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Tea at 3 for St Margaret’s Hospice
WE all look forward to putting our feet up with a cup of tea or coffee so why not make one of your tea breaks a little bit more special by holding a tea party to raise funds for St Margaret’s Hospice?
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Official’s work with Tea Party raises eyebrows
Affidavits filed by more than half of the 23 candidates from Michigan’s mysterious Tea Party were notarized by the political director of the Oakland County Democratic Party, elections records show, providing more fuel for suspicions that Democrats organized the new party to hurt Republican chances in the November election.
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The Pfleger-ization of the Catholic Church
Posted on 09. Apr, 2010 by Michelle Malkin.
My syndicated column today follows up on my post earlier this week about toxic Catholic priest Michael Pfleger’s “racial justice lifetime achievement award” from the Archdiocese of Chicago. Read below for Rev. Pfleger’s communications to me about his demagoguery. In defending its award, the Archdiocese stepped in further by defending Barack Obama’s pro-abortion agenda. Cardinal George’s defense of “social justice with love,” remarks he made at the gala for Pfleger and other award winners this week, is here.
Related must-read: Matt Abbott assails Chicago Cardinal Francis George in “A tale of two Catholic Churches.”
Related flashback: Pfleger and the AWOL cardinal.
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The Pfleger-ization of the Catholic Church
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
April 09, 2010
So much that you need to know about the Catholic Church’s social policy problems can be summed up in one word: Chicago. On race, abortion, guns, immigration and “community organizing,” Catholic Church officials in the Windy City have forged unholy alliances with radical left-wingers and enablers who undermine the faith — and the faithful.
Exhibit A: the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Racial Justice and one of its most notorious priests, the Rev. Michael Pfleger. This week, Chicago Cardinal Francis George — who also happens to be president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — presided over a gala ceremony honoring Pfleger with a “lifetime achievement award” for his “service in pursuit of dismantling racism, injustice and inequalities on behalf of African Americans and all people of color.”
How, pray tell, has Pfleger achieved the officially sanctioned Catholic vision of “racial justice”? By aligning himself with the nation’s worst racial demagogues and using his pulpit at the St. Sabina Catholic Church on Chicago’s Southside to promote poisonous identity politics.
Pfleger (who is white) grabbed the spotlight during the 2008 presidential campaign with jive-talking defenses of his fellow race-hustler and President Obama’s spiritual mentor the Rev. Jeremiah (“God damn America!” and “AmeriKKKA!”) Wright and Jew-bashing hate-monger Louis (Judaism is a “gutter religion”) Farrakhan. The racial justice award-winner called the latter a “great man” and welcomed him to his church.
Pfleger, a member of the Catholics for Obama Committee, stoked further racial division by mocking Hillary Clinton’s skin color and accusing her of “white entitlement.” It’s one thing to ridicule Hillary’s sense of political and ideological entitlement as part of the Clinton dynasty. But the demagogic emphasis on her race was beyond the pale.
Screamed Pfleger while wearing his Roman Catholic collar during a guest appearance at Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ:
“I really believe that (Hillary) just always thought, ‘This is mine (congregation laughter, hoots). I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white. And this is mine. And I jus’ gotta get up and step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said, ‘Oh, damn! Where did you come from? (crowd goes nuts, Pfleger screaming). I’m white! I’m entitled! There’s a black man stealing my show. (sobs!)’ She wasn’t the only one crying! There was a whole lotta white people crying!”
On a roll, Pfleger mustered up his best Wright imitation and let loose on the entire country, proclaiming: “America is the greatest sin against God.”
Pfleger has also embraced hate-crime hoax engineer Al Sharpton. Outraged Catholics across the country called on the archdiocese of Chicago to remove Pfleger. In response, Cardinal George meekly suspended Pfleger for two weeks over his “partisan” remarks — and has now honored him for his “service” to “racial justice.”
The sermon in 1 Corinthians 15:33 teaches us that bad company corrupts good character. Have they forgotten?
In an e-mail exchange with Pfleger this week, he indignantly accused me of not telling the “truth.” When I quoted his own toxic words back to him, he accused me of being “mean-spirited.”
This rogue Catholic priest has been arrested for vandalizing billboards in his community; threatened to “snuff out” a gun shop owner (Pfleger claims he didn’t mean to imply he would kill the businessman, just expose his private home address); and flouted church rules limiting tenure. When the archdiocese attempted to enforce its two-term limit on Pfleger, he taunted them to “have the balls to fire” him. They didn’t — and Pfleger continues to serve indefinitely.
Mimicking Planned Parenthood and the death lobby, the Chicago archdiocese defended late-term-abortion supporter Obama as “pro-choice” rather than “pro-abortion” this week — and did nothing in 2003 when Pfleger put radical-leftist actor Harry Belafonte on the St. Sabina pulpit to rail against former President George W. Bush’s pro-life policies.
Cardinal George did think it worthy of his time to condemn the “hate literature” of Illinois Catholic columnist Tom Roeser, who raised his voice against the church’s pedophilia scandal and criticized the willingness of Catholic Church leaders to sign on to the Obamacare sellout for the sake of “social justice.”
For years, the far-left Catholic Campaign for Human Development forked over funding to Chicago-based, Saul Alinsky-trained outfits that employed then-community organizer Obama. And the Chicago archdiocese has also lobbied aggressively alongside open-borders groups to undermine immigration enforcement, to halt homeland security raids against employers breaking immigration laws and to demand mass amnesty.
As if the massive global sex-abuse scandal that cost at least $3 billion in litigation and inflicted immeasurable pain and grief on Catholic molestation victims hasn’t done enough damage to its credibility, the Pfleger-ization of the Catholic Church goes on unabated. And the likes of Cardinal George are doing nothing to stop it.
This is not the Catholic Church I was raised in. It has left me.
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Small Tax Day Tea Party Protest at San Francisco City Hall 48
Posted on 30. Jul, 2010 by vladowsky.
Check out these Tea party images:
Small Tax Day Tea Party Protest at San Francisco City Hall 48
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Obama signs Tribal Law and Order Act
President Barack Obama has signed a bill giving American Indian tribes more authority to combat crime on their reservations. Barack Obama – Indian tribe – United States – President – History
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American Red Cross dedicates its new COOP office building
The Southeast Louisiana Chapter American Red Cross dedication and ribbon cutting of the new Northshore regional office and Continuity of Operations COOP, building Thursday afternoon was greeting by an excited, enthusiastic crowd of board members, employees and volunteers despite the heat.
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*UPDATED* Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden Thank Troops
Vice President Joe Biden and wife Dr. Jill Biden traveled to Fort Drum to welcome home the 2 nd Brigade Combat Team, 10 th Mountain Division, who recently returned home from serving in the War in Iraq . Since October 2009, the unit was stationed in eastern Baghdad . The 2 nd Brigade Combat Team served their most recent deployments to Afghanistan , and four in Iraq . Army Major General James L …
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A few nice Tea party images I found:
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Ex-GOP Congressman Tancredo to Run for Governor on a Third-Party Ticket
Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by vladowsky.
Ex-GOP Congressman Tancredo to Run for Governor on a Third-Party Ticket
Conservative former Rep. Tom Tancredo’s announcement that he will enter the race for governor as the American Constitution Party candidate could be a dagger to the heart of Republicans’ hopes of capturing the governor’s mansion in the November election.
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Nick Clegg ‘bluffed’ David Cameron over alternative vote referendum
TV documentary reveals that Lib Dem leader might have misled his coalition partner Fresh claims emerge today that Nick Clegg may have bluffed the Conservative leader, David Cameron, into offering the Lib Dems a referendum on a change to the voting system as part of the coalition talks. The suggestion in a BBC documentary is likely to deepen anger on Tory benches that a referendum was ever …
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Conservative group withdraws Lt. Gov endorsement
JUNEAU – A conservative group has withdrawn its endorsement of Republican lieutenant governor hopeful Mead Treadwell.
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From Rawstory.com: “Conservative radio hosts gets waterboarded, and lasts six seconds before saying its torture Chicago radio host Erich “Mancow” Muller decided he’d get himself waterboarded to prove the technique wasn’t torture. It didn’t turn out that way. “Mancow,” in fact, lasted just six or seven seconds before crying foul. Apparently, the experience went pretty badly — “Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment to stop,” according to NBC Chicago. “The average person can take this for 14 seconds,” Marine Sergeant Clay South told his audience before he was waterboarded on air. “He’s going to wiggle, he’s going to scream, he’s going to wish he never did this.” Mancow was set on a 7-foot long table with his legs elevated and his feet tied. “I wanted to prove it wasn’t torture,” Mancow said. “They cut off our heads, we put water on their face…I got voted to do this but I really thought ‘I’m going to laugh this off.’ ” The upshot? “It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that’s no joke,” Mancow told listeners. “It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back…It was instantaneous…and I don’t want to say this: absolutely torture.” “Absolutely. I mean that’s drowning,” he added later. “It is the feeling of drowning.” “If I knew it was gonna be this bad, I would not have done it,” he said. The 42-year-old radio …
