Girl whose parachute failed tells her story
Love her answer whether she’d skydive again.
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We are quite familiar with this pregnancy center undergoing persecution in NY City
And it is a persecution. A true witchhunt. They were instrumental in our getting Tim. Pregnancy Center Wins Another Battle Against New York’s Bid to Shut It Down The subpoena is not based upon any evidence indicating a pattern of unlawful conduct by our client. Rather, the subpoena is quite similar to one sent to … Read more
The Midnight Run crowd from Saturday night, January 25th.
Yes, it was nippy out that night. Although warmer in Manhattan than it was in the ‘burbs. Took this picture before we set out from Croton in four cars/vans with sandwiches/fruit/soup/hot chocolate/desserts along with bins of clothes/toiletries/etc, etc. I’d forgotten that I had taken a few photos before we left, but was reminded when Brigid’s … Read more
Both my sons would do this
Man runs into burning home to save his Xbox
Woman physician: “I was indifferent until I adopted a child and now I march.”
A beautiful op ed in USA Today last week. With a lovely story of adopting a Chinese girl. It's only eight paragraphs long. I used to be one of those who felt sorry for the idiots who spent their money putting up signs along the Florida Turnpike saying things like: "Abortion stops a beating heart," … Read more
Cuomo speaks: “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life … have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”
UPDATE: 36 second audio below – Any disagreement with the governor and you're an extremist. The full quote can be seen in full context here – Cuomo has made a career of referring to anyone that opposes his agenda as “extreme” while simultaneously referring to that agenda as “common sense.” It’s code words and phrases … Read more
Eighth anniversary of my autologous stem cell transplant
Great health care professionals, chemotherapy, and prayer. Here’s what I posted baack on the fifth anniversary. I could never quite figure why having your stem cells returned to you constituted a transplant, but that’s what they call it. Anyway, the idea is to re-build your immune system, after the high dose chemo has (hopefully) killed … Read more
John Dear, Jesuit peace activist, leaves the Jesuits
FULL DISCLOSURE: I know John Dear a little bit. I'd read a few of his essays and seen a couple of video interviews, and then in the early or mid 90's i was involved in a little civil disobedience that he was partially organizing, on Good Friday, in Manhattan. I'm not sure of the year. … Read more
NY Times editorial explains how Little Sisters of the Poor don’t understand Catholic teaching
UPDATE: Here's a response to the NYT on NRO website – The Poor Little Sisters Nice of them to help the sisters out. The link below contains the text of the last line of their editorial, which also includes comments like "audacious' and "absurd." Like the cases of the private employers, the suit by the … Read more