Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 1320

Introducing...

pro-life link parties!

Vaccines derived from Fetal DNA

...suspected in link to autism.

Autism, shmautism. There's *gold* in them thar murdered babies! Full speed ahead!

Homosexual men...

twice as likely to have cancer, because the gay lifestyle is so healthful.

Solution: punish parents of chubby kids, because heterosexual families need to be slapped around some more in a tight economy by our State Masters.

This killed me

Reason to Homeschool #439857349852309872

Your kid will not be forced to go hungry because some tinhorn dictator bureaucrat with delusions of godhood decided to punish a defenseless six year old for wearing the wrong shoes.

Added bonus: Your kid will not be exposed to the weird sort of semi-literate bureaucrat who tries to sound educated but just comes off like a pompous twit by saying: "Regardless of what shoes they were wearing, obviously the children should have been allowed the opportunity to merge into breakfast."

"Merge into breakfast"? What the WTF?

The ever-witty Angela the Foodie writes:

The Tricky Chemistry of Attraction: Taking Birth-Control Pills May Mask the Signals That Draw the Sexes Together, Research Shows

Not only do they trick your body into thinking you are preggo all the time, but they make you attracted to girly-men! This explains the popularity of Zac Efron and anyone else with an adam's apple who wears more lip gloss than I do.

There's another image I can't scrub from my brain.

Two Prayer Requests

This morning I had a long conversation on the phone with a good friend of my wife and me. She told me a little about her marriage. Her husband seems to be an abusive person, very chummy on the outside, but rather different towards his wife. They married after she became pregnant on their first night together and he - as the "intelligent" and educated one earned the money while his wife did the household and brought up the children, always doing what he wanted because "he earned the money and therefore earned her total support. I learned that he beat her up last year - not only "losing his selfcontrol" but comeing bach for a second round all because she dared to call him a knucklehead. To make a long story short, she is coming home now after another bout of troubles and I really fear for her health! She wants to get her son out of the house and stay with a friend for a while.

Please pray! Just ask our Lord for guidance for us her friends, for protection for her - she is again becoming depressive, for the four children, for her husband!

Father, hear our prayer for this woman and her children that they be kept safe, and for this man that he repent his sins and treat her with love and respect, through Christ our Lord. St. Joseph and Mother Mary, pray for this family.

Another reader writes:

As of today (the 10th) I am one week past my due date. While both the baby and I are currently fine, my body is still not showing the kind of progression that predicts imminent labor. I am scheduled to go in for an ultrasound and a non-stress test on Friday. There are several issues here, of course I am concerned because the longer a baby goes past the due date the higher the chances of things going wrong, but also, we are forced to pay for this pregnancy out of pocket (my health care coverage doesn't kick in until June 1st). We have carefully scraped and pinched and borrowed to be able to afford our midwife and a basic, no epidural kind of a labor. Induction and even worse a caesarian with its anesthesiologist and extended hospital stay could be catastrophic to our financial situation. Even just the ultrasound is likely to be a couple of hundred dollars.

So could you please ask your readers for prayers that my child be born quickly, and for the grace of trust and patience for myself and my family?

(In case any readers are moved to offer practical suggestions, I do appreciate it, but keep in mind that we are in Canada and thus the situation is very different than the US, in terms of resources.)

Father, hear our prayer for a safe and healthy delivery for Mom and baby and for a cooperative and skilled care provider, through Christ our Lord. Mother Mary, pray for all concerned! St. Luke, pray for them!

I've asked my reader if she has a Paypal account and not heard back from her. If you do have one, gentle reader, please let us know in the combox (just click on the link for this blog entry) and give us the appropriate info and I will see if I can drum up a bit of blogospheric cash from my readers (to send to her, my minions, toadies, followers and suckups, not me, just to be clear). Money: it's the universal gift certificate!

Flashback

This reminds me of this:

Over at the Register...

...a reader has an epiphany.

Food for Thought

Well. Not exactly food.