Sunday, April 21, 2019
Friday, April 19, 2019
Well. Detroit Area Catholics Have a Privilege Other Catholics Don't Have...
If you are familiar with Catholic Lenten practices, you know that during Lent Fridays are days of abstinence from meat. This is actually much looser than it once was, when meat was forbidden during the entirety of the the season. Except in the Detroit area. Apparently, during the 1700s, missionaries realized that food was already scarce by Lent and didn't want to burden their flock by forbidding a readily available source of nutrition.
Yep. Muskrat. For purposes of Lent, not meat. Also, according to the late Bishop Kenneth Povish, the one-time head of the Lansing Diocese: "Anybody that eats muskrat is doing an act of penance worthy of the greatest of saints."
What I wonder, though, is if there IS a restriction on how it's prepared:
H/T My sister and Detroit Free Press
What I wonder, though, is if there IS a restriction on how it's prepared:
H/T My sister and Detroit Free Press
Thursday, April 18, 2019
How Do They Do That?
Someone carrying cans of gasoline is nabbed in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York a couple days after the Notre Dame fire and they say "The man's intentions were not immediately known." How do you say something that stupid with a straight face?
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
I've Got A Bridge To Sell You
Holy Week.
The sentencing to 8 years in jail on Friday of a perpetrator of the failed 2016 car bomb attack on Notre Dame.
Thousands of attacks on French churches.
The clutter of renovation, which would make it much easier for an unauthorized person to wander around.
There is exactly zero chance I'll ever believe that so many coincidences came together at once and it was just an accident.
Charles Martel weeps because the land he sacrificed so much for is gone - voluntarily.
Poland is also full of churches. They haven't had this problem. I wonder why?
The sentencing to 8 years in jail on Friday of a perpetrator of the failed 2016 car bomb attack on Notre Dame.
Thousands of attacks on French churches.
The clutter of renovation, which would make it much easier for an unauthorized person to wander around.
There is exactly zero chance I'll ever believe that so many coincidences came together at once and it was just an accident.
Charles Martel weeps because the land he sacrificed so much for is gone - voluntarily.
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| Attacks on French churches over the last 4 years |
Poland is also full of churches. They haven't had this problem. I wonder why?
Monday, April 15, 2019
I Know It's Technically Just A Building...
...but watching Notre Dame burn hurts my heart.
Even if you aren't Catholic, that's more than 900 years of history going up in flames.
Funny thing was that when I heard I had 2 thoughts at once: "Muslims" and "Old wiring".
Even if you aren't Catholic, that's more than 900 years of history going up in flames.
Funny thing was that when I heard I had 2 thoughts at once: "Muslims" and "Old wiring".
Saturday, April 13, 2019
It's Dead
A hook above the TV that I need to move is, anyway. I've shot it repeatedly, and it's thoroughly dead.
My hands are getting stronger and the sensitivity is abating. My plan now is to make up a magazine's worth of dummies and rack and fire, rack and fire. Then reload the magazine and rack and fire, rack and fire. Gives me an excuse to not climb up there and move the hook like it needs to be moved.
And, yes, even though I know that I haven't reloaded this gun since I brought it down to practice with, I check it every time before I start dry-firing.
My hands are getting stronger and the sensitivity is abating. My plan now is to make up a magazine's worth of dummies and rack and fire, rack and fire. Then reload the magazine and rack and fire, rack and fire. Gives me an excuse to not climb up there and move the hook like it needs to be moved.
And, yes, even though I know that I haven't reloaded this gun since I brought it down to practice with, I check it every time before I start dry-firing.
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