Encyclical Letter "Deus Caritas Est"

Encyclical Letter "Deus Caritas Est"

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

---JesusFreak84 (^_^)v

Americans on Call

Americans on Call

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

Ask A Ninja

Ask A Ninja

The True Face of the Abortion Movement

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

2005 Call to Chivalry Winter Camp

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

2005 Call to Chivalry Winter Camp

2005 Call to Chivalry Winter Camp

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

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

Find Music You'll Love - Pandora

Find Music You'll Love - Pandora

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

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

catholicpodcasts

Link Dump from my most recent Live Journal entry

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

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

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

Catholic:Under The Hood

Catholic:Under The Hood

Catholic:Under The Hood

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?

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

Bored stiff....

Coolness

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.