tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37215072012-02-01T19:09:12.781-05:00A conservative blog for peace<a title="Pray for peace." href="http://home.comcast.net/~acbfp/newintro.html"><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~acbfp/bwbanner.jpg" align="right" border="0"></a>Some jottings about the news<br><br>
.يا رب يسوع المسيح ابن اللّه الحيّ إرحمني أنا الخاطئThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comBlogger167101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-70138244423969260942012-02-01T19:09:00.000-05:002012-02-01T19:09:12.788-05:00The bishops are wrong and have no one but themselves to blame for Obama’s persecution of CatholicsFrom LRCThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-68780103129785925542012-02-01T16:28:00.000-05:002012-02-01T16:28:23.845-05:00Florida: looks like the robot’s the next presidentResults for Florida Republican Primary (U.S. Presidential Primary)Jan 31, 2012 (100% of precincts reporting)Mitt Romney: 775,014 = 46.4% Newt Gingrich: 533,117 = 31.9% Rick Santorum: 222,799 = 13.3% Ron Paul: 117,104 = 7% Other: 21,613 = 1.3%The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-26785828950162137292012-01-31T07:48:00.008-05:002012-01-31T08:03:42.821-05:00Why Obama’s cracking down on the church: follow the moneyVia Mark in SpokaneWilliam Oddie (whom I heard preach in England once):How come so many Catholics voted for him last time?Rhetorical? The immigrant/workers’-union/ward-boss politics of the old Dems, theologically orthodox, socially conservative, cheerfully corrupt in practice, and in theory well-meaning leftists vs the WASPs keeping them The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-85842781337916204362012-01-31T07:30:00.000-05:002012-01-31T07:30:04.975-05:00Again why Christians and everybody else should vote for Ron PaulLRC yesterday addressed Christians (relayed by Joshua) If Catholics adhere to their traditions... Let God sweat the small stuff.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-35142721937102306292012-01-31T06:39:00.000-05:002012-01-31T06:39:51.859-05:00Takimag’s Kathy Shaidle on culture-wars stuff Inconvenient truths about Sundance. Girl Scout kooky.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-65486450786314411762012-01-31T06:22:00.000-05:002012-01-31T06:27:50.793-05:00From RR Stossel: what SOTU should have said. Church fights HHS order. A real foreign-policy debate.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-34846249012315909182012-01-30T23:18:00.000-05:002012-01-30T23:18:47.808-05:00Cracked facts About an acting career. About fistfights.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-12134469568019426722012-01-30T23:13:00.004-05:002012-01-31T06:43:03.658-05:00From Rod Dreher Catholicism and politics. Dan McCarthy: Readers deserve fair warning: today I am not a very observant Catholic. To hear the media tell it, Catholicism has only two categories, devout and dissident. Actually there are a lot of people who fall into neither set... A little over a generation ago there were enclaves of Catholic thinking within liberalism and conservatism – certainly The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-79758905557288550412012-01-30T06:53:00.000-05:002012-01-30T06:53:38.764-05:00The capital of the US is not Tel Aviv Raimondo: Putting Israel first. The Achilles’ heel of the War Party. LRC: This scandal is not that easy to follow, but it looks like a Big Sister was caught by Big Brother on a federal wiretap which revealed that she was going to use her Congressional influence to help two officials of AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) get their The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-31213430365335026402012-01-30T04:37:00.000-05:002012-01-30T04:37:35.831-05:00From Takimag Crimethink and thinking ability. Wag the turban.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-22844111648870858242012-01-29T21:35:00.001-05:002012-01-30T10:49:13.179-05:00AccentsBoston Brahmin. They sound different from each other. The one on the left is definitely American with a couple of localisms; the one on the right more mid-Atlantic/partly English like George Plimpton and Bill Buckley.Like that Italian TV sketch about 40 years ago: how American English sounds to people who don’t understand it. The British actors get the ‘music’, the characteristic sounds, The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-253085711845326372012-01-29T18:05:00.003-05:002012-01-31T06:27:10.129-05:00PhotosFire and Ice Festival, Mount Holly, NJ.Kilroy was here.Friendly husky.They ‘sing’ (try to talk, halfway between barking and howling) like Mishka on YouTube. They had a sled demo running a lap pulling a practice sled on bicycle-like wheels in the grass and mud.Hooray for La Vita’s Pizzeria.One of those year-round Christmas shops, in a little 200-year-old house.Revolutionary War The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-23208753469639165352012-01-29T17:50:00.000-05:002012-01-29T17:51:20.118-05:00The movies at home: two retro, one oldCanadian graffiti.A good teen-party movie.Good one.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-29160066858239525382012-01-29T16:10:00.001-05:002012-01-29T16:17:29.742-05:00Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany The do-no-harm rule/golden rule again. Today’s epistle, Fr James’ sermon jumping-off point. The music at Sung Mass today reminded me of Martha Eischen’s description of it: I have been the beneficiary of great grace and blessing as I have journeyed in my new “home”. My parish is Our Lady of Lourdes, Philadelphia, PA. We are surrounded with so much of what I grew The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-1135985951187547892012-01-29T08:38:00.001-05:002012-01-29T17:35:01.945-05:00From Steve Sailer High-rise slums (the projects): maybe it wasn’t all Le Corbu’s fault. Why are SAT scores rising on the high end? Women socially dumb down. Gay: Cynthia Nixon, born that way or choice. A tiny minority, maybe about 3%, are born with that problem and deserve understanding. But the acts are still a sin. None of the government’s business. The forgotten. Everette Lee DeGolyer.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-86631480507167732022012-01-28T06:55:00.001-05:002012-01-28T06:55:57.037-05:00Croatia joins the EUFrom antiwar.comThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-84473189420084935472012-01-28T06:40:00.000-05:002012-01-28T06:40:39.027-05:00Reuters: Germany wants Greece to surrender control over its budgetsMore. From Ad Orientem.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-16627830086794243792012-01-27T19:54:00.000-05:002012-01-27T19:54:53.628-05:00The Ron Paul newslettersAndrew Sullivan seems to get it....when Paul has said what he has said in these debates, when he has walked into the lion’s den of a GOP primary and attacked the criminal justice system for racial bias, lacerated the war on drugs, and cut to the core of the delusions behind American global aggression, he deserves to be judged on his recent history as well as his The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-12214731215319560562012-01-27T19:28:00.001-05:002012-01-28T06:29:41.285-05:00Paterno’s clear conscienceWell, when dealing with a Catholic believer, it is one thing to say that he died with no regrets. No one said that. What they said is that the elderly Paterno died with a “clear conscience.”In other words, one can assume that he said a final confession and received last rites. The contents of that confession, any regrets or mistakes that were discussed, are between the The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-49204648878328589062012-01-27T13:15:00.001-05:002012-01-28T06:24:08.392-05:00Moving pictures I like this casino commercial. Of course. Arty and old-style, down to the music. I haven’t been to a movie in about three years but Red Tails looks worth paying to see on the big screen. (Skip the commercial before the trailer.) I’ve read the critics including the predictable stuff at Takimag, and they have a point. It’s not history. Propagandistic as the flag-waving films from The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-19909229498274964022012-01-27T12:44:00.000-05:002012-01-27T12:44:17.860-05:00Five famous late bloomersFrom CrackedThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-2199151032633426032012-01-27T12:34:00.001-05:002012-01-27T12:36:33.571-05:00From the Anti-Gnostic Weaker members of Western society have to rely on predominantly white men with unfashionable attitudes to protect them, or even to help them down some steps. The truth in Jack Nicholson’s ‘You can’t handle the truth!’ witness-stand speech in A Few Good Men, even though it’s part of a setup in the movie. Obviously we do women a great disservice by forcing them into roles for The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-86865244450272501292012-01-27T12:09:00.000-05:002012-01-27T12:09:05.442-05:00On entrepreneurship and file-sharingTakimag on the Kim Dotcom case. Reminds me of the Julian Assange and Bradley Manning cases: not necessarily the nicest guys but that doesn’t matter.Have you noticed a strange undertone of snark on “60 Minutes” every time they feature an entrepreneur? Conversely, they grovel at the feet of pompous bureaucrats.Standard lefty stuff. As Christian Lander wrote back The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-37901744544245211372012-01-27T11:48:00.003-05:002012-01-27T11:48:52.525-05:00The federal government’s three biggest liesAbout banking, war and debt. From LRC.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-61874992191009533182012-01-27T11:34:00.000-05:002012-01-27T11:34:11.603-05:00Ordinariate news It’s not just for recent converts. No ban on age 70+ ordinations.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-89396156978104776522012-01-27T11:28:00.000-05:002012-01-27T11:28:11.186-05:00Who gave us the right to remake the world?Pat Buchanan at @TACThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-51523216433270857652012-01-27T10:24:00.001-05:002012-01-27T10:24:12.736-05:00Homicide drop while gun ownership rises shows anti-gunners wrongFrom RRThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-25312871817484495072012-01-26T10:41:00.000-05:002012-01-26T10:41:13.810-05:00The US government’s war on CatholicismVenuleius:Any Catholic who fails to recognize that the United States Government, and the Obama Administration in particular, is at war with the Church is a fool. Last Friday’s decree from the Department of Health and Human Services that the “religious exemption” from the federal mandate that employers cover contraception — including abortifacients — in their The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-91362183916546924892012-01-26T10:10:00.001-05:002012-01-26T10:10:27.181-05:00Adelson, Gingrich and the selling of AmericaFrom antiwar.comThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-39212441978903355542012-01-26T09:01:00.001-05:002012-01-26T09:01:55.044-05:00How they taught us to hate homeFrom Rod DreherThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-29367979758096705382012-01-26T08:25:00.000-05:002012-01-26T08:25:42.470-05:00Daniel Larison on SOTUSign of a country running scared, or at least its government: a whiff of fascismLike many others, I found the attempt to compare national unity to the discipline of a military unit to be unnerving and strange. Unfortunately, if the military is one of the very few institutions that the public trusts and respects, the idea that everything else should be more like the military The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-48328207883780952372012-01-26T08:10:00.001-05:002012-01-26T08:10:55.364-05:00To the mainstream conservative, the economy is the smoke, not the fireFrom RRThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-73480616580208617662012-01-26T07:44:00.004-05:002012-01-26T07:52:54.524-05:00Daniel Nichols on ethnodox, converts and Greek CatholicsLargely true about ethnic vs convert. Generally I like ethnic better.The convert approach to fasting is off-putting. Spiritual pride, or a hobby/boutique religion for well-off folk who can afford to shop at Whole Foods (Whole Paycheck) or at least, like the old-school ethnics, are good cooks.My impression is in practice the ethnics balance The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-60999785216049301592012-01-26T06:39:00.000-05:002012-01-26T06:39:49.103-05:00Derb reacts to SOTUPretty good but my rule of thumb about immigrants is: Welcome. Play by our do-no-harm rule. Otherwise out you go. From Takimag.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-17944361341379674582012-01-26T06:20:00.003-05:002012-01-26T06:24:45.845-05:00A Binks mega-post A tribute to Byzantium, long the front in the war against Islam. Regular readers know I don’t Muslim-bait/bash (mainstream pols’ scare tactic/Two Minutes’ Hate – it’s not ‘they hate our freedom’ bullsh*t; stay the hell out of it in Palestine etc. and leave them alone) but it’s a false religion. (I think Binks and I are 180 on Israel.) Turkey is really Greece. Leftard bullying, The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-24314985223071234442012-01-26T05:34:00.000-05:002012-01-26T05:34:23.017-05:00Redmond vs. Palo Alto over Yale or jailFrom Steve SailerThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-21526057930004181972012-01-26T05:27:00.001-05:002012-01-26T05:27:44.985-05:00Neither Darwinism nor creationismFrom HilaryThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-49938185597862176012012-01-25T12:49:00.000-05:002012-01-25T12:49:21.793-05:00Ron Paul answers SOTUFrom Lew Rockwell’s Political TheatreThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-41342346334535757972012-01-25T10:33:00.000-05:002012-01-25T10:33:16.296-05:00Just copping a negative or cynical attitude ≠ shortcut to being coolFrom CrackedThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-56302420309500004542012-01-24T22:30:00.000-05:002012-01-24T22:30:12.952-05:00Reaction to snippets of SOTUBullsh*t. He makes it sound like this country is running scared and going down.Cutting the government? Great! Giving the president more power to do it? Not so much.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-30581364936732254372012-01-24T08:02:00.000-05:002012-01-24T08:02:24.692-05:00SubsidiarityRight, the two Catholic candidates don’t get this at all. (And I don’t care that they’re Catholic. I’d never vote for them.) It reminds me of the ‘200% American’ super-patriotism of the immigrants’ kids especially during the early Cold War, around the same time mainstream America nearly fully accepted Catholics. The exceptionalism/national greatness/interventionism both candidates buyThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-19924786678348441612012-01-24T06:09:00.005-05:002012-01-24T06:46:48.540-05:00Another Ron Paul person: Oliver StoneIn “Our History” you ask if there’s “a potential wild card in an internal economic collapse of the empire”? Is America an empire? And if so, do you foresee the fall of the empire?Yes. Yes, both. I don’t think it’s a wild card; I think it’s a given. There’s no way that we can continue this spending spree. In fact, I think in many ways the most interesting The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-8550177086331052002012-01-23T22:59:00.000-05:002012-01-23T22:59:55.239-05:00High Mass at Baltimore’s newest Catholic churchMount CalvaryThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-16512446462571169162012-01-23T21:13:00.000-05:002012-01-23T21:13:35.525-05:00That’s life Padre Tex on decisions and vocation/state of life. There is a romantic notion that Christians must always choose the road less traveled and then romantically mourn the loss of the other. It’s quite silly, of course, but there you are. Sometimes we must indeed take the road less traveled, but not usually. And that’s not life: four flawed life lessons from movies.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-85313963286764955792012-01-23T12:11:00.001-05:002012-01-23T20:32:12.090-05:00Five forms of mind control you’re exposed to dailyFrom CrackedThey forgot corny, effective soft sell such as: ‘Ungh! Hot lady next to wheel! Make me want wheel!’ (Seth MacFarlane, ‘Family Guy’.)A natural explanation for much of church:You emotionally bond with people you sing with: Scientists have discovered that when we perform synchronized activities such as singing songs, reciting chants or The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-71546251607960709652012-01-22T23:41:00.005-05:002012-01-22T23:51:32.744-05:00From Steve Sailer Of course, dentists really can fill cavities, but teachers can’t actually make everybody equally smart so that, as the federal law demands, no child is left behind. Judging from the small bits of modern Cuba I’ve seen in movies over the last decade, there’s an even greater irony here. Castro’s Cuba is something of a time capsule of mid-century America. As I wrote in a review of The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-30312541501931728622012-01-22T17:55:00.002-05:002012-01-22T17:55:50.429-05:00Easy ways to get rich you wish you’d thought ofFrom CrackedThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-3319221341735503082012-01-22T17:33:00.001-05:002012-01-22T17:33:57.747-05:00Thomas L. Knapp thinks it’ll be GingrichThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-27003856883580679382012-01-22T16:26:00.000-05:002012-01-22T16:26:38.405-05:00How to destroy the education racketRoissy:In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled in Griggs v. Duke Power Co., in the first and most famous of the disparate impact theory cases, that the use of broad-based aptitude tests in hiring practices was a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.Racial spoils instead of merit. So that’s when the rot set in.The answer to busting the hyperinflationary The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-61096322579055661972012-01-22T15:45:00.003-05:002012-01-22T15:54:12.352-05:00RIP Joe PaternoI still say they threw him under the busWhen I saw this I thought of what Elena Maria Vidal wrote:I lived in State College for thirteen years and I could write tomes about the crap that goes on in that town, the injustice and corruption. JoePa is not just king in State College; he is god in State College.Sure, it’s screwed up that those people worship football. But he still The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-83673064980444535112012-01-22T14:45:00.001-05:002012-01-22T15:02:05.972-05:00Third Sunday after EpiphanySung Mass ‘Adorate Deum’ at Our Lady of LourdesI don’t think SS. Vincent and Anastasius were commemorated: not done in the 1962 Missal?1957 Maryknoll Missal with Cardinal Spellman’s imprimatur.The gospel: Domine, non sum dignus ut intres sub tectum meum.Fr James quoted Chesterton.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-37642463005204685142012-01-22T06:52:00.013-05:002012-01-22T13:13:00.657-05:00YicchResults for South Carolina Republican Primary (U.S. Presidential Primary)Jan 21, 2012 (100% of precincts reporting)Newt Gingrich: 243,153 = 40.4% Mitt Romney: 167,279 = 27.8% Rick Santorum: 102,055 = 17% Ron Paul: 77,993 = 13% Rick Perry: 2,494 = 0.4% Other: 8,192 = 1.4%Our man won’t get the nomination. The Mormon robot will get it (he’s better-looking and voters are that dumb about that; The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-35717514202207192462012-01-21T21:52:00.000-05:002012-01-21T21:52:12.344-05:00I don’t care Any candidate’s religion. Gingrich’s love life. None of my business. That Romney speaks French. That’s nice. What country Obama’s from. What race he is. What the First Lady is like. Don’t mind if you do but I don’t follow sports. The gays as long as they respect my rights in turn. Online Orthodoxy. The Anglican Communion.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-25753432615133400212012-01-21T17:50:00.000-05:002012-01-21T17:50:52.757-05:00About 1-1½ inches of snow with a crust of ice todayMild winter so farThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-32044995889492268872012-01-21T08:12:00.001-05:002012-01-21T08:16:14.658-05:00Baltimore’s newest Catholic churchAs of tomorrow: Mount Calvary. As you can see, at heart it’s long been with the church, part of the magic of real Anglo-Catholicism, a charming variant of pre-Vatican II; a transfusion by Pope Benedict. Ad multos annos.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-46521898114453447742012-01-21T07:45:00.004-05:002012-01-21T09:21:42.418-05:00From LRC The Titanic effect. The main problem with the Costa Concordia wasn’t just Francesco Schettino (to be fair he’s understandable and all too human but had no business being a ship’s captain) but people acting like they were on the Titanic when the ship had only run aground just offshore. The safest thing to do was stay/hold onto the wreck and wait. Sick-joke idea: a YouTube of the capsized The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-50696556250376874122012-01-20T21:31:00.000-05:002012-01-20T21:31:44.092-05:00The Kerbaugh MansionTudor-style, designed by Trumbauer. The home of Rosemont School of the Holy Child, Mother Cornelia Connelly’s order.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-86870302635823310102012-01-20T16:37:00.000-05:002012-01-20T16:37:11.430-05:00Tom Woods on whom Catholics should vote forSure, Santorum has six kids and knows gay marriage is a leave-taking of reality. Irrelevant.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-38897414911424319312012-01-19T21:52:00.000-05:002012-01-19T21:52:43.697-05:00Hooray for the Italian coast guardMay the few victims rest in peace and God have mercy on SchettinoThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-11930932832865459522012-01-19T20:23:00.002-05:002012-01-19T20:31:13.793-05:00Reasons never to vote for Newt GingrichFrom the Ron Paul campaignI am going to describe a candidate for you right now, and I want you to think about whether or not you would support him.This candidate was for the individual mandate that served as the model for “ObamaCare.” He was originally for the TARP bank bailouts before he was against them. He joined with Nancy Pelosi to promote the The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-63119803974557207052012-01-19T17:52:00.000-05:002012-01-19T17:52:11.539-05:00What Obama hath wroughtHow would you have reacted in 2008 if any Republican ran promising to do the following?(1) Codify indefinite detention into law; (2) draw up a secret kill list of people, including American citizens, to assassinate without due process; (3) proceed with warrantless spying on American citizens; (4) prosecute Bush-era whistleblowers for violating state secrets; (5) reinterpretThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-40990190935291766902012-01-18T22:31:00.000-05:002012-01-18T22:31:16.926-05:00On those Marines peeing on corpsesTakimag doesn’t race-bait for a change and takes the high road for peaceThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-17431626562457682212012-01-18T21:13:00.000-05:002012-01-18T21:13:38.859-05:00From Mark in Spokane Margaret Thatcher on socialism. On the floor of the House of Commons. What’s wrong with Scottish independence. Yikes! Buchanan fired. I’m not really on board with nativism/anti-immigration but still. I like Pat.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-22801421092092448932012-01-18T20:52:00.001-05:002012-01-22T07:03:08.457-05:00Slide show: first anniversary of the English/Welsh ordinariateFor now the British one including Scotland. Mgr Newton does Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St James, Spanish Place, London. Too tired to do a real blog post so here’s some NLMish church porn. Enjoy!Description from Fr Barnes.From Deborah Gyapong at English Catholic.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-55853517241938019142012-01-17T10:49:00.001-05:002012-01-17T11:22:25.715-05:00The temptation to command a social system is present in ChristiansFrom Ordered Liberty (different from Mark in Spokane)The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-57815905244486618212012-01-16T00:00:00.003-05:002012-01-16T00:00:00.415-05:00MLK rundownBy which I don’t intend to run him down (philandering, plagiarism and radical leftism, the last being why principled conservatives opposed him in his day, not racism – you can read all about those elsewhere online). Saying you admire him is de rigueur, especially if you’re a conservative running for office? That said, it’s not necessarily politically correct pusillanimity. Regardless The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-43970884366796616162012-01-15T19:51:00.000-05:002012-01-15T19:52:02.008-05:00Aslan’s storyFrom ham-fisted Jesus metaphor to bewildered kitty. (Not an atheist taunt: the sound Catholic Tolkien thought Narnia was Lewis’ dumb ripoff of his work.) He lives in the basement of the house I live in. His person left him behind after a breakup so the ex had to put up with his nervous breakdown, peeing on things (‘he’s mad’ – of course!). So he seemed to have been banished to the The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-11835955842349304912012-01-15T13:26:00.005-05:002012-01-15T18:00:32.691-05:00Mormons and EpiscopaliansWhat do they have in common besides whiteness? Both arguably are English Calvinism far worsened at the ‘Enlightenment’, one heading into unbelief tolerated in practice under an orthodox shell of creed (it’s still Christian for now) and Catholic order, the other on what looks like a drug trip or at least Joseph Smith’s fertile imagination (it’s not Christian; it’s a new The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-70093407737984870942012-01-15T11:27:00.004-05:002012-01-15T13:40:09.702-05:00Sunday: More good signs of Pope Benedict’s reignWalked to Mass at the town parish church in good old-school fashion (fedora, suit and topcoat as it’s wicked cold: a dusting of powder snow overnight and a clear sky now so no insulation to keep the heat from buildings etc. close to the ground). Father Administrator, a six-foot-something vocations recruiting poster, wears a cassock! He’s a Pope The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-19803446212795884072012-01-12T23:55:00.001-05:002012-01-12T23:55:36.942-05:00Why teleportation won’t happenToday’s Cracked hitThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-11190496611832205262012-01-12T23:26:00.000-05:002012-01-12T23:26:55.664-05:00From Roissy Facebook hamsters. And his reply, not for the squeamish. Sexy quotes and lurid links. Lots here.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-10307045212383255782012-01-11T23:48:00.000-05:002012-01-11T23:48:09.763-05:00From Ius Honorarium Americanism. Election thoughts.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-20832655993674843422012-01-11T21:49:00.000-05:002012-01-11T21:49:14.110-05:00RC-Orthodox dialogue: quotation from an e-mailMy experience of the “Orthodox in union with Rome” and of the Catholics enamored of the East is that they always vague and noncommittal about the real problems in reconciling the Catholic Church with the Orthodox. The hopes they usually express in their conclusions have little basis in the description they’ve offered.But boy, do they get shirty when The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-79381906179439433752012-01-10T23:21:00.000-05:002012-01-10T23:21:40.600-05:00NH: 2ndNot badResults for New Hampshire Republican Primary (U.S. Presidential Primary)Jan 10, 2012 (85% of precincts reporting)Mitt Romney 81,634 = 39.2% Ron Paul 47,777 = 22.9% Jon Huntsman 35,105 = 16.8% Newt Gingrich 19,812 = 9.5% Rick Santorum 19,509 = 9.4%The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-71015462508196816332012-01-10T08:42:00.002-05:002012-01-10T09:03:16.100-05:00Feminism and affirmative action: the road to hell and all thatThe American College just did a little survey of small-business owners and found that most prefer a financial adviser of the same sex.So what’s the experts’ answer? Try to get more women to be financial advisers to please women clients. It’s about financial companies’ making more money by pandering, not trying to give the best The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-74073082414581763642012-01-09T18:25:00.000-05:002012-01-09T18:25:19.793-05:00From Roissy Japan’s glorious stagnation. Seven ways feminism is destroying American women.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-83719761912912465402012-01-09T13:22:00.003-05:002012-01-09T15:46:25.804-05:00Consumer culture’s top five failuresIncluding why vintage clothes are better besides looking good and keeping an era alive. They’re better made.Cheap clothes that fall apart. I’ve got a pair of 60-year-old cap-toe oxford shoes that are near-perfect after decades of hard use. I had a modern pair of the same shoes from the same company that dissolved into a puddle of minced cow product within a The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-78801422300264725252012-01-09T08:53:00.001-05:002012-01-09T11:20:29.236-05:00From LRC Pretty good summary of Romney. Whom I’ll never vote for. Democracy’s least common denominators. Well put: The Iowa laurels eventually went to Mitt Romney, the polished and malleable empty vessel from central casting, and Rick Santorum, the plain vanilla ex-senator who has done everything except mount a cross to attract the evangelical vote. BTW I think the evo vote’s (‘the Christian The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-42407835323545637762012-01-09T08:34:00.001-05:002012-01-09T11:22:53.662-05:00The market: Kodak loses; the consumer winsAlso, from Gary North: Here was a company that was on top in 1994, the year that it spun off Eastman Chemical. Eastman Chemical continues to prosper. Kodak faces bankruptcy. Kodak was a major firm for over a century. It supplied an important product. The company kept improving its product line. It looked invulnerable. In film, it was. Then digital The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-59904987746793369722012-01-08T14:13:00.003-05:002012-01-08T15:22:28.259-05:00Sunday My report on Pope Benedict’s restoration, in the parishes. Sunday High-ish Mass, priest, deacon (probably a seminarian in his last year; nice, nerdy kid) and incense in the town’s parish church, a beautiful turn-of-the-last-century building, a Victorian Romanesque-Gothic mix not wreckovated too much. The old tabernacle at the high altar is still used, which makes a good difference (a The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-22855542537762970432012-01-08T07:44:00.001-05:002012-01-08T07:44:54.560-05:00Ron Paul highlights at yesterday’s New Hampshire debateThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-81299361593946574352012-01-08T03:07:00.001-05:002012-01-08T03:10:32.230-05:00Photos: FleatiquingSpring Garden:A Mummer directs traffic.Turnersville, NJ:From WWII, when the Air Force was the Army.Also:Not retro; old: Arnie’s, Columbus, NJ.Coldest day of the season so far? Bring it on!The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-63354738021490431052012-01-08T01:49:00.003-05:002012-01-08T03:23:37.733-05:00Ordinariate news: Robert Mercer is received into the churchHis storyThe man in the mitre is the British ordinary, Mgr Newton.From Mercer’s many years as an Anglican-turned-longtime Continuing bishop.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-52482345722295735882012-01-08T00:52:00.001-05:002012-01-08T01:37:51.577-05:00The Epiphany proclamation of movable feasts for 2012Know, dearly beloved Brethren, that by the mercy of God, as we have been rejoicing in the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, so also do we announce unto you the joy of the Resurrection of the same our Saviour. Septuagesima Sunday will be on the 5th day of February. Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the fast of most holy Lent will be on the 22thThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-14630435161600624302012-01-07T00:20:00.001-05:002012-01-07T00:20:36.980-05:00Mac Slavo’s predictions for 2012From LRCThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-68030300523603262112012-01-06T19:37:00.001-05:002012-01-06T19:40:02.907-05:00Music: ‘Waves of the Danube’“Waves of the Danube” (Romanian: Valurile Dunării; German: Donauwellen; French: Flots du Danube; Russian: Дунайские Волны) is a waltz composed by Iosif Ivanovici (1845-1902) in 1880, and is one of the most famous Romanian tunes in the world. In the United States, it is frequently referred to as “The Anniversary Song”, a title given by Al Jolson when he and Saul The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-6315814880220903062012-01-06T08:29:00.002-05:002012-01-06T08:39:19.323-05:00Locally The big hyped story: Catholic-school closings to be announced today. Including the big archdiocesan high schools near here. Probably true: due to the depression, a secularized populace with fewer kids (the postwar baby boom and school boom weren’t normal?) and (of course this is shark chum for the anti-Catholic media) losing money from legal bills and settlements in the great clerical The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-59987202070134975532012-01-05T20:49:00.001-05:002012-01-05T20:53:27.980-05:00What’s wrong with novusordismThis Pope has fixed all the serious problems in English but...And Dorothy on what’s magical about patrimony:The Anglicans got their liturgical English in Shakespeare’s day.When as the historian Morison wrote, even the Protestants still shared a general worldview with the Catholic Church (which is why using those words with Tridentine ceremonial, the American Missal, The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-83324037958469910122012-01-05T18:27:00.001-05:002012-01-05T18:27:48.609-05:00Fr John Hardon on Eastern OrthodoxyThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-40736115718343558572012-01-05T17:48:00.000-05:002012-01-05T17:48:40.608-05:00‘Time’s Up’ flagThis is the new flag of the resistance.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-36504253728384405092012-01-05T17:35:00.000-05:002012-01-05T17:35:24.286-05:00Libertarianism not necessarily anti-governmentI’m a minarchist. Put another way I listen to anarchists but am not one. From Kent’s ‘Hooligan Libertarian’ Blog.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-2207818531380219562012-01-05T08:05:00.002-05:002012-01-05T08:26:58.484-05:00From Steve SailerThe American and British class systems, and Cold War fighter planes Pittsburgh and Portland vs Cleveland. I hate to think of SWPLs overrunning good old western Pa. but it probably won’t happen. Like associates with like. The people who on average are book-smart or those who aren’t. Fine. As long as the government doesn’t force it. The SWPLs never admit it, unless they’re putting The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-70229955465703440272012-01-04T17:08:00.001-05:002012-01-04T17:09:54.227-05:00Six myths Catholics tell about libertariansFrom LRCThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-84635719603012379992012-01-04T16:26:00.000-05:002012-01-04T16:26:43.723-05:00We’re No. 3!Results for Iowa Republican Caucus (U.S. Presidential Primary)Jan 03, 2012 (100% of precincts reporting)Mitt Romney: 30,015 = 24.6% Rick Santorum: 30,007 = 24.5% Ron Paul: 26,219 = 21.4% Newt Gingrich: 16,251 = 13.3% Rick Perry: 12,604 = 10.3%The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-80833602583596654622012-01-03T20:48:00.001-05:002012-01-03T20:53:48.835-05:00Iowa caucus entrance polls: Romney, Paul and Santorum in 3-way raceFrom LRC: Steve Forbes was on Liberal Morning Joe on MSNBC and mentioned this about Sleazeball Santorum: He supported the liberal, pro-abortion, big-spending Arlen Specter for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in opposition to a man Forbes called “a genuine conservative.” Santorum’s nephew’s a Ron Paul person.Ad Orientem:Gov. RomneyThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-7151905007346214082012-01-03T15:51:00.001-05:002012-01-03T15:52:20.732-05:00From Takimag Does the United States interfere in the internal affairs of nations to subvert regimes by using NGOs to funnel cash to the opposition to foment uprisings or affect elections? Are we using Cold War methods on countries with which we are not at war – to advance our New World Order? So it would seem. Shoot the tiresome “-gate” suffix in the head and leave it to rot in a culvert, then The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-1503083619372209582012-01-02T21:55:00.000-05:002012-01-02T21:55:35.633-05:00Revisiting ‘Brideshead’From Steve SailerThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-67888354829731328552012-01-02T16:01:00.001-05:002012-01-02T16:04:30.460-05:00From Fr L Arianism today. It’s the Modernists’ and mainliners’ soft apostasy. The romance of religion. The older, bigger meaning of ‘romance’. Lord of the World. A pair of lists about the ordinariates meant to be fun and a tribute to the best of Anglicanism. It’s off. I think that’s because even though Fr L became a Catholic, he wasn’t one of the longtime would-be Catholics when he was C of E. The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-60855252385292412762012-01-02T09:53:00.000-05:002012-01-02T09:53:43.105-05:00Practicing the medicine he preachesThe free-market charity of Dr Ron PaulThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-15147789534707136122012-01-02T02:36:00.002-05:002012-01-02T10:12:25.679-05:00The golden dodo bird in the skyFrom TakimagThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.com