Saint Robert Meachem, A Modern Day Saint Dismas, the Good Thief

New Orleans Saint Robert Meachem (# 17) is a Modern Day "Saint Dismas," the Saint who is known as the "Good Thief."

Saint Dismas' story can be found at http://www.saintsforsinners.com/

If he were alive today, he would be New Orleans Saint Robert Meachem, a saint who recovers fumbles for touchdowns, makes interceptions, and is fantastic thieving NFL athlete! His 53 yard touchdown catch with less than 2 minutes left to play in the game against the Washington Redskins had all of the New Orleans Saints fans in the world joyous!

The image of our Saint Dismas the Good Thief medallion is featured at left, (click the image to enlarge) and includes a fleur-de-lis tattoo on his chest, all available through SaintsforSinners.

We're trying to present an image of Saint Dismas as a token image of New Orleans Saint Robert Meachem.

Robert's play today, December 6, 2009, where he stole the ball from the Washington Redskins, and scored a touchdown was one of the most excellent plays in the history of the National Football League (NFL).

Congratulations, New Orleans Saint Robert Meachem; you are, like Saint Dismas, truly a "Good Thief!"

Make that "Great Thief!" And a great Saint!

WHODAT!?

Saint Nicholas of Myra's Feast Day, December 6th

Today is the Feast Day of Saint Nicholas of Myra, the patron of merchants. Saint Nicholas' image is featured to the left, as is his story. Click the image to enlarge.

His medal depicts Saint

Nicholas holding 3 gold balls and there are also 3 boys, cooking in a barrel of oil.

Don't fret; Saint Nicholas saved the 3 boys and went on to become a beloved saint.

Happy Saint Nicholas of Myra (that's where he is from) Day from all of us at www.SaintsforSinners.com, the home of imported Italain Saint Medallions hand-painted in New Orleans!

"A Divine Gift!"

IN HONOR OF SAINT NICHOLAS: STORES SELLING HAND-PAINTED ITALIAN SAINTSFORSINNERS SAINT MEDALLIONS

Saint Nicholas of Myra, Patron Saint of Merchants is our Guest Blogger today.... Today, December 6th, is Saint Nicholas' Feast Day. His story can be found at www.SaintsforSinners.com.

Hello, my name is saint Nicholas of Myra, not to be confused with the fat guy, "Jolly Saint Nick."

I asked the folks at www.SaintsforSinners.com to let me offer a big thank you to all of our retailers, past and present.

As the patron of Merchants, I am the saint who cajoles you into ordering the hand-painted medals from SaintsforSinners.

Our very first store that carried the Original SaintsforSinners cards and medals was located in the French Quarter on Royal Street and was called:

1. The Living Room

It later became known as Pamela's Living Room and we are sorry to report that the store went out of business a few months ago, due to the slow economy. Our medals sold briskly and they were the store's best seller, but the revenue gained from the sale of our medals was not enough to sustain their boutique. We were sorry to see the store close, and we were also very disappointed to learn that:

2. Shine Spa, another French Quarter shop on Conti Street that was carrying our medals, also closed down.

Fortunately other French Quarter shops are currently and actively selling our medals. They are:

3. Feet First, located on Royal Street;

4. Yesteryears, in the heart of Bourbon Street;

5. Ragin' Daisy's, located in the lower Quarter on a corner near the lively French Market;

6. Feet First has another location, located in Uptown New Orleans on Magazine Street, and it also offers our medals.

Another great store in the French Quarter, 7. "Plum," carried our medals for many years. Plum's owner, Dannal Perry, has a good eye for unique items and her store is fun to visit.

Other Uptown Boutiques actively selling our medals are:

8. Jean Therapy on Magazine Street, near the Jefferson Street intersection.

Jean Therapy also offers our medals at their store (9.) in One Canal Place and also 0n Canal Street, 10. Jean Therapy for Kids

Jean Therapy is also located in (11.) Lakeside Mall and (12.) Baton Rouge

Another Baton Rouge Boutique offering our medals is 13. Ted & Daisy's, located in the LSU area.

The 14. Cyprus Medetarian Prayer Center in Baton Rouge also sells our saint medals. In the University area near Tulane and Loyola, 15. Sweet Pea sells SaintsforSinners medals, as does

16. SaveNola, on the first floor of JAX Brewery on Decatur Street.

Crowley's 17. Louisiana Church Interiors also sells our designs, as does the

18. Immaculate Heart Book Store in Alexandria and

19. T Fig in Lake Charles.

20. Blink in the Riverwalk in New Orleans, sells our medals too.

In New York City, the trendy 21. 22. 23. Selima Optique Boutique sells our medals in all 3 of their locations.

In Croton on the Hudson, visit 24. Sherwood Forest Designs to find our medals and if you're out in the Hamptons on Long Island, try

25. The Pharmacy in East Hampton, to see some of our medals.

Over on another continent, if you are in Tokyo, Japan,

26. The Espresso Bar briskly sells our medallions.

Back in America, and on the other side of the country,

27. The Holy Family Book Store in Pasadena, California, is selling SaintsforSinners designs,

as does 28. Zimmer's in in the Valley near Tolouca Lake.

Back on the Bayou, 29. The Jefferson House

and 30. Blue Roof Denim are selling our medals on the Northshore near Covington and Mandeville.

If you go to the beach in Asbury Park, New Jersey, check out our medals on 31. Pavillion One

Another beachy locale selling our medals is

32. Bella Beach in Destin Florida.

Up in Oklahoma, try 33. The Clover Leaf, and when in Little Rock, try

34. Liza's Skin Care and

35. Box Turtle

36. Duque & Duque Spa & Boutique offered our medals in their store in Seattle, Washington.

37. Light Years Jewelry in Memphis

38. Maggie's Pharm

39. Pursue Good STUFF, like our medals, in Kansas City sells our medals.

40. InBetweenz in Lafayette, Louisiana sold our medals but we are sorry to report that they have closed down their shop.

41. Art and Soul

42. Small Town Music

43. Little Miss Muffin in Lakeview and

44. Little Miss Muffin in Old Metairie sell lots of our medals!

We also sell on 45. The Internet at www.saintsforsinners.com

Once a month we sell our medallions at

46. The Harrison Avenue Market in Lakeview

47. The Gretna Festival invites us to sell our medals during their annual music extravaganza.

Athens Ohio's 48. Artifacts sells the medallions 49. Happy Hands in Baton Rouge 50. Eaton's Church Supply in Moussouri sells the medals and the

51. Paradise Cafe, in Metairie, near Barnes & Noble, sells our medals. The owner, Linda is a great cook and she feeds us when we visit!

Healing Saints on the SaintsforSinners Sterling Silver Bracelets

We are excited to begin offering sterling silver toggle clasp bracelets with our hand-painted Italian Saint medallions.

One of the first bracelets we designed is featured, at left, and it included a collection of the "healing saints," Padre Pio, Gabriel the Arch Angel, Raphael the Arch Angel, Agatha, Peregrine and the Virgin Mary on the Miraculous Medal. Click on the medals to see a larger image.

The basic bracelet designs were conceived by SaintsforSinners but the final and overall creation is made by the person ordering the bracelet.

We enjoyed matching all the saints featured above and the lady who envisioned the color scheme had a great vision.

We were happy to help her learn more about the saints that would fit well on the healing bracelet and we added the Arch Angel Raphael, the saint known for creating "happy meetings" as a surprise gift.

For information about pricing and turnaround times, please call SaintsforSinners at 504.482.2467.

Writing for Mike Fratello

A long, long, time ago, I can still remember how the tale began ....

It was after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when I was living in a tiny apartment on Bayou Saint John in New Orleans.

A lady named Paige and her Mom, Rosemary, had been ordering medals and we got to "know" each other through e mailing and our work at www.SaintsforSinners.com

Paige was involved in an Akron, Ohio Hospital fund raiser for kids with cancer called Denim and Diamonds.

She asked if we (SaintsforSinners) would be willing to contribute some items for the Silent Auction. Of course, we said yes, and somehow, through luck or just because my cousin Sue is a gem, we also got my dear cousin Sue to help us design beautiful one-of-a-kind SaintsforSinners necklaces.

Sue, being from eastern Long Island, is a lover of the water and the ocean and she collects beach glass. She offered to weave (Saint Anastasia, patron of weavers must have been lurking nearby) some of her beach glass into a SaintsforSinners medals and create a unique necklace.

So, that's what she did and the result was that we were able to raise a lot of money for the fund raiser, which was great!

Somewhere along the line, some people involved with the fund raiser also asked if we could do something special for the sports broadcaster and then Memphis Grizzlies coach, Mike Fratello, because Mike was helping with the fund raiser too.

Of course, being the celebrity hound he tends to be, the founder of SaintsforSinners said yes!

We decided to write a new story about Saint Sebastian, the patron of athletes, for Coach Fratello.

The Grizzlies were losing games and not doing very well in the official NBA standings.

So, we got to thinking and questioning whether winning or losing really mattered, and we concluded it did not.

What really, truly matters in athletics, and life, is how the "game" is played.

The Grizzlies were struggling but Coach Fratello was still working hard and also dedicating his free time to help raise money for a hospital dedicated to helping kids with cancer.

So, we wrote a new story about saint Sebastian, the patron of athletes, and we hid a story within the story that was a message to Mike Fratello, the man.

We reminded him that the things that were most important were playing the game with a sense of fair play and integrity, and working as team.

We managed to convey that what an athlete does off the field, like say, working to raise needed funds for hospitals, is also part of the "big equation."

And we sent our saint Sebastian medal package for Mike off to Akron, Ohio.

We did harbor a hope that we might hear from Mike Fratello and somehow get him on the SaintsforSinners "Hall of Fame-ous," and although we did hear back from Mike's friends, the Hall of Fame inclusion was not meant to be.

That was OK, though, because Sue and SaintsforSinners made a nice contribution to the Denim and Diamonds Fund Raiser and that was the most important thing.

Time passed (that's what it does, like it or not).

We moved out of our little apartment and back into a brand new home in the exact same spot where our old home had been bulldozed away after the flood.

2009 arrived and a phone call came in to SaintsforSinners. It was from a lady named Jessica and she wanted medals for a boys football team at Our Lady Mount Carmel in Indiana.

We offered a nice discount and went about preparing the medal packages for the boys.

Thanks to our work for Denim and Diamonds and Mike Fratello, our story was already written and with a few quick edits, and with some time spent carefully painting Saint Sebastian medals, we had the Saint Sebastian medal packages prepared and ready and off they went to Indiana.

Weeks went by and we did not hear from the folks in Indiana. We wrongly concluded that perhaps the medals were not up-to-par and were disappointed.

Time kept marching and December 3, 2009 arrived.

Late in the day, SaintsforSinners received an e mail from the coach of the boys football team in Indiana.

In it, he thanked us and also Jessica, for "finding" us. He said that the medals and the story were "perfect" and reinforced the integral themes about "good sportsmanship," which is the most important thing to learn when beginning to play sports of any kind.

The coach also included a nice picture of all the boys proudly wearing their saint Sebastian medals. It's included up above (click on it to see a larger image) and that photo of those boys wearing our medal designs will go up on our Hall of Fame-ous soon, right between Paula Deen and Bruce Springsteen. Bruce and Paula should be proud to be in their company.

SaintSational Bracelets from www.SaintsforSinners.com

Saints for da Saints! WHODAT!?

We have sterling silver toggle clasp bracelets with familiar old age Saints ready to cheer on the New Orleans Saints on their journey to Super Bowl XLIV!

We will be posting pictures of the bracelets soon, but for now, we are trying to send out the medals and bracelet on the same day they are ordered, and we have been successful, thus far. We also deliver locally!

Some of the SaintSationals we are offering:

1. Saint Anthony, Finding the way the Super Bowl;

2. Saint Jude, Guiding Coach Payton with Difficult Plays in Impossible Siruations....

3. Our Lady of Prompt Succor, proving Quick Help when needed;

4. Saint Dismas, the "Good Thief," helping the Saints Recover Fumbles and Make Interceptions;

5. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Constantly Helping the New Orleans Saints;

6. Saint Joan of Arc, Crusading with the Saints on their Super Bowl run!

We have many other Imported Italian Saints Hand-Painted in New Orleans to help our team, and also welcome your Saintly instructions for clever ways to guide the New Orleans Saints to Super Bowl XLIV.

Call 504.239.3143 for inspiration, your, ours, or both!

WHODAT?!

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying. - Robert Louis Stevenson

CELESTIAL SAINTS AND ANGELS BEGIN FOLLOWING NFL FOOTBALL

Arch Angel Gabriel, the "Saint" invoked when praying for "Good News," held an Omniscience ( Known on Earth as a "Press Conference" ) in Heaven today, confirming an ongoing rumor that several Saints and Angels have formed an Ad Hoc Club, "The Celestials," a group in Heaven that follows and celebrates the National Football League's New Orleans Saints and their Perfect 2009-2010 Season.

Asked whether the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit were involved, Gabriel replied, "The Holy Spirit and Our Lady were both deciding forces in establishing the new club and are very active members."

Other members of The Celestials are, in no particular order:

* Our Lady of Perpetual Succor, who is providing "Constant Help" to the New Orleans Saints, according to the Omniscience. She said "Our Lady of Prompt Succor is another dedicated member, which was not too surprising since she is the Patroness of New Orleans.

* Saint Dismas, also affectionately known as the "Good Thief," who has been aiding "Special Teams" as they recover fumbles and make interceptions. Saint Dismas said "It's wonderful to be stealing out in the open again, without having to worry about that dang cross! The appreciation for the Saintly football thievery has been unheralded." "I can't wait to rip off Tom Brady's helmet a few times."

* Saint Jude Thaddaeus, who signed up to assist New Orleans Saints Football Coach Sean Payton with "Difficult Situations" and "Impossible Plays." Jude said he has had light duty thus far, but expects things to get busy when "Some Patriots visit the Saints in the Superdome."

* Saint Joan of Arc, who is leading a crusade in Heaven much like her battles in her home town "back-in-the-day," the country now known as "France." Joan said, "It's thrilling to get people all riled up again. I'm not saying Heaven's not fun, because it definitely is, but it's kinda cool to be out and about with the people again, too."

* Saint Christopher, the saint "banished by the Vatican in 1969," who is guiding the New Orleans Saints as they travel near and far, and from goal post to goal post. When asked about whether he is even truly a Saint, Chris replied, "I'm a Saint alright and I do go down to Purgatory to visit with the bonehead Pope who tried to kick me out of Heaven." He quickly added, "But, I'm not bitter!"

Numerous other Saints and Angels are members of The Celestials, but did not reply in time to be included in this Omniscience.

To honor and wear your favorite member of The Celestials, visit http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ and collect them all, and remember that "the saints are the sinners who keep on trying."

( The Infant of Prague and Saint Expedite contributed to this Omniscience )

WHO DAT!

Tips for Managing the In-Laws, by Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Having Trouble Managing or dreading dealing with the "In-Laws" during the upcoming Holidays? Saint Elizabeth of Hungary feels your pain and can help you grin and bear it!

Way before Zsa Zsa Gabor was disqualified in the Miss Hungary Beauty Contest in 1936, the people of Hungary had Elizabeth of Hungary as their role model.

Elizabeth was born in the 13th Century, and, according to the http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ story about her, (featured in its entirety, at left) her parents went about arranging her future marriage when she was a mere 4 years old!

Although that plan did not work out, Elizabeth still married early, became Queen, had 3 kids and lived a happy life. That is, until her husband died while he was on a crusade. It was then that things got difficult with the in-laws.

Elizabeth's brother-in-law, Henry, kicked Elizabeth out of her castle, along with her 3 kids, one of whom was the rightful heir to the throne!

She persevered, however, and soon becme part of a Franciscan Order where she worked hard to help the poor, teaching them how to fend for themselves in difficult times. She did, after all, have first-hand knowledge of that, "thanks" to her mean old brother-in-law, Henry.

Sadly, she wound up with another loser, Conrad of Marzburg, who was violent and cruel, and beat her mercilessly..

But Elizabeth of Hungary still managed to practice what is sometimes called "mindfulness" these days, (loosely defined here as a principle, Buddhist in origin, that is sort of like repeating a mantra that says "mind over matter") and again persevered through her hardships.

Elizabeth died at the young age of 24. She went on the fast track and became a saint only four years later.

Today, November 17th, is Saint Elizabeth of Hungary's "Feast Day," a day to celebrate her life, her virtue, and her example.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary asks all of us, who may be grousing about the Holidays and the in-laws, to just "suck it up and deal," adding, "If your in-laws may be annoying to you, you're probably annoying to them too. Call it a wash!" Saint Elizabeth reminds us to "rise above other peoples' differences that seem irksome, and celebrate differences instead!"

FAIRGROUNDS RACING ....

In just a few days, (Friday, November 6, 2009, to be exact!) the New Orleans Fairgrounds Race Course http://www.FairGroundsRaceCourse.com will begin its Annual Meet for 2009-2010.

We are excited to announce that Apprentice Jockey Dustin Dugas, whose racing helmet is featured at left, (with a Saint Joseph medal dangling on it) will be racing in New Orleans again this season.

In the very first race, Dustin will be riding "She Said What," a 2 year-old maiden bred and owned by Adele B. Dilschneider, a person who is most likely of German descent, just like the founder of SaintsforSinners, Rob Clemenz.

She Said What is trained by A. M. Stall, Jr., and this Maiden Claiming race will be a great contest to ring in the new racing season!

Because Dustin is our favorite Jockey we will be betting on She Said What in this inaugural race at the Fairgrounds.

http://www.SaintsforSinners.com has been designing special Saint George (Saint George is the patron saint of horses) medallions and hopes to have some of the other jockeys wearing them on their helmets for safety and good luck.

To be fair, we should acknowledge that it was good ole Dustin Dugas who started the habit of wearing a saint medallion on his helmet but we're going to see if we can turn it into a trend.... A jockey thing!

We can't wait to get to the New Orleans Fairgrounds Race Course this Friday, November 6, 2009, at 1:00 P.M. to get this party started. Good luck, Dustin. SaintsforSinners wishes you a safe, prosperous, spectacular season at the Fairgrounds.

Catholic Analysis: The Irony of Inertia

Catholic Analysis: The Irony of Inertia

THIS ONE'S FOR RUSTY ... A LOOK AT SAINT CECILIA

Rusty took the www.SaintsforSinners.com "Who's Your Saint Quiz" today and I thought Saint Cecilia, patron of Musicians and Music Lovers, was the perfect fit.

He asked for a photo so here she is, Rusty, featured at left. Thanks for taking the quiz and visiting www.SaintsforSinners.com

OUR MAGICAL NIGHT AT GIANTS STADIUM with BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band ended an era with their final performance at Giants Stadium on Friday, October 9th.

We were honored to be invited backstage for food and drinks and "Meet and Greets" with the band and others.

I was with attorney http://www.gjtbs.com/ Rick Duplantier (featured, at left, far right), tru TV's http://www.trutv.com/ Senior Vice-President of Operations, Rob Pumo, and Vanessa Procopio, the Senior Film Editor for Showtime Television's http://www.sho.com/ outstanding Docu-Series, "Brick City."

It was, by far, the best display of talent, I have ever had the privilege to see and hear. I'm talking about Bruce and the E Street Band, not my accomplished pals!

How we found ourselves in the thick of it all was through the kindness and generosity of my friend, Soozie Tyrell, http://www.soozietyrell.com/ the violinist and vocalist for the E Street Band.

[ ASIDE: Soozie Tyrell's wonderful album "White Lines" is available on her web site and even has a song about a saint, called "Ste. Genevieve." It is a hauntingly beautiful song about a river that floods and how the people are affected who live nearby, choosing to endure the hardship of loss rather than just walk away from the land they call "home." In other words, in 2003, Soozie Tyrell prophetically wrote an anthem of inspiration for all the people who lost their homes and livelihood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing flood of the great city of New Orleans, Louisiana in August, 2005.]

Now, back to our story.... Thanks to Huffington Post www.HuffingtonPost.com/holly-cara-price writer Holly Cara Price's marvellously meticulous maneuvering through the maze of Giants Stadium's procedures and precautions, we were able to get our tickets and passes to enter the Stadium. My briefcase of hand-painted red and black http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ Holy Spirit medallions, however, was not so lucky: "NO BAGS ALLOWED!" That was a huge disappointment because the 3 readers of this Blog (you know, me, myself, and I) are all pretty much very "into" hand-painted saint medallions from http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ .

I had decided to pass out Holy Spirit medals because the Holy Spirit seems to me, to represent rebirth and renewal. And, although Giants Stadium will be hit by the wrecking ball soon, its Spirit will always endure, very much like a "spirit in the night (all night)." We painted them all red and black because they looked great and it was not too difficult to get dozens of them ready to be given away.

Fortunately, Holly once again made things work out and like a twinkle of the nose of "Samantha" on "Bewitched," Holly fixed everything and Holly, Roy Bittan's wife Susie, and I walked back into the stadium with my briefcase filled with medallions. As we walked, we looked at the Holy Spirit medals and also at the Backstage Passes and we all sort of stopped dead in our tracks... Both the medals I brought from New Orleans and the Backstage Passes were designed almost identically in red and black with a bird in the middle! That was like a message from the Holy Spirit Himself! It was time to soar high and have some fun!

Since Rick and I are New Orleanians, the first place we dragged Rob and Vanessa to, was, yes..., the bar! My friend Rob and Rick noted that a guy named Pat Riley was a few feet away. (This "Riley" guy is apparently involved with the sport of basketball.) E Street Guitarist Nils Lofgren was getting mobbed and patiently endured having his picture taken approximately 3 million times, it seemed. After we got our drinks, it was time to investigate our surroundings.

Across the hall was the swanky dining area for the crew and we soon found out that our triangular red and black passes with the bird in the middle allowed us entry. It was there that I had the pleasure of officially meeting E Street Keyboarder Charlie Giordano. Charlie became a member of the E Street Band after the untimely passing of musician Danny Federeci. http://www.dannyfund.org/ When I introduced myself as Rob from SaintsforSinners in New Orleans, Charlie instinctively reached into his shirt to show me he was still wearing the Saint Joseph medal he bought many months ago. Of course, it was old and tired looking to me, but it obviously still had its power since it has stayed on Charlie for a very long time. [ MEMO TO SELF: Paint a new Saint Joseph medal for Charlie! ]

While we were having a snack, Rick got kind of wispy because three feet away from him was BravoTV's www.Bravotv.com/top-chef Top Chef Tom Colicchio. That's Rick's favorite show! A short while later, Rick found his courage (it may have been Jack Daniels who found it?) and had a friendly chat with him and their photos taken together. After meeting Tom Colicchio, I fully understand the meaning of the phrase "piercing blue eyes."

Later, we met with Soozie, Susie, and Holly for photos and I gave Soozie medals for the band. Unfortunately, I goofed with the packaging and a lot of them got stuck together. So, a lesson was learned and next time I'm doing a distribution (like I do every year on Mardi Gras Day, for instance), the medals and chains will be boxed, like back-in-day when I gave the medal packages to Patti Scialfa at the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Reviewing Bruce's last performance at Giants Stadium seems like a task I am not eloquent enough to describe. It was pure magic from start to finish. The crowd was always involved and I hope to add some fantastic streaming video of the crowd, if I can just figure out how to do that! I'll also be adding lots of photos, either to the Blog, the http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ web site, or both (probably both). It was a fantastic night and I'm grateful to Soozie, Holly, Charlie, Susie and all the others who who made it such a special and memorable time for us. Oh, what a night!

Saint Hugh of Lincoln Recommends Dawn Dishwasher Liquid

http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ representative Saint Hugh of Lincoln, has put out a plea, "Please use Dawn Dishwasher Liquid and by doing so, you will Save Ducks and other Fowl, like Ugly Ducklings that turn into Swans."

Known as the patron of Swans, and sick children, Hugh also urged parents to make sure their kids wash their hands many times a day, to help curtail germs and also, a nasty little bug called the "Swine Flu."

Saint Hugh of Lincoln first got on board as a supporter of Dawn Dish Washing Liquid, in 1989, when he learned that Dawn was very effective in saving thousands of birds, ducks, and other creatures after they were coated with oil and debris from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, that also killed thousands of poor animals. When he learned that the makers of Dawn will donate $ 1.00 each time a person buys a bottle of Dawn and goes to http://www.dawnsaveswildlife.com/ and enters some numbers from the bottle at it, he felt that that was a good reason to support Dawn. According to Andrew Adam Newman, www.AndrewAdamNewman.com a guy who writes well and covers issues about Advertising at The New York Times, www.nytimes.com the fund raising effort has already brought in nearly $ 90,000.

Hugh says that Dawn's parent company, Proctor & Gamble, is, although "not exactly the greatest thing since sliced bread, they are definitely very generous and steadfast in their work to help ducks survive after being stricken with oil." Hugh knew that Proctor & Gamble conducted tests on animals and this put him in a dilemma where he was asking himself, "Self, should I stay or should I go with Dawn?" His answers came from near and far.

Hugh's friend at http://www.saintsforsinners.com/, Saint Francis of Assisi, is a saint who is really into animals and ecology and "Mother Earth" and "Sister Moon" lingo, so he called on him and they had a chat. Afterward, Francis sent Hugh down to observe Kathy Guillermo, who is a VP at PETA www.peta.org and works in the animal laboratory investigations wing. Hugh heard Kathy say "Anything a company does to help animals, we applaud." She added that she "may have issues with their policies in their entirety," but "in any case they're helping." So Hugh decided to get behind the fund-raising efforts and encourage people to buy Dawn Dish Washing Liquid from this day forward. Plus, he said, it's kind of fun to sing "Dawn de dawn dawn!" and that seems to happen a lot when I wash dishes from my last supper.

There's a New Kid in Town and her name is Melanie Oudin from Marietta, Georgia

The 17 year-old United States Tennis Pro Melanie Oudin has once again, proven, there's a new kid in town at the United States Open.

Melanie reached her first U S Open Quarterfinal by beating Russia's Nadia Petrova (1-6, 7-6, 6-3) today, September 7, 2009.

According to USTA tennis legend Mary Carullo, Oudin is the "most wanted" tennis player when it comes to media interviews at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York.

The www.SaintsforSinners.com Blog you are reading now was way ahead of the popularity swirl and first posted a post about Melanie Oudin on June 27, 2009, when it let the public know that Saintly Twins Cosmos & Damien were traveling by bus to London to watch Melanie play at Wimbledon. Cosmos & Damien also noted that Melanie is a twin and her twin sister's name is Katherine. We saw Katherine watch Melanie win her match today in New York and then shed tears of joy because she was so proud of her sister. Cosmos & Damien are very fond of Katherine, as it is has been reported that Katherine has plans to be a medical Doctor like them, only not as surgeons but as an Obstetrician.

Tennis Commentator Mary Jo Fernandez says Melanie's success is a "Cinderella story continued."

All the saints at www.SaintsforSinners.com are cheering for Melanie to win the U S Open, and while its founder, Rob Clemenz, also hopes she wins her first Grand Slam, he can't help but wonder, "Have Melanie Oudin and her boyfriend Austin Smith, been reading this blog, and is Austin wearing one of our medals?

robclemenz@SaintsforSinners.com - Lifting Spirits, One Saint at a Time...: Move It On Over, Boudin, Melanie Oudin Also Declared Thoroughly Good!

robclemenz@SaintsforSinners.com - Lifting Spirits, One Saint at a Time...: Move It On Over, Boudin, Melanie Oudin Also Declared Thoroughly Good!