The Incredibly Strange CPAC That Stopped Living and Became a Mixed Up Zombie

Festival of Wingnuts even more ridiculous than usual this year
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I’m guessing that this isn’t exactly what the organizers of CPAC want to hear about their festival of right wing derp: It’s not hard to make fun of CPAC.

Nonetheless, there it is. Half-governor Sarah Palin, Donald “My Wig Has Its Own Birth Certificate” Trump, Mitt “47%” Romney, Dick “Human-Toad Hybrid” Morris, the no-standards Breitbrats, and Jim Hoft getting an “Accuracy in Media” award. Not only is it “not hard” to make fun of CPAC, it’s hard to avoid it. The conservative movement has thoroughly beclowned itself.

And I didn’t even mention the zombie-themed “speed networking party” or the “mingle sticks.”

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373 comments
1 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:48:58am

This is the first time I have ever heard of a “mingle stick.” It sounds totally nasty.

2 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:50:25am

“Great zombie costume, dude!”

“I’m not in a costume.”

“Oh, its hard to tell around here.”

3 iossarian  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:51:12am

TOUCH MY MINGLE STICK WITH YOURS HURRRR

4 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:51:14am

CPAC is calling other people zombies? Okay organization that can’t handle pro gay rights being associated with conservatism…

5 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:51:36am

Twitter zombies: the Fake Quotes and debunked memes that NEVER DIE NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU KILL THEM.

6 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:52:20am

Is it like ChristianMingle.com?

7 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:53:16am

Do they have a animatronic monkey selling tickets?

8 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:54:25am

re: #1 Vicious Babushka

This is the first time I have ever heard of a “mingle stick.” It sounds totally nasty.

I now have the phrase “Click, click, click, hit me with your mingle stick” running through my head.

9 jaunte  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:57:21am

“First they come for your brains…”

“So I guess we’re safe here at CPAC.”

10 wrenchwench  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:03:05am

More from the author of the second link above:

But winning the award for best title goes to this panel: “Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You’re Not One?” It is unclear who will be talking about the use of the race card in politics, but we are sorry to report that Ann Coulter—who recently took up race punditry—is already slotted at CPAC for a later speaking spot.

Unfortunate stumble by the MBF at the end of the article, though.

11 jaunte  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:03:24am
12 makeitstop  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:03:36am

Money quote from the Politico piece:

“The most disconcerting thing to me right now is there has not been another point in memory where the base of Republicans is so far from where a majority of the electorate is,” said one of the party’s most well-known operatives.

Nice corner they’ve painted themselves into.

13 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:05:57am

Clause 1 of the Hastur Rule is that no one talks about the Hastur Rule.

14 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:07:48am

The Conclave has chosen a new pope.

cbsnews.com

15 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:08:49am

re: #14 lawhawk

The Conclave has chosen a new pope.

[Link: www.cbsnews.com…]

PETRUS ROMANUS!

16 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:10:21am

re: #12 makeitstop

Money quote from the Politico piece:

“The most disconcerting thing to me right now is there has not been another point in memory where the base of Republicans is so far from where a majority of the electorate is completely and utterly removed from any sense of objective reality,” said one of the party’s most well-known operatives.

Nice corner they’ve painted themselves into.

Fixed that for the GOP operative.

17 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:10:58am

Congratulations to all the Catholic lizards! May this new pope make your church a better place than its become recently.

18 Blue Point  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:11:21am

“Can I touch your Mingle Stick?” SECURITY!!!

19 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:12:53am

Catholic.org: The Malachy prophecy is a bunch of bullshit.

So then prove it by electing Innocent the African instead of Peter the Roman.

20 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:13:58am

Boy, they sure have a lot of nice buildings there

21 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:14:06am

re: #14 lawhawk

The Conclave has chosen a new pope.

[Link: www.cbsnews.com…]

I’m actually interested in seeing who they chose.

22 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:14:26am

re: #21 HappyWarrior

I’m actually interested in seeing who they chose.

They chose… THE POPE!

23 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:14:41am
24 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:14:45am

re: #21 HappyWarrior

I’m actually interested in seeing who they chose.

I am too.

25 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:14:45am

re: #22 dragonath

They chose… THE POPE!

DAmnit you should have included spoilers.

26 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:15:34am

They’re really smoking something in there…

27 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:15:56am

re: #19 Vicious Babushka

Catholic.org: The Malachy prophecy is a bunch of bullshit.

So then prove it by electing Innocent the African instead of Peter the Roman.

Pope Jim the Relaxed has my vote.

28 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:16:31am

re: #27 Kragar (Antichrist )

Pope Jim the Relaxed has my vote.

Pope Joan II the Pregnant

29 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:16:40am

re: #27 Kragar (Antichrist )

Pope Jim the Relaxed has my vote.

We were just kidding a Catholic Jim here at work that he had been elected. :)

30 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:17:30am

re: #28 Vicious Babushka

Pope Joan II the Pregnant

Image: AR15-AC130.png

31 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:17:47am

re: #21 HappyWarrior

Almost as important in who is chosen is the name that they will take - with the spiritual meanings behind the name and a bit of an indication about the direction they intend to take the Church.

I can only hope that whoever is chosen can figure out a way to affirmatively address the sex scandals, clean up the Curia, and preach tolerance and beneficence.

32 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:18:51am

Live streaming from the Vatican.

channel4.com

33 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:18:54am

Let’s have a Callixtus or better, a Dionysius

34 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:19:06am

I’m hoping for Pope Innocent of Covering Up Stuff.

35 Decatur Deb  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:19:18am

If it’s O’Malley, I’ll bet on “Bede”.

36 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:19:45am

I’m finding it difficult to get excited over yet another old white guy wearing a dress.

37 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:20:27am

Is there a web site where you can get your very own Pope Name like you can get a Pirate Name or a Vampire Name or Palin Kid Name?

38 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:20:57am

OMG, I just ate a pistachio shaped like Jesus’s head.

39 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:21:07am

re: #31 lawhawk

Almost as important in who is chosen is the name that they will take - with the spiritual meanings behind the name and a bit of an indication about the direction they intend to take the Church.

I can only hope that whoever is chosen can figure out a way to affirmatively address the sex scandals, clean up the Curia, and preach tolerance and beneficence.

Right. I remember Benedict’s name being said that he intended to return to a lot of old ways which ended up being the case.

40 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:21:11am

Pope Sextus the Sixty-Ninth

41 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:21:38am

re: #30 Gus

Image: AR15-AC130.png

Since 9/11, between the Bush and Obama administration, $3.7 Trillion dollars has been spent on defense.

Yeah, a few neckbeards with AR-15s can totally stand up against that.

42 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:22:00am

re: #31 lawhawk

Almost as important in who is chosen is the name that they will take - with the spiritual meanings behind the name and a bit of an indication about the direction they intend to take the Church.

I can only hope that whoever is chosen can figure out a way to affirmatively address the sex scandals, clean up the Curia, and preach tolerance and beneficence.

And OK the use of condoms in Africa.

43 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:22:41am

re: #40 dragonath

Pope Sextus the Sixty-Ninth

Pope Sextus the Fifth confused the hell out of me.

44 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:23:15am

re: #30 Gus

Image: AR15-AC130.png

And here’s conservative hero “Gunny” Emrey loading the 40mm!

Image: ac130-40mm.jpg

45 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:23:40am

re: #38 b_sharp

OMG, I just ate a pistachio shaped like Jesus’s head.

Damn, you could have sold it on eBay.

46 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:23:57am

There was a Pope Lando once. Not played by Billy Dee.

47 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:24:08am

re: #45 NJDhockeyfan

Damn, you could have sold it on eBay.

Maybe he still can.

48 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:24:30am

re: #44 Feline Fearless Leader

And here’s conservative hero “Gunny” Emrey loading the 40mm!

Image: ac130-40mm.jpg

Giant bullets! //

49 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:24:38am

re: #47 Vicious Babushka

Maybe he still can.

This too shall pass…

50 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:24:41am

Could they possibly elect someone who is not a Cardinal or does it have to be a member of their club?

51 Shvaughn  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:25:00am

re: #50 Vicious Babushka

Could they possibly elect someone who is not a Cardinal or does it have to be a member of their club?

In theory yes, in practice no.

52 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:25:22am

re: #50 Vicious Babushka

Could they possibly elect someone who is not a Cardinal or does it have to be a member of their club?

I believe any Catholic can be elected Pope.

53 Decatur Deb  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:25:38am

re: #50 Vicious Babushka

Could they possibly elect someone who is not a Cardinal or does it have to be a member of their club?

They can take you from street urchin to Cardinal in an afternoon. Happened once.

54 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:25:45am

re: #52 Kragar (Antichrist )

I believe any Catholic can be elected Pope.

I guess I wasn’t elected then. :(

55 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:26:09am

I’m still waiting on Ewen McGregor to skydive into the Sistine Chapel. Did I miss that part?

56 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:26:15am

re: #53 Decatur Deb

They can take you from street urchin to Cardinal in an afternoon. Happened once.

I thought that book was about Henry VIII’s son and Tom the beggar boy?

57 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:26:30am
58 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:26:49am

It’s the white haired albino monk with the chain around his leg!

59 makeitstop  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:27:01am

Nice to have a new Pope. I always enjoy that new Pope smell.

60 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:27:17am

re: #57 NJDhockeyfan

He’s a Steeler now though.

61 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:27:25am

re: #57 NJDhockeyfan

Sweet. Does he also get a St. Louis jersey?

62 Stephen T.  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:27:33am

re: #52 Kragar (Antichrist )

I believe any Catholic can be elected Pope.

Actually it is any Catholic man that can be elected Pope.

63 Decatur Deb  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:27:48am

re: #56 Vicious Babushka

I thought that book was about Henry VIII’s son and Tom the beggar boy?

The real case wasn’t an beggar—could have been. He was some connected medieval noble Roman IIRC.

64 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:28:43am

re: #54 Vicious Babushka

I guess I wasn’t elected then. :(

My condolences.

But I think they probably didn’t want a woman walking around yelling ‘FAKE!’ every time she saw a Cardinal.

65 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:28:54am

Pope Ron Jeremy

66 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:29:41am

theonion.com

67 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:29:47am

re: #48 Gus

Giant bullets! //

The site I pulled that picture from has some interesting articles on it. Including a pdf of the 40mm Bofors guns they are using. Basically old twin 40mm sets from M-42 Dusters. Easy to find when they were initially outfitting AC-130s. To find more they were looking for old mounts sitting at firing ranges and seeing what could be refurbished and reused.

68 BongCrodny  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:29:55am

They could probably do themselves a world of good public relations-wise if they elected Fr. Guido Sarducci.

69 Decatur Deb  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:29:55am

re: #64 b_sharp

My condolences.

But I think they probably didn’t want a woman walking around yelling ‘FAKE!’ every time she saw a Cardinal.

VB was permanently DQ’d for what she just called the #TGDN guy.

70 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:29:58am

re: #59 makeitstop

Nice to have a new Pope. I always enjoy that new Pope smell.

Old man smell mixed in with overwrought sexual tension?

71 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:31:05am
72 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:31:11am

re: #70 b_sharp

Old man smell mixed in with overwrought sexual tension?

They do clean the hat between uses.

73 CuriousLurker  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:31:14am

re: #54 Vicious Babushka

I guess I wasn’t elected then. :(

Darn, a female, Jewish, pie-baking pope would’ve been kinda cool, and your scary Jewish pope shadow following you around all day would’ve made for some great photo ops. It’d prolly make Mel Gibson’s head explode though. //

74 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:31:39am

re: #65 dragonath

Pope Ron Jeremy

Will the real Biggus Dickus please stand up?

75 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:31:42am

re: #64 b_sharp

My condolences.

But I think they probably didn’t want a woman walking around yelling ‘FAKE!’ every time she saw a Cardinal.

BLACK SOCIALIST POPE TO FOLLOW BLACK SOCIALIST PRESIDENT?!!11ty

76 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:32:40am

re: #74 b_sharp

Will the real Biggus Dickus please stand up?

His successor Hugeous Erectus the Happy wll be on hand.

77 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:32:54am

re: #73 CuriousLurker

Darn, a female, Jewish, pie-baking pope would’ve been kinda cool, and your scary Jewish pope shadow following you around all day would’ve made for some great photo ops. It’d prolly make Mel Gibson’s head explode though. //

Scary Jew Shadow sneaks up behind the Pope.

78 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:33:04am
79 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:33:36am

Wow check out that musical band of vampires

80 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:33:43am

re: #73 CuriousLurker

Darn, a female, Jewish, pie-baking pope would’ve been kinda cool, and your scary Jewish pope shadow following you around all day would’ve made for some great photo ops. It’d prolly make Mel Gibson’s head explode though. //

Pope Felix I

Time to be realistic and start openly recognizing Feline Overlords.

Plus cats are good at covering things up.

81 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:33:47am

Unconfirmed reports say Mitt Romney is highly disappointed that he won’t get to be Pope.

82 CuriousLurker  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:33:56am

re: #77 Vicious Babushka

Scary Jew Shadow sneaks up behind the Pope.

Hahahahaha!

83 Inner Partisan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:34:17am

If halberds are outlawed, only men in silly suits will have halberds!

84 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:34:21am

re: #69 Decatur Deb

VB was permanently DQ’d for what she just called the #TGDN guy.

Called him what?

85 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:35:42am

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Unconfirmed reports say Mitt Romney is highly disappointed that he won’t get to be Pope.

“Regrets statements that said 47% of Cardinals were just complainers and drink too much communion wine.”

86 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:36:12am

re: #84 b_sharp

Called him what?

MORON LAME.

87 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:36:51am
88 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:37:07am

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

MORON LAME.

That’s it? They went ballistic over that?

Poor fuckin’ babies.

89 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:37:20am

Cool hats

90 klys  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:37:59am

I have to admit, my main thought on the whole Pope thing is watching the smoke come out of the chimney, wondering what they burn to ensure that it’s so nice and white. And then what they would burn for the black smoke.

91 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:38:03am

re: #88 b_sharp

That’s it? They went ballistic over that?

Poor fuckin’ babies.

Nah, but some idiot had a breakdown after I corrected a Fake Quote.

92 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:38:26am

re: #90 klys

I have to admit, my main thought on the whole Pope thing is watching the smoke come out of the chimney, wondering what they burn to ensure that it’s so nice and white. And then what they would burn for the black smoke.

93 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:38:29am

re: #90 klys

I have to admit, my main thought on the whole Pope thing is watching the smoke come out of the chimney, wondering what they burn to ensure that it’s so nice and white. And then what they would burn for the black smoke.

MaryJuana.

94 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:38:40am
95 Inner Partisan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:38:46am

re: #89 dragonath

Italians. World-renown for their sense of style!

96 erik_t  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:39:46am

My catholicism is apparently not as lapsed as I thought. I’m weirdly excited to find out who it is.

97 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:39:53am

Somebody in a cubicle near me popped open a new air freshener and it is literally giving me a headache.

98 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:40:16am

re: #91 Vicious Babushka

Nah, but some idiot had a breakdown after I corrected a Fake Quote.

You wrecked the little imaginary world inside their noggins.

99 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:40:18am

It’s pretty weird to have a military parade before the pope shows up. It’s like waiting for the Fourth Crusade or something.

100 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:40:21am

re: #95 Inner Partisan

Italians. World-renown for their sense of style!

MST3K: Italian stereotypes

Youtube Video
101 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:40:39am

re: #94 Charles Johnson

I like it.

102 Decatur Deb  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:40:56am

re: #84 b_sharp

Called him what?

littlegreenfootballs.com

103 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:41:17am

re: #94 Charles Johnson

When I lived in Berlin, my apartment was across the hall from a Wohngemeinschaft (like a living collective) of Jesuits.

They all smoked. Very nice guys.

My upstairs neighbor was an honest-to-goodness sheikh.

He was always visiting them, and they always visited him. They got on swimmingly. It was nice to see.

104 klys  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:41:21am

re: #92 Vicious Babushka

I bet that was a fun chemist job, to come up with something like that.

105 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:41:34am

re: #96 erik_t

My catholicism is apparently not as lapsed as I thought. I’m weirdly excited to find out who it is.

You’re always weirdly excited.

They have a pill for that.

106 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:42:27am

re: #102 Decatur Deb

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

MJ is a Zionist-hating moonbat, not a TGDN wingnut, but he had VEWY HUWWT FEEWINGS.

107 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:42:28am
108 Skip Intro  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:42:32am

re: #62 Stephen T.

Actually it is any Catholic man that can be elected Pope.

Any Catholic man over 75, I believe. They had a shitload of trouble with young popes in the early days. They just couldn’t keep it in their pants.

109 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:42:41am

There is like a 1:100 chance the new pope won’t be virulently homophobic. That’d be cool.

110 Inner Partisan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:42:54am

re: #99 dragonath

Well, there was a time when the Pope himself rode to battle in front of the Papal State’s armies. At least he allways did in my games of Medieval: Total War, the cheating asshole!

111 kirkspencer  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:43:17am

re: #105 b_sharp

You’re always weirdly excited.

They have a pill for that.

I think it’s just pills for the excited part. Weird is weird regardless of state.

112 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:43:21am

re: #104 klys

I bet that was a fun chemist job, to come up with something like that.

It would be more fun to come up with red smoke, or blue smoke. Back & white is so old-timey.

113 erik_t  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:43:43am

re: #108 Skip Intro

Any Catholic man over 75, I believe. They had a shitload of trouble with young popes in the early days. They just couldn’t keep it in their pants.

Certainly not. JPII was only 58ish when he took… office. Or whatever it’s called.

114 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:44:05am

re: #103 Dr Lizardo

When I lived in Berlin, my apartment was across the hall from a Wohngemeinschaft (like a living collective) of Jesuits.

They all smoked. Very nice guys.

My upstairs neighbor was an honest-to-goodness sheikh.

He was always visiting them, and they always visited him. They got on swimmingly. It was nice to see.

Sounds like a sitcom. Really though even though I’m Agnostic and no longer Catholic, I’ve always liked and respected the Jesuits because of their intellectual pursuits.

115 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:44:27am

Someone on the TV said “Jesus Christ the Original”…

…there were duplicates?

116 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:45:00am

Image: Smoking_Cardinals.jpg

117 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:45:13am

re: #115 dragonath

Someone on the TV said “Jesus Christ the Original”…

…there were duplicates?

Just wine and crackers.

118 Decatur Deb  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:45:32am

re: #110 Inner Partisan

Well, there was a time when the Pope himself rode to battle in front of the Papal State’s armies. At least he allways did in my games of Medieval: Total War, the cheating asshole!

Julius II, as played by Rex Harrison.

photonews.org.nz

119 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:45:35am

Battle Pope

The book tells the tale of a hard drinking, womanizing Pope condemned by God for his own evil ways, who is called to action to save Saint Michael, with the help of Jesus H. Christ, becoming mankind’s final hope in a world overrun by demons following the Rapture.

120 klys  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:45:52am

re: #112 Vicious Babushka

It would be more fun to come up with red smoke, or blue smoke. Back & white is so old-timey.

It’s too bad it’s all done with smoke. Doing it with fire is so much more fun.

I am that person who sits at the fireworks and goes oooooo, there’s some copper. And nickel. And strontium. And magnesium.

121 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:45:57am

Haha, that swiss guy got the flag stuck on his hat

122 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:46:09am

They need time to make the alterations.

123 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:46:43am

re: #114 HappyWarrior

Sounds like a sitcom. Really though even though I’m Agnostic and no longer Catholic, I’ve always liked and respected the Jesuits because of their intellectual pursuits.

It sort of was vaguely sitcomish.

I can deal with Jesuits quite easily. The ones I knew were really cool.

124 brennant  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:46:58am

Watching the live coverage of the Vatican, I keep thinking of the warnings our tour guide gave us about the amount of pickpockets that surrounded our tour group when we visited the Vatican. I wonder how many are out tonight?

125 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:47:39am

re: #124 brennant

Watching the live coverage of the Vatican, I keep thinking of the warnings our tour guide gave us about the amount of pickpockets that surrounded our tour group when we visited the Vatican. I wonder how many are out tonight?

There’s gonna be some happy pickpockets today!

126 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:48:02am

re: #120 klys

It’s too bad it’s all done with smoke. Doing it with fire is so much more fun.

I am that person who sits at the fireworks and goes oooooo, there’s some copper. And nickel. And strontium. And magnesium.

I’m there waiting for a flaming bird to fall to the ground.

127 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:48:23am

white smoke

“viva el papa”

we are doomed

128 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:48:44am

re: #120 klys

It’s too bad it’s all done with smoke. Doing it with fire is so much more fun.

I am that person who sits at the fireworks and goes oooooo, there’s some copper. And nickel. And strontium. And magnesium.

smoke and mirrors

129 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:48:55am

Pope Mingle Stick

130 b_sharp  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:49:57am

re: #129 dragonath

Pope Mingle Stick

Is that some kind of Carny food?

131 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:50:52am

The suspense is terrible… I hope it’ll last.

132 iossarian  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:50:55am

re: #130 b_sharp

Is that some kind of Carny food?

Now with 100% pure farm-raised pope.

133 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:51:14am

Gingrich is Catholic, isn’t he?

134 BongCrodny  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:51:28am

re: #130 b_sharp

Is that some kind of Carny food?

No, that would be deep fried pope mingle stick.

135 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:51:37am

re: #109 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

There is like a 1:100 chance the new pope won’t be virulently homophobic. That’d be cool.

Yes, this is my concern.

It will be a deal breaker as to whether I will be having a big fight with my husband.

136 Decatur Deb  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:51:57am

re: #133 dragonath

Gingrich is Catholic, isn’t he?

Unless he’s found a cool Bhuddist assistant.

137 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:52:26am

re: #133 dragonath

Gingrich is Catholic, isn’t he?

virulent convert

138 makeitstop  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:52:31am

Now for the important stuff:

CBS News reports the Pope’s Twitter account has been re-activated.

139 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:52:49am

Jeffress: Homosexuality Like Plugging a TV into the Wrong Outlet and Blowing It to Smithereens

“Think about this one time in heaven God was sitting up there with his sketch pad and he said, ‘you know I’m going to design human beings and would it be fun of they started doing this together with one another,’” Jeffress explained. “God dreamed up sex, He thought it up for our enjoyment, He gave us the equipment to enjoy it with.”

He went on to claim that homosexuality is like plugging a TV into a 220-volt power outlet rather than the recommended 120 outlet “because those are antiquated instructions” and “it’s my TV and I can do whatever I want to with it.”

140 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:53:20am

re: #133 dragonath

Gingrich is Catholic, isn’t he?

Convert.

141 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:53:22am

papal

does that have the same root as:

pablum

no, guess not.

142 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:54:16am

re: #139 Kragar (Antichrist )

Jeffress: Homosexuality Like Plugging a TV into the Wrong Outlet and Blowing It to Smithereens

No, I think that’s taking this guy as a serious voice on any topi.c

143 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:54:21am

Fox News puppet telling us he has his rosary on him as “we speak”.

144 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:54:40am
145 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:55:07am

re: #123 Dr Lizardo

It sort of was vaguely sitcomish.

I can deal with Jesuits quite easily. The ones I knew were really cool.

I bet. I always hoped my great uncle who was a priest was a Jesuit. Don’t know for sure since I know so little about him.

146 BongCrodny  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:55:29am

re: #143 FemNaziBitch

Fox News puppet telling us he has his rosary on him as “we speak”.

…and once again, Fox News leads the lamestream media when it comes to scoops.

147 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:56:06am

re: #145 HappyWarrior

I bet. I always hoped my great uncle who was a priest was a Jesuit. Don’t know for sure since I know so little about him.

Jesuits are cool. Smart as shit.

148 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:56:26am

Watching a livefeed on YouTube.

St. Peter’s Square looks like a pickpockets paradise.

Youtube Video
149 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:56:36am
150 Lidane  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:56:37am
151 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:57:19am

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

keep an eye out for Ezio.

/Assassin’s Creed Joke

152 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:57:29am

Whatever.

153 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:57:41am

re: #147 FemNaziBitch

Jesuits are cool. Smart as shit.

Yeah. They seem really into the world around us and figure out how, why, etc rather than just taking the Bible at its word. It’s why I like the Jesuits infinitely more than Christian Fundamentalists who think biblical literalism is the way to go.

154 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:57:41am

Most individuals who choose to lead a holy life are cool, it’s the lock-step devotion to Rome and idiocy that drives me insane.

Our parish nun is cool. I like her.

Priest is ok, always feel like he is judging me tho (trying to figure-out how he is going get me back into the “flock”). Sister isn’t like that.

155 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:57:48am

So, is this the part where they sacrifice a virgin?

Oh. That was the OLD time religion.

156 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:58:20am

re: #151 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

keep an eye out for Ezio.

/Assassin’s Creed Joke

LOL.

It’s interesting to watch. I know a couple of really devout Catholics, though that’s pretty rare here in the Czech Republic.

157 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:58:28am
158 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:58:51am

They totally need to get a wave going on in that square

159 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:58:59am

“expand the circle of G-d’s love in the world”

Oh yeah, unbiased journalism. Nice Fox.

160 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:59:18am

DAAAAAY OHHH

161 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:59:18am

re: #151 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

keep an eye out for Ezio.

/Assassin’s Creed Joke

I’m finally playing that series. It’s making me want to learn more about that era’s history.

162 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:59:52am

re: #155 Shiplord Kirel

So, is the part where they sacrifice a virgin?

Oh. That was the OLD time religion.

Just imagine if it were an Aztec Pope.

I’d daresay things could messy real fast.

163 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:00:14pm

re: #160 dragonath

DAAAAAY OHHH

White smoke come and you wanna go home.

164 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:00:19pm

re: #161 HappyWarrior

Did you play the first one then go to 2 etc? The story is truly epic and Ubisoft has the movie in the works. Whether it’s a new story or one of the originals it should be excellent.

165 Dr. Matt  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:00:22pm

Apparently the CPACtards really haven’t watched The Walking Dead since one of the main characters (Merle) is portrayed as conservative Racist who hates blacks, Democrats, and Hollywood.

166 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:01:16pm

re: #164 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Did you play the first one then go to 2 etc? The story is truly epic and Ubisoft has the movie in the works. Whether it’s a new story or one of the originals it should be excellent.

Couldn’t get into that series. Got part 2 when it was on sale and stopped after about an hour.

167 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:01:41pm

Image: image.jpg

168 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:01:45pm

re: #161 HappyWarrior

I’m finally playing that series. It’s making me want to learn more about that era’s history.

Ah, Borgia Time. Don’t believe everything you hear about the Borgias.

169 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:01:45pm

re: #164 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Did you play the first one then go to 2 etc? The story is truly epic and Ubisoft has the movie in the works. Whether it’s a new story or one of the originals it should be excellent.

Yep. I’m like uh in 1486 in II. Just got done with the Carnivale mission.

170 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:02:07pm

you miss a lot by not playing the original first. I loved the series, it was a nice change of pace from doing run and gun type games.

171 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:02:26pm

re: #168 FemNaziBitch

Ah, Borgia Time. Don’t believe everything you hear about the Borgias.

Yeah history’s biased. If I am going to do some scholarly reading, I’m going to look for writings by experts.

172 makeitstop  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:03:31pm

re: #165 Dr. Matt

Apparently the CPACtards really haven’t watched The Walking Dead since one of the main characters (Merle) is portrayed as conservative Racist who hates blacks, Democrats, and Hollywood.

Or maybe they have.

173 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:03:36pm

Yeah I’m a huge Metal Gear Solid fan as well. Also really enjoyed Tenchu(anyone remember that one?) as well. Stealth games are so much more enjoyable than shooters since you have to rely on thinking more than impulse.

174 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:03:44pm

re: #169 HappyWarrior

Nice. The two expansions for II are even better but I love the renaissance setting anyway.

175 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:03:59pm

Damn, it’s been an hour. Is this new pope 106 years old?

176 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:04:02pm

The final boss battle in Assassin’s Creed II is against a pope with a super powered staff.

177 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:04:28pm
178 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:04:50pm

re: #176 Mattand

The final boss battle in Assassin’s Creed II is against a pope with a super powered staff.

yeah it was fun leaping down as he was performing mass and gutting him in front of everyone. That Borgia was an ass.

179 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:04:53pm

re: #176 Mattand

The final boss battle in Assassin’s Creed II is against a pope with a super powered staff.

Awww, a super powered Hat would have been even better.

180 Decatur Deb  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:05:10pm

re: #168 FemNaziBitch

Ah, Borgia Time. Don’t believe everything you hear about the Borgias.

Well, they’re no Medicis, but they beat the hell out of the Sforzas. Gonzaga man, myself.

181 erik_t  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:05:27pm

re: #175 dragonath

Damn, it’s been an hour. Is this new pope 106 years old?

This guy is as detrimental to office productivity as March Madness.

182 Stanley Sea  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:05:40pm

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

Awww, a super powered Hat would have been even better.

Super powered red gucci’s

183 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:05:59pm

I think it would be cool if the new Pope stayed anonymous. The Unknown Pope. Maybe wear a Mexican wrestler mask.

I know, I’m going to hell.

184 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:06:04pm

OH MY GOD! Why is Fox News on in the other room?

Might as well be watching the Catholic Channel

185 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:06:29pm
186 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:06:34pm

re: #180 Decatur Deb

Well, they’re no Medicis, but they beat the hell out of the Sforzas. Gonzaga man, myself.

Medicis, History of Florence is interesting, as I remember.

187 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:06:54pm

re: #183 Charles Johnson

Pope Nacho Libre

188 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:06:56pm

re: #183 Charles Johnson

I think it would be cool if the new Pope stayed anonymous. The Unknown Pope. Maybe wear a Mexican wrestler mask.

I know, I’m going to hell.

There are Oreos, it will be ok.

189 Bubblehead II  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:07:02pm

Get ready. The doors are about to open.

190 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:07:15pm
191 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:07:19pm

Out pops Oderus Urungus

192 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:07:25pm

re: #183 Charles Johnson

I think it would be cool if the new Pope stayed anonymous. The Unknown Pope. Maybe wear a Mexican wrestler mask.

I know, I’m going to hell.

Interesting note: One of the most famous masked Mexican wrestlers of all time was El Santo, which in English is The Saint.

193 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:07:38pm

re: #187 lawhawk

Pope Nacho Libre

Stretchy hats!

194 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:07:43pm

Biggus Dickus

195 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:07:48pm

re: #183 Charles Johnson

I think it would be cool if the new Pope stayed anonymous. The Unknown Pope. Maybe wear a Mexican wrestler mask.

I know, I’m going to hell.

Santo El Santo?

196 Lidane  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:08:33pm
197 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:08:37pm

How did this get into my Breaking News Pope Twitter feed?

198 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:08:49pm

The CBS hosts are talking about Peter again.

199 CuriousLurker  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:08:54pm

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

Awww, a super powered Hat would have been even better.

LOL, for some reason I read that at “solar powered hat”.

200 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:09:25pm

re: #199 CuriousLurker

On MSNBC they’re pondering who the man behind the curtain is (apparently someone peaked out)

201 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:09:57pm

The wait is killing the stock market I just know it.

//

202 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:10:00pm

re: #200 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

On MSNBC they’re pondering who the man behind the curtain is (apparently someone peaked out)

Curtain #1?

203 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:10:14pm
204 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:10:43pm

re: #203 NJDhockeyfan

WHO DAT!

205 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:10:51pm

Been over an hour now. Probably the red shoes didn’t fit and they had to send an emergency order to Christian Louboutin or whoever makes the Pope shoes.

206 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:10:54pm

re: #52 Kragar (Antichrist )

I believe any Catholic can be elected Pope.

A Borgia was once Pope. After he bought a Cardinal’s position, as I recall.

207 Inner Partisan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:11:11pm
208 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:11:15pm

re: #205 Vicious Babushka

Been over an hour now. Probably the red shoes didn’t fit and they had to send an emergency order to Christian Louboutin or whoever makes the Pope shoes.

Hard to blow a glass slipper on such short notice.

209 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:11:55pm
210 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:11:55pm

re: #205 Vicious Babushka

Been over an hour now. Probably the red shoes didn’t fit and they had to send an emergency order to Christian Louboutin or whoever makes the Pope shoes.

Someone call Cardinal Nike!

211 Stanley Sea  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:12:00pm

re: #205 Vicious Babushka

Been over an hour now. Probably the red shoes didn’t fit and they had to send an emergency order to Christian Louboutin or whoever makes the Pope shoes.

Gucci. They’re local.

212 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:12:02pm

re: #206 Romantic Heretic

A Borgia was once Pope. After he bought a Cardinal’s position, as I recall.

They were all bought back then. It was more a political position than a religious position. All about power, keeping Europe from falling into anarchy and keeping the Vatican in gold.

213 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:12:04pm

HELLO CLEVELAND!!!

214 engineer cat  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:12:24pm

First Vulcan Pope Elected

“was the only logical choice…”

215 Bubblehead II  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:12:26pm

And the doors open.

216 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:12:50pm

Random code moment: how to mount an external disk in Mac OS, with shell commands.

disk="YOURDISKNAME"
name=$(diskutil list "$disk" | grep "$disk" | awk '{ print $6 }')
diskutil mount /dev/"$name"

To unmount, just change “mount” to “unmount.”

I’m using this in a scheduled backup script, to mount the drive, do the backup, then unmount it. This way it isn’t always spinning up and down automatically, it’s just off the desktop entirely except when backing up.

217 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:13:11pm

Latin speaker (proto-deacon?)

218 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:13:31pm

re: #213 dragonath

HELLO CLEVELAND!!!

These commandments go up to 11.

219 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:13:37pm

re: #217 FemNaziBitch

Latin speaker (proto-deacon?)

220 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:13:43pm

Cardinal from Argentina.

221 Bubblehead II  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:13:44pm

and the winner is……….. Francis…. Argintine and a Jesuit.

222 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:14:18pm
223 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:14:27pm

a JESUIT?

Is that what you said?

224 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:14:42pm

Ok, so the scene from Evita might work.

225 Inner Partisan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:14:48pm

OK, that is a surprise, I guess.

226 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:14:58pm
227 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:15:10pm

So, is he a reformer or a business and buggering as usual pick?

228 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:15:12pm

re: #222 Vicious Babushka

And wikipedia is already updated

229 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:15:14pm

Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio.

Pope Francis.

230 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:15:19pm

Lighten Up, it’s Francis!

231 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:15:39pm

re: #230 dragonath

Lighten Up, it’s Francis!

oh man the fun that will be had with that.

232 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:15:41pm

re: #220 lawhawk

Cardinal from Argentina.

Would it be wrong to call him Gaucho Marx?

233 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:15:50pm

CNN: “He eschews the trappings of power.”

234 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:15:51pm

born in 1936 —old pope

235 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:15:59pm

76 years old…so much for longevity.

236 erik_t  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:16:09pm

re: #227 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

So, is he a reformer or a business and buggering as usual pick?

Wikipedia suggests same shit, different pontiff.

237 Skip Intro  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:16:19pm
Any Catholic man over 75, I believe.

76 years old.

238 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:16:29pm
239 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:16:33pm

Chemistry major —strongly grounded in Science anyway.

240 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:16:41pm

re: #236 erik_t

Wikipedia suggests same shit, different pontiff.

Le Sigh.

241 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:16:51pm

re: #233 Charles Johnson

CNN: “He eschews the trappings of power.”

Right. The guy’s Pope now. That’s like saying fish avoid the wetness of water.

242 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:16:59pm

re: #235 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Ratzinger was like, 80?

243 erik_t  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:17:12pm

re: #236 erik_t

link

Liberation theology
Bergoglio is an accomplished theologian who distanced himself from liberation theology early in his career. He is thought to be close to Comunione e Liberazione, a conservative lay movement.
Abortion and euthanasia
Cardinal Bergoglio has invited his clergy and laity to oppose both abortion and euthanasia.[3]
Homosexuality
He has affirmed church teaching on homosexuality, though he teaches the importance of respecting individuals who are gay. He strongly opposed legislation introduced in 2010 by the Argentine Government to allow same-sex marriage. In a letter to the monasteries of Buenos Aires, he wrote: “Let’s not be naive, we’re not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.” He has also insisted that adoption by gays and lesbians is a form of discrimination against children. This position received a rebuke from Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who said the church’s tone was reminiscent of “medieval times and the Inquisition”


Stupendous.

/

244 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:17:14pm

re: #242 dragonath

Ratzinger was like, 80?

78.

245 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:17:18pm
246 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:17:27pm

Another old guard, anti-reformer.

247 Targetpractice  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:17:55pm

re: #246 Kragar (Antichrist )

Another old guard, anti-reformer.

But he’s from South America, so that’s progress…I guess…

248 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:17:56pm

re: #175 dragonath

Damn, it’s been an hour. Is this new pope 106 years old?

Didn’t miss that by much.

249 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:17:56pm

has there been a Jesuit Pope before?

250 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:18:07pm

They’re saying he’s an advocate for the poor. All well and good. But something tells me he’ll bring the crazy nonetheless.

251 Inner Partisan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:18:17pm

re: #249 FemNaziBitch

has there been a Jesuit Pope before?

No.

252 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:18:20pm

I’m really surprised they didn’t go with someone younger.

253 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:18:24pm

Too bad the new season of South Park doesn’t start until September.

254 Decatur Deb  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:18:26pm

re: #238 Vicious Babushka

Tapper might be wrong—Wiki lists 3 ancient ones from Mediterranean Africa.

255 Lidane  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:18:33pm
256 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:18:54pm

re: #252 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m really surprised they didn’t go with someone younger.

LOL, who says they didn’t?

257 erik_t  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:19:01pm

re: #250 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

They’re saying he’s an advocate for the poor.

Aren’t they all?

Never seems to matter much.

258 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:19:06pm

re: #227 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Wiki - pushing traditional church doctrine, including a vocal opposition to gay marriage.

259 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:19:08pm
260 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:19:13pm

Apparently he was slightly critical of free market policy and its effect on poor people.

Therefore, we’re going to hear all about how he’s a socialist from the usual sources.

261 Lidane  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:19:50pm

re: #250 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

They’re saying he’s an advocate for the poor. All well and good. But something tells me he’ll bring the crazy nonetheless.

Of course he will. That’s part of being the Pope.

He’s old and not a reformer. While I’m glad they went with a Latin American Pope and a Jesuit just for the change of pace, it’s not going to change much of anything in the end.

262 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:19:58pm

“Cooks his own meals”

-_-

263 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:20:21pm

re: #262 dragonath

“Cooks his own meals”

-_-

big la-de-da

264 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:20:33pm

re: #262 dragonath

“Cooks his own meals”

-_-

Ramen receipts or it didn’t happen.

265 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:20:48pm

re: #259 Vicious Babushka

Photo shot in Grovel-Vision,

266 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:20:54pm

re: #258 lawhawk

Yeah, I know a lot of Latin American catholics (friends of my in-laws) and they are the really rabid ones, not all but the devout ones could give lessons to the talibaptists.

267 engineer cat  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:21:13pm

re: #243 erik_t

He strongly opposed legislation introduced in 2010 by the Argentine Government to allow same-sex marriage. In a letter to the monasteries of Buenos Aires, he wrote: “Let’s not be naive, we’re not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.” He has also insisted that adoption by gays and lesbians is a form of discrimination against children

pope wingnut the 413th

268 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:21:28pm

“Not a Vatican Insider”

…well he is now

269 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:21:54pm

re: #268 dragonath

“Not a Vatican Insider”

…well he is now

No kidding, he STILL hasn’t come out yet!

270 erik_t  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:21:58pm

re: #267 engineer cat

pope wingnut the 413th

I should have quoted that whole fucking paragraph in purple Comic Sans.

Very disappointing. Hugely unsurprising.

271 darthstar  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:22:04pm

We’ve got a new pope. For the record, we spent more time deliberating over Casey Anthony’s verdict.

272 Bubblehead II  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:22:07pm

re: #262 dragonath

“Cooks his own meals”

-_-

Whoop de do.

273 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:22:09pm

Interesting. BBC historical podcast on the subject said that the Pope’s name would be related to the saint. Checked out Francis of Assisi (assuming this is who he’s going by Francis) and his feast day isn’t until October.

274 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:22:14pm

re: #249 FemNaziBitch

has there been a Jesuit Pope before?

No… and I thought there was a technicality about being a Jesuit that prevented them from becoming Pope. They swear allegiance to the Pope, so they can’t be the Pope themselves.

Maybe that was a myth.

275 Targetpractice  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:22:24pm

re: #262 dragonath

“Cooks his own meals”

-_-

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is not impressed.

276 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:22:31pm

re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg

No kidding, he STILL hasn’t come out yet!

The bureaucrats are still getting his control chip installed.

277 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:22:53pm

He’s giving the magic gestures now.

278 Joanne  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:22:54pm

re: #96 erik_t

My catholicism is apparently not as lapsed as I thought. I’m weirdly excited to find out who it is.

Not sure about that. I’m Jewish (granted, non-practicing, but it is in my DNA) and I am weirdly excited.

279 darthstar  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:23:10pm

An Argentinian pope? I can’t wait to hear him shout, “GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!”

280 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:23:10pm
281 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:23:37pm

MUHAAA NOW BEGINS MY PLAN TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD

282 CuriousLurker  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:23:44pm

re: #266 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Yeah, I know a lot of Latin American catholics (friends of my in-laws) and they are the really rabid ones, not all but the devout ones could give lessons to the talibaptists.

Heh, the super of our building is from Uruguay and she has a whole little sort of shrine set up in the hallway outside her door. She hardly ever talks about religions though (at least not to me).

283 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:23:45pm

re: #279 darthstar

An Argentinian pope? I can’t wait to hear him shout, “GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!”

I hope the Brazilians are willing to invite him to visit the World Cup next year.

284 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:24:03pm

Pope Stares-A-Lot

285 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:24:18pm

There’s a brass band playing some kind of odd martial music. Don’t recognize the tune.

286 iossarian  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:25:39pm

re: #285 Charles Johnson

There’s a brass band playing some kind of odd martial music. Don’t recognize the tune.

Oh when the popes
Go marching in
Oh when the popes go marching in

Hide your pre-pubescent children
Oh when the popes go marching in

287 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:25:52pm

re: #279 darthstar

An Argentinian pope? I can’t wait to hear him shout, “GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!”

Don’t you mean “GOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDD!!!!” ?

288 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:26:05pm

re: #285 Charles Johnson

There’s a brass band playing some kind of odd martial music. Don’t recognize the tune.

Wouldn’t Vuvuzelas be more appropriate?

289 blueraven  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:26:10pm

I think we should at least give the new Pope a chance, and lets see what he does.

290 CuriousLurker  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:26:21pm

Regardless of what you think of the church/pope/religion, it has to be pretty sobering to come out onto that balcony and have the reality of what you’re now responsible for really hit you.

291 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:26:24pm

Greetings Puny Humans!

292 darthstar  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:26:41pm

At least we won’t have to hear about Paul Ryan’s shitty budget plan for the rest of the day.

293 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:27:27pm

re: #292 darthstar

294 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:27:31pm

I hope he applies those new red shoes to booting some asses, nonetheless.

On the other hand, I have this deep concern that the Pope really doesn’t have the power, in spite of the ritual and sacred trappings of his authority. There’s so much money and…power of a particular, intimate variety…at the top of a Church that I have no doubt that some of those cardinals and show-runners in Vatican City are going to fight tooth and nail against openness and clarity.

295 Targetpractice  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:27:35pm

re: #292 darthstar

At least we won’t have to hear about Paul Ryan’s shitty budget plan for the rest of the day.

Get the feeling there’s more than a few Republicans on Capital Hill thanking God for that.

296 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:27:44pm

re: #289 blueraven

I think we should at least give the new Pope a chance, and lets see what he does.

We should, but Catholic Church.

297 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:27:48pm

Well, he’s smiled more in the first 5 minutes than Benedict’s entire reign

298 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:27:52pm

re: #289 blueraven

I think we should at least give the new Pope a chance, and lets see what he does.

“Bergoglio, a Jesuit, has affirmed church teaching on homosexuality, contraception and abortion and is considered to be among the most conservative in Latin America.”

I won’t be holding my breath.

299 Inner Partisan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:27:56pm

No worries, though. Lionel Messi is still the most important person in Argentina.

300 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:28:14pm

re: #292 darthstar

At least we won’t have to hear about Paul Ryan’s shitty budget plan for the rest of the day.

What part of “YOU LOST” doesn’t Paul Ryan understand?

301 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:28:21pm

I must say, this guy does have a pleasant voice.

302 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:28:46pm

re: #300 Charles Johnson

What part of “YOU LOST” doesn’t Paul Ryan understand?

They didn’t lose. The Liberals stole the election remember??

303 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:28:53pm

re: #301 Eclectic Cyborg

I must say, this guy does have a pleasant voice.

SARUMAN THE WHITE!

304 Killgore Trout  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:28:57pm

re: #290 CuriousLurker

Regardless of what you think of the church/pope/religion, it has to be pretty sobering to come out onto that balcony and have the reality of what you’re now responsible for really hit you.

But what should be on the mind of every castle dweller is what it’s going to be like when the peasants scale the walls and take it all.

305 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:29:22pm

re: #303 dragonath

SARUMAN THE WHITE!

You owe me a new keyboard.

306 darthstar  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:29:48pm

re: #300 Charles Johnson

What part of “YOU LOST” doesn’t Paul Ryan understand?

Asshole is joining the GOP chorus of “if we keep saying this shit people will believe it by 2014”…good luck with that.

307 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:29:57pm

When do they crown him with the magic hat? That’s what I’m waiting for.

308 engineer cat  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:31:11pm

he’s now reading the vatican restaurant menu

309 BongCrodny  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:31:19pm

re: #289 blueraven

I think we should at least give the new Pope a chance, and lets see what he does.

“All we are saying, is give Pope a chance.”

310 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:31:26pm

re: #274 Charles Johnson

No… and I thought there was a technicality about being a Jesuit that prevented them from becoming Pope. They swear allegiance to the Pope, so they can’t be the Pope themselves.

Maybe that was a myth.

Who knows.

311 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:31:45pm

GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn’t Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional

“Just because the Supreme Court rules on something doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s constitutional,” Bridenstine said in a Daily Caller interview posted Sunday. After accusing Democrats of “stacking the courts in their favor” — five of the current nine justices were appointed by Republican presidents — Bridenstine dismissed the idea that Congress must write laws within the boundaries set by the Supreme Court. “That’s not the case,” the Oklahoma congressman said.

The interviewer, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginni Thomas, didn’t have the heart to correct Bridenstine’s peculiar view of the Court’s role.

312 Lidane  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:31:58pm

re: #299 Inner Partisan

No worries, though. Lionel Messi is still the most important person in Argentina.

A+ post, would quote and upding again.

313 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:32:03pm

re: #282 CuriousLurker

My father-in-law has cancer and the Mother-in-law (who’d much closer to religion than he is) invited over her uber catholic latino friends. They said that My father-in-law and mother-in-law needed to be married in the church and until then they could not have “relations” and basically my FIL would not go to heaven if they didn’t get married in the church. They also said we needed to get rid of my cats and that my wife and I should get married in the church or we’ll be damned, blah blah blah.

My wife kindly informed them “Hell No” and that there’s no way I would go for it (she was quite correct). She also informed them that trying to talk to me would not result in anything good, for them anyway.

I went to a Mass with them once that was in remembrance of my FIL’s father. Turned out to be the longest church service I ever went to and wasn’t just for the FIL’s dad but for a ton of other people as well as normal church business. It was also the first time I have seen a collection plate passed around about 20 times.

314 wrenchwench  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:32:16pm

re: #307 Charles Johnson

When do they crown him with the magic hat? That’s what I’m waiting for.

They miter they might not do it right away.

315 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:32:37pm

re: #311 Kragar (Antichrist )

GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn’t Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional

*sigh*

316 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:32:57pm

re: #290 CuriousLurker

Regardless of what you think of the church/pope/religion, it has to be pretty sobering to come out onto that balcony and have the reality of what you’re now responsible for really hit you.

Yeah, the intrigues, the vipers trying to stab you in the back, the yes-men telling you want you cannot do …

317 CuriousLurker  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:32:59pm

re: #304 Killgore Trout

But what should be on the mind of every castle dweller is what it’s going to be like when the peasants scale the walls and take it all.

Well, yeah, that’s part of what would make it so sobering. All those people, not just the ones there in front of him, but the millions of others they represent… as the Pope, if you screw up it’s on a major fricking scale

318 Lidane  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:33:12pm

re: #311 Kragar (Antichrist )

GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn’t Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional

*headdesk*

319 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:33:19pm

re: #311 Kragar (Antichrist )

GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn’t Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional

Uh, someone must have not passed 8th grade civics class because that’s exactly what they do.

320 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:33:32pm

At least we were spared Pope Paul Ryan

321 Targetpractice  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:33:38pm

Sounds like someone’s car alarm is going off.

322 CuriousLurker  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:33:52pm

re: #316 FemNaziBitch

Yeah, the intrigues, the vipers trying to stab you in the back, the yes-men telling you want you cannot do …

Heh, yeah, that too.

323 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:33:57pm

re: #294 The Ghost of a Flea

I hope he applies those new red shoes to booting some asses, nonetheless.

On the other hand, I have this deep concern that the Pope really doesn’t have the power, in spite of the ritual and sacred trappings of his authority. There’s so much money and…power of a particular, intimate variety…at the top of a Church that I have no doubt that some of those cardinals and show-runners in Vatican City are going to fight tooth and nail against openness and clarity.

I think the church owns quite a big of property and a few politicans around the world. There is a lot of power there.

324 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:34:03pm

Really someone who comes from the party that gave us Justices Scalia, Alito, and Thomas should shut his fucking mouth about “court stacking.”

325 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:35:13pm

re: #320 dragonath

At least we were spared Pope Paul Ryan

He would have been Pope if not for voter fraud robbing him.

326 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:35:22pm

re: #311 Kragar (Antichrist )

GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn’t Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional

The interviewer, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginni Thomas, didn’t have the heart to correct Bridenstine’s peculiar view of the Court’s role.

My understanding is that Mrs. Thomas is major league Tea Party. Given the usually pathetic Tea Bag grasp of government, it’s entirely possible she agrees with the Congressman.

327 Targetpractice  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:35:24pm

re: #311 Kragar (Antichrist )

GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn’t Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional

I’ve heard that on occasion from opposition of “judicial activists,” the argument that judicial review has no Constitutional basis and that the Founders intended the court to only advise Congress on whether a law was constitutional or not, that Congress was responsible for acting on that ruling.

328 Inner Partisan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:36:12pm

re: #325 Kragar (Antichrist )

He would have been Pope if not for voter fraud robbing him.

I blame the Crimson Panthers!

329 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:37:11pm

We wouldn’t be having this conversation if USSC had voted to overturn ACA. All this is a severe case of butthurt from a Republican who probably thought ACA was a goner.

330 Dr. Matt  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:37:31pm

They get to choose from the old white virgin, the old brown virgin, or the old black virgin. The suspense is killing me……

331 Mattand  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:37:36pm

re: #327 Targetpractice

I’ve heard that on occasion from opposition of “judicial activists,” the argument that judicial review has no Constitutional basis and that the Founders intended the court to only advise Congress on whether a law was constitutional or not, that Congress was responsible for acting on that ruling.

That’s not much of a check or balance. Besides, the people screaming about judicial activism tend clam up when the ruling goes towards conservatives.

332 blueraven  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:38:11pm

re: #298 Kragar (Antichrist )

“Bergoglio, a Jesuit, has affirmed church teaching on homosexuality, contraception and abortion and is considered to be among the most conservative in Latin America.”

I won’t be holding my breath.

Did you really expect different from any Pope on homosexuality or abortion? Maybe a bridge too far at the moment.
I was hoping to see a hint of flexibility on contraception.

333 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:38:12pm

re: #330 Dr. Matt

They get to choose from the old white virgin, the old brown virgin, of the old black virgin. The suspense is killing me……

You really think they are virgins?

334 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:38:32pm

re: #312 Lidane

A+ post, would quote and upding again.

The Brazilians here are sorta amused in a head-shaking way about an Argentinian becoming Pope.

335 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:38:49pm

re: #330 Dr. Matt

They get to choose from the old white virgin, the old brown virgin, of the old black virgin. The suspense is killing me……

It would have been something to have to pope go out there and moon everybody

336 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:39:48pm

Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro: The only reason for ethnic studies is ‘to meet girls’

“Look, I took Jewish studies courses when I was at UCLA. There are only two reason that you take a Jewish studies course. The first is to meet girls, and the second is to get an easy A.”

“And that’s why most students are taking ethnic studies courses, unless they’re buying into this radical ideology that really is the basis of all ethic studies courses throughout America.”

“That explains a lot about the make up of some of those classes back in my school,” Kelly quipped.
…
Earlier on Wednesday, Shapiro had appeared on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) where he told televangelist Pat Robertson that Republicans “need to stop arguing policy” and “punch back twice as hard” at Democrats.

“When they are called racist, the proper response is not, ‘Oh well, you know, I have black friends,’ That’s a silly response,” Shapiro opined. “The actual response should be, ‘No, you are racist for boiling racism down to anything with which you disagree.’ What that does is it demeans racism, it makes racism into something that means nothing. And that’s something Republicans need to do on a more regular basis.”

“We need to expose their tactics. The fact is that all of liberalism is based on slight of hand. They don’t have facts or evidence to back their positions so what they do instead is they play this moral game. They’re arguing character and we’re arguing policy.”

337 Dr. Matt  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:40:04pm

Pope Jorge.

338 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:40:06pm

re: #329 HappyWarrior

We wouldn’t be having this conversation if it were a GOPer who proposed the identical legislation that President Obama did and it was enacted in a similar fashion.

Individual mandate, the provision that the GOP came to call unconstitutional, was originally proposed by conservatives, including the Heritage Foundation, as a way of increasing personal responsibility.

But for who championed the bill, the GOP would have supported these same measures.

339 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:41:01pm

If the Church really cared about poor people, they’d sell some gold relics and feed people with the proceeds.

I can’t stand the wealth that surrounds the Pope.

There are social workers that do more good than the Pope.

340 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:41:03pm

re: #307 Charles Johnson

The Magic Hat is later.

341 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:41:37pm

re: #336 Kragar (Antichrist )

Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro: The only reason for ethnic studies is ‘to meet girls’

Shapiro acts like all liberals do is call conservatives racist when we disagere with them. No, fuckface, we call you racist when you say racist bullshit that deserves to be called out but continue with the woe is conservative me crap.

342 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:42:24pm

ok, i’m going to be productive , . .

later all

343 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:42:48pm

Already saw one.

344 Decatur Deb  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:43:00pm

Market is up 6.66.

345 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:43:05pm

OK, having gotten a good look at Ben, I can honestly say this guy looks like the poster child for Date Rape Awareness.

Image: fox_al_shapiro_130313a-615x345.jpg

Creepy looking bastard.

346 CuriousLurker  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:43:25pm

Hmm, BBC was speaking to one of their reports who happens to be from Argentina. He said there was a rather nasty row between Bergoglio and the government over same-sex marriage. No time to Google it as I have to get back to work now… BBL

347 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:43:29pm

re: #338 lawhawk

We wouldn’t be having this conversation if it were a GOPer who proposed the identical legislation that President Obama did and it was enacted in a similar fashion.

Individual mandate, the provision that the GOP came to call unconstitutional, was originally proposed by conservatives, including the Heritage Foundation, as a way of increasing personal responsibility.

But for who championed the bill, the GOP would have supported these same measures.

That too. Seriously, how ACA has been made out to be this massively leftist legislation is hilarious. The law is more closer to what Bob Dole proposed in the 1990’s than what Ted Kennedy championed for years. There’s a reason why a lot of liberals weren’t happy with it. I mean it is what it is, I’d rather have something than nothing in the end but to act like it’s leftist shows how nuts the Republicans are getting.

348 BongCrodny  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:44:01pm

re: #336 Kragar (Antichrist )

Breitbart editor

Oxymoron alert!

349 Joanne  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:44:11pm

re: #300 Charles Johnson

What part of “YOU LOST” doesn’t Paul Ryan understand?

I’d say the YOU. And the LOST.

350 wrenchwench  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:44:23pm

re: #346 CuriousLurker

Hmm, BBC was speaking to one of their reports who happens to be from Argentina. He said there was a rather nasty row between Bergoglio and the government over same-sex marriage. No time to Google it as I have to get back to work now… BBL

It’s posted above. It’s a scam by the Devil, and so on.

351 erik_t  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:44:49pm

re: #348 BongCrodny

Oxymoron alert!

Regular kind of moron alert.

352 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:45:19pm

re: #349 Joanne

I’d say the YOU. And the LOST.

Image: 3ogxbr.jpg

353 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:46:52pm

I think Ben Shapiro has serious issues with women.

354 Targetpractice  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:47:08pm

re: #347 HappyWarrior

That too. Seriously, how ACA has been made out to be this massively leftist legislation is hilarious. The law is more closer to what Bob Dole proposed in the 1990’s than what Ted Kennedy championed for years. There’s a reason why a lot of liberals weren’t happy with it. I mean it is what it is, I’d rather have something than nothing in the end but to act like it’s leftist shows how nuts the Republicans are getting.

True, but the GOP of 2009 was not the one of 1996. Were Dole still around Capital Hill, he’d either have had to pull McCain’s bit of dashing to the far-right to keep his seat or he’d be marginalized as a “RINO.”

355 CuriousLurker  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:47:15pm

re: #350 wrenchwench

It’s posted above. It’s a scam by the Devil, and so on.

Thanks, I’d totally missed that.

356 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:47:31pm

re: #353 Gus

I think Ben Shapiro has serious issues with women humans.

Fixed.

357 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:49:44pm

Wingers always getting their heads up their asses about ethnic studies programs. Really, I’ve known but a handful of people who actually majored in these. And frankly, if you’re a student of literature or music, those classes can be helpful. But no let’s freak our shit because there’s a class that specializes in focusing on African American, Asian American, etc culture.

358 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:50:08pm

Gonzaga’s #1, it’s been a good week for Jesuits

359 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:50:24pm

re: #354 Targetpractice

True, but the GOP of 2009 was not the one of 1996. Were Dole still around Capital Hill, he’d either have had to pull McCain’s bit of dashing to the far-right to keep his seat or he’d be marginalized as a “RINO.”

True that. And that’s what is pathetic. They’ve grown more reactionary with time.

360 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:50:24pm

re: #354 Targetpractice

True, but the GOP of 2009 was not the one of 1996. Were Dole still around Capital Hill, he’d either have had to pull McCain’s bit of dashing to the far-right to keep his seat or he’d be marginalized as a “RINO.”

Sort of like how he was ignored and the issue he was supporting got voted down the last time he visited the Capitol?

:p

361 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:50:29pm

re: #344 Decatur Deb

it’s not being too kind to me today, but then again I don’t have a ton of money invested at this point. I am working on that part.

362 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:50:58pm

re: #357 HappyWarrior

Wingers always getting their heads up their asses about ethnic studies programs. Really, I’ve known but a handful of people who actually majored in these. And frankly, if you’re a student of literature or music, those classes can be helpful. But no let’s freak our shit because there’s a class that specializes in focusing on African American, Asian American, etc culture.

And the invariable “Why is there no white people studies class?”

“Because that is every other social sciences class offered, that is why.”

363 dragonath  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:51:10pm

re: #357 HappyWarrior

LIBERAL

ARTS!

364 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:53:39pm

re: #362 Kragar (Antichrist )

And the invariable “Why is there no white people studies class?”

“Because that is every other social sciences class offered, that is why.”

Seriously, when you take a general history or literature class, you’re going to get mostly white writers or focus on white people. Thinking about the post 1945 literature class I took my final semester as an example. Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison were the only non-white writers we read.

365 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:55:01pm

Results for pope nazi

Bigots.

366 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:58:31pm

re: #365 Gus

Results for pope nazi

Bigots.

The annoying thing about that kind of shit is it distracts from very legitimate points of criticism. The bigotry of course sucks too.

367 Inner Partisan  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:58:41pm

@YesYoureRacist has been retweeting massive amounts of ugly, ugly shit these past few minutes.
The fact that those dipshits assume everyone from South America is automatically “non-white” exemplifies, above all, two things:
1) Most racists really are that fucking stupid, and
2) Not only racism, but the concept of “Race” itself is just incredibly absurd.

368 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 1:08:10pm

re: #365 Gus

Results for pope nazi

Bigots.

At some point they’re going to haul out Juan Peron.

Because everybody in the country is automatically complicit, because Not A White People Place.

369 taserian  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 1:10:45pm

My uncle is a priest in the Catholic Church, a lawyer who studied Roman Law and taught it for many years in college, and was until recently a two-star general (chaplain) in the Armed Forces in the Dominican Republic (where my parents are originally from).

My standing joke with him was that when he passed away, I wouldn’t know if he was going to heaven, hell or Valhalla.

370 Gus  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 1:10:58pm

re: #367 Inner Partisan

@YesYoureRacist has been retweeting massive amounts of ugly, ugly shit these past few minutes.
The fact that those dipshits assume everyone from South America is automatically “non-white” exemplifies, above all, two things:
1) Most racists really are that fucking stupid, and
2) Not only racism, but the concept of “Race” itself is just incredibly absurd.

Sheesh. Now you know what I had to put with. They’re calling him a wetback.

371 Joanne  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 1:12:06pm

re: #352 Kragar (Antichrist )

Image: 3ogxbr.jpg

Hmmm…how to get that point across to Mr. Ryan?

372 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 1:14:25pm

re: #367 Inner Partisan

@YesYoureRacist has been retweeting massive amounts of ugly, ugly shit these past few minutes.
The fact that those dipshits assume everyone from South America is automatically “non-white” exemplifies, above all, two things:
1) Most racists really are that fucking stupid, and
2) Not only racism, but the concept of “Race” itself is just incredibly absurd.

It’s actually a really diverse region. In one of Joyce’s Dubliners stories, the protagonist is hoping to sneak away to Buenos Aires with her lover. People who think “Oh, it’s just a bunch of Spanish speaking brown people” are not just being bigots, they’re being stupid but that’s par the course with bigots.

373 CuriousLurker  Wed, Mar 13, 2013 4:33:39pm

re: #313 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

My father-in-law has cancer and the Mother-in-law (who’d much closer to religion than he is) invited over her uber catholic latino friends. They said that My father-in-law and mother-in-law needed to be married in the church and until then they could not have “relations” and basically my FIL would not go to heaven if they didn’t get married in the church. They also said we needed to get rid of my cats and that my wife and I should get married in the church or we’ll be damned, blah blah blah.

My wife kindly informed them “Hell No” and that there’s no way I would go for it (she was quite correct). She also informed them that trying to talk to me would not result in anything good, for them anyway.

I went to a Mass with them once that was in remembrance of my FIL’s father. Turned out to be the longest church service I ever went to and wasn’t just for the FIL’s dad but for a ton of other people as well as normal church business. It was also the first time I have seen a collection plate passed around about 20 times.

I totally missed this earlier—my apologies.

I wish people wouldn’t be so damned inflexible. It’s not helpful at all. *sigh* Sorry to hear about your FIL’s illness. :(


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