Monday, July 13, 2009

News Updates, 7/14

Modern Media Needs Thoughtful Discernment Says Archbishop Chaput
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput spoke to a meeting of Catholic business executives last Wednesday on the discernment of media in the Catholic life. The meeting was held by The Legatus Group, an international organization for Catholic business executives founded by Tom Monaghan in 1987. (Read the full text of the speech here)

New surgeon general nominee is a CHA board member
Dr. Regina Benjamin, a member of the board of trustees of the Catholic Health Association, is being nominated as surgeon general this morning.

Sotomayor says abortion rights" 'settled law'

Homosexual Ex-Altar Server Demands Bishop Apologize
In what some critics of the embattled Canadian human rights commissions say could be the most intrusive human rights case in Canada thus far, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has accepted the complaint of a homosexual man who was dismissed by the Bishop of Peterborough as an altar server...

Former Legion leader breaks ranks, speaks out
Vatican's 'Apostolic Visitation' of order begins Wednesday

Nuns still puzzled over Vatican investigation
Duh -- 'It feels like it came out of the blue'

'Jane Roe' arrested at Sotomayor senate hearing
Norma McCorvey began screaming nominee wrong on abortion

Voice of the Faithful to go belly up?
Lay group 'at the crossroads of financial survival'
[The poisonous fruits of dissenting rebellion of the truth and the authority of the Church...buh bye!]

Catholics hurl firebombs at Belfast police
...in opposition to annual Protestant parade in N Ireland

Coverage ignores rifts between Obama and Church
NBC's segment suggests President 'in league' with Pope
[Fascist State media keeps lying...no surprise there.]

Students rally to keep open Catholic high school
Diocese closed institution due to financial problems

Anglicans, Catholics: Market lacking morals
Pope: 'Fidelity to man requires fidelity to the truth'

Car bombs hit seven churches in Baghdad, four dead
Hand of Al Qaeda avenging the 'martyr of the veil'

In wake of G8, Pope warns of 'dark scenarios'
Benedict XVI condemns absolutism of technological progress

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Obama says unemployment will keep ticking up
[Baraq Hussein] 0bama conceded Tuesday that the unemployment rate will keep growing for "several months" as he prepared to head to battered Michigan to unveil a plan to help train people for the next generation of jobs...

Obama’s latest“In Your Face”: “Green Czar” admits he’s a Communist with arrest record
This is really frightening. We warned Americans Barack Obama is a Marxist who would govern through dangerous people. Obama’s new Czar, for “Green Jobs” Anthony “Van” Jones freely admits he’s a proud San Francisco Communist with an arrest record.

The Economy Is Even Worse Than You Think
The average length of unemployment is higher than it's been since government began tracking the data in 1948

Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president
Says he shouldn’t have to go to Afghanistan because Obama is not a U.S. citizen...
[Some reporters don't seem to be sharp enough to understand the Constitutional issue of "Natural Born Citizen"...Clueless. A $10-$15 copy of a long form birth certificate would clear up the matter but Obozo spend hundreds of thousands to keep everything under lock and seal. Why the concealment?]

Al-Qaeda vows to hit China over Uighur unrest

Small Business Surtax:Democrats Pick Income Redistribution

New flu "unstoppable", WHO says, calls for vaccine

U.S. budget deficit rises above $1 trillion
The U.S. recorded a federal budget deficit of $94.3 billion in June, pushing the cumulative deficit so far this year to a record $1.08 trillion, the Treasury Department reported Monday...

Schwarzenegger plans 20% pay cuts
State workers, brace yourselves for another furlough day. The governor's latest budget proposal assumes almost 20 percent in employee wage cuts: 15 percent from the three-day furloughs that started this month, plus another 5 percent across-the-board whack...

Pandemic Flu Vaccine Yields Worse Than Expected
Efforts to produce vaccine against the pandemic H1N1 2009 virus have run into problems. Vaccine makers have told the WHO that the 'seed strains' grown to produce vaccine against the pandemic virus are giving poor yields of antigen...

Study: 1918 Flu Survivors Seem Immune to Swine Flu
A new study finds that the way swine flu multiplies in the respiratory system is more severe than ordinary winter flu...In addition, blood tests show that many survivors of the 1918 flu pandemic seem to have immunity to the current swine flu, but not to the seasonal flu that hits every year.

Obama to U.S. Jewish leaders: Israel must engage in self-reflection
Obama met yesterday for the first time with 15 American Jewish leaders at the White House, for talks aimed at clearing the air following allegations that his administration was taking a tough line with Israel over settlement activity. At the meeting, Obama told the leaders that he wants to help Israel overcome its demographic problem by reaching an agreement on a two-state solution, but that in order to do so, Israel would need "to engage in serious self-reflection."
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Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.
-Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 6, 1775
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"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."
-G.K. Chesterton, The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21

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