tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35196222009-11-26T06:11:21.367-08:00Lex CommunisWelcome to Lex Communis - the most respected blog in all of north-central Fresno County<p>
I am a practicing business-litigation and plaintiff's employment law trial attorney. This site generally focuses on my interests, which include history, philosophy, religion, science, science fiction and law.
<i>Disclosure:</i> I write with an unrepentant neo-Conservative, Catholic, pro-Western Civilization bias.</p>Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.comBlogger4090125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-41149931152232797302009-11-25T15:03:00.000-08:002009-11-25T15:03:17.417-08:00Talented people with too much time on their hands
And
Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-52488107434850500492009-11-25T12:29:00.000-08:002009-11-26T06:11:21.402-08:00Manhattan Declaration
Let's mark this as a hopeful sign. A group of Catholic, Evangelical and Orthodox leaders have signed a document defining their common cause on issues pertaining to life, marriage and religious liberty.
The Declaration appears to do more than provide talking points; it seems to commit the signatory to action:
As Christians, we take seriously the Biblical admonition to Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-67602423887333681182009-11-25T11:59:00.000-08:002009-11-25T11:59:42.889-08:00Blowback: How Pederasty became Uncool Again
Mary Eberstadt at First Things explains the unlikely phenomenon of the connection between anti-catholic liberals taking the high ground led to the freshening of the moral sense against pedophilia.:
After documenting the trend toward a social sanctioning of sex-with-children, Eberstadt notes how Roman Polanski was tossed to the wolves, which is Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-21795051974014666122009-11-25T10:09:00.000-08:002009-11-25T10:09:39.079-08:00Retreat from Reason
The Anglican Mainstream on Archbishop Rowan's recent advice that Catholicism should modeled itself upon Anglicanism.
Because that model has shown itself to be so very succesful of late.Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-23191109226690681332009-11-25T09:27:00.000-08:002009-11-25T09:27:16.699-08:00The Fifth Estate is the Readership
The MSM is attempting to ignore "Climategate" but the readers won't let them.Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-38877903537716948202009-11-25T09:22:00.000-08:002009-11-25T09:22:12.014-08:00Hide the Decline
Catchy!
Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-28559797165412891112009-11-24T17:57:00.000-08:002009-11-25T08:54:56.617-08:00Nothing says "Celebrate the Birth of the Prince of Peace" like Santa Claus on a Carpet-Bombing Mission
Here is the link.Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-37230373336244894962009-11-24T14:09:00.000-08:002009-11-25T08:46:04.245-08:00For Some People it is Always the 19th Century
Francis Beckwith linked this series of talks by Pastor Tony Bartolucci that critique Beckwith's book on his return to Catholicism, "Return to Rome." Beckwith is very charitable in saying that he is honored by the attention paid to his work, even thought the attention is critical.
Pastor Bartolucci begins his talk with this story from a slightly Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-77746184792378848272009-11-24T09:06:00.000-08:002009-11-24T09:06:37.339-08:00Local News
SEIU seems to have engaged in a campaign of intimidation and fraud in a a Fresno union election.
Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-26482075271604166342009-11-23T12:43:00.000-08:002009-11-23T12:43:18.016-08:00Hiding the Decline
Watt's Up With That? explains how "Mike's Nature Trick" was used to hide the fact that a statistical trend shows climate averages declining at the end of the 20th Century.Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-75096256556437470102009-11-23T12:36:00.001-08:002009-11-23T12:36:42.547-08:00All the news that's fit to spike
The mainstream media is trying to spike the greatest science scandal in the history of the world.Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-7132187600563620002009-11-23T12:31:00.000-08:002009-11-23T15:37:13.386-08:00Fact Check this one
Ruh, roh, Shaggy...it looks like it's OK for the Left to actually tell jokes against Obama.
"Will you kiss me?"
"Will you take me out to a dinner and a movie?"
"Do I look like Mrs. Obama?"
Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-73516780561124827132009-11-23T09:26:00.000-08:002009-11-23T09:53:26.652-08:00The Kennedy Mystique - 1 part heresy, another part arrrogance, and a whole bunch of sub-room temperature IQ.
Kudo's to Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin for prohibiting Representative Patrick Kennedy from taking Communion on the basis of Kennedy's unflagging support for the slaughter of the innocent.
Apparently, this prohibition happened in early 2007 as part of confidential and private Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-29332611297593618902009-11-23T08:41:00.000-08:002009-11-23T08:42:46.647-08:00So, scientists normally shred documents when served with a Freedom of Information Request?????
I thought that was the kind of thing that Mafia did.
The spin on Globalwarmingate is that the hacked e-mails are simply a case of letting outsiders see how the scientific sausage is made, which is inherently never pretty.
According to the pro-Global Warming apologetics site, Real Climate:
Instead, Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-7748019938204049122009-11-23T08:21:00.000-08:002009-11-23T08:21:26.778-08:00"That thumping sound you hear is the Los Angeles Times moving the goal posts in the global warming debate."
Candance Moore at Newsbusters writes:
Because, according to the Times, the fight to stop possibly nonexistent global warming would be about saving the economy:
But advocates of action to curb global warming dismiss those claims, and political leaders and analysts say the Senate bill to Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-59070091870003472022009-11-22T12:31:00.000-08:002009-11-22T12:39:36.264-08:00Science Scandal
Pajama Media observes:
Late on the night of of November 19, news broke on PJM and elsewhere that a large amount of data had been stolen from one of the major climate research institutions by an unknown hacker and made available on the Internet. The institution is the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, home institution for Dr Phil Jones and one of the world’s Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-10974937221128943962009-11-20T09:23:00.000-08:002009-11-20T09:23:54.688-08:00Long story short: Pro-Global Warming Scientists have been lying and suppressing contrary data
Because that's the way science is done.
Apparently, the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University has been hacked with the result that e-mails of leading pro-AGW scientists being released to the public.
Among the e-mails released are candid discussions by pro-AGW scientists admitting that they Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-10840609009396485652009-11-19T15:08:00.000-08:002009-11-19T15:08:02.578-08:00Everyone must Serve Baal
Sen. Reid’s Government-Run Health Plan Requires a Monthly Abortion FeePeter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-17159994344079882832009-11-19T14:31:00.000-08:002009-11-19T14:31:21.552-08:00New Lutheran body to form after gay pastor vote.
The Lutherans follow the example set by the Episcopalians.Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-34421639650473195762009-11-18T13:16:00.000-08:002009-11-18T13:16:30.596-08:00Father Barron on "2012"
This is a very interesting review of Roland Emmerich's latest effort in destroying the world. It is also very useful since it provides a forewarning that the 2012 is deeply anti-religious and anti-catholic.
Father Barron points out that Emmerich does not miss an opportunity to kill off any character who has the temerity to pray. For example, the President is cut off Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-191373356914310052009-11-16T10:52:00.000-08:002009-11-17T09:38:11.303-08:00Are Catholics Creationists?
Wintery Knight Sent me this link.
George Sim Johnston's advice is "Catholics should take their cue from the Magisterium: Welcome the genuine discoveries of modern science while casting a skeptical eye on evolutionary "science" that for philosophical reasons dispenses with a Creator and treats man as a thing."
While allowing for the possibility of evolution, neither Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-15012147065004059222009-11-16T08:52:00.000-08:002009-11-16T08:52:14.612-08:00Getting Scrod in Boston
My dad just sent me a list of Boston distinctives, including:
How to say these Massachusetts city names correctly:
**Say it wrong, be shunned**
Worcester : Wuhsta (or Wistah)
Gloucester : Glawsta
Leicester Lesta
Woburn: Wooban
Dedham : Dead-um
Revere: Re -vee-ah
Quincy: Quinzee
Tewksbury : Tooks berry
Leominster : Lemin-sta
Peabody: Pee-ba-dee
Waltham : Walth-ham
Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-74611166407911226852009-11-16T07:26:00.000-08:002009-11-16T07:26:07.301-08:00So far from God, so close to the Estados Unidas
Mary O'Grady of the Wall Street Journal interviews Honduran Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga and reports a somewhat different view than that of the American Left:
Even though the church backed the decision by Congress to depose Mr. Zelaya, the cardinal insists that from the start it has tried to promote peace. "In our communiqué immediately Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-63540886500565363922009-11-15T08:40:00.000-08:002009-11-15T08:40:22.066-08:00Democracy's Watchdog
According to Mark Steyn:
If you wonder why American newspapering is dying, consider this sign-off:
AP writers Matt Apuzzo, Sharon Theimer, Tom Raum, Rita Beamish, Beth Fouhy, H. Josef Hebert, Justin D. Pritchard, Garance Burke, Dan Joling and Lewis Shaine contributed to this report.
Wow. That's ten "AP writers" plus Calvin Woodward, the AP writer whose twinkling pen Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3519622.post-13815570702557683462009-11-15T08:10:00.000-08:002009-11-15T08:10:53.695-08:00Why is this Idiot Bowing?
The LA Times asks "how low will he go?" and observes that:
"Very low bows like this are a sign of great respect and deference to a superior."
This is simply basic.
America's civic faith is that all men are created equal.
Americans don't bow to royalty.
We didn't dip the flag to Hitler. We don't dip the flag.
Our president is not the social inferior anyone.
So,Peter Sean Bradleynoreply@blogger.com4