Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

Nice Catholic Encyclopedia article here about it -- Our Lady gave to St. Simon Stock the scapular. My own 1st Communion scapular was one of these. [I quickly figured out the plastic protectors on that scapular stuck to the skin!]

I went to Mass (EF form) this morning. And it is always nice when we have a feast day for Our Lady. I especially liked the Introit, Collect, Offertory, Secret, Communion and Post Communion for this feast, and the Epistle was wonderful. But I'd really love to slap whomever decided this gospel was a good one for the day. Luke (11: 27-28) -- the one where the woman says "blessed are the paps that gave suck to you and the womb that bore you." I know what the point of Jesus' answer is "yeah, well, blessed are they who hear the word of God...etc." Sounded a little gruff about mom there. Couldn't he have said "YES, she IS blessed, she ROCKS...and also those people who do...." But NOOOOOO.

Jesus, too big for His britches, wouldn't have got His favorite dinner THAT night from me....

Couldn't they have picked a different Marian passage?

It sticks out like a sore thumb. Someone have too much vino the night they put those propers together? Sometimes I wonder about those guys.

Liars, Liars, Pants on Fire

...the lamestream lyin' sacks of excrement pressitudes are crowing that 0ero "got it over the plate." Well, you can't tell from the FOX video, God knows -- because the crazy angle (one NEVER employed before to show such a thing doesn't show it -- HOWEVER, if you go to the http://www.mlb.com/ site, they do show it. Look at the vid that comes up with 0ero's face and hit play. They'll show you the Fox broadcast angle first, and at the END of the clip they will show the pitch from a center field camera. If you freeze the frame, you can clearly see Puhols has his OWN butt over the plate, and his feet are clearly in front of the plate. And I was able to "freeze frame" the shot. The ball is just over Puhols right foot in the picture a little above shoetop range. Anyone who's played knows that ball would have been in the dirt if Puhols hadn't have scooped underneath it. That's why they used a first baseman to get that -- they knew that zero was going to have trouble, so they used a guy used to scooping balls off the dirt.

Is it a big deal zero can't throw the ball 60 feet 6 inches? In the larger scheme of things, no. In the bigger scheme of things it just goes to show what lying sacks of crap the press are to cover for his every shortcoming. If they'll go to this extent to cover up his butt over something so minor, he has a real glass jaw, they know it, but they are SLAVES to him. If they lie about what can easily be seen to be a lie (allegedly he didn't bow to a Saudi potentate either, something CLEARLY on video from a spanish language broadcast) what else does he do in the dark that they will be more willing to baldface lie about?

Military changes orders of officer who is challenging 0ero's eligibility to serve as C-in-C

"Posted: July 14, 20099:53 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Dr. Orly Taitz
A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after he argued that he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his legitimacy for office.
His attorney, Orly Taitz, confirmed to WND the military has rescinded his impending deployment orders. "

Full article here.

0ero Makes Kerry look like an athlete...

....by comparison.... Tell me this ***hole wasn't the last one picked for any team sport. I bet he got shoved into a lot of lockers too. Even in Indonesia, where he was educated. Probably had a lot of turbans snapped at his butt in the locker room.

Maybe if I'm a good ickle boy they'll let me play t-ball next time...

0ero's Teleprompter commits Suicide

The screen couldn't handle all the BS so it threw itself off its stand.

A suicide watch is being kept on the 2nd teleprompter, in fear that it may jump off the precipice too, now that it only has 0ero for company. Wither art thou, HAL?

Franken take hit from Bong

...must have. He said that Sotomayor was "the most experienced Supreme Court nominee in 100 years." At what? Getting decisions overturned?

0ero set to throw out first pitch of All Star game

....so Zero goes to the mound with Michelle and suddenly throws HER towards the catcher. After the dust settles, when asked why he threw Michelle instead of the ball, he says "OH, you wanted the first PITCH."

With any luck a few of the former living presidents will throw HIM off the loge section before he gets to the broadcast booth for an interview. I suggest anyone watching the game CHANGE THE CHANNEL when 0ero's mug comes on for an interview. It's not like the Kenyan knows zip about the game anyway. This guy is not a team sports player. Much less baseball. Wouldn't know a Texas leaguer from a silver sombrero.

Any bets on how booed Zero gets? Any bets on how the lamestream press will try and cover this up?

Update: According to post (74) at freerepublic:

"I’m watching - saw the presidential moments. They must have blocked out the audience noise.
Husband is driving listening on the radio.
He called laughing and said:

Obama spoke, silence.

GWB spoke, wild cheering and applause.

Clinton spoke, silence.

GHWB spoke, more wild cheering and applause.

Carter spoke... BOOING!

Gotta love it! And TV blocked it but ESPN radio did not!I’m watching - saw the presidential moments. !"

Post 93 said there was booing for 0ero and others have complained that the camera angle didn't even show the catch -- which would seem to indicate that the throw was probably horrible. Well, what do you expact from a Mobassa boy? Not like he's "one of us" is it?

Also, numerous commentators are bitching that this guy allegedly threw the pitch, and it was NOT show as they would for anyone else. i.e. the camera on him throwing the ball, but NOT a wide shot, with him and the catcher and where it went over the plate, or if it bounced 30 feet in front of the plate (for all we know) as if a 4 year old little girl had thrown it.

Can't WAIT for some YOUTUBE video to be up, because apparently that's the only way whether or not we'll see if Bambi "threw like a weak sister."

(Ha-ha, I've thrown plenty of pitches, and so have most Americans, who will tell you that that left hand cocked back like that is EXACLTY a "little girlie throw."

Just when you think the US has won the coveted "All world Stupid" championship...

... a formidable Challenger to usurp Al Gore's throne has shown up:

Charlie explains to his native bearers about really big whang doodle carbon footprints and how we all have 96 months to save the friggin' planet. Anyone have the patience to find out if he's in on the same scheme selling carbon credits on the side with Al?

He's like Michael Jackson. Cute kid when younger, then just talked to one too many chimps or in his case, plants.

LONGGGGGG May the Queen Reign. If you had an heir like him, would you retire? She wouldn't be caught dead saying something that stupid.

Who let the dogs out?

Zero, picking up respect from a broad. Yeah, GWB was such a goober compared to Shaft here.

TLM '62 does St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More DIRT

Really. It's not on the "Universal calendar" of '62, so John and Tom don't get ZIP WORTH of recognition in the US. Oh, in England they do. But not here.

The pasta fazzoo eaters back in the Vatican then would have thought NOTHING of giving some grenouille eatin' peasant girl, or Sicilian guy who'd had a vision of St. Buonafangulo in his wheaties a whole day to themselves and put it on the Universal calendar. But the anglophone world? It took them around 400 years to get to even acknowledge St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More as Martyrs of the noblest sort -- but do they give them a place on the TLM Universal calendar? HELL NO.

Hey, if any of you spaghetti benders in the Vatican are reading this: CORRECT THIS. John and Tom mean a lot more to me than a "feria" day. These saints are especially important in the English speaking countries, and frankly, should be on the TLM universal calendar - given the go-along-to-get-along types which now infect civil governments everywhere.

The "Our Lady of Perpetual Help" votive Mass was said today. Frankly, I love her as 2nd mom, but John and Tom deserve their snaps and the church owed them better.

Very short ROAD TRIP!!!

I was going out for my swim tonight, and reflected how very close the Kroc Center sits to the La Mesa City line. And what, praytell, is in La Mesa? IDRIS GINGER BEER!!!!

Shoot!!! SCORE!!!!! Why this stuff hasn't made it over here bigtime I dunno. There's an opportunity for someone. Catch a clue, entrepreneurs. It took a while for the Salt and Vinegar Chips to make it, but they did over 20 years ago.

There is some swill from Jamaica[?] that claims to be ginger beer at the Windmill Farms stores, but that brand is just WRONG!!! It can't hold a candle to the real deal.

I also scored some of "The Dentist's Vacation Maker." Also known as Walker's Nonsuch Hazelnut Toffee. Freeze that stuff. Then break the sucker when it's still in the pack. They have a fansy schmansy little hammer for it, but the side of the fridge works just fine too. THEN take a small piece and suck on it a good MINUTE before you even attempt to chew or bite into it. I warned you.

Sign of the Times

I guess it beats stealin' hubcaps for fun.

"Reek of Stupidity Amongst the Officers" G. Washington reports from the field

I've always liked this bit from the Musical 1776. -- [BTW, the text of George Washington's dispatch is real.]




Hoping you all are having a fabulous Fourth!

Is TOTALLY stoked her 4th weekend has started

The "suits" [technically our two bosses, wearing flip flops and t-shirts, but still "suits"] took us out to lunch today and picked up the bill in honor of the upcoming 4th of July weekend. We also got off work 1.5 hours early AND they paid us a day early, and we get tomorrow off. HOO-RAY!!!!

I'm also, so far, feeling well and fine, and it looks like it's going to be nice weather all weekend. [LAST two 3 day weekends I was unwell, and the weather was crappy.]

If you want to get REALLY technical about it, the Declaration was voted on and passed on the 2nd. And this was the Day John Adams thought would be celebrated. They niggled over some of the language and it was formally adopted on the 4th.

King George remained "a tyrrant." They had to offend somebody.

(And yes, Stephen, I added those last two sentences for you!)