Brings up that old question about used cars…. 15 January 2009
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Visitors pose next to a lifelike wax figure of US President-elect Barack Obama at Madame Tussauds in Berlin (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)
Reading over the massively depressing news.. I am thinking maybe we could just make the 50 stars on the US flag into depictions of the Star of David… or maybe one big SoD, surrounded by a sprinkling of a few Crucifixion images… and call it appropriate. I see 44 is properly displayed with his lapel flag… and made sure he wore one for the official photo taken the other day, and soon to be displayed in Post Offices and Embassies.. and so on.
Truly, we are blessed.
…. Speaking of blessed! This is so delicious, thanks to the Telegraph, that I simply cannot snip nor clip nor whip it to some truncated dimunition.
”The Apostolic Penitentiary, or “tribunal of conscience”, has been shrouded in secrecy ever since it was established by Pope Alexander III in 1179 and until now has never provided details of the cases it scrutinises.
They are considered so heinous by the Catholic Church that only the Pope can grant absolution to those who perpetrate them.
But in an effort to present a more transparent image and to encourage more people to make confessions, the tribunal held a two-day conference in Rome in which it discussed its purpose and inner workings.
“Even though it’s the oldest department of the Holy See, it’s very little known – specifically because by its nature it deals with secret things,” said Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, the tribunal’s second most senior official.
While priests and bishops can deal with confessions of sins as grave as murder or even genocide, the tribunal is reserved for crimes which are viewed by the Church as even more serious.
They include attempting to assassinate the Pope, a priest abusing the confidentiality of the confessional by revealing the nature of the sin and the person who admitted to it, or a priest who has sex with someone and then offers forgiveness for the act.
A third type of case that comes before the tribunal involves a man who directly participates in an abortion – even by paying for it – who then seeks to become a priest or deacon.
“That is an irregularity and it means he should not receive the ordination without a dispensation from the Pope,” said Cardinal James Francis Stafford, the American who heads the Apostolic Penitentiary.
Defiling the Eucharist, which Catholics believe is the body and blood of Christ, is also considered a sin of extreme gravity and one which is on the increase, the high-ranking members of the tribunal said.
Cardinal Stafford said there had been a rise in incidents in which people would receive Communion and then spit it out or otherwise desecrate it, sometimes in Satanic rituals.
In July last year an American academic, to make a point about freedom of thought and religion, drove a nail through a Communion wafer and then threw it in a rubbish bin.
Paul Myers, from the University of Minnesota, said later: “I pierced it with a rusty nail. Then I simply threw it in the trash. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not your Lord.”
Such sins, which can only be dealt with by the Pope, acting through the tribunal, bring automatic excommunication from the Church. If the Pope decides to grant absolution, the excommunication is lifted.
A study by Italy’s Sacred Heart University found that 47 per cent of Italians either never go to confession or last did so a long time ago.”
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OK! I read it twice… and I think I got it. Defiling the Eucharist is the Tops. Tippy tops! Top top tippy tippy top top!
While priests and bishops can deal with confessions of sins as grave as murder or even genocide
A mere mortal can forgive the sin of genocide… dispensed by your local priest or Msg or Bishop or Archbishop. Any old thing in a cassock! Excommunication is not even part of the punshment! They probably do that one by telephone. Or both sides can assume forgiveness… even speedier!
The immortal soul… You have to love it!
I am a deterministic automaton.
Any old thing in a cassock!
It takes naughty behavior with crackers to merit the ministries of the Faashionista in Chief!
I think some people prize faith so highly because they fervently believe nobody could possibly make stuff lke this up.
Holtzman in The Nation:
Apparently Gillibrand met with Paterson and came out as a senatorial candidate, but some were pushing Holtzman as a wild card possibility. As long as everyone’s dreaming in color. . . .
reading that idiocy above and it makes you wonder how us hairless monkeys have managed not to kill ourselves off before now.
Just be sure to call what a superlative pilot accomplished a “miracle”… gah.
BTW, the pilot is from out here, lives in Danville… and has a safety consultancy. LOL
Hedge-Fund Managers Bullish on MREs, Guns, Inflatable Lifeboats
Krauthammer mocks Obama after his dinner with right-wing operatives
LOL … oh yes, “reaching out” is going to work SO well.
It’s Official! FP of the NYT… one of the geese musta dropped a passport.. just like a terrarst positioned one in the WTC
Federal investigators are pursuing early indications that the jet was struck by Canada geese shortly after takeoff.
sigh State of the City speech.. Probably you need Pope Rabbi Bloomberg to intercede. Big big sins… er, crimes.
Mr. Bloomberg adopted a steely tone in promising to bolster the city’s efforts against quality-of-life violators, like squeegee men and turnstile jumpers, saying that the city would ask the state to strengthen penalties against the crimes.
OK! I read it twice… and I think I got it. Defiling the Eucharist is the Tops. Tippy tops! Top top tippy tippy top top!
Gimme a while. I’m sure I can come up with something…LOL.
You guys may be interested to know –
that in that bottom pic-
those guys are actually sewn together in a three man-
wellll – Holy Father + two man unit.
The actually won the Papal Six Legged Race Cup in Vatican City
last summer and the word is – they also have a good shot at the Winter Olympics new event:: the Godsled.
This, despite the fact that Benedict seems to be the
Third Balloon in the Rubber Commercial if you know what I mean
[ 50% of all proceeds from the foregoing comment
wiill be donated to fund madmans hillarious finds]
Speaking of Dildos
What a Commemorative Gift!
I’ll have you know those are Cardinal Deacons.. there just to hold his laps. His fashion laps. Those things.. they are holding. I am sure it is nto sexual.
I have to say the Catholic blogs where i usually find the photos of him are a hoot. They slaver over every little fashion detail. What a hoot!
LOL Like this one, wehre I found the pic above. Called “Papa Ratzinger Forum, Pope Pourri”
Never trust a German with a thing for mass audiences, candle light, and appliques on clothes. Just sayin.
Le pape pourri
13 – Cardinal Ratzinger visiting a Malteser hospital in the South Tyrol during his last vacation in Bressanone in August 2004, his tenth summer vacation there since 1977.
First of all, who knew chocolate milk balls needed medical care, and (b) is the Pope the only (cough) dignitary who dresses down on vacation in a suit!
I thought the Papa in a Suit pics were hilarious as well. I guess not doing active blessing, so OK to slack off.
Farther down on the page there is a bit of stress over wehter they will get to see him wear all three styles of Mozette, the capelet… which I never really noticed til you posted pics of him wearing it in NYC. Apparently with one of the seasonal styles (forget which one, LOL) .. he should wear GREEN slippers.
I realise I don’t do much with my days, effectively shelved in life, but I don’t wait (and watch) for the Papa to wear his green feet slips.
from the latest entry, today, 15th, In Gaza blog
Fuckin’ UPS:
{pinched off HuffPo}-
“Oh my” ???
Jeebus- If there is ever a time to shout out a
Lawdy, Halleluja! It’s a Mir-r-r-r-acle! – THAT’S IT. LOL.
Another miracle- 10 Grand for 30 POUNDS of Pot? Delivered? LOL.
The fuckin’ Pot market has crashed now, too?
What are they going to do?
A Bale – IN?
It contained a 30-pound brick of compressed marijuana with a street value of $10,500.
Okayyyy… MJ is not my drug of choice… but that sounds seriously out of whack. I have no idea what I might do if delivered to me, but I wouldn’t take it to the COPS, for their USE.. LOL.
A few years ago as a Xmas gift for friends who had done a lot for me.. and there was some sort of interruption of their supply, I did buy 125.00 worth of what looked and smelled to me to very fine stuff. Beautiful buds, nothing loose or broken and they glistened… but not a lot for the cash outlay.
Bruce Reed of the DLC speaks. Of The Holy One..
And this hilarious little graf:
I’d say the pretzel, whoever it is, is often the fucking GREASE FIRE in town. Congress being pyromaniacs of the slob division.
If something like that showed up on the porch, wouldn’t the rational thing be to smoke 18 or 20 pounds to make sure it was weed?
Police
BrutalityCrimeTime and resources are valuable after all.Seriously, half the senior citizens in this country would fire it up.
For HEAT.
Well this was just an unmitigated JOY to read… How vital reforming that which Bush could never manage, ie, SS and Medicare, is to Obama being a success (about which I could give a flying hoohoo).
Seib once tosses in that defense is a rich source of clawing back monies as well.. but moves swiftly past that.
We are so fucking screwed.
Roger Cohen of the NYT seems to think we are coming to “the end of the Gaza War, if one considers the peace talks in Egypt”. Well I sure don’t see it that way. Then “rockets rockets, tunnels tunnels”.
Rashid Khalidi looks quite unahppy. No doubt. He’s odd man out. Mikovsky says it will be over as soon as Tzipi signs something or other. So.. ONLY Israel chooses the endgame.
oh sorry.. 24 is running spew as I watch Charlie Rose.
This Madoff case is revealing itself as
a massive tax evasion, loan fraud, and money funnel scheme.
I bet his “Victims” have a whole lot of puckered assholes right now.
These accounts surely were used to collateralize and leverage other instruments, further lines of credit, meet margin calls, beat capital gains via rolled-over “investments”, meet bonding and equity requirements for operaters doing “public works” etc…
I think this is going to get really, really nasty…
…Because, again, the EU Europeans , the Russians, and Chinese could give a flying fuck about the Star of David.
Frankly, I see the non disclosure on the Bank Bailout and the authorization to bail undisclosed “overseas” as an effort to cover some of the $50 Bil. – Quick.
::::
Madoff either placed trades through other brokerage firms, a move industry officials consider unlikely, or he was not executing trades at all.
Not so fast there, “Industry Experts”. WITH THE EITHER /OR
….or any number of variants on a scam that for 40 years people felt LUCKY TO BE IN ON.
All of these firms are DOMESTIC.
The Battle over Madoff’s cabal hinges on a huge IRS/FBI tax fraud investigation~~~ going on in Switzerland and Lichtenstein.
It is unprecedented in size and scope involving
17 to 20000 accounts.
More on that with a new find in a bit.
The smart move this quarter is to buy EL AL.
Flights to Tel Aviv are going to be booked FULL.
Khalidi should bring up the gas in the bay… and that Israel and BP are moving ahead, cutting the Gazans out.
o gawd. Daschle wants a “Federal Reserve” for health care. A centralised system that determines what works and does nto work. What the ”Fed Reserve” determines works will be covered. (I have on some financial show, that little McClellan shit Bush had at FDA agreed, a Fed Reserve for determining what is allowed is a good idea)
Mandatory mins for care.
We are so fucking screwed.
what new pretzel. I don’t see one.
marisa said
nobody in their right mind would compress herb superb like that into a brick. doing so would require absolution by the apostolic penitentiary!
It was very beautiful, bay.. I still remember looking at it in the plastic bag. I sort of got the religion of the whole thing… LOL late and third hand.
Think I mentioned that I used to go to Tejas to visit in the late 70s… my friend’s mother was dying of cancer and used MJ suppositories.. I would buy it here, and got the same sort of stuff, whole buds, nothing shaken or broken.. and it glistened. I’d pack it without thinking in my suitcase, fly into Austin, we’d get to the house and make little suppositories cookies while we hit the bar, champagne for me and gin for Kim.. then make a “gift” basket full of the cooked MJ suppositories and go off to visit his mother.
I laugh about that now, as those days are long long over with invasive airports and searching luggage and everyone’s a terrist.
the commercial pot trade is completely different now i would suppose. that weed sounds like commercial stuff too, coming in a brick into denton texas from down reynosa way.
a long long time ago in a galaxy far away border pot wasn’t the stock-in-trade of murderous gangs, it was more a free-lance thing implemented by college students, youths and the like, going to schools like texas a&i and UT at brownsville, san antonio or austin.
we have the war on drugs to thank for that switcharoo. and judging by the price quoted in the story that war is like most american wars. unsuccessful.
i can remember a time when a righteous dealer, who might have had friends down in the valley, would drive back into town and divide one of those $350 LBs up into 14 or so nice FAT bags, sell ten at 35 bucks per to friends, then keep the rest free and clear
for herself
😉
Sounds like the voice of experience there, bay.
In fact, your smiley/winky looks like a real stoner.LOL
Unlike Mr Crack here —-> 😯
LOL.
As a disclaimer, I talk a good game but haven’t smoked since the 4 or 5 Hundred bales a week four of us regularly Offered to Jah when herb was like that up till @1980. Reagan had a way of just utterly blowing your high though…In retrospect, it might have been a better idea to just have smoked right through the last 30 years. LOL.
My buddies and I tried “enlightened capitalism by the pound” in the 70’s but quickly ended up merely running a large volume,
personal pot co-op. LOL.
Even Josh Marshall (top of the FP, right side, at TPM):
After months of complaining about how the first part of TARP was administered, Senators today voted 42-52 not to deny Obama the second $350 billion of the bailout, apparently accepting the Obama team’s pledges to voluntarily undertake reforms.
Spiegel has a look back at Rosa Luxemburg.
John Mortimer died………………
Massive power blackout in Toronto. Brrr…
Maybe that power outage is payback for the Miracle! on the Hudson.
NYBri asks the Tough Questions
by Governor David A Paterson
Fri Jan 16, 2009 at 09:12:16 AM PST
I Doubt that Seriously
by OG&P
Fri Jan 16 2009 at 12:53:15 PM CST
and conchita chimes in
oops. forgot the blockquotie!!!!
How quickly will we forget??
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KA17Ak01.html
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and that vid that Max Blumenthal made of the rallies in NYC got around quite a bit, I think. I first saw it at Lenin… but used the alternet link as there was some text from MB… but ti was also at Perrin and other left of ”Lib”Blogs and off the grid from ”Lib”Blahgs sites. I don’t know if it was at The Daily Beast, tho MB does post there… or at HuffWuffPo…
Oddly just a few days before that got around… I had heard a dull and very irritating interview with Paterson and mentioned it in threads. FFS, he was talking about cutting the exact same things (more precise than “education”, ”milk and cookies” for the poor) as Arnold. And the same big fingershake over sodas for children. the REAL issue is the decline to disappearance of “recess” and gym and athletics in the public schools.
The political class is just a congealing mess.
ugh catching up and reading the political news around and about (in and around Inauguration and Birds in Engines)… and it sounds like banking will scoop up all or nearly all of the 350 gazilliongahbillion.
Which leaves us where.
LOL King Coal… WSJ
Speaking of boycott:
Amira Hass in Ha’aretz on the weapons being used on Gaza, and info on The Rockets:
have we changed yet?
speaking of the congealing political class: Problem of saggy-pants “much bigger” than Constitution, says Mayor
#28:
Yeah, that’s all I need. The government forcing a gastric bypass on me and then sticking me with the bill.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
ms xeno…
oh the whole thing on weight is a nasty nasty diversion. They SHOULD be talking about decades of bad investment and fiduciary malfeasance by the insurance companies.
When they raise the “fat”, “obese” stories I just think about Brendan Behan. Or Welles. Or Monserrat Caballe.. or or or or or …
People are different. And “medicine” or what passes for medicine has little boxy formats.
NBC 50,000 corporate lay offs today… and the banks are collapsing again.
clips of Warren Buffett saying the banks must be saved.
Thanks Uncle Buffy.
Ray LaHood and Changing our Thinking About Transportation
Silly libs … gov’t is for corporations!
Ah, caterpillar … a very successful company, if by “successful” you mean “union busting” … take that, card check!
I did not get to it but one of the papers, either Wapo or WSJ has a story on an “alternative” to card check that Obster is going to push. There were stories floating a couple weeks ago that card check was a no go in congress. Gotta keep the R and the Bloooo Dogs happy. Ya know.
He and La Hood hooked up years ago, from what I have read.
Change… Cambio… Ka ching.
Seton Hall Law: Department of Defense Wrong Again on guantánamo “Recidivism”
I stumbled across a link to something at Digbys, and just had to mock it.
Just today, Krauthammer said that Bush’s rehabbing would be begun by none other than obster. Oh so right (via The Page):
Rick Warren Cites Hitler Youth as Model For Christian Dedication
Fascism with a “heart”.
Oh, and I LOVE this part of Warren’s speech:
He did? Being an atheist, and thus Satan, I’m going to do that “even the devil can quote scriptures” thing:
I used to enjoy shouting “Matthew 6.5” on the subway when some asshole came into the subway car and started quoting his fucking book of fairy tales.
Soooo Warren’s revolution is First Take the Suburbs? And the Low Information head knodding white people?
And parts of Africa?
Apparently.
Shall I assume and He and Obrama have plans for Kenya?
I guess so.
gnu post
LINK
………….. 😯 ………….
62 – sure looks that way. A new global Afrikaaner movement, or something.
Obster facilitates a white (mostly, but welcoming to some) christian movement.
It’d be funny if it weren’t deadly.