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NPR: The Town Where Everyone Talks About Death
George Phillips has his death planned out. His wife Betty has planned hers. They have filled out an advance directive, outlining how they want to die.continue at NPR
Their neighbors across the street have filled out the same paperwork, as has the family next door. In fact, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, you're unusual if you don't have a plan for your death. Some 96 percent of people who die in La Crosse have an advance directive or similar documentation. Nationally, only about 30 percent of adults have a document like that.
In this community, talking about death is a comfortable conversation — neighbors gossip about who on the block hasn't filled out their advance directive.
It's become such a comfortable conversation basically because of one guy in town. Bud Hammes works as a medical ethicist at a local hospital called Gundersen Health System. For years, he was called when someone's dad had a stroke, was in a coma, on machines. Bud would sit down with the family and try to help them figure out what to do next. And every time, he says, the discussion was excruciating.
Workshop: "Vatican II and the Liturgy" — Mar. 9, Madison
I will be attending this workshop. Maybe I'll see some readers there, too? See the Office of Worship for more information and registration form (to be uploaded).
Pope Benedict XVI invited us to take a fresh look at the documents of the Second Vatican Council during the Year of Faith. Join internationally known liturgist, Abbot Marcel Rooney, OSB, for a fresh look at what was called for by the Council and what still needs to be done.
The Right Reverend Marcel Rooney, OSB, has spent his life learning and teaching about the liturgy, music, and sacred art. He has now formed the Orate Institute of Sacred Liturgy, Music and Art based in our diocese. His deep knowledge and faith, combined with wit and insight, connects with both the novice and scholar.
Abbot Marcel’s comprehensive DVD boxed set, “Reflections on Holy Mass” will be available for sale.
Registration and more information:
The Office of Worship of the Diocese of Madison & the Orate Institute of Sacred Liturgy, Music and Art present
Vatican II & the Liturgy
What did Vatican II say? What still needs to be done?
Abbot Marcel Rooney, OSB, presenter
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Saint Maria Goretti Parish
5313 Flad Avenue, Madison (map)
10 a.m.–noon
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Abbot Marcel’s comprehensive DVD boxed set, “Reflections on Holy Mass” will be available for sale.
Registration and more information:
- Before February 28: $4 per person / $2 each for 5 or more from the same parish
- March 1-9: $6 per person / $4 each for 5 or more from the same parish
Rising Generation of Wis. Stars Grabs GOP Reins
The day after Paul Ryan was picked as Mitt Romney's running mate, the 42-year-old Wisconsin congressman made a triumphant return to his home state, choking back tears as he addressed more than 10,000 supporters at a rally in Waukesha.continue at Real Clear Politics
Standing behind Ryan on stage that afternoon, beaming with pride as he extolled the virtues of being a born and bred Wisconsinite, were Gov. Scott Walker and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus. It was a moment that illuminated just how much these three friends and political soul mates, born four years apart and raised in towns less than an hour’s drive from each other, have captured the attention and imagination of Republicans across the country.
“We’re just guys from ’Tosa [shorthand for Wauwatosa], Kenosha . . . and Janesville,” Ryan said, gesturing toward Walker, Priebus, and himself.
“What we learned in this state, just a little while ago,” he added referring to the triumph of Walker in the hotly contested June 5 recall election, “is that we want to elect men and women who run for office and tell us who they really are, what they really believe, what they’re really going to do, and then when they get elected, they do that. That’s what we do here in Wisconsin!”
Sean Duffy also address the RNC(video).
‘Somewhere there is a lady in her 30s who is alive because I became pro-life’
WAUPUN, Wisconsin – It wasn’t until the day that Kristin Port (name changed), 22, witnessed her boyfriend get plastered drunk that she realized her feelings for him had changed. As their relationship crumbled before her eyes, Kristin wished that she had not allowed the young man to use her as he pleased as she naively offered him sex in exchange for love.continue at LifeSite
It was the fall of 1979. Kristin’s boyfriend had just departed, but she could not get away from the increasing feelings of nausea in her stomach. After a free pregnancy test at a public clinic the young woman was told that she had a certain number of days to decide if she wanted to have an abortion.
Raised with Christian values, Kristen saw abortion as a way to cover up her secret: that she had given herself away sexually outside of marriage. She viewed the changes happening within her body as a mistake that needed to be dealt with.
Kristen decided to share her secret with someone she trusted, a youth pastor. He told her something that forever changed her life and the life of her baby.
“Abortion is not an option,” he said. “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” The kind pastor suggested that adoption would be a more loving option.
“His words reminded me that this was a baby we were talking about,” Kristen told LifeSiteNews in an interview.
WSJ: A (pro-life, homeschooled) Star Is Born
This weekend's Tea Party rally in Madison, Wis., drew familiar figures like Sarah Palin and Andrew Breitbart, but perhaps the most interesting speaker was a 14-year-old girl named Tricia Willoughby. Tricia wowed, among others, Rachael Larimore, who writes for Slate.com's ladies blog, XX Factor.
"What's impressive is her strong voice, her confidence, and, let's face it, her youth," Larimore writes. "The Tea Party is often seen as being made up entirely of cranky middle-aged people who don't like paying taxes. But here is a smart, engaging young woman speaking with the poise of someone older."
Showing considerably less poise is the bitter, pudgy middle-aged man featured in a YouTube video of the left-wing counterprotest. "Go home, you little brat!" he shouts at the 14-year-old, struggling to make himself heard over his comrades' boos and noisemakers. "Who the f--- are you to lecture me, you little brat?!"
Something else caught our attention about Tricia Willoughby. Larimore points out that "a quick Google search"--which turns up a post by blogger Stacy McCain--"reveals that her parents are pro-life activists in Madison and that Tricia is in a debate club. Cynics will point out that--gasp!--she is homeschooled, as if that ought to discredit her."Continue at Wall Street Journal
JSOnline: Wisconsin public school employee pay for the 2009-2010 school year
Why we post salary databases on JSOnlineGo to JSOnline to see for yourself
In September 2007, JSOnline began publishing searchable salary information for government workers on our Data On Demand site. The databases now include more than 8,000 city of Milwaukee workers, more than 7,000 Milwaukee County employees and more than 38,000 public school employees working in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties.
Government worker salaries are public records because of the long-held belief that taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being spent. For that reason, we've made these records available online.
The data enables citizens to do their own simple analysis of salaries by sorting and filtering through thousands of names. These tools empower readers to act as their own watchdog, using information that is a matter of public record.
HT Lance
Hunting in Wisconsin
Father ZThe state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That’s great. There were over 600,000 hunters. Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world – more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined – deployed to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer menace at bay. But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan ‘s 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia , and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world. America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops with that kind of home-grown firepower.
Hunting – it’s not just a way to fill the freezer. It’s a matter of national security!
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No strangers in a snowstorm
The roads were just good enough that I could make it to the bar across the street. It was around midnight and I was drinking beer with a friend when a man walked by the window. He was moving slow and leaning back, precariously. His feet seemed to be a good block ahead of the rest of him, his arms out for balance.Chris Hubbuch: La Crosse Tribune
"It looks like something out of a W.C. Fields movie," one guy said.
As he walked through the bar, I had to put my head down to conceal my laughter.
A few minutes later, something caught my eye through the window. Trying to cross Fourth Street, he fell. Face down. He got to his knees, but that was it.
I felt like a jerk. This wasn't a comedy.
By the time I got to him, a woman had stopped her truck. Together we helped him to his feet and up over the snowbank onto the sidewalk.
"I've been drinking" he said. "Can you take me home."
The woman hesitated.
"I'm not comfortable taking a stranger in my car," she said.
He'd been calling cabs, he said, but nobody came. He lived six blocks away. There was a good 16 inches of snow on the ground. It was 22 degrees, and the wind was gusting at 30 mph.
She looked at me.
"Dude, will you come with me? I'll bring you back here."
I pushed him up into the passenger seat of her 4x4 and climbed in behind him.
We motored down Main Street, dodging pedestrians walking in the road, where the tire tracks were a little easier to navigate than the sidewalks. The woman introduced herself as Gina.
"Hi, Tina," he said.
"Gina."
"Thank you, Tina. I couldn't make it home in this if I was sober. Which I'm not."
We fish-tailed onto his street, and the truck bogged down in the snow bank blocking the alley. I got out and helped the man through two-foot deep drifts to the door.
I don't know if he made it to his bed, but at least he wasn't going to freeze to death or get run over.
"Thank Tina for me," he said as he closed the door.
Back in the truck, Gina pointed out the obvious: I was just as much a stranger as he was.
I made small talk and did my best not to seem like a serial killer as she drove me back to the Bodega, where my friend was beginning to wonder if I'd been kidnapped.
I realized this is why I love the upper Midwest.
There are no strangers in a snow storm.
Rasmussen poll: Johnson, 53%, Feingold, 46%
The margin of error is plus or minus four percentage points.
JSOnline All Politics Blog
Video of Feingold's support for infanticide
HT Creative Minority Report
I posted on this a while back. Here's the text of the hearing. This is what happens when you put corporate sponsors like Planned Parenthood ahead of common sense. Democrats have foolishly got in bed with abortion folks - so in bed that it is a platform issue... Long gone is the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (which is too bad).
The following exchange between Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) took place on the Senate floor on September 26, 1996:
Sen. Santorum: Will the Senator from Wisconsin yield for a question?
Sen. Feingold: I will.
Sen. Santorum: The Senator from Wisconsin says that this decision should be left up to the mother and the doctor, as if there is absolutely no limit that could be placed on what decision that they make with respect to that. And the Senator from California [Sen. Barbara Boxer] is going up to advise you of what my question is going to be, and I will ask it anyway. And my question is this: that if that baby were delivered breech style and everything was delivered except for the head, and for some reason that that baby’s head would slip out — that the baby was completely delivered — would it then still be up to the doctor and the mother to decide whether to kill that baby?
Sen. Feingold: I would simply answer your question by saying under the Boxer amendment, the standard of saying it has to be a determination, by a doctor, of health of the mother, is a sufficient standard that would apply to that situation. And that would be an adequate standard.
Sen. Santorum: That doesn’t answer the question. Let’s assume that this procedure is being performed for the reason that you’ve stated, and the head is accidentally delivered. Would you allow the doctor to kill the baby?
Sen. Feingold: I am not the person to be answering that question. That is a question that should be answered by a doctor, and by the woman who receives advice from the doctor. And neither I, nor is the Senator from Pennsylvania, truly competent to answer those questions. That is why we should not be making those decisions here on the floor of the Senate.
NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin launches campaign against 40 Days for Life
40 Days for Life officially began September 22 and runs through October 31.ProLife Wisconsin
In response to the joyful, hopeful message that 40 Days for Life brings, NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin has launched its own 40-day observance.
Taking a cue from Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s efforts to raise money off Pro-Life Wisconsin, NARAL is asking supporters to donate money in response to 40 Days for Life. Lisa Subeck, executive director of NARAL, sent this email on September 27.
Where will this money go? To crisis pregnancy centers that help women by providing free ultrasounds, prenatal care, baby clothes, counseling, parenting classes and a supportive shoulder to lean on?
Nope. The money goes right into NARAL’s pocketbook. So Lisa Subeck can continue to write pro-abortion editorials like this one advocating for genocide in the womb.
NARAL’s desperate attempt to fundraise includes the “Forty 4 Forty” logo, which states “Pledging to end harassment… one picketer at a time”. What does this mean? What, exactly, is “one picketer at a time”? This is not “choice,” nor is it pro-woman nor pro-health. It is threatening!
During 40 Days for Life, the window shades at the Madison Planned Parenthood are shut, so the women waiting to see the abortionist cannot look outside. If Planned Parenthood cared about women and was confident in its message and mission, why the fear? Why make the abortion facility a dark, hopeless place? This simple change – closing the window shades so patients and workers cannot see the people outside praying for them – demonstrates the effect our prayers are having, more than we know.
Please – join 40 Days for Life today as we celebrate the joy of life and offer women love and hope outside Wisconsin’s abortion mills. If you can’t join us, keep us in your prayers.
40 Days for Life is observed in the Wisconsin area in Appleton, Green Bay, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Wausau and Rockford, Ill. For more information on locations and who to contact, go to the 40 Days for Life website.
Chemical and surgical abortions increased in Wisconsin in 2009, state report shows
Pro-Life WisconsinThe state of Wisconsin Department of Health Services released its annual report on induced abortions in Wisconsin. The total number of abortions in Wisconsin in 2009 was 8,542, up from 8,229 in 2008. [That's 24 kids per day!]
This is the first increase in the number of abortions since 2003.
Statistics show the use of RU-486 has risen while surgical abortions have declined. Both chemical and surgical abortions are reported to the state of Wisconsin and are covered by the statistics. The use of the drug regimen RU-486 results in a chemical abortion.
Of the 8,542 reported abortions in 2009, 72 percent were surgical, 27 percent were chemically induced, and 0.6 percent were surgical procedures following a failed or incomplete chemically induced termination of pregnancy. In 2008, these proportions were 80 percent, 19 percent, and 0.4 percent, respectively.
According to a LifeSiteNews article, one out of four babies aborted early in the United States is killed by the abortion pill rather than a surgical procedure.
The chemical abortion method consists of first administering mifepristone, also known as RU-486, which kills the child before misoprostol is given two days later, a drug that induces the mother to expel the dead baby’s corpse.
These numbers of chemical abortions do not include the use of the morning after pill and other hormonal contraceptives, which can cause a pre-implantation abortion. The morning after pill is sold over the counter in drugstores nationwide.
Click here to read the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services report on 2009 abortions in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin brewers win awards in Denver
Five breweries in Wisconsin took home awards at the Great American Beer Festival that concluded over the weekend in Denver.Wis State Journal
Capital Brewery in Middleton took bronze in the German-style wheat ale category for its Weizen Doppelbock, while New Glarus Brewing in New Glarus took bronze in the fruit beer category with its Raspberry Tart beer.
Gold medals went to Stevens Point Brewery in the American-style wheat beer with yeast category for its Point Horizon Wheat and Titletown Brewing in Green Bay in the Bohemian-style pilsner for its Boathouse Pilsner.
In the American-style lager or light lager category, Miller Brewing in Milwaukee took gold with its Miller Lite and bronze with its Miller Genuine Draft. The brewery also took a gold in the American-style specialty lager or cream ale category with its Hamm’s beer.[weeeeelll actually although based in Milwaukee, WI, Miller is owned by SABMiller (South African Breweries) based out of London. And do we really qualify Miller Lite as "beer" or perhaps "Tainted Water"]
The competition drew 3,523 beers vying for medals in 79 categories.
For a complete list of winners go to www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com.
I've never tried Titletown Brewing, sounds like I better put it on my list. Actually, I've never run across it sold on the west SIIIIIIIEEEEDE of the state either. It would be interesting to see if Catholic Beer Review gives us his analysis....
Is Ron Johnson Pro-Life?
While both GOP candidates are political newcomers, they clearly differ on the issue. Dave Westlake has taken the purist position of opposing abortion in all instances — no exceptions. Ron Johnson, on the other hand, said in a recent interview with Green Bay's WTAQ radio that he would not bar abortions in all circumstances.Cap Times
When conservative talk-radio host Jerry Bader asked Johnson if he was a "straight pro-life" candidate, Johnson replied: "No."
Johnson then endorsed what he referred to as "the normal three exceptions," which he described as "true life of the mother ... and instances of rape and incest."
... I hope RonJohn changes his mind. To make the point simple, there is no such thing as "un-raping" a woman. Abortion proponents want to present an "easy fix" to the tragedy. It's not true. The abortion does not change anything except heap on more guilt and confusion on a woman who needs real love and help(not a scissors and vaccuum).
Okay, so RonJohn is certainly still a better option than Russ Feingold who(I kid you not) supports infanticide.
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