Like Minds

I read a disturbing interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg earlier this week. Here is a quote from it regarding her view of Roe v. Wade and it's implications:

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.
-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from this past Tuesday's article found here.

I wonder which parts of the population she believes we don't want too many of. I wonder if there are any other persons who held the philosophy, that "we don't want to have too many of" a certain population. Let's investigate.

"More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control."
and
“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
-Margaret Sanger, racist and founder of Planned Parenthood - leading provider of abortions in our country.

"Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter."
-Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist Party (Nazi party) of Germany

"The ultimate aim for those 11 years during which I have been the Reichsfuehrer SS has been invariably the same: to create an order of good blood which is able to serve Germany"
-Heinrich Luitpold Himmler - Leader of Hilter's SS.

"Of the five identifiable steps by which the Nazis carried out the principle of "life unworthy of life," coercive sterilization was the first. There followed the killing of “impaired” children in hospitals; and then the killing of “impaired” adults, mostly collected from mental hospitals, in centers especially equipped with carbon monoxide gas. This project was extended (in the same killing centers) to “impaired” inmates of concentration and extermination camps and, finally, to mass killings in the extermination camps themselves."
-Robert Jay Lifton, historian and psychiatrist

So hard to pick from all these wonderful jobs

Help Delivering Fun --- Part-Time position delivering, picking up and setting up fun inflatables for parties, charitable events etc. Prefer you have your own vehicle. Call ###-###-#### or Cell ###-###-####. Must be physically fit, lifting can be heavy. Ask for Spacewalk

Sign Holder for Great Clips --- Sign holder needed for Washington great clips
please call to set up interview

Bartender --- We are currently accepting applications for a part time bartender. NO Drama queens with three stalker ex boyfiends or husbands in their lives. Must have your own dependable transportation

Ice Cream Truck Driver ---Seek person to drive my ice cream truck in ###### area, 1 hr 15 mins from St. Louis. This is 2 days a week position.

Bike Taxi --- St Louis 3Wheel Taxi is looking for drivers. We need drivers to operate our Bike Taxis during Cardinals home games, major events, and M L B All-Star Game downtown St Louis.

Trailer Park Overlord --- small trailer park and campground on the lake of the ozarks is looking for help in exchange for room and board. ...requirements: applicants should be open minded and accepting of alternative lifestyles. someone with strength and agility and not too big to occasionally crawl under a trailer to make a repair.


The recession appears to be over.

New Encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI !!!!

Pope Benedict XVI released his third encyclical Caritas inVeritate.

Click here to read it.

Here is an excerpt of the document I found particularly poignant to our times and the greatest evil of our time, abortion.

28. One of the most striking aspects of development in the present day is the important question of respect for life, which cannot in any way be detached from questions concerning the development of peoples. It is an aspect which has acquired increasing prominence in recent times, obliging us to broaden our concept of poverty[66] and underdevelopment to include questions connected with the acceptance of life, especially in cases where it is impeded in a variety of ways.

Not only does the situation of poverty still provoke high rates of infant mortality in many regions, but some parts of the world still experience practices of demographic control, on the part of governments that often promote contraception and even go so far as to impose abortion. In economically developed countries, legislation contrary to life is very widespread, and it has already shaped moral attitudes and praxis, contributing to the spread of an anti-birth mentality; frequent attempts are made to export this mentality to other States as if it were a form of cultural progress.

Some non-governmental Organizations work actively to spread abortion, at times promoting the practice of sterilization in poor countries, in some cases not even informing the women concerned. Moreover, there is reason to suspect that development aid is sometimes linked to specific health-care policies which de facto involve the imposition of strong birth control measures. Further grounds for concern are laws permitting euthanasia as well as pressure from lobby groups, nationally and internationally, in favour of its juridical recognition.

Openness to life is at the centre of true development. When a society moves towards the denial or suppression of life, it ends up no longer finding the necessary motivation and energy to strive for man's true good. If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of a new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away[67]. The acceptance of life strengthens moral fibre and makes people capable of mutual help. By cultivating openness to life, wealthy peoples can better understand the needs of poor ones, they can avoid employing huge economic and intellectual resources to satisfy the selfish desires of their own citizens, and instead, they can promote virtuous action within the perspective of production that is morally sound and marked by solidarity, respecting the fundamental right to life of every people and every individual.

Love to Start the Day with a Healthy Dose of Steyn

Stick that in your hippie pipe and smoke it.

Pope Benedict, throwing it down.

Here is a preview from Pope Benedict XVI's new Encyclical to be released very soon.

"Paul wants the Christian faith to have a 'responsible', an 'adult faith. The word 'adult faith' has in recent decades become a popular slogan. It is often used to refer to the attitude of those who no longer adhere to the Church and her pastors, but choose for themselves what they want to believe and not believe - a kind of do-it-yourself faith."

"Speaking against the Magisterium of the Church is presented as courageous. In reality, however, it does not take courage for this, since you can always be sure of audience applause."

"Rather it takes courage to adhere to the faith of the Church, even if it contradicts the 'scheme' of the contemporary world. It is this non-conformism of the faith that Paul calls an 'adult faith.'"

The Holy Father gave two examples of an 'adult faith'. First, "to commit to the inviolability of human life from the very beginning, thus radically opposing the principle of violence, in defense of the most defenseless humans." And second, "to recognize marriage between a man and a woman for life as a law of the Creator, restored again by Christ."

"For Paul, following the prevailing winds and currents of the day is childish."

Things in the Shire are Made to Endure

Today, in my usual unemployment visit to daily Mass, I saw one of the most encouraging scenes I have seen in some time. There are usually two older gentlemen, in their 70s and 80s respectively that serve for Father every morning. Today however, they were training a new alter server, age 9. It was the perfect example of how parents nurture the faith in their children and grandchildren. Grandfathers passing on traditions to grandsons as their grandfathers did for them. It was so funny to see the two older gentlemen pointing to where the boy should kneel, where he should put the Chalice, how to genuflect or bow, etc. And the boy was so concerned about doing everything just right.

I'm not quite sure why, but it comforted me in a way. The best I can describe is by saying it makes me feel better knowing that there are places in the world where grandfathers still teach their grandsons what is true, what is good, how to live. For these are the most worthy of lessons, I believe.

Cheers!

Quote of the Day:
“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.”
-Wendell Berry

Language Police

One of the many consequences of our era of mass communication is massive crimes against language. Some people (Stephen) get even more carried away by this than I do but I wanted to point out 2 to you today.

The first was on ESPN where the commentator said that the race could have been won and/or lost by any racer in the final 10 laps. Unfortunately for him, it is impossible to win AND lose a race (at least the same race).

The second was in an article where the author described a desert in Arizona as "literally going on and on forever." This is also impossible, unless I suppose, the desert is heaven... but I think that unlikely.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.