Tuesday, July 28, 2009

News Updates, 7/29

Ave Maria Students Respond
To News about Father Fessio

Pope condemns Bible 'vandalism' exhibition
'They would not think of doing it to the Koran'

Invitation to deface Bible at art gallery withdrawn
Groups complained visitors were writing obscene messages

Senate panel endorses Sotomayor in 13-6 vote
Easing nominee's path to likely confirmation

Shanghai to encourage two-child families
China takes steps to relax its strict one-child policy

Bishops encourage Catholics to oppose euthanasia
Urging fight against efforts to change Canadian law

Cardinal O'Malley decries health-care cut
State-subsidized insurance for legal immigrants

Ireland unveils plan to combat child abuse
After report on chronic problem in Catholic facilities

Vatican slams 'greed is good' Wall Street mantra
Cardinal says free-market economics legitimizes greed

Boston priests must wait till age 75 to retire
Archdiocese makes adjustment due to clergy shortage

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Other Issues
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NYC offers free airfare to homeless to leave city
New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city. It's part of a Bloomberg administration program to keep the homeless out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family. More than 550 families have left the city since 2007. All it takes is for a relative to agree to take them in...

Kucinich – The Federal Reserve is paying banks NOT to make loans
In yet another “no-duh” moment, the politicians who are paid by you to supposedly work for you are finally waking up to yet another central bank scam...

U.S. Pays $2.5 Trillion for Care Costing $912 Billion

Maxine Waters warns Blue Dogs to beware 2010
...The [rationed care] delay prompted Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) to lash out at the Blue Dogs as hypocritical and even hint that more liberal Democrats might challenge them in primaries...
[Bring it on - expose the statists even more!]

Legal Immunity Set for Swine Flu Vaccine Makers
Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine, under a document signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, government health officials said Friday...

Aussie Geologist says global warming is 'new religion of First World urban elites'
[And Algore is their savior!]

US revokes visas for Honduran officials
...U.S. government [fascist thugs] revoked the visas of four members of Honduras's de facto [& Constitutional] government Tuesday, escalating the pressure on officials there to reinstate the "president", who was [legally and constitutionally removed from ofice &] kicked out of the country a month ago...
[Perhaps the communist Zelaya should have an accident? Problem solved!]

Lou Dobbs: Just produce birth certificate
After being attacked by groups ranging from the Southern Poverty Law Center to Media Matters for relentlessly calling on Barack Obama to prove his eligibility for the office of the presidency, CNN's Lou Dobbs wasn't backing off on either his syndicated radio or his television program today...

Clearing the Smoke on Obama’s Eligibility: An Intelligence Investigator’s June 10 Report

NYT's Krugman Conducts Informal Canadian Health Care Poll; Result: "Bad Move On My Part"
Just ask Shona Holmes, a Canadian government medicine escapee alive today only because she had an American free market health care system in which to take refuge. The system Krugman wants to see shut down. The four and six month waits for initial diagnoses of her condition to which Canadian (be) patient care had consigned her would have killed her.

Vice President Biden, Attorney General Holder Announce Recovery Act Funding
Vice President Biden, Attorney General Holder Announce Recovery Act Funding to Support Law Enforcement, Recovery Act Funds to Add Police Officers to the Streets; Build Safer Communities

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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

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