Wonder why you have spyware..ban kid sites

Hat tip to instapundit.

This article showes how well known kid sites are targetting your pc's with spyware/adware.

Children were the biggest target for spyware makers, by far. The trip to several kids' sites installed a whopping 359 pieces of adware on Symantec's PCs, five times more than the nearest category rival, travel. Popup ads proliferated on the machines after that, making them virtually unusable.

I bet they would take legal action against us if we decided to put stuff on the sites machines :-(

No wonder my pc stays fairly clean :-) I don't let the kids use it.

Kerry is....but he isn't

From the Boston Globe:

The caveat emperor

AT THIS POINT it comes as no surprise. John Kerry is releasing all his military records -- but then again, he isn't.

The devil is usually in the details. With Kerry, it's also in the dodges and digressions.

Kerry = Clear as Mud and as straight as an "S" turn.

Leaving the Left

Leaving the Left is a very good article to leave the "Left" without a far right mantra. About a 5 minute read.

Nightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I'm separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and

hat tip to lucianne

christianity with cojones

Christianity with Cojones
When I saw the name of this post, I had to read it.

One of the commentors said:

Chesterton said that the pacifist is one who teaches that if a man sees another man beating a woman to death he must not strike him. Chesterton said he'd rather expose a boy to a leper than a man like that.

Kathy did it :-)

SHE DID IT!!!!!!
Kathy is graduating with her Sociology degree tonight after many years of night classes. Here GPA is 3.9 something. How she did that while taking care of a husband and five kids, I have no idea.

So if any of the three readers of this blog see her, say CONGRATS!!
...or you can leave a comment :-)

Worse than smoking but it is preferred

per President Aristotle

Satinover here offers more evidence for what I would take to be a key part of an Aristotelian critique of...X... conduct (at least among men): it is contrary to natural law, and it places those who practice it at severe medical risk. To put it differently, the medical risk involved in ...X... conduct is vastly greater than that involved with cigarette smoking. Yet no one would accuse those who try to end smoking of being bigoted or prejudiced against smokers.

I put the X's in go see what it is here.

His follow up post here.

America is dead?

You should go look at this over at Riding Sun.

This quote from his site seems to be too easy:

If I were to offer Newsweek a suggestion, it would be this: Any story or cover you're ashamed to run in America probably shouldn't be used in other countries, either.

Instapundit and LGF also have links

Cole did it :-(

He did it :-(
Cole was practicing his new skill of riding a bike at the neighbors yesterday and wrecked. Per the emergency room, he has small fracture on his elbow. We have to take him to the orthopedic surgeon today to have them take a look at it. Please say a little pray for the boy because the elbow can be a trickey area to have a problem.

Just finished reading....

I just finished reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
I want to give a few exceprts but I might as well type the whole book. I had heard from Anglicans, Baptists, Catholics and Methodists about this great book. I highly suggest everyone read this book without exceptiong :-)

Next is Thomas Howard's Evangelical Is Not Enough: Worship of God in Liturgy and Sacrament .

Church and Politics

There are news articles like this from CNN about a church in Waynesville NC where my sister lives. It even made papers in the UK. It is real funny how a small paster makes a statement saying abortion is wrong and may have leaned torward a canidate that did not believe in abortion. The press go nuts with the false seperation of church and state thing.

BUT.........

When Kerry seemed to be campaigning at a different church every Sunday during the campaign, the MSM covered it just like it was just another campaign stop with no indignation over him talking it up in a church. The likes of Jesse "shakedown" Jackson and Rev. Al "not-so" Sharpton were stumping on pulpits for Kerry and no one said a thing. I guess as long as you sacrifice a baby at the alter, you can campaign how you want.

Thomas Sowell on illegal immigration

Thomas Sowell chimes in on Illegal Immigration:

Virtually every job in the country is work that Americans will not do, if the pay is below a certain level. And the pay will not rise to that level so long as illegal immigrants -- "undocumented workers" -- are available to work for less.

Even those who write editorials about how we need Mexicans to do work that Americans will not do would not be willing to write editorials for a fraction of what they are being paid. If Mexican editorial writers were coming across the border illegally and taking their jobs, maybe the issue would become clearer.

This is a must read.

...and here are some recent quotes from good ole Thomas :-)

How can you be an "insurgent" in someone else's country? Yet despite the fact that the wave of terrorism in Iraq is led by an outside terrorist who is murdering Iraqis, our media still calls his terror campaign an "insurgency."

Everyone is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty -- in a court of law. But we cannot just mindlessly repeat words outside the context in which they apply. If you discovered that your spouse had been secretly checking into motels with someone else, would you presume innocence until proven guilty?

If the government gave a $5,000 subsidy to anyone who buys an automobile, do you doubt that the price of automobiles would go up -- perhaps by $5,000? Why then does no one see any connection between government subsidies to college students and rising tuition?

People who oppose the privatization of Social Security call it "a risky scheme." But is anything more risky than turning money over to politicians and hoping that they won't spend it before you retire? They have been spending the "trust fund" for decades.

Time and again, over the centuries, price controls have produced three things: shortages, quality deterioration and black markets. Why would anyone want any of those things with pharmaceutical drugs?

A Jihad that is not there....but you better be scared

When Columnists Cry 'Jihad' by John McCandlish Phillips is an interesting article relating to the names given to the Christian Right and the revision of American History.

Are you a Republican?

I am: 83% Republican.

"You listen to a lot of AM talk radio, don't you?"

Are You A Republican?

That is because they are not conservative enough :-)

Maryland closes classrooms to parents

I heard about this on the G. Gordon Liddy show yesterday on the way the pharmacy. I was going to write about it but Powerline has already done it here. The screw-al policy is for the school to have the classrooms open for parents to know what is going on. Since they are teaching the kids about the 9-types of families, it is too much for the parents to be able to understand. (yes I said NINE)

From powerline

As I mentioned, this is a "pilot" program. A "citizens advisory committee" is supposed to collect feedback from students, teachers, and parents and make a recommendation to the school board as to whether to implement the program county-wide. Which makes it seem particularly odd that parents will not be allowed to observe the program in action. Moreover, Michelle Turner of the Citizens for Responsible Curriculum says that teachers are refusing to supply parents with copies of the curriculum or the course resource materials. This looks like the nanny state with a twist -- a nanny who is partial to alternative life-styles

This is something to be concerned about.....and not only Maryland.

Terri's final moments

Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life tells of the final day of Terri Schindler-Schiavo.

Please read all of An Eywitness Account . Here is something you will not hear from the MSM.

I told Terri she has many people around the country and around the world who lover her and are praying for her. She looked at me attentively. I said, "Terri now we are going to pray together, I want to give you a blessing, let's say some prayers." So I laid my hand on her head. She closed her eyes. I said the prayer. She opened her eyes again at the end of the prayer. Her dad leaned over to her and said, "OK Terri now here comes the tickle," because he has a mustache. She would laugh and smile and after he kissed her I saw her return the kiss. Her mom asked her a question at a certain point and I heard her voice. She was trying to respond. She was making sounds in response to her mother's question, not just at odd times and meaningless moments. I heard her trying to say something but she was not, because of her disability, able to articulate the words. So she was responsive.

Read it all. (Ed...you said that up above.) I know I said it up above...you really should read it!

Breakthrough Bible passage from Luke found

This is awesome how technology can assist in finding the accurate rendering of scripture.
You will have to go Here to read it.

Update:
Stealing from President Aristotle

How the NY Times would have covered Jesus: "CAESAREA PHILIPPI (20 Kislev) Yesterday's surprise announcement that doctrinal hardliner Jesus of Nazareth had been anointed "Messiah" provoked mixed reactions in the diverse and sometimes fractious Israelite community, ranging from cautious disappointment to frank despair.
"I see it as a missed opportunity," said Herodias Schneidkopf, a Galilaean incest rights activist. "Many of us were hoping for someone more open to leadership roles for women and more appreciative of our experience. I don't feel valued."

The Benedict bashing has started

And why should I be surpised......
As romanchatholicblog said here:

If I had a dollar for every time I heard the words "polarizing," "divisive," "strict," "ultraconservative," etc. on CNN today, I'd have enough money...to buy CNN!

I was flipping through the channels myself tonight and MSNBC, and CNN both pushed the Nazi connection (handled here) and the neocon/ultracon/and.any.other.CON that came to mind.

theanchoress says:

Basically the press seems to be saying, “Oh, no! They elected a CATHOLIC! Liberals are doomed! DOOMED!” ....Pray for Benedict XVI. It is no easy thing to have so much hatred and malice being directed toward you. He will need our prayers.

The Dictatorship of Relativism

Michael Novaks article on "The Dictatorship of Relativism" that was mentioned in the Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's sermon just before the conclave.

I was going to print an excerpt but .......
Read the whole thing... Culture in Crisis

Bishop backs Planned Parenthood

The Anchoress has an not so suprising article that starts out like this:

Planned Parenthood should target “people of faith” to promote abortion rights and comprehensive sex education, the Episcopal Church’s first openly homosexual bishop told a gathering in the District yesterday.

The more I analyze this...it just makes me sick. What were they thinking (they weren't..Ed) when they made this guy a bishop. If Anglican Church continues to accept this, I sure hope the African Anglican church follows through and splits. Then at least they will retain some credibility.

Pope John Paul the Great

I stayed away from posting since the death of John Paul II (JPII) because I did not know what to write. How do I summerize a man who has touched millions of peoples lives in a positive way. I will keep it brief and simple and look at an area that affected me..... and I hope that his influence will show in future udates.

The following are two quotes by and referencing Pope John Paul II.

" 'Life' is one of the most beautiful titles which the Bible attributes to God"
Pope John Paul message to the Pontifical Acadamy of Sciences, 1996

George Weigel starts off one recent column with this:

For all its diversity of accomplishment and complexity of thought, the pontificate of Pope John Paul II was a series of variations on one great theme: Jesus Christ is the answer to the question that is every human life.

JPII was a Pope that pointed to Life. He pointed to The Life ... as in John 14:6 ....Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me....
He was Christocentic in his message.

JPII Promoted "Culture of Life" and coined the phrase "Culture of Death" to accurately discribe the hedonistic abortion-one-demand and euthanasia (spelled getridoftheuselessbreathers) supporters. I can not think of a single person that promoted all stages of life more than JPII with the exception of the Jesus the Christ.
His encyclical the Gospel of Life , that reflects on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life, has increased my understanding of life at ALL stages to a whole new level. I suggest everyone read it (including non-Catholics), you will be challenged on life issues. JPII lived this to his last hour and is an example to all of us.

He has many other encyclicals that I still want to read. I am in the middle of Splendor of Truth which I am ready to recommend to all....again :-)


UPDATE on the Life issues thing :
TheAnchoress has about mass euthanasia in Britian.

Pope Paul VI was eerily prescient when he wrote Humanae Vitae - he drew the link from birth control to abortion to infanticide to euthanasia. I didn’t believe it for a long time. When I was a teenager, I remember thinking of it as mere Italian prudishness. But only forty years later, we have seen the establishment of the Culture of Death, and we can trace the tread. How quickly it unspooled!

Even in countries which are only recently embracing birth control, as in Ireland, we are seeing the immediate change of priorities, from family and stability, to materialism and worldliness.

And of course, some of this has been helped along by both the exorbitant cost of medical care in long-term facilities (let’s take out Grandma before our inheritance is eaten up by these fees), and on the other side by socialized medicine that has discouraged the best and the brightest from entering medicine. Socialism breeds mediocrity in everything it touches - it does not encourage excellence.

Read the whole thing.