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Thursday, September 21, 2006

This Week That This Week Was (So Far)

Just a few thoughts on the news items of the week:

The United Abominations

Tuesday the President spoke at the UN, delivering a softball speech that stopped well short of calling Iran out on the carpet for their rogue nuclear arms program and their active support of Hezbollah's terrorist strikes against Israel (not that they've ever really covered up the Iran / Hezbollah connection). Anyway, One remark the President made in particular really tickled me.

Speaking directly to the people of Iran, Dubya said:

We admire your rich history, your vibrant culture, and your many contributions to civilization.

Oh, yes. And your oil. Did we mention that we admire your oil? Oh, of course, your oil isn't the only thing we admire. The way you people have spent hundreds of years running around out there in the desert killing each other over barbaric religious beliefs... that has, you know, woven a cultural tapestry of blood and camels and guns and stuff... and we admire all that crap. And your contributions to civilization… I mean, come on! Who can imagine a day without Iranian cuisine, Iranian music, or my favorite, Iranian interpretive dance. So, yeah, blah blah blah, your culture, your history, your religion, yadda yadda yadda. And the oil. If you culturally fascinating savages can put down those wonderful automatic machine guns for a few minutes, we'd like to talk about buying some of that oil.

He recommended that the world body's headquarters be moved to another country and offered his own as a possible new home.

GREAT

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Slick Just Wanna Hear Da Troof

God bless Bill Clinton. He's still sooooo much fun.

I hadn't seen this clip of Slick ranting against ABC's 9/11 movie… but it's classic, bald-faced, shameless Clinton spin. Same vacuous content, same brazen lies, same down-home delivery. In the linked video clip, Slick says:

"I just want people to tell the truth, and not to pretend that something's not."

He also took the opportunity to remind us once again that he did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski… and that he did have an affair with her "for the worst reason, because I could." Then he told us about his administration's ceaseless efforts to bring Osama bin Ladin to justice by having a number of his underlings talk about him while refusing to act on opportunities to get him. Then he ordered a beer and a burger, slapped the reporter on the back and said with a wide grin "Aw, come on man… I'm just bulls**tin' ya, ya know that, right?"

The Church Under Attack

The Catholic Church continues to suffer attacks, both from without and from within. The New York Times (aka The Old Gray Turd) has taken the time to lecture the Pope on how the Church should relate to Islam:

As his unfortunate comments show, the pope needs high-level experts on Islam to help guide him. In offering his regrets, the pope said that in its totality, his speech was intended as “an invitation to frank and sincere dialogue, with great mutual respect.” In living up to that, he and other top Vatican officials will have to accept that genuine communication cannot occur on their terms only.

Oh, yes. If there's one thing that most of us Catholics agree on, it's that our spiritual leader needs guidance from experts on Islam. And if there's a second thing that we agree on, it's that the New F%$#%NG York Times is the wisest of all possible authorities on these matters.

Yes, by all means, Islamic advisors should be recruited in droves and sent to the Vatican so that we Catholics will have the opportunity to better understand the subtle nuances of things like Islamic attempts to assassinate the Pontiff and the murders of nuns and burnings of churches and the burning of the Pope in effigy. These kinds of restrained and cryptic actions on the part of the "Arab street" are hard for many of us to understand. Why, some of us have gotten the idea in the past few years that many muslims want to kill non-muslims! Oh, WHERE ON F%#$@#NG EARTH did we come up with that notion? Pleeeeease, can we get some high-level Muslim advisors in Rome right away so that we'll better understand the peaceful religion of Islam?

Excuse me, I have to walk away from my PC for a few moments, I seem to be CHOKING ON MY OWN BILE.

(BLEEEGGGHHHHHH)

OK, all better now.

Anyway, the Church is also facing enemies from within in the form of archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, a rogue bishop (I can't bring myself to capitalize "bishop" in Milingo's case) who's whirling about in the US with his common law wife, demanding that the Catholic Church change hundreds of years of canonical tradition and allow priests to marry.

Alright, so I can hear some of my protestant friends now… "Maybe the Catholic Church should allow priests to marry. Didn't priests used to be allowed to marry in the early days of the church? Aren't some Episcopal and Anglican clergy who are married allowed to convert to Catholicism and become priests while remaining married? Why are they allowed wives and other priests aren’t?"

All of which are valid questions, worthy of consideration and understanding... but that has nothing to do with a nutball like Milingo. Not only do I question the authenticity of Milingo's bishopric, I question his very Christianity:

He became a supporter of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church and in May 2001, at the age of 71, married Maria Sung, a 43-year-old Korean acupuncturist in New York. This marriage was arranged by Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Father Gabriele Amorth, Rome's chief appointed exorcist, who knew Emmanuel Milingo, believes that he was "brainwashed by the Moon sect."

Sun Myung Moon, in case you don't know, considers himself to be the Messiah and has actually been taken seriously by many American who should know better:

More than a dozen lawmakers attended a congressional reception this year honoring the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in which Moon declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings have helped Hitler and Stalin be "reborn as new persons."

At the March 23 ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) wore white gloves and carried a pillow holding an ornate crown that was placed on Moon's head. The Korean-born businessman and religious leader then delivered a long speech saying he was "sent to Earth . . . to save the world's six billion people. . . . Emperors, kings and presidents . . . have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."

So, right there, you see… Moon's devotee Emmanuel Milingo is the last person to raise the question of priestly marriage.

Why the Church hasn't gone ahead given him the boot is beyond me. According to the American Papist, She may be about to do so.

Lefties Quake Before George Allen's Cowboy Boots

Va Republican Senator George Allen is one of the few Republican senators with no need to worry about his Senate seat this fall. In fact, he's already eyeing a Presidential run in 2008. Allen is a smart, likable Regan conservative who can work a room as well as Clinton ever did… so, naturally, the liberals are already trying to burry him.

An off-hand remark Allen made about an adversaries employee is, thus far, the only thing that the left can come up with to beat over Allen's head:

Senator George Allen (R-VA) has provided the most recent firestorm with his use of the term “Macaca” to describe a Democratic operative haunting Allen’s every move.

Although no one can pin down the exact meaning of “Macaca,” the liberal media has enough information with which to proceed in its relentless crusade to run Republican Allen out of town, the United States, and the universe--if at all possible.

This from the same mainstream media that gave Robert Byrd (Democrat, West Virginia) a pass for his use of the word "nigger" and was sympathetic to those who attacked Michael Steele (Republican, Maryland) based on his race.

Allen's remark was tasteless and thoughtless, and he's apologized for it. Nonetheless, the left continue to trumpet this "career ending" slip on Allen's part.

Fortunately, the left is beginning to push the issue too far, as this video shows.
And, as the worm turns, this issue is beginning to play in Allen's favor.

Permalink -- Posted by Darrell at 06:50

Comments:

I wonder how the UN officials would feel about being relocated to Venezuela, giving up their opulant lifestyle, enjoying the culture and fruits of the very country they claim to disdain. Let them have their expense accounts in a third world toilet.

# posted by

The Unseen One : 10:19 AM

I had a couple Iranian friends in college. I think Bush's comments about Iran were very proper. Iranians get offended when they are mistaken for Arabs. Persian culture and history does rival that of the Greeks, although unlike Greece, Iran has had a minority fanatic group manage to hold power there for 27 years. Now we have a whole generation of people raised that way.

Not that I know anything about the nun in Somalia, but I am curious if her murder really was related to the pope's remarks. I frequently hear about innocent people in Somalia being murdered. To me, it's just as likely that she was targeted for being a westerner as she would be for being Catholic.

I don't have any evidence to back this up. Just that yesterday as I was questioning my own beliefs, I wonder if we have gotten too paranoid about the Islamic countries. Every bad thing that happens in any country now has to have some mention of its relation to Islam.

It's because of the coup in Thailand...all news reports on the day of the coup emphasized that this new military leader is a Muslim in a predominately Buddhist country. But so far I see little evidence that this coup had anything to do with religion. Similar questions can be posed about the Parisian riots last year.

Just a drive-by comment; my mood may change again by the end of today.

Sincerely,
The Governor

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:57 PM

The Iranians had the least ignorant culture in the middle east until the ayatollahs took over & changed all of that.

# posted by

cube : 1:48 PM

I think Americans would LOVE to vote to have the UN moved OUT of our country and go ANYwhere, but here. We'd also like to stop giving the UN so much money just so they can continue to NOT do what they say they will do and so they can continue working AGAINST America every chance they get.
"Abominations" is right!!

The reaction to the Pope's remarks just shows that that radical, maniacal Muslims are not capable of the "sound reason" he was trying to say was needed among religions instead of violence. The cartoons awhile back brought about the same OVERreaction.
Christians and Jews are mocked constantly, and yet you don't see violent reaction.

# posted by

Jamie Dawn : 3:49 PM

Moon should really be investigated, he's not a citizen, says his goal is to "subjugate the American government and population" and he's spent billions successfully manipulating our political system and no one seems to care.

I guess it helps to have friends in high places.

Here is where he made much of his cash.

# posted by

Del : 12:13 AM

Excuse me, I have to walk away from my PC for a few moments, I seem to be CHOKING ON MY OWN BILE.

Sad to say, you are so right on! Of course, you were cracking me up when I read your post.

The church we attended Sunday had a stained glass window of the Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Guadalupe) and she's standing on the crescent moon. My husband made a comment that even in church now we have to be ever vigilant to a possible sucide bomber.

# posted by

PaulaB52 : 1:46 PM