EUTHANASIA BILL VOTE PUSHED BACK BY LALONDE TO DECEMBER 2

A third reading and vote on a private member’s bill endorsing euthanasia in Canada has been postponed by its author until at least December 2, if not later.

Francine Lalonde, a Bloc Quebecois MP, has no hope of seeing the bill passed, which is a very good thing.

But she is determined to keep the issue alive through lobbying all the usual suspects, namely, Death Culture secularists in her own party, the New Democratic Party of Canada and the Liberal Party of Canada.

It is doubtful that she will receive any support for it from any Member of Parliament in the governing party, the so-called ‘Conservative’ Party of Canada.

For more articles on this issue of concern for the Concerned Citizens’ Coalition, please refer to the comments section below for a link to the LifeSiteNews.com website.

- Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, President

Concerned Citizens’ Coalition

 

LIVES OF WILLIAM HARTNELL: SANTIAGO CHILE: ‘My favorite is a very nice girl, the daughter of a Spaniard; she wishes to make a Christian of me,’ Susanna Bryant Dakin, page 12

‘Santiago is a large and populous city, and by far the handsomest that I have seen in South America.

‘It is situated in a very extensive plain, and surrounded by immense mountains on every side, which are eternally covered with snow.

‘The climate is so exceptionally mild that of the immense quantity of trees which grow in the country there are only about six species that lose their foliage in winter and the soil so fruitful and abundant that you have the finest fruits the greatest part of the year…

‘The girls are very pretty and partial to Englishmen, although they may happen to be rather pyebald. 

‘I visit very few families, and those I do visit are houses where my countrymen don’t frequent, and then I have all the fun to myself.

‘My favorite is a very nice girl, the daughter of a Spaniard; she wishes very much to make a Christian of me, and has given me a relic of her saint, which I am obliged to wear continually about my neck in order that I may be preserved from the Devil and his works.

‘I have got a very comfortable situation and live like a young rabit [sic] in a Clover field; if I had one or two of my old friends from England, I could easily make up my mind to take up my abode here for life — now for politics!

‘The famous Chile Squadron commanded by Lord Cochran sailed from Valparaiso [the seaport of Santiago, some ninety miles away] the 11th of last month in a very efficient state to make its second attack upon the shipping in Callao [the port of Lima].

‘Upwards of 1,000 foreign seamen form a part of the crews & his Lordship took 450 Congreve Rockets with him by means of which it is fully expected he will succeed; a few weeks will decide the contest, and then I may have a chance of seeing the famous capital of Peru.’

Hartnell’s expectations of an early visit to Lima were not fulfilled.

Lord Cochran’s rockets and other explosives proved to be worthless in the attack on Callao; one of his two fireships was useslessly expended, and his “secret war plan” adjudged by the Chilean government as too terrible and inhuman to be used against the Spaniards.

He was forced to stand by inactively for the time being.

Thomas Cochrane, tenth earl of Dundonald, was the brilliant naval strategist who already had tilted disastrously with the British admiralty.

Now, after court-martial in England, he was retained as chief in command of the Chilean fleet.

 

THE LIVES OF WILLIAM HARTNELL

Susanna Bryant Dakin

Stanford University Press

ADVENTURER: Page 12

SAINT SISOES: Wise Egyptian desert father, circa 429

NOVEMBER 8

ca. 429

St. Sisoes, desert father in Egypt, known for his wisdom and profound sense of the Divine Presence.

One day a hermit said to him, “Father, I always place myself in the presence of God.“

It would be much better,” the saint replied, “to put yourself below every creature.”

 

LIVES OF THE SAINTS

Father Augustine Kalberer, OSB

Saint Sisoes: November 8

Page 406

 

LA ROSA TRANSCULTURAL PEACE PROPAGANDA 429 – 2009

 

DANIEL AITKEN, CONVICTED MURDERER OF ADAN MERINO, FOUND GUILTY OF ALEX McLEAN’S MURDER

Daniel Aitken, convicted and presently incarcerated for the murder of Adan Merino, has now also been found guilty by a jury at the Vancouver Law Courts of the murder of another man, Alex McLean.

For some strange reason, in their newswire story from the mainland, the Victoria Times Colonist does not connect the dots on this Esquimalt murder story, not mentioning Mr. Aitken’s previous conviction for Mr. Merino’s murder.

The jury trial was likely held on the mainland to prevent them from being unduly swayed by Mr. Aitken’s history of violent crime in downtown Victoria, but surely readers should now be reminded of the  historical facts.   

For a link to that TC story, please refer to the comments section below. 

- Gregory Hartnell, President

Concerned Citizens’ Coalition

REPUBLIC OF CANADA: While Charles and Camilla nap at the Guvvy’s, VicNews endorses ‘an independent head of state accountable only to Canadians’

‘ROYAL’ VISIT USED AS PRETEXT TO DEBATE

ALTERNATIVES TO DECADENT ENGLISH MONARCHISM

As I write, they are now not far away at the Lieutenant Governor’s mansion (about a hundred metres away, in fact), that worthy being one Stephen Point, a Catholic Knight of Columbus and a former aboriginal chief who should know better than to play dress-up with this ‘lot.’ 

Refreshingly, the poor sad lady who delivers the freebie Victoria News brought the paper to our front door this afternoon with the startling and topical editorial advocating that Canada should endorse ‘an independent head of state accountable only to Canadians,’ and that could logically only mean that Charles Windsor would never become King of Canada after his mother Elizabeth dies.

The majority of Canadians have no use for a decadent foreign monarchy in this postmodern North American confederation of nation states (Quebec and the ‘rest of Canada’). 

The English royal family does not represent our  best Canadian or Quebecois interests, nor are we subject in any real way to these people.

 

A MESSAGE FROM THE ROCKLAND OUTSIDER

TO CHARLES AND CAMILLA WINDSOR:

Kindly do us all a favour, and leave as soon as you can.

And if you come back, which you are certainly most welcome to do, kindly pay for it yourselves.

You will appreciate it more and it will be good for your self-esteem.

You can certainly afford it and you don’t need my tax dollars, nor those of any other Canadian, to pretend that we are ’subject’ to you.

Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, Editor

CCC BLOG and LA ROSA

LIVES OF WILLIAM HARTNELL: ‘After riding and walking for a month, Hartnell reached Santiago in time to celebrate his twenty-first birthday,’ Susanna Bryant Dakin, page 11

Hartnell’s own life record commences with a journal entry on St. Patrick’s Day, 1819.

Leaving Buenos Aires accompanied by the “jolly guide Morales,” the Englishman proceeded overland more than a thousand miles, straight across the continent; sometimes by stage, as on the military road traversing the slowly rising pampas to Mendoza, stopping at posthouses en route, sometimes on horseback or even afoot, following the final perilous path across the Andes from the Argentine over into coastal Chile.

Being a methodical person with limited means, Hartnell kept careful account of expenses crossing the continent and of the length of each phase in his journey.

There are also prosaic little notes of happenings along the way; at San Bernardo he came on “a farmhouse full of pretty girls,” and at Cana de Poche he recorded, “Here I slept.”

After riding and walking for a month, Hartnell reached Santiago in time to celebrate his twenty-first birthday.

It was a solitary celebration, for he knew no one except his employer.

And Mr. Begg, aside from demanding long working hours and unremitting efficiency, showed no interest in the new bookkeeper.

Any social life, to Mr. Begg, seemed a waste of time, an impairment of business acumen.

He drove the young men who worked for him as he drove himself.

As recreation in this lonely life, Hartnell commenced to write long letters home, keeping a copybook.

The following is typical, to his older brother George:

‘I embrace the present favourable opportunity of giving you a good blowing up; what do you mean by this long silence, can’t you find time to write me a few lines, or does your charmer so entirely captivate your sensitive faculties that you have forgot your transatlantic brother?

[Lapsing into Spanish:] ‘I also have my Dulcinea, but she doesn’t make me forget those I used to be fond of, so I hope this will be the last time I must complain. . .

THE LIVES OF WILLIAM HARTNELL

Susanna Bryant Dakin

Stanford University Press, 1949

ADVENTURER: Page 11

 

CCC – LA ROSA TRANSCULTURAL PACIFICAN HISTORY 1849 – 2009

BLESSED IGNATIUS DELGADO + COMPANIONS, Spanish Dominican + martyrs in Vietnam, 1745 – 1861

NOVEMBER 6

1745 – 1861                                                     [O. P.]

Bl. Ignatius Delgado and companions, martyrs in Vietnam.

In the 350 years since Christianity began to flourish there through the zeal of the French Jesuit Alexandre Rhodes, Vietnam has been exceedingly rich in martyrs, and particularly during the fifty years just prior to the establishment of the French Protectorate in 1883, when an estimated 300,000 suffered death or extreme hardship as their homes and villages were destroyed.

After 1832, the Annamite king Minh Mang excluded all foreign missionaries and required native Christians to apostatize by trampling the cross underfoot.

His edict of 1839 required all his subjects to take a personal part in the erection of pagan temples “in every village, and to sacrifice at stated times in honor of ancestors and the spirits. . . . .

“After the publication of this edict, if there are still in our kingdom Christian rebels or those whose submission is but exterior. . . .

“We shall punish without pity both the incorrigible Christian and the negligent official.”

Up to the present, 117 Vietnam martyrs have been beatified.

The Dominicans to whom the vicariate of eastern Tonkin was confided in 1693 account for thirty of these, six being bishops and nine, lay tertiaries.

In 1883, Bl. Ignatius Delgado, vicar apostolic who had come from Spain as a young Dominican nearly fifty years before, was sentenced to be beheaded; but before the sentence was carried out he died of hunger, thirst, and exposure to the sun in a cage that was so small that he could not even stand up.

Among the laymen who suffered at the same time were three soldiers who after a year gave in and trampled on the cruxifix, but then recovered themselves and disvowed their action.

Two were cut in half with a saw and the third strangled.

They too are beatified: Augustine Huy, Nicholas Bui The, and Dominic Dat. 

LIVES OF THE SAINTS

Father Augustine Kalberer, O. S. B.

November 6: Blessed Ignatius Delgado and Companions

Pages 404 – 405

 

CCC – LA ROSA TRANSCULTURAL PEACE HISTORY 1745 – 2009

MARIA TERESA DE LA GUERRA + GUILLERMO HARTNELL HONOURED IN SALINAS: New John Cerney wall mural at Hartnell College

Native-born Californian Dona Maria Teresa Hartnell (nee, de la Guerra) and her English-born husband William Petty Hartnell are honoured in a new mural installed at Hartnell College in Salinas California.

Designed by popular Monterey peninsula artist John Cerney, the polychromatic wall mural pays tribute to the hija del pais, and her Lancastrian immigrant husband, who converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism as a condition of marriage to her.

The Hartnells started the first institute of higher learning in California at Rancho Alisal.

For links to articles on the installation of the new Cerney De la Guerra-Hartnell mural at Hartnell College in both English and Spanish, and to John Cerney’s website, please refer to the Comments section below.

- Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, President

Concerned Citizens’ Coalition

ALEXIS PUENTES PLAYS ELEMENT FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2009: Victoria tix: $20

Alexis Puentes, one of the Puentes Brothers, now bills himself as ‘ALEX CUBA.’

He is playing Element nightclub tomorrow evening in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, for 20 bucks.

For links to ‘Alex Cuba’’s Myspace page, the Element Nightclub website, and an Adrian Chamberlain article about this artist in the Times Colonist, please refer to the comments section below.

- ‘Goyo de la Rosa’

Editor, CCC BLOG and LA ROSA

PETER DEWOLF: ‘Any deficit from next year’s Olympics will be paid off by the people in this province’

THINK OF THE DEFICIT

FORGET THE VANOC BONUSES

 

Recently, the Times Colonist published a story about VANOC staff being in line for $30 million in bonuses.

I have a comment on VANOC’s proposed generosity and it could be construed as unfavourable.

It is a virtual certainty that the 2010 Olympics will incur a considerable deficit.

This being a real possibility, should not VANCOC make bonuses conditional on the financial outcome of the Games?

Perhaps the 1976 Olympics in Montreal should be kept in mind.

A huge deficit resulted from that event.

It was finally paid off 32 years later!

Any deficit from next year’s Olympics will be paid off by the people in this province.

Hopefully, it will not contain $30 million in bonuses.

 

Peter deWolf

Victoria

 

CCC BLOG reprint:

Victoria Times Colonist

‘Think of the deficit, forget the bonuses’

Thursday, November 5, 2009, Page A11

 

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