Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg was booed at the Univ of Michigan for criticizing colleges for creating ‘safe spaces’ and keeping students sheltered.
“The whole purpose of college is to learn how to deal with difficult situations, not to run away from them…The fact that some university boards and administrations now bow to pressure groups and shield students from these ideas through ‘safe spaces’ ‘code words’ and ‘trigger warnings’ is in my view a terrible mistake.”
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In January Sen Ted Cruz claimed: “I don’t really know Speaker Boehner” (R-OH) on Bloomberg Television — This week, Ted Cruz said of the former House Speaker Boehner “I don’t know the man” on Fox News with Megyn Kelly but was in-fact his former lawyer.
According to Business Insider in 1998 before Boehner became Speaker of the House of Representatives and Cruz was elected to the Senate, Boehner had commenced litigation against Rep Jim McDermott (D-WA) for allegedly breaking wiretapping laws.
The lawsuit stemmed from a Florida couple recording a call between Boehner and then House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) they had heard over a police scanner. The couple sent the audio recording to McDermott, who later allegedly released it to the NY Times and other publications. The call centered around alleged ethical violations Gingrich faced at the time and McDermott was the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee.
Furious, Boehner called this an invasion of privacy and hired Ted Cruz, who had recently before served as a Law Clerk for then Justice William Rehnquist — Cruz made an early appearance before the news media defending his client John Boehner after he had sent out a fundraising appeal to help defray his legal expenses.
“The fundraising letter is much ado about nothing,” Cruz told the Seattle Times – “Congressman McDermott consistently attempted to delay the litigation and drive up expense. It is reasonably expected that Congressman Boehner will use the means at his disposal to raise funds to pursue the lawsuit.”
Later when Jay Leno asked Boehner what he thought of Cruz, he referred to him as a “good guy” adding, “I don’t always agree with him but he’s a good guy.”
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Hillary Clinton We Have a Sin Problem in this Nation
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Mother Angelica: “We do strange things today, our values are all messed up…
We take the place of God now.”
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“God Acts With Our Best Interests In Mind.” -Steubenville Conferences
Brothers and Sisters: Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having righteousness of my own that comes from the Law (Torah) but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the sharing of His sufferings by becoming like Him in His death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Pressing Toward the Goal
Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal but I press on to make it my own because Christ Jesus has made me His own. Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it on my own but this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind and if you think differently about anything, this too God will reveal to you. Only let us hold fast to what we have attained.
Brothers and Sisters, join in imitating me and observe those who live according to the example you have in us. For many live as enemies of the Cross of Christ; I have often told you of them and now I tell you even with tears. Their end is destruction; the god is the belly and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things but our citizenship is in heaven and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humiliation that we may be conformed to the body of His glory by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to Himself. –Philippians 3:7-21
For He is our God–O that today you hear His voice. Harden not your hearts…” –Psalm 95:7-8 -Image Courtesy: His Mercy Lives
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
Jesus told this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else:
“Two men went up into the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a Tax Collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God I thank Thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust and adulterers or even like this Tax Collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get.’ — The Tax Collector standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven but beat his breast saying, “God, be merciful to me a sinner.’
If I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled but he who humbles himself will be exalted.” –Luke 18:9-14
St. Isabelle of France (1225-1270) Image: St. Paul Street Evangelization
(Catholic Online) Born a Princess, Isabelle was the daughter of King of France – St. Louis VII and Blanche of Castile, she was the younger sister to King of France – St. Louis IX according to SQPN and aunt to St. Louis of Tolouse — Isabelle’s father died when she was just two according to Newman Connection and it was her mother who saw to Isabelle’s education–she would become fluent in Latin.
As a child, Isabelle at an early age made a personal vow of chastity desiring to devote her life God — Pope Innocent IV, permitted her to retain some Franciscan Friars as her special confessors. — Isabelle later in life refused marriage proposals of of Hugh XI and Conrad IV of Germany, vowing to continue to live a celibate life, consecrated to God.
Isabelle devoted her young life to caring for the sick and poor, following her mother’s death, Isabelle founded a Franciscan ‘Poor Clare Monastery of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary’ in France Longchamps — Isabelle would live there in austerity as a Nun (without taking vows and refused to become the Abbess) until her death at the age of 45 during this week in 1270
In 1521 Isabelle was Beatified by Pope Leo X and Canonized in 1696 by Pope Innocent XII
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Hillary Clinton has Told Sooo Many Lies She Can’t Keep Them Straight Image Courtesy: Faith & Belief
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Hillary Will Say Anything When Its Politically Expedient
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@Donald Trump Asks Good Question — One Can Always Find Time for Something They Want to Do — @WhiteHouse Response: Tweets
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“In Everything Do to Others as You Would Have Them Do to You.
For This is the Law and the Prophets.” –Matthew 7:12
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Let the Word of God Speak Directly to Your Heart
Image Courtesy: –Fr. Ed Benioff — Radiate Los Angeles
Seek Good and Not Evil That You May Live and So the Lord the God of Hosts Will Be With You –Amos 5:14