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They have insulted the pierogi and us!

U.S. Senator Patty Murray of Washington state can feel free to cheer for her team, and cow-tow politically even if she hates sports. She was noted in the press as ‘talking up a Seahawk-blue streak’ recently.

Unfortunately, she is politically stupid, besides being a liberal and elitist boob.

When you insult the food Mama and Busha made with loving hands in the homes of us Poles, Russians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russian, Slovaks, and Czechs, you insult many of your constituents, a large number of Americans, and the happy memories of many families. You insult a food that evokes those memories. You also insult the working class folks you love to tax to death with your agenda.

It has been said that the senses of taste and smell are the most powerful because they connect us in a unique and intimate way to the precious moments in our lives. I still long for those warm moments of helping my Busha (grandma) make pierogi.

In an article at seatlepi.com discussing the typical Super Bowl bet the following appeared:

[Senators] Murray and Cantwell have bet Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum that the Hawks will win. If they’re right, the payoff will be a pile of Clara’s Pittsburgh Pierogies and hot wings. Pierogies are basically an Eastern Europe type of filled ravioli popular in a gritty Rust Belt city that will remain anonymous.

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Murray’s office was less than impressed. “It’s so lame,” spokeswoman Alex Glass said, possibly with pierogi in cheek. “They know they’re going to lose so they know better than (to) offer anything good.”

So therefore, I call on all pierogi loving Americans to eat a big bunch of the best food on earth – pierogi – on Super Bowl Sunday (after Holy Mass of course).

I also call on the Canadian Village of Glendon, Alberta, home of the ‘World’s Largest Pyrogy’ to invade the State of Washington. The liberal elites will quickly capitulate, after which you can force them to eat pierogi, and then return to your peaceful existence.

Also, you may want to check out the blogs4God post on this. The pierogis pictured there look great – can I come over?

Everything Else

Good things are happening

I’ve been included in the blogroll over at Dappled Things and Bernhard Brandt’s A (little) Light from the East.

I’ve also been included in a blogs4God recap of Christian bloggers who have commented on the Book of Daniel noted at NBC dumps the Book of Daniel ‘de-spite’ Christian bloggers

In honor of my inclusion in Mr. Brandt’s blogroll I include below his poem Versus Populum (I am a firm believer in proper liturgical posture, i.e., posture that reflects our adoration of God).

Versus Populum

They have lied in the chapel and schoolhall.
They have practiced a terrible fraud.
For the priests have not turned to the people:
They instead turned their backs on their God.

We were told that the past was mistaken;
That to hold with Tradition was odd;
That the East was the source of all shadow,
And the West held the Son and our God.

But the Dayspring on High was not mocked by this;
He allowed them to flirt with this baud,
And revealed that the things done in secret
Were true sins against Man and his God.

And so those in the Nave and the Choirloft
Still await the day when we may laud
The return of the prodigal Fathers,
Who will turn with us back to our God.

–Bernard Brandt

Now that I am listed on these blogs, I will work even harder at writing something truly good. Then perhaps I will be considered for the coveted Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Let it be so! and they all answered, Amen!

Everything Else

Quartet Meme

I’m taking up the challange from Fr. Jim Tucker at Dappled Things.

Four Jobs I’ve had in My Life

1. Baskin Robbins Ice Cream scooper.
2. Produce stocker.
3. Business Manager in a Not for Profit organization.
4. Chief Enforcement Officer for a government agency.

Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over and Have

1. Kelly’s Heros
2. The Cardinal
3. Desire
4. Star Wars or Star Trek Movies (all)

Four Places I Have Lived

1. Buffalo, NY
2. Ogdensburg, NY
3. Albany, NY
4. Voorheesville, NY

Four TV Shows I Love to Watch
(I really do not watch TV so “love” doesn’t really apply)

1. Star Trek (Voyager, TNG, original)
2. Looney Tunes
3. Extreme Makeover —“ Home Edition
4. Good Morning America

Four Places I Have Been On Vacation

1. Miami, FL
2. Rzeszów, Poland
3. Honolulu, HI
4. Boise, ID

Four Websites I Visit Daily

1. The blogs in my blogroll
2. Buffalo News
3. Albany Times Union
4. Our Parish Website (bvmc.org)

Four Favorite Foods
(My favorite foods number in the hundreds, so here are four random ones)

1. Most anything Polish
2. Most anything Italian
3. Bread
4. Most any fish

Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now

1. Church
2. Poland, visiting my fiends.
3. Hosting a dinner party for friends and family
4. Caribbean

Four People Whom I Tag Next

Any blogger reading this may consider himself or herself tagged, with my compliments.

Anyone wondering what a meme is – look here…

Everything Else

Where didst my blog go?

My blog was down from 11pm on January 9th through about 2pm on the 10th.  It appears to have been a database issue. I feel like Mr. Spock – Captain, we have a database issue of unknown origin.

The folks at the Yahoo help center (who were very nice) directed me a special E-mail address for database issues (Yahoo uses MySql as the Word Press back end).  They have rebuilt the database.  I’m happy, problem solved (I hope).

Thank you Yahoo tech folks.

Poland - Polish - Polonia

Banner Photo – Morskie Oko

The photo I’ve included as a header banner is of Morskie Oko, an alpine mountain lake in the Tatra Mountains in Poland.

Morskie Oko is near Zakopane, Poland and is surrounded by spectacular mountain peaks rising over 1,000 meters above the lake’s surface.   The lake covers nearly 35 hectares (860 m by 560 m wide) and reaches a deapth of 50.8 m.  The lake is in pristine condition and the water is very clear to a great depth.  There are trout in the lake.

Morskie Oko literally means “Eye of the Sea” and legend says that it is connected via a subterranean passage with the Adriatic Sea.

The most captivating peak is Mnich, which means ‘the Monk’. The sharply pointed peak of Mnich resembles a monk’s hood.  At the left corner of the lake is Rysy, which at 2,499 m is the highest peak in the Polish Tatras.

Part of my family originated in the foothills of the Polish Tatras, and this area has always captivated me.  The people of this region are called Gorale.

About the Gorale (thank you mytarg.net)

The Gorals settled all around the Tatras, but were mainly concentrated in far northern Orava, Slovakia, the Podhale area of Poland (north side of the Tatras), in the Pieniny mountains to the east, and northern Spis county, Slovakia. They have always been a very independent people and loved their “Szlebodu” or freedom as they say it in their Goral dialect. In 1651 they rose up and ousted a particularly feared tyrant named Mikolaj Komorowski who ruled Zywiec, Nowy Targ and Zakopane.

Their ornate costumes of wool and flax are very regional in design, but the men’s trousers bare the kind of military stripes once common to Hungarian troops in Orava and Liptov counties in Slovakia.

During World War II the Goral were very much persecuted and killed by German troops. They responded by fighting the Nazis as partisan freedom fighters and kept the courier routes across the Tatras open.

The Goral are revered throughout the Slavic world — especially in Poland — for their wisdom, self-sufficient nature, work ethic, bravery, rich cultural dress, music, tales of the mountains, and hearty cuisine.   The majestic Tatra mountains are still where they feel most at home.

Everything Else

I’ve moved

I’ve reached a point in posting that has motivated me to move to a more expansive publishing tool. Therefore, I’ve moved my blog to my own website and have decided to use WordPress as a publishing tool.

Yahoo! Web Hosting Services has a great deal for pre-installed WordPress publishing. Yahoo! also offers Movable Type for the seriously serious (all included in the price).

I stayed up way too late last night moving everything and getting my set-up done. I am so much happier having made the transition now.

In addition to Deacon’s Blog, I will be doing a family and friends blog as well as a genealogy blog there.

I would like to acknowledge the Pontificator, Alvin Kimel. His beautiful blog site inspired me to move up the professional ladder as did MeanDean from the Heal Your Church Website blog and blogs4God.

The new addresses are:

www.konicki.com

or

www.bvmcdeacon.com

Media

Advertising kills the news

I’ve had to remove the Moreover newsfeed item from this page. Unfortunately, the advertisers Moreover uses to support their newsfeeds are not consistent with the message my blog tries to convey.

You would think that Moreover would look at the news items contained in a feed. If I were them, I would choose advertisers consistent with the output page’s theme. Why not choose companies consistent with my news feeds about Religion and Poland? I know Google can do this with their ad copy, I guess Moreover cannot.

It appears dating and illicit encounters are more important to the folks at Moreover. The bottom line rules their day.

On the good side, my pages may load faster!

To contact Moreover, feel free to visit their website at: http://w.moreover.com/.

Perspective, PNCC,

Welcome

Hello and welcome. I am a Catholic deacon. I grew up as a Roman Catholic, studied in a R.C. seminary for the priesthood, and eventually reached a point where I found the R.C. church to no longer be relevant or enriching to me. I based this decision on the vast changes in the Church that left it “protestantized” and inconsistent with the apostolic and Orthodox faith I once knew. This path of discovery is my personal faith journey.

I was searching for a church that proclaimed the word of God, was apostolic, had the seven sacraments, valid orders, a focus on the Eucharist – proclaiming the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, had traditional devotional opportunities, and was not intrusive into issues best left between a husband and wife. I found it in the PNCC, the Polish National Catholic Church. If you don’t know too much about the PNCC, I recommend that you check out the PNCC website. The Church has a very interesting history and a very relevant faith, especially for those who do not adhere to the idea of rules and regulations in non-essentials as established by the Roman Catholic Church.

Using this blog I will post my personal thoughts, share homily ideas, and perspectives on the ‘church’ today.

I do not speak on behalf of the PNCC. I do however have a voice in my church. This is something we all share as members of the PNCC. Everyone has a voice and a vote – even in electing candidates for Bishop!

I welcome you and hope you find something meaningful from my posts. If you do, it’s not because of me, but because of the power of the Holy Spirit in your life. I wish you all the best and pray that every blessing be yours.

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