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Gee, a woman with bank experience and a background similar to some of the favorite people of Barack Obama, currently unemployed and suddenly available! New Treasury nom?
IRS giving relief to some Madoff investors
The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President’s Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment
Paraplegic Man Walks After Spider Bite
Pope says condoms are not the solution to Aids – they make it worse
A major media outlet has finally realized what I’ve been saying for years.
http://tinyurl.com/cz7vw6
Well, after all The One can pardon anyone he wants to. PLUS, I don’t think there is any requirement that you not be a felon. Tammy I like the way you think —–ravishing mind ravishing body
DogOnCrack where I live, Finland, my hubby and I had a civil service at the magistrates office then we had a religious blessing a the church about 10 days after with the big party and everything. the magistrates office was just signing documents basically so I could receive any benefits from the gvt.
YEAH PODCASTS!!!
Is anyone surprised that Obama and his ilk would want to put it to anyone either in uniform, or previously served in uniform.
Veteran care is a basic understanding upon the United States and its servicepeople.
Here’s a basic difference: John McCain would have a veteran’s card that would be honored by all health facillities, VA or private. He’s a veteran.
Obama and his ilk go just about the opposite way to punish them for serving.
Now, I’ll go further as having almost lost a job because of the VA Medical Facility in Boston. Unable to make a definitive appointment, then on several occasions having been kept waiting over one or two hours. I took the employment provided care in spite of my entitlement.
There is a prevailing attitude in the VA that only desperate or needy veterans, who have no other demands, should use the VA. This is contempable. It stings when said outright.
Since Vietnam, in my area anyway, most of the VA budget and facilities are for substance abuse. OK that’s fine. (WOW – That guarantees how many psychologists paycheck? Where did they serve? What’s their empathy?) But there is a issue about granting people VA stipends when the dependency was incurred after service and not service related, nor with service in hazardous zones. Note please: a stipend based upon non-service affliction. Somewhere this gets couched in the disability flurry.
When a deserving veteran has to travel more than fifty miles to wait half a day of service that is a bit much. Now the “Liar in Chief” wants to charge him for it. I suppose Michelle will keep his family company while the veteran travels to an unkempt VA clinic.
And yet another conundrum for us practicing Catholics. In the face of a mountain of evidence that condoms are having a significant effect on slowing AIDS in third world countries. God, I hope he reconciles this with the Cardinals.
This is one venial sin I am guilty of. I must admit. Not a mortal sin, and I do wish the Vatican will reconsider their position on this. So many suffer so horribly.
CinderellaMan, I sympathize! However, if you read the article, it quite clearly just recapitulates the point that only premarital abstinence and martial fidelity is 100% effective against AIDS, or for that matter any other STD. This is most definitely true. (Sorry, I’m Lutheran; I had to throw that in there…)
What the other comments allude to, and I think you quite rightly take issue with, is the notion that encouraging the use of condoms is part and parcel of a weakening of the moral standard that would preclude AIDS and other STDs in the first place. In this sense, condom use is indeed “part of the problem”; from the Catholic moral perspective, AIDS can only be a problem if the populace fails to follow Catholic moral teaching regarding sex.
Meanwhile, we live in a world in which AIDS is a reality, and condom use can, and does, slow its spread… which from the Catholic moral perspective might only serve to undermine Catholic moral teaching. You can’t reasonably expect the Pope to fail to point this out, but I agree that reasonable people of good conscience can be grateful for condoms saving human lives in spite of its raising questions with respect to Catholic moral teaching or, for that matter, Judeo-Christian sexual morals generally. Let’s put it this way: in order to correct people’s sexual morals (assuming that you wish to), first they have to stay alive…
Hey, Dogoncrack, thanks for that link. It’s a very different and interesting idea and one I’m likely to adopt.
I have had the thought that marriage is two people joining before God, society and government be damned. This just really puts to words the argument I was looking for.
Thanks.