The very long fuse of the Catholic Church has finally gone off over this criminal enterprise:

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has not yet been able to determine if grants made to ACORN were used for fraudulent voter registration, but has cut off all funding to the community organizing group, Bishop Robert Morin announced on Tuesday.

Shortly after addressing the full assembly of U.S. Catholic bishops, Bishop Morin spoke to reporters about what the bishops had learned concerning the use of grants from the CCHD to the group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which is currently under investigation in 13 states for voter fraud.

CCHD originally announced in July 2008 that it was suspending funding to ACORN because of the embezzlement of 1 million dollars by the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke. Today, however, the Bishop Morin went one step further and announced the cancelation of all funding to the group.

The Catholic Church will work with just about anyone if there’s a chance the poor will be helped – recognizing the truth that we all fall very far short of the perfection God desires for us, its not time to stand on ceremony when a sinner offers to help out. But there is a limit, and ACORN has at least reached it. Hopefully the good people in ACORN will start to realize that they’ve been taken for a ride by a group dedicated to fraud and a leftist political ideology which is at war with all morality.

About a month ago, after suffering major symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. As a result of a few really bad and painful days, a decided I had to start changing things to keep things from getting worse. That is when I discovered the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard — an alternative to the standard QWERTY layout. i decided after some research to make the switch. It has been an interesting journey. And while my typing speed is still slower than my best at QWERTY, I am constantly improving. And my CTS/RSI symptoms have become more tolerable.

Anyway, I was wondering if any of by readers here are Dvorak users. If there are,  I would love to chat about your experience switching. I have been chronicling my progress on my personal blog.

One of the first things George W. Bush did when he took office was put an end to U.S. taxpayer dollars funding abortions overseas… well it looks like Comrade Obama is salivating over the thought of having us pay for overseas abortions again.

The “change” that President-elect Barack Obama promised on the campaign trail will likely include overturning President George W. Bush’s 2001 executive order to prohibit the use of federal tax dollars for performing or advocating abortion as a means of family planning in foreign countries, Obama’s transition team has said.

“There’s a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action, and I think we’ll see the president do that,” John Podesta, head of Obama’s transition team, said when he appeared on “Fox News Sunday.”

One of those executive orders is the Mexico City Policy, or as critics call it, the “global gag act,” a U.S. policy first put into place at an August 1984 Conference on Population in Mexico City by President Ronald Reagan.

The Reagan policy required all non-governmental agencies, or NGOs, that received population aid dollars from the United States to agree to not perform or actively promote abortions.

In what has become a partisan tradition in the first days of both Republican or Democratic administrations, President Bill Clinton removed the order shortly after taking office in 1993, and Bush reinstated it on Jan. 22, 2001.

Way to govern from the center, Comrade. I guess “hope” is not something the unborn are entitled to.

Ah, the peace and love which they spread around makes the heart grow all warm and fuzzy:

Supporters of California’s Proposition 8 are reporting harassment and even violent assaults from opponents protesting the passage of the ballot proposal which rescinded a California Supreme Court decision that imposed same-sex marriage on the state. Homosexual activists have held large protests at Mormon temples and Catholic churches, deriding their opponents as hateful.

Paul Bishop, a Los Angeles Police Department supervisor reported on the election aftermath in Meridian, a magazine for members of the Latter-Day Saint Church, who are also known as Mormons.

Bishop told how he, as a private citizen, had attended rallies in support of Proposition 8. While both supporters and opponents of the measure honked their horns, he wrote, “the way to tell the difference is the No On 8 supporters usually accompanied their horn honking with an obscene gesture or a string of obscenities. They also liked to swerve their cars toward the children on the curb.”

He noted that several of his ward members had received hate mail after their names, religious affiliation, contribution amounts, and addresses were published on a web site inciting Proposition 8 opponents to target the individuals listed.

“Their houses and cars had been vandalized, their campaign support signs stolen, and opposition signs planted in their place,” Bishop wrote.

And here’s a look at the love in Michigan:

This past Sunday, during a Worship Service at the Church, a group of loud and intentionally disruptive homosexual activists stood outside of the sanctuary of Mount Hope dressed in strange pink attire. Using megaphones for amplification, they shouted epithets at those entering the service such as “Jesus is a homo”.They also mockingly carried an upside down pink cross.

Reports filed with the Eaton County Sheriff’s office indicate that other demonstrators had staged a further action intended to disrupt the Sunday Worship at Mount Hope. Dressed in clothing which would not have indicated their intention, they entered into the sanctuary and were seated with the community. Then, in an orchestrated manner, they left their seats, pulled fire alarms, distributed anti-Christian literature and stormed the Pastor’s pulpit waving a rainbow colored flag and shouting “It’s Okay To Be Gay! Bash Back”.

We’re certainly at the start of a new dawn in America where brotherhood and mutual caring will be the order of the day…

Then Baconnaise (yes, it exists) will be your sauce for life…short as it will be.

There is much Democratic angst over General Motors and the prospects of Big Auto bankruptcy. My view: allow the bankruptcy to happen. The economic model enshrined in Big Auto is a dinosaur from the 1950’s and it is unrealistic to think that such a large corporation with a huge bureaucracy and an entrenched, corrupt union can ever compete in the global market. We can subsidize, bail out and protect till the cows come home – but it is certain that the American auto makers will have to undergo massive change.

Worse than the economic illiteracy involved in a Detroit bail out is the fact that our taxpayer dollars – already strained by the clearly-failing Wall Street bail out – will merely be used to prop up Democratic donors. Democrats could give a hoot about GM, but they do care very much to keep the UAW afloat because the UAW donated nearly $1.8 million directly to Democratic candidates in 2008 while also shelling out more than $9 million on other political activities which directly or indirectly aided Democratic political efforts. That is a lot of scratch, and the Democratic party doesn’t want this cash cow slaughtered.

We GOPers in our political wilderness at least have this advantage – we can’t get government swag for anyone, and thus we are now allowed to re-establish ourselves as the anti-corruption and fiscal responsibility party. We are, once again, the taxpayer’s watchdog.

Sorry, GM, but it was your own fool decisions which got you into this mess. Everyone has to start thinking, and no better place to start than in that monument to liberal and corporate failure, Detroit

Battling it out to be head of the GOP.

My pick? Steele.

To me, its a no brainer – for all his gifts, Gingrich is yesterday’s news and too tied to the GOP which just got its rear kicked on November 4th. We need fresh faces, fresh ideas and a new enthusiasm. Steele brings this to the table, and we’ll be monumentally dumb if we don’t pick him.

So, The One announces that if you’re a lobbyists you can’t work on the transition – this is supposed to give us all a tingle up our legs as we believe that, finally!, government will be cleaned up…

But, meanwhile, we still haven’t got a valid explanation from Obama about just why the security precautions were taken of his internet donation link and just where did all that money really come from? We know some came from non-existent people and some from foreigners…anyone want to take bets on some of it coming from lobbyists via third-party cut-outs?

Obama, if you want us to believe you’re really going to change how DC does business, then call for a special prosecutor to look into all campaign fundraising in 2008. We’ll be fair – we’ll have the GOP looked at, too.

After all, Democrats, there is nothing to fear from a full airing of just who donated to whom, right?

And we’d better listen:

Republicans once said that the opportunities this nation has to offer rest not in government but rather in the hands of individuals. Over the past decade or so, however, we Republicans lost our way. The disparity between our rhetoric and our action grew until our credibility snapped. It wasn’t the fault of our ideals. It was the failure of our leadership.

Over time, our principles morphed into baser motives. Continued political dominance grew more important to those who led us than the noble vision most of us originally signed on for. And to maintain power we turned to the controls of government — we became the party of big government. We behaved like Democrats.

True, the country has changed and our party must adapt. However, it is wrong to believe we must change our principles or become conservative-lite. After all, the voters did not suddenly become liberal; but they have lost any sense of confidence that the Republican Party holds the answers to their problems.

Most Americans today see a Republican Party that defines itself by what it is against rather than what it is for. We can tell you why public schools aren’t working, but not articulate a compelling vision for how we’ll better educate children. We’re well equipped to rail against tax increases; but can’t begin to explain how we’ll help the poor. We exclude far better than we welcome.

Lt. Governor Steele goes on to note that we shouldn’t set about beating Democrats, but instead work on winning voters. I am in whole-hearted agreement. First off, because it is the more Christian way to do things and I’m sick to death of the hatred of the past 8 years. Secondly because it is the way to win. And with rather big, if we do it right.

We have to apply the eternal verities to current conditions, not modify our verities to match whatever is fashionable at the moment. We have to explain why Truth is best and why coming along our path will help people to become freer, better educated, healthier and more prosperous. A well-ordered liberty built upon Judeo-Christian values is what we want; it is what is best; and it is what is most inclusive. There is room at our table for everyone save the incorrigible hater – and even he’ll be welcome if he ever changes his ways.

It is the left which hates and which lives on lies – we must not be like them. We must become the best of the best. Plenty of room here for repentant sinners, but no room at all for the coarse, the hypocrite, the greedy. Our Republican Party must shine with moral courage and stride forward fearlessly to proclaim the truth – and never worry about whether a particular election will be lost or won, but only be concerned with whether or not we adhered to truth, and fought for it with all our might.

Here is a history of the holiday.

And the poem I always think of on Veterans day and Memorial day:

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields. – Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

Canadian Army

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