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The LTTE Tigers have been blockading our streets, sidewalks and even a major expressway demanding that Obama *dialogue* with them and then stop the war in Sri Lanka. Our politicians mostly just begged them to take down the Tiger flags because the LTTE is an outlawed terrorist group and they cannot Stand in Solidarity with terrorists lest they be photographed and lose the next election.

Sunday evening they swarmed onto an ACTIVE EXPRESSWAY led by women pushing occupied baby carriages, and once the cops, wringing their hands and crying, stopped traffic and begged them to get off, put the women and babies on the front lines — having noticed that the OPP and RCMP were gathering with riot gear on, and tear gas cannisters were being offloaded, and then the Tigers crouched behind the human shields and dared them to do anything about it.

Monday morning the Americans put their foot down, apparently, because there were RCMP blockading both ends of the block where the Consulate is located and shartshooters on the roof thereof.

Yesterday 12,000 Tigers and hangers-on marched through the streets disrupting traffic on sidewalks and streets, again demanding Canada and the USA take action. A counter-demonstration with a banner-toting flyover was begged to disband, land, and shut up lest the Tigers become upset.

Wait til they hear that King Zero is not on their side after all. Get ready for them to march on DC.

They are not *walled up in camps.* They have walled THEMSELVES up in camps, on the promise of their brothers in countries that refuse to take them in, that when the so-called Zionist Entity is marched into the sea, that the WayBack Machine will restore the world to 1947.

Not a word up here either from Church or State.

Of course, right now they are busy begging those opposed to the LTTE (Tamil Tigers), inventers of the suicide belt and banned terrorist organization, who have been rioting in our streets for three weeks, to disband and shut up, and their banner-towing plane to land immediately, lest they upset the Tigers ... and begging the Tigers to take down their flags so the politicians can Stand In Solidarity without getting thrown in jail...

Now, if you want an opinion on there being no Canadian teams left in the Stanley Cup Playoffs ...

I remember The Listener and have been thinking of it lately. Of course up here in Kanukistan you cannot find religious books (except The God Delusion and God is Not Great, of course). Our library does not have a single solitary book by C.S. Lewis, not even the Narnia books. When I asked them to order A Grief Observed from another library I got the Cliffs Notes! A search by the librarian proved that every copy they used to have in any library was missing.

I went across the street to the bookstore (we have only one chain store in the GTA) and was told that they could not order books by C.S. Lewis. My sister popped into Borders in Florida and picked up a copy for me.

So chances of finding anything by Taylor Caldwell in Kanukistan are slim, unless someone from the States might have donated it to a used bookstore.

*- Not paying attention or participating at Mass*

This should include *allowing your children to interfere with the attention or participation of others at Mass.* There are a certain group of small fry in my former parish whose behaviour verges on the terroristic; the priest uses a microphone and one child attempts to scream louder than he can talk — another throws toys and food (bribes from his Murmuring Parents to try to quiet him) — others scream and struggle to get down and run around ... I once had to get up and move to another seat because of a two year old who kept trying to climb over the pew in front of me ... and then there was the Christmas Eve when one little darling kept relentlessly slamming the gate to the pew, over and over and over and over and over ... while her parents pretended not to know who she was.

If more parents would examine their consciences as to whether or not their offspring were spoiling the worship of others in the congregation, perhaps this kind of behaviour would stop.

His purpose is to split the Catholic vote and lead to his being able to use this Photo Op in his re-election campaign by claiming that the Catholic church really does support him.

In my opinion the response of those who say ehhhh, its just one day and then it will be gone, I wonder if you have considered St. Pauls thoughts on whether or not we should *eat food offered to idols*. His opinion was that we should do nothing that would influence a weaker brother or sister to do wrong.

Good work! I hope that the fallout from the Notre Dame error will be more of the same, followed by an uptick in the enrollment of true Catholic schools at the expense of ND.

The sensible place to put it would be on the ankle. Your feet are always in contact with something; the rest of you is not. Sensors in the floor would prevent shoplifting — if the account of the thief would not support payment for the merchandise, the door could automatically lock and a loud voice shout STOP THIEF! STOP THIEF!

You would also need a biometric marker so that nobody could steal your bracelet.

And leave it to private business as to whether to implement the technology or not. There must always be an escape clause.

Would that more *real people* were called to speak to the multitudes one at a time as this great man does.

I try never to miss him whenever he is on. And after having heard his exhortation to pray the Rosary, I took it to heart and I pray it every day. On the subway to work. The ride is precisely the right amount of time. A woman has told me that she is now doing the same, and I have seen another one take out her Rosary and kiss the Cross and pray briefly and then put it away. And a young Chinese man asked me if I had another of the pamphlets they give out at our church on praying the Rosary.

At my age I know I cannot save the world. But Father is correct, the Rosary can.

I am praying every day that he has a Damascus Road conversion, that he repudiates Satan, his pomps and vanities and all his empty promises.

I am prayingthat St. Michael and his Angels remove the Satanic influences that surround him since the day Satan took him up on the mountaintop and offered him the whole world if King Zero would bow down and worship him...and Obama exchanged fist bumps with him and said *My Lord and My God!*

I am praying that he will repent and be saved before being removed from this Earth in Gods good time — before he destroys America.

I think that is a Christian thing to do.

My Daddy lived an extra 21 years because instead of following your advice when his doctor told him to put his affairs in order and resign himself, he had his first (later scond and third) pacemaker implanted, which took place in a hospital by the way. He regularly took medication as prescribed, and he flourished thereby. He lived to see all his grandchildren grow up and to meet six great-grandchildren, because he did not follow your advice.

Because of modern medicine, Daddy lived longer than every one of his older brothers (his sisters lived into their 90s; the menfolk were dead by age 75).

I recall that she sneered *what can you buy with $600? A pair of earrings?* when the stimulus money was first sent out. I guess we know something else now!

My parents bought their cemetery plots with that money, by the way; it allowed Daddy to be buried in a Veterans Cemetery with military honours, which was his hearts desire.

If you are worried that you are going to lose your job soon, why would you spend $40,000 on a new car? The first thing our firm did when the downturn started was stop buying new equipment (for the staff).

Fr. Corapi is in my prayers following the Rosary every day. I would not miss a chance to hear him speak.

I agree qbout the price of the talks, though. They are outrageously expensive, especially when you include shipping.

In a search for some church in Toronto that contained people who would welcome me, I attended a United Church in my neighbourhood (that turned out to be the wealthiest church in the city). They required that you only believe 85% of the Creed in order to be a member. (They were actively hostile to new members, and anti-American sermons were preached routinely by their South African pastor). I think a Creed is either or — you do not get to pick which bits you will believe and which you will not.

I have always thought that in addition to a statement of facts, the Creed is food for meditation.

38 years old, so a member of the generation that blames other people when their lives go wrong — and wants to be Famous and Make Statements.

He had lost his job and his home, and likely his wife was leaving him too, and he just wanted to go out in a giant burst of Fame and Flame. Ignoring him is probably the best tactic.

I watched something on Discovery Channel and then turned over to EWTN. Neither of them were showing King Zero or even mentioned him at all.

I have attended six different churches and two Catholic parishes since I have lived in Canada (11 years) and nobody will speak to me. The Catholics are simply indifferent — they drift past as if I am invisible, sometimes walking right smack into me in their eagerness to welcome someone they already know; the United Church people were overtly hostile because their religion is Anti-Americanism, and the Anglicans of course worship the male sex organ and that is all they ever talk about.

The two Catholic parishes I attend have no programs for anybody who is not married and has no children, after the age of about 12. They have no grief counseling, no regularly scheduled confession, the priests do not greet strangers or newcomers, and when there are dinners for the parish, it is abundantly clear that nobody wants a stranger at their table...they look almost frightened at my inquiry if there are any empty seats. The last (and I do mean the last) time I went, two girls were frantically trying to save all the seats at the table, and even when the room filled up, they would not allow anyone to sit at that table until finally they gave up and said a few people *might as well* sit there — however, they spoke only to one another, as did the three women who sat down across from me, ate quickly and left.

When a person is treated like that, she is soon quite aware that she is unwelcome and unwanted, and that everyone will be relieved if she quits showing up.

I never had this kind of trouble anywhere I have lived in the world. Only here.

That is a very strange reply — you ought to keep your fly zipped because impregnating women and abandoning them or pressuring them to abort your baby because all you wanted was free sex is unethical and immoral.

Or is your position that once you impregnate a woman, you notch your bedpost, holler out your WOO HOO! and move on to the next one with no responsibility?

This is the First Brat playing with his new toys. Recall him strutting on board th first time and behaving like a kid at a Disneyland Resort who finds out his bed is shaped like one of the Flying Teacups?

What next, a re-enactment of Columbine, just to update his file photos?