Saturday, December 25, 2010

Our Faddah

I couldn't say it better myself...


Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Nativity Story (told in the digital age)

This is one of the most imaginative Christmas videos that I've seen in a long time... ENJOY!


Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Bible - Misconceptions

A Yale University course on the Hebrew Bible presented by Professor Christine Hayes, Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1996, she was Assistant Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University for three years. A specialist in talmudic-midrashic studies, Hayes offers undergraduate courses on the literature and history of the biblical and talmudic periods (including Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and Introduction to Judaism). The course's complete playlist is at
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C47C268DDAF2B5AC


A Course on Hebrew Bible, Part 4: Bible - Misconceptions

Monday, May 31, 2010

Head-bangin' Capuchin friar...

Even Spud liked this one:

Friday, May 28, 2010

We like being Catholic

Promo from the Illinois Catholic Prayer breakfast group last month... don't know why I hadn't seen this until now: YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y97tyVWL214

SIMPLY CATHOLIC

Friday, April 23, 2010

All I can say to that....

From Mark Rubio's speech:
" And yet there have always have been those who haven't seen it this way. There have always been those that don't recognize this. They think that we need a guardian class in American government to protect us from ourselves. They think that the free-enterprise system is unfair, that a few people make a lot of money, and the rest of us get left behind. They believe that the only way business can make its money is by exploiting its workers and its customers. And they think that America's enemies exist because of something America did to earn their enmity."







Wednesday, April 21, 2010

more obstructionism...

Has anyone else had enough of this?



I've been complaining about this for two years:

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Stop GOP Obstructionists: Bi-Partisanship Starts At Home

I watched C-Span a lot over the summer, and the hypocrisy of the GOP's actions really started to get to me. My impression was that they were deliberately throwing monkey wrenches into the legislative process in order to condemn the failure of the legislative process. Were they breaking government by the people in order to keep it permanently broken?

Just out of curiosity, I went to the Thomas.gov archive for Congress. I researched how often the term "cloture on the motion" appeared in the record when the Dems were in the minority vs when the Reps were.

YEAR No. of times cloture invoked
2000 32
2001 26
2002 20
2003 20
2004 67
2005 20

LOOK AT THIS!
2006 86 <---start of the Democratic majority
2007 124
2008 138 <--as of 8/28/08

Sure enough, the GOP's abuse of the government was atrocious. We should all give a sigh of relief if the Dems can achieve a filibuster-proof majority.