Last Post of Cathorick

This blog is officially closed;
It's presence was not very known.
Please detour right here:
You shan't any fear.
My main blog is still pretty *hosed.

(I still blog here.)

(*I'm from PA, USA. "Hosed" is not a bad word here.)

Slav'ry and 'Bortion Still Sordid

Congressman Says Internet-Fueled Sex Trafficking [or Slavery] Too Big for Government Alone

When arguing 'bortion is bad
And th'opponent is being a cad,
"It always will be,
Why can't you just see?"
Now mention that slav'ry's a fad.

Stephen Hawking's God of Gravity

Fr. Barron comments on Stephen Hawking & more tired atheism

"The force that will spill English tea
Says Hawking, "brings all things to be."
But God's just not stuff
Nor is us in the buff,
But through which all matter's four-D.

(four-D = three-D + time)

(This is a rip off of a previous post.)

Sisters of Life in Toronto

Sisters of Life to Open Toronto Visitation Mission for Pregnant Women

They open their convents for hope,
For girls at the end of their rope,
For babies who need
A mother who'd lead
Them both to God's mercy to cope.

Two for One

I received this submission from my wife's Grandfather:

There was an old monk who lived in Siberia,
who found life steadily drawing drearier.
One day he broke form his cell with a helluva yell
and eloped with the Mother Superior!!!!
______________________________

Here's one from me:

Mother Angelica Receives Honorary Law Degree from Ave Maria Law

Who says that the girls have no say
'Bout issues our Church has today?
Just look at the nun*
Who seems just darn fun.
Her 'postulate's faithful, will pray.

*Mother Angelica is technically a mother (sister superior; non-cloistered), not a nun (cloistered).

May We Open the Religious Life to Our Children

If priesthood would be their vocation,
If cloisters would be their location
For doing God's Will
May they take their fill
Of His Love for them by acclamation.

(acclamation n. = An expression of enthusiastic approval)

On Silencing the Message

(1) Premiere of Abortion Industry Exposé Delayed by Pro-Abort Activists
(2) Calgary U Finds Pro-Life Students Guilty over Display
(3) Silence Debate at College

Abortion's for most a non-issue.
It's industry won't show the issues.
But if others do
Show photos, reviews,
Pro-'borts end up squashing the news.

Limerick Contest I

Finish the Limerick (no crude body references, please):

There once was a man named Barack,

(again, no crude body references, please)

Mama Kagan

(1) Elena Kagan chosen by Obama for Supreme Court
(2) Updated: Obama to Pick Pro-Abort Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

Mama Cass

Obama cited what he called Kagan's "openness to a broad array of viewpoints" and her "fair mindedness." [In other words, she will ignore the U.S. Constitution and history where necessary to suit her ideology, just like [Pres.] Obama.]

Elena Kagan

Despite what the news says she's brought,
I think that we've all got a shot:
Ev'n though she's so young
She might be among
Those whose weight will cut short what she's got.

BTW, Mama Cass didn't die from choking on a bone. She officially died from natural causes exasperated by her weight.

Pill in the News is Less-Appreciated

(1) America's favorite birth control method turns 50
(2) Andrew Breitbart: 'The Left is, in Essence, the Media'
(3) More Abortions Coming from Poor, Minority Women: Guttmacher

The FDA's response to the hazards of the pill led to greater access to safety information for patients, another less-appreciated part of the pill's legacy.

Today's pill, with much lower doses of hormones, is much safer than the pill of 50 years ago. And it may even be good for you.
...

And it didn't eliminate all unwanted pregnancies either. Nearly half of all pregnancies to U.S. women are unintended and nearly half of those end in abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which has gathered data on abortions for years.
...
As suffragists worked for the vote, renowned birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger distributed pamphlets with contraceptive advice and dreamed of a magic pill to prevent pregnancy.

Her grandson, Alex Sanger, 62, now chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council, remembers playing catch as a boy with his famous grandmother and eating her firehouse-spicy food.

"My grandmother had the idea for the pill back in 1912 when she was working on the lower East Side of New York," Alex Sanger said. "She saw women resorting to back alley, illegal abortions. One too many of these women died in her arms and she said 'Enough.'
-Carla K. Johnson, AP Medical Writer

The Pill: don't you know that it would
Push Sanger right up to sainthood.
'Cept preborns are killed
When prescriptions are filled.
Now hormones are lower: That's good?

Revenge in Vaccine Form

(1) Polish Parents Group Launches Campaign For Ethical-Origin Vaccines
(2) Study Confirms Autism Boom - Correlates with Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines
(3) www.cogforlife.org (Click on "Vaccine Sources" on the left)

In many vaccines they are fused:
Aborted kids' cells - they are used.
More Autism strikes,
The rate it sure spikes:
It's revenge on the world by th'abused.

Imagine Sen. Mikulski with DHS

(1) Mikulski files for Senate re-election campaign
(2) Did DHS pressure teen to get abortion?

Background:
US Senior Sen. Mikulski (1) was a social worker in Maryland, (2) co-sponsored FOCA, (3) claims to be Roman Catholic, (4) ran against Alan Keyes for U.S. Senate (MD) just like [Pres] Obama did in Illinois, and (5) spends money like there is no tomorrow (almost literally). Everyone loves her since she spends tax money on them (except those who don't think she should spend tax payer money like water).


Mikulski for Senate forever:
Her spending is quite an endeavor.
Her populist stance
Puts all in a trance
T'ward debt that seems light as a feather.

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If DHS had her on staff,
Would teenagers also get gaffed,
Cajoled with threats?
I'd place some bets
Mikulski would force the distaff.
(BTW, I'd hope to be wrong.)

distaff = Woman as a group
gaff = Slang. Harsh treatment : abuse
(Webster's II Dictionary, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin Co. 2005)

Freedom of Worship Part II

This post is a continuation from here.

The Justices ruled in the District:
Mojave's cross won't have to get licked.
If the ruling did not
Have the outcome we got
Would Arlington have to evict?

(Help us all, O Lord!)

Defend Us In Battle

Defend us in Battle, O Lord!
Your Wisdom's more valued than gold!
With Your Church as our guide
With Your Spirit inside,
Your vict'ry o'er death makes us bold!

Welcome Joe (Defend Us In Battle)!

Cathorick Comments 4-29-2010

Here are some comments I left elsewhere on the web:
(the location of the each comment is linked on the first line)

(1)
It's not just by Parks and by Stowe
That Blacks were more free from Jim Crow.
John Woolman did fight
To bring t'ward the light
The evils that slav'ry bestows.

(2)
This Cathorick blog is a pleasure
To read in all types of the weather.
It takes just a minute
To come and begin it.
So click on the link for some treasure.

(3)
It’s not only Dillon that’s writing
Some news in this form so delighting:
I’ve done it for weeks.
Will anymore geeks
Come over to browse? I’m inviting.

Freedom of Worship

(1) Supreme Court Shakily Upholds Mojave Cross Display 5-4
(2) U.S. Court: National Day of Prayer is Unconstitutional
(3) Why “Freedom of Worship” Is Not Enough

I wonder what George would now pen.
His head would hang low, but still then
He'd be praying for days
When we've sailed better waves
In this ship Nature's God made for men.

The Condom and Pill Make More People Ill

(1) Boston University, at the instigation of its president, John Silber, has assumed management responsibilities for the Chelsea School District. One thing the School District decided to do was to distribute condoms to high school students in order to save lives threatened by AIDS. Edwin J. Delattre, dean of BU's School of Education, gave a speech urging that the decision be reversed. In the course of his remarks he cited the following report from the Richmond Times-Dispatch: “Dr. Theresa Crenshaw, a member of the national AIDS Commission and past president of American Association of Sex Education Counselors and Therapists told a Washington conference of having addressed an international meeting of 800 sexologists: ‘Most of them,' she said, ‘recommended condoms to their clients and students. I asked them if they had available the partner of their dreams, and knew that person carried the virus, would they have sex, depending on a condom for protection? No one raised their hand. After a long delay, one timid hand surfaced from the back of the room. I told them that it was irresponsible to give advice to others that they would not follow themselves. The point is, putting a mere balloon between a healthy body and a deadly disease is not safe.'“ Delattre comments: “I want all of our students in Chelsea to know what is at stake here—and, above all, what lies in their power alone, not ours, to accomplish decisively in the way of saving lives. I want them to know that betting your life—or letting someone else bet your life—on a condom is a gamble that only one in eight hundred experts on sexual behavior is willing to risk, and that if our own students behave otherwise, they make a mockery of their stated commitment, expressed over and over again in this room, to saving lives. And I want all the students who have taken it upon themselves to distribute condoms in Chelsea High School to know that this is the gamble they have invited their classmates to take—and this, in a community where health officials themselves express fear over current levels of AIDS in the population.”
(For a copy of the complete address, write Dean Delattre, School of Education, Boston University, 605 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.)

(2) A medical trial published in the journal AIDS in 2009—monitoring HIV progression by the need for antiretroviral drugs (ART)—saw “the risk of becoming eligible for ART was almost 70% higher in women taking the pills and more than 50% higher in women using DMPA [Depo-Provera] than in women using IUDS.

The Condom and Pill Make More People Ill

The fact that more sex is now giv'n
Won't stop all the bugs that are driv'n
By all that are sure
There will be a cure;
More doctors should voice their misgiv'ns.

Misgivings 'bout condoms and pills
Give some in the world lots of chills
(1) Since th'alternative's full
Of a life without pull.
How else would they get all their thrills?

(2) Since they think there's enough
Of us people, our stuff.
What else cuts down breeding 'cept* kills?

*'cept = except

Black Republican Not Oxymoron

Black Minister Forms PAC to Break Dems Party's
'Death Grip' on Black Community

Michael Steele Tells Blacks: You Don’t Have a Reason to Vote Republican

Old DNC was for enslaving
Republicans were for the paving
T'ward freeing of slaves:
Old Lincoln (R) made waves
Then the owners went ranting and raving.

Afro. Am's think the Democrats give
Their community more chances to live:
But the Donkeys say cheers
To abortion and queers.
Their offspring get screwed and outlived.

(DNC = Democratic National Convention)

Marriage is neither a conservative nor a liberal issue; it is a universal human institution, guaranteeing children fathers, and pointing men and women toward a special kind of socially as well as personally fruitful sexual relationship. Gay marriage is the final step down a long road America has already traveled toward deinstitutionalizing, denuding and privatizing marriage. It would set in legal stone some of the most destructive ideas of the sexual revolution: There are no differences between men and women that matter, marriage has nothing to do with procreation, children do not really need mothers and fathers, the diverse family forms adults choose are all equally good for children. What happens in my heart is that I know the difference. Don't confuse my people, who have been the victims of deliberate family destruction, by giving them another definition of marriage.

Walter Fauntroy-Former DC Delegate to Congress Founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus Coordinator for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march on DC

and

...36 percent of babies aborted are black, while blacks make up 17 percent of live births[.]...

DFLA Long Shot

From DFLA email:

Day 1 - Inform and Reflect

Pro-life House Democrats who voted for the Republican-opposed health care bill are being targeted for defeat by the far right, despite these Democrats having histories of near 100% ratings by mainstream pro-life groups.
Due to these same Democrats' work on advancing the Hyde Amendment within the health care law and their history of near 0% ratings by NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the like, abortion advocates on the left are working overtime to see that these House members are at least challenged in primaries, if not defeated outright.

Based on the distortions promulgated by each side, the right and the left both claim that one cannot be pro-life and a Democrat. We know better!

Today, DFLA offers you information on the contents of the health care reform law specially intended to be concise, neutral, and devoted to fact, not driven by ideology or some supposed prophetic insight as to the outcome of all this. We invite you to arm yourself with facts so that you can speak out against disinformation and incivility. We also hope to encourage you to persevere as a pro-life Democrat and even to increase your activity in the Party and in your community in promoting our "whole life" ethic.

If there is only one party having a voice for the unborn, our nation will return to the stalemate we saw in the decades prior to the resurgence of pro-life Democrats in the late 2000's. Don't let it happen!

From the Kaiser Family Foundation: their new
Summary of the New Health Care Reform Law

From FactCheck.org, a service of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania : The Abortion Issue: What are the facts regarding the new health insurance law's federal funding for abortion, or lack of it?

From Politifact.com, a service of the St. Petersburg Times, the Austin American-Statesman, and the Miami Herald newspapers:

Rep. John Carter says health care law provides full federal funding for abortions, but that's not so
We invite your comments or requests for more information. Look for two more emails to follow during Pro-life Democrats Days. We need your support, thoughts, and prayers more than ever! Thank you.

The bill says the States can opt out
Of abortion the Fed's will pass out
If it's there in the print
Why can't some get th'hint
Something's fishy in all this (no doubt).

Court Vacancy Candid Admission

Obama Sends Conflicting Signals Over Supreme Court Nominee and Abortion

Bill Clinton to Obama: Nominate Non-Judge to Supreme Court

Constitutional teachers abound
Who think in the document's found
Those privacy rights.
That's even if fights
About Justices' records aren't bound.

It's clear that Obama's sig. style
Of lying (every once in a while)
Makes clear that he's for
A Justice who's tour
Will back up Roe's illogical pile.