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This whole campaign these past few months has been just sickening. As far as I'm concerned right now, Rick Santorum is a piece of human excriment and to endure his words so any time period at all is more patience than any human being should be asked to Endure.  Rich Santorum in his endless list of proclamations has stated that the notion that women get abortions because of health concerns is bogus.  Santorum has stated that abortions even to save the life of the mother are wrong.  And yet Santorum’s own wife HAD just such an abortion to save HER life in 1996 and once this fact becomes general knowledge it will sink the Senator’s Presidential campaign right on the spot.  Santorum’s policies if in effect in 1996 would have killed his own wife.  So we hear all these little anecdotal stories about this and that.  But we never seem to hear the brass knuckle truth from these people.  Santorum heads up a whole long list of radical political stances.

In 2005, a controversy developed over an article Santorum wrote in 2002 to a Catholic publication. In it, he said that liberalism and moral relativism in American society, particularly within seminaries, contributed to the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. He wrote, "...it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."^[76] The comments were widely publicized in June 2005 by the Philadelphia Daily News by columnist John Baer. He told readers, "I'd remind you this is the same Senate leader who recently likened Democrats fighting to save the filibuster to Nazis."^[77] In Massachusetts, Santorum's remarks were heavily criticized, and on July 12, 2005, The Boston Globe called on Santorum to explain his statement. The newspaper reported that Robert Traynham, Santorum's spokesman, told him, "It's an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT that tend to tilt to the left in terms of academic biases. I think that's what the senator was speaking to." A spokesman for Mitt Romney then Governor of Massachusetts, also rebuked the comments. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) delivered a personal rebuke to Santorum on the Senate floor, saying "The people of Boston are to blame for the clergy sexual abuse? That is an irresponsible, insensitive and inexcusable thing to say."^[78]  Santorum has stood by his 2002 article and to date, has not apologized. During the controversy, he said the statement about Boston was taken out of context and that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had targeted his article, written three years earlier, to coordinate with Kennedy's speech against him. Santorum continued to agree with the broader theme of a cultural connection, saying that it is "no surprise that the culture affects people's behavior. [...] the liberal culture—the idea that [...] sexual inhibitions should be put aside and people should be able to do whatever they want to do, has an impact on people and how they behave." He again agreed with the premise that it was "no surprise that the center of the Catholic Church abuse took place in very liberal, or perhaps the nation's most liberal area, Boston." He recalled mentioning Boston because in July 2002, he said, the outrage of American Catholics, as well as his own, was focused on the Archdiocese of Boston.^[79]

Here is where Santorum comes in on free speech.  In 2005, four young women were ejected from a bookstore in Wilmington, Delaware, where Santorum was scheduled for a book signing, after they were overheard expressing opinions critical of the senator. The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit, which was settled in 2007. As a result of the settlement, the Delaware State Police were required to pay legal fees for the plaintiffs and provide training to officers on free-speech rights. The Santorum staff members who requested the ejection were required to apologize and to relinquish their salaries for the event — $2,500.00 — to the plaintiffs in damages. A police official stated that while they had not violated the women's First Amendment rights, they "decided to settle the matter to avoid the cost of prolonged litigation."^[93]

During the lame-duck session of the 109th Congress, Santorum was one of only two Senators who voted against confirming the nomination of Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. Santorum stated that his objection was to Gates's support for talking with Iran and Syria, because, in Santorum's view, it would be an error to talk with "radical Islam".^[102]   During his third term re-election campaign for his Senate seat against Bob Casey, Jr., Santorum introduced the term "Islamic fascism", while questioning "his opponent's ability to make the right decisions on national security at a time when 'our enemies are fully committed to our destruction.'"^[33]   Santorum says  ^“I believe we are at war with Islamic fascists and I singled out Iran and Syria as examples of Islamic fascist regimes.  Leaders are obliged to articulate this threat and to propose what is necessary to defeat it. That is my purpose, and our national calling. The American people have always rallied to the cause of freedom once they understood what was at stake. I have no doubt that they will again.  

Saturday January 7th New Material Inserted Here.  Today is the birthday of Joan of Arc, hero of Faith and heroin saint of France.  In the words of the Maud intro, "She was a sister who really cooked".  Of course I have a problem "hearing voices" but the Voices that trouble are the very much material kind.  All of us are sickened by these Child molestation scandals both in the Catholic Church and at Penn State.  It troubles me that someone with the status of Rush Limbaugh would become so passionate in defending the head coach of Penn State, who helped to cover it up.  Of course Rush has never had children so what would he know.  He is another piece of human excriment who should be removed from the radio waves.  Let him retire with his Viagra and his Oxyconton and his fourth wife, and retire behind the safe walls of South Florida where he can live peacefully in his own world of self delusion.  There is too much of a "conservative echo chamber" today because rather than be informed by the internet at large, people take refuge in their own like minded whackos to socialize with in closed venues such as Facebook, and never even are aware what is going on in the real world.  People think World Net Daily is the be all and end all when it comes to Truth and Accuracy of news reporting.  But what did World Net Daily ever do to gain your trust?  Did World Net Daily die for your sins? Tell me what it is they have that causes you on the right to accept whatever they say with such utter and undying Acceptance without flinching?   We know of course  the problem with Catholic Priests is that too many of them are attracted to so called celebeszy from the ranks of homosexuals.  We know the whole idea of Priests being unmarried is Unbiblical and in first Timothy it even calls the practice "Doctrines of Demons" along with disallowing certain foods to eat, such as onion rings and pizza.  Their hypocracy is utterly putrid.  The only reason why the Papacy instituted such an edict was so that people would give all their personal wealth to the Church and not to their kids.  That conflict is as old as the flood.  The Bible teaches that an Elder "should be the husband of one wife" and also that he should "manage his household", which to me means a wife and kids.  Scripture also says "He who will not provide for his own family is worse than an infidel".  People can be real hypocritical when it comes to money.  They tell the poor all the time "Money can't buy happiness".  But they don't believe that.  I've learned that money in itself can be a means to an end being a way to improve your own life and thence the lives of those around you, and even bring you closer to God.  It's not the money per se, but the important thing is whether you are Giving it to others, or trying to Take it from them in the name of some Dickensian piety.  "Do they have to pick the tax payer's pockets once a year on Christmas?  Are there no debtors prisons?  Are there no work houses?   In this way they call the poor "thieves" and impute avarice to the poor that it is rather they themselves who are guilty of.  That Potter fellow in "It's a Wonderful Life" was ready to file charges against George Bailey, when his own thievery over the years pales anyone else's at all, assuming it even existed at all and in this case it didn't.   So they lay in wait trying to entrap another in a fault - - but in their own eyes only impute the highest ethical qualities to whom they refer as their Christian rich brethren on Wall Street.  So they conduct their praying sessions with such fanfare, which should more properly be called Preying sessions.  They invoke their spells and curses on the poor and pray that judgement day for themselves never comes.


.  [from Wednesday's journal, Jan 4th - suitably edited]  But somehow I mentioned I didn’t like Mitt Romney’s saying he was against the bailing out of General Motors.  I pointed out that they had paid back the loan and was now prospering.  [BLANK] turned very negative at this first defending Romney and then going on a rant about how the whole thing is a big fraud and the only way to deal with some problems is to let “natural selection” or whatever take place, and to “get the thing over with” and she likened GM to some cancer infection on America and the only way to deal with it was to surgically cut it out.  She then went on a continued rant about the national debt.  And then as she has been wont to due, turned her sights on me and attacked me for not realizing the value of a dollar and “[Marcus] you never have to risk going bankrupt because you have your rich Mom there to bail you out”.  The utter stupidity of this remark is Amazing.  [unfortunately this next sentence must be edited out]  If she is referring to the twelve dollars Mom gave me for Christmas, this is also silly.  If she is referring to my living here need I remind her the State is paying for that with my SSI payments each month.  Mom hasn’t contributed a dime.  Of course this ties in with her “How come you’re so lucky to live in a facility where your needs are taken care of when my mother is fallen on hard times?”  Once again it was NOT my idea to live here and I had a FAR BETTER deal with Anaheim Housing..  I incurred financial loss with my decision to move in here that I didn’t even make.  This idea of when I attack any politician to somehow retort with a personal, below the belt attack on me, illustrates the fact that further discourse with her is pointless.  And [BLANK] has achieved something I never thought she would achieve.  She had supplanted Bill Halliday as the worst Christian I have ever met with the most destructive impact on my- - er - - uh - - faith.  If I do anything in my blogs I deflect my hostility that is rightfully directed tword [BLANK]- - on to other candidates and issues.  She does the opposite.  She has made me the repository for all of her hate and venim.  As she has with Obama, by the way.  I first became aware of her vast hatred of Obama while Hillary was still in the race and I asked her which candidate was the least offensive to her.  It surprised me she didn’t say Hillary, but then the enormity of her loathing of Obama came through.  The right wing at large has made Obama the repository of every racial and whatever slur.  Obama has put up with such racial crap from them in such a stoic manner, it’s like he’s not even human, because no human could take that kind of verbal onslaught without hitting back.  One person predicted Obama would commit suicide.  Obama isn’t that sort.  Nothing bothers him.  If it were me I’d be raising bloody hell with all the hatred thrown my way.