Saturday, June 19, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Glenn Beck: "We don't want the World Cup, we don't like the World Cup, we don't like soccer, we want nothing to do with it."
Can anyone explain why this is happening? The right wing talking heads, in unison, go on the attack against . . . the World Cup and soccer.
As reported by Media Matters on June 11 2010:
Glenn Beck: "Barack Obama's policies are the World Cup." In an extensive rant on the June 11 Glenn Beck Program, Beck purported to explain how President Obama's policies "are the World Cup" of "political thought." Beck stated, "It doesn't matter how you try to sell it to us, it doesn't matter how many celebrities you get, it doesn't matter how many bars open early, it doesn't matter how many beer commercials they run, we don't want the World Cup, we don't like the World Cup, we don't like soccer, we want nothing to do with it." Beck stated that likewise, "the rest of the world likes Barack Obama's policies, we do not."
Beck added "those who like the World Cup ... they're the most likely to riot," commenting that by contrast, "I haven't seen the baseball riots." He later said of soccer, "I hate it so much, probably because the rest of the world likes it so much, and they riot over it, and they continually try to jam it down our throat."
G. Gordon Liddy: "Whatever happened to American exceptionalism?" Discussing soccer's popularity in the U.S. on his June 10 program, G. Gordon Liddy asked, "Whatever happened to American exceptionalism?" Liddy noted that "this game ... originated with the South American Indians and instead of a ball, they used to use the head, the decapitated head, of an enemy warrior."
MRC's Dan Gainor: "Soccer is designed as a poor man or poor woman's sport," "the left is pushing [soccer] in schools across the country." Also on the June 10 G. Gordon Liddy Show, Media Research Center's Dan Gainor said, "the problem here is, soccer is designed as a poor man or poor woman's sport" and that "the left is pushing it in schools across the country." He added: "generally football games in this country don't devolve into riots or wars." He later added that the sport of soccer "is being sold" as necessary due to the "browning of America."
Mark Belling: "When you insult soccer you get the same reaction from soccer fans that you get when you insult an aging Democratic senator's hair." On the June 11 edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show, guest host Mark Belling said, "What I really want to do is make fun of the World Cup, but I'm not going to make fun of the World Cup because when you insult soccer you get the same reaction from soccer fans that you get when you insult an aging Democratic senator's hair, they go nuts and blow it up all out of proportion." Later in the program, Belling said "I haven't talked about the World Cup, I haven't talked about how they're force-feeding this down our throats."
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Sacred Heart of Jesus Rejects Kindergartener
Priest: 'It's for the Good of the Child, Parents'
In March 2010, ABC News and others sources reported that a child, currently a preschool student at the Sacred Heart of Jesus school in Boulder, Colorado would be allowed to finish the current school year, but would not be readmitted for kindergarten in the fall.
This decision was taken after the sexual orientation (lesbian) of the child's parents came to the attention of the parish priest, the Rev. Bill Breslin and the Archdiocese of Denver.
In a blog posting, Father Breslin said he acted on behalf of a "clear-seeing and committed Catholic community."
The Archdiocese of Denver stated, in part: "Parents living in open discord with Catholic teaching in areas of faith and morals unfortunately choose by their actions to disqualify their children from enrollment. . . To allow children in these circumstances to continue in our school would be a cause of confusion for the student in that what they are being taught in school conflicts with what they experience in the home."
One wonders how the Archdiocese decided to evict this kindergartener and not the children of (1) divorced Catholics (2) unwed Catholics (3) Catholics who do not regularly go to Mass (4) Catholics who have managed to cross the doctrinal line on any number of other prohibitions or requirements.
One wonders if the Sacred Heart of Jesus, supports the rejecting of any little ones. I doubt it.
Is "Catholic doctrine" properly invoked when a child is singled out for humiliation and rejection? Whenever the line-drawers have to draw a line, "Catholic doctrine" is trotted out like a lame horse.
There is plenty of doctrinal equivocation when the notion of disciplining pedophile priests comes up. Then, "Catholic doctrine" is suddenly very uncertain and unclear. But when an innocent little kid is in the cross hairs of "Catholic doctrine," WHAM! With the certitude of a drunk in a bar, the fist comes down on the little kid.
Meanwhile, back in a more complicated reality, there is evidence the self-described "clear-seeing" Father Breslin might want to take into account - if only to reject it, along with this kid, and the kid's lesbian parents, who, for some reason, wanted their child to receive a Catholic school education.
On June 9, 2010, the Slatest announced that a long-term study of same-sex families has been released, and has concluded, as the Slatest headlined it:
"Lesbian Parents Are, Well, Better"
"The results from the longest-running study of same-sex families are in, and they show that the children of lesbian parents perform better than their peers on both social and academic tests. The 25-year study followed 78 children born to lesbian couples who all used donor insemination to become pregnant.
"Controlling for similar financial and educational backgrounds, the study found that the children of lesbian couples scored lower than their peers on measures of aggression and rule-breaking while outperforming in positive areas. "The results should be considered by those who oppose the rights of gay and lesbian couples to adopt children" said Nanette Gartrell of the University of California-San Francisco, who has worked on the study for a quarter-century.
"Currently, a handful of states prohibit same-sex or unmarried couples from adopting. "It's a great tragedy in this country," Gartrell told New Scientist. "There are so many children who are available for adoption but cannot be adopted by same-sex couples." More than 100,000 in the United States alone, according to the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a research and advocacy group. "The institute estimated that just 4 percent of all adopted children ... live with gay or lesbian parents, despite research suggesting that same-sex couples may be more willing than heterosexual couples to adopt."
Colorado quotes: Copyright © 2010 ABC News Internet Ventures
That doctrinally suspect comment from Jesus about accepting the little ones: Matthew 19:14, Luke 18:16
". . . the FBI, which is investigating the death, said the agent had been under attack . . ."
Sounds like the FBI INVESTIGATION is finished.
Already.
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NY TIMES
June 8, 2010
Border Shooting Strains Tensions With Mexico
By MARC LACEY
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities expressed fury at the shooting death of a Mexican teenager on Monday night by a Border Patrol agent, while the FBI, which is investigating the death, said the agent had been under attack by rock-throwing migrants attempting to cross into El Paso, Texas.
The government of the Mexican state of Chihuahua condemned the killing of the teenager, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca, 15, calling it a blow to all Mexicans and an example of the xenophobia that the anti-immigration law in Arizona has fomented in the United States.
American officials described the shooting as an act of self defense. Several agents were on a bike patrol in the concrete channel alongside the Rio Grande at about 6:30 p.m. Monday when they encountered a group of suspected illegal immigrants entering the United States. After two suspects were arrested, others in the group fled just across the border to Mexico and began throwing rocks at the agents, the FBI said in a statement. One agent fired several shots and hit the victim, who died at the base of the Paso Del Norte international bridge, officials said.
The Border Patrol says it is subjected to hundreds of rock attacks during its patrols and takes them seriously. From October 2007 to the end of May 2008, there were 537 rock-throwing incidents involving agents, officials said. That number dropped to 460 the following year and then rose to 604 incidents in the most recent reporting period, which ended on May 31.
“There’s a misperception people have that we’re having pebbles thrown at us,” said Mark Qualia, a United States Customs and Border Protection spokesman in Washington. “They are stones the size of baseballs in some cases or half a brick. You can’t take this lightly.”
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Monday, June 7, 2010
"Mistakes were made." Chandler, AZ Mayor Boyd Dunn - Los Angeles Times June 6, 2010
"If Latinos in Arizona are more than just a little nervous about Arizona's new immigration law, it's likely because they remember history all too well, notes the Los Angeles Times. In mid-1997, the Phoenix suburb of Chandler was the scene of a huge sweep to find, and deport, illegal immigrants. Officers began following people, demanding to see proof of citizenship in the middle of the street, often targeting those who looked Mexican or were speaking Spanish. In the end, authorities ended up detaining dozens of citizens and legal residents and the state attorney general said officials had engaged in racial profiling. It was hardly the first time something like this happened. As many as 60 percent of the more than a million people who were deported in operations across the United States in the 1930s were U.S. citizens. But it's the memory of what happened in Chandler that makes many in Arizona fearful that history is bound to repeat itself when the new law takes effect July 29." - from The Slatest - June 7 2010
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