Blog Guide

Waiting for the big games. So a few words on "blogs," the greatest invention since---well, I won't say it. But it starts with s and ends with x and has 3 letters.

Blog clubs. A lot of blogs are kind of like college fraternities and sororities in Mississippi. They have their own "members", they will let others come by, but its really better to be in the club. A good example of this is a catholic blog run by a real nice lady. She's liberal, so you can say about anything. But if her "members" don't like you and you comment on this lady's blog, she immediately breaks into poetry. I ask her to use Kilmer's "Trees" once, but she was sharp enough to realize the old saying (Myabe Chesterton) that the God who made the trees also made the fool who made the poems about trees. Still a fine blog. There are several other "club blogs.' I suspect the members have a real, and I mean REAL close relationship. They like to talk about getting drunk together.

Episcopal blogs. There are a whole bunch, but you can never get on. You have to sign affadavits, know codes, and wait for an anwer which NEVER comes. No joke. But I think I know the answer----there are no Episcopal/Anglicans left in America. The archbishop of Canterbury puts them up to act like there are still LIVING Anglicans here.

Catholic blogs. Well, at least, they're always home. Just be sure not to comment on one of these that you DON"T think a single cell is the same as a million cell organism. If you do, you could be threatened by drowning in Lourdes water.

Worst blog I've ever seen. Well, I won't give the name but it is run by an Anglican priest in England. This blog greets you by the blog owner saying something like 'I'm a nasty bastard, so don't cross me.' This blog has collected some of the foulest mouth, vicious people all over the world. The favorite word is various forms of the "F" word. A friend of my went on, by invitation I might add, and was met with salacious comments, and comments from a regular on the size of his sexual organ, just as examples. Then the blog reverts to lachrymose(Ya, I know I can't spell this) comments about friends of the blog who are ill or something. This is a VERY popular blog here in America, by the way, but be ready, measure the size of your organ ( not musical) if you're male and watch out!!!

Blogs ARE great. But this little guide could come in handy. Jack

Words--are these all the same?

Still keeping one eye on basketball, but what to know if any looker sees any difference in these words. Every time I try to find views about abortion, I get so many "words" thrown at me. So are their differences between:

human being
life
baby
homo sapiens
child
person
embryo
human life
personhood
cell
the unborn (new, but very popular)
innocent human life vs. guilty human life
human
human rights
cell rights
and others

Every time I get in a debate we spend half the time on the right words. How 'bout some help. These seem to be different things to me, but others think they all mean the same thing. Jack

liberal catholic staying cool-----HELP!!!!!!!

Hey, "official catholics staying cool." I am still trying to reach you; but no luck. Respond here and give me help.

The above is a new blog which really looks great. But as a computer "nerd"( I mean idiot) I cannot find how to comment on this new blog. You can find it by putting liberal catholic staying cool in the google search box.

Help me liberal catholic staying cool. I can find your blog and have submitted several queries, but I don't think they get through. Jack

Opportunities for Benny!!!

Laying off Benny's silly comment about condoms, let's look at the hierarchy's mounting attack on the laity. Our dioscesan magazine had a veiled, but vicious attack on marriage. Of course this is the hierarchy effort to assert their spiritual and holiness superiority. Benny said something the other day about overemphasizing the role of the laity. And other efforts at the local level to 'discipline' members and on the national front to call 90 percent of Americans supporters of killing children.

And the trip to Cameroon: the future of Catholicism many claim. And why does the Church push the 'African/Southern' strategy. Lots of prospects in Cameroon. Life expectancy, 50 years; infant mortality, 76 per 1,000 live births (one of the highest in the world); literacy, overall 63 percent, women about 50 percent. You see a perfect place for old style Catholicism to make roots.

Dress up Benny in one of his great new costumes, send him to an underdeveloped, poverty stricken country dressed in his latest Vegas costume, promising 'magic'---well if that's not a winner for the old guard Catholics, what is?

The Catholic "Church" big dance!

Ina couple of hours we will know about the big basketball "dance." That is who will be in the 65 team field for the NCAA national basketball championship. In the meantime I am amusing myself with the Catholic dance over "what or who is church?". I say amusing because at least a lot of Catholic bloggers are trying to wiggle themselves out of the 'web' that is the battle between clergy and laity.

I am not saying the attitude toward sex is the only difference between laity and hierarchy, but it is certainly one of the central issues. And the struggle is amusing because both sides---laity and hierarchy---frantically try to act like the attitude toward SEX is only a minor issue, if an issue at all.

Simply, but obviously, to any objective observer the issue may be framed as follows:

Hierarchy. Sex is only an acceptable as a means to an end. It cannot be an end in itself. It must be justified by some end other than personal/mutual gratification.

Laity. Sex is a natural human drive that needs no justification as an end in itself.

Clergy are celibate and believe only by abstaining from all forms of sex can a person clear his way to total holiness.

Laity are usually not celibate in reality or desire and reject the idea that celibacy is the 'fast track' to holiness.

Taking only one example, abortion. The hierarchy---the official teachers of the church---say abortion in ALL circumstances is tantamount to murder. The laity generally opposes abortion but says there are exceptions. Poll after poll confirms this.

But the hierarchy has thrown down the gauntlet. Accept our point of view or you are not a true Catholic. The hierarchy has placed all its chips and its future on its ability to make the laity accept their position. If the hierarchy gets the laity 'back in line' on this one issue, they have won. The hierarchy, then, is the savior of the Church, the controller of the thought of millions, and a powerful secular political influence, and their individual power is secure. If they fail, the game is over. The laity is Church.

The issue is quite simple, no matter how the bloggers squirm to reframe the conflict. Most bloggers try to avoid the issue above by claiming it is boring or not relavent. I say they just don't like to face facts. Jack

Big Dance!!!

Still not good at posting pictures. So I have to do another post, when I wanted just one. The "Big Dance" is getting close so I will give free tips here. Now, my favorite teams are Oklahoma State, Oklahoma University, Tulsa University, Kentucky, Marquette. OR any team that can beat my least favorite teams, which are: UCLA, Conneticut, Florida, Louisville.

I may have just two favorites in the tourney. Marquette---a long shot because of injury to key player--- and Oklahoma University---saging a bit at the end of the season.

Tulsa is a long shot to even get in Tournament; and Oklahoma State must win Wednesday against Iowa State to get in the tournament in my opinion. (Leave out "humble")

Looking way ahead, I think there are three teams a cut above the others. Connecticut,Pittsburg, North Carolina.

Yes, I live in Oklahoma which is raw meat for eastern slobs, pardon me, eastern SNOBS.

Notice player of the year below!!!!!! Jack

PLAYER OF THE YEAR!!!!

PLAYER OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!