~ WHERE, O WHERE, YOU wonder– ye few who are still checking in– is that ever-whinging WebElf? Living in the fun-filled Book of Job, and scratching myself with potsherds.

Toof Diagnosis

Thus, the first tooth problem is roughly 80% better– but there’s still pain.. and so the good dentist who recently pulled tooth #1 did some more probing, x-ray, and tooth-testing this morning.

Wait for it….

It turns out that if you do an un-asked-for root canal, drop a bit of dental file in it, and then leave the bottom 25% of the root unfixed, that not only are you risking tooth abscess, but neighbouring teeth are in danger, too, via inflamed & rotting nerves.

It’s Like A Party!

The result? A brand new new Root Canal to be excavated on Friday for 2 hours, on the next tooth in line.. which is indeed infected, and threatening a new abscess, despite 3 weeks of strong antibiotics. Oh, and more antibiotics to follow that treatment. Ha ha, whee!

What with my general poor health & abiding slow recoveries, so it goes… thank you so VERY much, O  Rapacious Botchmeister Dentist Of Evil who started this slow series of dental implosions in my head 4 years ago.

So What, Elf?

Prayers please, and patience. I do apologize for that burst of bloggy activity a a month ago, and now nothing. I just don’t have it in me with the pain, anti-biotic hangover, fevers, and general exhaustion to spend a lot of energy blogging. A few essays have percolated in my addled noggin, but not much else.

If anybody is inclined, feel free to send along Amazon loot to cheer up your stricken servant. All prayers and notes of encouragement would also be timely, and very welcome.. I’m seriously worn to a nub by stress, pain, tiredness, infection, and waiting around to get better.

Love Your Elf,

Binksmeister

Give Up Yer Aul Sins – Birth of John Baptist
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~ SAITH THE GYAPONG: “Please go out and buy my book! If you like my blog, please go out and buy my book so it stays in print!” …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ SACRIFICING THE CHILDREN unto the Utopian Hope: “On the Children’s Sabbath, religious believers are summoned to pray for government-controlled health care, government-enforced gun bans, expanded government welfare programs, and for higher taxes and greater government regulatory control” …. (theird.org)

~ THE CROSS and the Crescent …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ THE LOVELY DRAGON of Choice: The Freedom Not to Be Free …. (touchstonemag)

~ DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER!! “Canada’s Anglican Primate Fred Hiltz wants Rowan Williams to convene an emergency meeting to deal with The Single Greatest Evil In The History Of Both Christianity And The World, Way Worse Than The Crusades, Justifying Slavery, Not Ordaining Women, Declaring Homosexual Sex A Sin And The Church’s Obvious And Enthusiastic Support For War, Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, Death, Voting For Conservative Republicans And Every Other Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Thing That Ever Happened In The History Of The World, A History Which, Quite Frankly, Would Have Been A Hell Of A Lot Nicer Had The Church Stopped Being Such Unbelievably Evil Bastards And Shut Itself Down A Long Time Ago If You Ask Me” …. (mcj.blog)

~ CATHOLIC BY ASSOCIATION— The DCCC’s dishonest attacks on a Catholic group: “Keith Fimian is an officer of an organization that promotes a group so extreme they encourage women to be more submissive” …. (NRO)

~ WHY IS Rowan Williams going to Lourdes? …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ NOTES FROM ABROAD on a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World …. (claudiarosett)

~ THE COSMOLOGICAL Model of the Book of Genesis …. (timeimmortal)

~ VATICAN MESSAGE to Muslims for Ramadan– “Christians and Muslims Must Work to Safeguard the Dignity of the Family” …. (zenit)

~ HOW DO YOU solve a problem like acedia? VIA …. (deacbench.blog)

~ QUEBEC columnist: conservative Catholics are coming out of the woodwork …. (bluewavecanada.blog)

~ THE WEEK of Holy Cross …. (merecomments)

~ MICHAEL COREN: Opus Dei — no albino killers, just dishonourable separatists …. (NP)

~ FIRST PRINCIPLES— Love is stronger than Death, says Pope. The pope urged thousands of faithful marking the 150th anniversary of a miracle in France to discover “a journey of faith and conversion”. He reminded listeners of persecution of Christians in India and the Muslim world …. (speroforum)

~ NEARER, MY GOD—Get your copy of Buckley’s classic “Autobiography of Faith” …. (nationalreview)

~ CLASSLESS: IN A NEW BOOK Actor Dan Akroyd Says he Would Support Bestiality if Animals Were Sentient, Bashes Catholicism …. (LSN)

~ BULLSEYE! The Invaluable John Zmirak Has Fun with John Derbyshire’s Crusty Atheism …. (markshea.blog)

Via

~ DEMOCHURCH: “Jesus was a community organizer and Pilate was a Governor” …. (curtjester)

~ TELLING SPIRITUAL TALES: “Beer in the mail room” …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ BBC QUARANTINE – fears outbreak of ‘Jesus Cooties’ …. (kraalspace.blog)

~ WHY OUR ELITES Fear Faith– The divide between our self-appointed aristocracy and the “common” folk …. (frontpagemag)

~ THEOLOGY for Dummies …. (pumpkin-watch.blog)

~ GOOD BY HIS Excellency Cardinal Turcotte …. (timeimmortal)

~ TOTALITARIAN ATHEISM has taken another scalp. Michael Reiss, the Royal Society’s embattled director of education, has been forced out – for daring to suggest that children should be taught to discuss alternative views and subject them to the scrutiny of empirical reasoning …. (spectator)

~ GYAPONG ON new liturgy for the Catholic Church …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ CULTURE OF DEATH Marches On …. (reformedpastor)

Feminism in Reverse
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~ CHRISTIAN WEEK magazine wants to know what the top election issues are for Christians in Canada …. (noapologies)

~ IRRATIONALITY Run Rampant …. (reformedpastor)

~ JOHN F. CULLINAN: Benedict gets the French talking. “Does France Have a Prayer?” …. (nationalreview)

~ THEOCRATS— God and the presidency …. (rightwingnews)

~ BRAINWASH— Religious Left Voter Guides, By: Mark D. Tooley. “The United Church of Christ is out “to educate” the public” …. (frontpagemag)

~ TOMORROW’S headline: Harper Covers Up Jesus’ Marriage, Baby …. (am770chqr)

~ CATHOLICISM and Islam: Seeking Common Ground …. (brusselsjournal)

~ A BAN ON POLITICAL Endorsements by Pastors to be Challenged …. (creepingsharia)

~ SHHH! OPUS DEI— the super-secret religious society… that’s in the phone book …. (NP)

~ PRAYING FOR the Troops and the World …. (hughhewitt)

~ WEB CAMPAIGN Fights Brutal Regime in Burma …. (christianpost)

~ HOW TEHRAN helped destroy the twin towers …. (newsmax)

~ SISTERS OF CHARITY assaulted in India by Hindu extremists …. (blogfreeworld)

~ THE DAY THE EARTH stood still …. (anglocath.blog)

~ THE BATTLE for Sarah Palin’s soul …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ UNITED JEWS put divided Christians to shame …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ a new hymn …. (firstthings)

~ WAPO RELIGION BLOGGER Attacks Sarah Palin’s Religion …. (newsbusters.org)

~ AGNOSTICS at evensong …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ AQUILINA: “Fathers of the Fretboard” …. (fathersofthechurch)

~ INDIA & RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION— A rising power not yet ready for global leadership …. (spectator)

~ EVOLVING Beyond Darwinism– Let’s call the Darwinists’ bluff and find out who really believes in evolution. Time to separate the men from the bonobos, the chimps from the champs, Overmen from the Olbermann …. (onecosmos.blog)

~ CREATIONISM and the advance of counterknowledge …. (damian_thompson)

~ CATHOLICISM-HATING Rebel priest to resign as MP …. (catholicregister.org)

~ ++CHAPUT comments on Senator Biden’s comments; Biden pulls a Pelosi? Sure looks like it …. (insightscoop)

~ AND SAD TO SAY.. Kenneth Copeland Caught Stealing Elderly Dying Woman’s Money? …. (youtube)

~ WOLVES IN SHEPHERD’S CLOTHING: “Five questions for the Catholic Church in England and Wales”; English Heritage listing stops ‘Bishop Arthur’ in his tracks …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ SUFFERING IN CHRIST— Father Raymond J. De Souza: The sad plight of India’s flock …. (natpost)

~ HIPSTER DOOFETTE— the vicar is quicker and thicker and slicker …. (catholicculture.org)

~ SCIENTOLOGY CULT charged with fraud in France …. (reuters)

~ UPPITY ANGLICANS? Take away their stuff! “Stand Firm: Details on TEC Loyalist, 815 Plans to Depose +Iker, Take Property”; and in Canada, Open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Primates of the Anglican Communion …. (transfigurations)

~ “SECULARISM” in Turkey …. (blogfreeworld)

~ AN UNSEEN ENEMY OF FREEDOM, By Henry Lamb: “From the highest rafters of academia comes another enemy of freedom: communitarianism. This is a belief system that opposes both authoritarianism and individualism, and promotes instead, a social organization that is governed by policies designed by civil society to limit individual freedom as required for the benefit the community. Dr. Amitai Etzioni is credited with founding this communitarian movement” …. (canadafreepress)

~ HOLY MARXISM— Another glimpse of ‘Futurechurch’ …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ THE C.D. HOWE Institute has come out with a study finding that Catholic school boards in Ontario tend to outperform public school boards …. (edwardmichaelgeorge.blog)

~ MICHAEL COREN— The West is not decadent? …. (theinterim.ca)

~ HILLARY’S GOD— “According to Paul Kengor, religion was central to the creation of Hillary Clinton as a liberal activist and ambitious Democratic politician. Specifically it was her social gospel brand of Methodism that shaped her youth” …. (ird)

~ HAWKING bets mega-machine won’t find ‘God’s Particle’ …. (breitbart)

~ INDIAN CHRISTIANS Come under Attack from Hindu Extremists; Injured Priest Tells of Hindu-Extremist Attack …. (ird, Zenit)

~ UNIVERSITY students face four competing world views as they navigate their way through modern culture. They can only choose one of them …. (mercatornet)

Jihad 3.0, Terror, WW-4

~ EVIL MIDGET Ahmadinejad, Coming Soon to a UN Stage Near You…Again …. (claudiarosett)

~ CARRIBEAN War Games By: Kathy Shaidle– Putin and Chavez forge a troubling alliance …. (frontpagemag.com)

~ MEMRI Needs You …. (lgf)

~ CALLING Israel’s Bluff …. (carolineglick)

~ DEATH in the Corn: Part II of III …. (michaelyon-online.com)

David Horowitz on Al-Jazeera Part 1

Part 2 here

~ EXPANDING VIOLENCE: Germany Discovers a War in Afghanistan …. (blogfreeworld)

~ THE THREAT of Russian intervention in the Muslim world — particularly in Syria and Egypt — is terrifying for Israel …. (mercatornet)

~ NOT ALL HUMOR IS CREATED EQUAL: “I have to admit I have a soft spot in my heart for those who gently mock the left; and no one does it better than Greg Gutfield” …. (drsanity.blog)

~ WE ALL LIVED in a yellow submarine …. (pundita.blog)

~ 6 ATOMIC BOMBS worth of uranium goes ‘missing’ in Iran. U.S. spy satellites have identified suspicious sites not declared to inspectors …. (wnd)

~ RUSSIA ON WARPATH, DANGEROUS MOVES— Check out what Russia is up to post Georgia invasion …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence …. (nypost.com)

~ VERIFY NORTH KOREA’S Nuclear Weapons Programs?– Hey, They Can’t Even Find Kim Jong Il …. (pajamasmedia)

~ DEUTCHE MARINE cannot deal militarily with Somali piracy …. (toyoufromfailinghands.blog)

~ U.S. PLANS $7 billion missile-defense sale to UAE …. (creepingsharia)

~ OH GOODY.. Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant Will be “Irreversible” by February …. (Wz)

~ WHY LIBERAL PACIFISTS are better than you: “In a feature that runs every Monday in The Washington Post under the heading: “Department of Human Behavior,” a Mr Shankar Vedantam regularly provides grateful readers of that organ with scientific proof that the sort of liberal and progressive attitudes that most of them harbor are more, well, scientific, than the alternatives” …. (newcriterion)

~ PUNDITA— “The silence was broken only by the rustling of the wind, the cry of gulls and the occasional thump of helicopter rotors” …. (pundita.blog)

LifeLinks, Culture Of Death

~ SHOCK & AWE: Abortion to Fall …. (socon.ca)

~ IT’S YOUR DUTY— Don’t Be a Burden–Die! “The killing became automatic.” …. (reformedpastor, AmDig)

~ WHY WE URGENTLY Need to Change the Culture’s Attitudes Toward Disabilities …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ NURSE TELLS WHY SHE QUIT DOING ABORTIONS— Winnepeg Sun story …. (MaD)

~ SOCON.CA— Dumping the Pill …. (socon.ca)

~ WHO NEEDS abortion clinics when you have the internet? …. (bluewavecanada.blog)

~ KILL GIRLS! KILL GIRLS! “Internet giants Google and Microsoft have pulled adverts for sex selection products and other services considered illegal in India after being threatened with legal action, activists said Thursday” …. (holywhapping.blog)

~ REPRODUCTIVE technologies are creating children who have no real biological parents. They deserve better …. (mercatornet)

~ CLONEBURGERS: fresh off the somatic cell nuclear transfer grill and onto your plate! Yum! …. (the-girl-in-blue.blog)

~ SOCIAL ENGINEERING: 2-Child Only Policy Coming to the Philippines …. (socon.ca)

~ POST-ABORTION grief very real, experts say …. (worldnetdaily)

~ PHYSICIANS seek to create International Society for Fetal and Perinatal Cardiovascular Disease …. (bluewavecanada.blog)

~ BELOW THE RADAR: The Obama Pro-Lifers …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ A RETARD KID: Meeting Chloe. Other man wastes life saving a retard …. (nrotc, WaPo)

~ TWO CALIFORNIAN DOCTORS endure an eight-year legal vendetta for declining to help bring a fatherless child into the world …. (mercatornet.com)

~ RAISING BOYS: “A mother and paediatrician writes about what sons need from parents, and how families and culture often shortchange young men” …. (mercatornet)

Genetic Determinism explained… by John Cleese

~ A VOCIE FOR Divorced Dads …. (barbarakay.ca)

~ RETARD-WATCH— Is Trig at the Heart of Media’s Reaction to Palin? Truth & consequences …. (transfigurations.blog, newcriterion)

~ HOMESCHOOLING: a learning experience for the whole family …. (mercatornet)

David MacDonald’s “Life is the Only Choice”

~ WEIRDNESS— The ideas of a well-established bioethicist are so weird that it makes one despair of bioethics itself …. (mercatornet)

~ WRITER BARBARA OAKLEY (author of Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend) is puzzled by the fact that psychologists (and many “social scientists”) continue to oppose growing evidence that psychopathology has a strong biological and genetic component …. (classicalvalues)

~ HANDSOME HORNDOG— more willpower needed? Some thoughts on David Duchovny’s sex addiction …. (shotgun)

The Ugly Mrs. Duchovney

~ AMERICA’S most public pregnancy …. (mercatornet)

~ EUGENICS, American Style– The abortion of Down Syndrome babies, from December 2, 1996. by Tucker Carlson …. (weeklystandard)

~ NO MORE BRIDES or grooms in California …. (noapologies.ca)

~ FUTILE CARE Dehydration Stopped in Alaska …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ MORE CHILDREN in Britain have televisions in their rooms than fathers in their homes …. (anglocath.blog)

~ OPPORTUNISTIC LIES FOR– YOUR OWN GOOD, OF COURSE— AIDS epidemic? It was a ‘glorious myth’.. The author of 1987’s The Truth About the AIDS Panic welcomes two new whistleblowing texts on the opportunism of the AIDS industry …. (spiked-online.com)

~ VIDEO: On Unborn Victims of Crime, Stephane Dion is NOT a leader …. (bluewavecanada.blog)

~ THE SAD TRUTH.. “I don’t rely on the doctor anymore. These days, you have to look out for yourself.” …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ DEMENTIA sufferers may have a ‘duty to die’ …. (wnd)

~ RECORD 259 corporations honored for ‘gay’ support …. (wnd)

~ A PUBLIC SERVICE announcement from Bill Ayers …. (directorblue.blog)

~ BARONESS Warnock Calls for Executing the Elderly …. (rightwingnews)

~ DOES MAKING BABIES make sense? Why so many people find it difficult to see humanity in a developing foetus …. (mercatornet)

~ SOON THEY’LL be Naming Them Featherstonhaugh and Cholmondeley …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

The People’s Republic Of Canuckistan

~ REAL CANADIAN HEROES: “As head of the Canadian Forces, Rick Hillier was never at a loss for words. Now he has two books to fill with them” …. (nationalpost)

~ POOP JOKES?!? Conservative Web Presence Still Riddled With Childish Shots; Did I mention how much I love the Tory web design team? Puffins, Poop, and Profane Parallels …. (sda)

~ THE POWER OF PEE-EM! Stephen Harper rests arm on baby’s head, sucks out socialist tendencies …. (dustmybroom)

~ STEPHANE AS.. RED GREEN? “A whole new Stephane: Liberal strategists have decided that Stephane Dion, a man with all the appeal of tepid oatmeal, all the oomph of a flat soufflé, all the pizzazz of a watery blancmange, could use a bit of a makeover. They want to transform him from Stephane Dion, Soporific Wimp, to Stephane Dion, Outdoorsman and Fierce Eco-warrior”; Blame Sumpin’ Else Part Deux: Dion and the gals to get manly makeover right after ballet class …. (scaramouche, sda)

~ SHAIDLE WONDERS— “Is anyone else sick of hearing about Mouseland, Tommy Douglas’s fable… trotted out each election by political activists still living in the 1960s?” …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ AT LEAST we know Harper isn’t lighting up …. (the-girl-in-blue.blog)

~ UK HEALTH care productivity falls as spending for socialized medicine rises by billions …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ OH GOODY! More Money For E.I. Nobody Can Collect …. (dustmybroom)

~ THE PUFFIN, the Traitor and the Prime Minister …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ MEDIA-BALANCE: Canadian Press provides a list of Tory campaign gaffes …. (dustmybroom)

~ STILL WAITING for the search of the adscam records at Liberal HQ …. (MaD)

~ QUIPSTER: Behold the effervescent “wit” of manly man, Stephane Dione, as quoted in the Toronto Star …. (scaramouche)

~ WALL STREET JOURNAL on Harper: “Canada’s Change Agent” …. (pumpkin-watch.blog)

~ BETTY MAY has received a blessing in disguise …. (np)

~ WAIT! LET’S BE LIKE OBAMA! There’s something familiar about the new NDP website: Dion scores– “Now there is Jack Layton who, for bizarre reasons, takes himself for Barack Obama. No no Jack. You’re Jack. Stay Jack.” NDP scores own goal in election web war …. (rjjago)

~ DOES ANYONE here know how to run a campaign? …. (damianpenny)

~ NATPOST Editorial Board: RCMP has yet to learn its lesson on Taser use …. (nationalpost.com)

~ NDP FIRE Dana Larsen – A great loss… how will we ever get the chance to mention the words NDP & Reindeer Piss in the same sentence again? …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ TORIES SPEND $8.2-million every hour in vote buying spree …. (shotgun)

~ LIBERAL LEADER Stephane Dion: Somebody bring me my pity …. (dustmybroom)

~ THE FULL Monte Solberg: A Western Standard retrospective …. (westernstandard.ca)

Blogs, Media, Dead Tree, Tech

~ SWIFT on the Blogosphere …. (merecomments)

~ THE WORLD WIDE Web is almost 20 years old. It was originally created to solve the problem of sharing and updating information among collaborators …. (richardfernandez)

~ FREAK-ALERT— Shock Study: 35% of BLACKBERRY users would choose device over spouse …. (wcbstv)

~ HOWARD KURTZ Says Media “Getting Angry” …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ NEWSPAPERS WORLDWIDE oppose a Google-Yahoo deal …. (instapundit)

~ JOY OF TECH: How Apple Decides Which Apps Make It Into the App Store …. (wired.com)

~ SELF-IMPLOSION: “New Sitemeter: textbook example of a poorly planned project” …. (directorblue.blog)

~ MEMORY HOLE! GOOGLE promises EU better privacy rules; Cuts search data storage to 9 months. Don’t want all those stale “facts” sitting around causing future problems …. (yahoo.com)

~ HOW POPULAR is the new Google Chrome browser with Telegraph users? FireFox 3.0 it ain’t …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ NEW YORK OFFERS Drivers License with RFID Tag. Optional, for now …. (wired.com)

~ BY NOW, EVERYONE realizes that Google seeks world domination, and their new browser, Chrome, gives us the reason why we should make the switch …. (classicalvalues)

~ US-GOV COULD SUE GOOGLE over thier advertising rules. Justice Department quietly hires 1 of naton’s best-known litigators …. (wnd)

~ SPACE: Testing the Interplanetary Internet …. (instapundit)

~ MERCATORNET: “Googling, skimming, flitting from one link to another involves reading, but not as we have known it” …. (mercatornet.com)

~ THE iPHONE Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do. I, for one, welcome my new Apple Overlords …. (wired.com)

~ GEORGIA: the first cyberwar? …. (mercatornet.com)

Culture, Tech, Odds & Ends

Metallica does YouTube

~ SPIKED: “Why Metallica should never have cut their hair” …. (spiked-online.com)

~ WHERE HAVE ALL the B-Movies Gone? …. (merecomments)

YOUTUBE FUN with Sulfur Hexafluoride

Lots more

~ BUILD YOUR OWN Bat Cave With Secret Room Camouflage …. (popularmechanics.com)

~ STANDING FAST against decadence: “The rule of artistic quality is threatened everywhere but at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where director Philippe de Montebello has stood for thirty years against the decadence of the contemporary museum world” …. (newcriterion.com)

~ EMILY PROJECT— the future is cute …. (dailymotion.com)

Honest College Ad

~ WHO KNEW MY ancestors were such rebels? Read on about a “beautiful young Jewess” and a thief of “few years” …. (nationalpost)

~ MICHAEL MOORE: the stupidest white man? …. (blogs.telegraph)

The Font Conference

~ THE LEFT’S Crony Capitalism Exposed: Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac Implosion A Dem Creation …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ FUN WITH BRITISH Tourist Adventures: Axe Wielding Natives And Being Held Hostage All Part Of The Package …. (SigCarlFred)

~ APOCALYPSE LATER: A successful test of the Hadron Collider. …. (smalldeadanimals)

~ LOOKING FOR FRESH stuff to defile! Jackass, The Opera.. Nudity is coming to opera …. (kraalspace.blog)

~ GETHUMAN.COM— for when you want to avoid that dehumanizing computer-calling phone-maze for your fave company …. (gethuman)

~ CURT JESTER— Jesus and First-Century Christianity in Jerusalem …. (curtjester)

~ ENCOUNTERING God when on holiday, by Joseph Ratzinger …. (socon.ca)

~ NO THEOCRACY Here: Saddleback Does What American Christians Have Always Done …. (scriptoriumdaily)

~ FRAGILE Dead Sea Scrolls to go online …. (breitbart.com)

~ WONDERFUL homily via the Anchoress …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ WHEN ultra-Orthodox Jews attack …. (fivefeetoffury)

Baal worship in Los Angeles?

~ ANGLICAN beat goes on …. (tmatt.gospelcom)

~ SHIP OF FOOLS gives my church at 9 out of 10!! …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ PELOSI TO Bishops: drill your brains? …. (theanchoressonline)

~ MICHAEL COREN talks with Stephane Dion about God …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ SO, THIS IS what’s in Putin’s soul …. (geraldnaus)

~ THE ENGLISH DEFORMATION was a Crime Against Humanity …. (anglocath.blog)

~ JESUS, BEER and Your College Kids …. (townhall)

Hey, new nun video

~ ANTI-CHRISTIAN Group Wants Petraeus Relieved of Duty, Court Martialed for Praising Book on Faith …. (Wz)

~ THE KNIGHTS Templar were innocent! It was a plot! …. (geraldnaus)

~ THE DEMOCRATIC Underground: The Anti-Religious Left …. (rightwingnews)

~ CHURCHES Damaged in Russia-Georgia Conflict …. (christianpost)

~ US ARCHBISHOP Orders Crack Down on Pro-Abortion Politicians Receiving Communion …. (Wz)

~ MEDIA-HUSTLER Maher to King: Religion is ‘Detrimental’ and ‘the Ultimate Hustle’ …. (newsbusters)

~ JUDGE APPROVES university’s viewpoint discrimination. Case involves system’s rejection of Christian coursework …. (wnd)

~ ON JOHN EDWARDS: Blessed Are the Merciful …. (scriptoriumdaily)

~ B-16: CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Heaven is not an abstract idea or an imaginary place, but heaven is God …. (catholicregister)

~ A HOLLYWOOD PLOT TWIST— ‘Basic Instinct’ author writes book about faith …. (toledoblade)

~ I LOVE THE Master’s Artist …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ SYRIAN Christians Debate Self-Autonomy to Halt Exodus …. (zindamagazine)

~ THERE’S NOTHING Wrong With The Presidential Candidates Engaging In A Religious Debate …. (rightwingnews)

~ ISAAC HAYES – Scientology kills again? …. (rjjago)

~ ON OBITUARIES— Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath? by James Bowman …. (newcriterion)

~ WAUGH Contra Mundum: The problem Catholicism of Brideshead Revisited. by Michael Weiss …. (weeklystandard)

~ TURKISH Daily News wants you to visit all the old haunts of the Byzantines. You know, now that most of the actual Christians whose empire and city it were have been driven away ….

~ ATHEIST Group Upset They Won’t be Included in the DNC’s Interfaith Gathering …. (Wz)

~ DEBATING THE DIVINE in Washington– The release of a new book exhibits the continuing ambiguity of progressives regarding the role of religious discourse in public life …. (theird.org)

~ ROME— An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour …. (curtjester)

~ STILL NOT DEAD YET: Where’s an Israeli desert when you need one? …. (kraalspace.blog)

~ WARNING, CONVERTS— Rome has viper-vicious liberals, too: “Flash! Wolves Eat Sheep!” From Damian Thompson on the closure of St. John’s parish in Allerton Bywater” …. (anglocath.blog)

~ SAME OLD CHINA: Churches ordered closed during Olympics. Pastors forced to sign agreements not to meet for 90 days …. (worldnetdaily)

~ ANCHORESS— Pelosi, Abortion & St. Augustine …. (theanchoressonline)

~ DEVOTIONAL: I have a high priest in heaven …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ VATICAN PUBLISHES two-sentence letter confirming prohibition against homosexuals in seminaries is universal; Excommunication for participation in “Ordination” of women reiterated …. (catholicinsight)

~ SOME COOL OLD Antiqueholycards.com …. (antiqueholycards)

~ FLEA SERVED by Scientology attorneys in 3… 2… …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ EVIL RELIGION in the West Bank: UN Funded School Honors Infamous Palestinian Terrorist who Killed 36 Israeli Civilians …. (Wz)

~ APPARENTLY, we need to revisit The Rules …. (anglocath.blog)

~ CHAPTER ONE of “The Living Wood: Saint Helena and the Emperor Constantine” …. (insightscoop)

~ BEEB CHANNEL 4 gives Christianity the Big Brother treatment …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ ANIMAL RIGHTS Activists in Uproar Over Pope Wearing Fur. Pope Responds, “If we eat Them, I’m Wearing Them” …. (Wz)

~ RULING THAT Christian message ‘offensive’ appealed to Supreme Court– Freedom of speech exists ‘not to enable religious discrimination by government’ …. (worldnetdaily)

~ SPINNING GEORGIA: “The Religious Left ponders how it can blame America first” …. (frontpagemag)

~ ON ALIENS and the Vatican …. (timeimmortal)

~ RAYMOND IBRAHIM: the Coptic Conundrum …. (jihadwatch)

~ BUT REMEMBER: teaching kids religion is ‘brainwashing’ …. (timeimmortal)

~ WIT & WISDOM in the ancient world …. (fathersofthechurch)

~ RELIGION OF… Arabic Magazine Warns Muslim “Brothers”, Shaking Hands With Gay Men Will Lead to Deadly Diseases …. (Wz)

~ WOLVES IN shepherd’s clothing: “BBC’s ‘Sunday’ programme exposes the cruelty of the Diocese of Leeds” …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ TIME IMMORTAL— The Perpetual Virginity of Mary: Mary as the New Ark; The Perpetual Virginity of Mary: Celibacy of women, married and unmarried, in the Law of Moses …. (timeimmortal)

~ USING GOD… Democrats are so predictable. They spend most of their lives ignoring the Bible—you know, all those clear and consistent teachings on abortion, on sodomy, on instructing the young, on mendacity, on corruption, on adultery, on God and Caesar, on chastity. Then, in a mad whirligig of activity—always, always, at election time—they trot out dusty Bibles, self-proclaimed ‘Christian’ pastors, Gospel singers and chant a chorus of ‘Hallelujah!’ and ‘Praise the Lord!’ …. (thereturnofscipio)

~ ATHEISTS DO sometimes make sense …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ DOONESBURY “reports” on Iraqi Christians …. (khanya)

~ NEW TV: Lesbian, atheist, Muslim all attempt Christian life. Reality program follows people for 3 weeks of holy reformation …. (worldnetdaily)

Is There Nothing That Obamessiah Can’t Do?

Jihad 3.0, Terror, World Politics

~ CLIFFORD D. MAY: A single nuke, launched from a ship off our coast into the upper atmosphere, could cause catastrophic damage. “Future Shockwave? …. (nationalreview)

~ THE MEDIA ISN’T POLE-DANCING ENOUGH FOR THE RUSSIANS! Western Media One Sided Reporting Of The Russian/Georgian War; An outbreak of violence; Georgia’s An Ally, And Russia Is Attacking It …. (Various)

~ GEORGIA: Gori evacuated as fears of Russian advance into Georgia grow …. (telegraph)

~ CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS on the Iraq War …. (deborahgyapong)

~ TWENTY years of Al-Qaida …. (dustmybroom)

~ SOUTH OSSETIANS, too, have the right to self-determination …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ SOUTH OSSETIA and the Morality of Secession: Russia and its client regime in South Ossetia have been citing the precedent of Kosovo’s recent secession from Serbia as a justification for Russia’s effort to detach South Ossetia from Georgia …. (volokh)

~ GEORGIA: Russian advance pushes beyond a flawed mandate …. (network.nationalpost)

~ THE DANGERS of Forgoing Long-Term Assessments …. (counterterrorismblog)

~ VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Putin chose a perfect moment for his invasion – Olympic games, lameduck presidency, impotent Europe, and more…”Russia’s Sinister Brilliance” …. (victorhanson)

~ DRUMS in the deep …. (pajamasmedia)

~ PUTIN PUPPET: Georgia cannot go “unpunished”.. you know, for not folding when Russia invaded …. (hotair)

~ STOP THE FLIGHT 93 Memorial Blogburst: DC Fundraiser CANCELLED …. (stoptheaclu)

~ GEORGIA – Russia – Geopolitics …. (dustmybroom)

~ LEBANON’S Jumblatt Submits to Hezb’Allah: Lebanon Turns to the Enemy, jumps into bed with Islamic jihad. Another death blow to democracy in the Middle East. Devastating …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ GEORGIAN WAR— “But there is more at stake for the West in the conflict in the Caucasus than simply being found out as a human-rights hypocrite. By taking on the Russian bear, already in a surly mood over the expansion of NATO and the European Union to its very borders and criticism of its own democratic backsliding, Saakashvili has brought the West into conflict with Russia in a way not seen since the days of the Cuban missile crisis and the Berlin Wall” …. (nationalpost)

~ MEANWHILE, Over at the UN: Cashing In On Terrorism? …. (pajamasmedia)

~ NUKE THREAT.. U.S. still naked to EMP threat: New emergency plan doesn’t address alarming nuclear scenario in revised disaster response …. (worldnetdaily)

~ VACLAV KLAUS: A Speck of Light …. (brusselsjournal)

~ HOLLYWOOD Takes on the Left: “David Zucker, the director who brought us ‘Airplane!’ and ‘The Naked Gun,’ turns his sights on anti-Americanism” …. (weeklystandard)

~ MILITARY humour …. (tom-phillips)

LifeLinks, Culture of Death

~ JACQUELINE Murray: A brief history of baby killing …. (np)

~ NATIONAL POST Editorial Board: Conservatives choose clarity over compromise on Epps’ Bill …. (nationalpost)

~ REJECTING Humanae Vitae: Chickens Coming Home To Roost …. (socon.ca)

~ ‘BORN’ LIAR: “Obama denies his denial on infanticide vote, gives new excuse” …. (dawneden.blog)

~ AFFIRMING LIFE— Margaret Somerville– “I am carrying this baby as long as he will let me, and will not be the killing hand.” …. (mercatornet)

~ PACHECO ON THE Brave New World …. (socon.ca)

~ JAPANESE government rewrites wedlock law …. (timeimmortal)

~ THE DNC’S FEATURED SPEAKERS are a Who’s-Who of Pro-Baby Killing Fanatics …. (weaselzippers)

~ IN THE MODERN ERA, adults have given up having children but claimed the rights traditionally afforded to children for themselves …. (timeimmortal)

~ DESPITE BILLIONS IN NANNY-STATISM— imagine that! Theodore Dalrymple on Childhood’s End: “Britain, land of bleak houses and low expectations”.. Britain is the worst country in the Western world in which to be a child, according to a recent UNICEF report …. (city-journal.org)

~ NATION OF BASTARDS: “The drive for the legalisation of same sex marriage is destroying the traditional concept of marriage, says a Canadian academic” …. (mercatornet)

~ SO WHAT WAS the rush to treat little girls like lab rats?
…. (stoptheaclu)

~ THE BOUYING & Selling of Children …. (socon.ca)

~ NEW CONFIRMATION that Obama covers up support of infanticide …. (dawneden.blog)

~ HEALTHY Homosexuality, Healthy Homosexuality, repeat ad nauseum …. (MaD)

~ NEW STUDY: Oral Contraceptives Disrupt Ability to Choose Genetically Favorable Mate– “Oral contraceptives totally disrupt the normal hormonal cascade. When the hormonal system is disrupted, cardiovascular disease, cancer, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and other serious illnesses will increase. My clinical experience has clearly shown that it is impossible to adequately treat these illnesses if there is an imbalanced hormonal system.” …. (socon.ca)

~ PRO-LIFE, Texas Style …. (socon.ca)

~ INDIA’S MISSING GIRLS: it’s not just an abortion issue
…. (MaD)

~ TERRI SCHIAVO’S Death and the Misdiagnosis of a Persistent Vegetative State …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ SHRUGS ALL ‘ROUND.. Only seven years for raping a young boy? …. (timeimmortal)

~ A MORAL MONSTER— “Obama On Premature Babies— THEY’RE NOT HUMAN”; Obama: more pro-abortion than NARAL …. (GP, SobTho)

~ TIRESOME LOBBYIST Homosexual Lord of the Rings Star McKellen Blasts Catholic Bishop for Remarks on “Gay Lobby” …. (lifesitenews)

~ THE OBAMA (PBUH) on his support for infanticide: ‘I will not yield’; Obama on the Born-Alive Act; Lying About the Born-Alive Act …. (DE, nrotc)

~ WE NEED YET more contraceptives!! …. (curtjester)

~ WIVES WHO SCOLD Their Husbands in Front of Perfect Strangers …. (rightwingnews)

~ A NEW BOOK on Fathers and Daughters …. (drhelen.blog)

~ FRANK FUREDI— Thou shalt not hug; Now you need a licence to interact with children …. (frankfuredi)

~ FREE HEALTH CARE.. But Do You Make the Cut? …. (dailybayonet)

~ KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: For Planned Parenthood, it is all about sex. “An Unplanned Education” …. (nationalreview.com)

~ ABC DISPARAGES Pro-Life Pharmacist’s Choice to Have Large Family …. (newsbusters.org)

~ TAKEN FOR CHUMPS— “Doubleplusungoodthink. unoft, plusungoodthink or ungoodthink. Oldthink is unwith BB and party. oldthinkers unluv doubleplusgood waylive BB command. Oldthinkers oft is crimethinkers. Oldthinkers oft make crimethink …. (anglocath.blog)

~ MORGUENTALER Sues New Brunswick Over Abortion Funding …. (forlifeandfamily.blog)

~ PIMPS, Pedophiles: Welcome to S.F. …. (townhall.com)

~ THE ART OF MANLINESS.. “This humorous, interesting and sporadically wise blog is a great resource for all men. It includes advice on topics as diverse as snakebites and pocket squares, and provides the invaluable service of a Google-powered Barbershop Locator” …. (firstthings)

~ SAVING HEALTH-CARE RESOURCES! Another bacterial infection outbreak in Canadian nursing homes …. (canadafreepress)

~ JONATHAN KAY: Hey, let’s all be anorexic! Look inside for details …. (network.nationalpost)

~ DUST MY BROOM— Bail? He wants bail? …. (dustmybroom)

~ CAN ALL THIS LAST? “London is not a city of garden parties and tea urns. Drunken young people totter about our shopping centers on Friday and Saturday nights, shrieking at one another, vomiting, fighting. The structures of family life are cracked and wobbling: Over half of all births are now out of wedlock, and divorce is on an epic scale. Over five million of our relations and friends are missing, aborted before birth. Same-sex unions are celebrated with “gay weddings.”” …. (anglocath.blog)

~ JAY CURRIE: “Of Child Rearing” …. (jc)

~ HEY, ANOTHER “boys are stupid” post! …. (rightwingnews)

~ LOVE THE MAMMON— Hallmark’s new cards …. (geraldnaus)

~ ABANDONING the Frightened and Depressed …. (firstthings)

~ ABORTION as birth control, redux …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ I’VE ALWAYS THOUGHT There Was Something Repellent and Evil about “Body Worlds” Exhibits …. (markshea.blog)

~ WHERE HAVE ALL the real men gone?: ‘Feminism has neutered men and deprived them of their noble, protective role in society’ …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ WILL SAN FRAN Voters Protect Human Traffickers? …. (wesleyjsmith)

Trade, 2007

~ WHY ‘GOOD KIDS’ Are Getting Hooked On Heroin …. (pajamasmedia)

~ IT’S DIFFICULT but not impossible to face the fact of getting old. American culture does not honor that part of life …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

The People’s Republic of Canuckistan

~ A QUESTION: Why was a propane facility allowed to move into a residential Toronto neigbourhood five years ago, with apparently little or no consultation with the locals? Who on Earth thought that was a good idea? …. (scara, sda)

~ SMEARING LIKE A LIBERAL: Garth Turner vents his spleen on a senior citizen on long-term disability — and prepares to backtrack; Garth Turner attempts to wipe his blog clean of his latest stumble …. (stevejanke)

~ FOLLOWING The Desmarais Money …. (sda)

~ SUCH A NICE BOY! Idiots in Saint Catharines liked Pedro Bello even while he did armed home invasions …. (mAd)

~ MATT GURNEY ON Canadian Deaths in Afghanistan: The race between firepower and armour …. (np)

~ AS OTHERS SEE US… more wailing & gnashing of teeth from the welfare elite …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ I’VE LOST MY DAM And ‘ave not a pole/ So here I am/ Just a beaver in a hole …. (cjunk.blog)

~ IT’S A PLAGUE! “Canadian consumers are abandoning their shopping carts, delaying purchases and leaving stores, public transit stops and restaurants in significant numbers,” marketing research firm, Maritz Research Canada, said in releasing the results of an online poll of more than 1,300 adult Canadians …. (dustmybroom)

~ FR. DE SOUZA.. Why Louisbourg matters …. (fatherdesouza.ca)

~ CHRETIEN DIDN’T ATTEND Lillehammer, Nagano, Sydney and Salt Lake City, yet has the nerve to berates PM Harper for not going to Peking …. (MaD)

~ FEDS PLAN AGAINST Smuggling of Sex Slaves for 2010 Olympics …. (dustmybroom)

~ CANADA’S Lost Arctic …. (dailybayonet)

~ $300M SUIT FOLLOWS Toronto Propane Explosion …. (lawiscool)

~ CANUCKS: Bought for a Price …. (socon.ca)

~ KATE McMILLAN: “Truly, drunk drivers need a better press agent” …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ DEBBIE DOES Flin Flon: Update …. (network.nationalpost)

~ OWNING HIS caricature– but not quite getting it …. (edwardmichaelgeorge.blog)

~ THREE BRAVE CANADIANS— More sad news from Afghanistan …. (damianpenny)

~ LEMIEUX: Random health services …. (shotgun)

~ CANADIAN shipbuilders can’t bring their bids in on budget. Is a “Buy Canada” policy still practical? …. (shotgun)

~ THE MOST CANADIAN video of all time ever …. (rjjago)

~ CIVIL WAR in Montreal once again …. (freedominion)

~ TORONTO Propane desecration: “The buck-passing continues in the wake of the propane explosion, with the city blaming the province, and vice versa. While most of the residents in the neighbour adjacent to now devastated propane site have returned home to varying scenes of damage, some have been told they cannot yet return due to concerns that there’s asbestos in the air” …. (scaramouche)

Blogs, Media, Dead Tree

~ FCC CHAIRMAN Fears Obama Regime Would Silence Blogs …. (rightwingnews)

~ DR. HELEN— “..on the internet, there is a punky attitude that disguises itself as sort of an electronic libertarianism”… An Interview With Ron Coleman About Legal Issues For Bloggers And Blog Readers …. (drhelen.blog)

~ PLUG COULD BE PULLED on internet radio station Pandora …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ LOST IN SPACE? Computer virus infects International Space Station laptops… (telegraph)

~ JAPANESE BLOGGER pleads with Google to halt Street View roll-out …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ IDENTITY THEFT becoming cash cow for organized crime …. (nationalpost)

~ DO SOCIAL NETWORKS Bring the End of Privacy? …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ APPLE’S iTUNES disappears behind Great Firewall of China …. (timesonline)

~ ADVICE FOR A would-be journalist, Barbara Kay, National Post …. (barbarakay.ca)

~ WEB IS A LEADING News Source, Papers, TV Decline, Younger Ignoring ALL News …. (stoptheaclu)

~ THIS SEEMS TO BE Spank A Journalist Week at The Torch …. (sda)

~ IT’S NOT JUST GEORGIA: A look at U.S. cyberwar preparations …. (popularmechanics)

~ PEOPLE WILL still pay for good music …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ NATPOST’S Marni Soupcoff on Google’s hot trends: Gene Upshaw, Leon County schools, The Day That Never Comes and Carli Lloyd …. (network.nationalpost.com)

~ GOOGLE are being evil …. (stoptheaclu)

~ GEORGIAN GOV Websites Under DDoS & Cyber Attack …. (mypetjawa)

~ A FEDERAL JUDGE on Saturday granted the state of Massachusetts’ request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system …. (volokh.com)

Culture, Tech, Odds & Ends

~ NOTHING MUCH TO LOOK AT… Science close to unveiling invisible man …. (timesonline)

~ THE 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest …. (neatorama)

~ CLIMATE CHANGE circa 6,000 B.C. …. (americanthinker)

~ SHAIDLE— The long awaited “An American Carol” trailer. Wow. Just wow. Could this film maybe, just maybe, help McCain with the election? Could this film maybe, just maybe, help McCain with the election? …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ THEN THE INFLATABLE POO broke the window at the children’s home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Mr Steiner said …. (dustmybroom)

~ COLD WEATHER, It’s been quiet, too quiet, for 400 spotless days on the sun …. (wattsupwiththat)

~ DEBORAH GYAPONG found the new Batman movie kinda boring …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ VERY COOL VID.. “Sea Orchestra”; here’s the large version …. (neatorama, bdm.net)

~ HOMER INSPIRED literary greats from all ages. Alberto Manguel’s new book is rich with commentary on the literary history of Homer’s epics. “Man of a Thousand Faces”, by Joseph Tartakovsky …. (victorhanson)

~ COPYBOOK GODS— “Youth are usually repulsed by oldness, being something alien and vaguely threatening, yet oldness today might be a few years before they were born. A present tense culture’s present tense music, unified only by its anti-effort delivery system. It’s froth with nothing beneath it, like the celebrity culture its “creators” inhabit” …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ GET UPDATED on all the happening hip lingo, dudes …. (urbandictionary)

~ ZZZZZZ? A new, animated entry in the most successful film series of all time earns a mediocre $15.5 million on its opening weekend …. (damianpenny)

If Benny Hill had done Star Wars

~ BIGFOOT ISSUE Press Conference: Bigfoot Not Dead, Bigfoot Love Gadgets. Rubber Gorilla Suit Heartbreak …. (Wired, LGF)

~ SHAMELESS GREED: “Who owns secondhand books?” …. (telegraph)

~ HOW TO INSULT a lawyer on the web …. (rjjago)

~ ON THE SUPER-FABULOUS MANOLO— A Festival of Poi, Roast Pig, and Lifelong Commitment …. (firstthings.com)

~ NOT THAT I WANT ” to scare anyone… or imply you do not already know…but…the claims and graphs I have seen for this movie are shocking” …. (timeimmortal)

~ NEATORAMA ON Batman and Other Superheroes … Simpsonized! …. (neatorama)

~ IAN HUNTER: My commonplace books …. (nationalpost.com)

~ MICROSOFT LAUNCHES actually useful 3D wonder Photosynth for consumers …. (cnet.com)

~ BIG PHARM doesn’t like competition on dangerous remedies: “Hands up! Back slowly away from the vitamins! Feds crack down on reports of natural remedy healings” …. (worldnetdaily)

~ SOMEDAY I THINK ” I will have to write a book entitled Everything is Going to Kill You. Granite tabletops pose a cancer risk!” …. (holywhapping.blog)

~ FLOODS ARE Only Heartbreaking And Scandalous In Louisiana …. (downwitheverybody)

~ LEFTY PIÑATA TIME.. A Delicious article about Michael Moore– Kathy Shaidle’s latest in FrontPageMazgzine …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ RESEARCHER: Prepare for ‘Little Ice Age’ (will only last 80 years!) …. (directorblue.blog)

~ CAN YOU SAY ‘Banned For Life’? If at first you don’t succeed… roundhouse kick to the face …. (dustmybroom)

~ THAT WORD… Irregardless is a term meaning in spite of or anyway, that has caused controversy since it first appeared in the early twentieth century. It is generally listed in dictionaries as “incorrect” or “nonstandard” …. (wiki)

~ THE VINDICATION of Humanae Vitae; The Oasis of Humanae Vitae …. (socon.ca)

~ CURT JESTER— Remind me again why we have martyrs in the Church? I guess caving to an unjust law is quite acceptable, hey what was St. Thomas More thinking? …. (curtjester, geraldnaus)

~ CARDINAL KASPER— the good cop of ecumenism–tells the hard truth at Lambeth …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ PLEASE GIVE NOW! “Bishops stuff their faces, then ask for money”– From the Church Nobody Goes To Anymore, to help cover “a light snack of cold lemon and thyme scented breast of chicken with fresh asparagus and porcini mushroom relish, summer bean and coriander, tomato, basil and mozzarella served with hot minted new potatoes. To follow: dark chocolate and raspberry tart with raspberry ripple ice cream, topped off with coffee and white chocolate raspberries. To drink: Pino Grigio or Shiraz, or cranberry and elderflower fruit punch”.. all coming after a protest march for the abolition of world hunger …. (fivefeetoffury, reformedpastor)

~ A GREAT PIECE by Douglas Farrow on Humanae Vitae …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ MICAHEL COREN: G.K. Chesterton, an icon to too few …. (nationalpost)

~ WAH, BOO HOO! “Primate expresses ‘frustration’ that Canadian church’s voice hasn’t been heard at Lambeth hearings” …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ SET PASTOR Zhang Zhongxin Free …. (canadafreepress)

~ RELIGION OF PEACE— Arabs: Christians, Jews praying on Temple Mount ‘seek religious war’ …. (wnd)

~ IRANIAN CHRISTIAN COUPLE Killed by Police After Holding Private Church Service …. (Wz)

~ THE BRAVE Margaret Somerville– Speaking to a secular age: Battles in the public square are won with words — but which ones? …. (mercatornet.com)

~ FR. RAY DE SOUZA: Batman journeys beyond mere good and evil …. (np)

~ MORE PROOF of Stephen Colbert’s Awesomeness: Who else would have New Testament scholar N.T. Wright as a guest and manage to make it both informative and funny? …. (markshea.blog)

~ A SERMON FOR The Transfiguration of Our Lord …. (anglicancontinuum.blog)

Ancient Portrait Gallery

~ WHEN CHURCHES GO MENTAL: Lambeth lost 3 million dollars, no resolution to the First Corinthians 6:9 thingy …. (marginalizedactiondinosaur)

~ THOUGHTS ON Broken church windows …. (worldontheweb)

~ CHARLES LEWIS: The Book of Job and the horror near Brandon …. (nationalpost.com)

~ FIRST THINGS— “Osteen, Schori, and American Heresy” …. (firstthings.com)

~ SNARKING— “WaPo runs a regular feature entitled “On Faith”, short opinion pieces in the intersection of religion and the public square” …. (proteinwisdom)

~ PRAYER REQUEST: Catholic bloggers flagged …. (theanchoressonline)

~ ZENIT WRITES on the Cardinal Levada letter to the Archbishop Hepworth …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ PRAYERS, PLEASE— “China Games and Beyond” (PDF) is a 40-day prayer journal designed to focus prayer on China during the Olympic and Paraolympic games that run from August 8 to September 17. (You can also order a hard copy.) …. (worldontheweb)

~ DINESH D’SOUZA: Sigmund Freud’s Illusions …. (townhall.com)

~ PRIMATE Mouneer Anis of Egypt on Lambeth …. (gyapong)

~ FORGIVING HATE: “Dachau Memoir Sheds New Light on Holocaust” …. (zenit.org)

~ MARK SHEA on the theology animating atheists like Hitchens …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ MORE GYAPONG— “A good fisking of Cardinal Kasper’s Lambeth speech; More on Cardinal Kasper at Lambeth” …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ N.T. WRIGHT rubbishes relativism …. (frjeffreysteel.blog)

~ IN THE FIRST CENTURIES ” of the Christian movement, martyrs went singing to their deaths rather than do something so seemingly innocuous as burning a pinch of incense before the statues of emperors who had been officially deified. Also today, Christians worry about the ways in which accommodation to this foreign city can become betrayal. At least they should. The temptation to worship false gods usually presents itself in subtle forms. It does not usually announce itself with the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music” …. (firstthings)

~ AL MOHLER— “Blame Africa? The Anglicans and their Troubles” …. (albertmohler.com)

~ PRAISE YE THE LEADER! “Shut Up and Play Your Guitar” …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ INTERVIEW with an Ex-Vampire Novelist, By Fr. Dwight Longenecker …. (ft)

~ JOHN L. ALLEN Jr. on the Pope vs. the Pill in the NYT …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ THE WISDOM OF ROWAN— “Uh…what? Heterosexual males wanting to boink men now and then was what Paul and the other Biblical writers were actually condemning? Women in the Biblical period were free enough so that they could leave their homes and families whenever the mood struck them and get a little lesbian action going?” …. (mcj.blog)

~ WORLD’S YOUTH more religious than reputed (except in Europe) …. (bertelsmann-stiftung)

~ CANADIAN Authors Awarded: “Thirty-eight first place winners were among The Word Guild’s annual contest for the best publications of 2007” …. (christianity.ca)

~ CATHOLIC adoption agency caves in to British government …. (noapologies.ca)

~ SPIRITUAL ALZHEIMER’S? Cardinal Ivan Dias’s speech to Anglican bishops at Lambeth, warning them of Spiritual Alzheimers. Indeed: Alzheimers seems to be competing with an acquired immune deficiency syndrome in many churches to destroy Christian memory and infect the body with heresy. Dynamic duo …. (merecomments)

~ NICHOLAS HYTNER, the fashionable director of the National Theatre, has been happy to offend Christians by staging shows such as Jerry Springer: The Opera, in which Christ was portrayed wearing a nappy and saying he was “a bit gay”. However, according to Simon Gray, the leading playwright, Hytner is wary of putting on anything which could upset Muslims …. (Wz)

~ CHARLES LEWIS: Why don’t Canadians want to hear about our politicians’ religious beliefs? …. (nationalpost)

~ DAVID WARREN vs. the Darwinoids …. (post-darwinist.blog)

~ UNIV OF MINNESOTA Professor Posts Video of Koran Pages Being Nailed to Eucharist Then Thrown in Trash on his Blog …. (Wz)

~ FISKING a paper on atheist morality …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ AMERICA The National Catholic weekly looks at Lambeth and TAC …. (deborahgyapong)

~ BARBARA KAY: Iran singles out a gentle faith for persecution …. (nationalpost)

~ WHAT SOFT-FASCIST RELIGION SOUNDS LIKE— “The kingdom of heaven is like 650 bishops marching through the streets of this city a couple of days ago, insisting that together we can end global poverty, if we have the will to do it.” – Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefforts-Schori, preaching the Deist gospel at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields in London.” We can do it.. a whole new world now, made in our image and likeness! Utopia! Full speed ahead! …. (reformedpastor)

~ DIOGENES— “Pat is the security guard at a bank. Mike is a bank robber :Muddled? Who’s muddled? Pat is the security guard at a bank. Mike is a bank robber” …. (offtherecord)

~ D’SOUZA: Countering Richard Dawkins …. (townhall.com)

~ MR. CANTERBURY: Rowan’s ‘Christ-like’ routine is getting on people’s nerves …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ ANGLICAN BISHOPS are promoting ignorance …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ OBAMA, you’re no John Paul II …. (theanchoressonline)

~ CAN THE ‘Pastoral Forum’ save the Anglican Communion? No …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ BRAXTON[‘S LEAR– Beyond the Valley of the Far Side of the Fringe. Gene Robinson is at Lambeth, wearing both his famous bullet-proof vest AND his Golden Hairshirt …. (kraalspace.blog)

~ THE ANCHORESS on President Bush …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ POPE BENEDICT Meets With Iraq’s PM, Urges Protection for Iraqi Christians. Iraqi Christians Form New Militias to Combat Islamic Extremists …. (Wz)

~ THE YOUTUBE ERA has produced a few Catholic stars, priests whose performances have inspired scores of web surfers to pass along emails full of grief or glee …. (tmatt)

Jihad 3.0, Terror, World Politics

~ FOR THE BEST POSSIBLE ” illustration of why Islamic terrorism may one day be considered the least of our problems, look no farther than the BBC’s split-screen coverage of yesterday’s Olympic opening ceremonies. On one side, fireworks sparkled, and thousands of exotically dressed Chinese dancers bent their bodies into the shape of doves, the cosmos and more. On the other side, gray Russian tanks were shown rolling into South Ossetia, a rebel province of Georgia” …. (WaPo)

~ AMERICA’S acupuncture points …. (ghostofaflea)

~ PIGS FLY! OLMERT STEPS DOWN— Hear o Israel!!! The corrupt, dhimmi, lying lowlife is stepping down He has much to answer for …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ THOSE FAUX RIOTS: “Didn’t I see something about Tibetans being responsible” …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ ISRAEL: Iran Is on Path Toward Nuclear Weapon ‘Breakthrough’; Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the head of a national security panel has warned …. (bloomberg, noiri)

~ FATAH Militants Flee Gaza To Israel For Safety …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ SMOGOLYMPICS: (cough, cough)–That’s the sound of ernational athletes, gasping to catch their breath in the Beijing smog. The atmospherics at the Olympics have long been polluted, but this year it’s like the the miasma surrounding the corrupt IOC has been reified and become manifest in the Chinese air …. (scaramouche)

~ HAMAS ON Ceasefire: ‘We are training for the next major attack’ …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ SEAL THE EVIL: Why Terrorist Homes Need To Be Destroyed …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ POPULAR MECHANICS: As Iran Tests Missile Fleet, Experts Map High-Tech Israeli Attack …. (pajamasmedia)

~ CHINA: Jihadist Website to Post Video of Deadly Xinjiang Attacks …. (Wz)

~ BLOOD FOR OIL FO’ REAL— “When Russian tanks and troops poured into the separatist Georgian province of South Ossetia yesterday, it was not, as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said, part of a “peacekeeping mission.” It was part of an imperialist mission whose undeclared goal is to reabsorb the whole of Georgia–West-leaning Georgia with its critical oil pipeline supplying energy to an increasingly thirsty Europe–into mother Russia” …. (pajamasmedia)

~ REMEMBERNG Hiroshima: Political wisdom from The Guardian …. (pajamasmedia)

~ WHILE WE’VE BEEN WATCHING the Campaign, Russia Has Invaded Georgia. A Russia-Georgia War? The Caucus Region “A Key Conduit For The Flow Of Oil From The Caspian Sea To World Markets.” …. (americandigest, hughhewitt)

~ PLAYING POLITICS: “IOC Bans Iraq From Olympics–Want Old Committee Reinstated Even Though They Were Kidnapped & Vanished 2 Years Ago” …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ JONATHAN KAY: The next time someone says Iraq was a “war for oil,” slap him (with this GAO report) …. (NP)

LifeLinks, Culture of Death

~ MOMMY, where did I come from? …. (rjjago)

~ SAN FRANCISCO fest features public sex with no arrests. ‘This is what the gay agenda is all about’. California Legislators tell school kids to celebrate homosexuality …. (WND)

~ THE PILL: STALE-DATED.. “Actually, the whole idea that technology can deliver consequence-free sex has outlived its shelf life” …. (mercatornet)

~ A JOY THAT DEMENTIA could not crush: The frail and elderly have an inherent dignity no disease or disability can erase …. (mercatornet.com)

~ WILL COMPANIES Discriminate Against Children of Single Parents? …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ GIVING THEM reasons to live– “Our duty to the mentally ill is brushed aside by the right-to-die lobby.” …. (mercatornet)

~ WHO IS PAID to care for Katelynn …. (dustmybroom)

~ IVF BABIES at Higher Risk of Death …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ IS NETWORK TV anti-marriage? …. (worldontheweb)

~ THE DOCTOR IS IN: Infant Mortality Comparisons a Statistical Miscarriage …. (pajamasmedia)

~ BROKEN MEN: “..men generally don’t get parental rights, that they lose a large amount of their income, that their property gets swiped from them, that their reputation gets sullied, and all of this because of a legal system that demonstrates, time and again, a distinct bias in favour of women, then it’s much less surprising that the suicide numbers are so skewed”.. even worse? iN OTHER NEWS, “Killer Mary Winkler gets her kids back. I have no words to describe how unfair the justice system is towards men who are slaughtered by their wives” …. (shotgun, drhelen.blog)

~ ABANDONING the condom: the new engagement ring? …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ NATIONAL POST Editorial Board: Betting your health on Canada’s doctor lottery …. (nationalpost.com)

~ YOUR REALLY CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. Either gays are just like us or they have transcended human sexuality to such a point that we might consider them superhuman …. (mypetjawa)

~ DOUGLAS FARROW: 40 years later, the Pope’s words on birth control have stood the test of time …. (nationalpost)

~ COMATOSE Woman’s Family Fights for Her Life …. (reformedpastor)

~ WHAT-NOW? Doctors warn against ‘designer vagina’ craze …. (breitbart)

~ NEWFOUNDLAND Approves Over-the-Counter Access to Morning-After Pill …. (lifesitenews)

~ A TRUE MOTHER: “I’m looking at him right now, and I see perfection. Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?” That’s Alaska’s Republican governor, Sarah Palin, talking about her infant son, Trig, born with Down Syndrome …. (NRO)

~ NOT EVEN Skin Deep …. (returnofscipio)

~ DOUG GILES— “The 10 Commandments for Classy Girls” …. (townhall.com)

~ SEPARATION anxiety: My kid is off to sleep-away camp tomorrow …. (scaramouche)

~ MARJORIE CAMPBELL reflects on children and sexuality …. (deborahgyapong)

~ LIFE & DEATH In Fresno …. (thereturnofscipio)

~ THEY’VE ABORTED All Their Children. Now They Want Ours …. (forlifeandfamily.blog)

~ BUNS AHOY! McDonald’s helping fund naked homosex-fest. McDonald’s is digging in its heels in support of homosexuality. Boycott ensues …. (Various)

~ ARE WE DISTANCING Ourselves To Death? Five Practical Tips Our Family Is Trying …. (scriptoriumdaily)

~ NORMALIZING EVIL: “set in the gay milieu of Manchester, a 30-year-old man takes home a 15-year-old boy” …. (MaD)

~ BRING back the paddle! …. (dustmybroom)

The People’s Republic of Canuckistan

~ GENE SIMMONS Salutes Canadian Troops. Libertarian sexpot maybe– but as the son of a Holocaust survivor, he knows the value of freedom …. (dustmybroom)

July 26, 2008: Edmonton, AB: Rock legend Gene Simmons is seen with Sgt. Dan Milburn a reporter with Army News (based in Edmonton) as they tape a promo for Army TV to be shown to Canadian Troops in Afghanistan during an interview in the media center as at the Indy Car Series at the 2008 Rexall Edmonton Indy on Saturday July 26, 2008. (Tom Braid/Sun Media)

~ GIRL IN BLUE— “Nova Scotians deserve better”: You’re right Dex, they sure do …. (girl-in-blue.blog)

~ THE SOLUTION to the doctor shortage in Canada is sweeping the country …. (dustmybroom)

~ CELEBRATE Canada: $6,670,000 reasons to love your country …. (shotgun)

~ WHY YOU’RE STILL GETTING GOUGED: “Inflated profits, regulations, taxes and timid shoppers keep prices high” …. (macleans.ca)

~ THE WAITING GAME: ER Wait Times In Canada vs US …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ MICHAEL LANGAN’S mom Sharon Shymko thinks it’s ok to stab police if you are the right minority …. (MaD)

~ ONTARIO INDIANS: Making life harder for the politically correct …. (dustmybroom)

~ CANADIAN INVENTIONS and Discoveries …. (smartcanucks.ca)

~ SOCIALIST PARADISE CBC a very unhappy place to work …. (noapologies.ca)

~ ONTARIO LIBS break more promises on Autism …. (rjjago)

~ MANITOBANS to learn from Israeli Water Management …. (dustmybroom)

Blogs, Media, Dead Tree

~ INTERTOOB TROLLS— Doin’ it for the LULZ. “Trolling is basically Internet eugenics,” he said, his voice pitching up like a jet engine on the runway. “I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed. Blogging gives the illusion of participation to a bunch of retards. . . . We need to put these people in the oven!” …. (girlontheright)

~ BLOGGING sucks: Women, minorities hardest hit …. (eddriscoll.com)

~ DON’T GOOGLE YOURSELF! Note to egosurfers – stop being dumb …. (rjjago)

~ iPHONES-MAC computers become apples of hackers’ eyes …. (breitbart.com)

~ WELL, GOOD: Bloggers win 92% of cases …. (pajamasmedia)

~ US BLOGGER to be tried for insulting fascistical crybaby Singapore judges …. (breitbart)

~ INTERTOOB REHAB? Illinois In-Patient Facility First of Its Kind to Treat Web Addicts …. (abcnews)

~ MS-EXPLODER 7 Problems viewing blogs with Sitemeter Installed …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ CANADA’S 36th largest newspaper is.. a blog …. (MaD)

~ JOEL JOHNSON: How to Unlock DVD Regions on Your Mac and PC …. (pajamasmedia)

~ ARE WIMMIN Bloggers Taken Seriously? …. (neatorama.com)

~ RYERSON REVIEW of Journalism Praises Bloggers, Slams MSM for Caledonia Coverage …. (dustmybroom)

~ ROGER KIMBALL— “Surprises never cease department: Media bias 101” …. (pajamasmedia)

~ HOW THE DIGITAL AGE is destroying us by ruining our ability to.. um– what was it again?.. oh, right: concentrate …. (timesonline)

Culture, Tech, Odds & Ends

~ THEODORE DALRYMPLE— La Cité, C’est Moi.. Vainglorious French architects set out to destroy Paris …. (city-journal.org)

~ THE LEGAL DEFINITION of torture has been much aired in recent years, and I take “Mamma Mia!” to be a useful contribution to that debate …. (scaramouche)

~ GRATUITOUS Tolkien Geekery Posting …. (llamabutchers)

~ DAILY PILL ‘halts Alzheimer’s’… bring the brain back to life …. (dailymail, telegraph)

~ DECIPHERING the Antikythera Mechanism …. (firstthings)

~ THE POP CANON: Albums you are ashamed never to have heard …. (telegraph)

~ HASTA barista, baby …. (eddriscoll.com)

The Lyrebird Remix

~ GIRL WITH a Pearl Earring, Drawn with Lisa Simpson …. (neatorama.com)

~ FACIAL PLASTIC Surgery Is A Slippery Slope…..Literally …. (rightwingnews)

~ ROBERT FULFORD: It’s all Greek, to everyone. 10 Fascinating Facts About the Ancient Olympic Games …. (np, neatorama)

~ GOT NO LIFE? “Behold,”The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria” Trailer and Announcement Info” …. (amazon.com)

~ OOO! WE WANTS ONE! Tiny Houses Fit Microscopic Land, Budgets …. (wired.com)

~ WAYS I WILL NEVER PERISH, Part XVIII: “Climbing catastrophe as 9 perish on K-2” …. (nationalpost)

~ FREEZE! Eugenio Recuendo recreates Greek friezes by posing and photographing human models. Pretty cool stuff …. (neatorama)

~ A MONTY PYTHON cover art contest …. (pajamasmedia)

A New VTOL Plane

~ THE POPE MEETS the serpent … and the koala and the parrot …. (thisislondon)

~ SCIPIO ON “The Rule Of Moloch” …. (thereturnofscipio)

~ FALSE PROPHETS— Yes Icon, by James Bowman …. (newcriterion)

~ PETER TOON: “The Lambeth Conference of 1930: Its continuing influence on the Morals and Behavior of Anglicans” …. (merecomments)

~ THE POPE: Paul’s World Not So Different Than Ours …. (zenit.org)

~ MORE SPECULATION on Anglo-Catholics and Rome …. (deborahgyapong)

~ THE CASE AGAINST paternity leave: “Nicola Brewer, the head of the Equalities And Human Rights Commission, wants to ‘rethink’ family policy and give fathers the same rights and responsibilities as mothers. I am always amazed with the hubris of government officials who think that they can undo biological realities” …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ WAPO BLOG: “I Hate it When People say They’re Christian” …. (Wz)

~ A COUPLE OF interesting posts on women and the priesthood. John Pacheco the Socon has an interesting post on why women can’t be priests …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ LAMBETH WATCH Wales breache. Wales tells Canterbury to get lost. An Archbishop of Canterbury in retreat …. (nrotc, blogs.telegraph)

Saint Song

~ WHY BOTHER blogging about Anglicanism? Rod Dreher gets it …. (blog.beliefnet)

~ GEEZER LEFTY still mooching attention: “Nun calls for return to principles of non-violence” …. (speroforum)

~ LIBERAL BISHOP John ‘demonic’ Chane at Lambeth claims following the scriptures is err, demonic …. (MaD)

~ KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Paul VI is back! “Holy Sex@40” …. (article.nationalreview.com)

~ THOSE QUESTIONS the Dalai Lama is never asked… nor are Buddhist monks or nuns, or celibate Buddhists or Taoists …. (theanchoressonline)

~ C OF E BISHOP will lead Anglicans to Rome …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ TONY SNOW, R.I.P. (“Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant”) …. (rightwingnews)

~ IT MAKES THEM screech and shrivel up …. (anglocath.blog)

~ THE ‘SNEERING SCULARISTS”— Self-professed Aussie agnostic Gerard Henderson; and “Shock! Richard Dawkins and his cultists turns out to be humourless morons” …. (pumpkin-watch.blog)

~ JINDAL’S EXORCISM: “Louisiana’s Governor Bobby Jindal has been mentioned as a potential veep for McCain, and he may bring some, um, interesting talents to the table” …. (time-blog.com)

~ MARK SHEA— “Jeepers! Christianity is Shaken to Its Very Foundations! Golly! These are the sort of stories that have “Academic Seeks Publicity Gig” written all over them.” …. (markshea.blog)

~ COMRADE DIOGENES: “In a display of spirited independence comparable to the Soviet Agricultural Congress of 1951, the Church of England has voted to approve women bishops” …. (offtherecord)

~ DR. ROWAN WILLIAMS “has just preached a sermon to Synod members in York Minster which illustrates why someone else should be in charge of the Church of England at this time of crisis” …. (damian_thompson)

~ MOST INTERESTING debate ensues after non-Catholic journalist receives communion …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ CHRISTIAN Communities grow in proportion to their willingness to die …. (sameo416)

~ SCORING SOME COAL— “London’s Telegraph reports that America’s professional Santas have been plunged into civil war amid accusations of profiteering, unethical behavior and even Claus-on-Claus violence” …. (proteinwisdom)

~ REUTERS’ ‘remains’ of the day …. (dawneden.blog)

~ AN UNLIKELY CENTRE of attraction: “Pope Benedict XVI has a mysterious but very genuine appeal for Gen Y. A woman who is one of Australia’s leading theologians explains why” …. (mercatornet)

~ AN INTERVIEW with An Exorcist …. (socon.ca)

~ NIAGARA ANGLICAN: Truth of Nicene Creed doesn’t really matter …. (anglicanessentials.ca)

~ DAMIEN THOMPSON’S take on Anglican bishopesses; Some interesting news about Anglicanism …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ THE PEACEABLE Reverend Jesse Jackson: “I wanna tear off Barack Obama’s nuts” …. (dustmybroom)

~ CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION Persists Ahead of Beijing Olympics …. (christianpost)

~ IT’S THE WORLDWIDE Ham Wrestling Communion …. (anglocath.blog)

~ HOME HARDWARE Founded on Christian Ethics …. (christianity.ca)

~ GHOST OF A FLEA: “Christianity, it might be argued, is garnering in a greater proportion of the world’s population than at any time since late antiquity precisely because conditions in so many parts of the world resemble late antiquity” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ WORLD-CLASS THEOLOGIAN calls on Rowan Williams to resign. Dr Packer must clarify Archbishop comments …. (timescolumns, mcj)

~ CHURCH OF ENGLAND to Traditionalists: Drop Dead …. (reformedpastor)

~ OLYMPICS & FAITH: Free Bibles available at Beijing Olympic village: Churches asked to man chapel where they’ll hold services, prayer sessions …. (worldnetdaily)

~ AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING: “Why sexual issues matter enough to cause a schism in the Anglican communion” …. (mercatornet)

~ CONVERT STEENSON EXPLAINS: “The former Bishop of the Rio Grande (Episcopal), the Right Reverend Jeffrey Steenson, was received into the Holy Catholic Church in December of last year. Recently he addressed the annual convention of the Anglican Use Society and offered his explanation why he embraced the full faith” …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ TIME MAG on Anglo-Catholics and Rome; William Wheatley on Roman Catholic exceptionalism …. (deborahgyapong)

~ DOWN UNDER JOURNOS Turn Cynical Towards Chaste Catholics …. (newsbusters.org)

~ ANGLICAN CHURCH disembowels, defenestrates self: “Telegraph: Women win bloody battle at the Synod.” Sacrifices must be made unto the gods of liberty! …. (kendallharmon.net)

~ TONY SNOW— The Blessings of Cancer; “You Really Don’t Know”– “.. despite this—because of it— God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don’t know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.” …. (nrotc)

~ LIKE A CAT PLAYING with a mouse– Vox Day responds to an atheist critic …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ HITTING HOME— “GAFCON has definitely struck a nerve. Canadian Primate Fred Hiltz REALLY resents the charge that he and his organization aren’t Christian anymore.” In the meanwhile, crack-downs on clergy & parishes behind the scenes as Anglicans are forced to feel the ++Fred-Luv …. (mcj.blog)

~ HOLY WHAPPING— Nuns + Vegemite = Instant Comedy …. (holywhapping.blog)

~ THE PLIGHT of Christians in the Middle East, By: Jamie Glazov. Pierre Rehov discusses his new film …. (frontpagemag)

~ INEVITABILITY: “Wake up and smell the schism” …. (splendoroftruth.com)

~ THE DEATH of Les Crane last week allows us to retrace the story of the soppy poem “Desiderata.” …. (spectator.org)

~ THE THIRDS TEMPLE preparations begin with priestly garb …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ UNRAVELING— Revenge, Thomas More would no doubt observe if he were the sort of person for whom the concept of revenge was something praiseworthy, is a dish which tastes best when it is cold: “Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks with Vatican officials to discuss the crisis in the Anglican communion over gays and women bishops” …. (mcj.blog)

~ AP DOES A REUTERS: Saint Obama in a Halo …. (newsbusters.org)

~ STAY TUNED FOR “Lambeth: the Final Episode.” …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ BREAKING THE BONDS of communion. Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post …. (nationalpost)

~ IF ONLY our Professional Catholics ™ wrote like this …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ CATHOLIC MAGAZINE not guilty of hate: Commission dismisses gay activist’s complaint …. (nationalpost.com)

~ CNN.COM CAN’T Find Anglican Opposed to Female Bishops? …. (newsbusters)

~ LEAD THEM NOT INTO TRANSLATION, by William F. Buckley Jr. …. (llamabutchers)

~ “WALL-E”: Aristotelian, crunchy con…. (crunchycon)

~ WORLD CLASS DUMB: “Every now and then, a prominent religious figure says something that is so jaw-droppingly stupid, so ignorant, and so inexplicable in a literate person that all you can do is stand back and admire the incredible awesomeness of it” …. (reformedpastor)

~ COMING APART AT THE SEAMS— “The previous item offers a quote from an Anglican bishop at the opening of a Church of England synod that has the potential to rip the CofE apart, according to the Times of London” …. (reformedpastor)

~ NOTICING HINTS of the soul’s existence …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ HEROES— “A guest post by FATHER JOSEPH LODY. Written for the 27th annual Chesterton Conference” …. (dawneden.blog)

~ AN INTERESTING CLASS of saint: the Elaephori, or oil-yielding saints whos remains mysteriously produce oil. Equally interesting? The Incorruptibles …. (romanmiscellany.blog, angelfire)

~ IS GOD A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT? The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America would have you believe so …. (frontpagemag)

Incorrupt Bodies of the Saints part 1

~ THE INCARNATION: Not for wimps …. (theanchoressonline)

~ DIVORCE & Orthodox Churches …. (geraldnaus)

~ FROM THE “Random Things the Orthodox Do So Much Better Than Us” File …. (holywhapping.blog)

~ HERE COMES everybody! …. (pblosser.blog)

~ YOU KNOW gas prices are high when… people are having PRAYER VIGILS! …. (geraldnaus)

~ MESSAGE to American liberal feminists: “You don’t speak for us.” …. (pumpkin-watch.blog)

~ NITWIT FLYING PRIEST Found Dead in the Atlantic, God Positioning System Still Missing …. (gizmodo)

~ FAITHFUL HUSBANDS and fathers: “Churchgoing men are not a hangover of the old patriarchy but a new breed who are closely connected to their families” …. (mercatornet.com)

~ HOMELESS COVERTS from Islam …. (merecomments)

~ AUSTRALIA bans “Catholic baiting” during World Youth Day …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ THE MOVIE Expelled: Why are Americans allowed to care so much about freedom?, and other thoughts …. (post-darwinist.blog)

~ CURT JESTER on the “Reign of homophobic hatred” …. (curtjester)

~ THIRTY YEARS of Light & Glory: The Perils of Providential History, by John Fea …. (touchstonemag)

~ DAMIAN THOMPSON: The Church of England is Protestant again. “A couple of hours ago, the Church of England decisively severed itself from its Catholic roots. By voting to ordain women bishops without significant safeguards for traditionalists, it reasserted its identity as a Protestant Church” …. (kendallharmon)

~ ALEXANDER Stoddart: Contemporary Sculpture in the Classical Tradition …. (holywhapping.blog)

~ THE COMMONALITY of Pope, Imam and Prophet? …. (geraldnaus)

~ LEFTISTS FIGHT “Gundamentalism”– By: Mark D. Tooley. A Religious Left group tells the world Jesus’ position on the Second Amendment …. (frontpagemag)

~ A HOSTAGE GIVES THANKS: “Ingrid Betancourt plainly thought God had a hand in her liberation, but the signs went unremarked in most news coverage” …. (mercatornet)

~ CATHOLIC CHURCH website is a smorgasbord of waffle …. (telegraph)

~ DO TUMMY-ACHES DISPROVE God? “My tummy hurts. Ergo, there is no god” …. (evangelicaloutpost)

~ BLESSED ST. SARKOZY? “French Christians support their president” …. (weeklystandard)

~ STARBUCKS CLOSINGS; blame the Monks? …. (theanchoressonline)

~ A SECULAR AGE: “Why has contemporary Western society abandoned God and religion? A Canadian philosopher traces the history of unbelief” …. (mercatornet.com)

~ CREATION of “liberated zones” new strategy …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ IT’S BECOMING MORE and more dangerous for preachers to use the words “sex” and “sin” in the same sentence …. (gospelcom)

~ LIBERAL CATHOLIC bishops kept in the dark over secret talks; The barque of Peter should not pick up Anglican boat people …. (telegraph)

~ SCHISM: JERUSALEM — Just minutes ago, conservative Anglicans announced what they are calling “The Jerusalem Declaration,” which states their intention to erect a new “fellowship of confessing Anglicans.”; MCJ has all you need to know …. (nrotc, mcj)

~ ANGLICANS— Choosing between God and liberal pieties …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ NOT COMPROMISING the Gospel, By: Mark D. Tooley: “An Anglican bishop refuses to stop preaching Jesus to Muslims…although some in his church welcome Shari’a” …. (frontpagemag)

~ TELEMARKETING, Darwin, and The Food Crisis …. (dustmybroom)

~ THE MESSIAH CHANNEL.. Russell D. Moore on Jeremiah Wright & the Conservatives Who Preach Just Like Him …. (touchstonemag)

~ BRING IT: “Three hundred bishops and archbishops meeting at the Global Anglican Future Conference at Jerusalem have declared their intention to form a “church within a church” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ ‘GAY’ MAN SUES Bible publishers. $70 million for emotional distress because homosexuality cast as sin …. (worldnetdaily)

~ FR. DWIGHT Longenecker Watch the Death Agonies of Anglicanism with Mixture of Horror, Disgust and Pity …. (markshea.blog)

~ DAWN PATROL: “Welcome, EWTN viewers!” …. (dawneden.blog)

~ IN TAKING CHRIST’S BLOOD, we make it our own …. (timeimmortal)

~ A ‘NEWLY’ DISCOVERED inscription confirms the obvious …. (timeimmortal)

~ EVERYTHING MUST GO! Frank satire of Nova Scotia Diocese. Sounds like they’ve been selling out for years …. (magicstatistics)

~ A NEW BOOK— Gut Check: “Donald Trump, of all people, gave a young entrepreneur a ticket to preach the gospel” …. (mercatornet)

~ MELTDOWN— “Damian Thompson reports that the parade should begin some time after the Lambeth Conference” …. (mcj.blog)

~ HMMMMM.. Is the EU a Popish Plot? …. (telegraph)

~ LIBERAL CHRISTIANS— Covering Over Christian-Muslim Differences …. (reformedpastor)

~ JUST OVER A YEAR after it was originally published as a paperback, “The Shack” had its debut at No. 1 on the New York Times trade paperback fiction best-seller list on June 8 and has stayed there ever since …. (worldontheweb)

~ BISHOP of Durham sees the funny side …. (timescolumns)

And Now for Some Don Ross

Jihad 3.0, Terror, World Politics

~ SADDAM’S IMAGINARY WMD’S ARRIVE IN CANADA— It appears that when George W. Bush, the CIA, and Tony Blair said that Saddam Hussein had yellowcake uranium, which was a violation of the UN resolution after the Gulf War, and one of the reasons why the USA and UK invaded Iraq to start the war, they were speaking the truth. 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium was found recently in Iraq, that Saddam had hidden for over five years from UN weapons inspectors, and sold to Canada recently; “Reader finds out Saddam’s uranium “powers Bay Street banks” in Toronto!” …. (abc, p2bc)

~ IRAQ TO FILE LAWSUITS in US over oil-for-food scam …. (afp.google.com)

~ AFTER THE JUNE 16th climacteric at the UN Human Rights Council, I explained at Jihad Watch that all “Criticism of Shari’a or fatwas in particular is now forbidden”. I provided facts and video evidence to prove that point …. (jihadwatch)

~ CAROLINE GLICK: “The media will only give us the information they wish us to have. And that information’s relationship to the truth is arbitrary at best” …. (jihadwatch)

~ THE EVIL CHIMPY McHitlerburton’s smirky rodeo ride through history, 25: the last slice of Saddam cake eaten by secret greedy killbots …. (proteinwisdom)

~ THE TREACHEROUS NEW YORK TIMES again exposes “highly classified Pentagon order” …. (canadafreepress)

~ CONDI’S ‘REALISM’: In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Condoleezza Rice expatiates on, well, on just about every frickin thing on the planet (though not, alas, on totalitarian courts prosecuting thought crimes in her neighbour to the north)—and a mighty soporific slog it is. Here she is ‘splaining that pesky Israeli-Palestinian situation …. (scaramouche)

~ FROM OUR BULGING “the calls are coming from…. INSIDE THE HOUSE!” files. Commenters debate a possible UK anti-Muslim backlash …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ MICHAEL TOTTEN: The Road to Kosovo, Part II …. (pajamasmedia)

~ WHETHER OR NOT the “good old days” ever existed is a matter for debate. An Associated Press article summarizing declassified US Army documents describes the summary execution of thousands of Korean communists during the Korean War …. (pajamasmedia)

~ ADRESS TO DAVOS: ‘If we lose it, there isn’t another America to pull us out.’– “Western civilization seems to have forgotten what every primitive society understands—-you need kids to have a healthy society. Children are huge consumers. Then they grow up to become taxpayers. That’s how a society works, but the postmodern secular state seems to have forgotten that. If U.S. birth rates of the past 20 to 30 years had been the same as post-World War II, there would be no Social Security or Medicare problems.” …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ THE GREAT NIGERIA Oil Robbery: Welcome to the global black market in crude oil …. (spectator)

~ YOUR WORLD LEADERS AT WORK: “Gordon Brown and his fellow world leaders have sparked outrage after it was disclosed they enjoyed a six-course lunch followed by an eight-course dinner at the G8 summit where the global food crisis tops the agenda. . . . On the flight to the summit, Mr Brown urged Britons to cut food waste as part of a global drive to help avert the food crisis.” …. (instapundit)

~ HOMELAND INSECURITY— Latest buzz: Shock bracelets for all airline passengers: ‘Just when you thought you’ve heard it all’ …. (wnd)

~ THE TROOFER LEMMINGS MARCH ON— ‘Why facts won’t demolish the conspiracy theories’ …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ RUNNING IN BEIJING? = 6 PACKS A DAY.. Beijing Olympic Bird’s Nest ready …. (bbc, rightwingnews)

LifeLinks, Culture of Death

~ DAWN EDEN on Sanger’s Sin …. (merecomments)

~ EVEN OLD PRO-LIFE warhorses will find themselves stunned after reading this DailyMail article titled “I blanked out the emotions after each of my SEVEN abortions.” …. (nrotc)

Fathers Be Good To Your Daughters

~ GRANT BROWN on parental authority. Grantbrownsmall Is there a bias in Canadian courts against fathers? …. (shotgun)

~ McBABY-DEATH— Planned Parenthood, the Lenscrafters of family planning? …. (hotair.com)

~ FAMILY “DIVERSITY” UNPACKED— “To pretend that all families are equal denies the truth of the child’s experience” …. (mercatornet)

~ EXPERIMENTING ON OUR YOUNG WOMEN— “The cervical-cancer vaccine that Planned Parenthood and its allies promote for school-age girls has sparked 7,802 “adverse event” reports from the time the FDA approved its use two years ago, according to the Centers for Disease Control” …. (dawneden.blog)

~ GIGGLES ENSUE: “Canadian Liberals joke about killing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife” …. (dustmybroom)

~ CHINA’S CONTINUING 1-child holocaust documented. HBO film shows 40 million girls aborted, 70,000 kids sold annually …. (worldnetdaily)

~ WO WILL SET A GUARD over my mouth, and upon my lips an effective seal, That I may not fail through them, that my tongue may not destroy me? …. (anglocath.blog)

~ ASSISTED SUICIDE ADVOCATE Shows Ugly Truth of the Movement’s Ideology …. (wesleyjsmith.com)

~ QUEBEC Needs A Sexual Revolution …. (socon.ca)

~ ZENIT: “Advocates of assisted suicide continue to press their case in many countries. In Germany a former senator from Hamburg, Roger Kusch, released a video of him helping a woman commit suicide, reported Reuters on July 1” …. (zenit.org)

~ DOCTORS & FAMILIES Asked to “Just Say no to New Aborted Fetal Vaccine!” …. (lifesitenews)

~ POLITICALLY CORRECT SEX on the beach: “It’s amusing to see how politically correct newspapers invariably tiptoe around certain aspects of certain gay lifestyles” …. (americanthinker)

~ LEGALIZED PROSTITUTION: a failed experiment. The Australian state of Victoria has sanctioned prostitution, turning it into a growth industry but doing nothing for women who want to get out of it …. (mercatornet.com)

~ UK NHS MELTDOWN: Elderly Woman Starved Rather Than Cared for to Save Money? …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ McKIDS APPEAR TO SUPPER in daycare, imagine …. (MaD)

~ THAT CURE-ALL HPV VACCINE: Dangerous to Girls? …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ AL MOHLER— “Sons and Daughters of God — The Wonder of Adoption” …. (albertmohler)

~ REASONS WITHOUT VIRTUE: “A claim that gay marriage requires only modest changes to family laws has a Swiftian air, minus the satire” …. (mercatornet)

~ BIG, BIG MONEY— It Pays to be a Eugenicist: Big money is out there for the brightest minds to shove utilitarianism and the goal of human enhancement down our throats …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ ON JULY 4th, remembering a woman who gave all …. (dawneden)

~ TODAY’S RACIST POST by Sondra K! …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ ONLY IN AMERICA: The Gyno Spa- Dedicated To ‘Pelvic Fitness’. Snap into shape, Vaginas! …(theanchoressonline, sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ NOW YOU TELL US…. The advocates of contraception have finally admitted in public what some of us have known for a while: The Pill doesn’t work very well. Birth Control Pill Being Busted…Officially …. (jennifer-roback-morse.blog, socon)

~ DELAWARE DIDN’T “Learn the Lesson” of Schiavo …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ LIVING TOGETHER DANGEROUSLY: “Study Reveals Perils of Cohabitation” …. (zenit)

~ AMERICA has 3,800 animal shelters, but only 1,500 for battered women. Puppies are blameless and easy to care for; people are more complicated. Allison Schrager, an economist, examines our inclination to help animals over our own species …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ LIBERAL MEDIA insist on calling pregnant woman a “man”…. (proudtobecanadian)

~ AFA CALLS for McDonald’s boycott …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ ON THAT WHINY MUSICIAN: “I Kissed A Girl And I Resent It” …. (rightwingnews)

~ CHUCK COLSON: The Legacy of Radical Feminism …. (townhall.com)

~ THE GREAT ESCAPE: “I think the saddest thing about this noxious and pathetic display is how far the fantasy is from the reality. Why do such deviancies attract such a pathetic lot of flabby, pastey, podgies?” …. (anglocath.blog)

~ DOG BITES MAN CAT: “A European charity organization, Save The Children UK, accused humanitarian aid workers and UN peacekeepers of sexually abusing and sexual trafficking children in several war-torn and food-poor nations.” …. (pajamasmedia)

The People’s Republic of Canuckistan

~ THANK-YOU, GENERAL! Hillier retires– John Ward captures what will most likely be remembered as one of Hillier’s greatest successes during his term as CDS – re-connecting Canada with it’s military …. (toyoufromfailinghands)

~ SOCIALIZED HEALTH-CARE: The Cost Cutters Called Suffering and Death …. (merecomments)

~ WE’RE ALL BROKEN UP To See Someone Ripping Off The Ripper …. (downwitheverybody)

~ IS ONCE-RICH ONTARIO about to become a have-not province? …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ BEGGING FOR A DOCTOR: “A Newfoundland medical clinic held a lottery this week to determine which patients could see its two new doctors” …. (dustmybroom)

~ WHY THE CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM is a bunch of controversial nitwits …. (MaD)

~ FENRIS BADWULF— Orange Day, 2008 …. (dustmybroom)

~ YOOT CRIME on the rise in Canada …. (dustmybroom)

~ THE VOLUNTEER— “The 87th member of the Canadian Forces killed in Afghanistan wasn’t originally assigned to that country. He insisted upon it” …. (damianpenny)

~ DOCTORS WERE warning B.C. politicians for at least three years about patients dying in emergency department hallways …. (MaD)

~ JONATHAN KAY on Dion’s Green Shift …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ SOCIALIZED MEDICAL GOODNESS— Ontario Health Care: Killing Machine …. (dailybayonet)

~ DR. MICROCHIP Just Another Humble Canadian …. (downwitheverybody)

~ DAVID WARREN: “Thinking back on the columns I’ve written for Dominion Day, over the years, I am struck by a tone almost of lamentation. “My” Canada — she of whose history I remain proud, from Cabot and Champlain through to childhood memory — the Canada for which my father and his father marched off to Europe — is not in question here” …. (dw)

~ THERE ARE A MINORITY of people in society who do not understand, nor appreciate, the fact that our soldiers serving in Afghanistan are volunteers. “Volunteers” means that they have willingly stepped up and asked to go to Afghanistan …. (cjunk.blog)

~ OH THE HUMANITY! Canada Post Union worried about working harder …. (dustmybroom)

~ WHO KNEW? Breaking: JTF 2 doesn’t answer to the CBC!

Setting the Ceeb straight …. (SDA, MP)

~ FORGET THE BEAVER, Maple Leaf and hockey, Canadians should be proud of their’s country’s courageous pioneering past …. (ottawasun)

~ NON-EXISTANT First Nations Band Scores $3M in Gaming Cash …. (dustmybroom)

~ IN CANADA, a man’s home (and its human contents) is the state’s to protect if it has the time …. (p2bc)

~ LET’S SEE… 50% of zero is…? …. (girlontheright)

~ RJAGO— “Canada Day, Fete Du Canada” …. (rjjago)

~ WE HATE The Productive And So Can You! …. (dustmybroom)

~ CANADA READY to deport U.S. deserters: Poster boy of movement discovers he was already discharged – military not looking for him …. (worldnetdaily)

~ CANADIANS AT PLAY! “The Simpsons Cutouts Congratulate High School Grad” …. (neatorama)

~ IT’S TIME TO Let Go Of The Grudge …. (forlifeandfamily.blog)

~ OFFICIALLY— “The Who is the Most Mediocre Canadian website allows you to weigh in on one of the most important issues of our time” …. (mediocrecanadian)

Blogs, Media, Dead Tree

~ BLOGGERS: Big Media Is Watching …. (lgf)

~ IRANIAN missile test: The next image in the sequence …. (mypetjawa)

~ A BBC AUDIO-REPORT: the inventor of the Internet on the next Generation of the Worldwide Web …. ()

~ CANADIAN iPhone users protest against Rogers tariffs …. (Telegraph)

~ MALKIN— Fauxtography-fest 2008! …. (michellemalkin)

~ FUN WITH Google Maps …. (nrotc)

~ PEEKABOO— “Viacom Gains Access to YouTube Visitor Logs” …. (lgf)

~ MORE REASONS to avoid Internet Explorer …. (cnet.com)

~ WHERE the CBC Gets Its News? …. (dailybayonet)

~ THE FIVE BEST Windows Maintenance Tools …. (lifehacker)

~ CIRA POLICY is Not the End of Web Annonymity …. (lawiscool.com)

~ TEN TOP WORST Uses for Windows …. (timeimmortal)

~ POLITICAL GARAGE bands are slapping together skillfully-edited videos of those they hate and seek to discredit for YouTube. These may be expected, at least to some extent, to take the place of paid commercial spots either by the campaigns themselves or by their 527 proxies — and, of course, to come in much greater numbers and with much smaller accountability …. (newcriterion)

~ BECAUSE SITTING UP is for Suckers: 70+ Tools, Tips and Hacks to Work from Bed …. (internetservicedeals)

Culture, Tech, Odds & Ends

~ THE WILY Odysseus’ return from Trojan War dated. Time pinpointed to the day based on references in epic poem …. (msnbc)

Lucas With The Lid Off

~ MARGARET WENTE: “How Google ate my brain” …. (theglobeandmail)

~ ON THE LATEST OPIATE for the Disney Masses: “Schizophrenic Disney” …. (eddriscoll.com)

~ PEOPLE’S CUBE IS Remembering the Reagan Reign of Terror …. (thepeoplescube.com)

~ FUTURE ‘FUTURAMAS’— A cult TV classic returns in DVD form …. (weeklystandard)

~ SHAM? WOW! Vince Offer – Meet the next great TV pitchman: Salesjerk. His 1999 movie apparently “stands as a monument to ineptitude and self-delusion.” …. (Wiki, Slate)

Watch Those Quick Edits!

~ JUST OUT.. Stuff White People Like: The Book! …. (stuffwhitepeoplelike)

~ LATE NIGHT LAUGH: The SC&A Institute Saturday Night Phd In Philosophy …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ I WAS A TEENAGE HALF-ORC: “D&D lives on, after all these years” …. (nationalreview.com)

~ IMAO HAS YOUR “Top Ten Controversial Supreme Court Decisions” …. (imao.us)

~ ANATOMIC MODEL puzzles of surpassing loveliness …. (boingboing)

If Earth was hit by a Meteor

~ ON THE OPRAHIZATION of Academia …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ WE LIKE TEEN BURGS, TOO, BUT.. Is A&W Food Really That Mesmerizing? …. (chrisd.ca)

~ HURRICANE Bertha Humbles Forecasters …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ VENI, VIDE, VICI— “The question of Julius Caesar’s arrival date in Britain is seemingly answered once and for all” …. (skyandtelescope)

~ FACULTY FOLLIES, Part 8,976, or Why Milton Friedman is worth 10,000 humanities professors …. (newcriterion.com)

The “Wilhelm Scream” – A Tribute

~ GORE VS. BUSH: “A tale of two houses, or an Inconvenient Hypocrite” …. (rogerkimball)

Cosmic Voyage

~ LATIN MASS: the subject of spiteful scorn from Sandalistas; “I can’t help but wonder if the elderly be-Birkenstocked Easter People are going to put up the same kind of fight to retain the fruits of their revolution” …. (telegraph, anglocath.blog)

~ SOBERING THOUGHTS— The end is near for the Anglican Communion; The Bishop of London writes the rector of St. Bartholomew’s …. (soberingthoughts.blog, transfigurations.blog)

~ A FEW WEEKS AGO, “I wrote about Britain’s running competition with Canada to become the country furthest gone in the Culture of Death Sweepstakes. I got a call last week from someone who told me about a mandate from the Quebec government to force all schools, including “Catholic” schools and homeschoolers, to start using a government-approved “religion” curriculum that teaches that no religions are true and that they are all just human ideas of equal worth… or something” …. (anglocath.blog)

~ QUESTIONS ON Candles in Eastern Christianity …. (holywhapping.blog)

~ ICON EXHIBIT TO OPEN IN FALL— Collection spans over 400 years of Christian iconography …. (anglicanplanet.net)

~ PURPLE SPINE! Bishop Nazir-Ali: “We Must Recover our Christian Nerve Before our Judeo-Christian Heritage is Lost”; UK: Bishop Nazir-Ali Boycotting Archdimmi Williams, Quietly Building his Power Base Inside CoE …. (Wz)

~ GHOST OF A FLEA— Letter to the Ephebians: Terry Pratchett creates gods all the time. He now suspects one might exist …. (ghostofaflea.com)

~ THOSE PESKY COMMANDMENTS— Canadian Doctors At Odds With Jewish Family Over Continuing Life Support …. (religionclause.blog)

~ FOOD FOR THOUGHT, from the Anglicans …. (nrotc)

~ A PYRRHIC VOCTORY for Vancouver churches: “Shotgun readers may remember that a few months ago, I posted on the efforts of Vancouver’s Tenth Avenue Alliance Church to protect its outreaches to the poor from Vancouver city bureaucrats who were not convinced that it was part of the role of a church (or any similar religious body) to minister to the needy” …. (shotgun)

~ BEAR DIARIES: “Northrop Frye … reading not sleeping” …. (sleepyoldbear)

~ AL MOHLER: In Error and Apostate — The Anglican Division Looms …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ FIRST THINGS— The Incredible Hulk, The Philokalia, and Anger Management …. (firstthings.com)

~ REMAKING ANGLICANISM: “In Jerusalem, conservatives stage an ecclesiastical coup” …. (nro)

~ ACADEMIC GIANT Revd Prof Henry Chadwick, RIP …. (anglicancontinuum.blog)

~ CELESTIAL TEAPOTS, Flying Spaghetti Monsters, and Other Silly Atheist Arguments …. (evangelicaloutpost)

~ BLOVIATOR— “Appetizer for Solemnity of the Sacred Heart” …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ KILL! MISERY! RUIN! First Things: The War on Abstinence …. (firstthings)

~ THE BRIDES WORE… Eye witness account of Gene Robinson’s “wedding” …. (prayersthatmatter.blog, AM)

~ KENNETH @ Time Immortal: “I am a Eucharistic person” …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ THE HUMAN BLACK HOLE— “The inimitable Chris Johnson writes of this gooey devotional to Eugene V. Robinson in GQ” …. (markshea.blog)

~ AFRICAN HITLER Mugabe’s Anti-Christian Persecution …. (frontpagemag)

~ THE VATICAN says it will not allow an upcoming movie to film on location because the work–Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code prequel, Angels and Demons–is “an offence against God.” …. (worldontheweb)

~ JOHN THAVIS on the Traditional Anglican Communion …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ SOPHISTICATE Sniffs at Pherlosophy …. (edwardmichaelgeorge.blog)

“The Wanderer”

~ DEBORAH GYAPONG— Feel a little discouraged? Need to know God is in control? Read this
Some insight into how it feels to find out someone’s praying for you …. (dg)

~ THEY GET IT! “Shouldn’t the United Church Just Throw in the Towel?” is the opening event of a four-day Church-sponsored conference that will look at the future of the country’s largest Protestant denomination …. (edwardmichaelgeorge.blog)

~ ED DRISCOLL— “The ultimate critical virtue, agree many academics, is transgression – social, sexual and political. Theorists such as Judith Butler and Michel Foucault have contributed to a left-wing discourse in which the celebration of deviance has taken over from serious attempts to describe or improve the lot of the oppressed” …. (eddriscoll.com)

~ SLEEPY OLD BEAR— “Hard to beat this for comedy — starring … the Rev Gretta Vosper” …. (sleepyoldbear)

~ EURO ARISTOCRAT, Princess Alessandra Borghese, talks to Peter Stanford about her well-documented return to Catholicism …. (telegraph)

~ PEOPLE’S CUBE— “The New Age Annoints a New Opiate” …. (thepeoplescube)

~ ACTON University 2008 Audio Classes …. (Acton)

~ MARY EBERSTADT: Elizabeth Anscombe hurt the atheist cause. “Loser Letters” …. (nationalreview.com)

~ ABOMINATION: C of E Priests ‘Marry’, By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs …. (anglicancontinuum.blog)

~ GIRL IN BLUE— “”We” should acknowledge the native issues, but put an end to our unnecessary guilt. To be fair, this was the age of ‘improvement’, and when southerners looked at native communites, they saw disease, lack of education, disconnection with the wider world, and no chance to improve themselves and benefit from Canada” …. (the-girl-in-blue.blog)

~ PUZZLED OVER Atonement lite.. “A post-modern author can’t cope with remorse and expiation, as the novel Atonement and the subsequent film show all so clearly” …. (mercatornet.com)

~ THE PUZZLING FASHIONS OF PENITENCE— “I’ll say this for Stephen Harper: Canada’s Prime Minister didn’t apologize this week to Canada’s aboriginal people in a moral vacuum. Ahistoric apologies have been all the rage in the last twenty years” …. (georgejonas.ca)

~ SIGCARL&FRED— ‘Archbishop, you’ve committed treason’ …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ SERGE’S BLOG ON Seeker-sensitive churches.. “Commonly called pandering and dumbing down” …. (sergesblog.blog)

~ HOLY WHAPSTERS— What does “Parish” mean, anyway? …. (holywhapping.blog)

~ JERUSALEM— “Mother Nature kicks ass: Israeli researchers who grew a sapling from a date seed found at the ancient fortress of Masada said on Thursday that the seed was about 2,000 years old and may help restore a species of biblical trees” …. (hallsofmacadamia.blog)

~ BEN STEYN’S EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed – Opens in Canada June 27 …. (noapologies.ca)

~ PITY THE HATE-CHURCH: WaPo Feels Pain of ‘Marginalized and Vilified’ Church of Rev. Wright …. (newsbusters.org)

~ RELIGIOUS PEOPLE NEED NOT APPLY! “Senate Democrats are working overtime to exclude orthodox believers from the Surgeon General’s office” …. (spectator.org)

~ PUTTING THE BOOTS to the Liturgical Terrorists …. (socon.ca)

~ ANGELUS HOMILY: Love, not holocausts …. (speroforum)

~ ON MARRIAGE: Why Hi-Jack a Christian Institution? …. (scriptoriumdaily)

~ PREZ BUSH MEETS WITH Pope Benedict, Rumors he may Convert to Catholicism …. (weaselzippers.net)

~ MILITANT ATHEISM At U of Virginia …. (stoptheaclu)

~ WHAT PART OF “No. Shut Up. Go Away.” isn’t clear? “The Vatican has banned the makers of Angels & Demons, the latest book from Da Vinci Code bestseller Dan Brown to be turned into a movie, from entering the Holy See and any church in Rome” …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS: Six reasons why Stephen Harper’s government shouldn’t deliver an apology …. (nationalpost.com)

~ FAKING IT! “This is the first of a series of posts looking at the news this morning that a London Anglican Clergyman “married” two other male priests in a ceremony that mimicked marriage” …. (peter-ould.net, Yips)

~ THERE’S A JOLLY VID on Telegraph TV about how wicked the Church of England is to give in to secularisation …. (telegraph)

~ STOLEN KOSOVO (Czech with English sub-titles)– Ten Bilingual Video Reports on Kosovo by Czech TV (never broadcast) …. (noiri.blog)

~ ATHEIST MEDIA-GUY Dawkins searches with both hands, can’t quite find ass …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ MELANIE PHILLIPS on “Paradise lost” …. (spectator.co.uk)

World War IV

~ ISLAMIC ATTACK ON DISEASE CONTROL CENTER AVERTED: 1 MILLION POTENTIAL DEAD– Another Islamic disaster attack diverted …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ WAAAAH! IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei says he will step down if major powers launch a military strike against Iran over its nuclear program. Yes, Mr. ElBaradei, that will be the world’s biggest concern if such events take place …. (Wz)

~ SCARAMOUCHE— “The best offence is a good offence: Iran is whinging because a representative of the country it has vowed to wipe of the map has informed Iran of his disinclination to go along with the map-wiping agenda” …. (scaramouche)

~ HUGH HEWITT— “IAEA Director-General Dr. Muhammad Al-Baradei: Iran Can Produce Enough Enriched Uranium for a Nuclear Bomb in Six Months to a Year” …. ()

~ SAUDI ARABIA: USCIRF Confirms Material Inciting Violence, Intolerance Remains in Textbooks Used at Saudi Government’s Islamic Saudi Academy …. (littlegreenfootballs)

~ SCIENCE or Religion? A False Choice …. (acton.org)

~ FINALLY, THE ANSWER: Disarm Israel And Teach Iran That Peace Is Nice …. (downwitheverybody)

~ RAYMOD IBRAHIM: “Islam’s War Doctrines Ignored” …. (victorhanson.com)

~ MIDDLE EAST UPDATE: Here’s what you need to know– Condi Rice is trying to control Israeli policy while Saudi Arabia is trying to control the U.S. and the UN …. (scaramouche)

~ EXPLOIT-A-JEW: Exploiting Anne Frank With The most tasteless T-shirt ever …. (weeklystandard)

~ STOP THE ACLU— “Why the drag lines were removed from the Flight 93 crash site memorial” …. (stoptheaclu)

~ UN NITWITS TELL UK to “Get rid of the Queen” …. (rjjago)

~ WHY INTELLECTUALS Like Genocide, by Theodore Dalrymple …. (newenglishreview.org)

~ GENOCIDE SQUABBLES: The Toronto District School Board has introduced a new program to acquaint students with the concept of genocide. Since it isn’t a survey course, three genocides are going to be discussed— the Armenian one, the Holocaust and the one in Rwanda. Naturally, this being multicultist Toronto, some groups are miffed about being left out—or in …. (scaramouche)

~ THE STRATEGY of Western Survivalists …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

~ THE CCP & SYRIAN NUKES: an ominous warning …. (shotgun)

~ THE HARD-FASCIST OLYMPICS— “Out damn’d spot!” China’s Potemkin Village Olympics and the complicity of the IOC and the global corporations profiting from the Olympics” …. (pundita.blog)

~ GEORGE BUSH HATES WHITE PEOPLE! Levees break in white neighborhoods, riots DON’T break out! …. (girlontheright)

LifeLinks

~ THE AIDS EPIDEMIC is mostly crap, admits lefty newspaper: primarily a gay thing. Made up by lefty activists who knew they were lying but wanted money to engineer society and enrich themselves in the process …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ A MATTER A Matter of Life and Birth: Celebrity childbirth in the age of abortion …. (spectator.org)

~ GEORGE NEUMAYR— What the Counterculture Has Joined Together: “A passionate tumultuous age will overthrow everything, pull everything down,” wrote Soren Kierkegaard, “but a revolutionary age that is at the same time reflective and passionless leaves everything standing but cunningly empties it of significance.” …. (spectator.org)

~ BREAKTHROUGH: Adult Stem Cells & Parkinson’s …. (theanchoressonline)

~ DISCUSS: “Make my baby straight, doctor” …. (worldontheweb)

~ CURT JESTER— Same-sex “marriages” on Monday; To defend marriage, first you have to know what it is …. (curtjester)

~ FIRST THINGS: The War on Abstinence; Teenage Pregnancy …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ NATURAL vs. ‘natural’ vs. natural …. (worldontheweb)

~ ECUADORIAN Obstetricians and Gynecologists Issue Thundering Manifesto Against Abortion …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ EVEN THOUGH 4/5th’s of Breast Cancers are caught by self & DR exams,… we should stop using them …. (MaD)

~ UK CHARITY: Female Babies Disappearing From India …. (downwitheverybody)

~ I DON’T LINK to evil slutopia often, Gardasil …. (MaD)

~ YOUNGME – NOWME …. (haha.nu)

~ MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Seeks to Deny Pharmacists Freedom of Conscience …. (lifesitenews)

~ SHOTGUN— “In family courts across the land, judges hold effectively the same powers over separated parents as feudal lords held over their serfs, and it pleases them to exercise this power without much restraint.” …. (shotgun)

~ THE PERVING OF POP CULTURE— “I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it…” …. (the-girl-in-blue.blog)

~ HOMOPHOBICAL Lesbos Islanders in Court This Week Over Misappropriation Of “Lesbian” Name …. (lifesitenews)

~ TOO MANY ADULT Stem Cells Successes to Keep Up …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ MERE COMMENTS: “Gettin Ejecated” …. (merecomments)

~ SOPHOMORIC— “I wanted to disclose a few things I have learned during my time at GW” …. (dawneden.blog)

~ GOOD NEWS, not involving fetal stem-cells: “Doctors Inject Cloned Immune Cells, Cure Man of Cancer” …. (neatorama)

~ PRO-ABORT THUGGERY Keeps On Truckin’ …. (socon.ca)

~ NON-CONTROVERSIAL Biotech: Biomarkers in Drug Testing …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ OBAMA TWICE OPPOSED Opposed Defining Babies who Survived Late-Term Abortions as “Persons” …. (weaselzippers)

~ MERE COMMENTS— “Nuances of Sex and the City” …. (merecomments)

~ PRESSURING Media to be Assisted Suicide Propagandists …. (wesleyjsmith.com)

~ THE TOP TEN male-bashing ads. The Dairy Queen ad is particularly creepy …. (pajamasmedia)

~ BRITISH MP Applauds 400 Million Missing Chinese …. (lifesitenews)

~ ANOTHER Abortion Nightmare …. (socon.ca)

~ WHEN IS DEAD REALLY DEAD? Organ Donation Just Got More Complicated …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ MAGISTATS— Doctors lack legal right to pull plug …. (magicstatistics.com)

~ KATHLEEN PARKER enters the book scene today with Save the Males: Why Men Matter. Why Women Should Care. It’s her first book and she makes it matter. Funny, clever, and important, she highlights some of the dangerous and prevalent anti-male trends out there …. (nrotc)

~ 123 MANITOBA WOMEN KILLED every year because of flawed breast cancer program. Almost double the national rate …. (MaD)

~ TEACHER KILLS autistic child …. (rjjago)

~ MEDIA DENIAL ASIDE, here’s 104 Photos from the March for Life …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ DADDY DEAREST— Losing a miracle; a call to arms …. (nationalreview)

~ ANOTHER DAY, another new sexual fetish “community” wants right to “marry”.. “The Woman Who Fell In Love With the Berlin Wall” …. (fivefeetoffury)

Man-Hug Like a Pro

~ HUMAN TRAFFICKING reports names Iran and Moldova as the worst …. (magicstatistics)

~ CONSEQUENCES— Oral Sex and Throat Cancer: It’s not meant to go there …. (socon.ca)

~ FURTHER Into The Abyss …. (thereturnofscipio)

~ THE WAR ON on Drinking: The Neo-Prohibitionists’ Latest Salvo …. (am770chqr.com)

~ JOSEPH CHAMIE …. According to a recent article, he finds himself caught in the abortion bind: on the one hand he supports a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion; on the other, he opposes the growing practice of choosing to abort a child (usually a girl) because it is the wrong sex. Actually, he writes about this dilemma in the third person plural, but it is clear that he is one of the “many people” wrestling with it …. (mercatornet.com)

~ KILL KILL KILL! “The Happening” — Environmentalists’ genocidal human-extinction fantasies just keep getting more detailed. Keep ’em away from biotech, please …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ AT LONG LAST: A Cure for the Common Boy– E-MASQL8 Plus …. (wittingshire.blog)

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Canuckistan News

~ TERROR-HAVEN? WE’RE ALSO A SPY-HAVEN! Canadian Engineer Xiaodong Sheldon Meng was sentenced two years for stealing US fighter pilot training simulation software and trying to sell it to the ChiComs …. (radiofreecanada.us)

~ ROBERT JAGO— “Now I’m off to celebrate National Aboriginal Day by going hiking on the side of a mountain, then to a BBQ and drinking binge. I may buy a lottery ticket.” …. (rjjago)

~ TAX-FREEDOM DAY! — We slaves get to work for ourselves the rest of the year! Yup– the socialist paradise means a 60-70% tax rate, once you factor in all the hidden stuff. Because bureaucrats are better at spending “your” money than you are …. (shotgun)

~ MAKE CANADA A Haven For War Resisters? …. (downwitheverybody)

~ CANADA’S WAR Versus the British War– Canada entered the Afgan conflict ill equipped …. (cjunk.blog)

~ A DANCE-MIX of Canadian Minister of Industry Jim Prentice lying about Canadian DMCA. Canada’s DMCA: a new public service announcement …. (boingboing)

~ CANADIAN LEFTIES Battle Against Reality– “While the Cuban Reds have grasped that you cannot consume more than you produce, the Canadian Autoworkers Union rage against the obvious and the necessary. Since June 4th CAW members have blockaded GM’s Canadian Head Offices in Oshawa, a “protest” sparked by a decision to close a plant producing unmarketable trucks and cars” …. (godscopybook)

~ CANADIANS oppose Bill C-10…but for all the wrong reasons …. (shotgun)

~ THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE For Your Childrens’ Education! “The mother of an autistic girl says the public school board was “completely unprofessional” to formulate a theory that her daughter was being sexually abused.. based on a psychic’s perception” …. (sda)

~ THE INTERSECTION of Treason and Modern Art: “Quebec nationalists are easily the silliest secessionists in the world” …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ SIGCARLFRED.. ‘How has Canada’s doctor shortage affected your life?’; Beneath The Veil: What Government Managed Health Care Looks Like …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ CANADA PENSION – A Must Read. Only in Canada. Do not apply for your old age pension… Apply to be a refugee! …. (MaD)

~ THE IZZY REGISTRY: “First, they fleeced us for billions with a gun registry that didn’t save a single life … and now they plan on fleecing us again with a new registry” …. (cjunk.blog)

~ THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE— “Larry, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl: The way I figure it, that’s who’s running the Toronto Transit Commission and City Hall, since only the witless products of rural inbreeding could possibly screw things up this bad” …. (scaramouche)

~ OUR SOCIALIST would-be masters: “I know socialists claim to be “progressive”, but this is ridiculous” …. (p2bc)

~ GOD’S COPYBOOK.. “Is there anyone in the Conservative Party’s Quebec wing who didn’t sleep with this woman?” …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ A MODEST PROPOSAL— Sharing is Caring …. (dustmybroom)

New Media, Teh Interwebs, Blogs

~ AP DEMANDS $$$$$$$$$$$$.. er, ‘blogging standards’. Malkin– “Hey, Associated Press: You owe me at least $132,125!” AP: The Internet’s Big Bully …. (Various)

~ HOW CHINESE CYBER-ESPIONAGE threatens American security …. (frontpagemag)

~ ED DRISCOLL— “My God, It’s Full Of Blogs” …. (eddriscoll.com)

~ AM GOOGLE ARE making we stupids? “As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.” …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ MORE SCIENCE LABS: Blogospheric Linkfluence Charted …. (lgf)

A Bergmanesque exploration of What Blogging Means

~ SILICON GRAFFITI: When Waves Collide …. (eddriscoll)

~ FIRST THEY CAME for the Police …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

~ DON’T WANNA HURT THE FEELINGS OF POOR WIDDLE TYRANTS— BBC: Report on Blogger Arrests Obscures Most Arrests Are in Non-Democratic Nations …. (newsbusters.org)

~ FIREFOX 3 Now Available; Firefox downloads smash 5m target. Color management tweak in Firefox 3 …. (Various)

~ TAKE A LOOK AT Vanity Fair’s Blog Map …. (newsbusters.org)

~ POWER USER’S GUIDE to Firefox 3 …. (lifehacker)

~ DOES GOOGLE HATE America? Farah among critics of search giant short on patriotism …. (wnd)

~ TIM RUSSERT DIES.. Of an apparent sudden coronary thrombosis. On the other hand, James Bowman: “I wonder if there isn’t something just a tiny bit unseemly about such effusiveness. Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath? Not having known Tim Russert personally, I obviously have no reason to dissent from the universally-held opinion that he was a great guy, a perfect son, husband and father, but would he himself have been quite comfortable about it if he could have witnessed his apotheosis as a hero-journalist which has ensued upon his untimely death?” …. (sda, NC)

Pop Culture, Odds & Ends, Geekery

~ TIME IMMORTAL: “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has sent a proposal to the Somerset County commissioners to lease their jail for the world’s first Lobster Empathy Center” …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ UGLY MODERN ARCHITECTURE— Roger Scruton on Léon Krier …. (edwardmichaelgeorge.blog)

~ MOVIE REVIEW— The Incredible Hulk …. (guardian)

~ HEY, NERDY DADS— got Lego-kids over 3 years old? BrickArms makes the best weapons for Lego minifigs ever. Buy a pack, and hand a few out as bribes and rewards. Here are ancient weapons, reviewed at The Brothers Brick …. (Various)

~ HMMMM— “Indiana Jones and the Close Encounters of The Third Kind Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” Movie Takes: How bad is it? …. (spectator.org)

~ UM, DUDE, where’s my sunspots? …. (theanchoressonline, SoHo.nasa.gov)

~ I’M A BONA FIDE SCI-FI GEEK from way back (except it never became my religion) and I agree– BSG lost me a while back.. the She-Binks continued to watch throught this season, which seemed less sci than soap, with screaming and too many close-ups and swerving plotlines and pass me the TV-whacker dear heaven there must be something– anything– better than this on …. (nrotc)

~ GENERATOR BLOG: all sorts of recent goodness! …. (generatorblog)

~ VIDEOSIFT: Best Video Clips of the Week #1 …. (neatorama.com)

~ MOONBATS who wish to live in the good old 1300s …. (rjjago)

~ A SLIDE SHOW to Humble Anyone …. (cjunk.blog)

~ TUNE IT UP: “Five Ways To Keep Your Car Running At Peak Fuel Efficiency” …. (lifehacker.com)

~ SHAWN MACOMBER: A coloring book that speaks to today’s children: I Don’t Want to Blow You Up! “Color Me PC” …. (nationalreview)

~ THE VIOLENT IMPLICATIONS of Scarcity: What to Expect in the Food and Fuel Crises …. (mackenzieinstitute)

~ NEATORAMA— “Best Movie Posters of All Time” …. (neatorama.com)

~ WALL-E = PHON-Y? “And once you’re done being lectured on the evils of consumerism by your betters in Hollywood, you can buy their merchandise!… For only $250, you can buy the remote-control Wall-E action figure – which will be available in time for Christmas”.. and too much, much, much more! …. (eddriscoll)

~ STAR WARS SECRETS— “Uh-oh… Don’t tell Han (or Rusty)” …. (mypetjawa)

~ THE MAESTRO: “The great Stan Winston, who helped to create everything from the Jurassic Park dinosaurs to Iron Man’s armor, has died.” …. (dp)

~ PRAYERS, PLEASE for Dawn Eden, as she recovers …. (dawneden.blog)

~ IRAQI CHRISTIANS Demonstrate in Oslo, Plea for Help From West …. (Wz)

~ NEWS COULD COME after Lambeth on Traditional Anglican Communion …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ TWO SCOOPS of offense in Kellogg’s All Bran …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ THE CAMPAIGN against ‘Saint John Paul’ …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ QUEBEC COMMISSION calls for “open secularism”.. A Quebec commission studying the “reasonable accommodation” of religious and other minorities has recommended “open secularism” as a way to resolve tensions …. (canadianchristianity)

~ THE LOOMING QUESTION: “Your Bloviator has been following with interest the saga of the Traditional Anglican Communion, a breakaway group of beleaguered Anglicans who would dearly love to come over to Rome” …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ HER MAJESTY Elizabeth II – The Last Christian English Queen? …. (socon.ca)

~ SYNDROME sufferers: The Toronto Star’s Oakland Ross writes about a strange malady—Jerusalem syndrome. It strikes Christian and Jewish men whose encounter with the holy city prompts some odd behaviour …. (scaramouche)

~ ANGLICANS to debate conversion-of-Muslims motion– Motion calls on church to proclaim Christianity only route to ultimate salvation …. (wnd)

~ IRAN LAUNCHES Crackdown on Christian Converts; Algeria: Prosecutor Asks Court to Jail Christian Converts …. (Wz)

~ FALSE PROPHETS— Tremors in Oprah’s empire: “Winfrey takes on politics and new-age spiritualism and jeopardizes status” …. (tvguide)

~ SOCIALIST Joy McPhail sees no joy in Christian’s views …. (p2bc)

~ ATHEIST to Benedictine Monk and Priest …. (curtjester)

~ EVIL SAYS WHAT? “We are atheists and for us, having sex in church is like doing it any other place” …. (cnn.com)

~ CANADA’S Catholic Revival …. (zenit.org)

~ JUDAS: A Saint for Our Seasons– “Black is white. Hate is Love. Slavery is Freedom. Treason is Loyalty. That last phrase fits right in to the secular catechism, doesn’t it? All it needs to become holy writ is an avatar, a solid historical personage with the power to turn darkness into light, lies into truth, and betrayal into something that was, in the final analysis, “all good.” …. (americandigest.org)

~ DEAR JOHN Bentley Mays– let us pray for you …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ WHACKNUT Father Pfleger Steals Act From Bobcat Goldthwait …. (peoplescube.com)

~ SOME HOPE FOR the Anglican Church, film at 11:00 to see how that goes …. (MaD)

~ 3,000 Iraqis become Roman Catholics …. (holysmoke)

~ SURELY a mistake? …. (ghostofaflea.com)

~ MEGA-CHURCHIANITY: Who is Advising John McCain? …. (youarecephas.blog)

~ A RACIST NATIVE-HATING RACIST? Fond Memories of Residential School …. (dustmybroom.com)

~ ALGERIA Slams Christian Evangelists, “Colonizers, who Violate the Koran and Sunna” …. (Wz)

~ NITWIT BISHOP: Failure To Act On Climate Change Is Like Incestuous Sex Abuse …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ MONKS FORGIVE women on Mount Athos …. (telegraph)

~ ANY QUESTIONS? — It’s to be Excommunication for ordination of women …. (socon.ca, BB)

~ ANGLICANS on homosexual Marriages, 1978 and today …. (MaD)

~ RABBI DALIN delivers a stunning blow to pope-haters …. (sleepyoldbear)

~ SHOTGUN BLOG— Mass detention of religious minorities in Iran – First Bahai’s and now Christians. Germany: Bring In the Christians …. (shotgun, brusselsjournal.com)

~ A ST. AUGUSTINE Story About Relics …. (youarecephas.blog)

~ CURT JESTER: “Who can out-puppet the other?” …. (curtjester)

~ AMERICAN THINKER— “Get Me from the Church on Time” …. (americanthinker.com)

~ A NEW BOOK— Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, by Michael Ward …. (llamabutchers)

~ SIN ON A BUN: The Forgotten Vice of Gluttony …. (evangelicaloutpost.com)

A horror movie for Sandalistas

~ DOZENS OF historic churches to be closed– Falling attendance, fewer priests, force action by Anglicans, Catholics …. (wnd)

~ CHRISTIANS On Trial: France’s Ambiguous Defense of Habiba Kouider …. (brusselsjournal.com)

~ THE ALPHA NARCISSUS— Gay bishop threatens to upstage gays …. (blogs.telegraph, youarecephas.blog)

~ A PRETTY GOOD summa of the humanities …. (worldontheweb)

World War IV

~ AN OPEN LETTER to Barack Obama …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

~ NASRALLAH’S speech: Hezbollah Ruled, the West was Fooled, By Walid Phares …. (counterterrorismblog.org)

~ SURPRISE: Nuclear Agency Accuses Iran of Willful Lack of Cooperation …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ WHY THE MULLAHS Will Keep on Fighting Us — and Destroying Iran …. (pajamasmedia)

~ THE U.N. AT WORK: “Kids as young as 6 raped by U.N. peacekeepers: Children continue to be sexually abused despite promises to stamp it out ” …. (wnd)

~ GHOST OF A FLEA— “If a future catastrophe is inevitable, its impact has a way of leaping back into the present– “Spengler considers the state of Persia’s pocket empire and the question of whether its masters will acknowledge they have failed or attempt a military adventure. My money too is on adventure” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ PUNDITA— “Isn’t it grand that Iraq now has politics?” …. (pundita.blog)

~ SYRIA TO ALLOW Probe of Nuke Site – after they’ve already cleaned up …. (americanthinker.com)

~ AMERICA DIGEST— Your UN Dollars Fighting Hunger! At the world hunger meeting it’s hard to go hungry: Leaders feast on Italian fare during hunger summit …. (americandigest.org)

~ MORE SO THAN ANY ” other Arab regime, the Saudi ruling family knows full well that if Hezbollah takes over Lebanon completely, it could form a united front with Iran, Syria, Hamas and Muqtada Al-Sadr’s martyrs against Israel, the US and pro-American autocratic Arab regimes, especially the Saudi-Wahhabi alliance. What would happen if this scenario actually played out, and who would inexorably benefit?” …. (ivp)

~ THE EU THREATENS the British Constitution …. (MaD)

~ UKRAINIAN famine should be part of genocide course …. (dustmybroom.com)

~ XANTHIPPA: Yet another reason to skip the Beijing Olympics …. (xanthippaschamberpot)

~ LET THEM EAT FROGS! “Rangoon – The military junta began evicting destitute families from cyclone relief centres on Friday and rejected foreign food aid – because people can survive perfectly well by hunting “large, edible frogs.” …. (mypetjawa)

~ HUGH HEWITT— “China Estimates 4,000 Orphaned In The Quake” …. (townhall.com)

~ CRUSHING the Burmese Junta with Panties! …. (americandigest.org)

LifeLinks

~ DUST MY BROOM: “Anyone know the length of time an abortion is allowed in Canada?” …. (dustmybroom.com)

~ A CHIMERA looks fine on a flag …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ SOCON.CA on “An Irrelevant Group of Men” …. (socon.ca)

~ MIKE ADAMS offers an olive branch to his university’s ‘radical feminists’ in The Ovary Tower …. (sleepyoldbear)

~ MERE COMMENTS— “The Cold Feet of Bachelors” …. (merecomments)

~ ERRING 6th-GRADER WARNED: Stop wearing pro-life T-shirts– ‘It’s scary to stand up to people in authority,’ says mom of boy on a mission …. (worldnetdaily)

~ MEMOIR: Courtney Love resisted abortion …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ SILENCE!! Saskatchewan Marriage Commissioner Fined For Refusing To “Marry” Homosexuals …. (anglican-mainstream)

~ ROBERT JAGO: Teacher torments autistic child …. (rjjago)

~ THE INMATES are running the asylum …. (girlontheright.com)

~ GRISLY EXHIBITIONISM— “No Way to Tell if Plastinated Bodies Come from Executed Prisoners – Company Admits” …. (lifesitenews.com)

~ ALICE WALKER WAS – and still is – a man-hating feminist who raised her child, Rebecca, in her madness. In fact, when Rebecca announced she was pregnant, her mother disowned her …. (girlontheright.com)

~ TOM SMITH— Affronts to human dignity …. (pajamasmedia)

~ EASY PICKINS for “Right to Die” Propagandists …. (socon.ca)

~ BROWN and the Blight of British Bioethics …. (evangelicaloutpost)

~ IN CHINA, TRAGEDY COMPOUNDED BY TYRANNY: “Imagine having to get a government certificate in order to obtain permission to have another baby after losing your only child to natural disaster.” But it’s good for Gaia …. (pajamasmedia, hh)

~ SOCON.CA: Protest the Pill Day – June 7 …. (socon.ca)

~ CONTEMPT for motherhood: a feminist ideal …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ P2BC ON The Disappearance of Childhood …. (proudtobecanadian.ca)

~ NEW STUDY— Premature babies ‘need cuddles’: Skin to skin contact with parents reduces stress of painful medical procedures …. (wnd)

~ GIRL ON THE RIGHT: “The abortion that wasn’t” …. (girlontheright.com)

~ WEININGER’S WOMEN: The Misogyny of Sex and the City …. (evangelicaloutpost)

~ PEOPLE ARE Chimps, too! …. (downwitheverybody)

~ DON’T YOU WANT YOUR LITTLE GIRLS to grow up into druggie hooker-types who sing about sex a lot and publically humiliate themselves on TV? “Fergie is Fun For Kids!” …. (idontlikeyouinthatway)

~ MEMOIR: Courtney Love resisted abortion …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ MALKIN— Liberals: No to transracial adoptions, yes to homosexual adoptions? and “Planned Parenthood’s obscene profits” …. (michellemalkin.com)

~ PRO-WOMAN PRO-LIFE BLOG— Ads are deceptive? The pink elephant …. (prowomanprolife.org)

~ TIME IMMORTAL: “So where are these “good reasons” for abortion?” …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ THE MONOGAMOUS Male Marriage: Fidelity, Promiscuity, and Gay Marriage …. (evangelicaloutpost)

~ WHEN DEATHS Outnumber Births — The Parable of Pittsburgh …. (albertmohler.com)

~ PROGRESSIVE IDEOLOGY is bad for pupils …. (telegraph)

~ LET’S GIVE THE Mommybloggers Some Respect …. (pajamasmedia)

~ THE END OF EDUMICATION: “Pupils would no longer study history, geography and science but learn skills such as energy- saving and civic responsibility through projects and themes.” So.. you’ll get a happy-face sticker in Gaia-class? “The enemy within British education” …. (mypetjawa, spectator)

Canuckistan News

~ SOCIALIZED Health Care: Now With No Health Care …. (dailybayonet.blog)

~ THE ZENN Motor Company.. “After a public outcry, Transport Canada has taken steps to fast-track approval of the Canadian-made Zenn electric car” …. (zenncars.com)

~ MINISTRY OF INFORMATION— “The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is behind an unprecedented flood of complaints to Canada’s information watchdog. The latest annual report from Information Commissioner Robert Marleau says his office received 536 complaints about the public broadcaster in 2007-2008, more than any other department or agency of government” …. (hallsofmacadamia.blog)

~ WORTHWHILE Canadian Sex Scandals …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ MACADAMIA— “There’s no other word for it… It’s a shakedown… as close to extortion as you can get.” …. (hallsofmacadamia.blog)

~ BERNIER’S OUT— “There’s a lesson here: don’t leave classified documents at your girlfriend’s place, especially if said girlfriend has been linked with the Hell’s Angels. But I suspect you already knew that” …. (dp)

~ THE PERPETUAL liberal house, of sober second liberal thoughts …. (MaD)

~ WITH A SMILE! Logan’s Run: Death Centres Awaiting Us …. (socon.ca)

~ BLOGGING: It’s Good For Your Health! …. (neatorama.com)

~ SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA: “Mayor Pushes To Make Shooting People Illegal In Toronto”. Knife crime ignored while Toronto goes after legal gun owners.. then there’s the pointy-stick and clenched fingers (fist) problem …. (smalldeadanimals.com)

~ UK MILITARY BLOGGERS— UK Military Bloggers Watching Canadian Forces …. (cjunk.blog)

~ LIBERAL UTOPIA— “Sen. Obama’s right. There are going to be 57 states!” …. (liberalutopia.blog)

~ DUST MY BROOM— “Today, we hate nurses”! …. (dustmybroom.com)

New Media, Teh Interwebs, Blogs

~ GOOGLE CELEBRATES Memorial Day (not); What’s Important to Google? …. (pajamasmedia, lgf)

~ HOTAIR.COM on “Where blogs are blogs and politicians are nervous” …. (hotair.com)

~ MORE GOOGLE suckery– “So today is the D-Day Anniversary. Today is the day RFK died 40 years ago. So Google is celebrating Diego Velázquez’s birthday, natch” …. (nrotc, GofV)

~ CHICOM HACKERISM— “The wood for the trees: Chinese fascists may be directly responsible for endangering the lives of tens of millions of American and Canadian citizens – including my family – and for billions of dollars in lost productivity” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ MALAYSIAN Government to add Comments on Citizen’s Blogs …. (Wz)

~ NET NEUTRALITY, via xanthippas chamberpot …. (xanthippaschamberpot)

~ LGF TECH NOTE: Internet Explorer ‘Adjustments’ …. (lgf)

~ BIG McBROTHER — McDonald’s Tries Out New RFID-enabled Pay-By-Phone Coupons …. (blog.wired.com)

Weezer salutes YouTube

Pop Culture, Odds & Ends, Geekery

~ NERDY GOODNESS! Phoenix Mars Lander. First pictures from Mars & the coolest live blog on the web …. (neatorama, rjago)

~ OBAMA: Not Auschwitz, but Buchenwald. And not his uncle, but his great-uncle …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ CURSE THOSE SUVs!! Global Warming Strikes Jupiter! …. (americandigest.org)

~ ALBERT MOHLER: “Two Biographies of Albert Einstein” …. (albertmohler.com)

~ A MEMORIAL DAY salute to all-time favorite war films …. (armchaircommentary.com)

~ A LATE NIGHT LAUGH: Read Me A Bedtime Story, Mommy …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ THAT BURNY HOT THINGY— “Who would have thought the heat from the Sun would affect the temperature on Earth?” Be worried: “Climate change – as opposed to the consensus about global warming – does not go in one direction. A warmer planet would not be grand but we could deal with it. A colder planet, on the other hand would mean millions of very marginal people would die” …. (freedominion.com)

~ CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: No longer seen as “yuppie flu.” “Some scientists and many patients remain highly critical of the C.D.C.’s record on chronic fatigue syndrome. But nearly everyone now agrees that the syndrome is real.” …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ ARCHAEOLOGISTS’ COMPLAINTS about what Indiana Jones has done to the image of their profession seem a bit overwrought …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ SMART-ALECKY TWERP Isolates Microbe That Eats Plastic, Potentially Saves Earth …. (neatorama.com)

~ OUR ELECTRO-GODS— The Illuminati is a selection of photos by photographer Evan Baden that show young people seemingly mesmerized by the glow of their electronic devices. Via …. (filemagazine)

~ PETER SCHJELDAHL’S ‘Let’s See’: Art’s Willing Executioner …. (nysun.com)

~ OK: WE’RE MANLY TECHNO-DWEEBS, TOO— but this guy needs to chill: “1080p Patton – a Revelation.” How much reality-like video do we need, exactly? Isn’t reality best? …. (shotgun)

~ GLOBAL WARMENING THEORIES cost jobs: “Unintended Consequences for Lefties: GM Plant Closures”; Jobless GM Automakers Celebrate Saving The Planet …. (dailybayonet.blog, thepeoplescube)

~ REMEMBERING POOR Tintin’s Beatdowns: The Trauma Chart …. (americandigest.org)

~ BREAKING NEWS! “US Army pinned down in bungled assault. Huge civilian casualties. Experts fear grave damage to the environment!” …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ CHOCOLATE: Is there anything it can’t do? “All the talk about chocolate being good for your health is starting to get serious. Mars Inc., of chocolate bar fame, has established a scientific division. And a group of researchers, some in Germany, others with the new Mars division known as Symbioscience, has just published a report showing that an enriched hot cocoa beverage can improve blood flow in people with type 2 diabetes.” …. (pajamasmedia)

Religious News

Pope Benedict XVI looks up to the balcony to see the Sacred Music Ensemble sing a peace prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi during a meeting with representatives of other religions at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, Thursday, April 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

~ BENEDICT IN AMERICA; The Pope at the U.N.; A what-now? “Behind me, in the outfield, there is a 75-foot-high altar.” …. (anchoressonline)

~ COULD REPORTING on this get the National Post in trouble? …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ WORLD-RENOWNED evangelical author, scholar, preacher J.I. Packer Leaves the Canadian Anglican Church Of Zeitgeist, Canadian Branch …. (youarecephas.blog)

~ FUNNY the people crying censorship have not mentioned this …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ POLITICAL BLINDNESS: “An ignorant response to the Passion”.. “One thing’s for sure: the Left – and that includes many people in the Catholic establishment – will never forgive James MacMillan for turning his back on the comfortable formulae of secular socialism. But their loss is the Church’s gain – and music’s, too” …. (holysmoke)

~ BREAKPOINT— “What is the most potent threat we have? It is not the threat of votes withheld or given. It is, quite simply, the threat of Jesus; the threat of a grace and love presented in the Gospel that leaves nothing the same and makes all things new” …. (breakpoint.org)

~ NOTHING IS MORE DEEDFUL “today than the survival of Christian culture, because in recent generations this culture has become dangerously thin. At this moment in the Church’s history in this country (and in the West more generally) it is less urgent to convince the alternative culture in which we live of the truth of Christ than it is for the Church to tell itself its own story and to nurture its own life, the culture of the city of God, the Christian republic” …. (crunchycon)

~ A MOSCOW CONTRACT on Pope John Paul II? …. (canadafreepress)

~ ALL IS WELL! Canadian Anglicanism HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER!! Eleven clergy resign in New Westminster. Nearby, ” Two Retired Female Anglican priests-legally married — in a nursing home.” Diogenes: “For all its solemn insincerity, this is a pretty fair illustration of the motive behind the wider campaign for same-sex unions. Even had the “marriage” never been contemplated, these lovebirds were obviously free to exchange any affections — godly or ungodly — toward which their impulses inclined them. The union effected by the ceremony confers no good upon them or upon society, even within the terms of their own defective understanding of those goods. The wedding was an act of aggression” …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ DAVID WARREN— “the central planners need a war. The “climate change” and “global warming” scares are intended to provide this war, and justify Moloch in seizing the rest of our earnings, property, and freedom” …. (davidwarrenonline)

~ WHAT DO TIM RUSSERT, Gene Robinson, Matt Kennedy and Brett Farve have in common? …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ RELIGION: A quiver full of contraception– “For most of the five centuries since the Protestant Reformation, the Protestant churches and the Church of Rome have agreed on the issue of contraception” …. (worldontheweb)

~ HATEFUL secular types attack Christianity in England. Religious hate in Europe …. (MaD)

~ TOM CHRIST? JESUS CRUISE? “jumping for joy… and also for insanity-based reasons” …. (macleans.ca)

~ DARWIN & Co., Ltd.– Just how limited? by Terry Scambray …. (victorhanson)

~ CANADIAN AUTHOR a key guru in ‘Church of Oprah’ …. (canadianchristianity.com)

~ POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is tearing us apart– “Crime author P.D. James in a speech on policing on how political correctness creates ghettos and separates people” …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

The Church of “O” = Gnosticism,
Re-Hashed For the American Housewife

~ GOD, CLIMATE change and EU …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ THE THEOLOGY of BSG, by TimeImmortal …. (timeimmortal)

~ A RECENT DECISION of the Ontario Human Rights Commission reminds us that he who pays the piper, calls the tune. If the OHRC’s tune is to be widely echoed, it is not one churches can dance to, lest their message be compromised …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ SCIENTISTS try to speak with authority, but real authority resides elsewhere …. (proudtobecanadian.ca)

~ SECRET EVIL PLOT— Pope wants the Latin Mass everywhere! …. (telegraph)

~ THE GRACE TO FORGIVE— “I was reading something that Babylon 5 creator Joseph Michael Straczynski said in regard to forgiveness. He was talking, specifically, about an episode of the series that dealt directly with the Catholic concept of atonement, and with forgiveness, and was commenting on how he had enjoyed writing something that he, himself, was so very much at odds with” …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ DWIGHT HOPKINS on the Trinity United Church of Christ …. (proteinwisdom)

~ AUTHOR Denyse O’Leary says Bella is loved by all the right people …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ ASLAN COULD NOT Be Reached For Comment …. (llamabutchers)

~ FIRST ‘SHOWGIRLS’, now this: “Film Director: Jesus Was Son Of a Roman Rapist” …. (stoptheaclu.com)

~ ANTI-CHRISTIAN UK? Largest Church in Europe Forced out for Largest Mosque in Europe. UK: Christian Party Suing BBC for Censoring Their Broadcast Opposing London “Mega Mosque”. Multiculturalism …. (Various)

~ MILEYGATE— WTF were her parents thinking? Miley Cyrus embarassed by Vanity Fair photo shoot. Age of Consent, Miley Cyrus, and Predatory Artists …. (llamabutchers, janke)

~ SPECTATOR— “Madonna Embarrassed by Fully Clothed Photos” …. (spectator.org)

~ SCOTT HAHN explains doctrines on Mary; We don’t have to die to go to heaven …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ IDIOTIC POST-CHRISTIAN Christian Minister: We Don’t Need Jesus …. (creativeminorityreport)

Archbishop: Lambeth ‘for bishops not Bloggers laity’

~ UK PERSECUTION— More British Catholic Adoption Agencies to Close Doors instead of Bowing to Sexual Orientation Regulations …. (lifesitenews)

~ THE SEDUCTION of Hannah Montana– dirty old woman Annie Leibowitz is a high-end seducer, getting a (relatively) squeaky-clean 15-year old kid to look post-coital. Classy …. (malkin, VF)

~ PERSECUTION Index 8: United States: “It appears that the pig is being persecuted in the United States” …. (timescolumns)

~ HUGH HEWITT: “Providing Context For Reverend Wright” …. (hughhewitt)

~ ‘STOP BEING A Crusader’; Persecution Index 6: United Kingdom …. (brusselsjournal, gledhill)

~ OPPOSITION growing to school curriculum changes …. (canadianchristianity)

~ MAGISTATS— “To see the modern world from the point of view of a parent is to see it in the worst possible light” …. (magicstatistics)

~ FUN WITH HOLY WHAPPING: “Highlights of the HWTN Coverage for the Pope’s Visit”; and “A Preview of This Fall’s New Lineup on Holy Whapping Television Network (HWTN)” …. (holywhapping.blog)

“Quick! Agent Smith! You must keep the little girl
away from the Pontiff! She knows too much about the Matrix!”

~ SANITY ENSUES: Leaving the New Episcopal Church, by Craig Bernthal. A Dominican on the Episcopal row …. (victorhanson, sergesblog)

~ PASTORAL INTERPRETATION in Pope Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth, by Peter S. Williamson …. (ignatius)

~ THE EXPELLED FILM: The box office and other important stuff. Expelled: Not your father’s documentary? …. (post-darwinist.blog)

~ DON’T LET THE Government Raise Your Children …. (forlifeandfamily.blog)

~ MEET THE Theologians: Anselm of Canterbury …. (scriptoriumdaily)

~ ACLU STOPS La. School District Bible Giveaways …. (stoptheaclu)

~ NEW MUSEUM to house massive replica of the Jerusalem Temple …. (prayersthatmatter.blog)

~ REFORMED PASTOR— “This week’s well-publicized antics from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright seem to have finally cracked the Alfred E. Newman smile on the face of United Church of Christ leadership” …. (reformedpastor)

~ DOPES on a Pope …. (reformedpastor)

~ WORD FROM THE TITANIC— “Report to Canadian Anglicans from the House of Bishops”.. please ignore the rising water and screaming passengers. Nothing to see here.. all is well, never been better. Future’s so bright, we gotta wear shades …. (joewalker.blog)

Chant: Good for BP & Stress

~ REV. WRIGHT “Stole” His Wife From Parishioner He Was Giving Marriage Counseling …. (yidwithlid.blog)

~ FILMWATCH: “Will the Expelled film turn out like Bella?” …. (post-darwinist.blog)

~ PRESIDENT BUSH Lets His Love for the Pope Show at Catholic Prayer Breakfast
…. (lifesitenews)

~ JUST TRY EXPLAINING THIS ONE TO JESUS— Immaculate Perception. Yeah… who could have possibly seen this coming? …. (hallsofmacadamia.blog)

~ THE NEO-MARXISTS’ GREATEST FEAR— “Stanley Kurtz has gone through the sermons of Barack Obama’s minister and father-figure” …. (drsanity.blog)

~ AMAZON.COM’S Forum on Religion: Great Place to Bash Christians …. (newsbusters)

~ 12 SPIRITUAL LESSONS from ‘Prince Caspian’ …. (beliefnet.com)

~ MOLOCH REJOICES: “Sadly, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church turned back an effort to pull it out of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights on a close vote” …. (reformedpastor)

~ BENEDICT-INE Reactions: Blogging reactions to the papal visit …. (anchoressonline)

~ PRAYERS THAT MATTER: The Liturgy of the Word – The Liturgy of the Eucharist – but, “The Liturgy of the Announcements”? …. (prayersthatmatter.blog)

~ LAND: ‘Expelled’ a must-see movie …. (townhall.com)

~ SPECTATOR— Handling the Situation: “If more U.S. bishops had behaved like Benedict this week, the church sex scandals might not have happened” …. (spectator.org)

~ PASSOVER… Never forget …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ CHRIST KNOWS How to Be God (Austin Farrer) …. (scriptoriumdaily)

~ BELGIUM: Thousands March to Demand EU Protect Christians in Iraq …. (Wz)

~ BOSTON, BAPTISM, & ABORTION— “According to Diogenes, and based on the most recent data available, 2008 might be the year when a single Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Boston aborts more unborn children than the number of baptisms in the entire Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston” …. (crunchycon)

~ WELCOME, Life, Sort Of, Pope Benedict …. (merecomments)

~ BENEDICT XVI on Marriage; and on the social dimension of the sexual abuse scandals …. (jennifer-roback-morse)

~ JUST A LITTLE BITTY SIN— Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, in a paean to Gaia on “Earth” Day, went biblical on us, or at least tried to make it look that way. Nancy Pelosi’s Promiscuous Definition of ‘Holiness’. Someone Is Not Bitterly Clinging to Her Bible. IMAO has some fun …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ THE EPISCOPAL ARACHNE— “Ruth Gledhill’s blog had a neat little tidbit about The Madwoman of Second Avenue” …. (kraalspace.blog)

~ A REALITY CHECK on greed, envy, and carelessness… “Canada and the US Facing Credit Crunch” …. (christianity.ca)

~ BENEDICT @ St. Pat’s & Dunwoodie …. (theanchoressonline.com)

~ TIRESOME FUNNY-MAN Maher ‘Apologizes’ to Pope by Suggesting He Should Be In Jail …. (newsbusters)

~ RWANDA: Pope should apologize for genocide …. (spero)

~ EVIL SORCERESS KJ Schori in the news … laughing will not be tolerated …. (prayersthatmatter.blog)

~ AMERICAN DIGEST— ‘Agent’ of God helps boy meet Benedict …. (americandigest.org)

~ DIOGENES WONDERS: “Sexual abuse, liturgical abuse: connected?” …. (offtherecord)

~ WILLIAM J. BENNETT: Save the Catholic schools. “Go Wichita” …. (nrotc)

~ SHOULD I play Grand Theft Auto? …. (scriptoriumdaily)

~ “CATHOLIC” University Helps Deny Genocide, By Mike S. Adams …. (MikeSAdams)

~ BENEDICT at the Basilica– The Pope speaks to Catholic bishops in Washington, D.C. …. (weeklystandard)

~ REFORMED PASTOR— “God is Purple. God is Tortoise. God is Chicken McNuggets. – God is Rock. God is Scissors. God is Paper. – God is Weird Al Yankovich. God is Can of Dapper Dan Pomade. God is MS-DOS (oops, sorry, that’s the devil, forget that one). God is, as Eric Clapton made clear, ‘57 Chevys and Screaming Guitars. None of this is literally true, of course, but it does point us to theological truths that reflect our experience of the living God in our lives” …. (reformedpastor)

~ BEAUTY & THE POPE: “Pope Benedict’s homily in St. Patrick’s cathedral followed the time-honored and venerable Catholic custom of using art as a catechetical tool” …. (jennifer-roback-morse.blog)

~ THE NYTIMES: Ben Stein’s ‘Sleazy’ Evolution Documentary an ‘Unprincipled Propaganda Piece’. Bozell Column: Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists …. (newsbusters)

World War IV

~ WHY ISRAEL KEPT QUIET over nuclear Syria. A Move That Was Publicly Denounced By Damascus. North Koreans taped at Syrian reactor …. (Various)

~ FUN-LOVING SYRIA Was Way Too Close to Nukes …. (lgf)

~ DAMIAN THOMPSON— “Mocking the 9/11 ‘truthers'” …. (telegraph)

~ SO EXACTLY WHY is Condi Rice breaking international law? …. (spectator)

~ THE IVP— Investigative Project Releases Gov’t Memos Curtailing Speech in War on Terror …. (investigativeproject.org)

~ AHMADINEJAD AND THE PARANOID STYLE: “Charles Krauthammer argues that, with pre-emption off the table, deterrence is the only option agains regimes like North Korea and Iran” …. (drsanity.blog)

~ SOCIALIST IN FLAMES— “BoJo takes London” …. (stephentaylor.ca)

~ EXACTLY How bad does the UN have to get? …. (telegraph)

~ CLIFFORD D. MAY: Some kind of nuclear attack on U.S. soil is almost inevitable. “Thinking the Unthinkable” …. (nationalreview)

~ HOTAIR.COM— A method to the delay in briefing Congress on Syria/DPRK nuclear alliance? The Syrian bombing mystery …. (hotair.com)

~ THE REAL DANGER: That Old Isolationist Tug, by Victor Davis Hanson …. (victorhanson)

~ PASSOVER 2008: Israel’s Prospects.. We’re commanded this week to take heart and be merry …. (spectator)

~ DER SPIEGEL: The Daily Struggle for Food– “Rising global food prices have plunged Egyptians into a desparate daily struggle for survival” …. (spiegel.de)

~ CRUNCHY CON: “Beware the military-journalism complex” …. (crunchycon)

~ THE COMING WAR— Pathetic United Nations Story of the Day …. (lgf)

~ PUNDITA: “Axis of Grovellers Song in Key of C” …. (pundita.blog)

~ TOTAL COOLNESS! Navy launches Imperial Star Destroyer. Canada was way ahead– we had a mini-version of technology like this in 1957 …. (michellemalkin)

~ HAPPY Birthday, Oskar Schindler …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ A SERIOUS LOSS— “Recently declassified documents show a now quaint concern for tea shortages in the event of nuclear attack” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ CRUNCHY CON NAILS IT: “China as Isengard” …. (crunchycon)

~ HAVE YOU NOTICED something odd about the attack on Olympic torchbearer Jin Jing in Paris? Watch carefully, don’t blink …. (pundita.blog)

~ EU WIPES ENGLAND off the map, as Gordon Brown flies the flag of St George over Downing Street …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

LifeLinks

~ DIOGENES— “Emancipation from religious authority produced in its wake a litter of thumb-sucking books ostensibly designed to help children deal with the consequences of their parents’ brave quest for self-fulfillment, most notably the anguish of divorce” …. (offtherecord)

~ NEWSFLASH! “Gay” Sex Kills — “In light of the irrefutable medical facts, it should be considered criminally reckless for educators to teach children that homosexual conduct is a normal, safe and perfectly acceptable alternative form of sexual expression (or ‘sexual orientation’).” …. (lifesitenews)

~ EUSSR SHELVES “Sexual Orientation” Discrimination Directive …. (LifeSiteNews.com)

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse on The Glenn Beck Show

~ DOCTORS Deciding Who Dies– Are You On the List? …. (creativeminorityreport)

~ ALASKA GOVERNOR Walks the Walk: Gives Birth to Down Baby …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ SPERMELLA – A Good Idea? …. (mypetjawa)

~ CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: Feminists continue to hurt men. “The Gender-Equity Hammer Comes Out” …. (nationalreview)

Where We Are: “The Walk of Shame”

~ REFORMED PASTOR— “The next step in the dissolution of the Western ethical tradition, that is. Once the unborn and disabled have been de-humanized, and animals elevated to the equal of humans, what’s left except…plant rights! Wesley J. Smith at the Weekly Standard explains” …. (reformedpastor)

~ FEEL THE EVIL: Alicia Shvarts Is An Artist Like Josef Mengele Was A Doctor …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ WHAT This is high school? …. (prowomanprolife)

~ TIME IMMORTAL ON “The language of lies” …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ SELF-PROCLAIMED feminists express worry for the rights of a pregnant woman to use illegal drugs …. (prowomanprolife.org)

~ RICH LOWRY: Polygamists are trying to ride on the liberal wave of nonjudgmentalism and of hostility to traditional marriage. “Big Trouble” …. (NRO)

~ YOUR BETTERS— Amazing article: “What’s Wrong With the Family?” …. (prayersthatmatter.blog)