...the laugh you get might be your own.
TRIUMPHALIST--YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?
Saturday, June 23, 2012
It Don't Come in Pink!
But you can't get a pink Mosin-Nagant!They just don't come that way. Get a real Rifle, get a Mosin--besides, for the cost of one AR, you can get 5 Mosins, or 1 Mosin and 4000 rounds of ammunition....enough for the whole day at the range!
Friday, June 22, 2012
As a Firearms Enthusiast...
...I would like to make the following observation:
A hunter with an AR sees 30 rabbits, and gets them all, with one shot each.
A hunter with an AK sees a deer, and misses it with 30 shots.
A hunter with a Mosin-Nagant sees 5 bears, shoots one, and the rest come peacefully....
I love my Mosin-Nagant M91/30
A hunter with an AR sees 30 rabbits, and gets them all, with one shot each.
A hunter with an AK sees a deer, and misses it with 30 shots.
A hunter with a Mosin-Nagant sees 5 bears, shoots one, and the rest come peacefully....
I love my Mosin-Nagant M91/30
I Ain't Havin' Nun of It!
I hold the Religious Communities Represented by the LCWR in contempt. I do so because they are, in fact, contemptible. Yeah, I said that, I mean that, and I will not apologize or retract that statement.
So there.
The LCWR first started getting in trouble with the Vatican in 1971. Lets do some math: 2012-1971=41. For forty-one years these women have been defying the legitimate authority of the Church. If you have remembered your catechism--excuse me, faith formation--you will know that 'Schism' is defined as obstinate disobedience of legitimate ecclesiastical authority. I will go so far as to say that these women are in a state of material schism. Period.
The US is in the unique position of having two official bodies representing the leadership of religious communities of women. The LCWR, which is in trouble for various failing of a doctrinal mature, and who have been investigated for irregularities in the substance of religious life, and the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, which is not, and has not been, subject to either of these conditions. Interestingly, while most US communities of women religious are represented by the LCWR, those that are not receive 80% of the new vocations to religious life, and have growing young communities. Those groups, represented by the CMSWR have my highest respect and esteem. The CMSWR was formed at the request of religious communities of women who could no longer cooperate with the heresy, errors and schism of the LCWR, and wished to disassociate themselves from while still having a way to network and address common concerns.
In high school, the Sisters of Providence taught me not to say the rosary, not to pray before the Blessed Sacrament, not to pay attention to the Catechism. They are represented by the LCWR. There is an interesting letter posted on Father Z's blog, from a woman detailing the contents of her 'Catholic' education at the hands of the Congregation of St. Joseph. She also details the contents of their current web site. Check it out, and you'll see what I mean. They too, are affiliated with LCWR.
Then Check out the groups affiliated with the CMSWR--it's like night and day, which is more apt that it sounds, for one is covered int he darkness of heresy, error, schism, sin, lesbianism (really, do some research--it's appalling) and neo-paganism, the other is seeking to walk in the light of Christ.
This isn't meant as a slur on any single Woman in the Religious Life--I have met and known some remarkable Women Religious whose congregations/orders were represented by the LCWR--but they suffered fromt heir own communities, while taking their vows seriously enough to suffer from them for Christ.
The LCWR has said, f their recent meeting with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that the accounting they have called to, and the reforms they have been told to implement "...are keenly felt by the vast majority of Catholic sisters who have elected, and therefore feel a close identity with, their leaders..." . The LCWR has a pattern of twisting words, and lying by omission, but this I believe, and this is why I hold these communities (again without applying it to any given woman religious) in contempt.
Nuns on a Bus? yeah, I'd like most of them to be on a bus, a bus right out of the country, the anglosphere and the Church. Yeah, I said that too--refer to paragraph 1 for clarification.
So there.
The LCWR first started getting in trouble with the Vatican in 1971. Lets do some math: 2012-1971=41. For forty-one years these women have been defying the legitimate authority of the Church. If you have remembered your catechism--excuse me, faith formation--you will know that 'Schism' is defined as obstinate disobedience of legitimate ecclesiastical authority. I will go so far as to say that these women are in a state of material schism. Period.
The US is in the unique position of having two official bodies representing the leadership of religious communities of women. The LCWR, which is in trouble for various failing of a doctrinal mature, and who have been investigated for irregularities in the substance of religious life, and the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, which is not, and has not been, subject to either of these conditions. Interestingly, while most US communities of women religious are represented by the LCWR, those that are not receive 80% of the new vocations to religious life, and have growing young communities. Those groups, represented by the CMSWR have my highest respect and esteem. The CMSWR was formed at the request of religious communities of women who could no longer cooperate with the heresy, errors and schism of the LCWR, and wished to disassociate themselves from while still having a way to network and address common concerns.
In high school, the Sisters of Providence taught me not to say the rosary, not to pray before the Blessed Sacrament, not to pay attention to the Catechism. They are represented by the LCWR. There is an interesting letter posted on Father Z's blog, from a woman detailing the contents of her 'Catholic' education at the hands of the Congregation of St. Joseph. She also details the contents of their current web site. Check it out, and you'll see what I mean. They too, are affiliated with LCWR.
Then Check out the groups affiliated with the CMSWR--it's like night and day, which is more apt that it sounds, for one is covered int he darkness of heresy, error, schism, sin, lesbianism (really, do some research--it's appalling) and neo-paganism, the other is seeking to walk in the light of Christ.
This isn't meant as a slur on any single Woman in the Religious Life--I have met and known some remarkable Women Religious whose congregations/orders were represented by the LCWR--but they suffered fromt heir own communities, while taking their vows seriously enough to suffer from them for Christ.
The LCWR has said, f their recent meeting with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that the accounting they have called to, and the reforms they have been told to implement "...are keenly felt by the vast majority of Catholic sisters who have elected, and therefore feel a close identity with, their leaders..." . The LCWR has a pattern of twisting words, and lying by omission, but this I believe, and this is why I hold these communities (again without applying it to any given woman religious) in contempt.
Nuns on a Bus? yeah, I'd like most of them to be on a bus, a bus right out of the country, the anglosphere and the Church. Yeah, I said that too--refer to paragraph 1 for clarification.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Bullying? Let's Look at the Bullies.
Two weeks ago Friday, I attended a Rally for Religious Freedom. There I saw some bullying in action. Quite simply, an Obama supporter walked into the rally with the rest of us, and began, not heckling, but screaming at the facilitator of the event. This woman screamed at the readings from the Founding Fathers, she screamed at the people in attendance. When we declined to engage her in debate or argument she started screaming at the organizers "to keep these people off of me, keep them away from me!" Yet no one would would get with sever or eight feet of her. So she began trying to get into peoples faces and shove them, trying to precipitate an event--trying to start a fight--to make a propaganda opportunity. This is the face of political bullying today.
If you're wondering why I am choosing to write about this today, it comes from a post from a face FaceBook friend, who referred to the boycott of J.C. Penny as "right wing bullying. It's not bullying.
It's activism. No one has ever referred to boycotts from the Left as bullying, so why is it bullying when it's done by the right?
You may or may not recall the teacher in the Rowan-Salisbury School district in North Carolina who became wrathful with her students when they criticized Obama. She went so far as to threaten them with arrest, because she believed it to be unlawful to criticize the President. How odd, a woman with degrees, teaching History and Civics who seems to be unaware of the overturning of the Alien and Sedition acts. Since I find it hard to believe that someone that ignorant could end up teaching these subjects in a public school, I consider this to be an attempt at intimidation, which is the core of bullying. This came to public attention when one student turned on the ol' cell phone camera and left it on the desk The student then posted the video on You Tube, and it went viral. If you look it up, and watch it, you'll wonder how any one could be allowed to talk in such a manner to her students, because the language and tone become verbal abuse. By the way, she has been allowed to keep her job, and was simply reassigned to her original position in the "alternative to suspension" program.
Then there is the case of Dan Savage, of the "It Gets Better" project. Mr. Savage is an anti-bullying activist. Which makes his behavior even more reprehensible. Let me be honest about this--I understand the anger and resentment that many people who experience primarily Same Sex Attraction feel, and I think Gay Bashing, when physical is a crime--it's assault and batter--and when verbal is a sin. It's just wrong. Yet Mr. Savage engaged in verbal Christian Bashing at an address to the National High School Journalism Conference (sponsored by the National Scholastic Press Association and the Journalism Education Association) he launched into bullying of his own. Two wrongs don't make a right--except int he case of bullying Christians and conservatives. Mr. Savage called the hundred or so students who walked out "pansy-asses", told them that they could ignore all the "bullshit" in the bible, and made fun of Christians and Christian beliefs. This conference included students from Christian and Catholic Schools, and this is nothing less than an attempt to marginalize them, and exclude them from mainstream American society. It is an attempt to silence them. Worse, many of the students in attendance heckled, hooted and laughed. Can you imagine the outcry if this were done to Homosexual Students? The response from the NSPA and the JEA was simply verbal fluff--no apology was issued. At least one teacher--from Sutter Union High School in California--said "I thought this would be about anti-bullying, it turned into an attack on Christian beliefs."
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property has a video, which runs almost 18 minutes, documenting everything from obscene gestures, to physical assaults, committed against them for speaking their minds in public. This include spraying them with pesticides, stealing their literature by the boxful then burning it, spitting on them, etc. This is what bullying looks like.
I used to be on the left, far to the left, because I despise controlled speech, collectivism--even as represented by corporate economy--and dictatorship. My watershed moment came when pro-life activists came to Bloomington IN, and the young people on the street became incensed at there very presence. It wasn't enough to disagree, they sought to silence them. Young women would go up to the young women in the pro-life group and accuse them of being sex slaves, breeding stock and ask if they liked f*cking their dads with out recourse to abortion. Their signs were defaced, they were spat upon and insulted. The left, I have found is even more intolerant than the right.
In another personally observed situation, I read in the local Alternative News Weekly about the 'deplorable rowdiness" at the Abortion Clinic in Louisville. So I went to watch. What I saw was deplorable, but it was not among those keeping prayer vigil or protesting--it was among the escorts, who would shout obscenities at those opposed to abortion, shove them, get in their faces and then accuse them of being aggressive (as in chest to chest shoving, forcing them into traffic) and trying to trip them or to start fights. (This by the way, is why I do not go to the abortion clinic--my temper is as redneck as the rest of me, and I would give them a fight. I do not need to go to jail.) Speaking of this, the American Life League once had a website listing documented pro-abortion violence, with over 5000 (Five Thousand!) entries--from beatings, to rape, to kidnapping and forced abortion, to murder--in the United States.
Over at Weasel Zippers there is a telling video up. It about the kids from PS 90 in Coney Island, who were forbidden from singing Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American" by their principal. Their parents organized a protest, in which the kids sang the song outside of the school. In attendance was Rep Bob Turner, of New York. The kids were swarmed by adults who shouted over them, drowned them out, and tried telling the parents that it was inappropriate for these kids to sing the song. Theyhated the idea that anyone would say "God Bless the USA".
I guess that shows the influence of Jeremiah Wright and his "God Damn the America"theology hatred.
It would be nice if we thought that we could rely on the justice system to protect us from this sort of thing, but we can't. Case in point: The Group MassResistance (sic) has been opposing Gay Marriage. There is a fellow from Maine, by name of Adam Flanders. He is a Gay activist. In 2007 he wrote a public letter asking for an investigation of a Gay youth club he was involved with, in which he detailed his sexual molestation of two 14 year old boys. He sent this letter to police departments, news media and pro-family groups. he also talked about other adults having sex with minors, alcohol and drug use and other goings on in the club. he was convicted of sexual abuse of minors in 2008, and is on the sex offenders registry. After getting out of jail, on the advice of homosexual advocacy groups, he asked the various internet sites that had his letter posted to remove it. MassResistance did not. He then used a Maine statute to accuse MassResitance of cyber stalking and harassment for not doing so. The letter had been published, by him, and was on public record as evidence in a criminal trial. He specified Brian Camenker as the offender (not, you will note, the organization that runs the site) and applied for, and got, a restraining order against. Mr. Camenker. This order was issued by a Maine Judge, against someone in Massachusetts, for internet conduct--things across state line have been, in American Law, a Federal Responsibility, but District Judge Patricia G. Worth issued the restraining order, and did not allow Mr. Camenker to present any evidence on his behalf. So much for Free Speech in America.
In Oklahoma, Zach Davis is an umpaid, volunteer police officer. He lost his ful time paying job and his Church raised $400 to help him make ends meet. Now he is at risk of losing his position as a police officer, because he has been accused of improperly accepting money. Lets get this straight, a church helped someone out, and now he is being punished for it. This is simply an attempt to penalize someone for using a private source of aid instead of public funds. Had he received money from, say, the township trustee he wouldn't be in trouble. Actually, this is an attempt to keep churches from helping people involved with government by making them afraid of accepting needed help. the next step is,of course, to claim conflict of interest if one is involved in a Church group.
So yes, let's put an end to bullying and intimidation. Stop the double standard for free speech, freedom of association, violence and intimidation by the bullies of the left.
If you're wondering why I am choosing to write about this today, it comes from a post from a face FaceBook friend, who referred to the boycott of J.C. Penny as "right wing bullying. It's not bullying.
It's activism. No one has ever referred to boycotts from the Left as bullying, so why is it bullying when it's done by the right?
You may or may not recall the teacher in the Rowan-Salisbury School district in North Carolina who became wrathful with her students when they criticized Obama. She went so far as to threaten them with arrest, because she believed it to be unlawful to criticize the President. How odd, a woman with degrees, teaching History and Civics who seems to be unaware of the overturning of the Alien and Sedition acts. Since I find it hard to believe that someone that ignorant could end up teaching these subjects in a public school, I consider this to be an attempt at intimidation, which is the core of bullying. This came to public attention when one student turned on the ol' cell phone camera and left it on the desk The student then posted the video on You Tube, and it went viral. If you look it up, and watch it, you'll wonder how any one could be allowed to talk in such a manner to her students, because the language and tone become verbal abuse. By the way, she has been allowed to keep her job, and was simply reassigned to her original position in the "alternative to suspension" program.
Then there is the case of Dan Savage, of the "It Gets Better" project. Mr. Savage is an anti-bullying activist. Which makes his behavior even more reprehensible. Let me be honest about this--I understand the anger and resentment that many people who experience primarily Same Sex Attraction feel, and I think Gay Bashing, when physical is a crime--it's assault and batter--and when verbal is a sin. It's just wrong. Yet Mr. Savage engaged in verbal Christian Bashing at an address to the National High School Journalism Conference (sponsored by the National Scholastic Press Association and the Journalism Education Association) he launched into bullying of his own. Two wrongs don't make a right--except int he case of bullying Christians and conservatives. Mr. Savage called the hundred or so students who walked out "pansy-asses", told them that they could ignore all the "bullshit" in the bible, and made fun of Christians and Christian beliefs. This conference included students from Christian and Catholic Schools, and this is nothing less than an attempt to marginalize them, and exclude them from mainstream American society. It is an attempt to silence them. Worse, many of the students in attendance heckled, hooted and laughed. Can you imagine the outcry if this were done to Homosexual Students? The response from the NSPA and the JEA was simply verbal fluff--no apology was issued. At least one teacher--from Sutter Union High School in California--said "I thought this would be about anti-bullying, it turned into an attack on Christian beliefs."
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property has a video, which runs almost 18 minutes, documenting everything from obscene gestures, to physical assaults, committed against them for speaking their minds in public. This include spraying them with pesticides, stealing their literature by the boxful then burning it, spitting on them, etc. This is what bullying looks like.
I used to be on the left, far to the left, because I despise controlled speech, collectivism--even as represented by corporate economy--and dictatorship. My watershed moment came when pro-life activists came to Bloomington IN, and the young people on the street became incensed at there very presence. It wasn't enough to disagree, they sought to silence them. Young women would go up to the young women in the pro-life group and accuse them of being sex slaves, breeding stock and ask if they liked f*cking their dads with out recourse to abortion. Their signs were defaced, they were spat upon and insulted. The left, I have found is even more intolerant than the right.
In another personally observed situation, I read in the local Alternative News Weekly about the 'deplorable rowdiness" at the Abortion Clinic in Louisville. So I went to watch. What I saw was deplorable, but it was not among those keeping prayer vigil or protesting--it was among the escorts, who would shout obscenities at those opposed to abortion, shove them, get in their faces and then accuse them of being aggressive (as in chest to chest shoving, forcing them into traffic) and trying to trip them or to start fights. (This by the way, is why I do not go to the abortion clinic--my temper is as redneck as the rest of me, and I would give them a fight. I do not need to go to jail.) Speaking of this, the American Life League once had a website listing documented pro-abortion violence, with over 5000 (Five Thousand!) entries--from beatings, to rape, to kidnapping and forced abortion, to murder--in the United States.
Over at Weasel Zippers there is a telling video up. It about the kids from PS 90 in Coney Island, who were forbidden from singing Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American" by their principal. Their parents organized a protest, in which the kids sang the song outside of the school. In attendance was Rep Bob Turner, of New York. The kids were swarmed by adults who shouted over them, drowned them out, and tried telling the parents that it was inappropriate for these kids to sing the song. Theyhated the idea that anyone would say "God Bless the USA".
I guess that shows the influence of Jeremiah Wright and his "God Damn the America"
It would be nice if we thought that we could rely on the justice system to protect us from this sort of thing, but we can't. Case in point: The Group MassResistance (sic) has been opposing Gay Marriage. There is a fellow from Maine, by name of Adam Flanders. He is a Gay activist. In 2007 he wrote a public letter asking for an investigation of a Gay youth club he was involved with, in which he detailed his sexual molestation of two 14 year old boys. He sent this letter to police departments, news media and pro-family groups. he also talked about other adults having sex with minors, alcohol and drug use and other goings on in the club. he was convicted of sexual abuse of minors in 2008, and is on the sex offenders registry. After getting out of jail, on the advice of homosexual advocacy groups, he asked the various internet sites that had his letter posted to remove it. MassResistance did not. He then used a Maine statute to accuse MassResitance of cyber stalking and harassment for not doing so. The letter had been published, by him, and was on public record as evidence in a criminal trial. He specified Brian Camenker as the offender (not, you will note, the organization that runs the site) and applied for, and got, a restraining order against. Mr. Camenker. This order was issued by a Maine Judge, against someone in Massachusetts, for internet conduct--things across state line have been, in American Law, a Federal Responsibility, but District Judge Patricia G. Worth issued the restraining order, and did not allow Mr. Camenker to present any evidence on his behalf. So much for Free Speech in America.
In Oklahoma, Zach Davis is an umpaid, volunteer police officer. He lost his ful time paying job and his Church raised $400 to help him make ends meet. Now he is at risk of losing his position as a police officer, because he has been accused of improperly accepting money. Lets get this straight, a church helped someone out, and now he is being punished for it. This is simply an attempt to penalize someone for using a private source of aid instead of public funds. Had he received money from, say, the township trustee he wouldn't be in trouble. Actually, this is an attempt to keep churches from helping people involved with government by making them afraid of accepting needed help. the next step is,of course, to claim conflict of interest if one is involved in a Church group.
So yes, let's put an end to bullying and intimidation. Stop the double standard for free speech, freedom of association, violence and intimidation by the bullies of the left.
Above the Law
If you are 'of a certain age" you have vivid memories of then President Nixon invoking "Executive Privilege" in an attempt to block a congressional investigation into misdeeds by his administration. You may also remember the outrage that sparked, not only on the left, but in the middle and even on the right--the president is not above the law. In fact, in 2010 Obama publicly affirmed that we are a nation of laws, not men. (Although just a week ago when asked about his administrations evading of the law and court orders he snapped "I didn't ask for an arguement": his tune has obviously changed.)
So in the ongoing--and widely ignored by the biased "mainstream" media--gun running scandal, the threat of a finding of Contempt of Congress against Attorney General Eric Holder has met with yet another evasion of law: Obama, the New American Fuhrer, has invoked "Executive Privilege" in withholding the documents. Incredibly, in 2007 he denounced "trying to hide behind executive privilege, you can find the video of the TV interview on FaceBook. (Interesting, since the Internet has become the most powerful tool we have in exposing this sort of thing, the politicians are trying very hard to get control of it under various pretexts! So much for free speech.)
Obama believes that with enough verbal dancing, appeals to emotion and lies, his administration isn't bound by law. This fits with his assertion, from before he was elected that "We need to get beyond Constitutional limits on government power". The man is trying very hard to be a dictator. At this point, his demagoguery and contempt for the Constitution he has sworn to uphold exceeds even that of Andrew Jackson, of evil memory. Since he swore an oath, in front of the Chief Justice, I cannot for the life of me differentiate between his actions and perjury.
Then there is the interference by theJustice Department Obama Gestapo with statesinternal affairs, like getting rid of unauthorized/illegal voters on the election rolls. Coupled with his unilateral, and illegal decision to grant amnesty--as John McCain said, he is not king, and even Carter used a vote of congress to grant blanket amnesty--to illegal immigrants, to include those who have a criminal history (a direct violation of Federal law!) it looks like an attempt to steal the election. Don't forget the estimated 10,000 illegal immigrants who voted in Colorado in '08, and gave the Democrats a victory in the gubernatorial race by a margin of 5,000 votes.
The worst thing about this is that when the Government is above the law, when we fall back into the old European view that the government (whether king, parliament, emperor or bureaucracy) is the source of the law, and not the people--nullifying the consent of the governed--the people people are not only under the law, they are under the booted foot of the law, with that boot on their neck.
So in the ongoing--and widely ignored by the biased "mainstream" media--gun running scandal, the threat of a finding of Contempt of Congress against Attorney General Eric Holder has met with yet another evasion of law: Obama, the New American Fuhrer, has invoked "Executive Privilege" in withholding the documents. Incredibly, in 2007 he denounced "trying to hide behind executive privilege, you can find the video of the TV interview on FaceBook. (Interesting, since the Internet has become the most powerful tool we have in exposing this sort of thing, the politicians are trying very hard to get control of it under various pretexts! So much for free speech.)
Obama believes that with enough verbal dancing, appeals to emotion and lies, his administration isn't bound by law. This fits with his assertion, from before he was elected that "We need to get beyond Constitutional limits on government power". The man is trying very hard to be a dictator. At this point, his demagoguery and contempt for the Constitution he has sworn to uphold exceeds even that of Andrew Jackson, of evil memory. Since he swore an oath, in front of the Chief Justice, I cannot for the life of me differentiate between his actions and perjury.
Then there is the interference by the
The worst thing about this is that when the Government is above the law, when we fall back into the old European view that the government (whether king, parliament, emperor or bureaucracy) is the source of the law, and not the people--nullifying the consent of the governed--the people people are not only under the law, they are under the booted foot of the law, with that boot on their neck.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Here's a Question...
Just how far can a Catholic go in participating in American Popular Culture, without endangering their soul? Really, Jersey Shore, GCB, etc., they cant be good for us. What we take in as entertainment and recreation will have an effect.
I begin to wonder if we should withdraw from many popular entertainments, and from certain brands and types of consumer goods, for the good of our soul. I didn't used to understand the provision in the Memoriale Propositi about "not supporting players", but more and more, I see the people in the entertainment business as largely opposed to morality, God and the Church.
We need to put our money where our mouth is, and our viewing and consuming habits support people who wish us gone from the public sphere. So, how much do you think we should participate? Put your answers int he comm box--this is supposed to be a dialog.
I begin to wonder if we should withdraw from many popular entertainments, and from certain brands and types of consumer goods, for the good of our soul. I didn't used to understand the provision in the Memoriale Propositi about "not supporting players", but more and more, I see the people in the entertainment business as largely opposed to morality, God and the Church.
We need to put our money where our mouth is, and our viewing and consuming habits support people who wish us gone from the public sphere. So, how much do you think we should participate? Put your answers int he comm box--this is supposed to be a dialog.
Monday, June 18, 2012
My Camping Trip
So, me and my Sisters, one of my daughters, my three granddaughters and a Son-in-Law went camping for a week. It was an outing with some unexpected glitches, and lots of interesting fun.
First, the Major Glitch: There were supposed to be a lot more people in attendance. It didn't pan out, mostly due to work related issues. One S-i-L got his vacation cancelled by the company, a Daughter had her store audited, and came up with an alarming shortage. (I told her she had a thief, and she checked all her surveillance film and caught the thief. But that left the store short staffed and she had to work to cover the hole the thief left!), and so forth. My nephew's car died, and he couldn't make it. The thing is, all this happened at the last minute, and the food was not only purchased, but frozen and packed!
Lots of food--that led to a creative solution to the food glut problem that we will get to later.
First lets discuss the weather. So far this year my camping trips have been notable for horrible weather, either unseasonably hot, or marred by violent storms, or both. This time, however, that didn't happen. We went to McCormick's Creek State Park in Owen County IN--a marvelously beautiful place--after Mass on Corpus Christi Sunday. Sunday was hot, but that evening it cooled down, and for the rest of the week we had temps with highs in the low to mid 80s, and lows in the low 60s, with very low humidity. Couldn't ask for better!
We had some large portions of meat that were wet up to thaw, and be used but not enough mouths to eat them. I mean, we smoked a Boston But Roast ans a whole pork tenderloin! The solution proved to be simple--we just invited other campers to dinner, and made some new friends. My nieces came out on wednesday and we grilled seasoned hamburgers, and my own special recipe for Bison Burgers, and a made a huge pot of beans with meat. That was lovely.
The 'coons at that park are not only large and bod, they have union, a roster, a rota and supervisory staff. They were there every night--and I keep a clean camp site! By bold, well, how about we get up from the table, and in a minute or so we had to chase one off, who had begun eating the food still there before we could put it up! Among other things, they dragged out and ate a five pound bag of sugar, the kids crayons, a half gallon of baked beans... . I was both entertained and amazed when one got on the table and began drinking the onion soup that had gone with the Bratwurst roast. They got into the kitchen shelter and managed to get out the (sweet) gourmet coffee creamers my sisters brought, and drank them--three boxes of them. They opened the plastic food boxes, etc. I took to leaving the kitchen shelter open because I had to patch it where they had ripped the screen! We took to putting water containers on top of the boxes when the latches proved ineffective.
High points included the kids going to the nature center for presentations on wildlife, flora and the feeding of the critters, S-i-L honing his Kentucky Ninja Skills on the 'coons at night, the kids doing various unexpected things, and the contrast between my sisters camp (a Prime Example of Sixty Something Glamping) and my S-i-Ls camp ( a Prime Example of tarp and mosquito net engineering).
Basicly, we just hung out and had fun doing very little, enjoying the woods and canyon, etc. I tok the littles to the waterfall, and and was rewarded with the youngest's exclamation, when it came into view, "A fountain!!! God made a fountain in the woods!"
On Sturday, as we were packing up, I over heard the kids playing a "pretend game" that went more or less like this: Let's leave our home in the forest, and go to the city. In the city they have hot water. And sidewalks. We can find out parents there, and escape the Nargles and 'coons..."
Oh--one of the tents was seriously coated with tree sap, and had to be set up. On Sunday, we were blessed with a short but heavy rain shower that washed it for me.
Good trip.
First, the Major Glitch: There were supposed to be a lot more people in attendance. It didn't pan out, mostly due to work related issues. One S-i-L got his vacation cancelled by the company, a Daughter had her store audited, and came up with an alarming shortage. (I told her she had a thief, and she checked all her surveillance film and caught the thief. But that left the store short staffed and she had to work to cover the hole the thief left!), and so forth. My nephew's car died, and he couldn't make it. The thing is, all this happened at the last minute, and the food was not only purchased, but frozen and packed!
Lots of food--that led to a creative solution to the food glut problem that we will get to later.
First lets discuss the weather. So far this year my camping trips have been notable for horrible weather, either unseasonably hot, or marred by violent storms, or both. This time, however, that didn't happen. We went to McCormick's Creek State Park in Owen County IN--a marvelously beautiful place--after Mass on Corpus Christi Sunday. Sunday was hot, but that evening it cooled down, and for the rest of the week we had temps with highs in the low to mid 80s, and lows in the low 60s, with very low humidity. Couldn't ask for better!
We had some large portions of meat that were wet up to thaw, and be used but not enough mouths to eat them. I mean, we smoked a Boston But Roast ans a whole pork tenderloin! The solution proved to be simple--we just invited other campers to dinner, and made some new friends. My nieces came out on wednesday and we grilled seasoned hamburgers, and my own special recipe for Bison Burgers, and a made a huge pot of beans with meat. That was lovely.
The 'coons at that park are not only large and bod, they have union, a roster, a rota and supervisory staff. They were there every night--and I keep a clean camp site! By bold, well, how about we get up from the table, and in a minute or so we had to chase one off, who had begun eating the food still there before we could put it up! Among other things, they dragged out and ate a five pound bag of sugar, the kids crayons, a half gallon of baked beans... . I was both entertained and amazed when one got on the table and began drinking the onion soup that had gone with the Bratwurst roast. They got into the kitchen shelter and managed to get out the (sweet) gourmet coffee creamers my sisters brought, and drank them--three boxes of them. They opened the plastic food boxes, etc. I took to leaving the kitchen shelter open because I had to patch it where they had ripped the screen! We took to putting water containers on top of the boxes when the latches proved ineffective.
High points included the kids going to the nature center for presentations on wildlife, flora and the feeding of the critters, S-i-L honing his Kentucky Ninja Skills on the 'coons at night, the kids doing various unexpected things, and the contrast between my sisters camp (a Prime Example of Sixty Something Glamping) and my S-i-Ls camp ( a Prime Example of tarp and mosquito net engineering).
Basicly, we just hung out and had fun doing very little, enjoying the woods and canyon, etc. I tok the littles to the waterfall, and and was rewarded with the youngest's exclamation, when it came into view, "A fountain!!! God made a fountain in the woods!"
On Sturday, as we were packing up, I over heard the kids playing a "pretend game" that went more or less like this: Let's leave our home in the forest, and go to the city. In the city they have hot water. And sidewalks. We can find out parents there, and escape the Nargles and 'coons..."
Oh--one of the tents was seriously coated with tree sap, and had to be set up. On Sunday, we were blessed with a short but heavy rain shower that washed it for me.
Good trip.
Pray, Resist, or Get the Hell Out of the Way!
George Bush's head on a stick? Sure, go ahead, no one will care. Call for Mitt Romney's house to burn down, and make fun of his religion? Go for it, it's the progressive mainstream thing to say. Assault people whose opinion you disagree with and try to deny their freedom of speech? Par for the course.
All these things have been in the public eye recently. The producers of Game of Thrones--a story I like--used a replica of George Bush's head on a stick in an episode featuring beheading. Joy Behar said she hoped Mitt Romney's house would burn down because he would call on Mormon organizations to put it out. A video documenting assault and harassment of the a group standing up for traditional morality and rights has generated hundreds of 'hate mail" comments.
The Civil War is here, and the violence, and the egging on of violence escalates. I have no doubt that it will end with wholesale arrests and internments--the "law" and logistics are already in place--and violence in the streets, and attacks on Churches.
Our own Church is so confused right now that this will split it, and cripple it.
Non of us can sit now, and simply moan. We need, as individuals, to either devote much time and effort to prayer, or if not prayerfully nclined to devote time and effort to resistance. There is no middle ground. If you hope to keep your head down and wait this mess out, you are part of the problem, and a moral coward.
Get to work.
All these things have been in the public eye recently. The producers of Game of Thrones--a story I like--used a replica of George Bush's head on a stick in an episode featuring beheading. Joy Behar said she hoped Mitt Romney's house would burn down because he would call on Mormon organizations to put it out. A video documenting assault and harassment of the a group standing up for traditional morality and rights has generated hundreds of 'hate mail" comments.
The Civil War is here, and the violence, and the egging on of violence escalates. I have no doubt that it will end with wholesale arrests and internments--the "law" and logistics are already in place--and violence in the streets, and attacks on Churches.
Our own Church is so confused right now that this will split it, and cripple it.
Non of us can sit now, and simply moan. We need, as individuals, to either devote much time and effort to prayer, or if not prayerfully nclined to devote time and effort to resistance. There is no middle ground. If you hope to keep your head down and wait this mess out, you are part of the problem, and a moral coward.
Get to work.
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