Today's email included a PSA from MoveOn calling McCain just Bush, Bush full of beans about Iraq, McCain just keeping Iraq going...you know, there's an awful, awful lot of spew out there about "MUST.....LEAVE.....IRAQ! MUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTT!!".

 

Like Rudy Giuliani, Nancy Pelosi, and Ted Kennedy going to Communion with the Pope the other week even though said pols hardly are "up to Catholic liturgical snuff", Iraq yap is great distraction from reality; pols can say: "Liturgy means nothing, it's just codes and canons and such geared to keep you and me from God as if dogma exists to compel us to obey Priests and Cardinals and Popes"; pols can add "...except of course, if those Priests and such use that religion against OTHER folks not using it to support historically unproductive and counter-productive liberation theologies, unlike ME, so of course then using the religion to cast out or drive away others is holy"; and pols can conclude "so if you DO go to a Church which doesn't support ME you are a terrorist or fundamentalist or whatever sounds horrible, and of course government faith-funding, or buying homes and goods for clergy and pastoral staff and letting them say they invested well before retiring (where they live and might not necessarily be KNOWN as religious), is beyond imagination as coercing MY opinion or paying off for those who'll agree in shrinking faiths or at least shrinking members by any cause(s)"; and so forth...could account why some archdiocese refuse mention of EWTN or pictures of just Benedict XVI, for example...he doesn't support say/do anything to anyone just to further the assorted conditions one says they "seek liberation from".

 

Where religious goofballs and MoveOn meet, in terms of Iraq, is that the ideology of leaving Iraq NOW!!!!!!! is that we will then admit Hamas, Qaeda, and Latin dictators have a case against the USA, the USA will continue (even if on Town by Town, State by State basis) to have jurisdictions via eminent domain "nationalize" State and private assets/resources and treat all people as "human capital", together to be arranged by needs of politicians here and by dictators, liberation clergy, and those now called Islamic terrorists; of course, as currently this or that Federal money upon receipt is directed to the effort, and being compliant with foreign leaders who say then there'll be "no trouble" from them, hey...who needs border patrols, THAT many cops, ANY military, or Iraq? No big whoop, bubala...just get us outta Iraq pronto to pay for the next wave, and keep fingers crossed that nothing goes wrong until the rarefied control group of amorphous elitists has pulled the last possible penny before the bubble bursts.

 

For the record, I don't care if gays are ordained Priests or people have same-sex or other carnal acts on Catholic altars, or take payoffs to divide liturgical content to misinform say "traditional" or "contemporary" or "Spanish-only" Churchgoers, or pray to Satan...that is their soul they gamble with, God doesn't "deliver justice through actus rea of people", and I do not believe you can try to fool or disregard God or say "oops!" when you own time comes; I just know part of not disobeying is not continuing to simply associate with folks who appear to be reasonably moved by other than God in holding Masses, and it's enough for me to try and find another Catholic diocese...I did live a life without attending for 30 years, after all, although faithful as was possible to the catechism and words of John Paul II and Benedict XVI...but why would some say I should be "of interest" for going to Church/not going simple?

 

What I DO respectfully submit is that MoveOn is but another such distraction, often substituting say Petraeus for the Pope and Wes Clark for liberation clergy; most importantly, all polemics on Iraq miss the point the intent of so doing is to appease Islamic terror liberationist theologies not even popular with most MUSLIMS, so that in appeasing Latin and other liberationists their dictators have no impetus to depart or change, the USA winds up with their "castoffs", and all this has to be paid for by cannabilizing all public funds including defense and military...on precept the social health comes before the individual, sold to foreigners by liberationists that many in the USA "disobey God" by "violating" Romans 13:1-2...even where a Federal and State Constitution are the "ruler appointed by God", then.

 

Library News Sidebar: Warren-Newport library in Gurnee Illinois was closed yesterday for staff inservice; upshot appears to be they just installed a new recording system for your library card account: used to be it just showed what was checked out, but now will be editably able to produce a permanent record of EVERYTHING you ever check out.