This Prayer Seems Very Appropriate Now

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in our day of battle,

protect us against the deceit and wickedness of the devil.

May God rebuke him, we humbly pray.

And you, O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God

banish into hell Satan and all of the evil spirits who roam

through the world seeking the ruin of souls.   Amen

“Evil spirits who roam through the world seeking the ruin of souls”  sure sounds as if it includes those leftist demons promoting abortion, sodomy, and gay marriage.

Don't Mess with Congressman West

CAIR picked on the wrong congressman.

You've got to love this guy! Do you know any other guy in government who could 

put this guy down like this.     

Excellent debate! Please watch.

Click below:

http://youtu.be/2CVK4c2qu3M

Beware of Network: A National Social Justice Lobby

Network: A National Social Justice Lobby is directed by Sister Simone Campbell SSS.

Campbell’s Network organization supports Call to Action, the pseudo-Catholic group whose members were excommunicated by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz in Nebraska some years ago. Call to Action agitates for an end to priestly celibacy, as well as female priests, artificial contraception, and other dissident teachings.

Network has produced a voting review of the 110th congress, which is available at their website: http://www.networklobby.org/issues/alsoofinterest/2008VotingRecord.pdf

In this scorecard at least half the Democrat congressman received a 100% rating. In contrast, no Republican in the house had a perfect rating and very few were high.

For more  information:

http://www.pewsitter.com/view_news_id_17572.php

CACG - A Trojan Horse Full of Far-left Democrats

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) was founded in 2005. Alexia Kelly is the director and claims to be the principle founder, but many individuals have worked to build this organization. The CACG and other similar political organizations, such as Catholics United, Pax Christi, Network, Center of Concern, Just Faith, and Call to Action work closely together and share leadership. Their direction and affiliations however extend well beyond these Catholic-focused groups to Democrat party operatives and funding sources, Unions, Catholic leadership universities and charity organizations, national politicians, and now the White House. . .

The Catholic League has recently revealed that the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute gave $100,000 to CACG in 2005. CACG is also affiliated with the John Podesta’s Center for American Progress. CAP works closely with CACG and has provided funds to Catholics United and Faith and Public Life. CAP received 3.5 million from the Soros organization in 2005. William Donohue, of the Catholic League has stated that George Soros supports CACG for the same reason he supports the pro-choice group, Catholics for Choice. They help to “make abortion rights a respectable Catholic position.”

The CACG is run and advised by powerful Democrats. Their board, staff, and advisory committee include top fundraisers and strategists as well as major labor union representation. Elizabeth Bagley and Broderick Johnson are quite valuable to the national campaigns. Sister Patricia Daly is connected to a very large religious philanthropy. Catholic Church Leadership from the Sisters of Mercy, the Jesuit order, the government-funded Catholic Charities and Catholic Relief Services are also represented at CACG. Catholic academia has a strong presence.

The CACG has powerful representation from the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The CACG, SEIU, ACORN, and the Obama campaign are all united in common objectives such as the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). In December 2008 members of the SEIU, which donated millions of dollars to the Obama campaign, demonstrated in support of the FOCA, a virulent anti-Catholic anti-life piece of legislation. At that time the SEIU filed an amicus brief with the Ohio Supreme Court defending ACORN against voter fraud prosecution. SEIU is not affiliated in any formal way with ACORN, nevertheless they provided valuable legal reinforcement. Interestingly, The SEIU and ACORN were both started by Wade Roethke, founder of 60’s radical group SDS. SDS was the parent group of the murderous Weather Underground. Bill Ayers, Chicago-based political mentor for Barack Obama, was a well-known member of the Weather Underground and SDS. Today Roethke’s ACORN is funded partly through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. The CCHD is funded by the Church and represented on the staff at the Catholic Alliance for the Common Good.

The bottom line – CACG maintains a Catholic veneer because this subterfuge helps it to achieve its objectives. In reality though, CAGC is nothing more than a Trojan horse with a Catholic veneer and a body full of left wing political activists and dissenting Catholics. Their sole purpose is to advance a political agenda that is inimical to the average man-in-the-street and diametrically opposed to many of the Church’s most fundamental moral teachings.

For more information:

http://www.pewsitter.com/view_news_id_17572.php

Threats Against the Vatican

I know some of you aren't Glenn Beck fans, but he has been to the Vatican and talked with Cardinals. This is very important to Catholics and all other denominations. Pretend someone else is talking. There IS evil in the world.

Please watch this. It's important!!

MOST interesting point-of-view. If for no other reason, please watch this out of curiosity.  This is a must see for all people of good will, Catholic, Protestant and Jew.\

Please watch this clip and listen very carefully. Christians are at war.  You should watch this report, and circulate it to your friends.

http://web.gbtv.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=20177695

“Try to fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured ...but not prove they are a citizen.”

A Touching Story About Bruce Springsteen

 
http://www.scottwfedor.com/thursday-%E2%80%93-4192012/

HR347: ONE MORE STEP TOWARD DICTATORSHIP

  This is a new law signed by Obama in early March 2012 which makes it
illegal to protest in his presence.  Regardless of where you stand
politically, this is very scary.  Please at least watch this before
you delete it.

  The law means that wherever Obama is you do not have a right to ask
him anything you want to. His secret service can have you arrested,
fined, and imprisoned for more than a YEAR if you ask him something he
doesn't like or doesn't want to answer.  This sounds as if he's
becoming more like Hitler than Lincoln .  THIS IS HIS LATEST ATTEMPT TO
STAGE A TAKE OVER OF AMERICA .

  May the Lord have mercy on us!!!!

   http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7SGWH3kirzg&vq=medium

Let Me See If I Understand This

Apparently, I'm supposed to be more outraged by what Mitt Romney does with his money than by what Barack Obama does with mine.

Most Powerful Talk I Have Ever Heard

This is about the most powerful talk I have ever heard.  I gather it
was before the last mid-term election, but is just as appropriate
today. Listen to his definition of the ‘greatest threat to America.”
Some will not like this, but I hope all will listen and at least consider.

This clip features Dennis Prager on a panel at the University of
Denver. You will recognize the other panelists, but never mind; this is
about Prager. And he is about the future of this nation, so listen well,
Please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=XNUc8nuo7HI

Obama's Catholic Plan

One thing stands in the way of Obama’s agenda, and he intends to destroy it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVN2MMuiedI&feature=related

Test of Fire: Election 2012

Will you vote the values that will stand the test of fire?

Some things are more important than high gas prices or a faltering economy.

They are life, marriage, and freedom.

This November, Christians must stand up and protect their sacred rights and duties.

Please watch and share this video with your friends!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9vQt6IXXaM

Religious Freedom:

“When the government tampers with a freedom so fundamental, one shudders to think what lies ahead.”
~~ Cardinal Dolan

Visit www.CC2W.org for more details.

Food Stamp President

Food stamp usage increases 70% under Obama

According to a new CBO (Congressional Budget Office) report roughly 1 in 7 Americans are on food stamps, far exceeding the previous record.

http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2012/04/20/food-stamp-usage-increases-70-under-obama/?subscriber=1

The Lost Book of Mormon

I’m not a Mormon.  Here’s one of the reasons why . . .

The Lost Book of Abraham:

http://www.bookofabraham.info/

Watch the Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcyzkd_m6KE&feature=player_embedded

Rebellion in the Catholic Church

Thesis:
The Catholic Church is being torn apart by traitorous or ignorant clerics, religious and laity who have succumbed to humanist philosophies out of cowardice, lust and pride.

A Brief History of Rebellion:

* If we trace back to Martin Luther we see the Rebellion in the Church beginning to take serious shape.  Luther .. remember was a priest.  He is the Father of the Reformation.  Martin Luther did not Re-Form the Church .. he tore it apart .. fomenting revolution and overthrow.

* With Religious Revolution burning across mainland Europe .. England caught fire as well in the person of King Henry VIII.  Henry .. following close on the heels of Luther’s approach .. he claimed the authority of the Church for himself .. specifically taking the title .. Supreme Head of the Church in England.  He coerced every bishop in the realm .. all except one .. St. John Fisher whom he beheaded.  

* Francis Bacon (1561-1626) who emphasized the use of reason and scientific investigation alone to arrive at truth.Rene Descartes (1596-1650) with his famous .. Cogito ergo sum .. tried to explain the universe as a merely logical proposition.  And Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) .. with his radical materialist reinterpretation of Scripture .. where he asserts heaven and hell are actually on earth.

* Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) who used the pen name .. Voltaire .. scoffed at the Church and its unenlightened .. primal worship of a Supreme Being. Voltaire is the ICON of the Enlightenment .. elite .. educated .. cultured .. sophisticated .. toast of all the most fashionable parties ..  He and his allies form the pantheon of gods of the Enlightenment .. men like Montesquieu .. John Locke .. Rousseau .. David Hume .. and Berkeley.

* John Locke (1632-1704) .. with his appeal to human reason to be the final arbiter of truth as opposed to any outside authority.

* George Berkeley (1685-1753) .. and his so-called subjective idealism .. wherein he held that reality proceeds from the mind .. and is not imposed on the mind from an outside authority.

* Montesquieu (1689-1755) altered the idea of Divine Providence running throughout history and in turn left events and their consequences to the interplay of great movements of man.

* David Hume (1711-1776).. in a bid to confuse the picture even further .. subordinates human reason to human feelings and says morality derives from how we feel .. not an authority.

* Rousseau’s (1712-1778) advancement of the idea that man is basically good but corrupted by society .. not born into original sin with its resulting concupiscence .. and therefore .. standing in no need of a Savior.

* The fruit of the Enlightenment is that God was replaced by Man.   Within 200 years .. this understanding would lead to moral chaos .. two world wars .. and hundreds of millions being enslaved by totalitarian dictators.  But in the immediate wake of the Enlightenment .. what was first threatened was the existing political order. 

* Nowhere was this seen more plainly than in the French Revolution of 1789 .. through 1799 .. accompanied by the Reign of Terror from 1793-1794 .. where upwards of forty thousand people ..  many of them faithful Catholics ..  clergy and laity .. met their fates on the guillotine .. also called France’s National Razor.  The execution of King Louis XVI and his Queen Marie Antoinette in 1793 symbolized the end of an era of authority deriving from above.  From now on .. people would be ruled in equality .. liberty and fraternity .. or such was the fantasy.

* In the 1700s . . . Germany became the focal point for attacking established religious belief.

* Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) proposed the idea that one can only know God through Reason.

* George Hegel (1770-1831) reduces the understanding of GOD .. OUT THERE .. to a set of beliefs accepted by a community of believers.  Their philosophical approach establishes a theological-academic approach to God that denies the miraculous.

* By the dawn of the 20^th  century .. this belief system had begun to harden.  Pope St. Pius X called it Modernism and defined it as the “synthesis of all heresies.”  He wrote an encyclical that was as shocking in its prophetic utterances as it was profound in its recognition of the times

* The congregation of Holy Cross, C.S.C., enjoyed a prominent role in the rebellion … in the person of Father Theodore Hesburgh… president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987.  In 1967… Hesburgh engineered a coup … in Catholic higher education… the shock waves of which … still roll across the Church.  With the infamous Land ‘O Lakes statement… Hesburgh and his cohorts delivered control of the formerly Church run university… over to a lay board of trustees.

* The disobedience of many of the bishops to fulfill their duties… is a disobedience to the Church’s Magisterium.  The scandal of actively homosexual priests and bishops… rampant in the Church…is the cause of the clerical sex abuse scandals which exploded on to the public scene in 2002.

Conclusion:

You must fight heresy…as though eternity depended on the outcome … because it does.  You must love The Church radically … forsaking all else… for love of the Church is love of Christ.  Pray for your persecutors … but do not allow them to stand in the way of your salvation.  In so doing … fighting – loving and praying … you will glory in the company of all the saints and angels in Heaven… until you see them face to face.

We are a Church chastened and sanctified in the flames of this rebellion.

Thankfully, there are many fine and splendid bishops who speak the truths of the faith very clearly .. such as .. Cardinal Raymond Burke who said recently in a speech that received worldwide attention .. bishops have as much if not more duty to obey the Magisterium.

Watch and Learn:
http://www.realcatholictv.com/free/index.php?vidID=ciax-2010-11-14&ssnID=88

Catholic Investigative Agency

Real Catholic TV

Why I'm Moving to North Dakota

The vast pot of oil that sits in the northwestern part of North Dakota is called the Bakken — the Bakken formation. The name rhymes with “rockin’.” In fact, there’s a bumper sticker: “Rockin’ the Bakken.

Care for some more fun facts, indicative of the boom in North dakota?

In Williston, the McDonald’s had to shut down in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon. They had run out of food.  You get a signing bonus, for working at that McDonald’s — $1,000, I’m told. Pay begins at $18 an hour (again, I’m told). Blue-chip health insurance.

At the Williston Walmart, they don’t really bother stocking the shelves. Who wants to work as a stock boy when you can make a bundle in the oil patch? Also, the goods would not stay on the shelves long.  The store just sets the pallets in the aisles, and customers grab the goods and go right to the register.

The Walmart in Minot, I hear, is thinking about closing down: Hard to get people to work there. Truckers in the oil patch make between $80,000 and $120,000 a year, with generous benefits.

Someone says to me, “Do you mind if I tell you something blue?” Naturally, I’m all ears. “From what I hear,” he says, “the strippers are making more per night in Williston than they do in Las Vegas.”

Read about it:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/296194/north-dakota-journal-part-ii-jay-nordlinger

Beware of Counterfeit Catholics

Learn about the dark deeds of evil Catholics-in-name-only, who are hijacking the Church for their own ends, not the ends of Christ!

Findings of Fact:

* In the wake of the 2004 elections, groups claiming to be Catholic sprung up tasked with deceiving Catholics into voting for pro-abortion democrats.  These groups are fraudulently Catholic, indeed evil.  They are not authentically Catholic because their leaders reject Catholic teaching and doctrine.  These counterfeit Catholics push a perverted sense of “the common good.”

* These fake Catholic political groups trace their false notion of common good back to 1983 when leftist Cardinal Joseph Bernadin of Chicago gave a speech at Fordham University in New York where he advocated the idea that all life issues have equal moral weight.  He created a moral equivalence among war, abortion, nuclear weapons, and other “social injustices.”   His so-called Seamless Garment analogy ignored authentic Catholic doctrine and gave his liberal (Democrat) followers a way to overlook the evil as abortion as just another sin among many.

* The US bishops have a history of being very friendly with the Democratic Party and usually walk in lock step with their party platform with the exception of abortion and gay marriage which they mostly ignore or minimize as a matter of conscience instead of a diabolical threat to life and Catholic beliefs.

 

* In 2003 during the Bush-Kerry Presidential contest, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops produced “Faithful Citizenship:  A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility” which was contrived to allow Catholics to vote for either party despite the intrinsic evils of abortion and same-sex marriage supported by the Democratic Party.  These evil party positions prompted true Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke to call the Democrats “the Party of Death.”

* Liberal Democrats were shocked to discover that their efforts to elect John Kerry in 2004 were undone by values voters who voted against Kerry because of his pro-abortion views.   The margin of pro-life voters in 2004 tipped the election to George Bush.   Democrats were stunned that they were perceived as the anti-God party because of their support of abortion and homosexual rights.

* After the 2004 election defeat, Alexia Kelly and Tom Perriello launched Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) with millions of dollars in donations from leftist groups including George Soros ‘ Open Society Institute, ARCA Foundation, TIDES Foundation, Center for American Progress, PBL Fund,  and other far left agencies.  (PBL Fund is run by retired Progressive Auto Insurance CEO Peter Lewis who is a close ally of Soros.)  CACG has a far left agenda hiding behind their stated goal of advancing the common good.   The CACG focus is on anti-war, global warming, and reproductive rights.  It claims to be non-partisan but the leader (Alexis Kelly) is a member of the DNC, President Obama’s campaign, and the campaign of Democrat Governor of Kansas Sebilius who is Catholic in name only and who is now the pro-abortion secretary of HHS under Obama.   Alexia Kelly has worked for several leftist Democrats and got her start working for the evil Catholic Campaign for Human Development which is sponsored by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. 

* The cofounder of CACG, Tom Perriello, is also a Catholic in name only and is a pro-choice Democrat. While running for the US Congress, he said that he would not vote for Obamacare if it funded abortion, but he was elected on that promise and promptly voted for Obamacare and its abortion provisions.  He lied to his voters, and he now says he will not allow any restrictions on abortion.   Perriello also created Faithful America and aligns it with Faith in Public Life which is another leftist common good organization funded by George Soros and dedicated to political change.   He is deeply involved with leftist anti-Catholic circles.  He hooked up with MoveOn.org and founded Avaaz to form an Internet community to advance social justice and “common good” initiatives.

* Alfred Rotandaro is the chairman of CACG.  He believes gay sex comes from God, and women should be priests

* Francis Xavier Doyle is the treasurer of CACG and a union organizer working for Andrew Stern of the SEIU which gave $60 million to Obama’s election campaign.  He also got his start in leftist theology and politics at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

* CACG has a speakers’ bureau that provides speakers to conferences and meetings all over the country to advance their twisted theology.  One of those speakers, Miguel Diaz, is now the Obama-appointed US Ambassador to the Vatican which is a slap in the face to the pope.

* Catholics United was launched by Chris Korzen who is another Catholic in name only who is closely allied with Alexia Kelly and runs in the same far left circles.   It’s reasonable to assume they have many of the same shadowy financial backers of the Soros network of socialists. 

* The cofounder of Catholics United is James Salt who previously worked at Pax Christi which is a very liberal Catholic so-called social justice group which openly advocates for homosexual rights and whose supporters include Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit.

* In 2006, the far left Center for American Progress released a report stressing the need for leftists to adopt the idea of the “common good” as a political strategy.   This strategy was publicly unveiled by Bill Clinton himself on no less a stage than Catholic Georgetown University in 2006.    This twisted notion of Catholic teaching on the common good has been acclaimed by leftist Catholics and given to groups funded by George Soros who have a worldview opposed to Christ and His Church. 

* George Soros and his wealthy allies gave millions of dollars to get Barack Obama elected with the goal of advancing a new world order which includes taxpayer funding of contraception and abortion, and acceptance of sodomy and gay marriage.

* On June 11, 2010 in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict commended to the faithful to get involved in politics to defend Catholic beliefs and fight the threats to marriage and the evils of abortion and sodomy.  The US Bishops must not allow this evil co-opting of the faith to continue, and we must not allow the bishops to fail in their duty to defend the faith.

 

Watch and learn:

http://www.realcatholictv.com/free/index.php?vidID=ciax-2010-06-27&ssnID=88

Catholic Investigative Agency

Real Catholic TV

Socialism

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.  When the

government fears the people, there is liberty."

~~ Thomas Jefferson

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an

intellectual could ignore or evade it."

~~Thomas Sowell

"Socialism is not a fancy term for hanging out with your friends. It's

government sanctioned theft. The government cannot produce anything. It

can only take from those who produce and give it to those who do not.

Once the government has consumed all of the producer's resources,

however, it will starve and collapse. Nobody wins. Socialism sounds

great on paper. Until you run out of other people's money!"

Rules for Guys

  Finally , the guys' side of the story.
(I must admit, it's pretty good.)
We always hear "the rules "
From the female side.

Now here are the rules from the male side.
These are our rules!
Please note.. these are all numbered "1"
ON PURPOSE!

1.   Men are NOT mind readers.

1. Learn to work the toilet seat.
You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down.
We need it up, you need it down.
You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports. It's like the full moon
or the changing of the tides.
Let it be.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport.
And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want.
Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a Problem.

See a doctor.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 Days.

1. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't Expect us to act like soap opera guys.

1. If you think you're fat, you probably are.
Don't ask us.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the  other one

1. You can either ask us to do something
Or tell us how you want it done.
Not both.
If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

1. Christopher Columbus did NOT n eed directions and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.
Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched.
We do that.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," We will act l! ike nothing's wrong.
We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, Expect an answer you don't want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine.  Really .

1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, basketball, football, the shotgun formation,
or golf.

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. I am in shape.  Round IS a shape!

1. ! Thank you for reading this.
Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight;


But did you know men really don't mind that? It's like camping.

Historical Trivia

    Did you know the saying "God willing and the Creek don't rise" was in reference to the Creek Indians and not a body of water?  It was written by Benjamin Hawkins in the late 18th century. He was a politician and Indian diplomat.  While in the south, Hawkins was requested by the President of the U.S. to return to Washington.  In his response, he was said to write, "God willing and the Creek don't rise." Because he capitalized the word "Creek" it is deduced that he was referring to the Creek Indian tribe and not a body of water. 
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    In George Washington's days, there were no cameras.  One's image was either sculpted or painted.  Some paintings of George Washington showed him standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both legs and both arms.  Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people were to be painted, but by how many limbs were to be painted.  Arms and legs are 'limbs,' therefore painting them would cost the buyer more.  Hence the expression, 'Okay, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg.'  (Artists know hands and arms are more difficult to paint.) 
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    As incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only twice a year (May and October).  Women kept their hair covered, while men shaved their heads (because of lice and bugs) and wore wigs.  Wealthy men could afford good wigs made from wool.  They couldn't wash the wigs, so to clean them they would carve out a loaf of bread, put the wig in the shell, and bake it for 30 minutes.  The heat would make the wig big and fluffy, hence the term 'big wig.'  Today we often use the term 'here comes the Big Wig' because someone appears to be or is powerful and wealthy. 
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    In the late 1700's, many houses consisted of a large room with only one chair.  Commonly, a long wide board folded down from the wall, and was used for dining.  The 'head of the household' always sat in the chair while everyone else ate sitting on the floor.  Occasionally a guest, who was usually a man, would be invited to sit in this chair during a meal.  To sit in the chair meant you were important and in charge.  They called the one sitting in the chair the 'chair man.'  Today in business, we use the expression or title 'Chairman' or 'Chairman of the Board.' 
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    Personal hygiene left much room for improvement.  As a result, many women and men had developed acne scars by adulthood.  The women would spread bee's wax over their facial skin to smooth out their complexions.  When they were speaking to each other, if a woman began to stare at another woman's face she was told, 'mind your own bee's wax.'  Should the woman smile, the wax would crack, hence the term 'crack a smile'.  In addition, when they sat too close to the fire, the wax would melt . .. . Therefore, the expression 'losing face.' 
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    Ladies wore corsets, which would lace up in the front.  A proper and dignified woman, as in 'straight laced' wore a tightly tied lace.
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    Common entertainment included playing cards.  However, there was a tax levied when purchasing playing cards but only applicable to the 'Ace of Spades.'  To avoid paying the tax, people would purchase 51 cards instead.  Yet, since most games require 52 cards, these people were thought to be stupid or dumb because they weren't 'playing with a full deck..' 
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    Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine what the people considered important.  Since there were no telephones, TV's or radios, the politicians sent their assistants to local taverns, pubs, and bars.  They were told to 'go sip some Ale and listen to people's conversations and political concerns.  Many assistants were dispatched at different times.  'You go sip here' and 'You go sip there.'  The two words 'go sip' were eventually combined when referring to the local opinion and, thus we have the term 'gossip.' 
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    At local taverns, pubs, and bars, people drank from pint and quart-sized containers.  A bar maid's job was to keep an eye on the customers and keep the drinks coming.  She had to pay close attention and remember who was drinking in 'pints' and who was drinking in 'quarts,' hence the phrase 'minding your 'P's and Q's'. 
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    Bet you didn't know this!  In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons.  Those cannons fired round iron cannon balls.  It was necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon.  However, how to prevent them from rolling about the deck?  The best storage method devised was a square-based pyramid with one ball on top, resting on four resting on 
nine, which rested on sixteen.  Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon.  There was only one problem....how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding or rolling from under the others.  The solution was a metal plate called a 'Monkey' with 16 round indentations.  However, if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it.  The solution to the rusting problem was to make 'Brass Monkeys.'  Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled.. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannonballs would come right off the monkey; Thus, it was quite literally, 'Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.'  (All this time, you thought that was an improper expression, didn't you.) 

Social Injustice

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) runs the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).

Under the pretense of fighting poverty and injustice, the USCCB-run Catholic Campaign for Human Development has disfigured Catholic Social teaching to make it nothing more than a tool to help promote sexual immorality and Communism.

The Facts:

* Jesus did not say “Blessed are the poor.”   He said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit” which means the humble and faithful believers who will go to heaven.

* The book Citizens of the Heavenly City by Dr. Arthur Hippler describes the true social work of the Catholic Church which is evangelizing and bringing others into the one true universal Church.  Cardinal Raymond Burke, a true follower of Catholic doctrine and the Magesterium, wrote the introduction.  Every Catholic should read this book.

* Liberal/Progressive US Catholic Bishops created the Catholic Campaign for Human Development in 1969.

* From the start, the CCHD had a leftist “social justice “agenda instead of true social work with a focus on saving the souls of the poor.

* The CCHD follows a false social agenda.  It promotes a leftist social justice agenda.

* The American Life League (ALL) sent a letter to each US Catholic Bishop in 2009 identifying 14 CCHD grantees which directly promote anti-Catholic practices.  Another 41 groups associated with anti-Catholic groups were also identified.  The bishops responded by de-funding only one of the groups.

* The CCHD is influenced by John Sweeney, President Emeritus of the AFL-CIO, who favors same-sex marriage and promotes a gay rights agenda.

* One grantee of CCHD is Bread for the World which is a UN agency which promotes population control through contraception, sterilization, and abortion.  The PBS travel guide, Rick Steves, is a promoter of this group and its agenda.

* The Center for Community Change is another CCHD grantee with an agenda that is virulently anti-Catholic.

* Many CCHD grantees are associated with leftist labor unions, the leftist National Organization of Women, and Planned Parenthood.

* Many CCHD grantees promote abortion, homosexual rights, and Marxism.

* Many CCHD grantees attend the annual U. S. Social Forum which promotes a far-left agenda including Marxism.

* We must ask if the CCHD’s agenda is to set up a rival Magisterium as they operate in opposition to the Holy Father and Catholic doctrine.

* Catholics should refuse to give their hard-earned money to CCHD and let the US Catholic Bishops know why.

* It is the duty of every Catholic to inform their fellow Catholics, their pastors, and the US Catholic Bishops about these intrinsic evils.

* Charity and helping the poor is a duty of every Catholic, but it must not be done through the corrupt and evil CCHD.

Watch and Learn:

http://www.realcatholictv.com/free/index.php?vidID=ciax-2011-10-31&ssnID=162

Catholic Investigative Agency

Real Catholic TV

Democratic Party - Always Play the Victim

"In light of the tragic killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin -- and the manufactured hysteria surrounding it -- one thing needs to be stated as clearly and as often as possible: The United States is the least racist and least xenophobic country in the world. Foreigners of every race, ethnicity, and religion know this. Most Americans suspect this. Most black Americans and the entire left deny this. Black Africans know this. That is why so many seek to live in the United States. Decades ago, the number of black Africans who had immigrated to the United States had already surpassed the number of black Africans who were forcibly shipped to America as slaves. ... The left-wing drumbeat about America as racist is a combination of politics and black memory. The political aspect is this: The Democrats and the left recognize that if blacks cease viewing themselves as victims of racism, the Democratic Party can no longer offer itself as black America's savior."

--radio talk-show host Dennis Prager

Intolerant Feminist Ideology

"Feminism as ideology eschews individual choice. Women must fit a certain mold; if they don't, they're either deemed in need of having their consciousness raised or dismissed as frivolous ninnies. Ann Romney, who raised fives sons, has defended herself against Rosen's accusation by saying Rosen should have come to her 'house when those five boys were causing so much trouble. It wasn't so easy.' Frankly, Romney would be better off not dignifying Rosen's attack by responding. Anyone who has spent a day caring for a toddler -- much less trying to handle five boys at one time -- knows that motherhood is hard, full-time work. The fact that many mothers choose to work outside the home, as I did, does not mean that those who choose to stay at home are taking the easy way out. ... Feminists believe that the only legitimate role models for young girls are women whose lives mirror their own. Feminists don't want to expand choices available to young women so much as they want to limit the options to feminist-approved categories, and full-time homemaker clearly isn't on the list."

--columnist Linda Chavez

The Buffett Rule is Math?

"Let's do the math. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates this new ['Buffett Rule'] tax would yield between $4 billion and $5 billion a year. If we collect the Buffett tax for the next 250 years -- a span longer than the life of this republic -- it would not cover the Obama deficit for 2011 alone. As an approach to our mountain of debt, the Buffett Rule is a farce. And yet Obama repeated the ridiculous claim again this week. 'It will help us close our deficit.' Does he really think we're that stupid? Hence the fallback: The Buffett Rule is a first step in tax reform. On the contrary. It's a substitute for tax reform, an evasion of tax reform. In three years, Obama hasn't touched tax (or, for that matter, entitlement) reform, and clearly has no intention to. The Buffett Rule is nothing but a form of redistributionism that has vanishingly little to do with debt reduction and everything to do with re-election. ... For Obama, fairness is the supreme social value. And fairness is what he is running on -- although he is not prepared to come clean on its price. Or even acknowledge that there is a price. Instead, Obama throws in a free economic lunch for all. 'This is not just about fairness,' he insisted on Wednesday. 'This is also about growth.' ... Three years ago, Obama promised universal health care that saves money. Today, he offers a capital gains tax hike that spurs economic growth. This is free-lunch egalitarianism."

--columnist Charles Krauthammer

New law makes it illegal to protest in Obama's presence

Nothing surprises me anymore with this guy, but what does surprise me is that this bill was overwhelmingly passed by both the House and the Senate. That really scares me.  

This means that, wherever Obama is at, you do not have a right to ask him anything you want to. His secret service can have you arrested, fined, and imprisoned for more than a YEAR if you ask him something he doesn't like.

WATCH AND BE AMAZED AT HIS LATEST ATTEMPT TO STAGE A TAKE OVER OF AMERICA...

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7SGWH3kirzg&vq=medium

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That new law was designed to charge people who jump over the White House fence with a felony.  So, most congress people voted for it.

However, it could be used by corrupt officials (such as Obama).   So, it may well be unconstitutional as stated in the video.

Here are more comments on it:

http://reason.com/blog/2012/03/01/does-hr-347-the-trespass-bill-change-any