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Reno may challenge Florida
results

Florida’s first major election since
the 2000 debacle was marred by mechanical and human glitches that frustrated
voters and prompted Janet Reno to consider challenging results that showed her
trailing in the race for governor.

I am experiencing
a strange case of Floridian D�j� Vu.

Ellyn vonHuben of Oblique House
said:

………..and Oprah�s own cooperative venture, Oxygen.
Before I had a chance to hit the erase button, I was treated to the Sunday Night
Sex Show. How can Oprah play innocent on her show and tsk about how careful
parents need to be, while Oxygen has an amoral crone (who makes Dr. Ruth
Westheimer look and act like the Flying Nun!) spewing obscene sex advice in a
milieu specifically meant to be outside of the moral realm. full
post

This seems to be a more prevalent theme in our society where all you have to
do is say something and as long as you are sincere that is all that matters. You
can scream about ozone holes while cranking up the air conditioning, complain
about the situation of the poor and contribute nothing to charity, talk against
politicians and not vote. And as Christians we complain about the lack of
family-friendly movies and don’t patronize them when they come out, complain
about dissent in the church while gulping down birth control pills, demanding
beautiful churches and free Catholic schooling while plucking down only a buck
on Sundays.

We will always have some level of hypocrisy in our lives as
long as our intellect and will don’t perfectly match our actions. The process of
sanctification results in us reducing that gap between will and action. First we
must inform our consciences and then will the good and act on it. St. Paul
recognized this when he said “I do not understand my own
actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.”
–Romans 7:15 RSV

More
polling controversy in Florida

After reports
of widespread election problems across the state, Democratic gubernatorial
primary candidate Janet Reno (pictured) said she planned to file a court
injunction to extend voting hours to 9 p.m. in four Florida counties, including
Miami-Dade and Broward. Mid-afternoon, Gov. Jeb Bush announced that he signed an
executive order requiring that poll hours be extended to 9 p.m.

I
live and Florida and have yet to see one Janet Reno sign or bumper sticker
anywhere and it looks like she is going to lose. Democrats don’t have much
choice among all pro-abortion candidates. Funny how the pro-choice
crowd has no choice in candidates when it comes to abortion. I voted today but
was restricted to only the attorney general and two judges since Jeb Bush is
running unopposed.

The League’s president, attorney William Donahue, noted,
“On Aug. 29, Nebraska state Sen. Ernie Chambers addressed a crowd of wealthy
businessmen at a luncheon hosted by the suburban Rotary club of Omaha. Chambers,
who is black, attacked the Catholic Church before an all white audience. ‘The
Catholic Church is more effective as a criminal enterprise than the mafia,'”
said Chambers.

“Ernie Chambers is an anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, racist
state senator who hates America. Here’s the proof: He has engaged in the most
virulent anti-Catholic remarks while opposing school vouchers; he has disfigured
Catholic devotional objects and distributed them to his colleagues; he has been
denounced by several leading Jews for his anti-Semitic remarks; his comments
regarding white people have earned him the label ‘One of the biggest racists in
Omaha’; he has been crassly dismissive over 9-11 saying: ‘It didn’t affect me at
all’; and he has accused President Bush of being a drunken moral coward who is
bent on starting World War III.”

When making an
existential claim (a claim that a thing exists), the burden of proof is on the
one making the claim. If I were to tell you that an invisible green leprechaun
lives under my Chicago Cups cap, you’d be right in asking me to prove my claim.
If I didn’t or couldn’t (or if I hemmed and hawed and changed the subject or
engaged in other forms of sophistry to evade your demand for proof), you’d be
perfectly right in doubting my claim or in dismissing it altogether. However,
you could never prove that this invisible green leprechaun doesn’t exist. You’d
have to know a lot more than we currently know in order to prove that I am not
telling the truth, that my claim is falsehood. (In this specific case, you could
logically disprove my claim in that a thing cannot be both green and invisible
— in one sense of the term invisible — but this is as far as you could
go.)

In my days as a fervent atheist I would read books on atheism that normally
would contain the leprechaun argument. I think there is a major problem with
this comparison as an argument. In the history of philosophy no one has ever
come up with the need for the existence of a leprechaun to explain the world
around them. Nothing that their senses detected required the need for such
creature to exist.

If the universe and matter had always existed than the an infinite amount of
time would of had to pass to get to the present time. Obviously an infinite
amount of time has not passed so the universe started at a point of time.

Materialist would then have to hold that out of nothing the universe came
into being. Generally they will respond that the theist can’t explain why God
has always existed and thus sidestep it and don’t explain how the universe
occurred.

Just at this level they they make an act of faith that this is
what happened. So atheists also have faith in something that they can’t
scientifically prove or they have faith that one day scientists can show how
this occurred. So this is how the leprechaun argument can be turned around by
asking them, since they now have the burden of proof, to explain Ex Nihilo Nihil
(nothing comes from nothing).

There is a web site called http://www.nihilo.com/ it stays black and
never does anything.

The quest for Nihil
Obstat’s Identity suggests the need for a Catholic blogger equivalent to the
Turing test: How can we know that all the blogs aren’t simply sparetime weekend
projects of the voluminous Eve
Tushnet?

Critics, however, say that banning
porn from TV will make the situation worse.

“The quality of the films will decrease, there will be
more and more cheap and dirty videos,” hardcore pornographer John B Root has
said.

“It’s absolutely stupid because there will be as many
consumers for porn movies as there are now, but the porn films will be cheaper –
it will be a disaster for everybody and a cultural disaster.”

A cultural disaster, give me a break. The exposure of pornography
to people generates an audience and adds to the number of people seeking it out
it is not a status quo situation where the demand is always steady. Our Lady of
Mt. Carmel please pray for the purity of body and heart for those involved in
the lie called pornography and give them the true understanding of the gift that
God has given us in married covenantal self-giving.

Interesting column about a guest on the Donahue show and his experiences.

This writer has the talent of saying the
obvious, now if he had read any of St. Thomas Aquinas’s works he would have
discovered that:

1. Plants have plant souls.
2. Animals have animal souls.
3. That plant
and animal souls are not subsistent substances, they cannot operate without the
plant or animal body.
4. The human soul is subsistent and can operate without body.