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Red Simple WE KNOW THE MYSTERY of the number forty. This tenth of March brings it before us. Forty new advocates! Forty encouraging us to enter bravely on our career of penance! On the frozen pool, which was their field of battle, these these martyrs reminded one another that Jesus had fasted for forty days, and that they themselves were forty in number! Let us, in our turn, compare their sufferings with the lenten exercises which the Church imposes upon us; and humble ourselves on seeing our cowardice; or, if we begin with fervor, let us remember that the...

Lookee, Lookee, thirty or forty years ago, the great state of Alabama marriage laws allowed for girls aged thirteen to sixteen could get married with parental approval. Girls of sixteen and older could marry without parent approval. Today the law states that girls sixteen to eighteen can get legally married with parental approval. Girls eighteen and older can marry without parent approval. Knowing Alabama as well as I do, thousands of girls aged thirteen to sixteen dated with older men heavily, and got married during that time frame thirty and forty years ago!!! So.....these young ladies accusing Judge Roy Moore...

 Obama's Forty Ninth Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 1/1/2010 New Year's DayErroll Southers, the Obama White House's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, refuses to answer questions about whether he would work toward unionizing the TSA.   There are claims that Southers misled the senate in sworn testimony about about an incident 20 years ago in which Southers improperly accessed a government criminal database. The White House did not send Southers' nomination to the Senate until September 10, 2009 -- 243 days into the Obama administration. The nomination was then in committee -- controlled entirely by...

Obama's Forty Seventh Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 12/18/2009 Settling for something small rather than a big nothing, President Barack Obama and four peers on Friday brokered a climate policy framework that other nations reportedly agreed to support as the U.N. climate summit here wraps up.Chinese premier snubs Obama at private meeting on climateVIDEO: Obama bows again in Copenhagen"We've done what we can here," a senior White House official in Copenhagen, Denmark, tells ABC News. "The Chinese are dug in on transparency and are refusing to let people know they're living up to their end of...

 Obama's Forty Fifth Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 12/04/2009 At the Obama Jobs "summit";   of the list of the leaders invited, the majority are labor union leaders, leaders of businesses with government contracts, or leaders of businesses that operate on partial public funding. 6 big unions are included: Anna Burger, Change to Win, Leo Gerard, United Steel Workers, Joe Hansen, United Food and Commercial Workers, Randi Weingarten AFT. Suspicions of ACORN involvement.White House: Iran has one month to respondObama Safe School Czar,Kevin Jennings, promotes pornographic mateirals for grades 7-12Obama: We want to make sure people buying...

 Obama's Forty Third Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 11/20/20 Obama administration moves to block restitution from Iran for Beirut Marine barracks bombingFull list of taxes in Senate Obamacare billVIDEO: The National Football League has become an arm of the Obama administration with its partnership with Obama's "United We Serve" program.A video posted by the Obama administration to YouTube this week that is planned to air during broadcasts of the NFL's Thanksgiving Day games shows Barack Obama playing football on the White House lawnSenate Obamacare raises taxes on families with special needs childrenACORN got 200K worth of...

 Obama's Forty Second Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 11/13/2009 Fort Hood murderer, Nidal Hasan listed on page 29 of Janet Napoitano's Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidental task force report.  4 days late, the Obama administration releases photo of Obama-Netanyahu meetingThe United States does not accept continued Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, a senior U.S. state department official has said, adding that Jerusalem's commitment to restrain settlement activity is not enough. In an address to the Middle East Institute, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns on Tuesday said that the Obama...

 Obama's Forty First Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 11/7/2009 Obamacare passes in the house of representatives VIDEO of President Barack Obama (Saturday after Fort Hood shooting) visiting the U.S. Capitol to personally lobby Democrats to support the Democrats' Health Care Bill.Former President Bush and his wife visit the wounded at Fort HoodFormer presidnet Bush visits Fort Hood This weekend.  Obama goes to Camp David.VIDEO: Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan was apparently an invited guest to a public address in Washington by the Israeli Ambassador to the US, Sallai Meridor.  Hasan took a seat in the...

WASHINGTON, April 7, 2006 – Swearing to defend the U. S. Constitution, 40 Army Reservists re-enlisted yesterday on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building here. Army Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, chief of the Army Reserve, speaks at a re-enlistment ceremony on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, April 6. Photo by Steven Donald Smith  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. "These great American heroes swear and affirm that they will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic," Army Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, chief of the...