Six Year Old "Criminal" Gets Expelled: More Public School Goofiness!

This is what liberalism leads to: nuttiness. The "gun" sounds like the kind of water pistols we have in our pool for the kids to play with -- "clear plastic." What is in the mind of an adult to expell a six-year-old, ban her from school property, and threaten her with arrest if she dares to set a toe on school grounds even when her parents pick up their other children. Good grief! Can you imagine the hysteria if a child made a "look alike" gun out of his hand and aimed at the teacher? They'd probably wrestle the kid to the ground and put him in handcuffs! Two thumbs down to the South Carolina school district. If I were the teacher of that Kindergarten class, I would have taken the gun from the child and sent a note home to the parents explaining that they aren't allowed in school and asking them to pick it up. And that would be the end of it. Does no one have any common sense any more?

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Black Helicopters May Be Coming to your Neighborhood!

Exactly why is the military running black helicopter drills in our neighborhoods?





Could it be they are getting ready for domestic rebellion against an increasingly draconian federal government? Will states passing laws against gun confiscation, for example, be invaded by the FEDS?

How the U.S. Military Would Crush a Tea Party Rebellion

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Liturgy of the Hours Increases Hope

For the past few weeks, I've been praying Morning and Evening Prayer from Liturgy of the Hours. I'm finding it gives me a big infusion of hope despite my pessimism for the future of the United States. Take today's Morning Prayer. The first psalm (87) reminds us that it's the Lord who builds the city and gives each of us our place in it. The psalm prayer harks back to Jesus weeping over Jerusalem,  "soon to be destroyed for its lack of faith." But Holy Mother Church doesn't leave us with that gloomy picture. She tells us, "He established the new Jerusalem firmly upon rock and made it the mother of the faithful" leading us to "rejoice in [our] Church."

The Canticle (Isaiah 40) shows us the power of God "who rules by his strong arm." He is no tyrant like so many worldly leaders, but a loving God. "Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his arms he gathers the lambs." We have nothing to fear because it's He "Who has cupped in his hand the waters of the sea...Who has held in a measure the dust of the earth....Behold, the nations count as a drop of the bucket, as rust on the scales; the coastlands weigh no more than powder." Yes those blue "coastlands" on our eastern and western shores and all the nations of the earth "are as nought, as nothing and void he accounts them."

So, let us never stop fighting the Culture of Death, but neither should we let the state of the world get us down. As Psalm 99 and its antiphon remind us today, "The Lord is king....He is throned on the cherubim; the earth quakes....He is holy, full of power."

And for the faithful who persevere, "The Lord, the mighty conqueror, will come; he will bring with him the prize of victory."

God will never abandon us and so, "Let us joyfully cry out in thanks to God the Father whose love guides and nourishes his people." Amen!

If you need an infusion of hope, pray the Liturgy of the Hours. 

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Blacks Doing Worse Under Obama...

...and that doesn't even take into account the genocide of black babies by abortion! Black women are FIVE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO ABORT than white women. Do black women really care less about their babies or are they being targeted by the Culture of Death? Is the economic depression of blacks a strategy to encourage them to kill their children? Is that why Planned Parenthood locates abortion mill in black centers?  Obama has done a good job of fooling blacks into thinking that he's their man while he works hard to make sure their biggest killer increases the body toll. Wake up, black citizens, and rebel against your exterminator!

NAACP president: Black people worse off under Obama

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What's Your Favorite Old Movie?

I'm reading bits and pieces from Frank Capra's autobiography, Frank Capra: The Name Above the Title. His movies have always fascinated me and I absolutely love a few of them. I think my favorite is Lady for a Day, a black and white picture about an apple peddlar in New York who's spent any money she's ever made (along with donations from her fellow "godparent" beggars) to send her illegitimate daughter to boarding school in Spain and keep her scandalous beginning secret.  Capra remade the film several decades later as Pennies from Heaven with Betty Davis and Ann Margaret, but the original was the real gem.

Capra had a Jimminy Cricket in his background, a hulking fighting Irishman named Myles Connolly who told him early on that he was the "best director in Hollywood" but wasted his efforts creating "picture postcards" when he could be making films like the "Sistine Chapel and the Mona Lisa." Here's how Capra describes one exchange between Connolly and himself:

"Why do you ask, 'Who is man? Why is man?' I'll tell you. There's something inside your peasant soul hurting to come out...and you're scared. Before you know who man is...you've got to be one." 

"Meaning what?"  

"Meaning put your manhood where your mouth is, and commit yourself. Open up your mind to the immortals -- the prophets, the poets. Yes! The saints and the martyrs.... 

Obviously our relationship was a hate-love affair. We were either embracing or snarling...
And yet -- his words seared like branding irons: "a puny, calculating mind...an oily apostle of comfort...you're scared...a juggler...colored balls that hide the drivel...." 

Connolly hurt because he was right. I feared total dedication to films.

And Connolly was instrumental in Capra's first big hit, It Happened One Night, a film about a rich young heiress (Claudette Colbert) fleeing from her boring life who meets up with a hard-boiled reporter (Clark Gable). The film was turned down by actors and actresses repeatedly and it looked like it would be a bust until some changes suggested by Connolly:

"Sure, you've got some good comedy routines, but your leading characters are non-sympathetic, non-interest-grabbing. People can't identify with them. Take your girl: a spoiled brat....She's a zero. Take your leading man: a long haired...Greenwich Village painter. I don't know know any vagabond painters....And the man I don't know is a man I'm apt to dislike, especially if he has no ideals, no worms, no dragons to slay. Another zero. And when zero meets zero you've got zero interest."  

Then Connolly made the all important suggestions:

"Now. Your girl. Don't let her be a brat because she's an heiress, but because she's bored with being an heiress. More sympathetic. And the man. Forget that panty-waist painter. Make him a guy we all know and like. Maybe a tough, crusading reporter -- at outs with his pig-headed editor. More sympathetic. And when he meets the spoiled heiress -- well, it's The Taming of the Shrew. But the shrew must be worth taming, and the guy that tames her must be one of us." 

Capra with writer, Harry Riskin, rewrote the story in a week, shot it in four, and the film won five Oscars at the Academy Awards.

Yup, I love Frank Capra's films and I'm glad he was freinds with Myles Connolly because I was looking for information on Connolly and that's the only place I could find it. So I got a two-fer, Capra and Connolly. Ah, yes, it's a wonderful day in a wonderful life!

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