John C. Wright on calling Islamic terrorists “militants”
Team of militant Santas trap Pope Benedict in giant iPod.
Three years ago I decided to create my own Advent Wreath graphic instead of just using the normal animated gif that I used previously. If you would like it for your own blog you can use the html code below which uses some homepage server space that won’t effect the bandwidth for my blog. I will replace the graphic each week so that it correctly shows the number of candles that should be lit. On Christmas I will change it to another graphic I created for Christmastide.
Additionally underneath my Advent graphic on my left side I have created a JavaScript that gives a countdown to Christmas. If you want to do the same thing you can insert this script into your blog template with the following code underneath where you place the graphic. Though WordPress.com users would be out of luck since they don’t allow JavaScript.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), often called the “Planned Parenthood of the UK” has release an ad to promote morning-after (abortion) pills. The St. John’s Valdosta Blog has the ad which has to be seen to be believed. Though you will need a palate cleanser afterward.
In other sleazy news Dawn Eden passes along the following information to me.
Planned Parenthood, which made headlines a few months back with its ultra-creepy teen sex-ed Web site TakeCareDownThere.org (which now has its offensive videos back online after having taken them down temporarily), also produces the utterly puerile “Speaking of Sex” YouTube series and podcast .
The latest taxpayer-subsidized “Speaking of Sex” video is unusually revolting and offensive, even for Planned Parenthood. It’s aimed, as usual, at teens–but send your little ones out of the room before watching it on Planned Parenthood’s official YouTube site:,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_wRD4TmYug
Incidentally, at the bottom of Planned Parenthood’s Web page on in-clinic abortion , the organization promises, “A short video about abortion procedures is under production.” Something tells me it won’t look anything like Father Frank Pavone’s excellent “This Is Abortion” series.
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What to get for the girl who doesn’t want to have anything? The Planned Parenthood Christmas gift certificate:
“Looking for an unusual, yet practical gift this holiday season? Planned Parenthood of Indiana (PPIN) is now offering gift certificates for services or the recipient’s choice of birth control method,” the abortion business says.
The gift certificates can be purchased in increments of $25 online at the group’s web site or for any amount at some of PPIN’s 35 statewide facilities.
While PPIN president and CEO Betty Cockrum says they can be redeemed for contraception, birth control and legitimate medical services like breast exams and Pap tests, they can also be used to pay for abortions.
“Why not buy a loved one a gift this holiday season that they really need,” Cockrum says in a press release LifeNews.com obtained. “The gift certificates are also a wonderful idea for that person in your life who puts everyone else first.”
Ah, if only King Herod had sent one to Mary . . . Do they have musical cards that play “When A Child Isn’t Born”?
Mark Steyn titled his post Complete with Attractive Gift Card Showing Baby-free Manger!
Since 2002 Planned Parenthood has sold Choice on Earth cards and i once provided a “Baby-free Manger” for them.
Though it looks like Planned Parenthood has closed down it’s online store except for publications this year. So maybe this year we won’t have “Choice on Earth” cards, just “gift” cards. Gee at one time I thought it was called the gift of life, not a “gift” card can be used for the “gift” death.
Besides nothing celebrates the birth of our savior Jesus Christ like a Planned Parenthood gift card for abortion and contraception. King Herod must be pleased that the murder of innocents continues to this day and now you can use a convenient “gift” card to sponsor it. The Planned Parenthood gift card, “Don’t leave womb without it.” In fact just don’t leave womb in a single piece.
Their “gift” card should look like this.
Here is a Mass kit for little boys by Wee Believers.. This is way cool.
Though what about dissident little girls who want to be priestesses? Surely someone can come up with with a women’s priest kit which would include poncho, stunningly ugly stole, chalice made out of earthenware, home made hosts made out of material surely to crumble, and a subscription to the National Catholic Reporter.
Hat tip Marc via Twitter.
President-elect Obama has named the executive director of Emily’s List — Ellen Moran — as White House communications director.
Yes the director of the pro-abortion PAC that since its founding in 1984 has raised over $240 million to elect 71 pro-choice Democratic women to the U.S. House, 13 to the U.S. Senate, and eight governors. Another pro-abortion “moderate” for the Obama administration.
I do find it interesting how much grief so-called single issue voters get, yet Emily’s list which is a single issue PAC for a single gender seems to be immune to this charge by the left. I guess you can be a single-issue type as long as you are on the right side of the single issue.
Plus we got pro-abortion Catholic Tom Daschle as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in Obama’s Cabinet. From the vice-president on down we are getting cafeteria Catholics galore. They will work quite well with Nancy “I still haven’t gotten around to speaking with my bishop yet” Pelosi.
None of this bothers me though. After all Catholic Obama supporters told us that Obama is really more pro-life and that his policies will reduce abortion. Strangely I had never come up with the idea of appointing a militantly pro-abortion women as White House Communication Directory or appointing others all on the same side of the pro-abortion deep end. Silly me I would have thought that this would have a negative effect on a policy to reduce abortion.
I guess I am just so politically naive that I don’t understand how promising to approve FOCA which removes every single state law restricting abortion will reduce abortion. I actually thought that it was parental notification and laws regarding ultrasounds that were mainly what have lead to a decline in surgical abortions in recent years. Hey maybe we need to get rid of laws regarding murder to reduce the murder rate. Let’s put fried chocolate candy bars at the top of the food pyramid to improve nutrition.
We have so much to learn from Obama Catholics in this non-intuitive way of being pro-life. I can hardly wait for Obama’s pro-Roe v Wade Supreme Court picks that will keep states from regulating abortion as a way to reduce abortion. Plus getting rid of the Mexico City Policy and the Hyde Amendment are more ways to reduce abortion.
I can hardly wait for President Obama’s message for the March for Life which occurs 2 days after his inauguration. It will surely be a cheery message about children being a punishment and how it is all above his paygrade.
NEW CANEY, Texas, NOV. 20, 2008 (Zenit.org).- St. Thérèse wrote that she wanted to be a missionary on every continent simultaneously and reach the most remote islands — now her dream has extended to space flight.
The Carmelite community of New Caney, Texas, enjoys the friendship of Colonel Ron Garan, who was on the May 31-June 14 Discovery shuttle mission.
Before heading into space, Garan had called the women religious to request their prayer for the voyage, and he told them he could take some small item into space on behalf of the community.
The sisters reported that the words of St. Thérèse came to mind: “I have the vocation of an apostle. I would like to travel over the whole earth to preach your name and to plant your glorious cross on infidel soil. But oh, my beloved, one mission would not be enough for me, I would want to preach the Gospel on all five continents simultaneously and even to the most remote isles. I would be a missionary, not for a few years but from the beginning of creation until the consummation of the ages.”
The Carmelites gave the astronaut a relic of St. Thérèse for his flight.
Now, they report, she has traveled 5,735,643 miles around the earth for 14 days at 17,057 miles an hour. Meanwhile, the sisters commended the world to her intercession.
This is just so cool. The follower of the little way made herself so little that she met the weight allowance for an astronaut to bring along. Hat tip Father Stephanos, O.S.B.