The Defense of Marriage amendment to the California constitution is favored by 54% of California voters.
Given the trouble many people in the world have getting food each day, the Pope’s recent statement is appropriate:
“The Lord and Creator of all things became a ‘grain of wheat’ to be sown in our land, in the furrows of our history”, said the Pope. “He became bread in order to be …. shared; … He became our food in order to give us life, His own divine life”.
“The Eucharist is a school of charity and solidarity”, he went on. “Those who nourish themselves on the bread of Christ cannot remain indifferent before people who, even in our own time, are without daily bread. Many parents have great difficulty in feeding themselves and their children. It is an ever more serious problem which the international community struggles to resolve. The Church not only prays to ‘give us this day our daily bread’ but, following the example of her Lord, seeks in all ways ‘to multiply the five loaves and the two fish’, through countless initiatives of human promotion and participation so that no-one may lack what they need to live”.
“May the Feast of Corpus Christi be an occasion to increase this authentic concern for our brothers and sisters, especially the poor”, said Benedict XVI and he concluded by calling upon the Virgin Mary “from whom the Son of God drew flesh and blood”, to intercede to this end.
I like Food for the Poor and Missionaries of the Poor…but feel free to help out in any way you can.
McCain ahead of Obama in money on hand? So says McCain advisor Carly Fiorina The Hill.
Sales of new homes rose in April. This suprised the experts. It doesn’t surprise anyone who knows that when prices go down, you can move more product. Apparantly the “experts” figure we’re all dumb and only buy when prices are on the rise…
Dicuss these issues and any others you’d like.
Tags: Christianity, food shortages, gay marriage, home sales
May 28th, 2008
Watch out, Americans! The Democrats want the White House, and they are willing to pay through the nose for it…well, its your nose they’ll pay through, but at least they are willing to negotiate a straigt-up purchase of our votes:
LAS VEGAS — Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama unveiled an economic stimulus package costing up to $120 billion. His campaign said the plan would put an immediate $250 in the hands of workers and seniors, and stems the foreclosure crisis and cover state budget shortfalls.
Obama, a senator from Illinois, called on the government to make available a $250 tax credit to 150 million workers to offset the payroll tax paid on the first $8,100 of earnings. He urged a further $250 tax credit per worker if employment declines three months in a row.
The plan would also bump up Social Security payments to seniors — who would not benefit from the credit based on income — with a one-time $250 payment, with another $250 if employment declines three months straight. The immediate relief would cost $45 billion, plus another $45 billion if the economy weakened.
Obama also pledged $10 billion to help families avoid foreclosures, $10 billion for states and local governments hit by the housing crisis and $10 billion to expand unemployment insurance. The plan, which would be financed by deficit spending, is slightly larger than the $110 billion package advocated by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday.
And if that doesn’t do the trick, then they’ll just promise more and more and more - can you imagine what they might be promising if this primary season extends into Spring? Goodness! They’ll have to really step out on a limb - $1,000 credit if bond yields decline three days in a row; $750 credit if the trade deficit increases two months in a row; $5,000 credit if voters seem to be turning away in disgust….and this is when the economy is in the fifth straight year of growth - can you imagine what they’d be doing if we were in a recession?
This is grossly irresponsible, but all too typical of Democrats these days. For all their talk of “change”, they are really just the same old song and dance…tax and spend, tax and spend. Its like they think there’s a Magic Money Spigot which will endlessly produce cash at no cost. Just amazing that in 2008 there can still be people this economically illiterate…
Tags: 2008 Campaign
January 15th, 2008
Going on out here in Nevada - at issue: do we just keep spending as if revenues were rising fast as they were before the housing bust, or do we find out if there’s any way to cut some fat out of the budget without harming child services?
Details over at Battle Born Politics.
Tags: child care, family issues
November 14th, 2007
