ust as I was reading about Barack Obama being hailed as "a voice for the voiceless" (except perhaps almost half of all foreclosure cases deemed "irresponsible", or fetuses, or medical practitioners wishing to use conscience) by yet another Roman Catholic university (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=47187 ), the USA Roman Catholic Church receiving a lion's share of public faith and social service money despite less Christians in America and less than 1 out of 4 Christians left being Roman Catholic ( http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/09/us.religion.less.christian/index.html ), all of a sudden this morning CNN informed me that swine flu is from today forward likely to be epidemic throughout the northern hemisphere ( http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/27/swine.flu.qanda/?iref=mpstoryview )...causing probably untold deaths as Summer wears on. Further, CNN separate on-air video showed a family claimed to have swine flu (100 degree+ temps, pains, yadda) who somehow rather comfortably got dressed, made up, and normally talkative for CNN...literally, as if the mask were the only "sign" of sickness.

But according to NPR-recognized medial authority (give a listen at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1551913 ), flus favor and thrive the best, fastest, and easiest during the late Fall and Winter, diminishing in ability to thrive as airborne threats as weather warms, days lengthen. I know I'm not a medical or meteorology professional, but, isn't from now to about September the time for the longest, humid, warmest weather in the entire northern hemisphere?

That's when it occurred to me why it might be many PSYOPS and partisan types are saying we "hate" Barack "who has fixed all with but a wave of His divine hand", as they claim further "He is the rock star of Europe, Africa, yea, truly we say unto you, the Savior proclaimed by the world's masses"...and "Tea Party" people are just racist/self-hating/hack jerks not worth the time of the day Obama created... http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/28/first.lady/index.html?iref=mpstoryview .

Wouldn't it be weird if soon enough, neo-immigrants from whatever area(s) of earth were told the reason in Europe, Mexico, or the USA that for towns so old, only these neo-immigrants seem to make up immediate majority populations is that everybody of every gender/race who was there "succumbed to swine flu...boowaahhahaha!"?  

Well, I'm sure President Obama isn't just going to let almost half of all mortgage and related job loss people really be treated as shunned irresponsibles, and won't really just use "swine flu" as a reason zigzag anecdotal pockets in every Town/State start disappearing, as if to cover placing tons of population at staggered rates into prisons, renditions to foreign prisons, or worse.

Examination of the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), the most prominent global faiths claimed to arise directly from Divine personalities, with belief same support most other metaphysical if less Divinely-issued belief analogues, toward support that all peaceful religions and metaphysics are but ways of reminding us to do the sane, logical, right things for ourselves and others, with boundless creativity as long as harm, abuse, or mind control come to no one...the only religion God builds into us all.

Thus, true proclamation of the Universal Life Church credo: Eternal Progression, A Fuller Life For Everyone, and To Live And Help Live...and to do the right things.

As we reach the end of another academic year, and gear up for the next round of immigrants, the Obama administration reminds us lots of sour-grapes losers are out there, all jealous that they have been seemingly been brushed aside just to make room for graduating teens, college students, and incoming influxes of new immigrants...hey, they had their chances, right?

Indeed, economic downturn alone is cause for Obama's DHS (and like-minded States and Towns which have power to agree or disagree) to opine that is one contests the economy and distributions/draconian dynamics thereof, they are automatically acting in nature of right-wing extremists, as certified by the USA Secretary Of Homeland Security in http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf ;  however, also if one merely thinks money, corporations, or government isn't doing enough or as they promised, per the USA Secretary of Homeland Security they too will sound in extremist terrorism, as certified in http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Leftwing_Extremist_Threat.pdf

and note that re said report, anyone at all protesting of the G20 has already been called "anti-capitalist" by the administration and most USA/European media...and just about everything Bill Maher and Jeanane Garafolo advocate now so sounds in terrorism, per Napolitano.

What there appears to be is Obama's administration urging all levels of USA law enforcement to monitor and disrupt NOT the Ladens and Bashirs they will pay, but those who did all the right things in national interest, often as USA media and both political parties applauded, and who have now found themselves placed outside political or everyday worth; the DHS reports are proof they've got you covered young, old, in between, left, right, center, no opinion, national, immigrant, atheist, religious...no matter how you just "are", you become a threat to all USA government for the slightest objection to any official(s) or questioning thereof simple.

Some will say, "Look, this is just to re-assure kids and immigrants that they took losers' places, and that they'll be okay themselves if they just let things take natural courses while staying shut up". To which I could only observe that since "losers" already don't have new job/business/investment/cash/credit/foreclosure estoppels/social service options, they are already out of the stimulus/tax loops, and often homes or ability to support themselves; the stimulus tremendously raises taxes, and if it doesn't come from younger people and newer immigrants, with view of accommodating first and foremost foreign dictators and Ladenists, who else CAN it come from?

So until the next campaign season, your author wishes all young people and immigrants the best of luck as you embark on your new endeavors. As always, I advocate the "Harry Callahan" use of police power against ACTUAL attempted violence, from everyday bar fights to anarchism, but do not believe even young people or immigrants or peaceable people should be just as liable simply for not understanding or agreeing with some incumbent official's, media's, or even my opinions and performance.

Fidel and his brother are Castros; Castros are 1959-era and mindset Communists; Castro and his brothers have set up an edificial totalist government "they can trust"; the problem doesn't evaporate just because one or two Castros go away, any more than the USA's economic and other woes evaporate just because Obama is in and Bush is out.

Wherefore, it is not a material just cause to say "I wanna send USA dinero to Castro's fingers" in hopes "the peeps" will like America one day off to infinity when Castro is gone; saying that is JUST a "reason" to deepen the no-trail votomatic totalist hold on USA government at every level, via "letting foreign despots sit, then acting like them as nobody else understands how to handle them, and we MUST be draconian unto ourselves to keep all safe from such foreign despots".

It's time to use political parables "Green", "God", and "Racism" to explain why we're just going to keep forever going on as we do, all the while "the next crop" pondering if some theist/atheist, this/that/whatever, feigned partisan public election year bravado will ipso facto "make things right" simply by choosing Democrat or Republican (or some admixture thereof at Federal, State, and local levels).

Has it yet? Basically, this farrago of credit/smackdown has been going on cyclically ever since 1985, when Reagan and Greenspan first introduced us to the notions "global economy" (although Magellan Fund did so since the 1970's but had closed to new investors by then), and "you can have a $250, 000 line of credit on a (then) modern $25, 000 per year professional income". Remember the market and job loss crashes of October 1987? Remember Bush I and the Resolution Trust Company which "saved most savings and loans"? Surely, you young folks and immigrants out there know how many savings and loans, little guy banks, there have been since then. Also, Clinton repaired everything but initiated auto and other jobs to Mexico and elsewhere; surely, there's tons of cash flowing through fingers of well-off Europeans, Latin Americans, USA residents, everybody else...oops, oh, no! Not AGAIN! And with Suze Orman, Lou Dobbs, Dr. Phil, Oprah, and such always there to reassure us WE the people are the ones failing to get it right; they always suggest divorce, abortion, counseling, Prozac/somethingazine, and so on as a cure for our "personal inabilities to grasp greatness". Most Hollywood folks, dependent more on bailouts and talk circuits than consumers at theater gates, ditto that. Even Professor-Doktor and former Veep Al Gore has been banging the "global warming/go green" drums for over a decade, ALWAYS as if it's something to first now get started on...every time a financial crisis and job loss slope begins anew.

Back to parables "Green", "God", "Racism"...it's how they of every office tie together the "populist-pleasing" reasons they just keep on keeping on, each election one just sounding more McSame than the last.

"God" allows for play and parsing of Scriptures out of context, so all one side does is coo "gays are hated by God", "can you imagine if they covered up Muslim symbols like they do Christian ones", and this somehow means that when even a "Huck in the House"...when holding offices...bulldozes homeless camps, thumbs-up Obama on no bailouts of people, or the like, he is doing so in true Calvinist pursuit of ridding earth of God's predestined and damned vessels of wrath...how else, in absence of fraud laws or official concerns about it, COULD someone lose, especially those who life-long knelt TO God? Makes the devout shiver, and who wants to be part of Churches which are only allowed to exist/be on TV if they sell "miracle cloth/water", "heal" people who don't have to identify they HAVE anything, or rave constantly about types of people, NOT relevant budgets and such? Thus, they sell that extreme line of Christianity only they possess, and all Liberals or Democrats have to do is say "there is no God, as the History Channel tells us the world WILL end, there WILL be life after ALL people though, this disproves God (but don't ask where the first vacuum or self-generated matter therein came from), and only raucous, expedient, raw hedonism and human will should dominate the globe...come on, young people! Tattoos, nightclubs, strip dance clubs, gambling, cool electronics forever, abort or euthanize anyone in your way, more for you and us...YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH!".

Next up, "Racism". It's not your father's definition any more. See, Pakistan, carved out of India by the UN about 62 years ago, has its autocrats make Islam the State religion, defined by the leader and no particular imams or theology before them; thus, when you say Laden is a wacko killer, his host Pakistan claims you, or even Hindus in India, are "racist" against Pakistanis for it. Another current example is Cuban filmmaker and Obama supporter Luis Moro; this week, he emailed PSAs saying America is "racist" against Cuba for having embargoed it...and apparently it should not matter what Castro or subsequent leaders do to their own to receive whatever they ask of the world. We all know most Cubans LOVE Castroism, in that they have almost never attempted to escape it (sarcasm afoot, readers). Basically, to avoid charges of "neo-racism" based on conflation of lunatics into entire populations, most USA officials at every level are content to say "it's what he world's doing, we don't wanna be racist/protectionist, let 'em send any surplus to us or Europe, and however whatever handles them once they're here or there...take it from the latest economic losers, hand it out anew, repeat ad infinitum...our talking heads haven't failed us yet".

Lastly, "Green". Again, it's ALWAYS aimed at the latest crop of young adult/college crowds; it's ALWAYS something that's never been started, and the latest economic fiasco is but he "first ever" manifestation of job/cash/home losses due to "starting to turn green".  Plays the same in Europe as in the USA and elsewhere, is a favorite of social Liberals and Democrats to "prove" they care, "unlike the GOP/Conservatives". Some even mockingly muse that "didn't God say something about maintaining His planet, prayerful GOP?". But the obvious flaws don't take long to recall every time the topic resurfaces. Usually because it too mock God's existence, and infers "what the hey...no God, History Channel shows without opportunity for rebuttals Christ and all were hippies, MSNBC says people will die off just past your lifetime; to save energy and resources, let's overbuild everything without end, stuff it with electricity consuming devices, get rid of sidewalks, build tons of stadia to amuse the fretting masses, and decide to do whatever feels good as we let neo-autocrats, regardless of political interests, decide who needs to go via imprisonment, abortion, or euthanasia. That's save energy of government, you see, NOT the kind you proles might think."

To recap, "God", "Green", and "Racism" are just excuses for why most officials insist the current economic messes have been fixed, and only those out of round with religious or secular predestination are GOING to keep losing forever as discovered in times of expedient needs ( e.g., http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2009/04/03/mean-street-the-coming-obama-jobs-disaster/ ).

Remember 2008 Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, and how during the Summer of said year he reached out to or visited European and other populations, insisting not only would he and government improve all USA nationals'/immigrants' lots, but would encourage Europe et al to do the same? Then, for his first G20 as USA President, he decided he should listen, not preach; USA media and many USA officials at all levels refer to all G20 and subsequent protesters...regardless of nation Obama now visits...as "anti-capitalist anarchists"; yes, their websites and history of lobbying Europe inter alia for home protection, restored incomes, and jobs is all "Astroturf", you see...and we'll get respect from foreign LEADERS if we let that stand, even if not a thing COMES from doing so ( ever notice how often the quality ".....AND?????" is missing from talking heads and their explanatory reductions, regardless of issue fronted? ).

In the USA, any protesters of the "complete salvation of all the Western Hemisphere and Europe by Congress and Obama" are called "Astroturf" or "right-wing extremists". Yes, no one but a virtual internet phantasm could object in the USA, because Pelosi says we've been bailed out, are ungrateful, and no one would spot that ramped up evictions/foreclosures (some banks ADDING staff just for it!) as a sign not HAVING an income, assets, a home, or whatever anymore, what do you care how much "virtual" salaries and such would have taxes reduced if you HAD them? Also, why should it further concern the left-out if anyone WITH money will be taxed into the stone age and reduce odds of green or ANY future jobs. Current Pelosi dogma on this issue is found, random choice, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P44q7Jt68DA . Perhaps Napolitano is next urging to watch people of earth who don't see why the USA "must" placate and pay Ladens/Hamas/Pakistan, even if they reserve right to hit us or anyone else for any reason, because we can "arrest/detain/exterminate mere Astroturf protesters of decadent non-totalist origin" so they don't get recruited for Ladens government supports, with the money Calvinistically taken from them to "love one's Laden enemies".
 
Speaking of cherry-picked Scriptures, the New Testament actually meant to be construed as a whole and applicable in decency duties/work even to the "poor", we all know the USA Catholic Church, as is its right, begins and ends with a vision that world governments exist simply to serve Matthew 25:40, forcibly taking all nations' money (except from clergy/rulers) and giving it to poor or financially stressed people of earth through and in constant control of governments...sort of glitzy prisons, no walking around or dreams, please, while we add the Calvinist twist of predestination to say it's God's law we must let any nation's leaders determine who MUST be permanently put out that wrinkles this greening of God's holy planet He told us we were put here to tend and nothing else...ever (the Book of Pelosi, so far, is the only Scripture containing that last "Scripture", and she's used it at least five times as Speaker). Now, is it any wonder why the USA faith-funded and social service-contracted Catholic Church wouldn't want to honor Obama for his use of tongues and laws to achieve mutual ends?
 
Thus, the true synergy of all this doubletalk is to reduce ALL non-USA grousers to mere "anti-capitalists capable of terror anarchy", and reduce all USA inhabitants regardless of origin as "right-wing extremist survivalist McVeys hiding in Astroturf", while officials parade on saying nothing at all false HAS been said about bailouts or mortgage buyout/private re-negotiation successes of Son Of Man change magnitude...because maybe neither Obama nor any level of USA officials have yet taken notice the problems "healed" prior to G20 and right now today have been back with a vengeance. This allows any 'astroturfers' to be labeled as something less palatable as a leader anywhere requires (ah, spirit of 2007's HR 1955 lives on re local terror/crime say-so definition powers), so prisons and such can burst with this or that "malcontent dissidents and common criminals".
 
But maybe even THAT seemingly obvious deduction is part of some government/media "veil of ambiguity", so one more time, they should have opportunity to hear a specific and comment thereon.
 
For these reasons, I respectfully post for USA officials a presently credible USA mainstream media story link outlining foreclosures back with gusto : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123975395670518941.html ; jeepers, I didn't even link to stories today on no downturn to ongoing job losses, Spain's report shoeing 2.2 traditional jobs are lost for every "green" one created/only 10% of "green" jobs permanent, or any of that "ungratefulness".

We need a $75 million war spending bill? Oh, where's that Howard Dean, Wes Clark when they WIN?

Anyway, they say a plant in Connecticut alone could lose thousands of jobs if the F-22 stopped, yep...even IF Murtha's big ol' war spending bill went through, as the new aircraft parts would be made elsewhere...and as Obama will remind us all already in the USA as nationals/immigrants, the USA HAS to share its opportunities with others abroad, even at risk of having defense parts withheld (like Sweden e.g., did with J-DAMS)...ooohhh, no wonder we just Stazi/KGB our own folks instead while paying Pakistan, Hamas...say, LADEN won't be building these, will he?

So that's the point...if ANY military spending is in the classic Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, or John Fitzegerald Kennedy/Harry S. Truman modes of walking softly with big sticks, fine. But if this is another scheme to do nothing while the "enemies" receive USA/UN/G20 aid, often not even making the USA weapons in their lands once budgets pork them up as if Congress pays to play as global government, and just deepens more of the same for normal people globally, absolutely not...no such money for oligarchy by deceit!

And it's worth mentioning, as just three years ago Murtha himself was the cause of 2006 Democrat take-back of Congress, on grounds we needed NO MORE WAR AT ALL; then, from April 19, 2007 to date, Democrats have been more eager than the GOP to call Americans arrogant, irresponsible, and likely THE source of terror threats to USA local, State, and Federal officials.

Then there's that economoic bailout farago, where banks need all money in circulation, then don't change a thing, then say they gave it back, where is it, then Goldman-Sachs et al actually have huge earnings and won't share, from what, while over 2 million jobs IN 2009 ALONE have been lost, Obama says none lost EVER coming back, only the irresponsible not worth hearing or caring about have lost out...sure is foggy out here, and Murtha and Obama could be chock full of you-know-what again.

USA media have periodically this week been running interviews/reports alluding to a general sentiment that America is becoming "less Christian"; there seems to be no 'silver bullet' as to why offered, and indeed most commentators concede that these days, there are even those claiming ATHEISM who say they also believe in God, and generally that an easy majority of USA residents still have a religious faith. How, then, can the USA be described as "becoming ever-less Christian"?

Perhaps it's time to stop sniping religion-to-religion within Christian faith, especially since "nations" are abstractions with bordered jurisdictions led by petty-to-high officials, thus nations are not real persons, and look to Christian Scriptures for obvious salients which might talk about USA officials coinciding less with Christian values.

About the only Christian Scripture many USA officials admire is Matthew 25:40, as if to rely on "even religion" as a reason to relieve residents of a need to be shepherded  by clergy administering faith-funded services, together with secular nomenclatura who have their own money, but prefer everyone else to live on credits as deemed necessary to the comfort of the nomenclatura...it's as if were not a few Churches selected for the job and thus which don't fall to New Urbanism, there wouldn't be a need for religion at all, in the minds of nomenclatura; no, this isn't some confusion with the old Soviet idea of "photo op Churches", it's America today.

Not even fewer public worship houses nor ability to religiously express out-of-home, means less Christian activity; indeed, while there are interesting Constitutional issues involved, as far as Scripture, well...even Christ said we should pray in our inner rooms at home, as a matter of routine. As for Matthew 25:40, if one looks at the Scriptures as a whole to construct their context, again, even Jesus never sought to strong-arm any person or government into diverting all money to some nebulous "poor", let alone strong-arm anyone into a global "poor house". Whoever believes that is either lacking in Scripture knowledge or is a Socialist or Totalist desperate for "justification" where "it's my will, deux et mon droit" doesn't sound good.

There are many Scriptural tracts which plainly state an assumption one is to have an earthly life, using whatever gifts and talents God provides them and in line with Caesar's (or the Constitution's) society, and do those "Kingdom of God" things as best they can from their own reserves and without bankrupting themselves; in fact, re the poor, barring physical impediments it's more "help get to feet" rather than "hobble and BE their feet".

Many Bibles printed in 2000 or prior, let alone original documents, exist for anyone's perusal; in that I am prone to being a windbag, for brevity I will cite a mere three tracts in support:

Ephesians 4:28 - "The thief must no longer steal, but rather labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with one in need".

1 Thessalonians 4:10-11 - "Nevertheless we urge you, brothers, to progress even more, and to aspire to live a tranquil life, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you".

2 Thessalonians 3:7-8 - "For you know how one must imitate us. For we did not act in a disorderly way among you, nor did we eat food received for free from anyone. On the contrary, in toil and drudgery, night and day we worked, so as not to burden any of you".

Wherefore, I submit that THE biggest way assorted USA government types are coinciding less with Christianity, and thus making the USA a "less Christian nation", is via lack of concern over the ever-dwindling prospects for anyone, national or any present or future immigrant, to do their own work and not be dependent on governments, their credit, or CRA's for "permission" to keep on living or participating in a non-equity totalism, or a no rights/local petition Socialism. Everything else one might rationally perceive as "less Christian" obviously is in reaction to or expediencies of the main "no work" motto.

An entry on last evening's FOX ticker indicated Notre Dame is giving Obama an honorary law degree on sole ground it's impressed with his "inspirational" speaking ability...results apparently unnecessary to mere ability to sway popularity to him personally. Doesn't square with honorary degrees ANY academic or religious organization awarded in past to anyone, in that some action(s) relative to such degree's purpose...in this case, interpretation of all law...is exemplary to the ideals of the issuing institution.

In this case, the college is of USA Roman Catholic registry. Such USA branch of faith often operates, especially re social justice issues, in defiance of the Vatican's Catechism of the Catholic Church adopted 1994; under all "don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing" words, the USA Catholic Church operates almost an exclusive Pentecostal enterprise, geared to diverting all funds/resources from USA nationals/immigrants to "the poor" only they can see, for as funds deplete from the people and nation, they themselves are deemed never in need. In areas such as the Cook/Lake County Illinois super archdiocese of Chicago ( http://www.archdiocese-chgo.org/thearchdiocese/departments.shtm ), inter alia, the Catholic Church performs many outsourced services formerly provided by State welfare and immigrant aid agencies; given the Faith Office power to discriminate, the Catholic Church finds immigrants not here by bank/employer permission, those abroad at mercy of foreign land-grabbers, habitual drug addicts/alcoholics,  dispossessed long-term welfare recipients, and repeat offenders the only of "God's creations" worthy of faith-based community help...without regard to race(s). As job losers/mortgage foreclosure types of every stripe turn to the biggest local provider and organs thereof (St. Vincent DePaul, LOVE, Inc., e.g.) for help, they are told things such as "maybe God wants you to be homeless" and at best get a list of any pantries...even if one could get a job verifiably, if they just had daycare or a tank of gas or a domicile to first check. By contrast, literally anything a chronic case asks is given, even if redundant to other aid. The only known ecumenical effort is to get Jews, Lutherans, et al, who offer  their own but much smaller-scale services, to serve chronic cases exclusively...cases who need not have tether to any religion, Church attendance, or good personality.

Thus, basing the only acceptable USA Christian philosophy uniquely upon Matthew 25:40, such players further invite all stripes of Church-goers to also put as much of their own cash as they can into collection baskets and plates, on promise God will see it gets to who it should and leave bereft only those by such poverty due to waste of money are so identified as "vessels of predestined wrath", doomed by God before birth and worthy of shunning...and don't ask why those other or chronic poor/distressed aren't discerned "doomed by God", even though ANY want is a sign of damnation. Also, good USA Christians per Catholics wouldn't question 'God's Calvinism" at work in Europe, Darfur, Laden's mind re Islam/everyone, or elsewhere globally. And in this locale, try finding many Catholics praying a popish Rosary after Sunday masses; try finding ANY Papal pictures (even of John Paul II) on any Church property...I know for years each Church location needs its own EIN even if in a faith, but the Vatican seems of lesser import to local catechisms (mentioned in the 1994 Vatican Catechism of John Paul II) in the area...and Cardinal George is a ranking member of the USCCB, neither of which objects to Notre Dame's honoraria, for the record.       

Pro-abortion? Calvinism says only abortion subjects, parents, or both are vessels of wrath, disposable. Perceived as a raw dealer? Only the swindled were sent a false spirit by God due to non-adherence to Matthew 25:40 in their hearts, or to Calvinistic predestination. Pro-LBGT? Let's sidestep Biblical need to be LBGT AND do/worship evil to be doomed (Big Brother of The Village doesn't like anyone else mentioning good/evil, right/wrong, not seeing questions burden others/answers imprison the self), and say Calvinism reveals better predestinations in the most unexpected of places...unless, ala nationals/immigrants, later dire straits for a LBGT reveal imperfect dedication to God's only will Matthew 25:40, or predestination.

It's only natural that a President committed to listening, not preaching, abroad would be getting an inspirational, preacher-like exhortation applause from an institution sharing his theology.

Some will say: Obama? A Calvinist? Come on, he's not perceived religious!". Ahem...he jumped at a chance to receive recognition from a Catholic college, which is not at all concerned about his exhortation contents. And who toothlessly pep talks away the economy, leaving it to States and cities and nations on fixed incomes...speaking of one hand not having to do with another. Yet such States re-open or build new prisons as "losers" are policed to see if illegal drug immigrants/foreign-born charity or other such cases are "recruiting" the immigrants/nationals from whom money/jobs/houses are stripped to be given to the aforesaid. Who won't stop funding actual Ladens and hosts? Does anyone call many American residents "irresponsible", "arrogant", et al? 

Then there's code for administration staff and nominees: "Pregnancy is involuntary servitude", "the Constitution is quaint and should be replaced by international law". Well, other countries have found sometimes that babies are burdens on workers/States, and some ala Laden find "useless predestined apostates". It's not relieving ALL of rights, just those predestination sorts out, and THAT is how John Adams said the Constitution should work; he said "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people"...in his day, Puritan Calvinism was huge and used to justify belittling native Americans and African slavery against the poorly predestined, "proven" by God letting it happen. To which Thomas Jefferson replied: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever".

In sum, the Constitution adopted 1789 allows Obama or anyone else (even Notre Dame) to favor Calvinism in their personal lives, but precludes any President down to petty officials...from Adams' time to infinity if not properly repealed...from institutionalizing predestination or any religious theme, directly or via faith-funding only peculiar strands of faith(s). Nor by emulating Calvinism(s) under guise of treaties or otherwise, in re nations which practice secular or religious analogues to predestination. Nor by through any way(s) representing the ability to simply perceive or reason right, wrong, and error is restricted to the State or licensees thereof subject to State command.

As someone who was raised Roman Catholic, and who had more relatives in the clergy of same than most talking heads of today, I know that you are supposed to perform miracles during your lifetime on earth...not before or afterward...for them to count towards canonization; the plain fact is, many modern Catholics are so distant from acts and writings of John Paul II, on perception they fear it will mean cutbacks to their laic exercises of power as government faith-fund discriminators, they have to look to what otherwise would be called faith in animism.

A Rosary is a sacramental, and usually blessed by a Priest, but has no more inherent supernatural powers than say a dog blessed in re St. Francis, or a basket blessed for Easter. Until 500 or so years ago, the Rosary was called a "Pater Noster", because that's what one said on each bead; when Blessed Louis De Montforte and St. Dominic averred Mary had asked them to construct it as the modern Rosary, one said an "ave Maria" on each of ten small beads in each of five decades, and an "Our Father" on the big beads separating each decade...insofar as the manifest decades are concerned; each decade represents a faith mystery under a larger mystery label for each Rosary said. The mysteries are: Joyful (subs annunciation, Mary telling Elizabeth about it, birth of Jesus, presentation of Jesus in temple, finding Jesus after three days lost), Sorrowful (agony in the garden, flogging, crown of thorns, carrying cross, Crucifixion), and Glorious (Resurrection, Ascension, Holy Spirit, Mary's assumption, Mary made queen of Heaven); John Paul II added a fourth set: Luminous (Baptism of Jesus, Cana, Kingdom of God, Transfiguration, and Last Supper). One meditates on each such mystery or sub-mystery per each Rosary said, and usually offers the Rosary for the prayerful intercession of Mary to God will come to pass; originally St. Dominic had it that one would receive a 500-day absolution of sins for each Rosary said, but the Church later removed the Rosary as a penance device in its own right on grounds not only would God not respond to malicious or self-centered Rosary petitions, but the very fact one could be malevolent and be absolved for Rosary prayer seemed to be counter-productive. In any event, the physical Rosary or its blessing by clergy do not turn it into a magic wand, and never did.

Enter USA media coverage from FOX to others, such as at http://news.aol.com/article/did-late-pope-cure-ohio-shooting-victim/412121; Popes have given out gazillions of Rosaries, and to say "hey, globally, a dozen or so post mortem J2P2 models were in possession of a dozen or so afflicted, so maybe he IS a miracle worker" is as silly as saying they all wore underwear, or owned a USA/any other flag, shopped at Wal-Mart, and so on; it sidesteps the need for a proven miracle in the presence of a living proposed saint's in their time, and says that somehow John Paul II or anyone other than God works through some Rosary (and Rosaries only!) which emits supernatural powers...um, likely to the purest of souls and most devout to prayer and Church and mankind without exclusions.

But that can't be it; those raised Catholic know Saints only offer prayerful intercession as a prayer partner for those without or amid others, and each is only called upon based on what God used HIS power through them to do DURING THEIR EARTHLY LIFETIMES...with hopes that God will so imbue someone else for a similar plaint.

Thus, to say a "relic" of someone not yet even demonstrated to have done anything miraculous, let alone a "relic" of a canonized Saint, has itself been a post mortem act of a human decedant is to reject God as THE source of every miracle, not totems or people, and ala animism necessarily implies God's Spirit or the decedant's spirit dwells in the artifact...a huge rejection of established even Roman Catholic doctrine and Gospel teachings; perhaps ala South Africa and Ernest Angely Ministry claims inter alia they heal AIDS by "anointed hands chosen by God", http://wakanaka.blogspot.com/2007/03/ernest-angley-sad-shadow-of-miracle-man.html , one should look to see how many are similarly situated in distress and "piety", then factor how often a "miracle" happens to prove a God already proven exists.

It may have to do more with politically connected and faith-fund mongering lay control freaks why fewer than 1 in 4 USA Christians are Catholic...clergy and the Vatican rarely insist you BETTER not just be analogous to Christ's simple messages, and BETTER kiss this club's rings and toys, or you can bank on trouble...from those in the laity, and the government officials they coo with.