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To: editor-surveyor

“He was a fool and a liar!”

James Michener, historian and historical novelist, was a fool and a liar.

I call that pretty bold talk.


1,133 posted on 09/30/2014 12:05:58 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
I call that pretty bold talk.

Aw; give him a break.

He was just a man, after all.



Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

 

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

1,154 posted on 09/30/2014 4:31:36 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dsc; editor-surveyor

Well, e-s, are you like one of the other fellas we have around here, and have one eye out for Mullah Omar? maybe while you're at it be a bit round about the middlin' parts?

As for you dsc

You maybe should have considered "..at Judge Parker's convenience..."

1,172 posted on 09/30/2014 6:22:34 AM PDT by BlueDragon (the ONLY way Michener could ever say anything close is they ran the Jews out, convert leave or die)
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