Conspiracy story of the day:
According to the UKGuardian, the Bilderbergers anointed Romney and Mitch Daniels as the next US president, and have decided that Syria will have a new government and have already chosen the lady to run it.
and only the nutcases are there to notice/protest:
Occupy Bilderberg rubbing shoulders with US veterans, German students who've flown over for the event, truckers from Michigan, Orthodox Jews, Ron Paul supporters, anarcho-syndicalists, academics and grandmothers.
Why? In the words of the statement from Occupy London: "the profound denial of a participatory, direct democracy which the Bilderberg Conference represents."
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what if a million people showed up to support the Pope and no one reported it?
That's how many the SeattlePI reported attended the mass with the Pope at the Milan World Congress of Families. CNS story here.
The family is the first place people become aware that the world does not revolve around just themselves, he said. It's in the family one learns that the driving force is not egoism, but self-giving, and "it is in the family that the light of peace begins to light up in the heart," a light that is meant to radiate out into the world.The idea that a person lives in a family, rather than being a free but isolated individual, is similar to the emphasis of Confician ethics, but in contrast to the Protestant/western ideal, which emphasizes individual liberty and freedom.
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Factoid of the day: There is a patron saint of Illegal Mexican migrants seeking work in the USA:
Wikipedia link.
St. Toribio Romo Gonzalez, patron saint of migrants and the most famous of the canonized 25 martyrs of the 1920s Cristero Rebellion...
Migrants seek his intervention before heading north, while those en route say sightings of St. Toribio are commonly reported during difficult times on the journey...
Stories of St. Toribio helping migrants started surfacing in the 1970s. Many such stories were told by migrants from Los Altos, a region famed for ranching, tequila distilling and blue-eyed inhabitants. Others were recounted by migrants heading for the United States.
More here.
One cultural note: if you are confused by the name, you need to know that in Spanish, the father's name comes first, then the mothers. So that in American usage, his last name would be Romo...
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The "Being PC means never having to bother with logic or data" articles of the day:
The sex book by a PC nun was given thumbs down by the Vatican, but the UK Catholic Herald points out it has another problem: lack of academic rigor:
Farley notes that the judgment of tradition has been overwhelmingly negative; even Kant disapproved very strongly; however now ‘most’ theologians and medical practitioners view the activity as ‘morally neutral’; in other words it all depends on reasons and circumstances. Her final word is that ‘This remains a largely empirical question, not a moral one’.
This is certainly a coherent point of view, but where is her evidence for this position? She mentions Kinsey and the empirical evidence of some human experience, but she does not explain how the change from moral evil to moral neutrality occurred. One can be forgiven for thinking that the 20th century arrived and the mists of obscurantism vanished before the bright sun of reason (‘Christian traditions … judged it harshly before the 20th century’ (p.236)) – but this is not an argument.”ah, yes, but if you are politically correct, you can say anything you want without bothering with things such as proof, logic or footnotes, as LegalInsurrection points out about another PC female scholar.
It is 60 pages of devastating analysis of a book Warren co-authored, As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America. This is the money quote reprinted in Leahy’s article:
Most of their study replicates several earlier research publications. These are hardly mentioned. The writers make extravagant and false claims to originality and priority of research. There appear to be serious errors in their use of statistical bases which result in grossly mistaken functions and comparisons. Some of their conclusions cannot be obtained even from their flawed findings. The authors have made their raw data unavailable so that its accuracy cannot be independently checked. In my opinion, the authors have engaged in repeated instances of scientific misconduct. [emphasis added]
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The "vote early and vote often" report of the day comes from Instapundit:
And turnout sure is high: Report: 119% Voter Turnout in Madison, WI. I’ll bet it wouldn’t have been this high if they’d required photo ID. Knowing that the Justice Department is overseeing things, I’m sure there won’t be any voter fraud.---------------------------------------------
also from Instapundit:
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Lileks takes on the food police:
A culture that redefines food choices as moral issues will demonize the people who don’t share the tastes of the priest class. A culture that elevates eating to some holistic act of ethical self-definition - localvore, low-carbon-impact food, fair trade, artisanal cheese - will find the casual carefree choices of the less-enlightened as an affront to their belief system. Leave it to Americans to invent a Puritan strain of Epicurianism..
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And the good news of the day: Excess exercize is bad for you.
more HERE.
The phenomenon has been dubbed Phidippides cardiomyopathy - after the fatal heart damage suffered by the original marathon runner.
Phiedippides was the runner who brought news to Athens to tell them about the victory at Marathon, and then promptly dropped dead.
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