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Hey, Chez Ami/Yosemite Sam
(With apologies to S.J. Perlman
...on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars to twenty-four times the magnification of any previous telescope. This remarkable instrument was unsurpassed in the world of astronomy until the development and construction of the Mount Palomar telescope.
The Mount Palomar telescope is an even more remarkable instrument of magnification. Owing to advances and improvements in optical technology, it is capable of magnifying the stars to four times the magnification and resolution of the Mount Wilson telescope.
Yosemite Sam, if you could somehow put the Mount Wilson telescope inside the Mount Palomar telescope, you still wouldn’t be able to see my interest in your opinions
My quotes can beat-up your quotes any day of the week
(OK, IANS admites he attributed the quote to the wrong man because he is sure that Yosemite Sam would pick-up the error and echo it as he has done so often with other errors)
Here's a site documenting just a small portion of the victims who suffered at the hands of criminal illegal aliens. You might research them and find a way to donate to their cause.
Here's a GoFundMe a campus minister at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi pointed me to. It's for two little boys who were orphaned recently. If you guys could pitch a few shekels at it it, it will be remembered in your favor on That Day: http://www.gofundme.com/a2b... The campus minister is named Amy Barragree if you don't trust the link.
What's the back-story?
All I know is what she told me: http://www.patheos.com/blog...
Does anything demonstrate the triviality of the Pewsitter base more clearly than the fact that it has actually wasted a whole day obsessing angrily over a brief gag on Eye of the Tiber?
"The reason academic quarrels are so vicious is that the stakes are so low." - Henry Kissinger
Oh my gosh. He posted a quote. Well he must be right, if he posted a quote. That right there is a game-changer. A quote. A Kissinger quote. Hard to top that. Check and mate.
I guess the only thing more pathetic than the Pewsitter base having a discussion online would be the individual who actually bases his livelihood on posting things online and then soliciting donations.
Says the guy who's apparently STILL roosting on this gag-thread just in case his name pops up.
His Sheaness farts again.
It's been fun. Back to my scribbles. Willard, whoever you are, good luck convincing these guys you aren't me. They'll never believe you. They are way too smart for that. :)
Yep, best run back to your hugbox before you find yourself exposed to a disagreeing thought. Such a veil of tears having to deal with plebs who do not recognize your brilliance I'm sure.
I thank you for your support, my brother bishop.
Oh look, birds of a feather......
I know. Apparently you are the only Pope Francis supporter in the entire Catholic blogosphere.
P.S. You really should vote for Bernie Sanders. Did you see his tweet today? "Some people say my economic ideas are radical. You should hear what the Pope is saying." It's gone viral and has 1,500 favorites.
I'm going to start a GoFundMe page to raise money so Willard and Strife can have their own discussion board.
Someone just sent me a PM explaining that Willard and Strife are the same (very bored) person.
He could be. On the internet nobody knows if you're a...
...oops, lost my train of thought...
No we're not. But in my admittedly poor defense, I was off today so you won't be seeing a repeat any time soon.
They're working on new punctuation: the FrancisMark: >p
Good one!
LOL
I didn't even have to look at GOPewsitter to know that they linked to this post. Their groupies are out in force in the combox.
Translation: you've been getting your irrational liberal/progressive arse handed to you in the ongoing debates....
Uh huh. Bring it dissenter.
Dissenter? define that. And I have been binging it. Now then, have you gotten rid of all of that evil air conditioning like pope fwanky told you to do?
I can spot conservatives masquerading as Catholics from a mile away. I have no doubt you dissent from the Church's teachings on the economy. You really want to go there?
Very clever to claim that those who stand firm against the onslaught of progressives high-jacking the Church are dissenters, when it is the ideas now emerging at the top of the Church were the very soul of dissenting arguments until the election of this pope. Before that, your ilk constantly whined about your repression by the two previous popes.
"I can spot conservatives masquerading as Catholics from a mile away."
uh-huh. So now you're citing your own papal infallibility. LOL
So.... does this mean that "No" you have not gotten rid of your evil air conditioning?
So let's see. You dodged the question on Catholic teaching on economics. You dodged the question on why GOPewsitter fails to condemn the intrinsic evil of strip clubs. But you want me to answer your question about air conditioning?
Your harping on this point must be right out of the progressive playbook, where a lefty masquerades as viewing various sexual sins as actually sinful.
But you fail to account for how every news organization - whether reporting like the DC Post or aggregating like Pewsitter - employs universally accepted practices of "gate-keeping" whereby some stories are selected an others not.
Accusing such organizations of political bias for failing to run stories on certain issues is an old but not very effective tool for those opposing the inevitable slant of such organizations. That's why very few waste time doing it, because no one with any real political savvy wishes to apply the same reasoning to those organizations representing their own POV.
The Drudge Report is much more intentionally in line with the interests of the GOP than Pewsitter, in that the former works in a decidedly politically context (albeit with some leanings in sympathy to Christian values), and the latter is motivated by adherence to Church teaching rooted in the Magisterium, Scripture, and Tradition. Naturally, many but not all of the views linked by Pewsitter are favorably disposed to secular conservative positions, and the GOP is the most likely secular political expression of those views just like the Donkey serves the same purpose for those writing for the Huffington Post. So what else is new.
You are an inexperienced, foolish lefty who is so inexperienced and immature in your politics that you remain ignorant of these realities. You come off the fool much more than you realize.
The truly charitable thing to do on your behalf would be to cite Abraham Lincoln's sage advice to one of your own:
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
But ignore that.
Keep posting. It's such great fun to watch someone persist in committing intellectual hari-kari even after he's expired.
Oh, but I'll bet you a dime to donuts that you're quite pleased with the recent SCOTUS ruling on queers and you can't wait for queer-friendly Kasper to get his say in the upcoming synod. Does your parish have a womyn priest yet? Or do you stand outside of it with a protest sign?
If you're going to bet, you might as well read the comments so you don't look like an ignoramus . As I already explained, I'm a Catholic. That means I accept ALL the teachings of the Church including on homosexual "marriage". Pope Francis has already excommunicated left wing dissenters like Fr. Greg Reynolds. Now it's time to go after the right wing dissenters like the folks at GOPewsitter.
Oh...that's why he invited nothing but lefty mayors and such from the U.S. to discuss "climate change".
I dodged? Really?
I've asked you (numerous times) if you've gotten rid of your evil air conditioning like pope fwanky wants you to do .... and you have yet to answer. You're simply trying to distance yourself from your obvious obfuscation.
So have you gotten rid of your evil AC?
Oh and I do condemn strip clubs. But then I didn't know that all conservatives were Catholics and I didn't realize that Texas areas with strip clubs represented all conservatives.. Why do you insist on conflating the two things?
I'll be happy to answer your question on air conditioning as soon as you address mine on GOPewsitters failure to address strip clubs and the Church's teaching on economics including the just wage DOCTRINE.
How can he answer your demand to explain what Pewsitter does or does not do? You're asking the wrong person.
Strife can answer only for himself, and he knows the same is true for you.
This is another reason you appear to be a fool. You refuse to answer for yourself until he answers for someone else.
You are hiding behind Pewsitter, and your cowardice to own your own position has long ago become evident to all.
Coming from the dissenter Zmirak that is a high compliment.
Have you figured out yet that Willard is not me?
Thank you for showing some class.
Zmirak definitely hates Shea. Zmirak had a good thing going where he thought he could convince everyone that all Catholics had to support the evil Republicans. Shea has at least thrown a monkey wrench into that. Nevertheless, Shea's fatal flaw is that he refuses to vote Dem thereby indirectly supporting the Republican party.
Yeah, so much better to vote for the party that would like abortion to be the 8th sacrament.
Hilarious. After years of listening to the GOP tell me that a vote to a third party is really a vote for Dems, I am now informed that a vote for a third party is really a vote for the GOP. Nobody seems to consider the possibility that a vote for a third party is really a vote for a third party.
Also, hilarious is watching rat patrol accusing total strangers of being me. Keen discernment!
Are you telling me that if I mark my ballot for a third-party candidate, that very third-party candidate's sum is increased by one, not the Republican nor Democratic candidate's?
Somebody quickly call the FEC! The Diebold machines are actually working properly! Inconceivable!
Yeah. So - have you finally accepted man-made global warming as a doctrinal Truth as declared by your Pope?
You mean "our Pope"? Or are you not a Catholic?
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