Month: August 2011

Proposal to End Subsidization of Student Loans

Hmmm. Let's see if we can think this through:

1) Government ends subsidization of student loans.
2) Students have to pay more per loan.
3) Students have to think more seriously about taking out a loan.
4) Students take out fewer loans.
5) Colleges have more pressure on them financially.
6) Colleges are forced to make prices more attractive to students
since they can't count on government subsidies on loans.
7) College rates go down.
8) Useless college programs and administrative bloat gets cut.
9) Some students decide not to go to college.
10) These students go to work instead.
11) Work helps economy.
12) These students also not saddled with enormous amounts of debt from
bloated college costs.
13) Colleges don't have as much pressure to dumb-down degrees to the
point anybody can pass since everybody is expected to go to college.
14) Quality of education goes up.
15) Devaluation of college degrees from the fact everyone has them
stops and college degrees improve in value.
16) Government pulls back ever so slightly from an area of the economy
and allows natural market forces to sort things out (to a degree).
17) One less reason for the government to keep more of our money as taxpayers.

What's not to like here?
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PODCAST EPISODE 007: Is Michael Voris Right About Kneeling?

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JIMMY AKIN PODCAST 007: Is Michael Voris Right About Kneeling? (8/2/11)

Here is Voris's original video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Qr36uGCQQ

And the original CNA interview with Cardinal Canizares Llovera: 

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/spanish-cardinal-recommends-that-catholics-receive-communion-on-the-tongue/

And here's GIRM 160 (2011 ed.):

160.   The Priest then takes the paten or ciborium and approaches the communicants, who usually come up in procession.

It is not permitted for the faithful to take the consecrated Bread or the sacred chalice by themselves and, still less, to hand them on from one to another among themselves. The norm established for the Dioceses of the United States of America is that Holy Communion is to be received standing, unless an individual member of the faithful wishes to receive Communion while kneeling (Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum, 25 March 2004, no. 91).  

When receiving Holy Communion, the communicant bows his or her head before the Sacrament as a gesture of reverence and receives the Body of the Lord from the minister.  The consecrated host may be received either on the tongue or in the hand, at the discretion of each communicant.  When Holy Communion is received under both kinds, the sign of reverence is also made before receiving the Precious Blood.

 


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I’m interested to hear what folks have to say about Google+.

 I've got an invite but haven't been able to check it out yet.

For those who may now be aware, Google+ is Google's latest effort to
get into the social networking scene. Its previous efforts, such as
Google Buzz and Wave, fizzled.

Particularly disastrous was the launch of Google Buzz. They flipped a
switch and I (and countless others) got messages saying that we had
been automatically placed in a social network with people just because
we had previously exchanged emails. Problem was, there are some folks
I've previously exchanged email with that I don't *want* to be
automatically socially networked with.

I couldn't turn the thing off fast enough.

Word I'm hearing from those who have used Google+ is much more
positive, though. Some are even talking about it as a replacement for
Facebook.

Here's an article on the subject.

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What are your thoughts?