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Today was just crappy. Cold. Rainy. The worst kind of December day.
But I didn't let that stop me from having a Sensational Sunday! It all started with an amazing breakfast…
Omelet with onion, peppers, spinach and ham paired with a whole wheat english muffin and jelly. My favorite. :)
Once out bellies were full it was time to hit the stores. Christmas is getting awfully close and I hate waiting until the last minute. We did stop to play a bit. Little man is currently obsessed with dinosaur pop-up books. Although today he informed me he no longer wanted to be a paleontologist when he grows up. Now it's a "house builder" so he can use back hoes. lol
After a few hours we needed to refuel. There's a new burger place nearby called Z-Burger that has the MOST amazing veggie burger. I top it with every vegetable in the house and split fries with the family. Such an awesome meal!
We came home and played a bit with some early Christmas gifts we got from a family friend.
Here's little man and husband reading about Sea-Monkeys. His expression is priceless!
Notice the laundry in the background. We weaved laundry duties in all day to get it done. I HATE starting the week with fill laundry baskets.
Little Man and I also checked in on our apple trees. We planted some seeds from an apple we shared a few weeks ago.
I can't believe how fast they are growing!
Husband and Little man also had a blast playing with our new Hot Wheels track.
But then it was back to laundry. :)
While hubby folded I started dinner. FINALLY getting to try some Whole Wheat Whole Grain Lasagna noodles I found a few weeks ago.
I made a new dish I can't wait to get up on GreenLiteBites, Turkey Spinach Lasagna Roll-ups.
It was sinfully delicious!
Even the husband devoured his plate, although I think he'd rather just plain old pasta. He's boring like that. :)
After dinner we cleaned up and Little Man did his Highlights Hidden Pictures while I made his lunch. He LOVES these things and so do I. So fun!
We ended up finishing the laundry AND putting it all away. A small miracle in my book.
The kitchen didn't far as well but hey, you do what you can do.
I'll finish up cleaning tomorrow. Right now it's movie time with hubby (we rented Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) and I'm getting a little snack happy. I'm dreaming of cheese which seems to be my current drug of choice for this pregnancy.
Hope you had a wonderful weekend. I'll be back tomorrow with some fun news and a pregnancy update. Oh! and I have an awesome pizza review this week. Lot's of fun stuff!
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You Rock Roni – we had a blizzard this weekend. I stayed in Jammies all day and got some baking done with the girls :)
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Your eats look wonderful and I LOVE your kitchen! Fun weekend with the family! We were hibernating as there were blizzards all weekend here. The kids had fun in the snow though!
Roni as always your Sunday night reviews cheer me up for the week! Thank you and have a great week!
I love love this lasagna noodles. We use the exact same brand! Looks like you had a great Sunday.
I love hearing about your weekend! I also like it when you post photos of your home. Your kitchen layout is almost identical to mine – except my fridge is just to the right of the oven, and when I'm doing dishes, I don't see a Christmas tree, but a birdfeeder on a tree outside! Ever since you moved into your home and I saw photos, I have admired your kitchen floor. Is it real wood? We are going to replace our floor, and I figured if it looks good in your kitchen, it'll look good in mine too!
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I love your curtains! We are hoping to put up curtains like that in our kitchen in the spring (saving the money for them right now). I love seeing pictures of other people's messy house…makes me feel more human! But I also try to go to bed on Sunday night with things in their place…especially in the kitchen and living room. Makes my Mondays and my week so much easier!
P.S. Oh I also LOVE your deck! It's huge. Turned out really nice. :)
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Lynn – it is wood. When we built we decided to go with Hardwood throughout. I wasn't sure if I would like it but I do!
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Thanks Amanda! They are Roman Blinds. I love them too, so much easier then butting up blinds AND curtains. :)
Oh and we just got the deck. I saved up for it all year. SO excited to start the spring off with back door access. :)
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That lasagna looks delicious. I have never seen the whole wheat lasagna noodles- I'll have to check those out!
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Sound like a perfect Sunday!
Looking forward to the recipe! I love Hodgson Mill pasta. Yummy indeed.
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sounds like a great way to spend a Sunday! and seriously, the pic of your hubby folding laundry makes me want to get up and punch mine! ;)
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That omelette looks REAL good. It's nice to see the balance between 'healthy' food and 'junk' food. It goes to show that it's possible to do both within moderation and maintain successfully.
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I love those places that have the kids meals in the cars. My 5yr old LOVED those!
Awesome weekend, no doubt!
Laundry is the bane of my exsistence and I have yet to fold and put it away. I just keep washing and drying then throwing it on the couch.
But I DID clean my kitchen ;)
Ooo! Whole wheat lasagna noodles! Hubby actually LIKES whole wheat pasta! I'm going to have to track these down…( I LOVE looking at other people's houses! I try to post some of mine to 'even things out'.) I wish mine was a clean as yours…Man Cub likes to 'help' fold laundry. Bascially undoing what I have just folded, shakes it out and throws it back on the bed/couch/wherever I'm folding. It's hysterical!
Scott Pilgrim is an awesome movie!!! My husband and a friend saw it in the theater and bought the soundtrack when we got home.
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Kelly – I love it! Hubby thought something was missing.. but I was totally entertained the whole movie. LOVED the music!
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Industry Watch: Linux for Real
I was kind of sad when Webvan went chassis-up. Webvan trucks had become a common sight in my old neighborhood, and the company really did offer a good service. Their food was always fresh and carefully delivered. Their drivers were always friendly and helpful. Their prices were even pretty competitive. They just didn't have what we now call a business model. Translated from the Euphemese, a business model is a way to make money. It turns out they never had one, and investors spent $.83 billion exploring that possibility before declaring Chapter 11 in July 2001.
Once again the obvious was not apparent. The obvious is this: if you have to explain your business model, you probably don't have one.
I'm not sad at all to see various ``exchanges'' and other ``disintermediators'' fall into hard times. Like Webvan and other e-tailers, their creators and funders were smitten by the efficiencies of the Net. Those efficiencies, however, appear persuasive only if you see the Net as a way to distribute goods and shorten communication channels between ``economic actors'' and other abstractions. That point of view made sense through most of the Age of Industry, when we came to see business as a vast delta of value chains that fanned out from a few producers to a zillion consumers.
Making that system more efficient was nothing more than economics at work. And economics understood itself largely in terms of activities on the supply side of the supply/demand relationship. That's why it has become nearly impossible to talk about business without borrowing the language of shipping (e.g., moving goods, adding value, delivering service, etc.).
So big producers and their wannabes always become excited about possibilities opened by abundant new resources and more efficient distribution systems. The Net provided both in such surfeit that opportunists went insane fantasizing about the possibilities. I remember Jim Clark interviewed on public TV about Netscape's opportunities in its earliest days. He said something like, ``We had seven million users! There ought to be a way to make money with this!'' Those users were attracted by something that was very useful but also free. Only those users' loyalty and affection for Netscape made it possible for the company to start charging for its browser. And that's why the most strategic thing Microsoft did with its browser was give it away for free, instead of tying it to Windows. (In a controlled study, Microsoft's browser wasn't tied to the Mac OS, and yet it became the most popular browser on that platform as well.)
The bigger you are, the more expensive your lessons become.
As I write this (in mid-July) a $1 million study by the Markle Foundation has just delivered this bit of news:
By far, the leading metaphor for the Internet, in the public's mind, is not ``a shopping mall'' or ``banking and investment office'', but rather ``a library''. Despite the popular depiction of the Internet as a channel for commerce, the public mostly views it as a source of information, and these uses appear to explain its popularity much more than its utility as a way to shop, bank or invest.
What that passage fails to mention is that the primary sources of information on the Web, in pure bulk volume, are not big publishers or any other kind of big business content providers. They're other people. Which brings us to Linux.
For production-minded business folks, Linux has the same problem as the Net and, by extension, as the nature of software itself: it's free. In other words, it grows all over the place. You can take all you want and use it pretty much anywhere you want. ``It's not that it grows on trees'', my friend Arne Flones says. ``It's that it is trees.''
Think of the situation in early America, when lumber was everywhere for the taking. There was hardly a more American myth than Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack who glorified the shearing of wood from wilderness. The difference between Linux and lumber, of course, is that you don't need to kill any trees (or even any software companies) when you harvest and hew Linux into useful building material.
It's also no accident that in software we borrow the vocabulary of construction. We design, architect and build software. In fact, we can hardly talk about software without talking about construction. So, is the software industry turning into something like the construction industry? I think so, but it's still early. Software is a few decades old at the most, while construction is as old as civilization itself. But the construction industry we have today shows where we might be headed with software, especially embedded Linux.
In construction there aren't many secrets about building materials or building methods. Open source is a standard concept. Practitioners share their knowledge and skills for the good of the whole business. When somebody finds a better way to hang a door or put up drywall, the insight gets passed around. The difference, of course, is that software-building knowledge gets passed around the Net, so knowledge spreads like wildfire.
Construction is also about a $2 trillion industry worldwide. It is perhaps the largest, most developed and least centralized industry in the world. It has no Microsofts, even though it includes companies with revenues larger than Microsoft's. Think about that.
Thanks to the Microsofts of the world (if we can risk referring to a monopoly in the plural), most of us--especially those IT folks my Linux Journal column calls suits--still tend to think of software as a manufacturing business. Yet Eric S. Raymond reminds us that most of the software we write is not for sale. More of it has use value than sale value. ``In other words'', he adds, ``software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry.''
Maybe so. But Linux's abundance is less significant to the software companies that harvest it than to the manufacturers who put it to use. To those people (that's you, our readers), Linux is a universal building material that only becomes more useful as more builders learn and share what they know about it. It's a mass that went critical a while back and only continues to boom. There are other free and open operating systems out there, but none that people work with and talk about as much as Linux. So Linux only gets more and more embeddable.
What's important to recognize here is that the vast majority of manufacturers in the world--both of software solutions and of the hard goods built with embedded software--aren't big-time producers. Those producers matter, which is why it's good to have the TVLinuxAlliance for settop box design. But, as with the Net's library, the most abundant source of information about embedded Linux is the set of experts with passions that inform our own.
The Nigerian biblical scholar Sayo Ajiboye tells me we can understand real markets--bazaars--in terms of two different conceptual frameworks: exchange and relationship. It is the latter that provides the context for the former, he says. Here in the industrialized world, with its preoccupation with moving the goods and the bottom line, we devalue and ignore the importance of relationship--especially of what experts tell experts about the kinds of work they both do.
Now we're reading about how pure exchanges between letters of the alphabet (e.g., B2B and B2C) are failing for the simple reason that they exclude the very context they need in order to work in the real world. Working with Linux in the embedded space requires experience and expertise of many different, specialized sorts. It helps that we have a place where we can obtain both, quickly and easily. It also helps that we made it ourselves, and that it's wide open and free.
It looks like the Net, but it makes more sense by two older synonyms. Linux hackers call it the bazaar. The rest of us call it the market.
Doc Searls is senior editor of Linux Journal and coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto. His next book will be Real Markets: What They Are and How They Work.
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Food Review: 6th Street Yogurt
"How does it compare to Yogurtbay?" asked a friend about 6th Street Yogurt, the new 150 square feet frozen yoghurt store in Kemps Corner that we visited over the weekend. It's all she wanted to know, and given Yogurtbay's immense popularity, it was a question we had anticipated. For those asking, in terms of the pricing and the quality of the yoghurt and the toppings, the two are just about on par.
At 6th Street Yogurt, which is located across the road from Parsi General Hospital on Warden Road, they use imported fruit paste made with whole fruit and sugar as opposed to the fruit pulp, natural yoghurt and skimmed milk used at Yogurtbay. Like at Yogurtbay, they don't use additional artificial sweeteners at 6th Street, and as a result, their yoghurt is not cloying. You can choose from four flavours: original, raspberry, strawberry and chocolate. (Later this week, 6th Street Yogurt will start serving smoothies, and next week, they will add waffles to their offerings.)
The original and strawberry flavours are excellent. The sweet and tart original (plain yoghurt) flavour was the creamiest of the four while the strawberry, though not speckled with real strawberry pulp like at Yogurtbay, tasted of real fruit as opposed to an essence. If you prefer tart flavours, go with the raspberry. Sadly, the chocolate yoghurt tasted as though it was made with chocolate that had a low percentage of cocoa. You can sweeten each flavour further by choosing one or more of over 25 toppings that include chocolate or fruit poppers, chocolate buttons, Oreo cookie crumble, fresh fruits, fruit compotes, rum and raisins and marshmallows. The molten Ferrero Rocher sauce, dark cherry compote, rum and raisins and the citrus fruit poppers are the best of the lot, and taste just as good with any of the flavours. If you're baffled by the choice, we recommend pairing the original with the decadent Ferrero topping; the strawberry with the citrus fruit poppers; and the chocolate with the dark cherry compote.
Yogurtbay, which has an outpost in Breach Candy, has a worthy competitor in 6th Street Yogurt. They needn't worry too much, however, because as far as flavour innovation is concerned, they're still in the lead with their rotating selection of dessert-flavoured frozen yoghurts like blueberry cheesecake, tiramisu, and peanut butter and jam. If you're looking for an alternative however, you couldn't do much better than 6th Street Yogurt.
Prices start at Rs40 for a small cup of frozen yoghurt and at Rs20 for toppings. This review was conducted anonymously.Tags: 6th Street Yogurt, frozen yoghurt
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What are the steps you usually follow to be more creative than the rest? As of what i know, creativity is not something which comes automatically. Or else, you can also say Exploring or doing Research is actually another name of Creativity. Creativity is not bound to happen suddenly, infact it's an art which many people have failed to understand miserably and thus have gone into losses. Creativity comes out when we try to research for something or start exploring on a concept, this is where a new idea gets born and thus the growth of creativity initialize.
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My name is Bill Eitel and I'm a person in long-term recovery from addiction, celebrating three years of recovery. Last fall, I was riding my bike home from school along Lake Michigan. It was a beautiful October evening. The waves were rolling against the shore to my right, and the amber lights from the high-rises and Lake Shore Drive shined to my left. The night was just starting to take on that sort of delicious October crispness that I've loved since I was a child. I was happy. I felt an inherent "rightness" to the moment, and then it hit me – this is my life now.
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We had a lot of viewers ask the same question tonight: What's wrong with oversight? I agree.
Checks and balances are the basis of democracy. We have them at every level of government -- federal, state, local. There's nothing wrong with someone coming in and evaluating the way a particular agency conducts business, and working to improve its policies and strategies. Now, it's the NYPD's turn.
For the second day in a row, the Policeman's Benevolent Association is campaigning to convince lawmakers to change their votes on a pair of bills known as the Community Safety Act. Yesterday, PBA members targeted the Upper West Side districts of City Council members Daniel Garodnick and Jessica Lapin. Today, they passed out flyers in Mark Weprin's district of Bayside, Queens. The police union says these Council members' votes in favor of the Community Safety Act do not reflect the values of their constituents. The PBA also argues police officers' jobs will be made tougher by the legislation, which expands New Yorkers' ability to sue for alleged racial profiling, and creates an inspector general to oversee the NYPD.
PBA President Pat Lynch said today: "Every New Yorker owes it to themselves and their family to understand the dangerous nature of these two horrendous bills. If they become law, they will force already sparse police resources from our streets; they will handcuff police officers in their enforcement efforts and the end result will be an increase in crime."
To coincide with the campaign, the union also launched a new webpage today, where residents can e-mail their City Council members to express their opposition to the legislation. Both bills are expected to be vetoed by Mayor Bloomberg and then return to the City Council for an override vote.
Should these bills be made law? Do you support your Council member's vote on the Community Safety Act? What's your reaction to the PBA's campaign against this legislation? Will it "handcuff police officers," as the PBA says?
Send your thoughts using the e-mail link above.
These bills were created to appease the predominantly black neighborhoods. They were voted upon based on race and they have no valid argument to back them up. They will only make the city more dangerous and should not be written into law... Roscoe,Park Hill
The PBA is doing a service on behalf of the entire City of New York, countering the mix of mob-mentality and political correctness-run-amuck behind the stampede to pass these two bills, regardless of their consequences for ordinary New Yorkers.
I'm not a cop, nor am I related to any member of the police force -- all I do is run a retail store in Manhattan. But I've lived in this city for all of my 57 years, and I've seen a thing or two in my time, and I truly believe that these two bills will result in measurably less safe streets for law-abiding citizens; and they will also provide lots of excuses for the grand-standing Council members behind the two bills to bluster and rail in front of the cameras.
It's all good political theater, but at a very high admission price for most of us.
And you can see by the list of people who support those two bills precisely what their real purpose is, because right there near the head of the list are Donna Lieberman and the NYCLU, who -- when you get right down to it -- are little more than lobbyists for criminals and terrorists.
Bravo, PBA!!!!
BruceUpper West Side
Both laws should be passed. The cops are out of control, partly because of Pat Lynch, just another union thug. He should be fired and run out of town.
JoePort Richmond, SI
I don't understand why everyone doesn't wait until after theelection when we will then know who the new Police Commissionerwill be.
Many are not going to be here and their votes will not be in the bestinterest of us New Yorkers for that matter.
In reference to the City Council Members and their voting. They are just rushing through passing these laws for all the wrongreasons. This should be thought out by the next mayor just likethe school system mess and many other important issues that need tobe settled. The new mayor will have a different approach. I myselffeel that it might take 10 or more years to undue this mish moshthat was created by this Bloomberg administration. Be a little patientand concentrate on the campaigns.
Always remember that many of these city council members areon an illegal 3rd term and we should all try to keep this in mind.I don't trust any of them. They can swan any vote anyway at all andwe will be stuck with it because to overturn something is not aneasy task.
Wake up law-abiding New Yorkers! The only reason the Council is pushing this so-called safety act is because it's an election year and they need some cheap votes. God save this city if this bill goes through.
SteveForest Hills
Stop and frisk should be a systemic policy. It targets the poor and people of color. Subway checkpoints are also illegal. When one has there bags checked at a subway is another form of stop and frisk. I don't see stop and frisk where the majority are illegal aliens.. The bill will help monitor the dept and eliminate officers who abuse their authority. Officers still have the authority to search and seize within the context of the law. The current policy is illegal. Stop and search is used in las vegas nevada. But they have established professional deterrent with a more effective police protocol.
Anthony manhattan
Pat Lynch from the PBA, not so different from Michael Mulgrew President of the UFT. Their job is to protect their union members. I'm not so sure that I support these laws, but I'm not going to take the opinion of the PBA any more than we should listen to the teachers union which doesn't want teacher evaluations. Citizens and taxpayers of the City and State deserve to have their teachers and their police accountable. Again, I'm not sure I like this law. TomUpper East Side, Manhattan
I think that if it is executed fairly, a separate entity that oversees the nypd is not necessarily a bad thing. Checks and balances are what makes a democracy work.
Chris west Brighton
I would greatly support my councilman for this bill. Lynch is a union bully. I am a former Police Officer. NYPD is an institution of racism that need to be bond by this law stops always been racial. They would make jokes about 250 reports and blacks. PBA believe that they are this era overseer.
And this bill will make officers accountable.
StephanieFrom Corona
Cops do a great job at keeping us safe. But we cannot tolerate a policy that is intended to get guns off the street that has a 99 percent failure rate. It's indefensible yet Bloomberg asserts that not enough people of color are being stopped. Blatant fear mongering. It's unconstitutional as implemented and making communities less safe because police-community relations have eroded. Nothing in the bill prevents cops from doing their job. The opponents should just read the bill.
Lily from Harlem
Just a comment. In my opinion, based on what I'm hearing from the PBA, The commissioner, and the mayor, it is not a fear for the public's safety. It's a fear of losing their power. What is so wrong with having someone keeping them honest? They wouldn't be so fearful if they had something to lose, or hide.
What is wrong of some being stopped if that increases chance of people being safe, they must be happy not unhappy because it could be their mother, sister father grandfather who could be assaulted so what is the big deal, it is a shame that Council woman who has been an alcoholic trying to mislead and manipulate constituents put their families in danger to get vote
I am a Black male that has been stopped and I didn't like it. However, if everyone is being stopped the streets will be safer. There are illegal guns killing people. Ray Kelly is a good man doing a tremendous job. We have a new Chief, Phil Banks, a Black man, lets give him a chance. We can't keep hugging these thugs. They have to choose a team: the good guys or the bad guys. Those are the rules of our society. You have a choice. And, yes some of the newer younger officers could use some cultural competency training.
How long are we going to insist police weren't racially profiling? They want "no over sight" and no "accountability" for their officers! Only criminal minded people wish for no oversight and no accountability!
Garodnick and Lapin are opportunistic parasites. They are voting with Quinn because they think she is going to be the next Mayor. She is not.
FrancesEast Village
The original problem with stop and frisk is that otherwise innocent people were being forced to empty their pockets and then arrested for minor crimes like having small amounts of marijuana for personal use. The precipitating stop, based on some nebulous profiling standard, was not justified by either reasonable suspicion that the individual was committing or about to commit a crime, and there was no probable cause for a full search. But, since the program does get guns off the street, and the presence of such guns does pose a clear and present danger calling for extreme and potentially unconstitutional measures, perhaps the stop and frisk program as it now exists will be attenuated, if not completely obviated, by the employment of high-tech remote weapon sensing technology, like the Terahertz Imaging Detection Systems, currently being developed by the Pentagon in partnership with the NYPD, with which police officers will be able to covertly scan a crowd of pedestrians for concealed weapons, thus establishing reasonable suspicion and/or probable cause for the interception, wanding, and subsequent searching of those detected as carrying a possible weapon. BIG ANDYManhattan Beach, Brooklyn
The gentleman from Forest Hills had it right. It's all about the election, this conflict was created to generate a voting block. Our so called representation has a way of creating some issues without resolving them just before election time.
Let's ask the question...how well did things work out when the authority was taken away from most educators...now teachers can only suggest students study and learn. Do we really want police officers second guessing at a crime scene?
How about some balance on that Stop and Frisk....can't someone use a little judgement? Police officers know what a real criminal looks like, don't they? Remember there are ALWAYS two sides to EVERY story, right?
Lets face it, those that have no worries of getting stopped, HINT HINT, will never understand the indignity that it serves to law abiding citizens who are stopped simply because they are black or latino, yet they are the first to scream about THEIR inalienable rights, while ignoring the OTHER'S right's....hypocrisy? KHarlem
Allowing people to sue individual officers is a great way to discourage the police from protect us.
Will from Brooklyn
I live in north flushing and the police are constantly pulling people over for no reason. They abuse their authority and don't care if they are wrong or right. I used to get pulled over twice a week just looking for a parking spot. The worst police department is the 111th precinct. If you are latino or black, you can't even go hang out and have a drink or something to eat on bell blvd cause unless you are leaving in a cab, you can guarantee the cops will stop you as your leaving to go home even if you look sober. They abuse their power and they will continue to do so until someone stops them. New laws are the only way.
I have seen young Latino males stopped in my neighborhood. They could be going to the store for milk and bread. stop and frisk allows for police to question anyone without cause.
I have seen the fear, embarrassment and mixed emotions these young males feel when this happens to them.
As a mother and neighbor I am hurt witnessing this. These are my neighbors.
i know the police have a hard job. I know they do their very best and have a tough and dangerous job. I don't blame them. They do a great job for us in New York. They are the best.
It's tough on both sides - but maybe more police presence in general and more police on neighborhood beats can help end stop and frisk.
Stop and frisk is random - cops on a regular post or beat become part of the neighborhood too.
Until the philosophy which hold once race superior and another inferior is permanently discredited there is war"Bob Marley
It furthers the purpose of covert and overt racism is people of color are stopped on the street because of race. I am appalled that this isn't recognized as such.
There are other ways to respond to crime than using racism to oppress people of color. It is the responsible of the leaders to come up with this plan this is why we chose them to lead us.
If the president were to walk through the city unrecognized he could be stopped and frisked.
There will always be crime in poor neighborhoods when folks are denied basic services and the right to all the benefits in the society. When the root cause is addressed the crime will cease and there will be no need for stop and frisk.
I am a 33 years old male hispanic. I am a combat veteran, served in afghanistan. its been more than 10 years since i was stopped by a police officer. I don't know what would happen if i get stopped & frisk. One thing for sure is that if i am not doing anything wrong and a police officer tries to search me. I will defend myself physically. Bloomberg says the city is safe. What he really means is that the white people of new york are safe. While everybody else are subject to stop question and frisk.
I was born and raised in Washington heights, 163rd st between broadway and st Nicholas. That blocks nickname in the 80s was VIETNAM. Stop and frisk cleaned up Washington heights. Buy today there are no drug dealers on the street out in the open, so who are they frisking?
What exactly is the problem with oversight? You know who doesn't like oversight? People who break the rules.
The PBA says, "We can be sued now!" Good. If you do nothing wrong, you won't lose the suit. If you're guilty of abuse or unnecessary profiling, then you deserve to lose the suit.
The PBA attacking Council members is the same thing as stop-and-frisk victims attacking the cops. The only difference is that the stop-and-fisk victims have already been abused. The cops are trying to preemptively clear the way for unfettered abuse on the streets.
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Vatican-SSPX: Let's Play
Concerning the matter in the title, I beg not to be counted among the optimists. I do not believe in the least that any sincere reconciliation effort will come from the Vatican. If any rapprochement were to be seen, it would probably only be aimed at dividing the SSPX, as already seen in 2011.
Still: it shall be allowed, I hope, to play a bit. Let us imagine, them, what would be reasonable and acceptable to the right side.
The principle that what the Church has always held stays, and that the SSPX has the right to refuse strange novelties, is too banal to merit discussion. The principle that in whatever V II documents have declared that is in harmony with Truth cannot be logically denied is also too banal to waste time on it. The fact that V II was a merely pastoral Council is also an undisputable fact for every sound Catholic.
The problem is, if you ask me, another: control. The Vatican might want to attract the SSPX in a mortal embrace, and they might even be ready to make concessions for this. But the SSPX will – I am sure of this – not accept any agreement that puts them at the mercy of the V II Church. Not with Benedict as Pope, much less with Francis.
Therefore, the issue, and the litmus test of the Vatican's honesty in any agreement, will be that of independence.
Own seminaries, own finances, complete freedom from episcopal interference, and – as unavoidable consequence – complete freedom to criticise Pope Francis and V II left, right and centre. Nothing else would be acceptable, nothing less should be accepted, and nothing else will.
Unacceptable for the Vatican? So be it. Profitable in the longer term, or just the Catholic thing to do? Welcome.
In theory, there would be an upside for Francis: the "mercy" rhetoric and the "inclusiveness" propaganda, and the personal satisfaction of having "succeeded" where Benedict failed. In practice, it will never happen: those who hate Catholicism, that is, Francis' audience and applauding public, would turn against him faster than you can say "Ricca", and the myth of the revolutionary Pope would die a fast but horribly painful death, without making him more popular among true blue Catholics in the least. A heretic remains a heretic even if he embraces a saint.
Back to the issue of acceptable compromise, it is clear there can be no compromises on what is not negotiable (the issues of the Liturgy, of religious freedom, etc). It is also clear it would be suicide – an act Fellay or his would never commit – to deliver themselves to the mercy of V II Popes, who would – this, or the next, or the following one – subject the SSPX to the FFI treatment.
This, I think, is the inescapable frame of any serious discussion, or lack thereof.
Of course, the SSPX would not maintain that all of VII was evil. V II was a modernist mixture of truth and lie, and one can't deny the truth just because the Devil says it. Rather, the SSPX will maintain that everything that is not truth must be expunged from the teaching and the praxis of the Church; and that V II was, as a whole, the work of the devil in its mentality and inspiration, which both must be expunged from the Church, too.
Will, or should, the SSPX demand that the Vatican goes back to sanity before accepting reconciliation? Of course not. If the work of the SSPX can go on in exactly the same way, to refuse a freely offered reconciliation would be tantamount to elevating the SSPX to a parallel church, of which the Vatican is not worthy. It would be like refusing the blessing of a priest because one does not like the priest. One may despise the man, but one will still recognise the office.
This is, I think, the only possible frame of a reconciliation. At the same time, this is why the reconciliation will not work as long as The Most Astonishing Hypocrite In Church History (TMAHICH) is in power.
Even a "gratuitous" exercise of "mercy" would be too expensive for the Vatican.
They know perfectly well how mercilessly the same people would attack them, who are now the beneficiaries of the fake "mercy" they peddle around.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
And it came to pass the SSPX announced – after leaks in a French blog – that there will be an informal meeting between Bishop Fellay and Cardinal Müller in the Vatican.
I am, personally, unable to see that anything at all may come out of it. In my eyes, this is nothing more than an informal meeting asked by Müller because of the job he occupies; nothing more, nothing less.
It is not realistic to think a man who does not even get what "ever Virgin" means will seek a rapprochement to the Society; particularly after the harsh words he spoke in the past.
It is also not realistic to think that Müller may try to intimidate the SSPX into submission with the threat of declaring them "schismatics", or "Martians", or "Blue Elephants", or the like. Fellay would eat him for breakfast, and no sound Catholics will believe the SSPX are Blue Elephants, Martians, or Schismatics, whatever rubbish Müller may, in hypothesis, declare.
The positions are, as we all know, even more distant now that a clown is running the show in the Vatican. Mistrust runs deep on both side. The SSPX has no interest whatever in showing itself an accomplice of the clown, and they have already branded him in strong enough terms.
Nor have we had signs of a devilish offensive of the Unholy Father against them. Francis is weak with the strong, and does not look for conflicts. He never picked a fight with the SSPX in Buenos Aires, it's not clear to me why he would want to pick it now. He would be ridiculed and exposed as utterly and completely incompetent. He would have nothing to gain as the leftist, socialist, dissenting side is already supporting him. There is no upside.
Therefore, I think that nothing will happen.
Tea and scones, rather; "touching base"; a friendly meeting between opposing sides like countless of them happen in diplomatic circles.
In order for anything in this matter to change we need for the Pope, the CDF and the entire Vatican attitude to change.
The SSPX will, for sure, not change in the least.
SSPX Rosary Crusade: Don't Delay, Start Today!
I have written several times about this, but would like to do it again as we now approach the last weeks of the Crusade.
This is a wonderful occasion to take the habit or praying the rosary daily.
Bishop Williamson Spreads Some Rumours.
In one of his eleison editorials, (it's number 355; no independent link) Bishop Williamson states that the Vatican is thinking of doing what, in fact, Benedict should have done in 2012: recognise the full legitimacy of the Society without any condition or demand.
The statement seems absurd, and it probably is. One simply struggles to see why the Bishop of Rome would do something like that, and at the same time persecute the FFI. Yes, Francis might try to spin this as a move toward "inclusiveness", particularly if he plans something very scandalous on the other side of orthodoxy, like paving the way for sacrilegious communion. A way to, so to speak, try to make everyone happy and show he is the Saint Protector of Absolutely Everyone: Atheists, Muslims, Jews, Heretics, Sodomites, even Catholics.
One could think he might make such a move, but let us reflect: is this the way he has operated up to now?
No. What he has done up to now has been consistently belittling, insulting or persecuting decent Catholics whilst he panders to the emotional needs of all kind of wrong people, who in turn build his personality cult. Why would he change direction now? Has there been a scandal too big for him, short of officially overturning Church teaching? Does he think if he gives the SSPX a "certificate of conformity" they will stop their rather ferocious, if always respectful, criticism of him? Has he been persecuting the FFI for, basically, no reason at all? Is he not afraid that this might backfire mightily, destroying the image of liberal icon he has been building for himself?
No, I cannot see this working. Rather, it seems to me that the Bishop is receiving third-hand rumours from sympathisers within the SSPX, and that he tries to make the argument of how little orthodox the SSPX must be, if Francis is even thinking of receiving them into his ample, inclusive, Catholicism-free bosom.
Don't believe the rumours.
Believe the facts.
SSPX 2014 Rosary Crusade: Another Reminder.
I have written several times (here or here) about the SSPX 2014 Rosary Crusade.
For those who at the time were still wasting their time on Patheos blogs or (un)Catholic Answers, read here what this is all about.
Yours truly has been praying the rosary for the Crusade every day with the faithfulness of an Irish Setter.
For those of you who want to start now, it is never too late.
Follow the link, and give your best effort.
… et portae inferi non paevalebunt adversus te.
More SSPX Wisdom
As a salutary antidote to the orgy of V II celebration, you may consider this reblog.
The reflections of this good SSPX priest are as ruthless as they are calm and reasonable.
Ash Wednesday And The Rosary Crusade
The beginning of Lent is a beautiful day to start praying the Rosary.
The SSPX is running a wonderful Rosary Crusade.
All details on my blog post and the original link.
Francis: Generous Only With The Wrong Crowd
Pat Archbold has written a blog post, then removed from the NCR website, about Francis and the SSPX.
The American Catholic noticed the fact, and reposted the article's best part. Mr Archbold also has it on his other blog. I will repost it the best bit in its entirety. Emphasis mine.
I have great concern that without the all the generosity that faith allows by the leaders of the Church, that this separation, this wound on the Church, will become permanent. In fact, without such generosity, I fully expect it. Such permanent separation and feeling of marginalization will likely separate more souls than just those currently associated with the SSPX. I have also come to believe that Pope Francis' is exactly the right Pope to do it. In his address to the evangelicals, he makes clear his real concern for unity. So here is what I am asking. I ask the Pope to apply that wide generosity to the SSPX and to normalize relations and their standing within the Church. I am asking the Pope to do this even without the total agreement on the Second Vatican Council. Whatever their disagreements, surely this can be worked out over time with the SSPX firmly implanted in the Church. I think that the Church needs to be more generous toward unity than to insist upon dogmatic adherence to the interpretation of a non-dogmatic council. The issues are real, but they must be worked out with our brothers at home and not with a locked door. Further, Pope Francis' commitment to the aims of the Second Vatican Council is unquestioned. Were he to be generous in such a way, nobody would ever interpret it to be a rejection of the Council. How could it be? This perception may not have been the case in the last pontificate. Pope Francis is uniquely suited to this magnanimous moment.
In fact, it beggars belief that a man who does not hesitate in calling a Proddie wannabe bishop "brother bishop" in a frenzy of heretical, possibly tipsy, grappa-fueled generosity would not run to extend to the SSPX a tiny and perfectly orthodox fraction of the same compassion by simply understanding how infinitely nearer the SSPX are to any Catholic than the deluded heretics he tirelessly cajoles. Yes, of course such a "compassion loving" Bishop of Rome should extend his compassion to perfectly orthodox Catholics first. It should really go without saying.
Alas, the brutal truth is that Francis only has one enemy, and they are orthodox Catholics. These are the only ones who get mocked and insulted in every possible and impossible way. Everyone else, from atheists to Proddies to subversive nuns, get away with pretty much everything, and he will actually berate rosary-counting Traditionalists in the very presence of those nuns he encourages not to pay too much attention to what the CDF says to them.
Now, it remains to wonder why the NCR has removed the blog post.
If you ask me, it is because with his invitation to extend to the right crowd the generosity he lavishly extends to the wrong one, Mr Archbold unwittingly highlights the hypocrisy and the heretical madness of this pontificate. He does not say so of course, and I am rather sure he does not even want to say so. But this is the logical consequence of a continued inaction toward real orthodox Catholics, even as Francis abandons himself to every kind of heretical talk and senseless waffle every time an Iphone is in the vicinity.
The dismal state of Catholicism in this XXI can be perfectly seen from the fact that we have a tango-loving clown as Pope, and 90% to 95% of Catholics either cheer him, or have no problem at all with his antics, or do not dare to think he might be wrong because they are afraid of what the consequences of that would be for their very badly formed Catholicism.
We are being punished. Deservedly so, of course.
The Little Guide To Sound Catholicism
I have received a message from a reader; she laudably realises her Catholicism has been polluted by V II rubbish, and asks me for suggestions to create a good and sound Catholic foundation.
I would personally tackle the matter in two phases: the foundation itself and those texts particularly devoted to the distortions and trouble of the V II theology reaching its implosion in these decades under our very eyes. This would give a very solid knowledge of where we are as opposed to where we should be. Of course, from there the journey can go pretty much everywhere, as by God's grace we now have an immensely vast choice of traditional books on the Internet.
Firstly, though, a recommendation:the one to buy good Catholic apps if one has a smartphone or a tablet. I go as far as to say that the Catholic apps available are, in fact, reason enough to buy one of those devices if one hasn't done so already. Similarly, the purchase of a tablet and the download of a Kindle app will allow one to save the money for the Kindle device if one does not read for many hours on end.
For the first phase, I suggest the following:
1. Throw away your JP II catechism. No, I really mean throw it away. Whilst generally orthodox, it has questionable phrasing and suggestive, covertly accommodating theology on several issues (see baptism and salvation). The Abbé de Nantes found it heretical in twelve points.
Let me repeat it: throw it away. You can thank me later. For the sake of clarity, the compendium appeared in 2005 (Ratzinger's) is fine, and the Abbé de Nantes himself recognised none of the twelve heretical points of the "Schoenborn" catechism were therein contained.
2. Catholic apps (like Ipieta, a must!) or electronic books or, in case, print allow one to easily access the following:
A. Penny Catechism.
This is the ideal text to start from scratch in redoing one's thinking. You can buy it on the Internet for a pittance, probably on apps too. He who masters the Penny Catechism is way in front of 90% of V II priests, and can already teach Francis the basics. Already the Penny Catechism shames our inglorious Bishop of Rome page by page. You compare it and Francis' uninterrupted, obscene waffle and understand they are on two different planets already.
B. Baltimore Catechisms
There are three of them in growing order of difficulty, plus a fourth which is the third with commentary. The first three are on Ipieta, which also has a number of other old catechisms and even the Compendium. The purchase of Ipieta is, again, invaluable. A wealth of Catholic wisdom of all sorts always with you! Don't delay, buy today! I doubt I will read in a lifetime the hundreds of text therein contained. Seriously, Ipieta is not a weapon, but an entire arsenal of Catholicism.
If one has already digested the Penny Catechism, I suggest to go directly to Baltimore III. There is no real need for a commentary (which a I found very good, though) as the Baltimore Catechisms are of exemplary clarity but still accessible for everyone.
When one has these two well assimilated, he is already equipped to properly interpret every antic of Francis and see the magnitude of this man's – and of many V II priests' – confusion.
C. Other catechisms.
Again, IPieta has a nice choice. The catechism of St. Pius the X is wonderful but as far as I know there are no official English translations. I found the Italian text online, and it's as good as you expect. But in general I would say there's no need to have many catechisms: pick a sound one, and absorb its content well.
At this point, I would proceed with some texts aiming at a specific comparison between "old" and "new": the 2000 years of tradition and the 50 years (and counting) of drunken madness.
I mention here only some fundamental works, which will be reading enough:
1. Iota unum
The printed edition is expensive but I found it well worth the expense. SSPX Asia have a free electronic version on their site. You may check if it is available as electronic book. My copy is invaluable, and to me one of those "desert island books".
2. "The Catechism of the Crisis in the Church""
This is not a catechism, but a SSPX publication, available on kindle. In general, absolutely everything one can read from the SSPX is wonderful and above suspicion, albeit I do allow myself – like many others among their supporters – to attend the V II mass. There were long discussions about this, so please refrain from starting a new one. Back to the matter at hand, this book is an excellent comparison between timeless truth and convenient accommodation or outright lie. Obligatory reading, if you ask me, for the aspiring Traditionalist.
3. One Hundred Years of Modernism
This is another SSPX book, also available on Kindle. It explains – giving a sound philosophical introduction – how the cancer of Modernism found its way in the organism of the Church. Not easy subject matter – it will help a lot if you have studied philosophy at school or university – but explained with exemplary clarity. If you are not trained in philosophy, this will require some work, but the reward will be rich.
4. Life of Christ
This is in my eyes the most glorious of Fulton Sheen's books. A joy to read and re-read. Archbishop Sheen packs his book with so many sound and easy to understand explanations of Catholic teaching that this book can be considered a kind of subsidiary catechism in itself. I have the paper version, I think it is also on Kindle now. This book is also a formidable weapon to address the remarks of sceptics and infidels.
5. "Life Everlasting" & any Garrigou-Lagrange Book.
Well, any of them at a more advanced level. I have read four: "Reality", "Predestination", "Providence" and "Life Everlasting".
The first three are more complicated, and the first two of them require either a philosophical foundation or the willingness to plow through it page by page. The fourth is a very good integration to a Catechism in matters of salvation and damnation, and it is written in a much more accessible way than the other three books.
The list could go on, but I think the sources mentioned provide already a more than solid ground, and if properly absorbed would put one well in the front row of the Army of Christ, at least as far as weaponry is concerned.
Two things to conclude:
1. Buy Ipieta.
2. Always pay attention to catechesis texts, even if before Vatican II. I once bought on Kindle a book from a chap called Karl Adam without knowing who he was, merely browsing Kindle for pre-V II theologians. Utter rubbish, I tell you. Again, I could immediately see it was rubbish because once you have the fundamentals down well, you will be able to smell the smoke from pretty far away.
So, that was that then, and again for a first plunge in sound Catholicism it is more than enough. It must be clear that infinite other choices are thinkable, this is just one possible path among very many.
The most beautiful effect of being grounded solidly in Truth (wretched sinners as we all are, of course) is that no antics of this or that stupid bishop, drunken Cardinal or diva Pope will ever confuse you again.
I have stated in the past, and repeat here, that Truth is as hard, and as beautiful, as a diamond. Once you have mastered the use of the diamond (and you need not be an expert theologian for that; nowadays most of them seem to lose their faith anyway; just be prayerful and sincerely desirous to know the a Truth and submit to it, and to live it as well as you can) you will be able to cut through every Modernist or Zeno-Modernist rubbish in no time.
Have fun.
And buy IPieta.
2014 SSPX Rosary Crusade: Keep Calm, And Count Your Rosaries.
The SSPX has now released the anticipated details about the 2014 Rosary Crusade.
All details here.
I will not repeat the very useful and complete information you will find on the site. Still, please note the following:
1. As Francis invites you not to pray by rote, and ridicules those who count rosaries, it is the more important we react to this devotional barbarism by increasing our efforts not only to pray the Rosary, but to reestablish Tradition.
2. From the site:
The three-fold object of this Rosary Crusade for the good of the entire Catholic Church is:
To implore from the Immaculate Heart of Mary a special protection for the traditional apostolate;
For the return to Tradition within the Church;
For the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the consecration of Russia.
The insertion of the consecration of Russia will certainly be welcome to many of us, and might persuade the one or the other to join this crusade who are not the best fans of the SSPX.
3. The tally and reporting have been made as easy as possible, with several formats that can be used for the purpose, and with the possibility to send only one tally by email in June.
The aim is 5 million rosaries. Just think: all that rosary counting!
This is more than enough to let the heart of a good Catholic rejoice.
Keep calm, and count your rosaries.
SSPX: New Rosary Crusade
The SSPX will launch a new Rosary Crusade on 1 January.
Details here, with many thanks to the reader Elizabeth.
Other details will hopefully follow as to the participation of the laity (I'd love to enroll, though I do not live in the US).
Also please look at the other beautiful initiative of the pilgrimage of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
I look at the SSPX and Francis, and I have not the slightest doubt about who could teach Catholicism to the other.
TLM: Say "Thanks" To The SSPX
And it came to pass we were informed from high places the Tridentine Mass is not in danger during the current Pontificate.
I must say I had to smile.
Firstly, I invite you to consider that in the end no one can speak for the Bishop of Rome, who will do what he thinks best (or worst) irrespective of what Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos has said, or even of what he might have said to others. There will always be a new situation that will allow him to say that new measures are now necessary.
Secondly, the reason adduced for Francis' forbidding the priest of the FFI to celebrate the Tridentine Mass can be used ad libitum in the future. If six dissidents are reason enough to forbid 400 priests (says Wikipedia) from celebrating the Mass of the Ages, its "divisiveness" (divisiveness that is most certainly there: a good Mass and a bad Mass are opposed here, it is clear emotions will run high) can be used at a pretext at any given time to go back to the Indult regime. If memory serves (but I might be wrong) Francis has already made an "off-the-cuff" remark about the divisiveness of the Tridentine Mass as intended by the Traditionalists.
Thirdly and most importantly, Francis is, in this matter as in many others, not entirely free to do as he pleaseth. The Indult does not exist because JP II was oh so generous, but because the SSPX was stubborn to the point of heroism. If it had not been for the Society, the Tridentine Mass would have been, to all intents and purposes (though not officially, but there would have been no need for that), wiped out completely from Church life. You can think for yourself whether the Pinocchio-slash-Tango Mass Pope would keep such a "Pelagian" exercise alive if he had a real (as in: practically feasible and not dangerous for his popularity) choice.
From what has emerged up to now, it seems clear Francis is a professional of hunting with the hounds and running with the hare. He will be pro-life speaking to pro-lifers, and "not obsessed" when he wants to please the pro-death fraction. He will say that he who is not with Jesus is with the devil when he speaks to clerics, and say that one is fine to deny Jesus and follow his conscience to the atheists; he will allow himself liturgical abuses with photos all over the planet to show he is "modern", and celebrate ad orientem when he thinks it's time to give some bird feed to the conservative pigeons.
No. Francis isn't fine with the Mass of the Ages. If he were free to choose, you'd have Pinocchios everywhere, and the occasional obscene dance on the Sanctuary. Rather, he has apparently decided he does not need to open this front, because the flak would be rather frightful and the SSPX would greatly profit from it.
Let us hope Francis never feels strong enough to do such a thing. Let us keep our criticism vocal, and very explicit. As Jorge Bergoglio is so much in love with Pope Francis and mindful of his popularity (I am told Miley Cyrus does the same, though in a different manner), the best way to avoid things getting worse is to be very vocal and open in our criticism of how bad they already are.
God knows they are already worse than the most pessimistic mind could have thought only nine months ago. Though strangely enough very few seem to realise it.
Cardinal Pell's Rubbish
Let me say first that whoever expected Cardinal Pell to say: "Yes! Francis is a flaming Modernist!" needs an urgent reality check. Not only is the man a Cardinal, but in virtue of his being the quota-member for Australia of the Gang of Eight he is in a particularly exposed position. Therefore, asking him about the heresies of the Bishop of Rome is not going to yield any particularly original result.
Still, Cardinal Pell's argument is notable for his… complete lack of sensible argumentation. Bishop Fellay has explained in detail in a long sermon what is wrong with Francis. He has quoted him verbatim. He has analysed Francis' thinking – and actually only some of his many antics – in detail. Not even the most biased commenter could say Fellay's indictment was an emotional outburst. On the contrary: the fact that it came after months of controversies in which the SSPX had avoided open criticism of Francis' clearly heretical statements lends even more weight to the Bishop's entirely justified criticism and righteous anger.
What has, then, Cardinal Pell to oppose to this? If he has tried in the past to bend over backwards and explain to us why water is not wet I have missed his interventions. Still, his latest words are notable in that they are absolutely devoid of any sensible content or decent argumentation. To say that "Francis is a son of the Church" is, as an argument, rubbish, and by the way Luther was an Agostinian.
No, Cardinal Pell's statement has simply no basis: no basis in fact, and not even the attempt to provide one. The Church of V II demands that every … rubbish her prelates spit be believed merely because they say so. This is, to every well instructed Catholic, rubbish.
Let the Cardinal – now that he has thrown the stone – reply publicly and in detail, point for point, to Bishop Fellay. Let him prove with reasoned arguments why Bishop's Fellay accusations of Modernism levelled at the Bishop of Rome would be rubbish.
If he does it and does it well, we will agree with him and applaud his superior wisdom.
If he doesn't, we will know who is talking rubbish.
Priebke: Press Release Of SSPX Italian District
Here is the translation in English of the press release of the Italian district of the SSPX concerning Priebke's funeral.
Some Catholics should read it and cry of shame; but those who should cry more are those priests, bishops and actually one Pope who chose to be the perfect cowards.
From the statement:
A Christian who was baptized and received the sacraments of Confession and Holy Eucharist, whatever his faults and his sins may have been, has the right to the celebration of Holy Mass and to a funeral if he dies reconciled with God and with the Church.
This simple truth is inaccessible, because inconvenient, to the very man who is on record with saying
"Everyone has his own idea of Good and Evil and he has to choose to follow the Good and to fight Evil as he understands it. This would be enough to improve the world."
So Pope Francis is wrong twice: he is wrong when he states such heresies, and he is hypocritical when he conveniently forgets even his own heresies, let alone basic Catholicism, in order not to damage the PR machine now unceasingly licking the plates of atheist and liberals the world over.
We are degenerating to a Catholicism made of nothing more than commonplaces, fake humility, and black shoes.
Pray for Priebke. But pray for Francis, too.
Praying For Priebke
My views and yours about the unspeakably cowardly massacre of Via Rasella – not what you think, but the killing of three dozen unarmed Germany military in the heart of Rome, at a time when Rome was citta' aperta and military men carried no weapons to keep the Eternal City an island of peace in the midst of war; an agreement which the Axis was respecting with German exactness – and the following, not only perfectly normal but highly advisable rappresaglia according to the usually applied criteria – advisable, I mean, to avoid Rome descending in a pit of violence in Baghdad style – will possibly differ. Still, this blog is about Catholicism, not history or WW II, and I suggest to those with an enquiring mind to read the acts of the farce trial moved against Kappler & Co. after the war ended: a crystal-clear example of Siegerjustiz, and an unmitigated shame.
This, as far as the main episode – the retaliation at the Fosse Ardeatine that has divided the Italians since – is concerned.
You might, though, not necessarily know that the notorious reputation of Mr Priebke is not due exclusively to his involvement in the rappresaglia at the Fosse Ardeatine, but to his ways and character before, during and after that operation.
A violent, sadistic and extremely cruel man, Priebke was in charge of interrogations of suspected partisans or partisans' helpers. The offices in the via Tasso in Rome were the theatre of ferocious cruelty, a cruelty shocking even for the not entirely gentle standards of the SS.
Kappler tried to get rid of Priebke, a person he clearly loathed as much as everyone else; but the latter's direct link to Hitler – who knew him personally, admired him and made of him a protégé – made Priebke both untouchable and a trusted "plant" of the Führer in Rome. As a consequence, Priebke was free to torture away for as long as he was in Rome.
I am no friend of Priebke. I think he was a bastard. A cruel, evil bastard.
But I also think he was an immortal soul. I am reliably informed he died at peace with the Lord. My personal antipathy for him is nothing to do with the fact that the information we have allows us to hope – note this word well: hope – that he managed to save his immortal soul and will one day – after a purification process that I can only imagine long and painful – be allowed to enjoy the Beatific Vision.
These are the facts. They have nothing to do with our opinion of him. His priest said he repented of his sins and died at peace with The Lord, and that's that.
But no. The same people who would not think twice of allowing funerals of premeditated suicides, or of sodomites unrepentant and defiant of God's law to the very end, consider a Requiem mass for a repentant Priebke too much to ask. The same people who always go around saying "who am I to judge?" are the same who have, in fact, decided to damn this man, and that even a mass in private - note this word well: private – form is more than a Christian should allow Herr Priebke to have.
Most notably, the very same "who am I to judge?" Pope – who doesn't like to call himself such -; the man ceaselessly talking about the need to stay near to the oppressed and downtrodden; the man clearly thinking even atheists have a place in heaven provided they follow their conscience; and the man always saying that the shepherd must smell of his sheep; this very man did not find a word to say to put an end to the Requiem Mass embargo decreed by Priebke's bishop; who is, by the by, his vicar for the Diocese of Rome, a very short hop with the Ford away.
Francis can play with beach balls and football shirts all right; he can play "inclusive" when it is convenient, thinking nothing of liturgical abuse when it makes him popular; he can suavely talks of forgiveness for pretty much every unrepented sin of people from whom he wants to be liked; but when the time comes to be merciful in a very elementary way – a man who died, as we are assured from a priest, repentant of his sins – he is, as widely expected, nowhere to be found.
And so there we are. A deeply unpopular man, the Beelzebub of the Left, dies a Catholic, staying nearer the sacraments that can be said of the majority of the Italians, and of the vast majority of the mob hating him in his coffin. Who will be on the side of his immortal soul? Who will defy the rage of the mob, and do what is normal and Christian to do? Who will be on the side of the poorest of them all, the soul naked in front of her Judge? His Bishop, perhaps? The Pope, you think?
The ones who will do what is decent to do; the ones showing real Christian spirit irrespective of how unpopular this will make them are, once again, the bad, bad boys of the Society of Saint Pius X.
Once again, the SSPX shows the entire Catholic planet how to do it. Once again, the V II church shows her "pastoral attitude" and her "inclusiveness" only when it is popular and convenient, and her readiness to cave in to the wish of the mob when it isn't.
By the by, what if Priebke had been an atheist who "follows his conscience" whilst torturing? Does not Francis himself say in this case his conscience will be what decides of right and wrong? Has the man such a short memory? Or is he deaf from the uncomfortable, unpopular ear?
May the Lord have mercy for the soul of Mister Priebke, a bastard in life to whom I sincerely, sincerely wish God's mercy and all the eternal bliss I dare to hope, one day, for myself and for all of you. May the Lord also have mercy of those priests and bishops, and of that Pope, who encourage unrepentant sinners to die in their sin, but refuse a private Requiem mass to a sinner who dies repenting. And may the Lord give all of us the same shot at repentance he allowed, in his mercy, to him. And no, you don't have the right to question the man's sincerity, only God has. The priest has said he repented for his sin, that's enough for us. This is why the SSPX decided to do the right thing: right is right even when it is unpopular, wrong is wrong even when everyone applauds you for it.
Clearly, "who am I to judge" did not apply this time. It would have displeased the atheist and leftist crowd Francis loves so much. Better leave a man who dies at peace with the Lord without a funeral instead. There will be enough masses for people who haven't darkened the door of a church for seventy years. Because hey, they followed their… conscience.
The comment function is shut off. In your charity, you may consider saying three Eternal Rest for the soul of Mr Priebke instead, who – assuming his salvation, for which we have reason to hope – certainly is now in need of them.
God bless the SSPX, an island of true Catholicism in a sea of cowardice.
God bless them all.


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he backstory: The videotapes showed very clearly that the toddler was not breathing for short intervals at night. The 2-year-old was frequently sick and was getting worse, with bouts of bronchitis, asthma, even pneumonia.
So when the Garden Grove boy was just 3, pediatric specialists advised removing his adenoids and tonsils.
The Condraschi family believes in modern medicine, good old-fashioned science. Corina, the little boy's mother, is a registered nurse and medical educator in Orange County.
But the family thought their child was mighty little, and they were willing to try an alternate route first.
Three days later, Robert Condraschi held little Constantin as he and Corina anxiously entered a salt mine near Bucharest. It was not a secret to the native Romanian that the salt air could hold healing power. This was something a Polish physician had noticed 150 years earlier when he documented that salt mine workers had no lung disease. (Even earlier, Roman salt workers' health had been remarked upon. The ever-engaging Egyptian ruler Cleopatra was a fan.)
But this was the 21st century and, still, the family wanted to try, not magic, but a mineral to open up their son's breathing passages. So they planned to visit the mines every day for three weeks.
It was at the end of just the second day, Condraschi says, when gazing at his sleeping son, "I thought he'd died."
"He slept so quietly."
That was in February 2011; the family stayed the three weeks. Constantin was, and is, markedly improved. By September, Condraschi was so convinced of the value of the salt mine, he opened OCSaltTherapy in West Garden Grove.
How's this salt therapy work?
"Dry aerosol micro-particles of salt are dispersed by a halo-generator into the salt room," says the OCSaltTherapy website. "The particles, measuring below 5 microns (.0002 of an inch) in diameter, penetrate deep into the lungs, bronchi, bronchioles and alveoli. As the salt is inhaled it travels through the sinuses and respiratory tract absorbing moisture, clearing mucus and killing bacteria, reducing inflammation, widening the airway passages, cleansing residual tar and foreign allergens and improving the immune system."
The claims? Salt therapy is said to be good for a wide variety of ailments, among them: allergies, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, bronchitis, chronic cough, sinusitis, ear infections, emphysema, snoring, wheezing, sleep apnea, dermatitis, acne, eczema, psoriasis, insomnia and stress.
What does it feel like? Barefoot, inside the "cave," it's hard to breathe at first. The walls are covered in salt. The floor is cushioned in a kind of blanket of soft ocean salt, free of crystallized fragments that would poke but still doing their exfoliating best when you do a purposeful shuffle. The air is the remarkable part because it's slightly hazy and palpably different. It's an environmental change you can taste.
Then, after a few minutes, you can feel it in your nose – because it's opening up. Then in your lungs, which do likewise. This is from someone who has no lung issues, no bronchitis, no allergies, no asthma, not a sniffle in months. You can feel a drip coming on.
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Eats of the East: A Survey of 12 Asian Cuisines
Take a culinary tour of the Asian continent, where ingredients and recipes traveled the spice routes, resulting in an eclectic curry of food traditions.
Looking for more Asian-food inspiration? Try our exotic Indian, Thai, and Chinese recipes or feel the heat with our extraordinary curry recipes.
By Sara Schwartz
Signature flavors: lemongrass, lime or kaffir, black pepper, fish sauce, soy sauce, peanuts
Vietnam boasts a lot of rice- and pork-based dishes, but is also known for being one of the lightest of the Asian cuisines. While China has had the most pronounced influence on Vietnamese cuisine, Indian spices, Cambodian flavors, and French ingredients (like baguettes and paté) also feature quite prominently in this food-obsessed country.
Signature recipes:
Country Pâté Banh Mi (pictured)
Steak Bun
Vermicelli with Chicken Skewers and Nuoc Cham
Shrimp-and-Vegetable Summer Rolls