Blogworthies IX

Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ The Mudville Gazette, Fidelis, Dust in the Light, Cor ad cor loquitur, Mere Comments, The Curt Jester, Midwest Conservative Journal, Off the Record, Flos Carmeli, Discriminations, Power Line, The Mighty Barrister, and Envoy Encore.

Atrocities in Fallujah and Elsewhere @ The Mudville Gazette:

I warn you, what follows is in many regards more repulsive than the pictures and videos from Fallujah. Read at your own risk....

Liberal Logic 101: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't @ Fidelis:

Ah, the consistency of the liberal mind, case in point, Robert Alan Kall, M.Ed., editor, OpEdNews.com, on National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleeza Rice....

But Rove's a Bad Guy @ Dust in the Light:

Philip Terzian reacts to coverage of the storming of Karl Rove's home, which most bloggers apparently thought too typical to note with much outrage. What's notable is that Terzian pointed his finger by means of a mainstream paper, the Providence Journal: ....

Another "Lousy Catholic" Convert to Protestantism @ Cor ad cor loquitur (emphasis in original):

We converts to Catholicism are often told that we didn't understand Protestantism before we left it (and that was, of course, why we left — we were dupes of Rome and her nefarious, deceitful apologists because we were so stupid in the first place). In most conversion stories to Catholicism that I have seen, this isn't the case at all.

In fact, the exact opposite is usually true: it was the commitment to Protestant Christianity and all that is good in it which made these inquirers study and ponder a further move into Catholicism, with its sacramentalism, Mariology, Tradition, papacy, etc. We saw the move as a simple progression upwards; not a reversal or revolution or rejection of what we had already learned. We were committed Protestants, "good" Protestants; who really believed in the system and tried to live it out....

Contraceptive Loopholes @ Mere Comments:

Christian LeBlanc writes two messages in response to Reformed contraception, which was a response to Contraceptive ignorance. In the first, he quoted a line from the Christian Reformed Church’s statement on the subject declaring the families should “produce as many children as is compatible with the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of the mother and the children,” and commented:

I could fly a 747 full of Russian orphans through that loophole....

Clarke's new book @ The Curt Jester (quoted ellipsis in original):

Richard Clarke hot off the success of his new book, 60 Minutes interview, and testimony to the 9/11 commission has come out with an even newer book. Clarke has the amazing ability to know what people are really thinking by their facial expressions. He knew what the Presidents opinions were on possible Iraq involvement because he describes "It was a serious look." When talking to Condoleezza Rice he wrote in his book "As I briefed Rice on al-Qa'eda, her facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard of the term before ..."

Since the first book has come out many people have asked him "Can I also learn how to read facial expressions of those I work for?" Realizing that not all people were able to do this he has decided to enlighten all of us through his new how-to book "Facial The Nation: Detecting Truth Through Facial Expressions." ....

Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder @ Midwest Conservative Journal:

Get ready for the ride of your life as Frank Griswold desperately tries to explain himself and his church to the Lambeth Commission: ....

pink elephant in the pressroom? @ Off the Record (brackets in original):

Back when the New York Times still made a show of objectivity in its reportage, editor Abe Rosenthal famously declared to his stable of reporters, "Look, I don't care if you [violate ministerial boundaries with] elephants, but if you do, you don't cover the circus."

Yesterday, a gay Catholic journalist named Chuck Colbert "embedded" himself in a parish mass in the Archdiocese of Boston with the express purpose of disrupting it....

On Reading Spiritual Books @ Flos Carmeli:

Some books pose a real danger to one's complacency. For each person these books will be different, but they all threaten in the same way — they force one to think about God and how one is living life with respect to Him. This is not something I do readily. Often I go out of my way NOT to think about God because it will get in the way of what I really want to do. It's a whole lot easier to get along if God doesn't keep nosing in....

Red vs. Blue; Cavalier vs. Roundhead; PhillyMag vs. Brooks @ Discriminations (quoted ellipsis in original):

Joel Kotkin, now affiliated with a public policy institute at Pepperdine University, has long been a perceptive commentator on the geography of American culture, and he makes another interesting contribution today with an article in the “Outlook” section of today’s Washington Post.

In “Red, Blue and ... So 17th Century,” he argues that America’s current cultural divide is reminiscent of the English Civil War of the 1640s....

The Duplicitous Mr. Clarke @ Power Line:

Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics sent us this email on Richard Clarke's deceitful claim of political neutrality:

My ears nearly fell off when I heard Dick Clarke say he voted for Al Gore on Meet the Press today, since I thought I heard him say he voted for Bush on Thursday. Turns out I was wrong, Clarke only misled me (and probably many others including members of the 9/11 Commission) into believing that. Here are the quotes: ....

Enablers @ The Mighty Barrister:

You know what an enabler is — it's a person who makes possible and encourages the deviant or harmful behavior of another person. Most often, it's a close relative. It's the husband who buys the whiskey his alcoholic wife drinks. It's the mother who permits her teenaged son to surf for pr0n on the home computer.

The most egregious enablers, however, are our activist courts.

This country was founded upon a very simple but revolutionary concept of "separation of powers": presidents govern the nation, legislatures legislate the laws, and courts uphold the laws. With few exceptions, it used to work very well. Over the last 50 years, however, that concept has been twisted into a theoretical pretzel that Jacques Maritain would have trouble swallowing. Sure, presidents still govern and legislatures still legislate. However, the courts have effectively usurped the functions of the other two branches of government; the courts not only uphold the laws (actually, their primary focus now seems to be striking down laws), they have trumped the elected offices and are not only giving us court-ordered legislation, but they are also, in effect, governing the nation....

I've Been Thinking.... @ Envoy Encore (quoted ellipsis in original):

It’s happened four years running now. Wow, I can’t believe it’s been that long. The choirs start singing "Jerusalem, my destiny..." and I relive that precious Holy Week in 2001 when my daughter and I were received into Holy Mother Church. I stepped into the aisle to receive during a daily Mass last week and it hit me anew, that deep sense of gratitude that I am allowed to walk in this line of imperfect beings and receive the God of the universe on my tongue. I remember the 233 long days I counted down to that first Easter Vigil. I can still recall the intense hunger for the Eucharist that made it almost impossible to walk through the line, receive my blessing, and then walk away from my Lord in the Eucharist to return to my seat. There were times I literally had to tear myself away and force myself to keep walking. But now, I can add my “amen” to that of the cloud of witnesses that surrounds us and receive Him as they did....

See also Blogworthies VIII and Blogworthies X.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 04/03/04 08:15:28 PM
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