News Updates, 7/18

Pope Benedict Waits His Turn
The Pope leaves hospital with a cast on his right arm. (CNS/Reuters)

Pope Benedict XVI insisted on waiting his turn behind another patient when he was admitted to the hospital today for an X-ray and operation on his broken right wrist...

Massive Resistance! 'Health Care' Funds Abortion?
Some version of the Presidents’ plan will pass. For Catholics, other Christians, (that is at least Christians who still adhere to the unbroken teaching concerning the dignity of every human person at every age and stage and have not compromised the truth), other people of faith and all people of good will who recognize the preeminent Natural Law Right to Life and the foundational freedom to be born, there is a resulting looming emergency. This Health Care Bill is about much more than the economic implications and loss of local control. This has become a matter of life and death...

Obama Health Bill: Those on Social Security - Mandatory Counseling on Asst. Suicide
On Page 425 of Obama’s health care bill, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes...They are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!!! And no, I am NOT SH**ing YOU! So those of you who voted for Obama have now put your own parents in dire straights ... Congratulations! Also, planned denial of medical care for seniors.
[These demonic enemies of God and country are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!!! The time for "revisiting" the Declaration of Independence draws nigh - traitors and enemies have breached the walls! The fraud Obama and his Marxist comrades are enemies of this country - they need to go NOW!]

Dissenting Catholic (so-called) group struggles to survive, needs $60K ASAP
Voice of the Faithful, the Catholic lay group that formed in response to the priest sex abuse scandal, is facing its own crisis: lack of money. The national organization said it is "at the crossroads of financial survival" and needs $60,000 in donations by the end of July to keep going...
[Die already!]

Cardinal Cordes on "Caritas in Veritate"
"The Heart of Social Doctrine Remains the Human Person"
Here is a Vatican translation of the address Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, the president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unam, gave July 7 at the press conference that marked the release of Benedict XVI's encyclical "Caritas in Veritate"...

Pope preaches in public after breaking wrist
Benedict XVI had surgery after he fell Thursday night

Nun becomes top-selling Polish cookbook writer
'It is only God who gives me the recipes. Who else?'

Iowa church closing puzzles parishioners
Parishioner: 'What they didn't make clear was what's next'

Church-funded family agency backs gay couples
Agency head: Traditional two-parent family 'no better'

Behind the scenes at the Pope's newspaper...
L'Osservatore hitting the headlines in its own right

Pope: Bone fragments found in St Paul's tomb
Confirms belief that it housed the apostle's remains

Suspect arrested in Cuba priest murder
Church says killing unrelated to earlier priest death

Vatican reconciles with Oscar Wilde
Flamboyant homosexuality shocked Britain in 19th century


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****** U.S. Bailout Costs May Reach $23.7 Trillion, TARP Inspector
U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bail out financial companies, according to Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.

ATF to Montana: 'You will respect our authoritah!'
On Friday, we saw the letter ATF sent to FFL dealers in Tennessee telling them the Bureau was overriding the state's Firearms Freedom Act, and would continue to impose federal requirements in disregard of state law. They've done the same thing to Montanans.
[Any federal agents in Montana who violate the Montana laws should be arrested or deported to DC, the District of Corruption]

Netanyahu: Jerusalem is Ours, Not Up for Debate
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a sharp response Sunday to United States pressure to stop Jews from building in parts of Jerusalem claimed by the Palestinian Authority. Israel's sovereignty in Jerusalem is “not up for debate,” Netanyahu said, and Jews are permitted to build in any part of the capital city, as are Arabs. Netanyahu implied that the U.S. request was racist, saying before the weekly Cabinet meeting, “Imagine what would happen if Jews were forbidden to live or to buy apartments in certain parts of London, New York, Paris or Rome. There would be an international outcry."

Retired general, lieutenant colonel join reservist's lawsuit over Obama's birth status

Senator quashes Treasury’s bid for humorist
The chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee quashed an effort by the Treasury Department to hire a cartoonist after the link to the job ad was posted on the Drudge Report.


Hon. James David Manning, PhD says Obama is more dangerous than Hitler...

ATF to Tennessee: We're Above Your Law
The ATF - as expected - has issued a letter in which it disregards the 10th Amendment restrictions on federal power (as seems to be the trend since the late 1930) and has notified Tennessee’s federal firearms dealers that the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act is meaningless. Essentially, ATF is saying to the state of Tennessee that the 10th Amendment no longer exists...
[10th Amendment - use it or lose it! Go Tennessee!]

McCaskill's Office Locks Doors, Calls Cops & Forces Obamacare Protesters Off Public Property
Local Tea Party patriots held an anti-Obama Care protest at Senator Claire "ACORN" McCaskill’s district offices on Delmar Boulevard today. The protest was organized by Americans for Prosperity and the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition. McCaskill's office manager locked the doors, pull down the blinds, called the cops and forced the protesters across the street...
[1st Amendment Kudos to the protesters! McCaskill needs to go]

Argentina declares alert as pigs found with swine flu

Swine flu mother dies after giving birth, leaving her premature baby fighting for life

Australian swine flu cases top 10,000

Britain prepares for 65,000 deaths from swine flu
The NHS has been told to plan for a worst-case scenario of 65,000 swine flu deaths this year. The news came as the number of people to die after contracting the virus rose sharply. Health officials said that 29 people had now died — up from 17 confirmed deaths on Monday. There were unconfirmed reports that the new cases included a young boy from Kent.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
-Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778