Father Jenkins Should Resign

The commencement celebration at Notre Dame today was a sham.  Of course we expected the usual liberal
babblings from the president, but the speech by Father Jenkins was appalling in his support of this President who has an unknown background and a questionable agenda.

Father Jenkins should be forced to resign from Notre Dame. His preclude to Obama's speech should have been focused on the class of 2009 but became the Obama show.  While he went on and on about the abortion issue and how he expressed his "love-fest" for a President who has shown nothing in the first three months but a downward spiral and move toward socialism for our country was not only nauseating but down right insulting.

As a person who has been raised Catholic, I cannot forgive his downright slobbering and intent to please Obama. Many American families, under difficult financial situations, choose to send their children to Notre Dame to get a Catholic education.  Today's abomination would suggest a better alternative to a 35k + price tag. 

I respect the faculty at Arizona State University more than the prestigious staff at Notre Dame for choosing NOT to bestow an honorary degree to a president who is questionable in his beliefs and his motivations to run this country.  I would hope the faculty and the alumni of Norte Dame  will ask to force the resignation of Father Jenkins.  His actions are despicable and not upholding to the Catholic faith.  

Amid this controversial debate, Obama should have declined the invitation; but since his motives are not in the best interest of Notre Dame or the United States of America, he proceeded to become a headline for a very disturbing topic: Abortion. I am sorry that the graduating class of 2009 had to be held hostage during this circus.  Good luck and God bless you.

TC / SS

Suzann

Inside Communism – Personal Rights (Must Read)

Everybody knows the Communism does not work. Socialism is communism in disguise. I always asked myself, why there is such a strong socialist undercurrent in this country of USA?

The following is an insight into the inner workings of a communist society. Statements and stories are not necessarily listed in any order; just thoughts from my personal experience.

Personal Rights

There are no rights. No litigation against the state is possible. The state is never wrong. No litigation against an individual would ever occur; nobody had any money to be collected from.

Individuals were simply “imprisoned” in their homes, city, county and ultimately, country boundaries – the armed guard borders. Dictatorship of the proletarians as claimed by the communist doctrine turned into the dictatorship over the proletarians.

My biological father left my mother, when I was three years old, to join the communist party. Five years later, he became an important communist leader in charge with a large territory. Few years after that he was sent to a labor camp where he spent years, not as leader, as a convict. When he was released he was a broken man. He died at an early age.

My uncle, who was a hotel manager, was arrested as he got off the train coming home. He showed up two years later and nobody knew where he was all this time.

One of my schoolmate’s father was arrested when my freind was only five. After 15 years, when my schoolmate was 20, his father showed up at the door of their residence. All these years his family didn’t know anything about his whereabouts.

A friend of my family, a medical doctor, run into some political problems with the government. His practice license as well as his driving license were suspended. He had to take a labor job, but most upsetting was the fact that he owned a motorcycle he could not use, nor could he sell it. People did not have the money to buy it.

The father of one of my childhood friends, was a taxi driver who owned his cab, a 1938 Cadillac. When the communism system took over, the government suspended his license as an operator as well as the registration license for his cab. He had his automobile sitting in his garage for more that 15 years. He could not drive it, nor could he sell it.

During my teenage years I was involved in competitive athletics: bicycle, skiing and speed ice skating. At the age of 19 I qualified for the national team (bicycling), training for the 1964 Tokyo summer Olympics. During training, the team participated in international races, mostly held in Eastern European countries. My country refused to issue me a passport and I was dropped from the team. I never found out why, in spite of repeated requests at all levels of government.

In the above cases, none of the individuals committed any crimes against the state. The only thing they did, they spoke against the government or were critical of it. I could never find out from them the actual charges. Of course if you were too nosy, you could end up in jail yourself. Everybody was numb and did not want to talk about it. 

 

The Government at Work - It steals you blindly if it can

Take a look at my recent telephone bill, period ending May 28. I had not made a single telephone call using the land line during this pay period. My basic service is 10.94 and my bill is 20.68. That represents almost 90% in taxes and surcharges going to the government from a service I don’t even use.

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May 28 Telephone bill – AT&T

During the month of May I had not made a single telephone call using the land line.

Here is my bill:

Monthly Service

1. Residence Flat Rate Service 10.94

2. Caller ID Selective Blocking 0.00

Total Monthly Service            10.94

 Surcharges and Other Fees

3. Federal Subscriber Line Charge 4.40

4. Rate Surcharge .26

5. State Regulatory Fee .02

6. Federal Universal Service Fee .49

Total Surcharges and Other Fees    5.17

Total Plans and Services    16.89

Government Fees and Taxes

7. CA High Cost Fund Surcharge – A .01

8. CA High Cost Fund-B and CA Advanced Svc Fund .06

9. California Teleconnect Fund Surcharge .01

10. Universal Lifeline Telephone Service Surcharge .13

11. CA Relay Service and Communications Devices Fund .02  

12. 9-1-1 Emergency System .06

13. Federal .49

Total Government Fees and Taxes    0.78

 AT&T Long Distance

 Monthly Service Charges

 1. OneRate Natn 10 Cent 2.00

Total Service Charges            2.00

 Surcharges and Other Fees

2. Carrier Cost Recovery Fee 1.49

3. Fed Universal Service Fund .27

Total Surcharges and Other Fees    1.76

 Government Fees and Taxes

4. CA High Cost Fund B and CA Advanced Svc Fund .01

5. CA State Emergency Telephone Users (911) Tax .01

6. CA Teleconnect Fund (0.13%) .00

7. CA Universal Lifeline Tel. Service Fund .01

Total Government Fees and Taxes    .03

 Total AT&T Long Distance    3.79

 Total Current Charges    16.89 + 3.79 = 20.68

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