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Ash Wednesday 2009
theanchoressonline.com - 2/26/2009
Ash Wednesday 2009
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In my never-ending quest to restore a useful awareness over recent, rather bland, instruction, I repost a bit of this : A few years ago a deacon pal and I were discussing ashes. He was helping to distribute them for the first time in his parish and was trying to decide if he would use ...
Just Jokes
notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com - 2/24/2009
Just Jokes
— notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com — Family emergency day, I'm running people to doctors, will try and post something this evening... so now... it's just the jokes: "The whole cast of 'Slumdog Millionaire' came out to see the Oscars. 'Slumdog' won best picture, which everyone seemed to know was going to happen. It was the big ... (more) Just Jokes

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9000 Earmarks, Colorado: We Try Harder
notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com - 3/3/2009
9000 Earmarks, Colorado: We Try Harder
— notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com — David Brooks Dana Millbank Eugene Robinson "Nine thousand earmarks, billions and billions of dollars of unneeded and... wasteful spending, and the president's budget person says, 'This is last year's business. We want to just move on.' That's insulting to the American people. . . . Does that ... (more) 9000 Earmarks, Colorado: We Try Harder

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Lib Blogger Pulls a Ted Turner, Mocks Ash Wednesday
newsbusters.org - 3/2/2009
Lib Blogger Pulls a Ted Turner, Mocks Ash Wednesday
— newsbusters.org — Liberal blogger and Media Matters employee* Oliver Willis channeled his inner Ted Turner last Wednesday, writing on... his eponymous Web site. You see Willis took to his keyboard at 5:20 on February 25, Ash Wednesday, to hack out this 41-word snark ... (more) Lib Blogger Pulls a Ted Turner, Mocks Ash Wednesday

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Two Ash Wednesday Links
Maggie's Farm — - From Vanderleun:  Let my cry come unto Thee: An Ash Wednesday Confession - Via The Anchoress in her Ash Wednesday post: Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan, newly-named, Archbishop of New York City ...: “Maybe the greatest threat to the church is not heresy, not dissent, not secularism, not even moral relativism, but this sanitized, feel-good, boutique, therapeutic spirituality that makes no demands, calls for no sacrifice, asks for no ...

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