The Lucky Pumpkin

There is so much I would like to say about the Minnesota Senate race, but I don’t have my whole life to devote to blogging! I would like to ask, how does Norm Coleman have the time to “attend every day of the trial,” AND work as a consultant to the National Jewish Coalition? We all know his new job is a front to accept money from lobbyists and friends, but surely, someone in the media should be calling him on this! I haven’t seen any coverage of this, at all. Coleman likes to put digs out to Franken that he is not attending the “trial,” but Coleman should at least pretend to be working, for goodness sake!

Also, I would just like to say that I am tired of hearing Coleman talk about what’s good for Minnesota in his NYC accent! He had the nerve to call Franken a carpetbagger, but Franken is from Minnesota. (I know he wasn’t born here, but he spent his formative years here, and went to school here until college, so to me, that makes MN his home state.) Coleman is the true carpetbagger, and I have always thought of him as such, even back when he became mayor of St. Paul. It is obvious that he came to MN because he thought he could break into politics easier here.

I am also not a huge fan of Franken, but I feel he is the lesser of two evils. He tries to make himself out as the successor to Paul Wellstone, but I am not convinced that he is cut from the same cloth. I doubt that Wellstone would have made jokes out of rape. The true successor to Wellstone should be Tim Penny. Tim Penny, where are you? We need you now. I would like to see him become governor.

Lastly, I would love to see what would happen with Franken in Washington, while the republicans seem to be bent on self-destruction by flocking to that “Big Fat Idiot” (Franken’s words, not mine,) and drug abuser, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/28/national/main1561324.shtml Rush Limbaugh!

A couple of articles that I have read recently underscore how out-of-touch the Catholic Church is with reality. They illustrate how the archaic power structure breeds arrogance and the need for control. This article http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5124E320090203?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 tells about the former Hitlers Youth, (Nazi,) the Rat, Pope Benedict reinstated a bishop who had been excommunicated. This bishop denies the extent of the Holocaust, saying that he doesn’t believe there were gas chambers, and no more than 300,000 jews perished in concentration camps. Of course, the Vatican says that the pope does not deny the extent of the Holocaust. But, his actions show differently. Does he really think that it is appropriate to “rehabilitate” this bishop? Talk about arrogance! The pope alone can decide that someone like that should be able to lead a diocese? If you live in his diocese, run, run, run!!! (Or at least, don’t let you kids be altar servers. If he denies the Holocaust, I’m sure he also denies the fact that there are many priests who abuse children, and he would probably do what Bishop Loras Waters in the Winona diocese did, just sweep it under the rug, and move the offending priest to a different parish so he can ruin more lives!)

The other article was in the “Holy-Joe” newspaper that the church sends to our home. (That isn’t the name of it, I think it is called the “Servant,” but I am not sure.) This propaganda rag has a captive audience, people who are registered members of a catholic church in our diocese. (Probably other areas, too, I don’t know where it goes for sure.) There was an article written by a priest that made the argument that it is wrong for catholics to practice yoga! I am sure the church wants it’s members to be as tight in it’s muscles as it is in it’s “celebrating” of the mass. Let’s just all be tight-ass drones who follow like lemmings as we lead this church off the cliff! Check your brain at the door. There will be no need to think!

I am going to give my opinion that the only thing that will change the church is to withhold your money. If you can, speaking up about this crap will also help. They should know why young people don’t donate anymore. Silence breeds apathy. This kind of behavior led to eight years of poor “leadership” in the US. If you care about the church, like I do, it is time to speak up and protest with your pocketbook and your voice. I have been told many times that the church is not a democracy. As if a democracy would ruin the church because they think that we are all a bunch of “idiots.” Of course, the truth is that the church just wants to maintain control. As long as there is a large group who are willing to give up their control over their spiritual life, the church will be able to continue to create their own reality.