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Catholic Organizations Taking Out Lawsuits

Some of the most influential Catholic institutions in the country filed suit against the Obama administration Monday over the so-called contraception mandate, in one of the biggest coordinated legal challenges to the rule to date.

Claiming their “fundamental rights hang in the balance,” a total of 43 plaintiffs filed a dozen separate federal lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the requirement. Among the organizations filing were the University of Notre Dame, the Archdiocese of New York and The Catholic University of America.

The groups are objecting to the requirement from the federal health care overhaul that employers provide access to contraceptive care. The Obama administration several months ago softened its position on the mandate, but some religious organizations complained the administration did not go far enough to ensure the rule would not compel them to violate their religious beliefs.

A statement from the University of Notre Dame said the requirement would still call on religious-affiliated groups to “facilitate” coverage “for services that violate the teachings of the Catholic Church.”

It is about time that not only the Roman Catholic faith community in the United States of America take this action, but also many, many other faith communities, including the Evangelical Protestant Christians as well.

With MANY THANKS To FoxNews.com. Read More Here:“Catholic Organizations Across The Country fTle Suit Against Contraception Mandate”

 

 

University of Notre Dame

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May 21, 2012 Posted by | Class Warfare In Action, Current Events, Elections, Faith, Headliner, Health, Money, Politics, Women Issues | | Leave a Comment

Weather And Joint Pain Closely Linked

Confirms what I have long suspected in regards to my troubled right knee.

“A recent study shows that people with joint pain reported that the weather affected their pain level — even before the weather changed. Dr. Holly Phillips reports.”

With MANY THANKS To Both CBSNewsOnline And YouTube. Read More Here:

 

 

March 29, 2012 Posted by | Health, Science, Weather, Women Issues | Leave a Comment

Hypocrisy For All To See And Hear

During the past couple of days, the United States of America was treated to a “diversion” from the harsh reality of the very difficult economic situation that concerns most Americans.

That ”diversion” came from the recent issue of birth control, Sandra Fluke, and Rush Limbaugh.

What happened was last week, conservative talk radio show host, Rush Limbaugh, during his midday radio show talked up on the issue of both birth control and this woman by the name of Sandra Fluke. What was the thought crime that Mr. Limbaugh committed to “so offend the liberals“? Mr. Limbaugh refered Ms. Fluke as a “slut”. Yes, that is what Mr. Limbaugh called Ms. Fluke last week that got the liberals underwear all into knots.

While Mr. Limbaugh should have used better words for what he has said and has since apologized for calling Ms. Fluke a “slut”, fallout from this who incident still continues to be felt in the conservative talk radio show industry. A number of advertisers have dropped Rush’s show, add to that, a few AM/FM radio stations as well. There has even been calls for the Federal Communications Commission to have Mr. Limbaugh’s show taken off the air.

Having said that, what surprises me is that while the liberals go nuts over what Mr. Limbaugh has said, at the same time, there is complete or close to complete “silence” when it comes to liberals and “offensive speech.”

Here are examples of offensive speech that comes from the liberals which gets not only non attention, but also is met with a ho-hum attitude:

From the SooperMexican.com website:”While the leftist news media industrial complex is slamming Rush Limbaugh for the Obama administration, liberals get to say whatever they want without any coverage.

Witness Mike Malloy, who touts himself as a “liberal/progressive talk show host”, who made this disgusting comment about the victims of the recent tornadoes in the midwest:

“Their God, if this is the way they want to look at it, keeps smashing them into little grease spots on the pavement, in Alabama, in Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia and Oklahoma, you know the bible belt..”

The above comments IMHO, come as NO SURPRISE, because the liberal talk radio show hosts KNOW that they can say whatever they want and there will not be any objections to what they say. But if a conservative radio talk show host says what they, the liberals believe to be offensive, than there is yelling and screaming for the conservative talk radio show host’s head. What it all says, in the reading is the level of hypocrisy that now comes from the left and it is BIGTIME.

Going on further,this past weekend, Bill Maher on his show, calls conservative and tea party member as well as former Alaska Governor and GOP/Republican 2008 Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin a very vulgar name. Where is the members of the NOW ORGANIZATION when you need them? Instead the results are crickets chirping.

Oh well, here was the response, which was NONE:“The National Organization for Women (NOW) refused to comment on Maher’s use of the derogatory term. A rep told FOXNews.com it is a “known fact” that NOW does not correspond with FOX News.”

NOT SURPRISED there. That was expected.

Both of the above samples is WHY there is NO condemnation coming from the liberal community in regards to their own.

This goes to show that hypocrisy coming from the left not only has no bounds, but it is for EVERYONE in the United States of the America for ALL to SEE and HEAR.

HYPOCRISY, thy name is LIBERALISM.

With MANY THANKS To Both Hollie McKay And Fox News. Read More Here:“Bill Maher Calls Sarah Palin A Female Vulgarism”

With MANY THANKS To SooperMexican.com. Read More Here:“Liberal Talk Host Mocks Tornado Victims”

With MANY THANKS To Both radioequalizer And YouTube. Watch Video Here:

English: Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh

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FOR FURTHER READING:
With MANY THANKS To Both The Daily Caller And Caroline May. Read More Here:“Meet Law Student And Feminist Hero Sandra Fluke”
With MANY THANKS To Both Cathy Cleaver Ruse And The Wall Street Journal Opinion Website. Read More Here:“Limbaugh And Our Phony Contraception Debate”


March 6, 2012 Posted by | Business, Current Events, Elections, Faith, Headliner, Health, Money, Politics, Talkradio, Tea Party Movement, Women Issues | , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Too Soon

Cover of "The Bodyguard (Special Edition)...
Cover of The Bodyguard (Special Edition)

Last night while I was watching the NBC music talent show, The Voice, I saw what looked like a breaking news annoucment saying that singer Whitney Houston was found dead at the age of 48 in her hotel room in Beverly Hills, CA, USA. How ironic in all of this is while I was watching a tv show about finding new music talent, a very talented music voice from my days as a young adult, Whitney Houston passed away suddenly. What also was very ironic is that now, as an aging member from the baby boom generation, this was like a punch in my stomach.

Also Ms. Whitney’s death comes at a time in my own life when I am confronting the reality that now that I am in the second-half of my life, my own body is also starting to do its own breakdown in the breakdown lane of this life. First my right knee with ostroarthritis, then a tooth going bad with abscess, forcing me to go to the University of Connecticut Medical Center in Farmington for emergency dental treatment. Late last October, after seeing a spot in my right breast area during a regular yearly mamagram and ultrasound having a hard time picking up what that spot is, I am as on February 27 will be undergoing a breast biospy procedure. I PRAY that it does not end up having me being told I have breast cancer. Just being able to talk about my own health issues was never all that easy, let alone blogging about the health problems of the rich and famous. Being one that tries to have my own self-respect

Having said all of this, I now get back with dealing with the death of Whitney Houston.

Early this morning, which is a Sunday, I do not blog at all, and I try since this is the Lord’s day, to avoid blogging as much as possible. Today with the sad passing of Ms. Houston, this was the exception. Even then, I was still very much surprised by Ms. Whitney’s passing. I have been hearing that she has been fighting drug addiction for a number of years, coming out to admit in 2003 to Oprah that she was smoking crack cocaine. From the UK Daily Mail Online website: “She cancelled a string of concerts and talk shows as she struggled to cope. In a chat show with Oprah in 2003, the star admitted the scale of her addiction to smoking crack cocaine.”It was every day, every,’ she said. ‘I didn’t think about the singing part of it any more.” Even reading in the Daily Mail UK online website was a BIG EYE OPENER for me to the extent of the addiction that Ms. Houston had been dealing with. Truly I will never in full come to the full understanding of what she was dealing with. But what Ms. Houston was dealing with, the down side of what comes with being both rich and famous is an ongoing lesson that both wealth and fame are always, always fleeting.

While Ms. Whitney’s music will live on in my mind and in the minds of her fans and music listeners alike, my two favorite songs being her wonderful singing of the United States of America‘s national anthem, “The Star Spangle Banner before the start of the 1991 NFL pro football Super Bowl and the song from the movie and soundtrack, The Bodyguard “I Will Always Love You.” Truly those two songs will burn in my memory. Tonight I will be watch “The Grammy Awards” and check in to see the musical tribute to Ms. Houston. Today I had aged a bit more in my middle-age. 

The sad reality of it all is, Ms. Houston died TOO SOON.

Thank-you Ms. Houston for the memories in your music. RIP Ms. Houston.

The Greatest Love of All

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With MANY THANKS To Hugo Gye, Rick Dewsbury, Louise Boyle, And The Daily Mail UK. Read More Here:“Whitney Houston’s Daughter Rushed To Hospital After Star’s Death As Photos Show Distraught “Lover” Ray J At Hotel Where She Drowned”

“Whitney Houston – Super Bowl XXV (1991) – The National Anthem of the United States of America

On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California, of causes not immediately known.

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 — February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. Houston was the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records. Her list of awards includes 2 Emmy Awards, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards as of 2010. Houston was also one of the world’s best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide.

Inspired by several prominent soul singers in her family, including mother Cissy Houston and cousins Dionne Warwick and the late Dee Dee Warwick, as well as her godmother, Aretha Franklin, Houston began singing with New Jersey church’s junior gospel choir at age 11. After she began performing alongside her mother in night clubs in the New York City area, she was discovered by Arista Records label head Clive Davis. As of 2011, Houston had released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold certification.

Houston was the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits (“Saving All My Love for You”, “How Will I Know”, “Greatest Love of All”, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)”, “Didn’t We Almost Have It All”, “So Emotional”, and “Where Do Broken Hearts Go”). She was the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Top Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly “Top Pop Album”) on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houston’s 1985 debut album, Whitney Houston, became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was also named Rolling Stone’s best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album, Whitney (1987), became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Houston’s crossover appeal on the popular music charts as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for “How Will I Know”, influenced several African-American female artists to follow in her footsteps.

Houston’s first acting role was as the star of the feature film The Bodyguard (1992). The movie’s original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Its lead single, “I Will Always Love You”, became the best-selling single by a female artist in music history. With this album, Houston became the first act (solo or group, male or female) to sell more than a million copies of an album within a single week period.[7] The album also makes her the only female act in the top 10 list of the best-selling albums of all time, at number four. Houston continued to star in movies and contribute to their adjoining soundtracks, including the films Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher’s Wife (1996). The Preacher’s Wife soundtrack would go on to become the best-selling gospel album in history. Three years after the release of her fourth studio album, My Love Is Your Love (1998), she renewed her recording contract with Arista Records. She released her fifth studio album, Just Whitney, in 2002, and the Christmas-themed One Wish: The Holiday Album in 2003. Amid widespread media coverage of personal and professional turmoil, Houston ended her 14-year marriage to singer Bobby Brown in 2006. In 2009, Houston released her seventh studio album, I Look to You.”

“Whitney Houston I will always love youWhitney Houston takes Dolly Parton’s song and makes it completely her own in this amazing cover.Lyricsf IShould stayI would only be in your waySo I’ll goBut I knowI’ll think of you every step ofthe wayAnd I…Will alwaysLove you, oohhWill alwaysLove youYouMy darling youMmm-mmBittersweetMemoriesThat is all I’m taking with meSo good-byePlease don’t cryWe both know I’m not what youYou needAnd I…Will always love youI…Will always love youYou, ooh[Instrumental / Sax solo]I hopelife treats you kindAnd I hopeyou have all you’ve dreamed ofAnd I wish you joyand happinessBut above all thisI wish you loveAnd I…Will always love youI…Will always love you[Repeat]I, I will always loveYou….YouDarling I love youI’ll alwaysI’ll alwaysLoveYou..OoohOoohhh_______________________________Whitney Houston sings I Will Always Love You in this amazing cover for the movie The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner. It was Kevin Costner himself who discovered this song for “the” song of the movie.I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston Video The Bodyguard”

February 12, 2012 Posted by | Current Events, Dealing With Challenges, Entertainment, Faith, Headliner, Health, Women Issues | , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Pentagon Rules Shift On Women In Combat

“The Pentagon is unveiling plans Thursday to allow women to serve in thousands of military jobs closer to the front lines, reflecting the realities of the last decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Feb. 9)”

With MANY THANKS To Both AP And YouTube. Watch Video Here:

February 9, 2012 Posted by | Current Events, Headliner, War And Peace, Women Issues | , , | Leave a Comment

Birth Control Battle Has Gotten Even Hotter,Even Capital Hill Has Weighed In

Now even members of both political parties up on United States of America‘s Washington D.C.‘s Capital hill had gone out of their way to weigh-in on the very heated birth control mandatory plan of President Barack Hussein Obama‘s healthcare bill.

Look for this issue to remain “hot” for a good while to come. War has been declared against the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. As having said this in a previous posting, it is” just like hitting a big bald face hornets nest”, big mistake.

Have a picture of white bald face hornets nest. This is what I compare the recent efforts by the President Obama White House and Health And Human Services going after the Roman Catholic Church in the last couple of weeks.

"Bald Face Hornets Nest"

A Live Bald Face Hornets Nest, Just Like Roman Catholic Church In America,Big Mistake Hitting It

“Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are vowing to overturn the new birth control rule issued by the Obama Administration. CBS News Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes reports.”

With MANY THANKS To both CBSNewsOnline. Watch Video Here:

“In recent days, Americans of every faith and political persuasion have mobilized in objection to a rule put forward by the Obama Administration that constitutes an unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country. 

“This rule would require faith-based employers — including Catholic charities, schools, universities, and hospitals — to provide services they believe are immoral. Those services include sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs and devices, and contraception. 

“In imposing this requirement, the federal government has drifted dangerously beyond its constitutional boundaries, encroaching on religious freedom in a manner that affects millions of Americans and harms some of our nation’s most vital institutions.

“If the president does not reverse the Department’s attack on religious freedom, then the Congress, acting on behalf of the American people and the Constitution we are sworn to uphold and defend, must. 

“The House will approach this matter fairly and deliberately, through regular order and the appropriate legislative channels. 

“Because it has primary jurisdiction on the issues involved, the Energy & Commerce Committee is taking the lead on the legislative process that will be necessary to enact an effective and appropriate solution. Chairman Upton convened a hearing last year and began laying the groundwork for legislative action when this flawed rule was first proposed. I welcome his efforts to consider all possible options as his committee proceeds with its work. 

“This attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country must not stand, and will not stand.”

With MANY THANKS To Both JohnBoehner And YouTube. Watch Video Here:

……And this national saga continues.

“The backlash continues to grow against a new federal law that requires all employers to pay for health insurance that includes birth control. Archbishop Timothy Dolan speaks to the “CBS This Morning” co-hosts about the controversy.”

And this backlash will continue to grow, not just by those who are Catholic, but Christians, other faith groups, and people of good will who DO NOT WANT to see the United States Constitution tramped down even further.

With MANY THANKS To Both CBSNewsOnline And YouTube. Watch Video Here:

February 9, 2012 Posted by | Animals, Class Warfare In Action, Current Events, Elections, Faith, Headliner, Health, Law And Order, Money, Politics, Women Issues | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

More To This Story: Catholic Groups Balk At Covering Birth Control

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With each new day, this whole issue of forcing faith communities in general,but in a special way, Catholic Churchrelated groups to provide birth control which goes against freedom of religion goes on. This has simply has become a political football, that which is a moral issue.

What has happened is a number of Catholic groups are up in arms over this part of the healthcare law of President Barak Hussein Obama or Obamacare which for these groups is a BIG BONE OF CONTENTION.

“A new federal rule requires all employers to cover birth control in their health insurance plans. Father Edward Beck, a CBS News contributor, and the Washington Post‘s Michael Gerson discuss the controversial rule.”

With MANY THANKS To Both CBS And YouTube. Watch Video Here:

February 8, 2012 Posted by | Class Warfare In Action, Current Events, Elections, Faith, Headliner, Health, Law And Order, Politics, Women Issues | , , , , | Leave a Comment

Komen Reverses Planned Parenthood Cuts

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“The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity on Friday abandoned plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. (Feb. 3)”

With MANY THANKS To Both AP And YouTube. Watch Video Here:

February 3, 2012 Posted by | Current Events, Headliner, Health, Political Corectness Extremes, Politics, Women Issues | , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

After Two Years, Keep On Keeping Going

Today marks two years since I have begun this blog. Considering that late last year was difficult because of dealing with personal health issues, and it affected my ability to be able to blog. Neverless, another year of blogging has come and now I am going into the beginning of year number three.

The highlight of this second year was being able to get a lot of videos into the blog, and in a special way, on current events, faith, women’s issues, dealing with challenges,  and animals.

Tonight I will be taking it easy and enjoy my University of Connecticut women basketball team go up against the women of Syracuse.

Last night, during my night of silence of now tv or radio in regards to President Barak Hussein Obama‘s SOTU speech, I ended up falling asleep instead.

I want to THANK all who have come to visit and to read my postings. I will in turn work even harder to continue interesting blog entries.

January 25, 2012 Posted by | Animals, Current Events, Dealing With Challenges, Faith, Off The Beaten Path, Women Issues | , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Cleared Of Murder Charge

Today 24-year-old Amanda Knox was cleared of the murder charges in Italy.

“Oct. 3 – An Italian court cleared 24 year-old American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and set them free on Monday after nearly four years in prison. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).”

With MANY THANKS To Both ReutersVideo And YouTube. Watch Video Here:

October 3, 2011 Posted by | Current Events, Headliner, International Issues, Law And Order, Women Issues | , , , , | Leave a Comment

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