USCCB has stood up and spoke against what's going on.

Shameful.

Crazy-Assed FemiNazis Unleashed
And I'm suppose to take these crones seriously..... why?

A couple of posts ago, I placed the pro-life Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad. As we all saw, it showed Mama Tebow being tackled by her son, just to bounce right up to show how tough she really is.

Now we have this from the LA Times; (Emphasis mine)

NOW president Terry O'Neill said it glorified violence against women. "I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it," she said. "That's what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don't find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself."

Speaking of Super Bowl Ads...
Without a doubt, the best of the bunch

THIS Is What Caused All The Fuss?
Leave it to the pro-abortion mob...

Indeed, leave it to that mob to screech and howl over something as, well, something as wholesome as this.

For the benefit of those who missed it... at the advice of the murderous crones at NARAL, and the nattering nabobs at MSNBC -- here is the horrible "Tim Tebow Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad" we've all been hearing about.

QUICK! Hide the kids and cover your eyes!!

And a helmet tip to The Rockin' Traddy for directing me to the right video... D'OH!

Blame The Republicans!!
*Sniffle, sniffle, sob, sob*

A Serious Threat To Nazi Pelosi?
You never know

Back in '07, Lisa Schiffren wrote the following about Pelosi in an article in National Review;
We stop to marvel at the mediocrity of this woman: she has a BA from a fourth-rate college and no professional experience to speak of; she did high-level volunteer work in San Francisco and across the state for the party; she has been in Congress 20 years, where she failed to distinguish herself on any particular policy issue; she raised a lot of money and was elected minority leader.Can't say that I disagree with much there. But did you know that there are two Republicans vying for her seat? Well, one of 'em is more a Libertarian than anything. But you make the call there.

Anyhow, I doubt that there could be a serious threat of a Republican winning Pelosi's seat. But wasn't the same said of Kennedy's? And even as weird and goofy as the average San Franciscan is, you smack anyone hard enough in the checkbook, you're gonna piss 'em off, but good.

But back to the Republicans. Here are their websites -
Dana Walsh For Congress 2010
John Dennis 2010

Update On The USCCB Scandal, Part V
And the stink gets worse by the moment

The USCCB hosts a conference this weekend that features a speaker that is a proponent of the following:

1. Homosexuality
2. Womens Ordination
3. Liberation Theology

We have met the enemy, and they are us.

Laugh out Loud Funny!!

The below joke was stolen from the comment boards of Politico, it was posted by a person named CHOKEONIT! I had to put it hear because it is just so damn funny!

An Israeli doctor says, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks."

A German doctor says, "That is nothing; we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks."

A Russian doctor says, "In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks."

An ILLINOIS doctor, not to be outdone, says. "You guys are way behind. We recently took a man with no brains out of ILLINOIS , put him in the White House for SIX MONTHS, and now half the COUNTRY is looking for work!

Navy Graves Registration Specialists To The Rescue!
Helmet tip to my goomba-ette, Helen

Can someone please tell me what the hell a Navy "Corpse Man" is? If so, please notify D'Office of da Doofus. Obviously, he dunno either.

I Wanted To...
But didn't

Many of my fellow Bloglodytes already know that I work with handicapped kids for a living. Anyhow, the other day I was working with one of my kids who just won't eat!

We're not sure if it's symptomatic of his condition or just one helluva picky eater. So I'm trying every trick in the book (for the millionth time) to try to get this child to just take a bite.

I'm not sure if it was frustration or my inner Marine working it's way to the surface -- but I came within a hairsbreadth of telling him "if you don't eat this, God will kill a kitten."

"The Difficult We Do At Once. The Impossible Takes A Bit Longer"
Motto of the Navy's Seabees

I should have titled this entry The Recipe For Making The United States An Economic Superpower Again, but I wanted to give a helmet tip to my Navy brethren for their can-do spirit. America needs a shot of that right about now.

Anyhow, I'm sure most of you reading this are just like me in regards to certain political issues being non-negotiable. For me, if any given politician is in favor of abortion in any way, shape or form, they can disregard ever getting my vote. And fighting the Global War on Terrorism as a war comes in a pretty close second.

And with all that said, I'm realistic enough that what's high on the list for many is jobs. As I've posted in the past, this is the painfully simple formula for being an economic superpower.

And that got me thinking... as many of us have already realize, one has to try pretty damn hard on a trip through Wal-Mart or Home Depot to find products made in the USA. Remember during the heyday of NAFTA/GATT how it seemed like overnight our factories shutting down and moving to China (for the most part)?

OK, anyone with aspirations of reaching political office... here's your sure-fire way to get (and stay) elected --

Re-open our factories.

Yes, it's just as simple as that. Make it fiscally attractive for Corporate America to invest in America again. If we succeeded in shipping our industrial base overseas, we can succeed in re-establishing our industrial might right here at home.

Damn it, we're Americans. We can do anything we set our minds to. We've been proving that for over 200 years.

"We Can't Have In The White House An Anti-Catholic Bigot"
Or in Catholic colleges, either

A few interesting stories concerning attacks on Holy Mother The Church -- both from without and within.

Hairy Knocks, a member of The Zero's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships has gone after The Church before. He's referred to The Knights of Columbus as "foot soldiers in a discredited army of oppression". He's also stated that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI is "hurting people in the Name of Jesus."


Then we have a CINO college that's named a scholarship after a couple of baby-killers. Here's some of the article from CatholicCulture.org; (Emphasis mine)
California Catholic college’s scholarship named after Planned Parenthood director
February 04, 2010

A Catholic college in California has named its Vanessa Bedient and Molly Reidelberger Scholarship for Excellence in Poetry (click here) after a Planned Parenthood director and a longtime Planned Parenthood volunteer. Mrs. Bedient “served as the director of Planned Parenthood in Santa Barbara, where her two children were raised, and later in San Francisco,” according to the web site of St. Mary’s College of California. “She loved literature and the arts, and was the soul of goodness.” Ms. Reidelberger, in turn, “volunteered at Planned Parenthood for 15 years.”And lastly, this again CatholicCulture.org;
Minnesota Catholic college lists Planned Parenthood among ‘hot links for health’

The health services office of a Catholic college in Minnesota has listed Planned Parenthood among its “hot links for health and medical information.” Also included on the College of St. Scholastica’s list of “hot links” are sites whose advice is incompatible with Catholic teaching on chastity.

Update On The USCCB Scandal, Part IV
The bishops circle the wagons, the panicing begins

Maybe it's just me, but I find it odd, shall we say, there has been no denial from the USCCB in regards to heaps of money being thrown at pro-abortion/pro-homosexual groups.

Let's Play A Game!!
Spot the announcement for The Latin Mass

The same old is still the same old at St. Mary's in Wilmington.

Father Zuhlsdorf has already commented on his blog concerning some rather "interesting" comments made by the pastor of St Mary's in Chains.

I'll cheat a bit, and give the announcement itself;
A forma extraordinaria, as a diocesan ministry, is celebrated at 7:00 p.m. the last Sunday of each month at St. Mary Church. (January 31st)Now just try to find it. Don't blink!

Another Example Of Sodomites Believing 2+2=5
The twisting of common sense is old hat for these maroons

Here's some of the article from CNSNews.com;
First Openly Gay Episcopal Bishop Says St. Paul Was Condemning Homosexual Acts by Heterosexuals

(CNSNews.com) – In a section of his New Testament letter to the Romans (1:22-27) dealing with God’s admonitions against same-sex relations, St. Paul was actually writing about heterosexuals who engage in same-sex acts and not homosexuals, said the Rt. Rev. V. [Vickie] Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal church.
Allow me to be the first to tell Vickie -- once a normal guy places his plumbing into another guy, said normal guy just became abnormal.

Calling All History Trivia Geeks!
Put on your thinking caps, Bloglodytes

Ok, fellow HTGs. As my co-workers and I were bantering back and forth the other day, I thought up a three parter (along with your rating for each one you get right). Remember - no Google searches!

1. Name the three most recent declared wars America participated in. (You're smarter than a 5th grader.)

2. In each of those wars, at least one of the belligerent nations in each was at least technically a monarchy. Name those nations. (You're a half-ways decent armchair historian.)

3. Name the monarchs. (You da man!)
And no looking at any of the answers already given on the comments page!

Don't Ask, Don't Tell...
PETA, that is

WARNING! Crude Language Alert!

Still no outcry from the frauds over at PETA? Obviously, it's OK to rape dumb animals... as long as they're being raped by faggots and other assorted deviants.

The world was warned a little over a year ago as to just how depraved the homosexual lifestyle really is in the posting "Obama Inauguration Pig Sex Orgy" (still a helmet tip to Cheeky Pink Girl).

No we have this coming out of once-Catholic Spain. Here's some of the article; (Emphasis mine)


Spanish government course teaches sex can be practiced with 'girl, boy or animal'
Madrid, Spain, (CNA).- Parent organizations in Spain are fiercely protesting the curriculum of the Socialist government’s required education course, “Education for the Citizenry,” after it was revealed that in one Spanish city, students are being taught that sex can be freely practiced, even with animals.

According to the organization “Professionals for Ethics,” third grade students in Cordoba, located in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia, are using course material stating that “nature has given us sex so we can use it with another girl, with a boy or with an animal.” As Former Altar Boy once stated - "And BHO wants to open up our armed forces to THIS!?!?!?!?" Yes FAB... he does, and will.

And let's not forget the current scandal where the USCCB is accused of funnelling $150,000 to pro-homosexual groups.

Rest assured, I'll be sticking to that story like a Rottweiler to a pork chop. The USCCB will rue the day. Count on it.

Update On The USCCB Scandal, Part III
Deeper and deeper

This installment of The Vortex gives direct links between the USCCB and both the Democratic Party and the Obama for President campaign. And let's not forget that it was Abp Burke who referred to the Dems as "the Party of Death".

I Can't Make It On $193,400 A Year, Either
Poor Steny

Hold your nose while you read this, fellow Bloglodytes. Here's the meat & potatoes from CNSNews.com; (Emphasis mine)

Hoyer Says He Is Not a 'Big Supporter' of Freezing Congressional Pay Until Budget Is Balanced
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

Washington (CNSNews.com) – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) rejected the idea of continuing a congressional pay freeze until Congress can balance the budget, saying that it would take “a long time” until the budget might be balanced – too long, he said, for Congress to go without a pay raise.

Speaking to reporters at his weekly press briefing, Hoyer explained that Congress had already frozen its pay by rejecting a cost of living increase. However, extending that freeze was too much for Hoyer to support.

And if you'd like to peruse some really interesting stuff... take a gander at this;

House and Senate Salaries
1789 - 1795 -- $6 per diem

1865 - 1871 -- $5,000

1965 - 1969 -- $30,000

January 2006 -- $165,200

January 2010 -- $174,000

Majority and minority leaders of both chambers and Senate president pro temporare $193,400 (Current)

Speaker of the House $223,500 (Current) And that doesn't include that jet she ditty-bops around in.And here I am, selfishly fretting over how I'm going to pay for a new hot water heater ($298).

When I start to feel sorry for myself, I should look to the least of my brethren. Namely, that poverty stricken House Majority Leader from Maryland, the Dishonorable Mr. Hoyer.

Poor thang.

Update On The USCCB Scandal, Part II
I'll post updates as they become available

How can the Chairman of the Board of a pro-homosexual and pro-abortion organization not know that they'e pro-homosexual and pro-abortion? And how could this same individual be so powerful in the USCCB?

The video below is POWERFUL!

Zero My Hero!!
With helmet tips to both Joe of St. Thérèse and Foxfier

Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts
My contribution to the effort

Get your magic markers out, gang. Join in on the fun.

Now That's Funny, I Don't Care Who You Are
- Larry the Cable Guy

BVP over at Bonum, Verum, Pulchrum has some downright funny cartoons that are worth checking out. Swing on by and see the rest of 'em. And add yourself to his friends list!

Here's just a couple of 'em --

A Stunner Out Of The USCCB
Wolves in sheep's clothing

Have our esteemed shepherds funnelled $150,000 to pro-abortion/pro-homosexual groups? You be the judge.

From the 3:20 mark to the end of the video -- it's enough to make your blood boil.


Here are other references -
Life Site News
The American Life League
Pipe Line News
Life News

FINALLY! Someone Comes Out & Says It
Give 'em hell, Bobby!

Here's some of the article from The Hindu (the national newspaper of India);
Obama’s policies will send more jobs to India, China: Jindal

Indian-American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has claimed that the Obama Administration’s policies on trade and healthcare will lead to additional spending and send more “good paying” jobs to countries like India and China.

“The President said he didn’t want us to fall behind countries like Brazil, China, India. But, I’ll tell you what, if they pursue card check and cap and trade and this massive health care bill and more government borrowing and more government taxes, we will be sending even more good paying American jobs to those countries,” Jindal told the Fox News.

All Around Bad-Ass Of The Week Award
Professor Anne Wortham

Helmet tip to Former Altar Boy

Here's just a bit from LewRockwell.com;

No He Can't
by Anne Wortham

Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America.

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine – what little there is left – for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

November 6, 2008

"Mr. President, May I Introduce You To The Queen Of The Tampanese"
DingleBarry must have thought she was Japanese



From the Associated Press;
Photo Caption:
U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.