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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: princessofcairo on February 24, 2005, 12:57:25 PM
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i just saw a blip on the tv in the lobby:
"vatican issues statement"
or something. huh. guess i could go to the bbc.com. but i get all of my news here first!
:)
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I'm buying party hats and streamers just in case.
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I'm buying party hats and streamers just in case.
"yer so bad" -- Tom Petty
But I can't say I'll shed tears either. Don't get me started on catholic church hypocrisy...
BTW poc, they've done a tracheotomy on him. Meanwhile he's in hot water for comments in his new book comparing abortion to the holocaust...
So either of those things could be prompting a "statement"
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BTW poc, they've done a tracheotomy on him. Meanwhile he's in hot water for comments in his new book comparing abortion to the holocaust...
So either of those things could be prompting a "statement"
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40782000/jpg/_40782459_pope_body_ap.jpg) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4288103.stm)
parky the pope says, i don't wanna talk about it...
"The Pope writes that both abortion and the mass murder of six million Jews came about as a result of people usurping the "law of God" beneath the guise of democracy."
two completely unrelated things, but i can understand his point. woah. what did i just say? i mean, i can see it from his point of view. shit. there i go again. i'm turning into fucking erasmus.
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princess, remind me to tell you my Dead Pope story on Sunday.
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princess, remind me to tell you my Dead Pope story on Sunday.
ok. i might have one for you by then, too.
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this popedate just in:
the pope is breathing on his own now.
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this popedate just in:
the pope is breathing on his own now.
but he's not allowed to talk. or smoke. or, y'know, use his throat for other stuff.
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this popedate just in:
the pope is breathing on his own now.
but he's not allowed to talk. or smoke. or, y'know, use his throat for other stuff.
popsicles, kids! he means popsicles! the pope likes popsicles!
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this popedate just in:
the pope is breathing on his own now.
but he's not allowed to talk. or smoke. or, y'know, use his throat for other stuff.
popsicles, kids! he means popsicles! the pope likes popsicles!
well, something that ends in "icles" anyway. :P
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pope making "continuous improvement," but he's still in the sickhouse! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4314743.stm)
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this just in!
the pope is being fed through a tube through his nose. reports show this tube MAY be the very tube that was extracted from terry schiavo nearly two weeks ago. more at 11.
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this just in!
the pope is being fed through a tube through his nose. reports show this tube MAY be the very tube that was extracted from terry schiavo nearly two weeks ago. more at 11.
"You know that pontiff with the gold-capped tube?"
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this just in!
the pope is being fed through a tube through his nose. reports show this tube MAY be the very tube that was extracted from terry schiavo nearly two weeks ago. more at 11.
here's the link:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&e=2&u=/nm/20050330/wl_nm/pope_dc
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/31/upope.xml
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/03/31/international/i214207S60.DTL&type=printable
will he still be around in the morning?
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Passing on April Fool's Day would be quite the insult, no?
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I'd put money on it.
Is April Fools Day just an American thing?
BTW Gaz, you're up way toooo late. I feel like a geek when it's midnight and I'm online but fer chrissakes, it's 2am for you right now!
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/02/POPEOBIT.TMP&type=printable
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Ding Dong the Pope is Dead! No more funny hat on his head.
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Ding Dong the Pope is Dead! No more funny hat on his head.
Ditto, Mr "Guest", whoever you are.
I always hate situations like this because even people who normally would be anti-Pope tend to go all gooey and don't-speak-ill-of-the-dead-y.
But as an EX-Catholic I have no qualms saying that the Church is a corporation run by some sad, old, closeted, hypocritical, misogynistic men. And I have absolutely no hope that the next pope will be better -- indeed he'll be far worse (and more dangerous) because he'll be younger and more techno-savvy. God(dess) help us all.
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a split decision here. One one hand, we can all agree that the pope was anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-woman (as far as priesthood), anti-birth control, etc. Not good.
On the other hand, he was against the war, the death penalty, and when he kissed a child with AIDS in San Francisco, it went a long way towards helping people overcome the fears of touching AIDS patients.
I don't think it will get much better with the new pope. I'm especially sickened by Bush's praise of the pope, and this whole 'culture of life' thing. What a fuckin' crock of shit coming from W's lips.
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I echo the comments bemoaning the "culture of life" hypocrisy. But I haven't heard anything about the potential candidates to replace JPII. Although I'm very cynical about these things, I do hold out scant hope that the next Pope will be a bit more modern in his mores.
But I wish he and Schiavo had passed on the same day so that we could make our ignoring of the news more efficient.
P.S. Apparently someone's selling on eBay a painting of Terri Schiavo and Johnny Cochran meeting at heaven's gate. Lawd have mercy.
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Apparently someone's selling on eBay a painting of Terri Schiavo and Johnny Cochran meeting at heaven's gate. Lawd have mercy.
"If he pulled your tube, he must be a boob!"
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and when he kissed a child with AIDS in San Francisco
had he kissed a full-grown man with AIDS in San Francisco, I would have tattooed hie face on my ass.
thank you for following pontiff watch. next watch: barbara bush!
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and when he kissed a child with AIDS in San Francisco
had he kissed a full-grown man with AIDS in San Francisco, I would have tattooed his face on my ass.
Indeed. As sweet as that gesture seemed to many, it inadvertently perpetuated the idea that children with AIDS are innocent victims, while adults (especially gay men) somehow deserve what they get. (Oh, and we won't talk about priests with AIDS.) Add to this the shameful insistence by the Church in third-world countries that condom use is a sin -- how many will die of AIDS due to that little pronouncement?
OK, I'll calm down now...
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and when he kissed a child with AIDS in San Francisco
had he kissed a full-grown man with AIDS in San Francisco, I would have tattooed hie face on my ass.
thank you for following pontiff watch. next watch: barbara bush!
The Chron on Sunday devoted the whole front section to him, and they had several Pope headlines & photos from the past, including one of him hugging a full-grown gay man. So methinks that criticism is a bit off-target.
But I can't agree more about the other criticisms, although ANY pope would have maintained the Church's stand on all of them. To JPII's credit he did put an end to the Church's unofficial stand on anti-Semitism & personally did a lot to heal the divisons still lingering from WWII.
I bet Cardinal Ratzinger (the hard-liner who gave all of JPII's most conservative pronouncements their doctrinal authority) becomes the next Pope, but he won't last 5 years because he is so old. Only with him gone can the Church begin to modernize & catch up to the realities of the 21st Century.
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so far my favorite repercusion of the Pontiff's passing is that in order to attend the state funeral, Prince Charles has had to reschedule his wedding with Camilla P-B.
What a schlmozzle!
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so far my favorite repercusion of the Pontiff's passing is that in order to attend the state funeral, Prince Charles has had to reschedule his wedding with Camilla P-B.
What a schlmozzle!
Schlemeil! Schlmozzle! Hassenpfeffer Incorporated!
Give us any chance we'll take it
Read us any rule we'll break it...
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and when he kissed a child with AIDS in San Francisco
had he kissed a full-grown man with AIDS in San Francisco, I would have tattooed his face on my ass.
... Add to this the shameful insistence by the Church in third-world countries that condom use is a sin -- how many will die of AIDS due to that little pronouncement?
OK, I'll calm down now...
Your avatar is PERFECT for your sentiment.
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That was just me as guest. Forgot to log in. One more Pope related comment. At yesterdays ballgame, they asked for a moment of silence and had JPII up on the big screen for a decent interval. This was at the very beginning, right at 1:05 before anything else took place.
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so far my favorite repercusion of the Pontiff's passing is that in order to attend the state funeral, Prince Charles has had to reschedule his wedding with Camilla P-B.
What a schlmozzle!
Schlemeil! Schlmozzle! Hassenpfeffer Incorporated!
Give us any chance we'll take it
Read us any rule we'll break it...
As I've had it explained to me: The Schlemeil is the guy who spills his soup at the restaurant; the Schlmozzle is the guy who gets the soup spilled on him. Is this accurate?
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so far my favorite repercusion of the Pontiff's passing is that in order to attend the state funeral, Prince Charles has had to reschedule his wedding with Camilla P-B.
What a schlmozzle!
Schlemeil! Schlmozzle! Hassenpfeffer Incorporated!
Give us any chance we'll take it
Read us any rule we'll break it...
As I've had it explained to me: The Schlemeil is the guy who spills his soup at the restaurant; the Schlmozzle is the guy who gets the soup spilled on him. Is this accurate?
Sounds about right.
BTW, should you care, I'm told NYC's K-Rock did a major format-tweak today -- they're now a lot like The Bone.
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so far my favorite repercusion of the Pontiff's passing is that in order to attend the state funeral, Prince Charles has had to reschedule his wedding with Camilla P-B.
What a schlmozzle!
Schlemeil! Schlmozzle! Hassenpfeffer Incorporated!
Give us any chance we'll take it
Read us any rule we'll break it...
As I've had it explained to me: The Schlemeil is the guy who spills his soup at the restaurant; the Schlmozzle is the guy who gets the soup spilled on him. Is this accurate?
Sounds about right.
BTW, should you care, I'm told NYC's K-Rock did a major format-tweak today -- they're now a lot like The Bone.
Alas, I hadn't noticed and probably won't notice -- my radio listening these days is limited to specific shows and agendas (Micky Dolenz in the morning when I don't have work to do; Felix Hernandez Rhythm Revue on the weekends when I can; and the Top 40 and Hip-Hop stations a couple times a week so I can stay current on what's out there. (Have y'all heard Amerie's "1 Thing" yet? Insane percussion, great multitracked vocal production effects - my #2 single of the year.)