Open Trackback & Comments Sunday (The “Papal Photo-Op” Edition)
Send a trackback or leave a comment and ask yourself why the Pope himself is performing this particular baptism?
Italy’s most prominent Muslim commentator, a journalist with iconoclastic views such as support for Israel, converted to Roman Catholicism Saturday when the pope baptized him at an Easter service.
As a choir sang, Pope Benedict XVI poured holy water over Magdi Allam’s head and said a brief prayer in Latin.
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Vatican television zoomed in on Allam, who sat in the front row of the basilica along with six other candidates for baptism.
An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Allam often writes on Muslim and Arab affairs and has infuriated some Muslims with his criticism of extremism and support for the Jewish state.
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The bunker calls photo-op, and wonders how long it will take the URQ to turn this non-practicing Muslim into a “converted extremist who saw the light” …. on Easter week-end no less.
There’s a twist I didn’t see coming
The Blogging Tory graphic on his sidebar should surprise no one.
Well, the pope dresses better, if you like that Vegas thing. I’ve always had a soft spot for tiaras.
But it gets even better … the strangely-named “Hunter” is a woman. The BTs are so weird some times.
Green Thumb Sunday
Green Thumb Sunday Join I shot this of one of the group of lilies I put in the ground early last week. I have a flower bed that I put in a few years back but thus far…
Well, heck, anyone who wants to swap one homophobic, authoritarian, absolutist male-dominated old-Testament based politicized religion for another is welcome to, in my book. Not much of a step up, but “A change is always a treat”, said the archbishop as he welcomed the chorus girl and ushered out the altar boy.
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Sweet dancing Jesus, Balb, that was hilarious … and you’re trying to tell me that we’re going to hell because of my boots? I think not, Mr. Potty Mind.
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Is the Earth still warming?
No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued.
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When Will the Dems Throw Obama from the Train?
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Apparently the Earth is a bit more robust than climatologists predicted
More Global Warming truth that the media finds inconvenient:
Earth a little more resilient than computer models
The Australian reports a few inconvenient truths regarding global climate change that have yet to receive much attention …
The ‘Cavalry’ supports the USMC in Berkeley
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The Democrat’s dirty little secret: The Super Delegates
John Yoo dissects a very disturbing reality hiding in the closet in the Democrat party, the mysterious Super Delegates.
This election has, if nothing else, exposed the Democrat party’s structure which is potentially very undemocratic.
T…
Paul Berman’s Vain Attempt At Understanding
As I stated in a previous post, Paul Berman is an emerging former brain dead liberal. Having made that observation and, having read his editorial in today’s NY Slimes, it is very much obvious and relevant that Mr Berman has yet to grasp The Threat of…
Anti-War Nutjobs Spray Fake Blood During Easter Service
Sadly, I am really not surprised. Disgusted, yes. Shocked, no
(Chicago Tribune) Six people were arrested at Holy Name parish’s auditorium Sunday after disrupting an Easter mass to protest the Iraq war.
The group—whose female and male members id…
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Uniter? I Think Not.
According to a promise in the International Herald Tribune, Barak Obama claims that he is the candidate that can unite the country. According to him:
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Yo Grandmama, Obama
After Obama’s racist speech last week, apart from one post (and a few comments elsewhere) I’ve been mostly speechless.
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Bill Richardson’s Gutter Talk
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Obama Changes his Story Again and Defends Wright in the Process
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Here we have a presidential candidate who first says he never heard the Rev. Wright spout his anti-American views.
Then a few days later in his “race” speech, Obama says:
For…
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CAIR trains FBI agents
Insight-Report: CAIR trains FBI agents as new report cites links to terror (go read it all but here’s a taste): An American Muslim group identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal terrorism case is being used by the FBI
Obey Obama
OBEY-MA for short. A satire of an awfully fascist looking poster.
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Loved the comment, Balb.