Lent Begins Wed. Feb. 25th

Lent begins Wed. Feb. 25th
www.blogspotcinopsbegone.com – Sunday, February 15, 2009

Fasting is as important as ever and it is a “therapy” to heal obstacles to conforming to God’s will, says Pope Benedict XVI. This is a message for Lent, dated Dec. 11th and released today at the Vatican City, Feb. 3, 2009 (Zenith.org).

The liturgy proposes 3 specific practices during Lent: prayer, almsgiving and fasting. This year the Pope will focus on the history and importance of fasting.

Fasting was prominent in both the Old and the New Testaments: “Like Moses, who fasted before receiving the tablets of the Law and Elijah’s fast meeting the Lord on Mount Hored, Jesus, too, through prayer and fasting, prepared himself for the mission that lay before him, marked at the start by a serious battle with the tempter.”

The Pope acknowledges that the meaning of fasting – “depriving ourselves of something that in itself is good and useful for our bodily sustenance” --- might not be immediately clear. But he explained that, “Sacred Scriptures and the entire Christian tradition teach that FASTING IS A GREAT HELP TO AVOID SIN AND ALL THAT LEADS TO IT. For this reason, the history of salvation is replete with occasions that invite fasting…. “Since all of us are weighed down by sin and its consequences, fasting is proposed to us as an instrument to restore friendship with God.

“True fasting … is rather to do the will of the Heavenly Father, who ‘sees in secret, and will reward you,” the papal message notes. “{Christ} himself set the example, answering Satan, at the end of the 40 days spent in the desert that ‘man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ The true fast is thus directed to eating the ‘true food,’ which is to do the Father’s will….

“Moreover,” the Pope said, “fasting is a practice that is encountered frequently and recommended by the saints of every age.”

Finally, in addition to the personal benefits of fasting, the Holy Father said, the penance also helps to foster solidarity.

“Voluntary fasting enables us to grow in the spirit of the Good Samaritan, who bends low and goes to the help of his suffering brother,” he said. By freely embracing an act of self denial for the sake of another, we make a statement that our brother or sister in need is not a stranger.”

The Bishop of Rome affirmed, “It seems abundantly clear that fasting represents an important ascetical practice, a spiritual arm to do battle against every possible disordered attachment to ourselves.”
George H. Kubeck

Wearing an FDR mask

Wearing an FDR mask
In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Saturday, February 14, 2009

David Carlin was watching the Democratic National Convention on TV, for countless hours a week ago, and it was a painful experience for somebody like him, a pro-life Democrat. (Guest Column – Our Sunday Visitor, Aug. 15, 2004.)

My party is hiding its radical anti-Christian agenda behind the mask of old-style-liberalism.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should place pro-life Democrats on the endangered-species list…. Our prospects for survival are worse than those of the American bald eagle.

I hate to admit it, but the national Democratic Party is strongly and decidedly pro-abortion, and so are the party’s candidates for president and vice-president, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John Edwards (D-N.C.)….

To judge from the sentiments expressed on television, You would think the Democratic Party is still the good old party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson- that is pro-labor, pro-racial equality, and strong on national defense. No mention was made that today’s Democratic Party is the party of abortion and increasingly the party of same-sex marriage, and because they believe in a strong national defense. In other words, the Democrats put on the mask because they want to win the election.

{Thankfully, Catholics in 2004 perceived the mask and voted for George Bush- 52% - 48%. In 2008 the Democrats used the mask of Barack Obama and succeeded – 54% to 46% ghk}

Unfortunate, the old Democratic coalition, the one that flourished from about 1932 to 1968, no longer exists. The labor unions and the leading African-American organizations are still Democrats, true.

But the party has been hijacked by a newer group – affluent secularists. These people have good education, good jobs, and LOTS OF MONEY. {OBAMA SPENT 240 MILLION DOLLARS MORE THAN McCAIN TO WIN THE 2008 PRESIDENCY. ghk}

THEY HAVE LITTLE OR NO RELIGIOUS BELIEF, AND THEY HAVE A POOR OPINION OF CHRISTIANS OF THE OLD-FASHIONED KIND, THAT IS, ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND CONSERVATIVE PROTESTANTS. (THEY ESPECIALLY, DISDAIN CONSERVATIVE PROTESTANTS FROM THE SOUTH.
MOREOVER, THEY WANT TO REPLACE TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN MORALITY WITH A NEW MORALITY THAT MAXIMIZES PERSONAL LIBERTY AND TOLERANCE – A “DO YOUR OWN THING” MORALITY. THIS WHY THEY ARE STRONGLY SUPPORTIVE OF ABORTION AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. …

I am sometimes asked by my fellow Catholics how can I remain a Democrat. Frankly, it isn’t easy, and the dishonest convention in Boston (2004) didn’t make it an easier. Three reasons: (1) From childhood I have never liked the Republican Party; (2) in my home state (R.I.) many (probably most) Democrats are pro-life; and I think I serve the pro-life cause by keeping the pro-life flag in the Democratic Party. {Tragically, Carlin, it is not working out very well. WE NEED LEADERS IN THE NORTHEAST. CALL YOURSELVES – DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS. GHK}
George H. Kubeck

Social Justice - Prostituted - 3

Social Justice – Prostituted - 3
www.blogsportcinopsbegone.com – Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009

Preface: {Let’s have some plain talk about teachers and education. First of all, unionism was never intended for public employees least of all public school teachers. Unionism has destroyed the integrity of the public school teacher and CHANGED the profession from a professional teacher to BECOMING a forced union teacher. That is what SB 160 the Rodda Act signed by THE despicable CINOP Governor Jerry Brown did in 1975.

What does that mean? SB 160 changed the nature of the teaching profession from professional teacher to union teacher. It legalized adversity relationship, exclusivity, agency fees, etc. It became a form of control, muzzling, cloning and left-wing politicalization of a once honorable teaching vocation. I want the integrity of my profession back! Read and follow what has happened! ghk }

We continue with an analysis # 3 of “Phyllis Schlafly Report,” V. 42, No. 6, January, 2009. “Social Justice” Code Word for Anti-Americans.”

“Education Week” defines “social-justice teaching” as “teaching kids to question whoever happens to hold the reins of power at a particular moment. It’s about setting yourself not just as a consumer {of information}, but as an actor-critic” in the world around you.

This revealing explanation comes from the words of Bill Bigelow, the curriculum editor of a Milwaukee-based organization called Rethinking Schools, which publishes instructional materials relating to issues of race and equity.

The purpose of Rethinking Schools instructional materials is to teach teachers how to “weave social justice issues throughout the curriculum.” Lessons include “Rethinking Mathematics” Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers,” which shows teachers ways to “weave social justice issues throughout the mathematics curriculum,” and “Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word.”

Bigelow assigns students to role-play various oppressed groups in foreign countries. Students can easily infer that Americans are oppressed like people in foreign countries, and most young people have no store of information to see how ridiculous this is.

“Social-justice” lessons concentrate on past mistakes in U.S. history rather than on our many remarkable accomplishments and opportunities. Emphasizing problems and injustices rather than achievements is given the highfalutin label “critical pedagogy.”

“Social-justice teaching” does not mean justice as most Americans understand the term. Those who use the term make clear that it means the United States is an unjust and oppressive society, and that the solution is for community organizers to organize the poor and minorities to demonstrate and to demand political power so that they will be given government handouts.
Indoctrinating Teachers

Education Week identifies the “special interest groups” that promote “social-justice teaching” and provide curricular materials, online resources, and “professional development” (i.e., conferences and seminars to indoctrinate teachers). These groups include an affiliate of the American Educational Research Association, the Cambridge-based Educators for Social Responsibility, and the Washington-based Teaching for Change, in addition to Rethinking Schools.

George H. Kubeck

This Present Danger

This Present Danger
www.blogspotcinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, February 11, 2009

“Our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.”
(Eph 6:12)

John Janaro, the associate professor of theology at Christendom College in Front Royal, V. believes the following as written in Praying with Saint Paul, “Daily Reflections on the Letters of Apostle Paul,” Edited by Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P. Magnificat, 2008.

Saint Paul stresses that the “world rulers” of fallen humanity, of that fallen world we call “darkness,” are “principalities and powers” that are superior (in their nature) to man (“flesh and blood”).

There are the “evil spirits,” those mysterious and but real spiritual intelligences that Scripture calls “angels.” They are fallen angels who refused to serve God “in the beginning” when God created “the heavens.” (Gn 1:1) They are the enemies of the human race, and by leading men into sin, they gained a certain “power” over the fallen world.

This power should be recognized but not exaggerated God rules even the fallen world and, especially since the victory of Christ, he limits the influence of the devil?

However, each of us must recognize that these malevolent beings can and do seek to take advantage of our wounded nature who are evil, intelligent, and ruthless have a hand in the affairs of the world.

This can be seen by looking at historical events, in which it is clear that individuals and groups have surrendered their will to some superior, sinister power, with the result being the perpetration of evil on a monstrous scale.

How else could such inhuman violence and such hatred for human life prevail in our world? God also allows Christians to be tempted; yet always gives us the grace, in Christ, to overcome temptation.

Jesus himself was tempted in the desert and his victory is the basis for our hope. The threat of the Evil One moves us to let Jesus penetrate every aspect of our lives, because whatever the risen and glorified Jesus is recognized and loved, the devil is defeated.

George H. Kubeck

Social Justice - Prostituted - 2

Social Justice – Prostituted - 2
www.blogspotcinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009

We continue with the excellent analysis by “The Phyllis Schlafly Report,” V. 42 No. 6, January, 2009. “Social Justice: Code Word for Anti-Americanism.”

(As a California retired public school teacher the politicization of the teaching profession has been a tragedy for the education of our children. The Calif. Rodda Act of 1975 tied the hands of independent minded teachers. Ghk)

Ayers enrolled in Columbia Teachers College, where he picked up a PH.D., and emerged as a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He launched a new career, directing his revolutionary energy into changing classroom curricula instead of setting bombs.

Ayer’s political views are as radical now as they were in the 1970s. “Viva President Chavez!” He exclaimed in a speech in Venezuela in 2006, in which he also declared, “Education is the motor-force of revolution.”

AYERS HAS BEEN ON A DECADES-LONG MISSION TO TRANSFORM EDUCATION INTO ANTI-AMERICAN INDOCTRINATION AND TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE TO DEMAND THAT GOVERNMENT CONTROL THE ECONOMY, POLITICS AND CULTURE. We see the results in the 2008 post-election surveys: 7 out of 10 voters between the ages of 18 and 29 now favor expanding the role of government, and agree that the government should do more to solve the nation’s problems. It’s obvious which party and which candidate will get their vote. …
One might assume that Ayers’s peculiar resume would put him on the outer fringe of the leftwing education establishment. However, Ayers developed quite a following as he taught resentment against America. In 2008 he was elected by his peers as vice president for curriculum of the American Education Research Association, the nation’s largest organization of education professors and researchers. WHAT IS ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE’ TEACHING?

From his post as Professor of Education, William Ayers became a leading advocate of “social justice” teaching, i.e. GETTING STUDENTS TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE VICTIMS OF AN UNJUST, OPPRESSIVE AND RACIST AMERICA. After a few years of this indoctrination, young people are ripe targets for community organizers to mobilize them to vote and carry out “revolution.”

The National Association of Scholars reports that the term “social justice” is today understood to mean “the advocacy of more egalitarian access to income through state-sponsored redistribution.” That is academic verbiage for Barack Obama’s assertion that he want to “spread the wealth around.”

David Horowitz of the California-based D.H. Freedom Center is more blunt. He says that “social justice” teaching is ‘shorthand for opposition to American traditions of individual justice and free-market economics.” He says it teaches students that “American society is an inherently ‘oppressive’ society that is ‘systemically’ racist, ‘sexist,’ and ‘classist’ and thus discriminates institutionally against women, nonwhites, working Americans, and the poor.”

On October 29, 2008, the pro-public-school-establishment journal Education Week featured a long front-page article describing “social-justice teaching.” This article provides ample evidence that “social-justice teaching” should be a major concern to everyone who cares what the next generation is taught with taxpayers’ money.
George H. Kubeck

Social Justice - Prostituted

Social Justice – Prostituted
www.blogspotcinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009

Recall during the Cold War with Russia, the communists and their U.S. front organizations were masters of deceit. Today, their cousins are still with us particularly in the anti-war movements prostituting words and ideas.

All of this propaganda is going to be with us for the next four years particularly with A.C.O.R.N getting about 4 billion dollars in this stimulus package. Their chant is hypocritical and disgusting: “I am for the poor, I’m for social justice.” Let’s find out more from an excellent analysis by The Phyllis Schlafly Report, V. 42 No. 6 January, 2009. She hits the nail on the head.
‘Social Justice’: Code Word for Anti-Americanism

Why did 18-to-29 year-old evangelicals vote for Barack Obama despite his apostasy on the fundamental moral issues of abortion and same-sex marriage? They voted 32% for Obama, twice the percentage of that demographic group who voted for John Kerry in 2004.

Many of these young people identify “social justice” as the reason that led them to relegate the prime moral issues of life and marriage to the back burner. But the term “social justice” does not define a moral cause; it is leftwing jargon to overturn those who have economic and political power.

What caused young evangelicals, the children of so-called “religious right,” to change their moral imperatives so dramatically? Most likely it’s the attitudes and decision-making they learned in the public schools, which 89% of the U.S. students attend.

The vast influence of the so-called “father of modern education,” John Dewey, had already spread disdain for objective truth and authoritative notions of good and evil. A socialist and signer of the Humanist Manifesto. Dewey viewed education as a process of socializing the child; rather than educating him to achieve his individual potential.

In the 1970s, Sidney Simon’s best-seller Values Clarification taught students to cast off their parents’ values and make their own choices, often aided by Kinsey-trained sexperts determined to change our sexual mores.

In 1983, Humanist Magazine featured an article that boasted: “The battle for mankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom. The classroom. The classroom must and win become the arena of conflict between the old and the new, THE ROTTING CORPSE OF CHRISTIANITY AND NEW FAITH OF HUMANISM.” In the 1980s, many radical anti-war activists of the 1960s and 1970s acquired a new identity and became tenured college professors. Among them was WILLIAM AYERS, a founder of the infamous Weather Underground, the organization that set bombs in public buildings such as the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon.

Ayers escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against him. Ayers later boasted: “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird.” In a remarkable coincidence, Ayers was quoted in the “New York Times” on the morning of 9/11 as saying, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Later that week, Ayers was quoted in the “New York Times” as saying “This society is not a just and fair and decent place.” To be continued

(I will take several letters of info to elaborate on the mind & heart of this terrorist.)
George H. Kubeck

Unbelievable - Obama's Vetting Process

Unbelievable – Obama’s Vetting Process
In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Monday, February 9, 2009

This story is unbelievable. Obama picks porn Lawyer for # 2 at Justice Department. Even during the Clinton administration which I covered with letters of analysis and criticism, Bill Clinton was never that foolish. On the witness stand, we have this ACLU character David Ogden comes up with a conversion. Let’s start with Tony Perkins - Washington Update, Feb. 3, 2009. “Ogden Gnashing”

President is on this 15th day in office and his fourth nomination controversy. While the nation is distracted by a trio of tax scandals, other-profile candidates are squeaking by unnoticed.

One nominee at the Justice Department, David Ogden, nominee for Deputy Attorney General, stands out. Our research uncovered a lot of troubling details about Ogden – not the least of which is his long history of extreme anti-family views. On the issue of life, he has fought for taxpayer funding of abortion, for jailing peaceful protestors, against notifying parents whose minor children are seeking abortions, and against informing women of the emotional risks of abortion.

He’s been an outstanding proponent of special rights for homosexuals, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and unfettered access to pornography – even in public libraries.

President Obama is considering Ogden for a top post in an agency created to enforce the same laws that he built a profitable career opposing.... Please contact your senators today to oppose his confirmation. To read more on Mr. Ogden’s dangerous positions: visit Change Watch at www.frclog.com.
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Now for the story: Porn Lawyer has a “Confirmation Conversion” at the Senate Hearings: from LifeSiteNews.com, Chicago, Feb. 6, 2009.

Brian Burch, President of Fidelis, described Ogden’s performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee as “a textbook example of an ambitious nominee saying whatever he needs to say to get the votes for confirmation.”

WHEN PRESSED BY SENATORS ON HIS VIEWS DURING HIS CONFIRMATION HEARING, OGDEN COMPLETELY REVERSED HIS EXTREME VIEWS ON NUMEROUS SUBJECTS.
According to Ogden, despite a career of arguing the opposite, he now believes child pornography laws and internet filters are constitutional and extremely important. “Child pornography is abhorrent,” Ogden said, adding later, “Issues of children and families have always been of great importance to me.”

When asked about pro-pornography memos he wrote his former boss, Justice Blackmun, Ogden responded that he regretted the memos and maintained that his vigorous opposition to the Moral Majority and the regulation of pornography was due to immaturity. … According to Burch, “Ogden spent his entire life arguing for far left extremist position. And he expects us to believe he has matured and abandoned those views now that he is before the Senate?”
George H. Kubeck