Bitch Fight – Ted Cruz vs. Diane Feinstein – She has more Balls than Vagina – He has more…or whatever that is for those People up in Canada where his birth certificate claims he was born…

Canadian American (So-Called), Ted Cruz Recently of Texas (from a driver's license I.D.?)

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/14/feinstein-describes-feelings-during-exchange-with-arrogant-colleague/

Washington (CNN) – Saying she felt "patronized" by Senate colleague Ted Cruz, Sen. Dianne Feinstein explained Thursday why she felt the need to raise her voice in anger at the Texas Republican during a debate over gun control.

"I felt he was somewhat arrogant about it," Feinstein said of Cruz's suggestion the Senate Judiciary Committee was ignoring the Constitution during its debate over banning semiautomatic firearms.

She spoke on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer."

(Documented?) Texas Employees - Ted Cruz con Rick Perry

 http://massiveenormity.blogspot.com/2013/02/ted-i-have-list-cruz-new-joe-mccarthy.html

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Matthew Fox on Pope Francis I - First American Pope (South America) – Author of The Pope’s War - Video

First American Pope - Francis I

For my readers, an excellent insightful video which I recommend with transcript, comments from Matthew Fox, a theologian, Episcopalian priest, formerly RC, author of the current book The Pope’s War. Commenting on the current pope, “Opus Dei” and “Communion and Liberation” cults, the renewed  Catholic Inquisition etc..

Thanks to Jayden Cameron over at Gay Mystics commenting on Bilgrimage  for this video lead.

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Pope Francis - The First 24 hours of RC Glory

It took a lot of reading but I am not certain which Saint Francis the new pope is dedicated to, the Francis of Assisi or Francis Xavier.

Francis of Assisi is the name I heard repeated over and over again by the many news outlets on Cable. 

It spread by word of mouth by these news mannequins giving the rabble the official version of joy and hope and God?

Francis of Assisi has been the so-called model of the simple archbishop of Buenos Aires hiding the assets of his church in the fear of literally thousands of lawsuits from the offed relatives of the regime 1976-1983 that Gorge Bergoglio managed to survive, co-exist with, prosper under with the convicted war criminal Videla’s regime etc.

A fellow blogger on a political blog wanted links of direct connections with the junta generals and Bergoglio. I am afraid there are none. Those links and or documentation got purged from public view decades ago.

I am afraid that just like John Paul II and Benedict XVI, we have to accept at face value Pope Francis or is it Francisco’s disgust of those nasty putty tat Generals that he survived under to become as “God” intended a great man in white. 

John Paul II of course survived slave labor in a mine while moonlighting in the resistance and Benedict was forced to join the Hitler Youth. He never told us whether he enjoyed the Hitler Youth, being a place where his father could not beat him up or have to witness the domestic violence of his father to his mother etc. 

Or that the Hitler Youth as the spies of the German nation were the ones who beat up the minorities in the streets. But of course by the time Benedict came of age, all the good minorities had already been disappeared by the regime. Etc.

Here I am not being sarcastic but definitely cynical.

As for Francis and his hiding political prisoners for the regime on the island in his vacation home in the middle of the River Plata - No doubt in the summer time, one could sit on the veranda of that vacation home owned by Francis or is it the Jesuits and with a little radio info sit and watch the junta throw victims, commies, pinkos out of planes and helicopters into that River Plata from a mile up and watch the splash of white foam on the Horizon that had once been a human life, a child of god. 

Some other god and not the one true white Christian GOD that is. What joys and or mercies! 

Perhaps the one or two well connected guests that got away, living in his cellar (dungeon) paid the Jesuits well enough by selling off the family estates for the “Opps, We lost a Prisoner” bullshit along with giving the regime a cut of the bribe money etc.

A half way negotiation religious retreat house for profit for those who looked like they could gather the gelt for bribes?

And then there is the other Francis, Francis Xavier, a victim of political persecution of Spain in that as a native Basque he saw his ancestral castle torn down and he under some act of vision and or Stockholm Syndrome goes off and converts all the yellow devils in Asia for the Pope and or the Jesuit Party.

Two things about the “Francis Thing” already and less than twenty four hours into his overlapping wane cover administration with his co-emperor Benedict in the shadows -

- one is that pure Uber-White American Catholic type people feel comfort I think in a new coded word, are calling him by the anglo “Francis” (a sissy sounding name from the times of my Catholic youth) - taking great orgasmic body language pleasure in using the name "Francis" (Fox News) and that he is, get this, of great relief!, of Italian (European) descent, not Hispanic inferior race quality. 

These Ubers already have 22K gold fringe on the millions of Holy Cards already being printed of Pope Francis I.

- two - The name Francisco like the city out west has a much more romantic or artistic connotation sound to it, perhaps even a gay sound dare I say it. STAMP IT OUT!

So, there you have it, the new pope, ready to serve the Jesuits RC church and an offset to the growing power of the growing disease, the rot in the timbers that will literally bring St. Peter’s Basilica to dust in our lifetimes, the Opus Dei crowd and their termite colonies of drones forming everywhere on the planet.

Have a nice day. 

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Is Pope Francis Elect’s Hands Covered in the Blood of Argentina’s Dirty Little War that Killed and Tortured Tens of Thousands - Crimes of the RC Church in Argentina

Mothers of the Plaza of May Seeking Information About their Missing Relatives in Argentina

Did the RC Church profit from the sale of Babies of Female Prisoners who disappeared after they gave birth in Prison?

http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2012/07/babies-as-commodity-for-cash-in.html

The aging ex-Argentine dictator gets yet another sentence of 50 years added to his imprisonment in a baby stealing ring among his cadre of military thugs.  An estimated 13,000 pregnant prisoners of Argentina’s “dirty war” disappeared.  It is now thought that those women were executed once they gave profit to a profitable commodity like a new born baby.

Did Cardianl Bergoglio aka Pope Francis give aid and comfort to the monsters that ran Argentina 1976-1983? 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jan/04/argenitina-videla-bergoglio-repentance?fb=native

What one did not hear from any senior member of the Argentinian hierarchy was any expression of regret for the church's collaboration and in these crimes. The extent of the church's complicity in the dark deeds was excellently set out by Horacio Verbitsky, one of Argentina's most notable journalists, in his book El Silencio (Silence). He recounts how the Argentinian navy with the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission the dictatorship's political prisoners. Bergoglio was hiding them in nothing less than his holiday home in an island called El Silencio in the River Plate. The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as an accessory to murder and false imprisonment.

Above photo related to the:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_of_the_Plaza_de_Mayo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War

Missing Persons / Victims in Argentina's Dirty War

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How Can GOP Oppose Fair Immigration Reform with a Latin Pope Francisco I Ruling in Rome?

Spanish Speaking Future American Citizens Scaling the Pat Buchanan Memorial Border Wall in Texas

Spanish is in!

Spanish Culture and Music is in!

European Culture is about to take a back seat to 21st century global reality?

Pat Buchanan is out if not already dead!

How can the GOP oppose Immigration Reform when the Pope in Rome is a native Latino?

An Argentino!

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Praise Ye The Father - Chinese - It is becoming a global culture every day.

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Swiss Guards Covering up the Sex Crimes of the Vatican? Who has Police Jurisdiction in the Largest “Gay Sauna” in Europe in Rome – The Rome Police or the Pope?

I have to wonder if the Lateran Treaty gives police jurisdiction in matters of crimes and or sex crimes by clergy reported to authorities in the City of Rome - to Italian or Papal forces? To whose police department do these crimes get reported to?

In this case below where the Vatican may own the majority share of some palace condo complex with a big gym sauna hookup in the basement, who gets called when a Cardinal rapes an of age, but non-consenting adult working out at this gym?

Do the Rome Police take the report and hand it over to the Swiss Guard/Private Police Force protecting the Vatican City State and properties claiming diplomatic immunity under the Vatican seal – are these reports filed and forgotten in the Swiss Guard Barracks/Police HQ – or do they simply get shredded immediately as matters of state security.

Who gets those reports of drunken Cardinals running naked in the streets of Rome in the early hours of the A.M.? And who cover ups or destroys these theoretical reports??? (theoretical - yeah right)

That the drunken, sex crazed priests, bishops and cardinals can do anything they want to and expect sex crimes reported to legitimate authority to be taken care of, a policy reflected worldwide, macro, in the abuse of millions of children in the past five decades?

That while many would want to shift blame to “homosexuals” and their so-called disordered natural state – perhaps the crime is in that closeted homosexuals commit crimes too just like the heterosexuals but get and have a better chance of covering up the crime along with the heterosexuals in the Vatican or in Rome in buildings flying the Vatican Diplomatic Flag? 

The First Gay Political State (closeted of course)?

There was some real bad crime covered up under the John Paul II / Secretary of State Sodano administration in the form of blaming, perhaps framing Swiss Guard Cedric Tornay for some other cover up of sex crimes in the Vatican Hierarchy that Cedric’s boss Alois Estermann knew too much about?

Ask Cardinal Rigali what he knows.

 

Cardinal Rigali traveling on a free dime through life even after the Philadelphia Child Abuse Fuck Up on his watch.  A free ride because of what he knows about the sex crimes of the higher ups in the Vatican as father confessor to the Swiss Guards and one of the keystones and or stepping stone for this moron's rise in the ranks of the hierarchy with no other credentials of intelligence and or humanity? -  

- and incidentally voting today with him, some unnamed sex criminals, red hats, about to name the next cover-upper of sex crimes worldwide and the Vatican in the New Pope – like New Coke – a temporary fad I would imagine.

I prefer Pope Classic, the real thing. None of the Shit I have seen or tasted for the past thirty odd years or so etc.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/as-cardinals-gather-to-elect-pope-catholic-officials-break-into-a-sweat-over-news-that-priests-share-23m-building-with-huge-gay-sauna-8529670.html

A day ahead of the papal conclave, faces at the scandal-struck Vatican were even redder than usual after it emerged that the Holy See had purchased a €23 million (£21 million) share of a Rome apartment block that houses Europe’s biggest gay sauna.

 The senior Vatican figure sweating the most due to the unlikely proximity of the gay Europa Multiclub is probably Cardinal Ivan Dias, the head of the Congregation for Evangelisation of Peoples, who is due to participate in tomorrow’s election at the Sistine Chapel.

 This 76-year-old “prince of the church” enjoys a 12-room apartment on the first-floor of the imposing palazzo, at 2 Via Carducci, just yards from the ground floor entrance to the steamy flesh pot. There are 18 other Vatican apartments in the block, many of which house priests.

 The Holy See is still reeling from allegations that the previous pontiff, Benedict XVI, had quit in reaction to the presence of a gay cabal in the curia.

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Father Ted - Small, Far Away - Parts 3, 4

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Claudio Valdés - Nuestro Momemto - Chile

Is the System Corrupt Enough to Make Tim Dolan of NYC the next Pope?

Tim Dolan was giving depositions just as he was borrowing a billionaire’s jet to hop the Atlantic and take Rome by Media Storm. But not to worry. The cemetery deal was about burying cash and not bodies – ha ha.

Then again I can remember Governor Fife Syminton III of Arizona running for Governor not to be governor but solely to avoid prosecution in the Savings and Loan fraund scandal in Phoenix and let’s not forget Governor George W. Bush of Texas about to be indicted in the Enron Fraud thing. Seeking and holding a higher office can keep the dogs of justice at bay sometimes. 

Now would be a good time for Tim to move on to bigger and better things.

God knows that Benedict was not Rock Star material.

And if the modern papacy is to be of the John Paul II model, the Rock Star PR Media fantasia thing, then Tim Dolan is the next pope coming from the PR, BS Media Capital of the Planet, New York City.

Seems like yesterday I had never heard of Tim Dolan from Milwaukee and he shows up unannounced to become the instant favorite son of Gotham City. Wow. Instant local media celebrity. Don't bother to check to see how dirty his laundry coming from Milwaukee is - his drawers etc. - (nasty business - the truth)

http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-mick-rc-archbishop-in-nyc-tim-dolan.html

The nostalgia just overwhelms me with the thought of losing Tim to Rome and the Big House Time Show.

Yeah right.

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Cardinals Do Harlem Shake to Elect Pope

Climbing (Building) Jacob's Ladder - World Trade Center - Tower One - NYC

http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3672&page=877

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WTF - What do John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney, Bush 41 & 43, Petraeus and Opus Dei have in Common? – Their Luxury Suites at Hotel Hell for all Eternity

Oscar Romero - Hugo Chavez
Liberation Theology - Sacred and Secular

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/28/fascism_in_the_church_ex_priest

"When Reagan was elected, two months later there was a meeting of his National Security Council in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to discuss one thing: How can we destroy liberation theology in Latin America? And they concluded: We can’t destroy it, but we can divide the church. And so they went after the pope. They gave him lots and lots of cash for solidarity in Poland. And in exchange, they got the permission, if you will, the commitment on the part of the papacy, to destroy liberation theology."

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So, history and cheerleading of popes, what I call papolatry, will not cover up the facts. This has been the most sordid 42 years of Catholic history since the Borgias. And as I say, I think it’s really about ending that church as we know it. I think Protestantism, too, needs a reboot. 

I think all of Christianity can get back more to the teachings of Jesus, a revolutionary around love and justice. That’s what it’s about. And that’s why there’s been such fierce resistance all along from the right wing. 

The CIA has been involved in, especially with Pope John Paul II, the decimation of liberation theology all over South America, the replacing of these heroic leaders, including bishops and cardinals, with Opus Dei cardinals and bishops, who are—well, frankly, it’s a fascist organization, Opus Dei is.

It’s all about obedience. It’s not about ideas or theology. They haven’t produced one theologian in 40 years. They produce canon lawyers and people who infiltrate where the power is, whether it’s the media, the Supreme Court or the FBI, the CIA, and finance, especially in Europe.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/el-salvador-iraq-police-squads-washington

Steele's contribution was pivotal. He was the covert US figure behind the intelligence gathering of the new commando units. The aim: to halt a nascent Sunni insurgency in its tracks by extracting information from detainees.

It was a role made for Steele. The veteran had made his name in El Salvador almost 20 years earlier as head of a US group of special forces advisers who were training and funding the Salvadoran military to fight the FNLM guerrilla insurgency. These government units developed a fearsome international reputation for their death squad activities. Steele's own biography describes his work there as the "training of the best counterinsurgency force" in El Salvador.

Of his El Salvador experience in 1986, Steele told Dr Max Manwaring, the author of El Salvador at War: An Oral History: "When I arrived here there was a tendency to focus on technical indicators … but in an insurgency the focus has to be on human aspects. That means getting people to talk to you."

But the arming of one side of the conflict by the US hastened the country's descent into a civil war in which 75,000 people died and 1 million out of a population of 6 million became refugees.

Celerino Castillo, a Senior Drug Enforcement Administration special agent who worked alongside Steele in El Salvador, says: "I first heard about Colonel James Steele going to Iraq and I said they're going to implement what is known as the Salvadoran Option in Iraq and that's exactly what happened. And I was devastated because I knew the atrocities that were going to occur in Iraq which we knew had occurred in El Salvador."

It was in El Salvador that Steele first came in to close contact with the man who would eventually command US operations in Iraq: David Petraeus. Then a young major, Petraeus visited El Salvador in 1986 and reportedly even stayed with Steele at his house.

But while Petraeus headed for the top, Steele's career hit an unexpected buffer when he was embroiled in the Iran-Contra affair. A helicopter pilot, who also had a licence to fly jets, he ran the airport from where the American advisers illegally ran guns to right-wing Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. While the congressional inquiry that followed put an end to Steele's military ambitions, it won him the admiration of then congressman Dick Cheney who sat on the committee and admired Steele's efforts fighting leftists in both Nicaragua and El Salvador.

In late 1989 Cheney was in charge of the US invasion of Panama to overthrow their once favoured son, General Manuel Noriega. Cheney picked Steele to take charge of organising a new police force in Panama and be the chief liaison between the new government and the US military.

Cardinal Dolan – Angelman Syndrome?

Should the Future Pope Need to Pass a Physical? 

– Besides the Balls Test to prove he is not a woman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelman_syndrome

Angelman syndrome (pron.: /ˈeɪndʒəlmən/; abbreviated AS) is a neuro-genetic disorder characterized by severe intellectual and developmental disability, sleep disturbance, seizures, jerky movements (especially hand-flapping), frequent laughter or smiling, and usually a happy demeanor.

Currently at large in Rome

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Taco Bell – USA Horsemeat Policy – Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?

Safe at McDonald's? - Good Luck Horsey

The American press/media has kept a lid on the contaminated food chains in Europe whereby Beef Products like the mystery meat filler they put into Taco Bell tacos in the UK is actually mixed with horsemeat.

Just because the Americans don’t want to know, are too dumbed down on Medicaid Pharma test drugs, don’t want to test the filth that does not in many cases have to be labeled as filth on the label of the meat product - 

Does not mean that horse meat or Chinese chickens at KFC gorged on Chinese human feces is not being sold in American supermarkets or fast food outlets like Taco Bell or KFC.

Don’t ask. Don’t tell. Don’t wanna know!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/horse-meat-taco-bell-ground-beef_n_2790158.html#slide=more281348

LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - Britain's food regulator said on Friday that testing had found horsemeat in ground beef at Taco Bell UK fast-food outlets, a discovery that puts new pressure on parent Yum Brands Inc, which is grappling with a food safety scare in China.

Taco Bell said the horsemeat issue is isolated to its UK market, where the Mexican-inspired chain has just three restaurants, and that it will step up testing of its beef.

On Monday, Yum said it would stop using more than 1,000 poultry slaughterhouses in China as it moves to tighten food safety and reverse a sharp drop in business at KFC restaurants in its top market after a scare over contaminated chicken.

Europe's horsemeat scandal erupted in January, when testing in Ireland revealed that some beef products also contained equine DNA.

It since has spread across the continent, ensnaring numerous well-known brands, prompting product withdrawals, consumer concerns and government investigations into the region's complex food-processing chains.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/business-consumer/clarissa-dickson-wright-says-horse-1708847

"My big bugbear is food labelling. The Trade Descriptions Act says a product can be named by the last place where something substantial was done to it.

"So we have Chinese chicken fed on human excrement, killed in China and brought to Britain and washed in saline and put in a bag and it becomes British chicken.

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Gabby GIffords to Congress - “Be bold. Be courageous. Support background checks.”

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2013/03/06/gabby-giffords-be-bold-be-courageous-support-background-checks

Gabby Giffords returned today to the Safeway parking lot where a gunman shot her through the head two years ago to urge the U.S. Senate to take action on legislation requiring background checks. 

Flanked by her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, Giffords delivered a brief message to Congress: “Be bold. Be courageous. Support background checks.”

  

Giffords, Kelly and several of the other victims and survivors of the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting massacre gathered this afternoon to encourage Arizonans to ask Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake to support expanding background checks. 

 

The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to mark up a background-check bill tomorrow, but Politico reported this afternoon that a bipartisan effort to craft a bill had fallen apart over differences regarding whether non-licensed sellers would have to records of firearm transactions. 

As Giffords and Kelly arrived at the Safeway this morning, they laid a bouquet of white flowers at the memorial for the six people who were killed during the Tucson rampage: 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green, federal Judge John M. Roll, Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman and retirees Dorothy Morris, Phyllis Schneck and Dorwan Stoddard. 

Kelly, with Giffords by his side, then took to the podium to call on the public to contact McCain and Flake to let them know they should support new laws that would expand background checks to gun sales by unlicensed dealers and to make it easier to block sales to mentally ill people who pose a danger to themselves or others.

http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2011/01/21/photo-gallery-of-memorial-at-nw-safeway-where-the-jan-8-shootings-occurred/

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Shadow Pope - In the Garden - Willie Nelson

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78 Cardinals Needed to Make a Pope - 115 Cardinals Times (x) .666 (2/3) = 76.59 Rounded Off to 77 Plus one Vote = 78

78 Cardinals Needed to Make a Pope - 115 Cardinals Times (x) .666 (2/3) = 76.59 Rounded Off to 77 Plus one Vote = 78 

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Papal Conclave - McPope with or w/o Fries? - Which Guy is Giving out the Swag Bags?

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The Vatican (Benedict)’s Payback to the Irish and the Brits – Gentlemen’s Club Membership Cancelled? – Omerta goes bye-bye - Watch Your Backs Conclave!

Cardinal Keith O'Brien of Scotland - Not a Red Hatted Friend in Sight

One cannot but help notice that the Italian media have led the way against two Cardinals with Irish Names.

Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles has gotten the heat in the Italian press not to show up and vote for Pope.

Born in Northern Ireland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland got the heat in the media real fast when Omerta evaporated away and Priests and or former seminarians got phone calls (?) out of the blue for an intervention for poor dear Keith - no doubt, anonymous phone calls (?), old phone numbers listed in files from decades old complaints, from the not so secret Herranz Report overlapping with the Ratzinger Worldwide Pedophile Legacy Archive in the Vatican -

– all of a sudden accusations against Keith came out of the closet and he was getting payback from the Italians for all the nasty Irish Politicians that have put the Vatican in the its place lately? Talk of legalization of abortion in Irish Parliament etc. Legalization of Gay Marriage in Britain etc.

And retired Philly Crime Boss Justin “Big Frank” Rigali, an I-talian, not so much as a peep of the Child Abuse mess in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and how he was allowed to walk away from those crimes against children and humanity, and retire in the lap of luxury in the lap of his protégé Bishop Stika's Baliwick in Knoxville Tennessee. 

Does Pennsylvania have an extradition treaty with Tennessee?

No justice in the world.

Plenty of hypocrisy!

Fair weather friends even among birds of the same feather. 

Expect more backstabbing as the days progress in Rome. LOL

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The Pope Resigns - Habemus Papam - Nanni Moretti

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Pope Sees Female Shrink – Pope Resigns – Habemus Papam

http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2011/04/habemus-papem-moretti-piccoli.html

(April 23, 2011)

I ran into an article in the Guardian, a Brit news source, about the mixed reviews of the new movie in Italian – Habemus Papam – (We have a pope.)

Alas, cannot find a video with English subtitles. The storyline is about a newly elected pope with panic/anxiety attacks who requires the services of a shrink. 


The best of the best shrink available is played by director Nanni Moretti. I think that the storyline has the pope ending up going to the shrink’s ex-wife, Margherita Buy, for therapy and in the end the pope resigns a job he did not really want and could not handle. 


That is a very human theme. (If popes cannot be human, then how could Jesus have been human? Myth reflecting reality or reality reflecting myth?)

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Inclusion, Neighborly Love, Part of Alternative St. Pat’s Parade in Queens, opposite of the elitist, exclusionary, 5th Avenue Manhattan St. Patrick’s Day Pararde

Fr. Mychal Judge, Saint of 911
Honoree of Queens "St. Pat's for All" Parade

When the Cardinal and his elitist corporate friends and bankers want a Fascist Like display of blind obedience in the annual 5th Avenue St Patrick's Parade every year, Public Drunkedness is okay but no signs or expressions of freedom or private personal opinions, they are VERBOTEN. 

There are alternatives and there is life in the other boroughs and outside the control of the stone canyons and stone hearts of the elitist ruling class in Manhattan.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/insurgent-st-patricks-day-parade-comes-into-its-own/

“I know what it’s like to be told you’re not welcome,” Mr. Fay said as he rushed around his Astoria, Queens, home making last-minute preparations for this Sunday’s parade, which starts at 2 p.m. in Woodside and runs for two hours. It begins at Skillman Avenue and 47th Street and proceeds east on Skillman, ending at Woodside Avenue and 58th Street. …

With the phone ringing constantly, Mr. Fay finalized details for portable toilets, pipers and puppets to be held aloft by children. The parade has grown in size every year, and this year he expects more than 2,000 participants.

Bars that once wanted nothing to do with the parade are now opening early for breakfast on parade day, he said.

As for the parade, he said, “We err on the side of hospitality and inclusiveness.” And with the doors wide open, he has certainly amassed a wide array of regular attendees, including from many ethnic groups in this extremely diverse area of Queens.

At the moment, Mr. Fay was making arrangements with Pakistani and Bengali contingents. There will be Bolivian, Ecuadorean, Korean and Chinese groups, as well as a troupe of young black and Latino step-dancers from the Bronx.

Mr. Fay called a Turkish contingent seeking to march for the first time, to honor the food shipments that Turkey sent Ireland during the potato famine. Then there was the Mexican group marching in tribute to that country’s San Patricio battalion in the Mexican-American War.

“We try to reflect the spirit of New York – we’re all neighbors, we marry each other,” Mr. Fay said in his living room, which is presided over by a green statue of St. Patrick, rescued from a trash heap, with its arms broken off.

As usual, the parade will honor the Rev. Father Mychal Judge, the gay Fire Department chaplain who marched in the parade in 2000 and died on Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center. And as usual there will be a moment of silence for Robert Rygor, an early critic of the Fifth Avenue parade who died of complications from H.I.V. in 2004.

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