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Divers recover Madonna intact from shipwreck chapel
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Posted on 01/21/2012 8:28:34 AM PST by nuconvert

She was found inside the ship's chapel, submerged up to her shoulders, but in one piece. Fire department divers wrapped her in a white towel, and used a nylon belt to hold it in place so she would not be damaged as they pulled her out.

On Saturday, the plaster statue of the Madonna from the doomed Costa Concordia cruise liner stood in a white tent on the port of Giglio, still wrapped in the same towel.

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KEYWORDS: concordia; costaconcordia; cruiseship; giglio; italy; madonna; napl
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Somewhere along the line, shocking public misbehavior became a substitute for talent. And the purveyors of popular culture have just lapped it right up.

How else can you explain the meteoric rise of rap and hip-hop, with their emphasis on crime, drug use, misogyny, outlandish excess, and materialism?

I never thought I'd live long enough to see the death of simple morality and the social contract. I was wrong.

21 posted on 01/21/2012 9:12:24 AM PST by Tigerized (Occupy Wall Street? Go find the real culprits in the Capitol Building...)
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To: Future Snake Eater
What about the Madonna on the piece of toast in the dining room?

That wasn't Madonna - that was Lady GaGa on the piece of toast.

22 posted on 01/21/2012 9:13:36 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Rome2000

Perhaps the Pope should bless people with the circus curse...”Break a leg!”


23 posted on 01/21/2012 9:27:10 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( P!$$ on the Taliban. Issue MORE BEER!)
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To: nuconvert

And the general John Q. Public does not understand the significance of that!


24 posted on 01/21/2012 9:29:10 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation; nuconvert
...but the general "John Q." member of the Body of Christ DOES. And it doesn't bode well for Rome.
25 posted on 01/21/2012 9:35:11 AM PST by smvoice (Better Buck up, Buttercup. The wailing and gnashing is for an eternity..)
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To: Tigerized

Yeah, I was gonna say, considering her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes last week, they shouldn’t have bothered with the recovery.


26 posted on 01/21/2012 9:38:52 AM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: nuconvert

Breaking News: Madonna turns out to be a statue meant to represent the Madonna and not the real Madonna.


27 posted on 01/21/2012 9:41:22 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Proud RINOmney Denialist since 2007!)
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To: smvoice

I guess you have to run that by Christ at the moement of your death — why you did not respect and honor HIS mother, that is.


28 posted on 01/21/2012 9:46:50 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Paved Paradise

I seriously doubt that anyone is still drowning a week after the ship sank. This was a salvage effort, not a rescue.


29 posted on 01/21/2012 9:48:15 AM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: Rome2000

1. I received a Papal Blessing from Pope Paul VI when I earned a special award in Girl Scouts, back in the 1970s.

I”m doing fine, except for an addiction to reading things on this one conservative website...

2. Pope John Paul II sent a Golden Rose to shrine of Our Lady of Chestokova (sp?). Poland has been doing pretty well ever since.

I like a tin foil hat theory as much as the next person, but m wondering if maybe perhaps there were other contributing causes to the downfalls and disasters which you mention?


30 posted on 01/21/2012 10:14:50 AM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: nuconvert
She was found inside the ship's chapel

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Like a sturgeon ....

31 posted on 01/21/2012 10:40:51 AM PST by mikrofon (Wrecked for the very next time ...)
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To: Chuckster

Still. What’s more important?


32 posted on 01/21/2012 11:48:46 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: nuconvert

You should agree with me anyway. If your mom, dad, or other loved one were dead, would you like to think that a “rescuer” went for the icon, vase, or other object or pulled your family member out. It’s indecent to do anything else, unless the objects were in the way. I can’t even believe this is something to debate.


33 posted on 01/21/2012 11:51:09 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: don-o

They grabbed the relic first, so that implies it took priority. If your loved one(s) is dead on a shipwreck or other scenario and they send in people to retrieve the bodies but they decide to haul out things while leaving your family member, how would YOU feel? Taking the statue out first showed a serious lack of feeling.


34 posted on 01/21/2012 11:55:28 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: Grizzled Bear; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...

Put her back.



35 posted on 01/21/2012 1:03:39 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: null and void

*sigh* Mod ate my comment along with Rome2000’s. My poor legacy.


36 posted on 01/21/2012 1:10:11 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

It was the Chick thing to do...


37 posted on 01/21/2012 1:22:58 PM PST by null and void (Day 1096 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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38 posted on 01/21/2012 1:27:35 PM PST by narses
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To: null and void

A Chick flick?


39 posted on 01/21/2012 1:33:05 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Catholic Ping
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40 posted on 01/21/2012 1:57:39 PM PST by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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