Archives for 2014

https://polyploid.net/blog/?p=plsbzm63p Right after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita hit Houston. Because of the experiences after Katrina, Houston went into temporary insanity. The whole city tried to evacuate even though Houston is not below ground level, even though Houston has withstood many hurricanes, even though there is no history to say that Houston is in any such danger. […]

From the Houston Chronicle: “Houston’s embattled equal rights ordinance took another legal turn this week when it surfaced that city attorneys, in an unusual step, subpoenaed sermons given by local pastors who oppose the law and are tied to the conservative Christian activists who have sued the city. Opponents of the equal rights ordinance are […]

Buy Brand Name Xanax Bars “While they (the pontificating teachers and politicos) continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger.” (1.49) – All Quiet on the Western Front Our veterans fighting PTSD would most certainly agree with the […]

https://sugandhmalhotra.com/2024/08/07/hz8tyfh Today more than one news outlet is asking whether the USA health community is ready for Ebola. What has triggered this, of course, is the second case of Ebola in the Dallas area, the case of the nurse who was caring for the patient. The CDC said that there was a protocol error, and they […]

I like the organization Priests for Life. I has a good, sound, and balanced pro-life approach. Let me start you off with a couple of quotes. The first one is from Scriptures; the second one is from the Church Fathers (courtesy of the website of Priests for Life). “Come now, you rich, weep and howl […]

Back in 2003, the USA invaded Iraq after a campaign of lies and misdirection (at worst) or after a campaign of misinterpretations (at best) to find and neutralize the weapons of mass destruction that were certainly present (WMD). This was justified on the grounds that it was inevitable that some of those weapons would either […]

Declaring that "citizens who wish to gather in the wake of Michael Brown’s tragic death have a constitutional right to do so," a federal judge said Monday that police in Ferguson, Missouri, can’t command peaceful protesters to "keep moving." U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry agreed with lawyers … who argued that forbidding peaceful protesters […]

Below is  a quotation from St. Bernard of Clairvaux on what was, back then, the novel idea of the Immaculate Conception. He was 12th century and considered this a new, and disastrous, idea. Thus, his language is very strong. Nevertheless, this helps to verify two things. One, this was a doctrine that started to become […]

From Fox News today: Taxpayers in an eastern Pennsylvania community are out nearly $400,000 after the school district lost a four-year legal battle over breast cancer awareness bracelets officials deemed offensive. … Brianna, who was 12 at the time, and Kayla Martinez, who was 13, were in middle school when they challenged their school’s ban […]

The video above is of the last night of the Greek Festival in Alabama, right after the night finished. At this point the festival booths have closed, and the band is playing a closing piece or two. The members of the parish and the visitors who are left have joined in a massive dance to […]