Blogworthies XXVI

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

Noteworthy entries @ Silent Running, Catholic Analysis, Hube's Cube, Red State, Hoystory.com, Against the Grain, Off the Record, The Mighty Barrister, Times Against Humanity, JunkYardBlog, Flos Carmeli, Recta Ratio, Discriminations, Inkwell, GetReligion, and Cor ad cor loquitur.

Another Jewish cemetery attacked, 80 - 100 Graves desecrated @ Silent Running:

At 2am this morning (Friday [Aug. 6]]) 80 - 100 Jewish graves were attacked and pushed over at Wellington's Makara cemetery, which is now the main Jewish cemetery in the capital. The Tehara house, a chapel used for the final moments before burial was torched.

I took the first 6 pics at 9am this morning, where I was also interviewed by reporters from the Dominion Post and Radio New Zealand.

One other thing while I was at the cemetery. A fellow member of the Jewish community came up to me after I had done the media interviews and said he hoped I hadnt given out my name — as there are nutters out there! He then went on to ask what has the country come to when you have to hide your Jewishness. I replied by saying not only did I give my name to the media, but I was proud to do so. I am not scared of these people, just very pissed off.

(Just got back from another visit, last 3 pics were taken at 1.30pm)

This is enough!... [Photos follow.]

From the Heart @ Catholic Analysis:

Yesterday [Thu. Aug. 5], I took the kids to see President Bush in Saginaw, Michigan. A Slate columnist, providentially, captured the atmosphere of the experience in a column appearing today. The Slate writer describes the interaction of the President and the crowd at an earlier campaign event in Ohio and correctly likened it to an enthusiastic revival tent meeting. He notes that the Ohio audience repeatedly responded to the President's lines with the words "right," much as people in some churches respond with spontaneous amens and other affirmations during a fiery Sunday sermon.

The exact same phenomenon occurred at the Michigan rally later in the same day. This is not something practiced or artificial. The Michigan audience reacted in the same way as the Ohio audience: enthusiastic with spontaneous affirmations from the crowd using the word "right" after the President would affirm his stand on Iraq or taxes or on compassion. I also believe I heard a few amens from the crowd....

Keeping the Lie Alive @ Hube's Cube (brackets and emphasis in original):

John Kerry has made the [remarkable] statement numerous times that "one million African-Americans were disenfranchised in 2000." ....

Kerry knocks Bush for inaction on 9-11 @ Red State:

Before a gathering of journalists in Washington, DC today, John Kerry criticized President Bush for his actions on 9-11-01 following the attack on the World Trade Center. Kerry blasted Bush for not acting swiftly, and instead choosing to sit with children in a Florida classroom....

I did it @ Hoystory.com:

I mentioned last week that one of my colleagues at work had dismissed race-baiter and hatemonger Al Sharpton as "harmless." With Sharpton's background as the main promoter of the Tawana Brawley hoax, inciting the Crown Heights riots — which left one Orthodox Jew dead — and the massacre at Freddy's Fashion Mart, I found his dismissal of Sharpton's past troubling.

So, I did what I suggested I might do: I likened Sharpton to another race-baiting hatemonger: David Duke.

It didn't go over well....

President Bush's Pro-Life Record @ Against the Grain:

Nathan inaugurates his new Catholic blog "Faithful Citizenship" with some character assassination of President Bush, claiming:

President Bush certainly says he's pro-life, and much of his foreign policy does reflect that. For instance, he reinstituted the Mexico City policy that began under the Reagan Administration, which stops United States funding of abortion in Mexico and Latin America. So far, however, he hasn't done anything substantial to limit or stop abortion in this country.

In response to which, I spent the weekend reviewing Fr. Peter West's compilation of Bush's pro-life record on FreeRepublic.com, as well as the news archives of Tennessee Right To Life and LifeNews.com....

Healing @ Off the Record:

The Diocese of Evansville temporarily has relieved a priest of his duties and sent him to counseling after he allegedly was caught viewing pornographic material. The Rev. William A. Traylor left a letter to be read to parishioners at St. Joseph and St. Theresa last weekend explaining he was seeking treatment. It said he had been viewing "inappropriate" Web sites and that the diocese had urged him to undergo an evaluation — after which he could return to service.

Suppose you're shifting some books on the dresser of your 13-year-old boy when out from between the pages of the Columbia Encyclopedia drops a raunchy photo from Penthouse. Do you send him away for counseling? Of course you don't. If it's the first occasion the topic has arisen, you sit him down and give him a stern talking-to about the relation of sexual curiosity to Christian morality. If he's already heard that speech a year earlier, you smack him.

Why don't you send him to therapy? Because he's not broken. He sinned....

Please Answer The Question, Senator Kerry @ The Mighty Barrister:

In case you haven’t heard, Peter Jennings interviewed John Kerry, and Kerry made a pathetic attempt to define his thoughts on abortion and life.

What emerged from this interview is that John Kerry is either a very competent politician or he’s a very bad weasel, neither of which make him an appealing candidate for the presidency. It's little wonder that Kerry is the first presidential challenger in more than 30 years to fail to get a bounce from his party's national convention. Let's go to the tape: ....

The Lord's Day? ... Or Wal-Mart's? @ Times Against Humanity:

Once, within living memory, it was a day apart in many places: a 24-hour stretch of family time when liquor was unavailable, church was the rule, shopping was impossible and — in some towns — weekend staples like tending the lawn and playing in the park met with hearty disapproval. But America changed, and it dragged Sunday along with it....

Be Afraid @ JunkYardBlog:

The Kerry people, those who would make up a Kerry administration, are — how to put this politely? — extremely stupid. From an interview with Jamie Rubin, a Kerry foreign policy advisor....

Who Shows a Preferential Option for the Poor? @ Flos Carmeli:

I have already broken my reading system proclaimed last week (surprise! surprise!) but I also anticipated that things might intrude — such as books that arrive from the library and must be back. So it is with Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America.

A short time ago I provoked a correspondent by asserting that everything that was inexpensive was, in fact, quite expensive — we just didn't really pay the price — the poor did. He responded cogently with a clear indication that I had failed to say what I intended. And reading this book, I feel the need to make the point again....

Lammas @ Recta Ratio:

Today is the feast of Saint Peter Ad Vincula. In Europe, it was celebrated as the first fruits of the harvest. "Lammas" probably comes from "Loaf Mass", and a ritual blessing of loaves of bread made from the first grain harvested was part of the Lammas rite. Harvest queens would be crowned in villages, and harvest suppers would be held....

Al Sharpton Speaks For, Not Just To, Democrats @ Discriminations:

Those who regard Al Sharpton as an embarrassment to the Democrats, an albatross they hung around their necks in order to appease an important part of their "base," fail to recognize how thoroughly he speaks for the party, not just to it....

John F. Kerry’s "America" @ Inkwell:

The consensus of the commentators is that John F. Kerry gave a great acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination last night. The commentators were right. He did. He had one stroke of genius of a theme: patriotism. Here’s just a sample: ....

(Not) Preaching to the New York Times choir @ GetReligion:

As you might expect, I have been getting quite a bit of email about the recent column by Daniel Okrent entitled "Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?"

The "public editor" at the Gray Lady stirred up the milk real good and then immediately went on vacation. He answers his own question with the simple lead: "Of course it is."

The column did not directly address the issue of religion coverage. It also did not openly address the wider issue of news coverage of religious people, which is not quite the same thing....

My Latest Book: "Orthodoxy and Catholicism: A Comparison" @ Cor ad cor loquitur:

.... Here is an excerpt: ....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 08/07/04 08:01:28 AM
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