Daily Topics - Tuesday March 30th 2010
By Louise
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds -- Samuel Adams
Hour One - Is America failing because we don't have enough socialism? Peter Ferarra www.theacru.org
Hour Two - Should citizen activism take the form of a coffee party or a shotgun?
Plus...Paul Loeb www.soulofacitizen.org "Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times"
Hour Three - Elizabeth Ames Jones Texas Railroad Commissioner, running for U.S. Senate (R-TX) www.jonesfortexas.com Why do Texas politicians always want to suck up to “Big Oil” and ignore the cost to the rest of the country?
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#2
Our youngest son is visiting us for Easter before he flies to Holland and Japan for about four weeks. On the way back from the airport he was reminiscing about his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan. We often look to our college students as our country’s future.
Our son stayed at Mary Markley Hall on the campus of Michigan. Freshmen had to stay in the dorm for one or two years. I had a chance to visit him at the dorm. In the hallways were feces and vomit. It was a pathetic sight. He shared one experience with me that he had to go to the toilet and each toilet had puke all over the toilets. In fact as he looked at the ceilings, he saw projectile vomit on the ceilings. How can anyone vomit and have their puke reach the ceiling in the bathroom?
Are we graduating future Boners and Dementeds from our colleges and universities?
#3
**Reflection of the Week**
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for [those] who shall have borne the battle and for [the] widow and [the] orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
-- Abraham Lincoln
#4
The old America is fading.
RIP
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@mstaggerlee, I am a Catholic who is on a journey toward being a true Christian. As a sinner I have fallen a thousnd times at least with the sins on my back. I hope that a merciful God will be my judge.
I do not know as much about Pope Benedict as I have about Pope John Paul II.
Shielding priests from charges of child molesting will eventually catch up with these child molesters and the bishops or cardinals who have protected them. Priests do not have the protection as our politicians who commit mass murders and war crimes and who receive standing ovations for their crimes against humanity.
As for me my contact with the priests was a great experience. I did not come across any priests who were suspected of child molesting.
I do not condone the behavior of priests who have molested children. However, I will leave it to God to judge them. I will try to live my life with a heart full of love, mercy, and forgiveness in return God may forgive and have mercy on me, a sinner.