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Surely there are better uses for a second stimulus package than more road construction.

Not only is Whoopi and the other black woman on The View a stooge, but they are hypocrites.  If you want a situation to improve, you must also walk the walk yourself.  You aren’t doing yourself any favors by sending mixed messages.  If you would be offended by someone using a certain word or phrase, don’t be a stooge and use the word yourself.  And, if you do, then don’t come to me with your tears.

Once again, Mrs. Hasselbeck is right on the money.  I wish she wouldn’t burst into tears every time this stuff happens, however.  She’s fighting the good fight and she doesn’t need sympathy to win these arguments (perhaps the tears are real but she needs to toughen up then).

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WIMBLEDON, England — WTA chief Larry Scott said on Wednesday he was "disappointed and concerned" with the scheduling of women’s matches at Wimbledon and planned to discuss the issue with organizers of the grass-court Grand Slam.

Serena Williams and Serbian No. 2 seed Jelena Jankovic lashed out at organizers on Monday after they, along with defending champion Venus Williams, were shunted off the two main show courts for their fourth-round matches.

While Venus and Serena, who between them have won six titles here, were moved to Court 2, Jankovic was exiled to Court 18, which she described as "almost in the parking lot."

Obviously Wimbledon put the biggest crowd-drawing matches on the courts that could hold the largest crowds.  So, I’m sure they can stick you on the main court in the prime times, misses, but be prepared to take a pay cut (and your pay cut should be bigger than the men who are drawing much larger crowds and who are bringing in a lot of the money that goes into your purses.  You might want to be a bit careful about wishing for equality.  Let’s see what the purses look like if the men’s attendance goes to the men’s purses and the women’s to the women’s.  We’ll see what result hurts worse.

John Daly tees his ball on top of Kid Rock’s beer can at a pro-am event.

Alex Tanguay had some issues with Calgary coach Mike Keenan last season, but the biggest reason the Flames sent him to Montreal for a first round draft pick was money. Calgary will replace some of Tanguay’s offense with Mike Cammalleri, who came from Los Angeles in another deal, but more important, the Flames will save $1.9 million in cap space.

Wes Goldstein has it right. This was all about money.  These talks had begun before Keenan even took over behind the bench, so clearly Tanguay was considered one of the expendable forwards all along.  Sure, Tanguay was another floater in a Keenan system that just doesn’t allow for that.  Still, Tanguay’s main beef was that he wasn’t playing in the situations that he was used to playing in and that was due to the systems and style Keenan had put in.

 

"Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, 1 but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
 
Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’
 
Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you.  Depart from me, you evildoers.’
 
"Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
 
The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.
 
And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand.
 
The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely ruined."

It is hard for me to understand, based on Sunday’s Gospel (among other things), how people continue to believe in justification by faith alone.  We are clearly being called on to act as we are demanded to do.  In other words, the Ten Commandments are not multiple choice.

First, in the Leastern Conference:

Philadelphia over Montreal in 7
Pittsburgh over NYR in 6

And in the Bestern Conference:

Detroit over Colorado in 6
Dallas over San Jose in 6 (my heart says 5 but my mind gets the nod)

It is only fitting that, after President Carter met with terrorists, that he comes out of the meeting saying one thing and the terrorists saying something else only hours later.  Now we have learned that the Secretary of State’s office advised Carter not to meet with terrorists, and that they even made it clear that Carter wasn’t even a player in peace talks.

It is rather sad that a guy who was once the most powerful man in the world (short of the Pope) has lost his mind and has become irrelevant.  Perhaps, President Carter, you ought to just make yourself scarce and find a hobby for your free time.

Rich Lowry summarizes, nicely, the trip to the United States by Pope Benedict XVI as it relates to President Bush.  He says while many will be waiting for criticism on Bush’s foreign policy decisions, Benedict has not obliged short a very vague reference to the weakness of the United Nations.  And Bush, a member of an envangelical church once very suspicious of the Catholic Church, showed his appreciation in ways he has never shown to an international political or religious figure (including welcoming him at the airport):

He might as well have been speaking of President Bush, a man famous for his impatience for pomp and circumstance who went all out - from a 21-gun salute to a four-tiered, lemon-flavored birthday cake - for the pontiff. Bush told Benedict, "In a world where some no longer believe that we can distinguish between simple right and wrong, we need your message to reject this ‘dictatorship of relativism.’ "

But, then again, I’m sure Hillary or Barrack would have done just the same for one of the greatest men on the face of the earth.  Uh huh.

The student newspaper of my alma mater, the University of St. Thomas, reports that it’s Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Tom Rochon is a finalist for the position of President of Ithaca College in New York.  The Ithacan, the student newspaper of Ithaca College quotes Rochon as saying that a move to a secular college would be "enormously freeing."  It is very disappointing to hear such a thing, particularly from a member of the administration who has seemingly championed the Catholic identity of the university.

“All universities are about the open discussion, dialogue, search for truth and understanding,” Rochon said, “But in a Catholic university … some matters are considered to be settled by virtue of Catholic teachings.”

And not only by the virtue of Catholic teachings, but almost entirely by the perfection of natural law.

Catholic teaching does not hinder our ability to find truth.  If we are properly ordered to continuously look through the Catholic lens we have no struggle between truth and freedom.  Therefore, if you are looking for true freedom you need only to look at the world with Christ in mind.  If you are looking for something a little bit easier and more pleasurable then, yes, the secular world is probably "enormously freeing" in this lifetime.  I don’t think the same tune will be sung in the next, however.