Detroit Just Can't Win

Detroit falls to St Louis yet again.

St. Louis has earned the dubious distinction of "Most Dangerous City."

And in a case of coincidence that could not be penned better by any human author, Detroit ranks #2.

Michigan can also be proud in knowing that Flint-town is #3.

Michigan also hails 2 of the top 25 safest cities, Sterling Heights and Troy.

But, we do have something to be proud of:
The Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia "Metropolitan division" is ranked as the most dangerous metro area. Yeah, I'm from the most dangerous metro-division in the country, you got a problem with that?

The lists of most dangerous and safest are available on the webpage of the study done by Morgan Quitno. (mmm toasty... errr wait that's not Quizno's sorry)

UPDATE: I forgot. Detroit Can win. The Red Wings beat the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Saturday the 28th in St. Louis, perhaps as vengeance for the fallen Detroit Tigers.

The post season...

ended like the regular season.



















That would be a choking tiger.
A lot of good things happened this year, but this team is not complete. Perhaps they rushed too quickly to the Series. It sounds rediculous being that it had been 22 years, but this team is young. They are young and talented. They will improve, and within the next few years they should get back. The mistakes will decrease(can't make too many more), and the hitting will improve(can't get much worse). The Cardinals are a storied club, but I don't feel like this year's squad was anything special. Let's face it. The Tigers lost this one. They threw it away... over Sean Casey's head. I look forward to next year, but I feel that this year ended just a little too soon. It really is remarkable the turnaround that has happened in 3 years, and I look forward to continued improvement. Go get 'em next time Tigers, and thanks for the great baseball.

The Jesuitry Continues

Jesuits are not all bad, of course, but there are certainly some bad apples. Unfortunately most of the bad ones are in positions at Universities and may poison the minds of young Christians.

Of 3 Jesuits I have known personally, 2 had little regard for the liturgy, and one went so far as to make it his own personal circus. The third however is a wonderful priest, yet allows the other two to continue their antics. They all have severe left of center thinking in politics and theology, some more than others.

Another example is Fr. Robert F. Drinan. He was very much pro-choice as an active supporter both in and out of political office for the grave sin of abortion.

Now this happens:

Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff announced the establishment of the Robert F. Drinan, SJ, Chair in Human Rights [at Georgetown University Law Center] at a formal ceremony Oct. 23; Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh gave the keynote address.

Folks like me are incredulous that someone who was against the most fundamental of human rights- the right to life- can even be considered for such an "honor."

Thus my distrust in Jesuits and "Catholic" Universities grows.

Single Sex Education

I am all for this development.

As an alumnus of a single-sex high school, I witnessed first hand the benefit of single-sex education. It is more relaxed everyone is less concerned with impressing the opposite sex and most are more interested in learning.

yup.

Granholm to be excommunicated?

This is an old article, and I don't recall any scientists or politicians actually being excommunicated, but it certainly applies to the "Gov."

If you ask me she should have been excommunicated long ago.
I'm not politically motivated by this. Nor do I wish any harm upon her.
She is however a candidate for excommunication due to her rabid support for abortion and Embryonic Stem Cell killing.

She and other Catholics who blatantly disobey Catholic teaching, and are persistent in grave manifest sin (they are doing bad stuff) like enabling abortion and embryonic stem cell research, which is basically abortion, need to be punished. They need the medicinal punishment of excommunication. They need to be told that what they are doing is not okay, by those who are in authority. Not so we can exclude them, but so they can recant and rejoin full communion with the Church.

May the Almighty God have mercy on her, on us, and on the whole world. Amen.

Kathy Griffin, a prophet?

This Sierra Mist commercial from the Super Bowl was strangely prophetic.

Mother Teresa

People love quoting Blessed Mother Teresa. They should; she said a lot of awesome stuff.

I came across on the internet, someone I once knew using a Mother Teresa quote about peace. This person is also a stauch supporter of the "woman's right to choose."

Well this person might be interested to know what Mother Teresa thinks about peace as it relates to abortion.

"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "

And now you have ... the rest of the story.

Dick DeVos again

In case any of you had any doubt, Dick DeVos is 99.9% pro-life.

Devon Scillion, one of the moderators for the second debate asked Dick pretty point blank about abortion. When asked if he would sign a bill outlawing abortion, Dick pretty emphatically said no he would not, and that he is "comfortable" with current Michigan law.

Well, I am too.

WHAT?

Well, let's look at Michigan Law:

750.14 Miscarriage; administering with intent to procure; felony, penalty.

Sec. 14.

Administering drugs, etc., with intent to procure miscarriage—Any person who shall wilfully administer to any pregnant woman any medicine, drug, substance or thing whatever, or shall employ any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of any such woman, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such woman, shall be guilty of a felony, and in case the death of such pregnant woman be thereby produced, the offense shall be deemed manslaughter.

In any prosecution under this section, it shall not be necessary for the prosecution to prove that no such necessity existed.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.14
Constitutionality: Section held unconstitutional as relating to abortions in the first trimester of a pregnancy as authorized by the pregnant woman's attending physician in the exercise of his medical judgment. People v. Bricker, 389 Mich. 524, 208 N.W.2d 172 (1973).

So current Michigan law outlaws abortion, but it was ruled unconstitutional thanks to Roe v. Wade and decisions inspired by it such as People vs. Bricker.

So what do we need? Well, a reversal of the decision on Roe v. Wade, People vs. Bricker, and other similar decisions would allow us to revert back to our state law that was effective as of Sept 18 1931, making abortion a felony in Michigan unless done to protect the life of the mother, which thankfully is almost never the case. Other states such as South Dakota would also have no "constitutional" challenge to their anti-abortion laws.

DeVos iterated this on the Kresta in the Afternoon program on WDEO. He also stated that he would sign a Partial Birth Abortion ban.

Granholm, a professed Catholic, repeatedly publicly rejects Catholic teaching. She does not deserve re-election.

What can we do? We can pray.
Election Prayer

We can also talk to our friends and neighbors, especially Christians, who are concerned with Granholm and DeVos's stances on abortion.
This shows Granholm's obstinate stands against Catholic teaching- not just abortion.

DeVos is endorsed by Right to Life of Michigan. For lists of candidate endorsements (by congressional district) click here. And it isn't party-based. There are plenty of Democrats endorsed.

Thanks for reading. Please excuse my long absence.