I tried to find this story on CNN and MSNBC but I couldn’t find it anywhere but Fox (for National news). I couldn’t. Seriously, I couldn’t. Go to Google news and Fox, along with some conservative blogs/websites, are the only ones talking about this subject. Which is really very funny because both conservative and liberals are being vocal.
Why should we care? This is going on in Texas, not every state, right? Wrong. Texas is one of the biggest buyer of textbooks, which means they have the most say over what textbooks are used in about 90% of America’s public schools.
The battle right now is over what will be taught in social studies and history. From the mindset of the right:
It’s a battle Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, is watching closely, "Well, if you grab the minds of the young people you grab the minds of the next generation." Sekulow believes a child’s school board meeting is the most important governmental event a parent can plug into. "Parents don’t check their rights to raise their children at the door to the schoolhouse," Sekulow cautions. He knows the stakes are high this week in Texas because, "This curriculum, once established, will affect a generation of students – how they think.
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It is women who lead the fight for abortion. Women. If abortion and the killing of an innocent child wasn’t lawful and encouraged we wouldn’t be here right now, would we? Every time a woman
stands by abortion, she stands by this story. She says that women are not worth anything. She says that it is okay to encourage a male dominated society which history has shown to be violent societies, especially toward women.
So, as the story goes:
XINRAN XUE, a Chinese writer, describes visiting a peasant family in the Yimeng area of Shandong province…….“To my absolute horror, I saw a tiny foot poking out of the pail. The midwife must have dropped that tiny baby alive into the slops pail! I nearly threw myself at it, but the two policemen….held my shoulders in a firm grip…..“‘But that’s…murder…and you’re the police!’ The little foot was still now. The policemen held on to me for a few more minutes. ‘Doing a baby girl is not a big thing around here,’ [an] older woman said comfortingly. ‘That’s a living child,’ I said in a shaking voice, pointing at the slops pail. ‘It’s not a child,’ she corrected me. ‘It’s a girl baby, and we can’t keep it. Around these parts, you can’t get by without a son. Girl babies don’t count.’”
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If being stupid is the objective, then they score for the win.
Yesterday, I went to Holy Name Cathedral for a “Evening With Mary”. We had Mass, the Rosary, and one of the visionaries from Medjugorje (Ivan Dragicevic) actually had his daily apparition right there on the altar! It was, as you can imagine, way amazing.
On the way back to the car, we passed a store. Apparently, though you sure couldn’t tell from the window display, it was a clothing store. There were no “clothes” to be seen, but the window was filled with signs, sporting various slogans on how to be cool.
The name of the store was “Diesel”. I have never heard of this store, but the people I was with were all too familiar with it. It is owned by a man named Renzo Rosso. His “headquarters” is in Molvena in Northern Italy.
So what was on the signs in the windows?
I thought these were outrageous enough, but when I got home I began to do a little research.
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I love the Hollyweird left. They have no idea what they talk about, yet they just keep spilling their guts and showing their stupidity. Sean Penn is really good at it too.
Penn, appearing on HBO’s "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which he co-founded.
"Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it" said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. "And this is mainstream media, who
should — truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."
1 + 1 = denial of the first amendment. Oooookkaaayyyyyy. He also said that he hoped people who questioned his motives in helping Haiti would get rectal cancer, but that’s another story for another day. The hypocrisy of it all is astounding.
Let’s just look a bit into the charges made against Sean Penn’s buddy:
Human Rights Violations
A 2006 State Department report on human rights documented a slew of abuses, including data implicating Chavez’s security forces in about 6,000 killings over five years.
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I’ve reported some pretty odd things about the Obama Administration. I thought nothing was going to top blackmailing and then bribing the Senator from Nebraska with free Medicaid for his state. However, if this turns out to be true…….yikes! What the heck is going on in D.C.?
In a nut shell – A NY Congressman, Eric Massa, announced he was not going to run for office again because of a recurrence of cancer. Then the media reports that there is an ethics inquiry concerning Massa making an inappropriate comment to a male staffer. Now he is resigning. The “incident” happened 67 days ago and it is released now. So, what is going on?
It turns out Massa wasn’t a supporter of Obama’s Budget and is not a supporter of Obama’s healthcare reform.
Massa had some things to say as his last act as a politician on his radio show. First, let’s deal with the inappropriate comment:
(After dancing with bride and bridesmaid at a wedding reception and returning to his table) "One of them looked at me and, as they would do after, I don’t know, 15 gin and tonics, and goodness only knows how many bottles of champagne, a staff member made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid, and his points were clear and his words were far more colorful than that.
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BRAVE NEW WORLD … by: ALDOUS HUXLEY
CHAPTER ONE:
I realize that most of you either don’t have the book, or if you have it, haven’t read
the first chapter. But I pretty much did the other book club alone too, so I’ll do the same here. Just jump in, if or when, you want to.
Chapter One:
My husband and I are avid readers. I average a book a week, often reading two. He does the same. We are also enthusiastic movie goers…again, I try to see a movie a week. (Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on the movie, many of those are children’s movies).
My favorite Genre is Supernatural or Psychological thrillers. I adore Dean Koontz, am a fan of Stephen King (tho less and less), Iris Johansen, James Patterson….you get the picture. I saw Paranormal Activity, Zombieland, Shutter Island, all the Doomsday flicks…
I HATE slasher movies however, and will NOT see a movie that has purely gratuitous violence.
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Reading I
Ex 17:3-7
In those days, in their thirst for water,
the people grumbled against Moses,
saying, “Why did you ever make us leave Egypt?
Was it just to have us die here of thirst
with our children and our livestock?”
So Moses cried out to the LORD,
“What shall I do with this people?
a little more and they will stone me!”
The LORD answered Moses,
“Go over there in front of the people,
along with some of the elders of Israel,
holding in your hand, as you go,
the staff with which you struck the river.
I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb.
Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it
for the people to drink.”
This Moses did, in the presence of the elders of Israel.
The place was called Massah and Meribah,
because the Israelites quarreled there
and tested the LORD, saying,
“Is the LORD in our midst or not?”
Reading II
Rom 5:1-2, 5-8
Brothers and sisters:
Since we have been justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have gained access by faith
to this grace in which we stand,
and we boast in hope of the glory of God.
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Hey all. Some of you may have noticed that John McDonell has been M.I.A for a
while now. Well, he sent me a letter (an actual letter written on paper..lol..you remember those!) and it seems that his computer privileges have been revoked!
Here’s what the letter says:
Hi MK,
I’m not dead yet – but I am working on it!” my newest slogan – pretty apt, eh?
This fellow and I are part of the geek-crew here. We two had a falling out, and because he controlled my online hours, he decided to abruptly pull-the-plug.
So instead of whining about it I decided to make this part of my prolife sacrifice. Any info will be by snail-mail letter now.
Just wanted you to know that I’m OK…for now.
Love ya,
Johnny
So I was thinking that maybe we could all write something to him, I’ll print it and then send it on to him through the mail.
Just write something in the comments. What do you think? You guys up for it? He’s pretty much trapped in his house as well as his body, and I think he’d really love to know that he hasn’t been forgotten!
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Being a movie lover and giving up TV for Lent don’t exactly add up to a whole lot of
fun come Oscar time. I haven’t actually seen an Oscar Night in over 15 years…
That said, I can’t help but get involved, even if only peripherally. So here’s this years nominees:
Best Picture:
- Avatar
- Inglorious Bastards
- District 9
- Precious
- Blind Side
- An Education
- The Hurt Locker
- A Serious Man
- UP
- Up in the Air
I saw 5 out of the 10 films nominated for best picture. Out of them, my favorites were “UP”, “Inglorious Basterds”. Since UP is also up for Best Animated Picture, I’m gonna have to say that I’m rooting for “Inglorious Bastards”. If I was a betting woman however, I’d bet that “Avatar” will walk away with Best Picture and anything else that it’s up for. And of course, that is one that I did NOT see! Precious was also good, but it was too depressing to win, and Blind Side was too Christian. Not for me, but for the Academy. I don’t even remember “A Serious Man”, so that tells you what I thought of that one.
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