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(Pope Benedict XVI explaining kneeling Communion to Peter Seewald)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger475125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-61225339401897851792022-10-08T15:35:00.069-05:002022-11-16T07:55:19.102-06:00The Chasm between America and Donbas<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Chasm between America and Donbas</span></h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-XARKjO2iN7jZbm014c4VwCMzWu7XAUingW1pmQl0N1Fpg0-Gt6mB7FNxJnBrZfUKJEyz8DrTzEzqwecectXqBBqc851JBBQYbomXMLvWjV_bfzv-D1DG43HPjo0kWoB4_gl79Pty4etivHOMm3f24zRu2TFHIWEa1ZYgHkXIqeh1FwlHpqLovsiBTA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="599" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-XARKjO2iN7jZbm014c4VwCMzWu7XAUingW1pmQl0N1Fpg0-Gt6mB7FNxJnBrZfUKJEyz8DrTzEzqwecectXqBBqc851JBBQYbomXMLvWjV_bfzv-D1DG43HPjo0kWoB4_gl79Pty4etivHOMm3f24zRu2TFHIWEa1ZYgHkXIqeh1FwlHpqLovsiBTA=w447-h271" width="447" /></a></div>Donbas rebels in 2015<br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1kkXpjqUG2cSvofT3Mg1IOXoJkNYIiBdGH1zjtOWXX6CsjtETYP_7pNsPtVf8xNmlQqqr06ctFQbPuYyEqtr9OZglBadXJA1OWSEqA9amUGVr8c0LmD_WNY516rL9EhQIZThlgEiCpSEkzzpKqws513MYd6XsKPM5zThrpye5Ev4v995Nl6mvo2oX4g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="489" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1kkXpjqUG2cSvofT3Mg1IOXoJkNYIiBdGH1zjtOWXX6CsjtETYP_7pNsPtVf8xNmlQqqr06ctFQbPuYyEqtr9OZglBadXJA1OWSEqA9amUGVr8c0LmD_WNY516rL9EhQIZThlgEiCpSEkzzpKqws513MYd6XsKPM5zThrpye5Ev4v995Nl6mvo2oX4g=w471-h298" width="471" /></a></div>The war in Ukraine has a religious dimension.<p></p><p>The picture above is a 2019 procession in Kyiv. It is the annual celebration of Prince Vladimir's Baptism of the Rus people in the 10th Century. Both Russia and Ukraine commemorate that event as their country's Christian birthday. The pilgrims above are Ukrainian Orthodox Church members of the Moscow Patriarchate, the UOC-MP. Although the Moscow Patriarchate is the largest Eastern Orthodox church inside Ukraine, President Zelensky is <a href="https://spzh.news/en/news/81598-v-upc-prokommentirovali-slova-zelenskogo-o-krestnom-khode">antagonistic </a>towards it and its processions. This is ironic since the Moscow Patriarchate openly backed Zelensky during his 2019 presidential campaign. The pro-Russian rebels of Donbas are UOC-MP and <b>AT THE TIME</b> Zelensky was saying he wanted <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49903996">peace-in-Donbas </a>. Zelensky's 2019 opponent, the incumbent Poroshenko, had become known for being a hardliner and wanting to reconquer Donbas. In an unguarded moment, Poroshenko was caught on camera saying that he would win the war by making Donbas children <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWHqj8g7Bk">"grow up in basements instead of schools"</a>. Zelensky trounced him with 73% of the vote.</p><p> A second piece of irony: In the previous election, in 2014, it was Poroshenko who had been the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/25/petro-poroshenko-ukraine-president-wins-election">PEACE candidate</a> . In the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan uprising which ousted a pro-Russian President and with the Donbas war already raging, it was Poroshenko who ran as the talk-to-Russia candidate. He ran against a handful of aggressive candidates and beat them all in a landslide. He received 55% of the vote. His closest opponent <a href="https://vk.com/wall-78383011_3823?lang=en">Tymoshenko</a> once advocated surrounding Donbas in barbed wire and pouring concrete over it. She received 13%. The people of Ukraine elected the candidate who promised a speedy, peaceful resolution to the war. <b>To Americans, who are assured that Ukrainians want to fight Russia until <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkbwZCqn7BY">everyone is dead</a>, it is a strange and irrefutable fact that no Ukrainian presidential candidate, neither in peacetime, nor in war, has ever been elected by being bellicose and anti-Russian.</b></p><p>Shortly after Poroshenko's election he was visited by US VP Joe Biden. Poroshenko's conciliatory position reversed and it was thereafter that he began talking about making Donbas children grow up in basements.</p><p>Just prior to Poroshenko's 2019 election drubbing, he successfully lobbied the Orthodox Patriarch in Constantinople to create a new, independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine, OCU, which would separate from the Moscow Patriarchate. Poroshenko's new OCU also held a (smaller) Rus Baptism procession a day earlier than the Moscow Patriarchate's. The new church's procession is pictured below:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5-UkTjemkN_cdTGXWR_Dcc4t_UDW9db1qAD2HBwML9fWa38MlYpSLNfBnL03sR1hQEtsE_J8D90DvU-OvKzWI61Hh7lo7gNK0FsaESE296ek84Zd7FYYEvxj4fxCU69iiclbqSdQRNEUm34_UO3D5UIRGOegsFOut43l3rwFXW8HSGiAA7LLW-R7s_g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="289" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5-UkTjemkN_cdTGXWR_Dcc4t_UDW9db1qAD2HBwML9fWa38MlYpSLNfBnL03sR1hQEtsE_J8D90DvU-OvKzWI61Hh7lo7gNK0FsaESE296ek84Zd7FYYEvxj4fxCU69iiclbqSdQRNEUm34_UO3D5UIRGOegsFOut43l3rwFXW8HSGiAA7LLW-R7s_g=w448-h272" width="448" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><br />The Jesus and Mary banners are gone. In their place - a sea of yellow and blue flags.<div> </div><div>30 days before that new Church's procession, Kyiv had also hosted another grand procession. Gay Pride. This was not the first. Kyiv had begun holding Gay pride events ever since the 2014 US-backed Maidan revolution. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvGEykeABvgf-7BWVo_9nrtW_1GaXKkI-BJKoaLmoSZ9bEPBBEOMO_f7Pe6N7POXKNahcBhn4FDJATAvzMfM6ng5p4gVex1pMlS9W5K4PjcEWThFv1IqsOjH1L8pJ3MLvdhiTtNGGlku7xXNrapor2untY-bOnvJQwbmG2zn_iTOf0uWr8cbRb80WGxg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvGEykeABvgf-7BWVo_9nrtW_1GaXKkI-BJKoaLmoSZ9bEPBBEOMO_f7Pe6N7POXKNahcBhn4FDJATAvzMfM6ng5p4gVex1pMlS9W5K4PjcEWThFv1IqsOjH1L8pJ3MLvdhiTtNGGlku7xXNrapor2untY-bOnvJQwbmG2zn_iTOf0uWr8cbRb80WGxg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYVaC0xUPbMty7oc8McCr0rdR43ii0FOvA_3RD0R1IIoOapPCnpZlKd0X0hh0figvnpgHbm6Mz7wgSpEF0hQBatBRJlHX9NdIZaJ8hRRAw7duIUjOBop6x2dNMlnniMI6-aaOvEebvnKjf9-xXHZLH4IdIaxrAxB4vSD0Jvgn0j5au2vIMQ1K5S7vVJA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYVaC0xUPbMty7oc8McCr0rdR43ii0FOvA_3RD0R1IIoOapPCnpZlKd0X0hh0figvnpgHbm6Mz7wgSpEF0hQBatBRJlHX9NdIZaJ8hRRAw7duIUjOBop6x2dNMlnniMI6-aaOvEebvnKjf9-xXHZLH4IdIaxrAxB4vSD0Jvgn0j5au2vIMQ1K5S7vVJA" width="320" /></a></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>The United States' fingerprints are on all three of Poroshenko's actions with regards to, <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-lgbt-rights-rifts/27064176.html">Gay Pride</a>, the new Church, and the war. The US State Department has made<a href="https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-the-united-nations-lgbti-core-group-event/"> LGBT promotion </a>a fundamental pillar of US foreign policy, making it clear that US foreign aid clients must adopt US style LGBT programs. The US State Department also strongly backed the creation of Poroshenko's new Church. Months before its creation, the OCU's prospective leadership made a pilgrimage to DC to speak with then-Secretary of State, <a href="https://publicorthodoxy.org/2019/11/11/did-american-government-create-ocu/">Mike Pompeo</a>. Finally, with regards to the last point, <b>US influence has helped transform the past two successful peace candidates, Poroshenko of 2014 and <a href="https://theowp.org/ukraine-declares-all-options-possible-even-war-to-retake-crimea-from-russia/">Zelensky </a>of 2019 into <a href="https://carnegiemoscow.org/commentary/84617">warmongering </a>presidents.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The US State Department is not composed of Orthodox Christians. Therefore it is understandable that the former's members might be blind to seeing any real differences between the processions depicted above. However, the contrasts are not lost on Ukrainians and Russians. The US 'soft power' moves, in particular meddling in church matters and promoting the LGBT agenda, are a large part of why the eastern Ukrainian rebels see the current conflict as a religious fight- even a crusade. </div><div><br /></div><div>The language eastern Ukrainian separatists have adopted to describe their fight with European values is apocalyptic. In the years before the 2022 invasion, this sentiment became pervasive enough to be reflected even in pop songs that their young people listened to. American Christians might be shocked to discover that many eastern Ukrainians think: "European values"= Antichrist. A 2020 top hit <b> </b>goes like this....</div><div><br /></div><div>"the Beast emerged out of the pitch black and made his offer to God,</div><div><p>Everyone would bend before him, even our brothers in Christ,</p><p>Everything would bend, but not my country!</p><p>There was a huge harvest that year and Death became drunk on blood,</p><p>The smoke-filled skies seemed even to sag down</p><p>Everything would bend, but not my country!</p><p>(refrain)</p><p>The skies are half flames, half smoke</p><p>Donbas stands behind us, and God beside us!"</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LSlw9-qfAZM" width="320" youtube-src-id="LSlw9-qfAZM"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div>The open expression of religious faith in popular culture in Eastern Ukraine is a phenomenon that <a href="https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA688500070&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=21664307&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E42f7708f">pro-western experts lament</a>. America has chosen enemies in Ukraine that warn of the Antichrist as they deck their tanks and armored vehicles with banners of Jesus Christ. The eastern Ukrainians mix modern culture with a Faith resembling something right out of the Middle Ages and it exposes a jagged cultural rift between Americans and the latest people that the US is conquering for democracy. The feelings of antipathy are mutual. Our Western leaders have decided that this culture needs to disappear. Our news outlets teach us to clap and cheer whenever we hear that American HIMARS and Artillery have obliterated more of these people, whom we are assured are both stupid and evil.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiM5IFS62SDd0kBYDECLFAci2SUn7MnJ-wngXVhGU2DpwWvmujTZCz73HZoXW_I0LZY6kwrB7FwJ_stsT6XkLgZnQFEsx3iprYegNVVDt7N8cuBisX_p2MzwtQI4cnYBvEhKN2WjFfoGBkkCete-XOmxBy_J0rFxdhldeytXFG5A1GePDSNNTERC-pIJw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiM5IFS62SDd0kBYDECLFAci2SUn7MnJ-wngXVhGU2DpwWvmujTZCz73HZoXW_I0LZY6kwrB7FwJ_stsT6XkLgZnQFEsx3iprYegNVVDt7N8cuBisX_p2MzwtQI4cnYBvEhKN2WjFfoGBkkCete-XOmxBy_J0rFxdhldeytXFG5A1GePDSNNTERC-pIJw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUdnZmBjB8wAf0vdwAllZLIv1md1Wwhf-zNBJ4aKlhkUWuGe3voA46oEyIsOgCSIAjXYvCfYW5YoWGLnGPpGlzGLH_Wi16hpcFWaghqI9WLGdx2phlNBwCD7PXVPhAWz-WnPZY_TGfbiRPH5GGJv5FDCvYifM5rlUzopHo0fAbZlsGVWlYezz6dIXdtw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="290" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUdnZmBjB8wAf0vdwAllZLIv1md1Wwhf-zNBJ4aKlhkUWuGe3voA46oEyIsOgCSIAjXYvCfYW5YoWGLnGPpGlzGLH_Wi16hpcFWaghqI9WLGdx2phlNBwCD7PXVPhAWz-WnPZY_TGfbiRPH5GGJv5FDCvYifM5rlUzopHo0fAbZlsGVWlYezz6dIXdtw" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(The speaker in this September 2022 clip comes out of Donetsk. He rejoices to see that tanks bringing up the rear all have Christ's 'Flag of Salvation'.)</div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7dPjFAzdKX0" width="320" youtube-src-id="7dPjFAzdKX0"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r1Gyvy2LCic" width="320" youtube-src-id="r1Gyvy2LCic"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Most Americans are not familiar with Donbas iconography. Armored vehicles bearing <a href="https://risu.ua/en/pochayiv-pilgrims-reportedly-carried-orthodox-dpr-army-banner_n92705">Jesus banners</a> remind us more of the Crusades than of our own times. We have exclusively been fed with a diet of images of brave Ukrainian boys and girls defending their homeland. The latter are true enough....but so are the former. How can that be!? How can there possibly be two sides to this conflict, honorable people on both sides? To answer this question, it may help to look at Ukraine's 2010 presidential election results below. It reveals a situation that must be seen to be understood. The blue areas voted solidly for the pro-Russian winner, Yanukovich and the red and pink for his pro-EU opponent Yulia </span><span style="text-align: left;">(prior to her barbed-wire remark) </span><span style="text-align: left;">Tymoschenko. ... How can there be two sides to this story? ......There are two sides to the country.</span></div><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqR8h4xSREJ5C8WRBk1QL9jxY4ezd-cueD2vYMR4CQYOG04TUSDCwdFeyn4OSFbVOwYLTLtknN0D5KBAr48mxUvYD_UyVQsnjT-Ct1FGw3q21yx3nHm4Z1g0y8wHZKQ3lKWypoawBRKk8Anuc05sG_6y3MSYhTRuC_wXoeoEAOGIGqL5h-5QOvdpyfpw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2800" data-original-width="4000" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqR8h4xSREJ5C8WRBk1QL9jxY4ezd-cueD2vYMR4CQYOG04TUSDCwdFeyn4OSFbVOwYLTLtknN0D5KBAr48mxUvYD_UyVQsnjT-Ct1FGw3q21yx3nHm4Z1g0y8wHZKQ3lKWypoawBRKk8Anuc05sG_6y3MSYhTRuC_wXoeoEAOGIGqL5h-5QOvdpyfpw=w576-h403" width="576" /></a></p><p>As can be seen above, Ukraine is country neatly divided along both geographical AND linguistic boundaries. The Ukrainians in the north and west speak a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian and have been historically ruled by Lithuania, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Poland. Some western regions belonged to Poland as recently as 1939. They historically distrust Russia and now want to be part of Europe, adopting European values. In contrast, few people in southern and eastern Ukraine speak Ukrainian. The population is a mixture of Ukrainians, Russians and other ethnicities who speak perfect Russian because for centuries they have been part of the Russian world.</p><p> When the 1920's Bolsheviks redrew USSR boundaries to make the 'blue' areas part of Ukraine, the switch was a bureaucratic footnote. It changed no facts on the ground. Ditto for three decades later when Khrushchev gifted the Crimean peninsula to his native Ukraine in 1954. Again, no one cared. Moscow was still in charge. To put it in American terms: From the time America was under George II until the time of George Bush II, Ukraine's east and south were part of the Russian world.</p><p>When Ukraine voted for independence in 1992, the east and the south went along and did not object that they were officially no longer part of Russia. This was because Ukraine and Russia were close allies for their first decade and a half of independence. Then, towards the the mid 2000s, things began to sour when Ukrainian nationalists in the country's west started calling for the country's 'Ukrainization'. They erected gigantic statues of Stepan Bandera. It is important at this point to briefly review what Stepan Bandera's Ukrainian nationalist movement was about: <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/to-see-what-ukraine-s-future-may-be-just-look-at-lviv-s-shameful-past-9178968.html">Ethnic cleansing.</a> </p><p>During the heyday of racially driven political movements and pogroms, Bandera's Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN, were superstars. In 1941 the OUN murdered 3,000 Jews in Lviv. Later, in 1943, the OUN systematically surrounded dozens of Polish hamlets in the Volyn district and slaughtered every inhabitant, women and children included. They killed >50,000 Poles using this system. Now, 21st Century Ukrainian nationalists were demanding to have statues of Bandera erected and streets named for him. They would eventually go on to put their 'hero' Bandera in <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/02/the-historian-whitewashing-ukraines-past-volodymyr-viatrovych/">school books</a> for ALL the country's children to <a href="https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-70FsL6_3IwzuVnA8haiCv4Skr3iG_WG">emulate</a>....</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p> ....For Ukrainians in the east and south, the West's demand that the whole country uniformly: (i) start speaking a language they didn't speak (Ukrainian) AND (ii) <b>venerate war criminals</b>, was too much. In a nutshell, it was a call for them to stop being... them.</p><p>During Ukraine's first decade and a half, the central government was tentative about Ukrainization. The politicians had the pro-Russian east and south to worry about. That balance tipped in 2004 with the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa">US backed</a> Orange Revolution. The pro-Russian candidate Victor Yanukovich, (who would later again be ousted in 2014), had come out 3 points ahead. His opponent, backed by US NGOs, then mounted an election protest campaign with massive demonstrations in Kyiv demanding a do-over election. A new election law was rushed thru and a do-over election was held which Yanukovich lost. </p><p>Yanukovich's opponent Victor Yushchenko slowly morphed from a moderate into a Ukrainian nationalist and years later go on to have Stepan Bandera declared an official 'hero of Ukraine'. Under Yushchenko the once dreamed-of <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/02/the-historian-whitewashing-ukraines-past-volodymyr-viatrovych/">Ukrainization </a>was finally starting to get implemented.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyAEviKuObTUoj4tJw9m-qC5-yPNpTmBlEweTPjqJsGsGNbQ5nPlr8xnHOfwWx7gk4wvXR0bqREB3Ct9US0UQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />These efforts were not widely popular. Yushchenko's 2010 reelection bid was a disaster. Even with US help, he could only muster 5% of the vote. The pro-Russian Yanukovich was back in town and won handily.<br /><p></p><p>Then, in 2014, another US-backed 2nd-coup-in-a-row against Yanukovich happened and this only deepened the above pink-blue division. The blue, pro-Russian, areas saw the coup as America and Europe helping Ukraine's west to once more remove a president that the people of the east and south had elected. They had turned the other cheek in 2004. Now they were out of cheeks.</p><p>Within weeks Yanukovich's ouster was followed by a strong counter- reaction. There were anti-Maidan demonstrations in all twelve of the largest cities in southern and eastern Ukraine. Kyiv sent in paramilitary groups who killed dozens of the pro-Russian demonstrators, most infamously in Odessa, where 40 were <a href="https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/ukrainian-rightists-burn-alive-39-at-odessa-union-building/">burned to death</a>. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiebX8t5mphV-C5XPDbTsKjG2iSBtaUFpxESOSopDODLWvKa9BIiWQqWQfOeKhXCRC11BtMVSH3LXu7hoPfKdtMqKlIGbAe602w-EUxGxFMYzY7FDl03frJ94BZ4C1nn9TRgYyaUTvORGbbKbIf22qCTGyY39lMR8k589wyOyPv3TFMA4-kTBUUfeYCxQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="300" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiebX8t5mphV-C5XPDbTsKjG2iSBtaUFpxESOSopDODLWvKa9BIiWQqWQfOeKhXCRC11BtMVSH3LXu7hoPfKdtMqKlIGbAe602w-EUxGxFMYzY7FDl03frJ94BZ4C1nn9TRgYyaUTvORGbbKbIf22qCTGyY39lMR8k589wyOyPv3TFMA4-kTBUUfeYCxQ" width="320" /></a></div>(wikipedia)<br /><br /><p></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27275383">Western news outlets</a> blamed the pro-Russian victims for being unruly. But it helps to put unruliness in context. By this time their opponents, the pro-western demonstrators had already been throwing Molotov cocktails for months. Before Kyiv fell, pro-western demonstrators had occupied government offices in ten regional capitals and forced the respective governors to resign. In their turn, the pro-Russian Ukrainians reacted largely the same way as their opponents had. The main visible difference being that pro-western demonstrators had been mostly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKX9OjNy_NI&t=160s">young people</a>. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/4ymKuHb_OZ8"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/4ymKuHb_OZ8"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4ymKuHb_OZ8" width="320" youtube-src-id="4ymKuHb_OZ8"></iframe></a></div><p>The pro-Russian demonstrators were middle aged industrial workers and old people. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjB67bwXKhrzke4sM0ZW5Qf4uZYTPoGO5CqGIuj1GCnUKFpAF5b8zExxUVYGNQN3MKEXqaCQ1aEOkVKT3Gzd0J8hUGZfw4Z-v6AkJ_iwPhACV_b7GA3SfFjcIaWyU6r_FpU6_RctpkMka81AtloWfFAtlDUqV5a17adKpItDUYFN2k9uvsXVvIVSUL1oA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="637" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjB67bwXKhrzke4sM0ZW5Qf4uZYTPoGO5CqGIuj1GCnUKFpAF5b8zExxUVYGNQN3MKEXqaCQ1aEOkVKT3Gzd0J8hUGZfw4Z-v6AkJ_iwPhACV_b7GA3SfFjcIaWyU6r_FpU6_RctpkMka81AtloWfFAtlDUqV5a17adKpItDUYFN2k9uvsXVvIVSUL1oA=w408-h306" width="408" /></a></div>(Donbas residents blocking Ukrainian APC's in 2014)<p></p><p></p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6hLUFNAig32v-GtIZyitXcDGiJh7eDCekIBy0PXQtaYTbUrIeeS1ObMd7MXsy-4_8YRuD7Zq7mTQOhmB5AotZvb4ULQOmMEK36sqsQCPENKFvQB7dYtLVTtARUtJEFHRQtBbRRzeo3hgOr_qHLLdpqR262kYpJFgYjPUKiKHXWxkUCy3oE2CMOTumvg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6hLUFNAig32v-GtIZyitXcDGiJh7eDCekIBy0PXQtaYTbUrIeeS1ObMd7MXsy-4_8YRuD7Zq7mTQOhmB5AotZvb4ULQOmMEK36sqsQCPENKFvQB7dYtLVTtARUtJEFHRQtBbRRzeo3hgOr_qHLLdpqR262kYpJFgYjPUKiKHXWxkUCy3oE2CMOTumvg=w249-h125" width="249" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj71sMIBMpAWS7gnlCH3eXgK047TM80Bejbd2hVmfqIAC5OhtQMcr7isRRmhTkWLw1wVu9tiZ38Ypy5Dgxim4g-cl7hEAM6P5YBbpE8bp61rO5BTzFrN-gxmO42d2qsgpGo2gMs-cnWcTvhWhMdCPVe_duZv30dBnECAy4gVyXia60G_UZJoFjUnMk15g" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj71sMIBMpAWS7gnlCH3eXgK047TM80Bejbd2hVmfqIAC5OhtQMcr7isRRmhTkWLw1wVu9tiZ38Ypy5Dgxim4g-cl7hEAM6P5YBbpE8bp61rO5BTzFrN-gxmO42d2qsgpGo2gMs-cnWcTvhWhMdCPVe_duZv30dBnECAy4gVyXia60G_UZJoFjUnMk15g=w245-h123" width="245" /></a></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">(More pro-Russians demonstrators in 2014)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Just as </span><span style="text-align: left;">their opponents had done, the pro-Russian Ukrainians also seized government buildings. However </span><span style="text-align: left;">this time</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">the response by a new,<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957"> US approved</a>, Ukrainian government was much stronger. Kyiv attacked the demonstrators with tanks, armored personnel carriers, helicopters gunships and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EHmzzI2FLM">swastika'd </a>paramilitary groups. The war in Donbas had begun.</span></div><p></p><p>It might be easier for Americans to understand the eastern Ukrainian, pro-Russian reactions if the shoe were to be put on an American foot. If we were to imagine how people in a solid blue states like California might feel if the January 6 protestors, had actually succeeded in toppling President Biden - using a mix of foreign-backing, Molotov cocktails and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJhJ6hks0Jg">snipers</a>. Then, to top it off, the same scenario were to repeat itself in the very next election cycle. At that point it might not be so hard to imagine many Californians thinking it was time to take to the streets and demand to be heard, maybe even call for a secession referendum. This is what happened in Donbas. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ME7IFy8mg3Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="ME7IFy8mg3Q"></iframe></div>(Scenes from this video were bought and paid for by US taxpayers)</div><div><br /></div><div><p>Since its beginning in April 2014, Kyiv's 'Anti-Terrorist-Operation' against the Donbas has killed thousands of pro-Russian civilians. It formed Putin's excuse for his February 2022 invasion. Now pro-Russian civilians are being killed directly by freshly supplied US HIMARS and 155 mm howitzers. Our decision to stoke this conflict has brought us into direct confrontation with Russia and threatens us all with nuclear annihilation.</p><p><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-74030587623449120592021-10-16T11:02:00.004-05:002022-02-14T16:16:01.791-06:00When a Mormon gets something right that most Catholics don't<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">DESTROYING MARKAN PRIORITY</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L6iBtu9FQCw" width="320" youtube-src-id="L6iBtu9FQCw"></iframe></div>Markan priority is the scholarly theory that the Gospel of Mark was composed before Matthew and Luke, and that latter two then copied much of their material from Mark. Nowadays very few Catholic apologists, not even Trent Horn, are willing to challenge Markan priority.<p></p><p>Not so, this nerdy Mormon guy, ( NMG). NMG totally DEMOLISHES Markan priority starting @ 04:00 and then he delivers a hilarious coup de grace @ 06:30! His very simple solution to the problem starts @10:00.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-34291536837770958832021-10-12T14:10:00.004-05:002021-10-12T14:18:01.416-05:00Atheist performs two HOST DESECRATIONS on Youtube<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ueq47CEqNFw" width="320" youtube-src-id="ueq47CEqNFw"></iframe></div> skip to 39:15<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Oot7mvxjogY" width="320" youtube-src-id="Oot7mvxjogY"></iframe></div><p></p><p> Skip to 09:40</p><p>I ran across these videos a couple of weeks ago....the first is from 2017 and the second is from 2019.</p><p>There might be reason to wonder whether the individual might have desecrated an unconsecrated wafer....however I think we can pretty much take him at his word on this.....Not sure what to say about this, other than reparations and prayers and sacrifices need to be made.</p><p>Communion in the hand must be banned.</p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-47048621966469043852020-12-14T08:06:00.006-06:002020-12-14T08:37:17.864-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">RIP CHARLIE PRIDE</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FYbCJVBjjrA" width="320" youtube-src-id="FYbCJVBjjrA"></iframe></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">This is last year, where Charlie was still performing at 85 years old...Note 0:04 the audience of "deplorables"</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z9ROkp-FE_M" width="320" youtube-src-id="z9ROkp-FE_M"></iframe></div><br /><p>@ 3:00 of his 2017 interview</p><div class="cue-group style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" style="align-items: baseline; background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 16px 8px 3px;"><div class="cues style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="172880" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">When I when I first started </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="176860" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">giving interviews and all different </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="179330" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">reporters would say: "now Charlie how does </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer active" role="button" start-offset="181670" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; line-height: 1.8rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">it feel to be the Jackie Robinson of </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="183019" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">country music?", or "how does it feel to be </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="184700" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">the first colored country singer?" or "</div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="186920" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">how does it feel to be the first Negro </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="188900" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">country singer" or Charlie how does it </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="190640" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">feel to be the first Afro- American </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="192019" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">country singer?" I said I feel the same way as when I was "colored" </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="194180" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0"> I don't feel no different..... so </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="196070" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">I try to narrow it down to that and they </div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="198320" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">say "well which one do you want?" I said well "</div><div class="cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer" role="button" start-offset="199610" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" tabindex="0">that's four of them," I said "well I'm </div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary);">Charlie pride the staunch American!" </span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-3923699253441221922020-12-01T08:32:00.003-06:002020-12-01T09:15:19.848-06:00<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Corpus Christi Voter's Guide update for DECEMBER 15, 2020 City Council Run-Off Election</u></span></p><p><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><u> Colonel A M Hobby Camp 713 Sons of Confederate Veterans, (SCV)</u></b></p><p>Our candidates did very well!! I'll have more on that later <span style="font-size: large;">BUT in the meantime, we have a mayoral run-off coming up, with one week of early voting December 5-11.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Remember to vote for.....</span></p><p> <b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> FOR MAYOR OF CORPUS CHRISTI</span></b></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.1KdrSwzzHe1GpXUcHIfJzAAAAA?pid=Api&rs=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="360" height="255" src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.1KdrSwzzHe1GpXUcHIfJzAAAAA?pid=Api&rs=1" width="255" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b><u>PAULETTE GUAJARDO</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Paulette reads and responds to emails. She loves tradition and wants to clean up the blight around our historical Rose Hill Cemetery where so many of our civil war veterans are interred. I have great respect for Paulette's opponent, HOWEVER we should recall that he was responsible for destroying our ICONIC Memorial Coliseum which was dedicated to our </span><span style="font-size: large;">WWII </span><span style="font-size: large;">fallen! Enough said!!</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">(DISTRICT 4) KAYLYNN PAXSON</span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQIUWT-HQ9j5J6XhyWvzZZUDn3xw06wq-XyKivRYuynWE2n2dQDHiAiRCK8duxZDGw509w75I96JGRbyChC3qiMx8EMsk8G3f3TMcVJTn4BzECapmXHZQFMz_mFE1RDMGPHVJblFQq9E54/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="328" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQIUWT-HQ9j5J6XhyWvzZZUDn3xw06wq-XyKivRYuynWE2n2dQDHiAiRCK8duxZDGw509w75I96JGRbyChC3qiMx8EMsk8G3f3TMcVJTn4BzECapmXHZQFMz_mFE1RDMGPHVJblFQq9E54/" width="320" /></a></div><br />Very much like Paulette Guajardo, Kaylynn answers emails and wants to clean up Rose Hill Cemetery's surroundings. Her opponent has never responded despite numerous appeals.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(DISTRICT 1) BILLY LERMA</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr. Lerma did very respectfully respond
to my original email to him. He did not
have any specific responses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-25595001359806962792020-10-20T11:04:00.013-05:002020-10-22T08:08:47.263-05:00<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <u><b>My </b></u><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><u>2020 VOTER'S GUIDE for the Colonel A M Hobby Camp 713 Sons of Confederate Veterans, (SCV) for Corpus Christi Residents! (20OCT2020)</u></b></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Well!! Two Weeks to go and early voting has been running for a week. In August, I emailed all Corpus Christi City Council candidates, asking for their views on issues regarding honoring our deceased mothers and fathers. Each candidate was asked specifically how they felt about our United Daughters of the Confederacy fountain, our Columbus statue disappearing, and also about the <i><u>urban blight</u></i> that the city has allowed to encroach on Rose Hill Cemetery.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">The Corpus Christi ISD board candidates were asked directly about 2017 removal of the Hamlin Middle School Rebel mascot.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Some heroes emerged, and if you are able to vote for any of the following people, I would recommend them as being pro-tradition and pro-history and pro-patria!</p></div></div></blockquote><p> <b>FOR </b><b>MAYOR OF CORPUS CHRISTI</b></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.1KdrSwzzHe1GpXUcHIfJzAAAAA?pid=Api&rs=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="360" height="255" src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.1KdrSwzzHe1GpXUcHIfJzAAAAA?pid=Api&rs=1" width="255" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <b><u>PAULETTE GUAJARDO<br /></u></b><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> Paulette, a Corpus Christi native, was the ONLY ONE of nine mayoral candidates to directly address the urban blight encroaching on Corpus Christi's Rose Hill Cemetery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKRRXYIYEXAvByeoyekJu7Ga1l0bT-0kiDsABRMeGJb6p6ky9MXQSfYK07K4ir13vWge5E6Zh0wIQnJkU6qdncxL8tl1zvg4zJiXfjmgDLRsDOt30jdGAW7uAc9xsKYiU1FbbtejvhoVML/s640/rosehill.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="640" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKRRXYIYEXAvByeoyekJu7Ga1l0bT-0kiDsABRMeGJb6p6ky9MXQSfYK07K4ir13vWge5E6Zh0wIQnJkU6qdncxL8tl1zvg4zJiXfjmgDLRsDOt30jdGAW7uAc9xsKYiU1FbbtejvhoVML/w401-h328/rosehill.jpg" width="401" /></a></div><br /> <br /></b> <b> Paulette is a member of Corpus Christi's only parish which offers the Latin Mass</b><div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15697205_229743850811974_1417786739420095627_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=FKJUOG91X8EAX_F-tGA&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=4abc62d73f2899a9ba3fb10ad79b9611&oe=5FB2E4E9" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="463" src="https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15697205_229743850811974_1417786739420095627_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=FKJUOG91X8EAX_F-tGA&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=4abc62d73f2899a9ba3fb10ad79b9611&oe=5FB2E4E9" width="347" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div><div><p> <b> She is clearly a person who values TRADITION. Vote for HER!</b></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><u><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Recommended CCISD School Board AT-LARGE CANDIDATES</span><span>. </span></span></b></u></p></div></div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">There are two great candidates running, Alice Upshaw Hawkins and Don Clark! you can give all three of your votes to either of them or just vote for both of them.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">ALICE UPSHAW HAWKINS</span></u></b></p></div></div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u> </u></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><b><u><a href="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/eb714b69e9585f3d0598b78ac5ff3abe26cf8be5/c=298-0-2000-2269&r=537&c=0-0-534-712/local/-/media/2016/10/14/TXGroup/CorpusChristi/636120636457821222-0901-CCLO-Upshaw-Hawkins-Alice-2016.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="534" height="332" src="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/eb714b69e9585f3d0598b78ac5ff3abe26cf8be5/c=298-0-2000-2269&r=537&c=0-0-534-712/local/-/media/2016/10/14/TXGroup/CorpusChristi/636120636457821222-0901-CCLO-Upshaw-Hawkins-Alice-2016.JPG" width="249" /></a></u></b></div><b style="font-size: small;"><u><br /></u></b>Mrs Hawkins grew up here picking cotton and thinks that her having picked cotton is something to take pride in and that <u><b>our local history should be remembered and CELEBRATED</b>.</u> Mrs. Hawkins thinks our schools started going downhill “when school prayer was removed”. An African American, Mrs. Hawkins says she would <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>‘be honored to have the support of the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy’. </u> </b>If Mrs. Hawkins is re-elected, I know we will have a friend and advocate for tradition who believes in for honoring our fathers and mothers.</span><p style="font-size: small;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u></u></b></p></div></div></blockquote><p><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </b><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our other great CCISD candidate is......</span></b></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>DON CLARK</u></b><u> </u>who is </span> very straight shooter. Mr. Clark is a veteran, and though he is not a Corpus Christi native, Don is a Tennessean who graduated from high school here. <u>Don very much regrets the removal of Hamlin's 'Rebel' Mascot!</u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="https://donclark4ccisd.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Don-Clark-Family_01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="599" src="https://donclark4ccisd.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Don-Clark-Family_01.png" width="450" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u></u></span><p style="font-size: small;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b>Corpus Christi City Council</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b>Recommended Corpus Christi At-Large Candidates</b> Four candidates of the 13 responded favorably to my questionnaire.(you may either split your vote amongst three candidates or concentrate your vote on one) The best candidates for preserving tradition and cemeteries are:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u>JOHN MARTINEZ <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></u></b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr Martinez is very RESPONSIVE and a Corpus Christi native with many ancestors buried here. He understands EXACTLY where we are coming fro</span>m!!</p></div></div></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/bd70273/2147483647/strip/true/crop/600x480+0+0/resize/600x480!/quality/90/?url=http:%2F%2Fewscripps-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F79%2F37%2Fea0a392a4a4791c1b8c7df68b92d%2Fjohn-martinez-city-council-at-large-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="600" height="250" src="https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/bd70273/2147483647/strip/true/crop/600x480+0+0/resize/600x480!/quality/90/?url=http:%2F%2Fewscripps-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F79%2F37%2Fea0a392a4a4791c1b8c7df68b92d%2Fjohn-martinez-city-council-at-large-1.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u>RICARDO HANKERSON</u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u>MIKE PUSLEY</u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u>FRANK ARRIAGA</u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">(Honorable mention goes to <u>Liz Perez</u>. Liz did not get around to answering my questions about our UDC fountain and Columbus, HOWEVER she does want to do something about beautifying ROSE HILL CEMETERY. I would not rule her out as anyone who wants to preserve what is beautiful in our city is a friend!)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b>Recommended Corpus Christi District 1 candidate:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u>NEELY BALKO</u></b></p></div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/120024606_271354060943714_6992153912424134617_n.png?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=CBpyO6kTilIAX8xjbWc&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=d6558c2e96a3de7327793185d53df995&oe=5FB466D7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="800" height="333" src="https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/120024606_271354060943714_6992153912424134617_n.png?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=CBpyO6kTilIAX8xjbWc&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=d6558c2e96a3de7327793185d53df995&oe=5FB466D7" width="398" /></a></div><br /><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Recommended Corpus Christi District 2 candidates:</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> both of the two following are wonderful candidates as far as ‘honoring our ancestors’. I live in District 2 and I regret that I can’t vote for both of them!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">SYLVIA CAMPOS</span></u></b></p></div></div></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/09/19/PCCT/ad7b6f6c-c39e-4c71-8271-451f116359bf-SylviaCampos.JPG?width=2352&height=1764&fit=bounds&auto=webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="276" src="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/09/19/PCCT/ad7b6f6c-c39e-4c71-8271-451f116359bf-SylviaCampos.JPG?width=2352&height=1764&fit=bounds&auto=webp" width="415" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">BEN MOLINA</span></u></b></p></div></div></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cctexas.com/sites/default/files/2016-12/district-2-b-molina.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="571" height="501" src="https://www.cctexas.com/sites/default/files/2016-12/district-2-b-molina.jpg" width="358" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b>Recommended Corpus Christi District 3 candidates:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">(Sorry, the District 3 candidates did not display interest in our issues)<b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b>Recommended Corpus Christi District 4 candidate:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Kaylynn Paxson<b> </b>(Kaylynn did not answer the question about our monuments, but she gets honorable mention because of her interest in beautifying Rose Hill cemetery)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b>Recommended Corpus Christi District 5 candidate:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">(Sorry, the District 5 candidates did not display interest in our issues)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">I hope this has helped to inform you about our local candidates! feel free to forward this email to our other members. Perhaps, before November 3, they have something valuable to add that I have overlooked.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p></div></div></blockquote></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-41850033048880333792020-09-08T12:59:00.007-05:002020-10-27T08:40:49.781-05:00Mark Twain, Unreconstructed Confederate<p> </p><p>MARK TWAIN, LOST CAUSER?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mcpl.org/archive/2013/04/lincoln-twain/image_preview" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="400" src="http://www.mcpl.org/archive/2013/04/lincoln-twain/image_preview" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">"........ Dear Wife, I had to march the first day of the month barefoot and I wore the skin off my feet and froze them and my toenails will come off and they pain me all most to death. You never have seen such feet [as] I got."</span></b></i><o:p></o:p></p><div><span style="color: #ff00fe;">((<b>Private Edward L. Sowers, </b>Confederate soldier))....</span>...</div><p>Mark Twain chose never to publish his 'War-Prayer' short story. Why he did not is a question worth pondering, but can never be completely answered. Regardless, it is safe to say that Twain must have feared someone's wrath. Twain liked to refer to himself as a 'reconstructed Southerner'. Had he published 'War-Prayer', some of the public might have doubted that he was truly reconstructed. </p><p>Twain's 'War-Prayer' tells of a heavenly visitor who walks into a church service where loved ones are sending their men off to war...the preacher begins a prayer for victory, quoting from the Old Testament...then a spectral visitor asks if he can finish the prayer.....</p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><i><b>"<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b></i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b><i>....we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun-flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, </i><i>stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet</i>! </b>.....</span>.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Wikipedia says Twain's unpublished work was a protest against the Spanish American War. Depending upon when it was written, that could be true.. The story is certainly anti-war. HOWEVER, </span><span style="background-color: white;">the images conjured-- in particular,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> the image of snow, betrays that Twain does not have </span><span style="background-color: white;">in mind</span><span style="background-color: white;"> the tropics, which is where the Spanish American war was fought. The snow instead points to America's Civil War, where there WERE battles fought in bitter cold. </span><a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/winter-battle">( like Pea Ridge)</a> and <span style="background-color: white;">where Confederate soldiers were notorious for going unshod.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In addition to Twain's references to soldiers with bloody feet, he also mentions burnt homes and masses of homeless and blighted lives. The only large scale destruction of people's homes took place in the South! He also mentions enemy dead as 'patriot dead'. This indicates that the praying-side must be about to invade someone else's land. If this is a Civil War metaphor, then the devastation depicted does not reflect the North's losses during the War. Twain's sad litany is an accurate picture of devastated Dixie and hence is most likely an indictment of the Union's conduct during the War.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-29934814476344332492020-08-11T15:27:00.003-05:002020-08-11T15:27:34.945-05:00CORPUS CHRISTI BISHOP MULVEY DECLARES ALL WEDNESDAYS AS DAYS OF FASTING TIL COVID-19 ENDS<p> SUNDAY 09 AUG 2020</p><p>Corpus Christi, Texas' pastor has called on Catholics of the Corpus Christi Diocese to fast on Wednesdays. </p><p>For how long? </p><p>Til this catastrophe is ended.</p><p><img alt="Bishop Mulvey issues statement following allegations of Archbishop sexual misconduct" src="https://d2y1pz2y630308.cloudfront.net/2401/pictures/2018/8/bMulvey.jpg" /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-55059326080356258492020-08-08T15:30:00.004-05:002020-10-22T08:05:57.124-05:00Kneeling Catholic touches on the 'Black Legend'<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vkq5Vn4Xny8" width="320" youtube-src-id="Vkq5Vn4Xny8"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">YouTube would not post my response to Joe Ryan's above video, so here it is here....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;">Friend, I disagree with you when you contrast the Spanish treatment of American Indians with that of Anglo America. All you need do is look at the typical illegal immigrant coming from Latin America. They are not Europeans! They are Indians with Spanish surnames and that's it. If the Spanish wiped out the Indians then ((as Custer famously asked)) 'where the hell are all these Indians coming from!?'</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;">A typical Latin American has a lot of Indian blood. Most people with Indian blood who live in the US today have immigrated to us from Latin America (you know, the place where Columbus had them wiped out?)But wait, I thought you said Columbus wiped them out!</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Here is another question: Why American Indians embrace Columbus's Catholicism if they hated him and the Spaniards so much? The same might be asked of Christian black America. Why did slaves embrace the religion of their white owners if the Southern master-slave relationship was so poisonous?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;">The fact is, there is this thing called the 'black legend' about Spain and Catholicism that England and the puritans cooked up way back in the 17th CTY. They were in competition with Spain in the new world, so they magnified Catholic (Spanish) misdeeds and downplayed their own evil treatment of the Indians. Please recall General Amherst giving small-pox blankets to Chief Pontiac in the 18th CTY and the acts of Sheridan and Custer and Nathaniel Lyon in the 19th. (Why were ALL America's butchers of the Indians also heroes of Mr. Lincoln's Union Army?) By the early 20th CTY, the US northern states had become ethnically-cleansed, white ethno-states and the Yankees liked it that way.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Yankee Abolitionists like Ralph W </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;">Emerson and Julian Sturdevant explicitly remarked that they first expected the </span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">North American </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Indians to go extinct and then the North American black men. They could only say that because they were already witnessing Anglo America's eradication of Indians.</span></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-1264075849842955092020-07-24T14:38:00.004-05:002020-07-24T14:39:04.163-05:00CHICAGO ITALIANS MOURN REMOVED COLUMBUS STATUE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Instead of hearing sermons about social distancing and wearing masks...it would be nice, your excellencies (bishops) and fathers (priests), to hear about reasons why so many of you descendants of the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas are worshiping the one true God! Those reasons being Columbus, the Spanish conquistadors and the missionaries.<br />
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What would have happened if the Americas would have been discovered by, say, the protestant British East India Company? Look what they did to China in the 19th Cty! They filled it with opium so they could have tea....and remember the part where the British had all the Chinese all become Anglicans? o yeah...that didn't happen. If the Chinese had become Christian, it might have been harder to fill the country with opium dens!<br />
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ALABAMA INF. REG. CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. THEY WERE CAPTURED IN THE
SPRING OF 1962 IN THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF ISLAND NO. 10 IN THE MISSISSIPPI
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reading between the lines on this plaque and I don’t see anything about white
supremacy, ‘God bless the KKKay’, or anything about slavery. There’s not
anything even about defending their homeland from invasion.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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and SCV ar</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">e the only people opposing this desecration of graves and for this they will always and forever </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">have my ‘vote’ .</span></b><br />
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Many heathen Vikings would become 'the Normans' and then go on to become some of the greatest of Crusaders.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #1f497d;">In 1519, on the Roman Catholic Feast Day of Corpus Christi, Spanish explorer Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda discovered a lush semi-tropical bay on what is now the southern coast of Texas. The bay, and the city that later sprung up there, took the name of the feast day celebrating the "Body of Christ."<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">However, our research along with other research does not have any proof that the naming of the Corpus Christi bay occurred on 1519. The date is much later than 1519. Therefore, we are not recognizing the 500<sup>th</sup>anniversary date. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">We are of course celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi with a Eucharistic Procession <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" style="color: #1f497d; text-decoration-color: rgba(31, 73, 125, 0.258824);" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on June 20</a><sup><a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" style="color: #1f497d; text-decoration-color: rgba(31, 73, 125, 0.258824);" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">th</a></sup><a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" style="color: #1f497d; text-decoration-color: rgba(31, 73, 125, 0.258824);" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true"> beginning at 6:30 pm</a> at the Cathedral and all are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">If you would like more information on the events of the Feast of Corpus Christi, on your phone text the word “<b>CorpusChristi</b>” to “<b>84576</b>” and you will receive updates or visit the Diocese of Corpus Christi website.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-70354198425603138762019-01-04T22:26:00.002-06:002019-01-06T22:23:55.055-06:00How to get banned from a Conservative Catholic Blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. <a href="http://www.the-american-catholic.com/2018/12/20/december-20-1976-mayor-richard-j-daley-of-chicago-dies/#comment-331024">Disagree with the Host</a><br />
2. About traditional Republicans' dedication to the pro-life cause<br />
3. <a href="https://www.the-american-catholic.com/2018/12/22/shout-your-slave/">Criticize</a> early Abolitionist Republicans <br />
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I wish I had seen this post earlier as it relates well to the ‘Shout your slave’ string. How? ….Just that it touches on an old-school pro-life Democrat who was pro-life at a time when some of our Republican heroes like Nixon and GHW Bush and Goldwater and even <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/01/reagans-darkest-hour-paul-kengor-patricia-clark-doerner/">Reagan</a> were anything but.</div>
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It was Nixon who appointed the Rockefeller commission (!!!) fretting overpopulation. Yes he was scared <a href="http://www.flsuspop.org/NixRockefeller.html">of that.</a> He only rejected its abortion recommendation because Pat Buchanan advised him he might need to woo Catholic voters for the 1972 election. Even Nixon’s tepid, <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/otm-when-republicans-wanted-abortion-rights">newly-minted</a>, pro-life support constituted a total reversal of his Administration’s policy towards abortion, since earlier it had –by fiat- made abortions available at <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/us/politics/11abort.html">military hospitals</a> REGARDLESS of local laws to the contrary.</div>
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I’m sorry, Mr. M, in retrospect, the pro-life pirouettes made by Presidents’ Nixon and <a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-12-05/he-was-president-hw-bush-championed-family-planning">Bush</a> seem a little cynical. Viewed from the cui-bono angle, it has been to Republican politicians’ advantage to keep abortion legal just so they can have it as an issue to keep Catholics (and now Evangelicals as well) from bolting the party.</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14px;">Rubbish on stilts. But for the Democrat Party Roe would long ago have been but an obscene memory. Ted Kennedy led the fight against Judge Bork, and if Bork had been on the Court Roe would have been overturned more than a quarter century ago. The strong support of most of the GOP elected officials against abortion is remarkable considering the cultural forces in academia and entertainment in lockstep support of abortion. That the Republicans also draw fire from idiot pro-lifers who can’t distinguish friends from foes is truly pathetic. Peddle your rubbish elsewhere Kneeling Catholic,</span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b> you are banned from this blog</b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">post script....How I would have responded....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">>>>></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">if Bork had been on the Court Roe would have been overturned more than a quarter century ago.<<<<</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Mr. M, This is a 'counter-factual' argument, (a what would've happened if---------had happened). You might be right that Bork would have been willing to be the swing vote on 1992 Casey vs Planned Parenthood. That doesn't necessarily follow, however. </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">20 years after his hearing Bork did convert to Catholicism, RIP. BUT </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">At the time of his confirmation, BORK WAS AN ATHEIST. Throwing one real atheist, Bork, in with 4 other practical atheists (Blackmun, Stevens, O'connor, Souter) and expecting him to act like a Christian might not have worked.</span><br />
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Friends, there ARE White Supremacists who glom onto legitimate causes, like e.g. defending the Cross of St Andrew's Confederate Battle Flag.! Here is my response to one of them..........<br />
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<i><span style="color: red;"><b>(Karl the White Supremacist):</b></span></i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>All this may be academic in a few decades. The South will be majority Black and Hispanic. By 2050 whites will be a minority in the United States. The greater cause is to lead a secessionist moment of the still remaining majority white and politically sane states while there is time to at least save a portion of our race via the formation of a white Ethno-State...</b></span></i></span><br />
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What in the world!?!?!
The old Soviet block was chock-full of white ethno-states! They were very sad places in which to dwell. So much for your idea. Go think up something else.
Please don’t take offense but you sound kind of like Mr Wilmot, the Yankee architect of the free-soil movement. </yt-formatted-string><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 22.4px; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Wilmot's own admission, many abolitionists' main goal in keeping</span><a href="http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-123" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 22.4px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> America's new western states </a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 22.4px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 'free' was to keep them black-free and for the white race ONLY</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 22.4px; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Wilmot and his ilk could not abide the sight often seen in the old South where blacks and whites intermingled, attended the same churches and</span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/27650401?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;"> one another’s weddings</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">, where White Southerners took on African nicknames like Goober and Bubba, where slave owners children were nursed and raised by black Mammies and frolicked with their African children. It was all toooo intimate for the Yankee puritans!</span><br />
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<yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-comment-renderer" slot="content" split-lines="" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: 2rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speaking of intimate...Though </yt-formatted-string><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 22.4px; white-space: pre-wrap;">paternalistic and brutal, the Old South culture</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 22.4px; white-space: pre-wrap;">very </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">bad at distilling a pure white race -if you are into that sort of thing. .....Sad to say- YOU ARE! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/22/a-lot-of-southern-whites-are-a-little-bit-black/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.340937c6e914" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">ecent DNA studies</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;"> prove that the unsuspecting southern WHITE man-even after 150 years of segregation- still has more African 'blood' than any other group of American whites. AND grab your smelling salts!-- not all of it sprang from “Romeo and Janelle” couplings but also a good bit comes from </span><a href="https://blog.23andme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ASHG2011poster-Mountain-1.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Rodericks and Juliets” </a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><br />
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But back to you, Karl! Since your original idea of white ethno-states is just total nonsense, here is a new track for you:.... and please don't wimp out on me, like Richard Spencer and other white nationalists who are atheists and Darwinists! What would you think, Karl, of us Christian folk protecting our Christian 'race' and putting our Lord Jesus right-smack-dab-in-the-middle of The US Constitution? </yt-formatted-string><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all that loot we could support Christian healthcare for all or some other worthy cause. We could also require our new citizens to swear acknowledgment of our Lord's authority over the secular government.</span><br />
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Gaither Gospel Quartet Tenor, David Phelps with his daughter Maggie Beth sing Agnus Dei<br />
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Such perfect intensity! Not bad for Bible belt 'tent revivalists'!<br />
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I think Pius IX signaled the South's Catholic potential during the American Civil War when he very warmly corresponded with the Confederacy's President, Jefferson Davis. The Abolitionist cause was being spearheaded by Transcendentalists and Unitarians who vacillated between indifference and ecstasy over the idea of fomenting<a href="http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1409/the-uprisings-of-nat-turner-and-john-brown-response-and-treatment-from-the-abolitionist-movement-and-the-press"> race war in the South</a>. That is why <a href="http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/14/why_they_sang_about_john_brown/">The John Brown song</a> was a popular recruiting tool in New England. Who was John Brown? An apocalyptic preacher who died trying to foment a race war in the American South in 1859. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Six">New England elites had met</a> with John Brown and helped him. They lionized Nat Turner and <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/resources/teaching/dickinson/sundquist.html">Toussaint</a>*.<br />
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The South by contrast was led by overtly Christian men who expressed love for God and tradition and home and family and chivalry and patriotism . These virtues were being questioned by self-righteous, fire-breathing Abolitionists up north, many prominent being anti-christian Unitarians. Maybe Pius IX saw that, despite the Church's open condemnation of slavery, the South's inner values harmonized with those of a Catholic society better than those of the puritanical New England ideologues. (At least the South had NEVER made<a href="https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-history/how-the-puritans-banned-christmas/"> war on Christmas and Easter</a>, nor even burned down any convents, as had the New England Yankees)<br />
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But what about slavery? What of the 'racist South'? Perhaps we forget that NO southerner then alive had personally chosen slavery. They were all born into it. It's brutality did hurt their Christian consciences, but they also had the horrible reminder of the recent Armageddon <a href="https://www.counter-currents.com/the-french-revolution-in-san-domingo/">race war</a> in Haiti to steel their minds against wholesale, chaotic emancipation. Southerners, as goes the old Roman saying, were ' riding the wolf by hanging on to its ears.' If they suddenly dismounted the wolf of slavery, there was a good reason to expect a dismal end for most southerners, white AND black.<br />
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In short, the South hated the imminent threat of rivers of blood more than it hated slavery. Long before the war, a peaceful, gradual emancipation had been on the minds of a good number of Southern elites. Such plans evaporated as northern preaching and threats of war increased. However, even during the war, at its eleventh hour,** southern leaders enacted General Cleburne's plan for enlisting slaves and <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1886652.pdf">EMANCIPATING</a> all those enlisted. This plan was backed by General Robert E. Lee AND JEFFERSON DAVIS. What would have happened if those freed slaves had saved the day for the Confederacy? Certainly a more dignified status for southern blacks than the Union 'paradise' they got after Reconstruction.***<br />
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Conversely, the Northern Abolitionists simply hated slavery more than they feared drowning Dixie in rivers of blood. Indeed many hoped that the slaves would rise up and <a href="http://discerninghistory.com/2015/09/was-the-emancipation-proclamation-trying-to-incite-a-slave-rebellion/">slay their masters</a> as the war advanced. Thousands of Nat Turners murdering the families**** of the Southern troops on the front would have immediately dissolved the Confederate Army. To many's surprise, that scenario never quite materialized! There were many voices in Europe and even in the Northern States, who feared Lincolns first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was <a href="http://discerninghistory.com/2015/09/was-the-emancipation-proclamation-trying-to-incite-a-slave-rebellion/">intended to catalyze a rac</a>e war in Dixie. President Lincoln relented and softened the most incendiary portion in its final edition. and Southern blacks' personal loyalty and patriotism and Christian decency kept them from fulfilling the dreams of the likes of Thaddeus Steven and William Lloyd Garrison.<br />
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The Abolitionists didn't get their race war, but they did get their rivers of blood. It is a less well-known fact, but a fact nevertheless, that adding to the Civil War's 600,000+ dead soldiers were about a hundred thousand wandering, displaced slaves who perished from <a href="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199758722.001.0001/acprof-9780199758722-chapter-5">small pox</a>, exposure, starvation, etc. The Abolitionists' war to free slaves killed a hundred thousand slaves in short order. But like true revolutionaries, the Abolitionists and their modern-day apologists shrug off the monumental blood sacrifice. 'No sacrifice is too great when we are building heaven on earth!'<br />
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But what about the heaven they built us? If it is fair to laud the northern Abolitionists for the war's benefits, like black emancipation and enfranchisement and integrated schools, might it also be fair to credit them for its tragedies? All told, having killed the better part of a million people, the war has then been followed by 150 years of racial hatred and injustice. Our prisons and our abortion clinic dumpsters overflow with black lives wasted.<br />
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The Abolitionists got their war and won it. We live in their dream.<br />
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* Toussaint oversaw Haitian independence where almost all white women and children and men were slain<br />
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** some might argue, too little too late...to which I respond: We only know it was the eleventh hour because we have hindsight. General Lee was smart but he didn't know the future.<br />
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***Some may doubt that southern blacks would have fared better in a Confederacy for which they had fought , than blacks did in a conquered nation where they were seen as the conqueror's tools to humiliate the defeated. To such doubters I would say they are underestimating the cohesion forged among brothers in arms. Such doubters are most likely to have never been in the military.<br />
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**** Nat Turner only murdered one person. He beat the brains out of a teenage girl with a fence post<br />
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I was surfing our local talk radio stations the other day and an item caught my attention.<br />
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1360 KKTX, a Fox News affiliate, was advertising for Marijuana Investors! The ad referenced House Republican's former leader, and Catholic <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/weeper-of-the-house-john-boehner-cries-100557">crybaby</a>, John Boehner as a spokesman. WOW!<br />
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Here are some questions the Marijuana pushers will never, ever ask nor answer....<br />
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1. Is Marijuana smoking a cultural phenomenon, and if so, with what kind of culture does it breed?<br />
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2. Does the government have a duty to protect culture? I.e. is culture worth protecting? (to those who might respond that it's not the government's role to protect our way of life, I conclude: then--in your world-- it's ok for government to pursue the demolition of culture and never protect it!)<br />
3. <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/06/390143641/pot-can-trigger-psychotic-symptoms-for-some-but-do-the-effects-last">Since marijuana is proven to induce psychosis in many people</a>, why isn't reducing its usage a public health issue?<br />
4. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-marijuana-kids/marijuana-related-er-visits-by-colorado-teens-on-the-rise-idUSKBN1HO38A">Since legalizing pot is proved to increase its usage</a> among teens, is promoting legalization an attack on young people and their <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/your-kids-brain-on-pot-the-real-effects-of-marijuana-on-teens/article21127612/">futures</a> ?<br />
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The libertarian-free-market wing of the Republicans is really showing us what it holds supreme. To them, the only duty of government is to protect the free-market. (AKA protect the right of the wealthy to prey on the rest of us). If-on -the-way-to-making-new-zillionaires- the free-market demolishes the lifestyles, culture and morals of millions of the poor and middle class, then so be it. They deserve to have their lives ruined. They are morally weak and they should be punished for being weak.<br />
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This reminds me of a historical <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/1864-tycoon-david-sassoon-dies-1.5196948">anecdote</a> I once read about while perusing some Muslim propaganda... the story of one of Britain's most preeminent Sephardic families, the Sassoons...The family made their zillions pushing opium on China--even though opium was banned in Britain. It's evil effects on a civilization were not a secret...When the emperor objected to the drug pushing, he confiscated Sassoon's drug ships,.Britain then declared war on China and eventually fought and won two wars in order to force China to buy opium. The results were a financial bonanza for the Sassoons but devastating for Chinese people<br />
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I thought at first, since the Sassoons were devout Jews, that the story was some kind of antisemitic blood libel. Turns out, every bit of it was true.</div>
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If anything gives me hope for the CHURCH, it is the youth. Two posts ago I ran our diocese's introduction to it's new Director of Sacred Music. I did highlight that he is one of 11 siblings....and his early statement emphasizing SACRED music certainly hinted that the music program might be taking a more solemn direction. With the diocese's recordings of September's Masses, we now have a few more indicators....<br />
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<a href="http://media.goccn.net/auddl/ccmass/180930ccmass.mp3">September30</a><br />
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<a href="http://media.goccn.net/auddl/ccmass/180923ccmass.mp3">September23</a><br />
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<a href="http://media.goccn.net/auddl/ccmass/180916ccmass.mp3">September16</a><br />
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<a href="http://180909ccmass.mp3%20%2824mb%29/">September 09</a><br />
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...of where we are going!<br />
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A few years back I had hoped that the new English Translation would make Haugen's Mass of Creation obsolete, but alas! Someone updated Marty's work and it was right back with us!<br />
Now, at least in our diocesan 'flagship', Haugen is being quietly laid to rest.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-49849094346610061372018-09-15T13:12:00.000-05:002018-09-16T10:48:18.786-05:00 "Exaltation of Holy Cross" Celebrations in Christian Village Recaptured by Assad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Fireworks are to commemorate the mountaintop fires lit from Jerusalem to Constantinople that proclaimed the joyous news that the True Cross had been recovered by Warrior Emperor Heraclius.<br />
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Watching these rowdy celebrations under Assad's 'brutal dictatorship', I wonder, if yesterday, any such boisterous exaltations, anything remotely comparable, sprang up anywhere in the Land of the Free?<br />
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Wikipedia says Hezbollah drove Al-Qaeda out of Maaloula in 2014. Looks like Hezbollah did good work!<br />
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Corpus Christi Cathedral is pleased to announce Mr. Scott Powell as the new Director of Sacred Music. Scott comes to us from Washington state where he has served in various musical positions. Most recently he has served as the Director of Music & Liturgy and Principal Organist at the historic Proto-Cathedral of St. James the Greater in Vancouver, WA, where he was the founder and director of the St. James Collegium Musicum, a professional choir and music ensemble that provides music for the Masses, Vespers & Compline services, and sacred music concerts at the Proto-Cathedral of St. James the Greater. He has also served as Music Assistant for the Concordia University Concert & Advanced Choirs. In addition, his professional experience includes extensive experience in liturgy and liturgical ministries in the parish, deanery, and diocesan contexts.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">"I am very excited for the opportunity to serve the Diocese and Cathedral of Corpus Christi in this important ministry. I look forward to working with this parish community in creating a beautiful environment within the Sacred Liturgy in which to worship our Lord." he said. </span><span style="color: #484848;"> </span></div>
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Scott studied Organ Performance at the University of Washington, Seattle and Choral Conducting at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. </div>
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<span style="color: #484848;">In his free time, he enjoys cooking, hiking and refereeing college and professional soccer. </span><span style="color: red;">Scott is one of eleven children. </span></div>
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The Most Rev. Wm. Michael Mulvey, Bishop of Corpus Christi said, “I welcome Scott as our new music director at Corpus Christi Cathedral. He brings with him an impressive range of musical abilities and a deep love for the beauty and sacredness of the liturgy. We are greatly looking forward to working with him to continue and foster the tradition of sacred music at our Cathedral and in our Diocese.”</div>
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Please join us in giving Scott a warm South Texas welcome to Corpus Christi Cathedral and to the Diocese of Corpus Christi.</div>
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Corpus Christi Cathedral is the Cathedral church of the Diocese of Corpus Christi. Under the leadership of Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey, the Diocese of Corpus Christi serves over 400,000 Catholics in 12 counties in the Coastal Bend area.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">In 1999, the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) published a carefully conducted </span><a href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.89.2.199"><span style="color: red;">study</span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> which proved that:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">1. Legalizing Abortion was solely responsible for killing off --by that year 1999-- at least 11 million Generation Xers and Millennials since 1973</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">2. Legalizing Abortion was highly effective in limiting US native latino and black population growth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;">Furthermore, the authors concluded that simply the act of BANNING ABORTION nationwide would immediately result in 440,000 more babies being born, EVERY YEAR. They did not mention any need for prior education to prepare the public. JUST BANNING ABORTION. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;">[The authors also do not mention that the US pre-1973 anti-abortion laws had not prosecuted or punished any woman since </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.aul.org/law-articles/why-the-states-did-not-prosecute-women-for-abortion-before-roe-v-wade/"><span style="color: red;">1922</span></a> </span>but perhaps it was on their mind that even a seldom enforced law might be an effective deterrent. The state laws that kept their 'fingers in the abortion dike' prior to Roe were apparently just such laws.]</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">AJPH is</span><span style="color: red;"> <a href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2012.301104"><span style="color: red;">NOT PROLIFE</span></a>.</span><span style="color: #444444;"> They were themselves a little astounded that NO ONE had undertaken such a study before them. The simple question was: "Does legalizing abortion cause more abortions?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">Many pro-choice sophisticates have claimed that legalizing abortion does not cause more abortions, but only legitimizes the status quo. AJPH's study gives the lie to that claim.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">The AJPH conclusions were based on objective statistics which revealed that in ALL the early states that legalized abortion before Roe V Wade the EXPECTED NUMBER OF LIVE BIRTHS IMMEDIATELY DIPPED after legalization (in concert with the increasing number of legal abortions). Then, when the US Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, this same dip in the number of live births occurred nationwide. From this AJPH concluded that most the babies that were being aborted <i>would have been born</i> if abortion had only remained criminalized. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">This is a controversial finding because it thoroughly pulverizes the above mentioned pro-choice argument that:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">'Women will get abortions whether they are legal or not, and that therefore </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/health/abortion-restriction-laws/index.html"><span style="color: red;">banning abortion does not save lives</span></a> </span><span style="color: #444444;">but only adds costs and risks to women"</span><br />
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AN ABSTRACT FROM THE STUDY FOLLOWS (in blue and purple font)</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 15px;">OBJECTIVES: This article examines the effect of abortion legalization on fertility rates in the United States. METHODS: Fertility rates were compared over time between states that varied in the timing of abortion legalization. RESULTS: States legalizing abortion experienced a 4% decline in fertility relative to states where the legal status of abortion was unchanged. The relative reductions in births to teens, women more than 35 years of age, non-White women, and unmarried women were considerably larger. If women did not travel between states to obtain an abortion, the estimated impact of abortion legalization on birth rates would be about 11%. CONCLUSIONS: A complete recriminalization of abortion nationwide could result in 440,000 additional births per year. A reversal of the Roe v Wade decision leaving abortion legal in some states would substantially limit this impact because of the extent of travel between states.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181609775805365054.post-10992124742407750252018-06-13T17:35:00.001-05:002018-06-14T07:03:51.369-05:00North Korean Leader Kim is 'ALL IN'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neocon Democrats and <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-marco-rubio-criticizes-north-korea-975876">Republican</a>s are expressing their skepticism over the Kim-Trump summit -- trying to cover their soft rumps in case things go bad. But everyone is missing the obvious.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">North Korean News Media covered the summit in REAL TIME.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a first for the way they normally operate....In the past they always scrub reports for a few days before releasing anything important. NOT THIS TIME. Kim chose to walk this highwire without any net.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">NK news media is now also already proclaiming that President Trump WILL visit NK. <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/104674507/north-korean-media-report-donald-trump-to-visit-nkorea">North Koreans expect President Trump</a> They also published the entire jointly signed concord document including the promise to DENUCLEARIZE the Peninsula.
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlike the in the US, the NK news media is not only Kim's cheerleader, it is IS THE VOICE OF KIM.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So now the naysayers say Kim can just go back on his word?
Imagine Babe Ruth pointing to the bleachers and then not swinging for them!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you think the man who proposes to his girlfriend at halftime doesn't care how she answers?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Especially, Koreans who place <a href="http://nojeokhill.koreanconsulting.com/2013/07/reflections-on-face-in-korea-and-what-it-really-means-for-life-and-business-in-korea.html">Honor</a> above all else.
Kim now loses face with his people if he stabs Trump in the back or does anything other than follow thru with the only promises ever made live on North Korean TV. He also has placed supreme trust in Mr. Trump, for if the agreement goes badly on account of US perfidy (or if Trump turns down Kim's invitation to visit), then Mr. Kim gets credit for being played the fool.
North Korea's Supreme Leader is all in, BIGLY.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">* politicians running for office excepted. Neither Trump nor Kim have that excuse.</span></div>
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Lately I've been reading more about IVF/Assisted Reproduction Technologies. Turns out genetic scientists are very worried that 'hot-wiring' human reproduction could be skipping important developmental steps.<br />
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There is a whole new field of genetics known as EPIgenetics which looks at how cells with exactly the same chromosomes know how to differentiate and become totally different cell-types. In particular these scientists are trying to warn that any one of the following steps....<br />
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1. stimulating ovaries artificially<br />
2. extracting eggs from the body<br />
3. fertilizing eggs in a petri dish<br />
4. freezing the resulting embryos<br />
5. thawing them<br />
6. introducing them to an artificially prepared womb<br />
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.....might be causing embryos to miss out on important triggering events that naturally conceived children NATURALLY experience. (btw I should mention that the Church condemns IFV because<br />
1. masturbation violates the 6th Commandment<br />
2. the destruction of most of the embryos conceived violates the 5th Commandment<br />
3. playing God violates the 1st Commandment.<br />
many Catholics are not aware of this despite Pope Francis' warnings)<br />
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Research scientists lament that the whole American IVF industry is unregulated and largely unmonitored.<br />
The children's health is not followed up in a way that might conclusively determine if there were longterm problems with any of the procedures. Basically, if a problem doesn't show up in the first year of life, IVF children are given a 'normal' label. This is despite research, carried out on lab mice, that indicates there are long-term complications for IVF conceived offspring as they reach adulthood.<br />
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It is possible to find these problems by searching internet articles. Youtube, however, is a totally different story. Any search on youtube will bring up smiling parents and reassuring doctors. "Nothing to see HERE! Move along!" or "Jump in, the water's just fine!!!". I suspect there is lots of money being spent to keep the public in the dark!<br />
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2. IVF 'healthy' teenage offspring are already suffering from poorer health, e.g. hypertension, and higher obesity rates<br />
3. No one seems to want to look very closely<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">accumulating data suggests that individuals conceived by ART may also have an increased risk of ageing-related chronic metabolic disorders, the evidence to date is obtained from pre-clinical studies, or small human cohorts. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Thus large scale, well-controlled epidemiological studies are necessary.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> "</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 19px;">"Infants conceived with use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection or in vitro fertilization have twice as high a risk of a major birth defect as naturally conceived infants."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 19px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 19px;">n vitro fertilization was introduced into practice with little formal evaluation of its effects on the health of the children conceived with this procedure."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 19px;">"</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: HelveticaNeueW01-55Roma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Conclusions:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Our observations indicate that body fat composition in IVF children is disturbed. Follow-up of IVF children to monitor body fat pattern and potentially related health problems from adolescence into adulthood is of great importance."</span><br />
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pressures<span class="_ _4"> </span>were<span class="_ _4"> </span>higher<span class="_ _4"> </span>in<span class="_ _4"> </span>IVF<span class="_ _4"> </span>children<span class="_ _4"> </span>(109<span class="_ _9"> </span><span class="ff7">⫾<span class="_ _4"> </span></span>11<span class="_ _4"> </span><span class="ffb">vs</span>.<span class="_ _4"> </span>105<span class="_ _4"> </span><span class="ff7">⫾<span class="_ _4"> </span></span>10<span class="_ _4"> </span>mm</div>
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Hg<span class="_ _7"> </span>in<span class="_ _6"> </span>controls,<span class="_ _7"> </span><span class="ffb">P<span class="_ _7"> </span><span class="ff7">⬍<span class="_ _6"> </span></span></span>0.001;<span class="_ _7"> </span>and<span class="_ _6"> </span>61<span class="_ _7"> </span><span class="ff7">⫾<span class="_ _6"> </span></span>7<span class="_ _7"> </span><span class="ffb">vs</span><span class="ls6">.5<span class="_ _18"></span>9<span class="ff7 ls1">⫾<span class="_ _7"> </span></span>7m<span class="_ _18"></span>mH<span class="_ _18"></span>gi<span class="_ _18"></span>n</span></div>
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controls,<span class="_ _6"> </span><span class="ffb">P<span class="_ _1"> </span><span class="ff7">⬍<span class="_ _6"> </span></span></span>0.001,<span class="_ _1"> </span>respectively).<span class="_ _6"> </span>Furthermore,<span class="_ _6"> </span>IVF<span class="_ _1"> </span>children</div>
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were<span class="_ _6"> </span>2.1<span class="_ _6"> </span>times<span class="_ _1"> </span>more<span class="_ _6"> </span>likely<span class="_ _6"> </span>to<span class="_ _1"> </span>be<span class="_ _6"> </span>in<span class="_ _6"> </span>the<span class="_ _6"> </span>highest<span class="_ _1"> </span>systolic<span class="_ _6"> </span>blood</div>
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pressure<span class="_ _3"> </span>quartile<span class="_ _3"> </span>(<span class="ffc">ⱖ</span>114.5<span class="_ _5"> </span>mm<span class="_ _3"> </span>Hg)<span class="_ _3"> </span>and<span class="_ _3"> </span>1.9<span class="_ _5"> </span>times<span class="_ _3"> </span>more<span class="_ _3"> </span>likely<span class="_ _5"> </span>to</div>
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be<span class="_ _7"> </span>in<span class="_ _6"> </span>the<span class="_ _6"> </span>highest<span class="_ _7"> </span>diastolic<span class="_ _6"> </span>blood<span class="_ _6"> </span>pressure<span class="_ _7"> </span>quartile<span class="_ _6"> </span>(<span class="ffc">ⱖ</span>65.5<span class="_ _7"> </span>mm</div>
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Hg)<span class="_ _1"> </span>than<span class="_ _6"> </span>controls<span class="_ _1"> </span>[highest<span class="_ _1"> </span>quartile<span class="_ _1"> </span><span class="ffb">vs</span>.<span class="_ _6"> </span>lowest<span class="_ _1"> </span>three<span class="_ _1"> </span>quartiles:</div>
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95%<span class="_ _3"> </span>confidence<span class="_ _5"> </span>interval<span class="_ _3"> </span>(CI)<span class="_ _3"> </span>1.4,<span class="_ _5"> </span>3.3;<span class="_ _3"> </span>95%<span class="_ _5"> </span>CI<span class="_ _3"> </span>1.2,<span class="_ _5"> </span>3.0,<span class="_ _3"> </span>respec-</div>
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tively].</div>
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<i>Cardiometabolic Differences in Children... (PDF Download Available)</i>. Available from: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5567593_Cardiometabolic_Differences_in_Children_Born_After_in_Vitro_Fertilization_Follow-Up_Study">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5567593_Cardiometabolic_Differences_in_Children_Born_After_in_Vitro_Fertilization_Follow-Up_Study</a> [accessed Apr 21 2018].<br />
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<a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa010035">2002 New England Journal of Medicine</a><br />
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