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Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, and “Ethnic Cleansing”
It is important, no vital, that everyone, especially inner city black folks, understand redzoning and how it has affected their lives since WWII.
I couldn’t care less about the opinions, shattering the inner city slum isn’t ever a bad plan.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On April 1, 2013 @ 3:15 pm
I Say, “Have You Lost Some Weight Lately? There’s Something Different about You.”
No, Bishop Tikhon. Militias must be run by white men that don’t ride motorcycles!
Perfect.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On April 1, 2013 @ 3:11 pm
This Is Why We Have Filibusters
Michael Bauman and I agreed on something! Libertarians tend to forget community!
Meism to the max!
And tax cuts are a politicians promise just as much as food stamps! While some of us view one as letting someone off the hook, the rest of us view it the other way, but neither meets the Psalm cited, and none of us land without the effort which is selfless, anti-meism, if you will.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On March 21, 2013 @ 10:54 pm
Fr. Peter Preble: Clerical Celibacy
I didn’t write the essay or ask for it; I just find it a little odd that Fr. Preble is defending something noone asked him to defend; something that is at least partially indefensible. This is a classic conservative notion to maintain the status quo bar none, so as long as he brings it up, I’ll render my opinion developed over the last 30 years of abuse stories.
The church, by failing to recognize the lethal cocktail of required celibacy and the power position of the priest in the church; failed.
I don’t mean the Orthodox Church per se, mainly the Catholic church-the essay twists both as well.
So far, the purported solution is the church will finally enforce secular law. Let me show the score here.
Secular society 1
St. Paul 0
FINALUnfortunately, Fr. Preble’s essay, while full of cogent points, does not provide one single solution to the lethal cocktail for unmarried priests. And the problem doesn’t go away with an essay! The Catholic Church has been a horrible testimony to good social behavior, and here is a quote from the essay.
“Society wants to put their lack of morality on to the church, and that is not the way it works.” That is a real head shaker in another context.
This statement, when applied to the Catholic abuse scandals, is completely false. Here is the statement revised to reflect reality.
Society put moral code and tort law on to the church, and the church finally, after billions in tort losses, submitted.
Sorry, Fr. Preble, I think your microscopic view which might be very special to you, misses the bigger picture. I do wish you well, but I truly struggled to understand your points and to agree with the general content. And I did a head shake when I read the line holding the church in high regard versus society; at least on this subject…
regards..
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On March 9, 2013 @ 10:05 am
Me and the anonymous fellow agree; the only difference is I’m not afraid to say my name. Stan is a man; will always be a man. The fact that someone’s mind has them twisted away from their body is a problem that ought not be solved with surgery.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On March 8, 2013 @ 9:00 pm
Like I said before, if a Deacon were serving from another parish, he would do only that which was explicitly requested by the priest otherwise he is forced to make inferences and assumptions he is not privy to as a priest receiving Confessions.
As for the comparison to beastiality, this is the second typical response from conservatives; more typically it would be oh Mr. Fall, I suppose because you don’t understand paedophilia; so you believe that is okay as well. No, the differences are clear. The homosexual is a consensual relationship, the other two are not. The animal cannot consent and it is not a relationship between two thinking persons, so spare me the false logic! And if the pedophile suggests the relationship is consensual; it can’t be accepted as such because the consenting person is not at the age of consent. Regardless of those facts, I have stated I don’t understand a homosexual consenting relationship and would rather not concern myself with it.
I enjoy your little offensive slam at the end of your post suggesting two thousand years of Holy Tradition paints me as an idiot. Actually, the words stated sort of further condemn your own logic flows. The idea that fornicators are such a problem is incredibly interesting. If you had to find out if all the single persons of consenting age in the church had slept with anyone before Communion, how would you do it? Would it be with a survey, or how about a fornicator detector? I’d like to use more appropriate language, but I digress. In the Orthodox church, the individual bears a lot of responsibility-if they are lying to themselves; it is certainly bad enough.
How about Deacons don’t hear Confessions? I think that is the tradition.
If homosexuality is a sin, can’t the homosexual repent? If they try to repent, but fall back into their lust; how is this so different than an alcoholic slipping back into the bottle, or the glutton pigging out after Communion? It isn’t, unless you are suggesting once you have sinned sin x, you can no longer repent of sin x and must only repent of new sins. If it is, please provide me with the sin rating scale of the Orthodox church, I haven’t seen it renumerated. Perhaps Bauman would be so kind since he was full of numerations earlier.
You fellas need to get over being so bent about a few gay folks. It really does you little good to try to condemn it so much. I’m not even a personal advocate for gay marriage; I don’t think marriage et al deserves government recognition at all.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On March 22, 2013 @ 9:18 pm
I would equate married lesbians taking Communion as being disruptive to the country club concept.
If another parishoner’s greatest sin is gluttony, is he charged with stepping on the scale prior to Communion?
The church really doesn’t recognize marriage outside the church does it?
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On March 21, 2013 @ 11:19 pm
Well, actually Michael, that is not at all what I have stated. I have stated homosexual behavior is not something I comprehend and so I have decided I will not personally judge it. The behavior of full on male homosexuals is beyond disgusting to me, so be careful about how you comprehend my personal attitude please. This does not suggest I believe homosexuality fully appropriate and certainly I don’t believe the Orthodox Church ought marry homosexuals. But, because I find it incomprehensible, I have decided it isn’t my place to judge that which I don’t understand. Those are my personal thoughts since you addressed it.
…but I got news for you-a cleansing of the church of homosexuals is unlikely and if you believe in Jesus, you know it is also clearly wrong by all we have been taught. If homosexuality is a sin, then is not alcoholism? Why then were alcoholics not turned away if they drank alcohol during the week, or if there is an obese person, why were they allowed to drink from the cup? Was there obesity from gluttony not visible? Was a sniff test done on the boozehound?
I also asked if a Deacon from another church had served would he have done the same? It is a simple simon type approach. If another Deacon would have given Communion, then the Deacon that did not erred because he acted on his own, without explicit instructions.
If the cup means so much, then are you suggesting if the cup is violated, they will sneak by on God as well? Pretty cool religion if I sneak by on the almighty’s priests, I can get into heaven?
Please gentlemen, this is heresy and I think you know it.
I think what bothers you most is the country club aspect of the church isn’t the same if there are a few homosexuals around.
The deacon erred. Metropolitan Jonah and Bishop Matthias erred with useless proclamation.
Pretty big errors. The church ain’t a country club-if it is-it is done.
Give me a sin list of sins that are acceptable to you so that I know if I can attend Liturgy with you guys. I know homosexuality is on there, so you can omit that one.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On March 21, 2013 @ 11:15 pm
Absolute nonsense.
I really don’t care about the DC cathedral’s problem and Metropolitan Jonah didn’t need to reiterate the churches position on homosexuality. Of all the things he could talk about with the people; he discusses homosexuality which affects perhaps 3% of the general US population and perhaps 3/10th of a percent of the Orthodox churches population-and that is probably pretty darn close.
And you suggest I have no clue?
The reasons for the letter are because he was trying to get us to vote a certain way in secular matters, which would affect more like 70% of Orthodox Christians because the majority are probably of voting age or older, any other reason addressing 1000 people out of a million with required reading in churches would have been better off addressing our eating habits because it would have helped more people. Or alcoholism, or nearly ANY OTHER SUBJECT.
Nope, let’s pick on all the gays and talk about how wrong their lives are….rather than reflecting on our own which is what Orthodoxy is really more about.
It wasn’t a good letter friends…we can all agree to disagree, but many, many people did not appreciate it and patting yourself on the back for being a good non-gay Christian is pretty hokey baloney.
Patently absurd…sorry to say.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On March 13, 2013 @ 4:33 pm
return to serfdom!
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On March 6, 2013 @ 11:32 pm
There is another liability the is much more subjective and possibly far more damaging.
What about parishoners that just get tired of all the bullstuff about Bishops and their personal lives to the point they lose interest in the church?
You all know what really happened in Syosset; the personal lives of at least two of the last three/make that four Metropolitans have overshadowed the right and proper functioning of the church. Some would argue 3 of the last 4, but that isn’t my point here.
The gay man’s revenge was only revenge on the person that held the gay man, or should we say, men, hostage. And now you blame him, which is damn hilarious and twisted.
Monk James rightly suggests Bishop Matthias should be done, but for liability purposes. Too bad Monk James is unwilling to recognize what unspoken liabilities existed between the other parties and how it was negative for the church, et al. He didn’t do anything wrong except hold unspoken matters above them Monk James.
Given this misconduct matter is out in the open, it is far healthier than the prior scandal(s), but that doesn’t take away the fact that noone will respect Bishop Moriak.
Bishop Moriak himself ought to ask for retirement. It would be the only way to earn the respect of others.
The personal lives of Bishops can never be the highlight of churchlife.
Let me know when they remember.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On March 6, 2013 @ 11:26 pm
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
If Jillions is doing something, what makes you think it is his own initiative and why would you jump to conclusions of his wrongdoing and pricepaying in one leap.
The long jump record is held by some real leapers. Mike Powel, 29′ 4 1/4″
Good luck.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On February 20, 2013 @ 9:54 pm
George, this is pretty sad editorial because it really shows how far your bias against anyone remotely related to Jonah’s exit has gone more than anything. I guess every Chancellor under Jonah was out to get him.
If Jillions went to ACROD to review never before seen personnel files, I’m quite certain it was done with the blessing of a bishop, or perhaps even after other consultation with legal folk. As you are aware, the OCA is in a bit of a dungstorm with Matthias and Storheim lately to name a couple, not to mention a few others that were retired earlier.
I see your editorial as a shoot the messenger piece. Sorry, but your stique is getting old, and you do need to decide which side of the Matthias fence you are on as well.
You can’t throw mud in his sandbox and then play in it and get mad about the mud. It is a little comical when you point to Johnny and get upset about him looking at the mud when you already threw it!
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On February 20, 2013 @ 12:38 am
I Guess Some Hispanics Are more Equal than Others
Keep beating that Rand Paul drum, this leftie loves to hear it. It will take an entire generation for Americans to forget the Paul mantra of returning to 1890. When the first reaction to the expression of the opponent’s name is ‘oh, god’, followed by ‘bring him on’, you know he ain’t going anywhere. Bring him on.
The best thing the GOP has going is the guy they all want to shoot in the leg. He is potentially the only leader, but he won’t be without his challenges.
As for Menendez, he is as toast as Assad. You can’t forget about 58 grand in airplane rides and then remember later when confronted. Whether he did absolutely nothing else wrong; it is enough to end his career in my book.
I have no time for lawbreaking lawmakers.
58 grand is a helluva expensive plane ticket, though, eh?
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On February 20, 2013 @ 12:04 am
Actually, I see nothing wrong with continuing education for priests. Stuff changes over the course of years. There are new things and adaptation is important.
Now vote me negative to show how much you enjoy the status quo, and vote me negative twice from a different name if you enjoy the status quo ante more.
Fun with Latin 101.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On February 17, 2013 @ 11:22 pm
And the Hits Just Keep on Comin’
What is the good intention that you have conveniently left out?
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On February 14, 2013 @ 10:49 pm
How Long Will the Dollar Remain the World’s Reserve Currency?
Well, Fr. Hans and Bauman, here is to your proverbial heads in the sand.
I’d like to say nice try, but you didn’t.
Keep going with the nay saying. Good luck.
As for your one valid point about lasik and cosmetic surgery; still not entirely valid at all. Just decide whether you personally would go to the cheapest cosmetic surgeon and send me some after photos.
Healthcare is out of whack and the Republican party offered zip, zero, nada.
You can’t condemn Obama when you haven’t done a thing against horribly rising costs in healthcare.
The status quo isn’t working.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On March 7, 2013 @ 12:04 am
Well, Dan, I think you go a little far with the generalization.
For years, farmers have existed in a pseudo capitalist environment, but there are so many of them; the competition is fairly pure and the costs are low; not so with health insurance; nor so with health providers.
None of this is rocket science. It is called doing away wih the middle man/profiteer.
The insurance companies have little motivation to reduce costs. They are motivated to reduce annual losses once prices are established, but if every year, they profit the same on higher costs, guess what?
Rocket science; the profits are higher! Shhhh! Don’t share this lest you end up in a boardroom somewhere.
The reality is healthcare costs are out of control. Healthcare was 5% of GDP in 1960 and is now about 17%. Now, that probably deserves some normalizing, but it would only change it a point or two max. Another portion of that could be cultural/behavioral, give it a few more points.
It is easier to point out guys like Stephen Helmsey, CEO of United Healthgroup made like 40 million last year. Imagine what the VPs make!
The greatest problem is the free market can’t work in this business.
My mother tried to find a new insurance company a few years back in order to beat the 750 a month premiums that had risen 100 a month for 3 months running. She had no history of breast cancer and a false shadow on a mammogram deemed false by follow up with physician. The new companies she looked at all put a rider on her for 24 months for breast cancer for the shadow and she took the gamble because she believed the doctors; insurers didn’t want that risk. Ironically, insurance is suppose to be a shared risk pool. There were only 3 companies that she was able to get considered for coverage in the state. The other option was the same price as the one she wanted to leave; the one with the rider was about 450 a month.
As a customer; her options were grossly limited. That ain’t a free market.
And furthermore, she obviously can’t go around provider shopping if she has a heart attack. A certain number of illnesses are shoppable, but leaving your home isn’t a cost free option. So, the facts are simple. Healthcare is not a free market system; not ever, no matter what Republicans say and no matter how you want to slam them for continually suggesting it remain what it isn’t.
If it is a free market system; go shop it on the internet and find a real cheap provider for breast cancer treatment! The irony is noone wants the cheapest healthcare either, so it’ll never be driven by “free” market forces like Republicans suggest.
Since it clearly isn’t a free market system; the only way to drive costs down is REGULATION, or trying to drive it to pure competition (good luck there).
The providers and insurers brought Obamacare on their own. Obama was only trying to find a way to reduce the 17%. When you look at the US versus other countries; we are completely out of line in the 17% number. Whether Obamacare will end up lowering costs isn’t even at issue. He tried. The others played ostrich. Guy trying with axe in hand beats ostrich with head in sand. Even if the trendline continues upward after Obamacare; he will still get credit for trying.
There are a lost of ways to more drastically impact healthcare costs-drugs especially. Expect any of them to be met with lots of sand from the other side because they are the party of status quo on this subject.
Government paying for everything is not the message I’m sending either; just for the record. The message is there is too much profit taking in healthcare because it isn’t at all a free market.
Regards.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On February 26, 2013 @ 10:59 am
Women in Combat: Another Nail in the Coffin
Actually, I really enjoyed George’s editorial tonight. I only disagree with one thing he said, and that is that this issue is a no brainer. That is the typical status quo argument which is baseless and meaningless and has people discount even cogent arguments.
The rest of what he said was pretty good stuff with lots of credibility….so, on balance, you fooled me George.
Why isn’t women in combat such a no brainer? Well, we never had women’s hockey and we never had women’s basketball, but those are two great sports. Probably didn’t have women’s soccer at first, either. I’m not sure if this is masculinization of women or if it is just good healthy competition. (Women have always been competitive, long before women’s hockey started 30 years ago or so).
As I sit here, I can tell you there are certainly problems when women wear the pants in the family, but Lord knows it happens plenty; probably here, too.
Anyhow, with the exception of your status quo bias, I really liked your article George.
You sold me on one thing; women, if they go into a combat role, ought to meet the same physical test standards as men and should not have a women’s standard per se. And, I’m also convinced women in combat would be required to be in their own unit and that serving alongside men would be wrong for many reasons. Because of these types of difficulties; I, frankly, don’t think it is worth the trouble.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On February 13, 2013 @ 11:53 pm
Fr. Peter Preble: The Super Bowl and Morality
My wife and I discussed this matter and I believe if the women are in a women’s unit and it isn’t a mixed unit; it’d be allright. I’m not a fan of the idea because I like women in classical roles, too, but our concern is that it’d be distracting if women and men were serving side by side on the front lines. This same argument could be held for homosexual men serving in the military I suppose, but I’m not going there; this was about women.
The only way it’d be okay with me if it were a women’s only kind of unit; including separate training, etc.
Otherwise, let’s get serious here, shall we?
And one more thing….here, here for greggo’s comments. Fr. Preble might gain some wisdom by reading that post.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On February 7, 2013 @ 11:07 pm
Actually, the only pornography I find is Ray Lewis making umpteen millions a year and stiffing the charity/foundations he setup, so when you hear Ray praying and saying oh lord (often), that is probably far worse a thing to hear than some poorly dressed woman on stage that wasn’t involved in a beating that resulted in death.
http://www.inquisitr.com/507286/ray-lewis-gave-nothing-to-his-own-charity-report/
Giving God a bad name is far worse a slander than anything the girl did.
This of course has nothing to do with fathering 5-6 children with 4 different mothers.
(Not a Ray Lewis fan)
If he gets on tv, give me the channel changer.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On February 7, 2013 @ 10:57 pm
Lessons from the Enthronement of Metroplitan [sic] Tikhon
misplaced sic says it all; no reason to read
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On February 3, 2013 @ 12:10 am
You sound like a scared little child Oliver.
Where did I advocate for taking all handguns away? I just said not everybody needs one.
I’m not even advocating for restricting handsticks to people like you, but not everyone needs a handgun and I won’t own one to my death, so it is humorous to call me uninformed when I’m only stating a fact that we have severe handgun violence here.. And being a bird hunter or even a manure cleaner upper qualifies me to comment on other people’s rights when they can infringe on mine, so you are wrong. My only point is I am a gun owner and have no wishes for a gun ban, but perhaps a few guns and grenade launchers need banning. As a cop, find it funny you’d be okay with a grenade launcher flying through your squad window someday. We just lost a MN officer to a guy taking revenge for DWI arrest-the guy set up an ambush with a shotgun.
As a law enforcement officer, you have the classic symptom that what you say matters, but what I say does not. That might work in your uniform, but fails here.
As for the glass panel slam on the school; you sound pathetic as hell. Open your eyes.
Why don’t you check out some of the other thousands or so schools in the US. They all have glass doors and nearly none go into a lockdown. And most of them have one way access into a classroom. A gunman can walk in, block the door and kill everyone.
It is too bad you bring such a wise, cogent point whilst slamming the school principal that died. Odd that you find it necessary to credit the dead lady in order to do it.
Not odd; shameful.
After all my comments to your post that I found generally distasteful and off, truthful thanks for serving the public. I geniunely admire cops, just not all words uttered.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On January 10, 2013 @ 8:43 pm
You sound like a scared little child Oliver.
Where did I advocate for taking all handguns away? I just said not everybody needs one.
I’m not even advocating for restricting handsticks to people like you, but not everyone needs a handgun and I won’t own one to my death, so it is humorous to call me uninformed when I’m only stating a fact that we have severe handgun violence here.. And being a bird hunter or even a manure cleaner upper qualifies me to comment on other people’s rights when they can infringe on mine, so you are wrong. My only point is I am a gun owner and have no wishes for a gun ban.
As a law enforcement officer, you have the classic symptom that what you say matters, but what I say does not. That might work in your uniform, but fails here.
As for the glass panel slam on the school; you sound pathetic as hell. Open your eyes.
Why don’t you check out some of the other thousands or so schools in the US. They all have glass doors and nearly none go into a lockdown. And most of them have one way access into a classroom. A gunman can walk in, block the door and kill everyone.
It is too bad you bring such a wise, cogent point whilst slamming the school principal that died. Odd that you find it necessary to credit the dead lady in order to do it.
Not odd; shameful.
After all my comments to your post, truthful thanks for serving the public. I geniunely admire cops.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On January 10, 2013 @ 5:46 pm
Well, there you have the whole story. Women and their crippled children ought not bear arms.
That’ll go over well with the NRA, not to mention SCOTUS.
And God might not even know what Alex Jones might do, but spit would be involved.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On January 10, 2013 @ 5:26 pm
Well, let’s see, how would it work if State X polluted State Ys river just before it left State X.
I suppose State Ys well regulated militia….
That’d really fix things.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On January 10, 2013 @ 5:10 pm
The second amendment says, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state”.
The intent was clear, the militia is to prevent attack.
The militia is to be well “regulated”.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On January 10, 2013 @ 5:07 pm
Your post is the reactionary problem true to form.
Oh no, the radicals are trying to talk about gun laws; this means they wish to take mine away.
If Lanza applied for a gun and was denied, why was he denied and who did the follow up?
The far right are so anti-government, they refuse to see the duty of government when it slaps them in the face.
Noone did the follow up. It isn’t about taking guns away; it is about making sure wackos don’t get guns or get them less often. And it is about reducing the availability of means for multiple killings. The 30 round clip, for example, is unlawful to hunt with…
If you hunt ducks in MN, you must put a plug in your gun so you reduce your total shell count to 3.
The duck hunting laws are stricter than the capabilities afforded nutjobs for mass murder and noone sees that as a potential problem.
Hey, I know, let’s adjust the laws so duck hunters can have a 30 shell magazine.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On January 8, 2013 @ 10:36 pm
By that very same token, for the Congress to allow wars and allow them to be unfunded liabilities is a greater sin against country.
Let’s call it 2 trillion bucks.
» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On January 8, 2013 @ 10:24 pm
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» Posted By Daniel E. Fall On January 8, 2013 @ 10:15 pm
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