Good
morning to you, today is Tuesday, February 21, 2012, and I am your humble host,
the sultan of satire, the purveyor of non-pertinent information and as always the
troublemaker extraordinaire and I am coming to you recorded from the Eagle’s
nest here at wake up central with news you can’t use here on the Tuesday edition
of The Morning Wake Up Call.
Financial
Markets
were closed due to Presidents Day
Victoria Secrets Model Quit Over Faith
On Monday
evening’s episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn interviewed former
Victoria’s Secret model Kylie Bisutti, who quit a coveted modeling job with the
mega-lingerie purveyor over concerns the role compromised her Christian faith.
She
claims that even though it seems she gave up everything, all the publicity
generated from her decision has actually helped, rather than hurt her career.
Glenn
opened the segment by asking Bisutti how she came about finding her faith.
Bisutti, who
grew up in Las Vegas — a town obviously know best for its “sins” — said that
she started going to church only once she was in high school and that she
wasn’t baptized until she was age 16. It was a school friend who introduced the
budding model to faith and the Lord. Bisutti told Glenn that her mother, and
later father, have also started to find God in recent years.
She
discussed the dark side of modeling, touching on a world filled with a pressure
to achieve “perfection” by losing weight, which, in many instances, leads to
debilitating eating disorders.
Bisutti claims
that even though she beat out 10,000 other aspiring Victoria’s Secret models,
she soon realized — especially after starting to read the Bible more —
that lingerie modeling was not conducive to “honoring God” or her new husband.
But
it wasn‘t until she started posing for men’s magazines like Maxim and FHM that Bisutti truly started to recoil
from her newfound occupation. “It really broke my heart” to pose in lingerie
that was not for women but instead intended for other men to see, she said.
She asserts
that she is “so much happier now” that she has “found” who she truly is.
For
Bisutti, happiness is “not in that world, but in what I am doing now.”
“My
faith is more important and I want to honor God,” she said. “I don’t feel like
I am honoring him when I am half-naked.”
Pay It Forward Kidney Donations
It all started
with a good Samaritan and a pay-it-forward attitude: the concept of a kidney
donation chain was born. In what is being heralded as proof of this donation
technique’s success, the world’s longest kidney donation chain recently ended
but not before it saved 30 lives.
In
August, Rick Ruzzamenti, 44, made the unprecedented decision to donate his
kidney to a stranger — an organ that many wait for five to 10 years before
finding a match. The Daily Mail reports that Ruzzamenti’s
kidney went to a
66-year-old man from New Jersey whose niece had wanted to donate, but she was
not a blood match. So what did she do? Turned around and donated her kidney to
a stranger who would be a match. And so the process went from one person to
another with 60 total donors and recipients — that’s 30 lives saved.
The last donation came from a 59-year-old woman to recipient
Donald Terry, 47, who did not have a relative to keep the chain going on his
behalf. According to a statement, this chain, along
with several others, started at Loyola University Medical Center. Of the 13
chains that began at Loyola, seven were started by employees of this medical
institution — five donated to strangers, two to acquaintances. It is reported
that Loyola is the only place in the world that has such a high density of
employees that have donated kidneys to non-relatives.
The First American Pope
Will American
Cardinal become the first American pope? This is a question that
found its way into observers’ minds of late, as the Archbishop of New
York, along with 21 of his fellow Catholic leaders, was elevated to cardinal in
Rome on Saturday.
As The Blaze mentioned over the weekend, some Italian
and American media outlets have been wondering if Dolan has, due to
his charismatic nature and appealing qualities, a chance
at becoming the church’s top clergy member.
“Dolan
is already being touted by some Vatican experts as a possible future
candidate to become the first American pope,” reported MSNBC over
the weekend. And and Sunday, ABC News produced a video report exploring this
very same subject:
As we noted in our previous report, Americans
are traditionally not considered papal contenders. After all, the
U.S. dominates in so many other areas that internationally, the notion of a
“Super Power Pope” is generally frowned upon.
Dolan,
himself, is aware that there is some papal buzz over his potential future
consideration (although ABC News calls it “a long shot”). When asked about the
issue on Saturday, he said, “Io non parlo inglese,“ which translates to ”I
don’t speak English.” Clearly, he’s not interested in commenting on the matter
— but that hasn’t stopped people from chattering about it.
Considering
that there’s no telling how long it will be until the next pope is sought out,
taking such a humble stance is probably best. While the odds are stacked
against Dolan, there’s no telling what the future could hold.
Quote of the Day
I am persuaded that a firm union is as
necessary to perpetuate our liberties as it is to make us respectable; and
experience will probably prove that the National Government will be as natural
a guardian of our freedom as the State Legislatures. – Alexander Hamilton
Useless Facts
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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