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An interesting fact. The first person to actually travel around the world in 80 days was a female New York World reporter, Nellie Bly, in 1882.

So, although it is a rewrite / remake, perhaps it isn’t actually unrealistic.

You mean he illegally directed a division of the US Government to ignore federal law? I thought Pres. Trump was against that sort of thing?

Repeal it, or live with it, since it is the law.

Doesn’t look either left or right - just military from a civilian ex-military (probably) perspective.

Um. What? Fox has no duty to replace him with a human - they could replace him with a machine, a parrot, or reruns of Popeye if they wanted to. What makes anyone think they have some duty to replace him with a nonwhite, nonchristian, nonmale?

Oh.
Probably some form of insanity.
Never mind.

Absolutely right, LL. This one is so bogus that it is painful. Please, follow the link LL provides and see for yourself.

Has anyone but me noticed that these articles are from 2012? Bit of old news, I’d say.

I think you need to read your Adam Smith again. Consider these quotes:

"Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people." "Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counselors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters." "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged."

Adam Smith was one of the earliest and strongest proponents of Capitalism, but even he knew that excess is destructive to society. If only more of the current Titans of Industry(tm) knew this as well.

And, according to Catholic Doctrine, the Pope is the head of the Catholic Church. If he speaks Ex Cathedra, in accordance with the words of the Bible and previously declared “infallible” teachings, then his word is as the word of Jesus himself. If he is merely expressing an opinion, his word is not infallible.

So far, on these subjects, the Pope has not spoken Ex Cathedra, so these are not the immutable policies of the Catholic church. These are Pope Francis’ opinions only. Nonetheless, some of the things he has said needed to be said. Where is the outrage at the suffering of the poor? Why are the rich and supposedly exalted Christians acting more like the Pharisees than the Good Samaritan?

The parable of the Good Samaritan, and the phrase “By their fruits shall you know them” (or one of the various other similar translations) work together to define what Christ wants of us. It is not enough to declare yourself a believer in Christ. A true beleiver in Christ will, of his own nature, eschew evil or sinful deeds (bad fruits) and generate only worthy deeds (good fruits). If some “Christian” leader is found do have committed adultery, or theft, or mislead his followers, or murder, or any other sins forbidden in the bible, I cannot understand how people receive them back (by their fruits shall you know them). Likewise, a pastor preaching war, turning his back on the poor and sick, and only focusing on conversion, is (IMO) no true follower of Christ. If even a non-believer can turn away from his tasks to help those in need, how can a supposed preacher of God’s word not?

We have millions and millions of good Christians in America. I also believe we have millions of false “Christians” in this country, deceivers, people who do not follow Christ’s ways in full. People who hate in the name of Christ (Love thine enemy); people who commit violence in the name of Jesus; people who call for War in the name of the Prince of Peace. There is only one more war called for in the Bible, that against the Antichrist, and he has not yet appeared. (No, none of the dozens of people confidently declared the Antichrist over the decades I have been alive have proven themselves to be so.)

AHHHH, so it's blasphemy to question anything said by the Pope..........got it!

Well, technically, by the Catholic Church's precepts, I believe that it may be blasphemy in certain circumstances. After all, the Pope is the head of God's church, and speaks for God when speaking Ex Cathedra.

"As a side note, if Rush was so far off base then why did the Pope find it necessary to clarify his statements?"

Courtesy and generosity. If someone misunderstands what I say, then I try to help them understand by offering clarifying statements. Even Jesus offered parables to help explain the concepts that people found difficult to understand. If Jesus needed to clarify things for the benefit of others, you think that mere mortal men like the Pope and myself should somehow be better than that?

Why is the Vatican a sovereign nation? So that no individual nation other than the church itself controls the church. This is not really that hard to understand.

For example, Why is the Tea Party a separate group? So that no one pre-existing party controls it. Same thinking, really.