Caffeine Over Load & Some Pithy Observations

Is the whole country on caffeine overload?? I went to bed last night with my Google reader at a nice comfortable 40 or so. I wake up this morning and it's approaching 1000. 

Granted much of it is repeating the same good news that Scott Brown's poll numbers are waaaaaaaaaaay up!!  If you're not living under a rock, this is news you already know, and for this we give thanks to the Lord, and also thanks to the arrogance and ineptitude of Madame Coakley (who has very thin lips. I don't trust women with thin lips.)

So without further ado, let us move forward into this great day that the Lord has made...

I shall perhaps return later(after doing my housework,  running errands,  vacuuming under the bed where I just discovered a nest of dust bunnies the size of which I have never encountered in my entire life, working on my altered book and new journal cover, checking out Picasa, which I finally succeeded in downloading, and downloading LiveWriter) , and then again I may not. Only time will tell... 

Today's Must Reads:

Dr. Zero nails it again:   Welcome to Subsidy Nation

 Sonic Ninja Kitty has a review up on the Federal Reserve.  I linked to the original article, aimed at the "girls." 

Now as much as I admire SNK and think she is tres smart, I take a bit of exception to her aiming all this brilliance at the females of the world.  While I am not as fully versed on the Federal Reserve as I should be (and I thank SNK for informing and educating moi), my guess is the guys of this country are just as deficient in this area.

 At least I know the basics of business, meaning in order to be successful, a business must make more than it spends, which is something the men running this country don't seem to know.

I'm not giving the likes of Pelosi and her female cohorts a free pass here as I suspect they are not really "girls." 

So all you guys head over and  "journey with SNK into the heart of darkness–the den of iniquity that is your typical congressional hearing on the Federal Reserve…."

From Big Government: Texas is Right to Quit the "Race for the Top" Education Program.  The closing statement made by the author says,

"Education is a state issue, and the federal government has no business dictating academic standards or curriculum to states. Washington, please leave Texas alone."

Call me old-fashioned, but I don't believe government should be involved in education at all - not at the state level and certainly not at the federal level.  If "government" did such a great job we wouldn't have failing schools turning out failing people. 

Government-run schools are just another way to control  and indoctrinate  people into collectivist thinking.  

From Acts of the Apostasy:

Convergence

  "There are no coincidences. God allows - as well as ordains - events to occur in an order and fashion that manifests His presence, and while making sense of it all may forever remain beyond our competence, it is our faith and hope in Him that sustains us."  you must read it all

 Money quote of the day:

Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco speaks to Nancy Pelosi:

"Human freedom does not legitimate bad moral choices, nor does it justify a stance that all moral choices are good if they are free: 'The exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do everything,'" wrote the archbishop, citing the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

"It is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching to conclude that our freedom of will justifies choices that are radically contrary to the Gospel — racism, infidelity, abortion, theft," he continued. 

"Freedom of will is the capacity to act with moral responsibility; it is not the ability to determine arbitrarily what constitutes moral right."

"While we deeply respect the freedom of our fellow citizens," Niederauer concluded, "we nevertheless are profoundly convinced that free will cannot be cited as justification for society to allow moral choices that strike at the most fundamental rights of others. Such a choice is abortion, which constitutes the taking of innocent human life, and cannot be justified by any Catholic notion of freedom."  Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco H/T LifeSite News