etc on the eve of the Senate voting on the health care bill

Conservatives opposed at their inception Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, unemployment compensation, the right to form labor unions, government guaranteed student loans, child labor laws, the minimum wage, workplace safety regulations, protected bank and savings deposits,
oversight to insure the purity of our food and drugs, the environmental protection movement, the Equal Rights Amendment, civil rights legislation, even anti-lynching legislation, and most particularly, taxation of the wealthy.

~ Obery Hendricks

ETC

Neither by force of arms nor by brute strength would the people be saved. (Zech: 4:6)

Zion cannot be built in bloodshed; Jerusalem in iniquity. (Micah 3:10)

worst of the worst

the price of war

Any president who gets up in the middle of the night to honor dead soldiers as they return to the homeland knows the price of war.

More photos here.

Cardinal Rode photos

[Note: Cardinal Rode is the man in charge of investigating the American nuns. They don't stand a chance in hell of meeting his dress code!]

My collection of the "Hats of Benedict" has been outdone by these photos and meditation of Cardinal Rode in the NCR:


Oh my.

See more photos here: S. E. R. le Cardinal Franc Rodé ordonne six diacres

the Obamas

I just had to add this photo to my q&m collection of stuff. I remember back before Obama was elected, thinking how radical it would be to have an African American first family. How at the state dinners, where, like in a Southern mansion the only color around had been with the staff, now a black woman would be the mistress!

Well, here they are, and how proud I am of America.

Capitalism, a love story

Before I forget ... I saw the movie, Capitalism, A Love Story, last week. I probably would not have ventured to the movie theater (I was waiting for the DVD) unless a friend had invited me to go with her. Something about seeing a movie in a theater that makes me focus better, anyway.

This is what I thought: Michael Moore is a brilliant film-maker as well as a natural teacher and a national treasure. I learned some things. I had never before heard of FDR's 2nd Bill of Rights. I came away with renewed hope for the Peasants awakening to the powers that they hold. The election of Barack Obama was just the beginning. This next generation coming up - the one that I so often haven't had a clue as to what was going on with them - are the ones who do not carry the baggage and insecurities that so paralyzes the Boomers.