Hey! Happy St. Patrick's Day!!We'll be home in less than 2 weeks. Please let us know if you are or are not coming for Easter dinner. If you are coming, when and how many. They are having a St. Patrick's Day party at the clubhouse tomorrow with corned beef and cabbage. It's funny but with all the trips we have made to Ireland, I've never seen corned beef and cabbage on a restaurant menu. We hope you have lots of fun at the parade. Dad
I'm on my way to Big Lots to buy a cheesy fake wagon wheel to make into a ship steering wheel for our summer High Seas Expedition. It's fun to spend other people's money. I've never been to Big Lots; maybe I'll spend some of my own.
I like big lots. Lots of junk to look at and sometimes you find something you can't pass up. We signed Jude up for Annunciation's High Seas Expedition. I'll bet your's will have better sets.
You have to create a profile on the CBSsportline site. Once you fill that out it will ask you for the password for the Straub Brackets and the password you enter there is "straub".
You can also fax your picks to me at 312 244 3029 (or e-mail).
bought at Big Lots: cheesy fake wagon wheel, underwear, stainless steel water bottle to look cool with, Oreos with green filling, loveseat slipcover ($22), cute 3 flowerpots on one tray thing, white tin Easter tray that will be the basis of Easter centerpiece with real grass growing in it. Passed up on: sage green plastic Adirondack chairs ($15!), $25 memory foam mattress pads, big resin flowerpots and a cute watering can. I'm going back, I can feel it.
The SUN IS OUT!!! The first time in at least 2 weeks. A whole bunch of tiny green things just sprang out of the ground (is sprang a word?) Tomorrow it's supposed to be in the 60's. (snow on saturday, hush, maybe it will pass us by.) How's the rising water situation in Algona?
Happy Birthday, Pat. Demand to be taken out to the seediest Irish bar you can find. So seedy it's not even Irish. Maybe a black latino Irish bar with an illicit game of dice in one corner and unknown shenaningans in the back room. Just tell Josh to wear his chop suey-high karate outfit and to pack heat. Have fun. But don't make extended eye contact.
Thanks everyone! Hope you all had festive St. Patrick's Days. Emily is correct about my birthday companions. Fortunately we have asked another couple to join us as well. We are going to a restaurant called Table 41, I think. BTW Tom, I did go to a somewhat seedy bar last night for a Guinness, though not the seediest. It's called the Duck Tavern. Seedy in Florida is pretty seedy. p
Happy Birthday Pat!! Order a bloody steak and talk with your mouth full....it's your birthday!
The flooding excitement may have crested along with the water...we'll probably hear more later today.
St. Patrick's Day parade and afterparty was GREAT FUN! The Straub's beat the McCall's again. Every year now, Joe and I wait till the bitter end...DeeDee and Maureen are good, but the minute they left, we left...so hold your Straub head high!
We had the best corned beef I've ever had last night. Stevo made it. We had two heapin' helpings of everything. There's just enough left to make ourselves 2 fat Reubens tonight before we go back to our diets. We also had Shamrock Shakes and green-stuffed Oreos, for a totally authentic Irish celebration.
We had meetings and Randy worked late! But I did make some yummy toasted specials and crisps. The girls and I were happy with the eats, but Mary said it was the boringist St. Patrick's Day ever.
I just saw a butterfly (or moth). I am supposing it is a migratory one rather than a hatching one. Either way, I hope it doesn't die when it snows tomorrow.
Tom, you're quoted more than anyone else in that article @fortdodgemessenger.com...were you feeding that young fat reporter something besides Irish stew...like leg of lamb?
Curly and Gilligan escaped from the backyard this morning. We heard that they tried to walk into Sundet-Omdahl Insurance offices. We found them at Bryant School. Curly was barking and scaring a group of kids who were holding Gilligan... last time I let them walk in a parade!
So not a good day for ND or the rest of the Big East for day one of March Madness. Below are the standing with the # of correct games picked and who that person picked to win:
Ellen Reeder 70 S Guilliatt 67 Catherine Jayjack 66 Rob Zielinski 65 Ed Straub 61 Mary LaVelle 60 Emily Guilliatt 59 Joe Jayjack 59 Frank Straub 51 Andrew Reeder 49 Desmond LaVelle 49 jim straub 49 mike lavelle 49 p straub 49 Marianne Zielinski 47 Tom Straub 38
Only two people picked the Murray St. upset and nobody picked the Georgetown and ND upsets. Ellen was the only one to get 12 picks right, but she has ND in the final four.
Sorry - I didn't include the number of correct picks nor the team players picked to win. Here is that info:
Ellen R 12 Kentucky S Guilliatt 11 Kansas Catherine J 11 Notre Dame Rob Z 11 Kansas Ed S 10 Kentucky Mary L 11 Kansas Emily G 11 Kansas Joe J 11 Kansas Frank S 10 Kansas Andrew R 10 Syracuse Desmond L 10 Kansas jim s 10 Kansas mike l 10 Kansas p straub 10 Syracuse Marianne Z 9 Syracuse Tom S 8 Kentucky
Well, I have to say I totally admire Cathy's boldness. And I am very sorry it has already proven to be impossible. Perhaps your other 3 Final Four picks will make it!
Actually nuns pay income taxes like everyone else. Most nuns in the US nowadays are functioning away from their motherhouse, don't live in a convent, and get paid a salary at whatever job they have, even if most of it goes to the motherhouse. I guess most of them make so little that their taxes end up being nothing, though. You can't say they haven't paid their dues to the society at large. They have a voice and I'm glad to see they're using it. Meanwhile the male-dominated Church continues to commit the corporate sin of placing a higher value on the lives and dignity of its priests than on the lives and dignity of their victims. Someone needs to clean house.
Since the issue of the rogue nuns has been raised and since they were praised for their actions, I want to present the truth about them.
Their organization is the Leadership Conference of Catholic Women and they claim to represent 59,000 nuns. The Bishops' conference say that the number is "grossly overstated." Only 55 people representing various orders signed the letter sent to legislators. For some orders, 3 or more signed and one person signed twice. There are over 700 women's religious orders in this country so if only 55 signed the letter and 3 or more signed for some of the orders, it is obvious that this is a miniscule group and Emily accurately referred to them as rogues.
The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious represents more than 100 religious communities and more than 10,000 nuns. Yesterday they came out with a statement supporting the position of the U.S. bishops in opposing the Senate bill "because of its expansion of abortion funding and its lack of provision for conscience protection."
I'm sure you all understand that conscience protection is a very important issue. Without it a doctor who refuses to perform an abortion or a nurse or technician who refuses to assist in an abortion could be fired.
We must keep in mind that the American bishops have been promoting the expansion of health care for decades, long before the politicians got in the act, but they cannot support an immoral law. In fact, they have to fight such a law. If the Senate bill would prohibit federal funding of abortions and provide for conscience protection, the bill would have the full support of the bishops.
Archbishop Chaput of the archdiocese of Denver stated that the rogue group is trying to sow confusion about Catholic doctrine. He also wrote: "Do not be fooled. Nothing has changed. The Senate bill remains gravely flawed on the issues of abortion funding, conscience protections and the exclusion of immigrants."
That is an accurate statement of the Church's teaching and anyone who rejects it is certainly "rogue."
So they want to force people to do something they don't want to and deem it into law by side-stepping the democratic process. Maybe the Tea Party Wingnuts aren't as crazy as I thought they were when they talk of a socialistic government.
Not true. Very rarely is a rush job a good job. They are rushing this through for purely political reasons. They should be more measured and methodical. Start with insurance reform and move on from there. Dumb @$$#%'s. I can't stand them.
Frank had a really good day yesterday getting 14 of the 16 games correct and Sienna losing hurt me and a lot of others:
Ellen Reeder 130 Frank Straub 130 S Guilliatt 130 Joe Jayjack 128 Emily Guilliatt 127 Mary LaVelle 119 Catherine J 118 Andrew Reeder 117 Ed Straub 115 mike lavelle 115 Tom Straub 114 Desmond LaVelle 106 p straub 105 Rob Zielinski 104 jim straub 101 Marianne Z 99
Ed, based on your thinking every medical procedure is elective. Your thumb would not have been covered. It was elective. I think if only rape related births were covered there would be a huge increase in the number babies conceived by rape. But I do kind of agree with you that SOMETHING should be passed and then tweaked.
Today the kids from UNI take on the Kansas juggernaut. I actually think it could be a good game. UNI has a strong 7 footer, a decent bench, an outside game and a good penetrator. On defense they held their opponents to the second lowest average point total in the nation.
Sebilius says that Obama does not think the healthcare bill should cover abortion. I am sure someone will tell me where I'm wrong. I'm just telling you what she said on Meet the Press.
I doubt it. (that Obama doesn't believe it should cover abortion). The fact that they will do ANYTHING to pass the bill should tell you they will say anything to get it passed. Dirt bags.
Sibelius will say anything she needs to say in order to help pass the Senate bill. When she was governor of Kansas she was so pro abortion that her bishop privately asked her not to present herself for Communion. Naturally, she ignored that request. To get a head's up on Obama, as soon as the head of the "rogue nuns" made her statement Obama invited her to the White House. Any law that pays to have human life killed is immoral and should not be passed no matter how praiseworthy it may be otherwise. Remember, we speaking about up to 4000 human lives each day. Dad
Scott is now on top! Kansas losing gives me hope since so many had picked them for the Championship.
S Guilliatt 149 Frank Straub 145 Ellen Reeder 144 Emily Guilliatt 141 Joe Jayjack 140 Mary LaVelle 138 Catherine J 133 Andrew Reeder 131 Ed Straub 127 mike lavelle 127 Desmond LaVelle 122 Tom Straub 121 jim straub 120 p straub 119 Rob Zielinski 116 Marianne Z 106
Bart Stupak just announced that he and several fellow right-to-life Democrats reached an agreement with Obama on an executive order guaranteeing that no federal funds would be used for abortions and protecting the conscience rights of health care providers and institutions. The House still has the ability to shore that up with reconciliation measures and I hope they do because I think an executive order is more likely to face a court challenge. I think the USCCB opposition to the bill is mistakenly based on a worst-case scenario anyway. They are saying that it is possible that in each state it could happen that only one insurance carrier will be available for customers who want a company that does not cover elective abortions, while in reality right now, almost no health insurance companies do. They don't want to, they don't want any part of it. Unprofitable and risky. Looks like a vote is likely soon. By the way, Jesse Jackson Jr is a stud (see C-span)
Social security works pretty well - it has acheived its aim of preventing our elderly from living in crushing poverty at the end of their lives. It needs an adjustment that our Congress is going to have to grow a couple and provide - namely, either a raise in witholding or a delay in benefits. Let's see who steps up. I listened the other day to recordings of the debate over Medicare - it was almost word for word the same as the health care debate: creeping socialism, bankrupting the country, killing business, death panels, the government "getting between a man and his doctor" etc....the only thing that's changed is that now the language isn't all about the guys.
All I know is that Social Security probably will be bankrupt and all the money I've contributed over the year won't be there.
All I know is that I work with some very down and out people and almost all without exception recieve medical care when needed. Be it through title 19 or the state's Hawkeye insurance. A highly subsidized insurance where their copays and premiums are almost nothing.
All I know is that Obama is probably the most pro choice president ever. The same is true of Pelosi in her post.
Someone is going to get screwed over on this thing and like most things it will probably not be the super rich or the super poor.
Probably one of the people to get screwed in this thing is my lower middle class server who is a transplant patient. She will probably loose her medicaid funding and her house aftet that.
As a small potatoes business owner I probably will get screwed in this thing. Like most owners I will try to find the loop holes even if it means making the few full timers into part timers. Thus, they will get screwed.
This thing is full of opportunity for the "Law of Unintended Consequences" to kick into high gear.
What happened to the pledge of transparency? The pledge of fiscal responsibility? The pledge of reaching across the aisle to build consensus? Where are the jobs? All lies.
Pelosi and her ilk will rest with a twisted and clear conscience totally unaware or unconcerned that the country is going down a crap hole.
The biggest joke about all this is...I listened to Obama's speech on Saturday when he was urging the democrats to vote in favor of the bill. A paraphrased line from the speech - "I know you are in a tough spot. I've been there. I know what it's like to cast a controversial vote."
All this from a guy who voted "present" more than any other. Putz!
Ok - so here are the standings going into the sweet 16. Cathy was the only one to pick UNI to get there and Tom was the only one to pick Cornell. Mary Ellen had 10 of the 16 teams correct and everybody else had 8 or 9.
Ellen Reeder 172 Emily Guilliatt 169 Frank Straub 166 Mary LaVelle 166 Joe Jayjack 161 Andrew Reeder 158 S Guilliatt 156 mike lavelle 155 Catherine J 149 Tom Straub 149 Ed Straub 148 Desmond LaVelle 145 jim straub 142 Rob Zielinski 137 p straub 136 Marianne Z 127
As I understand it once the bill is signed coverage will begin immediately for all but in a cynically political move the costs won’t be seen on our tax bills for 18 months. This will provide some cover for the democrats in the fall.
Joe Scarborough said this morning that every time in the debate that a republican tried to bring up the anti-trust exemption for insurance companies they were deemed to be out of order by the Speaker. Which I don’t understand because the lack of competition among insurance companies is one of the single biggest drivers of health care coverage. Smells like a backroom deal if ever there was one.
The Repubs were introducing the anti-trust thing at the wrong time in the proceedings. They were just trying to gum up the works - they know better. It's like a lawyer trying to introduce new evidence during his summation. But now in the fall they can run footage of the nasty old Speaker apparently being on the insurance companies' side. Watch for it.
I got an email from Barack Obama today saying "Cathy, add your name to mine" and I thought, if I gave him the middle name Vernice it might solve a lot of problems for him, as long as I don't have to take the middle name Hussein.
A lot of you remember Molly's friend Mimi Plummer. Well, she had an emergency C-section yesterday because of pre-eclampsia and had a tiny little girl - about 4 lbs 9 oz. She was 37 weeks along and everyone's OK it seems, but if you can, just say a little prayer for her. I hear Finn is doing a little better - glad to hear it. I'm heading home to enjoy this fine spring day.
Just made myself a beautiful filet o fish with Gortons beer battered fish filet, pickle, onion, tomato, cheese, lettuce and special sauce. (1000 island and hot sauce) Enjoyed it and realized today is Thursday, not Friday. What will I eat for lunch tomorrow?
I had the Sam's Club $1.50 Nathan's Hot Dog and Obscenely Big Pop special. After loading up the bun with all the goodies, I was good and had the dog without the bun, except for the last delicious bite.
We're doing a Seder dinner next Wednesday for 200 people with roast lamb, couscous, homemade matzot and fruit. Then Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil, Easter dinner, Hispanic First Communion practice with all these traditional practices I don't know about, Anglo first Communion practice, then First Communion weekend. Then I think I'll take a couple days off and play in my garden.
Ellen is still in first place, but Scott is back in second because he is the only one to pick Butler in the Elite 8.
Ellen Reeder 189 S Guilliatt 182 Emily Guilliatt 180 Frank Straub 177 Mary LaVelle 177 Joe Jayjack 172 mike lavelle 172 Tom Straub 166 Ed Straub 165 Andrew Reeder 163 jim straub 159 Desmond LaVelle 157 p straub 153 Catherine J 149 Rob Zielinski 148 Marianne Z 139
Two way tie for first and three way tie for sixth moving on to the the final 8!
Ellen Reeder 194 S Guilliatt 194 Mary LaVelle 189 Frank Straub 187 Emily Guilliatt 185 Ed Straub 177 Joe Jayjack 177 mike lavelle 177 Tom Straub 171 Desmond LaVelle 169 Andrew Reeder 168 jim straub 164 Rob Zielinski 160 p straub 158 Catherine J 149 Marianne Z 144
Izzo might be the best coach in college ball today. He gets good talent but not as good as some of big time programs (Duke, Kansas) but he's always right there with them in the end.
Mary takes over first place! Not one single person will have picked the winner now that Ky. is out.
Mary LaVelle 199 Emily Guilliatt 195 Ellen Reeder 194 S Guilliatt 194 Frank Straub 187 Ed Straub 177 Joe Jayjack 177 mike lavelle 177 jim straub 174 Tom Straub 171 Rob Zielinski 170 Desmond LaVelle 169 Andrew Reeder 168 p straub 168 Marianne Z 154 Catherine J 149
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Hey! Happy St. Patrick's Day!!We'll be home in less than 2 weeks. Please let us know if you are or are not coming for Easter dinner. If you are coming, when and how many.
They are having a St. Patrick's Day party at the clubhouse tomorrow with corned beef and cabbage. It's funny but with all the trips we have made to Ireland, I've never seen corned beef and cabbage on a restaurant
menu.
We hope you have lots of fun at the parade.
Dad
Happy Birthday, Patsy! Don't forget to fill out your bracket! Go Irish! Or, go Jesuits!
...more than I ever need to know about rubber bands...
Happy Birthday,Patricia,Linda cunadita and many more,Kiss the Birthday girl she is Irish!!
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Love you
P & M
I'm on my way to Big Lots to buy a cheesy fake wagon wheel to make into a ship steering wheel for our summer High Seas Expedition. It's fun to spend other people's money. I've never been to Big Lots; maybe I'll spend some of my own.
I like big lots. Lots of junk to look at and sometimes you find something you can't pass up. We signed Jude up for Annunciation's High Seas Expedition. I'll bet your's will have better sets.
Happy Birthday Patricia!
Happy birthday, Patricia, the Rose of Algona!
I can't imagine there is much wearing of the green in Boca Raton, are you going to a parade somewhere today?
After tomorrow is over, tell us what you did!
Love ya,
lisa
randy
emma
mary
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Happy Birthday Pat! How are you celebrating?
Happy Birthday Pat! How are you celebrating?
ed,
what is the username on the brackets?
You have to create a profile on the CBSsportline site. Once you fill that out it will ask you for the password for the Straub Brackets and the password you enter there is "straub".
You can also fax your picks to me at 312 244 3029 (or e-mail).
bought at Big Lots: cheesy fake wagon wheel, underwear, stainless steel water bottle to look cool with, Oreos with green filling, loveseat slipcover ($22), cute 3 flowerpots on one tray thing, white tin Easter tray that will be the basis of Easter centerpiece with real grass growing in it. Passed up on: sage green plastic Adirondack chairs ($15!), $25 memory foam mattress pads, big resin flowerpots and a cute watering can. I'm going back, I can feel it.
The SUN IS OUT!!! The first time in at least 2 weeks. A whole bunch of tiny green things just sprang out of the ground (is sprang a word?) Tomorrow it's supposed to be in the 60's. (snow on saturday, hush, maybe it will pass us by.) How's the rising water situation in Algona?
Happy Birthday, Pat. Demand to be taken out to the seediest Irish bar you can find. So seedy it's not even Irish. Maybe a black latino Irish bar with an illicit game of dice in one corner and unknown shenaningans in the back room. Just tell Josh to wear his chop suey-high karate outfit and to pack heat. Have fun. But don't make extended eye contact.
Tom
Pat told me what she's doing for her birthday and unfortunately for her she's going out with some tetotaling vegetarians. Sound like fun!
Thanks everyone! Hope you all had festive St. Patrick's Days.
Emily is correct about my birthday companions. Fortunately we have asked another couple to join us as well. We are going to a restaurant called Table 41, I think.
BTW Tom, I did go to a somewhat seedy bar last night for a Guinness, though not the seediest. It's called the Duck Tavern. Seedy in Florida is pretty seedy.
p
Enjoy your tea and salad. Have a fun day!
Monica
Hope you get an ND victory for your birthday. Game starts at 11:25 this morning.
How's the flooding in Algona?
Happy Birthday Pat!!
Order a bloody steak and talk with your mouth full....it's your birthday!
The flooding excitement may have crested along with the water...we'll probably hear more later today.
St. Patrick's Day parade and afterparty was GREAT FUN! The Straub's beat the McCall's again. Every year now, Joe and I wait till the bitter end...DeeDee and Maureen are good, but the minute they left, we left...so hold your Straub head high!
Pat doesn't eat bloody steak, she likes 'em well done, which is just wrong, but hey, it's her birthday.
So Sarah's turned seedy late in the night?
We had the best corned beef I've ever had last night. Stevo made it. We had two heapin' helpings of everything. There's just enough left to make ourselves 2 fat Reubens tonight before we go back to our diets. We also had Shamrock Shakes and green-stuffed Oreos, for a totally authentic Irish celebration.
Sarah's did turn seedy...Renee unbuttoned her top collar button on her manshirt and put on a little blush!
Notre Dame lost!!!
I can't believe it...as far as the Brackets go, we probably ALL lost one, so we're all even in this division!
I'm too busy being famous to find the link but I was quoted in the Fort Dodge paper - re: the parade and celebration.
Tom
We had meetings and Randy worked late! But I did make some yummy toasted specials and crisps. The girls and I were happy with the eats, but Mary said it was the boringist St. Patrick's Day ever.
I just saw a butterfly (or moth). I am supposing it is a migratory one rather than a hatching one. Either way, I hope it doesn't die when it snows tomorrow.
lisa
Tom, you're quoted more than anyone else in that article @fortdodgemessenger.com...were you feeding that young fat reporter something besides Irish stew...like leg of lamb?
Curly and Gilligan escaped from the backyard this morning. We heard that they tried to walk into Sundet-Omdahl Insurance offices. We found them at Bryant School. Curly was barking and scaring a group of kids who were holding Gilligan...
last time I let them walk in a parade!
http://www.messengernews.net/page/content.detail/id/523193.html?nav=5010
So not a good day for ND or the rest of the Big East for day one of March Madness. Below are the standing with the # of correct games picked and who that person picked to win:
Ellen Reeder 70
S Guilliatt 67
Catherine Jayjack 66
Rob Zielinski 65
Ed Straub 61
Mary LaVelle 60
Emily Guilliatt 59
Joe Jayjack 59
Frank Straub 51
Andrew Reeder 49
Desmond LaVelle 49
jim straub 49
mike lavelle 49
p straub 49
Marianne Zielinski 47
Tom Straub 38
Only two people picked the Murray St. upset and nobody picked the Georgetown and ND upsets. Ellen was the only one to get 12 picks right, but she has ND in the final four.
Sorry - I didn't include the number of correct picks nor the team players picked to win. Here is that info:
Ellen R 12 Kentucky
S Guilliatt 11 Kansas
Catherine J 11 Notre Dame
Rob Z 11 Kansas
Ed S 10 Kentucky
Mary L 11 Kansas
Emily G 11 Kansas
Joe J 11 Kansas
Frank S 10 Kansas
Andrew R 10 Syracuse
Desmond L 10 Kansas
jim s 10 Kansas
mike l 10 Kansas
p straub 10 Syracuse
Marianne Z 9 Syracuse
Tom S 8 Kentucky
Well, I have to say I totally admire Cathy's boldness. And I am very sorry it has already proven to be impossible. Perhaps your other 3 Final Four picks will make it!
p
Mary - I always seem to attract the interest of female reporters. Kind of like superman.
Tom
Life on the edge, that's me.
Ellen R....c'mon, that's really a basketball under your shirt! Very good!
Did you guys here about the nuns who came out in support of the healthcare bill. Rogue nuns. I love it. It takes women!
Nuns don't pay taxes.
Even though I have Kansas going to the final 8 I'm cheering for UNI. I'm no turncoat.
Tom
OK...if you're such a fan spell the last name of their 3-point guy!
Tom -
You and Cathy are the only ones who do not have Kansas in the final four.
Speaking of turncoats, Murray State is lead by Isaac Miles formerly of Creighton.
Actually nuns pay income taxes like everyone else. Most nuns in the US nowadays are functioning away from their motherhouse, don't live in a convent, and get paid a salary at whatever job they have, even if most of it goes to the motherhouse. I guess most of them make so little that their taxes end up being nothing, though. You can't say they haven't paid their dues to the society at large. They have a voice and I'm glad to see they're using it. Meanwhile the male-dominated Church continues to commit the corporate sin of placing a higher value on the lives and dignity of its priests than on the lives and dignity of their victims. Someone needs to clean house.
Since the issue of the rogue nuns has been raised and since they were praised for their actions, I want to present the truth about them.
Their organization is the Leadership Conference of Catholic Women and they claim to represent 59,000 nuns. The Bishops' conference say that the number is "grossly overstated." Only 55 people representing various orders signed the letter sent to legislators. For some orders, 3 or more signed and one person signed twice. There are over 700 women's religious orders in this country so if only 55 signed the letter and 3 or more signed for some of the orders, it is obvious that this is a miniscule group and Emily accurately referred to them as rogues.
The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious represents more than 100 religious communities and more than 10,000 nuns. Yesterday they came out with a statement supporting the position of the U.S. bishops in opposing the Senate bill "because of its expansion of abortion funding and its lack of provision for conscience protection."
I'm sure you all understand that conscience protection is a very important issue. Without it a doctor who refuses to perform an abortion or a nurse or technician who refuses to assist in an abortion could be fired.
We must keep in mind that the American bishops have been promoting the expansion of health care for decades, long before the politicians got in the act, but they cannot support an immoral law. In fact, they have to fight such a law. If the Senate bill would prohibit federal funding of abortions and provide for conscience protection, the bill would have the full support of the bishops.
Archbishop Chaput of the archdiocese of Denver stated that the rogue group is trying to sow confusion about Catholic doctrine. He also wrote: "Do not be fooled. Nothing has changed. The Senate bill remains gravely flawed on the issues of abortion funding, conscience protections and the exclusion of immigrants."
That is an accurate statement of the Church's teaching and anyone who rejects it is certainly "rogue."
With love, Dad
So they want to force people to do something they don't want to and deem it into law by side-stepping the democratic process. Maybe the Tea Party Wingnuts aren't as crazy as I thought they were when they talk of a socialistic government.
Tom
I think they should pay for neither abortions nor births since it is really an elective proceedure.
I guess in cases of rape they could have the health insurance cover the births.
In any case a flawed bill is better than no bill at all (no matter how it gets passed).
Not true. Very rarely is a rush job a good job. They are rushing this through for purely political reasons. They should be more measured and methodical. Start with insurance reform and move on from there. Dumb @$$#%'s. I can't stand them.
Tom
Frank had a really good day yesterday getting 14 of the 16 games correct and Sienna losing hurt me and a lot of others:
Ellen Reeder 130
Frank Straub 130
S Guilliatt 130
Joe Jayjack 128
Emily Guilliatt 127
Mary LaVelle 119
Catherine J 118
Andrew Reeder 117
Ed Straub 115
mike lavelle 115
Tom Straub 114
Desmond LaVelle 106
p straub 105
Rob Zielinski 104
jim straub 101
Marianne Z 99
Ed, based on your thinking every medical procedure is elective. Your thumb would not have been covered. It was elective. I think if only rape related births were covered there would be a huge increase in the number babies conceived by rape. But I do kind of agree with you that SOMETHING should be passed and then tweaked.
Monica
If the bill is passed in its present form the pro abortion provision will never be tweaked out while Obama is president. Dad
Today the kids from UNI take on the Kansas juggernaut. I actually think it could be a good game. UNI has a strong 7 footer, a decent bench, an outside game and a good penetrator. On defense they held their opponents to the second lowest average point total in the nation.
ROAR! Go Panthers!
Tom
Sebilius says that Obama does not think the healthcare bill should cover abortion. I am sure someone will tell me where I'm wrong. I'm just telling you what she said on Meet the Press.
I doubt it. (that Obama doesn't believe it should cover abortion). The fact that they will do ANYTHING to pass the bill should tell you they will say anything to get it passed. Dirt bags.
Tom
Sibelius will say anything she needs to say in order to help pass the Senate bill. When she was governor of Kansas she was so pro abortion that her bishop privately asked her not to present herself for Communion. Naturally, she ignored that request. To get a head's up on Obama, as soon as the head of the "rogue nuns" made her statement Obama invited her to the White House. Any law that pays to have human life killed is immoral and should not be passed no matter how praiseworthy it may be otherwise. Remember, we speaking about up to 4000 human lives each day. Dad
I believe that's spelled F-A-R-O-K-M-A-N-E-S-H
Tom
i think his cousin Baba Ghanoush signed a letter of intent for BYU.
that was fun. sorry des.
Scott is now on top! Kansas losing gives me hope since so many had picked them for the Championship.
S Guilliatt 149
Frank Straub 145
Ellen Reeder 144
Emily Guilliatt 141
Joe Jayjack 140
Mary LaVelle 138
Catherine J 133
Andrew Reeder 131
Ed Straub 127
mike lavelle 127
Desmond LaVelle 122
Tom Straub 121
jim straub 120
p straub 119
Rob Zielinski 116
Marianne Z 106
9 of 16 people picked Kansas to win it all. One choose Notre Dame.
We're still in the running, Ed. We need Syracuse to get beat then it will be down to us and Ellen.
Tom
Bart Stupak just announced that he and several fellow right-to-life Democrats reached an agreement with Obama on an executive order guaranteeing that no federal funds would be used for abortions and protecting the conscience rights of health care providers and institutions. The House still has the ability to shore that up with reconciliation measures and I hope they do because I think an executive order is more likely to face a court challenge. I think the USCCB opposition to the bill is mistakenly based on a worst-case scenario anyway. They are saying that it is possible that in each state it could happen that only one insurance carrier will be available for customers who want a company that does not cover elective abortions, while in reality right now, almost no health insurance companies do. They don't want to, they don't want any part of it. Unprofitable and risky. Looks like a vote is likely soon. By the way, Jesse Jackson Jr is a stud (see C-span)
Did C-Span say this about Jesse Jackson Jr? haha.
Yes, great news!
p
This will work about as good as the stimulus plan and social security. And, eventually, by some means or another abortions will get funded.
Tom
Dana Basch is almost certainly an alien.
Social security works pretty well - it has acheived its aim of preventing our elderly from living in crushing poverty at the end of their lives. It needs an adjustment that our Congress is going to have to grow a couple and provide - namely, either a raise in witholding or a delay in benefits. Let's see who steps up.
I listened the other day to recordings of the debate over Medicare - it was almost word for word the same as the health care debate: creeping socialism, bankrupting the country, killing business, death panels, the government "getting between a man and his doctor" etc....the only thing that's changed is that now the language isn't all about the guys.
All I know is that Social Security probably will be bankrupt and all the money I've contributed over the year won't be there.
All I know is that I work with some very down and out people and almost all without exception recieve medical care when needed. Be it through title 19 or the state's Hawkeye insurance. A highly subsidized insurance where their copays and premiums are almost nothing.
All I know is that Obama is probably the most pro choice president ever. The same is true of Pelosi in her post.
Someone is going to get screwed over on this thing and like most things it will probably not be the super rich or the super poor.
Probably one of the people to get screwed in this thing is my lower middle class server who is a transplant patient. She will probably loose her medicaid funding and her house aftet that.
As a small potatoes business owner I probably will get screwed in this thing. Like most owners I will try to find the loop holes even if it means making the few full timers into part timers. Thus, they will get screwed.
This thing is full of opportunity for the "Law of Unintended Consequences" to kick into high gear.
What happened to the pledge of transparency? The pledge of fiscal responsibility? The pledge of reaching across the aisle to build consensus? Where are the jobs? All lies.
Pelosi and her ilk will rest with a twisted and clear conscience totally unaware or unconcerned that the country is going down a crap hole.
Tom
The biggest joke about all this is...I listened to Obama's speech on Saturday when he was urging the democrats to vote in favor of the bill. A paraphrased line from the speech - "I know you are in a tough spot. I've been there. I know what it's like to cast a controversial vote."
All this from a guy who voted "present" more than any other. Putz!
Tom
Ok - so here are the standings going into the sweet 16. Cathy was the only one to pick UNI to get there and Tom was the only one to pick Cornell. Mary Ellen had 10 of the 16 teams correct and everybody else had 8 or 9.
Ellen Reeder 172
Emily Guilliatt 169
Frank Straub 166
Mary LaVelle 166
Joe Jayjack 161
Andrew Reeder 158
S Guilliatt 156
mike lavelle 155
Catherine J 149
Tom Straub 149
Ed Straub 148
Desmond LaVelle 145
jim straub 142
Rob Zielinski 137
p straub 136
Marianne Z 127
ALMOST everybody else had 8 or 9.
Oh, this is so sad. Syracuse better pull through in the end.
p
Tom...nobody thinks your potatoes are small.
I can't wait to go to the doctor...do I have to wait untill 2014?
OK, Syracuse has to lose, Kentucky has their Derby...I'm for UNI...go Panthers!!!
Go Ellen! Maybe pregnantbrain makes you uncannily adept at picking unlikely winners.
Who will be at Mom and Dad's for Easter?
I can't.
We "oui".
As I understand it once the bill is signed coverage will begin immediately for all but in a cynically political move the costs won’t be seen on our tax bills for 18 months. This will provide some cover for the democrats in the fall.
Joe Scarborough said this morning that every time in the debate that a republican tried to bring up the anti-trust exemption for insurance companies they were deemed to be out of order by the Speaker. Which I don’t understand because the lack of competition among insurance companies is one of the single biggest drivers of health care coverage. Smells like a backroom deal if ever there was one.
Tom
On a positive note I heard the new Healtcare Bill has special provisions that will cover Kansas choking.
Kansas didn't choke as much as UNI outplayed and outcoached the Jayhawks. UNI has a real chance to beat Michigan State. One of their starters is out.
On the other hand Sparty may have the best coach in the country and they always have talent on the bench to step in.
Tom
Ohhh the Madness!
Leave it to Vice President Joe Biden to add a little, ahem, flair to the signing of a health care bill affecting millions of people.
"This is a big f------ deal," Biden told President Barack Obama after introducing him at today's ceremony at the White House.
Biden appeared to be offering that perspective to Obama privately, but his remark was captured on audio and video.
He was excited.
The Repubs were introducing the anti-trust thing at the wrong time in the proceedings. They were just trying to gum up the works - they know better. It's like a lawyer trying to introduce new evidence during his summation. But now in the fall they can run footage of the nasty old Speaker apparently being on the insurance companies' side. Watch for it.
I got an email from Barack Obama today saying "Cathy, add your name to mine" and I thought, if I gave him the middle name Vernice it might solve a lot of problems for him, as long as I don't have to take the middle name Hussein.
A lot of you remember Molly's friend Mimi Plummer. Well, she had an emergency C-section yesterday because of pre-eclampsia and had a tiny little girl - about 4 lbs 9 oz. She was 37 weeks along and everyone's OK it seems, but if you can, just say a little prayer for her. I hear Finn is doing a little better - glad to hear it. I'm heading home to enjoy this fine spring day.
is Mimi the one that always looks startled?
That's probably her.
I have been enjoying kicking butt in the bracket. It's really made my week, thanks everyone.
The room where we store all our auction stuff just flooded. It was all in cardboard boxes... a mess.
lisa
Oh no. That's really terrible.
Just saw Alice in Wonderland 3D. Pretty good. And you should see it in 3D.
Monica
Lisa that sounds like a nightmare.
p
Lisa, my girlscout cookies weren't ruined were they? That would be a nightmare. Just kidding. What a headache.
Monica
Well, Lisa, how bad is it? When is your auction? What a nightmare. Plastic bins, that's what you need. Is this from a broken pipe or something?
Heading to Target to buy a menorah...
Girl Scout cookies are at home (news for Monica, Mary & Mom & Dad). Auction Room is at work.
yes, it is a mess. The custodian (with help from students) had to clean out the room, we have to sort it all out.
lisa
Just made myself a beautiful filet o fish with Gortons beer battered fish filet, pickle, onion, tomato, cheese, lettuce and special sauce. (1000 island and hot sauce) Enjoyed it and realized today is Thursday, not Friday. What will I eat for lunch tomorrow?
A vegetarian egg bake with good stinky cheese melted on top. Good toasted bread slathered with butter.
Tom
Those both sound yummy. I had turkey kielbasa on an english muffin with hot mustard and coleslaw on it.
p
i just had a chile relleno from trader joes. good stuff, vegetarian. frozen food shouldn't be that good.
I had the Sam's Club $1.50 Nathan's Hot Dog and Obscenely Big Pop special. After loading up the bun with all the goodies, I was good and had the dog without the bun, except for the last delicious bite.
We're doing a Seder dinner next Wednesday for 200 people with roast lamb, couscous, homemade matzot and fruit. Then Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil, Easter dinner, Hispanic First Communion practice with all these traditional practices I don't know about, Anglo first Communion practice, then First Communion weekend. Then I think I'll take a couple days off and play in my garden.
I had a fried rice with a cup of eggdrop soup poured on top...yummy...
"Alice" in 3D is awesome! Everyone and the kids should go!!! She eats interesting lunches, too.
Syracuse is out. That hurts a lot of people.
Tom
Ellen is still in first place, but Scott is back in second because he is the only one to pick Butler in the Elite 8.
Ellen Reeder 189
S Guilliatt 182
Emily Guilliatt 180
Frank Straub 177
Mary LaVelle 177
Joe Jayjack 172
mike lavelle 172
Tom Straub 166
Ed Straub 165
Andrew Reeder 163
jim straub 159
Desmond LaVelle 157
p straub 153
Catherine J 149
Rob Zielinski 148
Marianne Z 139
Hey I moved up a spot!
p
Look at Tom and Ed, just waitin' there for Kentucky to win it all...boo...
Go West Virginia!!!
Of course, go University of Northern Iowa!!! Tonight @8:30 central time.
Just finished painting my living room. I think I like it. It's the green version of the blue in my dining room. Now new curtains.
Monica
Oh, I liked the ones you had in there. Will you be able to use them anywhere else? I'd love to see the living room. Put a picture on facebook!
Nope can't use them. Want 'em?
Two way tie for first and three way tie for sixth moving on to the the final 8!
Ellen Reeder 194
S Guilliatt 194
Mary LaVelle 189
Frank Straub 187
Emily Guilliatt 185
Ed Straub 177
Joe Jayjack 177
mike lavelle 177
Tom Straub 171
Desmond LaVelle 169
Andrew Reeder 168
jim straub 164
Rob Zielinski 160
p straub 158
Catherine J 149
Marianne Z 144
Izzo might be the best coach in college ball today. He gets good talent but not as good as some of big time programs (Duke, Kansas) but he's always right there with them in the end.
Tom
Mary takes over first place! Not one single person will have picked the winner now that Ky. is out.
Mary LaVelle 199
Emily Guilliatt 195
Ellen Reeder 194
S Guilliatt 194
Frank Straub 187
Ed Straub 177
Joe Jayjack 177
mike lavelle 177
jim straub 174
Tom Straub 171
Rob Zielinski 170
Desmond LaVelle 169
Andrew Reeder 168
p straub 168
Marianne Z 154
Catherine J 149
I guess I'm gonna cheer for Butler. Has a "mid-major" conference team ever won this thing?
Tom
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