Comments on: Teddy Kennedy’s Faith, Active in Love

By: Prairie Sunshine

Prairie Sunshine — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:44:15 +0000

Well, Peterr, you wrote a wonderful post unfortunately clouded by the hypocritical hijackers. The party of hyenas and jackels must yip at the passing of the lion. Petty. Small.

And would that there were more parable Christians and a lot less false ones.

By: MrCleaveland

MrCleaveland — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:01:01 +0000

I do agree with you. The Church is phony for innumerable reasons, the Kennedys are phony for their ostentatious displays of allegedly devout Catholicism, and I’m a phony for my non-ostentatious display every Saturday evening when I say the Credo and go to Communion even though I wasn’t married in the Church.

The difference is that I’m not parading around telling the world what a great Catholic I am. The Kennedys are. Next Friday, the cardinals and bishops will be lined up mitre to mitre to honor a man who should have been excommunicated, and the hypocrisy will rain down from heaven like manna.

At least I’m not a hypocrite about my hypocrisy. That’s all I’m saying.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:51:12 +0000

Wow! You mean all those textiles and furniture places in the Carolinas were unionized after all? Is that why all those jobs have disappeared overseas?

Or wait? Maybe it’s all those union IT jobs? But I’ve never even seen any union people working on any IT project I worked on.

So, what unions were involved in causing a lot of jobs to go off-shore again?

By: pjack

pjack — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:44:11 +0000

I thought the jobs went overseas because companies could get
cheaper labor ($1.75/day) TA DA unions
Who is sending troops into Afgan now?

By: BargainCountertenor

BargainCountertenor — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:40:43 +0000

Okay, Bucky. It sounds like you are agreeing with me. If you are, why are you slamming Ted over a corrupt Church?

Personally, I think the Roman Catholic Church ought to pay attention to its own catechismal material. If we are in fact all sinful creatures who fall short of the glory of God, if we are in fact all in need of salvation and forgiveness, then it ought to make sense to acknowledge that divorce is sometimes the least-worst option among a collection of bad choices.

Or, as a joke put it (with regard to birth control), “Holy Father, you no play-a da game, then you no a-make-a da rules!” The same ought to apply to marriage, no?

By: Twain

Twain — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:36:18 +0000

We could bring all the jobs back to America that the Rs sent overseas and then there’s enough money. Stop 2 wars that the Rs started and spend that money here. Stop bailing out rich people and TA DA – money.

By: MrCleaveland

MrCleaveland — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:34:19 +0000

If the Catholic Church had any integrity at all, they would have drummed out the Kennedys long ago. But the Kennedys are some of the highest-profile Catholics in the world, and it would hurt the Church’s image to lose them.

So the Church is being highly hypocritical in selling annulments for p.r. purposes. Joe Kennedy’s ex-wife wrote a scathing book about how the Church shat on its principles just to appease the Kennedys.

By: pjack

pjack — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:29:58 +0000

It was meant to be insurance for people for whatever
reason where not able to save enough for retirement.
when the system was first set up the life expectancy
was to age 65.
Now people are drawing out 4 times what they paid in.
You also had 4 people paying in for 1 taking out.
Because of aging population we have less proportionately
paying in. Unsustainable situation

By: BargainCountertenor

BargainCountertenor — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:28:15 +0000

Yeah, well, you don’t.

Well, actually you do. It’s called the Democratic Party, but I’m afraid that we bleeding heart liberals are trying to fix that just now.

By: MrCleaveland

MrCleaveland — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:26:00 +0000

Like, oh … Mark Sanford? Or John Ensign? Or Senator Wide-Stance from Idaho? Or Newt Gingrich? Or … need I go on?

I agree completely. They’re all hypocrites, and three of them — Sanford, Ensign, and Bathroom Boy — should have all resigned. They disgust conservatives, but they won’t go away. If conservatives had anything resembling a real political party, maybe these clowns would have been driven out by now. But since we don’t . . .