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<\/a>— 1 —<\/strong><\/p>\n To those of you trolling the “Catholics for Choice” group on Facebook: CUT IT OUT!<\/strong> I’m aware that you feel that they’re raging heretics and hypocrites and you’re entitled to that opinion. I’m not going to argue with you on that one. What I will argue with you on is the efficacy of getting yourselves banned from the group. All you’re doing is giving them ammo to say that pro-life Catholics are intolerant, so cut it out! It’s also really bad manners.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 2 —<\/strong><\/p>\n REMINDER: Brett’s Blogathon 2012<\/a> is next Friday.<\/strong> It goes from 7 a.m. on Friday the 27th to 7 a.m. on the 28th over at Blogging for Brett<\/a>. I’ll have information on how to donate on a sticky post at the top of the blog during the event.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 3 —<\/strong><\/p>\n Big Brother<\/a> is back on.<\/strong> I don’t have a contestant I dislike thus far as much as I disliked Rachel on the last two iterations but Mike Boogie is starting to be a contender. I’m glad Frank got HOH for this coming week though — it will be interesting to see if he puts Willie up.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 4 —<\/strong><\/p>\n My evil twin and hopefully my sister-in-law are coming over for a barbecue on Saturday.<\/strong> If Jeanette (my sister-in-law) is coming, I’ll be needing to find a My Little Pony to put on her birthday cake as well as acquiring some cake mix. I also have to figure out the menu which means figuring out which beast to roast and how I want to roast it.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 5 —<\/strong><\/p>\n Going back to #1, I got a call from Planned Parenthood<\/a> a few weeks ago.<\/strong> It was interesting because I never heard from them during the years when I was sympathetic to them. (I’m not unsympathetic to their practice of providing care to impoverished women — I’m just not in favor of abortion.) I’m guessing that they got my name from the campaign to take down Dan Lungren<\/a> (my Congresscritter who I loathe because he’s a tool, not because he’s Republican). I don’t know exactly what they were calling about because after the person explained who they were, I politely said, “I should probably tell you that I’m pro-life and I’m not really interested.” I said good-bye and hung up. I’m sure there are some who would argue that I should have tried to debate with them but I had the bear child clamoring for my attention and I had no desire to pick a fight with someone who was probably trying to be nice and volunteer their time for their charity of choice.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 6 —<\/strong><\/p>\n Facebook<\/a> had an interesting Yusef\/Cat Stevens question this week.<\/strong> The question was which song you’d want to hear if he ever toured again and sang his secular stuff. It was interesting because a number of my Facebook<\/a> friends commented who had absolutely no connection to each other. (My answer, by the way, is “Peace Train”.) I still can’t listen to “Moonshadow” with a straight face after the parody someone did on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me<\/a> after Cat Stevens was taken off a plane in Maine for being on the no-fly list. “I’m being followed by an air marshall\/Air marshall\/Air marshall…”<\/p>\n <\/a>— 7 —<\/strong><\/p>\n I finally had a parishioner ask about 50 Shades of Grey<\/u> today.<\/strong> She couldn’t understand why I was laughing so hard until I explained about the review that described it as “Twilight<\/u> with spanking and no sparkly vampires”. What I told her was that she’s an adult and can read whatever she wants but I didn’t think it would benefit her Christian witness. It was at that point that I found out that she had joked about me having it on my NOOK<\/a> during Bible study that morning. Yeah… not so much. \ud83d\ude42 I’m generally not into reading whatever is popular with the exception of the Harry Potter<\/u> books. I didn’t read the Twilight<\/u> books until they had been out for awhile.<\/p>\n For more Quick Takes, visit Jen at ConversionDiary.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" — 1 — To those of you trolling the “Catholics for Choice” group on Facebook: CUT IT OUT! I’m aware that you feel that they’re raging heretics and hypocrites and you’re entitled to that opinion. I’m not going to argue … Continue reading