Yeah, I don't speak whatever Indian language that is. Does spelling really matter in pre-literate language anyway?

See, if the Puritans were really the cat's meow they would have renamed all of these places, the way the Spaniards did. We don't have Gitchigoomie and Ooogabooga out here in Spanish California, no sirree! We have San Jose, and Sacramento, and San Francisco. That is the way it oughtta be done.

This is part of the Future of the Keilholtz Dictatorship: all places are to have Catholic, Western Names. Since Massachusssetts was the ground zero of Puritan misbehavior, and has continued its disgraceful legacy in the behavior of its heretical Catholic sons and in its election of the Mormon as its governor, it shall require tremendous cleansing. We will level the top of Plymouth Rock and build a great statue to Our Lady, and the whole state will henceforth be known as The Principality of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. It will have two co-Princes, like Andorra: the Archbishop of Boston and the Viceroy of Eastern Colombia.

Four esses in Massachusetts, not five.

You are right, but I can't help but think that the biggest danger that our Faith has had has been the situation where it is not the basis of the culture, yet has not had significant persecution. Where the carrot of tolerance is enforced by the stick of conformity and assimilation, the Faithful get lazy, complacent, all the while losing the Faith, in spite of the relative ease with which they can hold it.

The Faith thrives best in either the catacombs or the Imperial Palace.

. . . but doing away with the first amendment while nearly all mass media, the educational system and most of government is in hands inimically hostile to the Catholic Faith (and anything closely related to it) -- i.e. now -- would be catastrophic.

Doing away with the silly First Amendment is a good thing, though, because after the Great Falangist Awakening and Revolution, that will just be one less thing for people to adjust to in life in the Keilholtz Dictatorship!

Believe!
Obey!
Fight!

And while we are at it...

No Mormons!
Not Now! Not Ever!
Romney, Repent and Withdraw!

As I posted on a comment thread on another blog, though under a different nym, "Romney: Kolob-tested, Moroni-approved". Aspirational polytheism is indeed bad. Maybe not as bad as the phony theism paraded by candidates of the extreme left, but that is somewhat hair-splitting.

McCain's proven disdain for one part of the first amendment, while the free exercise clause is already under attack, makes me queasy. I don't long for the persecution that seems so imminent.

I will probably vote for Pat Bridges in the general election, even though his party platform's lenience on sexual issues precludes me from joining his party.

Mormonism is not irrelevant, because it is a radical post-Christian paganism. If "conservative" means anything, it is that there are bedrock Truths that can never be compromised. A Mormon has tossed those out right from the get-go.

As to McCain's flag worship, it is problematic, yet try to find a President or Presidential candidate that isn't. I am no American execptionalist and do not go one iota for flag worship, but that is the given for the game, unfortunately.

Someday America will have her first Catholic President, and that will be a great thing.

I probably should've said he's conservative now, even if he wasn't six months ago. *grin*

Of course his Mormonism is irrelevant; someone can be a Mormon and still be a conservative since they are mutually exclusive terms.

McCain gives the appearance of one who is more flag-worshipping than God-worshipping, but then I can't begin to know his soul.

Actually Mormon's aren't really even heretics, as heretics are those baptized who remain trinitarian Christians, yet obstinately hold onto error. Mormon baptism is not valid, nor are they trinitarian.

As to Elliot Carter, I have warmed up to him in the past few years. I can't say that I like his music, although I admire it. I do need to study it more, because I find that the more I learn about music of that sort, I find my admiration turning to enjoyment. That is, of course, presuming that there is something to admire after a deeper study.

It was certainly that way for me with Webern. I always admired his austerity and use of space, but I did not always like the music. Well, the more I studied and listened, the more I liked, and now I am a rabid Webern fan. Stockhausen, too, was not an immediate love, although it did not take long for me with his music.

It is true. Romney is a heretic. As are all Mormons. It does not bother me that they have this non-Christian religion. It bothers me that they keep saying they are Christian.

Do you like Elliott Carter?