.~Javier Plumey~.|Fatih, Technology, Politics, Whatever.

Catholic bloggers respond to Kmiec criticism: “‘James Joyce once described the Church as ‘Here comes everybody.’ The Internet is ‘Here comes everybody–without the guidance or protection of the Holy Spirit,’’ Shea added.”

Ha! What a great line. Honestly, how can Obama-supporting Catholics be surprised when the majority of Catholics disagree with them on Obama’s position on abortion?

Horton: Catholic teens challenge Obama to find common ground on abortion: “Yet, there is middle ground, and it is the place where, according to the latest polls, 54 percent of Americans would prefer to stand. It isn’t a perfect place and is too gray for the black-and-white chatterboxes because the starting point is legal, but somewhat restricted, abortion rights.”

Middle ground, huh? I really think it’s sickening that people, especially Catholics, think there is a middle ground in the abortion issue. Let’s see how that might have worked with Hitler.

Allied Negotiator: Ok, let’s address this holocaust thing, where you are killing millions of lives who have done little or nothing to deserve death.

Hitler: Okidoki

Allied Negotiator: Since we are unable to resolve our differences, let’s get to some “common ground”. How does that sound?

Hitler: Okidoki

Allied Negotiator: Alright, let’s see. We want you to stop killing, but you don’t want to, so….how about we let you keep killing people, but only not as much. Can we try that?

Hitler: Okidoki

Yeah. Common ground is a good idea.

Will The Pope’s YouTube Channel Be A Hit? – World Watch: “It is certainly a case of the old being fused with the new, but will the Pope’s partnership with Google be a match made in heaven? “

While I want this to be a success, I’m afraid that the pool of dregs that Youtube seems to attract nowadays will simply make the Vatican’s pages a cesspool of profane comments, with a sprinkling of meager well wishes and half-witted responses.

10 Weirdest Inauguration Day Blunders – MSN Encarta: “4. Less is more?
After criticism for his first inauguration in 1981, which cost $16.3 million for nine white-tie balls, President Ronald Reagan attempted to scale back the budget and have a more ‘for the people’ celebration. However, the budget ballooned from $12 million to $20 million, and there were 10 balls instead of nine and two galas instead of one. Apparently, ‘scaling back’ meant that the balls were black tie instead of white and the entertainment was less high-brow than at previous events, according to the Washington Post.”

Hmm, I wonder about the deafening silence regarding the $150 million being spent by Obama.

For Catholic Schools, Crisis and Catharsis – NYTimes.com: “‘I send Matthew to this particular Catholic school because the school and church and parish are together,’ she said. Since the announcement of the school’s proposed closing, Ms. DaGiau said, parents have mobilized to fight, raising funds and marshaling alumni.

‘We’ll do whatever it takes,’ she said.”

(Via .)

As a father who has a student in a Catholic school, I can attest to the struggles that are facing our Catholic schools. We have had to cut some classes (but not services) and consolidate a few others, but beyond those changes the school is still strong and vibrant. The link to the parish is essential, especially for us. If I wanted to teach my son the faith and provide a quality education, I could simply home school. But what I want is to have him active in a parish where he can see his friends and their parents involved in ministry.

I just hope that schools don’t start slacking on the faith just to get more students.

Having a problem installing the Facebook plugin on the new Mac Picasa Beta?

Try using this URL:

picasa://importbutton/?url=http://webkinesis.com/fbpicasa/packages/v2/facebook_v2.pbz

If this link doesn’t work, just change everything after ?url= to point to the latest version available on the Facebook Picasa uploader page.

Have fun!

Testing 123…

Well I got the iPhone 3G. It’s pretty nice though I m am still getting used to the keyboard.

I’ll be posting some tips soon. In the meantime, Happy New Year!

I would like to challenge anyone who has made Bush out to be an idiot and his administration a failure to read this post. If you want to be informed about the President you’ve been trashing for eight years, and not simply take the bait that Obama gave you, read this article. If people had known this information during the election, Obama would never have been elected. Here are some excerpts:

On the economy and the collapse of the housing market:

In fact, one of the circumstances that contributed to the crisis was
the failure of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac, which President Bush long tried to subject to greater regulation.
In April 2001, three months after taking office, the President warned
in his first budget that the size of the two GSEs were a “potential
problem” that “could cause strong repercussions in financial markets,
affecting Federally insured entities and economic activity.” In
2003, the Administration began calling for a new GSE regulator, and
over the next five years, the Administration continued to call for GSE
reform only to be accused by Democrats in Congress of creating artificial fears and advocating for ill-advised proposals.

On the war on terror:

In this Global War on Terror, we do not have the luxury to fight on one
battlefront at a time. To defeat the terrorists, we must fight them
overseas so we don’t have to fight them here at home. Since 9/11, we
have successfully captured or killed dozens of al-Qaeda’s senior
leadership and hundreds of al-Qaeda operatives in two dozen countries,
removed al-Qaeda’s safe-haven in Afghanistan and crippled al-Qaeda in
Iraq, and disrupted numerous al Qaeda terrorist plots against the U.S.,
including a 2006 plot to blow up passenger planes traveling from London.

Some other interesting facts:

Some other items that are infrequently mentioned about the real record
of the Bush Administration but are worth noting: Teenage drug use has
declined 25 percent; in 2007, the violent crime rate was 43 percent
lower than the rate in 1998; between 2005 and 2007, the chronically
homeless population decreased approximately 30 percent; funding for
veterans’ medical care has increased more than 115 percent; and as of
2005, the most recent abortion rate is at its lowest since 1974.

Found this link on an article regarding the Muslim ‘holy man’ who this week demanded the Pope’s execution.

LINK HERE

If Catholics were to ask for the execution of the leader of every world religion who has commented on, or disagreed with, Catholicism, then the world would have no religious leaders at all!

We don’t have to agree on anything except that there’s no place in this world for irrational radicalism of the type that Anjem Choudary flaunts.