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John,

I would fully agree that the Church should be in the forefront of encouraging its members to donate their organs after death.  After all, isn’t it a central tenet of Catholicism that the body is just a “vessel” and that the “real person” has gone to elsewhere after death?  (As I’ve pointed out to fellow somewhat-agnostic friends, the alternative of hanging around for the worms or the flames isn’t a real cheerful thought…)

On the other hand, I’d have to agree with the archbishop that “our organs should be donated as a gift to others and not as a duty,” : I.E., the state should NOT have the right to DEMAND organ donation from those whose religious beliefs are against it.

As a default option however, if nothing is indicated one way or the other, far better for the State to give someone a heart and a life than to give the worms a tasty dessert.

McFadden, Michael J. [MC1973]

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[JR: I think we should have a "free market" in organs. After all the "witch doctors" get paid to transplant them. Bureaucrats get paid to administrate the "organ donation program". What's wrong with getting paid for your spare parts after you no longer need them. Poor people are being defrauded to supply rich folks with those parts. Let them pay for them. Then, there would be no need for "organ waiting lists"! I can see it know a poor minority father gets to put his kid through college when he dies. Yeah, he could have had life insurance, but he was poor. Obviously, we need some controls to ensure an orderly market. But why not? In the alternative, I like Lifesharers; better than UNOS!]

http://lifesharers.org/

http://www.unos.org/

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http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/story/Jasper-Smoke-Ban-Amendment-Proposal/HNNJ9pf2rUqalD5IsiblSA.cspx?p=Comments#_=_

From: McFadden, Michael J. [MC1973]
Date: Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 5:06 AM
Subject: Jasper Smoke Ban Amendment Proposal – CBS 42 Birmingham, AL 

http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/story/Jasper-Smoke-Ban-Amendment-Proposal/HNNJ9pf2rUqalD5IsiblSA.cspx?p=Comments#_=_

PRIVATE, unless you want to stick it in your mailings anyway… :>

Just thought you might appreciate it since I’d never known there was a town by the name of Jasper in Alabama!  I think you may enjoy my comment on the page there!

:)

Michael

Michael J. McFadden
Peace Studies 1973

[JR: I always welcome content from Jaspers. Especially on slow days. LOL! They're always slow days. And, what better than from a troublemaker. And, we agree about the loss of freedom by manipulation. I don't smoke and think it's "yucky". BUT, as long as smokers don't ask me to pay for their medical bills, they can "blow their brains out". Yeah horrible. But actions have consequences. And, I remember how often "science" is just plain wrong. Keep tilting at those windmills.]

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The Jasper city council is expected to vote on a proposed amendment next Tuesday.  It would allow smoking in bars, after nine o’clock.

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Cantiloper – 12/29/2011 10:27

This story from Jasper isn’t that surprising to anyone who’s been following the ban stories around the world in 2011.

Despite all the twisted and tortured statistics they use, virtually no one believes the Antismokers’ nonsense claims about bans not hurting bars, casinos, and alcohol-heavy restaurant businesses anymore: there’s just too much plain and easy to find data that shows where they’re lying. When they play the threat game with secondhand smoke people accept it most of the time because “the authorities” should be the ones who know about that medical stuff and ordinary people with limited amounts of time have no way of cross checking the press-released headlines from antismoking advocates against real life.

With money, particularly money that’s closely tracked and accounted for by government tax watchdogs, it’s not so easy to lie. – - – - – See: http://kuneman.smokersclub.com/PASAN/StilettoGenv5h.pdf for “The Lies Behind The Smoking Bans” and you may be surprised at just how much of what you’ve just assumed had strong factual backup over the last ten years or more has actually just been manufactured in support of a “good” societal goal: the reduction of smoking.

My belief is that smoking may be bad for people’s health, but expanding government control, the loss of freedoms in little increments at a time, and lying to the public as an accepted form of social engineering is far worse. I hope the Jasper council folks stand up against the pressure from those who will try to betray them as “child murderers in the pocket of Big Tobacco” and actually stick to their principles.

- – - – - Michael J. McFadden, Author of “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains”

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[JR: Slowly property rights are eroded. Then they run our lives. Finally, when their hate of humanity comes out, they put on the trains to the camps. Nah, it can't happen here. Unless you were a Japanese American. Argh!]

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From: McEneney, Mike (MC1953)
Date: Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:11 PM
Subject: Dr. Joseph Maresca,’73 (Mt.St Michael ’69)

Dear John,

Here is a piece form the Mount Saint Michael on line newsletter about Joe Maresca,’73 and a program he is doing at the Mount.

Mike

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DR. JOSEPH MARESCA ’69, LAUNCHES WEBSITE TO DISCUSS GLOBAL ISSUES

Dr. Joseph Maresca ’69 CPA, CISA is not only a distinguished accountant, he has recently started a second career as an avid writer on academic topics.

Earlier this year, Dr. Maresca created and launched the website Supercontents on Lunch.com. in order to centralize complex research topics like The Artificial Sun, The Continent of Plasticsis and Nuclear Power Safety Issues.

Members of Lunch.com write articles on topics of interest in the arts, sciences and current events. Says Dr. Maresca, ” I like writing about academics in order to add a practical dimension to the subjects. Obviously, Accounting has brought me into the details of business operations that operate in ways that the accounting literature does not always anticipate.”

The intent of Supercontents, says Dr. Maresca, is to have content which is topical, well-researched and generally unique. The content should interest a wide spectrum of professionals, people in academe, government, researchers, students at every level, hobby enthusiasts, nature enthusiasts and many others. Some popular issues covered on Supercontents include articles on the following.

* The Icelandic Volcano

* Haitian Earthquake

* The Continent of Plasticsis

* Natural Cancer Killers

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[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated. Keep this up and you'll be off the reference desk and elbowing me out as CiC.]

Maresca, Joseph [MC1973]

[JR: I'll add some value by adding the direct link to his work. If I can't be CiC, maybe I can stay on the techie desk. Before it's outsourced to a third world country. But who'd work for these wages?]

http://www.lunch.com/DrJosephSMaresca

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From: McFadden, Michael J. [MC1973]
Date: Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:19 PM
Subject: Hey! Good to hear from Rob Kuhn, ’73 from Crysosthem! (did I spell that right? LOL!)

It’s great to see another ’73r on the list here! :)

Speaking of bullying… :>

I was getting some recent “bullying” from one of the antismoking heavyweights out there, a fella named James Repace who styles himself as a “Secondhand Smoke Expert” and who blew it big in a recent court case involving smoke from a condo renter’s neighbor.

Hmmm… for anyone interested the story is probably best told by visiting:

http://greenbelt.patch.com/articles/witness-testimony-ends-in-secondhand-smoke-trial

where you’ll see a lengthy set of exchanges between me and the gentleman (Use a “find” on “McFadden” to hop through the 300+ postings there) where you’ll quickly see why he doesn’t like me very much… :>

Then take a visit to a blog run by Dr. Michael Siegel, a medical doctor and professor at Boston University who’s gotten fed up with the lies coming out of the antismoking establishment after having supported and worked closely with them for 20 years:

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/11/in-my-view-anti-smoking-advocates.html

and his followup blog:

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/11/anti-smoking-advocates-are-defending.html

So, as you can see, I have had to deal with my own share of bullies out there. Fortunately I’ve learned how to hit back pretty effectively: Truth is mightier than the sword!

:)
Michael J. McFadden
Peace Studies, 1973

[JR: Ahh, yea, but I'd prefer my 1911 to all the pens and swords. :-) Good thing I'm the peaceable type. Seriously! "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." --- Robert A. Heinlein And, my experience with bullies is they are cowards. And, trolls have to be ignored. You have more patience with extensive dialogues. But then I'm just fat old white guy injineer with a short attention span. ... ... Now what were we saying?]

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From: Kuhn, Rob (MC1973)
Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:34 PM
Subject: JASPER JOTTINGS Week 45 – 2011 November 06

Hi John …

http://www.jasperjottings.com/2011/jj2011W45.html#mozTocId574519

Peripheral to your weeks old exchange with Mike McFadden (a former floor mate in Chrysostom) … we shouldn’t be too quick to judge a book by its cover (or ostentatious lack thereof):

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/22/gaga-bullying-is-a-hate-crime-must-become-illegal/

(On the other hand, supposedly her fans were bullying singer Adele online about her weight … but I am over my time limit for attention to such matters, weighty or not.)

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[JR: Well us little L libertarians just think that everyone should just MYOB. It would seem to this "Judge Judy" lawyer, that harassment covers bullying. In Chrysotom or not.]

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From: McFadden, Michael J. (MC1973)
Date: Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:10 AM
Subject: John Banzhaf & Catholic University

Anyone who’s followed “The War On Smokers” over the last 40 years will be very familiar with John Banzhaf. In the last ten years he’s moved on to suing over things like fast foods and religion, but his tactics have remained basically the same: He uses the same style in this video about Catholic University that he got away with against us Free Choice folks (Note: that’s smoking choice, not abortion choice) for decades without anyone objecting:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/index.html

Interesting note: pay particular attention to the pitch and tone of the interviewer’s voice near the end. Then pop back to her intro at the beginning. The amount of stress change in her voice is amazing.

And here’s a good article, along with a poll and some great comments about it:

http://www.cuatower.com/news/2011/10/20/university-accused-of-discriminating-against-muslims/#comment-903

Lesson: Never let a bully get away with bullying someone else……. Eventually you’ll be his target.

Michael J. McFadden
Peace Studies, 1973

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[JR: As a little L libertarian, as well as a fat old white guy injineer and little c Catholic, I'm pro-choice on everything. I believe that prospective mothers, unbrainwashed by the Gooferment Skrules run by the crazy left, and unbiased by Gooferment diktats, will choose life. (Ever see women around a new born? There positively insane.) It's only when the "pro choice" profit making machine insists that they must kill their unborn child that they can't see any other choices. I agree with Ron Paul that it's a State issue and probably a very personal issue. And, following a similar line of thought, if anyone cares, I think you should be able to put ANY drug in YOUR body. Just don't ask me to pay for the clean up. And, following along, you can BELIEVE anything you want, including in the flying spaghetti monster, just don't tell me that I have to wear a colander on my head. Or that women have to be wrapped from head to toe, can't drive, and have to be escorted like two year olds. (Although, there's some merit in my mind about not driving and mandatory clothing. Snooki and Lady "Gag" come to mind. And a whole host of "celebrities" that make me gag who should be escorted.) And, yes, I agree, we have to stand up to bullies, because eventually they'll get around to fat old white guy injineers!]

[JR: Thanks for getting my BP up on a snowy morning. Now I have to go shovel some of Mother Nature's latest joke. A blizzard for Halloween. Tricks on us!]

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