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Oil on canvas pad, I think 9 x 12”
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| NICE RIDE TO THE GROCERY STORE - JAG U ARE |
Just walking in the neighborhood one morning:
And one evening, looking down the street. Plus my Christmas glow.
Speaking of December, the U-Pick ‘Em tomatoes are almost all in so we should have a good crop in late January - April.
Subject: White House Fence Repairs
All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.
The New Orleans contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil.
“Well,” he says, “I figure the job will run about $9,000. That’s $4,000 for materials, $4,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me.”
The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $7,000. That’s $3,000 for materials, $3,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me.”
The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, “$27,000.”
The official, incredulous, says: “You didn’t even measure like the other guys. How did you come up with such a high figure? ”
The Chicago contractor whispers back: “$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence.”
“Done!” replies the government official.
And that, my friends, is how the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better legislation will work.
Empty now…
Talk about a pet peeve of mine…
After the bishops of the United States adopted “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church”on November 17, it took the Washington Post less than an hour to misrepresent what the document taught, as Post’s online story was headlined, “U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approves Communion document without singling out politicians who support abortion rights.”
The Wall Street Journal, having had all day to ponder the bishops’ statement, got things completely wrong, too, when its day-after headline read, “Bishops Avoid Abortion Issue in Guidelines on Communion.”
Read the footnotes…such as:
“If a Catholic in his or her personal or professional life were knowingly and obstinately to reject the defined doctrines of the Church, or knowingly and obstinately to repudiate her definitive teaching on moral issues, however, he or she would seriously diminish his or her communion with the Church. Reception of Holy Communion in such a situation would not accord with the nature of the Eucharistic celebration, so that he or she should refrain.”6
Reception of Holy Communion in such a situation is also likely to cause scandal for others, weakening their resolve to be faithful to the demands of the Gospel.7
Including a victory over state champ in another division, St. Charles Lutheran. 
St. Mary’s grad
59, and I promise you that some of those WOULD HAVE died for something else in 2020. Apologizes to anyone who has lost someone to COVID
GAVIN….
Friends, our Gospel for today tells that wonderful story of the healing of the paralytic. People gather by the dozens to hear Jesus, crowding around the doorway of the house. They bring him a paralyzed man, and because there is no way to get him through the door, they climb up on the roof and open a space to lower him down. Can I suggest a connection between this wonderful narrative and our present evangelical situation? There are an awful lot of Catholics who are paralyzed, unable to move, frozen in regard to Christ and the Church. This might be from doubt, from fear, from anger, from old resentment, from ignorance, or from self-reproach. Some of these reasons might be good; some might be bad. |
BELOW THE FOLD: WARNING:
Merry Christmas, Claude and Linda:
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| Thank you Babylon Bee |
And, …
Americans are criticizing Joe Biden and his administration for making promises they have avoided keeping for more than a year now.
“No, I don’t think it should be mandatory. I wouldn’t demand it to be mandatory. But I would do everything in my power, just like I don’t think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide,” said Biden during his presidential campaign.
It’s been a year since Biden broke that exact promise saying he wouldn’t mandate COVID-19 vaccines. Biden told the American people back in December of 2020, he wouldn’t make vaccines a national requirement. However, today people are losing their jobs due to his federal mandate.
Not only did the Democrat leader break his promise, but he also had his administration and medical advisors participating in those lies.
“We don’t want to be mandating from the federal government to the general population. It would be unenforceable and not appropriate. Definitely not,” Anthony Fauci once said. “You don’t want to mandate and try and force anyone to take a vaccine. We’ve never done that.”
Earlier on, White House Chief Medical Advisor Fauci insisted the federal government wouldn’t mandate the vaccine. But the only thing America’s doctor has done is let people down with lies.
Biden previously vowed he would “do everything in his power” to protect Americans, however, his administration’s handling of COVID speaks for itself. Even with a so-called lifesaving vaccine being available, there have been more COVID deaths under the current administration than under the previous one.
Meanwhile, Biden has been pointing the blame towards Republicans and people who are skeptical about getting the jab for politicizing vaccines and the virus in general. In October, he said Americans should be getting vaccinated because it’s “about being patriotic and doing the right thing.” In addition, his own vice president didn’t hold back from giving her thoughts on the matter.
“If the doctors tell us that we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it. Absolutely. But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I’m not taking it,” said Kamala Harris during the vice presidential debate.
These lies may stem from a year ago, but we continue to see these patterns from the left who promised inflation would go back to a normal level months ago. However, today, it’s the highest it’s been since 1990 and Democrats want to solve it with a trillion-dollar social spending bill as if it won’t add to the nation’s budget deficit.
Amid all the lies, Biden’s approval rating remains under 50 percent and a recent poll suggests 60 percent of all U.S. adults say the country is headed in the wrong direction.
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