In the latest installment of EWTN's The World Over Live, Raymond Arroyo interviewed Declan Ganley, Chairman of Libertas, an Irish political action committee that led the opposition to the so-called Lisbon Treaty defining a new constitution for the European Union. It is extraordinarily curious that Ireland was the only country that actually held a referendum on whether to ratify the treaty.

EyesofFaith has recently gone through some configuration changes. I have been working on upgrading the Drupal software and migrating the site to a different server. Please be patient while I work out the bugs. I upgraded to Drupal 5.8. So far, so good.

I also attempted an upgrade to Drupal 6.3. That. alas, was a no-go. There was some sort of incompatibility in embedded SQL statement syntax. I didn't have the stomach to try and track it down. Oh well. Maybe that will be fixed by Drupal 7.x.

Cookie can become insistent, and since I know the reason why, I respond by sending her outside to commune with nature. As she does her thing, I sometimes find I have a little time on my hands. This generally leads me to review blog posts, whereupon hangs this tale.

Fr. Robert A. Sirico, President of the Acton Institute, has posted a commentary on the dangers of making such strange bedfellows as government and religion in the field of charity. See "Charity on the Dole, Round Two." Note the "Round Two." Why revisit this topic? As Fr. Sirico says:

It's easier to do when you're not doubled over with laughter at the antics of Greg and Jennifer Willits, &c.

I feel quite certain that when President von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler the Reichschancellor in January of 1933, he had no intention of turning the reigns of power over to Hitler in the time it took the latter to stage the burning of the Reichstag the very next month. Just so, when politicians take such risks with the integrity of government, they very seldom envision the possible consequences of their actions.

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., asks "Just What Are Schools to Do?" in a recent posting. After recounting the history of creeping social engineering in the public school system, he writes,

As a former systems engineer, mathematician and overall software technical whiz, I got a really big kick out of "An Open Video to HP," by LinuxJournal Associate Editor, Shawn Powers. In the odd chance you happen to be a geek, too, I'm guessing you'll love this. You might love it even if you're not a geek — the visuals are classic.

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See Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection." Ancient bones. Ancient stones. I never know which is which. According to the article, the ancient stone tablet is for real. Does that mean the analysts are, as well? (All this talk about ancient stones reminds me of a song of Bob Dylan.) If Jesus were merely human, he'd be reeling from all the attacks. [Cf. Luke 4:28-30])