Nov. 6th Feast Day of St. Leonard

Today is 2009s Feast Day of St. Leonard, and also the name day of my favorite uncle.

Last years entry.

Wikipedia

Prayers for the fallen and injured at Fort Hood

Fort Hood Tragedy

RED Tape

Adrienne give us a list of proposed new RED Tape from Nancy Pelosi:

http://adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2009/11/111-new-government-bureaucarcies.html

If you'd like to know where this much Bureaucracy leads?

Pop some popcorn and watch:

IMDB

Wikipedia

But, in reality, you can't turn off the "bureaucracy".

Goin' Green

Okay, for years I've done those "50 things you can do to Save the Earth" sort of things.

Nearly all my light bulbs are compact fluorescent, we try to buy things without excessive packaging, low flow toilets, don't drive unnecessarily...

Well, recently I've seen so much on the "Green" stuff.

V for Victory has a nice little entry.

This Halloween, my dds bf was shocked when dd didn't think "Global Warming" was completely due to humans. My dh thinks we are contributing. Some. I think, too often we don't help the earth so much with car exhaust and pollution.

But, I'm not so sure the "Green Movement" is actually doing so much good for the planet.

My dad and youngest bubba are in the contruction/engineering business. They think its a shameful wasteful rouse. When bamboo is listed as "Green", but required 15000 miles of shipping. When people tear out serviceable offices, filling up the landfills to replace everything with 'green' products.

I think Opey124 a year or so ago summarized beautifully our Stewardship of the Earth.


BTW, I'm not loving the lecturing. I've heard "Save the Earth" for my lifetime. I've not really 'relished' my children being told again and again they need to lessen their carbon footprint at the public school.

There is nothing like a smug religous person. But what trumps them is a smug "Environmental" person. All those secular "Green" types really love pushing the guilt...

Polka, Mariachi and Bluegrass have what in common?

They've all become Mass music?

See Dymphna's posting with links to the Bluegrass Mass.


(BTW, I actually liked the Bluegrass sound. I'd probably listen to it at home. But, according to this EWTN link: http://www.ewtn.com/Library/Liturgy/zlitur29.htm, I shouldn't want to get up and dance at Mass!)

I was blessed as a child to attend a staunch Catholic Parochial school. Still had habited nuns. And the Music Director taught us to sing in Latin. Little children, young as 5 could do so. Joe, has again written beautifully about our expectations on our youth. We don't need to lower the bar.

I've often wandered what the Angels singing sounds like. I think sometimes when they want to, they'll sing in Latin.

Bless your Heart

Okay,

I tried to link to a lady on youtube who 'covered' the Southern way of talkin'. But, Youtube seems to be down and I deleted it.


Anyway:

Chondra Pierce had a whole set up of "Bless your Heart". And she delivers it with perfect comic timing.


I sat LAUGHING in a parking lot of a KashNKarry while I listened on Christian Radio her describe what "Bless your Heart" means.


Such as, you have a baby on your hip, a grocery cart full of food with quarts of ice cream melting on a HOT Summer day as you struggle to find your keys to start packing it up.

A sweet little ole lady walks by and summerizes your situation.

"Honey, you locked your keys in your car? And, your ice creams melting? Well, Bless your Heart!"

I simply can not hear those words anymore without laughing.


The South has brought a Joy and Humor to my life.

The Medicated Child encore on Frontline

Frontline will be airing an encore The Medicated Child November 3rd.

I have a post from a few months ago about children's eating habits. But, I wanted to make up another!

Michael Savage has a very informative book called Healing Children Naturally.


And, in Morgan Spulock's Supersize Me, one whole segment is dedicated to school lunches.

You can watch it at Youtube free, but know that there are commercial breaks!

School Lunches are at approx. 50 minutes.

My very favorite part of the whole movie is right at about 54 minutes at the "trouble kids school" in Appleton WI.

At the very beginning, school children are singing a song about Mc Donalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut. Last year, my darlings were at our local public school. One day, after I picked them up, they started singing that song. I was in a state of unbelief. "Where did you learn that song?" "Gym Class!" they chimed in together. I wondered if it was a sick joke on part of the P.E. Teacher. A veiled disdain for their students? Or did that song come about as Corporate Sponsorship? I don't know.

1:03 Morgan's girlfriend, now wife, civilly argues the vegan vs meat diet. (I remember college.)

At 1:18:32 Spurlocks doctor has hard numbers on what an awful diet has done to him. (I'm aware that maybe much of his physical complaints and worries could come from being on the Vegan side of the fence, but, the hard numbers of his blood work tell me that he really was ruining his health.)

He gained 8 lbs in one week! (see 1:39)


But, guess what? I still go to Micky D's. I get the apple walnut side and sometimes the hot fudge sundaes when we want to go out for ice cream. I'm more likely to get Wendy's chili and baked potato for a Fast food meal. But, once in a while


Natural Ovens is the "healthy lunch room" option featured in the movie.