The difference between men and women - explained!

Found this, years ago, on the Internet and it is a favorite of mine. Thought I'd share!

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN

Let's say a guy named Roger is attracted to a woman named Elaine. He asks
her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time.

A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, and again they enjoy
themselves. They continue to see each other regularly, and after a
while, neither one of them is seeing anybody else.

Then, one evening when they're driving home, a thought occurs to Elaine,
and, without really thinking, she says it aloud: "Do you realize that,
as of tonight, we've been seeing each other for exactly six months?"

And then there is silence in the car. . . To Elaine, it seems like a
very loud silence. She thinks to herself:
Jeez, I wonder if it bothers him that I said that. Maybe he's been
confined by our relationship; maybe he thinks I'm trying to push him
some kind of obligation that he want, or isn't sure of.

And Roger is thinking: Gosh. Six months.

And Elaine is thinking: But, hey, I'm not so sure I want this kind of
relationship, either. Sometimes I wish I had a little more space, so I'd
have time to think about whether I really want us to keep going the way
we are, moving steadily toward. I mean, where are we going? Are we just
going to keep seeing each other at this level of intimacy? Are we heading
toward marriage? Toward children? Toward a lifetime together? Am I ready for
that level of commitment? Do I really even know this person?

And Roger is thinking: So that means it was ...let's see ...February
when we started going out, which was right after I had the car at the dealer's,
which means...lemme check the odometer. Whoa! I am way overdue for an
oil change here.

And Elaine is thinking: He's upset. I can see it on his face. Maybe I'm
reading this completely wrong. Maybe he wants more from our relationship,
more intimacy, more commitment; maybe he has sensed-even before I sensed
it-that I was feeling some reservations. Yes, I bet that's it. That's
why he's so reluctant to say anything about his own feelings. He's afraid of
being rejected.

And Roger is thinking: And I'm gonna have them look at the transmission
again. I don't care what those morons say, it's still not shifting
right. And they better not try to blame it on the cold weather this time. What
cold weather? It's 87 degrees out, and this thing is shifting like a garbage
truck, and I paid those incompetent thieves $600.

And Elaine is thinking: He's angry. And I don't blame him. I'd be angry,
too. I feel so guilty, putting him through this, but I can't help the
way I feel. I'm just not sure.

and Roger is thinking: They'll probably say it's only a 90-day warranty.
Scumbags! And Elaine is thinking: Maybe I'm just too idealistic, waiting for a
knight to come riding up on his white horse, when I'm sitting right next to a
perfectly good person, a person I enjoy being with, a person I truly do
care about, a person who seems to truly care about me. A person who is in
pain because of my self-centered, school girl romantic fantasy.

And Roger is thinking: Warranty? They want a warranty? I'll give them a
warranty. I'll take their warranty and stick it right up their...

"Roger," Elaine says aloud.

"What?" says Roger, startled.

"Please don't torture yourself like this," she says, her eyes beginning to brim with tears. "Maybe I should never
have... Oh God, I feel so..." (She breaks down, sobbing.)

"What?" says Roger.

"I'm such a fool," Elaine sobs. "I mean, I know there's no knight. I
reallyknow that. It's silly. There's no knight, and there's no horse."

"There's no horse?" says Roger.

"You think I'm a fool, don't you?" Elaine says.

"No!" says Roger, glad to finally know the correct answer.

"It's just that... it's that I... I need some time," Elaine says.

(There is a 15-second pause while Roger, thinking as fast as he can,
tries to come up with a safe response. Finally he comes up with one that he
thinks might work.)

"Yes," he says.

(Elaine, deeply moved, touches his hand.) "Oh, Roger, do you really feel
that way?" she says.

"What way?" says Roger.

"That way about time," says Elaine.

"Oh," says Roger. "Yes."

(Elaine turns to face him and gazes deeply into his eyes, causing him to
become very nervous about what she might say next, especially if it involves
a horse. At last she speaks.) "Thank you, Roger," she says.

"Thank you," says Roger. Then he takes her home, and she lies on her
bed, a conflicted, tortured soul, and weeps until dawn.

Roger gets back to his place, he opens a bag of Doritos, turns on the
TV, and immediately becomes deeply involved in a rerun of a tennis match
between two Czechoslovakians he never heard of. A tiny voice in the far recesses
of his mind tells him that something major was going on back there in the car,
but he is pretty sure there is no way he would ever understand what, and
so he figures it's better if he doesn't think about it.

The next day Elaine will call her closest friend, or perhaps two of
them, and they will talk about this situation for six straight hours. In
painstaking detail, they will analyze everything she said and everything
he said, going over it time and time again, exploring every word,
expression, and gesture for nuances of meaning, considering every possible
ramification. They will continue to discuss this subject, off and on, for weeks, maybe
months, never reaching any definite conclusions, but never getting bored with it, either.

Meanwhile, Roger, while playing racquetball one day with a mutual friend of
his and Elaine's, will pause just before serving, frown, and say, "Norm,
did Elaine ever own a horse?"

And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the difference between men and women!

Signs of a Liturgist . . .

Signs of inhabitation by a Liturgeist

Olympic swim team tryouts are held in your baptismal font
Your church is more bleak than a Turkish prison
The only icon in the church is the picture of the Dalai Lama on the
priest's stole
The priest's stole is any color but white, Red, Purple, Green, Old Rose,
Gold, or black (unless used together as a plaid).
The homilies have the depth and theological exactness of a Barney song
The music is not elevating but fit for an elevator
They use every musical instrument created but the organ
The last time you heard the word sacrifice was at a baseball game
People kneeling to receive Communion are zapped with a stun gun and taken
outside
The word sister always precedes the word brother
Male pronouns have been banned by a liturgical interdict
The document "Environment and Art in Catholic Worship" is carried in and
held up instead of the Bible
Vatican II is extensively quoted but no documents of this council can be
found anywhere on church grounds
Confession is held for an hour on January 29th.
Extraordinary Eucharist Ministers are stationed at every row, if there is
a concelebrating priest he is bound and gagged until after the EEMs are
done
Liturgical dance, enough said
Liturgeist vocabulary to watch out for includes: worship space, inclusive
language, participation, worship environments, assembly, Easter people,
presider. Words never used are dogma, doctrine, Ratzinger (unless with a
sneer), GIRM, orthodoxy, man or mankind; if these words are used or
reverence is given to the Holy Father than subject is not a Liturgeist.
Liturgeist disturbances can also be detected in the "The raising arm
effect." This can be seen if the arms of Jesus have broken away from the
cross and are directed upwards. Depending on the intensity of Liturgeist
activity sometimes the cross will appear to be entirely gone. The
"raising arm effect" can also be detected prior to the Our Father where
peoples arms mysteriously levitate and through some magnetic force their
hands become attached to those next to them.
If any of these Liturgeist disturbances are detected, run don't walk to
your Bishop. In normal circumstances the parish priest should be gone to
first, but once this activity has been detected he has usually been
neutralized by the hypnotic effects of the Liturgeist. Your Bishop will
then appoint a priest who he has given the faculties for conducting the
"Rite of Liturgical Exorcism."

Rite of Liturgical Exorcism

The Liturgical Exorcist begins with the sign of the cross, and then a
sprinkling of Holy Water on the Liturgeist. It has been reported that
Liturgeists are deathly afraid of Holy Water. This has been noticed
because of their habit of putting everything in a Holy Water Font except
Holy Water.
The Liturgical Exorcist then traces a cross on the Liturgeists forehead
using the The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM). A number of
helpers are required to hold the Liturgeist down since they will struggle
with supernatural strength to resist the GIRM.
At this point the Liturgeist will usually start supplicating to the
spirit of Vatican II for help. If they start quoting anything, the
Liturgical Exorcist asks for a reference to an actual Vatican II
document. The Liturgeist will normally show symptoms of shock at this
point.
The Liturgical Exorcist will then begin reading from James Akin's "Mass
Confusion" while any of the faithful present chant "Orthodoxy." Again,
make sure enough people are present to hold the Liturgeist down during
this reading.
If the Liturgeists starts to calm down during the reading of "Mass
Confusion" and says an occasionally Amen, then the Liturgical Exorcism is
successful. This can be verified by having the subject read from the GIRM
or look at a picture of Cardinal Ratzinger with no ill effects.
A Liturgeist with a university degree is especially hard to eradicate,
much prayer and fasting will be required.

Looking forward to Fall . . .

I'm looking forward to Fall and, hopefully, some cooler weather so I can start baking in the oven again. The smell of cookies on a 100-degree plus day isn't as pleasing as wrapping up in a sweater and biting into a chocolate chip cookie that is hot from the oven. You want a bite in the air when you bite into the cookie!

My favorite part of Fall is the onset of apple season. We are blessed to live within 45 minutes of many apple orchards. There is nothing like an apple fresh from the tree. We survive on store apples when we have to but indulge greatly when apples are in season in Oak Glen.

Last year, we discovered a small apple orchard tucked away in the turns and bends of the road. The owner retired about 30 years ago from his job, purchased the property, planted apple trees and fell in love with this particular type of fruit. Besides the regular species of apples, he has several kinds that I've never seen or heard about before. The owner is very elderly now but he still mans the store along with his equally frail wife. They are pure joy to visit with and get apples.

There is only one catch to buying apples from this wonderful gentlemen - you HAVE to sample each apple available that day and you HAVE to listen to his stories and jokes. We always plan the time to enjoy the entire experience. It seems to make the apples we bring home taste all the better. You can't hurry his process and if you jump ahead, buy a bag of apples, and leave, you will be on his sad face look forever. Besides, when he likes you, he is extra careful about the apples he packs up for you.

We always eat several apples on the ride home but the real joy is using them in apple pies, apple sauce, stewed apples, and apple crisp. This is our annual treat/vacation. We go up for apples about every two weeks. There are many, many species of apples and they all ripen at different times. We never know what we will bring home but we know they will be worth it. Besides, quilting goes better when the air is filled with the scent of baking apple pies.

In case you had any doubts . . .

Obamacare-Point and Counterpoint
By Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.


Mr. Obama has gone back on the campaign trail to try to sell his health care reform to the nation. He continues to make the same points regarding health care reform, which need to be addressed specifically:
1. We need health care reform.
We do not need health care reform. We have the best health care system in the world. We need health insurance reform.


2. Free market health insurance has caused our current problem.
It is the government that has caused the current problem. We have not had free market health insurance in this country since 1965. It is not possible to consider our system of medical payment free market when the government controls $.60 of every dollar spent on health care.


3. The evil and greedy health insurance companies have caused prices to skyrocket.
Again, it's the government that has caused prices to skyrocket. Medicare and Medicaid are the 800 pound gorilla and insurance companies are the fleas on the gorilla.&n bsp; Nothing can be done by the privat e insurance companies that has not been done by Medicare and Medicaid. The federal government opens the door and the private insurance companies follow. It is the government manipulation of the free market that has caused our current health insurance problem. The out of control medical costs in Britain and Canada, as well as in Massachusetts and other states that have tried government health care prove this point.


4. Nearly 50 million Americans are without health care.
Nearly 13 million Americans are without health insurance. No one in the United States is without health care. Government regulations prohibit patients from being turned away from hospitals, which must provide medical care to anyone. The huge number that the Obama administration has used is highly inflated.


5. A government option will lower costs and improve quality of care.
A government option will increase costs and reduce quality of care. In every instance so far government involvement in medical services has caused prices to increase. Medicare spending has increased at a rate greater than 10 times that which was projected. Medicare and Medicaid will be broke in less than nine years. Adding another entitlement program will cause economic disaster. The Congressional Office of Management and Budget has stated that the president's plan is unaffordable. Further, the necessary rationing in order to even begin the program will reduce quality of care.


6. If you like your insurance and your doctor you can keep them.
The same things were said at the inception of Medicare. Medicare was supposed to be a supplemental insurance plan for retired people. It now covers the disabled as well and those over the age of 65, who are now ineligible for any other type of primary medical insurance. The government option will become the only option. Therefore, it's not an option and in the end hospitals, doctors, and all health care companies will be working directly and only for the government.


7. Government medical insurance is more cost efficient.
Government medical insurance is less efficient. The government, by force of law, transfers administrative costs to the private sector. Hospitals and doctors' offices must assume the burden of administration under threat of criminal penalty. This unfunded administrative burden transferred to private individuals and private insurance is then added to the cost of the supposedly free-market healthcare system.

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8. The government20option is necessary in order to prevent loss of insurance by individuals with medical problems.
Government regulations make it mandatory for hospitals to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay. The government can certainly pass a simple regulation making it illegal for medical insurance plans to be canceled due to illness on the part of the insured. This would be a simple solution but of course would not increase government control over our lives.


9. The government option would ensure treatment for sick individuals who would otherwise have lost health care insurance. It would prevent lifetime limits on medical care.
This is blatantly untrue. There are definitive limits to Medicare that are not being publicized. For example, a review of Medicare regulations shows it will pay up to a maximum of 90 days in the hospital for each medical incident. After that, a patient must be in a rehabilitation facility for 60 days in a row in order for Medicare to begin another cycle of payment. Similarly, there are limits on most other Medicare services.

10. A government option will not result in rationing.
The major government options already in existence employ rationing every day. Prohibitively difficult preauthorization, statements of medi cal necessity, convoluted and complicated paperwork, and often impossible to meet requirements result in rationing on a huge scale. Furthermore, delay in payment, denial of payment for services already rendered and other tactics reduce access to medical care on a widespread basis. The government may not call this rationing but it is an insidious form of rationing that will be an integral part of any government plan. Medicare misuses and abuses its funding and is guilty of literally stealing from hospitals and physicians.


As an example of this thievery, due to a change in the corporate status of my practice I was required to apply for a new national provider identification number (NPI) in March of this year. Within several weeks, without exception, all of the private insurance companies had registered the number and were paying on claims. After five months and exhaustive work of over 140 hours by my office staff Medicare and Medicaid had still not paid on a single claim. Finally, on August 14, Medicare made their first payment on claims that were five months old. Yet, if we do not bill Medicare within three months of the date of service, Medicare will not pay us at all. Government regulation and control permeates the entire medical system.


11. A government option will simplify the payment for medical services.
The government has always made things more complicated and expensive. This is part of their rationing system. The government has a habit of requiring new provider numbers every couple of years that must be used for all claims, including private insurance claims. When these are instituted, payment can be delayed for as long as six months. To see how "simple" the federal government makes medical claims, what follows are my required identification numbers: UPIN #G16766, OMAP#079496, Medicare#R0000BLCGY (PTAN) OLD, Medicare # R147304, (PTAN) **NEW** R147303, Railroad Medicare#110162014, NEW Tax ID # 264520277, OLD Tax ID# 911768627, DEA # BRxxxxxxx, Clia # 38D0933946, NPI# 1306924691, NPI Group # 1235371485.


Every point the president has made regarding his health plan is either a gross misrepresentation or an outright lie. The purpose of this plan is to ensure dependence on government and a financial windfall for his cronies, including trial lawyers, and has nothing to do with concern about the cost of medical care or about the health or lives of American citizens.

It doesn't get easier . . .

Last year, both my daughters went off to college within a month of each other. I already have one son attending college overseas so this brought my in-home children population count down to only one left at home.

It was quite hectic getting things packed and organized for both daughters their first year, and the busy atmosphere kept my mind off the fact that THEY WERE LEAVING! In the back of my mind, I thought that I was prepared because I had already sent one son off on his own. It wasn't enough 'preparation' because I missed them terribly.

Summer is over and, again, my daughter is headed back to college. Suitcases are sitting by the door as she makes last-minute preparations to get in the car and head for the airport. I can see that leaving is much less stressful for my daughter this year. Me? I'm going to miss her (and the other two college siblings) terribly.

Having to be a grown up AND a parent sure ain't for sissies!

Voices of reason . . .

"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this."
-- Emo Phillips

" There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."
-- Robertson Davies

Personal justice and being Christian . . .

We have a young lady at morning Mass who very much wanted to learn how to do the readings. We've noticed her because she always comes to Mass in a rather tight sweat suit with her hair yanked back. I have since discovered that she usually does her walking/running either before or after Mass. Technically, she is in her 'work' clothes and I should not have judged!

The first day she went solo for the readings at Mass, I didn't recognize her when she came up the church steps. Her hair was styled softly around her face, she was wearing heels and stockings as well as her Sunday best dress. She said that she would not feel right standing in front of the altar in anything but her Sunday best even if it was a daily Mass. Her reading was perfect and you could tell she had taken the time to practice the scripture.

The same, young lady read again last week. She kept to her decision and was dressed very nicely. The next day, we found out that someone in the congregation had soundly chastised her for being inappropriately dressed for doing the readings. Very confusing as her dress was not low-cut, the sleeves were long, and the dress hit her just at the knee. The young woman was so upset, she almost decided to quit.

Thankfully, she read yesterday and came, as always, dressed in a nice outfit. I couldn't tell any difference between any of the outfits she has worn to date. They were all decent and attractive. I wondered what the crabby woman in the congregation could have been offended about. I was glad the young lady stood her ground and didn't leave. Unfortunately, I know of a couple other cases where people were 'talked' to by the same irate woman in the congregation and they never came back.

I always thought being Christian was being kindly and showing by example. I don't see how you draw people into the fold by publically telling them all that's wrong with them. Yes, people do show up inappropriately dressed for Mass. However, we don't know what brings them to Mass, in the first place, or why they are dressed that way. Everyone has a history and if you judge before you find out, you could create a turning point in that person's life that you will have to answer for come Judgement Day.

Projects begat projects . . .

Finished my All Saints Day costume projects. In all, I have made 15 costumes to sell on-line. Not sure if the project has been cost productive but I had fun doing it and helped out a lot of moms. After a hectic day of realizing it wouldn't be a great profit and swearing off any more project ideas, I'm thinking about making quilted Christmas stockings now. Hope springs eternal . . . and keeps me out of real trouble!

All too true in this day and age . . .

"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
-- Kurt Vonnegut

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
-- Ronald Reagan

"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."
-- W. Somerset Maugham

History always repeats itself . . .

The reason we have wars and repeat problems in the world is a lack of historical education because history tends to repeats itself over and over. I ran across this and it brought it to mind.

In 1961, Ronald Reagan joined the American Medical Association in opposing the Democratic Party's attempt to force socialized medicine on the American people.

President Reagan's advice is just as relevant today as it was then. In part, he warned:

"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. . . . Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it." - Ronald Reagan

What quilting?

Quilting is still on the sidelines this week. I'm reliving the childhood of my children with a seasonal business - making All Saints Day costumes to sell. So far, they seem to be popular. I'm enjoying making the outfits for toddlers and such and remembering how much my brood liked getting dressed up for such events.

The year my oldest was four, he wanted to be a lion for Halloween. I found some fuzzy, brown fabric and contrived a costume complete with a head covering sporting a bright, orange mane. He was in seventh heaven. He went out to show an older friend next door. When Samantha saw him, she pretended to be SO afraid of this lion. My son had a kind heart and immediately tried to put her at ease with, "Don't worry, Manta! It's just me!"

Sadly, my bunch is way, way past the dressing up stage. However, my current project is fun as I can let my imagination go and figure out unique ways to depict various saint costumes. Right now, I have eight of them cut out and ready for sewing. It's fun to relive memories and keep your hands busy, too!

Digging up the past . . .

I have to admit that I do not like cleaning and sorting out my sewing cupboards. There are too many memories and way, way too many unfinished projects that my children have now outgrown. It's a bitter sweet endeavor as I sighed over little dress patterns I never had time to sew for them. Then it gets worse! I have to make decisions about what memories get to clutter up my cupboards another year and which ones absolutely have to be given away. Most of me realizes that I'm only on this earth a certain number of years but there is a tiny segment that is still trying to figure out how to take it all with me! I have a feeling that God doesn't want me to bring junk to my mansion in the sky. I'm hoping to have an eternity to clutter it up in a heavenly way! : - )

Cleaning up is good for the budget, too. I now realize that it will be years before I have to buy another needle having unearthed several packages that fell between the cracks in my organizational abilities from other years. Pencils, pens, and markers are not longer an endangered species, and it would be interesting to know how many times my unintentional thread collection could go around the world.

Even though the cupboard doors are closed on my sewing supplies, I know that the shelves are dusted and organized. You can just sense it when you walk into the room . . . that and the fact that the doors actually close all the way now!

Get a smile going . . .

"My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared."
-- P. J. Plauger

"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."
-- David T. Wolf

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps."
-- Emo Phillips

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
-- Henny Youngman

Favorite thoughts for the day . . .

"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
-- Doug Larson

"Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier."
-- Blore's Razor

"And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle."
-- Stan Dunn

Where have all the nuns all gone . . .?

After Mass, yesterday, two ladies in matching beige skirts, white shirts, and beige sweaters walked past us. Only by word of mouth, on other occasions, did we know they were nuns. An older man looked after them and then to me and said, "Where have all the REAL nuns gone?" Okay, we both realized they WERE real nuns but, from outward appearance, they just looked like two, middle-aged women with similar outfits.

I wonder how many vocations go missing because young girls do not have the example of nuns in their lives. Although I know that clothing does not make the person, or, in this case, the vocation, example does!

I grew up around nuns. Almost all my teachers were nuns. After school, we'd see them all head for the convent and wondered what 'nunly' things went on to keep them so happy with their road in life. WE wanted to BE a nun and wear the wonderful sign of their Faith and vocation. Seeing a whole row of nuns at Mass was truly an uplifting experience and made me want to pray as hard as they were to attain that gift. Every time a nun would come onto the playground, the children, especially the girls, would be immediately by her side.

Today's modern nuns, I'm sure, have just as good a prayer life but they don't stand out in the crowd. It is often hard to tell a nun from a middle-aged woman attending Mass. Yes, a devout woman IS a good example but a nun in full 'uniform' makes a profound statement.

We used to have a sweet nun at our parish who didn't have a habit of any sort but pretty much dressed like the rest of us. My girls loved sister but never really got the point that she was a nun.

I know I'm old-fashioned but I think the various orders gave up a lot when they decided to give up their habits. It is also interesting to note that the orders that still respect the dignity of wearing a discernable habit seem to have more vocations. Wonder if any of the powers that be have made this connection?

How come I didn't get one . . .?

Our credit card company called today to verify that some debits to our account were actually made by us. They do this periodically so I was ready to okay whatever she was going to read out to me . . . Until she got to a $460 debit from an on-line computer company. I KNEW I would remember something like that and I was pretty sure we weren't in possession of or waiting for $460 worth of any kind of state-of-the-art gadget. As we got further in the list of debits, it became apparent that someone, way, way outside our family circle, had obtained our number and treated themselves to a touch phone/computer deal and took the open opportunity to also download some tunes to go with it. I joked with the credit card company that I didn't even have such a neat item and he said he didn't either. He went on to say that whoever was helping themselves to our credit line was also going to be disappointed as he was closing out the card immediately, refusing payment to the stupid company that just took the card, and issued us new cards.

I also called LifeLock and they jumped on the situation with a vengence. Someone is going to wish they hadn't put dream to reality when they tried to steal our identity via our credit card. Poor person (NOT!) who either hasn't received his longed-for item yet or has it and the credit card company, the on-line store, and LifeLock on now on his case.

What if . . .

I had an interesting thought in connection with the proposed national health care that would so totally include abortion. The Catholic Bishops have already written a letter to the president stating that if the Freedom of Choice Act is passed, they would close down all Catholic, medical facilities rather than compromise their mission by allowing abortion in their hospitals. The FOCA has kind of taken a backseat to the national health care proposal yet national health care, as written, would provide as much access to abortion. This would probably include Catholic hospitals, etc., too.

We've had events such as 'a day without illegals' to showcase, according to the press, how much they contribute and what would happen if they weren't here. Seems that if the bishops were serious about defending our Ten Commandments, more especially the one about 'Thou Shalt Not Kill', they would stage a national event and call it 'a day without Catholic hospitals'. Yes, we can close them if FOCA is passed but a warning with impact might make more of a serious statement. If our Catholic medical facilities are permanently closed with the passing of FOCA, it is kind of a done deal. However, if we provide of day without Catholic hospitals, it is of short duration and gives people a taste of what the long-run effect would be. It is easier to take a stand before a stand is actually needed.