"Please understand this is not what I want"--"I am," 浜崎あゆみ

Moving along...

2007-07-16T00:02:00.000-05:00

Think I'm giving up on Blogger for good, except to comment on other people's Bloggers and such.

Onto St. Blogs: Rurouni Theologan

I hope the original blogger doesn't mind...

2007-06-03T19:05:00.000-05:00

...but I'm going to reproduce here a post today in The New Liturgical Movement's blog. The text is so sparse that I can't really paraphrase at all. XD I did some formatting to match my aesthetic preference, but that was it. The font I used for the credo itself may not be installed on all systems. It wasn't on mine, so I copied Michelle's fonts folder off of her computer. =-P (C:\WINDOWS\Fonts on most Windows PCs. Well, on XP; Bill Gates only knows where it is on Vista! XD)

This was cross-posted on my LJ, and will probably wind up on my Vox account's blog, as well. (I use the same name on Vox as I do LJ and here.)

The Athanasian Creed

Traditionally, on today's Feast of the Holy Trinity, the Athanasian Creed is read. This isn't just a creed; it's a thorough catechesis on the Mystery of the Holy Trinity. The text follows.

Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.

But the Catholic faith is this, that we venerate one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity in oneness; neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance; for there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit; but the divine nature of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is one, their glory is equal, their majesty is coeternal.

Of such a nature as the Father is, so is the Son, so also is the Holy Spirit; the Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, and the Holy Spirit is uncreated; the Father is infinite, the Son is infinite, and the Holy Spirit is infinite; the Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, and the Holy Spirit is eternal; and nevertheless there are not three eternals but one eternal; just as there are not three uncreated beings, nor three infinite beings, but one uncreated, and one infinite; similarly the Father is almighty, the Son is almighty, and the Holy Spirit is almighty; and yet there are not three almightys but one almighty; thus the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; and nevertheless there are not three gods, but there is one God; so the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Spirit is Lord; and yet there are not three lords, but there is one Lord; because just as we are compelled by Christian truth to confess singly each one person as God, and also Lord, so we are forbidden by the Catholic religion to say there are three gods or three Lords.

The Father was not made, nor created, nor begotten by anyone. The Son is from the Father alone, not made nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is from the Father and the Son, not made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.

There is, therefore, one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits; and in this Trinity there is nothing first or later, nothing greater or less, but all three Persons are coeternal and coequal with one another, so that in every respect, as has already been said above, both unity in Trinity, and Trinity in unity must be venerated. Therefore, let him who wishes to be saved, think thus concerning the Trinity.

But it is necessary for eternal salvation that he faithfully believes also the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Accordingly, it is the right faith, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God is God and man. He is God begotten of the substance of the Father before time, and He is man born of the substance of His mother in time: perfect God, perfect man, consisting of a rational soul and a human body, equal to the Father according to His Godhead, less than the Father according to humanity.

Although he is God and man, yet He is not two, but He is one Christ; one however, not by the conversion of the Divinity into a human body, but by the assumption of humanity in the Godhead; one absolutely not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person. For just as the rational soul and body are one man, so God and man are one Christ.

He suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, on the third day arose again from the dead, ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead; at His coming all men have to arise again with their bodies and will render an account of their own deeds: and those who have done good, will go into life everlasting, but those who have done evil, into eternal fire.

This is the Catholic faith; unless every one believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved. Amen.

The comments to the original post, linked above, contain some good links to the original Latin and an older English translation. I like this one, though, (it's also in my missal, but this post saved me having to type it out =-P ) because it's extremely straightforward, plain, easy to understand.

I close the post with the paragraph on this from my missal (the Daily Roman Missal put out by the Midwest Theological Union, with the Imprimatur of the head of my Archdiocese, Cardinal George):

Taking its name from St. Athanasius (+373), even though it is no longer attributed to him, this prayer enumerates the essential doctrines of Christianity, especially the mysteries of the Holy Trinity. St Teresa of Avila [a Carmelite nun and a great mystic of the Church, probably best known for her reform of her order and her writing The Interior Castle,] recounts a meditation on this creed as follows: "Once, when I was reciting the Quicumque vult, I was shown so clearly how it was possible for there to be One God alone and Three Persons, that it caused me both amazement and much comfort. It was of the greatest help in teaching me to know more of the greatness of God and of his marvels." (Life of St. Theresa of Jesus, 39.36)

I apologize for any typos I made in that that spell-check didn't catch; this still isn't bad for me typing without looking at either the keyboard or the screen! XD

Digg - Why Mr. Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever

2007-06-03T18:20:00.000-05:00

Digg - Why Mr. Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever

Do read the article and eulogy linked to at the end. (Well, the internet archive versions of them, anyway.)

I still remember how sad my Senior Honors English class was the day he died. (I found out there because I had that class first hour.) We'd all grown up watching the man, and I think he really was immortal in some of our minds, so that he died seemed almost unreal.

And I must break this reminiscing due to my presence being requested in CAA chat. Geeze.

This post also syndicated to my Facebook Notes.

The Recovering Dissident Catholic: Attire At Holy Mass

2007-05-24T23:08:00.000-05:00

The Recovering Dissident Catholic: Attire At Holy Mass:

I just thought this was worth noting, with the summer months upon us.

I've been Tagged-ededed

2007-01-12T15:56:00.000-06:00

(A is for age): 22 years...dang...

(B is for beer/booze of choice): I hate alcohol with a passion.

(C is for career): https://ace.nd.edu

(D is for favorite drink): Diet Black-Cherry Vanilla Coke!!!!! Also, Very Vanilla soy milk from the Silk brand.

(E is for Essential item I use everyday): Laptop and my 1-volume Breviary.

(F is for Favorite song at the moment): Hrmm...none, but the song that the title of my blog is from is "I am..." by Ayumi Hamasaki.

(G is for favorite game): MMORPGs

(H is for Home town): Chicago-ish...

(I is for instruments I play): French Horn. So shoot me.

(J is for favorite juice): I have apple juice in my room. Besides that, I'm not much of a juice girl; orange juice is like liquid death when you have acid reflux.

(K is for kids): It's on the to-do list....need to work on that whole marriage thing first.

(L is for last kiss): None.

(M is for marriage): See K.

(N is for full name): Janet something or other.

(O is for overnight hospital stays): Unless my birth counts, none.

(P is for phobias): Heights and the dark.

(Q is for quote): BURNINATING THE COUNTRY SIDE!!! BURNINATING THE PEASANTS!!!

(R is for biggest regret): Going to AQ, or at least not transferring after the whole mess with the school of ed.

(S is for sports): Hate 'em.

(T is for time I wake up): As late as I can get away with.

(U is for color underwear): MYOB.

(V is for vegetable I love): Depends on the mood.

(W is for worst habit): Procrastination and narcoleptic-ness.

(X is for X-rays I have had): Teeth, sinus, tail bone, other places.....

(Y is for yummy food I make): Anything I can microwave...

(Z is for zodiac sign):

And I refuse to dignify that last question with an answer.

I'll be cross-posting this on my LJ and tag someone there.

Why the Grand Rapids Dominicans are a heretical lot #4340494

2007-01-10T21:04:00.000-06:00

https://www.dominicancenter.com/Bodywork/Reiki.asp

These are the nuns that Aquinas is affiliated with. This is just so...gah! New Age and then some. -_-

I was talking to a friend at the Veritas retreat, he and I were both cooks, and he was telling me how an ex-girlfriend of his (ex-fiance {sp?}, actually,) left the Catholic Church after attending a "Come and See" event at Marywood. The girl was a student at Aquinas, and after the engagement got broken off, she was discerning the religious life. At Marywood, they were encouraging priestesses and using "Catholic" Tarot Cards, among other things. If my Prayer "class" here at Aquinas was any indication, not a dang thing has changed. -_-

OK, time to do my last round and close the building. I DID get through all those envelopes! Go me! =-P

Guten Nacht!

Beleated cross-post from LJ

2006-12-26T16:41:00.000-06:00

First, my LJ was accepted into the Webright of Warm and Fuzzy Traditionalists! ^_^ Much w00tness!

Second, here's a partial clip from a recent LJ entry, since I know of a few people who read this who might be interested.

So the elder of my 2 younger sisters saw my mantilla during midnight Mass, and her reaction....geeze...she reacted about as I would if I saw her urinating on the Tabernacle. (Sorry to be crass, but that's pretty accurate.) The youngest sister just acted the same way she acts about everything I do, from wearing a scapular to kneeling when the Missal actually says to. Standard 13-year-old attitude of, "Oh my gosh, you are so totally and completely outdated."

Yeah, the mantilla went over about as well with my sisters as it would at the Marywood convent. -_-

Anyway, God bless and take care!

Links

2006-12-22T23:41:00.000-06:00

Ireland Court Rules Against Canadian Gay Marriage
The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis in Science

Put up or shut up, and other ramblings.

2006-12-09T16:38:00.000-06:00

So between the Letter to the Editor in the most recent edition of my campus paper and a question my friend, "Sister" Allie, asked of a finalist for our college president, various LJs of my friends and I are hopping with discussions as to whether or not Aquinas is a Catholic college. Even a friend of mine, a Protestant who has many Catholic friends, sees AQ slipping further and further away from any vestiges of Catholicism.

So a thought just occurred to me. I am not a prophet and I would be scared pee-less if God made me one (unless I got to be one of the cool ones, like Elijah, Elisha, or Ezekiel,) but I was thinking about the rumors flying around about a Universal Indult{sp?} from the Holy Father. I think Christmas or any of the other Holy Days in this season would be prime time for such a document to be made public. Were the Holy Father to go so far as to totally toss out the Novus Ordo, I think that might be enough for AQ to officially break away from the Church. It would be almost impossible to celebrate a Tridentine Rite Mass in our current chapel. (To give an idea of the building, it was originally a stable for horses, and then it was a gymnasium.)

I just wish Bishop Hurley had spine enough to smack the administration here around. The Knights here are planning on appealing to him regarding the school refusing the recognize the Knights of Columbus (while recognizing and funding The Alliance....yeah, the campus is that messed up...) See, the Knights are a horrible organization by AQ standards because they don't admit women or non-Catholics. I'm good friends with the Grand Knight here, though, and one of my friends and I were thinking if we started a Ladies Axillary here (more commonly known as Catholic Daughters of the Americas. An older name is the Daughters of Isabella.) We're hoping that having that group in conjunction with the Knights might appease Senate and co. I was talking with the GK the other night and we were venting on the irony that blatantly anti-Catholic groups can exist on campus but one of the largest Catholic fraternal organizations out there can't. They can't even put the school name in their name, but a student stands for hours at a protest holding a sign that says "Aquinas Students for Choice" and that's OK. This college has been on an overall downward spiral the whole time I've been here, and I think the downward slope has gotten steeper this school year.

Where's my appetite lately? I haven't eaten jack and I'm not hungry at all. No wonder I look like I'm losing weight...(of course, anything positive said about my appearance only applies here; at home, you'd think I'm the Creature from the Black Lagoon for the comments made. Good thing I stopped caring a long time ago about THAT.)

I'm just glad the Theology department here is still orthodox. Still, though, I think they realize they're fighting an uphill battle.

Didn't post this on Live Journal because a) I think I've said my piece there. and b) I have hyper-sensitive friends who go ape if you criticize the Catholicism of Aquinas in the least little way. Overall, I'd say IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A CATHOLIC COLLEGE THAT IS ACTUALLY CATHOLIC, AQUINAS COLLEGE IS NOT FOR YOU!!! (Wish I knew a way to get Google to pick that up in a search on the school...)

Anyway...I should be studying 日本語. It's my first exam of finals week. Blah....and this is the first school year where I have no Theology classes! Sadness!!!

God bless you and Mary keep you! ^_^

Stuffs

2006-12-06T21:01:00.000-06:00

jesusfreak84 took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!

"Feels the situation is hopeless. Strongly resists ..."

Click here to read the rest of the results.

Finnishing with some Advent links:

http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/Advent/index.htm

http://catholicculture.org/lit/overviews/seasons/Advent/

If {religon} = Catholic//then READ

2006-12-05T14:41:00.000-06:00

Wow that was the worst fake-code I've ever written! XD XD XD

http://www.lumengentleman.com/content.asp?id=220

Hahahaha....we can't even get Wege to not serve meat on Fridays of Lent!

Wow....

2006-11-20T22:22:00.000-06:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoeQu6BYs4w in case the embedding code doesn't work.

Priceless!

2006-11-19T16:07:00.000-06:00

http://rocketgirl.vox.com/library/post/an-open-letter-to-the-spider-lurking-somewhere-in-my-dorm-room.html

Woot!

2006-11-19T16:04:00.000-06:00

Essential Classics of Catholic Spirituality

2006-11-14T15:07:00.000-06:00

Essential Classics of Catholic Spirituality

The Curt Jester

2006-11-06T00:02:00.000-06:00

The Curt Jester

The Cafeteria Is Closed

2006-11-06T00:00:00.000-06:00

The Cafeteria Is Closed

The New Liturgical Movement

2006-11-05T23:59:00.000-06:00

The New Liturgical Movement

KATH.NET - Katholischer Nachrichtendienst

2006-11-05T23:55:00.000-06:00

KATH.NET - Katholischer Nachrichtendienst

Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.

2006-11-05T23:53:00.000-06:00

Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.

Words Women Use: - luv_my_em_n_ty’s blog

2006-10-08T23:02:00.000-05:00

Words Women Use: - luv_my_em_n_ty’s blog

Oh noes!

2006-09-26T22:35:00.000-05:00

Straight rip from LJ, but details removed since this blog is publically viewable.

Just got this IM from Dad:

[23:13:18]*him*: got back from beginner band signup tonight. its on tues & thurs nights now.. only signed up 30 kids. things are not looking good for our beloved band program.

I cleaned up his typos. =-P

Why is this horrid? The band used to be the biggest bragging feature my middle school had. We competed in high-level competitions, and if we didn't win we sure didn't give it away. We went to Super-State when I was in 7th grade. We played high school level music and played it with a vengance and then some. Beginning band signups were a HUGE deal that ate up your Saturday because half of the kids in the school district, 4 elementry schools, were there. Maybe half of those dropped by the time high school rolled around, but dangit the interest was there, and band was considered a legitimate activity by all, as worthy of time, resources, etc. as any sport or academic subject. Then the band's director for 35 years retired. The new guy isn't the worst (though probablly the frutiest director I've met...) but he's still no prize, but according to Dad, it's the new middle school principal who's REALLY driving the program into the ground. This is the same lady (the principal) who ran the "gifted" program in my grade school when I was a kid, and I swear I think they put her there because she didn't have the skills to deal with "lesser" students, ie the non-genius ones. I did some things in ORE, but because of my sister (who's 4 grades behind me,) and I working the way we do, (more or less alone, keep to ourselves, and we tended to do things to how we thought we'd get the most out of it, less focused on the grade,) she really excluded us both from ORE activities when we were kids. Basically, she's one of those educators who does things her way, for her sake more than the students. She doesn't care what the band's done for so many students, the skills it gave us, and..just....grrr!!!! Middle school band was probably one of the best experiences of my young life and to see it in that state REALLY upsets me. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Think of one of the most sacred (outside of things actually religious) things from your childhood, and maybe you'll get an idea of what I'm going off about here. ~_~ Maybe for you it was karate, choir, a sport, whatever.

*Deep breath*

Guten Nacht / Oyasumenasai (methinks I spelled that right; my Japanese book prints some hiragana characters a bit odd and also really flipping small.)

Finding Trans-Intolerance

2006-09-20T23:21:00.000-05:00

Finding Trans-Intolerance

Spero News | Lucifer letter to the ACLU

2006-09-06T14:25:00.000-05:00

Spero News | Lucifer letter to the ACLU

Stalker.com much?

2006-09-06T13:13:00.000-05:00

digg - USB flash drive that steals passwords in seconds

2006-09-06T13:05:00.000-05:00

digg - USB flash drive that steals passwords in seconds

Alessandro Ali De Menech

2006-09-05T23:04:00.000-05:00

Alessandro Ali De Menech

This child's mother is literally using this blog as a babybook, and the little tyke is SO ADORABLE!!!! ^_^ KAWAII!!!!!!!!

Link dump

2006-09-02T12:02:00.000-05:00

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=46225

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7511

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7509 Fine by me; I won't miss it.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/12006c.asp

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/aug/06083103.html

That'll do for now....

Yoinked from my LJ

2006-08-30T21:38:00.000-05:00

It seems to me, sometimes, that in both Catholic and Protestant circles, but seemingly espeically so in the former, we've jumped so much on the mercy of God that we've totally lost site of another crucial attribute of the Most High: He is also a just God. We've so emphisized His mercy so as to totally ignore or negate his justice.

Thoughts?

Anime Weekend Atlanta 12 :: View topic - don't let AWA make you sick

2006-07-29T00:10:00.000-05:00

Anime Weekend Atlanta 12 :: View topic - don't let AWA make you sick

Charlotte Church calls the Pope a 'Nazi' - phatmass phorum

2006-07-24T02:25:00.000-05:00

Charlotte Church calls the Pope a 'Nazi' - phatmass phorum

Feminist Says Child Rearing not Worthy of Time and Talents of Intelligent Humans

2006-07-23T22:12:00.000-05:00

Feminist Says Child Rearing not Worthy of Time and Talents of Intelligent Humans

Eleven Division Titles!

2006-07-20T01:55:00.000-05:00

Eleven Division Titles!

Thoughts?

2006-07-19T20:26:00.000-05:00

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Coren_Michael/2006/02/25/pf-1461517.html

2006-06-25T07:35:00.000-05:00

D1大整古-流動廁所

Anything bad is edited out.

Did not know porta-johns in Japan looked like that...

(Please forgive the Chinese subtitles. =-p)

This is STUCK in my head!!!

2006-06-21T15:05:00.000-05:00

If Microsoft Had Invented the iPod

2006-06-13T14:53:00.000-05:00

Putzing with MS Paint...

2006-05-29T17:49:00.000-05:00

International Law Threatens Home Schooling Warns Home School Legal Defense

2006-05-29T16:57:00.000-05:00

International Law Threatens Home Schooling Warns Home School Legal Defense

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50395

The System is Down

2006-05-24T15:39:00.000-05:00

Failure to think of a witty subject line

2006-05-23T02:41:00.001-05:00

Clicking the subject of this link will take you to the site with music that I had in my head at the time.

I feel like trash. I don't want to live, but I don't want to die, because in my current state I'm going to hell in a handbasket. (Not a swear here because I'm referring to the actual place.)

Keyboard is flaking out. Dad said he'd get some compressed air from work. I should know better by age 21 than to rely on that.

Filled out some job applications today. I BEG they don't hire me; I only filled out the applications to shut Dad up. I'm content being broke and not having the stress. Home is stressful enough; last thing I want is to go to work at a stressful job I hate. I applied to places that I'd rather shoot myself than work at, but if I don't apply EVERYWHERE, including places that AREN'T HIRING, Dad will call me a lazy slug and say the only reason I'm unemployed is because I'm JUST NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH! That's his statement on EVERYTHING wrong with me. But if it's him, then there's a million excuses for him. He and Mother are the lone people in the universe allowed to have excuses. Everyone else is just foolish, lazy, and weak.

I hate living here. Just give me an apartment with unlimited food and at least DSL internet. Leave me alone there and I'll be perfectly happy all by myself.

Illegal Alien Mobs Take to Our Streets... Demanding US Citizens´ Rights

2006-03-28T22:56:00.000-06:00

Illegal Alien Mobs Take to Our Streets... Demanding US Citizens´ Rights

Catholic Homeschooling

2006-02-21T18:34:00.000-06:00

Catholic Homeschooling

Biblical Womanhood Blog

2006-02-21T18:21:00.000-06:00

Biblical Womanhood Blog

TWiT: Clean

2006-02-04T07:10:00.000-06:00

TWiT: Clean

I like how Leo LaPorte puts such an emphasis on keeping his podcasts "family friendly" (probably because he has kids of his own, and at least one of them a teenager.) TWiT has almost no cussing as is, but here he still decides to go the extra step to remove the little that there is. I dunno...I just like that. =-)

Walk for Life West Coast

2006-01-27T14:17:00.000-06:00

Walk for Life West Coast

Stop Planned Parenthood Tax Funding -- a project of American Life League

2006-01-27T14:13:00.000-06:00

Stop Planned Parenthood Tax Funding -- a project of American Life League

Onerock Online Forums -> You Know You're Catholic When.....

2006-01-27T01:54:00.000-06:00

Onerock Online Forums -> You Know You're Catholic When.....

Onerock Online Forums -> Americans Dismayed As Pope Remains Catholic

2006-01-27T01:30:00.000-06:00

Onerock Online Forums -> Americans Dismayed As Pope Remains Catholic

myOtaku.com: JesusFreak84

2006-01-27T00:03:00.000-06:00

myOtaku.com: JesusFreak84

Encyclical Letter "Deus Caritas Est"

2006-01-26T21:58:00.000-06:00

Encyclical Letter "Deus Caritas Est"

If you haven't read this yet, DO IT!!!! ^_^

---JesusFreak84 (^_^)v

Americans on Call

2006-01-26T17:08:00.000-06:00

Americans on Call

Sounds like a great idea. Now to watch and see if it works. I hope it does.

Ask A Ninja

2006-01-17T23:39:00.000-06:00

Ask A Ninja

The True Face of the Abortion Movement

2006-01-17T16:43:00.000-06:00

The True Face of the Abortion Movement

I post this because I'm heading to the March for Life this weekend.

2005 Call to Chivalry Winter Camp

2006-01-17T16:41:00.000-06:00

2005 Call to Chivalry Winter Camp

This is a photo essay of the article in the previous post.

2005 Call to Chivalry Winter Camp

2006-01-17T16:39:00.000-06:00

2005 Call to Chivalry Winter Camp

DREADNOUGHT : : dreadnoone : : dreadnothing : : conservative : : gay : : catholic : :

2006-01-17T00:09:00.000-06:00

DREADNOUGHT : : dreadnoone : : dreadnothing : : conservative : : gay : : catholic : :

Find Music You'll Love - Pandora

2006-01-10T02:41:00.000-06:00

Find Music You'll Love - Pandora

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam: It's Official: St Stanislaus is in Schism. Pray for them!

2005-12-22T20:41:00.000-06:00

I found this really interesting to read, even though it doesn't involve my diocese or anything. A parish has been supressed by its Bishop because the parish board refused to acknowledge ecclesial {sp?} authority in its bylaws or in practice.

Read!

catholicpodcasts

2005-12-17T07:47:00.000-06:00

catholicpodcasts

Link Dump from my most recent Live Journal entry

2005-12-14T07:08:00.000-06:00

http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=9677
Crud like this is why I hate paying Resident Hall activity fees and I hate my tuition going to Student Senate without asking my input. While AQ hasn't pulled anything this bad *yet* (that I know of,) the same thing goes on here all the time. My money goes towards things I have no desire to subsidize in any way.

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/9673/MEDIA/family/index.htm

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/122005mf.asp

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/82005a.asp

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/122005g.asp and related: http://www.pluggedinonline.com/movies/movies/a0002427.cfm

http://www.pluggedinonline.com/movies/movies/a0002427.cfm
I have no complaints about Wal-Mart, myself. My neighboor across the street back home has worked there since I was small, and she's grateful to have a job period. Also, 90% of what you see in my dorm room or on my body comes from Wal-Mart, and I couldn't afford any of it otherwise, or to be more precise, my parent's couldn't, and since I'm jobless, they pay for those things. They didn't push anyone out of business when they moved into Orland Hills, as at that time that part of town wasn't even developed yet. It was literally grass-land in that area, according to my parents. There ARE none of these "Mom and Pop" shops people holler Wal-Mart puts out of business. Oh, there's a few on Oak Park Avenue, the "historical" part of my town, but otherwise everything's chains anyway, McDonalds, Burger King, K-Mart, Sam's Club, and some chains that the MI readers here probably wouldn't be familiar with (our own versions of Meijer.) LOTS of car dealerships, too. No one cares when one chain bumps out another, and there are some things, like Subway, McDonalds, and Doge dealers, where there are more than one I can go to in easy distance of my house. Translation: my family partronizes Wal-Mart and will continue to do so, and I'm not forgoing food and clothing myself just so I can tout around that I don't, and that's literally what it would come to if I were to tell Mom and Dad to not buy me anything from a Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart, FYI, also isn't the only place where before the item gets to the store, the place it's made before that doesn't treat its workers well. If that I patronize Wal-Mart voluntarily bugs you, you don't have to be freinds with me and you don't have to read my blog. Both of us have free will. My blog = my soapbox. [/rant]

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=papers&code=05-D_63
Gee, let's think about this..renew the Patriot Act or get a call one day to find out that a plane flew into the buidling my dad works in? HARD CALL!!! Besides, if you're totally innocent and have nothing to hide, then you shouldn't have a problem, anyway.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/corrchron/archives/2005/12/clinton_officia.html

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/books_entertainment/reviews/EmilyYee/178838.html
This is an opinion/book review.

http://gcc.savvior.com/Happy%20Holyday.php

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5622

http://www.afa.net/progressive.asp
The first story in here just makes me SO DARN MAD!!!

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10789
Columbian Roe vs. Wade prevented.

http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/jbell_20051211.html
This is another one of those articles that convinces me I'm NOT crazy. Seriously, even just looking at Mom's friends, (save Joan and her two friends from high school that she still has contact with,) they just let their kids run wild and then can't figure out why their kids are smoking pot, cutting class, etc. ESPECIALLY WHEN THE FREAKIN' PARENT IS A POT-HEAD!!! -_-

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10778
Parodies rock! =-P

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/vernon/051211

http://www.worldmag.com/subscriber/displayarticle.cfm?id=11359
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/72005b.asp
There is some good news, however.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/92005gst.asp
As Dr. Marshall is fond of saying, words do matter. This can explain why.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/82005f.asp

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22246
Hey, it's not just the Catholics against this.

http://www.lifenews.com/bio1213.html
So in other words Aquinas College will want him as a commencement speaker next year? -_-

http://www.lifenews.com/state1308.html
If it weren't New York, I'd expect it to be California. From the article: "According to the New York Metro, the ratio of abortions to births in some parts of the city is one to one."

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/62005b.asp

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Beliefs/story?id=1387602

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1207nocarols.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10395459/

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/051210

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038817.cfm

http://www.worldcongress.org/WCFUpdate/Archive06/wcf_update_650.htm

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/48535a0c-6756-11da-a650-0000779e2340.html
This is actually just a tech article. =-P

http://www.techcentralstation.com/092605E.html
Asthma and Air Pollution. Read it because I have asthma. However, I was asthmatic before I was obese or anything, but given how almost all of my mom's side of the family smokes, the air pollution angle would explain it. I developed my allergies about a year after the asthma. Love how those two egg each other on. =-P

Link Dump from my most recent Live Journal entry

2005-12-14T07:06:00.002-06:00

Link Dump from my most recent Live Journal entry

2005-12-14T07:06:00.000-06:00

Catholic:Under The Hood

2005-11-29T16:38:00.001-06:00

Catholic:Under The Hood

2005-11-29T16:38:00.000-06:00

This is probably the most exaustive list of Catholic podcasts I've seen, as well as being a good podcast in its own right.

Why can't I freaking sleep?

2005-11-08T06:38:00.000-06:00

Let's see...logged off of Second Life (click this entry's title for the link; tell 'em Ayumi Sapeur sent ya' ;-) ) around 4am (I think) and now it's 7am and I haven't slept a wink. Tossed and turned and tried every sleeping position I could, and nothing. Just took a hot bath. Didn't help. I don't understand why this room is so hot all the time, even when I have the A/C running full blast (granted, we're talking a window-unit here,) and my own fan blowing right on me, and the heat is totally off. According to the thermometer on the thinger, it's still over 80F in here. Bah!!! Give me sleep or an absentee ballot! (Oh wait...Illinois isn't voting on anything this year...aw darn. Next election the state does have my sister Michelle will be old enough to vote. She and I will cancel each other out on everything except possibly some local referendums, if any.

Really need to practice BAD for the band concert Sunday, but because I couldn't sleep I've been chewing my bottom lip, and it is now quite raw and partially swollen on one side (though I think that's from possibly accidently biting it in my sleep Sunday night or something, because it was like that when I woke up yesterday.) I want to play the concert Sunday, especially because I really like and really miss band since I can't take it this semester, but I haven't touched the French Horn to practice it since Commencement in May, and I have today through Saturday (and only early in the day on Saturday, because hard practicing the day before a concert is suicide,) to learn all this stuff. *Sigh* Brought it on myself, though. My own darn fault. Wondering, though, if I realize I'm going to lay a major egg on Sunday, would it be better for me to fake sick or something or to just show up and fake-play or whatever? Are they both equally wrong and stupid? I dunno...

And where is God to me right now? I feel like I keep forgetting about Him until I do my night prayers before bed, and even then I'm still distracted. I feel too drained (from what?!) half of the time to do any real-life Christian fellowship, and even on Second Life, the chances for such is rather limited (and forget about anything distinctly Catholic =-\ ) so I wind up in the "least hazardous" of secular places. (I don't mean that as a slam on anyone-I've met alot of very nice people there, Christian and not.) Got a nasty IM in-game tonight from a girl with the same last name and a close first name to my character's, and basically accused me of trying to force my opinion on others. (Mind you, this was in a ranting IM from someone I'd never met before and I recieved it while I was AFK for a bit in the bathroom...) Riiiight...somehow having my own opinion automatically means I'm going to try and force it on others. (Seeing as how it's always the far-left [I mean mostly the loony-bin far-left, to where even Michelle disowns them,] always does the exact same thing and then accuses anyone not of their exact viewpoints of being intolerant.)

I lost my train of thought...my eyes hurt from typing this without my glasses on. I'm getting a new pair when I go home for break. I'm so tired so often and it doesn't make any sense. I think my body's alright, but the "oomph" of life is missing. I want to get to Confession, but the sleeping thing and my own miscillanious {sp?} moronicness is keeping that from happening. I wish I had a car so I could drive down the street (big, busy street) to St. Isadore's--Fr. Don hears Confessions before and after every Mass. Fr. Jim, at St. Thomas', is a great confessor by all means, but he only hears them before the 5PM Mass on Saturdays.

*Sigh...*

I want my mommy. That thought runs through my head alot these days, but I don't know why. I love my mother to pieces, of course, and am greatful for all she has done and continues to do for us in the family, but when she gets into a "mood"...oh Christmas things get heated in the house. Last time it happend, (over fall break,) it was decided it was my fault she was in said mood, and Eileen actually kicked me for it. She's lucky I'm not anywhere near as violent as I pretend to be, and that I have alot better control of my temper than I did when I was her age. Otherwise, she'd have been black-and-blue after the first kick. I couldn't even muster up the physical or emotional streignth to hit her back. She's my little sister and I love her too much, as cheesy as that sounds. Dad might be home from MN for good soon. I might have already said that. I don't remember. I'm not looking forward to returning to a house where he's there full-time. It's always so much more noisy and tense when he's home, because he feels it's his job to yell at everyone about everything that's not done as he thinks it should be. I'm still embarassed for that poor Geek Squad guy at Best Buy that Dad reamed out over the summer. Dad walks off and I get stuck holding the bag and having to apologize up and down to this guy for Dad being an idiot (though not in those words.) And then Dad goes off and says I embarass him in public because I use the napkin in a restraunt as a napkin rather than laying it on my lap to fall on the floor and me to forget about until I spill or whatever. He's the most arrogant hypocrite I know. And of course, I get his temper. And darn near all his genes. (Granted people on his side of the family live forever, it seems--we're all just falling apart by the time we do die. =-P) Mom's side's smoked/drank themselves to death for so long I don't know if I can really gauge a life-expectancy for her gene pool. She and Aunt Gina are the only two non-smokers in her family, but Aunt Gina is one of those people who Lysols her house (and as Mom found out when they went to Las Vegas together, the hotel DOORKNOB,) to the point where she has no immunity to anything. If she and Uncle Ron had ever had kids, I can see those kids having been in and out of school all the time with every single bug under the sun and Aunt Gina having a fit about it. Mom got over caring too much by the time I was in first grade. I think she figured that I'd already brought home chicken pox (from day care,) and she had caught them while pregnant with Michelle (I want to say it was either late in the 2nd trimester or early in the third,) and she and Michelle had made it, so she didn't really feel threatened by anything else I could bring home. As it happened, I almost never got sick after getting sick alot in first grade. I remember in 2nd and 6th grades I had perfect attendance for the entire year.

OK, I think I've bored myself enough with my own ramblings to try sleeping again.

And for anyone who reads this who knows my friend KT, I'm psyched to announce that she and her husband are expecting. ^_^ Whether you know them or me or not, please keep them in your prayers. ^_^

Bis Spater! / Ja ne!

I feel

2005-10-26T19:57:00.000-05:00

Bored stiff....

2005-10-26T17:40:00.000-05:00

2005-10-21T23:49:00.000-05:00

Coolness

2005-10-20T21:57:00.000-05:00

Podcasts are so much fun. =-P I swear, they're a better argument for an iPod than music is. I should update this more often. Doing some Visual Basic homework right now. BORING!!! -_-

Wish there were people around on IM to talk to. =-
Later.

Strong Sad's Lament

2005-08-18T17:51:00.000-05:00

Strong Sad's Lament

PHATMASS - Catholic Defense Directory

2005-08-11T00:01:00.000-05:00

PHATMASS - Catholic Defense Directory

Onerock Online Forums -> Condom Campaign Geared For Wyd

2005-08-10T01:01:00.000-05:00

Onerock Online Forums -> Condom Campaign Geared For Wyd
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I AM GOING TO HURL!!!!

I love how it only goes one way...

2005-08-08T01:50:00.000-05:00

Will transfer this post to Live Journal later, but since I don't have as many readers here, I don't mind letting my mind just fall out on here. Anyway.

So my 21st birthday is this Friday, but I'm going to be in Michigan then with the Veritas campout. My parents' 25th anniversary is this Tuesday, but that's during the week, and have fun getting ahold of a priest then. =-P They wanted to run into and talk to the priest who married them, baptized me, and confirmed my dad. He's at St. Bede's, on the south side of Chicago. Their former pastor is in jail. Poor parish. However, I was really psyched to see the old style of confessionals and a COMMUNION RAIL!!!! ^_^ However, according to my parents, now that Fr. Bill is their pastor, within 5 years all of that will probably be gone and the parish will be thourghly "modernized." And they talked like this was a good thing!!! This poor parish has suffered enough lately, and now this priest is going to take away their sense of their Catholic heretage.

On another peg, Fr. Bill considers Mother Angelica, from EWTN, to be the worst thing that has happened to the Catholic Church. This after giving a whole long lecture on how we should accept everyone's opinions, even if we don't agree with them. And my family thinks I'm a hypocrite. This is also the same priest who told my parents that it was OK to use contraception. Know how that makes me feel, as the oldest child? Like an egg that just happened to get lucky. Ick. No child should grow up feeling like that. This priest also thinks everyone, Catholic and not, should recieve communion, not discerning the Body and Blood of Christ at all. THIS IS NOT A COOKIE AND SODA!!! IT'S THE BODY, BLOOD, SOUL, AND DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD!!! Fr. Bill basically thinks I'm an idiot, but seems to think I'll "grow out of it" or some junk like that. My parents were impressed, though, that I bit my tougne. WANTED to go after his jungular vein. Priests like him do grave harm to the Body of Christ. My family was all like, "He can get anyone to come back to the Church." Hardly. He just tells them they're still in the Church, whether they believe it or not. And I thought St. Julie's taught bad theology.

Since it's almost 2AM CDT, I'm going to end this for now. My only parting comment is that the cantor couldn't sing for a darn. Ah well. And the altar server oufits were ugly. Ah well again. Can we just all go back to the Tridentine Mass or something, where people didn't horse around anywhere NEAR as much. Oye.

Guten Nacht!

An update...

2005-08-04T14:01:00.000-05:00

Soooo bored....I should be cleaning my room, but it's so cramped in there right now because of everything being everywhere. Grrr...I have to work Saturday. I don't want to. At least it's a country concert, so things should be reletivly tame. I can't believe I'll be 21 in a week...freaky. That also means one week to campout! ^_^ Wheee!!! And I get to see my Sara friend! One of our friends was joking a week or so ago that all of us girls who are on anti-depressants should form the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pills." Let's see. I've tried Lexapro, Zoloft, Effexor XR, and am settling on a non-time-release version of Effexor. I'm just glad I found something that worked reletivly quickly. Sara's been on the pill merry-go-round for years now. =-(

Sounds like Michelle's up. Oh dear...

Should...clean...room.......don't...want...to...Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends rotting my brains...will have no brain cells left for school...

I want a cookie. Or a whole box of them--Girl Scout cookies, thin mints or carmel delights....MMMMMMM...

Alright, I really do need to do something constructive today. Time to put CDs on my clock-radio and finnish gutting my room. Some of the stuff I cleaned out yesterday hasn't moved since I moved into the room in the summer between 5th and 6th grade. Packrat/slob extrordinare {sp?}!

Bis Spater / Ja ne!

Dangit all...

2005-08-02T23:37:00.000-05:00

What do I have to do to get rid of these stupid democrat adds? Grrr...

NEWSFLASH TO GOOGLE!!! I AM NOT A DEMOCRAT!!!! GOP4ME!!!!

OK, back to rotting my brains on television...

Eh?

2005-07-25T19:06:00.000-05:00

Where is Google getting these adds from? I'm REPUBLICAN, DANG IT ALL!!!!!!!

Blech

2005-07-25T19:05:00.000-05:00

Blech--my stomach feels like trash. I want to go back to sleep. Going back to school would rock, too, but I'd like to take my bed from home with me. Soooo much comfier. {sp?} I'm a little antsy about classes and all. I'll be fine...I hope. Worried about other stuff, too, but that's for a private entry on my Live Journal.

I get to see the shrink this week. Found my referall, but the paper I wrote the appointment time (I know the date,) and address on got thrown out. Why am I not surprised?

*Yawn* I hope Meg's OK. She seemed OK when I called her today, though tired, but she has been working today. Better at the vet than at Tweeter (though I'm tempted to ask her sometime which job leaves her smelling worse at the end of the day. ^_~)

I want more anime. And some Pocky. Would anyone like to get me some Pocky? There's like NOWHERE to get Pocky around here, except this gross almond stuff at Suncoast in the mall. Um, no. Meg gave me some for Christmas this past year, and it was OK enough, I guess, but I wouldn't repeat the experience. I want strawberry Pocky...or dark chocolate....mmmmm... I read in last month's Shojo Beat that manga anthologies in Japan can be the size of an American phone book. I wish I had one of those. I read fast when I'm pulled in, and manga is no exception.

Watching X-Play. To their credit, the hosts gave plenty of stern warnings that for their first review the children should leave the room. I would obviously rather they don't cover that kind of stuff, but at least they give a heads up before they do. I know a lot of people today don't want to bother going the extra mile, but I'll be happy if they take the extra inch, darn it.

OK, tummy isn't happy with me today.

Bis Spater/ Ja Ne!

Poke the Penguin

2005-07-18T21:31:00.000-05:00

Poke the Penguin

FOXNews.com - The O'Reilly Factor - Talking Points - Memo to a Judge

2005-07-15T02:39:00.000-05:00

FOXNews.com - The O'Reilly Factor - Talking Points - Memo to a Judge

BillOReilly.com: Bill's Current Column

2005-06-20T00:34:00.000-05:00

BillOReilly.com: Bill's Current Column: " Extreme Dean

By: Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
Thursday, Jun 16, 2005
This week a bunch of newspapers in places like Cincinnati and Pittsburgh tried to rally support for the beleaguered Howard Dean, and I am with them... well, somewhat.

The thing you've got to love about Howard Dean is that he is sincere in his hate. No phony is he, Dean despises Republicans and everything for which they stand. If it were up to Dean, those white, Christian layabouts would be shunned, scorned and mocked. Come to think of it, it is up to Dean. As the DNC chief, he is launching personal attacks against Republicans all over the place.

Honestly, where would Howard Dean be without hate? Last year it made him the darling of the far-left internet crowd, which poured millions into his presidential campaign. Dean's loathing of the GOP sent the self-described 'Deaniacs' into ecstasy. The more Dean poured on the vitriol, the more money came rolling in. Dean embraced abhorrence with a vengeance Joseph McCarthy would have admired.

But that was then, and this is now. Some democrats like John Edwards and Senator Joseph Biden have recently criticized Dean's personal attacks, but that's akin to ordering salmon for dinner and then, when it arrives, complaining that you don't like fish. Democrats knew Dean was a character assassin when they elected him chairman of the National Committee. This is like the scene in 'Casablanca' when Claude Rains announces he's 'shocked' there is gambling going on in Rick's place.

The truth is that hate has been very good to Howard Dean. Without his animus, he'd probably be running a bed and breakfast in Bennington. Dean broke away from the bland political crowd by being a mean guy. He relished calling people names and surrounded himself with media smear merchants. Can you imagine a responsible politician saying publicly that he 'hates' Republicans? That's alienating about half tThat's alienating about half the country with one sentence. So much for Dean's insistence that the Democrats are the party of "inclusion."

To be fair, at the height of the Clinton bashing hysteria, there were Republican politicians throwing defamation bombs all over the place. But they were very specific. Clinton was the devil. The GOP did not expand its hatred to include Sally and Joe who voted for the man. They kept their fire concentrated on Bill Clinton and pretty much left the civilians alone.

Fair-minded Americans know trafficking in hate is foolish and destructive. Howard Dean's anger may be amusing, but the unintended consequence is it has made him a joke. Dean can command a forum of true believers now, but America has always dismissed haters over time. And that's what will happen with Dean and anyone else who deals in character assassination.

I know some readers will disagree with that assessment, because the hate industry can be very profitable. But there's a price to pay for blood money. Let's look at two examples, one from each side. Ultra-right wing radio talk show host Michael Savage was recently ignored by most media when he attempted to hawk his new book, a kindly tome that says liberalism is a "mental disorder." Savage couldn't get booked anywhere in the national media. His use of personal attacks has made him radioactive.

Far-left guttersnipe Al Franken, whose defamation skills dwarf those of Savage, still has access to some media (which says something about industry bias), but in the last presidential campaign, John Kerry's handlers kept their candidate far away from Franken. Jimmy Carter took major heat for sitting close to Michael Moore at the Democratic Convention, and Kerry's advisors took note. Extremist associations are not good for any candidate.

Which is why Howard Dean's conduct is so strange. Do you think Hillary Clinton or any other democratic candidate for president in 2008 will want Howard campaigning for them? I can just hear it now: "I hate Republicans and so does Hillary! Hooorah!"

Despite the absurdity of Dean's demeanor and the chorus of fellow Democrats who want him to button it, the Governor remains unrepentant and seemingly untroubled with his tactics. Many in the left-wing press are solidly behind him, and the guy continues to talk the trash talk.

He does this because ol' Howard Dean knows something that many of us do not know: Hate means never having to say you're sorry.
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Cinecrap

2005-06-03T22:03:00.000-05:00

Cinecrap

PostSecret

2005-06-03T21:42:00.000-05:00

PostSecret

I wish Michelle would turn the music down--way too freaking loud!

2005-05-30T20:18:00.000-05:00

Haven't updated this blog in a while. Yeah, yeah, I know-bad Janet. Let's see...what is new and exciting in my life besides absolutly nothing...

Saw some of my friends from high school for the first time since like graduation. Signed up to play intermural co-ed softball again this summer. (16" slow-pitch, if anyone cares. =-P ) Was interesting. I didn't feel like as much of an outsider as last summer when I tried hanging with the old crew. I still don't think I'll ever again be as close to them as I once was--we've all changed too much, I guess.

Still looking for a job, with no success. Some of the TNT college students actually have jobs by campus, so they're staying in that area. Wish that was an option for me; I'd be a lot closer to all my AQ friends. Ah well.

Geeze...how am I so tired when I just woke up like 7 hours ago? Oye...and I'm cold, too.

At the shing-ding tonight, Mrs. Pluchar had us fill out these salmon-colored forms with contact info and any activities we'd like to do as a college group. I put down some stuff the Catholic Studies Club at Aquinas has done that I've really liked, like Eucharistic Adoration, praise and worship, Bible studies, and the like. However, I fear it will be like high school all over again--I don't know if their hearts are any softer now than then, or if they've gotten even harder. =-\ Shows the contrast between TNT and my friends at Aquinas. I really hope my parents let me go back this fall...

Can't stop yawning...might just set InuYasha to tape tonight and hit the sack early. Dad, in his facisim, has decided to put a time limitor on my screen name for AOL. He forgets I know more about these things than he does... 0;-)

Yeah...so I have nothing to write...laters!

Clicky!

2005-05-26T00:10:00.000-05:00

http://www.passthepotato.com/potato.php?potatoid=050524233643-686513

Also check this: http://www.institute-christ-king.org/ !!!!! ^_^

Rock out! Makes me happy to be Roman Catholic! ^_^

An Update

2005-05-24T21:50:00.000-05:00

I should probably update this every so often.

Despirate for funds, I am going to try this Google Ad-Sense thing. You click, I get money. Still need to set it up, though.

Ewww...Michelle's watching some "Top Moments in Horror Film" thing. I think I am going to hurl. ICK ICK ICK ICK!!!

I think I could go shower now...ugh...

My sister is very sick and twisted. >_<