My wife is of Ulster-Scot descent, including on one side a slight Dutch-Cherokee mix, and is a Stephens College business grad inter alia whose heroes remain Queen Elizabeth II and Jean Kirkpatrick; she spent much of yesterday telling me it's not my style to be politically or lawfully inert just because in past some have tried to kill, maim, or use Courts against me on account of truth or views, that I would not be happy with myself ever again if I shut up especially (SHE told ME) "in Illinois where NOBODY ever does anything to ANYBODY, you just imagine it or work in cahoots with strangers", and that I would not be the man she married and is happy with were I to not at least stay with Conservatives through this year's elections...in that spirit, and while we still plan to go elsewhere by this Fall, I will stay involved through the election.
 
I see at my email today Obama is going to have three thousand "we worship YOU for change" gatherings this Saturday; he claimed to have as many last Summer, but outside Chicago most seemed to have no more than the neighborhood organizer attend; maybe huge crowds all at once across America will be flashed by all media, together with "change" specifics.
 
Two other things seem more interesting as Obama reaches out with nebulous "change" palavers...Mayor Daley, after at least ten years, has finally noticed Chicago porches fall apart on first use, most folks today with crummy porches are new immigrants, and is going to nail those "right-wingers" who built and own them; and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) is going to start suing Countrywide inter alia mostly for immigrants and slightly for nationals re giving them homeloans and expecting them to pay without having work ( which Obama will tell you itself is due to all this xenophobic and nationalistic racism because too MANY jobs exist; q.v., must go green for global warming, as long as it doesn't involve work or land to produce own fuels or alternatives against U.N. LOST wishes).
 
You know, in re consumer credit protection here, one institutionalized thing with Chicago and Illinois Democrats is the practice of doing away with centuries-old doctrines hich make employers and those serve by contractors liable for acts and omissions of their agents; e.g., I have a Court order which requires Mid America to give good references on any inquiry ever-after, but Mid America filed for sheriff door knock-down after first seeing we had all possessions and ourselves moved into Oregon; you catch them on that or anyting else re CRAs, all they have to do is say "they didn't intend their agents, lawyers, or contracted services to do that", ditto can anyone say including your employers, and just like ab initio, Courts and Madigans feel it would be unfair to then have a proper party sign a reference or relevant verification and present it to you through them as part of any record. Correlatively, although a shopbook entry in usual course, unsigned CRA printouts are deemed "hearsay" if a CRA tells the State or a Court "not MINE!"...and anyone saying it is or that's what they got? Oh, more evidence of a vast, right-wing conspiracy trying to gain political advantage, ignore them.
 
As to Illinois Democrats and Attorney General consumer credit protection over actual matter, like Daley on the sub-State level with his porches or anything else, Madigan excels at winning suits, which always have deadlines for victims to contact her for settlement shares, but too often, wouldn't you know, so many people just never get in touch with her office in a timely or well-documented fashion; comes to mind the victory Madigan won a few years ago re Household: like the one my wife got, tons of folks around late 2000 et seq got bulk-mailed live checks in amounts of thousands of dollars, which enticed them to cash it and use money for anything at all, or tear up and throw out if they didn't want it; yep, wouldn't you know, my wife and I then living in Nashville TN, no matter what proofs of content and mailings and relevant contact attempts we had, doggone it!! We were just to stupid, lazy, or both to get a "timely" claim in, just like all the other sluggards obviously working with Bush and McCain in a vast right-wing conspiracy to make good folks look bad.
 
So anybody gets a settlement entitlement via Madigan, maybe videotape what you do to timely comply and put it on Youtube or whatever as backup; wouldn't want to have your USPS proofs called part of a vast conspiracy, would you?
 
As to porches and Obama as the Lord Of Job Creation: Um, 287g also works here such that you round up as many immigrants as you set up in homes, in election years "round up and get out of town" all those "illegals" a vast conspiracy let in, put up cinder block and facade quickie little warehouses and store fronts which then remain eternally "for sale" as proof of attracting commerce and jobs, move all the "287 g roundups" to a town or State a little farther away from town than most folks go, build so many exurbanite New Urban communities with crummy porches and all, the mind reels how commerce (or structural perfection) can possibly compete with new super-fast build ups of such communities. Ususally, in "off" years, new immigrants go to the old town as nationals lose homes, process of packing 287 g's elsewhere repeats, easy election, easy big paychecks for officials...nobody gets work, equity becomes more political will than money or dignity.
 
Something to think about as Democrats eye HR 1955 to quash nationals AND immigrants to make mainstream lives for those demanding jihad against the USA or anyone else ala Atta and 9/11, instead of constraining them abroad as Bush does.
 

Our response to terrorism cannot be confined to a set of security measures. We must also examine our capacity to respond to attacks and focus on the prevention of terrorism and terrorist recruitment. Prevention must include fighting root causes of terrorism such as social exclusion, poverty, inequality and discrimination and political resentment.

The Madrid agenda is right to stress that "While poverty is not a direct cause of terrorism, economic and social policy can help mitigate exclusion and the impact of rapid socioeconomic change, which give rise to grievances that are often exploited by terrorists".

Fighting the root causes of terrorism must be based on promotion of universal values. This means upholding the civil liberties of all, promoting social inclusion, fighting discrimination and pursuing the better integration of minorities and migrants.

A European approach to social inclusion

We have recently seen growing social unrest in several European countries. In this age of globalisation, debate about welfare reform and a stronger European social model is closely linked to social inclusion.

In recent decades, EU member states have had different approaches to the integration of people living on the edges of society. While this has produced substantial improvement in living conditions and recognition of citizenship rights for some, new generations now face new forms of disillusionment. In most European towns and cities, these new generations experience the contradiction between successful cultural and civic integration and the perception of growing social and economic marginalisation.

Our duty as European social democrats is to set out political solutions to these new challenges. We begin with some reflection on different national experiences and promoting best practice to find new ways of promoting economic and social inclusion and equality.

A European strategy should be founded on two principles:

1. Inclusion begins not only with recognition of fundamental rights and citizenship rights, but when people really exercising these rights.
2. Fighting discrimination and promoting equal opportunities – in particular in education, training and employment – should be a cornerstone of all policies.

Promoting and developing the integration of minorities and migrants

The London attacks led to new political initiatives and a wide-ranging public debate about how to strengthen community cohesion and speed up integration.

Although all individuals have the same fundamental rights, causes of exclusion often build up. Victims of ethnic discrimination often have poor access to housing and education. This in turn threatens their job chances, bringing a real risk of exclusion from mainstream society. This lack of opportunity can help terrorist recruitment.

The EU must therefore make full use of its wide-ranging powers against discrimination. We insist on full respect for Article 13 of the Treaty and full implementation of European law in all member states.

Finally, the EU must actively promote civil and political rights, for failure to integrate and empower migrants can also help terrorist recruitment. The EU must set minimum standards for integration, such as civil and political rights, including the right to vote. " (End of EU PSE citation)

 

PSE is sort of the "muscle" for the EU, works most usually with U.N. types like Doudou Diene; the USA is always automatically assumed to be a population from which NO national or non-extremist, non-Socialist thereto immigrant may travel into PSE's world. Read for yourselves on PSE at their own site: http://www.socialistgroup.eu/gpes/media/documents/47230_47230_terrorism_fin_070710_en.pdf .

 

Obama has a lot of pols and activists rooting for him, but only like he's going to include all these folks, straight or gay, citizens or not in the 2008 Presidential election (or at least no-trail votomatics will); the only "change" so far pre-DNC Convention appears to be a shut-up/shut off forever case-closer that the USA WILL arrange as a Socialist oligarchy as the European Union and its friends demand (and would not otherwise have).

 

But, who talks anymore about Obama or for that matter his running mate (oh, that's right...he doesn't need one!)...on that point, McCain fares no better. The reason for this media was kind enough to excuse replays of Obama speeches, Democrat LOST/HR 1955/DREAM/LA offering to pay extremists, and so forth, meaning in such vacuum ANYBODY grinning and saying "change!" might be worth a shake; since USA politicians and officials are content to wait until the DNC and GOP Conventions to state what their ideas of change and progress and security are, your ol' curmudgeon and very interested USA citizen is on vacation until August 22, 2008, the tentative start of the DNC Convention (GOP tentatively starts Labor Day)...besides, even Congress.org has taken to using can't-read anti-robots on ALL letters to leaders til then, and Associated Press is crying that it will sue anyone who uses its video IF its video even if showing acta of officials and candidates.

 

Remember Barack Obama of the 2004 DNC Convention Keynote speech? As shown at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQkJNVsgKM , 5:06 to end, he said no USA citizens should have knocks on doors, all should have votes counted, there is more to do for USA NATIONALS, nobody expects government to solve problems, they don't want welfare waste, and even welfare people want off it.
 
Then at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UDKXKGZ3PY , 2:56 to 3:04, Obama says the only way, however, to fix things is for Democrats to embrace a mentality that (for a period?), that they are their brothers' and sisters' keepers...so at same link at 4:08-4:12, when Obama said Democrats don't want FEDS participating in PATRIOT -like stuff, judging by 2007 Democrat idea HR 1955 viewable at http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1955/show inter alia, Obama just meant only States and Towns should have gerrymandered say-so detention of ANYONE as Mayors and such deem fit and there ought not be a thing any Fed or President or Justice Department or Supreme Court can do about it...heck, Democrats ALREADY use immigration code subsection 287g like a PATRIOT club without trials, why not add citizens as homegrowns if a Mayor or whoever thinks folks would get touchy about re-arranging housing, costs, immigration, whatever, for "public treasury profits", U.N. appeasement(s), or both?
 
Something to think about, because back then Obama said we...all races and walks together...worshipped the same awesome God, yet does that match with today's Obama and his Chicago-based religious enthusiasts? The way some and Obama now talk, it's like while they raise all taxes (and local ones to make up volume lost to new Fed taxes), bring jihadists to Los Angeles or at least pay off foreign Muslims susceptible to extremism ( http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-11-08-muslims_N.htm ), and call non-New Age Christians and ALL unchurched bitter clingers to an old American idealism, PATRIOT should NOT watch foreign parties entering USA and ANYONE here for bona fide AUMF terrorism, sub-Federals just need to seal bat whoever in their totalist stagecraft of local social programming...via HR 1955 and 287g.
 
It really DOES seem, and Conventions surely will clear up, that Democrats adore the totalism and immigration and trade stylings Bush hasn't interrupted, it's just that they think Democrats and States should use such power for themselves on anything that makes their rodomontades fly...sort of re stinky work, don't remove the warts criticized, remove the pesty, uppity, full of overblown self-worth citizen and business critics.
 

Ah, for the good old days, when Howard Dean might grab a microphone, and say anyone playing a race card deserves a one-way ticket back to their hometown.
 
Anyway, we're led to believe by some today that if we so much as ask Barack Obama anything, we are treading upon the salvation of non-white, specifically brown, peoples of the earth, who have won against Christianity, the excesses of a pooey currently powerful consumer-driven USA economy, or both...yet that is an illusion not any Democrat nor Obama himself would outright attest to.
 
That's because, really, if Obama or anybody else pulled out of the Mid East and shut down all USA military, said they hated Christ/His divinity/white people, or both, they'd be admitting surrender to the terms of even Darfur's radical, genocide-leading Muslim group Janjaweed ( http://www.hrw.org/video/2005/musa/ )...imagine something like Janjaweed joining forces with Iran, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Chavez, and so on, while a new President says he will fight no more forever...just take in all these folks from everywhere unable to be martialized, let the nice radicals, extremists, and totalists alone, pay any prices for whatever comes or accept ever-diminishing quality of everything, let comparatively puny runts abroad have such power. Gee, who WOULDN'T go for that no matter the race, gender, or preferences of ANYONE suggesting it?
 
And one has to wonder, since the GOP pretty implies clobbering Janajaweed types should an AUMF be so much as suggested by a Democrat Congress re Darfur, if Democrats and Obama intend to "keep troops and America safe" through not inviting new attacks from Janjaweed  specifically, rather than a comparatively successfully managed threat from similar groups of Mid East origins...Iran would be the only actual Islamic government threatening nuke action across racial and religious spectrums, sort of a would-be "ruler of the world", so not much "pan-Islamic" cause to neuter Christ to appease REAL racists Janjaweed.
 
In 1992, Al Gore dubiously accused Bush's father of then ignoring non-Qaedan terrorism and megalomania in Iraq for political gain. As they're well-practiced in the accusation and thus possible maneuver, one hopes Obama and Democrats don't mean to let Janjaweed dangle just so they have "reasons" for say HR 1955, 287g on ANYONE as a non-military, pure law enforcement approach to whatever THEY think is "of interest".
 

I got so teary, watching Carlos Mencia on Comedy Central last night...he had a stage where puppets and people acted out how incredibly third-world Mexico, Latin America, and other places are, places with poor sanitation and no food and no healthcare and bare feet, on and on it went...with Mecia otherwise commenting the economy in the USA will only be "bad" when Mexicans stop wanting to come here; and then I got even tearier, watching some save or feed the children ads in re South Africa and non-Darfur nations.
 
Then remembering a Conservative bucks up and looks at situations, even a crisis, with stoic logic and judicial inquiry, I thought back how that blogger caught a Bush National Guard record that had text not even producible until decades after Bush was out of the service; I paid keener attention to those save/feed ads, and maybe it's just me, but they seem to be loops of the same kids a decade or more ago.
 
I then thought how sure...back in the 1960's when Ted Kennedy was touring Latin America and thence convinced ever-after Latin Americans, dictators or not, manage their economies against their own people in reflex to palsy somehow caused by the USA economy, much of that decades-worth of bloviation based on the Senator's and admirers' opinions on facts they don't really lay out; okay, say back in the '60's we just wanted to help out whoever couldn't make it in Mexico or wherever...back then, we had a huge industrial-military complex helping run a Free World thrive against advances of Eastern Communism, and really we just got the under-educated types like Congress likes to bait for ("unskilled", THEY say) in majority although professionals were welcome too.
 
But the USA of 2008 is about as 180 degrees different in terms of small business opportunity, grant opportunity, artistic opportunity, cultural diversity expressions in architecture and in leisure, and so on...we seem to be this homogeneous New Urban landscape no longer even farming our own food.
 
I then sampled to see if anybody out there disagreed with Mencia about Latin America, Mexico, or Africa; I sampled at http://www.visitmexico.com/wb2/, http://www.think-venezuela.net/, http://www.turismo.gov.ar/eng/menu.htm, http://www.visit-chile.org/splash.php, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=brazil+tourism, http://www1.southafrica.net/cultures/sv-se/satdefault.southafrica.net/, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=zambia+tourism, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nigeria+tourism ...you get the idea. I was in search of this great, vast third world ALL immigrants States, Cities, and Congress Members in amorphous combinations thirst for come from; but all I could find was apparent managed economies doing, on visuals, at least as well as most USA tourist and community emplacements under our own New Urbanism...what if just like here where many nationals highly and lowly educated find themselves in the same boats, many other nations just don't know what to do with their surplus nationalized human capital?
 
The wish for not citizenship but walkabout amnesty is compassionate, but only if there's something ANY immigrant COULD run home to but for third-world problems; amnesty or citizenship, if they're here to stay period, will the non-Western Hemispheres and Mid East fatwa doodlers shower us with power to have quality private healthcare and housing at affordable prices, quality low-cost food, or gasoline and fossil fuels, and no need for a stress of variable public's Big Brother, HR 1955/FISA/PATRIOT layering of government re immigrants AND nationals? A quick scan at the media and every gas station on my route today says "apparently not".
 
Wherefore, as some in Congress love to nitpick on need to investigate each other for arcane deals, or tell us symptoms of perceived attrition (e.g., marry your own gender if you have to, abort your kids, teach kids all adults are out to get them, brace for economics sure to result in marital spats and verbal abuse, et al) are of higher importance, massive immigration a mere comma in USA history, I respectfully submit those same MCs have missed even investigating and proving-up what they find to be the quality and issues of life in Latin America or elsewhere, to best focus true needs toward improving managed economies here and abroad to make those "DREAM"s of 1960's and 1970's memory a plausible reality...sort of, ala Eleanor Roosevelt, just selling raw emotionalism untethered to anything real at all, just a worn out 1960's Democrat paradigm for Latin America no matter WHERE immigrants come from.
 
Thus, I eagerly await the quadrennial conventions and Fall debates, to see which candidates will play the closest to truth, closest to delivering on what they tell us what we want to hear, and how best to defeat or drive around speed bumps of terrorism and nationalized human capital economies. After all, if it's that bad elsewhere despite elsewhere looking ala the USA, shouldn't we all at least find out that "bad" is so we can all get better together?

While I understand some in Congress will necessarily be concerned about conserving over-all oil should President Bush add to the strategic reserve, taxing it if domestic and tax breaking it if foreign not only seems flailing for "goodwill" of Chavez and other dictators who NEVER are satisfied with the USA, since dictators et al will cut supplies anyway to constrain USA strategics, but seems to undercut the big commerce and good-paying jobs...the kind of good things Illinois Democrats now promise through "all-at-once" road resurfacings/widenings, promise to not use Neighborhood Stabilzation Act funds for but new immigrants/subprime/foodstamps/higher attendant costs, and building of strip malls smaller than the failed area businesses; these are important considerations, what with H&R Block now saying the stimulus payments are to be repaid from future refunds and are not "special".

It seems normal status quo market producers can cut back release of oil to the public with eye to job-making industry use as part of the strategic reserve effort, and really...unless and until one has income and purpose, what is the pressing need to drive or tool about anyway...I'm hardly "well-off", and enjoy health benefits (mental and physical) of walking, yet I walked from the day I was born through EVERY level of my income.

For these reasons, the here within following balance of text is verbatim as received from Americans For Tax Reform; having read and agreed with same, I endorse it, said text being, to-wit (addressed to U.S. Senators): 

As the economy shows some signs of entering a recession, it is disconcerting to hear Congress continue to talk about raising taxes, especially on domestic energy production.

Congress should be considering proposals that increase our nation's energy security and lower Americans' overall tax burden, not discouraging investment, hindering domestic production and killing jobs. 

It is essential to oppose all legislation that directly interferes with free-market enterprise and the basic fundamentals of a market-driven economy

I urge you to reject any tax increase on energy and instead work to promote a sound and diversified energy policy for the United States that does not punish our existing sources. I ask that you vote AGAINST any tax hike provisions that come to the floor.

Whether standalone, or part of a larger package, our economy cannot afford tax hikes on energy production.

Just ahead of the Pope's USA visit last month, PFAW was chief in a Democrat-themed attack on those who attend Churches or have Christian faith simple ("bitter", "clingers", "racists", ad infinitum); at that same time, some democrat-themed religious (e.g., Obama and Wright saying God should commit the USA to eternal perdition for a slew of anti-USa economic and strategic "reasons"); now, Catholic attack groups like America Need Fatima (a/k/a American Tradition Family Property, or TFP) are arranging "anonymous" and in-person shock tactics against theaters running "Jerry Springer: The Opera In Concert" as it offers news to the public of a widely enacted change in the faith deposit and Bishopric (including confraternally) interpretations of catechism and Scripture favoring Christ as Ghandi, the Eucharist as not real presence, God subject to human re-interpretations of what He deposits as eternal words, Christ favoring abortion, euthanasia, birth control, and homosexuality...TFP rags on those who only report if in a graphic and stylized, yet obviously effective, manner...of course, either GOP sell-outs or Democrat "socialists/communists" must be behind this "attack on the Supreme Pontiff's ideals".
 
Just as gerrymadering say USA anti-terror and interstate crime efforts, via letting each State or Town come up with HR 1955-like "criteria", is what we had before 911, it seems gerrymandering Bishopric "veracity and confraternity between branches on the same vine of Christianity" has had similarly counter-productive results and blames anyone but the source, unfairly burdening politicians of every stripe.
 
In 1992, then Cardinal Ratzinger wrote up the present Catechism of the Catholic Church, and John Paul The Great formally adopted it in 1994; can I be the only one who notices said Catechism in its John Paul II preface specifically ordains said Vatican catechism shall NOT supercede nor re-write any local Bishopric catechisms then or after in force, the Vatican only wishing to guide them? You couldn't do better, especially where most other Christian faiths essentially "ditto", to say there is no defineable and set reason(s) for believing anything at all is God's faith deposit(s) or that Christ, the Apostles, and Scriptures create a universal Church or faith...i.e., the former "eternal" nature of the Word has been cancelled.
 
At that time, the sole idea was to keep numbers up and $$$$ in the boxes, baskets, and bank accounts of drifting memberships, moving towards atheism, New Age religions, agnosticism, and such...any Bishop or Cardinal also archbishop could re-write for his diocese population, to attract whatever seemed otherwise popular to folks but not necessarily tethered to Christ. This was back in the early 1990's, and thus has no tether itself to national security, appeasing OR provoking Ladenists or Hamas or MyMood Alibabajihad, or liberating folks from this or that Latin or other dictator(s). Necessarily, as pols offered government "can't fail" faith funding to Churches which could sustain their numbers, most pols HAD to play to Bishopric dogma taught in their locales to happy parishoners...and thus voters.
 
However, over-reliance on the Hispanic vote, largely due to Catholic and ranking Protestant clergy long therein intermeddling, has led to a "liberation theology" appeasement which...as 2007 mortgage fiasco and high national costs/debts and diminutions to strategic defenses/resources show...is hardly bringing much "social justice" or "human personal dignity" to folks abroad or faith-portered into the West. And Ladenists and others lick their chops as the USA in particular fades. Things like "oh, another tsunami or tornado in another foreign dictatorship or land; let's raise relief cash; oh, the dictator kept it, bring 'em here" aren't serving as they used to, as such "goodwill devices" show even more wind or flood damages to USA residents, immigrants included, and the motif there is always "bad Americans! Greedy, too!", causing many foreigners to doubt social justice can be had if we all just listen to say that Bishop in Chavezland or Chicago's Bishops.
 
Because I perceive HR 5818, the Neighborhood Stabilzation Act, would in effect only again and more greatly exacerbate the very lacking social justice self-interested and adrift clergy allege, I respectfully again submit HR 5818 should be vetoed with such veto sustained.
 

Now, I'd rather have any "economic stimulus" (or as Pelosi's 'House Call' e-PSA said last weekend, "economic recovery") check sent to Iraq via the Bush military plan; we don't need to cannibalize funds just to let dangerous types consolidate power there against free people and Muslims, and to strangle strategics while doing as they please in expansion of their plots; neither do we need "stimulus" of in my case $600 if for every dollar we get we'd be enabling dynamics prices rise $10-$20 or more on oil and food and all.
 
Separately, Family Research Council today sent me its own e-PSA, which in part told me of Christian clergy still detained by the Communist Chinese government. Just because I'm involved in asking my own RC clergy if right for me to believe as someone tells me I'd "better", and I wouldn't do/not do that or ANYTHING for egalitarianism on someone else's part, nor would I endorse such being done to anyone on earth at all (come on, real tough guys don't kidnap like yammering babies in need of diaper changes, no matter where on earth), and most assuredly as I do not believe in going belly up against say Qaeda or domestic uber-criminals, I do not believe there is any matter whatsoever compelling the Chinese to "need" to hold ANY non-credibly-criminal clergy...what statement there to be made, on what need of the actual People of China in-house or outside? Surely, that somebody "might get me" for being Roman Catholic,  a Benedict XVI supporter, Republican, male, USA national, Conservative, ad infinitum is of no concern to me, and kidnapping or torturing or killing innocent Christians just to scare me in the USA...pals, that's exactly what Qaeda tries and tries, and like the Satan they serve, can never ever figure out they are never going anywhere with their malarkeys.
 
I hope Giulianis or Pelosis aren't just messing with Christ's divinity or authority to write catechisms and such, or re-writing/inventing Scripture, JUST to appease Laden, other thugs, that sort of thing...taking "cast-offs" from Latin dictators doesn't improve much for "God-hating" leaders there either, and wrecks havoc on our economy including for ever-mounting immigrants Cardinal George e.g. says "must be helped" (only his way doesn't work after too many years, so maybe lib theology's a clinker).  
 
To reiterate, I respectfully submit my endorsement of any and all funds for Iraq and the war on terror generally as President Bush may ask; I also respectfully request that the United States State Department inquire as to when the Chinese will either publicly try or release any and all Christian clergy they are detaining.
 

I sometimes accompany my wife to her Waukegan IL Lutheran Church, at her request, even though I'm RC. Earlier this year we were abraded by "Nametag Nazis", a cadre of members with ties to State retirement, licensures, and work in secular life; these folks have gotten themselves on steering committees, which ala area RC Churches have annually for years scheduled adult religious/conversion classes for Spring, then cancelled to Fall, thence to Spring, repeat on and on; they all wear neckchain nametags at Mas and are eclipsed by those w/o same yet regularly at Masses; yesterday in his sermon, the Pastor actually said a man had just died from the congregation, and described him specifically as a man "not a member, but a devout and beloved visitor for years"...like I said, those committee folks form the only official "members" including for "stance of all congregants" ephemera.
 
For a couple months, my wife and I experienced not a peep from these folks who back in Lent didn't hate me so much for being RC as they did for supporting Benedict XVI...I understand doing so undercuts their "synergy" with RC Cardinal George in uniting Illinois religions toward their way of thinking. Well, yesterday these folks...despite many empty pews...came in late, HAD to have our pew, and kept pushing us down the whole way; my wife sat elsewhere, I always believing those who make pretense of any religion are to be avoided went all the way out to a small seat by the outer exit to wait for my wife.
 
As best I can make out, the Nametag Nazis so assaulted us due to that RC Bishop, chastised by JPII in and since 1983 and having liberation theology itself condemned by Benedict, "winning" a seat in Latin American government; it appears Nametag Nazis will use this with the RC Church here to bolster Democrats or anyone wishing to keep flooding the USA and Illinois directly with immigrants simple. Rationale appears, ala Pelosi and her Biblical passage re global warming only she can find, to ask how anyone can be Godly and not obey the immigration pleas of clergy...especially now that "change!" is in Latin air.
 
Well, if Benedict were to embrace liberation theology, yawn...in the material sense, does it appear to work its purposes in countries of origin or the USA? Many Lake County IL businesses keep closing w/o relocation announced, area homes keep getting foreclosed, and all that's coming is more New Urban home/strip mall motifs...looking at last year's mortgage fiasco and immigrant costs debacles, does merely struggling to find ever-changing ways to justify it all make it somehow then successful in real life?
 
Oh, and let's not forget those who push for "Godly liberation" also propose that God hates America for its failure to do so, yet embrace abortion as child healthcare, same-sex non-reproduction as a teachable lifestyle, suggest appeasing ALL (even Hamas, Qaeda) liberation theology, and government ownership of all housing with strict HR 1955 powers to States and Towns with green more important than industry; clergy supporting such voice include a Chicago Cardinal who lives in a mansion with chauffeurs and is on the USCCB Executive Committee (quite a solitary light to shine against a Pope one otherwise says is faith infallible, let alone USA parish funds and charities); such clergy also now rely on "proof" such stuff is popular with Hispanics due to Bishop's election...and forget it's SO deadly for him he's lived there 30 years as an anti-government yapper against the dictator, obviously accomplished nothing, won in a place otherwise said to be dubious due to no-trail dictator voting, and will just exhort Bush not to build fences...some engine of faith or change.
 
Be like Benedict XVI re clergy and Pelosi Biblers and God-haters: all are God's creation, even when they err...pray for them; in the secular sense, even if somebody believed getting to a USA mortgage and handouts would forever save them, does it seem in their or a nation's best interests to humor them, or to undercut apostolic efforts and introduce Socialist methods to then make things fit? Or are we Conservatives right: liberation theology and politics, whether Qaedan or Latin American or otherwise, is just a tool of those seeking totalitarian fiefdoms.