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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Under the Fedora: Saints and sinners
On Morning Joe Monday I was treated to yet another day of
people praising members of the GOP who are willing to attack the party and
being told how far to the right Republicans have gone.
Somehow they never note how far left democrats now are. Katrina vandenHeuvel would never have been
considered a mainline guest on a show just a decade ago, now she is on
regularly. You never saw people citing
the Nation or Mother Jones, now they are treated as mainstream left.
And what ever happened to the DLC that Joe cited when he
brought up Bill Clinton? Gone with the
wind.
You would think by now I’d be
used to this, I hope to God I never am.
Speaking of our 42nd president Bill Clinton has
been picked as Father of the Year. Less than 15 years ago that would have been a
one liner in a SNL sketch, now it’s reality.
I wonder, has there ever been a father of the year whose reputation is
such that no mother would trust her daughter with him?
As the 10th doctor once said:“The World is very
strange.”
If, like me, you are a Doctor Who fan you will want to keep
an eye on BBC America. For the 50th
anniversary of the show they will broadcast a special on each of the 11 doctors
followed by an episode of Doctor Who from that era. They will be starting with William Hartnell,
the 1st Doctor (or as he was called then: The Doctor). I think today he is often forgotten but if he
doesn’t pull it off, the Doctor with no background, no real history and the
total lack of special effects there is no show today.
Last week’s DaTechGuy on DaRadioreally caught
a lot of people off guard.
Our first guest was Dr. Paul Byrne, he talked about the
difference between so called “brain death” and “true death” stating that we are
literally cutting brain injured people open alive for their organs for profit.
The reaction from people to his show has been shock. They have never been told the other side of
this story and that it’s coming from somebody who is one of the pioneers of
neonatal care and a former head of the Catholic Medical association makes it
even harder to take.
In our second hour we had Mike Hummell a member of the
Hostess Bakers union who rejected the contract offer that led to the closing of
Hostess. He presented a case for
rejecting the union contract that seemed pretty reasonable to me.
What really surprised him though was his treatment, he wrote
to me afterwards that he expected to be “ambush” interview and had his defenses
up for a sneak attack that never came.
I think it’s pretty sad that we’ve reach a point where
people expect to be insulted or mistreated in a discussion.
Our treatment of him won some praise at the Daily Kos
site. I’ve got to say I certainly never
thought I’d be typing that, then again I suspect Mike didn’t expect to be
saying it either.
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A group of British Bishops talking about Gay Marriage said
bluntly that it is going to lead to a new era of Catholic
persecution on the island as the Catholic Church. If anyone in England doubts this, see how
many children the Catholic Church places for adoption in Massachusetts these
days.
People forget that England has a long history of anti-Catholicism
dating back to the church’s unwillingness to allow Henry VIII to discard wives
at will. In some ways Catholics are
still 2nd class citizens in the UK.
It is no coincidence that Tony Blair didn’t convert until he was out of
office. The Catholic Church’s ,
The age of easy Christianity for the west is about to
end. We are going to be pushed by the
secular left, the anti-Catholic right and radical Islam. Keeping the faith is going to come with
costs. Outside of the western world it
the costs can be fatal. It’s going to be
really bad for my sons.
People say it’s not fair, but then I remember this biblical
passage:
“If the world hates
you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world
would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have
chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to
you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will
also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they
will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know
the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no
sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me also
hates my Father. John 15:18-23
And I remember that no matter how unfair it might be, if you
are a Christian in general or a Catholic in particular, you would know it’s
part of the job description.
It’s still on Guns all the time on MSNBC and Morning
Joe. It’s a great distraction from the
economy. On Wednesday they were really
upset at this NRA ad
I understand why they are so
pissed:
The Democrats won an
election by pushing the class warfare line, the 1% line, the idea that Mitt
Romney was an elite that didn't care about you and your families. It was a sell that worked with low
information voters.
Now you have the same
message being played by the NRA to the same voters. It's the class warfare argument, the 1%, the
argument that the President and the rich Washington elites don't care about
your families as long as their own kids are safe.
The left hates this argument;
they just used it and know it works.
The most interesting argument I’ve heard on the subject
comes from
Ann Althouse:
It occurred to me,
after the Sandy Hook murders, that blaming guns is a secular substitute for
blaming the devil. People find it too challenging to figure out why a human
being would do this terrible thing and they latch on to the idea that the gun made it happen.
The post starts with the question: Don’t I have the right to die? I think that’s one of the most stupid
question ever, you have a destiny to die, it’s just a question of when.
A big fuss was made about Jodie Foster’s “coming out speech”
for myself the thing that struck me was that she is my age and has been working
in the business since she was 43. I have
a vivid memory of her in the last season of Daniel Boone as the a ragamuffin
girl taken in by Jimmy Dean’s Josh Character.
If the series had lasted another year she might have become a regular on
the show. She was pretty good even back
then.
Hollywood is a nasty environment and a lot of people
particularly as the standards of “acceptable” behavior moved closer to the
behavior that many in the entertainment industry indulged with relish outside
of the eyes of the public paid the price for living in it.
That Jodie Foster has managed to be anything resembling sane
with a lifetime of such an environment is an achievement greater than any
accolade that the film industry can give her for her work.
That people decide to give additional credence to people
from this environment never ceases to amaze me
Finally Football. I’m
a baseball guy but the footballs playoffs have been very exciting. The Seattle Atlanta game was incredible,
although the pats make it look easy it was still a great game and Baltimore vs
Denver was classic, (Baltimore scares me more than any other team) but the
greatest Irony is in Denver.
Last year Tim Tebow led Denver to their division title and a
playoff win before losing in the 2nd round. One year and 11 million dollars later Payton
Manning got Denver a 1st round bye, but didn’t get the Broncos any
farther than Tebow did. Meanwhile the
Jets who absolutely refused to start Tebow even as Sanchez tanked and the 3rd
string QB when down managed to go 6-10.
I’m a pats fan so Payton Manning and the Jets are both
rivals so I naturally don’t mind them going down but I’d be a liar if I said
that the treatment of Tebow by the Jets and Denver didn’t make both of those
results sweeter.
I’ll put it on my confession list for this month…
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