Mysteries of modern life
Bled Welder
bledwelder at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 4 17:27:57 CST 2012
Speaking of useless human beings, here's another one, no surprise, you know him too, I have found him again:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/world/middleeast/in-aipac-speech-obama-warns-against-loose-talk-of-war.html?hp
> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:10:50 -0500
> Subject: Re: Mysteries of modern life
> From: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>
> I think that wing is called the Church Militant...
>
> and like any militant wing - most notably and recently, those of the
> civil rights movement, the labor movement and the antiwar movement -
> they tend to take inappropriate and excessive action, appeal to
> emotion over reason, propagate shibboleths, polarize the populace, and
> muddy the waters for everyone else!
>
> on the good side...well, there must be something...
>
>
> I'm hugely more impressed by Garry Wills and Maryknoll and their
> ilk....Vatican II, ecumenicalism, yay!
> May God send their roots rain.
>
>
>
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> >
> > The p-list isn't big on electoral politics but one thing I'm always
> > wondering about is where extreme right wing Republican would-be-candidates
> > can possibly be coming from.
> >
> > One answer came in a fascinating front page story in this morning's Times.
> > How many times do you run across a woman who (in later life) had a seven
> > year affair with the obstetrician who delivered her, that doctor also being
> > a prominent Pittsburgh abortion provider. Well, Karen Santorum did, and only
> > gave up that love after meeting Rick Santorum--the rest being history.
> > Rather miraculously she returned to her estranged family and their ancestral
> > Catholic faith, and Rick experienced a big bolster to his lukewarm faith as
> > well. And after not too much soul searching they found themselves joined up
> > with the Ubers, a group Gary Will says are not Catholics but Papists, who
> > seemingly get their marching orders direct from Rome. There's no shortage of
> > such types around Washington, most famously an enclave of them in the
> > upscale suburb of Great Falls, Virginia. They attend St. Catherine of Sienna
> > Catholic Church where they can hear Mass in Latin. They send their kids to
> > Opus Dei Schools, etc. etc. Justice Scalia is prominent among them.
> >
> >
> > Strange and seemingly true. but can it possibly explain anything?
> >
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/us/politics/from-nominal-catholic-to-clarion-of-faith.html?pagewanted=2&hp
> >
> > P
>
>
>
> --
> "Strength you will acquire naturally, if you do plenty of work; and
> dexterity you will acquire unconsciously with practice; but style you
> can only acquire by constant attention, and then only if you have a
> clear idea of what to aim at." - A. F. Jenkin
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