Funny Friday: Obama v. Putin

Crap. We surrender.

TMZ: Cathy: "All your brain are belong to us."

Found this pic floating on TMZ.com.

It is true. Cathy can control our brains to make us behave like Terry, SwissMiss, possibly even Poprah Poprah?

Will it work on Belinda's Brain?

Vincenzo... bring all the cell-phone guns you can find and hurry!

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What? It's friday.

Edit: Don't know why I said I found this on TMZ. I don't read TMZ. It doesn't fit into this satire in anyway. It isn't an inside joke. I thought maybe it would give "credibility" to my story. I am a liar, and for that I am truly sorry.

Re-Edit: "All your brain are belong to us." Is a weird internet/90's meme reference. This might help. It was a non-sequitor as well. Blogging is hard.

A good Catholic way to celebrate "Earth Day"

...eat or wear something from the Earth. God made it that way.

Mmmmmmmmm

If you want to be CHARITABLE on Earth Day, check out the "Hunt Fund." That way you can tell all your hippie friends that you donated to charity on Earth Day.You just wanted  to make sure Old Man Earth keeps operating like it should.

March 17 - Happy Saint Jan Sarkander's Day!

... I am polish. So why not celebrate St. Sarkander today?

I have a lot of love for the irish!!! (my wife is Irish, she'd punch me if I didn't say that, or her mom would). I especially love their Smithwick's beer. Heck, I am even wearing green today (just so I don't get punched or pinched... and it might induce a kiss or two from the wife!) But Saint Patrick seems like a rather, dare I say, typical saint? Read his story from Catholic.org:

As a boy of fourteen or so, he was captured during a raiding party and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep.[Do sheep bite?] Ireland at this time was a land of Druids and pagans. He learned the language and practices of the people who held him.

During his captivity, he turned to God in prayer. Patrick's captivity lasted until he was twenty, when he escaped after having a dream from God in which he was told to leave Ireland by going to the coast.[Tight security!] There he found some sailors who took him back to Britian, where he reunited with his family.

He began his studies for the priesthood. He was ordained by St. Germanus, the Bishop of Auxerre, whom he had studied under for years.

Later, Patrick was ordained a bishop, and was sent to take the Gospel to Ireland. He arrived in Ireland March 25, 433, at Slane. One legend says that he met a chieftain of one of the tribes, who tried to kill Patrick. Patrick converted Dichu (the chieftain) after he was unable to move his arm until he became friendly to Patrick.

Patrick preached and converted all of Ireland for 40 years. He worked many miracles and wrote of his love for God in Confessions. After years of living in poverty, traveling and enduring much suffering he died March 17, 461.[Suffering... like watching sheep?]

OK, some pretty cool stuff, I will grant you that. But in the GRAND scheme of things, it is a pretty typical story. I mean, captivity for 6 years... punished by sitting in a field looking at sheep all day?? Not necessarily diggin' out his eyes were they? (See: Saint Lucy) Not only that, but he wasn't even BORN in Ireland. He was a Scott! He didn't die a martyr, so as I said, a relatively middle of the road Saint.

Now, let us look at ANOTHER Saint that has their feast day today: Saint Jan (John) Sarkander - A Polish Saint:

Martyred foe of the Hussites. He was born on December 20 at Skotschau, in Austrian Silesia, and educated at Prague. He was ordained in 1607 and served in various parishes, defending the faith against the Hussites. In 1618, at the start of the Thirty Years’ War, the Protestants seized the local government. Two years later, Jan was taken prisoner at Olmutz and was tried by the Hussites. He was racked and tortured and died on March 17. He was canonized in 1995 by Pope John Paul II.

Ok... so you say not born in Poland right? Wrong. Skotschau or Skczow is in Poland, just at the TIME it was part of Austrian Silesia, in other words 'controlled by.' He defended the faith against HUSSITES, (which were a little more formidable than pagans). He then was part of the Thirty Years War and taken prisoner. [A little more extreme than battling some snakes eh?] He was then tried by the Hussites, racked and tortured to death. THE RACK. A Martyr.

So... Happy Saint Patrick's Day or Sarkander's Day (whichever you choose to celebrate)!!! We can have a St. Patrick vs. St. Sarkander show down: you attack me with shots of whiskey and pints of Guiness, I get to put you on the RACK... I'll even let you go first :)

-Posted by: Joe

The Joys of Fatherhood...

So I came across this post at Cottage Blessings:

First the good news...


This pretty much sums up parenting during the first few months of your child's life. One giant contradiction :)


What a joyous contradiction though!



-Posted by: Joe

Not Typical Parents...

Sometimes being different is good. A recent conversation (summarized) with our Pediatrician is a good example:

Us: "Sorry we are asking so many questions."
Dr.: "Relax, questions are good."
Us: "We just want to be good parents."
Dr.: "You are good parents."
Us: "Ok... if you say so."
Dr.: "Don't worry, you are not typical parents, by any means."
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Us.: "Um... we will take that as a compliment...?"
Dr.: "[laugh] You should, you wouldn't believe, you obviously are very concerned on doing what is best for your child."

-Posted by: Joe

Proof of Global Warming.

The West Wing of the White House

-Posted by: Joe

New Followers?

Not that I measure the success of this blog on Google Followers, Facebook Fans, and Twitter Followers but... I have noticed that I haven't had any recent "Newbies" in the last week or so.

Now either the holidays have created a lull in the Cathologosphere or... my current "friends" have been lacking in their duties at "spreading the word."

So how about a few "Newbies" as a 12th Day of Christmas present to close out Christmastide?