The Louisiana Democrat Party is prejudiced against Roman Catholics as shown by the last and current Louisiana Governor elections. This is a very important fact for Orthodox and should be important to every person who values their religion without regard to their religion. The prejudice against Roman Catholics was explicitly expressed in television advertisements against Republican governor candidate “Bobby” Jindal, a Roman Catholic. The advertisements attacked Mr. Jindal’s Catholicism, and even attributed Mr. Jindal, remarks actually made by Calvin. The advertisements are only being run in Northern and Central Louisiana, and not run in the Southern and New Orleans areas which are heavily Roman Catholic. The Louisiana Democrat Party also is racist. In the runoff election for governor of Louisiana four years ago between Mr. Jindal and present governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, in the last weeks of the election campaign, Mrs. Blanco was asked to comment on Mr. Jindal. She responded it was nice to see persons of color running for state wide positions. Jindal, who is of Indian (as in India, the subcontinent) descent, is of a darker complexion than most Caucasian. The comment by Blanco could easily be construed as a signal to any white with any prejudice against non-whites, that Mr. Jindal is a Negro. In the current election the Louisiana Democrat Party consistently refers to Mr. Jindal as Piyush Jindal, “Piyush” being his given first name. In Louisiana politics it is customary to refer to a politician by his “nickname”, but in Mr. Jindal’ case the Democrat Party has chosen to attempt to make Mr. Jindal seem to be a Moslem - even though is one part of Louisiana it is campaigning against him decrying his Roman Catholicism. Also, in the last election, Blanco’s advertisements stated Mr. Jindal would dismiss health care workers by the hundreds. But when Blanco was sworn in, one of the first things she did was to dismiss hundreds of such workers.
SOMETHING ABOUT PAPER THAT YOU WILL NOT NOTICE unless you regularly purchase office or printing supplies. Recycled paper is promoted while non-recycled paper is not. Recycled paper cost appreciably more than “fresh” paper. When “fresh” paper on the store shelf runs out, even though there is much more in the store room, it is not replenished until the recycled paper of the same weight and size is gone from the shelf. Is this dictatorship by the environmentalists?
Wal-Mart vitamins and shirts: Ever wonder if the vitamins you purchase at Wal-Mart are made from ingredients obtained from China? If they are, were those ingredients manufactured by the same manufacturers who made the defective pet food, tires, sea food and fish, and other products which have recently been found to be defective? But then, it really is nice to be able to purchase relatively decent clothing at affordable prices.
Immigration is a form of people who are not family or not regular household members, living in your house: If you have invited someone to live in your house temporarily or permanently you will of necessity impose certain obligations and restrictions upon their activities while in your house and even while they are off your property. You will so do to ensure stability and peace within your walls. So too must it be with immigrants. An illegal immigrant correlates to neighbors coming uninvited into your home to live. Even if they do the housekeeping and maintenance, and make improvements, they do not have the right to live uninvited in your house. In so doing they have stolen your property, or at least a part of it while impinging on the whole. Since the uninvited and illegal squatters have violated your property rights, can you trust they will not violate even ore of your rights, even to the extent of taking your life? No, you can not. If your neighbor’s house is damaged they have the moral right to expect shelter assistance from someone but those who have the room to giver shelter also have the right to decline rendering such assistance. Such declination may be immoral, but it also may be a totally moral response, depending on the circumstances of the one declining and that one’s reasons for declining. Therefore, when the leader of one country decries strict application of immigration laws by another country, the one complaining has no standing to complain. He is but attempting to impose his will on another without the right so to do. We do have the moral obligation to assist others and this does include those who wish to enter our country to economically better themselves. But we also have the right to regulate such immigration, the moral obligation to assess the effects such immigration will have on our own citizens, and the moral obligation to do what is morally right without regard as to what makes us feel good. Remember, what makes us feel good is not always morally proper or morally correct. Those who hold the belief that allowing illegal immigrants into our country will only have marginal negative effect have placed themselves in the position of deciding they have the right to impose a negative effect on fellow citizens so that they can feel good about assisting criminals to attain economic benefit at the economic cost of others. They do not have the moral right so to do.
Racists want members of their own race to be able to vote in more than one state, more than one city: Tens of thousands of people remain dislocated from New Orleans by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Approximately 19,000, of these have registered to vote in other states and therefore are being removed from the voter rolls in Louisiana. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has filed federal suit against Louisiana in an attempt to stop these individuals from being removed from the Louisiana voter rolls, claiming Louisiana is acting in a racially discriminatory manner. In actuality the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is acting in a racially discriminatory manner, and immorally, because it seeks to allow Negroes to vote in more than one state, in more than one city, thus enabling these Negroes to vote for President more than once, to “stack the deck” in congressional elections and in state elections, giving them an advantage over those who are not Negroes and giving rights to Negroes not possessed by non-Negroes. Suppression of individuals and the rights of individuals or groups because of the race of the individuals or groups is immoral. Granting of rights or privileges because of race also is immoral, and equally abhorrent.
GAMBIT WEEKLY, the darling publication of the pseudo-sophisticated of New Orleans: In its August 28, 2007, Vol 28, No. 35 issue, shows the true substance of what passes for and perhaps is sophistication - prurient emptiness. The front page is a picture or sketch of a bikini clad torso - roughly shoulders to crotch - breasts hanging out of the bikini top, thumb on left hand pulling down the bikini bottom. The back page is an advertisement for clothing, the model an expressionless and apparently young teenage blond girl wearing a man’s undershirt, no bra, and much too tight corduroy shorts. That establishes what is required to attract the sophisticated reader. Contents are a spattering of rather liberal opinion columns which pass for news articles (REUNION makes no claim to being a newspaper or a journal - its purpose is clearly stated in the banner and in the publication notice), and hundreds of advertisements most of which appeal to those who wish to be thought of as sophisticated and depict individuals in privileged settings - unless they individuals depicted are women who are generally depicted as having fabulous figures, various body parts falling out of their clothing, or covered with clothing which leaves nothing to the imagination. There are endless lists of places to go and things to do and to see, which must be a handy means of advertising without seeming to advertise, or of seeking advertisement. There are also a few “normal” advertisements. Total 120 pages. Very little if any substance. Occasionally Gambit will publish a very timely and appropriate sketch or photo-composite commentary (often satirical) on current events. But most issues seem to be similar to this issue - very shallow and materialistic.
Journalistic illogic: Times-Picayune issue July 23, 2007, page B-1, picture caption states “The abandoned apartment building at 3020 Hessemer Ave. is in the middle of total renovation.” Question: If it is abandoned, who is renovating it? Seems like it would be kind of risky to renovate an apartment complex one does not own - if it has been abandoned obviously the owner is not renovating it. Perhaps it is being renovated (from hurricane damage) by the owner and therefore is not abandoned.
While we are at it, HEALTHY: If you eat healthy food hopefully you restrict your consumption to plant food. Though sashimi (often mistakenly referred to as sushi - sushi merely means rice; sashimi is raw fish) may be an exception, most humans seem to have an aversion to their food wiggling down their gullet. To be healthy the thing must be alive. Food usually is dead, and therefore is not healthy. Food may be healthful, meaning it contributes to the good health of the consumer and may even assist the consumer in being or becoming healthy. But if your rib-eye or hamburger is healthy, it must be able to make a “mooo” sound. If the turkey breast you are consuming is healthy, you will be picking feathers from between your teeth and gagging on turkey blood. Even savages rarely eat healthy food - they usually kill their food and cook it before eating. Lions, tigers, some bears, sharks, and hunting animals often eat healthy food, but usually during the process of eating their food dies and at that instant is not longer healthy since it is dead. But that food may be healthful. Humans may find healthy food not be be very healthful due to parasites and other organisms which remain alive because the main course was not killed, prepared, and cooked.
Jumbo squid pray on California catch, is what the headline stated. Nice to know the squid are converting and becoming evangelicals. Do the squid use one or more of their eight arms for “laying on of hands” or do they restrict this practice to their two tentacles? Nice to know that members of the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Mollusca, Class Cephalopoda, Order Teuthoidea, Families Loliginidae, Sepiolidae, and Architeuthidae have had a change of heart. Perhaps they could evangelize our politicians - while the politicians are healthy?.
Amnesty International, founded by a Roman Catholic, and once a bastion of pro-life action and thought, has adopted a pro-abortion position. It had to adopt because it killed its own offspring.
The NEA (teacher’s union / association) is attempting to put itself out of business through two of its main policies. One policy is its support of abortion. The math is simple: kill twenty-five unborn children and the schools can close off one school room. Do this a few times and a school system can get rid of a teacher. Do it a few more times and an entire school can be closed and its teachers dismissed. The other policy is graduating everyone whether or not the graduates have learned anything, combined with use of substandard teaching practices and substandard text books so that the slow learners will not be unduly challenged and will not feel inferior to those students with average and above average learning abilities and desires. This will create a large population which does not value education, and which will be inclined to not demand their offspring (those which are not aborted) attend school or if they do attend, not demand that they learn, thus decreasing the demand for schools and for teachers.
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