tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38803332012-01-09T15:19:09.263-05:00Disturber of the Peace<b>"Any questioning of the moral ideas that prevail ...is received with the utmost hostility. To attempt such an enterprise is to disturb the peace"<br>
<i>--H. L. Mencken</i></b><BR>The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.comBlogger1871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1161612732969481232006-10-23T10:11:00.000-04:002006-10-23T10:12:12.990-04:00"UNTIL THEN..."A Magnificent Tribute to Our Guys and Gals in IraqThe above-linked Flash presentation incorporates some wonderful photography of our troops "over there," together with a recording of Marta Keen's gorgeous song "Homeward Bound," the lyrics of which are as follows:In the quiet misty morning when the moon has gone to bed,When the sparrows stop their singing and the sky is clear andThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1158160833287400122006-09-13T11:15:00.000-04:002006-09-13T11:27:29.870-04:00PEGGY NOONAN WRITES ABOUT 9/11 ...IN 1998Noted Conservative Columnist Saw the Signs of the TimesBelow is a very eerie passage from a piece written by columnist Peggy Noonan on Nov. 30, 1998. It was republished on Sept. 18, 2001 at the Wall Street Journal web site opinionjournal.com, where the entire piece can be read:There Is No Time, There Will Be Time....Something's up. And deep down, where theThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1148324359956969942006-05-22T14:58:00.000-04:002006-05-22T15:01:29.286-04:00DAN BROWN WRITES A HOLOCAUST NOVELIf Dan Brown wrote a novel about the Holocaust it would probably look something like this:Robert Langdon, while on a lecture tour in Germany, is contacted by a reclusive unorthodox World War 2 historian who claims to have a great secret which would rock the Western world to its foundations:Everything we have been taught for the past 60 years about the Nazis and The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1139584048233060832006-02-10T09:58:00.000-05:002006-02-10T10:07:28.366-05:00CAVING IN TO "ISLAMIC LAW":Will the West Sacrifice Its Freedoms to Placate the Implacable?At least one American columnist thinks so.In her op-ed piece "Cartoon Rage," Diana West gets it just right about the Western media's cowardly response to ongoing militant Muslim riots and threats over some mediocre editorial cartoons about Muhammed and Islam published in a Danish newspaper:"...We dress up The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1130864590941997152005-11-01T12:01:00.000-05:002005-11-01T12:11:06.853-05:00ANNE RICE VISITS BLOG'S PARISHFamed Novelist Making the Rounds at Catholic Blogs During the past few weeks Catholic bloggers have been all abuzz in anticipation of Anne Rice's new novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, which focuses on Jesus Christ's childhood (for more info about the novel and how and why it came to be written, go HERE and HERE), and was composed a few years after her recently The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1130858056714757772005-11-01T10:10:00.000-05:002005-11-01T10:14:16.723-05:00OH, THE IRONY!Greenpeace Damages Coral Reef" GREENPEACE is to be fined after its flagship Rainbow Warrior II damaged a coral reef in the central Philippines during a climate change awareness campaign...."The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1130858878396535912005-10-31T22:22:00.000-05:002005-11-01T10:27:58.396-05:00THE REAL ORIGINS OF HALLOWEENIt's Not a "Wiccan Holy Day" After AllOn BeliefNet (use the link above to read the article), a Catholic priest writes about the history of this allegedly pre-Christian pagan festival:"We’ve all heard the allegations: Halloween is a pagan rite dating back to some pre-Christian festival among the Celtic Druids that escaped church suppression. Even today modern pagans The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1128689895042418302005-10-07T08:57:00.000-04:002005-10-07T08:58:15.046-04:00QUOTE OF THE WEEK"Republican majority leader Tom DeLay was indicted and he was stripped of his congressional leadership powers. When asked what it feels like to lose all his power, DeLay said, 'I feel like a Democrat.'" --Conan O'BrienThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1128531041104037082005-10-05T12:42:00.000-04:002005-10-05T14:00:47.563-04:00HARRIET MIERS' FAITHHARRIET MYERS' FAITHApparently, like her soon-to-be-colleague, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Miers was a lapsed cradle Catholic who became a conservative pro-life Evangelical Christian over 20 years ago, after years as a non-religious careerist. (Thomas, a one-time Baptist who migrated to Episcopalianism, returned to Rome a few years after he joined the Supremes.) Naturally, the The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1126811982938158752005-09-15T15:12:00.000-04:002005-09-16T09:49:46.296-04:00WHO REALLY CAUSED THOSE DEATHS IN NEW ORLEANS?And, No, It Wasn't George Bush ...or GodUnlike the Democrats and other naysayers who blame George Bush for the Big Easy's current woes (and unlike some fundamentalist Christians who see God's wrath behind every mishap), National Review pundit Jim Geraghty understands the difference between fact and fiction.The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1126797366276853222005-09-15T11:11:00.000-04:002005-09-16T09:52:20.036-04:00IT'S THE VICTIMS' FAULT?James White on Hurricane Katrina as "God's Wrath"In a rambling pontification on his internet-based radio broadcast, Baptist apologist James White argues that the USA, if not the populace of New Orleans, brought Hurricane Katrina upon itself:White seems convinced that Hurricane Katrina, like the 9-11 terrorist attacks, was an instance of God's wrath against the USA for The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1126791852246255502005-09-15T09:24:00.000-04:002005-09-15T09:48:21.050-04:00OUT OF THE MOTHBALLSYes, like some of the French Quarter's cafes and restaurants, we're once again open for business --albeit with a less-than-full menu.Between the Judge Roberts hearings, the 9th Circuit Court's frequent excursions into lunacy, the post-Katrina fiasco and Democrat-vs-Republican blame game, and (of course) the usual rantings and shenanigans of the New Know-Nothing Party --i.e., The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1102365232353031262004-12-06T15:27:00.000-05:002004-12-06T15:37:12.563-05:00POLITICALLY CORRECT CHRISTMAS GREETING
A fellow Curmudgeon and all-around fine chap who loves Christmas as much as we do sent in the following updated and sanitized safer version of Christmas well-wishing.
Feel free to pass it on to the Scrooges, Grinches, radical liberals, militant secularists, and ACLU lawyers on your own Yuletide list:
Holiday Seasons Greetings to You
The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1102101432230891762004-12-03T14:08:00.000-05:002004-12-03T14:26:03.033-05:00 SEATTLE TIMES OBIT PAGE LAUDS CHILD-MURDERING DAD
Just when you think you've read it all, out comes an astonishingly appalling death notice --apparently written and paid for by the deceased's family-- in the Seattle Times' obituary section this past Monday.
What makes this death notice so obscene is that it praises a child murderer-turned-suicide "victim" as "a loving, good man" devoted to The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1095774567337516472004-09-21T09:48:00.000-04:002004-09-21T10:46:27.346-04:00An Open Letter to Catholics for a Free Choice
Subject: Your Disinformation Campaign Against Karl Keating and Catholic Answers
I have read your 9-20-04 press release announcing your threat to get the IRS to remove Karl Keating's tax-exempt status merely because he has included in his Catholic Answers voting guide the truth about the Catholic Church's infallible teaching against The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1090421414132795902004-07-21T10:45:00.001-04:002004-07-21T10:52:58.270-04:00"LIBERAL WEINER" vs. "RIGHT-WING NUT JOB"
Kudos to the geniuses at JibJab.com for this truly hilarious spoof on the George Bush and John Kerry campaigns!
"This Land" starring Bush and Kerry
The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1087319331797331102004-06-15T13:05:00.000-04:002004-06-15T13:08:51.796-04:00AL QUEDA’S USEFUL IDIOTS:
At Least One Columnist “Gets It” About Islamo-Fascism
In his very thoughtful column yesterday at National Review Online, Victor David Hanson addresses a central Western liberal attitude which will inevitably lead to the demise of the West if something isn’t done to reverse it.
The West, especially Europe, says Hanson, has been playing into the hands of Al Queda and The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1086893349072074532004-06-10T14:48:00.000-04:002004-06-10T14:49:54.213-04:00“RELIGIOUS LIBERTY FOR WHOM?”
Political Correctness and the Coming Death of the First Amendment
Dr. James Hitchcock, a professor of history at St. Louis University, notes some scary trends here and in the rest of the West which bode ill for the survival of freedom of conscience and religion –at least for those whose consciences are religious in orientation.
In an his weekly column titled The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1086876969686807212004-06-10T10:15:00.000-04:002004-06-10T10:16:09.686-04:00TED RALL vs. THE FIRST AMENDMENT:
Cartoonist Takes a Page from the Church of Scientology’s Law Book
One of the more interesting aspects of Looney Left “journalist” Ted Rall’s character (see our June 9 post on Rall, “Attack of the Girlie-Men,” below) seems to be how he handles criticism, including when it comes from a colleague in the form of parody.
In 1999, fellow editorial cartoonist Danny The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1086801958716454342004-06-09T13:22:00.000-04:002004-06-09T13:55:14.773-04:00ATTACK OF THE GIRLIE-MEN:
Envy-Ridden “Journalists” Whine One More at the Gipper
German sociologist Helmut Schoeck points out in his book Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour that envy is "a drive which lies at the core of man’s life as a social being…[an] urge to compare oneself invidiously with others." The envious person is a type of sociopath who, upon comparing him- or herself with another ofThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1086791084269228532004-06-09T10:22:00.000-04:002004-06-09T10:25:47.253-04:00THE FOUNDING FATHERS GO DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE
A Frightening Trend in "Higher" Education
It seems that university history departments around the US are abondoning study of the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution. As one source notes,
"Two of the leaders in colonial- and revolutionary-era scholarship, Bernard Bailyn at Harvard and Gordon Wood at Brown, are being replaced by historians The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1086628453066087962004-06-07T13:12:00.000-04:002004-06-07T13:14:13.066-04:00HAIL TO THE CHIEF
Ronald Reagan, Rest In Peace
The USA and the world have lost a great leader, and a very good man.
God bless you, Mr. President. And thank you!The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1084893828215363002004-05-18T11:12:00.000-04:002004-05-18T11:25:55.540-04:00CICADAS THREATEN EARTH!
Revealing Web Site Blows the Whistle on the Critters
At last the Truth Is Out There about those seemingly innocent red-eyed bugs invading the Eastern seaboard. For example, from the Cicadaville.com FAQs page:
What do Cicadas eat?
Human children are the primary source of nutrition for Cicadas.
Are Cicadas poisonous?
Yes, Cicadas have a deadly venom that is The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1084466563255861992004-05-13T12:41:00.000-04:002004-05-13T12:46:44.226-04:00MEMO TO THE WEST, POST-NICK BERG:
How to Respond to Islamo-Fascism
The recent mea culpa hand-wringing in the West over the abominable mistreatment of imprisoned Iraqi terrorists and insurgents by rogue American military personnel is as much a commentary on the morally weakened state of the West as it is yet another demonstration of the blindness of the West to an evil which cannot be comprised The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1078847797141032292004-03-09T10:56:00.000-05:002004-07-29T10:20:07.396-04:00JESUS AS SURFER DUDE:
What Happens When Hollywood Imitates Real Art
Now that Mel Gibson's masterful film continues to do blockbuster business (over $200M and counting), out come the second-rate t.v. productions riding his coat-tails.
Last night, it was ABC's turn with its made-for-t.v.movie, "Judas." There was a good reason the ABC execs shelved this flick for the past two years since it The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1078516382072599372004-03-05T14:53:00.000-05:002004-03-05T14:56:16.640-05:00THE COMING "PASSION" FRANCHISE?
The $150 MIL (and Counting) Success of Gibson's Film Demands Sequels
Since The Passion of the Christ continues to do so well at the box office, we predict that Hollywood will jump on the band wagon and demand the production of sequels.
In fact, to those of us out here in the cultural hinterlands (i.e., outside the LA beltway). it seems to be the rule that *The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1077825939611674452004-02-26T15:05:00.000-05:002004-02-27T09:53:40.263-05:00"THE PASSION" AS RORSCHACH TEST:
Why Most of the Opposition Comes from Liberals
Well, the screeching in the Establishment media continues.
Even before the general public began to view The Passion of the Christ for themselves, liberal commentators have been attacking it as "pornographic" and "obscene" in part or in whole because of Mel Gibson's hard-to-take but thoroughly accurate depiction of The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1077285989841736902004-02-20T09:06:00.000-05:002004-02-20T09:09:09.060-05:00FOR MEL GIBSON, HIS FILM IS A MASS:
ZENIT on The Passion, Catholic Liturgy, and Anti-Semitism
The Italian news agency ZENIT, the only secular media outlet which specializes in covering the Vatican, released the following remarkable article this week.
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ZENIT News Agency, The World Seen from Rome
=================================================The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1077224454631024742004-02-19T16:00:00.000-05:002004-02-20T09:36:17.950-05:00HUTTON GIBSON, PLEASE SHUT UP!
Is Mel's Wacko Dad Exploiting His Son?
Apparently some people are either so dense or so venal they just don't know when to keep their mouths shut.
Earlier this week on national television, Mel Gibson both distanced himself from his radical "traditionalist" anti-Vatican father Hutton's bizarre Holocaust denial "theories" and other anti-Semitic views and asked the The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1077114242650401072004-02-18T09:24:00.000-05:002004-02-18T10:10:09.110-05:00ON PREVENTING POGROMS IN PITTSBURGH:
An Orthodox Rabbi Responds to The Passion's Jewish Critics
Rabbi Daniel Lapin, an Orthodox Rabbi, is president of Toward Tradition, an ecumenical "bridge-building" organization "providing a voice for all Americans who defend the Judeo-Christian values." On February 12, Rabbi Lapin had the following to say on his web site about Mel Gibson's new film, The The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1075751627251712592004-02-02T14:53:00.000-05:002004-02-06T14:00:36.593-05:00IS WINTER HERE TO STAY?
Famous Ground Hog Makes Earlier-than-Usual Prediction
In a radical departure from his usual routine of waiting until Ground Hog Day to render his annual weather forecast, Puxatawny Phil came out of his hole yesterday during the Half Time segment of Super Bowl XXXVIII, one day ahead of schedule.
Upon seeing Janet Jackson's exposed breast on national t.v. during the "The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1074794355387636762004-01-22T12:59:00.000-05:002004-01-22T13:09:58.700-05:00"I HAVE A SCREAM"
Howlin' Howie Achieves Cult Status
Pundits and late night t.v. talkers have been having a field day with Howard Dean's rant last Monday night, which happened to fall on Martin Luther King Day.
One creative web site operator even offers a musical remix of Howlin' Howie's speech. The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1074628410971859792004-01-20T14:53:00.000-05:002004-01-20T14:59:18.076-05:00DOES THIS GUY
Remind You of Someone Else?
Seems to us the last time we saw such wild gesticulating and heard such loud screeching during a political speech was when the speech was given by This Fellow
All that seems missing in Iowa last night was a pair of lederhosen.The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1072894131188548322003-12-31T13:08:00.000-05:002003-12-31T14:10:43.826-05:00THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH'S REVOLVING DOOR:
For Many Parishioners, Gay Bishops and Gay "Marriage" Were the Last Straws
The New York Times reported this week that once again the membership of the Episcopal Church USA is undergoing migrations in and out the church's doors, this time in response to the ECUSA's ordination of an openly active gay bishop and it's increasingly liberal stance on gay "The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1072812665108898882003-12-30T14:31:00.000-05:002003-12-31T12:56:05.890-05:00H. L. MENCKEN AND RELIGION:
An "Atheist" Reader Takes Exception
Early last week --barely three days before Christmas Day, of all times!-- a self-styled "atheist" sent us an e-mail to let us "know" something he had apparently already determined we did not know, namely that our "patron saint," early 20th century pundit and skeptic H. L. Mencken, was "agin" religion (as we Virginia gentlemen would The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1072729792296821452003-12-29T15:29:00.000-05:002003-12-29T16:01:25.483-05:00HELP WANTED: NEW ANTI-CHRIST NEEDED!
Saddam's Capture Re-Opens Much Sought-After Position
The Office of the Anti-Christ is vacant once again, according to National Review Online columnist and Veteran Rapture Watcher DeLuxe Carl Olson. It seems that Bible prophecy researchers had regarded ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as the leading candidate for that position.
As End Times expert The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1072734466111214502003-12-26T16:32:00.000-05:002003-12-29T16:50:07.360-05:00UNRAVELING THAT "PAGAN" CHRISTMAS:
It Wasn't Based on Saturnalia, Christian Scholar Finds
You know the story if you've traveled in Fundamentalist, Neo-Pagan, or Atheist circles long enough: The ancient Christians, we are told, "stole" the celebration of Christmas and its date (December 25) from the ancient pagans of Rome, in particular the pagan Roman holiday known as alternately as "SaturnaliaThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1072205753049019982003-12-23T13:55:00.000-05:002003-12-23T14:22:17.436-05:00TAKING CHRIST OUT OF CHRISTMAS...
...and Everything Else Too
Fox News reports that there is an alarming and growing trend afoot to remove all vestiges of our Christian heritage not only from public Yuletide celebrations and displays, but from everything else the public square as well.
It seems militant secularist groups with more time and $$$ than brains on their hands are increasingly The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1072192174294316272003-12-23T10:09:00.000-05:002003-12-23T13:30:54.640-05:00GIVING A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO "HO, HO, HO!"
A US Army Infantry Battalian Issues Unique Christmas Card
Apparenty, some creative military chap in Iraq who appears rather adept with Adobe Photoshop altered one of Saddam Hussein's captivity photos to give him a more, um, jolly appearance:
Christmas Card Shows Captured Leader in Santa Garb
This image was quickly adopted and adapted by our fighting The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1072122753237299642003-12-22T14:52:00.000-05:002003-12-22T15:21:02.263-05:00U.S. MAJORITY OPPOSES GAY "MARRIAGE":
Even Democrats Are Split on the Issue
According to polls taken by both CBS News/New York Times and USA Today/CNN/Gallup, 61% of adult Americans oppose gay "marriage" and almost as many oppose legalizing homosexual acts as "rights."
Interestingly enough, while the Democratic Party, especially its leading presidential candidates, seem inclined to make supportThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1071518179679800162003-12-15T14:56:00.000-05:002003-12-15T15:01:50.170-05:00SOME THINGS SHOULD BE LEFT BEHIND:
Cardinal George on The DaVinci Code and Those Pesky "Rapture" Novels
In his most recent column in his diocesan paper The Catholic World, Chicago's Francis Cardinal George had some choice things to say about novelist Dan Brown's much-ballyhooed anti-Catholic best seller, which speculates on (among similarly ridiculous notions) Jesus' marriage to and begetting ofThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1071516351814559882003-12-15T14:25:00.000-05:002003-12-15T14:27:02.670-05:00MORE SADDAM NEWS
Blogger ScrappleFace on Aftermath of Hussein's Arrest
Intrepid reporter Scott Ott keeps us up-to-date on the latest developments:*
4th ID Soldier Credits Democrats for Saddam Find
Dean Demands Saddam's Release, Recapture by U.N.
France Mulls Iraq Debt Relief, Claims Saddam's Cash
*[Curmudgeon's Law #173: When blogwriter's block sets in, fill your blog with links to other The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1071503957904105032003-12-15T10:59:00.000-05:002003-12-15T12:35:32.810-05:00"I AM THE PRESIDENT OF IRAQ
and I am willing to negotiate"
According to ABC Radio News, this was how Saddam responded to the US troops who found him hiding in a dirt hole outside Tikrit.
Apparently, the disheveled former "President of Iraq" hadn't heard the news reports over the past eight months that while he was on sabbatical, he was thrown out of power.
But then again, this is the same The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1071418631008227592003-12-14T11:17:00.000-05:002003-12-14T14:42:53.420-05:00GREAT NEWS FROM IRAQ!
Saddam Hussein Captured!
According to the lead article on CNN's web site this morning, US forces found figitive Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, looking for all the world like Ted Kaczynski and hiding in a hole under a farm house near his home town of Tikrit. He offered no resistance and was placed under arrest.
After DNA testing confirmed his identity, Saddam's capture was The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1070643872771356872003-12-05T12:04:00.000-05:002003-12-05T12:29:40.090-05:00STILL STUPID AFTER ALL THESE YEARS:
PETA "Hires" the Blessed Virgin Mary
Just when we thought there was already too much eye pollution along the nation's highways, along comes the perennially obnoxious "animal rights" group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to add even more, this time in the form of a billboard in Rhode Island and (eventually) five other states seemingly The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1070464860676184432003-12-03T10:21:00.000-05:002003-12-03T10:22:31.983-05:00IS MEL GIBSON A FEMINIST?
National Review Editor Kathryn Jean Lopez Thinks He Is
After observing the way in which Gibson presents the female characters of his upcoming film The Passion of Christ, Lopez arrives at some interesting insights. For example,
...I don't think many self-described feminists would agree, but there is something unique about women, and Gibson's movie captures it perfectly The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1070386666259116022003-12-02T12:37:00.000-05:002003-12-02T12:39:48.280-05:00ON MUSIC AND SUFFERING:
Within the Darkest of Times Can Lie Beauty and Heroism
Two months ago we noted that Washington DC area singer and recording artist Grace Griffith, a long-time fixture in the DC-MD-VA folk & Celtic music scene, had begun to experience debilitating advanced stages of Parkinson’s Disease and that she was determined to keep making music in the face of it –and to keep The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1070305955028854052003-11-29T14:12:00.000-05:002003-12-01T14:14:12.293-05:00ON GIVING THANKS:
It's About So Much More Than the Food
In his wonderful reflection this past Thursday, St. Blog's own inimitable Fr. Rob Johansen (who like yours truly is grateful for "good Scotch whisky, good Bourbon, cigars, and micro-brewed beers," among other things) reminds us what Thanksgiving should be all about. In part, he notes:
Gratitude is an indicator of holiness. If you read the The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1070029869779577782003-11-28T09:31:00.000-05:002003-11-28T09:34:36.310-05:00There's a "CAT IN THE HAT" MOVIE REVIEW
penned in Dr. Seuss style.
We came across it on the Internet,
reading e-mail awhile.
It's funny and clever,
and as you can see,
is written by a Cath'lic fellow
who has one kid and three.
The reviewer loves the Cat books,
which he knows by heart,
but he says the movie version
is not worthy Seuss art.
The alarmed writer warns
there's no more innocence The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1069779127320059352003-11-25T11:52:00.000-05:002003-11-25T11:52:51.263-05:00MASSACHUSETTS’ JUDICIAL COUP D’ETAT:
Did Four Judges Turn the Bay State Into a Banana Republic?
In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision legalizing gay "marriage," Daily Standard columnist Hugh Hewitt thinks so:
"JOHN MARSHALL has made his decision," Andrew Jackson is said to have remarked in the aftermath of a Supreme Court decision he disliked, "now let him enforce it."
…It The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1069778767134696972003-11-25T09:32:00.000-05:002003-11-25T11:53:44.140-05:00JACK KENNEDY AND THE CATHOLIC FAITH:
At His Death, JFK’s Catholicism May Have Been More Pivotal Than During His Life
Catholic Exchange writer Michael H. Brown ponders the effect of the Catholic faith on both JFK himself and his wife Jackie, despite JFK's now well-known philandering as well as his indulgence in reckless behavior in other matters, including geopolitics (e.g., the Bay of Pigs The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1069778695634823872003-11-23T11:36:00.000-05:002003-11-25T11:45:59.890-05:00NOVEMBER 22, 40 YEARS LATER:
Noted Blogger Mark Shea Asks His Readers, "Where Were You...?"
Read some fascinating rememberances of that tragic day in Mark's Comments Box HEREThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1069354680011184952003-11-20T13:58:00.000-05:002003-11-20T14:01:46.390-05:00WHAT'S IN IT FOR THE REST OF US?
On Legislating Same-Sex "Marriage" vs. the Common Good
One of the most fundamental principles upon which civil law is based is the concept of "the Common Good," i.e., what is best for the stability and healthy growth of society as a whole. For example, society as a whole benefits greatly when laws and policies are enacted which give deference and certain The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1069271170304956822003-11-19T14:46:00.000-05:002003-11-19T15:27:38.733-05:00MASSACHUSETTS' COUNTERFEIT MARRIAGE PROPOSAL:
Devalueing Marriage the Way "Counterfeit Money Devalues the Real Thing"
In yesterday's USA Today, op-ed guest columnist Tony Perkins focuses on the central absurdities and disasterous implications of the Massachusetts Supreme Court's asininely arrogant decision to radically redefine marriage by lifting the state ban on same-sex marriage:
....The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1069255248626600062003-11-19T10:20:00.000-05:002003-11-19T10:30:04.280-05:00MARRIAGE: "NOTHING TO DO WITH GETTING CHILDREN WHAT THEY NEED":
Columnist Maggie Gallegher's Analysis Cuts Through Massachusetts B.S.
Observes Gallagher in her column today:
Four judges in Massachusetts, ruling in a same-sex marriage case, have decided that children don't need mothers and fathers, that marriage has nothing to do with getting children what they need. Marriage is a passing The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1069183315681443532003-11-18T14:21:00.000-05:002003-11-18T14:24:42.576-05:00MASSACHUSETTS COURT LEGALIZES GAY MARRIAGE:
Plans Now Underway to Legalize All Other Unions
In the wake of its decision to lift the ban on same-sex marriage, the Massachusetts Supreme Court will soon be hearing cases in support of other non-traditional unions.
Consider, for example, the efforts of the National Association of Narcissists to seek the legalization of same-person marriage. Or the The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1069166499954944582003-11-18T09:41:00.000-05:002003-11-18T09:42:13.860-05:00INTRODUCING "THE PERKY PAPIST":
A Promising New Blog Penned by the Irrepressible Meg Quinn...
...a very talented Catholic writer, and a friend of yours truly.
May her tribe --and content-- increase!The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1069081485573900142003-11-17T10:04:00.000-05:002003-11-17T10:05:18.530-05:00"WAS TERRI BEATEN IN 1990?"
Nat Hentoff Continues His Inquiry Into the Terri Case
This past Friday, in the latest installment of his columns on the Terri Schindler-Schaivo case, Hentoff notes that a Federal agency, the Advocacy Center for Persons With Disabilities (ACPD),
...has sent Michael Schiavo's lawyer a request that he authorize the release of Terri Schiavo's medical records. There was The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1068740252462951512003-11-13T11:17:00.000-05:002003-11-13T11:20:55.873-05:00NEW HOPE FOR TERRI?
Nat Hentoff Thinks So In His Follow-up Column
Notes Hentoff this past Tuesday:
In the most bitterly contested right-to-die or right-to-life case in many years, Terri Schiavo's husband and legal guardian, Michael, is back in court urging the removal of her feeding tube. But now, a federally funded investigation has begun by a disability advocacy agency. And a renowned The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1068563069156344542003-11-11T10:04:00.000-05:002003-11-11T10:06:14.966-05:00QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
Mark Shea Responds to Scrappleface's "Report" About the "Matrix" Filmmakers
"As a friend of mine said, it takes a peculiar sort of mind to attend academic conferences in which brilliant people offer massive, closely-reason monographs proving that language has no meaning, especially when they then break for lunch and haggle with the waitress over the bill."The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1068486443943382522003-11-10T12:47:00.000-05:002003-11-11T10:14:15.576-05:00NAT HENTOFF ON THE TERRI "RIGHT-TO-DIE" CASE:
Establishment Media Engaging in "Journalistic Malpractice"
Nationally syndicated Village Voice columnist and long-time pro-life libertarian Nat Hentoff had some choice things to say today about the major media's "reporting" of the court fight in Florida to save brain-damaged Terri Schindler-Schiavo from a court-ordered death via starvation and The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1068235781518781682003-11-06T23:09:00.000-05:002003-11-07T15:11:47.950-05:00NONE DARE CALL THIS TREASON?
Memo Suggests Intel Committee Dems Misuse Their Posts for Anti-Bush Strategy
Well, someone came close to calling it that; namely Democratic Senator Zell Miller (D-GA), who has long been a critic of the far-left faction which has taken over his party. Miller refers to it as "treason's first cousin."
This past Tuesday, ABC Radio talker Sean Hannity received from an The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1068133099212821902003-11-06T10:38:00.000-05:002003-11-06T10:54:57.483-05:00DID SADDAM TRY TO OFFER PEACE AT THE LAST MINUTE?
That's What ABC News and the New York Times Would Like You to Believe
But as with all other stories, this one has at least two sides to it, as reported by Fox News in reply to the Establishment Media's reports this morning:
Messages from Baghdad, first relayed by [businessman Imad] Hage in February to an analyst in the office of Douglas Feith, The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1068089381115871102003-11-05T22:29:00.000-05:002003-11-05T22:31:30.500-05:00A VICTORY FOR TERRI'S PARENTS:
Bob and Mary Schindler's latest challenge to Michael Schivo's Custody Upheld
Associated Press reports (see full article HERE):
A state circuit judge Wednesday refused to block an effort by the parents of a brain-damaged woman to try to get her husband removed as her legal guardian. Attorneys for Michael Schiavo now have to respond in court to charges in the The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1068056171839855282003-11-05T13:16:00.000-05:002003-11-05T13:22:12.060-05:00DOIN' THE JACK CHICK SHUCK-N-JIVE AGAIN!
The Boston Globe's Charles Pierce Dives Headfirst Into the Know Nothing Pool...
...with this amazing Conspiracy Theory. We suspect that Mr. Pierce wears a Tin Foil Hat to keep out those brain-washing rays emanating from the Vatican's string of Mind Control Satellites. How else would he be able to expose this nefarious plot?
Our iniitial observations of The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067976135087645382003-11-04T15:02:00.000-05:002003-11-05T14:31:04.610-05:00TERRI'S PARENTS ON LARRY KING LIVE:
Bob and Mary Schindler to Appear on CNN Program Friday
According to Fr. Rob Johansen, Larry King has agreed to have Terri's parents on his show this Friday (Nov.7) at 9:00 p.m. to respond to accusations made against them by son-in-law Michael Schiavo and his lawyer George Felos.
Apparently, King also waived his demand for an exclusive interview, which wouldThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067958700392732762003-11-04T10:11:00.000-05:002003-11-05T14:34:43.500-05:00DOIN' THE JACK CHICK SHUCK-N-JIVE:
ABC News' Latest Foray Into Things Catholic....
...was, as expected, disappointing as news and history, but made for great Know Nothing yellow journalism.
Moreover, ABC's "documentary" Jesus, Mary, and DaVinci turned out to be a one-hour infomercial for Dan Brown's blatently anti-Catholic novel The DaVinci Code, summarized in our Oct. 31 blog below and The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067628984671253902003-10-31T14:36:00.000-05:002003-11-05T14:35:28.483-05:00WELL, HE'S NOT A CATHOLIC PRIEST...
...So It Musta Been OK
The same Limousine Liberals in Hollywood who repeatedly bash the Catholic Church over the negligence of some Bishops vis the "pedophile priest" issue seem to have no problem with the presence of pedophiles in their midst as long as the perverts in question wear Armani suits rather than Roman collars.
Case in point: "Jeepers Creepers 1 The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067624366843272832003-10-31T11:19:00.000-05:002003-11-05T14:36:12.403-05:00REVENGE OF THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL GIRLS:
A Flasher Gets an Unexpected Reception
South Philly has always had a reputation for being a tough neighborhood. This became especially clear yesterday to Rudy Susanto, 25, a known sexual predator who on several occassions had been exposing himself to some teen-age girls attending St. Maria Goretti* Catholic School in Philadelphia.
This time, as this CNN The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067616447906510842003-10-31T11:07:00.000-05:002003-11-05T14:37:28.843-05:00 OF CODE-CRACKING & CRACKPOTS:
ABC News to Promote The DaVinci Code as “History”
We learned today that ABC News plans to air a special next week titled "Jesus, Mary and DaVinci," which proffers the “theory” that the controversial novel by Dan Brown –which novel revolves around an ancient global conspiracy to cover up the supposed marriage between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, who begat a The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067549049102690062003-10-30T16:24:00.000-05:002003-11-05T14:38:12.686-05:00IT’S THE BIOLOGY, STUPID
On Gay “Marriage,” Some Folks Just Don’t Get It
In his op-ed piece in The Washington Post yesterday, columnist Harold Meyerson asserted that the main reason conservatives and the GOP oppose gay “marriage” and want to make it a major campaign issue for the ’04 elections is that they are stuck in “Old Testament morality” and want to manipulate “xenophobic, homophobic and The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067522794523666002003-10-30T09:06:00.000-05:002003-11-05T14:39:59.826-05:00”KILL TERRI, VOL. ONE”:
Schiavo First Tried to "Grant" Wife's "Wish" in 1993, Court Records Show
Michael Schiavo and his attorneys have been telling the Establishment media that he waited until 1998 (the year he hired “right-to-die” activist lawyer George Felos) to “grant” Terri’s “wish” to “allow” her to die if she had to be kept alive “artificially.”
But the court records tell a very The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067458994640705872003-10-29T15:23:00.000-05:002003-11-05T14:41:14.043-05:00LARRY KING & SCHIAVO OUT-TAKE:
Caller Makes Great Suggestion; Team Felos Blows Smoke
From the transcript of Larry King's Interview with Schiavo and Felos:
KING: Aurora, Illinois, hello.
CALLER: Hi Larry. I have a question for Michael. Since he's so passionate about it being Terri's wish, when she was 25 years old, that watching a TV program, to give peace to Terri's parents and brother, The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067376216240643512003-10-28T16:23:00.000-05:002003-11-05T14:54:27.310-05:00IN OTHER NEWS*
The Great Southern California Wildfires Continue Unabated...
...exacerbated in part by some thoughtless to-Hell-with-the-facts activism by the Tin Foil Hat Wing of the environmentalist movement and the Useful Idiots who cave in to them.
*(After all, the name of this blog isn't "All Terri All the Time," though we're sorely tempted to do make it so.)The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067372914734147232003-10-28T15:28:00.000-05:002003-11-05T14:55:31.873-05:00NEW COMMENTS BOXES ADDED!
Many Thanks to Our Friends at Haloscan
Once again, you can leave whatever various and sundry brickbats, profundities, penetrating queries, or hymns of praise strike your fancy. The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067369054166644442003-10-28T14:24:00.000-05:002003-10-28T15:22:27.733-05:00"THE INTERVIEW THAT WASN'T":
Wesley Smith Raises Some Questions Larry King Didn't Ask
Some of the questions Smith poses are,
Why did Schiavo tell a medical malpractice jury in 1992 that Terri would live a normal life span?
...Michael presented evidence ...that Terri would likely live a normal life span [and] that he intended to ...care for her for the rest of his life
Given that the jury The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067353077372054542003-10-28T09:57:00.000-05:002003-10-28T15:22:44.840-05:00THIS IS TOO FUNNY!
ScrappleFace on Michael Schiavo
See his wonderful send-up, Michael Schiavo Slips into 'Carnivorative State'The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067348651435248242003-10-28T08:44:00.000-05:002003-10-28T15:23:08.903-05:00THE GREAT SNOW JOB OF ’03:
CNN and Larry King Play Host to Schiavo and Felos
Last night Larry King Live featured a full-hour interview with Michael Schiavo --looking for all the world like a downtown Miami coke snorter with fake Rolexes to sell-- accompanied by geeky Newage lawyer George Felos.
Of course, with maybe one notable exception (about which in due course) King asked no hardball The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067018747200689972003-10-24T14:05:00.000-04:002003-11-05T15:02:15.560-05:00IT'S NOT JUST THE "RELIGIOUS RIGHT":
The Mainstream Media Apply the Broad Brush Once Again
Irrepressible St. Blog parishioner Mark Shea observes that the New York Times has already begun spinning the Terri Schindler-Schiavo case into yet another fictitious "religious right" vs. "the rest of us" sham.
Yet the following article, originally linked by Mr.Shea, was posted by a critic of the Let'sThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1067008407365043562003-10-24T11:13:00.000-04:002003-10-28T15:32:21.670-05:00WHAT A BIG SURPRISE ....NOT!
ACLU Joins Forces with Michael Schiavo
Today's South Florida Sun-Sentinal reports that,
"The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that it will aid Michael Schiavo in his fight against Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature, which earlier this week took the remarkable step of passing a law to prevent the Pinellas County man from disconnecting his The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066922344833505192003-10-23T11:19:00.000-04:002003-11-05T15:01:03.733-05:00TERRI MEETS THE PRESS:
How the Mainstream Media Dropped All the Balls in the Florida "Right-to-Die" Case
H. L. Mencken once defined “truth” as “something somehow discreditable to someone somewhere.” And so it has seemed with the mainstream news outlets –e.g., CNN, PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, The Washington Post, the New York Times-- in their mostly one-sided and neglectful coverage of the Terri The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066844069538214982003-10-22T13:34:00.000-04:002003-10-23T11:15:56.336-04:00TERRI'S FAMILY BANNED FROM HOSPITAL:
"No Visitors" Order Placed by Michael Schiavo
For more details on this apparently vindictive move, go to this report at the Fox News web site.
[UPDATE, 5:33 PM]: Fox News reports that Terri's family has finally received permission to see her.The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066836070004054122003-10-22T11:21:00.000-04:002003-11-05T15:03:47.013-05:00QUOTES FROM GEORGE FELOS’ BOOK:
“Right-to-Die” Lawyer Claims Psychic Powers
In his 2002 book, Litigation As Spiritual Practice (Blue Dolphin Publishing), Michael Schiavo's lawyer shows off his looney side:
Page 63 (Felos on his landmark Florida case, Estate of Browning):
"Such a deep, dark, silent blue. I stared as far into her eyes as I could, hoping to sense some glimmer of understanding, The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066829821034051552003-10-22T09:37:00.000-04:002003-10-22T09:39:56.850-04:00CLUELESS GEORGE FELOS...
...just doesn't get it!
From the report on the AOL News page:
''It is simply inhumane and barbaric to interrupt her death process,'' Felos said. ''Just because Terri Schiavo is not conscious doesn't mean she doesn't have dignity."
WHAT "death process"???
Terri was NOT undergoing a death process until a death process was imposed upon her by her husband through the The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066740229848582322003-10-21T08:43:00.000-04:002003-11-05T15:04:51.576-05:00BREAKING NEWS: FLORIDA LAWMAKERS VOTE FOR TERRI:
Florida House Passes Bill Allowing Gov. Jeb Bush to Intercede
Read all about it in the Associated Press report Florida lawmakers jump into Schiavo case to let governor step in published in today's Gainesville Sun.
It seems the Florida House, in a 68 to 32 vote, decided that because Terri left no living will, the Governor has the right to The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066677580247680822003-10-20T15:19:00.000-04:002003-11-05T14:50:29.356-05:00FLORIDA AND THE NAZIS, 70 YEARS LATER:
Ominous Parallels to the Third Reich’s “Mercy Killing” Program
"...[T]he bioethics departments in most universities are akin to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. The doctors and "scientists" at the Institute gave scientific legitimacy to one of the most grisly, evil barbaric rampages in the history of mankind. That The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066660078800180522003-10-20T10:27:00.000-04:002003-11-05T14:47:12.840-05:00THE "ROE V.WADE"OF THE EUTHANASIA MOVEMENT:
30 Years Later, "Right to Privacy" Is Used Once Again to Kill the Innocent
In her insightful article The Troubling Business of Fading Away, writer Cecilia H. Martin of the Catholic Advocate newsletter notes some striking similarities between the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which ushered in abortion-on-demand, and the Florida 2003 The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066529927431664882003-10-18T22:18:00.000-04:002003-11-05T14:45:02.356-05:00HOLY COMMUNION DENIED TO DYING CATHOLIC:
The Latest Outrage Against Terri Schindler-Schiavo
According to the latest news update on the Schindler family's web site, Terri's so-called "husband" Michael Schiavo has refused to allow his dying Catholic wife to fully receive the last rites from her priest:
...Monsignor Thaddeus Malanowski, who has been Terri’s spiritual provider for over 3 years, wasThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066418105026160102003-10-17T15:15:00.000-04:002003-11-05T14:43:56.606-05:00ON THE FLORIDA COURT'S EUTHANASIA ORDER:
A Catholic Bishop Speaks Out Loud and Clear....
...unlike the Catholic Bishop of St. Petersburg, Florida:
"If you establish and apply the principle that you can kill 'unproductive' fellow human beings then woe betide us all when we become old and frail!
"If one is allowed to kill the unproductive people then woe betide the invalids who have used up, The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066407954979830722003-10-17T12:25:00.000-04:002003-10-19T19:43:16.586-04:00MORE ON MICHAEL SCHIAVO’S LOONEY LAWYER:
New Age Pro-Death Activist George Felos Thinks He’s Psychic…
…among other things, according to this message board discussion among several pro-Terri advocates.
For example:
[Post 1]: On pages 181-182 of his book (Litigation As Spiritual Practice), Felos claims that merely by visualizing a plane crash during a flight he was taking back to Florida, he The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066402878881825952003-10-16T22:52:00.000-04:002003-10-17T11:19:07.150-04:00HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, POPE JOHN PAUL II:
After Twenty-Five Years, He's Still Going and Refuses to Give Up...
...despite suffering from advanced Parkinson's Disease and other serious ailments.
Truly amazing.
Columnist Maggie Gallagher has a wonderful piece reflecting on John Paul's remarkable 25 years in the Chair of Peter. Also, the Vatican's own web site has special links celebrating Pope John The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066335721029811372003-10-16T16:22:00.000-04:002003-10-23T11:11:35.556-04:00"WHEN IS THE BITCH GONNA DIE?":
Michael Schiavo on His Wife Terri's Condition in 1995-96...
...according to an article quoting the sworn testimony of Carla Sauer Iyer, "a registered nurse who was employed at Palm Garden of Largo Convalescent Center in Largo, Fla., from April 1995 to July 1996, while Terri Schiavo was a patient there."
In addition to this heartfelt expression of love and loyaltyThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066309162821483392003-10-16T08:59:00.000-04:002003-10-16T11:10:42.253-04:00MICHAEL SCHIAVO'S NEO-NAZI* NEW AGE LAWYER:
Is Terri Schindler-Schiavo a Test Case for Culture of Death Activist George Felos?
It seems that George Felos, the Florida lawyer spearheading the drive to kill Terri via judicial fiat, is a nationally known "right-to-die" activist and New Age pagan intent upon establishing legalized euthanasia in his state as well as all over the USA, his repeated The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066273521961539972003-10-15T23:05:00.000-04:002003-10-15T23:05:44.186-04:00TERRI IS NOT IN A COMA:
The Video Evidence Can Be Seen HERE
These video clips show Terri Schindler-Schiavo responding directly to various kinds of stimuli, including the following via the above link:
--"During an examination, Terri shows CLEAR annoyance with being tickled with a cotton swab."
--"Terri is seen lying quietly until her mother is in view. Terri's eyebrows pop up, she smiles The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066243962537676232003-10-15T14:52:00.000-04:002003-10-15T23:19:33.496-04:00THE TERRI SCHINDLER-SCHIAVO SMOKING GUN VIDEOS:
Secretly-Made Videotapes Disprove "Persistent Vegetative State" Claim
Yesterday the parents of allegedly comatose Florida patient Terri Schindler-Schiavo, who is scheduled for a court-ordered slow execution by starvation and dehydration today at 2PM, released to the news media videotapes which clearly show Terri fully awake and breathing on her ownThe Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1066242077342906952003-10-15T14:21:00.000-04:002003-10-15T14:35:22.200-04:00THE NEW NEO-STALINISTS:
Or, How to Promote Tolerance for Yourself by Persecuting Others
It seems that the gay and lesbian community of a certain city in La-La-Land (aka California) is up in arms because one Jeff Culbreath, a devout Catholic fellow who owns a small printing business, refused to accept a job printing business cards promoting a gay and lesbian organization. Culbreath told his The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1065626316235646632003-10-08T11:18:00.000-04:002003-10-08T11:18:36.226-04:00OUR COMMENTS FEATURE IS KAPUT...
...at Least Until We Can find a Better Program
Because of the complaints we've received about how difficult it's been using our Enetation comments program, we've removed it and are looking into an alternative plug-in.
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Thanks for your patience.The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1065544287308215412003-10-07T12:31:00.000-04:002003-10-08T14:05:56.586-04:00THE KAY REPORT REDUX:
What the Mainstream Media Won't Publish
If one reads accounts in the Washington Post or New York Times about what was revealed this past week to Congress by David Kay, the leading U.S. weapons inspector sent to Iraq in search of evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, one gets the impression that Mr. Kay came away empty-handed.
But according the an editorial in The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1065200363941555692003-10-03T12:59:00.000-04:002003-10-08T14:04:48.273-04:00A KENNEDY FAMILY TRADITION:
Ahh-nuld Follows In His Brother-in-Law's Footsteps
We have only two words to say to all the Democrats indignantly caterwauling about Arnold Schwarzenegger's womanizing (which, of course, is totally inexcusable):
"Teddy Kennedy"The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880333.post-1065040178051462472003-10-01T16:29:00.000-04:002003-10-04T13:42:39.746-04:00MAYBE SHE JUST LOOKED OLD FOR HER AGE:
Bush Critic's 40-Year-Old CIA Wife Was Undercover for 30 Years...
...at least according to former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, who claimed to have "trained" with Valerie Plame, the wife of former Clinton-era-Ambassador-turned-Bush-critic Joseph Wilson.
Hmmmm. We had no idea the CIA recruited 10-year-olds. The Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537564120103625179noreply@blogger.com0