Author: John Schultz

Looks like Geno’s is taking matters into his own hands.
English only at Philly cheesesteak joint

Situated in a South Philadelphia immigrant neighborhood, Geno’s — which together with its chief rival, Pat’s King of Steaks, forms the epicenter of an area described as “ground zero for cheesesteaks” — has posted small signs telling customers, “This Is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING `SPEAK ENGLISH.'”

You can’t have a policy like that without a journalist taking a swipe:

Of course, it’s not as if native Philadelphians speak the King’s English either. A Philadelphian might order a cheesesteak by saying something like, “Yo, gimme a cheesesteak wit, will youse?” (“Wit,” or “with,” means with fried onions.) To which the counterman might reply: “Youse want fries widdat?”

I would say that learning the word “Cheesesteak” will start an immigrant on his way to enjoying the many gastronomical delights we have here in the USA.
And “yooze guyz” is a perfectly acceptable way of addressing your homies.

Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave’s Greeley office.
Musgrave spokesman Shaun Kenney said someone stuffed the envelope through the mail slot in the door on May 31 and then sped away in a car. Kenney said most of the preprinted return address was blacked out, but staffers used the nine-digit ZIP code to trace it to Kathleen Ensz, a Weld County Democratic volunteer.
Ensz told The Associated Press she left the envelope at Musgrave’s office but said it “wasn’t in the office doors, it was in the foyer.” Asked what she meant by the act, she declined comment. …more

I suppose it speaks for itself. I’m just amazed she admitted to doing something so juvenile, tasteless and unsanitary.

I caught a glimpse of a headshot of Cardinal McCarrick on FoxNews with the trademark line underneath: It said something like “Cardinal for Gay Unions?”
Here’s the sad scoop of what happens when one tries to be “moderate.”
From CWN

Without benefit of clergy: McCarrick stumps for same-sex unions
Theodore McCarrick, the tardily retired Archbishop of Washington, musters “defenses” of Church teaching so lousy, so mind-numbingly feeble, that they look like arguments for the other side. Yesterday CNN quizzed the Demosthenes of Dupont Circle on the Federal Marriage Amendment. (Tip to Gerald Augustinus).
BLITZER: So just explain. You think that you could live with — you could support civil unions between gays and lesbians, but you wouldn’t like them to get formally married, is that right?
MCCARRICK: Yes. I think — I think basically the ideal would be that everybody was — was able to enter a union with a man and a woman and bring children into the world and have the wonderful relationship of man and wife that is so mutually supportive and is really so much part of our society and what keeps our society together. That’s the ideal.
Really so much part of our society. You’d think he were talking about the ability to make a right turn on red.
If you can’t meet that ideal, if there are people who for one reason or another just cannot do that or feel they cannot do that, then in order to protect their right to take care of each other, in order to take care of their right to have visitation in a hospital or something like that, I think that you could allow, not the ideal, but you could allow for that for a civil union.
Inspiring. I don’t remember St. Paul’s urging the Corinthians to accept a wee bit o’ sodomy to expedite sick calls, but then McCarrick, the centrist, seems always to read from a different text. As a general rule, incidentally, whenever you hear a moralist use the word “ideal,” you know the argument has gone off the rails.
But if you begin to fool around with the whole — the whole nature of marriage, then you’re doing something which effects the whole culture and denigrates what is so important for us. Marriage is the basic foundation of our family structure. And if we lose that, then I think we become a society that’s in real trouble.
So we’re to understand that civilly legitimating male-male and female-female pairings is not “fooling around” with the whole nature of marriage? Pointless to ask, of course. That whole paragraph could have come verbatim from an Eighth Grade classroom debate. More significant is what goes unmentioned, viz., that souls are imperiled by giving consent to a life of mortal sin — something you’d have thought a Catholic might have an opinion about. But this is McCarrick. The centrist.
The Canadian author Stephen Leacock offered a cheerful and memorable explanation of his status as emeritus professor: “Emeritus comes from two Latin words. E, ‘out,’ plus meritus, ‘and rightly so.'” Obliged to continue listening to the egregiously emeritus Archbishop of Washington, one is moved to wonder, not why he’s out, but how in God’s name he ever got in.

Teresa and I made a Marriage Encounter this weekend. It was absolutely wonderful – probably the best thing we’ve done together since we got married. May 28 is our seven year anniversary.
If you’re married, or a priest and haven’t gone on an encounter weekend, I highly recommend it.

Found this on NRO:

The art historian Bruce Boucher has suggested that the book be turned into an opera instead of a movie, because “If something is too stupid to say, you can always sing it.”

If they did turn it into an opera, it would probably rival Wagner’s Ring Cycle in length. Unless they sing fast!