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So <i>that's</i> what <a href="http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8290\/7624154986_3a62c24420_z.jpg" target="_blank">this is for. </a> Never occurred to me!

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Now all you need is a really small camel.

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Actually, I was never Catholic -- I'm just old (There was a fair amount of news mention of his previous Inquisitorial service, and failure to do fuck all about pedophilia, back when Ratzi was elevated).

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That's going to be tricky. The average age of nuns in the US is 74.

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I met Father Gutierrez many years ago. Nice man. Short.

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The real news here is that Dick Cheney's 2003 statement can now be correctly understood. He actually said we would be greeted as <i>liberation theologians.</i>

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I believe it was it in the Sermon on the Mount when he said: <blockquote>When will you reinvent the heart? When will you manufacture land? When will your cowboys read Spengler? When will your dams release the flood of eastern tears? When will your technicians get drunk and abolish money? When will you institute religions of perception in your legislature? When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?</blockquote>

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Used to be, if you participated in performing an abortion, it was automatic excommunication. I think that might have included me, back when I worked in hospital operating rooms as a scrub tech.

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And not just the cheesemakers, but any manufacturers of dairy products. And it's still not clear why the Greeks should inherit the Earth.

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They hit us too, with rulers and blackboard pointers. Finally, I'd had enough, took the ruler away, broke it in half, handed it back, and said "Don't ever do that again." She didn't.

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Being raised Catholic, I became wildly disoriented by the second paragraph. Then I thought, "my god, who wrote this shit?" Thanks, SNIPY (&OBAMA)

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OT our idiot Guv is finally going to address SB1062 in about fifteen minutes, Smart money says that the business community jerking her chain and today's reports of the NFL investigating alternate locations for the Superbowl cause her to whip out the veto pen. Good news, even if she does it for the wrong reason. If she signs, all hellm is gonna break loose here- send lawyers guns and money

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I hate lawyers, so double up on the other two

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I hear that ex-Pope Bennie is filing papers to sue for Vatican II Regret.

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but his litigation was aborted

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SB1062 just got vetoed

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