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I figured this would be coming: http://bighollywood.breitba...

Got word of it just now on Fox News. Funny, the closed captioning called Perez Hilton "Perez Hilter." Certainly a typo and not a Freudian slip in regard to a certain guy with a funny mustache.

If folks are going to hammer me over my disdain for Teddy and for beating a dead horse, they might as well do the same for one of my favorite priests, who also has no problem lowering the boom on that diabolical Cape Cod sailing aficionado in sheep's clothing who could've saved millions of unborns if only he hadn't led the way in borking Robert Bork from the Supreme Court:

HYANNIS PORT, Massachusetts, August 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The public Catholic funeral of Senator Ted Kennedy - whose long career of abortion advocacy helped sever the American Catholic identity from the Church's pro-life teaching - will be a source of immense scandal, says Human Life International (HLI) president Fr. Tom Euteneuer.  In addition, he said, Obama's scheduled eulogy at the event amounts to a "perfect absolution" whitewashing Kennedy's opposition to Catholic moral teaching. 

A funeral mass has been scheduled for Saturday morning at the Boston Archdiocese's Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, following the Senator's death Tuesday night after a battle with brain cancer. 

Kennedy is well-known for dissenting from Catholic Church teaching in the latter decades of his public life, advocating unrestricted abortion as well as embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex "marriage."

"Ted Kennedy's positions on a variety of issues have been a grave scandal for decades, and to honor this 'Catholic' champion of the culture of death with a Catholic funeral is unjust to those who have actually paid the price of fidelity," said Fr. Euteneuer in a statement Thursday. 

He continued, "There was very little about Ted Kennedy’s life that deserves admiration from a spiritual or moral point of view. He was probably the worst example of a Catholic statesman that one can think of. When all is said and done, he has distorted the concept of what it means to be a Catholic in public life more than anyone else in leadership today."

"It is not enough for Kennedy to have been a 'great guy behind the scenes' as we have seen him referred to even by his political opponents.". 

Euteneuer faulted Kennedy for putting "a Catholic rhetorical veneer" on liberal politics that "did nothing to advance true justice as the Church sees it or to advance the peace of Christ in this world."

"He will not be missed by the unborn who he betrayed time and time again, nor by the rest of us who are laboring to undo the scandalous example of Catholicism that he gave to three generations of Americans."

Euteneuer told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) in a Thursday interview that the best course of action for the Boston Archdiocese's Cardinal Sean O'Malley would be "Private funeral, family only - period." 

While O'Malley issued a statement this week praising the senator's "commitment to public service" and offering his prayers, he has not directly commented on the funeral plans.  LifeSiteNews.com's phone and email requests for comment from the Boston Archdiocese were not answered.

Euteneuer noted that "we don't really know" if Kennedy repented of his public position before death. "So just because he received the sacrament of reconciliation, doesn't mean he was actually reconciled with the Church and with God," he said.  "We just don't know that.  We hope for it."

However, said Euteneuer: "We know that Sen. Kennedy did not repent publicly, therefore any kind of public funeral or appearance by public figures like President Obama only reinforces the scandal.  It does not do anything to undo the damage that Sen. Kennedy has done."

Pro-life leaders, including HLI and the American Life League, were dismayed that President Obama is scheduled to deliver a eulogy at Kennedy's funeral Mass.  Obama and Kennedy have been close allies ever since Kennedy threw his weight behind Obama's presidential campaign - which was recognized as a turning point in Obama's journey to the White House.

"In a certain sense it is the perfect absolution - to use a sacramental term - of a man whose public life has been a continuous slap in the face of the Catholic Church," said Euteneuer of the eulogy.

"We were slapped in the face by President Obama at Notre Dame, and now President Obama is going to preside in a certain sense over a Catholic heretic's funeral and whitewash everything he did which was contrary to the Catholic Church."

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Just got this email from Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, the "pleasantly, ruthlessly sane" bad-ass who has a propensity for setting off the loudest wailing and gnashing of teeth this side of hell for his defense of marriage between one man and one woman:

Marriage is one of the big huge truths in life--much bigger than any one person.

Certainly, the National Organization for Marriage is not about me personally. (That's why,  when some of our opponents write to tell me, er, rather forcefully about my perceived sins and shortcomings, I try to use the moment to reflect on the ways they might be right: Vox populi, vox Dei. All of us have fallen short of the glory of God. Me especially--just ask my wife!)

So when I saw that the Washington Post published a profile of me and my wife Sue this morning I was going to just pass it over lightly. 

But Maggie said, "No way!"

"OK, you write the newsletter this morning," I countered.
 
Interlude: From Maggie Gallagher, president of NOM:

I don't know if you’ve had the chance to meet Brian personally. I consider working with Brian one of the great honors of my life--and a pleasure too. The Washington Post profile just nailed him!

"This country is made up of a movable middle, reasonable people looking for reasonable arguments to assure them that their feelings have a rational basis. Brian Brown speaks to these people. He has a master's degree from Oxford, and completed course work for a doctorate in history from UCLA," writes the reporter, "The reason Brian Brown is so effective is that he is pleasantly, ruthlessly sane."

Oh yes and Brian is something else too: "Instantly likable. He's a thoughtful talker, especially when discussing his 'opposition,'" WaPo writes.

I could add a few more adjectives that come to mind when thinking about Brian: superbly competent, committed, articulate, persuasive, charismatic in that low-key way. ("Instantly likable," yes!) And also generous. Generous, giving, sacrificing, chivalrous, disciplined, and fun-loving. He is the only executive director of a major social conservative organization I know of who has been known to surf with potential major donors. (That's not a metaphor.  I mean literally in the ocean with a board.)

But if Brian ever decides to retire, his wife Sue would be a good candidate to take his place making the case for marriage to the heartland--if the six kids she's homeschooling would ever give her the time!
 
"Connecticut was really hard," she told the reporter, who noted, "In Connecticut, they lived on a street with two sets of lesbian parents. One summer a mutual acquaintance threw a neighborhood party. Brian wasn't invited at all, and Sue's invitation came with a note: 'We know what Brian does. If your views are not the same, you can come to the party.' Sue stayed home.

"'I get how [gays and lesbians] feel,' she says. 'I get that.'
 
"...She has thought through it. She supports her husband. 'I can only go by my own experience, and I believe there's a huge difference in gender.' The kids don't need Brian 'walking in the door because he's another person. They need him because he's a man.'" 

Okay, that's enough about Brian. Let's go back to the important thing: What the Washington Post says about NOM's key role in this marriage fight. That's not about us.  That's about you and what you have helped us make happen.

The reporter calls the National Organization for Marriage "the preeminent organization dedicated to preventing the legalization of same-sex marriage."

"Brian has been the foremost grass-roots leader who has been involved in the marriage debate," says Chuck Donovan, a senior vice president at the conservative Family Research Council. "He's one of the more effective leaders out there."

Our opponents acknowledged as much: "You have to take them seriously," says Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow for the liberal People for the American Way. "They've raised a tremendous amount of money that they're funneling into various states. They're mostly responsible for putting the Maine veto on the bill."

In less than two years you, coming together with hundreds of thousands of other Americans, have helped build NOM into a major, powerful, intelligent, and effective force fighting to protect marriage and religious liberty!  From the bottom of my heart, thank you. 
As they say on TV, back to you Brian....

"It (socialism) hasn't worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn't have me to run it."

Can't think of more fitting words to have engraved on his tombstone. Gotta tip my hat to World Net Daily's founder for the gem that he included in his "tribute" as follows.

Ted Kennedy: The real legacy
Exclusive: Joseph Farah calls late senator evil, foolish, 'a rotten man – a wicked man'

By Joseph Farah

I know there's an old adage that one shouldn't speak ill of the dead.

But I don't subscribe to the idea that when evil and foolish people die we should pretend they were something other than evil and foolish.

And Ted Kennedy was evil and foolish.

He wasn't just a politician with whom I disagreed.

He was a rotten man – a wicked man.

I know you're not hearing this from the rest of the press. I know you're not even hearing this from his worst critics. But if we can't call Ted Kennedy wicked and immoral, those terms have lost all meaning.

It's no secret I didn't like Ted Kennedy.

I believe his political epitaph should have been written July 18, 1969, the day his behavior led directly to the untimely death of Mary Jo Kopechne at the Chappaquiddick Bridge.

Until that moment, as the surviving brother of an assassinated president and an assassinated senator-presidential candidate, he had been an object of love and pity for an entire nation.

Over four decades he has served as a kind of "enemy within" the American political system – attempting to elicit the support of the Soviet Union against President Reagan's policies in the 1980s, ignoring the tax-cutting prescription of his elder brother, failing to learn the real lessons of Vietnam, failing even to learn the lessons of his own brother's errors of appeasement in the Bay of Pigs, practicing his own unique brand of plantation racism and blaming America for all the problems of the world. That's Ted Kennedy.

That even one of the 50 states would deem him worthy of serving in the U.S. Senate for most of his life is something of a national disgrace.

Nevertheless, maybe because of his alcohol-addled brain or his unfulfilled ego, occasionally Ted Kennedy has demonstrated a kind of candor that is in short supply in Washington.

It may have been intellectual frustration that caused Kennedy to admit what he was 14 years ago – and what he remained until his death.

Ted Kennedy always was a socialist – and he actually admitted it on the floor of the Senate Jan. 20, 1995.

I've never seen this revelation before, though it has been a matter of public record all these years – published, as it were, in the Congressional Record. I was amazed to find it in a book by Republican political consultant Marc Nuttle called "Moment of Truth."

Here is how the Kennedy admission came about.

Economist Milton Friedman was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of a national constitutional amendment for a balanced budget. Kennedy argued that a requirement for a balanced budget would restrict the federal government's power and its ability to spend – thus, he said, Washington's role in more fairly and equitably distributing wealth, goods and services.

"Senator, socialism hasn't worked in 6,000 years of recorded history," explained Friedman. "Why won't you give up on it?"

Kennedy rose to his feet, according to Nuttle, who attended the hearing, and replied: "It hasn't worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn't have me to run it."

Surely Kennedy was not as skillful and sophisticated in articulating his position as some other politicians. Surely Kennedy, with his comfortable, unchallenged position as the senior senator from Massachusetts, didn't need to be so tactful. Surely even Kennedy avoided, for the most part, such heated admissions that he believes socialism can work under the right kind of skillful leadership – namely his.

But I'm not going to forget that admission today – the day after his death.

I'm not going to forget the way he unashamedly promoted abortion on demand.

I'm not going to forget the way he attempted to aid and abet our enemies to further his own political ambitions.

I'm not going to forget the way he betrayed his own older brother's political legacy of anti-communism and free-market economics to lead his party, and very possibly his country, off the cliff.

I'm not going to forget the idiotic way he characterized Ronald Reagan's brilliant initiative for strategic missile defense as "Star Wars."

I'm not going to forget how he always blamed America and Americans first for every problem in the world.

I'm not going to forget the way he left Mary Jo Kopechne alive in a car underwater where she survived, according to the coroner's report, for up to three hours, while he showered, shaved and sobered up before alerting police to his reckless, homicidal driving.

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The Marine who shouted "stay away from my kids" at a recent townhall meeting on health care reform would be heartened to hear the news of Modesto parents scoring a victory for parental rights: http://www.calcatholic.com/...

Now maybe the Snidely Whiplash that is Planned Parenthood will think twice about being such a snake in the grass.

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Leave it to one of my favorite priests, Denver's archbishop Charles Chaput, to put the kibosh on a dissident British Catholic journal for its knock on the U.S. bishops for not giving their blessings to our Dear Leader's DeathCare proposal, citing the growing misuse of the "common good language": http://www.calcatholic.com/...

The remark by a fellow bishop near the end of the article says it all: "No health-care reform is better than the wrong sort of health-care reform."

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Just saw the breaking news about the senator dying of brain cancer on Fox News. It's a bit surreal that he'd shortly follow Eunice to the grave, considering the divergent paths that both took, beginning around the time of the Chappaquiddick tragedy: http://www.catholiceducatio...

Unlike Sagefever, I normally do do the cut and paste tango -- with no shame whatsoever, particularly when it comes to great pieces like this one spotted on World Net Daily. How edifying it is to watch this implosion, and I haven't even broken out the pitchfork yet ...

Janet Porter urges, 'Let's take our nation back while we still can!'

While Obama's poll numbers are sinking faster than the value of our indebted dollar, Harry Reid is worried he could lose his seat. Pollsters predict a Democrat congressional loss of at least 20 seats, while the White House and Democrats in the House and Senate mock their constituents, shut them out and take phone calls while they ask questions.

But make no mistake, America is being heard.

Forget the talking points. Forget the spin. The best defense of our freedoms and our free market is coming from … Americans. They're not hired mobster community organizers – but moms and dads, vets and seniors. Here's a small sample from town hall meetings this month:

• "You have awakened the sleeping giant. We're tired of this. This is why everybody in this room is so ticked off."

• "I look at this health care plan; I see nothing about health or about care. What I see is a bureaucratic nightmare, Senator."

• "Medicaid is broke, Medicare is broke, Social Security is broke, and you want us to believe that a government that can't even run a Cash for Clunkers program is going to run one-seventh of our U.S. economy? No sir! No!"

• "We cannot afford this!"

• "Say no to socialism!"

• "Kill the bill! Kill the bill!"

• "I don't like the fact that my elected officials are running around calling me 'un-American,' a rabble rouser, a mobster …"

• "With all due respect, you work for us."

• "You are going to bankrupt this country, you and the Democrats. You are making a mistake."

• "Leave us alone. That's all we ask. Will you leave us alone?"

• "Socialism is taking money that people don't want to give, assuming that you can do better with that money than they can."

Here's one from this weekend from a disabled Marine veteran:

I will remind you. A little history lesson. The Nazis were the National Socialist Party. They were leftists. They took over the finances. They took over the car industry. They took over health care in their country. If Nancy Pelosi wants to find a swastika, maybe the first place she should look is the sleeve of her own arm."

– At Rep. Brian Baird's, D-Wash., town-hall meeting (David Hendrick's entire comments from Aug. 22 are worth watching.)

Then, predictably, Rep. Baird, on the leftist MSNBC said:

Some of the rhetoric that we're hearing is vaguely – not vaguely – but eerily reminiscent of the kind of things that drove Tim McVeigh to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma.

The awakening giant won't be silenced by this inane mocking and ridicule. Obama and the Democrats in Congress are pushing government-run health care, no matter what it happens to be called. Whether they call it a "co-op" or something else – make no mistake – it will kill babies with your tax dollars and push our seniors in need of life-saving treatment off the ledge. But, you may not know about how they will do the same to American veterans – those who have fought for us – and suffered great loss. The Obama administration apparently wants their loss to be even greater.

(Column continues below)

On Aug. 18, the Wall Street Journal exposed a "death book" that's designed to pressure American heroes who've fought for our nation at great expense to "get out of the way and die." When President Bush caught wind of this Hemlock-induced booklet, he pulled it, but who needs "death panels" when Barack Obama has brought it back?

Imagine losing your legs fighting for our nation and coming back to push poll questions that ask participants if their life is worth living if they're:

• "living in a nursing home,

• being in a wheelchair,

• not able to 'shake the blues.'"

Then this little gem tries to induce guilt for these veterans for the crime of "being alive," questioning their worth by asking them to check off from a list including:

• "I can no longer contribute to my family's well being,"

• "I am a severe financial burden on my family" or if the situation

• "causes severe emotional burden for my family."

Barack Obama said, "We are God's partners in matters of life and death."

No. We are not.

We are to care for the sick and the elderly … "the least of these." Obama likes to quote the verse, while advocating child-killing with our tax dollars and pushing the elderly, disabled and now veterans off the cliff.

Need health care? Take a look at an ad with the prescription advice you'd likely get if Obama and the Democrats in Congress have their way: Watch the ad.

Apart from the tax-funded abortion, rationing and euthanasia, we cannot afford this – monetarily. The Obama debt is predicted to be nearly $1 trillion a year for the next 10 years. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said it would take 34,000 years to pay off the indebtedness incurred by the Obama administration.

This administration and Congress are out of control. Isn't it time the rest of us to wake up?

Spread the Obama prescription ad far and wide. Then sign up for the How to Take Back America Conference Sept. 25 and 26 in St. Louis at the August early bird rate. Do more than speak out – train and organize next month with national leaders, including Gov. Mike Huckabee; former commander of the Green Berets and Special Forces, Gen. Jerry Boykin; Rep. Michele Bachman, R-Minn.; Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.; and Steve King, R-Iowa. The following national leaders will be there as well: Phyllis Schlafly, Mat Staver and Rick Scarborough.

Wake up. Speak up. Train up. And take our nation back while we still can!

Doesn't sound like the kind of guy the leftists have caricatured him to be. To hear them tell it, you'd think he was a genocidal maniac: http://catholicexchange.com...

You'd think more folks would get wee-wee'd up over the lack of publicity over this.

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Things are heating up next door, what with an Arizona congressman telling a townhall gathering that he is considering a lawsuit over the president's eligibility: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

Then there's a fed-up Marine from Tuscon putting on a tough-guy image as he takes aim at a Democrat for her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

I really didn't think the mutiny would occur THIS soon. Enjoy your vacation in Martha's Vineyard while you still can, Mr. Usurper President ...

First the bad news: Some 39-year-old lowlife from the state where I was born, Nebraska, impregnated a 14-year-old girl, then stole a Virgin Mary painting worth $100,000 from a church -- using his son as a lookout -- and fled to Mexico with the girl to get an abortion.

The good news is that he couldn't get the abortion and now will get thrown into the slammer for possibly 70 years (hopefully the painting was recovered as well): http://www.foxnews.com/stor...

Also good news is the report of a judge ruling that abortionists must tell women that they are ending a life. In other words, murdering their own flesh and blood: http://www.dakotavoice.com/...

We all know which political party is behind the policy that allowed these Obamanations to occur, no?

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Today represents the last of five consecutive Sundays in which Catholics hear and receive Jesus' "bread of life" discourse from Chapter 6 of the Gospel of John: http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/...

Fortunately his apostles stuck around rather than slink off like the others, even after Jesus asked them: "Do you want to leave, too?"

Perhaps you may want to stick around to read this excellent post: http://www.examiner.com/x-1...

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If the person whom many folks including myself suspect is usurping the presidency and his stooges persist in aggravating the birthers through their stonewalling over proving he meets the constitutional standards to occupy the Oval Office, then the birthers can play this game, too. Our latest salvo: an open letter from World Net Daily's founder and relentless haranguer, Joseph Farah:

Dear Mr. President:

I know you must be getting tired of those "birthers" suggesting you might not really be eligible to serve in the highest office in the land.

It must be infuriating.

As your White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, has pointed out, you have many grave concerns on your mind, and your administration should not be and cannot be distracted from the major issues of the day by demands for something as simple as your original birth certificate and other documents that would shed light on your background.

I have a suggestion about how to shut them up and make them all look ridiculous: Simply instruct your staff to order the release of the following:

• The original, long-form birth certificate, not the short-form certification of live birth, which is obviously subject to claims of fraud;
• All your school records dating back to kindergarten;
• Your Occidental College records and transcripts;
• Your Columbia University records and transcripts including your thesis papers;
• Your Harvard Law School records;
• Your Harvard Law Review writings;
• Your scholarly records from the University of Chicago;
• Your passport history;
• Your medical records;
• The files from your years as an Illinois state legislator;
• Your Illinois State Bar records;
• Your baptism records, if available;
• Your adoption records.

Please tell Gibbs and others in your administration and party to stop arguing with those who ask for the release of documents. Just release them! Do it now! Call their bluff!

These document requests are in line with the expectations set by your predecessors. But, remember, you pledged to conduct the most open and transparent administration in history.

Most of these documents will some day be included in your presidential library any way. Why not just release them now and shut up your most vociferous critics and the nosiest journalists?

Let's face it. Your party called for full disclosure of National Guard documents by George W. Bush, even though there was no question of eligibility for office in that case. Though we all know these "birthers" are zealously misguided in their demands, polls are showing their persistent requests are gaining traction among the American people. Many of them now don't even believe you are a citizen – let along a "natural born citizen," as the Constitution requires.

Think of the campaign money you could save. Records show you have already spent at least $1.4 million fighting lawsuits related to the release of records. This money will be needed in 2010 to keep Democrats running the Congress and in 2012 for your re-election effort.

And don't forget – if these questions are still being asked in 2012, it will make your re-election bid that much more difficult.

Mr. President, we all know the truth is going to come out eventually. It's always only a matter of time. Why not bring it out now and put all these nagging questions and this suspicion behind you?

Gibbs is right. You have too much important work to do to waste time on this. You are losing political capital. You don't have to lift a finger personally. Just authorize one of your many staffers to prepare the paperwork necessary to release all of the above. All it will take from you, Mr. President, is a signature.

You have your hands full right now with trying to promote some very unpopular policies you believe are vital to the future of America. Don't let those ideas be sidetracked by minutia. Do the right thing – the logical thing, the rational thing.

Do it now, before these "birthers" spread their venom any further.

For more articles from Farah's archive: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

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... I likee:

WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – Talk-show host Sean Hannity, a vocal opponent of Barack Obama's policies, said today he would not rule out a bid for the presidency in 2012.

Egged on by radio colleague Bill Cunningham, Hannity said he would consider entering the front lines of the political fray if God directs him.

"I've never made a decision in my life without – whatever destiny God has you've got to fulfill it," he said. "I'm not sure that's my destiny."

Hannity would make a formidable candidate, with the likability of Reagan, good looks and strong convictions. He's also a polished communicator and knows the issues inside out.

And he can debate.

Hannity hosts the second-largest radio program in America, after Rush Limbaugh, and a highly rated nightly TV show on the Fox News Channel.

While Obama's approval ratings have been plummeting in his first year in office, no clear Republican frontrunner has emerged. The candidates most often considered viable include Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Hannity's Fox News colleague Mike Huckabee.

Cunningham, one of Hannity's guests during a visit to Cincinnati today, said the nation and the Republican Party need Hannity.

When WND asked Hannity to repeat what he said on the air about a run, he said, "I ducked."

Later in the program, a member of the audience asked what the host thought of a Hannity-Palin ticket.

The studio audience erupted in applause.

Hannity asked: "Would any of you really want me to run?"

Loud applause followed.

Hannity then asked, "How about I just stay on the radio?"

No applause.

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... you can read the excellent essay below without getting all wee weed up about it. A doff of the cap to David Ben-Ariel for posting it on his Birthers blog.

It's written by Kyle-Anne Shiver, a frequent contributor to the American Thinker and a newly syndicated columnist with the Creators Syndicate.

As David remarks:

Every red-blooded American should naturally be a "birther." We owe it to ourselves, our Constitution, and to our Republic, so help us God.

**************

Please call me skeptical. It's a label I proudly wear. Since my first day of second grade, when I traded my homemade chocolate-chip cookies for a smooth-talking fourth-grader's out-of-ink ballpoint pen, I've been a wary consumer.

So, if a presidential candidate tries to hand me a barebones certificate of live birth in lieu of a valid, long-form birth certificate, my skeptical antennae go on alert. I automatically question his motives and whether or not he may be trying to play a little fast and loose with the U.S. Constitution. When that same president purportedly spends over a million dollars on legal fees, merely to keep a simple document sealed, then I'm starting to become curiouser and curiouser.

• Panahou Academy school records, 5^th through 12^th grades
• Occidental College records, including financial aid information.
• Columbia University records, including the missing senior thesis and financial aid information.
• Harvard University records, including information on how a student who never wrote anything (that can be found) was elected president of the prestigious law review, and including information on how Harvard Law School was afforded by humble community agitator, Barack Obama.
• Obama's Illinois state senate records and papers, mysteriously lost.

No man or woman in this Country today could successfully apply for a high-level executive position with any corporation without submitting this meager documentation to prove the statements made in a job application. No president in the past 30 years has been permitted this level of secrecy about his life. Yet, today we have a sitting president who has provided none of it. In lieu of actual documents, the American public has a "narrative" created by PR guru, turned political operative, David Axelrod.

It is this veritable information vacuum that feeds the birth certificate inquiries.

This ain't rocket science. It ain't even first-year-law-school tough.

If there is a simple legal issue at stake, and the defendant has the incontrovertible proof that would settle the issue, then all the defendant need do is produce the proof in court or in public. Case closed. Issue settled.

Go back to sleep now, boys and girls.

Unfortunately, President Obama and his insolent, adolescent press secretary, Bobby Gibbs, have decided to play dodgeball with the birth-certificate issue. Rather than just - quite simply -- provide the detailed birth certificate, signed by the attending physician, issued by the hospital where the birth occurred, Bobby and Barry have chosen to mock those asking for the proof.

When asked in July why this issue continues to simmer and raise its ugly head again and again, Bobby Gibbs offered this, now quite-trite response: "For $15 anyone can buy an internet address and say anything they want," calling the whole birth certificate brouhaha "made-up, fictional nonsense."

Why those silly, silly Birthers. Thinking that a president might try to bamboozle the American public! Has anything ever seemed so foolish, so imbecilic, so deranged!

Let me see, now. Have I ever been bamboozled by an American president?

LBJ: "I will never send American boys to fight in Vietnam."

Richard Nixon: "I am not a crook."

Bill Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

So, with all my little heart and soul, I want to believe both Barry and Bobby, but I'm still wanting the actual proof. And contrary to all protestations to the contrary, the current president's valid, long-form birth certificate, with all the pertinent details of his birth and legal signatures, has not been released by the state of Hawaii because permission to release it has - as of this very minute - not been granted by Barack Hussein Obama.

For all of us common citizens, who well remember having been bamboozled by former presidents, I've compiled a short list of what it takes to make one a Birther. You might want to see if your own skepticism warrants your inclusion in this growing number of "conspiracy nuts."

You might be a Birther if...you believe that the U.S. Constitution is still relevant. Most lawyers I know are quite the sticklers for legalese and detail. There is a simple, plainly-worded clause in the U.S. Constitution regarding the qualifications for the office of the presidency.

Article 2; Section 1:
 

No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

However, I'm inclined at this point, to question whether this president is a stickler for detail. Any lawyer, who goes on record surmising that police officers "acted stupidly," when he knows only scant details of an arrest incident, and openly admits that the person arrested is a personal friend, and that the details he knows came from his friend, is not like any lawyer I know. In fact, since Barack Obama assumed the presidency, he has shown over and over and over again an alarming disregard for the truth, especially in the details.

If you agree, then you might actually be a Birther.

You might be a Birther if...you ascribe to the rule of law. The law is the law. You can go through proper channels to change it, but if you respect the rule of law, you accept it, abide by it and until it is legally changed, you do not attempt to dodge it. The president is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America. When a president - any president - abridges the Constitution, even in the minutest of ways, it is a most egregious matter.

Our founders were quite intellectual men of reason, and possessed of uncommon foresight. They recognized that they were forming an imperfect union and knew that changes would be necessary with the passage of time. To this end, they established a formal process for amending our Constitution to meet the needs of a changing America. The process is necessarily cumbersome and difficult, requiring a great deal of public support.

Many now believe that the "natural-born citizen" clause is outdated and meaningless. Fine. All these folks need do is begin the process of passing a formal Constitutional Amendment, which would change the rule of law by which we choose our presidents. Until then, the rule of law is as stated in Article 2, Section 1.

You might actually be a Birther if you believe in the rule of law.

You might be a Birther if...you now have a feeling in your gut that the narrative used to elect a president was a bit off the mark in substantive ways. You may have been a moderate, who bought candidate Obama's conciliatory voice of moderation and intelligence, as eloquently displayed again and again on the campaign trail. But now that you've witnessed one leftist power play after another coming from the President, you're thinking you may have been misled. At the very least, you may be a Birther if you simply would like the president, who promised you transparency, to actually deliver a modicum of the stuff.

As for me, I'm no wacko. Nor am I believing much of anything this president says now, because he's been caught in so many exaggerations, so many outright lies, so many contortions of the truth, that anyone still trusting him on even small matters, might lack a decent amount of common sense.

The American system of government was designed upon an open acknowledgement of the unsavory elements of human nature. Our system is designed to be skeptical and demand proof.

To those who now calculate the political ramifications of making this simple request for records, I'm prone to ask myself when good old American civics died. There is nothing whatsoever political involved in this, except what the President, his own press secretary and leftist media hounds have made of it themselves. Have we all become nothing higher on the citizen scale than political operatives, gauging our words in accord with what effect they may have upon an electoral contest in the future? If so, we may be accomplices in the murder of American civics, plain and simple.

At this juncture, every single American of every political stripe might want to claim the title, "Birther." It is, after all, as American as apple pie to simply and politely say, "Show me."

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In a late Wednesday conference call with left-wing faith groups that backed his bid to usurp the presidency, he pooh-poohed warnings that the health care reform plans include public funding of abortions as a "fabrication" and "distraction": http://www.lifenews.com/nat...

So was he lying through his pearly whites like he did to the pope when he told him that he would reduce abortions despite a study concluding that public-funded abortions would jack up the murders of unborn by hundreds of thousands, or was he simply misinformed as Catholic League's Bill Dononhue wonders? http://www.catholicleague.o...

If it's the latter, then he better get a grip and start telling the George Tillers of the world like Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards to "get thee behind me, Satan!": http://www.lifesitenews.com...

Perhaps we need to get a reporter to get to the bottom of this to find out what the hell is going on. May I suggest the one who had the honesty to go into an abortion clinic to see for herself what cleaning out the contents of a woman's uterus entails? Hopefully she is not too shell-shocked from that experience to take on such a task: http://www.lifesitenews.com...

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A couple of days after the Lutherans rejected a proposal that would require a two-thirds supermajority vote instead of a majority to approve members in homosexual relationships to serve as clergy, a tornado roared into Minneapolis where they were meeting, knocking down the cross from the Lutheran church across the street from the gathering at the conference center just as they began discussing a 34-page document that would establish a theological framework for differing views of homosexuality: http://fratres.wordpress.co...

What do you say, folks? Was it a coincidence or co-incidents?

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Funny that the chief would post an article about a Hamas pedophilia ceremony as I was just reading a puke-inducing account of our Dear Leader posthumously awarding the Medal of Freedom to Harvey Milk and efforts by the state's lawmakers to establish a Harvey Milk Gay Day and to indoctrinate our young children into accepting this deviant lifestyle: http://www.calcatholic.com/...

I have to echo one of the comments on the site that summarizes my thoughts:

It is amazing to see how those who condemn sexually abusive priests (most of whom were engaging in homosexual contact) consider this guy to be a hero.

We all know just which party is behind this Obamanation. What a sick, twisted world ...

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Such music to my ears to hear words like that. I hate to say "I told you so" to all my fellow Californians who got behind Proposition 71 a few years ago that ended up liberally wasting billions more of our hard-earned dollars on some "science" from hell, but it's clear that they've been had by the serpentine promises that our lives would be bettered through the sacrifice of the innocents on the altar of Moloch.

Behold the zingers:

But as advances in the treatment of diseases and medical conditions using adult stem cells multiply daily and the technical limitations of embryonic stem cells remain, it appears that the Church’s morally correct position was scientifically correct.

“There's more that we don't understand than we do,’ says Eric Rulifson, a researcher at the UCSF Diabetes Center. ‘None of this stuff works. There's no stem cell therapy that works without causing harm, because we don't understand what stem cells do.’” Jamison, speaking in lay terms, said “You wouldn't know it from listening to Obama or the promises of the Prop. 71 campaign, but human embryonic stem cells are, when not tightly controlled, a substance akin to poison.”

The guiltiest snake-oil salesmen for embryonic stem cell research were never scientists. They were, and continue to be, members of the political class and the mainstream media. An example is the inexcusable claim made in January, 2009, by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: “Scientists have been given an almost biblical power to cure through advances in embryonic stem cell research.” What could motivate such an irrational statement, utterly in conflict with the statements of the scientists themselves?

If you should so desire to read and weep along with that fox named Michael J. over the rest of the article, here it is: http://www.calcatholic.com/...

We've all heard of "blind faith," so how ironic that the heretic Catholic Pelosi and her ilk would cast their lots on "blind science." When will they finally understand that when stuff like this is beyond their pay grade to comprehend and master, it would be wise to listen to the church founded by Christ, whom he promised would be guided by the Holy Spirit into the truths?

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The World Net Daily hound dogs are still on the hunt, this time delving into what they call the "six lost months" leading up to Barry's birth in which her whereabouts are unknown: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

In another fine example of dogged journalism, WND's founder fires off another piece, this time, among other things, questioning how is it that Obama "mama" was able to take classes in Seattle a mere 15 days after B.O.'s supposed birth in Honolulu: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

Perhaps the Globe tabloid just may be onto something in claiming that she gave birth to him in Vancouver, then later duped Hawaiian officials into making it a Hawaiian birth out of fear of what his mack daddy might do: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

Is the prez ready yet to end the stonewalling over releasing his birth certificate? Either way, I smell a story of the century along with those houndogs. If he wants to keep playing games and gamble that he'll never be sniffed out as the fraud we think he is, well, two can play this game, as evidenced by the newest "Where's the Birth Certificate?" billboard to go up -- this one smack in the middle of Vegas, baby! As WaMu would say, WOO HOO! http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

Tick ... tock ... tick ... tock ...

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How it'd really make my day to have Rick Santorum, undisputably one of the biggest enemies of the left in the culture wars, emerge to carry the banner of the conservatives into the White House in 2012.

Hopefully the Republicans will write off his loss to Robert Casey Jr. in Pennsylvania for a U.S. Senate seat as just a casualty of those hyperventilating for change (and later regretting it), and rally around his candidacy should the dipping of his toes into Iowa's water create a tsunami: http://www.politico.com/new...

Considering that conservative Christians come out in forces for the caucuses, it'll be interesting to see if Santorum can steal the thunder from the likes of Romney, Huckabee, Palin and Jindal.

I was disappointed that Sam Brownback didn't make waves last time, let alone sometimes betraying his conservative, pro-life Catholic background, so it'll indeed be sweet if Santorum delivers me a sense of vindication.

Stay tuned for a Santorum-Jindal ticket to emerge ...

... Fr. Dwight Longenecker tut-tuts that they have another think coming: http://gkupsidedown.blogspo...

Some folks on these blogs often spout foolish nonsense about how they'd rather spend an eternity with Heathens Gone Wild than with goody two-shoes playing their harps.

A buddy of mine from the Catholic Report has this to say about the post:

The sad thing is that many people, even faithful Christians, might think sin is exciting, but it is just the opposite. How many times have we read accounts of rock stars who said all the drugs, alcohol and women became tremendously boring? They actually longed for quiet time and a good book, all the while many people were reading Harlequin-style novels that made all the debauchery of the music world sound much more exciting than it really was. As Father Longenecker said, hell will be tremendously boring while heaven will be the place with excitement and creativity.

Bet that'll really suck when the time comes ...

... and I mean that literally. This video, in Spanish but with English subtitles, has been making a bit of the rounds in the Catholic blogosphere. Considering that the readings of the Mass recently has focused on Jesus' "bread of life" discourse, I thought now would be as good a time as any to post this.

Should the video make you feel inclined to delve more into this, may I suggest: http://www.therealpresence....

But for those who are inclined to mock transubstantiation, the idea that a wheat wafer can literally be transformed into the body of Christ and wine into his blood, keep in mind that things are not always what they seem. The chair you are sitting on and the computer monitor you are staring at aren't fixed, inanimate objects. We're talking of them being composed mostly of space and moving atoms. Think about that.

How about that? While I knew her brother Teddy abandoned his pro-life principles, I never knew that Eunice bucked the rest of her clan in supporting the right to life. Sadly, the same can't be said for her pro-abortion daughter, Maria, who last year bragged that she picks and chooses what Catholic Church dogmas and teachings to follow.

It's nice to know she lived a long and fulfilling life before her recent death, being spared of the so-called "Curse of the Kennedys." She was the kind of Kennedy whom I thought I was admiring when I grew up as a supporter of Jack and Bobby, the latter of whose hands I shook as a grade-schooler during his whistle-stop tour in the Midwest en route to that fateful encounter with Sirhan Sirhan.

Vox Nova, a blog that Maria would be proud of, has come to its senses for once in saluting her mother with a moving tribute: http://vox-nova.com/2009/08...

LifeSiteNews has more on this: http://www.lifesitenews.com...

I can only imagine why the U.N. would snub her: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

Could it have anything to do with her pro-life views and support of the Special Olympics? Does the U.N. see those kind of people as a drain on resources or something?

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So how's our Dear Leader doing at the North American Leaders' summit in Mexico? He's not bowing to other leaders or apologizing for our transgressions, is he? Anyway, it's edifying to know there are some watchdogs down there to nip at his heels should he stray off course: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

One reason we need to slap that camel's nose out of the tent is that we certainly don't to fulfill the aspirations of a certain group. As Daniel Estulin, the author of "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group," puts it:

"Clearly, there are two main reasons why an incremental and secretive approach is being used to form the North American Union. First, such a union would be extremely unpopular with the majority of Americans and Canadians and would not be permitted if it were widely publicized. Second, the dissolution of the United States not only violates the U.S. Constitution, it would essentially destroy the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights."

Doesn't that statement conjure images of the tea parties and raucous reactions from constituents whenever the legislators turn the topic to our Dear Leader's DeathCare during their August recess?

Hat tip to The Palination:

In the unveiling of the "Public Option," Dr. Democrat, left, and Dr. RINO are seen giving Mr. and Mrs. Frank the bad news.

Dr. Democrat: "I'm sorry, but recharging is not an option."

Dr. RINO: "Yep, I'm afraid he is correct. We need that electricity for, um, more likely survivors."

Mr. Frank: "errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......... ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
 

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Nice to hear a researcher and physicist regard the conservation of the cloak of St. Juan Diego with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe imprinted on it as being "completely beyond any scientific explanation": http://www.catholicnewsagen...

Hillary Clinton could've avoided the Bidenesque blooper she made when she asked who painted it during her trip to Mexico some months ago if she only knew about this.

Perhaps such occurrences of ignorance will diminish after the upcoming release of a major movie on the virgin whose heel crushes the head of the serpent: http://www.reuters.com/arti...

Waddaya know? Just when I was considering resigning myself to the idea that Barack Obama aka Barry Soetoro was indeed born in Hawaii despite the fact that this still doesn't make him a natural-born citizen and that his half-sister reportedly got the same piece of paper that Team Obama has been passing off as proof of his Hawaiian birth although she was born in Indonesia, along comes a potential bombshell:

http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

http://www.therightsideofli...

We've all heard of September Surprise. Maybe we now have an August Astonishment.

Stay tuned. Tick ... tock ... tick ... tock ...