Celery sticks...

tasteless but the crunchy bite sound she loves...
Nutritional content of a 5" long stalk...

Vitamin A - 76.3 IU
Beta Carotene - 45.9 mcg
Lutein+Zeaxanthin 48.1 mcg
Vitamin C - 0.5 mg
Vitamin K - 5.0 mcg
Niacin - 0.1 mg
Folate - 6.1 mcg

Elephant dance...

or Monkey dance...
so much energy, this two year old. apo#1 short of breath keeping up.

God loved the world so much, he gave his only Son, that all who believe in him might not perish, but might have eternal life. (John 3:16)

night out with apo#1 & favorite daughter...

dinner at Bond 45, pricey Italian restaurant but have the best thin crust pizza margarita outside of that pizzeria in Rome, few blocks from Vatican, then a 8pm show of just as pricey ticket for prime dates at 'Phantom'. Elizabeth Loyacano was Christine. Got some video before the lady with a flashlight shush me out.

Christmas '08

Sit down Christmas08 dinner...

Prayer before meals
Bless us, Oh Lord, and these Thy gifts which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Merry Christmas!

Joy to the World!!!

Where have Christmas shoppers gone?

We went to Secaucus outlet looking for driving gloves my first born want for Christmas. The mall was almost empty. Maybe the 20 degree temperature and several inches of still white snow in the ground? But it's two days before Christmas, malls used to be crowded at this time of the year. The line at the post office was not that long either.
I send Christmas cards to family, friends and dtp clients this year. Enclosed some Madonna & Child magnets in clients cards. For decades, I have received and never sent any. I intended to but never got around to buying boxes of Christmas cards until this year.

Kk saw Santa! 12/13/08

first video on Flip...

to be continued...

Orgasmic birth, my foot!

tip from Hotair.com
It's all about pain and reward. Labor pain is intense uterine contractile pain felt from the tip of a woman's hair to the tip of her toenails. When the baby's head and shoulder is out,it is total body pain relief not orgasm. The heavier in weight the baby, the intense the pain of labor and delivery. Sexualization of the birth process to promote a birthing method? Does this help the pro-life movement?

high school seniors...

Today is the day colleges notify online high school seniors if they are accepted as 'early decision'. Apo#1 applied at Columbia but was deferred to regular decisions.

Rev. Hutcherson's First Amendment...

The controversy over the anti-religion sign prompted Rev. Ken Hutcherson, pastor of the Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, to post a pro-religion sign about 15 feet from where the athiest sign was located. It reads: "There is one God. There is one Devil. There are angels, a heaven and hell. There is more than our natural world. Atheism is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."

hat tip: headlinebistro.com

Where's the money coming from?

Obama Pledges Massive Public Works Program, New York Times, by Peter Baker
from lucianne.com

Where is the money coming from to fund these 'massive public works program'?
The government can print the paper that money represents. Government does not create the money, just the currency paper on which it is printed.
Adam Smith and Milton Friedman rise up from your grave.
We are screwed...

iPhone blogging

daily reading at a Catholic mass at my other blog - www.lolamely.blogspot.com

The Trojan Horse unloaded already...

from Tulsa Today...hurry read it before someone overload their server.

Obama’s hope, it is now apparent, is for a “globalist” America. And his change, it is now apparent, is the polar opposite of free-market capitalism, a free press, freedoms of religion, assembly, etc., any semblance of respect for the United States Constitution, and, who knows, a resurrection of his revolutionary Marxist black liberation theology to replace the Judeo-Christian tenets upon which our country was founded.
“The most noticeable characteristic of Obama,” says Dr. Kate, in a chilling article entitled The Trojan Candidate, ”is his profound lack of respect for America as shown with his behavior on the flag pin, the failure to observe decorum regarding the national anthem, the fake presidential seal, the printed announcement of his speech in Germany, the upside down flag on the tickets and behind Biden at the Convention, his airplane with painted-over American flag, and his detached and callous appearance at Ground Zero. By this behavior, Obama is mocking America, cheapening its decorum and symbols.”

Ht: lucianne.com
Obama terminate America one baby at a time...

VDH on the future of his beloved California...

from pajamasmedia.com

How close are we to the iron laws of economic correction? Very. When the money runs out and the squeezed taxpayer has no more juice, then we either change or begin to resemble Third-World countries where everyone works for the government; nothing gets done; no one is accountable; the wealthy hide income and live in guarded seclusion; the bemedaled thug in sunglasses promises the turba bread and circuses from the balconey, and the middle class turns to drink—and dreams of once-upon-a-time California.

Tax Holiday!

will be propose by Rep Gohmert, R-Texas...

Gohmert’s tax holiday plan is elegant in its simplicity: every American taxpayer would pay no federal income or FICA taxes for the first 2 months of 2009. For the typical American family -- earning about $50,000 a year -- that would mean they would keep about $2000 that would otherwise be paid to the government.
Gohmert’s plan doesn’t pay for Wall Street bonuses or let banks use bailout money to buy other banks or pay dividends. It doesn’t rely on bureaucrats to pay money out to the right people at the right time or try to stimulate the economy with token payments to people who don’t pay taxes.
Most Americans pay about 25 % of their income in federal income tax and another 7.25 % in FICA (social security and Medicare taxes). Computing how much money Gohmert’s tax holiday would leave in your family’s checkbook is very simple.
Take your monthly income (the gross amount shown on your pay stubs before tax and any other withholding) and multiply it by .66. That amount is roughly what Gohmert’s two-month tax holiday will leave in your pocket.

from HumanEvents.com, Jed Babbin

Rush Limbaugh, Intellectual

from American Thinker.com: James Lewis

Rush is the sharpest political commentator we have today. He is a public intellectual in the old sense: A fine, original thinker who constantly reveals new truths that slip past the mindless media. He can communicate with whoever bothers to listen, as tens of millions of people do every week, throwing a sharp light on the biggest questions we face. And he's entertaining and funny.

another clear minded Catholic priest...

Parishioners of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Modesto have been told they should consider going to confession if they voted for Barack Obama, because of the president-elect's position condoning abortion.
"If you are one of the 54 percent of Catholics who voted for a pro-abortion candidate, you were clear on his position and you knew the gravity of the question, I urge you to go to confession before receiving communion. Don't risk losing your state of grace by receiving sacrilegiously," the Rev. Joseph Illo, pastor of St. Joseph's, wrote in a letter dated Nov. 21.

Rev. Stephen Blaire, bishop of the Stockton, Calif., Diocese is wrong and one of the the reasons fifty four million Catholics voted for Obama.
Bishop Blaire, Obama terminate America one baby at a time.

Pope Benedict & capitalism, Adam Smith style

from IBDeditorials.com...

Amidst all the panic-induced foolishness, it's worth considering that Benedict XVI is the second pro-capitalist Pope in a row. Like the free market's greatest defenders, however, he simply recognizes that it — like most of man's worthwhile endeavors — fails without a religiously-rooted ethical foundation.

grandmothers helping raise grandchildren...

If a daughter, daughter in law or parent of a child allow you to help raise a child, the grace of God is with you. The blessings of the Lord are bountiful and undiscernable.
For menopausal, post menopausal and way post menopausal grandmother, there is a hormonal benefit of taking care of a baby.

Something Catholic about Thanksgiving...

by Taylor Marshall... ht: headlinebistro.com & Eric Wilson

An interesting bit of trivia is that the first American Thanksgiving was actually celebrated on September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida. The Native Americans and Spanish settlers held a feast and the Holy Mass was offered.
A second similar "Thanksgiving" celebration occurred on American soil on April 30, 1598 in Texas when Don Juan de Oñate declared a day of Thanksgiving to be commemorated by the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
The Catholic origins of Thanksgiving don't stop there. Squanto, the beloved hero of Thanksgiving, was the Native American man who mediated between the Puritan Pilgrims and the Native Americans. Squanto had been enslaved by the English but he was freed by Spanish Franciscans. Squanto thus received baptism and became a Catholic. So it was a baptized Catholic Native American who orchestrated what became known as Thanksgiving.
All that being said, Thanksgiving is traditional Protestant and marks the tradition of religious toleration (something in which the Puritan pilgrims did not actually believe - they set up a "theocracy").

Anti-Cancer Foods

aol article here...
I eat and use some of these...
ginger
japanese green tea
pomegranate
chocolate
garlic, onions, leeks, shallots, chives
fatty fish
Turmeric in curry powder
berries
oranges,lemon, grapefruit, tangerines
soy products
Brussels Sprouts, Bok Choy, Chinese cabbage, Broccoli, and Cauliflower

Blessings before and after meals

Prayers before meals here...

BLESS us, O Lord, and these Thy gifts which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

After meals...

WE give Thee thanks, almighty God, for all Thy benefits, who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.

my first American Thanksgiving, 1969

Thanksgiving Day, 1969, I worked my regular 3p-11pm shift at Passaic Beth Israel Hospital, a small 200 bed community hospital in a 3 hospital city of Passaic. My hospital had the best free meals on Thanksgiving of the three local hospitals. Hospital provided foods were kosher complaint. My friend Eria works the am shift at St. Mary's Hospital and said so. Passaic General don't gave out free meals, I'm told.
Best free meal or not, turkey with all the trimmings just do not taste good to my two month old just arrived via TWA from the Philippines tastes bud. Ham was more acceptable but not kosher. Chicken in a salad was just as nauseating to a pregnant 23year old.
Atr had the day off and spent the afternoon with friends at Gregory apts. Some friends had already spent previous year Thanksgiving in America.
This unique American holiday has a Filipino Catholic equivalent of celebrating thanksgiving on the feast day of a saint. The difference is Filipinos as a community in barrios or towns celebrate different days of feast for saints. My barrio's saint is Our Lady of Fatima celebrated on May 13. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church walking distance from out efficiency three floor walk-up is close enough in symbolism and spiritual affinity. Besides the feast day, July 16 is near my birthday.

Thanksgiving 2008, November 27,

American Thanksgiving Day celebrated fourth Thursday of the month of November.
History of Thanksgiving Day here...
George Washington's Proclamation here...
Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation here...
Benjamin Franklin's real story of Thanksgiving here...
Rush Limbaugh's 'The Real Story of Thanksgiving here...
President Bush proclamation here...

Penance before communion

A married Catholic priest - Fr. Dwight Longenecker of South Carolina.

Brought up in an American Evangelical home, I went to Bob Jones University--the jewel on the buckle of the Bible Belt. While there I came down with a severe case of Anglophilia from reading too much C.S.Lewis and Tolkien and T.S.Eliot. I went to study theology at Oxford, was ordained as an Anglican priest and stayed in England for twenty five years. After ten years wearing a dog collar I was received into the Catholic Church. I spent ten years as a layman writing articles and books no one reads. Then the call came to return to the United States. In December 2006 I was ordained as a Catholic priest. I am now chaplain at St Joseph's Catholic School in Greenville, South Carolina, and I am on the staff of St Mary's Greenville.

We support you, Fr. Longenecker and Fr. Newman, in words and prayers.
God have mercy on us.

apo #2 birthday today!

Today is Presentation of Mary.

Hail, holy Mother! The child to whom you gave birth is the King of Heaven and earth forever.
Lord, may the prayers of the Virgin Mary bring us protection from danger and freedom from sin that we may come to the joy of your peace. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Act of Contrition

O, my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you. I detest all my sins because of your just punishment, but most of all because they offend you, my God, who are all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin.

prayer after confession or reconciliation...

Parable of the Talents

Jesus told his disciples this parable:
"A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one--to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them. The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the additional five. He said, 'Master, you gave me five talents. See, I have made five more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master's joy.'"
Matthew 25:14-15, 19-21

Parable for a capitalist...
not so, says Fr.Ignatius at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Talent during our Lord's time represents currency. However, talent represent our lives, how we reproduce our lives on earth...

Nature's God in first paragraph of ...

The Declaration of Independence,
Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America.
When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

I am church going Catholic, registered Democrat until ‘o8 primary election, has not voted a Democrat president since Carter and intensely Pro-Life.
No avalanche of words from anyone can change my heart and mind.
For Catholics, this ‘Nature’s God’ the forefathers of the USA mentioned is the same God, the Father, God, the Son and God, the Holy Spirit, we love, adore and worship. The same God, the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Christianity and Christian morality emanate.
America is a Christian Country!
For Catholic statistics in USA...
67,117,016 Catholics (22% of the U.S. population) half voted for Obama and Biden, a non-conforming, supposedly practicing, rosary carrying catholic.
We, Catholics are, will and must continue the Pro-Life movement to ensure there will be progeny and legacy for the future of the USA.
God have mercy on us.

Obama, most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever!

From Catholiconline.org by Robert P. George

Sen.Obama's views on life issues ranging from abortion to embryonic stem cell research mark him as not merely a pro-choice politician, but rather as the most extreme pro-abortion candidate to have ever run on a major party ticket.

Sarah Palin: Pro-Life in words and in deeds!

“In this same spirit, as defenders of the culture of life, John McCain and I believe in the goodness and potential of every innocent life. I believe the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves. And who is more vulnerable, or more innocent, than a child?
When I learned that my son Trig would have special needs, I had to prepare my heart for the challenges to come. At first I was scared, and Todd and I had to ask for strength and understanding. But I can tell you a few things I’ve learned already.
Yes, every innocent life matters. Everyone belongs in the circle of protection. Every child has something to contribute to the world, if we give them that chance. There are the world’s standards of perfection … and then there are God’s, and these are the final measure. Every child is beautiful before God, and dear to Him for their own sake.
As for our beautiful baby boy, for Todd and me, he is only more precious because he is vulnerable. In some ways, I think we stand to learn more from him than he does from us. When we hold Trig and care for him, we don’t feel scared anymore. We feel blessed.
It’s hard to think of many issues that could possibly be more important than who is protected in law and who isn’t – who is granted life and who is denied it. So when our opponent, Senator Obama, speaks about questions of life, I listen very carefully.
I listened when he defended his unconditional support for unlimited abortions. He said that a woman shouldn’t have to be – quote – “punished with a baby.” He said that right here in Johnstown –“punished with a baby” – and it’s about time we called him on it. The more I hear from Senator Obama, the more I understand why he is so vague and evasive on the subject. Americans need to see his record for what it is. It’s not negative or mean-spirited to talk to about his record. Whatever party you belong to, there are facts you need to know.
Senator Obama has voted against bills to end partial-birth abortion. In the Illinois Senate, a bipartisan majority passed legislation against that practice. Senator Obama opposed that bill. He voted against it in committee, and voted “present” on the Senate floor. In that legislature, “present” is how you vote when you’re against something, but don’t want to be held to account.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat, described partial-birth abortion as “too close to infanticide.” Barack Obama thinks it’s a constitutional right, but he is wrong.
Most troubling, as a state senator, Barack Obama wouldn’t even stand up for the rights of infants born alive during an abortion. These infants – often babies with special needs – are simply left to die.
In 2002, Congress unanimously passed a federal law to require medical care for those babies who survive an abortion. They’re living, breathing babies, but Senator Obama describes them as “pre-viable.” This merciful law was called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Illinois had a version of the same law. Obama voted against it.
Asked about this vote, Senator Obama assured a reporter that he’d have voted “yes” on that bill if it had contained language similar to the federal version of the Born Alive Act. There’s just one little problem with that story: the language of both the state and federal bills was identical.
In short, Senator Obama is a politician who has long since left behind even the middle ground on the issue of life. He has sided with those who won’t even protect a child born alive. And this exposes the emptiness of his promises to move beyond the “old politics.”
In both parties, Americans have many concerns to be weighed in the votes they cast on November fourth. In times like these, with wars and a financial crisis, it’s easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life. And it seems our opponent hopes that you will forget. Like so much else in his agenda, he hopes you won’t notice how radical his ideas and record are until it’s too late.
But let there be no misunderstanding about the stakes.
A vote for Barack Obama is a vote for activist courts that will continue to smother the open and democratic debate we need on this issue, at both the state and federal level. A vote for Barack Obama would give the ultimate power over the issue of life to a politician who has never once done anything to protect the unborn. As Senator Obama told Pastor Rick Warren, it’s above his pay grade.
For a candidate who talks so often about “hope,” he offers no hope at all in meeting this great challenge to the conscience of America. There is a growing consensus in our country that we can overcome narrow partisanship on this issue, and bring all the resources of a generous country to the aid of both women in need and the child waiting to be born. We need more of the compassion and idealism that our opponent’s own party, at its best, once stood for. We need the clarity and conviction of leaders like the late Governor Bob Casey.
He represented a humanity that speaks to all of us – no matter what our party, our background, our faith, or our gender. And no matter your position on this sensitive subject, I hope that spirit will guide you on Election Day. I ask you to vote for McCain-Palin on the November fourth, and help us to bring this country together in the rational discussion of compassion and life.”

Governor Sarah Palin, Johnstown Pennsylvania, 10/11/08
via Brody File - cbn.com
HT- hotair.com

Obama, community organizer & Catholic charity

While he was in Chicago Obama was trained by the top Alinskyian organizers. One mentor was the ex-Jesuit, Greg Galuzzo, lead organizer for Gamaliel. The Developing Communities Project operated under the Gamaliel Foundation, a network of Alinskyian organizations that receive 4-5% of all Catholic Campaign for Human Development grants each year.
The Developing Communities Project, which hired Obama as lead organizer, was an offshoot of Jerry Kellman's Calumet Community Religious Conference. Kellman, another of Obama's mentors, was himself trained by Alinsky. The network of community organizations Alinsky founded, the Industrial Areas Foundation, receives about 16% of all Catholic Campaign for Human Development grants annually.

My contribution to Catholic charities is limited to weekly envelopes, EWTN, K of C fundraising, parish related fundraising and a few specific Catholic fundraising. I contributed to an annual bishop appeal, its first year but has not contributed since because I feel their end recipients are too broad.
Full article at CatholicCitizens.com. tip: michellemalkin.com

Every nation need a Sarah Palin...

From Asia Times Online, this is for all Americans!

What does America have that Asia doesn't have? The answer is, Sarah Palin - not Sarah Palin the vice presidential candidate, but Sarah Palin the "hockey mom" turned small-town mayor and reforming Alaska governor. All the PhDs and MBAs in the world can't make a capital market work, but ordinary people like Sarah Palin can. Laws depend on the will of the people to enforce them. It is the initiative of ordinary people that makes America's political system the world's most reliable.

Toqueville analyzed America the same way too in 1848.
Capitalism works in America because of the Sarah Palins of America from the first successful pilgrims to the newest legal immigrant today! America survive for over two centuries because of the Sarah Palins of America from George Washington to the G W Bush of today!
On Nov 4, 2008, voters of America will decide if the Sarah Palins of America will have a political voice for all the world to see.

Democrats, the 'Party of Death'...

Archbishop Burke Laments the 'Party of Death'
10/3/2008, Zenit News Agency (www.zenit.org)

With a heavy heart, Archbishop Raymond Burke acknowledges that the U.S. Democratic Party is quickly moving to become the "party of death."

I don't read any newspaper anymore for a couple of years now and I'm sure above headline will never see the light of the day in any major daily across the country.
via CatholicOnline, catholic.org

Respect Life Sunday, Oct 5, 2008, statements from Catholic hierarchies

Cardinal Rigali Statement for Respect Life Sunday
Zenit News Agency (www.zenit.org, 10/3/2008)

We face the threat of a federal bill that, if enacted, would obliterate virtually all the gains of the past 35 years and cause the abortion rate to skyrocket. The "Freedom of Choice Act."

Bishop Finn Warns of 'Freedom of Choice Act'
By Hilary White, 10/3/2008, LifeSiteNews (www.lifesitenews.com)

When a candidate promises to 'sign immediately upon taking office' the Freedom of Choice Act, Catholics and all people of good will have cause to question the sincerity of the candidate's determination to reduce abortions.

Obama said, "The first thing I will do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act" at a Planned Parenthood event, July 17, 2007.
New York Bishops: 'View Politics through Lens of Faith'
By Kathleen Gilbert, 10/3/2008, LifeSiteNews (www.lifesitenews.com)

The right to life is the right through which all others flow.

Kansas Bishops Address Voting as Faithful Catholics
Rev Joseph F. Naumann, Rev Robert W. Finn
9/18/2008, Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph (www.diocese-kcsj.org/)

What could possibly be a proportionate reason for the more than 45 million children killed by abortion in the past 35 years? Personally, we cannot conceive of such a proportionate reason.

Democrats own words...

Democrats Covering up the FannieMae, FreddieMac Scam in this YouTube video in 2004.
Do not vote Democrat this year!

my bank is not in trouble!

Valley National Bank is doing ok in this credit market crisis.
I bank at Valley since it was a 6 branch, 2 city family bank in Passaic & Clifton - Bank of Passaic & Clifton.
VLY share price closed 21.48 Friday.

Valley's Credit Quality Focus on loan quality and profitability over growth. Proven record of superior asset quality throughout various economic cycles. Have always abstained from exotic residential mortgage structures and other volatile products, including sub-prime loans, option ARMs and high loan to value home equity and residential loans

September '08 Financial statement via Edgar Online

Powerful video on Life

must see this video and please spread it. You don't have to be catholic to be for Life.

Election video must see on today's economic crisis

here 'Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?'

GOP platform says 'NO Bailout'

Rebuilding Homeownership
Homeownership remains key to creating an opportunity society. We support timely and carefully targeted aid to those hurt by the housing crisis so that affected individuals can have a chance to trade a burdensome mortgage for a manageable loan that reflects their home’s market value. At the same time, government action must not implicitly encourage anyone to borrow more than they can afford to repay. We support energetic federal investigation and, where appropriate, prosecution of criminal wrongdoing in the mortgage industry and investment sector. We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself. We believe in the free market as the best tool to sustained prosperity and opportunity for all. We encourage potential buyers to work in concert with the lending community to educate themselves about the responsibilities of purchasing a home, condo, or land.
Republican policy aims to make owning a home more accessible through enforcement of open housing laws, voucher programs, urban homesteading and – what is most important – a strong economy with low interest rates. Because affordable housing is in the national interest, any simplified tax system should continue to encourage homeownership, recognizing the tremendous social value that the home mortgage interest deduction has had for decades. In addition, sound housing policy should recognize the needs of renters so that apartments and multi-family homes remain important components of the housing stock.

via Erick Erickson, Redstate

What will Obama, Clinton and Dodd do today?

From Kevin Hassett at Bloomberg wrote today...

Now that the collapse has occurred, the roadblock built by Senate Democrats in 2005 is unforgivable. Many who opposed the bill doubtlessly did so for honorable reasons. Fannie and Freddie provided mounds of materials defending their practices. Perhaps some found their propaganda convincing.
But we now know that many of the senators who protected Fannie and Freddie, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd, have received mind-boggling levels of financial support from them over the years.
Throughout his political career, Obama has gotten more than $125,000 in campaign contributions from employees and political action committees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, second only to Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, who received more than $165,000.
Clinton, the 12th-ranked recipient of Fannie and Freddie PAC and employee contributions, has received more than $75,000 from the two enterprises and their employees. The private profit found its way back to the senators who killed the fix.
There has been a lot of talk about who is to blame for this crisis. A look back at the story of 2005 makes the answer pretty clear.

Neal Boortz explains...

Townhall.com, Neal Boortz explains domino mess credit woes of investment banks in sub-prime mortgage...

Political correctness won the day. Washington made it clear to banks and other lending institutions that if they did not do something .. and fast .. to bring more minorities and low-income Americans into the world of home ownership there would be a heavy price to pay. Congress set up processes (Research the Community Redevelopment Act) whereby community activist groups and organizers could effectively stop a bank’s efforts to grow if that bank didn’t make loans to unqualified borrowers. Enter, stage left, the “subprime” mortgage. These lenders knew that a very high percentage of these loans would turn to garbage – but it was a price that had to be paid if the bank was to expand and grow. We should note that among the community groups browbeating banks into making these bad loans was an outfit called ACORN. There is one certain presidential candidate that did a lot of community organizing for ACORN. I won’t mention his name so as to avoid politicizing this column.
These garbage loans to unqualified borrowers were then bundled up and sold. The expectation was that the loans would be eventually paid off when rising home values led some borrowers to access their equity through re-financing and others to sell and move on up the ladder. Oops.

Fear lead to Panic

a friend has a money market account with a major bank that is over the limit of FDIC guaranteed coverage and wanted to withdraw the excess amount asap on Wednesday. This Wall Street Journal article mirrors her fears..

Huddled in his office Wednesday with top advisers, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson watched his financial-data terminal with alarm as one market after another began go haywire. Investors were fleeing money-market mutual funds, long considered ultra-safe. The market froze for the short-term loans that banks rely on to fund their day-to-day business. Without such mechanisms, the economy would grind to a halt. Companies would be unable to fund their daily operations. Soon, consumers would panic.

Bank money market funds are covered by FDIC and joint accounts are covered as 2 accounts.

If a couple has a joint checking account and a joint savings account at the same insured bank, each co-owner's shares of the two accounts are added together and insured up to $100,000, providing up to $200,000 in coverage for the couple's joint accounts.

Sarah Palan: An American Original

says Steven W. Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute & author of Population Control: Real Costs and Illusory Benefits.

Twelve statues of the Madonna of the Trail grace towns along the roads that took our ancestors West. But I suggest that we may have to add another. The town square of Wasilla, Alaska, it seems to me, would be an excellent site.

Article here - pop.org

Catholics are Pro-Life

No, Catholics can't, shouldn't support pro-abortion politicians...
More Catholic Than the Pope
says Joseph Bottum, contributing editor, THE WEEKLY STANDARD, editor, First Things

Catholic specific website...

Headline Bistro is Knight of Columbus supported site specific for anything Catholic.

Pro-Life and Survival

To survive, one must live first.
For a political party to survive, it's members must support Life.
For a political issue to survive, the main issue must be Life, Pro-Life.
For human to survive, man and woman must be Pro-Life.

To live, one must be created first.
To be created, there must be a Creator.

For a society to survive, it's members must support Life.
For a family to continue, it's members must be Pro-Life.

You don't have to be a neuroscientist...

Prayer to End Abortion

Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,
And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters.
I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion,
Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death
by the Resurrection of Your Son.
I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.
Today I commit myself
Never to be silent,
Never to be passive,
Never to be forgetful of the unborn.
I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement,
And never to stop defending life
Until all my brothers and sisters are protected,
And our nation once again becomes
A nation with liberty and justice
Not just for some, but for all,
Through Christ our Lord. Amen!

from Priest For Life...

Hand, Foot & Mouth is not the same as Foot & Mouth Disease

Hand, Foot & Mouth is not the same as Foot & Mouth Disease, the dreaded Mad Cow disease!

Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is a common childhood illness.
Sores in the mouth, hands, feet and sometimes buttocks and legs. Mouth sores can be painful and may make it hard for your child to eat.
Disease is not serious, and it usually goes away in a week or so.
Most common in the summer and fall.
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is not the same as other diseases that have similar names: foot-and-mouth disease (sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease) or mad cow disease. These diseases almost always occur in animals.

From webmd.com

National Right to Life on Sarah Palin...

Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director. "Senator McCain has demonstrated his dedication to life in his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate."
National Right to Life President Wanda Franz, Ph.D added, "Governor Palin brings another strong pro-life voice to the Republican ticket, in sharp contrast to the pro-abortion ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden."
"We've both been very vocal about being pro-life," Palin, a mother of five, said in an interview shortly after the birth of her youngest son Trig, who has Down Syndrome. "We understand that every innocent life has wonderful potential."
The differences between the McCain/Palin ticket and the Obama/Biden ticket are clear. While Senator McCain has a very strong record on the life issues, Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion candidate ever nominated by a major political party.
Senator Obama voted multiple times to deny care and protection to children born alive after abortion attempts. He is also co-sponser of an extreme bill, the so-called "Freedom of Choice Act," that would make partial-birth abortion legal again and require taxpayer funding of abortions. For further information, go to www.nrlc.org.
"The country now has a clear choice," added Darla St. Martin, Co-Executive Director of the National Right to Life Committee, "between an avowed pro-abortion ticket that would continue to push for unrestricted abortion on demand, and a strongly pro-life ticket that will bring us closer to a society that embraces the value and dignity of human life."

Ay,pastilan!

Biggest bailout in U.S. history!!!
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac taken over by US government.
via Market Watch.
Update from Bloomberg.com on Fannie and Freddie employees political contributions...

Democrat Barack Obama - $103,899
Republican John McCain - $15,650.
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc. $100,000 last year.

Adversarial feminist, feminazis according to Rush!

Sarah Palin, mother of five, soon to be grandmother of one, Republican candidate for Vice President of John McCain.
Why some feminist do not endorse her by Jeffrey Bell at Weekly Standard.

The premise of this narrative is that for women to achieve dignity and self-fulfillment in modern society, they must distance themselves, not necessarily from men or marriage or childbearing, but from the kind of marriage in which a mother's temptation to be with and enjoy several children becomes a synonym for holding women back and cheating them out of professional success.

Crony Capitalism, Alaskan style!

via Potomac Watch - WSJ by Kimberley Strassel

Every state has its share of crony capitalism, but Big Oil and the GOP political machine have taken that term to new heights in Alaska. The oil industry, which provides 85% of state revenues, has strived to own the government. Alaska's politicians—in particular ruling Republicans—roll in oil campaign money, lavish oil revenue on pet projects, then retire to lucrative oil jobs where they lobby for sweetheart oil deals. You can love the free market and not love this.

Every state and every nation like the Philippines need a Sarah Palin!

Why Palin? It's Leadership, my friends, it's Leadership!

Excellent psycho bubble analysis on McCain's choice of Palin as VP, from Caroline Glick at The Jerusalem Post

Both the challenges of war and the challenges of politics are challenges of leadership. And both military strategists and political strategists agree that the most basic leadership challenge in both arenas is to know and understand yourself - your strengths and your weaknesses - and to know your opponents and their strengths and weaknesses.

tip: Luccianne

Palinmania!

Last Sunday, I sense something was in the airwaves when someone at church called out to someone else 'Isn't that Sarah Palin something?'
It's Palinmania! even before 'the speech' on Wednesday night at St.Paul, Minnesota convention.
Usually most cradle catholics after Sunday mass could not wait to leave except those that help out in parish activities. Most don't even wait for the last note of the beautiful balcony choir of lay people. The parking lot is empty by the time the lights are turn off in between masses, to save on electricity and keep the church cool. Stained glass windows brighten the church until the next mass.
Politics and political news usually are not a common topic among catholics after church. Even lapse catholics like Pelosi and Biden are not discuss or the sex scandal.

After days of intense media coverage about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's qualifications, more than 40 million Americans tuned in Wednesday to see for themselves what they thought of her.

Sarah America!!!

St. Paul, Minnesota

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States...
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in this election... against confident opponents ... at a crucial hour for our country.
And I accept the privilege of serving with a man who has come through much harder missions ... and met far graver challenges ... and knows how tough fights are won - the next president of the United States, John S. McCain...

for the whole speech...

Sarah Palin said...

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built."

Sarah Palin for VP, Republican all the time!

This blog will be Sarah Palin for VP, Republican, all the time until Nov 4, 2008!
my favorite historian, Professor Victor Davis Hanson, wrote today...

So apparently they are eager to see a rare politican who is unapologetic about America's past achievements (cf. Obama's "tragic history" and need for more "oppression studies"), and who reminds us with pride that a muscular world of action, not community organizing, creates the bounty that others use and take for granted but so often sneer at the methods of its acquisition.
Right now, there are millions rooting for her in a way not true of Biden—and many who are criticizing her don't have a clue why that it is so.

ht: The Corner on National Review...

my favorite politician said about Sarah Palin last night

Speaking of the vice presidential nominee, what a breath of fresh air Governor Sarah Palin is.
She is from a small town, with small town values, but that's not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family.
Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit. Well, give me a tough Alaskan Governor who has taken on the political establishment in the largest state in the Union -- and won -- over the beltway business-as-usual crowd any day of the week.
Let's be clear ... the selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment.
Sound like anyone else we know?
She has run a municipality and she has run a state.
And I can say without fear of contradiction that she is the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field dress a moose ... with the possible exception of Teddy Roosevelt.
She and John McCain are not going to care how much the alligators get irritated when they get to Washington, they're going to drain that swamp.

ht: gopconvention2008.com

Been there!

Been there, Governor Palin!
As a Catholic I believe in abstinence too and instilled it to my children but teenagers like most teenagers do the opposite of what you say and do!
Seventeen years ago, my then 19 year old, college freshman daughter was pregnant with her
and we are all (including her paternal and step family) doubly blessed with her around us.

Sarah Palin for VP of the United States of America

I have not supported a candidate in the presidential election since this


but this newsreport did it.
Am proud to vote for Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) as Senator McCain's VP on Nov 4, 2008!
She is 100% pro-life!

Capitalism & Freedom, filipino style

Capitalism will prosper in a democratic climate but democracy is not necessary as shown by communist China and socialist India.
Capitalism is an economic system.
Democracy is a political system.
Capitalism will improve people’s economic lives.
Freedom in a democratic society enhances capitalism.
Capitalism need a free market to sell, to buy, to trade.
Economic freedom must increase 50% in the Philippines by:
Sunset government laws, rules & regulations that controls and hinders individual endeavor!
Repealing laws and regulations that discourage risk taking!
Raise children independent, self reliant and individually responsible for their actions!

a blast from the past!

Fred Thompson, hope for conservative Republicans

ht Townhall.com

We are not here tonight just because we are Republicans. We are here because we know that we have the strongest, freest and most prosperous country in the history of the world, and that if we adhere to the traditional principles of the Republican Party, which are the first principles of our country, we will keep it that way.
We know that we were given a country based upon certain eternal truths–the wisdom of the scriptures and the wisdom of the ages … the fact that there is such a thing as human nature that has to be taken into account when governing … and most fundamentally, based upon the fact that people are meant to be free. Our founders derived from these principles a government that had its powers separated, checked and balanced because they knew that power tended to corrupt. In keeping with that they incorporated in our Constitution a system of Federalism to make sure that there was not too much power concentrated in the central government, which was given delineated powers and no others.

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Unbelievable & scary!!!

Fred Thompson withdraw but Fredheads are not giving up!

Can Fred Thompson be the Warren Harding of 1920?
Read this bio on this website and make your own conclusion. Fred is not dead yet!

http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/harding/essays/biography/3

Rush Limbaugh's brother David pleads...

'Time to Step Up, Fred!' Fred Thompson that is...

It's time to step up, Fred. Conservatives need a leader about whom we have no major reservations. The only one looming out there about you is your failure, so far, to persuade voters you want the job.
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That said, he needs to make a more convincing case to the voters, which will require a greater display of enthusiasm that he views these as both perilous and promising times and that he is the best man, overall, to navigate the ship of state through these times.
So, Fred, please, as distasteful as it may be to you, it's time to step up and prove you want it. Time is short.
David Limbaugh, brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, is an expert in law and politics and author of Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party.

Maybe this is Rush backdoor way of endorsing Fred Thompson. Rush said many times he does not endorse anybody at the primary and he probably do not want to break his own rule. Maybe Fred Thompson's plan is like Tiger Woods game plan to win - practice, practice, practice - deliberate, well thought out practice plan.

Happy New Year 2008

from Thomas Sowell's column today...a reminder for less government intervention, freer free market management of market volatility...

To this day, there are people who believe that the market economy failed when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that the Great Depression of the 1930s that followed required government intervention.
In reality, the stock market crashed by almost exactly the same amount on almost the same day in 1987 - and 20 years of prosperity, low inflation and low unemployment followed.
What was the difference? Politicians - first Pres Hoover and then Pres Roosevelt -- decided that they had to "do something" after the stock market crash of 1929.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan decided to do nothing - despite bitter criticisms in the media - and the economy recovered on its own and kept on growing.
To people who think the government should "do something" - and this includes most of the media - it would never occur to them to compare the actual track record of what happens when the government does something and what happens when it lets the market adjust by itself.
Back in 1971, President Richard Nixon responded to widespread demands that he "do something" about rising prices by imposing wage and price controls that got him
re-elected in a landslide. Moreover, the later damage to the economy was seldom blamed on those price controls.
Recently, Professor N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, noted that people in Congress and the White House were wondering what they should do about the current economic situation. His suggestion: "Absolutely nothing."
It is not just free market economists who think the government can do more harm than good when they intervene in the economy. It was none other than Karl Marx who referred to "crackbrained meddling by the authorities" that can "aggravate an existing crisis."
Ronald Reagan and Karl Marx did not have much in common, except that they had both studied economics.