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Buckeye Back Road Tour:<\/strong> \u00a0 We stopped in tiny Dunkinsville, Ohio, early this morning. \u00a0 There was a church with a yard sign out front that had a flag and the words: God Bless America<\/strong>. \u00a0 I left a flyer for the pastor and wrote on the top: \u00a0 God Bless America (and the rest of the world, too<\/strong>)… \u00a0 We then went to Mass at Holy Trinity Church in West Union where, wouldn’t you know, the \u00a0opening song was, well, This Is My Song<\/em>. \u00a0 A few lines: \u00a0 “This is my home, the country where my heart is; Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine; But other hearts in other lands are beating, With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.” \u00a0 Referencing the song, Holy Trinity Pastor Fr. Ted Kosse said that maybe we “have this immigration thing wrong.” \u00a0 That is, “home is home,” he continued, and seldom do people want to leave their home for another land. \u00a0 It’s just that the poverty is often so extreme that people are forced to go elsewhere just to feed their children, etc. \u00a0 (At one point, our research took us to the border town of Juarez, Mexico, where 200,000 people live in cobbled together shacks with no running water, no electricity and the adults are making a mere $3 a shift<\/em> at multi-national factories.) \u00a0 Fr. Kosse suggested we mobilize \u00a0many humanitarian initiatives \u00a0into some of these other countries to help make them as sustainable as possible, so people didn’t have to leave their homes. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Several \u00a0days earlier during another church service, Fr. Kosse noted that we are currently spending $2 billion dollars a week on the Iraq War. \u00a0 And he said he thought this money could be much better spent on water purification systems for the Third World, on food for those starving in the Third World, etc. \u00a0 Today he said our policy on Iraq exudes “arrogance.” \u00a0 That is, the U.S. seems to be erroneously saying with it’s actions that it is “working on God’s behalf to take care of the globe.” \u00a0 What’s more, \u00a0Fr. Kosse said to the Iraq culture (and others in the Middle East) our blatant sexuality and blatant greed are the anti-thesis of their cultural moores; yet these things \u00a0are now invading, and tremendously influencing, some Iraqis. \u00a0 Fr. Kosse also added that \u00a0the U.S. \u00a0also displays “blatant selectivity.” \u00a0 He pointed to China and their human rights abuses and said we wouldn’t take them on over it because China is a “big boy.” \u00a0 However, we’re not afraid to take on smaller countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Road Tour: \u00a0 We stopped in tiny Dunkinsville, Ohio, early this morning. \u00a0 There was a church with a yard sign out front that had a flag and the words: God Bless America. \u00a0 I left a flyer …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}