News Updates, 5/26

“Bear witness to your faith through the digital world”
Pope Benedict reaches out to youth with Facebook profile and web site

Prop 8 ban on "gay" marriage upheld by CA Supreme Court
The California Supreme Court has upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, but it also decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect will stay wed...
[The "Gaystapo" to be unleashed momentarily...]

Diplomats' same-sex partners gain benefits
Shift spelled out in memorandum by Hillary Clinton
[Government approves of sexual deviancy, perversion]

Soccer mob beats Catholic to death in Scotland
Police: 'I would say that it is a sectarian motive'

Vatican to publish document for China's Catholics
As a follow-up to a 2007 letter by Pope Benedict XVI

Nepal police hunt for clues after church blast
Explosion went off amid packed Catholic congregation

Britons absolved after nun antics on Crete
17 arrested on accusations of insulting Catholic Church

Paraguay bishop-turned-president: Celibacy flawed
Lugo says 'everything a human being does is imperfect'

Cardinal Pell attacks brothel plan near church
Sydney council asks developers to withdraw application

Archbishop slams Irish religious orders
For concealing culpability in decades of child abuse

Ex-Anglican offers consecrated wafers by mail
Street Mass: 'Alright God, Sorry if we messed up'
[Ummm, these "wafers" are no more "consecrated" than they were when they were removed from the bag...]

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U.N. Red and U.S. “Progressives” Plan Socialist World Government
While meaningless United Nations hand-wringing over the North Korean nuclear weapons program garners the headlines, the world body is moving ahead with a global conference to lay the groundwork for world government financed by global taxes. The communist head of the U.N. General Assembly is leading the effort, but he is getting crucial support from "progressive" economists who advise the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party....

Pension Funds Want Chrysler Issues Heard in District Court
A group of Indiana pension funds who say Chrysler LLC isn’t treating their claims fairly is pushing to have much of the automaker’s Chapter 11 case taken out of the hands of a bankruptcy judge and moved to federal district court...

Crisis spurs spike in 'suburban survivalists'
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn't even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet. Now, the 54-year-old businessman and father of five has a backup generator, a water filter, a grain mill and a 4-foot-tall pile of emergency food tucked in his home in the expensive San Diego suburb of La Jolla...

Libertarians blast Sotomayor pick
Obama Court nominee ruled government should discriminate based on race
America’s third largest party Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama’s nomination of federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, citing past rulings that public employers should discriminate in hiring based on race. “While Judge Sotomayor deserves a fair and impartial hearing, Supreme Court justices should be nominated for their thorough knowledge of and adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law,” said William Redpath, Libertarian National Committee Chairman. “By nominating Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama has made it clear he prefers an activist for his personal causes over a rational interpreter of law,” said Redpath....
[Note: Some keep stating that Sotomayer is the FIRST Hispanic nominated to SCOTUS, this is factually incorrect as Miguel Estrada was nominated by Bush...fact-checking is once again absent the MSM]

Tenth Amendment Movement Aims to Give Power Back to the States
Fed up with Washington's involvement in everything from land use to gun control to education spending, states across the country are fighting back against what they say is the federal government's growing intrusion on their rights. At least 35 states have introduced legislation this year asserting their power under the Tenth Amendment to regulate all matters not specifically delegated to the federal government by the Constitution...
[Way past time to repeal the 17th Amendment - and the 16th!!!]

Identity Politics & Sotomayor
The judge's thinking is representative of the Democratic Party's powerful identity-politics wing.
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn't lived that life." -- Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in her Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law in 2001...
[Racists, bigots, elitists, and special interests are rewarded by Chairman MaObama, the Fraud! Justice, once thought to be BLIND, is now dying an horrific death before our very eyes!!! ]

Judicial Confirmation Network Statement on nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court
Wendy E. Long, counsel to the Judicial Confirmation Network, on nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court:
"Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important than the law as written. She thinks that judges should dictate policy, and that one's sex, race, and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench. She reads racial preferences and quotas into the Constitution, even to the point of dishonoring those who preserve our public safety. On September 11, America saw firsthand the vital role of America's firefighters in protecting our citizens. They put their lives on the line for her and the other citizens of New York and the nation. But Judge Sotomayor would sacrifice their claims to fair treatment in employment promotions to racial preferences and quotas. The Supreme Court is now reviewing that decision...."

British Banks Revolt Against Obama Tax Plan
British banks and stockbrokers may refuse to take on American clients if new international tax proposals outlined by Chairman MaObama are passed.

Revealed: The Obama birth certificate protection act
WASHINGTON – A bill approved by the House of Representatives and referred to the Senate would prohibit federal employees of executive branch from being compelled to release any document unless a court makes a specified determination by a preponderance of evidence – legislation at least one group suspects is designed to protect Barack Obama's elusive birth certificate from release. The legislation, HR 985, resides in the Senate Judiciary Committee....
[Something is truly amiss if the lying fraud marxist thug needs an act of Congress to protect his birth certificate & college records. It seems that there is something on it that he doesn’t want released. This clown is NOT President but a usurper - he can't prove that he is constitutional eligible. Putz!]

Swine Flu's Spread Outpaces Official Data With Outbreaks in Europe, Asia

DC Councilman preps ban on 'Jumbo Slice' pizza sales
WASHINGTON - Blaming single-slice pizza sales as part of the crime problem in Adams Morgan, a D.C. councilmember is proposing a ban of the popular late-night snack in Adams Morgan....
[Truth IS stranger than fiction, especially in DC]

Naimi Says Oil to Reach $75 a Barrel
Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali al- Naimi said the price of oil will climb to $75 a barrel when demand picks up.