tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80796385346819114532024-03-21T12:58:35.306-04:00Informed Catholic VoterThe blog of a Catholic woman who tries to weigh the events of a troubled society so as make informed choices.Informed Catholic Voterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17593283611443106073noreply@blogger.comBlogger330125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post-16461069444363352092017-08-22T10:58:00.002-04:002017-08-22T14:06:49.517-04:00Laugh Out Loud: Bad Lip Reading During Trump InaugurationSomehow I missed <a href="https://youtu.be/gneBUA39mnI?list=PLF396D3CEF0169A35" target="_blank">this video </a>earlier this year. It is still pretty amusing though.<br />
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Published on Dec 9, 2016, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6h7fL22WCE" target="_blank">this video</a> tells the saga of how Elvis Summers, a struggling musician in Los Angeles, used his personal savings and then crowdfunded $100,000 to build dozens of tiny homes for homeless residents of the City of Angels. But, in their omnipotence, certain all-knowing city officials looking to pass a $2 billion housing plan tried to shut him down.<br />
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This story of one man's efforts to make a difference reminds me of another story that has been around for years. But it explains with what Elvis is trying to do.<br />
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(Credit to <a href="https://eventsforchange.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/the-starfish-story-one-step-towards-changing-the-world/" target="_blank">Peter Straube and his blog, EventsForChange</a>.)<br />
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Good luck, Elvis!Informed Catholic Voterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17593283611443106073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post-16534529301452542532017-06-02T18:28:00.002-04:002017-06-20T12:56:08.110-04:00Graduation of an Informed Catholic Voter<div>
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It is <a href="http://www.momlogic.com/2008/08/another_baby_dies_in_hot_car.php" target="_blank">not a new phenomenon</a> by any means. But the furor in the wake of reports of such tragedies seems to be growing. <br />
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My heart goes out to all those whose lives have been affected by someone's careless, deadly mistake.<br />
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Informed Catholic Voterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17593283611443106073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post-4877613280536353702014-04-10T10:20:00.002-04:002014-04-10T10:20:47.020-04:00Students and Teachers Both Have Secrets, Learn from Each OtherWe have probably all run into people in our lives who surprise us by doing something that seems out of character. That's what the students in Jim O'Connor's math class encountered earlier this year. They thought they knew their stern math teacher, until they learned he had a softer side. <a href="http://youtu.be/a56lfZQpwxI" target="_blank">This video</a> actually came out on Valentine's Day, but I<a href="http://americanmilitarynews.com/2014/04/video-vietnam-vet-hated-math-students-boy-wrong/" target="_blank"> just came across it</a>. And I am glad I did.<br />
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I avoided Facebook for years, until last month, in fact. I thought I was making an informed decision when I launched my page last month. I may have changed my mind if I had seen this video before going on Facebook. Now I am among the ranks of the vulnerable.<br />
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What's more, even if adults do not use Facebook and the likes, our kids do. And they can lead thieves and other unsavory characters to us. I don't have a solution -- other than shuttin' it down completely.<br />
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"Paying it forward" doesn't have to be at extravagant as what these folks were able to do for Chelsea. I've seen people pay for the toll of the person behind them and pay for the meal of the car behind them at a drive through. Something that surprises another person as a random act of kindness can go a long way, and maybe have a dramatic effect on someone just by letting them know that good things DO happen to ordinary people.<br />
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(Here's a tip to figure out if you should watch or not. Remember last year in the NCAA tournament when Louisville Cardinals basketball player Kevin Ware broke his leg and it was nauseating to people who saw it? Same thing here. I still have never watched the video replay of that terrible moment. If you saw it and almost hurled, do not watch this one!)<br />
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This video gets my informed vote for the most disgusting sports injury I have seen since Joe Theisman's career-ending break. [CAUTION: <a href="http://youtu.be/Z7acc6qwcmQ" target="_blank">Another video to avoid </a>if you are squeamish!]</div>
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From the classic 1970s British comedy <i>Monty Python and the Holy Grail </i>to Dan Brown's controversial thriller <i>The Da Vinci Code</i>, the subject of the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper on Holy Thursday has captured the imagination of Christians and non-Christians for 2000 years. Now a new take on the existence and location of this mysterious object has taken the Spanish city of Leon--and the world--by storm. <br />
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The Basilica of San Isidro in Leon, Spain, has been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/31/crowds-flock-spanish-chuch-leon-holy-grail-claim" target="_blank">overrun with tourists and faithful in recent weeks</a> as they flood the church to get a glimpse of what is being touted as the Holy Grail -- the <i>real</i> Holy Grail. This means it is being held up as the actual chalice from which Jesus himself drank and which he shared with his Apostles on the night before he died. <br />
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The drinking vessel that is being elevated to Holy Grail status is not a newly discovered holy object. Rather, its existence has been known for centuries, as far back as the 12th century even. Until now it has been <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/31/historians-explosive-claim-theyve-found-the-holy-grail/" target="_blank">known as the goblet of the Infanta Dona Urraca</a>. Queen Urraca was Queen of Leon until she died in 1126 A.D.<br />
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What changed with regard to the goblet's identity is that two writers--a medieval history lecturer and an art historian-- spent three years researching the history of the goblet. Their research led them to conclude that the vessel is indeed the Holy Grail, and that over the centuries it traveled from Jerusalem to Egypt to Spain, where it was given to the King and Queen as a token of appeasement by Muslims.<br />
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The authors document their own research journey in their new book, <i>The Kings of the Grail</i>. According to <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/31/historians-explosive-claim-theyve-found-the-holy-grail/" target="_blank">The Blaze</a>: <br />
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Unveiling their findings last Wednesday, the two explained that they
found documents referencing the chalice at Cairo’s University of
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The documents, written in Arabic, reportedly say that Muslims stole
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The historians admit that they cannot prove the chalice touched
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Although I maintain healthy skepticism, this is a book that I am likely to read. If nothing else, it could make quick hay of Dan Brown's version of history. But then again, nothing will assuage those who want to tear down the holiness and influence of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.<br />
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<br />Informed Catholic Voterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17593283611443106073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post-58509425174154157772014-03-29T21:32:00.001-04:002014-03-29T21:32:19.940-04:00Shocking Video: Bill Maher Exposes Liberal HypocrisyI wouldn't have believed that liberal talk show host Bill Maher could actually have a segment that is worth circulating, but <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/29/bill-maher-tricks-guests-with-racist-paul-ryan-quote-that-was-actually-said-by-michelle-obama-the-reaction-he-gets-is-priceless/" target="_blank">here it is the video as evidence</a>. I do not know who the two liberal panelists are, but it really doesn't matter: you could take the heads off any liberals and switch them around and it wouldn't matter because they are all parrots for the Obama agenda.<br />
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We need to promote movies like this so that more can be made. It is a rare treasure.<br />
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Informed Catholic Voterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17593283611443106073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post-47328987537096247762014-03-28T21:57:00.002-04:002014-03-28T21:57:30.398-04:00Twelve-Year-Old Girl Delivers Compelling Pro-Life SpeechSocial media has revolutionized the world. The twelve-year-old girl in <a href="http://youtu.be/mnOzFmNac0E" target="_blank">the video below</a> has used the cyber world to spread a message of life as she argues eloquently and convincingly for the right to life of the unborn child to be given precedence over the so-called rights of the woman who carries the child in her womb. I vote for Lia to be the spokesperson for unborn children everywhere if their mothers are considering abortion.<br />
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Earlier this week I had an eye appointment with my ophthalmologist for a routine annual checkup. Last year a different doctor (an optometrist) examined my eyes and told me that she thought she saw the early stages of macular degeneration on my retinas. Since my maternal grandmother had macular degeneration for a number of years prior to her death, that concerned my. A followup referral led to a finding that the optometrist was probably just being overly cautious and that what she saw was probably not macular degeneration. That's why this week I was quite relieved when I visited the ophthalmologist again and the doctor confirmed that my eyes are quite healthy for my age. He said that the so-called signs of macular degeneration were no more than ordinary "druins" (a new word for me). As I drove home with dilated eyes into the blinding afternoon sun, I gave thanks to God for my sense of sight and my overall good health.<br />
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This morning when <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2590509/Watch-The-moving-moment-deaf-woman-overcome-emotion-HEARS-time-having-cochlea-implants-switched-on.html#v-3397618452001">I saw the video below</a>, I renewed my thanks to our Heavenly Father for allowing me to be able to hear his creation outside my window right now. I am even grateful to hear the rain that is falling steadily right now, and I'm grateful even more so that the rain is not snow!<br />
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My husband has a hearing impairment, so I know from talking to him how frustrating it is to miss out on certain sounds. He can hold a smoke detector in his hand and not hear the shrill, piercing scream when it is set off. We have all learned to live with the closed captioning on TV -- except when basketball games are on. We just turn it up a little louder at those times. That means tonight it will be really loud as we watch the NCAA Sweet Sixteen game between the UK Wildcats and the U of L Cardinals! <br />
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Informed Catholic Voterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17593283611443106073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post-79513287263532777992014-03-27T10:18:00.001-04:002014-03-27T10:18:16.370-04:00My Vote Goes to This Guy for Having the Biggest... B.A.S.E. JumpAlthough this B.A.S.E. jump from the NYC Freedom Tower took place last September, the video taken by one jumper's helmet camera was just posted this past Monday. It already has over 2.75 million views in less than 4 days. If you can, enlarge this to fill your screen to get the full effect.<br />
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So at what age should Americans be able to name one U.S. Senator? Whatever age you name, I suspect it is unanimous that by the time you graduate from high school you should be able to name at least one. Preferably, students should know all their state's Senators and the Representative from their own area of the state. After all, graduates are generally 18 years old by that time, or soon will be. Along with the right to vote comes a responsibility to learn who you are voting for and what issues are at stake. The things that kids learn today, and the means by which they learn it, certainly have <a href="http://www.takepart.com/photos/10-things-kids-knew-1980-dont-know-today/breaking-cigarettes-are-cooler-than-ever?cmpid=tp-ad-outbrain-general" target="_blank">changed significantly even in the last 30 years</a>.<br />
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Still, going off to college is meant to continue to prepare young people to be good citizens and to exercise some modicum of intelligence when they exercise the sacred right to vote. Although <a href="http://cnsnews.com/video/cnsnews/pop-quiz-can-you-name-one-us-senator" target="_blank">this video below</a> should scare the dickens out of older viewers, it sadly has become the norm on college campuses. MRC TV's Dan Joseph visited the campus of American University in northwest Washington D.C., recently to ask students the $64,000 Question: <i>Can you name one U.S. Senator?</i> The responses are mind-boggling.<br />
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Okay, stop laughing and listen up. The mind-boggling thing about this is that these students are attending a university that this academic year <a href="http://www.american.edu/finance/studentaccounts/Tuition-and-Fees-2013-2014.cfm" target="_blank">costs $20,066 per semester</a>, and next year <a href="http://www.american.edu/finance/studentaccounts/Tuition-and-Fees-Information.cfm" target="_blank">will cost $20,658 per semester</a> to attend (2014-15). That's tight, you did not read that wrong, and it is not a misprint. It is $20,066 per semester for the 2013-14 academic year. And if you are chosen to attend law school at this elite university next year, it will cost you $24,331 per semester. By the end of three years of law school students will be invested to the tune of over a quarter million dollars easily. And that isn't including undergrad costs. <br />
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Now, I'm sure these young people at American U are getting a first class education at their illustrious university. But if I was a parent sending my kid to that university and paying that kind of money, and if I learned that s/he could not name even ONE U.S. Senator while on camera for the world to see, I can tell you where my kid would be spending at least part of the summer: reviewing flashcards and learning the names of all 100 Senators, AND the state that s/he is from. <br />
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Oh, and by the way, it's no surprise that the one Senator anyone could name is Rand Paul. This Catholic voter is taking a good long look at the junior Senator from Kentucky. You should, too.<br />
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Informed Catholic Voterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17593283611443106073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post-42671564882040682962014-03-24T16:23:00.001-04:002014-03-24T16:23:37.876-04:00Jimmy Carter Blames Pope for Rape and Trafficking of Women<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tx_1uQ6oF1E/UzCP77xIvNI/AAAAAAAAaaU/NWlX8HPYguo/s1600/jimmy+carter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tx_1uQ6oF1E/UzCP77xIvNI/AAAAAAAAaaU/NWlX8HPYguo/s1600/jimmy+carter.jpg" height="133" width="200" /></a>As a Catholic voter, I can tell you it's a good thing that this former fruitcake President is not running for ANYTHING today because this voter would be out there campaigning against him at every turn. In fact I thought he was dead! He looks like he is. He must be 150 years old already. <br />
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I was only a teenager when this moron served one term as President, but the effects of his mismanagement and ineptitude are still being felt today. (Don't get me started on the bills he signed into law that required financial institutions to relax their criteria for screening home-ownership applicants. He's the reason the market crashed in 2008 -- because of the bubble created by his relaxation of lending laws, allowing unqualified people to get mortgages they could never hope to pay back.)<br />
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Now Carter is out there shooting his mouth off about Catholics, trying to sell his pitiful book. Carter basically opines that because the Pope says that women cannot be priests, women are now being raped, beaten, and enslaved by men all over this country. That's no joke. <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/jimmy-carter-when-they-see-popesay-women-cant-serve-priests" target="_blank">He actually says as much.</a><br />
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If I seem like I am coming down hard on the 89-year-old (I just Googled him to see if he was born born in the 20th century), then I admit that I am. Serving one-and-done as President does not entitle him or anyone else to start lobbing his distorted religious views on the rest of us, belittling my faith and making accusations that are a fiction of his own convoluted, self-aggrandizing thinking. Sure it's a free country, and even warped old men can speak their minds. But women who disagree with him can also tell him to get out of the limelight and stop trying to speak for us. I don't need a peanut farmer from Georgia to fight my battles. That's because my battle is with liberals like this hate-spewing, bigoted old man.<br />
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And here's a warning for old man Carter. You keep running your mouth about the Muslims and how they treat women and you won't have to promote your book. It will sell posthumously, after they come over and behead your peanut brain.<br />
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