Stupidity

So, I've ranted about dumb anti-Catholic nonsense before.

I've found another article to get me riled up this Friday morning.

Catholic critics ask pope to lift contraception ban

Nothing unusual here, it's mostly the same tired old BS. The Pope should allow contraception because we don't think it's a sin. Well, regardless our reader's views on this (I know not all of you are Catholic), you must agree that some of these lines are just plain stupid. For example,

The letter, written in Italian, said the Church's anti-contraception policy "has had a catastrophic impact on the poor and powerless around the world, endangering women's lives and leaving millions at risk of HIV."

Let's take this slowly. First, the part about poor people. What exactly does the Church have to do with the price of contraceptives? What, do they want the Church to give it to them for free along with groceries at food pantries? Do they want Mother Teresa's Sisters of Charity to hand out condoms and pills on street corners, instead of focusing on healthcare and education?

Also, the "risk of HIV". Ummmm... if you wait for marriage and don't stray, where's the risk of HIV? The only ones at risk of HIV are the ones who hook up with HIV-infected people. The Church doesn't want you doing that in the first place. I can't imagine someone picking up a hooker, and when she hands him a condom, he says "Oh no, I can't use that, I'm Catholic." If you were practicing your faith, you wouldn't be in bed with strangers to begin with.

Another excerpt:
The letter was signed by groups such as Catholics for Choice, which is U.S. based, We Are Church, which has branches in numerous countries, and New Ways Ministry, which helps minister to gay Catholics.

Please help me understand why the gay people want contraception?!?!?! They do know where babies come from, don't they? Here's a hint: Two dudes in "love" might be at risk for a whole lot of nasty things, but pregnancy isn't one of them.

Seriously, they're just not trying very hard. I would be embarrassed to write an article that presented such weak and illogical arguments.

Randomness Wednesday

1. Cough, cough, sniff, sniff, SNEEZE, SNEEZE, SNEEZE, SNEEZE... repeat! That is Bobcat's theme song right now! Why? Well, we can't give the poor kid any allergy meds because of a dr.'s appointment on Friday... for allergy testing! The worst of it is when he is still... sitting at a meal, nap/bedtime, or reading time. Just a few days left, and we will hopefully have something for him that will help ease his sufferings! (Sidenote... all play has to be indoors to try to help him out due to all the cruddy allergies outside right now... ugggggggghhhhhhhhhh).

2. The dogs need to be bathed, and I'm not sure I'm up for it today!

(Men scroll down quickly, now!)

3. I'm pretty sure that my left ovary has a spoon and is trying to tunnel out... holy crap does it hurt (it started up on Sunday)... and now the pain is radiating up my back... STUPID OVARY! (Hence why I don't think I'm up for puppy baths.) At this rate I don't even think I will be able to get on the bike for any length of time today... yesterday it nearly killed me the 15 minutes I was on it.

(Okay, it's safe now... no more female talk!)

4. It's circular day! That means I will be waiting for the mail to show up, sitting down with them, going through my pantry and my coupon box and beginning my plan for shopping... Oh what fun. (Oh, I just got my email circular from Kroger and the whole front page is 10 for $10... let the games begin!)

5. Speaking of shopping, Daddio thinks I need to buy "old dog" formula for our pooches because Daisy doesn't seem to be digesting the way she should... and she is getting old (she'll be nine on the 25th)!

6. A gas station around the corner from us is over $4.00 now ($4.03 to be exact)... the first one I've seen to break the $4.00 barrier. Oh, Daddio could have listed one of my quirks to be calling out and ridiculing gas station prices... I've done it for as long as I can remember... and to think I once complained about gas when it reached $0.95!

7. We are number 3 on a waiting list for an adoption conference the last weekend in July... the lady said that we are a shoe in and to get childcare set up (it's an overnight stay in a nice hotel with talks on Saturday and Sunday)... so I did, and now I'm just waiting for the confirmation from the lady that we are definitely getting to attend. I REALLY WANT TO GO...

Joy Behar is an idiot.

Evidently Joy Behar from "The View" thinks women should be allowed to be priests, and that priests should be allowed to marry. I'm not going to go into the theological reasons for a celibate, male clergy (and they are theological, not purely practical or historical). I just want to rant a little bit about the audacity of Joy Behar criticizing the Catholic Church.

First off, she's not even Catholic (I think she's Jewish). Could you imagine the uproar if a conservative Christian talk show host said that Jews and Muslims should be allowed to eat pork, or that Mormon men should still be allowed to have mutliple wives? Clearly anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice.

Also, why in the world do people still think that celibacy has anything to do with chastity? I want to say, "If only JFK, Bill Clinton, and Eliot Spitzer had been allowed to marry...." Oh wait... Clearly marriage in and of itself doesn't cure philanderers.

I certainly am as uspet as anyone at the abuse scandal of recent years. I want all of the pervert priests (mostly homosexuals, but don't you dare say that out loud, it makes all the "good" homos angry) and the Bishops who covered it up thrown in jail for life. It's despicable, they will have to answer to God for their actions. But it was a very few individuals, and does not discredit the church as a whole. And it has NOTHING to do with celibacy. Quit being stupid, Joy Behar.

Rambling... tired... what?

So I thought we adopted boys, not chipmonks. Turns out they are one in the same. What it is about storing food in their cheeks? Anthony did that today (again). I don't know how many times we have to tell that kid not to do it! We ate breakfast (cinnamon raisen bread), then we got dressed and went down to the park. By the time we made it back home and were about to start homeschooling it was nearly 11 o'clock. And he goes to answer a question and I noticed a crumb on his tongue... when he went to swallow I saw a massive piece of bread he was storing under his upper lip. What a weirdo! Seriously that is just gross.

Of course after that little discovery homeschooling went down hill quickly. Why? I don't know, I didn't yell at him or anything, just told him to swallow it and re-explained that we don't store food in our mouth. YUCK! But I caught him, and he wanted to hang on to that bread... who knows when he might get another meal... uhhhh, like in 30 minutes.

On a different track completely... I have been working this Lent to control some of my more sarcastic remarks (in real life, not in my blogs, I can't just give up cold turkey) mostly because we've noticed that in certain situations the boys have learned my sarcastic tone and the words I use... but they mean them in the nicest of ways... they have no idea I'm being sarcastic. One of my favorite (and hardest ones to break) is "good job genius" when especially Austin does something that always ends up with him running into a wall or falling down smack on his face. I always help him up and dust him off and give him love if he is hurt... but that little phrase would pop out in the moment of the action. Well, the other day DH was in the room with them and Austin was on the floor with his train saying "I'm a genius, I'm a genius" over and over again. Seriously I haven't used it in weeks (to the best of my knowledge), but point taken... must stick to my lenten sacrifice!