RSSFrom the Good News Department . . .
Gene Lalor | February 22, 2010
We tend to scrabble about for good news during trying times, and these are very trying times, so I’m delighted to share some of that good stuff for a change:
. Good News Item Numero Uno: Add this item to the many other signs that conscious Americans are finally waking up to our pretend president and his pretensions to the presidency: The Millennials are Jumping Ship!
I admit, not being a millennial, that I didn’t know the meaning of the word and discovered it refers to those Americans between 18 and 29. More importantly, a Pew survey shows they are abandoning Obama at a rapid clip.
That demographic joins many others just a year after Obamamania 
swept the planet, swept the Indie vote, and, of course, the Dem and Black votes. That last constituency is still firmly ensconced in Obama’s column but all the others are in various degrees of peril.
The Pew Research Center study “says that the Democrats’ advantage over Republicans with [the Millennials] has dramatically shrunk from a 32 point margin in 2008 to 14 points,” although the bulk of that Republican gain are “leaners.” Dems are still favored by Mils and the margins for Gen X-ers and Boomers are statistically insignificant: http://bit.ly/cF4qCW
All the numbers are a far cry from a year ago when Obamania was in full bloom.
As of now, should trends continue, the elections 9 months and 33 months from now may represent 1994 and 2000 reduxes, respectively–unless Republicans shoot themselves in their feet with internal dissension.
. Good News Item Numero Dos: “D.C. Archdiocese Ends Foster Care Program.” On its surface, that story would seem bad news for kids in need of foster care but surfaces are misleading.
The cause of the policy change is actually in the interests of children: “The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. has ended its 80-year tenure as a public foster care provider because of a same-sex marriage bill in the nation’s capital that allows children to be adopted by homosexual couples.” 
The transition of Catholic Charities’ foster care program to another agency was handled smoothly according to a Catholic spokesman in order to minimize the effects on the kids and foster families who still have various other agencies to pick up the slack.
Those other groups don’t have the moral compunction expressed by the moral “teaching of the Catholic Church, which says that only a man and a woman can be united in marriage and that together with their children they form a family:” http://bit.ly/aNTTzu
By no means does the Church’s abandonment of its long-standing involvement with foster care suggest that D.C. children are no longer at risk since homosexual couples will still be able to take in foster kids and even adopt them via the other capital agencies.
For further information on gay molestation of juveniles in their care, see an Accuracy in Media report, “Sexual Abuse and Homosexuals,” http://bit.ly/98yl18
That’s the bad news. The good news is that the archdiocese has asserted its basic, ineluctable principles in favor of the sanctity of marriage.
Liberals should get accustomed to Catholics refusing to abide by changing moral principles for when and if abortions are mandated in hospitals, the nation will witness wholesale closings of Catholic health care institutions for a similar belief, the sanctity of life.
Good News Item Numero Tres: As the corruption and lies in the scientific climate community head toward the level of farce, private enterprises are bailing before they get sucked further into the swirling whirlpool.
As the global warmist diehards such as Britain’s Dr. Phil Jones cling to their evaporating and preposterous anthropogenic hypotheses, more astute people are saying in effect, “We’re getting out while the getting’s (relatively) good.
Within a week, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change said he would leave the post for the private sector and three major U.S. corporations thumbed corporate noses at global warming. 
De Boer’s resignation after the climategate revelations last November and the Copenhagen fiasco in December was predictable to save whatever face he still had but the move by Caterpillar Inc., BP PLC, and ConocoPhillips was not.
The heavy equipment manufacturer and the two oil giants announced “they won’t renew their membership in the three-year-old U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a broad business-environmental coalition that had been instrumental in building support in Washington for capping emissions of greenhouse gases.”
Although none of them quite expressed their reasons this way, like the U.N.’s de Boer, those big guys don’t want to be around to pick up the pieces when the rest of the climate lie comes crashing down.
Even major corporations don’t readily turn their backs, or thumb noses, at presidents of the United States who had recruited them to the climate cause so they made their announcements in typical corporate-ese, not denouncing the cause but saying they would go their separate ways:
“Spokesmen for ConocoPhillips and BP said the companies still support legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, but believe they can accomplish more working outside USCAP’s umbrella. Caterpillar said it plans to focus on commercializing green technologies:” http://bit.ly/b92Cku
Translation: Leave us alone, we refuse to continue playing Washington and United Nations’ games.
There’s hope and good news in them thar hills when strong inroads are being made by Republicans, when respected institutions such as the D.C. archdiocese refuses to abandon principles, and when corporations in capitalistic societies politely advise a president to stick his USCAP where the sun don’t shine.
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