Posted on 03/13/2015 6:41:54 PM PDT by RaceBannon
After the day's activities are winding down, and the wife and I have our laptops out in the bedroom, she's looking at Facebook and I'm reading FR.
And then she's surprised the next day, or the day after that when she sees some bit of news on our local news station and I say, "Oh yeah - I read about that on Free Republic a couple of days ago" and proceed to give her the details - sometimes more details - as the news give their spun version.
I have to say it - my wife is a low information voter, much as I try to correct that... (sigh)
spin spin spin
After the day’s activities are winding down, and the wife and I have our laptops out in the bedroom, she’s looking at Facebook and I’m reading FR.
HAHAHAHA! Us too. Especially when we’re doing the cabin fever thing.
Here is one difference: Whenever there is a “human interest” story on FR, like the spiders in the bananas, when I mention it to her, she’s already seen it on facebook. But NONE of the important stuff was on her “facebook radar”.
But she is not a “low information” voter. We educate each other and are both far to the right of Fox news. It’s because we’ve not had TV since 1997 and she gets most of her news from, well, ME. And she trusts that news source implicitly.
BTW, BOTH of us have the same reaction to MSM stories when we are exposed to it: laughter.
And the pope didn’t have any Muslims praying at the Vatican either right?
The guy invited Muslims to pray at the Vatican. Catholics are going to go apoplectic as this guy progresses.
And Catholics close their eyes, stick their fingers in their ears and loudly proclaim LALALALALALALALALALALALALA!
Bingo!
Agreed
Whoa! I hear Apocalyptic Bells ringing:
So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place...
I don't recall a mention of "which" holy place!
However, he did not say he would consider resignation. That was the choice of his predecessor Benedict XVI, who shocked the world by taking the very unusual step in early 2013 of resigning the papacy for health and age reasons. "I have the feeling that my pontificate will be brief: four or five years; I do not know, even two or three," said Francis. "Two have already passed," he added.
"It is a somewhat vague sensation. Maybe it's like the psychology of the gambler who convinces himself he will lose so he won't be disappointed and if he wins, is happy," the pope continued.
"I do not know. But I feel that the Lord has placed me here for a short time, and nothing more...But it is a feeling. I always leave the possibility (to change) open". Pope Francis is seen as a potential target for Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists.
Francis rarely talks about security although he has spoken publicly about his human frailties, such as the natural fear of physical pain and suffering.
Yes, except the language itself used by Francis is spin as intelligent folks will understand why. The Pope is no ordinary person on account of the global reach and following of the Church. The last Pope who elliptically referred to Islam as being violent resulted in innocent person being killed and churches razed to the ground by barbarian hordes. Francis deftly used the qualifier “not automatically,” one recognized by the intelligent reader of papal statements.
So you are defending his pandering because the Islamists are big meenies? Wow dude, welcome to Huffington Post and MSNBC......
Again, intelligent folks will realize that he is Pope, not some “dude.” Apparently, you don’t seem to think that the killing of innocents by a direct verbal jibe is of any consequence and unlike studious observers of papal language, you can’t seem to appreciate nuances.
You have surrounded yourself with self destructive logic....the Pope must pander, or else, the big meanies will be big meanies - thus we must equate Christianity with Islam, etc.
The world is a mean place governed by the aggressive use of force. Pandering to try and slightly reduce that evil force is a fools errand in the long run. You not understanding that the Pope strengthens Islam with such flapdoodle shows you have no understanding of how the world works.
and by the way, YOU are the dude I welcomed to the HuffPo and MSNBC - not the Pope.
Words have consequences, and when innocent people are massacred and butchered to death and churches razed to the ground, is how the world works. We have seen this drama before resulting from Benedict XVI’s address at Regensburg university. It did a lot, didn’t it? Go ask Boko Haram? This is the same with Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist barbarians unaccustomed to reasonable debate and discussion.
So the good guys should pander, make false equivalencies, kiss ass or just STFU.....is that what you are saying? You cannot escape from the ugly corner you just painted for yourself. You can't. You are saying we should speak falsehoods, or at least water down the truth, to keep the peace? Dude, peace under such circumstances is NOT PEACE at all. You are a closet pacifist liberal, and don't even know it.
Apparently you are not getting it. The Pope has called for eradicating ISIS. This is how it works. The Pope is not just another run-of-the mill-leader leader. Capitalizing words does not amplify the logic you make. What good does it do if innocent members of the Church’s flock get killed over an overt condemnation address to the rabble. The rabble is deaf to reason.
The balanced nuances of a Pope is meant for intelligent listeners not for those who share the rough mind set of the rabble. For idiots, this is seen as kiss-ass. Should the Pope now condemn the Hindus for the Boko-Haram type gang rape of an elderly nun. No.
We can do it because of our station in the world. But he must nuance his words to condemn the barbarity without condemning the entire religion.
Calling people “closet, pacifist, liberal” is more an acknowledgement of a weak mind unable to comprehend the importance of nuance in political, religious, literature or artistic modalities of speech.
I worship a Savior. You worship a man. That’s the big diff ‘tween us....bye.....you bore me now.
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