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It was the morning of 11/11/08. As usual, I parked my car in front of the local abortuary before I went to 7:30 mass at nearby St. Peter’s. After mass, walking to my car, I noted that an old man who left mass ahead of me stopped and made the sign of the cross on my windshield as he passed by. He knows I always park there when we pray the rosary on killing days at the mill. He’s been doing this lately. That’s nice, I thought.
As I looked down the alley where the abortuary is (we call it Death Alley) to see if it was “business as usual” on Veteran’s Day, a young man got out of the biggest van I’ve ever seen and approached me. “I’m so sorry,” he said. “I clipped your car!” We looked at my car – on a 1978 Olds it’s hard to see if the rear bumper is any worse than usual. I would never have noticed it was damaged in a hundred years. “Do you want to call the police?” he asked. “Do you want my name and insurance number?” He kept apologizing. He said he had previously driven a small car and wasn’t used to that big van which he had only owned for a week. I was so impressed that he didn’t just drive on after he clipped me, hoping no one saw him. Instead he waited till I appeared! Diogenes, where are you? I’ve found an honest man! This honest man is named Edward Barker. If he should ever google his name sometime in the future and go through the five million results, he may discover how appreciated his honesty was.
My pro-life confreres appeared and we prayed our fifteen decades of the rosary and the Divine Mercy chaplet. We shared our dismay at the election of radically pro-abortion Barack Obama. God has blessed me with such good friends. A veteran walked by on his way to the 11-11-11 ceremonies at the War Memorial at the end of Main Street. We explained why we were praying at Medical Options and he said he had been stationed at the Coast. I’m vague about what that means but offered him a handshake and a “God bless.” He responded with a hug. That’s nice, I thought.
The View was in progress when I returned home. Sir Elton John told about writing the songs for the Broadway musical, Billy Elliot. Billy was a coal miner’s son who wanted to be a ballet dancer, and the musical has been performed in London, Sydney, and now New York with three young boys who alternate playing the lead role. One of them did a breathtaking demonstration of the “Electricity” he feels when he dances. I feel privileged to have seen it.
Also today 21-year-old college student/waitress Brianne Sherman won $250,000 on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.
One o’clock. Nap time.
Nice morning, I thought.
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Hiw fiortunate you are!
Last week I was in Eaton, Ohio and pulled into a parking space. Shortly after I pulled in, another man pulled in next to me, threw open his door, and hit my car…solid!
I immediately jumped out of my car and wqs faced by a man with an Ohio State Sweatshirt and a utility belt in his hand like an electrician or a construction worker would have.
I asked him why he didn’t at least acknowledge what he had done to my car. He looked at me incredulously and asked what in the world I was talking about because absolutely nothing had happened.
It was then that I asked the simple question, “Is there no longer any honesty and integrity alive in this country?” and I walked away. Afterwards, I reflected upon my question and thought, “No, after all, we had just elected Barack Obama to be our President, therefore proving that there is no longer any honor nor integrity left in this soon to be, past great nation…”
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A wonderful post!
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i sometimes wonder why so many people see in only black and white, when there are so many shades of gray. Obama is not pro abortion, nor are the large majority of pro-choicers. i doubt that there are many people who WANT to see babies killed. rather, the pro-choicers are against excessive government regulation in areas where government should not interfere. in an ideal world abortions would NEVER be necessary. in a less ideal world they are, but as a last resort, and not as a means of birth control. it is sad that so many do use this method as birth control but education and prevention are much better options than back alleys and coat hangers
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Dorothy Vining reply on November 14th, 2008 11:44 am:
As I said in a previous post: Barack Obama is the most liberal of all the Senators by anyone’s measure, and has promised to keep Roe v Wade in place. He says he will appoint liberal judges, and opposed the confirmation of conservative Supreme Court Justices Alito and Roberts. He voted for partial birth abortion, voted against parental notification, and has a 100% approval rating from Planned Parenthood. He said “Well, the first thing I’d do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.” This would undo any gains the pro-life movement has made over the years.” It would be open season on babies in the womb!
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Even McCain said overturning Roe v Wade would be a bad decision up until he changed his opinion to get your vote. 5 of the 7 current supreme court justices appointed by republican presidents are considered conservatives. Presidents generally appoint justices who lean in their direction. (lets also not forget that Obama said he would appoint people with opposing views to high level offices as well) He did not vote for Partial Birth Abortion, he voted against a bill to ban it because it did not contain a clause to protect the life of the mother. Having the support of Planned parenthood is not a bad thing. They are not only there to help people to get abortions, their primary focus is to protect women’s health, and help them make the best decisions they can regarding their own health. FOCA may be a little far reaching but it doesnt mean “open season on babies in the womb”. It is a reiteration of Roe v Wade ensuring that a woman will continue to have the right to choose for herself. As i said previously, the issue isn’t whether abortions are good or bad, but rather whether the government has any say on what a woman does with her body. There will always be people who consider it murder and people who don’t. Barack Obama believes in the human ability to make the right choice at the right time without having it dictated to them. Rather than forcing your opinion on people perhaps you should try to educate and guide them. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. After all, i thought it was God’s job to judge and his followers job to Love.
“I’d love to see a point where it is irrelevant, and could be repealed because abortion is no longer necessary. But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe V Wade”
-John McCain
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”-Mother Teresa.
“Judge not, that ye be not judged” -Matthew 7:1
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Dorothy Vining reply on November 15th, 2008 11:21 am:
I suspect this post is in response to my previous blog of 11/6. However, I’m happy whenever someone takes the time to think a little and forward their opinion.
1. McCain, in response to the 1999 quote (above) said: “Well, it was in the context of conversation about having to change the culture of America as regards to this issue. I have stated time after time after time that Roe v. Wade was a bad decision.” McCain voted pro-life 100 per cent of the time and has a 0 rating from NARAL.
2. The so-called conservative judges appointed by Presidents before Bush have rarely voted conservatively.
3. As for Obama appointing people with opposing views to high offices, I’ll believe it when I see it.
4. Wrong. The PBA act did not contain a clause to protect the HEALTH of the mother. Health includes both physical and mental health which means that anyone upset by a pregnancy can get an abortion for mental health reasons! A partial birth abortion is NEVER necessary to save the LIFE of the mother.
5. Don’t believe Planned Parenthood’s hype. Jim Sedlak has spent his life studying Planned Parenthood. See http://www.stopplannedparenthoodtaxfunding.com/
6. What a women wants to do with her body is one thing. What she wants to do with the individual residing within her (a quite different person) is another. It’s killing an innocent human no matter how you look at it.
7. Yes. God gets to judge people’s hearts. We only get to judge actions. I judge a mother killing her own child to be wrong — unnatural and against God’s law. God sees the heart and the mother may actually THINK she is doing a good thing. But it is objectively wrong.
8. Yes, it is the job of God’s people to Love. That’s why we have more Crisis Pregnancy CenterS in the U.S. than we have abortion “clinics” run by little people on their own time and with their own money. Contrast with Planned Parenthood which takes in really big money and does more abortions than anyone in the U.S. For them, it’s a business. I’d like to hear that they once did something out of love.
Anyway, thanks SOG for your input. Please, please, DELVE.
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