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So what do you do if you are thinking about running for public office and suddenly discover that your potential opponent who is also president of the school board supplements her ordinary income by doing psychic readings on the internet? And how do you approach the fact that she claims to hear voices that she refers to as her spirit guides? And what about when you later learn that her guides have names and that one of them tickles her neck to get her attention?
In my case, the answer was simple. I wasn't so much interested in getting elected as in getting my positions and myself across (and validated). Not politically astute, perhaps, but I wanted to be judged on my own merits and my own ideas. So I kept my mouth shut, even though I've known about it since May, since just after the school board election and just before we both announced our candidacies.
The Democrats were aware, as well, and fuddled with it, but ultimately decided against bringing it up. And so, Gina DeRossi was elected as Alderman of the Third Ward.
I wouldn't be mentioning it at all, but for the remarkable conversation she had with Mike Chiara and Bobby O'Brien this morning on Bobby's radio show, which may have been the most fascinating radio interview ever. Since she is delighted with the publicity for her business, and I'm not one to hold grudges, judge for yourself at her most interesting web site.
Our elected officials come from broad and differing backgrounds. This may be the most different one of all.
Gina mentioned that one of the guides is named Martin. Just curious--- is there a Wierzbicki out there too? LOL
 
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"Insane" was the identical word I heard from the first three people to comment on the news that City Engineer Rich Phillips has been suspended by the increasingly unbalanced Mayor Ann Thane.
She appointed the guy, and he serves co-terminously with her. He can only be removed from office by a majority vote of the Common Council. Though she certainly has the authority to suspend him, I doubt that she has the authority to suspend him without pay, as she appears to have attempted to do, though I'm quite sure her Corporation Counsel will rule that she can, since the principal charges against him seem to be that he fails to follow the directives of the city's attorney.
It should be an interesting hearing before the council, since Mr. Phillips has first hand knowledge of many attempts by the mayor to circumvent the law, starting with her order to him to grant post facto demolition and building permits to Alderman Brumley after the latter illegally demolished and rebuilt her garage, which included the improper and grossly illegal dumping of asbestos materials at the MOSA transfer station. Then there was her order to him to purchase fire hydrants greatly in excess of the amount budgeted. Instead of going immediately to the Common Council for additional funds, she sat on it for months and then blamed Phillips.
When it was suggested to her that replacing certain hydrants would not result in functioning hydrants because the underlying pipes were not providing sufficient water pressure, her response to the engineer's office was that it is more important for the public to see that she is doing something than that the hydrants actually work. Meanwhile five months went by before she got around to asking the Common Council to hire a consultant to address the issue, all the while ignoring the advice of the city employees who were actually knowledgeable on the subject.
Yes, this should be an interesting hearing.
As I've mentioned before, I do not know the engineer very well. He arrived after I left City Hall, and these days I just bump into him at the coffee shop periodically. But I do know quite a few people who work with him, and I have never heard a negative comment about his skills or dedication to duty. He impresses me as being exceptionally knowledgeable in his area of expertise. Under the Charter, he is in charge of DPW, Water, Sewer and formerly Codes as part of his duties. The Mayor arranged to remove him as codes supervisor over the Brumley garage incident and, among other things, his refusal to put negative comments in the personnel files of certain employees she deemed to be disloyal to her.
If this is starting to sound like Captain Queeg, it's because more and more the mayor and her attorney ARE acting like Captain Queeg.
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Meanwhile, in Thane India:
Bridge mishap: Blame game rages as 1 more dies
October 25-The Central Railway
and Thane Municipal Corporation were involved in a blame game on Saturday, a day after a concrete girder of a bridge fell on a local train in Thane.
The train services were restored by afternoon while one more person succumbed to injuries on Saturday, taking the toll to three.
The CR blamed the TMC for the mishap. “For this accident, the TMC was entirely responsible. They had a contract with RITES for supervision and safety and a private contractor for construction work,” spokesman S Mudgerikar told a news conference.
“Two months ago, Ved Prakash, the officer on special duty, had written a letter to the TMC that there is a crack in the first girder, it should be replaced immediately. He also wrote that since 2006, the CR
has given 56 blocks to them for construction work. It also mentioned that in place of seeking any solution, the executive was putting pressure on the Railway through politicians.”
Mudgerikar said though the CR had declared 30 hours for rescue work, the work was completed in 24 hours. “The up and down fast lines were restored by 3.30 am. While the up slow line was restored by 8.50 am,
the down slow line was restored by 11.45 am.”
CR sources claimed general manager BB Modgil had personally monitored the work.
Catch 22 for Railways
The railway is in a catch 22 as far as the Thane-Kopri bridge is concerned. After the toppling of one of the girders, questions are being raised about the stability of three other girders.
Even in case they are found to be unstable, only one girder that is resting on trussing could be removed, while nothing can be done about the other two without bringing the train traffic to standstill for a long period. The 43-metre-long girders, weighing 132 tonnes, can only be removed by cranes positioned on the tracks.
This could mean very long hours of mega block. Expediting the completion of the bridge appears to be only way out but with lodging of the first information report (FIR) against contractor Ajaipal Mangal and Company, the prospect of commencing the work appears bleak.
Should we beware of Thanes bearing bridges?
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The Walter Elwood Museum is holding their annual membership drive. Considering that they've been cut off from financial support from the school district and the city and kicked out of their home and incurred numerous expenses in transferring the collection to Guy Park Manor, now would be a good time to help them out by joining through a modest membership. I intend to.
Details at their web site here, or check your mailbox.
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FROM THE PASTOR
November 15, 2009
by Fr. George W. Rutler
In this year celebrating the golden anniversary of the dedication of our church, it is fitting that we should be burnishing its gilt and gold. The original expense of the building precluded completing all that was decoratively envisioned. New generations add their own gifts.
Our side shrines are being finished in the style of their period, by skilled volunteers. Since August, over one hundred man hours of work have gone into this project, as well as work on the Shrine of Our Lady and the Baptistry.
The iconography in the sanctuary is now completed with figures of Moses and Elijah and two angels worshipping our Saviour. Ken Jan Woo devoted four months to "writing" these images, which are based on the Transfiguration icon of Theophanes the Greek (ca.1330-ca.1410) for a church in Novgorod. Theophanes was a colleague and tutor of Andrei Rublev (1370-1430). The Novgorod icon, which now is in the Tretyakov Gallery of Moscow, suits the transitional Romanesque architecture of our church, and is one of the images particularly admired by Pope Benedict XVI. The angels are of the Sienese school, also representative of the Italian transition from Mediaeval to Renaissance art, just as is our church. Using our local talent, we have been able to glorify God's House at practically no cost while budgeting more than we ever have for the church's charitable works.
Our church was dedicated at the most intense time of the Cold War. Parishioners then would have been gratified that those involved in these recent installations are young people who survived Communism. Ken Woo's family endured the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and families of the workers who braved high scaffolding for these installations lived in Poland in its last years of Marxist control.
I am writing on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. We in the West, with no experience of the Church's heroic suffering, may be tempted to take freedom for granted and to be seduced by contemporary dilettantes who disdain Christian culture and even praise figures like Mao and his heirs.
The political philosopher, Leszek Kolakowski, died this summer in Oxford. His father had been killed by the Gestapo during the German occupation of Poland, and he secretly taught himself to read. Having hoped Marxism would change things, he eventually saw through it and was expunged from the Party. He wrote: "Communism was not the crazy fantasy of a few fanatics, nor the result of human stupidity and baseness; it was a real, very real part of the history of the twentieth century, and we cannot understand this history of ours without understanding communism. We cannot get rid of this specter by saying it was just 'human stupidity,' or 'human corruptibility.' The specter is stronger than the spells we cast on it. It might come back to life."
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Mayor Ann Thane in Sunday's Recorder:
“I don’t know that the [East] end was ever truly prosperous,” she said. “When I look at the archived photos of the city, I think it was always a working class area.”
See, now this is the problem when you elect somebody to an important office who has to rely on archival photos to form her opinions. While I'm not ridiculously older than the mayor, I do have something of an institutional memory from having lived in Amsterdam nearly my entire life.
Sure, the East End was never downtown Saratoga. But it absolutely was a vibrant melting pot of dozens of cultures, brought about by the presence of the city's principal employer, Mohawk Carpets. Folks arriving from the east first confronted Coessens Park, a joyful recreational area with ball fields and tennis courts and the annual home of Santa Claus and his reindeer in a wintery fairyland.
All of those empty storefronts on East Main Street used to house thriving businesses in an unbroken line of commerce that extended all the way to "downtown." Carmel's Diner and DiCaprio's Diner stood side by side and flourished. Lou's Market, endlessly expanding, was in the mid 1960's the second largest supermarket in the country by floorspace, and, if you counted the warehouse space it was probably the largest.
The "working class" of the day took pride in their homes. Even the poorest of the working poor understood neat and clean. Those "working class" people scrimped and saved and sent their kids off to college and a better life. They also sent their sons to fight and die for their country in huge numbers.
Heck, the neighborhood even produced a ragman's son who became one of the great movie actors of the 20th century, and when Kirk Douglas came home, he was sure to mention his old friends with names like Riccio and Rimkunas and Naple. When I was very young my Irish grandmother lived in the East End, in one of those two families on the north side of Main Street, close enough to walk to work and church and the market.
They were prosperous in ways some people will never understand.
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The Corner on National Review Online:The Right Historians [Jonah Goldberg]
I thought this email might spark a useful conversation in the Corner. And given that it's fundraising week, it might help remind some folks of what a great resource the Corner is.
Hi,
I'm hoping you can help me out with a question that's been bugging me for some time. As a busy conservative father of three, I do my best to stay 'in the loop' on current issues through a number of websites, talk radio shows, and tv shows that I won't take up your time with here.
As someone who is also interested in our nation's history, over the last few years I've begun reading up on American history, including biographies of historical figures — Adams, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin, etc. Here's my issue — just as there are liberal and conservative columnists, the same has is obviously true for authors. Not having the time to thoroughly research, I'm never sure (until I start reading), whether a given biography is going to be tainted by the author's liberal worldview.
So in short, my question is this : Where could I go to get a list of books relating to American history which have been written by authors with our conservative perspective? Does such a list exist? If not, if you wouldn't mind providing your take on what would belong on such a list I would greatly appreciate it. I would guess that such a list would be extremely valuable to a great number of conservative Americans who share my question.
Thanks very much for your time.
First let me say that some liberal historians are worth reading because they are good historians. I discussed a few of them here. There are other historians I like a lot but I have no idea what they think about modern ideological disputes.
Second, I think everyone who reads the Corner should know that our own Rick Brookhiser is a first class historian who has written precisely the sort of books the reader seems to be interested in. Other NR writers and friends such as Steve Hayward, George Nash (now with a new book out that looks great), David Pryce-Jones, Paul Johnson and others are always reliably conservative though not necessarily reliably predictable. I'm sure I'm leaving out others.
Third, it's a bit far afield, but if you're looking for historical fiction you have to consider John Miller's new tour de force.
Fourth, I have some favorite historians (or authors on historical questions) and some of them are conservative or non-liberal. A few off the top of my head: John Lukacs, Paul Johnson, Hayward, Pryce-Jones, Nash, David Pietrusza, Vincent Cannato, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Paul Hollander, James Pierson, Robert Conquest and others.
But, I should confess that I am not a huge reader of biographies (as much as I wish it were otherwise). I tend to read intellectual history more than military or biographical history. Moreover, I'm sure I'm leaving out many, many authors and historians. Several of my colleagues are more expert on such things: I know Rick Brookhiser, Mike Potemra and John Miller know a lot more than I do in this regard. So I figured I'd throw the topic into the Corner and let everyone have at it.
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San Diego has a walkway dedicated to "The Greatest Generation." More pics of that and the adjacent USS Midway here.
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Today would have been the 91st birthday of Victor Fondacaro, had he not been killed in action in the service of his country at the age of 24. He was born the day World War I ended, and named Victor for the allied victory accomplished that day.
Remember him, and all who served.
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Here's an excerpt from my upcoming book HONOR ROLL: The World War II Dead of Amsterdam, NY:
Throughout the year 1943, each of the Eight Wards dedicated an Honor Roll for their men in service. Prayers were said, bands played, patriotic songs sung, flags waved, Veterans marched, Gold Star Mothers were introduced and admired. It was a continuous outpouring of affection, support, defiance and determination.
The last of them, the Second Ward monument on the grounds of the Academy Street School, was unveiled on Sunday, November 21, 1943. The principal speaker was New York Supreme Court Justice Christopher Heffernan, whose namesake son had died in the Bataan Death March. His words carried that burden, and responsibility:
Today the world is gripped by war. We are in the midst of the greatest war of all history. It has been brought on by the personal ambition of wicked and corrupt men. It is not a struggle for national supremacy. Its roots go far deeper. It is in very truth a world revolution that challenges all those principles of personal freedom, equality of right, impartial justice and popular sovereignty that are so dear to the hearts of all free men everywhere. In all the sorry pages of human history never has despotism stood forward more defiantly,never has it more brazenly announced its foul purposes, never have the rights of men and nations been more brutally assailed.
The present war is not merely for markets and territories; it is a struggle for the possession of the human soul. The civilized world is threatened by a sinister power which strikes directly at its moral foundations. Two philosophies of life are involved in deadly combat— the one based upon law, justice and human dignity; the other upon arbitrary will, violence and human slavery.( Read more... )
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The Corner on National Review Online:Woosley's Threat Against the Bishops [John J. Pitney Jr.]
Representative Lynn Woolsey (D., Calif.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, attacks the bishops in a Politico op-ed: “I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill. I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council [sic, it’s “Conference”] of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Who elected them to Congress?” She claims that they “seemed to dictate the finer points” of the Stupak amendment, and “managed to bully members of Congress to vote for added restrictions on a perfectly legal surgical procedure.” She concludes: “The IRS is less restrictive about church involvement in efforts to influence legislation than it is about involvement in campaigns and elections. Given the political behavior of USCCB in this case, maybe it shouldn’t be.”
Of course, Representative Woolsey is not the first Democrat to object to legislative advocacy by the clergy. Here is another:
It is an attempt to establish a theocracy to take charge of our politics and our legislation. It is an attempt to make the legislative power of this country subordinate to the church. It is not only to unite Church and State, but it is to put the State in subordination to the dictates of the church.
That was Senator Stephen A. Douglas (D., Ill.), on March 14, 1854. He was talking about an anti-slavery petition.
— John J. Pitney Jr. is the Roy P. Crocker professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. With James Ceaser and Andrew Busch, he is co-author of Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics.
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Dear Congressman Kennedy: “The fact that I disagree with the hierarchy on some issues does not make me any less of a Catholic.” (Congressman Patrick Kennedy) Since our recent correspondence has been rather public, I hope you don’t mind if I share a few reflections about your practice of the faith in this public forum. I usually wouldn’t do that – that is speak about someone’s faith in a public setting – but in our well-documented exchange of letters about health care and abortion, it has emerged as an issue. I also share these words publicly with the thought that they might be instructive to other Catholics, including those in prominent positions of leadership. For the moment I’d like to set aside the discussion of health care reform, as important and relevant as it is, and focus on one statement contained in your letter of October 29, 2009, in which you write, “The fact that I disagree with the hierarchy on some issues does not make me any less of a Catholic.” That sentence certainly caught my attention and deserves a public response, lest it go unchallenged and lead others to believe it’s true. And it raises an important question: What does it mean to be a Catholic? “The fact that I disagree with the hierarchy on some issues does not make me any less of a Catholic.” Well, in fact, Congressman, in a way it does. Although I wouldn’t choose those particular words, when someone rejects the teachings of the Church, especially on a grave matter, a life-and-death issue like abortion, it certainly does diminish their ecclesial communion, their unity with the Church. This principle is based on the Sacred Scripture and Tradition of the Church and is made more explicit in recent documents. For example, the “Code of Canon Law” says, “Lay persons are bound by an obligation and possess the right to acquire a knowledge of Christian doctrine adapted to their capacity and condition so that they can live in accord with that doctrine.” (Canon 229, #1) The “Catechism of the Catholic Church” says this: “Mindful of Christ’s words to his apostles, ‘He who hears you, hears me,’ the faithful receive with docility the teaching and directives that their pastors give them in different forms.” (#87) Or consider this statement of the Church: “It would be a mistake to confuse the proper autonomy exercised by Catholics in political life with the claim of a principle that prescinds from the moral and social teaching of the Church.” (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2002) There’s lots of canonical and theological verbiage there, Congressman, but what it means is that if you don’t accept the teachings of the Church your communion with the Church is flawed, or in your own words, makes you “less of a Catholic.” But let’s get down to a more practical question; let’s approach it this way: What does it mean, really, to be a Catholic? After all, being a Catholic has to mean something, right? Well, in simple terms – and here I refer only to those more visible, structural elements of Church membership – being a Catholic means that you’re part of a faith community that possesses a clearly defined authority and doctrine, obligations and expectations. It means that you believe and accept the teachings of the Church, especially on essential matters of faith and morals; that you belong to a local Catholic community, a parish; that you attend Mass on Sundays and receive the sacraments regularly; that you support the Church, personally, publicly, spiritually and financially. Congressman, I’m not sure whether or not you fulfill the basic requirements of being a Catholic, so let me ask: Do you accept the teachings of the Church on essential matters of faith and morals, including our stance on abortion? Do you belong to a local Catholic community, a parish? Do you attend Mass on Sundays and receive the sacraments regularly? Do you support the Church, personally, publicly, spiritually and financially? In your letter you say that you “embrace your faith.” Terrific. But if you don’t fulfill the basic requirements of membership, what is it exactly that makes you a Catholic? Your baptism as an infant? Your family ties? Your cultural heritage? Your letter also says that your faith “acknowledges the existence of an imperfect humanity.” Absolutely true. But in confronting your rejection of the Church’s teaching, we’re not dealing just with “an imperfect humanity” – as we do when we wrestle with sins such as anger, pride, greed, impurity or dishonesty. We all struggle with those things, and often fail. Your rejection of the Church’s teaching on abortion falls into a different category – it’s a deliberate and obstinate act of the will; a conscious decision that you’ve re-affirmed on many occasions. Sorry, you can’t chalk it up to an “imperfect humanity.” Your position is unacceptable to the Church and scandalous to many of our members. It absolutely diminishes your communion with the Church. Congressman Kennedy, I write these words not to embarrass you or to judge the state of your conscience or soul. That’s ultimately between you and God. But your description of your relationship with the Church is now a matter of public record, and it needs to be challenged. I invite you, as your bishop and brother in Christ, to enter into a sincere process of discernment, conversion and repentance. It’s not too late for you to repair your relationship with the Church, redeem your public image, and emerge as an authentic “profile in courage,” especially by defending the sanctity of human life for all people, including unborn children. And if I can ever be of assistance as you travel the road of faith, I would be honored and happy to do so. Sincerely yours, Thomas J. Tobin Bishop of Providence
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I had been in a hard-fought re-election campaign in 1989 and had told Mary that no matter what the outcome, when it was over I would be packing my back-pack and going into the woods for a couple of days, something I had not done in the previous fifteen years or so.
But when the night before the day came, I suddenly received a phone call from my old friend, principal and hiking partner Father Anselment. While he was asking me if I'd like to join his hiking group that Thursday, Mary appeared in the doorway with a new bright orange jacket and warm athletic socks and I figured the whole thing out. The master conspirator got her way again. She wouldn't have to worry about me out camping alone, and I got essentially what I wanted, some outdoor respite after the miserable tension of politics. (I had won, by the way, but since I had a joint party with all my friends who lost, there wasn't a whole lot of hoopla tension release).
The itinerary was a "rainy day" hike up near Putnam Pond state campground, off the road to Ticonderoga. The choice proved an apt one, weather-wise. As we passed through a valley on the way to a lean-to, the heavens opened up and for the next twenty minutes it felt like walking through a waterfall. No amount of plastic covering could keep the icy November downpour from soaking into my heavy courderoy pants. And my "dry" spare clothes were in my wet backpack.
By the time I got back to my car, I was frozen to the bone. I jacked up the heat all the way for the whole two hour drive home, eagerly awaiting the joys of my warm, toasty house.
There was a sign on the back door.
"Rob, the boiler is out and they can't come until tomorrow. Meet us at the Super 8 Motel."
Though the house was ice, the hot water still worked and I took a loooong hot shower, plunged into the frosty air, put on some warm clothes and headed to the west end of town to perform a wedding ceremony.
Finally, I joined the family in a room for four accommodating six. We crawled over each othe a bit, but all things considered, not too bad.
The next morning I turned on the television and rubbed my eyes in disbelief, and then rubbed them again, then sat bolt upright.
People were dancing on the Berlin Wall.
By the end of the day, people with hammers and chisels and concrete saws and chains and sheer will power tore it apart and the walls came a-tumbling down.
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Ten years later we sat around the dining room table as I poured a jigger full of beer and handed it to our foreign exchange student from Perleberg, in the former East Germany. I told him we were violating the rules for one night, because this was a very special anniversary.
"Yes," he said excitedly. "I remember this night.
"I was seven years old and sleeping in my bed. My mother woke me up. 'Christian! Christian!' she said. 'Look! Your father is on television!' and he was there, my father dancing on top of the wall!"
Today, thank God, the wall exists only in museums and in the fading memories of the peoples it divided. Sometime later this week I hope to touch a section of it, which stands on the grounds of the presidential library of the man who willed it down.
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FROM THE PASTOR
November 8, 2009
by Fr. George W. Rutler
One assumes that The New York Times would have been glad to receive an Op-Ed article from the new Archbishop of New York. The Archdiocese of New York is responsible for a very important part of the city’s educational, medical, and charitable life. The newspaper refused to print it. Such censorship only whets the appetite to know what was thought not fit to print. There are many items that the Times, which claims to publish everything that’s fit to print, has printed although they were not fit. There were, for instance, its mockery in 1920 of Goddard’s hypothesis that rocket propulsion can take place in a vacuum, a denial of Stalin’s forced famine in Ukraine and a whitewash of his show trials by its Moscow bureau chief Walter Duranty, its advocacy of Fidel Castro, and its benign regard for the Soviet spy Alger Hiss. So there had to be some journalistic equivalent of a cerebral stroke to make the editors of the Times unable to print Archbishop Dolan’s words. The cause of the apoplexy was the Archbishop’s imputation of bigotry to the newspaper. His charge was not self-indulgent whining. He did not have to go back farther than a couple of weeks for examples. First, in reporting widespread child abuse in Brooklyn’s community of Orthodox Jews, there was not the “selective outrage” which animates The New York Times against criminous Catholic clerics, whose numbers are in fact proportionally much smaller than other religious and professional groups. Then there was the sensational front-page publicity of a paternity suit involving a Franciscan friar, going back twenty-five years, and getting more space than the war in Afghanistan and genocide in Sudan. Headlines also claimed that the Pope was seeking to “lure” Anglicans into his fold, when in fact he was responding to a petition. Then a columnist invoked the Inquisition, portrayed the theology of priesthood as neurotic sexism, and even mocked the Pope’s haberdashery. The Archbishop said that her prejudice, “while maybe appropriate for the Know-Nothing newspaper of the 1850’s, the Menace, has no place in a major publication today.” While a free press is free to criticize, said the Archbishop, such criticism should be “fair, rational, and accurate.” Hostility raised to such a pitch that journalistic standards are abandoned, is provoked by an awareness that the Catholic Church continues to be the substantial voice for classical moral standards and supernatural confidence amid the noise of a disintegrating behaviorist culture. A tabloid is still a tabloid even if its editors dress in tweeds. Churchill said, “No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.” Not to worry. Christ promised that the gates of Hell will not prevail against his Church. He did not include The New York Times, 30% of whose work force has been laid off in the last year and a half.
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Having a wonderful time, thank you very much. More pics here. Check back periodically, as we should have others, including wedding pics up, as the days drift placidly by.
Many thanks to old chum Bruce Conover for a delightful lunch and harbor walk yesterday, and to Tim and Rose for a marvelous rehearsal dinner. More to come, but right now it's time to head out to Point Loma for a spectacular view. Also the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan may be in port, so we'll give the old guy a salute as long as we're here.
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I'll be away from my usual post for the next ten days at the end of which I will be trying to come up with a reason to come home from Southern California. Good thing Laura and Anna are here.
So, discuss the troubles of the world and Amsterdam among yourselves, be supportive of Judge and Michael Radio, and I'll be checking in periodically.
The series on the World War II dead is being suspended until my return. Physical damage to one of my hard drives prevents access to the photos, so I'll be rescanning when I get back.
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