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Michelle Obama's Mirror ^ | 2-19-2016 | MOTUS

Posted on 02/19/2016 7:09:17 AM PST by NOBO2012

A few random thoughts on the week.

The_Great_Wall_of_China_at_Jinshanling The Chinese built a wall, big deal. I’ll build one bigger, faster and stronger than any wall you’ve ever seen!

The Pope takes on The Donald:

“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”

Ignoring the axiom “people who live in glass houses ought not throw stones”  and ignoring the fact that the Vatican Wall was built specifically to keep the marauding Muslims away from the then seat of civilization, and that the Vatican has the most restrictive immigration and citizenship policies of any nation in the world,” it’s still never a good idea to attack The Donald because The Donald always hits back.

“If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened. ISIS would have been eradicated unlike what is happening now with our all talk, no action politicians.”

Which is fairly sedate compared to some of the previous draft responses submitted by his followers:

“Why’d it take him three days to rise? I would have risen in three hours. Jesus, very low energy.”  - Carlos on Twitter

“This is truly one of the worst Popes. Drives a Fiat, which is a very weak car. Low energy –can barely hit 80 mph. I drive a Cadillac. Nice!” - Tom on Twitter

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“You call that a wall? I’ll build you a wall!” (pic h/t CaptainAmerica)

In other Barry news: White House spokesmouth confirms he won’t be attending Justice Scalia’s funeral in order to reduce the “security footprint” at the even. Same excuse reason he has given for not going to church; we sure don’t want to inconvenience the little people. Instead, he’ll send Joey B whose “security footprint is at least a little bit lighter.”

joeyb“Sure Big Guy, I can use public transportation.”

I wonder if he was concerned about his “security footprint” when he met with Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman at exclusive D.C. restaurant BLT (where you can snag a Kobe ribeye for $95)?

Screen Capture #132

Or when he and Lady M went out for their pre-Valentine dinner? Or when MO hit Soul Cycle earlier this week?

Tom and Morgan were huddling with Barry and his Obama Foundation people to discuss funding for their family dynasty after leaving office.

Morgan was also in town to attend the Big White’s Black History Month reception, which followed the BLM reception.

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Barack Obama praised young Black Lives Matter activists in the White House on Thursday, taking special notice of prominent Ferguson protesters and describing the meeting as a moment to bridge differences in a younger, changing civil rights movement.

“They are much better organizers than I was when I was their age, and I am confident that they are going to take America to new heights.”

Three things: 1. Y’all remember the policeman in Ferguson was cleared in the shooting of the gentle giant, right? 2. I always suspected Barry wasn’t even a good community organizer, and 3. New heights? Really?

my work id done colorado copy 

That’s no longer a very high bar.

Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; obama; popefrancis; vatican

1 posted on 02/19/2016 7:09:17 AM PST by NOBO2012
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To: NOBO2012

Y’all do know that the great wall did not succeed in the end right ?

http://gbtimes.com/life/failure-great-wall


2 posted on 02/19/2016 7:16:47 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: NOBO2012

Papa neglected to mention that WALLS are mentioned a couple of hundred times in the Bible, BRIDGES, never! He needs better political handlers.


3 posted on 02/19/2016 7:17:10 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: NOBO2012

And we should trust the opinion of a pope that talks about politics and says that everyone gets a free pass to heaven regardless of who they worship, sits on a throne of gold, and tours the world in a lap of luxury few men will ever know? We see your fruits and were warned about you millennia ago. We ave been expecting you and here you are.


4 posted on 02/19/2016 7:23:25 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

The Pope did not call out Trump my name. The statement could apply to any body here as much as Trump. Do we not want to also build wall generally?


5 posted on 02/19/2016 7:34:29 AM PST by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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To: NOBO2012

95% of the wall can be built at Western Union. :)


6 posted on 02/19/2016 7:36:04 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: NOBO2012

DT says he’ll even make mexico pay for the wall, that I’d like to see.


7 posted on 02/19/2016 7:36:46 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: NOBO2012

“Why’d it take him three days to rise? I would have risen in three hours. Jesus, very low energy.”- Carlos on Twitter

“This is truly one of the worst Popes. Drives a Fiat, which is a very weak car. Low energy -“can barely hit 80 mph. I drive a Cadillac. Nice!” - Tom on Twitter

Hilarious !


8 posted on 02/19/2016 7:39:48 AM PST by moehoward
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To: ThomasThomas

The Pope did not call out Trump my name.
= = = = = = = = = = =
I am NOT defending the Pope

BUT

One MUST listen to the question that spurred the answer.
The reporter mentions TRUMP by name.


9 posted on 02/19/2016 7:41:55 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)"If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. J Leno")
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To: ThomasThomas

Yes, I want a wall. So, the pope was talking about me. He can go back to the Vatican and wash feet for all I care. He does NOT represent me.


10 posted on 02/19/2016 7:44:29 AM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: Bidimus1

Walls, like the Maginot LIne, succeed if they force the enemy to find a different way other than the easy way. The Muzlims defeated the walls at Constantinople, but it took them 700 years and a new invention.


11 posted on 02/19/2016 7:48:44 AM PST by Defiant (RINOs are leaders of a party without voters. Trump/Cruz are leaders of voters without a party.)
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To: Defiant

You are correct active defense is the only workable defense.

Patton “Fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity.” it was not completely true but a good working view for the most part.

The Maginot line was a success in that defended the section of border that it was supposed to, it was a failure in that the people of France thought it protected all of France.


12 posted on 02/19/2016 8:23:08 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: V_TWIN

A tax on remittances assuming one sends them though legal channels would work, but then again why would people already breaking the law follow that one ?


13 posted on 02/19/2016 8:24:40 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: Bidimus1
Y'all do know that the great wall did not succeed in the end right?

But you do understand the idea behind it and what DJT is saying that is resonating with Americans, don't y'all?
14 posted on 02/19/2016 8:28:15 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

That a bad idea is popular does not make it a good idea.

France loved the Maginot line right up till it failed.


15 posted on 02/19/2016 8:34:30 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Build it!


16 posted on 02/19/2016 8:57:39 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Bidimus1

Agree. The conventional wisdom is that they don’t work. When fortifications are breached, usually there is a failure in some other aspect—planning, guarding, strategy, construction. Not the walls themselves, but the reliance on the walls and failure to do other things.


17 posted on 02/19/2016 9:07:00 AM PST by Defiant (RINOs are leaders of a party without voters. Trump/Cruz are leaders of voters without a party.)
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To: jsanders2001

This morning I was re-reading Trumps’s statement. He said “if and when” the Vatican is attacked. He didn’t use the words if ever it is attacked.

He also said everybody knows the Vatican is the ultimate trophy. I never had heard that.

I’m wondering if Trump is alluding to the third Fatima letter, the one that contained such upsetting information that it couldn’t be released.


18 posted on 02/19/2016 9:22:33 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Bidimus1
That a bad idea is popular does not make it a good idea.

France loved the Maginot line right up till it failed.


Well, that's YOUR designating it a "bad idea".

Don't care much for anything the French may have loved, historically typing.
19 posted on 02/19/2016 10:07:39 AM PST by Resettozero
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