Lessons from the Maccabees – From Fr. Stephens Blog

These are the links to two posts in one of my favorite blogs. They were very meaningful to me, and I hope they will speak to you, also!
The Seven Holy Maccabbees
Lessons from the Maccabbees
I’m not just being lazy – Fr. Stephen has one of the best blogs going, in my NOT so humble opinion! I [...]

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The Sensible People

This is the most SENSIBLE e-mail I’ve seen in a long time. Whoever wrote this should run for President some day…*
*’We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some resemblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings [...]

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A Reasonable Article!!

I finally found a reasonable article about liberalism in the movies!! I was just surfing a bunch of different websites and ran across this:
Reader Question: The Gay, Jewish, Liberal Hollywood Conspiracy
In part, the author says:
What’s infested Hollywood today is an ideology. Liberals run Hollywood (well, 97% of it). That some liberals happen to [...]

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545 Responsible People – -

HOW TRUE! Finally someone most of us can agree with. I don’t know if this guy is real or what, but it is an interesting idea. A bit simplified, (there are economic cycles and outside influences) …but he still has some good points. And of course, we are responsible for whom we vote for.

Charley [...]

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A Serbian Poem – -

A Song of Defiance
by Dobrica Eric
English Translation
I
the servant of God,
the Serb,
announce willingly
through chains and wires
before the witnesses
Power, Agony and Injustice,
that I am guilty and admit my crime!
I am guilty that I am a somebody
and not a nothing and a nobody.
I am guilty that in a time of general
Serb-hating
I go to an Orthodox Christian church
and [...]

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KOSOVO

KOSOVO
To Predrag Obradovic Gagi
and all the others who had to leave
The Kosovar soil’s much darker than else,
its sky is more blue, its grass is more green…
Happiness and sorrows are much more intense,
and forgetting legends is more than a sin.
Through pain, blood and battles, there were boldly set
the roots of our own newer generation,
that brought out [...]

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KOSOVO: A Crying Shame

Kosovo: A Crying Shame
Tuesday, February 26 2008 @ 01:05 CST
Contributed by: Shelley Rubin
Once again the United States has sold out the good people and rewarded the bad. I am speaking of the recognition of Kosovo as an independent state by our government.
As a bit of background information, the Jewish Defense League was the only [...]

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Explaining the Balkans – Serbia and Kosovo

Finally! A writer has put the Balkans, or at least Serbia and Kosovo, into a perspective that the average American can understand without a PhD in Balkan history!! Julia Gorin in FrontPage Magazine has this wonderful paragraph in a longer, excellent article:
[...]
“To put this in perspective, with advance apologies to any offended ethnic groups: How [...]

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Electile Dysfunction

“Electile Dysfunction”: the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year.
Electile Dysfunction (ED or political impotence) is an emotional dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain any excitement over the political process. There are various underlying causes, such as general [...]

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God Will Tell Me -

Fr. Stephen said in part:
St. Silouan of Mt. Athos never read newspapers. When asked how he could pray for the world without information about the world, he answered that the newspapers never tell us what we need to know for prayer. {{Emphasis mine. Turtlemom}} God will do this. My heart weeps when I think of [...]

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13 Fold Flag Ceremony

I’m more than a little hacked off about the Flag Folding Ceremony mess!
“A group of congressmen has asked the Department of Veterans Affairs to retain the tradition of reciting the significance of each fold in the flag-folding ceremony at military funerals. [...]
“Veterans Affairs has a policy that allows for a full military funeral, which [...]

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The Cure

The politicos are screaming at each other about the newest health care proposal by Hilary Clinton. It would mimic the systems in Great Britain and Canada – which systems are failing. We seldom hear of alternatives, however.
As someone who is on the brink of Medicare and Social Security (Social Insecurity?), I am vitally interested in [...]

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