The doctor came in the morning; nothing much new with Pat's condition, of course. Bob S. came later to turn on our outside water and clear the sprinkler system. He has to come back, as there's a broken one and he'll fix it. Talked to Pat's niece, Donna, who will stop over when I'm in Maryland and Jen's here. Ho-hum...
Wider: I understand that there's opposition to Notre Dame's invitation to Obama to speak there:
"The members of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, which helps run the university, asked the Rev. John Jenkins, the Holy Cross priest who is Notre Dame's president, and the university's board of fellows to reconsider the invitation to Obama because he supports abortion rights."
The fact that he also supports the wanton slaughter of children in other countries seems never to enter the consciousness--or conscience--of Catholic "leaders" of this type. BTW, I just signed a petition in support of Father Jenkins' invitation.
As I've remarked before, the day the church is as vehement against war as it is against abortion, is the day I rejoin. Guess I won't get out my rosary anytime soon.
Wider Still: Chris Floyd's post today is incredibly close to what I thought when I saw the picture yesterday of O. being worshipped by American soldiers in Iraq. It's about the so-called "liberals" jumping on the murder bandwagon, now that their saviour is in. The entire essay must be read, but here's a piece of it:
"(When Bush was cheered by the military in Iraq)...such brief, emotional scenes did not change the fact that the war was a murderous, criminal enterprise, and that the soldiers in Iraq were not (and are not) "fighting and dying for their country" but were (and are) instead being used as cannon fodder in an unprovoked act of aggression that had been deeply harmful to their country, and to the entire world as well. But this sort kind of incisive, cold-eyed analysis is no longer wanted, now that one of 'ours' is in the White House."