Reichstag Fire

I suspect there is a trail of acorns leading to a den of fellow-travelling anarchists at the end of the untimely bullet that tragically ended the tragic life of George Tiller.

This killing is the result of the rampant pro-choice mentality nurtured in this country for over 40 years: Sometimes you can end a life to solve a problem. The pro-life movement maintains you cannot kill somebody to achieve whatever good objective you are trying to achieve.

Human Life International has documented more than 8,519 acts of violence and illegal activities by pro-abortionists. These crimes include:

* 1,251 homicides and other killings
* 157 attempted homicides
* 28 arsons and firebombings
* 904 assaults
* 1,908 sex crimes (including 250 rapes)
* 106 kidnappings
* 420 cases of vandalism
* 290 drug crimes
* 1,616 medical crimes

The Christian response to abortion providers and their staff has always been that they might establish an audience or camaraderie with people who have been in the same place like Bernard Nathanson and the Society of Centurions. Indeed, I asked my priest to offer an intention for the repose of George Tiller's soul at our 2 PM Latin Mass today that God would extend more charity and mercy to Tiller than he extended to God's children developing in the womb.

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Ezekiel 18:23,32
Do I indeed derive any pleasure from the death of the wicked? says the Lord GOD. Do I not rather rejoice when he turns from his evil way that he may live? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies, says the Lord GOD. Return and live!

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1 Timothy 2:1-4
First of all, then, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity. This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth.

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CA Supreme Court Invents A New "Constitutional Right"

American Courts Continue Murderous Assault On The Culture Of Life


Without regard to their precious doctrine of stare decisis, the United States Supreme Court continued this nation's slow descent to zero population growth and our civilisation's eventual extinction with their 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas. By ignoring their golden doctrine of stare decisis, the U.S. Supreme Court majority confirmed the intellectual incoherence and moral bankruptcy of this doctrine responsible for keeping the companion decisions of Roe & Doe on life support for over 35 years.

With today's decision (May 15, 2008), California joined the suicidal impulse of 12 other U.S. jurisdictions (including the United States Supreme Court) by declaring the state has no compelling interest in maintaining and preserving the procreation of our society's civilisation. As a result, this imperial judicial system atrophies an authentic understanding of our inalienable rights. By fiat, Our Right Honourable Overlords niggardly mete out the Rights to the Pursuit of Happiness and Liberty in accord with an enlightened sense of propriety while the Right to Life is applicable insofar as it is convenient and does not interfere with having a good time.

Over 35 years ago, the Court declared that a woman has the fundamental right to murder her own child in her womb. Now, 13 U.S. jurisdictions have declared it a fundamental right of our society to divorce the sex instinct from the natural and right-ordered instinct to procreate.

By upholding our society's single-minded pursuit of pleasure, these courts illustrate the depth of the abyss that is the Culture Of Death ends in the very bowels of Hell.

[FYI: Stop, Drop, And Roll Doesn't Work In Hell. ^_^]

Ultimately, these judicial edicts express the cruel contempt of the intelligentsia towards the heroic sacrifices our citizens exhibited in confronting the genocidal whims of mass-murdering despots. By embracing our own impulses to self-destruction a century earlier, we could have avoided the tremendous economic and social costs of war and conflict.

This is indeed a very dark day for American jurisprudence.


"The stench from the bench is making me clench!" -- Michael Savage

Comcast Responds To My Request For EWTN

From: Scott Tenney
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:27 PM
Subject: RE: EWTN-The Global Catholic Television Network

If limited basic customers are getting channel 61 it would be because our tech used an old line trap. Channel 61 is not included in our limited basic tier. We are temporarily carrying EWTN on 61 but, due to bandwidth demands associated with moving to an all digital network, we cannot keep it there. We are working with EWTN to get the rights to put EWTN and EWTN en Espanolin digital and on-demand.

I agree with your concerns about infomercials on INSP. I also think it was an unwise decision for AT&T to drop EWTN in the first place. However, my experience has been that moving or deleting religous networks is a very tricky business and causes a lot of problems. So inspite of my concerns with the informercials on INSP, I am not inclined to move or delete them.

I'm anxious to add EWTN and EWTN en Espanol as quickly as possible but right now only have bandwidth to put them in digital. Once we've transitioned to an all digital environment I will have the bandwidth and flexibility to look at moving them to the limited basic tier. However that is 2-3 years down the road and does not address your imediate concerns.

I am sorry that we are not going to be able to meet your imediate needs. If getting EWTN as cheaply as possible is your only objective, satellite is probably your best option right now.

Thanks for your input. I appreciate it and it has generated a lot of discussion within my team. We have really explored all the options but can't meet your request for EWTN in limited basic at this time.

Scott Tenney

Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 4:56 PM
To: Scott Tenney
Cc: Steve Burke
Subject: Re: EWTN-The Global Catholic Television Network

Mr Tenney,

Additionally, I could receive 60 channels with the most basic service from Dish Network AND receive EWTN for $25 -- a far cry from the Digital and onDemand pricing tier and acceptable for a FREE network with FREE programming. I would also receive the same 12 shopping networks that makeup the core of Comcast's 37 channel limited basic package. Unless, I live in one of the cities, apartment complexes, communities, or home owner's associations that craft monopolistic non-compete agreements to keep cable competitors out of an area.

On the limited basic network, Utah's LDS religious majority has three networks and the state's second largest religion has zero. The evangelicaland fundamentalist protestants with even less representation in the state have four channels when they don't revert to paid programming at the end of their broadcast day.

This is a basic issue of fairness and equitable distribution.

Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:13 PM
To: Scott Tenney
Subject: RE: EWTN-The Global Catholic Television Network

Mr Tenney,

Thank you for your reply. What I don't understand is why other Comcast customers with limited basic programming are receiving channel 61. In fact, the only difference between the channels that I receive and the channels received by my acquaintances with the same service level is that they get channel 61 and I get HBO channel 6. I even pointed out to the service technician that I was receiving premium content as a basic subscriber (that I don't care about) while I cannot get access to a free network with free programming. I am still perplexed by the 4 year absence of EWTN from Utah in favour of a network with over 13 hours of home shopping and infomercials on a "religious" programming network (INSP).

As far as the value of on-demand to EWTN viewers, the network producers already offer several encore presentations to accommodate the viewer's need for a flexible television schedule. Unfortunately, I know of many people who want EWTN to subscribe to Comcast, but they are not in a position to pay $40 or more for FREE programming. Speaking for myself, I have been a network administrator in the dot com economy before the implosion, and my most recent employment was downsized in an organisation-wide lay off two days before Christmas 2004. At the pesent time (and before I enter a religious order), I am in no position to pay $50 for television service and I have no desire to pay $15 per month for television programming that doesn't include a FREE television channel. To this day, I still grimace when I pass channel 72 and think back fondly (to my pre-Catholic days) when that channel broadcasted 24 hours a day. Channel 72 had several Catholic devotional programs and a beautifully reverent celebration of the Mass. Now, it mostly has infomercials for Oreck, Ronco, juice makers, and a very poor substitution for the Mass from St. Ann's Communication in Scranton, PA in place of the Mass from Irondale, AL. That said, Catholics don't like to just watch the Mass, we like to attend the Mass whenever possible. We watch EWTN for the catechetical instruction, devotionals, global Catholic news, powerful documentaries, music specials, and young adult programming not found anywhere else.

From: Scott Tenney
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: EWTN-The Global Catholic Television Network

Thanks for your message. We are currently in discussions with EWTN to make content from both EWTN and EWTN en Espanol available on-demand and as a digital basic channel. We are temporarily carrying the channel in analog expanded basic. Due to bandwidth constraints associated with transitioning to an all digital environment, we won't be able to keep EWTN in analog for now.

However we want to serve the needs of our community and want to add EWTN to our lineup. In the immediate term putting the channel on digital is our best option. Offering selected EWTN content on-demand will greatly enhance its value to EWTN viewers. For example, viewers would be able to watch mass or other favorite programs on their own schedule.

I am sorry that we won't be able to put EWTN on limited basic for now. If you would like to discuss directly, please call me at my office.

Scott Tenney
Comcast area vice president for Utah
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Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 7:25 PM
To: Steve BurkeCc: Scott Tenney
Subject: RE: EWTN-The Global Catholic Television Network

Dear Mr. Burke & Mr. Tenney,

Thank you for your reply. I was informed that Comcast in Utah has since allowed EWTN onto the expanded basic network for the month of April. However, it seems as though many people receive the channel with the limited basic package. After I noticed that many acquaintances had the channel on 61 with limited basic, I confirmed my observation with a telephone representative to place an order for limited basic to upgrade my high speed internet service -- AS EWTN IS THE ONLY NETWORK THAT I WANT! After waiting for 4 hours on Monday, I noticed a sign on my door as I was leaving that they tried to make the appointment, but moved to their next install when they did not find me at home. Not only was the doorbell not rung, but I had called and made arrangements at 1:30p for them to make the necessary installation changes on the outside of the house as I did not need any changes inside. I was informed that I would not need to greet them personally for them to complete the service call. I called back and they arranged for a second service call between 5-6:30p. Now, I have the limited basic package, but no EWTN. I have channel 72 INSP and I don't want this channel of commercials, infomercials, and other home shopping programming.

"EWTN offers its programming free of charge. If EWTN is not available on your cable system, please contact them directly."

(http://www.ewtn.com/tv/G1Rsatellite.htm)

It is absurd that a channel that is free of cost to the cable provider should be placed in any premium, second tier, or special digital package to merely seek to raise your profit margin to ridiculously spectacular heights -- especially from a company pledging their commitment to family and religious programming on their channel lineup and considering that it was on the Comcast Limited Basic Network FOUR years ago. Your satellite competitors offer this network on the most basic tier of their channel packages. At this point, I am still watching the EWTN signal from the free (but imperfect) video stream on the EWTN web site. I will wait a week to hear from you before I escalate a publicity campaign highlighting the previously cited grievances and abuses. I will also wait to hear your response before I cancel my television service. I do not need cable service for my television for the remaining 3 weeks of April if I am still forced to watch the network feed from the Internet on my computer.

Thank you for considering my request.

From: Steve Burke
Cc: Scott Tenney
Subject: RE: EWTN-The Global Catholic Television Network
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:33:48 +0000

Thanks for your thoughtful email. I have taken the liberty of passing it on to Scott Tenney who runs our business in Utah. I am sure he will look into this situation quickly and get back to you.

Steve BurkeChief Operating Officer, Comcast CorporationPresident, Comcast Cable Communications

Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:35 AM
To: Steve Burke
Subject: EWTN-The Global Catholic Television Network

Dear Mr. Burke,

Here in Utah, many people want EWTN back in the Salt Lake Valley. You may also be interested to know that, in order to reach those communities which do not normally receive EWTN or EWTN Español, EWTN will offer local cable systems the right to temporarily carry either or both networks during this period as a service to those who would like to watch the memorials honoring Pope John Paul II, the papal funeral, and the events in the Vatican leading up to the announcement of His Successor. Comcast Utah risks being on the wrong side of history in not making this channel available, at the least, throughout this time of historical significance. Your company further commends itself to disgrace by continuing to receive profits from the business of pornography. I continue to be very disappointed to learn that you have not yet added EWTN back to your analog basic channel lineup especially because EWTN offers this programming free of cost.

I am requesting that you add EWTN to your channel line-up. I believe that this network can provide the hope, encouragement, and inspiration that are needed by so many in our community! Providing EWTN will certainly enhance your service and stave off the hemorrhage of subscribers that desert your service for Dish Network or Direct TV to receive this cable network. As your company remains firm in their hostile opposition to religious and family values, you are losing access to a customer base of 200,000 Utah Catholics and the many non-Catholics that also find unique and compelling programming on this 24/7 cable network with no commercial interruption. Including myself, I know many people that have enjoyed and continue to enjoy this network for many years as a non-Catholic whether or not they discern a call to conversion.

Comcast has recently launched an advertising campaign heralding their commitment to family and religious programming on their channel lineup. This campaign could be thought a farce if your real accomplishments weren't actually so tragic and contemptible. Comcast Corporation does have an incredible opportunity to rectify a great injustice perpetrated against the vocational achievements of this nation's foremost Cable Television Pioneer. By ensuring a place in their nationwide analog basic channel lineup for EWTN, Comcast's recognition of Mother Angelica would do much to disprove the allegations that their pursuit of amassing enormous profits derived from immoral investments is the only concern for this so-called responsible corporate citizen of America. If this giant telecommunications provider of entertainment programming cares nothing for the deleterious effect their product has on an increasingly degenerate and decadent society, then the genocidal rage of the 20th century will find its ignominious conclusion in the 21st century's cultural suicide. The short-term gain of profits for entertainment and media conglomerates will be mitigated by the return to barbarism dictated by our precipitously declining civilization.

Indeed, AT&T Comcast's hostility to religious values is further proof that they are a fervent advocate of this stifling culture of death and materialism that afflicts the very soul of our national being. With more than a dozen home shopping networks and a half dozen degenerate music video channels, these networks have contributed more to perpetuate the forces of perversion unleashed on our great culture than any other idea or artifact. What must the channel surfer confront in the attempt to locate this strong commitment to family friendly television? The Oxygen Network with the demoniac Canadian who hosts The Joy of Celebrating Your Inner Deviancy, MTV reality shows, E's The Anna Nicole Show and The Howard Stern Show, and the soft core porn on the premium movie channels (HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime) that once were vehicles for the home viewing of recent Hollywood theatrical releases -- instead, they have become a showcase for a society that embraces sexual liberation and cultural genocide.

There are two LDS stations, dozens of home shopping networks, two forums for liberal women, and a dozen programming options for evangelical Protestants. There are no longer any Catholic channels in the state where Catholics are the second largest denomination. Furthermore, INSP and all of the religious channels switch to home shopping during some part of the day. EWTN has programming 24/7 and it is absolutely free to the cable provider.

Comcast must reverse the December 2001 decision that replaced EWTN with INSP. For Comcast to continue to deny programming access to its many victims of restraint-of-trade practices, the clear message is that this immensely arrogant corporation has an insatiable lust for power that blinds them to all issues antithetical to self-interest -- issues of fairness, decency, and morality.

Thank you for considering my request.

Sincerely,

Deputy Grand Knight
Knights of Columbus Council 602

Michael Admits He Didn’t Know What Terri Wanted

This is an incredible evidentiary discovery from the CNN transcripts! Too bad the judges refuse to hear new evidence that contradicts the adjudicated facts in the case. This statement illustrates the smug arrogance of the man. He knows that he can essentially admit to perjury on national television without any repercussions from the appropriate "controlling legal authority."

" . . . M. SCHIAVO: Yes, I do. But this is not about them, it's about Terri. And I've also said that in court. We didn't know what Terri wanted, but this is what we want . . . "

http://www.theempirejournal.com/03200544_michael_admits_he_didn.htm

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0503/18/lkl.01.html

Michael Schiavo: Bigamist or Adulterer

Chronicle openly hostile to religious and conservative viewpoints

From the 2003 Archives of NEW RIGHT PUBLICATIONS' Realm Of Misanthropy:

In the Oct. 29 column “A vegetative state is bad,” Craig Froehlich and The Daily Utah Chronicle continue their murderous assault on the culture of life and proclaim their dogmatic obedience to a culture of death constructed on the graves of immediate gratification, egoism, materialism, and other objectively disordered behaviors.

This secularist vision of reality robs the human being of the inalienable rights and intrinsic dignity granted to every person from conception to natural death because this kind of utilitarian society declares certain individuals to be inconvenient or undesirable.

What is this legal fiction that a common law bigamist and adulterer is permitted to claim the rights of guardianship and inheritance over a medically disabled person and their estate? Why are the claims about this allegedly oral Living Will only coming from the inheritor or his agents? All Living Wills that I have seen prohibit a person's beneficiary from acting as witness to the execution of those same documents.

Why hasn't Michael Schiavo been brought up on charges of common law bigamy or adultery? Why are Michael Schiavo and his agents permitted to redefine the term "persistent vegetative state" in such a way as to include people with the physical and vocal ability of a Stephen Hawking, Terry Wallis, or Christopher Reeve? The only things that separate Stephen Hawking, Terry Wallis, and Christopher Reeve from Terri Schindler are the time and money invested in the requisite physical therapy, mobility devices, and communications devices that have permitted those gentlemen to partially recover (to the degree that they have) from their respective disabilities. Interestingly enough, Michael was supposed to have used Terri's monetary awards for malpractice in furtherance of those goals of rehabilitation.

Furthermore, he has abused his position as legal guardian by his dramatic insistence that his first wife be cremated upon death to prevent any postmortem examination. He has some nerve to contradict the wishes of a devout Roman Catholic. (A Monsignor asserted her disposition in the faith when he was denied admittance to administer the Last Rites.) Traditional Roman Catholics eschew the very subject of cremation. It has only been since the modernizing winds of Vatican II blew threw the sanctuaries that cremation was permitted as a possibility for reasons of economy. One has to wonder the ulterior motives behind his dictatorial demands.

To aid in his efforts to kill his first wife, Michael Schiavo and his agents of death have been pursuing a demonic reconstruction of our language: Mentally disabled quadriplegics or paraplegics are now considered to be in a persistent vegetative state. Providing nourishment in the form of a liquid diet is not to be considered as care for comfort, but medical treatment to prolong life akin to an artificial heart and lungs machine. If we must refer to human beings with the dehumanizing term of vegetable, then it should refer to people with anatomical systems that would stop without a machine. The term vegetable should never be used to refer to a person in a minimally conscious or wakeful state. The fact that Terri responds in such a minimal way to external stimuli without rehabilitation speaks volumes about what she might be able to accomplish with the appropriate treatment. Life support machines control the function and power of organs. Food provides the nourishment for healthy and functioning organs. If Terri Schindler was truly in an authoritative and verifiable persistent vegetative state, then no amount of nutrition and hydration could prevent a person without working nervous and cardio-pulmonary systems from dying.

The New York Times proclaimed, "True respect for life includes recognizing not just when it exists, but when it ceases to be meaningful." This philosophy is why we get judicial majorities to assert that when a pregnancy is not meaningful to a mother, the child can be ripped from her womb. Leaders of the Third Reich used similar rationales for mandatory euthanasia of mentally and physically disabled persons. The definition as manufactured by The New York Times distorts our role in the creation of life: God is the author of life and we are the procreators. The question is not whether life ceases to be meaningful for the individual or society, but for God.

The Daily Utah Chronicle Advances Anti-Catholic Bigotry

From the 2003 Archives of NEW RIGHT PUBLICATIONS' Realm Of Misanthropy:

In an exceedingly crude and vulgar anti-Catholic screed, Craig Froehlich launched an intensely vitriolic and incoherent attack on his former church following a week of celebration in thanksgiving for the lives and apostolates of two of the greatest citizens of the 20th century.

Unlike the first response to this uncharitable mischaracterization of the Catholic faith, I am a "non-revisionist" Catholic: A Catholic who thinks the faith is true. (Period!) The world doesn't need another half-hearted, fearful, and conciliatory profession of the Catholic faith. The truth of the faith needs to be declared boldly and uncompromisingly with orthodoxy because the faith resonates at every level of the human senses and intellect: The faith is liberating, illuminating, ecstatically beautiful, challenging, and invigorating.

Mr. Froehlich seems angry that the Church lives simultaneously in the world and in the galleries of the Vatican museum. He condemns the Church for changing the process of evaluating the presence of heroic virtue in a holy life while he condemns the Church for not changing her doctrines on the holy priesthood and God's gift of human sexuality. Imagine that! The Church doesn't alter the essential and unchanging truths of the doctrines of salvation, but Heaven forefend if she considers alterations to the bureaucratic hierarchy of the Vatican congregations.

It is with this charge that we touch the surface of his anger. There is no greater heresy in the modern liberal mind than to ignore, marginalize, and relegate to irrelevance the power and influence of big governments and mammoth bureaucracies. This is precisely what Mother Teresa did in her ministry to the poorest of the poor.

She didn't love, care, feed, and house the homeless through a welfare state scheme of income redistribution. She didn't substitute the poverty of destitution and deprivation with a poverty of materialism and overabundance -- the sort of poverty that reduces the dignity of the human person to a jumble of disordered passions and values the individual insofar as they contribute to the net worth of a nation.

In caring for the poor of Calcutta, Mother Teresa did none of the things that the secularists advocate to instill self-esteem and empowerment in the victim class. Her life was an authentic witness to the radical, self-emptying message of the Gospel. Her mission to see Jesus in the faces of everyone she met was her small way to imitate the agape love that He showed us in His passion and death at Golgotha. This kind of love is too deep, too strong, and too unselfish -- and it offends the pride of the modern world.

If Mr. Froehlich spent as much time learning about and forming his faith as he did reading the modernist and rationalist propaganda of unabashed secular materialists, then his remarks could possibly have had a shred of intellectual honesty and charity. Perhaps, he might not have felt compelled to issue forth from his venomous quill the cruel and profane attacks on this Blessed Servant of God, Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

KNRS "Family Values" Talk Radio Host Illustrates Virulent Anti-Catholicism

From the 2001 Archives of NEW RIGHT PUBLICATIONS' Realm Of Misanthropy:

Quite the narrowly focused poll today, Bob. Alas and alack, I could not respond to the question (28 years old and counting) because seminarians are required to make certain vows.

I must congratulate you, Bob! Nice way to trash the accomplishments and memory of Mother Teresa! Strange, I would not have counted the Princess of Wales (and her New Age nihilism) as your ideological soul mate.

It would be pointless to cite the preaching, teaching, and nagging of those, like Dr. Laura, who counsel that one should get married in their late twenties. Alluding to human psychological authorities to advocate an opposing view in a debate with you would be feckless: It is quite clear that you are your own authority.

But, Mr. Lonsberry, since I believe you to be a God-fearin’, Bible-readin’ Christian, how would you respond to the whole of the seventh chapter in First Corinthians? In his letter, Paul recommends the life of service a man or woman of Christ should lead, and why that lifestyle is preferable. It was just one more example of taking up your cross to follow him.

Or, how would you respond to the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 19:10-12? “His disciples said to him, "If there is such commitment between husband and wife, we should not get married."* He told them, however, "This manifestation does not go down well for everyone, except for the ones that it applies. "For there are celibates that were born from their mother's womb like this, and there are celibates who became celibate from humanity, and there are celibates who became celibate of their own free will, for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven. Whoever can do without it, let them be without it."

Contrast the above to the Gospel according to Lonsberry: “ ... marriage and parenthood are the [highest examples] of service in this life. They are opportunities to give of ourselves, to love as God has loved.”

God commanded us to love our neighbours as ourselves. And then, as if to test the point, the religious elders asked who their neighbours were. Surely, they reasoned, their neighbours could not be sinners, the ritually unclean, the gentiles, or the tax collectors. Surely, God didn’t mean for us to violate the law of the Sabbath to help our neighbour. Then, Christ told the story of the Good Samaritan.

No, I don’t believe that marriage and parenthood are the pinnacles of service and love in this life. Husband, wife, and children are one flesh. In this context, how is it a hard sacrifice to serve or love your family?

I will concede to you the point that too many people today are wrapped up in their own little fiefdoms and materialisms. People should be focused on the higher prize; the nobler calling of service to others, but also remember that Jesus was the friend of tight men and loose women. Before they went on to lead exemplar lives of service and holiness; Paul of Tarsus, Augustine of Hippo, and Francis of Assissi all lead quite extraordinary lives of profligacy.

However, I will not concede your argument that the only fulfilling life is wrapped up within the bonds of Eros and domesticity. (Or that procreation is the only way to impact future generations.) Whether or not one is called to the ordained or lay ministry, orthodox Christianity of all denominations encourages a life of consecrated celibacy because it follows the example established during Christ’s earthly ministry, and it foreshadows the life all will lead in the hereafter.

Lonsberry's Note: For some reason I keep hearing words in my head about "drawing near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."

SCOTUS Continues Murderous Assault on the Culture of Life.

Without regard to their precious doctrine of stare decisis, the Supreme Court continued this nation's slow descent to zero population growth and our civilisation's eventual extinction. By making no reference to their doctrine of stare decisis, the Supreme Court majority has confirmed the intellectual incoherence and moral bankruptcy of the doctrine that has kept Roe v. Wade on life support for 30 years. The Supreme Court declared that the state has no compelling interest in maintaining and preserving the procreation of our society's civilisation. SCOTUS has perverted the ordering of our inalienable rights. We are now told that Our Creator has endowed us with the Rights to the Pursuit of Happiness and Liberty. The Right to Life is applicable insofar as it is convenient and doesn't interfere with having a good time.

Thirty and a half years ago this week, the Court declared that a woman has the fundamental right to murder her own child in her womb. Now, the Court declares that it is a fundamental right of our society to divorce the sex instinct from the natural and right-ordered instinct to procreate.

By upholding our society's single-minded pursuit of pleasure, the Court has illustrated that the depth of the abyss that is the culture of death ends in the very bowels of Hell.

The cruelty of this judicial edict is realised when we reflect on the heroic sacrifice our citizens exhibited in confronting the genocidal whims of mass-murdering despots. By embracing our own impulses to self-destruction a century earlier, we could have avoided the tremendous economic and social costs of war and conflict.

This is indeed a very dark day for American jurisprudence.

AT&T Comcast's Anti-Catholic Business Model Refuses Recognition of 'Cable TV Pioneer' in Utah!

Comcast Corporation has an incredible opportunity to rectify a great injustice perpetrated against the vocational achievements of this nation's foremost Cable Television Pioneer. By ensuring a place in their nationwide channel lineup for her network, Comcast's recognition of Mother Angelica would do much to disprove the allegations that their pursuit of amassing enormous profits derived from immoral investments is the only concern for this so-called responsible corporate citizen of America. If this giant telecommunications provider of entertainment programming cares nothing for the deleterious effect their product has on an increasingly degenerate and decadent society, then the genocidal rage of the 20th century will find its ignominious conclusion in the 21st century's cultural suicide. The short-term gain of profits for entertainment and media conglomerates will be mitigated by the return to barbarism dictated by our precipitously declining civilisation.

Indeed, AT&T Comcast's hostility to religious values is further proof that they are a fervent advocate of this stifling culture of death and materialism that afflicts the very soul of our national being. With more than a dozen home shopping networks and a half dozen degenerate music video channels, these networks have contributed more to perpetuate the forces of perversion unleashed on our great culture than any other idea or artifact. But that's not all, Dear Reader. We also have the witness of the Oxygen Network with the demoniac Canadian who hosts The Joy of Celebrating Your Inner Deviancy, MTV's The Osbournes, E's The Anna Nicole Show and The Howard Stern Show, and the soft core porn on the premium movie channels that once were vehicles for the home viewing of recent Hollywood theatrical releases -- instead, they have become a showcase for a society that embraces sexual liberation and cultural genocide.

Here in Utah, many people want EWTN back in the Salt Lake Valley. There are two LDS stations, dozens of home shopping networks, two forums for liberal women, and a dozen programming options for evangelical Protestants. There are no longer any Catholic channels in the state where Catholics are the second largest denomination. Fair is fair! INSP and all of the religious channels switch to home shopping during some part of the day. EWTN has programming 24/7 and there is NO charge to the cable provider for this programming!

Is there NO limit to the banality, coarseness, and vulgarity of the endless barrage of music videos, materialism, and unbridled sensuality that your company inflicts on society?

The very rural community of St. George, Utah with Charter Communications has a far more cosmopolitan and varied cable lineup than the urban capital city, but St. George also has more competition in the cable market.

Maybe, Salt Lake City government's Cable TV Administrator needs to investigate the franchise for the monopolistic practises of AT&T/Comcast.

Recently, the AT&T chairman admitted that he wanted a friendlier political climate in Utah for his company. He concluded that currying the favour of the LDS Church was the quickest way to achieve this goal. These documents were released during the trial over the disputed ownership of The Salt Lake Tribune. AT&T's decision to remove EWTN from its Utah lineup came one year after it announced the sale of the Tribune to the MediaNews Group -- when the scrutiny over their controversial sale was reaching its peak. Viewed from this perspective, neutering the Salt Lake Tribune by selling it to an LDS-approved buyer and preventing the preeminent Catholic network of evangelism from having an audience via the cable giant's infrastructure are ideal ways to curry the favour of Utah's largest power broker.

One positive effect of the free market is that the anti-Catholic business model of AT&T Comcast has resulted in many of the 200,000 Catholics in Utah to subscribe to Dish Network to receive the Global Catholic Network. Even if cable television is so much more convenient than satellite television (as Comcast advertising alleges), Utah Catholics will not go back to it after the decision that replaced EWTN with INSP -- unless that December 2001 decision is immediately reversed. Nationwide, I understand that the 63 million Catholics who can't get EWTN on cable are turning to DISH Network where it is available. However, the Dish is not available for distribution everywhere because some apartment complexes have built-in monopolies for the cable company. Many consumers also balk at the up-front investment in equipment that satellite television often requires for service. (Though this is less of a concern with satellite companies that mirror the rental equipment option made popular with cable television.)

For Comcast to continue to deny programming access to its many victims of restraint-of-trade practises, the clear message is that this immensely arrogant corporation has an insatiable lust for power that blinds them to all issues antithetical to self-interest -- issues of fairness, decency, and morality.