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Good News About Manalive

Looks like the sound edits will be done in a week or two, giving us A COMPLETED FILM! YAY! Then Dale Ahlquist, our Executive Producer, heads off to LA (Los Angeles, not Live Action) for gabbing with sundry possible distributors. If one of them bites, then hopefully we will start hearing about where and when it will wind up in theaters and we can actually show it. Hard to believe it was two years ago today that we were in Savannah in the thick of filming.

I asked Joey Odendahl, Fearless Director, if the movie was still funny and if I sucked after having to watch it in editing this long. He said, "It's funny how much you suck." So I live in hope.

Anyway, thanks to all who participated in the novena. When I know more, I'll let you know!

Speaking of barbarism...

ESCR may have finally gotten the break it needs in order to claim the right to cannibalize the unborn so that Cher and other baby boomers bent on staving off age can batten on them and feed. Talk about begging for divine judgement. Centuries from now our bizarre combination of "We're Number ONE!" nationalism and our grotesque Canaanite worship of Moloch and Mammon will still be a byword. I hope our descendants will forgive us and remember that not everybody bent the knee to these false gods. It is a supreme irony that in fighting natural senility (in which there is no shame) we wilfully make ourselve spiritually senile (in which there is nothing but shame).

The Phillippines teaches a lesson to barbarous and lawless regimes...

like the United States of America.

Still cranking on stuff

So I will take my leave for the weekend and be back on Monday. Sorry the blogging has been so meager. I've got a book to finish and an article to write for next week. Hopefully, I will come up for air soon!

I'll read anything with the phrase...

"Fascinating Arcana below the cut" in it.

Of Gods and Men

I may have to go see this. Sounds good!

Hard to argue with

Chris Tollefsen writes:

Augustine pointed out that the faith, to truly succeed in the world, must succeed by being believed. And how, he asked "can there be any believing one who thinks it is sometimes right to lie, lest he haply lie at the moment when he teaches us to believe?"

Why is this thought of Augustine's applicable to the pro-life cause? Isn't it enough that our tactics stop abortions from happening? No, it is not. To truly be in the service of life, our movement cannot be satisfied with anything less than a culture of life, and such a culture can only be founded on a commitment to the truth about the humanity of the unborn, and a commitment to love unborn human beings just as we love ourselves and our neighbors.

But how can that lesson be taught, how can we bring a culture of life to the world, if we are willing to lie for it?

Yup. All--and I mean all--the Church has to offer in the end is faith. It is by faith we are saved. It is by faith we believe that Jesus Christ is God, was raised from the dead, and offers us the hope of eternal life. It is by faith we have hope and love, including the love of the unborn who are, apart from the vision of faith, biological organisms of no more significance than the mold on a petri dish. To entrust the message of faith to a strategem of lying is beyond folly.

You May Remember the Administration of Hope and Change

Wikileaks suspect forced to sleep naked in the brig

Back in the old days, before the executive discovered his power to unilaterally order the murder of anyone on planet earth he decided was an enemy of the state, the presumption of law was that suspects were innocent till proven guilty and not subject to psychological degradation at the hands of a capricious state. But in the new improved America of Obama, we just go ahead and start punishing people now, since we pretty much already know what the verdict will be. Why should traitors and criminals have rights? They should have thought of that before they offended rich and powerful people.

I'll be on Drew Mariani's show today

Relevant Radio around 4:30pm EST. You can listen here.

Good News for the "Humans are a Disease" Wing of Eco-Nuttery

Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years

Regional war could spark "unprecedented climate change," experts predict.

There's always a silver lining.