A slug admires a cicada

Pax et bonum

Planned Parenthood: Government funding is used to help provide abortions

Planned Parenthood doesn't use government funding to perpetrate abortions?

Not directly, but as Lila Rose notes:

FACT: Under Title X, taxpayers directly prop up Planned Parenthood's abortion business by funding:

Staff salaries
Infrastructure
Rent
Utilities
Abortion facilities
Outreach
Lobbying efforts
Expansion

So it is using that money to help promote and provide abortions.

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That wake stuff

As I tried to compile pictures for my wake slideshow (no, I'm not sick or dying, just proactive), I realized how hard it could be for my survivors.

From my adult life, I was generally the person taking the pictures, so there are only a few times when I was being photographed.

Many are from me as Santa, but I really don't want to use those (Santa died?). A number are from plays, but multiple images from the same event seems too repetitive. Our wedding includes a number of pictures, but the same repetitive argument holds here. Then there are shots of me playing music for Mass or Franciscans. How many of those can we show, though?

I haven't found too many from when I was young. I'll keep looking, but this is not going to be easy.

Given my family history/genetics, I've probably got a couple of decades to go.

Pax et bonum

Stand Out for Life

More than 100 people joined us July 28 for Stand Out for Life outside Rochester's Planned Parenthood on University Avenue. They prayed the Rosary, sang, prayed silently, and listened to speakers.

 

Love will end abortion.

Life will prevail!

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More potential wake slideshow photos

 

 

 

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For my wake slideshow video (first batch)

 

Morbid? Maybe. But having been to a few wakes lately where they have those slideshows of pictures from the person's life, with music, I thought gee, maybe I could make it easy on the survivors - and exercise some control over the images and the music - by putting together my own slide show. Maybe I'd even use recordings of me and/or Rock of Faith playing for the music bed! 

 

One problem: I'm usually the photographer, so there's lots of pictures in my files of other people, but not a lot of me. Here are a few I've found. Maybe some of my art and nature pictures to go with them? Hmm.  

 

FYI: I'm not seriously ill or on the verge of death. Given my family's history, I could have 20-30 more years to go!

 

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Slug poems?

Pax et bonum