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Comment on From Outside, the U.S. Looks like a Bunch of Crazies by honjii

honjii — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:25:14 +0000

Honestpoet, you make a good point.

Comment on From Outside, the U.S. Looks like a Bunch of Crazies by honestpoet

honestpoet — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:01:05 +0000

Well, Honji, I live inside America, and it looks pretty crazy from the inside, too!

(But I still walk my dogs and meet plenty of nice, apparently non-crazy folks.)

Nice post.

Comment on The Truth Behind the Pope by coffeestainednews

coffeestainednews — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:35:16 +0000

By George you hit the nail right on the head!

Comment on I Have Underestimated George W. Bush by coffeestainednews

coffeestainednews — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:34:20 +0000

Keith Olbermann has ripped him apart, he has talked about your president like a dog. I keep trying people that man is drinking and snorting cocaine.

Comment on The Truth Behind the Pope by godwithus1

godwithus1 — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:58:15 +0000

i understand that there are problems with the system and that people have paid an awful price for the sins that clergy have committed. Maybe the papacy isn’t the best way to conduct God’s business on earth, but does that mean that there has been no good to come out of it?

Comment on The Truth Behind the Pope by Brad K

Brad K — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:25:47 +0000

No, no. Please, the Papacy isn’t organized around sex or child abuse or pedophilia. And it has nothing to do with following in Peter’s footsteps.

The Pope is like any business man - in business to stay in business. As Eric Idle expressed in “Nuns On The Run,” “Any time there is a deep, crying need, there is money to be made.”

Just look how over the years the Vatican keeps redefining their dogma. The Irish worship Brigid? Make her a saint, call her holiday ‘ground hog day’. Pagan’s celebrate Yule? Call it Christmas. Etc. The question in my mind is whether the Vatican will imprison the first aliens to land on Earth, as they did Galileo, or busily mimic all the alien’s religious festivals and ceremonies. I can see it now, change our week to 9 days, with a new festival every time the moon circles some planet on the other side of the galaxy.

And I like the observation that Leo Frankowski made in ‘Cross Time Engineer’ and the rest of the novels in the sequence - the church, by emphasizing celibacy among the clergy, perform what amounts to genetically killing the devoted, learned men. Only the inept, insincere, and deceitful, among the clergy, pass their genes to the next generation. Sounds like a wonderful plan to improve the world.

Comment on The Truth Behind the Pope by honjii

honjii — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:17:13 +0000

I bet those who have been victims of abuse by their priests probably think that was pretty harsh.

Comment on I Have Underestimated George W. Bush by Brad K

Brad K — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:14:00 +0000

This sounds almost like the good hearted but inept President Jimmy Carter’s pledge to wear blue jeans (i.e. work clothes) until the nation’s problems were fixed. The single biggest correction of problems in the Carter administration happened at the inauguration of Pres. Reagan.

Pres. Carter’s plan to dress in work clothes didn’t last long. I imagine the Bush pledge to eschew golf for the duration of the war in Iraq will also be given up as wasted effort.

Thanks for bringing this grand effort in diplomacy and foreign relations to my attention!

Comment on The Truth Behind the Pope by godwithus1

godwithus1 — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:02:54 +0000

Dang man, kind of harsh!!!

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