News Updates, 9/10

The Big Con (Obama's payback for the support of dissident Catholics)
Misleading “Catholic” organizations such as Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good operated as an arm for pro-abortion Democrats in 2008 and now enjoy an important role in the Obama administration....Self-described “progressive” Catholic organizations, such as Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Catholics United, Catholic Democrats, and Voice of the Faithful, have successfully manipulated long-standing divisions among Catholics. In 2008, President Obama, with the help of misleading propaganda from these groups, won a majority of the Catholic vote.

Catholic choirmaster fired after sex-change
Organist claims 'no explanation' for cathedral's move

Episcopal nuns join Catholic church en masse
Maryland convent takes unprecedented step

Lone bishop says Kennedy funeral a scandal
'So much wrong...that I hardly know where to begin'
[God bless Bishop Gracida who always speaks the truth both in and out of season!]

Vatican warns Italian priests over euthanasia
Forty-one dissidents approved of Eluana Englaro killing

Woman sues Catholic priest's estate over his will
Claims entitlement due to 13-year clandestine affair

Mother: Doctors left my premature baby to die
Medical staff say they were 'following national guidelines'
[ObongoCare?]

Roland Joffe sparks row with Opus Dei film
Director accused of making $30 million propaganda film

Vatican warns against secularized public schools
Says religious education part of evangelizing mission

No Obama speech for Sioux Falls Catholic schools
District believed parents should decide about viewing
[That's a 'no brainer'...but so many are clueless!]


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Listening to a Liar by Thomas Sowell
The most important thing about what anyone says are not the words themselves but the credibility of the person who says them...

Audience Yells "Liar" At Obama During Health Care Speech to Congress! {YouTube]
An audience member yells "liar" at Obama during his speech to Congress. Obama also took a personal swipe at Sarah Palin during his speech. It was Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC2) who called out "you lie"' during joint session of Congress

H1-B visa workers cannot be furloughed, but Americans can
An Atlanta Journal article brought to light a peculiar practice of employers who impose mandatory furloughs on their American employees to reduce labor costs, while exempting their H-1B employees from having to do the same. Specifically the article talks about how employees in the Georgia university system, with the exception of their H-1B counterparts, are undergoing reduced working hours and voluntary pay reductions in order to cut the operating budgets of the state's universities.

Six unemployed people for every available position
In July, there were 6.05 unemployed people for every job opening, according to the most recent data on labor turnover. In December 2007, when the recession began, there were 1.72 unemployed people for every job opening.

Treasury says millions more foreclosures coming
Only 12 percent of U.S. homeowners eligible for loan modifications under the Obama administration's housing rescue plan have had their mortgages reworked, and millions more foreclosures are coming, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

Hunting the 1918 Flu
In the autumn the virus probably mutated, and a worldwide epidemic, or pandemic, of unprecedented virulence exploded in the same week in three port cities, thousands of miles apart — Freetown, Sierra Leone; Brest, France; and Boston, United States. Were they manifestations of a single mutation of the virus? Did the disease originate in one of three ports and travel almost instantaneously to the other two? Or were there different, simultaneous mutations? To date, we have no answers to these important questions.