I only heard part of zero’s speech before I could not stand listening to him. Fortunately, John Bolton was the first one I watched who said the zero speech was horrible and sent terrible messages. I guess other conservatives listened to Bolton and ignored the initial positive reactions.
It really was an evil speech. And if, as has been reported, Gerson and others helped him with it, they should hang their heads in shame.
This morning we had a baptism at mass.
The baby was evidently Spanish because...well a)the parents looked Spanish and b)-the priest did the whole thing...IN SPANISH!
I asked myself...WHY?
The entire congregation speaks English, go with me on this.
The baby...well darn, IT’S A BABY!
I suppose the parents speak Spanish but my hunch is that they speak enough English to handle a simple baptism in English. My hunch is that these people speak English just fine but I don’t know them and this is just a hunch. There is a large Spanish-speaking population here in the swamps of Delaware but there’s another Catholic church where they mostly go to so again, this is just a hunch.
SO WHY DO THE THING IN SPANISH?
The godparents...hey, they looked as American as me.
So the congregation has to listen to this thing in Spanish which is no big deal I don’t suppose as a baptism isn’t real long or anything.
Still. The church stopped using Latin for everything due to complaints that the words were not understood.
So now we must do in Spanish?
I’m jes’ sayin’.
There's a lesson in there; wait and follow up (read the bill before you vote on it, analyze what somebody else actually said before commenting on it, etc.). I still remember watching some reporter from MSNBC reading the Supreme Court decision on Bush v. Gore and how excited that person was, until they realized what the Supremes had actually decided.