Minuteman Kossack, Part III

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Friday May 12, 2006 · 9:03 AM PDT

2006/05/12 · 09:03

The Minuteman Project Caravan has arrived in Washington, D.C. at Upper Senate Park.

The rally is being broadcast on C-SPAN Channel 1, as I type.

Hopefully it will be archived.

I'm proud to be a Kossack trying to protect our citizens' security, protect our jobs for our own workers, and protect our social safety net, by participating in the Minuteman Project and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

Tomorrow (Saturday 5/13 @ 11:00 a.m.) I'll be participating in the Illinois Minuteman Project rally at Dennis Hastert's office in Batavia, Illinois. Read More

Minuteman Kossack, Part II

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Thursday May 11, 2006 · 1:51 PM PDT

2006/05/11 · 13:51

For those of us Democrats and Kossacks who are in favor of demonstrating that we are serious about strengthening our nation's domestic security:

The Illinois Minuteman Project and supporters will rally this Saturday, May 13th at Dennis Hastert's office in Batavia, Illinois at 1:00 p.m. Supporters should show up at the corner of North River Street and East Wilson Street in Batavia on May 13 at 01:00 P.M. The demonstration will occur on North River St. Between East Wilson and Dennis Hastert's office.

Unemployed and underemployed citizens, and labor union members are very welcome. Please bring a hard hat, lawnmower, broom, mop, toilet bowl brush, shovel, or other working tools, and we'll show Dennis Hastert that American citizens need jobs and are ready to report to work.

The Minuteman Project Caravan will be arriving tonight (Thursday) in Richmond at 7:00 p.m. It will arrive in Washington, D.C., Friday at 11:00 a.m. in Upper Senate Park. Supporters are welcome to join us.

Readers interested in the illegal alien issue may find the following sites of interest: Read More

Minuteman Kossack

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Wednesday May 10, 2006 · 6:01 PM PDT

2006/05/10 · 18:01

I am a Dean Democrat (and a long-time Kossack) opposed to permitting illegal aliens to access and reside in the United States.

I have joined the Minuteman Project.

I support this non-partisan effort to secure our borders and use our national resources, our healthcare resources and our economy to support American citizen workers.

Pandering to the Hispanic/Latino community and other blocks of "cheap labor vote" will not help those of us in this nation who are poor...who want jobs...who want to earn a decent wage...who want to preserve an American heritage to pass on to our descendants (not a Mexican one)...and who want to keep illicit drugs, gangs, foreign political parties and terrorist groups off our soil.

One can be a Kossack and still have a spine for national security. I encourage this community to welcome the Minuteman project as a wonderful demonstration of the power of the citizenry to organize for the protection of America's cherished values.

I have submitted the appended correspondence to both Republicans and Democrats.
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Vote for DFA endorsement of Loebsack for Congress IA-02

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Tuesday September 20, 2005 · 4:26 PM PDT

2005/09/20 · 16:26

I ask your strong support of David Loebsack for Congress in Iowa congressional district IA-02 for the DFA Grassroots All-Star endorsement.

Your help is needed to oust veteran Republican incumbent in congressional district IA-02 -- Jim Leach. This district includes Cedar Rapids and liberal Iowa City. Liberal and progressive Iowa City should not be represented by a moderate Republican wolf in sheep's skin! Republican congressman Jim Leach is a long-time croney of Cheney and Rumsfeld: all three worked together under Nixon.

Loebsack is a professor of political science at Cornell College. He possesses an excellent command of history and foreign policy and knows Leach's doublespeak intimately. A long-time progressive, Loebsack was one of Howard Dean's strongest supporters in Iowa during the Governor's presidential run. Loebsack has what it takes to unhorse Leach in this vital district -- but Leach has a large warchest of funds thanks to his buddy Cheney. Help DFA raise Loebsack a counter-chest!

Your support is needed now!

Catholic Corner: Cardinal to boycott Giuliani speech

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Thursday May 19, 2005 · 11:54 AM PDT

2005/05/19 · 11:54

Today's political news concerning Catholics:

From the Baltimore Sun:

Keeler to boycott Loyola graduation:
Cardinal objects to views of keynote speaker Giuliani on abortion

Cardinal William H. Keeler told Loyola College of Maryland yesterday that he will not attend its commencement ceremony tomorrow because he disagrees with the keynote speaker, former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who supports abortion rights.

The decision comes amid planned protests, led in part by a conservative Catholic group, outside tomorrow's ceremony at the 1st Mariner Arena in downtown Baltimore.

Loyola's interim president, David Haddad, received a strongly worded letter from the cardinal yesterday, saying Keeler would not attend - nor would any auxiliary bishops or any other representative of the archdiocese, college and archdiocese officials said.

Read the religious right's perspective from Life News.

Catholic Corner: Make Poverty History

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Wednesday May 18, 2005 · 9:19 AM PDT

2005/05/18 · 09:19

News in the Catholic world today:

From the Scotsman

Religious Orders Demand 'Make Poverty History'
by Alison Purdy, PA

A star of TV reality show The Monastery joined more than 1,000 monks, nuns and friars at Westminster today to lobby their MPs as part of the Make Poverty History campaign.

Father Christopher Jamison was a member of a delegation calling on the Government to adopt a sense of balance and restraint in its policies and to address the plight of millions of poverty stricken people across the developing world.

Read the whole article to see what those good people are doing.

And this, from Catholic World News:

Pope meets with Schiavo parents

Vatican, May. 18 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) met with the parents of Terri Schiavo at his weekly public audience on May 18.

Bob and Mary Schindler attended the Pope's Wednesday audience, with a spot near the front of the crowd in St. Peter's Square. When the Pope mingled with members of the audience, he shook hands with the Schindlers, and Mary Schindler presented him with photos of their daughter.

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Tuesday May 17, 2005 · 6:02 PM PDT

2005/05/17 · 18:02

FYI, from Cybercast News Service:

Catholic Group Protesting 17 Commencement Speakers, Honorees at Catholic Schools
Melanie Hunter
Deputy Managing Editor

(CNSNews.com) - A Catholic group that called on a Catholic school not to award Sen. Hillary Clinton an honorary degree for her pro-abortion views is protesting 17 commencement speakers and honorees for running counter to the Catholic Church's teachings.

See full article for the list of 17 speakers, and why they are being targeted. Republicans, including Rudy Giuliani are not immune from criticism.

In other news of interest to both Catholics and Episcopalians, Episcopal News Service writes of some reactions to the Seattle Statement on the Anglican-Catholic accord on the role of the Virgin Mary, released on May 16, which sought to create unity between Catholics and Anglicans.

More news: Reuters reports that the parents of Terry Schiavo, Bob and Mary Schindler, are right now at the Vatican. They have met with Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Vatican's Council for Justice and Peace, and will also be present to see the Pope on Wednesday.

Catholic Corner: Episcopal Changes in the United States

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Tuesday May 17, 2005 · 9:35 AM PDT

2005/05/17 · 09:35

From CyberCatholics.com

17 May 2005
by Joshua R. LeBlanc

Today Pope Benedict VXI appointed the following men bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States

Fr. Clarence Silva of the clergy of the diocese of Oakland, U.S.A., vicar general, as bishop of Honolulu (area 16,660, population 1,244,898, Catholics 234,588, priests 157, permanent deacons 51, religious 361), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Honolulu in 1949 and ordained a priest in 1975.
Msgr. Kevin W. Vann of the clergy of the diocese of Springfield in Illinois, U.S.A., episcopal vicar for the clergy and pastor of the parish of the Blessed Sacrament, as coadjutor bishop of Fort Worth (area 62,007, population 2,770,961, Catholics 400,501, priests 115, permanent deacons 74, religious 160), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Springfield in 1951, and ordained a priest in 1981.

Catholic Corner: Bush to speak at Catholic Prayer Breakfast

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Monday May 16, 2005 · 11:49 PM PDT

2005/05/16 · 23:49

PRESS RELEASE

President George W. Bush will be addressing this year's 2nd annual Catholic Prayer Breakfast. The breakfast will be held on Friday, May 20, 2000 at the Hilton Washinton in Washington D.C. Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio will be the celebrant and homilist at the opening Mass and Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver will be the keynote speaker.

For more information about the event visit www.catholicprayerbreakfast.org.

Pope Benedict XVI

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Sunday May 15, 2005 · 10:07 PM PDT

2005/05/15 · 22:07

I like Pope Benedict.

I'm German-American, eligible for German citizenship. Having a pope with whom I can share language and ethnicity feels very good. I've started attending a Catholic church in Chicago -- St. Alphonsus -- where mass is still held in German. St. Alphonsus is located at the intersection of Lincoln Ave. and Wellington Ave. (and hosts a terrific Oktoberfest!). It was in this neighborhood -- Lakeview -- that my grandparents settled after immigrating from Germany. Thus, I am very pleased to have a German pope. Perhaps we will be honored by a visit from Pope Benedict in the future!

German-Americans suffered greatly during the period of WWI & WWII. Much German culture was lost in the U.S. due to widespread oppression of Germans and German-Americans in the states. Chicago, once predominantly German, has very nearly extinguished its German culture. I am very pleased that Pope Benedict will help revive the German-American community, as John Paul II helped sustain and grow the Polish-American community here.
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Anal sex. Childbirth. Homosexual relations.

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Monday May 09, 2005 · 7:07 PM PDT

2005/05/09 · 19:07

I am writing this diary to inform the community how the recent discussions on homosexual relations are affecting me.

Disclosure: I am neither heterosexual or homosexual. I do not engage in sexual relations. As a result of a rape, I am a single parent. I focus my life on taking care of my child. I have hitherto been a Unitarian Universalist for 15 years. I am now considering becoming Catholic.

Until very recently -- until just the past two weeks, in fact -- I have been very supportive of the homosexual push for civil unions and marriage.

Rather suddenly, my feelings have undergone a sea change. Find out how, below the fold... Read More

Illinois: How'd your elections go last Tuesday?

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Friday April 08, 2005 · 5:17 PM PDT

2005/04/08 · 17:17

Are you an Illinoisain? Where are you located?

How'd your local elections go last Tuesday?
How did Dems do?
How did Republicans do?
How did incumbents do?

Who won? Who lost? Who financed the winners? Who managed the winners? What about the losers?

What is the sense of the people in your community with respect to the upcoming 2006 races, based on the results of your local elections?

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