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Thanks for the Boston Herald links, @saveliberty I loved the Carr piece. Reminded me of John Kass of the Chicago Tribune.

 

This deal about Romney and the Olympics is much ado about nothing. I cannot believe Krauthammer and others even gave it a moment's notice. Big deal - just another chance to dumb down andtake interest off what is happening and is at stake here in the good ole teeter tottering America.

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“Water is life”: a 9-year-old girl’s remarkable legacy

 

July 27, 2012 By Deacon Greg Kandra

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This is too good not to share.

 

In anticipation of her 9th birthday, Rachel Beckwith informed her mom that she didn’t want presents; instead, she asked friends and family to donate $9 to charity: water, so that kids her age in Africa would have clean water to drink.

She fell shy of her goal of $300, which is enough to give 15 people clean drinking water. But she pledged to do better when her 10th birthday rolled around.

 

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Please read the rest, get some tissues and watch the video.

 

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Will four words — or two — derail Obama’s re-election?

 

 

posted at 2:41 pm on July 27, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

 

 

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Old and busted: Barack Obama is the most gifted orator in American politics since … well, FDR, Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan, take your pick. New hotness: The President can’t express himself clearly without his apologists at the ready to explain his “context.” For the third time in two months, Obama’s musings on the economy have put him in hot water and given Mitt Romney huge openings to exploit. Kim Strassel believes that four words in particular have Team Obama in a panic:

 

What’s the difference between a calm and cool Barack Obama, and a rattled and worried Barack Obama? Four words, it turns out.

 

“You didn’t build that” is swelling to such heights that it has the president somewhere unprecedented: on defense. Mr. Obama has felt compelled—for the first time in this campaign—to cut an ad in which he directly responds to the criticisms of his now-infamous speech, complaining his opponents took his words “out of context.” …
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July 27, 2012

 

"Look, if you colonists have been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own."

 

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I didn't write this on my own. In fact, I didn't write it at all. Meade wrote this:

Lord North: Look, if you colonists have been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by colonists and yeomen who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.

 

George Washington: Without our consent, we reject your taxes.

 

Lord North: There are a lot of smart people out there in the New World. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking British subjects of the Crown out there.

 

Thomas Jefferson: Stop coercing us, Lord North. Your Acts are intolerable.

 

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:lmfao: Read the whole thing.

 

H/T Instapundit

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Our Beautiful Alle has Passed

 

July 28, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia

 

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She had such heart.

 

Our dear, beautiful Alle left us this morning. She had had an up-and-down sort of day, yesterday. When my elder son came to visit, she accepted his pats with a few wags of the tail, but did not rise for him. At supper, she was more herself, begging an “outside” snack, which we gave her. But last night she suddenly seemed very, very old and worn — unresponsive.

 

I went to bed asking Saint Francis to be with her — that it if was her time, to keep her from suffering.

 

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Read the whole thing. She's not accepting comments at this time on her blog, but you can send a tweet to her @TheAnchoress.

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Michael Bloomberg fillets Tom Menino over stance

The billionaire businessman-turned-New York mayor said Menino, along with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee, are wrong “to look at somebody’s political views and decide whether or not they can live in the city, or operate a business in the city.”

 

 

 

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Sermon 603 : The Mystery of the Mass : 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

 

7/29/2012

 

 

Please click the play button above to listen now.

The sixth chapter of John's Gospel, from which we will be reading these next several weeks, is a sustained meditation on the meaning of the Mass and the Eucharist. Our passage for today, when read symbolically, illumines the major movements of the Mass.

 

Download MP3 File (Right-Click, Save Link As…) | readings | podcast

 

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Father Barron talks about the sixth chapter of the Gospel according to John. It's a wonderful sermon.

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By golly you're right! I do like him and it is a short video talking about the Devil. biggrin.png

 

I do have one small quibble.... the words Trivial Sin. Is there such a thing as a Trivial Sin? I mean from God's perspective...and Gods perspective is the only one that counts, when talking about this.

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Sarah & Todd Hate Gay People

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Spang

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Poster Rank: #3

 

The Palins are clearly showing their support for Chick-fil-A. And the only reason they're doing so, is because the chicken-killing company came out in support of bigotry.

 

The Palins are showing their support for bigotry.

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@saveliberty

 

By golly you're right! I do like him and it is a short video talking about the Devil. biggrin.png

 

I do have one small quibble.... the words Trivial Sin. Is there such a thing as a Trivial Sin? I mean from God's perspective...and Gods perspective is the only one that counts, when talking about this.

 

@Valin, you are right that it's God's perspective that counts. The Catechism teaches Catholics that there is grave and serious sin (it used to be called mortal sin - this requires the Sacrament of Reconciliation before one can once again receive the Eucharist) and those sins that are lesser.

 

Did you plan the sin in advance, if not, then it may not be as bad as if you did.

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By golly you're right! I do like him and it is a short video talking about the Devil. biggrin.png

 

I do have one small quibble.... the words Trivial Sin. Is there such a thing as a Trivial Sin? I mean from God's perspective...and Gods perspective is the only one that counts, when talking about this.

 

@Valin, you are right that it's God's perspective that counts. The Catechism teaches Catholics that there is grave and serious sin (it used to be called mortal sin - this requires the Sacrament of Reconciliation before one can once again receive the Eucharist) and those sins that are lesser.

 

Did you plan the sin in advance, if not, then it may not be as bad as if you did.

 

This is one of the problems many have with Catholic theology.

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saveliberty

Going 35 in a 30mph zone and then realizing your mistake is the same as deliberately going 90mph in a residential zone? :o

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righteousmomma

Been meaning to post this since last week. If its already been posted listen or read anyway. Its common sense logic, reasoning and facts for a change. The video and transcript are at http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/

 

RUSH: I saw this last night. Congressman Mike Kelly, Pennsylvania Republican, got a standing ovation while he spoke in the House.

That doesn't happen. No applause is allowed members of Congress. A president can go in there and, of course, they raise the roof. But the protocol does not permit applause, a standing ovation, or this kind of stuff during session. He got a standing ovation for what he said. There's a visual here that I want you to have while you listen. He holds up a stack of papers. It's 11,000 pages of lending requirements, and he's on the warpath here about how regulation is killing jobs in his district.

It's an amazing story. Someone built a ballpark in his district, a Little League ballpark, and federal regulators came in and wouldn't open it. They wouldn't allow it to open. On the day they were going to play the first game, the little kiddies are all there about to have their first baseball game, and the federal regulators said, "Nope, you can't open it because the mirrors in the men's room were a quarter of an inch too low on the wall." We've broken this up into three sound bites. Here the first...

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