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Oh, no! The President talked to the Pope as if they were both normal dudes, instead of as if he had a stick up his ass. The sky is falling!
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It might, you know.
Popes can do that. There’s a button inside the hat.
[QUOTE=calm kiwi]
Though I loathe George, it’s not like the Catholic church is unfamilar with the death penalty, they have had centuries of practice.
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Where and when?
[QUOTE=calm kiwi]
Though I loathe George, it’s not like the Catholic church is unfamilar with the death penalty, they have had centuries of practice.
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True, but these days the Church is less prone to go on a Crusade. Not that I, though raised a Catholic, really care one way or the other about the church, being secular, and am offended by comments from Pope John Benedict (or whatever he calls himself these days) about the dangers of secularism and his followers bleating on about “militant” atheism.
But when it comes to utter gall, Bush takes the cake with that comment about life being sacred. It would be nice, though, if the pope would at least challenge King St. George on his belief that all life is sacred, considering his history and philosophy. After all, in this century the Church preaches love and acceptance and all that, and are against the war in Iraq and opposed to the death penalty. How could he not reply to this? Jesus Christ probably would have exhausted all possibilites before invading Iraq. But then, since Christ was all about forgiving your enemies, he wouldn’t have such a hard-on for Saddam to begin with. And of course, if Christ were governor of Texas, all death sentences would have been commutted.
The hypocrisy of this statement, “all life is sacred,” (which of course is not exclusive to Bush but to a good third of the country who still think he’s a great president) aggravates me. It’s nothing new or surprising. We’ve had the displeasure of getting to know Bush for close to eight years now. But for him to speak so valiantly, holding himself up as some moral point in front of what some people say is the “holy” father, even though he has so much blood on his hands, is disgusting.
But to these a-holes, life begins at conception and ends when you come screaming out of the womb. After that, life remains sacred only under special conditions.
[QUOTE=blinkingblinking]
I do not understand why these lame threads do not get moved to MPSIMS.
Bush’s usage of the ‘awesome’ just shows how out of touch he is. The word is only used these days as slang by young people. Most dictionaries would still define the word as -impressive or overwhelming as to inspire a strong feeling of admiration - for at least one meaning of the word.
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No, some Christians are using it these days in the religious sense. There is a popular worchip song titled “Awesome God”. Remember Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention in 2004? “And in the blue states we worship an awesome God”?
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux]
No, some Christians are using it these days in the religious sense. There is a popular worchip song titled “Awesome God”. Remember Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention in 2004? “And in the blue states we worship an awesome God”?
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Quite an excellent worthip song, to boot. I have a great techno remix.
[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead]
Quite an excellent worthip song, to boot. I have a great techno remix.
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Little-known fact: Da Vinci’s Last Supper originally depicted Jesus at a rave, sucking on a lollipop and wearing a miner’s helmet with a lamp.
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]
Fifty-six posts and nobody (not even Bush) has commented on the most important aspect of Popie’s visit - The Pope Wears Prada.
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They made a movie about that.
[QUOTE=Jolly Roger]
I think its some kind of internet comedy act. Seriously. Its like reading the funnies in the morning paper. “Oh, 2 1/2, what are you up to this morning?” and all that.
Then you read the thread and think “He can’t possibly be that upset about this! Its not worth the effort!”, but we all read it and post about it, good or bad. Its funny in that sad kind of way that a crazy man on the corner is funny.
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I dunno, I mean, maybe there’s not a ton of vitrol to be worked up over this, but I’m glad it was called to my attention. I think it’s kind of hilarious.
[QUOTE=Shodan]
How about “Hey, Your Holiness - that speech was sweeter than an altar boy’s cherry!”
Regards.
Shodan
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Fairly rude, given that there isn’t the slightest hint that GWB (for all his other faults), or Benedict (for all his aggressively-unpopular theological stances pre-Papacy) had the slightest of the homosexual, pedophile tendencies that opportunistically insinuated themselves into (and were very badly defended against by) the Catholic Church in recent post Vatican II decades.
Notably, one of Benedict’s early official acts was to banish Fr. Maciel of the Legionaries of Christ, who very probably bothered a lot of teenage seminarians back in the day (and, who had been granted a personal prelature, which is to say, something like his own branch of the Church, by a more credulous JPII).
[QUOTE=Miller]
Possibly, it’s because I’m Californian, and out here “awesome” is considered formal speech.
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Not anymore, really. It’s kind of gone by the wayside.
[QUOTE=atomicbadgerrace]
I’m sure he meant it as “hey, great job.”
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If he had said that, it still would have been presumptuous. It’s not the term “awesome” as much as it is to say, “Don’t worry Pope, I approve of your speech.” It’s the casualness of the comment.
I don’t find it pit-worthy, but it does seem like Bush is just trying to make the Pope quickly take his seat so the program move along.
[QUOTE=Windwalker]
I imagine Bushie as he greets the Popie: “Dude, where’s your Bible? Huh huh! CAN’T GET FOOLED AGAIN!”
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Can someone fill me in on what this is reference to? I never caught it.
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun]
So are “totally” and “radical.”
By the way, does everyone know that “gullible” is not the dictionary. I couldn’t believe it myself, but then I tried looking it up. Its weird.
Yes it is.
Try Chambers and look under “gull”
[QUOTE=atomicbadgerrace]
Two and a Half, do you just dig through the news every single day, actively looking for something that you could possible work up enough anger about to post in the Pit? It’s second nature now for me to go into your Pit threads, and expect you to be all fired up about… nothing.
I loathe GWB as much as the next person, but c’mon, this? Here? In the Pit? Can’t work up the anger.
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Meh. The OP’s a veritable piker when it comes to lame anti-Bush Pit threads. The absolute champion of such threads was a fellow by the name of Reeder, who managed to get himself banned for it. An example of his handiwork can be found here.
Y’know, I think it’s time we reclaimed “awesome” from the frat boys and California surfers. When used in the proper way, as mentioned before with the religious songs, the word has a certain… majesty to my ears that no other synonym matches.
Is it futile? I don’t know. but I think it’s worth trying.
[QUOTE=chowder]
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun]
So are “totally” and “radical.”
By the way, does everyone know that “gullible” is not the dictionary. I couldn’t believe it myself, but then I tried looking it up. Its weird.
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Yes it is.
Try Chambers and look under “gull”
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ñ WHOOSH
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[QUOTE=Fear Itself]
ñ WHOOSH
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I play this joke all the time. Unfortunately some of my aqauintances have been too gullible. They just accept that it isn’t in the dictionary and don’t bother looking. 
[QUOTE=Huerta88]
Fairly rude, given that there isn’t the slightest hint that GWB (for all his other faults), or Benedict (for all his aggressively-unpopular theological stances pre-Papacy) had the slightest of the homosexual, pedophile tendencies that opportunistically insinuated themselves into (and were very badly defended against by) the Catholic Church in recent post Vatican II decades.
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I wasn’t pretending that he does - it seems just the opposite, in fact.
I’m just being an asshole.
Regards,
Shodan
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun]
I defy any person to watch the video and try to honestly claim that Bush is using the term in the religious sense meaning inspiring awe. He is clearly using “awesome” in its slang sense meaning outstanding.
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I make that claim. Now what?
Still and all, in his last days as the HMFIC, he’d actually get credit from me if he had the cojones to go all Spicoli on his Popey-ness.
I stand by my claim.
[QUOTE=guizot]
Can someone fill me in on what this is reference to? I never caught it.
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Bush was trying to reference the old “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me,” but ended up botching it, of course.
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushvideos/v/bushfoolme.htm
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushvideos/youtube/bushfoolme.htm