I do not pride myself on my firearms skills--I havecompetence, no more. (However, my last trip to the range I was able to keep 14 for 14 in the black--nine inch circle type--with a .357 S&W at 50 yards, which isn't to bad.... until you see some show off put them all in a 1.5" circle).
But I want to talk about holsters. Specifically those "tacticle' holsters that suspend from a belt and have a strap around the thigh. They're mostly stupid, I think.
They were designed for people who are carrying a handgun who are festooned with an array of equipment and accouterments that prevent the weapon from being carried easily anywhere else. The position doesn't facilitate a 'quick draw'--that's a myth except in trick shooting. In fact one of the things you need to do to ring a sidearm into action quickly is to know exactly where it's at. Those tactical holsters don't allow that, as your thigh shifts position depending upon your posture, what you're standing on, etc.
Look at cops-they do not use these holsters unless they're on a swat team, wearing armor and festooned with stuff. Otherwise they keep their sidearms on a secure belt where they can always find them by touch with no fumbling.
If you carry, you should do the same. Even if you practice open carry.
I have one of those holsters--it came with my sidearm. It also has an option to wear it like a normal holster. that's the best bet.
Leave the tak-tee-kool gear to the mall ninjas.
TRIUMPHALIST--YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Bond (or bond)
Thanks to Pandora, i have discovered a new to me music group called bond. they are perhaps the worlds best selling string quartet, with something like four million albums sold. We don't, or at least I didn't, hear much about them because they are not your typical classical string quartet.
They play 'Classical Crossover", music that appeals to more than just the Classical Music set.
And, they are all women. Rather hot women, who know they are hot. Imagine a quartet of 'Fergies' with violin, cello and viola type things going on. It's good music, but I've been a bit timid in watching one of their videos. If I decide that they're a 'tease show band" (a la Lady GaGa or Kati Perry) I'll avoid their music to avoid furthering the sexualization of everything.
I'm turning into a puritan.
UPDATE:
I broke down and watched three videos on YouTube. I have to say,they are not shy about the fat tht they are beautiful women, but that they are not doing the types of things that offend me, either. Their video for the song Victory has an interesting and ironic subtext to the usual pop/rock vs. the world storey line.
They play 'Classical Crossover", music that appeals to more than just the Classical Music set.
And, they are all women. Rather hot women, who know they are hot. Imagine a quartet of 'Fergies' with violin, cello and viola type things going on. It's good music, but I've been a bit timid in watching one of their videos. If I decide that they're a 'tease show band" (a la Lady GaGa or Kati Perry) I'll avoid their music to avoid furthering the sexualization of everything.
I'm turning into a puritan.
UPDATE:
I broke down and watched three videos on YouTube. I have to say,they are not shy about the fat tht they are beautiful women, but that they are not doing the types of things that offend me, either. Their video for the song Victory has an interesting and ironic subtext to the usual pop/rock vs. the world storey line.
My Problems With Islam
As I struggle with my distaste for Islam, I am constantly battered by events. Sometimes I see Islam through the eyes of a person who appreciates its insistence on a world view that not only has room for God, but insists on His primacy. I see the importance of modesty (and most of us overlook that it applies to men as well!) and the avoidance of many practices which are embraced by a decadent West to our own detriment and degradation. I also see the courtesy and actually friendliness of most of the Arab Muslims I have interacted with and known. I see things to admire, with out desiring to embrace the creed of Islam myself. For instance, we have, as Catholics especially, the tradition of the Liturgy of Hours--prayers at morning, midday,evening, bedtime and a prayer time devoted to scripture reading. How many of us do that? Then look at an Islamic area, and see how many of them glory to God through out the day. We could look at what we say is good, but don't do, and learn right off the bat why Islam is attracting western converts.
But then, I see events which repulse me, or confuse me.
In the Indian State of Punjab, a Muslim mob attacked a Protestant Christian Church in the town of Malerkotla. This is the only Muslim majority town in the province, which is a Sikh majority area. The riot was provoked by rumors that a Koran was indeed burned in Florida on 9-11. After it was all over (three policemen were injured trying to protect the Church, one of them while he gathered up bibles to save them from the fire) another group of Muslims returned to the Church, where they renewed the whitewash, replaced doors and windows, and corrected the damage. (It's worth noting that the town of Malerkotla has an unusual history of religious tolerance-it's one of the few in the region where Hindu mobs didn't attack Muslims at the time of Partition.)
I do not like having a knee jerk response to anything. Period. I have no problem opposing things, but do not like the fact that I am a borderline religious Bigot. I need to overcome a tendency to hate, while maintaining my intellectual integrity and my option to oppose error and untruth.
Yet there are things that raise my hackles, and make me think that eventually there will be general conflict between the two largest religions in the world.
Take slavery, for example. The 'sectarian violence' (as it's reported in the MSM) in Darfur takes the form of Muslims in the North conducting slave raids against the Christians in the South. For some reason the MSM doesn't want to report this aspect, preferring to give the impression that it's just another religious squabble that defies the understanding of reasonable people. (Unless the Christians, to protect their families, do something like ambush a slave raiding party, or conduct a raid into one of their strongholds., to forestall further slaving.)
But this is admittedly an extreme example, that exists in what many consider to be a failed state. Yet there are other examples. I'm thinking of the epidemic of kidnappings, followed by forced conversion and marriage, of Christian school girls in Pakistan, Egypt and other countries in the Islamopshere. Until very recently the authorities in these areas denied that it even happened. now Pakistan has admitted that it happens. However, redress is limited, because those who practice this form of slavery force-with violence and threat of violence--the victims to sign and affix their thumbprint to documents stating the conversion and marriage. It's a peculiarity of Islamic law that these conversions are considered binding. Even if the victims are able to gain relief from the forced marriage, return to their chosen religion subjects them to various criminal, civil and vigilante sanctions. So the practice continues.
In Moscow, there are around one million Muslims. they are served by only four mosques. The problem is they have trouble gaining permission to build more. This is an injustice on the part of the people of Moscow, who oppose building any mosques, sometimes on the theory that it will e an inconvenience to dog owners. yet the Imam of Moscow--well,the most influential one, anyway--has publicly stated, on the 15th of September, that Muslims have the right (under Islamic law, I believe) to enter Orthodox Churches and use them for Islamic Prayers. Consider this: Islam is stringently opposed to Icons, considering them to be Idolatry. If they do this, there will be calls for the icons to be covered, then removed. historically this process ends with the conversion of the church to a Mosque. This has been repeated for centuries in the Middle East, and other regions where Islam gained enough power to force it along.
So I struggle with events and tendencies, while trying to maintain an outlook of Charity without sacrificing my Christian integrity, without either caving into a latent dhimitude or to a blatant hatred. I struggle in fact to be a christian on the Verge of a very evil time.
But then, I see events which repulse me, or confuse me.
In the Indian State of Punjab, a Muslim mob attacked a Protestant Christian Church in the town of Malerkotla. This is the only Muslim majority town in the province, which is a Sikh majority area. The riot was provoked by rumors that a Koran was indeed burned in Florida on 9-11. After it was all over (three policemen were injured trying to protect the Church, one of them while he gathered up bibles to save them from the fire) another group of Muslims returned to the Church, where they renewed the whitewash, replaced doors and windows, and corrected the damage. (It's worth noting that the town of Malerkotla has an unusual history of religious tolerance-it's one of the few in the region where Hindu mobs didn't attack Muslims at the time of Partition.)
I do not like having a knee jerk response to anything. Period. I have no problem opposing things, but do not like the fact that I am a borderline religious Bigot. I need to overcome a tendency to hate, while maintaining my intellectual integrity and my option to oppose error and untruth.
Yet there are things that raise my hackles, and make me think that eventually there will be general conflict between the two largest religions in the world.
Take slavery, for example. The 'sectarian violence' (as it's reported in the MSM) in Darfur takes the form of Muslims in the North conducting slave raids against the Christians in the South. For some reason the MSM doesn't want to report this aspect, preferring to give the impression that it's just another religious squabble that defies the understanding of reasonable people. (Unless the Christians, to protect their families, do something like ambush a slave raiding party, or conduct a raid into one of their strongholds., to forestall further slaving.)
But this is admittedly an extreme example, that exists in what many consider to be a failed state. Yet there are other examples. I'm thinking of the epidemic of kidnappings, followed by forced conversion and marriage, of Christian school girls in Pakistan, Egypt and other countries in the Islamopshere. Until very recently the authorities in these areas denied that it even happened. now Pakistan has admitted that it happens. However, redress is limited, because those who practice this form of slavery force-with violence and threat of violence--the victims to sign and affix their thumbprint to documents stating the conversion and marriage. It's a peculiarity of Islamic law that these conversions are considered binding. Even if the victims are able to gain relief from the forced marriage, return to their chosen religion subjects them to various criminal, civil and vigilante sanctions. So the practice continues.
In Moscow, there are around one million Muslims. they are served by only four mosques. The problem is they have trouble gaining permission to build more. This is an injustice on the part of the people of Moscow, who oppose building any mosques, sometimes on the theory that it will e an inconvenience to dog owners. yet the Imam of Moscow--well,the most influential one, anyway--has publicly stated, on the 15th of September, that Muslims have the right (under Islamic law, I believe) to enter Orthodox Churches and use them for Islamic Prayers. Consider this: Islam is stringently opposed to Icons, considering them to be Idolatry. If they do this, there will be calls for the icons to be covered, then removed. historically this process ends with the conversion of the church to a Mosque. This has been repeated for centuries in the Middle East, and other regions where Islam gained enough power to force it along.
So I struggle with events and tendencies, while trying to maintain an outlook of Charity without sacrificing my Christian integrity, without either caving into a latent dhimitude or to a blatant hatred. I struggle in fact to be a christian on the Verge of a very evil time.
St. Meinrad Seminary
St. Meinrad Seminary is a graduate level seminary in southern Indiana, at the Benedictine Archabbey of St. Meinrad. It's enrolment is at a 25 year high, and the Seminary Faculty and Officials are of the opinion that the school is reaching it's optimal enrollment. They believe that they will suffer a drop off in the quality of formation and instruction if they have more than around 180 seminarians, and don't want to be a "mega seminary".
They have an incoming class of 40 men this month.
I have some hope, especially given some of the qualities of the current crop of Seminarians.
They have an incoming class of 40 men this month.
I have some hope, especially given some of the qualities of the current crop of Seminarians.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Just to Rub It In On People Who Speak Doom
The Marian Fathers--The Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception--are a case in point for my contention that orthodox religious orders that are faithful to His Holiness and the Magisterium are doing well, and the modernist influenced and controlled orders are not. These men have a dedication to the Catholic faith, to Our Lady, and have a strong emphasis on the Divine Mercy.
In 1990, there were 239 priests and 436 brothers in the congregation.
In 2004 there were 353 priests and 510 brothers.
They have a house of studies in Stuebenville,OH. One of the young men fom our parish is there.
In 1990, there were 239 priests and 436 brothers in the congregation.
In 2004 there were 353 priests and 510 brothers.
They have a house of studies in Stuebenville,OH. One of the young men fom our parish is there.
Poverty--1 in 7
Well, according to the census bureau, one in seven Americans lives in poverty-the highest ration since Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty.
the major cause seems to be--to use a word long out of vogue-bastardy. I know that is an inflammatory word, and considered insulting. I used it for that very reason. Consider something: children born to single mothers are five times more likely to be in poverty than those born to married parents. It's the biggest single predictor of poverty.
It's bigger than race--even though blacks are more likely to be poor than whites 75% of blacks are born of single mothers. Hispanics also have this problem--51% of Hispanics are born out of wedlock
We have lost the stigma connected to Out of Wedlock pregnancy and birth. It might be time to rethink it, and to resume social pressure not to have kids before marriage, as well as the idea that marriage can be freely entered into and left. Because these two things (children of divorced parents are more likely to be poor than those of married parents) are driving the upsurge in poverty.
maybe, just maybe, we can see a bit of wisdom in Christian morality. Because, supernatural and spiritual considerations side, it seems to work a lot better than the loose rules of our secular society.
the major cause seems to be--to use a word long out of vogue-bastardy. I know that is an inflammatory word, and considered insulting. I used it for that very reason. Consider something: children born to single mothers are five times more likely to be in poverty than those born to married parents. It's the biggest single predictor of poverty.
It's bigger than race--even though blacks are more likely to be poor than whites 75% of blacks are born of single mothers. Hispanics also have this problem--51% of Hispanics are born out of wedlock
We have lost the stigma connected to Out of Wedlock pregnancy and birth. It might be time to rethink it, and to resume social pressure not to have kids before marriage, as well as the idea that marriage can be freely entered into and left. Because these two things (children of divorced parents are more likely to be poor than those of married parents) are driving the upsurge in poverty.
maybe, just maybe, we can see a bit of wisdom in Christian morality. Because, supernatural and spiritual considerations side, it seems to work a lot better than the loose rules of our secular society.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Vote on the New Poll--It's Actually Relevent!
There is a small but dedicated movement within Evangelical Protestantism to reclaim liturgical worship, as their scholarship about the Pre-Nicene and Pre-Great Schism Church improves.
I think it's great, but others may not.
So I have set up a hypothetical question in the poll. Please vote.
I think it's great, but others may not.
So I have set up a hypothetical question in the poll. Please vote.
"I got a 'puter, I got a 'puter" (delivered in liltingly taunting tones!)
I have many things in life, both tangible and intangible. And now, the tangible and intangible have intersected, and I have computer of my own once more.
Among the intangible things I have is great taste in ex-wives. I'm really lousy at being married, by all the evidence, but my ex-wives still care about me. So Tuesday, when my 2d ex-wife came up from Florida to visit, she brought a couple of things. One was a nice basket, filled with high quality cheeses--Havarti, asiago, Swiss, extra sharp cheddar, goat cheese, butterkase, etc-fruit and sausage. the other was-wait for it-a computer.
I now have a HP laptop computer, with an AMD Athelon processor operating at 1.87 gig. A Gigabyte of RAM, a forty gig HD, etc. it's her old 'puter. Her new man is a PhD, and bought himself a new machine, which brought their household total to four. She new mine had died, so i got this one. A lovely act of generosity.
This computer is generations ahead of my old one, and it's not constructed, Frankenstein fashion out of bits of older dead computers! It's not without problems--some practical, and some personal. The practical problems are three fold; mastering new keyboard (it's QWERTY, but differently sized and some of the controls are in different places than the generic keyboards I'm used to), getting used to a touch pad (it has the advantages however of a track ball, my previous preference in "mousing") and the fact it used an older internal protocol for wireless that requires an external wireless adaptor plugged into the USB port (but it was Ethernet ready and our Ethernet link up is still functional-so that just means I cant compute in the kitchen!). The biggest effect of these things is to slow my typing speed down and to result in lots of typos as I get used to the new keyboard. The personal problem is that I can now spend more time researching and browsing.
This last more of a problem than it might seem! i have made a temporary folder in my bookmarks so i can go back to things, and write about them, because just this morning i found enough to write about to guarantee a 14 hour computer session--maybe more if I proof read! So for the next couple of days I will have things to write about or comment on lined up!
So,those of you who like my writing style, or appreciate my commentary, please share in my happiness. those of you who simply come here to keep an eye on the reactionary, redneck, Catholic curmudgeon, well, I'm better equipped than ever to spread my mayhem and misery throughout the 'Netverse!
Among the intangible things I have is great taste in ex-wives. I'm really lousy at being married, by all the evidence, but my ex-wives still care about me. So Tuesday, when my 2d ex-wife came up from Florida to visit, she brought a couple of things. One was a nice basket, filled with high quality cheeses--Havarti, asiago, Swiss, extra sharp cheddar, goat cheese, butterkase, etc-fruit and sausage. the other was-wait for it-a computer.
I now have a HP laptop computer, with an AMD Athelon processor operating at 1.87 gig. A Gigabyte of RAM, a forty gig HD, etc. it's her old 'puter. Her new man is a PhD, and bought himself a new machine, which brought their household total to four. She new mine had died, so i got this one. A lovely act of generosity.
This computer is generations ahead of my old one, and it's not constructed, Frankenstein fashion out of bits of older dead computers! It's not without problems--some practical, and some personal. The practical problems are three fold; mastering new keyboard (it's QWERTY, but differently sized and some of the controls are in different places than the generic keyboards I'm used to), getting used to a touch pad (it has the advantages however of a track ball, my previous preference in "mousing") and the fact it used an older internal protocol for wireless that requires an external wireless adaptor plugged into the USB port (but it was Ethernet ready and our Ethernet link up is still functional-so that just means I cant compute in the kitchen!). The biggest effect of these things is to slow my typing speed down and to result in lots of typos as I get used to the new keyboard. The personal problem is that I can now spend more time researching and browsing.
This last more of a problem than it might seem! i have made a temporary folder in my bookmarks so i can go back to things, and write about them, because just this morning i found enough to write about to guarantee a 14 hour computer session--maybe more if I proof read! So for the next couple of days I will have things to write about or comment on lined up!
So,those of you who like my writing style, or appreciate my commentary, please share in my happiness. those of you who simply come here to keep an eye on the reactionary, redneck, Catholic curmudgeon, well, I'm better equipped than ever to spread my mayhem and misery throughout the 'Netverse!
Thanks to Subvet....
...I have been made aware of a great new thresh hold in "Man Food", the art of the deep fry, and Texas Culture!
Are you ready for this? OK:
DEEP FRIED BEER!
You can verify it's existence for yourselves at:
www.fieldandstreamcom/blogs/hunting/2010/09/texas-chef-successfully-deep-friesbeer .
Only in Texas, would there bee such a confluence of masculinity, ingenuity, hubris and a deep frier.
Are you ready for this? OK:
DEEP FRIED BEER!
You can verify it's existence for yourselves at:
www.fieldandstreamcom/blogs/hunting/2010/09/texas-chef-successfully-deep-friesbeer .
Only in Texas, would there bee such a confluence of masculinity, ingenuity, hubris and a deep frier.
Vox Populi, Vox Dei (yeah, I know, spelling)
Well, the vote is in-and 'The People Have Spoken'.
If and when I get my little sailboat, it will be named Luna Lovegood. That name came in first in the Web Poll of the folk who read this Blog.
So be it-but there are two practical considerations (aside from if i ever get my hands on a boat!): One, everyone will assume I'm an immmature book head, or that i have a fixation on spacey teenage girls. Two, where will i find an acceptable figure head?
If and when I get my little sailboat, it will be named Luna Lovegood. That name came in first in the Web Poll of the folk who read this Blog.
So be it-but there are two practical considerations (aside from if i ever get my hands on a boat!): One, everyone will assume I'm an immmature book head, or that i have a fixation on spacey teenage girls. Two, where will i find an acceptable figure head?
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Cougar, Puma, Catamount, Mountain Lion, Panther, etc.
Well, Well, Well. It seems that all those redneck alarmists and dreamers that kept telling fish and wildlife that they were finding cougar sign in the Green/Brown/Monroe county area weren't full of high grade organic fertilizer, after all.
hunters and hikers have reported pug marks and scat since the late s, and some have reported the 'scream' of the American Catamount.
Well, DNA analysis of scat, casts of pug marks and finally, a NV picture of a cougar at it's kill has led Fish and wildlife to say, yep--Indiana has at least one.
hunters and hikers have reported pug marks and scat since the late s, and some have reported the 'scream' of the American Catamount.
Well, DNA analysis of scat, casts of pug marks and finally, a NV picture of a cougar at it's kill has led Fish and wildlife to say, yep--Indiana has at least one.
Saints
Saints are joy and a hope of the church. Not objects of worship, nor mediators, but Fellow Christians. Pilgrims who have arrived at their destination, who, among their prayers and worship, pray for those of us still on the road.
Sometimes, it makes me want to belch
I was perusing the Almy catalog today, to while away the time and I noticed the colours of the Vestments on offer. There was red, white, off white, green (in several shades), purple (in shades from violet to darn near blue or midnight), rose, blue and "indigo"--which I thought was blue, but might not be.
No Black.
That gave me pause. Black is still an approved liturgical colour. Blue, even if you call it indigo, is not.
I'm not blaming Almy--they're in business to make money, and they will offer what sells. But 'm blaming someone: A revisionist Presbyterate that all to often not only s thoughtless of tradition, but actively hostile to it. This is the chromatic equivalent of the horrible translation for the 2th week of ordinary time i wrote about a few days ago.
No Black.
That gave me pause. Black is still an approved liturgical colour. Blue, even if you call it indigo, is not.
I'm not blaming Almy--they're in business to make money, and they will offer what sells. But 'm blaming someone: A revisionist Presbyterate that all to often not only s thoughtless of tradition, but actively hostile to it. This is the chromatic equivalent of the horrible translation for the 2th week of ordinary time i wrote about a few days ago.
Incarnation and Thought
I always seem, in the end, to come back to the essence of Christianity as being Incarnational. Emmanuel--God with us--always arises. If I think about prayer, either I end up at the Eucharist, or at the Holy Spirit, who, as St. Paul says, petitions within us using groans and utterances we do not understand or hear. So this passage from Introduction to Christianity really stood out to me.
"Although it is true that we only know God as he is reflected in human thought, the Christian faith held firmly to the view that in this reflection it is him that we know. Even if we are not capable of breaking out of the narrow bounds of our consciousness, God can never the less break into this consciousness and show himself in it."
(Introduction to Christianity, Joseph Ratzinger. Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2004--pg 167) Actually, this is supported by the New Testament, where St. Paul says that we see things now "as in a mirror, darkly'.
"Although it is true that we only know God as he is reflected in human thought, the Christian faith held firmly to the view that in this reflection it is him that we know. Even if we are not capable of breaking out of the narrow bounds of our consciousness, God can never the less break into this consciousness and show himself in it."
(Introduction to Christianity, Joseph Ratzinger. Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2004--pg 167) Actually, this is supported by the New Testament, where St. Paul says that we see things now "as in a mirror, darkly'.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
GoodEats!
Here's a recipe for all you people with a yen for grilled beef,but different:
Serbo-Bavarian Hoosier Style Grilled Steak
Take two pieces of boneless round steak,and pound the heck out of 'em--round steak is tough.
After pounding give each a light-remember,light--coating of Dijon mustard on one side.
Sprinkle them with a bit of coarse salt,fresh cracked black pepper and paprika. Rub a half teaspoon to a teaspoon of crushed garlic on them. Cover with generous chopped white onion. Put cubed Gouda cheese on one and add a generous but not exorbitant amount of almost crispy bacon bits--there should be a bit of chewiness to them.
Flip the piece without the cheese and bacon on top of the other and tie them with kitchen twine, as often along the length as needed to hold them together well. Brush with bacon drippings on one side that's the first side up on the grill.
Grill them on indirect coals for 30 minutes to the side. Keep the grill closed. When you flip them, brush the new top with bacon drippings. After 30minutes on a side grill the for 15 more minutes, remembering to turn them once during that time to avid over cooking (that would make them dry). Don't forget to brush with bacon drippings when you turn them over.
Serve on a platter, remove the string, and slice through both sides, about half the size you would cut if it were a single layer steak.
Good Eats.
Serbo-Bavarian Hoosier Style Grilled Steak
Take two pieces of boneless round steak,and pound the heck out of 'em--round steak is tough.
After pounding give each a light-remember,light--coating of Dijon mustard on one side.
Sprinkle them with a bit of coarse salt,fresh cracked black pepper and paprika. Rub a half teaspoon to a teaspoon of crushed garlic on them. Cover with generous chopped white onion. Put cubed Gouda cheese on one and add a generous but not exorbitant amount of almost crispy bacon bits--there should be a bit of chewiness to them.
Flip the piece without the cheese and bacon on top of the other and tie them with kitchen twine, as often along the length as needed to hold them together well. Brush with bacon drippings on one side that's the first side up on the grill.
Grill them on indirect coals for 30 minutes to the side. Keep the grill closed. When you flip them, brush the new top with bacon drippings. After 30minutes on a side grill the for 15 more minutes, remembering to turn them once during that time to avid over cooking (that would make them dry). Don't forget to brush with bacon drippings when you turn them over.
Serve on a platter, remove the string, and slice through both sides, about half the size you would cut if it were a single layer steak.
Good Eats.
Ines Sainz
Ines Sainz is a sports journalist who came to my attention this morning when I caught part of the Today Show. The simplest way to describe her is as a "hottie". She is beautiful, and dresses, in her own words to be attractive.
She seems to be at the center of some sort of media scandal about sexual harassment, due to her treatment when conducting locker room interviews.
Aside from the practical matter of an attractive woman going into a male locker room and what one can expect--and should expect, political correctness aside--her take on the matter is the most important, and the least reported.
She says she has never been a victim of sexual harassment in a locker room, that she is doing her job, that it's a locker room and she hasn't felt uncomfortable, threatened or in a hostile environment. But the media frenzy of political correctness doesn't seem to pay attention to her. That's so weird, because when I was trying to learn about sexual harassment, I was told that the acid test was whether a person felt harassed.
It goes back, in some ways, to a study on sexual behavior and attitudes I read, that said that 18% of men felt sexually harassed at work, while closer to 60% of women did. I have been in working environments with mixed staff--male and female--and have seen many, many things that if a male did them to a female it would be sexual harassment, but they guys don't feel harassed. Actually, I have seen and heard more touching and sexual comments by women to men than vice versa.
Sexual harassment is too important, and too destructive, a thing to be allowed to be politicised. That leads to people imposing their standards, unevenly, on others. So let Ms. Sainz do her job and be happy at it, even if you wouldn't like it.
She seems to be at the center of some sort of media scandal about sexual harassment, due to her treatment when conducting locker room interviews.
Aside from the practical matter of an attractive woman going into a male locker room and what one can expect--and should expect, political correctness aside--her take on the matter is the most important, and the least reported.
She says she has never been a victim of sexual harassment in a locker room, that she is doing her job, that it's a locker room and she hasn't felt uncomfortable, threatened or in a hostile environment. But the media frenzy of political correctness doesn't seem to pay attention to her. That's so weird, because when I was trying to learn about sexual harassment, I was told that the acid test was whether a person felt harassed.
It goes back, in some ways, to a study on sexual behavior and attitudes I read, that said that 18% of men felt sexually harassed at work, while closer to 60% of women did. I have been in working environments with mixed staff--male and female--and have seen many, many things that if a male did them to a female it would be sexual harassment, but they guys don't feel harassed. Actually, I have seen and heard more touching and sexual comments by women to men than vice versa.
Sexual harassment is too important, and too destructive, a thing to be allowed to be politicised. That leads to people imposing their standards, unevenly, on others. So let Ms. Sainz do her job and be happy at it, even if you wouldn't like it.
Why is Todd Brown Still a Bishop in Good Standing?
So in the diocese of Orange, which is under the dictatorial control of Todd Brown (remember the Bishop who jerked a woman to her feet for trying to receive Holy communion kneeling, when the Church says she has a right to, and it's the preferred--normative--way in the Roman Rite?) has a new way of destroying the faith of Catholics.
Fr. Richard Sparks is giving talks on Catholic Morality at SS Simon and Jude Parish in Huntington Beach CA. This is the priest who said that Jesus necked with Mary Magdalene, that Joseph and Mary fondled each other, that he has a bigger penis than Mel Gibson.
This is the guy who authored a sex ed curriculum for kids that teaches 3d graders all about mutual masturbation and it's joys, 4th graders all about oral sex and it's joys, and Middle Schoolers all about S&M. It doesn't say much about morality though. And, of course, it's very nature violates the Churches teachings about the human latency period and it's need to be inviolate.
So he's giving a talk, publicized in the Parish Bulletin, called "Being Catholic, Christian, and Moral Today".
So Bishop Brown, Who will lay hands on a woman for exercising her rights as a Roman Catholic, what are you doing about this? Nothin', that I can see.
Bishop Brown isn't just part of the problem, he's making it worse, because he isn't really into the whole Catholicism thing.
Fr. Richard Sparks is giving talks on Catholic Morality at SS Simon and Jude Parish in Huntington Beach CA. This is the priest who said that Jesus necked with Mary Magdalene, that Joseph and Mary fondled each other, that he has a bigger penis than Mel Gibson.
This is the guy who authored a sex ed curriculum for kids that teaches 3d graders all about mutual masturbation and it's joys, 4th graders all about oral sex and it's joys, and Middle Schoolers all about S&M. It doesn't say much about morality though. And, of course, it's very nature violates the Churches teachings about the human latency period and it's need to be inviolate.
So he's giving a talk, publicized in the Parish Bulletin, called "Being Catholic, Christian, and Moral Today".
So Bishop Brown, Who will lay hands on a woman for exercising her rights as a Roman Catholic, what are you doing about this? Nothin', that I can see.
Bishop Brown isn't just part of the problem, he's making it worse, because he isn't really into the whole Catholicism thing.
Pi**ed Off Muslims
Hartford Connecticut has decided that they won't open their City
councel meetings with Islamic Prayers. CAIR is upset.
CAIR is linked to Hamas, BTW.
So, gee--a group that represents a fraction of the 1.5% of Americans is upset they didn't get their way. I wonder if there will be riots in Gaza over this.
councel meetings with Islamic Prayers. CAIR is upset.
CAIR is linked to Hamas, BTW.
So, gee--a group that represents a fraction of the 1.5% of Americans is upset they didn't get their way. I wonder if there will be riots in Gaza over this.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Stealing from Father Z
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/09/wdtprs-16th-sunday-after-pentecost-out-good-works-bound-up-in-his-grace/
Well, I'm unashamedly stealing from Father Z--in the hopes that people who don't read him will! Plus, it's a really though provoking post.
The collect in the Roman Missal (EF) for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost becomes in the current Missal the Opening Prayer for the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time.
In Latin, it reads: Tua nos, quaesumus, Domine, gratia
semper et praeveniat, et sequatur, ac bonis operibus iugiter praestet esse intentos
In the current ICEL translation it's rendered: Lord, our help and guide, make your love the foundation of our lives. May our love for you express itself in our eagerness to do good for others.
Father Z translates this as: We beg, O Lord, that your grace may always go before us and follow after, and hence continously grant us to be intent on good works.
Father Z refers to the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary, and has a rather long sidussion of the verb "iugiter", and some fine points of Latin style, as found in Church Latin, at least.
but what sticks in my mind is even my dumb a** can see that there is not much relation between the typical text and the one we were given.
I think that there was a disconnect of intent between the translators and the compilers of the OF.
Well, I'm unashamedly stealing from Father Z--in the hopes that people who don't read him will! Plus, it's a really though provoking post.
The collect in the Roman Missal (EF) for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost becomes in the current Missal the Opening Prayer for the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time.
In Latin, it reads: Tua nos, quaesumus, Domine, gratia
semper et praeveniat, et sequatur, ac bonis operibus iugiter praestet esse intentos
In the current ICEL translation it's rendered: Lord, our help and guide, make your love the foundation of our lives. May our love for you express itself in our eagerness to do good for others.
Father Z translates this as: We beg, O Lord, that your grace may always go before us and follow after, and hence continously grant us to be intent on good works.
Father Z refers to the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary, and has a rather long sidussion of the verb "iugiter", and some fine points of Latin style, as found in Church Latin, at least.
but what sticks in my mind is even my dumb a** can see that there is not much relation between the typical text and the one we were given.
I think that there was a disconnect of intent between the translators and the compilers of the OF.
Yeah, I'm Still Being Lazy
You can't talk about that in public: CNN had a poll up on it's we site asking people if they thought Gay TV Characters were bad for society. GLAAD was upset, and said the poll was bad for society. CNN took it down. Most respondents said NO--gay characters weren't bad for society. I guess it's bad to talk about things that make people uncomfortable.
Muslims make it hard for me to overcome my bias: In Indonesia, two Christians, one of them a ministers, and one a layman, were attacked by "assailants" who stabbed one and clubbed the other. The religious affiliation of the "assailants" was not reported, but Indonesia is a Muslim nation, and it has a recent history of attacks by Muslims on Christian, including beheading school girls etc. It's a safe bet that the "assailants" were not Jehovah's Witnesses.
In India, a professor at the Newman College of Thudpuxha had his hand cut off because Muslims decided that the questions of an exam he gave were disrespectful of Muhammad and Islam. He apologized to every one from the public to the Church (the college is a Catholic institution) but still had his hand cut off. Now the college has fired him because they are afraid.
A Dead Baby at Winston-Salem PP found and Investigated: A dead baby was found in a plastic tub outside of a PP clinic in NC. The Employees of PP found it, and called police. Cause of death hasn't been established, but the child was a newborn. I wrote a couple of days ago about pro aborts trying to decriminalize infanticide in Mexico, and how they had misrepresented women who were jailed for infanticide as being jailed for abortion. People, the link between abortion and the murder of post partum human beings is so clear, and so not talked about. That, at the bottom line, is why the child was left at a PP clinic.
Auxiliary Bishops: Boston is now home to two new Auxiliary Bishops. Too bad. If a diocese is so large or populous as to need multiple auxiliary Bishops, except perhaps due to the advanced age or infirmity of the Ordinary, it needs to be broken into more manageable pieces. If you go to Italy, for instance, you will find a large number of quite small diocese. Perhaps we should get away from the territorially huge, or hugely populated, American diocese, and make them smaller. For instance--how many auxiliary bishops does LA have? This sort of thing is bad for the Church.
Christians persecuted by misapplications of law, in Texas: In San Antonio, a man was arrested fro publicly witnessing the Christian Faith. Todd Leibovitz was charged with "pedalling without a licence" and held for 16 hours. The charges were dropped, but he still spent the time in jail, and still has an arrest on record. It's especially galling when one realizes he wasn't pedalling. this isn't an isolated event. Jose Muniz, a minister, has been repeatedly threatened with arrest for handing out Bible tracts. The law he is threatened with is a local ordinance prohibition hand bill advertising. But the ordinance specifically says it does not include the distribution of anything except commercial advertising. What we see here are biased police officers attempting to quell the constitutional exercise of free speech and freedom of religious practice.
The Church of the Assumption will be torn down: Designed by the great Church Architect Patrick Charles Keely, and consecrated by St. John Neuman, it was the site of the Baptism of St. Catharine Drexel.
The foundation that has been trying to preserve it hasn't got enough money to stabilize the 15 storey steeples, and the building is becoming unsafe. This is an example of the modernizers and the upwardly mobile faction in the Church devastating our artistic patrimony, with out even meaning to. After the Second World War, Catholics found their economic position improved, and joined in the flight to suburbia in numbers consistent with everyone else. Once there, they erected pedestrian churches, and didn't even consider what was going to happen to a century's labour and sacrifice in the Cities. Well, in the cities the triumphs of art and architecture went into decline. And the Diocese of America erected new parishes. The problem is, the art fell into ruin, and the inner cities were functionally abandoned by the Church. Those who had money went out of town, those who didn't stayed, and watched as their parishes were closed, and they were no longer effectively ministered to. (And don't try to tell me that's not true--in the town I'm from all the working class parishes have been closed. The poor have to drive or get themselves further than the wealthy do to attend Mass. "Preferential Option for the Poor"--yeah right. "Artistic and Liturgical Heritage"--yeah right)
So anyway, there isn't enough money to preserve the Church, and ironically, there isn't enough to pay for it's demolition, either. If you're a millionaire and reading this--go save this Church!
Reflecting on the Culture of Death: In the last week I have seen several obviously psychotic people on the streets of Louisville. One was having an argument with the guy on the bicycle next to him. It was very heated, and perhaps they were going to come to blows, except there wasn't a bicycle, or a guy, next to him. Then there were the mutterers and the obviously terrified.
This is as much a part of the culture of death as the local abortion clinic, or the State of Kentucky executing a prisoner. (which I'm not even all that sure about being part of a culture of death!) or the dead child found at the PP clinic above. These people are on the streets because the people, through the agency of the State Government, has closed the psychiatric hospitals, on one pretext or another, because they didn't wan to spend the money to care for them. In effect, we just tossed them onto the streets, to die from exposure, inadequate medical care, crime, drugs , disease or despair. They were nuts, and couldn't take care of themselves. So we tossed them. Disposable people.
I hope this makes you feel a bit guilty, because we are responsible for the decisions of our government. We spend more on political organizers, endangered species, political pork projects and what have you on these folks, who are going to die, ill, alone and uncared for, because they are hard to take.
Nice goin', America. Good job, Kentucky. And, IR, thank you so much for your cooperation.
Sometimes I wonder if Modern Man can avoid Hell at all.
Muslims make it hard for me to overcome my bias: In Indonesia, two Christians, one of them a ministers, and one a layman, were attacked by "assailants" who stabbed one and clubbed the other. The religious affiliation of the "assailants" was not reported, but Indonesia is a Muslim nation, and it has a recent history of attacks by Muslims on Christian, including beheading school girls etc. It's a safe bet that the "assailants" were not Jehovah's Witnesses.
In India, a professor at the Newman College of Thudpuxha had his hand cut off because Muslims decided that the questions of an exam he gave were disrespectful of Muhammad and Islam. He apologized to every one from the public to the Church (the college is a Catholic institution) but still had his hand cut off. Now the college has fired him because they are afraid.
A Dead Baby at Winston-Salem PP found and Investigated: A dead baby was found in a plastic tub outside of a PP clinic in NC. The Employees of PP found it, and called police. Cause of death hasn't been established, but the child was a newborn. I wrote a couple of days ago about pro aborts trying to decriminalize infanticide in Mexico, and how they had misrepresented women who were jailed for infanticide as being jailed for abortion. People, the link between abortion and the murder of post partum human beings is so clear, and so not talked about. That, at the bottom line, is why the child was left at a PP clinic.
Auxiliary Bishops: Boston is now home to two new Auxiliary Bishops. Too bad. If a diocese is so large or populous as to need multiple auxiliary Bishops, except perhaps due to the advanced age or infirmity of the Ordinary, it needs to be broken into more manageable pieces. If you go to Italy, for instance, you will find a large number of quite small diocese. Perhaps we should get away from the territorially huge, or hugely populated, American diocese, and make them smaller. For instance--how many auxiliary bishops does LA have? This sort of thing is bad for the Church.
Christians persecuted by misapplications of law, in Texas: In San Antonio, a man was arrested fro publicly witnessing the Christian Faith. Todd Leibovitz was charged with "pedalling without a licence" and held for 16 hours. The charges were dropped, but he still spent the time in jail, and still has an arrest on record. It's especially galling when one realizes he wasn't pedalling. this isn't an isolated event. Jose Muniz, a minister, has been repeatedly threatened with arrest for handing out Bible tracts. The law he is threatened with is a local ordinance prohibition hand bill advertising. But the ordinance specifically says it does not include the distribution of anything except commercial advertising. What we see here are biased police officers attempting to quell the constitutional exercise of free speech and freedom of religious practice.
The Church of the Assumption will be torn down: Designed by the great Church Architect Patrick Charles Keely, and consecrated by St. John Neuman, it was the site of the Baptism of St. Catharine Drexel.
The foundation that has been trying to preserve it hasn't got enough money to stabilize the 15 storey steeples, and the building is becoming unsafe. This is an example of the modernizers and the upwardly mobile faction in the Church devastating our artistic patrimony, with out even meaning to. After the Second World War, Catholics found their economic position improved, and joined in the flight to suburbia in numbers consistent with everyone else. Once there, they erected pedestrian churches, and didn't even consider what was going to happen to a century's labour and sacrifice in the Cities. Well, in the cities the triumphs of art and architecture went into decline. And the Diocese of America erected new parishes. The problem is, the art fell into ruin, and the inner cities were functionally abandoned by the Church. Those who had money went out of town, those who didn't stayed, and watched as their parishes were closed, and they were no longer effectively ministered to. (And don't try to tell me that's not true--in the town I'm from all the working class parishes have been closed. The poor have to drive or get themselves further than the wealthy do to attend Mass. "Preferential Option for the Poor"--yeah right. "Artistic and Liturgical Heritage"--yeah right)
So anyway, there isn't enough money to preserve the Church, and ironically, there isn't enough to pay for it's demolition, either. If you're a millionaire and reading this--go save this Church!
Reflecting on the Culture of Death: In the last week I have seen several obviously psychotic people on the streets of Louisville. One was having an argument with the guy on the bicycle next to him. It was very heated, and perhaps they were going to come to blows, except there wasn't a bicycle, or a guy, next to him. Then there were the mutterers and the obviously terrified.
This is as much a part of the culture of death as the local abortion clinic, or the State of Kentucky executing a prisoner. (which I'm not even all that sure about being part of a culture of death!) or the dead child found at the PP clinic above. These people are on the streets because the people, through the agency of the State Government, has closed the psychiatric hospitals, on one pretext or another, because they didn't wan to spend the money to care for them. In effect, we just tossed them onto the streets, to die from exposure, inadequate medical care, crime, drugs , disease or despair. They were nuts, and couldn't take care of themselves. So we tossed them. Disposable people.
I hope this makes you feel a bit guilty, because we are responsible for the decisions of our government. We spend more on political organizers, endangered species, political pork projects and what have you on these folks, who are going to die, ill, alone and uncared for, because they are hard to take.
Nice goin', America. Good job, Kentucky. And, IR, thank you so much for your cooperation.
Sometimes I wonder if Modern Man can avoid Hell at all.
And Now A Word From My Daughter
Which, if you have kids, or are thinking about having kids, or are a young person, would be good to read.
http://unwed-catholic.blogspot.com/
I know people tell me I should click on the post heading and link just to the post, but sometimes that doesn't work, This is one of those times.
It's the first post you will see.
http://unwed-catholic.blogspot.com/
I know people tell me I should click on the post heading and link just to the post, but sometimes that doesn't work, This is one of those times.
It's the first post you will see.
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