Bad Coaching

He is a great recruiter, but I really question his ability to check his ego and make good decisions especially when he has a lousy DC and an OC who doesn't seem to know how to manage the clock and timeouts (which has been a problem ever since Pete got hired).

Holt has to go.

Brandon boy has to go.

And Pete needs to listen to Kenny Rogers and know when to hold them, know when to fold them...

And I am writing this with 33 seconds left.

Happy Birthday Packers

On this date in 1919 newswriter George Whitney Calhoun named the Green Bay team the Packers.

And to celebrate, they whacked the Giants!

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Move On Dot Kill Us

Click on the above andjudge for yourself!

If you build it, they won't come

It is time to build a "wall" along the entire Mexican border. It should be patrolled by the U.S. Armed Forces including gunships (helicopters). Here is another reason why.

E pluribus unum NOT!

Click on the headline... 'nuff said!

Seattle's Tourists... or Terrorists?

Hey they are. Click on the title above for more.

Winning the War is the Answer

I've got my own Cafe Press Shop!

Are you sick and tired of the "War is not the answer" crowd? Then buy, buy, buy!

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This and that

Barry Bonds should get into the Hall of Fame about 20+ years after Pete Rose.

Why is it that the only people in the Church who are concerned that the return of the Mass in Latin will be divisive are the liberals who have been shoving divisive "innovations" down our throats for the last 30 years or so?

It has been unseasonably cool the last couple of days. Darn that global cooling!

Should we call China's bluff? It is threatening to tank the dollar by dumping their holdings of dollars (in various forms) that might cause a recession in the United States. The threat is a result of our demand for a fair revaluation of the yuan. But the elephant in the room is that if the Chinese put us into a recession, they will lose money since we are their number one buyer of Chinese goods. Perhaps we could offset part of any recession by increasing military sales to Taiwann and allowing Japan to have a full fledged army assuming they purchase their equipment from us.

Happy Anniversary

Thanks for seven great years, Teresa! No itch here (well, except for that spot off my left should blade that I cannot reach!).

Love,
Matthew

Wake up ADL!

I don't know what is worse: the whining uninformed ADL or the liberal press that runs to it to present an "informed" counter view on the release of the Latin Mass from jurisdictional jail.

The whining ADL complains that the Good Friday service in the Latin Rite contains a prayer for the conversion of Jews. In the first place, there is nothing wrong with praying for the conversion of anyone who is not Catholic regardless of their fatih. Secondly, Pope Benedict XVI has gone out of his way (and, due to the reaction of the nuts at the ADL, without good reason it turns out) to explicitly disallow any part of the older version of the Latin rite during the Easter Triduum which obviously includes Good Friday!

"Art. 2 In Masses celebrated without the people, each Catholic priest of the Latin rite, whether secular or regular, may use the Roman Missal published by Bl. Pope John XXIII in 1962, or the Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1970, and may do so on any day with the exception of the Easter Triduum."

Now why the AP would go to someone who is not in the Church and rely on him to tell the world what Catholic theology is beyond comprehension unless one believes, as I do, that the press is biased against the Church.

Heaven help us!

Yes, but...

Pope Benedict writes, "The most sure guarantee that the Missal of Paul VI can unite parish communities and be loved by them consists in its being celebrated with great reverence in harmony with the liturgical directives. This will bring out the spiritual richness and the theological depth of this Missal."

Yes, but what is to be done with the priests, bishops, and liturgists who continue to refuse the liturgical directives? That is what has gotten us into this mess in the first place.

The hippie bishops who generally are afraid of a split in the church should be more concerned with the charismatics.

And from the Hermeneutic of Continuity:

It's Better in Latin

Tomorrow is the day! I hope that the release lives up to the hype. Please note that I am not against the vernacular, just the banal liturgy and music that have "evolved" in a Protestant manner over the last 30+years.

It's Been Awhile

I'm sorry that I haven't been blathering lately. The folks at the district office have decided that all blogs are evil and will cause damage to the children of the Covina Valley school district. Thus, my pre-school and lunchtime missives have been killed off. That, of course, is not all bad, but what is bad is that I cannot read commentary from good sources for current events for my social studies students.

One thing of importance that my wife and I have done is opt-out our children from the evil Virtus/TAT program that is being shoved down the throat of parents in the Achdiocese of the child molester protector (Roger Mahony for the rest of you). Even the Catholic Medical Association has come out against it claiming that it damages the children.

But what the heck, since the majority of the stockholders of the group that produces Virtus/TAT programs are church dioceses and archdioceses, what's a little damage when there is a buck to be made?

Straw Poll

Time to Go?

President Bush has stated that the United States of America will leave Iraq if we are asked. Borrowing for Dennis Prager, it is time to organize a plebiscite in Iraq that allows the people of that country to make that decision.

In the meantime, the Congress should provide full funding through a plebscite date (September 1). This would allow the Iraqi's to see whether or not real progress has been made by thier government as well as with the Surge. If the Iraqi's vote to have us leave, then the Congress should renew funding with a timeline for withdrawal that the President should sign. If the Iraqi's vote for us to stay, Congress should provide full-funding, and the Democrats should SHUT UP!

Latin Laughter

I stole this one from romancatholicblog.com.

Welcome Sylvia!

Born May 19 at 12:08 a.m.

Backbone for Roger

Will Cardinal Mahony finally stop coddling the pro-abortion politicians in this state and his arch-diocese (including visitors like Senator John Kerry) now that the Pope appears to be taking a harder line along the lines of ex-communication.

I doubt it!

Tommy Thompson

One of the great things about looking at candidates this early is that you have time to change your mind. Although I haven't jumped off the Mitt bandwagon, former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson looked and sounded good after the debate last week.

For more on him, click here. Also, to take a look at all the candidates, and potential candidates, for both parties, check out this site which will also allow you to search other candidates in other races.