The local Catholic Archbishop has issued a throw down to the Obama Administration over a rule in ObamaCare which he claims is tantamount to blowing up the Constitutional right to religious freedom.
The ObamaCare rule forces all entitities--including religious ones--to cover under their health insurance policies abortion pills, contraceptives and sterilization.
In a letter that is supposed to have been included in the Parish newsletters, the Portland Archbishop says the rule "cast[s] aside the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, den[ies] to Catholics our Nation's first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty."
This letter has not been included in Parish newsletters as far as I can tell.
See it after the jump.
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Portland Archbishop on ObamaCare: "We Cannot and Will Not Comply With This Unjust Law"
Washington State Senate Approves Homosexual Marriage
As Washington State flounders in this ongoing “Great Recession,” with a $1.5 Billion budget gap, failing schools, court decisions demanding more school funding, double digit unemployment in several counties for 3 straight years, all has been put on the back burner as the top priority for the Washington State Legislature is to approve Homosexual Marriage in our state.
Last evening, February 1, 2012 the senate held a brief debate and voted to approve homosexual marriages after Democrats defeated amendments that would place the notion before the voters of the state and protections claimed to be in the bill for clergy and religions being extended to private citizens who may decline assisting in or participating in homosexual marriage ceremonies if they felt it violated their religious convictions.
For example, if you are a baker or photographer and decline to bake a wedding cake or take the photos for a homosexual marriage ceremony, feeling that your assistance or participation may violate your deeply held religious views, you may be held liable in a lawsuit for violating their civil rights.
That same protection is also denied judges, justices of the peace and others authorized to perform secular marriage ceremonies if they feel such participation may violate their deeply held religious views.
Scott St. Clair: With Poll Numbers Tanking, It's Occupy This, Sucka!
When it comes to Occupy Wall Street and its dwindling band of franchisees, I love it when a plan comes together.
A just released SurveyUSA poll of San Francisco-area adults taken on January 30 shows support for Occupy sinking like a manhole cover in a lake after this past weekend’s rioting in Oakland. Not only have Mayor Jean Quan and the San Francisco Chronicle abandoned Occupy Oakland and the cause, but it looks the public joins them.
Again, this is a poll of SAN FRANCISCO adults – left-wingers, Pelosi voters, socialists and all-around moonbeam worshippers – who now express profound distaste for Occupy and its tactics.
The kicker is how one-third of them want the police to crack down even harder on Occupy – think Pelosi with a can of pepper spray. Thirty-five percent think the police response is about right. That’s a better-than-landslide 68 percent of respondents who support the police over the protesters who claim to have massive public support and God on their side. They lie.
Looks like the dwindling number of Occupy supporters can be described thusly:
Holder Testifies on Fast and Furious Today; Issa Issues Throw Down to Produce Documents
Attorney General Eric Holder will face off with House Republican Darrell Issa Thursday over Mexican-border gun-running, a showdown that comes after Issa and the Justice Department exchanged sharp letters in recent days.The line to get into the hearing is long:
Holder is scheduled to appear before Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Thursday to discuss the controversial sting operation called "Operation Fast and Furious."
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
CD 1 Email of the Day
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Oregon CD 1 Meet Your New Congressman
The people of the 1st CD--moderates and conservatives--you have just seen your representation get sold out; declared unworthy of support.
And a personal word to Suzanne Bonamici: You supported a man for years who predated upon women and you knew it. He is a man you called a friend and your husband served as consigliere. You supported his campaigns and covered up for him. And your SuperPac buddies in Emily's List, NARAL and Planned Parenthood--the women's movement--support you. The "women's movement" is deader than dead.
**And a late ad which was going to be left for a later post: Cornilles himself did not ask for help. He didn't ask the Oregon Republican Party for much help, didn't ask the NRCC for much help and certainly did everything to distance himself from the Tea Party. With that said, I still think the right should have fought for the seat.
Jim ‘da candyman’ Moeller’s Dismissive Attitude on CRC Questionable Accounting Unacceptable
For full audio and the Powerpoint Slide presented by Ms. Couch, please visit Couv.com
As could be expected, CRC supporters began dismissing and marginalizing the Independent Forensic Analysis almost immediately with the Columbian, a long time cheerleader for the project publishing numerous articles in favor of the CRC, including supposed benefits to the community.
Most notably among the long time supporters is Democrat 49th legislative district representative, Jim ‘da candyman’ Moeller stating, “In a project of such huge scale and complexity, at least some errant billing and bookkeeping is inevitable,,, I’m not worried that there has been fraud or malfeasance at any step along the way,,, the project has operated transparently.”
Moeller went on say, “I think that Tiffany is doing the job she was hired to do, and that’s stop the project.”
Of all of those wishing to minimize what Ms. Couch uncovered, ‘candyman’ seem to be the most critical of her personally and his cavalier attitude over accounting irregularities has not set well with the community, prompting letters to the editors of the Columbian here, here and here.
The last link is to an LTE by small business owner Dave Joliette of Vancouver who finds Moeller’s cavalier attitude completely unacceptable and expressed more than what the letter published can show due to limitation on length of all letters submitted to the Columbian.
Occupy Fill-in-the-blank: They're All the Same People
I got to thinking this morning as I looked at the damage done to the Oakland City Hall by "Occupy" Anarchists that I'd seen this stuff before. As I've explained ALOT, the Occupy crowd is the same old batch of self styled leftist quasi anarchists who
Monday, January 30, 2012
Occupy Portland Hijacks Party to Pump Up Numbers Sat Night
Occupy Portland decided to hijack the event and pretend it was 'theirs.' People went to a dance party and a parade and bridge close broke out. That's why they reported a crowd of 1000 people at their march on Saturday when there MAYBE were 100.
Eventually the riot cops came to clear it out for awhile. Most people who gave money to bring the moveable dance to Portland were irate. This guy, however, was amused.
Pete the Banker: President Obama on Occupy Paradise
“But I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place.”
“In Honolulu, on the southern coast of the island of Oahu, there's a four-bedroom home priced at $785,000 that has views of the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean. The beaches of Waikiki are 15-minutes away. Starting this month, the property is available to buyers with a subprime credit score, limited cash reserves and a 3.5 percent down payment using a loan backed by the Federal Housing Administration. Without the agency, a buyer would need a 20 percent down payment and an unblemished financial history for a jumbo mortgage.”
Scott St. Clair: Latest Occupy Oakland tactic: Murder your parents
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| Hey kid, it's Rage Against the Machine; not your parents. |
Rees Lloyd: Why Do Oregon Media Ignore or Marginalize MMA Athlete
As reported by the Victoria Taft Blog (here and here) Chael Sonnen,
a native Oregonian from West Linn, former All American wrestler for
the University of Oregon, former Olympic Greco-Roman Wrestling Team
Alternate, and now Mixed Martial Arts Superstar from Oregon's now world
famous Team Quest training center in Portland (Gresham) co-founded by
MMA legend and former Olympic Silver Medalist Matt Lindland, won the co-main event of a major UFC production, UFC ON FOX on Saturday, January 28, 2012.
Where's the SloBo & Cornilles Tape, Willamette Week?
One of the public services conducted by Willamette Week is to post endorsement interviews of most of the candidates running for office. These can be highly amusing to highly enlightening. But such is not the case with the Suzanne Bonamici and Rob Cornilles interviews. The special election for the First Congressional District, while the only election going on now, isn't "worthy of posting." Willamette Week has posted only six minutes of an 80 minute interview. Gee, why would they do that?
There's a reason I call her SloBo. Bonamici looks weak and untalented, which she is. You can see that for yourself on any of the televised debates.
Here's what the Cornilles campaign says you can see in the interview that Willamette Week won't show you. And here's a cautionary tale to other candidates: bring your own recorder next time.
Listen and you'll hear Suzanne Bonamici:
- Waffle on why she is running for Congress
- Refuse to explain why she wants to take health care choices away from seniors
- Fumble a question on what she will do in Congress to spur job creation
- Refuse to say the Columbia River Crossing is her top transportation priority
- Name a New Yorker when asked who she admires in Congress (no Oregon legislator?)
- Oppose parental choice in education
- Refuse to embrace a merit-based system for teachers
...and much, much more.
- Claim she had no "close association" with David Wu despite calling him a "family friend" in 2010
Sunday, January 29, 2012
UPDATE: Woman Marries Building.
As previously noted here, Babylonia Aivaz went through with her plans SUnday and married the doomed warehouse.
Photos of the "Gay Wedding" here. The "Bride" declared this to be as "Gay Wedding" based her claim that the warehouse is a woman too.
The Seattle PI states about 30 people attended.
No mention of where the couple will honeymoon.
Wedding March for Babylonia
This Is A Battlefield
Full speech here
Huffington Post reports, "Moments after the quote was mentioned on Twitter, former Reid spokesman Jim Manley responded via his own Twitter feed: 'Me to allen west. You first ***hole'."
Rob Cornilles Goes Viral
I expect this will get Rob Cornilles some interesting coverage in his race for Oregon's CD 1.
Rees Lloyd: Chael Sonnen, Oregon MMA Superstar, Wins Shot for UFC Title
“If those
blowhards with their blow tarts come for me, they can send anybody they like –
but don’t send anybody you would like to come back!”
Oregon’s Chael Sonnen, Team Quest Mixed Martial Arts superstar, won a unanimous decision in his co-main event fight with England’s Michael Bisping on “UFC ON FOX” on Saturday, January 28, 2010, and with it a second shot for the United Fighting Championship Middle Weight title.(Chael Sonnen, after UFC ON FOX victory assuring him of title fight against UFC Middle Weight Champion Anderson Silva in Brazil, responding to reporter’s question at post-fight press conference Jan. 28, 2010 about rumors of threats to Sonnen if fight is made.)
OccuFail
What does Occupy stand for? Rampaging through the Oakland City Hall and vandalizing everything from the bathrooms to children's art.
In Oregon? A few dozen? show up for the take over of the Hawthorne Bridge. Daylight Disinfectant was there to capture the "event."
MIC CHECK! (echo) mic check!
THIS IS. (echo) this is
WHAT (echo) what
STUPIDITY (echo) stupidity
LOOKS LIKE (echo) looks like
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