Michael P. O'Connor

Ok I saw a post on Free Republic that was reprinting an article from Jews for Life (I am assuming it is a Pro-Life Jewish group) That was titled “Christmas Desecrations: Anti-Christian Bigotry Reaches New Lows”. In that article it talked about a group called Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation There was another article on Free Republic that was written by Rabbi Aryeh Spero That was taking to task the liberal attacks on Christmas via Satire.
My question is are we Christians so oppressed now that we need defenders that are not members of our group. I am not bad mouthing these groups, I welcome them to defending us, but I just asked have things gotten that bad? I hope it is not that bad. The thing is that still the majority of the country still claims to be Christian, it should be the Christians taking a stand against anti-sintism, we should be able to be defending our self’s.
This story gets odder as I read more on it. World Net Daily ran a story on them. Some of the more interesting stuff is from Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation They talk about how both Christians and Jewish people share the same moral Law (read the 10 commandments) — “the morality of Christianity is also the morality of Judaism – hence the expression Judeo-Christian ethic.” One quote from their site that struck me as both funny and odd was

Feder says about a year ago he decided there should be a distinctly Jewish organization dealing with anti-Christian prejudice, which he considers a “political pogrom.”

“If a Jewish organization complains about these things,” he explained, “no one can accuse us of self-interest, because we’re not Christians; we’re Jews.”

That is from the World Net Daily page, but if I read that right, we can not have Christians on the board if we are to defend Christians, Odd, funny, and probably very very true.
One of the funnier quotes from there site is as follows “In other words, the 265th pontiff believes in the teachings of the Catholic Church. Stop the presses!” that is in response to the attacks some in the media were doing when the new pope for the Roman Catholic Church was written

It looks like the site Pittsburgh Blogger has changed their site setup. The have taken the list off of the right side of the page. And they are posting the most recent posts from the blogs right on the front page. I am not sure I like that, you will get less posts. I am not against the posts being right on the main page, but I think I will miss the headline posts on the left side, you got more of the posts that way, along with some posts that would have been forced off of the main list, in the right side, where they had the sections list.

For those of you in Pittsburgh (or from), you know what the term “Hoagie” means, to the point where you can not image that some one might not know what that means. But there are many outside of Pittsburgh area that does not know what a hoagie is. Well today was having fun doing the “environmentalists wacko pick of the week” for the football game, between the Stealers and the Vikings. And he was talking how the environmentalists would hate a Stealer, because they are big guys that eat hoagies. He is showing that he lived in Pittsburgh for some time. Also for any one that does not listen to his show, he always talk about how the Stealers are his favorite team. As for me I don’t like football, so I don’t care one way or the other.

I just put up my Christmas Tree.
I have posted some pictures here

This is the tree from the front

This is the tree from the side

This Ordainment is from 1976 the year I was born, this ordainment is only about a month younger then I am

This is another Ordainment from the year I was born, the last one and this one were given to my by my mother in 2002, I was able to pick a few Ordainment out from the collection that she had, it took some convincing for her to let me have this one, but the thing that worked the most was my mom had 2 of this one.

This is the back of the Tree, as you probably should have guessed by now the tree is in the middle of my APT. Yes there are a bunch of Star Trek Ordainment on it, yes I am a Geek.

This is the star on the top of my tree. Yes those are Icons on the back wall that you can see, the one at the top that is easy to see, is “Christ the Merciful”

This is a picture of the tree with all the lights on the tree on, and all the lights in the room off (I used a 2 second exposer on the camera)